I,I,COUNTESS,"In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband."
I,I,BERTRAM,"And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death"
I,I,BERTRAM,"anew: but I must attend his majesty's command, to"
I,I,BERTRAM,"whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection."
I,I,LAFEU,"You shall find of the king a husband, madam; you,"
I,I,LAFEU,"sir, a father: he that so generally is at all times"
I,I,LAFEU,"good must of necessity hold his virtue to you; whose"
I,I,LAFEU,"worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather"
I,I,LAFEU,"than lack it where there is such abundance."
I,I,COUNTESS,"What hope is there of his majesty's amendment?"
I,I,LAFEU,"He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose"
I,I,LAFEU,"practises he hath persecuted time with hope, and"
I,I,LAFEU,"finds no other advantage in the process but only the"
I,I,LAFEU,"losing of hope by time."
I,I,COUNTESS,"This young gentlewoman had a father,--O, that"
I,I,COUNTESS,"'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was"
I,I,COUNTESS,"almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so"
I,I,COUNTESS,"far, would have made nature immortal, and death"
I,I,COUNTESS,"should have play for lack of work. Would, for the"
I,I,COUNTESS,"king's sake, he were living! I think it would be"
I,I,COUNTESS,"the death of the king's disease."
I,I,LAFEU,"How called you the man you speak of, madam?"
I,I,COUNTESS,"He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was"
I,I,COUNTESS,"his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon."
I,I,LAFEU,"He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very"
I,I,LAFEU,"lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he"
I,I,LAFEU,"was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge"
I,I,LAFEU,"could be set up against mortality."
I,I,BERTRAM,"What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of?"
I,I,LAFEU,"A fistula, my lord."
I,I,BERTRAM,"I heard not of it before."
I,I,LAFEU,"I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman"
I,I,LAFEU,"the daughter of Gerard de Narbon?"
I,I,COUNTESS,"His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my"
I,I,COUNTESS,"overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that"
I,I,COUNTESS,"her education promises; her dispositions she"
I,I,COUNTESS,"inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where"
I,I,COUNTESS,"an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there"
I,I,COUNTESS,"commendations go with pity; they are virtues and"
I,I,COUNTESS,"traitors too; in her they are the better for their"
I,I,COUNTESS,"simpleness; she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness."
I,I,LAFEU,"Your commendations, madam, get from her tears."
I,I,COUNTESS,"'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise"
I,I,COUNTESS,"in. The remembrance of her father never approaches"
I,I,COUNTESS,"her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all"
I,I,COUNTESS,"livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena;"
I,I,COUNTESS,"go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect"
I,I,COUNTESS,"a sorrow than have it."
I,I,HELENA,"I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too."
I,I,LAFEU,"Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,"
I,I,LAFEU,"excessive grief the enemy to the living."
I,I,COUNTESS,"If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess"
I,I,COUNTESS,"makes it soon mortal."
I,I,BERTRAM,"Madam, I desire your holy wishes."
I,I,LAFEU,"How understand we that?"
I,I,COUNTESS,"Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father"
I,I,COUNTESS,"In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue"
I,I,COUNTESS,"Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness"
I,I,COUNTESS,"Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few,"
I,I,COUNTESS,"Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy"
I,I,COUNTESS,"Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend"
I,I,COUNTESS,"Under thy own life's key: be cheque'd for silence,"
I,I,COUNTESS,"But never tax'd for speech. What heaven more will,"
I,I,COUNTESS,"That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down,"
I,I,COUNTESS,"Fall on thy head! Farewell, my lord;"
I,I,COUNTESS,"'Tis an unseason'd courtier; good my lord,"
I,I,COUNTESS,"Advise him."
I,I,LAFEU,"He cannot want the best"
I,I,LAFEU,"That shall attend his love."
I,I,COUNTESS,"Heaven bless him! Farewell, Bertram."
I,I,BERTRAM,"your thoughts be servants to you! Be comfortable"
I,I,BERTRAM,"to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her."
I,I,LAFEU,"Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold the credit of"
I,I,LAFEU,"your father."
I,I,HELENA,"O, were that all! I think not on my father;"
I,I,HELENA,"And these great tears grace his remembrance more"
I,I,HELENA,"Than those I shed for him. What was he like?"
I,I,HELENA,"I have forgot him: my imagination"
I,I,HELENA,"Carries no favour in't but Bertram's."
I,I,HELENA,"I am undone: there is no living, none,"
I,I,HELENA,"If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one"
I,I,HELENA,"That I should love a bright particular star"
I,I,HELENA,"And think to wed it, he is so above me:"
I,I,HELENA,"In his bright radiance and collateral light"
I,I,HELENA,"Must I be comforted, not in his sphere."
I,I,HELENA,"The ambition in my love thus plagues itself:"
I,I,HELENA,"The hind that would be mated by the lion"
I,I,HELENA,"Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though plague,"
I,I,HELENA,"To see him every hour; to sit and draw"
I,I,HELENA,"His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,"
I,I,HELENA,"In our heart's table; heart too capable"
I,I,HELENA,"Of every line and trick of his sweet favour:"
I,I,HELENA,"But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy"
I,I,HELENA,"Must sanctify his reliques. Who comes here?"
I,I,HELENA,"One that goes with him: I love him for his sake;"
I,I,HELENA,"And yet I know him a notorious liar,"
I,I,HELENA,"Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;"
I,I,HELENA,"Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him,"
I,I,HELENA,"That they take place, when virtue's steely bones"
I,I,HELENA,"Look bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we see"
I,I,HELENA,"Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly."
I,I,PAROLLES,"Save you, fair queen!"
I,I,HELENA,"And you, monarch!"
I,I,PAROLLES,"No."
I,I,HELENA,"And no."
I,I,PAROLLES,"Are you meditating on virginity?"
I,I,HELENA,"Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me"
I,I,HELENA,"ask you a question. Man is enemy to virginity; how"
I,I,HELENA,"may we barricado it against him?"
I,I,PAROLLES,"Keep him out."
I,I,HELENA,"But he assails; and our virginity, though valiant,"
I,I,HELENA,"in the defence yet is weak: unfold to us some"
I,I,HELENA,"warlike resistance."
I,I,PAROLLES,"There is none: man, sitting down before you, will"
I,I,PAROLLES,"undermine you and blow you up."
I,I,HELENA,"Bless our poor virginity from underminers and"
I,I,HELENA,"blowers up! Is there no military policy, how"
I,I,HELENA,"virgins might blow up men?"
I,I,PAROLLES,"Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be"
I,I,PAROLLES,"blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with"
I,I,PAROLLES,"the breach yourselves made, you lose your city. It"
I,I,PAROLLES,"is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to"
I,I,PAROLLES,"preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational"
I,I,PAROLLES,"increase and there was never virgin got till"
I,I,PAROLLES,"virginity was first lost. That you were made of is"
I,I,PAROLLES,"metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost"
I,I,PAROLLES,"may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is"
I,I,PAROLLES,"ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with 't!"
I,I,HELENA,"I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die a virgin."
I,I,PAROLLES,"There's little can be said in 't; 'tis against the"
I,I,PAROLLES,"rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity,"
I,I,PAROLLES,"is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible"
I,I,PAROLLES,"disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin:"
I,I,PAROLLES,"virginity murders itself and should be buried in"
I,I,PAROLLES,"highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate"
I,I,PAROLLES,"offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites,"
I,I,PAROLLES,"much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very"
I,I,PAROLLES,"paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach."
I,I,PAROLLES,"Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of"
I,I,PAROLLES,"self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the"
I,I,PAROLLES,"canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but loose"
I,I,PAROLLES,"by't: out with 't! within ten year it will make"
I,I,PAROLLES,"itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the"
I,I,PAROLLES,"principal itself not much the worse: away with 't!"
I,I,HELENA,"How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking?"
I,I,PAROLLES,"Let me see: marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it"
I,I,PAROLLES,"likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with"
I,I,PAROLLES,"lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with 't"
I,I,PAROLLES,"while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request."
I,I,PAROLLES,"Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out"
I,I,PAROLLES,"of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just"
I,I,PAROLLES,"like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not"
I,I,PAROLLES,"now. Your date is better in your pie and your"
I,I,PAROLLES,"porridge than in your cheek; and your virginity,"
I,I,PAROLLES,"your old virginity, is like one of our French"
I,I,PAROLLES,"withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry,"
I,I,PAROLLES,"'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better;"
I,I,PAROLLES,"marry, yet 'tis a withered pear: will you anything with it?"
I,I,HELENA,"Not my virginity yet"
I,I,HELENA,"There shall your master have a thousand loves,"
I,I,HELENA,"A mother and a mistress and a friend,"
I,I,HELENA,"A phoenix, captain and an enemy,"
I,I,HELENA,"A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign,"
I,I,HELENA,"A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear;"
I,I,HELENA,"His humble ambition, proud humility,"
I,I,HELENA,"His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet,"
I,I,HELENA,"His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world"
I,I,HELENA,"Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms,"
I,I,HELENA,"That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he--"
I,I,HELENA,"I know not what he shall. God send him well!"
I,I,HELENA,"The court's a learning place, and he is one--"
I,I,PAROLLES,"What one, i' faith?"
I,I,HELENA,"That I wish well. 'Tis pity--"
I,I,PAROLLES,"What's pity?"
I,I,HELENA,"That wishing well had not a body in't,"
I,I,HELENA,"Which might be felt; that we, the poorer born,"
I,I,HELENA,"Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes,"
I,I,HELENA,"Might with effects of them follow our friends,"
I,I,HELENA,"And show what we alone must think, which never"
I,I,HELENA,"Return us thanks."
I,I,Page,"Monsieur Parolles, my lord calls for you."
I,I,PAROLLES,"Little Helen, farewell; if I can remember thee, I"
I,I,PAROLLES,"will think of thee at court."
I,I,HELENA,"Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star."
I,I,PAROLLES,"Under Mars, I."
I,I,HELENA,"I especially think, under Mars."
I,I,PAROLLES,"Why under Mars?"
I,I,HELENA,"The wars have so kept you under that you must needs"
I,I,HELENA,"be born under Mars."
I,I,PAROLLES,"When he was predominant."
I,I,HELENA,"When he was retrograde, I think, rather."
I,I,PAROLLES,"Why think you so?"
I,I,HELENA,"You go so much backward when you fight."
I,I,PAROLLES,"That's for advantage."
I,I,HELENA,"So is running away, when fear proposes the safety;"
I,I,HELENA,"but the composition that your valour and fear makes"
I,I,HELENA,"in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well."
I,I,PAROLLES,"I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee"
I,I,PAROLLES,"acutely. I will return perfect courtier; in the"
I,I,PAROLLES,"which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize"
I,I,PAROLLES,"thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's"
I,I,PAROLLES,"counsel and understand what advice shall thrust upon"
I,I,PAROLLES,"thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and"
I,I,PAROLLES,"thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When"
I,I,PAROLLES,"thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast"
I,I,PAROLLES,"none, remember thy friends; get thee a good husband,"
I,I,PAROLLES,"and use him as he uses thee; so, farewell."
I,I,HELENA,"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,"
I,I,HELENA,"Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky"
I,I,HELENA,"Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull"
I,I,HELENA,"Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull."
I,I,HELENA,"What power is it which mounts my love so high,"
I,I,HELENA,"That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?"
I,I,HELENA,"The mightiest space in fortune nature brings"
I,I,HELENA,"To join like likes and kiss like native things."
I,I,HELENA,"Impossible be strange attempts to those"
I,I,HELENA,"That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose"
I,I,HELENA,"What hath been cannot be: who ever strove"
I,I,HELENA,"So show her merit, that did miss her love?"
I,I,HELENA,"The king's disease--my project may deceive me,"
I,I,HELENA,"But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me."
I,II,KING,"The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears;"
I,II,KING,"Have fought with equal fortune and continue"
I,II,KING,"A braving war."
I,II,First Lord,"So 'tis reported, sir."
I,II,KING,"Nay, 'tis most credible; we here received it"
I,II,KING,"A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria,"
I,II,KING,"With caution that the Florentine will move us"
I,II,KING,"For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend"
I,II,KING,"Prejudicates the business and would seem"
I,II,KING,"To have us make denial."
I,II,First Lord,"His love and wisdom,"
I,II,First Lord,"Approved so to your majesty, may plead"
I,II,First Lord,"For amplest credence."
I,II,KING,"He hath arm'd our answer,"
I,II,KING,"And Florence is denied before he comes:"
I,II,KING,"Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see"
I,II,KING,"The Tuscan service, freely have they leave"
I,II,KING,"To stand on either part."
I,II,Second Lord,"It well may serve"
I,II,Second Lord,"A nursery to our gentry, who are sick"
I,II,Second Lord,"For breathing and exploit."
I,II,KING,"What's he comes here?"
I,II,First Lord,"It is the Count Rousillon, my good lord,"
I,II,First Lord,"Young Bertram."
I,II,KING,"Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face;"
I,II,KING,"Frank nature, rather curious than in haste,"
I,II,KING,"Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts"
I,II,KING,"Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris."
I,II,BERTRAM,"My thanks and duty are your majesty's."
I,II,KING,"I would I had that corporal soundness now,"
I,II,KING,"As when thy father and myself in friendship"
I,II,KING,"First tried our soldiership! He did look far"
I,II,KING,"Into the service of the time and was"
I,II,KING,"Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long;"
I,II,KING,"But on us both did haggish age steal on"
I,II,KING,"And wore us out of act. It much repairs me"
I,II,KING,"To talk of your good father. In his youth"
I,II,KING,"He had the wit which I can well observe"
I,II,KING,"To-day in our young lords; but they may jest"
I,II,KING,"Till their own scorn return to them unnoted"
I,II,KING,"Ere they can hide their levity in honour;"
I,II,KING,"So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness"
I,II,KING,"Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were,"
I,II,KING,"His equal had awaked them, and his honour,"
I,II,KING,"Clock to itself, knew the true minute when"
I,II,KING,"Exception bid him speak, and at this time"
I,II,KING,"His tongue obey'd his hand: who were below him"
I,II,KING,"He used as creatures of another place"
I,II,KING,"And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks,"
I,II,KING,"Making them proud of his humility,"
I,II,KING,"In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man"
I,II,KING,"Might be a copy to these younger times;"
I,II,KING,"Which, follow'd well, would demonstrate them now"
I,II,KING,"But goers backward."
I,II,BERTRAM,"His good remembrance, sir,"
I,II,BERTRAM,"Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb;"
I,II,BERTRAM,"So in approof lives not his epitaph"
I,II,BERTRAM,"As in your royal speech."
I,II,KING,"Would I were with him! He would always say--"
I,II,KING,"Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words"
I,II,KING,"He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them,"
I,II,KING,"To grow there and to bear,--'Let me not live,'--"
I,II,KING,"This his good melancholy oft began,"
I,II,KING,"On the catastrophe and heel of pastime,"
I,II,KING,"When it was out,--'Let me not live,' quoth he,"
I,II,KING,"'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff"
I,II,KING,"Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses"
I,II,KING,"All but new things disdain; whose judgments are"
I,II,KING,"Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies"
I,II,KING,"Expire before their fashions.' This he wish'd;"
I,II,KING,"I after him do after him wish too,"
I,II,KING,"Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home,"
I,II,KING,"I quickly were dissolved from my hive,"
I,II,KING,"To give some labourers room."
I,II,Second Lord,"You are loved, sir:"
I,II,Second Lord,"They that least lend it you shall lack you first."
I,II,KING,"I fill a place, I know't. How long is't, count,"
I,II,KING,"Since the physician at your father's died?"
I,II,KING,"He was much famed."
I,II,BERTRAM,"Some six months since, my lord."
I,II,KING,"If he were living, I would try him yet."
I,II,KING,"Lend me an arm; the rest have worn me out"
I,II,KING,"With several applications; nature and sickness"
I,II,KING,"Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count;"
I,II,KING,"My son's no dearer."
I,II,BERTRAM,"Thank your majesty."
I,III,COUNTESS,"I will now hear; what say you of this gentlewoman?"
I,III,Steward,"Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I"
I,III,Steward,"wish might be found in the calendar of my past"
I,III,Steward,"endeavours; for then we wound our modesty and make"
I,III,Steward,"foul the clearness of our deservings, when of"
I,III,Steward,"ourselves we publish them."
I,III,COUNTESS,"What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah:"
I,III,COUNTESS,"the complaints I have heard of you I do not all"
I,III,COUNTESS,"believe: 'tis my slowness that I do not; for I know"
I,III,COUNTESS,"you lack not folly to commit them, and have ability"
I,III,COUNTESS,"enough to make such knaveries yours."
I,III,Clown,"'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor fellow."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Well, sir."
I,III,Clown,"No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though"
I,III,Clown,"many of the rich are damned: but, if I may have"
I,III,Clown,"your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel"
I,III,Clown,"the woman and I will do as we may."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Wilt thou needs be a beggar?"
I,III,Clown,"I do beg your good will in this case."
I,III,COUNTESS,"In what case?"
I,III,Clown,"In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no"
I,III,Clown,"heritage: and I think I shall never have the"
I,III,Clown,"blessing of God till I have issue o' my body; for"
I,III,Clown,"they say barnes are blessings."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry."
I,III,Clown,"My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on"
I,III,Clown,"by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Is this all your worship's reason?"
I,III,Clown,"Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons such as they"
I,III,Clown,"are."
I,III,COUNTESS,"May the world know them?"
I,III,Clown,"I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and"
I,III,Clown,"all flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do marry"
I,III,Clown,"that I may repent."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Thy marriage, sooner than thy wickedness."
I,III,Clown,"I am out o' friends, madam; and I hope to have"
I,III,Clown,"friends for my wife's sake."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Such friends are thine enemies, knave."
I,III,Clown,"You're shallow, madam, in great friends; for the"
I,III,Clown,"knaves come to do that for me which I am aweary of."
I,III,Clown,"He that ears my land spares my team and gives me"
I,III,Clown,"leave to in the crop; if I be his cuckold, he's my"
I,III,Clown,"drudge: he that comforts my wife is the cherisher"
I,III,Clown,"of my flesh and blood; he that cherishes my flesh"
I,III,Clown,"and blood loves my flesh and blood; he that loves my"
I,III,Clown,"flesh and blood is my friend: ergo, he that kisses"
I,III,Clown,"my wife is my friend. If men could be contented to"
I,III,Clown,"be what they are, there were no fear in marriage;"
I,III,Clown,"for young Charbon the Puritan and old Poysam the"
I,III,Clown,"Papist, howsome'er their hearts are severed in"
I,III,Clown,"religion, their heads are both one; they may jowl"
I,III,Clown,"horns together, like any deer i' the herd."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and calumnious knave?"
I,III,Clown,"A prophet I, madam; and I speak the truth the next"
I,III,Clown,"way:"
I,III,Clown,"For I the ballad will repeat,"
I,III,Clown,"Which men full true shall find;"
I,III,Clown,"Your marriage comes by destiny,"
I,III,Clown,"Your cuckoo sings by kind."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Get you gone, sir; I'll talk with you more anon."
I,III,Steward,"May it please you, madam, that he bid Helen come to"
I,III,Steward,"you: of her I am to speak."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her;"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Helen, I mean."
I,III,Clown,"Was this fair face the cause, quoth she,"
I,III,Clown,"Why the Grecians sacked Troy?"
I,III,Clown,"Fond done, done fond,"
I,III,Clown,"Was this King Priam's joy?"
I,III,Clown,"With that she sighed as she stood,"
I,III,Clown,"With that she sighed as she stood,"
I,III,Clown,"And gave this sentence then;"
I,III,Clown,"Among nine bad if one be good,"
I,III,Clown,"Among nine bad if one be good,"
I,III,Clown,"There's yet one good in ten."
I,III,COUNTESS,"What, one good in ten? you corrupt the song, sirrah."
I,III,Clown,"One good woman in ten, madam; which is a purifying"
I,III,Clown,"o' the song: would God would serve the world so all"
I,III,Clown,"the year! we'ld find no fault with the tithe-woman,"
I,III,Clown,"if I were the parson. One in ten, quoth a'! An we"
I,III,Clown,"might have a good woman born but one every blazing"
I,III,Clown,"star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery"
I,III,Clown,"well: a man may draw his heart out, ere a' pluck"
I,III,Clown,"one."
I,III,COUNTESS,"You'll be gone, sir knave, and do as I command you."
I,III,Clown,"That man should be at woman's command, and yet no"
I,III,Clown,"hurt done! Though honesty be no puritan, yet it"
I,III,Clown,"will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of"
I,III,Clown,"humility over the black gown of a big heart. I am"
I,III,Clown,"going, forsooth: the business is for Helen to come hither."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Well, now."
I,III,Steward,"I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman entirely."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Faith, I do: her father bequeathed her to me; and"
I,III,COUNTESS,"she herself, without other advantage, may lawfully"
I,III,COUNTESS,"make title to as much love as she finds: there is"
I,III,COUNTESS,"more owing her than is paid; and more shall be paid"
I,III,COUNTESS,"her than she'll demand."
I,III,Steward,"Madam, I was very late more near her than I think"
I,III,Steward,"she wished me: alone she was, and did communicate"
I,III,Steward,"to herself her own words to her own ears; she"
I,III,Steward,"thought, I dare vow for her, they touched not any"
I,III,Steward,"stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son:"
I,III,Steward,"Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put"
I,III,Steward,"such difference betwixt their two estates; Love no"
I,III,Steward,"god, that would not extend his might, only where"
I,III,Steward,"qualities were level; Dian no queen of virgins, that"
I,III,Steward,"would suffer her poor knight surprised, without"
I,III,Steward,"rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward."
I,III,Steward,"This she delivered in the most bitter touch of"
I,III,Steward,"sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in: which I"
I,III,Steward,"held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal;"
I,III,Steward,"sithence, in the loss that may happen, it concerns"
I,III,Steward,"you something to know it."
I,III,COUNTESS,"You have discharged this honestly; keep it to"
I,III,COUNTESS,"yourself: many likelihoods informed me of this"
I,III,COUNTESS,"before, which hung so tottering in the balance that"
I,III,COUNTESS,"I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"leave me: stall this in your bosom; and I thank you"
I,III,COUNTESS,"for your honest care: I will speak with you further anon."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Even so it was with me when I was young:"
I,III,COUNTESS,"If ever we are nature's, these are ours; this thorn"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong;"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Our blood to us, this to our blood is born;"
I,III,COUNTESS,"It is the show and seal of nature's truth,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth:"
I,III,COUNTESS,"By our remembrances of days foregone,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Such were our faults, or then we thought them none."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Her eye is sick on't: I observe her now."
I,III,HELENA,"What is your pleasure, madam?"
I,III,COUNTESS,"You know, Helen,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"I am a mother to you."
I,III,HELENA,"Mine honourable mistress."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Nay, a mother:"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Why not a mother? When I said 'a mother,'"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Methought you saw a serpent: what's in 'mother,'"
I,III,COUNTESS,"That you start at it? I say, I am your mother;"
I,III,COUNTESS,"And put you in the catalogue of those"
I,III,COUNTESS,"That were enwombed mine: 'tis often seen"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Adoption strives with nature and choice breeds"
I,III,COUNTESS,"A native slip to us from foreign seeds:"
I,III,COUNTESS,"You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Yet I express to you a mother's care:"
I,III,COUNTESS,"God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood"
I,III,COUNTESS,"To say I am thy mother? What's the matter,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"That this distemper'd messenger of wet,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eye?"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Why? that you are my daughter?"
I,III,HELENA,"That I am not."
I,III,COUNTESS,"I say, I am your mother."
I,III,HELENA,"Pardon, madam;"
I,III,HELENA,"The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother:"
I,III,HELENA,"I am from humble, he from honour'd name;"
I,III,HELENA,"No note upon my parents, his all noble:"
I,III,HELENA,"My master, my dear lord he is; and I"
I,III,HELENA,"His servant live, and will his vassal die:"
I,III,HELENA,"He must not be my brother."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Nor I your mother?"
I,III,HELENA,"You are my mother, madam; would you were,--"
I,III,HELENA,"So that my lord your son were not my brother,--"
I,III,HELENA,"Indeed my mother! or were you both our mothers,"
I,III,HELENA,"I care no more for than I do for heaven,"
I,III,HELENA,"So I were not his sister. Can't no other,"
I,III,HELENA,"But, I your daughter, he must be my brother?"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law:"
I,III,COUNTESS,"God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother"
I,III,COUNTESS,"So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again?"
I,III,COUNTESS,"My fear hath catch'd your fondness: now I see"
I,III,COUNTESS,"The mystery of your loneliness, and find"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Your salt tears' head: now to all sense 'tis gross"
I,III,COUNTESS,"You love my son; invention is ashamed,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Against the proclamation of thy passion,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"To say thou dost not: therefore tell me true;"
I,III,COUNTESS,"But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look thy cheeks"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Confess it, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes"
I,III,COUNTESS,"See it so grossly shown in thy behaviors"
I,III,COUNTESS,"That in their kind they speak it: only sin"
I,III,COUNTESS,"And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so?"
I,III,COUNTESS,"If it be so, you have wound a goodly clew;"
I,III,COUNTESS,"If it be not, forswear't: howe'er, I charge thee,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"As heaven shall work in me for thine avail,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Tell me truly."
I,III,HELENA,"Good madam, pardon me!"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Do you love my son?"
I,III,HELENA,"Your pardon, noble mistress!"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Love you my son?"
I,III,HELENA,"Do not you love him, madam?"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Go not about; my love hath in't a bond,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Whereof the world takes note: come, come, disclose"
I,III,COUNTESS,"The state of your affection; for your passions"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Have to the full appeach'd."
I,III,HELENA,"Then, I confess,"
I,III,HELENA,"Here on my knee, before high heaven and you,"
I,III,HELENA,"That before you, and next unto high heaven,"
I,III,HELENA,"I love your son."
I,III,HELENA,"My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love:"
I,III,HELENA,"Be not offended; for it hurts not him"
I,III,HELENA,"That he is loved of me: I follow him not"
I,III,HELENA,"By any token of presumptuous suit;"
I,III,HELENA,"Nor would I have him till I do deserve him;"
I,III,HELENA,"Yet never know how that desert should be."
I,III,HELENA,"I know I love in vain, strive against hope;"
I,III,HELENA,"Yet in this captious and intenible sieve"
I,III,HELENA,"I still pour in the waters of my love"
I,III,HELENA,"And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like,"
I,III,HELENA,"Religious in mine error, I adore"
I,III,HELENA,"The sun, that looks upon his worshipper,"
I,III,HELENA,"But knows of him no more. My dearest madam,"
I,III,HELENA,"Let not your hate encounter with my love"
I,III,HELENA,"For loving where you do: but if yourself,"
I,III,HELENA,"Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth,"
I,III,HELENA,"Did ever in so true a flame of liking"
I,III,HELENA,"Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian"
I,III,HELENA,"Was both herself and love: O, then, give pity"
I,III,HELENA,"To her, whose state is such that cannot choose"
I,III,HELENA,"But lend and give where she is sure to lose;"
I,III,HELENA,"That seeks not to find that her search implies,"
I,III,HELENA,"But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies!"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Had you not lately an intent,--speak truly,--"
I,III,COUNTESS,"To go to Paris?"
I,III,HELENA,"Madam, I had."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Wherefore? tell true."
I,III,HELENA,"I will tell truth; by grace itself I swear."
I,III,HELENA,"You know my father left me some prescriptions"
I,III,HELENA,"Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading"
I,III,HELENA,"And manifest experience had collected"
I,III,HELENA,"For general sovereignty; and that he will'd me"
I,III,HELENA,"In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them,"
I,III,HELENA,"As notes whose faculties inclusive were"
I,III,HELENA,"More than they were in note: amongst the rest,"
I,III,HELENA,"There is a remedy, approved, set down,"
I,III,HELENA,"To cure the desperate languishings whereof"
I,III,HELENA,"The king is render'd lost."
I,III,COUNTESS,"This was your motive"
I,III,COUNTESS,"For Paris, was it? speak."
I,III,HELENA,"My lord your son made me to think of this;"
I,III,HELENA,"Else Paris and the medicine and the king"
I,III,HELENA,"Had from the conversation of my thoughts"
I,III,HELENA,"Haply been absent then."
I,III,COUNTESS,"But think you, Helen,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"If you should tender your supposed aid,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"He would receive it? he and his physicians"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Are of a mind; he, that they cannot help him,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"They, that they cannot help: how shall they credit"
I,III,COUNTESS,"A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Embowell'd of their doctrine, have left off"
I,III,COUNTESS,"The danger to itself?"
I,III,HELENA,"There's something in't,"
I,III,HELENA,"More than my father's skill, which was the greatest"
I,III,HELENA,"Of his profession, that his good receipt"
I,III,HELENA,"Shall for my legacy be sanctified"
I,III,HELENA,"By the luckiest stars in heaven: and, would your honour"
I,III,HELENA,"But give me leave to try success, I'ld venture"
I,III,HELENA,"The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure"
I,III,HELENA,"By such a day and hour."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Dost thou believe't?"
I,III,HELENA,"Ay, madam, knowingly."
I,III,COUNTESS,"Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave and love,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Means and attendants and my loving greetings"
I,III,COUNTESS,"To those of mine in court: I'll stay at home"
I,III,COUNTESS,"And pray God's blessing into thy attempt:"
I,III,COUNTESS,"Be gone to-morrow; and be sure of this,"
I,III,COUNTESS,"What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss."
II,I,KING,"Farewell, young lords; these warlike principles"
II,I,KING,"Do not throw from you: and you, my lords, farewell:"
II,I,KING,"Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain, all"
II,I,KING,"The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received,"
II,I,KING,"And is enough for both."
II,I,First Lord,"'Tis our hope, sir,"
II,I,First Lord,"After well enter'd soldiers, to return"
II,I,First Lord,"And find your grace in health."
II,I,KING,"No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart"
II,I,KING,"Will not confess he owes the malady"
II,I,KING,"That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords;"
II,I,KING,"Whether I live or die, be you the sons"
II,I,KING,"Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy,--"
II,I,KING,"Those bated that inherit but the fall"
II,I,KING,"Of the last monarchy,--see that you come"
II,I,KING,"Not to woo honour, but to wed it; when"
II,I,KING,"The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek,"
II,I,KING,"That fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell."
II,I,Second Lord,"Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty!"
II,I,KING,"Those girls of Italy, take heed of them:"
II,I,KING,"They say, our French lack language to deny,"
II,I,KING,"If they demand: beware of being captives,"
II,I,KING,"Before you serve."
II,I,Both,"Our hearts receive your warnings."
II,I,KING,"Farewell. Come hither to me."
II,I,First Lord,"O, my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us!"
II,I,PAROLLES,"'Tis not his fault, the spark."
II,I,Second Lord,"O, 'tis brave wars!"
II,I,PAROLLES,"Most admirable: I have seen those wars."
II,I,BERTRAM,"I am commanded here, and kept a coil with"
II,I,BERTRAM,"'Too young' and 'the next year' and ''tis too early.'"
II,I,PAROLLES,"An thy mind stand to't, boy, steal away bravely."
II,I,BERTRAM,"I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock,"
II,I,BERTRAM,"Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry,"
II,I,BERTRAM,"Till honour be bought up and no sword worn"
II,I,BERTRAM,"But one to dance with! By heaven, I'll steal away."
II,I,First Lord,"There's honour in the theft."
II,I,PAROLLES,"Commit it, count."
II,I,Second Lord,"I am your accessary; and so, farewell."
II,I,BERTRAM,"I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body."
II,I,First Lord,"Farewell, captain."
II,I,Second Lord,"Sweet Monsieur Parolles!"
II,I,PAROLLES,"Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good"
II,I,PAROLLES,"sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals: you shall"
II,I,PAROLLES,"find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain"
II,I,PAROLLES,"Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here"
II,I,PAROLLES,"on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword"
II,I,PAROLLES,"entrenched it: say to him, I live; and observe his"
II,I,PAROLLES,"reports for me."
II,I,First Lord,"We shall, noble captain."
II,I,PAROLLES,"Mars dote on you for his novices! what will ye do?"
II,I,BERTRAM,"Stay: the king."
II,I,PAROLLES,"noble lords; you have restrained yourself within the"
II,I,PAROLLES,"list of too cold an adieu: be more expressive to"
II,I,PAROLLES,"them: for they wear themselves in the cap of the"
II,I,PAROLLES,"time, there do muster true gait, eat, speak, and"
II,I,PAROLLES,"move under the influence of the most received star;"
II,I,PAROLLES,"and though the devil lead the measure, such are to"
II,I,PAROLLES,"be followed: after them, and take a more dilated farewell."
II,I,BERTRAM,"And I will do so."
II,I,PAROLLES,"Worthy fellows; and like to prove most sinewy sword-men."
II,I,KING,"I'll fee thee to stand up."
II,I,LAFEU,"Then here's a man stands, that has brought his pardon."
II,I,LAFEU,"I would you had kneel'd, my lord, to ask me mercy,"
II,I,LAFEU,"And that at my bidding you could so stand up."
II,I,KING,"I would I had; so I had broke thy pate,"
II,I,KING,"And ask'd thee mercy for't."
II,I,LAFEU,"Good faith, across: but, my good lord 'tis thus;"
II,I,LAFEU,"Will you be cured of your infirmity?"
II,I,KING,"No."
II,I,LAFEU,"O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox?"
II,I,LAFEU,"Yes, but you will my noble grapes, an if"
II,I,LAFEU,"My royal fox could reach them: I have seen a medicine"
II,I,LAFEU,"That's able to breathe life into a stone,"
II,I,LAFEU,"Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary"
II,I,LAFEU,"With spritely fire and motion; whose simple touch,"
II,I,LAFEU,"Is powerful to araise King Pepin, nay,"
II,I,LAFEU,"To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand,"
II,I,LAFEU,"And write to her a love-line."
II,I,KING,"What 'her' is this?"
II,I,LAFEU,"Why, Doctor She: my lord, there's one arrived,"
II,I,LAFEU,"If you will see her: now, by my faith and honour,"
II,I,LAFEU,"If seriously I may convey my thoughts"
II,I,LAFEU,"In this my light deliverance, I have spoke"
II,I,LAFEU,"With one that, in her sex, her years, profession,"
II,I,LAFEU,"Wisdom and constancy, hath amazed me more"
II,I,LAFEU,"Than I dare blame my weakness: will you see her"
II,I,LAFEU,"For that is her demand, and know her business?"
II,I,LAFEU,"That done, laugh well at me."
II,I,KING,"Now, good Lafeu,"
II,I,KING,"Bring in the admiration; that we with thee"
II,I,KING,"May spend our wonder too, or take off thine"
II,I,KING,"By wondering how thou took'st it."
II,I,LAFEU,"Nay, I'll fit you,"
II,I,LAFEU,"And not be all day neither."
II,I,KING,"Thus he his special nothing ever prologues."
II,I,LAFEU,"Nay, come your ways."
II,I,KING,"This haste hath wings indeed."
II,I,LAFEU,"Nay, come your ways:"
II,I,LAFEU,"This is his majesty; say your mind to him:"
II,I,LAFEU,"A traitor you do look like; but such traitors"
II,I,LAFEU,"His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle,"
II,I,LAFEU,"That dare leave two together; fare you well."
II,I,KING,"Now, fair one, does your business follow us?"
II,I,HELENA,"Ay, my good lord."
II,I,HELENA,"Gerard de Narbon was my father;"
II,I,HELENA,"In what he did profess, well found."
II,I,KING,"I knew him."
II,I,HELENA,"The rather will I spare my praises towards him:"
II,I,HELENA,"Knowing him is enough. On's bed of death"
II,I,HELENA,"Many receipts he gave me: chiefly one."
II,I,HELENA,"Which, as the dearest issue of his practise,"
II,I,HELENA,"And of his old experience the oily darling,"
II,I,HELENA,"He bade me store up, as a triple eye,"
II,I,HELENA,"Safer than mine own two, more dear; I have so;"
II,I,HELENA,"And hearing your high majesty is touch'd"
II,I,HELENA,"With that malignant cause wherein the honour"
II,I,HELENA,"Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power,"
II,I,HELENA,"I come to tender it and my appliance"
II,I,HELENA,"With all bound humbleness."
II,I,KING,"We thank you, maiden;"
II,I,KING,"But may not be so credulous of cure,"
II,I,KING,"When our most learned doctors leave us and"
II,I,KING,"The congregated college have concluded"
II,I,KING,"That labouring art can never ransom nature"
II,I,KING,"From her inaidible estate; I say we must not"
II,I,KING,"So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope,"
II,I,KING,"To prostitute our past-cure malady"
II,I,KING,"To empirics, or to dissever so"
II,I,KING,"Our great self and our credit, to esteem"
II,I,KING,"A senseless help when help past sense we deem."
II,I,HELENA,"My duty then shall pay me for my pains:"
II,I,HELENA,"I will no more enforce mine office on you."
II,I,HELENA,"Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts"
II,I,HELENA,"A modest one, to bear me back a again."
II,I,KING,"I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful:"
II,I,KING,"Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give"
II,I,KING,"As one near death to those that wish him live:"
II,I,KING,"But what at full I know, thou know'st no part,"
II,I,KING,"I knowing all my peril, thou no art."
II,I,HELENA,"What I can do can do no hurt to try,"
II,I,HELENA,"Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy."
II,I,HELENA,"He that of greatest works is finisher"
II,I,HELENA,"Oft does them by the weakest minister:"
II,I,HELENA,"So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown,"
II,I,HELENA,"When judges have been babes; great floods have flown"
II,I,HELENA,"From simple sources, and great seas have dried"
II,I,HELENA,"When miracles have by the greatest been denied."
II,I,HELENA,"Oft expectation fails and most oft there"
II,I,HELENA,"Where most it promises, and oft it hits"
II,I,HELENA,"Where hope is coldest and despair most fits."
II,I,KING,"I must not hear thee; fare thee well, kind maid;"
II,I,KING,"Thy pains not used must by thyself be paid:"
II,I,KING,"Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward."
II,I,HELENA,"Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd:"
II,I,HELENA,"It is not so with Him that all things knows"
II,I,HELENA,"As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows;"
II,I,HELENA,"But most it is presumption in us when"
II,I,HELENA,"The help of heaven we count the act of men."
II,I,HELENA,"Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent;"
II,I,HELENA,"Of heaven, not me, make an experiment."
II,I,HELENA,"I am not an impostor that proclaim"
II,I,HELENA,"Myself against the level of mine aim;"
II,I,HELENA,"But know I think and think I know most sure"
II,I,HELENA,"My art is not past power nor you past cure."
II,I,KING,"Are thou so confident? within what space"
II,I,KING,"Hopest thou my cure?"
II,I,HELENA,"The great'st grace lending grace"
II,I,HELENA,"Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring"
II,I,HELENA,"Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring,"
II,I,HELENA,"Ere twice in murk and occidental damp"
II,I,HELENA,"Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp,"
II,I,HELENA,"Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass"
II,I,HELENA,"Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass,"
II,I,HELENA,"What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly,"
II,I,HELENA,"Health shall live free and sickness freely die."
II,I,KING,"Upon thy certainty and confidence"
II,I,KING,"What darest thou venture?"
II,I,HELENA,"Tax of impudence,"
II,I,HELENA,"A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame"
II,I,HELENA,"Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name"
II,I,HELENA,"Sear'd otherwise; nay, worse--if worse--extended"
II,I,HELENA,"With vilest torture let my life be ended."
II,I,KING,"Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak"
II,I,KING,"His powerful sound within an organ weak:"
II,I,KING,"And what impossibility would slay"
II,I,KING,"In common sense, sense saves another way."
II,I,KING,"Thy life is dear; for all that life can rate"
II,I,KING,"Worth name of life in thee hath estimate,"
II,I,KING,"Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all"
II,I,KING,"That happiness and prime can happy call:"
II,I,KING,"Thou this to hazard needs must intimate"
II,I,KING,"Skill infinite or monstrous desperate."
II,I,KING,"Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try,"
II,I,KING,"That ministers thine own death if I die."
II,I,HELENA,"If I break time, or flinch in property"
II,I,HELENA,"Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die,"
II,I,HELENA,"And well deserved: not helping, death's my fee;"
II,I,HELENA,"But, if I help, what do you promise me?"
II,I,KING,"Make thy demand."
II,I,HELENA,"But will you make it even?"
II,I,KING,"Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven."
II,I,HELENA,"Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand"
II,I,HELENA,"What husband in thy power I will command:"
II,I,HELENA,"Exempted be from me the arrogance"
II,I,HELENA,"To choose from forth the royal blood of France,"
II,I,HELENA,"My low and humble name to propagate"
II,I,HELENA,"With any branch or image of thy state;"
II,I,HELENA,"But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know"
II,I,HELENA,"Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow."
II,I,KING,"Here is my hand; the premises observed,"
II,I,KING,"Thy will by my performance shall be served:"
II,I,KING,"So make the choice of thy own time, for I,"
II,I,KING,"Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely."
II,I,KING,"More should I question thee, and more I must,"
II,I,KING,"Though more to know could not be more to trust,"
II,I,KING,"From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest"
II,I,KING,"Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest."
II,I,KING,"Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed"
II,I,KING,"As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed."
II,II,COUNTESS,"Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height of"
II,II,COUNTESS,"your breeding."
II,II,Clown,"I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught: I"
II,II,Clown,"know my business is but to the court."
II,II,COUNTESS,"To the court! why, what place make you special,"
II,II,COUNTESS,"when you put off that with such contempt? But to the court!"
II,II,Clown,"Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he"
II,II,Clown,"may easily put it off at court: he that cannot make"
II,II,Clown,"a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand and say nothing,"
II,II,Clown,"has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and indeed"
II,II,Clown,"such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the"
II,II,Clown,"court; but for me, I have an answer will serve all"
II,II,Clown,"men."
II,II,COUNTESS,"Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all"
II,II,COUNTESS,"questions."
II,II,Clown,"It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks,"
II,II,Clown,"the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn"
II,II,Clown,"buttock, or any buttock."
II,II,COUNTESS,"Will your answer serve fit to all questions?"
II,II,Clown,"As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney,"
II,II,Clown,"as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's"
II,II,Clown,"rush for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove"
II,II,Clown,"Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his"
II,II,Clown,"hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding queen"
II,II,Clown,"to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the"
II,II,Clown,"friar's mouth, nay, as the pudding to his skin."
II,II,COUNTESS,"Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all"
II,II,COUNTESS,"questions?"
II,II,Clown,"From below your duke to beneath your constable, it"
II,II,Clown,"will fit any question."
II,II,COUNTESS,"It must be an answer of most monstrous size that"
II,II,COUNTESS,"must fit all demands."
II,II,Clown,"But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned"
II,II,Clown,"should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that"
II,II,Clown,"belongs to't. Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall"
II,II,Clown,"do you no harm to learn."
II,II,COUNTESS,"To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in"
II,II,COUNTESS,"question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I"
II,II,COUNTESS,"pray you, sir, are you a courtier?"
II,II,Clown,"O Lord, sir! There's a simple putting off. More,"
II,II,Clown,"more, a hundred of them."
II,II,COUNTESS,"Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you."
II,II,Clown,"O Lord, sir! Thick, thick, spare not me."
II,II,COUNTESS,"I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat."
II,II,Clown,"O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you."
II,II,COUNTESS,"You were lately whipped, sir, as I think."
II,II,Clown,"O Lord, sir! spare not me."
II,II,COUNTESS,"Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and"
II,II,COUNTESS,"'spare not me?' Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is very"
II,II,COUNTESS,"sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well"
II,II,COUNTESS,"to a whipping, if you were but bound to't."
II,II,Clown,"I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my 'O Lord,"
II,II,Clown,"sir!' I see things may serve long, but not serve ever."
II,II,COUNTESS,"I play the noble housewife with the time"
II,II,COUNTESS,"To entertain't so merrily with a fool."
II,II,Clown,"O Lord, sir! why, there't serves well again."
II,II,COUNTESS,"An end, sir; to your business. Give Helen this,"
II,II,COUNTESS,"And urge her to a present answer back:"
II,II,COUNTESS,"Commend me to my kinsmen and my son:"
II,II,COUNTESS,"This is not much."
II,II,Clown,"Not much commendation to them."
II,II,COUNTESS,"Not much employment for you: you understand me?"
II,II,Clown,"Most fruitfully: I am there before my legs."
II,II,COUNTESS,"Haste you again."
II,III,LAFEU,"They say miracles are past; and we have our"
II,III,LAFEU,"philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar,"
II,III,LAFEU,"things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that"
II,III,LAFEU,"we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves"
II,III,LAFEU,"into seeming knowledge, when we should submit"
II,III,LAFEU,"ourselves to an unknown fear."
II,III,PAROLLES,"Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath"
II,III,PAROLLES,"shot out in our latter times."
II,III,BERTRAM,"And so 'tis."
II,III,LAFEU,"To be relinquish'd of the artists,--"
II,III,PAROLLES,"So I say."
II,III,LAFEU,"Both of Galen and Paracelsus."
II,III,PAROLLES,"So I say."
II,III,LAFEU,"Of all the learned and authentic fellows,--"
II,III,PAROLLES,"Right; so I say."
II,III,LAFEU,"That gave him out incurable,--"
II,III,PAROLLES,"Why, there 'tis; so say I too."
II,III,LAFEU,"Not to be helped,--"
II,III,PAROLLES,"Right; as 'twere, a man assured of a--"
II,III,LAFEU,"Uncertain life, and sure death."
II,III,PAROLLES,"Just, you say well; so would I have said."
II,III,LAFEU,"I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world."
II,III,PAROLLES,"It is, indeed: if you will have it in showing, you"
II,III,PAROLLES,"shall read it in--what do you call there?"
II,III,LAFEU,"A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor."
II,III,PAROLLES,"That's it; I would have said the very same."
II,III,LAFEU,"Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me,"
II,III,LAFEU,"I speak in respect--"
II,III,PAROLLES,"Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the"
II,III,PAROLLES,"brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a most"
II,III,PAROLLES,"facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the--"
II,III,LAFEU,"Very hand of heaven."
II,III,PAROLLES,"Ay, so I say."
II,III,LAFEU,"In a most weak--"
II,III,LAFEU,"and debile minister, great power, great"
II,III,LAFEU,"transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a"
II,III,LAFEU,"further use to be made than alone the recovery of"
II,III,LAFEU,"the king, as to be--"
II,III,LAFEU,"generally thankful."
II,III,PAROLLES,"I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the king."
II,III,LAFEU,"Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid the"
II,III,LAFEU,"better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: why, he's"
II,III,LAFEU,"able to lead her a coranto."
II,III,PAROLLES,"Mort du vinaigre! is not this Helen?"
II,III,LAFEU,"'Fore God, I think so."
II,III,KING,"Go, call before me all the lords in court."
II,III,KING,"Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side;"
II,III,KING,"And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense"
II,III,KING,"Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive"
II,III,KING,"The confirmation of my promised gift,"
II,III,KING,"Which but attends thy naming."
II,III,KING,"Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel"
II,III,KING,"Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,"
II,III,KING,"O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice"
II,III,KING,"I have to use: thy frank election make;"
II,III,KING,"Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake."
II,III,HELENA,"To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress"
II,III,HELENA,"Fall, when Love please! marry, to each, but one!"
II,III,LAFEU,"I'ld give bay Curtal and his furniture,"
II,III,LAFEU,"My mouth no more were broken than these boys',"
II,III,LAFEU,"And writ as little beard."
II,III,KING,"Peruse them well:"
II,III,KING,"Not one of those but had a noble father."
II,III,HELENA,"Gentlemen,"
II,III,HELENA,"Heaven hath through me restored the king to health."
II,III,All,"We understand it, and thank heaven for you."
II,III,HELENA,"I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest,"
II,III,HELENA,"That I protest I simply am a maid."
II,III,HELENA,"Please it your majesty, I have done already:"
II,III,HELENA,"The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me,"
II,III,HELENA,"'We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refused,"
II,III,HELENA,"Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever;"
II,III,HELENA,"We'll ne'er come there again.'"
II,III,KING,"Make choice; and, see,"
II,III,KING,"Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me."
II,III,HELENA,"Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly,"
II,III,HELENA,"And to imperial Love, that god most high,"
II,III,HELENA,"Do my sighs stream. Sir, will you hear my suit?"
II,III,First Lord,"And grant it."
II,III,HELENA,"Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute."
II,III,LAFEU,"I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace"
II,III,LAFEU,"for my life."
II,III,HELENA,"The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes,"
II,III,HELENA,"Before I speak, too threateningly replies:"
II,III,HELENA,"Love make your fortunes twenty times above"
II,III,HELENA,"Her that so wishes and her humble love!"
II,III,Second Lord,"No better, if you please."
II,III,HELENA,"My wish receive,"
II,III,HELENA,"Which great Love grant! and so, I take my leave."
II,III,LAFEU,"Do all they deny her? An they were sons of mine,"
II,III,LAFEU,"I'd have them whipped; or I would send them to the"
II,III,LAFEU,"Turk, to make eunuchs of."
II,III,HELENA,"Be not afraid that I your hand should take;"
II,III,HELENA,"I'll never do you wrong for your own sake:"
II,III,HELENA,"Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed"
II,III,HELENA,"Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed!"
II,III,LAFEU,"These boys are boys of ice, they'll none have her:"
II,III,LAFEU,"sure, they are bastards to the English; the French"
II,III,LAFEU,"ne'er got 'em."
II,III,HELENA,"You are too young, too happy, and too good,"
II,III,HELENA,"To make yourself a son out of my blood."
II,III,Fourth Lord,"Fair one, I think not so."
II,III,LAFEU,"There's one grape yet; I am sure thy father drunk"
II,III,LAFEU,"wine: but if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth"
II,III,LAFEU,"of fourteen; I have known thee already."
II,III,HELENA,"Me and my service, ever whilst I live,"
II,III,HELENA,"Into your guiding power. This is the man."
II,III,KING,"Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she's thy wife."
II,III,BERTRAM,"My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness,"
II,III,BERTRAM,"In such a business give me leave to use"
II,III,BERTRAM,"The help of mine own eyes."
II,III,KING,"Know'st thou not, Bertram,"
II,III,KING,"What she has done for me?"
II,III,BERTRAM,"Yes, my good lord;"
II,III,BERTRAM,"But never hope to know why I should marry her."
II,III,KING,"Thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly bed."
II,III,BERTRAM,"But follows it, my lord, to bring me down"
II,III,BERTRAM,"Must answer for your raising? I know her well:"
II,III,BERTRAM,"She had her breeding at my father's charge."
II,III,BERTRAM,"A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain"
II,III,BERTRAM,"Rather corrupt me ever!"
II,III,KING,"'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which"
II,III,KING,"I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods,"
II,III,KING,"Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,"
II,III,KING,"Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off"
II,III,KING,"In differences so mighty. If she be"
II,III,KING,"All that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest,"
II,III,KING,"A poor physician's daughter, thou dislikest"
II,III,KING,"Of virtue for the name: but do not so:"
II,III,KING,"From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,"
II,III,KING,"The place is dignified by the doer's deed:"
II,III,KING,"Where great additions swell's, and virtue none,"
II,III,KING,"It is a dropsied honour. Good alone"
II,III,KING,"Is good without a name. Vileness is so:"
II,III,KING,"The property by what it is should go,"
II,III,KING,"Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair;"
II,III,KING,"In these to nature she's immediate heir,"
II,III,KING,"And these breed honour: that is honour's scorn,"
II,III,KING,"Which challenges itself as honour's born"
II,III,KING,"And is not like the sire: honours thrive,"
II,III,KING,"When rather from our acts we them derive"
II,III,KING,"Than our foregoers: the mere word's a slave"
II,III,KING,"Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave"
II,III,KING,"A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb"
II,III,KING,"Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb"
II,III,KING,"Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be said?"
II,III,KING,"If thou canst like this creature as a maid,"
II,III,KING,"I can create the rest: virtue and she"
II,III,KING,"Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me."
II,III,BERTRAM,"I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't."
II,III,KING,"Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to choose."
II,III,HELENA,"That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad:"
II,III,HELENA,"Let the rest go."
II,III,KING,"My honour's at the stake; which to defeat,"
II,III,KING,"I must produce my power. Here, take her hand,"
II,III,KING,"Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift;"
II,III,KING,"That dost in vile misprision shackle up"
II,III,KING,"My love and her desert; that canst not dream,"
II,III,KING,"We, poising us in her defective scale,"
II,III,KING,"Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know,"
II,III,KING,"It is in us to plant thine honour where"
II,III,KING,"We please to have it grow. Cheque thy contempt:"
II,III,KING,"Obey our will, which travails in thy good:"
II,III,KING,"Believe not thy disdain, but presently"
II,III,KING,"Do thine own fortunes that obedient right"
II,III,KING,"Which both thy duty owes and our power claims;"
II,III,KING,"Or I will throw thee from my care for ever"
II,III,KING,"Into the staggers and the careless lapse"
II,III,KING,"Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate"
II,III,KING,"Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice,"
II,III,KING,"Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer."
II,III,BERTRAM,"Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit"
II,III,BERTRAM,"My fancy to your eyes: when I consider"
II,III,BERTRAM,"What great creation and what dole of honour"
II,III,BERTRAM,"Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late"
II,III,BERTRAM,"Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now"
II,III,BERTRAM,"The praised of the king; who, so ennobled,"
II,III,BERTRAM,"Is as 'twere born so."
II,III,KING,"Take her by the hand,"
II,III,KING,"And tell her she is thine: to whom I promise"
II,III,KING,"A counterpoise, if not to thy estate"
II,III,KING,"A balance more replete."
II,III,BERTRAM,"I take her hand."
II,III,KING,"Good fortune and the favour of the king"
II,III,KING,"Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony"
II,III,KING,"Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief,"
II,III,KING,"And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast"
II,III,KING,"Shall more attend upon the coming space,"
II,III,KING,"Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her,"
II,III,KING,"Thy love's to me religious; else, does err."
II,III,PAROLLES,"Your pleasure, sir?"
II,III,LAFEU,"Your lord and master did well to make his"
II,III,LAFEU,"recantation."
II,III,PAROLLES,"Recantation! My lord! my master!"
II,III,LAFEU,"Ay; is it not a language I speak?"
II,III,PAROLLES,"A most harsh one, and not to be understood without"
II,III,PAROLLES,"bloody succeeding. My master!"
II,III,LAFEU,"Are you companion to the Count Rousillon?"
II,III,PAROLLES,"To any count, to all counts, to what is man."
II,III,LAFEU,"To what is count's man: count's master is of"
II,III,LAFEU,"another style."
II,III,PAROLLES,"You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old."
II,III,LAFEU,"I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which"
II,III,LAFEU,"title age cannot bring thee."
II,III,PAROLLES,"What I dare too well do, I dare not do."
II,III,LAFEU,"I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty"
II,III,LAFEU,"wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy"
II,III,LAFEU,"travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the"
II,III,LAFEU,"bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from"
II,III,LAFEU,"believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen. I"
II,III,LAFEU,"have now found thee; when I lose thee again, I care"
II,III,LAFEU,"not: yet art thou good for nothing but taking up; and"
II,III,LAFEU,"that thou't scarce worth."
II,III,PAROLLES,"Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee,--"
II,III,LAFEU,"Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou"
II,III,LAFEU,"hasten thy trial; which if--Lord have mercy on thee"
II,III,LAFEU,"for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee"
II,III,LAFEU,"well: thy casement I need not open, for I look"
II,III,LAFEU,"through thee. Give me thy hand."
II,III,PAROLLES,"My lord, you give me most egregious indignity."
II,III,LAFEU,"Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it."
II,III,PAROLLES,"I have not, my lord, deserved it."
II,III,LAFEU,"Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will not"
II,III,LAFEU,"bate thee a scruple."
II,III,PAROLLES,"Well, I shall be wiser."
II,III,LAFEU,"Even as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at"
II,III,LAFEU,"a smack o' the contrary. If ever thou be'st bound"
II,III,LAFEU,"in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is"
II,III,LAFEU,"to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold"
II,III,LAFEU,"my acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge,"
II,III,LAFEU,"that I may say in the default, he is a man I know."
II,III,PAROLLES,"My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation."
II,III,LAFEU,"I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor"
II,III,LAFEU,"doing eternal: for doing I am past: as I will by"
II,III,LAFEU,"thee, in what motion age will give me leave."
II,III,PAROLLES,"Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off"
II,III,PAROLLES,"me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord! Well, I must"
II,III,PAROLLES,"be patient; there is no fettering of authority."
II,III,PAROLLES,"I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him with"
II,III,PAROLLES,"any convenience, an he were double and double a"
II,III,PAROLLES,"lord. I'll have no more pity of his age than I"
II,III,PAROLLES,"would of--I'll beat him, an if I could but meet him again."
II,III,LAFEU,"Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news"
II,III,LAFEU,"for you: you have a new mistress."
II,III,PAROLLES,"I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make"
II,III,PAROLLES,"some reservation of your wrongs: he is my good"
II,III,PAROLLES,"lord: whom I serve above is my master."
II,III,LAFEU,"Who? God?"
II,III,PAROLLES,"Ay, sir."
II,III,LAFEU,"The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou"
II,III,LAFEU,"garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of"
II,III,LAFEU,"sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set"
II,III,LAFEU,"thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine"
II,III,LAFEU,"honour, if I were but two hours younger, I'ld beat"
II,III,LAFEU,"thee: methinks, thou art a general offence, and"
II,III,LAFEU,"every man should beat thee: I think thou wast"
II,III,LAFEU,"created for men to breathe themselves upon thee."
II,III,PAROLLES,"This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord."
II,III,LAFEU,"Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a"
II,III,LAFEU,"kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond and"
II,III,LAFEU,"no true traveller: you are more saucy with lords"
II,III,LAFEU,"and honourable personages than the commission of your"
II,III,LAFEU,"birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not"
II,III,LAFEU,"worth another word, else I'ld call you knave. I leave you."
II,III,PAROLLES,"Good, very good; it is so then: good, very good;"
II,III,PAROLLES,"let it be concealed awhile."
II,III,BERTRAM,"Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever!"
II,III,PAROLLES,"What's the matter, sweet-heart?"
II,III,BERTRAM,"Although before the solemn priest I have sworn,"
II,III,BERTRAM,"I will not bed her."
II,III,PAROLLES,"What, what, sweet-heart?"
II,III,BERTRAM,"O my Parolles, they have married me!"
II,III,BERTRAM,"I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her."
II,III,PAROLLES,"France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits"
II,III,PAROLLES,"The tread of a man's foot: to the wars!"
II,III,BERTRAM,"There's letters from my mother: what the import is,"
II,III,BERTRAM,"I know not yet."
II,III,PAROLLES,"Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my boy, to the wars!"
II,III,PAROLLES,"He wears his honour in a box unseen,"
II,III,PAROLLES,"That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home,"
II,III,PAROLLES,"Spending his manly marrow in her arms,"
II,III,PAROLLES,"Which should sustain the bound and high curvet"
II,III,PAROLLES,"Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions"
II,III,PAROLLES,"France is a stable; we that dwell in't jades;"
II,III,PAROLLES,"Therefore, to the war!"
II,III,BERTRAM,"It shall be so: I'll send her to my house,"
II,III,BERTRAM,"Acquaint my mother with my hate to her,"
II,III,BERTRAM,"And wherefore I am fled; write to the king"
II,III,BERTRAM,"That which I durst not speak; his present gift"
II,III,BERTRAM,"Shall furnish me to those Italian fields,"
II,III,BERTRAM,"Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife"
II,III,BERTRAM,"To the dark house and the detested wife."
II,III,PAROLLES,"Will this capriccio hold in thee? art sure?"
II,III,BERTRAM,"Go with me to my chamber, and advise me."
II,III,BERTRAM,"I'll send her straight away: to-morrow"
II,III,BERTRAM,"I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow."
II,III,PAROLLES,"Why, these balls bound; there's noise in it. 'Tis hard:"
II,III,PAROLLES,"A young man married is a man that's marr'd:"
II,III,PAROLLES,"Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go:"
II,III,PAROLLES,"The king has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so."
II,IV,HELENA,"My mother greets me kindly; is she well?"
II,IV,Clown,"She is not well; but yet she has her health: she's"
II,IV,Clown,"very merry; but yet she is not well: but thanks be"
II,IV,Clown,"given, she's very well and wants nothing i', the"
II,IV,Clown,"world; but yet she is not well."
II,IV,HELENA,"If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's"
II,IV,HELENA,"not very well?"
II,IV,Clown,"Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things."
II,IV,HELENA,"What two things?"
II,IV,Clown,"One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her"
II,IV,Clown,"quickly! the other that she's in earth, from whence"
II,IV,Clown,"God send her quickly!"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"Bless you, my fortunate lady!"
II,IV,HELENA,"I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own"
II,IV,HELENA,"good fortunes."
II,IV,PAROLLES,"You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old lady?"
II,IV,Clown,"So that you had her wrinkles and I her money,"
II,IV,Clown,"I would she did as you say."
II,IV,PAROLLES,"Why, I say nothing."
II,IV,Clown,"Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's"
II,IV,Clown,"tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say"
II,IV,Clown,"nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have"
II,IV,Clown,"nothing, is to be a great part of your title; which"
II,IV,Clown,"is within a very little of nothing."
II,IV,PAROLLES,"Away! thou'rt a knave."
II,IV,Clown,"You should have said, sir, before a knave thou'rt a"
II,IV,Clown,"knave; that's, before me thou'rt a knave: this had"
II,IV,Clown,"been truth, sir."
II,IV,PAROLLES,"Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have found thee."
II,IV,Clown,"Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you"
II,IV,Clown,"taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable;"
II,IV,Clown,"and much fool may you find in you, even to the"
II,IV,Clown,"world's pleasure and the increase of laughter."
II,IV,PAROLLES,"A good knave, i' faith, and well fed."
II,IV,PAROLLES,"Madam, my lord will go away to-night;"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"A very serious business calls on him."
II,IV,PAROLLES,"The great prerogative and rite of love,"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge;"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"But puts it off to a compell'd restraint;"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets,"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"Which they distil now in the curbed time,"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"And pleasure drown the brim."
II,IV,HELENA,"What's his will else?"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"That you will take your instant leave o' the king"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"And make this haste as your own good proceeding,"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"Strengthen'd with what apology you think"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"May make it probable need."
II,IV,HELENA,"What more commands he?"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"That, having this obtain'd, you presently"
II,IV,PAROLLES,"Attend his further pleasure."
II,IV,HELENA,"In every thing I wait upon his will."
II,IV,PAROLLES,"I shall report it so."
II,IV,HELENA,"I pray you."
II,IV,HELENA,"Come, sirrah."
II,V,LAFEU,"But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier."
II,V,BERTRAM,"Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof."
II,V,LAFEU,"You have it from his own deliverance."
II,V,BERTRAM,"And by other warranted testimony."
II,V,LAFEU,"Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for a bunting."
II,V,BERTRAM,"I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in"
II,V,BERTRAM,"knowledge and accordingly valiant."
II,V,LAFEU,"I have then sinned against his experience and"
II,V,LAFEU,"transgressed against his valour; and my state that"
II,V,LAFEU,"way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my"
II,V,LAFEU,"heart to repent. Here he comes: I pray you, make"
II,V,LAFEU,"us friends; I will pursue the amity."
II,V,LAFEU,"Pray you, sir, who's his tailor?"
II,V,PAROLLES,"Sir?"
II,V,LAFEU,"O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, 's a good"
II,V,LAFEU,"workman, a very good tailor."
II,V,PAROLLES,"She is."
II,V,BERTRAM,"Will she away to-night?"
II,V,PAROLLES,"As you'll have her."
II,V,BERTRAM,"I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure,"
II,V,BERTRAM,"Given order for our horses; and to-night,"
II,V,BERTRAM,"When I should take possession of the bride,"
II,V,BERTRAM,"End ere I do begin."
II,V,LAFEU,"A good traveller is something at the latter end of a"
II,V,LAFEU,"dinner; but one that lies three thirds and uses a"
II,V,LAFEU,"known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should"
II,V,LAFEU,"be once heard and thrice beaten. God save you, captain."
II,V,BERTRAM,"Is there any unkindness between my lord and you, monsieur?"
II,V,PAROLLES,"I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord's"
II,V,PAROLLES,"displeasure."
II,V,LAFEU,"You have made shift to run into 't, boots and spurs"
II,V,LAFEU,"and all, like him that leaped into the custard; and"
II,V,LAFEU,"out of it you'll run again, rather than suffer"
II,V,LAFEU,"question for your residence."
II,V,BERTRAM,"It may be you have mistaken him, my lord."
II,V,LAFEU,"And shall do so ever, though I took him at 's"
II,V,LAFEU,"prayers. Fare you well, my lord; and believe this"
II,V,LAFEU,"of me, there can be no kernel in this light nut; the"
II,V,LAFEU,"soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not in"
II,V,LAFEU,"matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them"
II,V,LAFEU,"tame, and know their natures. Farewell, monsieur:"
II,V,LAFEU,"I have spoken better of you than you have or will to"
II,V,LAFEU,"deserve at my hand; but we must do good against evil."
II,V,PAROLLES,"An idle lord. I swear."
II,V,BERTRAM,"I think so."
II,V,PAROLLES,"Why, do you not know him?"
II,V,BERTRAM,"Yes, I do know him well, and common speech"
II,V,BERTRAM,"Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog."
II,V,HELENA,"I have, sir, as I was commanded from you,"
II,V,HELENA,"Spoke with the king and have procured his leave"
II,V,HELENA,"For present parting; only he desires"
II,V,HELENA,"Some private speech with you."
II,V,BERTRAM,"I shall obey his will."
II,V,BERTRAM,"You must not marvel, Helen, at my course,"
II,V,BERTRAM,"Which holds not colour with the time, nor does"
II,V,BERTRAM,"The ministration and required office"
II,V,BERTRAM,"On my particular. Prepared I was not"
II,V,BERTRAM,"For such a business; therefore am I found"
II,V,BERTRAM,"So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you"
II,V,BERTRAM,"That presently you take our way for home;"
II,V,BERTRAM,"And rather muse than ask why I entreat you,"
II,V,BERTRAM,"For my respects are better than they seem"
II,V,BERTRAM,"And my appointments have in them a need"
II,V,BERTRAM,"Greater than shows itself at the first view"
II,V,BERTRAM,"To you that know them not. This to my mother:"
II,V,BERTRAM,"'Twill be two days ere I shall see you, so"
II,V,BERTRAM,"I leave you to your wisdom."
II,V,HELENA,"Sir, I can nothing say,"
II,V,HELENA,"But that I am your most obedient servant."
II,V,BERTRAM,"Come, come, no more of that."
II,V,HELENA,"And ever shall"
II,V,HELENA,"With true observance seek to eke out that"
II,V,HELENA,"Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd"
II,V,HELENA,"To equal my great fortune."
II,V,BERTRAM,"Let that go:"
II,V,BERTRAM,"My haste is very great: farewell; hie home."
II,V,HELENA,"Pray, sir, your pardon."
II,V,BERTRAM,"Well, what would you say?"
II,V,HELENA,"I am not worthy of the wealth I owe,"
II,V,HELENA,"Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is;"
II,V,HELENA,"But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal"
II,V,HELENA,"What law does vouch mine own."
II,V,BERTRAM,"What would you have?"
II,V,HELENA,"Something; and scarce so much: nothing, indeed."
II,V,HELENA,"I would not tell you what I would, my lord:"
II,V,HELENA,"Faith yes;"
II,V,HELENA,"Strangers and foes do sunder, and not kiss."
II,V,BERTRAM,"I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse."
II,V,HELENA,"I shall not break your bidding, good my lord."
II,V,BERTRAM,"Where are my other men, monsieur? Farewell."
II,V,BERTRAM,"Go thou toward home; where I will never come"
II,V,BERTRAM,"Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum."
II,V,BERTRAM,"Away, and for our flight."
II,V,PAROLLES,"Bravely, coragio!"
III,I,DUKE,"So that from point to point now have you heard"
III,I,DUKE,"The fundamental reasons of this war,"
III,I,DUKE,"Whose great decision hath much blood let forth"
III,I,DUKE,"And more thirsts after."
III,I,First Lord,"Holy seems the quarrel"
III,I,First Lord,"Upon your grace's part; black and fearful"
III,I,First Lord,"On the opposer."
III,I,DUKE,"Therefore we marvel much our cousin France"
III,I,DUKE,"Would in so just a business shut his bosom"
III,I,DUKE,"Against our borrowing prayers."
III,I,Second Lord,"Good my lord,"
III,I,Second Lord,"The reasons of our state I cannot yield,"
III,I,Second Lord,"But like a common and an outward man,"
III,I,Second Lord,"That the great figure of a council frames"
III,I,Second Lord,"By self-unable motion: therefore dare not"
III,I,Second Lord,"Say what I think of it, since I have found"
III,I,Second Lord,"Myself in my incertain grounds to fail"
III,I,Second Lord,"As often as I guess'd."
III,I,DUKE,"Be it his pleasure."
III,I,First Lord,"But I am sure the younger of our nature,"
III,I,First Lord,"That surfeit on their ease, will day by day"
III,I,First Lord,"Come here for physic."
III,I,DUKE,"Welcome shall they be;"
III,I,DUKE,"And all the honours that can fly from us"
III,I,DUKE,"Shall on them settle. You know your places well;"
III,I,DUKE,"When better fall, for your avails they fell:"
III,I,DUKE,"To-morrow to the field."
III,II,COUNTESS,"It hath happened all as I would have had it, save"
III,II,COUNTESS,"that he comes not along with her."
III,II,Clown,"By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very"
III,II,Clown,"melancholy man."
III,II,COUNTESS,"By what observance, I pray you?"
III,II,Clown,"Why, he will look upon his boot and sing; mend the"
III,II,Clown,"ruff and sing; ask questions and sing; pick his"
III,II,Clown,"teeth and sing. I know a man that had this trick of"
III,II,Clown,"melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song."
III,II,COUNTESS,"Let me see what he writes, and when he means to come."
III,II,Clown,"I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court: our"
III,II,Clown,"old ling and our Isbels o' the country are nothing"
III,II,Clown,"like your old ling and your Isbels o' the court:"
III,II,Clown,"the brains of my Cupid's knocked out, and I begin to"
III,II,Clown,"love, as an old man loves money, with no stomach."
III,II,COUNTESS,"What have we here?"
III,II,Clown,"E'en that you have there."
III,II,COUNTESS,"recovered the king, and undone me. I have wedded"
III,II,COUNTESS,"her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the 'not'"
III,II,COUNTESS,"eternal. You shall hear I am run away: know it"
III,II,COUNTESS,"before the report come. If there be breadth enough"
III,II,COUNTESS,"in the world, I will hold a long distance. My duty"
III,II,COUNTESS,"to you. Your unfortunate son,"
III,II,COUNTESS,"BERTRAM."
III,II,COUNTESS,"This is not well, rash and unbridled boy."
III,II,COUNTESS,"To fly the favours of so good a king;"
III,II,COUNTESS,"To pluck his indignation on thy head"
III,II,COUNTESS,"By the misprising of a maid too virtuous"
III,II,COUNTESS,"For the contempt of empire."
III,II,Clown,"O madam, yonder is heavy news within between two"
III,II,Clown,"soldiers and my young lady!"
III,II,COUNTESS,"What is the matter?"
III,II,Clown,"Nay, there is some comfort in the news, some"
III,II,Clown,"comfort; your son will not be killed so soon as I"
III,II,Clown,"thought he would."
III,II,COUNTESS,"Why should he be killed?"
III,II,Clown,"So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he does:"
III,II,Clown,"the danger is in standing to't; that's the loss of"
III,II,Clown,"men, though it be the getting of children. Here"
III,II,Clown,"they come will tell you more: for my part, I only"
III,II,Clown,"hear your son was run away."
III,II,First Gentleman,"Save you, good madam."
III,II,HELENA,"Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone."
III,II,Second Gentleman,"Do not say so."
III,II,COUNTESS,"Think upon patience. Pray you, gentlemen,"
III,II,COUNTESS,"I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief,"
III,II,COUNTESS,"That the first face of neither, on the start,"
III,II,COUNTESS,"Can woman me unto't: where is my son, I pray you?"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"Madam, he's gone to serve the duke of Florence:"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"We met him thitherward; for thence we came,"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"And, after some dispatch in hand at court,"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"Thither we bend again."
III,II,HELENA,"Look on his letter, madam; here's my passport."
III,II,HELENA,"When thou canst get the ring upon my finger which"
III,II,HELENA,"never shall come off, and show me a child begotten"
III,II,HELENA,"of thy body that I am father to, then call me"
III,II,HELENA,"husband: but in such a 'then' I write a 'never.'"
III,II,HELENA,"This is a dreadful sentence."
III,II,COUNTESS,"Brought you this letter, gentlemen?"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Ay, madam;"
III,II,First Gentleman,"And for the contents' sake are sorry for our pain."
III,II,COUNTESS,"I prithee, lady, have a better cheer;"
III,II,COUNTESS,"If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,"
III,II,COUNTESS,"Thou robb'st me of a moiety: he was my son;"
III,II,COUNTESS,"But I do wash his name out of my blood,"
III,II,COUNTESS,"And thou art all my child. Towards Florence is he?"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"Ay, madam."
III,II,COUNTESS,"And to be a soldier?"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"Such is his noble purpose; and believe 't,"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"The duke will lay upon him all the honour"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"That good convenience claims."
III,II,COUNTESS,"Return you thither?"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed."
III,II,HELENA,"'Tis bitter."
III,II,COUNTESS,"Find you that there?"
III,II,HELENA,"Ay, madam."
III,II,First Gentleman,"'Tis but the boldness of his hand, haply, which his"
III,II,First Gentleman,"heart was not consenting to."
III,II,COUNTESS,"Nothing in France, until he have no wife!"
III,II,COUNTESS,"There's nothing here that is too good for him"
III,II,COUNTESS,"But only she; and she deserves a lord"
III,II,COUNTESS,"That twenty such rude boys might tend upon"
III,II,COUNTESS,"And call her hourly mistress. Who was with him?"
III,II,First Gentleman,"A servant only, and a gentleman"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Which I have sometime known."
III,II,COUNTESS,"Parolles, was it not?"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Ay, my good lady, he."
III,II,COUNTESS,"A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness."
III,II,COUNTESS,"My son corrupts a well-derived nature"
III,II,COUNTESS,"With his inducement."
III,II,First Gentleman,"Indeed, good lady,"
III,II,First Gentleman,"The fellow has a deal of that too much,"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Which holds him much to have."
III,II,COUNTESS,"You're welcome, gentlemen."
III,II,COUNTESS,"I will entreat you, when you see my son,"
III,II,COUNTESS,"To tell him that his sword can never win"
III,II,COUNTESS,"The honour that he loses: more I'll entreat you"
III,II,COUNTESS,"Written to bear along."
III,II,Second Gentleman,"We serve you, madam,"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"In that and all your worthiest affairs."
III,II,COUNTESS,"Not so, but as we change our courtesies."
III,II,COUNTESS,"Will you draw near!"
III,II,HELENA,"'Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.'"
III,II,HELENA,"Nothing in France, until he has no wife!"
III,II,HELENA,"Thou shalt have none, Rousillon, none in France;"
III,II,HELENA,"Then hast thou all again. Poor lord! is't I"
III,II,HELENA,"That chase thee from thy country and expose"
III,II,HELENA,"Those tender limbs of thine to the event"
III,II,HELENA,"Of the none-sparing war? and is it I"
III,II,HELENA,"That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou"
III,II,HELENA,"Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark"
III,II,HELENA,"Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers,"
III,II,HELENA,"That ride upon the violent speed of fire,"
III,II,HELENA,"Fly with false aim; move the still-peering air,"
III,II,HELENA,"That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord."
III,II,HELENA,"Whoever shoots at him, I set him there;"
III,II,HELENA,"Whoever charges on his forward breast,"
III,II,HELENA,"I am the caitiff that do hold him to't;"
III,II,HELENA,"And, though I kill him not, I am the cause"
III,II,HELENA,"His death was so effected: better 'twere"
III,II,HELENA,"I met the ravin lion when he roar'd"
III,II,HELENA,"With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere"
III,II,HELENA,"That all the miseries which nature owes"
III,II,HELENA,"Were mine at once. No, come thou home, Rousillon,"
III,II,HELENA,"Whence honour but of danger wins a scar,"
III,II,HELENA,"As oft it loses all: I will be gone;"
III,II,HELENA,"My being here it is that holds thee hence:"
III,II,HELENA,"Shall I stay here to do't?  no, no, although"
III,II,HELENA,"The air of paradise did fan the house"
III,II,HELENA,"And angels officed all: I will be gone,"
III,II,HELENA,"That pitiful rumour may report my flight,"
III,II,HELENA,"To consolate thine ear. Come, night; end, day!"
III,II,HELENA,"For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away."
III,III,DUKE,"The general of our horse thou art; and we,"
III,III,DUKE,"Great in our hope, lay our best love and credence"
III,III,DUKE,"Upon thy promising fortune."
III,III,BERTRAM,"Sir, it is"
III,III,BERTRAM,"A charge too heavy for my strength, but yet"
III,III,BERTRAM,"We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake"
III,III,BERTRAM,"To the extreme edge of hazard."
III,III,DUKE,"Then go thou forth;"
III,III,DUKE,"And fortune play upon thy prosperous helm,"
III,III,DUKE,"As thy auspicious mistress!"
III,III,BERTRAM,"This very day,"
III,III,BERTRAM,"Great Mars, I put myself into thy file:"
III,III,BERTRAM,"Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove"
III,III,BERTRAM,"A lover of thy drum, hater of love."
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Alas! and would you take the letter of her?"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Might you not know she would do as she has done,"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"By sending me a letter? Read it again."
III,IV,Steward,"I am Saint Jaques' pilgrim, thither gone:"
III,IV,Steward,"Ambitious love hath so in me offended,"
III,IV,Steward,"That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon,"
III,IV,Steward,"With sainted vow my faults to have amended."
III,IV,Steward,"Write, write, that from the bloody course of war"
III,IV,Steward,"My dearest master, your dear son, may hie:"
III,IV,Steward,"Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far"
III,IV,Steward,"His name with zealous fervor sanctify:"
III,IV,Steward,"His taken labours bid him me forgive;"
III,IV,Steward,"I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth"
III,IV,Steward,"From courtly friends, with camping foes to live,"
III,IV,Steward,"Where death and danger dogs the heels of worth:"
III,IV,Steward,"He is too good and fair for death and me:"
III,IV,Steward,"Whom I myself embrace, to set him free."
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words!"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Rinaldo, you did never lack advice so much,"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"As letting her pass so: had I spoke with her,"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"I could have well diverted her intents,"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Which thus she hath prevented."
III,IV,Steward,"Pardon me, madam:"
III,IV,Steward,"If I had given you this at over-night,"
III,IV,Steward,"She might have been o'erta'en; and yet she writes,"
III,IV,Steward,"Pursuit would be but vain."
III,IV,COUNTESS,"What angel shall"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Bless this unworthy husband? he cannot thrive,"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Of greatest justice. Write, write, Rinaldo,"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"To this unworthy husband of his wife;"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Let every word weigh heavy of her worth"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"That he does weigh too light: my greatest grief."
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Though little he do feel it, set down sharply."
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Dispatch the most convenient messenger:"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"When haply he shall hear that she is gone,"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"He will return; and hope I may that she,"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Hearing so much, will speed her foot again,"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Led hither by pure love: which of them both"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Is dearest to me. I have no skill in sense"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"To make distinction: provide this messenger:"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"My heart is heavy and mine age is weak;"
III,IV,COUNTESS,"Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak."
III,V,Widow,"Nay, come; for if they do approach the city, we"
III,V,Widow,"shall lose all the sight."
III,V,DIANA,"They say the French count has done most honourable service."
III,V,Widow,"It is reported that he has taken their greatest"
III,V,Widow,"commander; and that with his own hand he slew the"
III,V,Widow,"duke's brother."
III,V,Widow,"We have lost our labour; they are gone a contrary"
III,V,Widow,"way: hark! you may know by their trumpets."
III,V,MARIANA,"Come, let's return again, and suffice ourselves with"
III,V,MARIANA,"the report of it. Well, Diana, take heed of this"
III,V,MARIANA,"French earl: the honour of a maid is her name; and"
III,V,MARIANA,"no legacy is so rich as honesty."
III,V,Widow,"I have told my neighbour how you have been solicited"
III,V,Widow,"by a gentleman his companion."
III,V,MARIANA,"I know that knave; hang him! one Parolles: a"
III,V,MARIANA,"filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the"
III,V,MARIANA,"young earl. Beware of them, Diana; their promises,"
III,V,MARIANA,"enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of"
III,V,MARIANA,"lust, are not the things they go under: many a maid"
III,V,MARIANA,"hath been seduced by them; and the misery is,"
III,V,MARIANA,"example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of"
III,V,MARIANA,"maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession,"
III,V,MARIANA,"but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten"
III,V,MARIANA,"them. I hope I need not to advise you further; but"
III,V,MARIANA,"I hope your own grace will keep you where you are,"
III,V,MARIANA,"though there were no further danger known but the"
III,V,MARIANA,"modesty which is so lost."
III,V,DIANA,"You shall not need to fear me."
III,V,Widow,"I hope so."
III,V,Widow,"Look, here comes a pilgrim: I know she will lie at"
III,V,Widow,"my house; thither they send one another: I'll"
III,V,Widow,"question her. God save you, pilgrim! whither are you bound?"
III,V,HELENA,"To Saint Jaques le Grand."
III,V,HELENA,"Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you?"
III,V,Widow,"At the Saint Francis here beside the port."
III,V,HELENA,"Is this the way?"
III,V,Widow,"Ay, marry, is't."
III,V,Widow,"Hark you! they come this way."
III,V,Widow,"If you will tarry, holy pilgrim,"
III,V,Widow,"But till the troops come by,"
III,V,Widow,"I will conduct you where you shall be lodged;"
III,V,Widow,"The rather, for I think I know your hostess"
III,V,Widow,"As ample as myself."
III,V,HELENA,"Is it yourself?"
III,V,Widow,"If you shall please so, pilgrim."
III,V,HELENA,"I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure."
III,V,Widow,"You came, I think, from France?"
III,V,HELENA,"I did so."
III,V,Widow,"Here you shall see a countryman of yours"
III,V,Widow,"That has done worthy service."
III,V,HELENA,"His name, I pray you."
III,V,DIANA,"The Count Rousillon: know you such a one?"
III,V,HELENA,"But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him:"
III,V,HELENA,"His face I know not."
III,V,DIANA,"Whatsome'er he is,"
III,V,DIANA,"He's bravely taken here. He stole from France,"
III,V,DIANA,"As 'tis reported, for the king had married him"
III,V,DIANA,"Against his liking: think you it is so?"
III,V,HELENA,"Ay, surely, mere the truth: I know his lady."
III,V,DIANA,"There is a gentleman that serves the count"
III,V,DIANA,"Reports but coarsely of her."
III,V,HELENA,"What's his name?"
III,V,DIANA,"Monsieur Parolles."
III,V,HELENA,"O, I believe with him,"
III,V,HELENA,"In argument of praise, or to the worth"
III,V,HELENA,"Of the great count himself, she is too mean"
III,V,HELENA,"To have her name repeated: all her deserving"
III,V,HELENA,"Is a reserved honesty, and that"
III,V,HELENA,"I have not heard examined."
III,V,DIANA,"Alas, poor lady!"
III,V,DIANA,"'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife"
III,V,DIANA,"Of a detesting lord."
III,V,Widow,"I warrant, good creature, wheresoe'er she is,"
III,V,Widow,"Her heart weighs sadly: this young maid might do her"
III,V,Widow,"A shrewd turn, if she pleased."
III,V,HELENA,"How do you mean?"
III,V,HELENA,"May be the amorous count solicits her"
III,V,HELENA,"In the unlawful purpose."
III,V,Widow,"He does indeed;"
III,V,Widow,"And brokes with all that can in such a suit"
III,V,Widow,"Corrupt the tender honour of a maid:"
III,V,Widow,"But she is arm'd for him and keeps her guard"
III,V,Widow,"In honestest defence."
III,V,MARIANA,"The gods forbid else!"
III,V,Widow,"So, now they come:"
III,V,Widow,"That is Antonio, the duke's eldest son;"
III,V,Widow,"That, Escalus."
III,V,HELENA,"Which is the Frenchman?"
III,V,DIANA,"He;"
III,V,DIANA,"That with the plume: 'tis a most gallant fellow."
III,V,DIANA,"I would he loved his wife: if he were honester"
III,V,DIANA,"He were much goodlier: is't not a handsome gentleman?"
III,V,HELENA,"I like him well."
III,V,DIANA,"'Tis pity he is not honest: yond's that same knave"
III,V,DIANA,"That leads him to these places: were I his lady,"
III,V,DIANA,"I would Poison that vile rascal."
III,V,HELENA,"Which is he?"
III,V,DIANA,"That jack-an-apes with scarfs: why is he melancholy?"
III,V,HELENA,"Perchance he's hurt i' the battle."
III,V,PAROLLES,"Lose our drum! well."
III,V,MARIANA,"He's shrewdly vexed at something: look, he has spied us."
III,V,Widow,"Marry, hang you!"
III,V,MARIANA,"And your courtesy, for a ring-carrier!"
III,V,Widow,"The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you"
III,V,Widow,"Where you shall host: of enjoin'd penitents"
III,V,Widow,"There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound,"
III,V,Widow,"Already at my house."
III,V,HELENA,"I humbly thank you:"
III,V,HELENA,"Please it this matron and this gentle maid"
III,V,HELENA,"To eat with us to-night, the charge and thanking"
III,V,HELENA,"Shall be for me; and, to requite you further,"
III,V,HELENA,"I will bestow some precepts of this virgin"
III,V,HELENA,"Worthy the note."
III,V,BOTH,"We'll take your offer kindly."
III,VI,Second Lord,"Nay, good my lord, put him to't; let him have his"
III,VI,Second Lord,"way."
III,VI,First Lord,"If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no"
III,VI,First Lord,"more in your respect."
III,VI,Second Lord,"On my life, my lord, a bubble."
III,VI,BERTRAM,"Do you think I am so far deceived in him?"
III,VI,Second Lord,"Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct knowledge,"
III,VI,Second Lord,"without any malice, but to speak of him as my"
III,VI,Second Lord,"kinsman, he's a most notable coward, an infinite and"
III,VI,Second Lord,"endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner"
III,VI,Second Lord,"of no one good quality worthy your lordship's"
III,VI,Second Lord,"entertainment."
III,VI,First Lord,"It were fit you knew him; lest, reposing too far in"
III,VI,First Lord,"his virtue, which he hath not, he might at some"
III,VI,First Lord,"great and trusty business in a main danger fail you."
III,VI,BERTRAM,"I would I knew in what particular action to try him."
III,VI,First Lord,"None better than to let him fetch off his drum,"
III,VI,First Lord,"which you hear him so confidently undertake to do."
III,VI,Second Lord,"I, with a troop of Florentines, will suddenly"
III,VI,Second Lord,"surprise him; such I will have, whom I am sure he"
III,VI,Second Lord,"knows not from the enemy: we will bind and hoodwink"
III,VI,Second Lord,"him so, that he shall suppose no other but that he"
III,VI,Second Lord,"is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries, when"
III,VI,Second Lord,"we bring him to our own tents. Be but your lordship"
III,VI,Second Lord,"present at his examination: if he do not, for the"
III,VI,Second Lord,"promise of his life and in the highest compulsion of"
III,VI,Second Lord,"base fear, offer to betray you and deliver all the"
III,VI,Second Lord,"intelligence in his power against you, and that with"
III,VI,Second Lord,"the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath, never"
III,VI,Second Lord,"trust my judgment in any thing."
III,VI,First Lord,"O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch his drum;"
III,VI,First Lord,"he says he has a stratagem for't: when your"
III,VI,First Lord,"lordship sees the bottom of his success in't, and to"
III,VI,First Lord,"what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be"
III,VI,First Lord,"melted, if you give him not John Drum's"
III,VI,First Lord,"entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed."
III,VI,First Lord,"Here he comes."
III,VI,Second Lord,"hinder not the honour of his design: let him fetch"
III,VI,Second Lord,"off his drum in any hand."
III,VI,BERTRAM,"How now, monsieur! this drum sticks sorely in your"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"disposition."
III,VI,First Lord,"A pox on't, let it go; 'tis but a drum."
III,VI,PAROLLES,"'But a drum'! is't 'but a drum'? A drum so lost!"
III,VI,PAROLLES,"There was excellent command,--to charge in with our"
III,VI,PAROLLES,"horse upon our own wings, and to rend our own soldiers!"
III,VI,First Lord,"That was not to be blamed in the command of the"
III,VI,First Lord,"service: it was a disaster of war that Caesar"
III,VI,First Lord,"himself could not have prevented, if he had been"
III,VI,First Lord,"there to command."
III,VI,BERTRAM,"Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success: some"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"dishonour we had in the loss of that drum; but it is"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"not to be recovered."
III,VI,PAROLLES,"It might have been recovered."
III,VI,BERTRAM,"It might; but it is not now."
III,VI,PAROLLES,"It is to be recovered: but that the merit of"
III,VI,PAROLLES,"service is seldom attributed to the true and exact"
III,VI,PAROLLES,"performer, I would have that drum or another, or"
III,VI,PAROLLES,"'hic jacet.'"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"Why, if you have a stomach, to't, monsieur: if you"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"think your mystery in stratagem can bring this"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"instrument of honour again into his native quarter,"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on; I will"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"grace the attempt for a worthy exploit: if you"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"speed well in it, the duke shall both speak of it."
III,VI,BERTRAM,"and extend to you what further becomes his"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"greatness, even to the utmost syllable of your"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"worthiness."
III,VI,PAROLLES,"By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake it."
III,VI,BERTRAM,"But you must not now slumber in it."
III,VI,PAROLLES,"I'll about it this evening: and I will presently"
III,VI,PAROLLES,"pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my"
III,VI,PAROLLES,"certainty, put myself into my mortal preparation;"
III,VI,PAROLLES,"and by midnight look to hear further from me."
III,VI,BERTRAM,"May I be bold to acquaint his grace you are gone about it?"
III,VI,PAROLLES,"I know not what the success will be, my lord; but"
III,VI,PAROLLES,"the attempt I vow."
III,VI,BERTRAM,"I know thou'rt valiant; and, to the possibility of"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"thy soldiership, will subscribe for thee. Farewell."
III,VI,PAROLLES,"I love not many words."
III,VI,Second Lord,"No more than a fish loves water. Is not this a"
III,VI,Second Lord,"strange fellow, my lord, that so confidently seems"
III,VI,Second Lord,"to undertake this business, which he knows is not to"
III,VI,Second Lord,"be done; damns himself to do and dares better be"
III,VI,Second Lord,"damned than to do't?"
III,VI,First Lord,"You do not know him, my lord, as we do: certain it"
III,VI,First Lord,"is that he will steal himself into a man's favour and"
III,VI,First Lord,"for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but"
III,VI,First Lord,"when you find him out, you have him ever after."
III,VI,BERTRAM,"Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"this that so seriously he does address himself unto?"
III,VI,Second Lord,"None in the world; but return with an invention and"
III,VI,Second Lord,"clap upon you two or three probable lies: but we"
III,VI,Second Lord,"have almost embossed him; you shall see his fall"
III,VI,Second Lord,"to-night; for indeed he is not for your lordship's respect."
III,VI,First Lord,"We'll make you some sport with the fox ere we case"
III,VI,First Lord,"him. He was first smoked by the old lord Lafeu:"
III,VI,First Lord,"when his disguise and he is parted, tell me what a"
III,VI,First Lord,"sprat you shall find him; which you shall see this"
III,VI,First Lord,"very night."
III,VI,Second Lord,"I must go look my twigs: he shall be caught."
III,VI,BERTRAM,"Your brother he shall go along with me."
III,VI,Second Lord,"As't please your lordship: I'll leave you."
III,VI,BERTRAM,"Now will I lead you to the house, and show you"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"The lass I spoke of."
III,VI,First Lord,"But you say she's honest."
III,VI,BERTRAM,"That's all the fault: I spoke with her but once"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"And found her wondrous cold; but I sent to her,"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"By this same coxcomb that we have i' the wind,"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"Tokens and letters which she did re-send;"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"And this is all I have done. She's a fair creature:"
III,VI,BERTRAM,"Will you go see her?"
III,VI,First Lord,"With all my heart, my lord."
III,VII,HELENA,"If you misdoubt me that I am not she,"
III,VII,HELENA,"I know not how I shall assure you further,"
III,VII,HELENA,"But I shall lose the grounds I work upon."
III,VII,Widow,"Though my estate be fallen, I was well born,"
III,VII,Widow,"Nothing acquainted with these businesses;"
III,VII,Widow,"And would not put my reputation now"
III,VII,Widow,"In any staining act."
III,VII,HELENA,"Nor would I wish you."
III,VII,HELENA,"First, give me trust, the count he is my husband,"
III,VII,HELENA,"And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken"
III,VII,HELENA,"Is so from word to word; and then you cannot,"
III,VII,HELENA,"By the good aid that I of you shall borrow,"
III,VII,HELENA,"Err in bestowing it."
III,VII,Widow,"I should believe you:"
III,VII,Widow,"For you have show'd me that which well approves"
III,VII,Widow,"You're great in fortune."
III,VII,HELENA,"Take this purse of gold,"
III,VII,HELENA,"And let me buy your friendly help thus far,"
III,VII,HELENA,"Which I will over-pay and pay again"
III,VII,HELENA,"When I have found it. The count he wooes your daughter,"
III,VII,HELENA,"Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty,"
III,VII,HELENA,"Resolved to carry her: let her in fine consent,"
III,VII,HELENA,"As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it."
III,VII,HELENA,"Now his important blood will nought deny"
III,VII,HELENA,"That she'll demand: a ring the county wears,"
III,VII,HELENA,"That downward hath succeeded in his house"
III,VII,HELENA,"From son to son, some four or five descents"
III,VII,HELENA,"Since the first father wore it: this ring he holds"
III,VII,HELENA,"In most rich choice; yet in his idle fire,"
III,VII,HELENA,"To buy his will, it would not seem too dear,"
III,VII,HELENA,"Howe'er repented after."
III,VII,Widow,"Now I see"
III,VII,Widow,"The bottom of your purpose."
III,VII,HELENA,"You see it lawful, then: it is no more,"
III,VII,HELENA,"But that your daughter, ere she seems as won,"
III,VII,HELENA,"Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter;"
III,VII,HELENA,"In fine, delivers me to fill the time,"
III,VII,HELENA,"Herself most chastely absent: after this,"
III,VII,HELENA,"To marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns"
III,VII,HELENA,"To what is passed already."
III,VII,Widow,"I have yielded:"
III,VII,Widow,"Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,"
III,VII,Widow,"That time and place with this deceit so lawful"
III,VII,Widow,"May prove coherent. Every night he comes"
III,VII,Widow,"With musics of all sorts and songs composed"
III,VII,Widow,"To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us"
III,VII,Widow,"To chide him from our eaves; for he persists"
III,VII,Widow,"As if his life lay on't."
III,VII,HELENA,"Why then to-night"
III,VII,HELENA,"Let us assay our plot; which, if it speed,"
III,VII,HELENA,"Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed"
III,VII,HELENA,"And lawful meaning in a lawful act,"
III,VII,HELENA,"Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact:"
III,VII,HELENA,"But let's about it."
IV,I,Second Lord,"He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner."
IV,I,Second Lord,"When you sally upon him, speak what terrible"
IV,I,Second Lord,"language you will: though you understand it not"
IV,I,Second Lord,"yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to"
IV,I,Second Lord,"understand him, unless some one among us whom we"
IV,I,Second Lord,"must produce for an interpreter."
IV,I,First Soldier,"Good captain, let me be the interpreter."
IV,I,Second Lord,"Art not acquainted with him? knows he not thy voice?"
IV,I,First Soldier,"No, sir, I warrant you."
IV,I,Second Lord,"But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again?"
IV,I,First Soldier,"E'en such as you speak to me."
IV,I,Second Lord,"He must think us some band of strangers i' the"
IV,I,Second Lord,"adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of"
IV,I,Second Lord,"all neighbouring languages; therefore we must every"
IV,I,Second Lord,"one be a man of his own fancy, not to know what we"
IV,I,Second Lord,"speak one to another; so we seem to know, is to"
IV,I,Second Lord,"know straight our purpose: choughs' language,"
IV,I,Second Lord,"gabble enough, and good enough. As for you,"
IV,I,Second Lord,"interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch,"
IV,I,Second Lord,"ho! here he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep,"
IV,I,Second Lord,"and then to return and swear the lies he forges."
IV,I,PAROLLES,"Ten o'clock: within these three hours 'twill be"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"time enough to go home. What shall I say I have"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"done? It must be a very plausive invention that"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"carries it: they begin to smoke me; and disgraces"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"have of late knocked too often at my door. I find"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"my tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath the"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"fear of Mars before it and of his creatures, not"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"daring the reports of my tongue."
IV,I,Second Lord,"This is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue"
IV,I,Second Lord,"was guilty of."
IV,I,PAROLLES,"What the devil should move me to undertake the"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"exploit: yet slight ones will not carry it; they"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"will say, 'Came you off with so little?' and great"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"ones I dare not give. Wherefore, what's the"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"instance? Tongue, I must put you into a"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"butter-woman's mouth and buy myself another of"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these perils."
IV,I,Second Lord,"Is it possible he should know what he is, and be"
IV,I,Second Lord,"that he is?"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"I would the cutting of my garments would serve the"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword."
IV,I,Second Lord,"We cannot afford you so."
IV,I,PAROLLES,"Or the baring of my beard; and to say it was in"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"stratagem."
IV,I,Second Lord,"'Twould not do."
IV,I,PAROLLES,"Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped."
IV,I,Second Lord,"Hardly serve."
IV,I,PAROLLES,"Though I swore I leaped from the window of the citadel."
IV,I,Second Lord,"How deep?"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"Thirty fathom."
IV,I,Second Lord,"Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed."
IV,I,PAROLLES,"I would I had any drum of the enemy's: I would swear"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"I recovered it."
IV,I,Second Lord,"You shall hear one anon."
IV,I,PAROLLES,"A drum now of the enemy's,--"
IV,I,Second Lord,"Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo."
IV,I,All,"Cargo, cargo, cargo, villiando par corbo, cargo."
IV,I,PAROLLES,"O, ransom, ransom! do not hide mine eyes."
IV,I,First Soldier,"Boskos thromuldo boskos."
IV,I,PAROLLES,"I know you are the Muskos' regiment:"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"And I shall lose my life for want of language;"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"If there be here German, or Dane, low Dutch,"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"Italian, or French, let him speak to me; I'll"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"Discover that which shall undo the Florentine."
IV,I,First Soldier,"Boskos vauvado: I understand thee, and can speak"
IV,I,First Soldier,"thy tongue. Kerely bonto, sir, betake thee to thy"
IV,I,First Soldier,"faith, for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom."
IV,I,PAROLLES,"O!"
IV,I,First Soldier,"O, pray, pray, pray! Manka revania dulche."
IV,I,Second Lord,"Oscorbidulchos volivorco."
IV,I,First Soldier,"The general is content to spare thee yet;"
IV,I,First Soldier,"And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on"
IV,I,First Soldier,"To gather from thee: haply thou mayst inform"
IV,I,First Soldier,"Something to save thy life."
IV,I,PAROLLES,"O, let me live!"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"And all the secrets of our camp I'll show,"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"Their force, their purposes; nay, I'll speak that"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"Which you will wonder at."
IV,I,First Soldier,"But wilt thou faithfully?"
IV,I,PAROLLES,"If I do not, damn me."
IV,I,First Soldier,"Acordo linta."
IV,I,First Soldier,"Come on; thou art granted space."
IV,I,Second Lord,"Go, tell the Count Rousillon, and my brother,"
IV,I,Second Lord,"We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled"
IV,I,Second Lord,"Till we do hear from them."
IV,I,Second Soldier,"Captain, I will."
IV,I,Second Lord,"A' will betray us all unto ourselves:"
IV,I,Second Lord,"Inform on that."
IV,I,Second Soldier,"So I will, sir."
IV,I,Second Lord,"Till then I'll keep him dark and safely lock'd."
IV,II,BERTRAM,"They told me that your name was Fontibell."
IV,II,DIANA,"No, my good lord, Diana."
IV,II,BERTRAM,"Titled goddess;"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul,"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"In your fine frame hath love no quality?"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"If quick fire of youth light not your mind,"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"You are no maiden, but a monument:"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"When you are dead, you should be such a one"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"As you are now, for you are cold and stem;"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"And now you should be as your mother was"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"When your sweet self was got."
IV,II,DIANA,"She then was honest."
IV,II,BERTRAM,"So should you be."
IV,II,DIANA,"No:"
IV,II,DIANA,"My mother did but duty; such, my lord,"
IV,II,DIANA,"As you owe to your wife."
IV,II,BERTRAM,"No more o' that;"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"I prithee, do not strive against my vows:"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"I was compell'd to her; but I love thee"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"Do thee all rights of service."
IV,II,DIANA,"Ay, so you serve us"
IV,II,DIANA,"Till we serve you; but when you have our roses,"
IV,II,DIANA,"You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves"
IV,II,DIANA,"And mock us with our bareness."
IV,II,BERTRAM,"How have I sworn!"
IV,II,DIANA,"'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth,"
IV,II,DIANA,"But the plain single vow that is vow'd true."
IV,II,DIANA,"What is not holy, that we swear not by,"
IV,II,DIANA,"But take the High'st to witness: then, pray you, tell me,"
IV,II,DIANA,"If I should swear by God's great attributes,"
IV,II,DIANA,"I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths,"
IV,II,DIANA,"When I did love you ill? This has no holding,"
IV,II,DIANA,"To swear by him whom I protest to love,"
IV,II,DIANA,"That I will work against him: therefore your oaths"
IV,II,DIANA,"Are words and poor conditions, but unseal'd,"
IV,II,DIANA,"At least in my opinion."
IV,II,BERTRAM,"Change it, change it;"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"Be not so holy-cruel: love is holy;"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"That you do charge men with. Stand no more off,"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"But give thyself unto my sick desires,"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"Who then recover: say thou art mine, and ever"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"My love as it begins shall so persever."
IV,II,DIANA,"I see that men make ropes in such a scarre"
IV,II,DIANA,"That we'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring."
IV,II,BERTRAM,"I'll lend it thee, my dear; but have no power"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"To give it from me."
IV,II,DIANA,"Will you not, my lord?"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"It is an honour 'longing to our house,"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"Bequeathed down from many ancestors;"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"In me to lose."
IV,II,DIANA,"Mine honour's such a ring:"
IV,II,DIANA,"My chastity's the jewel of our house,"
IV,II,DIANA,"Bequeathed down from many ancestors;"
IV,II,DIANA,"Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world"
IV,II,DIANA,"In me to lose: thus your own proper wisdom"
IV,II,DIANA,"Brings in the champion Honour on my part,"
IV,II,DIANA,"Against your vain assault."
IV,II,BERTRAM,"Here, take my ring:"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"My house, mine honour, yea, my life, be thine,"
IV,II,BERTRAM,"And I'll be bid by thee."
IV,II,DIANA,"When midnight comes, knock at my chamber-window:"
IV,II,DIANA,"I'll order take my mother shall not hear."
IV,II,DIANA,"Now will I charge you in the band of truth,"
IV,II,DIANA,"When you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed,"
IV,II,DIANA,"Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me:"
IV,II,DIANA,"My reasons are most strong; and you shall know them"
IV,II,DIANA,"When back again this ring shall be deliver'd:"
IV,II,DIANA,"And on your finger in the night I'll put"
IV,II,DIANA,"Another ring, that what in time proceeds"
IV,II,DIANA,"May token to the future our past deeds."
IV,II,DIANA,"Adieu, till then; then, fail not. You have won"
IV,II,DIANA,"A wife of me, though there my hope be done."
IV,II,BERTRAM,"A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee."
IV,II,DIANA,"For which live long to thank both heaven and me!"
IV,II,DIANA,"You may so in the end."
IV,II,DIANA,"My mother told me just how he would woo,"
IV,II,DIANA,"As if she sat in 's heart; she says all men"
IV,II,DIANA,"Have the like oaths: he had sworn to marry me"
IV,II,DIANA,"When his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with him"
IV,II,DIANA,"When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid,"
IV,II,DIANA,"Marry that will, I live and die a maid:"
IV,II,DIANA,"Only in this disguise I think't no sin"
IV,II,DIANA,"To cozen him that would unjustly win."
IV,III,First Lord,"You have not given him his mother's letter?"
IV,III,Second Lord,"I have delivered it an hour since: there is"
IV,III,Second Lord,"something in't that stings his nature; for on the"
IV,III,Second Lord,"reading it he changed almost into another man."
IV,III,First Lord,"He has much worthy blame laid upon him for shaking"
IV,III,First Lord,"off so good a wife and so sweet a lady."
IV,III,Second Lord,"Especially he hath incurred the everlasting"
IV,III,Second Lord,"displeasure of the king, who had even tuned his"
IV,III,Second Lord,"bounty to sing happiness to him. I will tell you a"
IV,III,Second Lord,"thing, but you shall let it dwell darkly with you."
IV,III,First Lord,"When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I am the"
IV,III,First Lord,"grave of it."
IV,III,Second Lord,"He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in"
IV,III,Second Lord,"Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night he"
IV,III,Second Lord,"fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath"
IV,III,Second Lord,"given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself"
IV,III,Second Lord,"made in the unchaste composition."
IV,III,First Lord,"Now, God delay our rebellion! as we are ourselves,"
IV,III,First Lord,"what things are we!"
IV,III,Second Lord,"Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course"
IV,III,Second Lord,"of all treasons, we still see them reveal"
IV,III,Second Lord,"themselves, till they attain to their abhorred ends,"
IV,III,Second Lord,"so he that in this action contrives against his own"
IV,III,Second Lord,"nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself."
IV,III,First Lord,"Is it not meant damnable in us, to be trumpeters of"
IV,III,First Lord,"our unlawful intents? We shall not then have his"
IV,III,First Lord,"company to-night?"
IV,III,Second Lord,"Not till after midnight; for he is dieted to his hour."
IV,III,First Lord,"That approaches apace; I would gladly have him see"
IV,III,First Lord,"his company anatomized, that he might take a measure"
IV,III,First Lord,"of his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had"
IV,III,First Lord,"set this counterfeit."
IV,III,Second Lord,"We will not meddle with him till he come; for his"
IV,III,Second Lord,"presence must be the whip of the other."
IV,III,First Lord,"In the mean time, what hear you of these wars?"
IV,III,Second Lord,"I hear there is an overture of peace."
IV,III,First Lord,"Nay, I assure you, a peace concluded."
IV,III,Second Lord,"What will Count Rousillon do then? will he travel"
IV,III,Second Lord,"higher, or return again into France?"
IV,III,First Lord,"I perceive, by this demand, you are not altogether"
IV,III,First Lord,"of his council."
IV,III,Second Lord,"Let it be forbid, sir; so should I be a great deal"
IV,III,Second Lord,"of his act."
IV,III,First Lord,"Sir, his wife some two months since fled from his"
IV,III,First Lord,"house: her pretence is a pilgrimage to Saint Jaques"
IV,III,First Lord,"le Grand; which holy undertaking with most austere"
IV,III,First Lord,"sanctimony she accomplished; and, there residing the"
IV,III,First Lord,"tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her"
IV,III,First Lord,"grief; in fine, made a groan of her last breath, and"
IV,III,First Lord,"now she sings in heaven."
IV,III,Second Lord,"How is this justified?"
IV,III,First Lord,"The stronger part of it by her own letters, which"
IV,III,First Lord,"makes her story true, even to the point of her"
IV,III,First Lord,"death: her death itself, which could not be her"
IV,III,First Lord,"office to say is come, was faithfully confirmed by"
IV,III,First Lord,"the rector of the place."
IV,III,Second Lord,"Hath the count all this intelligence?"
IV,III,First Lord,"Ay, and the particular confirmations, point from"
IV,III,First Lord,"point, so to the full arming of the verity."
IV,III,Second Lord,"I am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this."
IV,III,First Lord,"How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses!"
IV,III,Second Lord,"And how mightily some other times we drown our gain"
IV,III,Second Lord,"in tears! The great dignity that his valour hath"
IV,III,Second Lord,"here acquired for him shall at home be encountered"
IV,III,Second Lord,"with a shame as ample."
IV,III,First Lord,"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and"
IV,III,First Lord,"ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our"
IV,III,First Lord,"faults whipped them not; and our crimes would"
IV,III,First Lord,"despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues."
IV,III,First Lord,"How now! where's your master?"
IV,III,Servant,"He met the duke in the street, sir, of whom he hath"
IV,III,Servant,"taken a solemn leave: his lordship will next"
IV,III,Servant,"morning for France. The duke hath offered him"
IV,III,Servant,"letters of commendations to the king."
IV,III,Second Lord,"They shall be no more than needful there, if they"
IV,III,Second Lord,"were more than they can commend."
IV,III,First Lord,"They cannot be too sweet for the king's tartness."
IV,III,First Lord,"Here's his lordship now."
IV,III,First Lord,"How now, my lord! is't not after midnight?"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"I have to-night dispatched sixteen businesses, a"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"month's length a-piece, by an abstract of success:"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"I have congied with the duke, done my adieu with his"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"nearest; buried a wife, mourned for her; writ to my"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"lady mother I am returning; entertained my convoy;"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"and between these main parcels of dispatch effected"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"many nicer needs; the last was the greatest, but"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"that I have not ended yet."
IV,III,Second Lord,"If the business be of any difficulty, and this"
IV,III,Second Lord,"morning your departure hence, it requires haste of"
IV,III,Second Lord,"your lordship."
IV,III,BERTRAM,"I mean, the business is not ended, as fearing to"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"hear of it hereafter. But shall we have this"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"dialogue between the fool and the soldier? Come,"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"bring forth this counterfeit module, he has deceived"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"me, like a double-meaning prophesier."
IV,III,Second Lord,"Bring him forth: has sat i' the stocks all night,"
IV,III,Second Lord,"poor gallant knave."
IV,III,BERTRAM,"No matter: his heels have deserved it, in usurping"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"his spurs so long. How does he carry himself?"
IV,III,Second Lord,"I have told your lordship already, the stocks carry"
IV,III,Second Lord,"him. But to answer you as you would be understood;"
IV,III,Second Lord,"he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk: he"
IV,III,Second Lord,"hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom he supposes"
IV,III,Second Lord,"to be a friar, from the time of his remembrance to"
IV,III,Second Lord,"this very instant disaster of his setting i' the"
IV,III,Second Lord,"stocks: and what think you he hath confessed?"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"Nothing of me, has a'?"
IV,III,Second Lord,"His confession is taken, and it shall be read to his"
IV,III,Second Lord,"face: if your lordship be in't, as I believe you"
IV,III,Second Lord,"are, you must have the patience to hear it."
IV,III,BERTRAM,"A plague upon him! muffled! he can say nothing of"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"me: hush, hush!"
IV,III,First Lord,"Hoodman comes! Portotartarosa"
IV,III,First Soldier,"He calls for the tortures: what will you say"
IV,III,First Soldier,"without 'em?"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"I will confess what I know without constraint: if"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"ye pinch me like a pasty, I can say no more."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Bosko chimurcho."
IV,III,First Lord,"Boblibindo chicurmurco."
IV,III,First Soldier,"You are a merciful general. Our general bids you"
IV,III,First Soldier,"answer to what I shall ask you out of a note."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"And truly, as I hope to live."
IV,III,First Soldier,"duke is strong.' What say you to that?"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Five or six thousand; but very weak and"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"unserviceable: the troops are all scattered, and"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"the commanders very poor rogues, upon my reputation"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"and credit and as I hope to live."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Shall I set down your answer so?"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Do: I'll take the sacrament on't, how and which way you will."
IV,III,BERTRAM,"All's one to him. What a past-saving slave is this!"
IV,III,First Lord,"You're deceived, my lord: this is Monsieur"
IV,III,First Lord,"Parolles, the gallant militarist,--that was his own"
IV,III,First Lord,"phrase,--that had the whole theoric of war in the"
IV,III,First Lord,"knot of his scarf, and the practise in the chape of"
IV,III,First Lord,"his dagger."
IV,III,Second Lord,"I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword"
IV,III,Second Lord,"clean. nor believe he can have every thing in him"
IV,III,Second Lord,"by wearing his apparel neatly."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Well, that's set down."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Five or six thousand horse, I said,-- I will say"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"true,--or thereabouts, set down, for I'll speak truth."
IV,III,First Lord,"He's very near the truth in this."
IV,III,BERTRAM,"But I con him no thanks for't, in the nature he"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"delivers it."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Poor rogues, I pray you, say."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Well, that's set down."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"I humbly thank you, sir: a truth's a truth, the"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"rogues are marvellous poor."
IV,III,First Soldier,"a-foot.' What say you to that?"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"By my troth, sir, if I were to live this present"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"hour, I will tell true. Let me see: Spurio, a"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"hundred and fifty; Sebastian, so many; Corambus, so"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"many; Jaques, so many; Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowick,"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"and Gratii, two hundred and fifty each; mine own"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"company, Chitopher, Vaumond, Bentii, two hundred and"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"fifty each: so that the muster-file, rotten and"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"poll; half of the which dare not shake snow from off"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"their cassocks, lest they shake themselves to pieces."
IV,III,BERTRAM,"What shall be done to him?"
IV,III,First Lord,"Nothing, but let him have thanks. Demand of him my"
IV,III,First Lord,"condition, and what credit I have with the duke."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Well, that's set down."
IV,III,First Soldier,"'You shall demand of him, whether one Captain Dumain"
IV,III,First Soldier,"be i' the camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation is"
IV,III,First Soldier,"with the duke; what his valour, honesty, and"
IV,III,First Soldier,"expertness in wars; or whether he thinks it were not"
IV,III,First Soldier,"possible, with well-weighing sums of gold, to"
IV,III,First Soldier,"corrupt him to revolt.' What say you to this? what"
IV,III,First Soldier,"do you know of it?"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"I beseech you, let me answer to the particular of"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"the inter'gatories: demand them singly."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Do you know this Captain Dumain?"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"I know him: a' was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris,"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"fool with child,--a dumb innocent, that could not"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"say him nay."
IV,III,BERTRAM,"Nay, by your leave, hold your hands; though I know"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Well, is this captain in the duke of Florence's camp?"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Upon my knowledge, he is, and lousy."
IV,III,First Lord,"Nay look not so upon me; we shall hear of your"
IV,III,First Lord,"lordship anon."
IV,III,First Soldier,"What is his reputation with the duke?"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"The duke knows him for no other but a poor officer"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"of mine; and writ to me this other day to turn him"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"out o' the band: I think I have his letter in my pocket."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Marry, we'll search."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"In good sadness, I do not know; either it is there,"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"or it is upon a file with the duke's other letters"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"in my tent."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Here 'tis; here's a paper: shall I read it to you?"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"I do not know if it be it or no."
IV,III,BERTRAM,"Our interpreter does it well."
IV,III,First Lord,"Excellently."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"That is not the duke's letter, sir; that is an"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one Count"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Nay, I'll read it first, by your favour."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"My meaning in't, I protest, was very honest in the"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"behalf of the maid; for I knew the young count to be"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale to"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"virginity and devours up all the fry it finds."
IV,III,BERTRAM,"Damnable both-sides rogue!"
IV,III,First Soldier,"After he scores, he never pays the score:"
IV,III,First Soldier,"Half won is match well made; match, and well make it;"
IV,III,First Soldier,"He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before;"
IV,III,First Soldier,"And say a soldier, Dian, told thee this,"
IV,III,First Soldier,"Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss:"
IV,III,First Soldier,"For count of this, the count's a fool, I know it,"
IV,III,First Soldier,"Who pays before, but not when he does owe it."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Thine, as he vowed to thee in thine ear,"
IV,III,First Soldier,"PAROLLES.'"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"He shall be whipped through the army with this rhyme"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"in's forehead."
IV,III,Second Lord,"This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold"
IV,III,Second Lord,"linguist and the armipotent soldier."
IV,III,BERTRAM,"I could endure any thing before but a cat, and now"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"he's a cat to me."
IV,III,First Soldier,"I perceive, sir, by the general's looks, we shall be"
IV,III,First Soldier,"fain to hang you."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"My life, sir, in any case: not that I am afraid to"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"die; but that, my offences being many, I would"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"repent out the remainder of nature: let me live,"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"sir, in a dungeon, i' the stocks, or any where, so I may live."
IV,III,First Soldier,"We'll see what may be done, so you confess freely;"
IV,III,First Soldier,"therefore, once more to this Captain Dumain: you"
IV,III,First Soldier,"have answered to his reputation with the duke and to"
IV,III,First Soldier,"his valour: what is his honesty?"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister: for"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus: he"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking 'em he"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"is stronger than Hercules: he will lie, sir, with"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"such volubility, that you would think truth were a"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"fool: drunkenness is his best virtue, for he will"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"be swine-drunk; and in his sleep he does little"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"harm, save to his bed-clothes about him; but they"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"know his conditions and lay him in straw. I have but"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"little more to say, sir, of his honesty: he has"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"every thing that an honest man should not have; what"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"an honest man should have, he has nothing."
IV,III,First Lord,"I begin to love him for this."
IV,III,BERTRAM,"For this description of thine honesty? A pox upon"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"him for me, he's more and more a cat."
IV,III,First Soldier,"What say you to his expertness in war?"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Faith, sir, he has led the drum before the English"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"tragedians; to belie him, I will not, and more of"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"his soldiership I know not; except, in that country"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"he had the honour to be the officer at a place there"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"called Mile-end, to instruct for the doubling of"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"files: I would do the man what honour I can, but of"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"this I am not certain."
IV,III,First Lord,"He hath out-villained villany so far, that the"
IV,III,First Lord,"rarity redeems him."
IV,III,BERTRAM,"A pox on him, he's a cat still."
IV,III,First Soldier,"His qualities being at this poor price, I need not"
IV,III,First Soldier,"to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee-simple"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"entail from all remainders, and a perpetual"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"succession for it perpetually."
IV,III,First Soldier,"What's his brother, the other Captain Dumain?"
IV,III,Second Lord,"Why does be ask him of me?"
IV,III,First Soldier,"What's he?"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"E'en a crow o' the same nest; not altogether so"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"great as the first in goodness, but greater a great"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"deal in evil: he excels his brother for a coward,"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is:"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"in a retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"on he has the cramp."
IV,III,First Soldier,"If your life be saved, will you undertake to betray"
IV,III,First Soldier,"the Florentine?"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Ay, and the captain of his horse, Count Rousillon."
IV,III,First Soldier,"I'll whisper with the general, and know his pleasure."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"drums! Only to seem to deserve well, and to"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"the count, have I run into this danger. Yet who"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"would have suspected an ambush where I was taken?"
IV,III,First Soldier,"There is no remedy, sir, but you must die: the"
IV,III,First Soldier,"general says, you that have so traitorously"
IV,III,First Soldier,"discovered the secrets of your army and made such"
IV,III,First Soldier,"pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can"
IV,III,First Soldier,"serve the world for no honest use; therefore you"
IV,III,First Soldier,"must die. Come, headsman, off with his head."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"O Lord, sir, let me live, or let me see my death!"
IV,III,First Lord,"That shall you, and take your leave of all your friends."
IV,III,First Lord,"So, look about you: know you any here?"
IV,III,BERTRAM,"Good morrow, noble captain."
IV,III,Second Lord,"God bless you, Captain Parolles."
IV,III,First Lord,"God save you, noble captain."
IV,III,Second Lord,"Captain, what greeting will you to my Lord Lafeu?"
IV,III,Second Lord,"I am for France."
IV,III,First Lord,"Good captain, will you give me a copy of the sonnet"
IV,III,First Lord,"you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count Rousillon?"
IV,III,First Lord,"an I were not a very coward, I'ld compel it of you:"
IV,III,First Lord,"but fare you well."
IV,III,First Soldier,"You are undone, captain, all but your scarf; that"
IV,III,First Soldier,"has a knot on't yet"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Who cannot be crushed with a plot?"
IV,III,First Soldier,"If you could find out a country where but women were"
IV,III,First Soldier,"that had received so much shame, you might begin an"
IV,III,First Soldier,"impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir; I am for France"
IV,III,First Soldier,"too: we shall speak of you there."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Yet am I thankful: if my heart were great,"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more;"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"As captain shall: simply the thing I am"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Let him fear this, for it will come to pass"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"that every braggart shall be found an ass."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Rust, sword? cool, blushes! and, Parolles, live"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"Safest in shame! being fool'd, by foolery thrive!"
IV,III,PAROLLES,"There's place and means for every man alive."
IV,III,PAROLLES,"I'll after them."
IV,IV,HELENA,"That you may well perceive I have not wrong'd you,"
IV,IV,HELENA,"One of the greatest in the Christian world"
IV,IV,HELENA,"Shall be my surety; 'fore whose throne 'tis needful,"
IV,IV,HELENA,"Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel:"
IV,IV,HELENA,"Time was, I did him a desired office,"
IV,IV,HELENA,"Dear almost as his life; which gratitude"
IV,IV,HELENA,"Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth,"
IV,IV,HELENA,"And answer, thanks: I duly am inform'd"
IV,IV,HELENA,"His grace is at Marseilles; to which place"
IV,IV,HELENA,"We have convenient convoy. You must know"
IV,IV,HELENA,"I am supposed dead: the army breaking,"
IV,IV,HELENA,"My husband hies him home; where, heaven aiding,"
IV,IV,HELENA,"And by the leave of my good lord the king,"
IV,IV,HELENA,"We'll be before our welcome."
IV,IV,Widow,"Gentle madam,"
IV,IV,Widow,"You never had a servant to whose trust"
IV,IV,Widow,"Your business was more welcome."
IV,IV,HELENA,"Nor you, mistress,"
IV,IV,HELENA,"Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour"
IV,IV,HELENA,"To recompense your love: doubt not but heaven"
IV,IV,HELENA,"Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower,"
IV,IV,HELENA,"As it hath fated her to be my motive"
IV,IV,HELENA,"And helper to a husband. But, O strange men!"
IV,IV,HELENA,"That can such sweet use make of what they hate,"
IV,IV,HELENA,"When saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts"
IV,IV,HELENA,"Defiles the pitchy night: so lust doth play"
IV,IV,HELENA,"With what it loathes for that which is away."
IV,IV,HELENA,"But more of this hereafter. You, Diana,"
IV,IV,HELENA,"Under my poor instructions yet must suffer"
IV,IV,HELENA,"Something in my behalf."
IV,IV,DIANA,"Let death and honesty"
IV,IV,DIANA,"Go with your impositions, I am yours"
IV,IV,DIANA,"Upon your will to suffer."
IV,IV,HELENA,"Yet, I pray you:"
IV,IV,HELENA,"But with the word the time will bring on summer,"
IV,IV,HELENA,"When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,"
IV,IV,HELENA,"And be as sweet as sharp. We must away;"
IV,IV,HELENA,"Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us:"
IV,IV,HELENA,"All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown;"
IV,IV,HELENA,"Whate'er the course, the end is the renown."
IV,V,LAFEU,"No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipt-taffeta"
IV,V,LAFEU,"fellow there, whose villanous saffron would have"
IV,V,LAFEU,"made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in"
IV,V,LAFEU,"his colour: your daughter-in-law had been alive at"
IV,V,LAFEU,"this hour, and your son here at home, more advanced"
IV,V,LAFEU,"by the king than by that red-tailed humble-bee I speak of."
IV,V,COUNTESS,"I would I had not known him; it was the death of the"
IV,V,COUNTESS,"most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature had"
IV,V,COUNTESS,"praise for creating. If she had partaken of my"
IV,V,COUNTESS,"flesh, and cost me the dearest groans of a mother, I"
IV,V,COUNTESS,"could not have owed her a more rooted love."
IV,V,LAFEU,"'Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a"
IV,V,LAFEU,"thousand salads ere we light on such another herb."
IV,V,Clown,"Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the"
IV,V,Clown,"salad, or rather, the herb of grace."
IV,V,LAFEU,"They are not herbs, you knave; they are nose-herbs."
IV,V,Clown,"I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir; I have not much"
IV,V,Clown,"skill in grass."
IV,V,LAFEU,"Whether dost thou profess thyself, a knave or a fool?"
IV,V,Clown,"A fool, sir, at a woman's service, and a knave at a man's."
IV,V,LAFEU,"Your distinction?"
IV,V,Clown,"I would cozen the man of his wife and do his service."
IV,V,LAFEU,"So you were a knave at his service, indeed."
IV,V,Clown,"And I would give his wife my bauble, sir, to do her service."
IV,V,LAFEU,"I will subscribe for thee, thou art both knave and fool."
IV,V,Clown,"At your service."
IV,V,LAFEU,"No, no, no."
IV,V,Clown,"Why, sir, if I cannot serve you, I can serve as"
IV,V,Clown,"great a prince as you are."
IV,V,LAFEU,"Who's that? a Frenchman?"
IV,V,Clown,"Faith, sir, a' has an English name; but his fisnomy"
IV,V,Clown,"is more hotter in France than there."
IV,V,LAFEU,"What prince is that?"
IV,V,Clown,"The black prince, sir; alias, the prince of"
IV,V,Clown,"darkness; alias, the devil."
IV,V,LAFEU,"Hold thee, there's my purse: I give thee not this"
IV,V,LAFEU,"to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of;"
IV,V,LAFEU,"serve him still."
IV,V,Clown,"I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a"
IV,V,Clown,"great fire; and the master I speak of ever keeps a"
IV,V,Clown,"good fire. But, sure, he is the prince of the"
IV,V,Clown,"world; let his nobility remain in's court. I am for"
IV,V,Clown,"the house with the narrow gate, which I take to be"
IV,V,Clown,"too little for pomp to enter: some that humble"
IV,V,Clown,"themselves may; but the many will be too chill and"
IV,V,Clown,"tender, and they'll be for the flowery way that"
IV,V,Clown,"leads to the broad gate and the great fire."
IV,V,LAFEU,"Go thy ways, I begin to be aweary of thee; and I"
IV,V,LAFEU,"tell thee so before, because I would not fall out"
IV,V,LAFEU,"with thee. Go thy ways: let my horses be well"
IV,V,LAFEU,"looked to, without any tricks."
IV,V,Clown,"If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shall be"
IV,V,Clown,"jades' tricks; which are their own right by the law of nature."
IV,V,LAFEU,"A shrewd knave and an unhappy."
IV,V,COUNTESS,"So he is. My lord that's gone made himself much"
IV,V,COUNTESS,"sport out of him: by his authority he remains here,"
IV,V,COUNTESS,"which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness; and,"
IV,V,COUNTESS,"indeed, he has no pace, but runs where he will."
IV,V,LAFEU,"I like him well; 'tis not amiss. And I was about to"
IV,V,LAFEU,"tell you, since I heard of the good lady's death and"
IV,V,LAFEU,"that my lord your son was upon his return home, I"
IV,V,LAFEU,"moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of"
IV,V,LAFEU,"my daughter; which, in the minority of them both,"
IV,V,LAFEU,"his majesty, out of a self-gracious remembrance, did"
IV,V,LAFEU,"first propose: his highness hath promised me to do"
IV,V,LAFEU,"it: and, to stop up the displeasure he hath"
IV,V,LAFEU,"conceived against your son, there is no fitter"
IV,V,LAFEU,"matter. How does your ladyship like it?"
IV,V,COUNTESS,"With very much content, my lord; and I wish it"
IV,V,COUNTESS,"happily effected."
IV,V,LAFEU,"His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as able"
IV,V,LAFEU,"body as when he numbered thirty: he will be here"
IV,V,LAFEU,"to-morrow, or I am deceived by him that in such"
IV,V,LAFEU,"intelligence hath seldom failed."
IV,V,COUNTESS,"It rejoices me, that I hope I shall see him ere I"
IV,V,COUNTESS,"die. I have letters that my son will be here"
IV,V,COUNTESS,"to-night: I shall beseech your lordship to remain"
IV,V,COUNTESS,"with me till they meet together."
IV,V,LAFEU,"Madam, I was thinking with what manners I might"
IV,V,LAFEU,"safely be admitted."
IV,V,COUNTESS,"You need but plead your honourable privilege."
IV,V,LAFEU,"Lady, of that I have made a bold charter; but I"
IV,V,LAFEU,"thank my God it holds yet."
IV,V,Clown,"O madam, yonder's my lord your son with a patch of"
IV,V,Clown,"velvet on's face: whether there be a scar under't"
IV,V,Clown,"or no, the velvet knows; but 'tis a goodly patch of"
IV,V,Clown,"velvet: his left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a"
IV,V,Clown,"half, but his right cheek is worn bare."
IV,V,LAFEU,"A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery"
IV,V,LAFEU,"of honour; so belike is that."
IV,V,Clown,"But it is your carbonadoed face."
IV,V,LAFEU,"Let us go see your son, I pray you: I long to talk"
IV,V,LAFEU,"with the young noble soldier."
IV,V,Clown,"Faith there's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine"
IV,V,Clown,"hats and most courteous feathers, which bow the head"
IV,V,Clown,"and nod at every man."
V,I,HELENA,"But this exceeding posting day and night"
V,I,HELENA,"Must wear your spirits low; we cannot help it:"
V,I,HELENA,"But since you have made the days and nights as one,"
V,I,HELENA,"To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs,"
V,I,HELENA,"Be bold you do so grow in my requital"
V,I,HELENA,"As nothing can unroot you. In happy time;"
V,I,HELENA,"This man may help me to his majesty's ear,"
V,I,HELENA,"If he would spend his power. God save you, sir."
V,I,Gentleman,"And you."
V,I,HELENA,"Sir, I have seen you in the court of France."
V,I,Gentleman,"I have been sometimes there."
V,I,HELENA,"I do presume, sir, that you are not fallen"
V,I,HELENA,"From the report that goes upon your goodness;"
V,I,HELENA,"An therefore, goaded with most sharp occasions,"
V,I,HELENA,"Which lay nice manners by, I put you to"
V,I,HELENA,"The use of your own virtues, for the which"
V,I,HELENA,"I shall continue thankful."
V,I,Gentleman,"What's your will?"
V,I,HELENA,"That it will please you"
V,I,HELENA,"To give this poor petition to the king,"
V,I,HELENA,"And aid me with that store of power you have"
V,I,HELENA,"To come into his presence."
V,I,Gentleman,"The king's not here."
V,I,HELENA,"Not here, sir!"
V,I,Gentleman,"Not, indeed:"
V,I,Gentleman,"He hence removed last night and with more haste"
V,I,Gentleman,"Than is his use."
V,I,Widow,"Lord, how we lose our pains!"
V,I,HELENA,"All's well that ends well yet,"
V,I,HELENA,"Though time seem so adverse and means unfit."
V,I,HELENA,"I do beseech you, whither is he gone?"
V,I,Gentleman,"Marry, as I take it, to Rousillon;"
V,I,Gentleman,"Whither I am going."
V,I,HELENA,"I do beseech you, sir,"
V,I,HELENA,"Since you are like to see the king before me,"
V,I,HELENA,"Commend the paper to his gracious hand,"
V,I,HELENA,"Which I presume shall render you no blame"
V,I,HELENA,"But rather make you thank your pains for it."
V,I,HELENA,"I will come after you with what good speed"
V,I,HELENA,"Our means will make us means."
V,I,Gentleman,"This I'll do for you."
V,I,HELENA,"And you shall find yourself to be well thank'd,"
V,I,HELENA,"Whate'er falls more. We must to horse again."
V,I,HELENA,"Go, go, provide."
V,II,PAROLLES,"Good Monsieur Lavache, give my Lord Lafeu this"
V,II,PAROLLES,"letter: I have ere now, sir, been better known to"
V,II,PAROLLES,"you, when I have held familiarity with fresher"
V,II,PAROLLES,"clothes; but I am now, sir, muddied in fortune's"
V,II,PAROLLES,"mood, and smell somewhat strong of her strong"
V,II,PAROLLES,"displeasure."
V,II,Clown,"Truly, fortune's displeasure is but sluttish, if it"
V,II,Clown,"smell so strongly as thou speakest of: I will"
V,II,Clown,"henceforth eat no fish of fortune's buttering."
V,II,Clown,"Prithee, allow the wind."
V,II,PAROLLES,"Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir; I spake"
V,II,PAROLLES,"but by a metaphor."
V,II,Clown,"Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop my"
V,II,Clown,"nose; or against any man's metaphor. Prithee, get"
V,II,Clown,"thee further."
V,II,PAROLLES,"Pray you, sir, deliver me this paper."
V,II,Clown,"Foh! prithee, stand away: a paper from fortune's"
V,II,Clown,"close-stool to give to a nobleman! Look, here he"
V,II,Clown,"comes himself."
V,II,Clown,"Here is a purr of fortune's, sir, or of fortune's"
V,II,Clown,"cat,--but not a musk-cat,--that has fallen into the"
V,II,Clown,"unclean fishpond of her displeasure, and, as he"
V,II,Clown,"says, is muddied withal: pray you, sir, use the"
V,II,Clown,"carp as you may; for he looks like a poor, decayed,"
V,II,Clown,"ingenious, foolish, rascally knave. I do pity his"
V,II,Clown,"distress in my similes of comfort and leave him to"
V,II,Clown,"your lordship."
V,II,PAROLLES,"My lord, I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly"
V,II,PAROLLES,"scratched."
V,II,LAFEU,"And what would you have me to do? 'Tis too late to"
V,II,LAFEU,"pare her nails now. Wherein have you played the"
V,II,LAFEU,"knave with fortune, that she should scratch you, who"
V,II,LAFEU,"of herself is a good lady and would not have knaves"
V,II,LAFEU,"thrive long under her? There's a quart d'ecu for"
V,II,LAFEU,"you: let the justices make you and fortune friends:"
V,II,LAFEU,"I am for other business."
V,II,PAROLLES,"I beseech your honour to hear me one single word."
V,II,LAFEU,"You beg a single penny more: come, you shall ha't;"
V,II,LAFEU,"save your word."
V,II,PAROLLES,"My name, my good lord, is Parolles."
V,II,LAFEU,"You beg more than 'word,' then. Cox my passion!"
V,II,LAFEU,"give me your hand. How does your drum?"
V,II,PAROLLES,"O my good lord, you were the first that found me!"
V,II,LAFEU,"Was I, in sooth? and I was the first that lost thee."
V,II,PAROLLES,"It lies in you, my lord, to bring me in some grace,"
V,II,PAROLLES,"for you did bring me out."
V,II,LAFEU,"Out upon thee, knave! dost thou put upon me at once"
V,II,LAFEU,"both the office of God and the devil? One brings"
V,II,LAFEU,"thee in grace and the other brings thee out."
V,II,LAFEU,"The king's coming; I know by his trumpets. Sirrah,"
V,II,LAFEU,"inquire further after me; I had talk of you last"
V,II,LAFEU,"night: though you are a fool and a knave, you shall"
V,II,LAFEU,"eat; go to, follow."
V,II,PAROLLES,"I praise God for you."
V,III,KING,"We lost a jewel of her; and our esteem"
V,III,KING,"Was made much poorer by it: but your son,"
V,III,KING,"As mad in folly, lack'd the sense to know"
V,III,KING,"Her estimation home."
V,III,COUNTESS,"'Tis past, my liege;"
V,III,COUNTESS,"And I beseech your majesty to make it"
V,III,COUNTESS,"Natural rebellion, done i' the blaze of youth;"
V,III,COUNTESS,"When oil and fire, too strong for reason's force,"
V,III,COUNTESS,"O'erbears it and burns on."
V,III,KING,"My honour'd lady,"
V,III,KING,"I have forgiven and forgotten all;"
V,III,KING,"Though my revenges were high bent upon him,"
V,III,KING,"And watch'd the time to shoot."
V,III,LAFEU,"This I must say,"
V,III,LAFEU,"But first I beg my pardon, the young lord"
V,III,LAFEU,"Did to his majesty, his mother and his lady"
V,III,LAFEU,"Offence of mighty note; but to himself"
V,III,LAFEU,"The greatest wrong of all. He lost a wife"
V,III,LAFEU,"Whose beauty did astonish the survey"
V,III,LAFEU,"Of richest eyes, whose words all ears took captive,"
V,III,LAFEU,"Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to serve"
V,III,LAFEU,"Humbly call'd mistress."
V,III,KING,"Praising what is lost"
V,III,KING,"Makes the remembrance dear. Well, call him hither;"
V,III,KING,"We are reconciled, and the first view shall kill"
V,III,KING,"All repetition: let him not ask our pardon;"
V,III,KING,"The nature of his great offence is dead,"
V,III,KING,"And deeper than oblivion we do bury"
V,III,KING,"The incensing relics of it: let him approach,"
V,III,KING,"A stranger, no offender; and inform him"
V,III,KING,"So 'tis our will he should."
V,III,Gentleman,"I shall, my liege."
V,III,KING,"What says he to your daughter? have you spoke?"
V,III,LAFEU,"All that he is hath reference to your highness."
V,III,KING,"Then shall we have a match. I have letters sent me"
V,III,KING,"That set him high in fame."
V,III,LAFEU,"He looks well on't."
V,III,KING,"I am not a day of season,"
V,III,KING,"For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail"
V,III,KING,"In me at once: but to the brightest beams"
V,III,KING,"Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth;"
V,III,KING,"The time is fair again."
V,III,BERTRAM,"My high-repented blames,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Dear sovereign, pardon to me."
V,III,KING,"All is whole;"
V,III,KING,"Not one word more of the consumed time."
V,III,KING,"Let's take the instant by the forward top;"
V,III,KING,"For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees"
V,III,KING,"The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time"
V,III,KING,"Steals ere we can effect them. You remember"
V,III,KING,"The daughter of this lord?"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Admiringly, my liege, at first"
V,III,BERTRAM,"I stuck my choice upon her, ere my heart"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Durst make too bold a herald of my tongue"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Where the impression of mine eye infixing,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Which warp'd the line of every other favour;"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Scorn'd a fair colour, or express'd it stolen;"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Extended or contracted all proportions"
V,III,BERTRAM,"To a most hideous object: thence it came"
V,III,BERTRAM,"That she whom all men praised and whom myself,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Since I have lost, have loved, was in mine eye"
V,III,BERTRAM,"The dust that did offend it."
V,III,KING,"Well excused:"
V,III,KING,"That thou didst love her, strikes some scores away"
V,III,KING,"From the great compt: but love that comes too late,"
V,III,KING,"Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,"
V,III,KING,"To the great sender turns a sour offence,"
V,III,KING,"Crying, 'That's good that's gone.' Our rash faults"
V,III,KING,"Make trivial price of serious things we have,"
V,III,KING,"Not knowing them until we know their grave:"
V,III,KING,"Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust,"
V,III,KING,"Destroy our friends and after weep their dust"
V,III,KING,"Our own love waking cries to see what's done,"
V,III,KING,"While shame full late sleeps out the afternoon."
V,III,KING,"Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her."
V,III,KING,"Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin:"
V,III,KING,"The main consents are had; and here we'll stay"
V,III,KING,"To see our widower's second marriage-day."
V,III,COUNTESS,"Which better than the first, O dear heaven, bless!"
V,III,COUNTESS,"Or, ere they meet, in me, O nature, cesse!"
V,III,LAFEU,"Come on, my son, in whom my house's name"
V,III,LAFEU,"Must be digested, give a favour from you"
V,III,LAFEU,"To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter,"
V,III,LAFEU,"That she may quickly come."
V,III,LAFEU,"By my old beard,"
V,III,LAFEU,"And every hair that's on't, Helen, that's dead,"
V,III,LAFEU,"Was a sweet creature: such a ring as this,"
V,III,LAFEU,"The last that e'er I took her at court,"
V,III,LAFEU,"I saw upon her finger."
V,III,BERTRAM,"Hers it was not."
V,III,KING,"Now, pray you, let me see it; for mine eye,"
V,III,KING,"While I was speaking, oft was fasten'd to't."
V,III,KING,"This ring was mine; and, when I gave it Helen,"
V,III,KING,"I bade her, if her fortunes ever stood"
V,III,KING,"Necessitied to help, that by this token"
V,III,KING,"I would relieve her. Had you that craft, to reave"
V,III,KING,"her"
V,III,KING,"Of what should stead her most?"
V,III,BERTRAM,"My gracious sovereign,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Howe'er it pleases you to take it so,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"The ring was never hers."
V,III,COUNTESS,"Son, on my life,"
V,III,COUNTESS,"I have seen her wear it; and she reckon'd it"
V,III,COUNTESS,"At her life's rate."
V,III,LAFEU,"I am sure I saw her wear it."
V,III,BERTRAM,"You are deceived, my lord; she never saw it:"
V,III,BERTRAM,"In Florence was it from a casement thrown me,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Wrapp'd in a paper, which contain'd the name"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Of her that threw it: noble she was, and thought"
V,III,BERTRAM,"I stood engaged: but when I had subscribed"
V,III,BERTRAM,"To mine own fortune and inform'd her fully"
V,III,BERTRAM,"I could not answer in that course of honour"
V,III,BERTRAM,"As she had made the overture, she ceased"
V,III,BERTRAM,"In heavy satisfaction and would never"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Receive the ring again."
V,III,KING,"Plutus himself,"
V,III,KING,"That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine,"
V,III,KING,"Hath not in nature's mystery more science"
V,III,KING,"Than I have in this ring: 'twas mine, 'twas Helen's,"
V,III,KING,"Whoever gave it you. Then, if you know"
V,III,KING,"That you are well acquainted with yourself,"
V,III,KING,"Confess 'twas hers, and by what rough enforcement"
V,III,KING,"You got it from her: she call'd the saints to surety"
V,III,KING,"That she would never put it from her finger,"
V,III,KING,"Unless she gave it to yourself in bed,"
V,III,KING,"Where you have never come, or sent it us"
V,III,KING,"Upon her great disaster."
V,III,BERTRAM,"She never saw it."
V,III,KING,"Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour;"
V,III,KING,"And makest conjectural fears to come into me"
V,III,KING,"Which I would fain shut out. If it should prove"
V,III,KING,"That thou art so inhuman,--'twill not prove so;--"
V,III,KING,"And yet I know not: thou didst hate her deadly,"
V,III,KING,"And she is dead; which nothing, but to close"
V,III,KING,"Her eyes myself, could win me to believe,"
V,III,KING,"More than to see this ring. Take him away."
V,III,KING,"My fore-past proofs, howe'er the matter fall,"
V,III,KING,"Shall tax my fears of little vanity,"
V,III,KING,"Having vainly fear'd too little. Away with him!"
V,III,KING,"We'll sift this matter further."
V,III,BERTRAM,"If you shall prove"
V,III,BERTRAM,"This ring was ever hers, you shall as easy"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Where yet she never was."
V,III,KING,"I am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings."
V,III,Gentleman,"Gracious sovereign,"
V,III,Gentleman,"Whether I have been to blame or no, I know not:"
V,III,Gentleman,"Here's a petition from a Florentine,"
V,III,Gentleman,"Who hath for four or five removes come short"
V,III,Gentleman,"To tender it herself. I undertook it,"
V,III,Gentleman,"Vanquish'd thereto by the fair grace and speech"
V,III,Gentleman,"Of the poor suppliant, who by this I know"
V,III,Gentleman,"Is here attending: her business looks in her"
V,III,Gentleman,"With an importing visage; and she told me,"
V,III,Gentleman,"In a sweet verbal brief, it did concern"
V,III,Gentleman,"Your highness with herself."
V,III,KING,"when his wife was dead, I blush to say it, he won"
V,III,KING,"me. Now is the Count Rousillon a widower: his vows"
V,III,KING,"are forfeited to me, and my honour's paid to him. He"
V,III,KING,"stole from Florence, taking no leave, and I follow"
V,III,KING,"him to his country for justice: grant it me, O"
V,III,KING,"king! in you it best lies; otherwise a seducer"
V,III,KING,"flourishes, and a poor maid is undone."
V,III,KING,"DIANA CAPILET."
V,III,LAFEU,"I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for"
V,III,LAFEU,"this: I'll none of him."
V,III,KING,"The heavens have thought well on thee Lafeu,"
V,III,KING,"To bring forth this discovery. Seek these suitors:"
V,III,KING,"Go speedily and bring again the count."
V,III,KING,"I am afeard the life of Helen, lady,"
V,III,KING,"Was foully snatch'd."
V,III,COUNTESS,"Now, justice on the doers!"
V,III,KING,"I wonder, sir, sith wives are monsters to you,"
V,III,KING,"And that you fly them as you swear them lordship,"
V,III,KING,"Yet you desire to marry."
V,III,KING,"What woman's that?"
V,III,DIANA,"I am, my lord, a wretched Florentine,"
V,III,DIANA,"Derived from the ancient Capilet:"
V,III,DIANA,"My suit, as I do understand, you know,"
V,III,DIANA,"And therefore know how far I may be pitied."
V,III,Widow,"I am her mother, sir, whose age and honour"
V,III,Widow,"Both suffer under this complaint we bring,"
V,III,Widow,"And both shall cease, without your remedy."
V,III,KING,"Come hither, count; do you know these women?"
V,III,BERTRAM,"My lord, I neither can nor will deny"
V,III,BERTRAM,"But that I know them: do they charge me further?"
V,III,DIANA,"Why do you look so strange upon your wife?"
V,III,BERTRAM,"She's none of mine, my lord."
V,III,DIANA,"If you shall marry,"
V,III,DIANA,"You give away this hand, and that is mine;"
V,III,DIANA,"You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine;"
V,III,DIANA,"You give away myself, which is known mine;"
V,III,DIANA,"For I by vow am so embodied yours,"
V,III,DIANA,"That she which marries you must marry me,"
V,III,DIANA,"Either both or none."
V,III,LAFEU,"Your reputation comes too short for my daughter; you"
V,III,LAFEU,"are no husband for her."
V,III,BERTRAM,"My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Whom sometime I have laugh'd with: let your highness"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Than for to think that I would sink it here."
V,III,KING,"Sir, for my thoughts, you have them ill to friend"
V,III,KING,"Till your deeds gain them: fairer prove your honour"
V,III,KING,"Than in my thought it lies."
V,III,DIANA,"Good my lord,"
V,III,DIANA,"Ask him upon his oath, if he does think"
V,III,DIANA,"He had not my virginity."
V,III,KING,"What say'st thou to her?"
V,III,BERTRAM,"She's impudent, my lord,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"And was a common gamester to the camp."
V,III,DIANA,"He does me wrong, my lord; if I were so,"
V,III,DIANA,"He might have bought me at a common price:"
V,III,DIANA,"Do not believe him. O, behold this ring,"
V,III,DIANA,"Whose high respect and rich validity"
V,III,DIANA,"Did lack a parallel; yet for all that"
V,III,DIANA,"He gave it to a commoner o' the camp,"
V,III,DIANA,"If I be one."
V,III,COUNTESS,"He blushes, and 'tis it:"
V,III,COUNTESS,"Of six preceding ancestors, that gem,"
V,III,COUNTESS,"Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue,"
V,III,COUNTESS,"Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife;"
V,III,COUNTESS,"That ring's a thousand proofs."
V,III,KING,"Methought you said"
V,III,KING,"You saw one here in court could witness it."
V,III,DIANA,"I did, my lord, but loath am to produce"
V,III,DIANA,"So bad an instrument: his name's Parolles."
V,III,LAFEU,"I saw the man to-day, if man he be."
V,III,KING,"Find him, and bring him hither."
V,III,BERTRAM,"What of him?"
V,III,BERTRAM,"He's quoted for a most perfidious slave,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"With all the spots o' the world tax'd and debosh'd;"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth."
V,III,BERTRAM,"Am I or that or this for what he'll utter,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"That will speak any thing?"
V,III,KING,"She hath that ring of yours."
V,III,BERTRAM,"I think she has: certain it is I liked her,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"And boarded her i' the wanton way of youth:"
V,III,BERTRAM,"She knew her distance and did angle for me,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Madding my eagerness with her restraint,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"As all impediments in fancy's course"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Are motives of more fancy; and, in fine,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Her infinite cunning, with her modern grace,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"Subdued me to her rate: she got the ring;"
V,III,BERTRAM,"And I had that which any inferior might"
V,III,BERTRAM,"At market-price have bought."
V,III,DIANA,"I must be patient:"
V,III,DIANA,"You, that have turn'd off a first so noble wife,"
V,III,DIANA,"May justly diet me. I pray you yet;"
V,III,DIANA,"Since you lack virtue, I will lose a husband;"
V,III,DIANA,"Send for your ring, I will return it home,"
V,III,DIANA,"And give me mine again."
V,III,BERTRAM,"I have it not."
V,III,KING,"What ring was yours, I pray you?"
V,III,DIANA,"Sir, much like"
V,III,DIANA,"The same upon your finger."
V,III,KING,"Know you this ring? this ring was his of late."
V,III,DIANA,"And this was it I gave him, being abed."
V,III,KING,"The story then goes false, you threw it him"
V,III,KING,"Out of a casement."
V,III,DIANA,"I have spoke the truth."
V,III,BERTRAM,"My lord, I do confess the ring was hers."
V,III,KING,"You boggle shrewdly, every feather stars you."
V,III,KING,"Is this the man you speak of?"
V,III,DIANA,"Ay, my lord."
V,III,KING,"Tell me, sirrah, but tell me true, I charge you,"
V,III,KING,"Not fearing the displeasure of your master,"
V,III,KING,"Which on your just proceeding I'll keep off,"
V,III,KING,"By him and by this woman here what know you?"
V,III,PAROLLES,"So please your majesty, my master hath been an"
V,III,PAROLLES,"honourable gentleman: tricks he hath had in him,"
V,III,PAROLLES,"which gentlemen have."
V,III,KING,"Come, come, to the purpose: did he love this woman?"
V,III,PAROLLES,"Faith, sir, he did love her; but how?"
V,III,KING,"How, I pray you?"
V,III,PAROLLES,"He did love her, sir, as a gentleman loves a woman."
V,III,KING,"How is that?"
V,III,PAROLLES,"He loved her, sir, and loved her not."
V,III,KING,"As thou art a knave, and no knave. What an"
V,III,KING,"equivocal companion is this!"
V,III,PAROLLES,"I am a poor man, and at your majesty's command."
V,III,LAFEU,"He's a good drum, my lord, but a naughty orator."
V,III,DIANA,"Do you know he promised me marriage?"
V,III,PAROLLES,"Faith, I know more than I'll speak."
V,III,KING,"But wilt thou not speak all thou knowest?"
V,III,PAROLLES,"Yes, so please your majesty. I did go between them,"
V,III,PAROLLES,"as I said; but more than that, he loved her: for"
V,III,PAROLLES,"indeed he was mad for her, and talked of Satan and"
V,III,PAROLLES,"of Limbo and of Furies and I know not what: yet I"
V,III,PAROLLES,"was in that credit with them at that time that I"
V,III,PAROLLES,"knew of their going to bed, and of other motions,"
V,III,PAROLLES,"as promising her marriage, and things which would"
V,III,PAROLLES,"derive me ill will to speak of; therefore I will not"
V,III,PAROLLES,"speak what I know."
V,III,KING,"Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou canst say"
V,III,KING,"they are married: but thou art too fine in thy"
V,III,KING,"evidence; therefore stand aside."
V,III,KING,"This ring, you say, was yours?"
V,III,DIANA,"Ay, my good lord."
V,III,KING,"Where did you buy it? or who gave it you?"
V,III,DIANA,"It was not given me, nor I did not buy it."
V,III,KING,"Who lent it you?"
V,III,DIANA,"It was not lent me neither."
V,III,KING,"Where did you find it, then?"
V,III,DIANA,"I found it not."
V,III,KING,"If it were yours by none of all these ways,"
V,III,KING,"How could you give it him?"
V,III,DIANA,"I never gave it him."
V,III,LAFEU,"This woman's an easy glove, my lord; she goes off"
V,III,LAFEU,"and on at pleasure."
V,III,KING,"This ring was mine; I gave it his first wife."
V,III,DIANA,"It might be yours or hers, for aught I know."
V,III,KING,"Take her away; I do not like her now;"
V,III,KING,"To prison with her: and away with him."
V,III,KING,"Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring,"
V,III,KING,"Thou diest within this hour."
V,III,DIANA,"I'll never tell you."
V,III,KING,"Take her away."
V,III,DIANA,"I'll put in bail, my liege."
V,III,KING,"I think thee now some common customer."
V,III,DIANA,"By Jove, if ever I knew man, 'twas you."
V,III,KING,"Wherefore hast thou accused him all this while?"
V,III,DIANA,"Because he's guilty, and he is not guilty:"
V,III,DIANA,"He knows I am no maid, and he'll swear to't;"
V,III,DIANA,"I'll swear I am a maid, and he knows not."
V,III,DIANA,"Great king, I am no strumpet, by my life;"
V,III,DIANA,"I am either maid, or else this old man's wife."
V,III,KING,"She does abuse our ears: to prison with her."
V,III,DIANA,"Good mother, fetch my bail. Stay, royal sir:"
V,III,DIANA,"The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for,"
V,III,DIANA,"And he shall surety me. But for this lord,"
V,III,DIANA,"Who hath abused me, as he knows himself,"
V,III,DIANA,"Though yet he never harm'd me, here I quit him:"
V,III,DIANA,"He knows himself my bed he hath defiled;"
V,III,DIANA,"And at that time he got his wife with child:"
V,III,DIANA,"Dead though she be, she feels her young one kick:"
V,III,DIANA,"So there's my riddle: one that's dead is quick:"
V,III,DIANA,"And now behold the meaning."
V,III,KING,"Is there no exorcist"
V,III,KING,"Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes?"
V,III,KING,"Is't real that I see?"
V,III,HELENA,"No, my good lord;"
V,III,HELENA,"'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see,"
V,III,HELENA,"The name and not the thing."
V,III,BERTRAM,"Both, both. O, pardon!"
V,III,HELENA,"O my good lord, when I was like this maid,"
V,III,HELENA,"I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring;"
V,III,HELENA,"And, look you, here's your letter; this it says:"
V,III,HELENA,"'When from my finger you can get this ring"
V,III,HELENA,"And are by me with child,' &c. This is done:"
V,III,HELENA,"Will you be mine, now you are doubly won?"
V,III,BERTRAM,"If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly,"
V,III,BERTRAM,"I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly."
V,III,HELENA,"If it appear not plain and prove untrue,"
V,III,HELENA,"Deadly divorce step between me and you!"
V,III,HELENA,"O my dear mother, do I see you living?"
V,III,LAFEU,"Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon:"
V,III,LAFEU,"Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkercher: so,"
V,III,LAFEU,"I thank thee: wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee:"
V,III,LAFEU,"Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones."
V,III,KING,"Let us from point to point this story know,"
V,III,KING,"To make the even truth in pleasure flow."
V,III,KING,"If thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower,"
V,III,KING,"Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower;"
V,III,KING,"For I can guess that by thy honest aid"
V,III,KING,"Thou keep'st a wife herself, thyself a maid."
V,III,KING,"Of that and all the progress, more or less,"
V,III,KING,"Resolvedly more leisure shall express:"
V,III,KING,"All yet seems well; and if it end so meet,"
V,III,KING,"The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet."
I,I,PHILO,"Nay, but this dotage of our general's"
I,I,PHILO,"O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,"
I,I,PHILO,"That o'er the files and musters of the war"
I,I,PHILO,"Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn,"
I,I,PHILO,"The office and devotion of their view"
I,I,PHILO,"Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart,"
I,I,PHILO,"Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst"
I,I,PHILO,"The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,"
I,I,PHILO,"And is become the bellows and the fan"
I,I,PHILO,"To cool a gipsy's lust."
I,I,PHILO,"Look, where they come:"
I,I,PHILO,"Take but good note, and you shall see in him."
I,I,PHILO,"The triple pillar of the world transform'd"
I,I,PHILO,"Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see."
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"If it be love indeed, tell me how much."
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd."
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved."
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth."
I,I,Attendant,"News, my good lord, from Rome."
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"Grates me: the sum."
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Nay, hear them, Antony:"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Fulvia perchance is angry; or, who knows"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"His powerful mandate to you, 'Do this, or this;"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that;"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Perform 't, or else we damn thee.'"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"How, my love!"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Perchance! nay, and most like:"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"You must not stay here longer, your dismission"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony."
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both?"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen,"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Is Caesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space."
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"And such a twain can do't, in which I bind,"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"On pain of punishment, the world to weet"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"We stand up peerless."
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Excellent falsehood!"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Will be himself."
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"But stirr'd by Cleopatra."
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"Let's not confound the time with conference harsh:"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"There's not a minute of our lives should stretch"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?"
I,I,CLEOPATRA,"Hear the ambassadors."
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"Fie, wrangling queen!"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh,"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"To weep; whose every passion fully strives"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"To make itself, in thee, fair and admired!"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"No messenger, but thine; and all alone"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"To-night we'll wander through the streets and note"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"The qualities of people. Come, my queen;"
I,I,MARK ANTONY,"Last night you did desire it: speak not to us."
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?"
I,I,PHILO,"Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony,"
I,I,PHILO,"He comes too short of that great property"
I,I,PHILO,"Which still should go with Antony."
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"I am full sorry"
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"That he approves the common liar, who"
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope"
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy!"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas,"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"with garlands!"
I,II,ALEXAS,"Soothsayer!"
I,II,Soothsayer,"Your will?"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Is this the man? Is't you, sir, that know things?"
I,II,Soothsayer,"In nature's infinite book of secrecy"
I,II,Soothsayer,"A little I can read."
I,II,ALEXAS,"Show him your hand."
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Cleopatra's health to drink."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Good sir, give me good fortune."
I,II,Soothsayer,"I make not, but foresee."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Pray, then, foresee me one."
I,II,Soothsayer,"You shall be yet far fairer than you are."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"He means in flesh."
I,II,IRAS,"No, you shall paint when you are old."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Wrinkles forbid!"
I,II,ALEXAS,"Vex not his prescience; be attentive."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Hush!"
I,II,Soothsayer,"You shall be more beloving than beloved."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"I had rather heat my liver with drinking."
I,II,ALEXAS,"Nay, hear him."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all:"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Caesar, and companion me with my mistress."
I,II,Soothsayer,"You shall outlive the lady whom you serve."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"O excellent! I love long life better than figs."
I,II,Soothsayer,"You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune"
I,II,Soothsayer,"Than that which is to approach."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Then belike my children shall have no names:"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have?"
I,II,Soothsayer,"If every of your wishes had a womb."
I,II,Soothsayer,"And fertile every wish, a million."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch."
I,II,ALEXAS,"You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Nay, come, tell Iras hers."
I,II,ALEXAS,"We'll know all our fortunes."
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Mine, and most of our fortunes, to-night, shall"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"be--drunk to bed."
I,II,IRAS,"There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"E'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth famine."
I,II,IRAS,"Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"prognostication, I cannot scratch mine ear. Prithee,"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"tell her but a worky-day fortune."
I,II,Soothsayer,"Your fortunes are alike."
I,II,IRAS,"But how, but how? give me particulars."
I,II,Soothsayer,"I have said."
I,II,IRAS,"Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"I, where would you choose it?"
I,II,IRAS,"Not in my husband's nose."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas,--come,"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"his fortune, his fortune! O, let him marry a woman"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee! and let"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"her die too, and give him a worse! and let worst"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"follow worse, till the worst of all follow him"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"laughing to his grave, fifty-fold a cuckold! Good"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Isis, hear me this prayer, though thou deny me a"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"matter of more weight; good Isis, I beseech thee!"
I,II,IRAS,"Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people!"
I,II,IRAS,"for, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man"
I,II,IRAS,"loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a"
I,II,IRAS,"foul knave uncuckolded: therefore, dear Isis, keep"
I,II,IRAS,"decorum, and fortune him accordingly!"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Amen."
I,II,ALEXAS,"Lo, now, if it lay in their hands to make me a"
I,II,ALEXAS,"cuckold, they would make themselves whores, but"
I,II,ALEXAS,"they'ld do't!"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Hush! here comes Antony."
I,II,CHARMIAN,"Not he; the queen."
I,II,CLEOPATRA,"Saw you my lord?"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"No, lady."
I,II,CLEOPATRA,"Was he not here?"
I,II,CHARMIAN,"No, madam."
I,II,CLEOPATRA,"He was disposed to mirth; but on the sudden"
I,II,CLEOPATRA,"A Roman thought hath struck him. Enobarbus!"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Madam?"
I,II,CLEOPATRA,"Seek him, and bring him hither."
I,II,CLEOPATRA,"Where's Alexas?"
I,II,ALEXAS,"Here, at your service. My lord approaches."
I,II,CLEOPATRA,"We will not look upon him: go with us."
I,II,Messenger,"Fulvia thy wife first came into the field."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Against my brother Lucius?"
I,II,Messenger,"Ay:"
I,II,Messenger,"But soon that war had end, and the time's state"
I,II,Messenger,"Made friends of them, joining their force 'gainst Caesar;"
I,II,Messenger,"Whose better issue in the war, from Italy,"
I,II,Messenger,"Upon the first encounter, drave them."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Well, what worst?"
I,II,Messenger,"The nature of bad news infects the teller."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"When it concerns the fool or coward. On:"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Things that are past are done with me. 'Tis thus:"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"I hear him as he flatter'd."
I,II,Messenger,"Labienus--"
I,II,Messenger,"This is stiff news--hath, with his Parthian force,"
I,II,Messenger,"Extended Asia from Euphrates;"
I,II,Messenger,"His conquering banner shook from Syria"
I,II,Messenger,"To Lydia and to Ionia; Whilst--"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Antony, thou wouldst say,--"
I,II,Messenger,"O, my lord!"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue:"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Name Cleopatra as she is call'd in Rome;"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase; and taunt my faults"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"With such full licence as both truth and malice"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"When our quick minds lie still; and our ills told us"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Is as our earing. Fare thee well awhile."
I,II,Messenger,"At your noble pleasure."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"From Sicyon, ho, the news! Speak there!"
I,II,First Attendant,"The man from Sicyon,--is there such an one?"
I,II,Second Attendant,"He stays upon your will."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Let him appear."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Or lose myself in dotage."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"What are you?"
I,II,Second Messenger,"Fulvia thy wife is dead."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Where died she?"
I,II,Second Messenger,"In Sicyon:"
I,II,Second Messenger,"Her length of sickness, with what else more serious"
I,II,Second Messenger,"Importeth thee to know, this bears."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Forbear me."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it:"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"What our contempt doth often hurl from us,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"We wish it ours again; the present pleasure,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"By revolution lowering, does become"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"The opposite of itself: she's good, being gone;"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"I must from this enchanting queen break off:"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"My idleness doth hatch. How now! Enobarbus!"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"What's your pleasure, sir?"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"I must with haste from hence."
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Why, then, we kill all our women:"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"we see how mortal an unkindness is to them;"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"if they suffer our departure, death's the word."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"I must be gone."
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Under a compelling occasion, let women die; it were"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"pity to cast them away for nothing; though, between"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"them and a great cause, they should be esteemed"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"nothing. Cleopatra, catching but the least noise of"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"this, dies instantly; I have seen her die twenty"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"times upon far poorer moment: I do think there is"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"her, she hath such a celerity in dying."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"She is cunning past man's thought."
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"the finest part of pure love: we cannot call her"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"shower of rain as well as Jove."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Would I had never seen her."
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"O, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful piece"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"of work; which not to have been blest withal would"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"have discredited your travel."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Fulvia is dead."
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Sir?"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Fulvia is dead."
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Fulvia!"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Dead."
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice. When"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth;"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"comforting therein, that when old robes are worn"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"out, there are members to make new. If there were"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut,"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"and the case to be lamented: this grief is crowned"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"with consolation; your old smock brings forth a new"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"petticoat: and indeed the tears live in an onion"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"that should water this sorrow."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"The business she hath broached in the state"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Cannot endure my absence."
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And the business you have broached here cannot be"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"without you; especially that of Cleopatra's, which"
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"wholly depends on your abode."
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"No more light answers. Let our officers"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Have notice what we purpose. I shall break"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"The cause of our expedience to the queen,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"And get her leave to part. For not alone"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Do strongly speak to us; but the letters too"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Of many our contriving friends in Rome"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Petition us at home: Sextus Pompeius"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"The empire of the sea: our slippery people,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Whose love is never link'd to the deserver"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Till his deserts are past, begin to throw"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Pompey the Great and all his dignities"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Upon his son; who, high in name and power,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Higher than both in blood and life, stands up"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"For the main soldier: whose quality, going on,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"The sides o' the world may danger: much is breeding,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"And not a serpent's poison. Say, our pleasure,"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"To such whose place is under us, requires"
I,II,MARK ANTONY,"Our quick remove from hence."
I,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I shall do't."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Where is he?"
I,III,CHARMIAN,"I did not see him since."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"See where he is, who's with him, what he does:"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"I did not send you: if you find him sad,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"That I am sudden sick: quick, and return."
I,III,CHARMIAN,"Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly,"
I,III,CHARMIAN,"You do not hold the method to enforce"
I,III,CHARMIAN,"The like from him."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"What should I do, I do not?"
I,III,CHARMIAN,"In each thing give him way, cross him nothing."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Thou teachest like a fool; the way to lose him."
I,III,CHARMIAN,"Tempt him not so too far; I wish, forbear:"
I,III,CHARMIAN,"In time we hate that which we often fear."
I,III,CHARMIAN,"But here comes Antony."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"I am sick and sullen."
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose,--"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Help me away, dear Charmian; I shall fall:"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"It cannot be thus long, the sides of nature"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Will not sustain it."
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Now, my dearest queen,--"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Pray you, stand further from me."
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"What's the matter?"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"I know, by that same eye, there's some good news."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"What says the married woman? You may go:"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Would she had never given you leave to come!"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here:"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"I have no power upon you; hers you are."
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"The gods best know,--"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"O, never was there queen"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"So mightily betray'd! yet at the first"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"I saw the treasons planted."
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Cleopatra,--"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Why should I think you can be mine and true,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Though you in swearing shake the throned gods,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"To be entangled with those mouth-made vows,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Which break themselves in swearing!"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Most sweet queen,--"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Then was the time for words: no going then;"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Eternity was in our lips and eyes,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"But was a race of heaven: they are so still,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Art turn'd the greatest liar."
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"How now, lady!"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"I would I had thy inches; thou shouldst know"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"There were a heart in Egypt."
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Hear me, queen:"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"The strong necessity of time commands"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Our services awhile; but my full heart"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Remains in use with you. Our Italy"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Shines o'er with civil swords: Sextus Pompeius"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Makes his approaches to the port of Rome:"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Equality of two domestic powers"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Breed scrupulous faction: the hated, grown to strength,"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Are newly grown to love: the condemn'd Pompey,"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace,"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Into the hearts of such as have not thrived"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten;"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"By any desperate change: my more particular,"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"And that which most with you should safe my going,"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Is Fulvia's death."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Though age from folly could not give me freedom,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"It does from childishness: can Fulvia die?"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"She's dead, my queen:"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"The garboils she awaked; at the last, best:"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"See when and where she died."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"O most false love!"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"In Fulvia's death, how mine received shall be."
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"The purposes I bear; which are, or cease,"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"As you shall give the advice. By the fire"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Thy soldier, servant; making peace or war"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"As thou affect'st."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Cut my lace, Charmian, come;"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"But let it be: I am quickly ill, and well,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"So Antony loves."
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"My precious queen, forbear;"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"And give true evidence to his love, which stands"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"An honourable trial."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"So Fulvia told me."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"I prithee, turn aside and weep for her,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Belong to Egypt: good now, play one scene"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Of excellent dissembling; and let it look"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Life perfect honour."
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"You'll heat my blood: no more."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"You can do better yet; but this is meetly."
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Now, by my sword,--"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"And target. Still he mends;"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"How this Herculean Roman does become"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"The carriage of his chafe."
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"I'll leave you, lady."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Courteous lord, one word."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Sir, you and I must part, but that's not it:"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Sir, you and I have loved, but there's not it;"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"That you know well: something it is I would,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"O, my oblivion is a very Antony,"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"And I am all forgotten."
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"But that your royalty"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Holds idleness your subject, I should take you"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"For idleness itself."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"'Tis sweating labour"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"To bear such idleness so near the heart"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"As Cleopatra this. But, sir, forgive me;"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Since my becomings kill me, when they do not"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Eye well to you: your honour calls you hence;"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly."
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"And all the gods go with you! upon your sword"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Sit laurel victory! and smooth success"
I,III,CLEOPATRA,"Be strew'd before your feet!"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Let us go. Come;"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"Our separation so abides, and flies,"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me,"
I,III,MARK ANTONY,"And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. Away!"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Our great competitor: from Alexandria"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The lamps of night in revel; is not more man-like"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Than Cleopatra; nor the queen of Ptolemy"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Vouchsafed to think he had partners: you shall find there"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"A man who is the abstract of all faults"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That all men follow."
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"I must not think there are"
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"Evils enow to darken all his goodness:"
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven,"
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary,"
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"Rather than purchased; what he cannot change,"
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"Than what he chooses."
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"You are too indulgent. Let us grant, it is not"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy;"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To give a kingdom for a mirth; to sit"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And keep the turn of tippling with a slave;"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"With knaves that smell of sweat: say this"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"becomes him,--"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"As his composure must be rare indeed"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Whom these things cannot blemish,--yet must Antony"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"No way excuse his soils, when we do bear"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"So great weight in his lightness. If he fill'd"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"His vacancy with his voluptuousness,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Full surfeits, and the dryness of his bones,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Call on him for't: but to confound such time,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"As his own state and ours,--'tis to be chid"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"As we rate boys, who, being mature in knowledge,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Pawn their experience to their present pleasure,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And so rebel to judgment."
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"Here's more news."
I,IV,Messenger,"Thy biddings have been done; and every hour,"
I,IV,Messenger,"Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report"
I,IV,Messenger,"How 'tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea;"
I,IV,Messenger,"And it appears he is beloved of those"
I,IV,Messenger,"That only have fear'd Caesar: to the ports"
I,IV,Messenger,"The discontents repair, and men's reports"
I,IV,Messenger,"Give him much wrong'd."
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I should have known no less."
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"It hath been taught us from the primal state,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That he which is was wish'd until he were;"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And the ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Comes dear'd by being lack'd. This common body,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To rot itself with motion."
I,IV,Messenger,"Caesar, I bring thee word,"
I,IV,Messenger,"Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,"
I,IV,Messenger,"Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound"
I,IV,Messenger,"With keels of every kind: many hot inroads"
I,IV,Messenger,"They make in Italy; the borders maritime"
I,IV,Messenger,"Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt:"
I,IV,Messenger,"No vessel can peep forth, but 'tis as soon"
I,IV,Messenger,"Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more"
I,IV,Messenger,"Than could his war resisted."
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Antony,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Wast beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Did famine follow; whom thou fought'st against,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Though daintily brought up, with patience more"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Than savages could suffer: thou didst drink"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Which beasts would cough at: thy palate then did deign"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The roughest berry on the rudest hedge;"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The barks of trees thou browsed'st; on the Alps"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Which some did die to look on: and all this--"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"It wounds thine honour that I speak it now--"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"So much as lank'd not."
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"'Tis pity of him."
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Let his shames quickly"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Drive him to Rome: 'tis time we twain"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Did show ourselves i' the field; and to that end"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Assemble we immediate council: Pompey"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Thrives in our idleness."
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"To-morrow, Caesar,"
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"I shall be furnish'd to inform you rightly"
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"Both what by sea and land I can be able"
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"To front this present time."
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Till which encounter,"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"It is my business too. Farewell."
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"Farewell, my lord: what you shall know meantime"
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"Of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir,"
I,IV,LEPIDUS,"To let me be partaker."
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Doubt not, sir;"
I,IV,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I knew it for my bond."
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Charmian!"
I,V,CHARMIAN,"Madam?"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Ha, ha!"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Give me to drink mandragora."
I,V,CHARMIAN,"Why, madam?"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"That I might sleep out this great gap of time"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"My Antony is away."
I,V,CHARMIAN,"You think of him too much."
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"O, 'tis treason!"
I,V,CHARMIAN,"Madam, I trust, not so."
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Thou, eunuch Mardian!"
I,V,MARDIAN,"What's your highness' pleasure?"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Not now to hear thee sing; I take no pleasure"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"In aught an eunuch has: 'tis well for thee,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"That, being unseminar'd, thy freer thoughts"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections?"
I,V,MARDIAN,"Yes, gracious madam."
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Indeed!"
I,V,MARDIAN,"Not in deed, madam; for I can do nothing"
I,V,MARDIAN,"But what indeed is honest to be done:"
I,V,MARDIAN,"Yet have I fierce affections, and think"
I,V,MARDIAN,"What Venus did with Mars."
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"O Charmian,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he?"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Or does he walk? or is he on his horse?"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Do bravely, horse! for wot'st thou whom thou movest?"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"And burgonet of men. He's speaking now,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Or murmuring 'Where's my serpent of old Nile?'"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"For so he calls me: now I feed myself"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"With most delicious poison. Think on me,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted Caesar,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"When thou wast here above the ground, I was"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"A morsel for a monarch: and great Pompey"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow;"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"There would he anchor his aspect and die"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"With looking on his life."
I,V,ALEXAS,"Sovereign of Egypt, hail!"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"How much unlike art thou Mark Antony!"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"With his tinct gilded thee."
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"How goes it with my brave Mark Antony?"
I,V,ALEXAS,"Last thing he did, dear queen,"
I,V,ALEXAS,"He kiss'd,--the last of many doubled kisses,--"
I,V,ALEXAS,"This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart."
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Mine ear must pluck it thence."
I,V,ALEXAS,"'Good friend,' quoth he,"
I,V,ALEXAS,"'Say, the firm Roman to great Egypt sends"
I,V,ALEXAS,"This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot,"
I,V,ALEXAS,"To mend the petty present, I will piece"
I,V,ALEXAS,"Her opulent throne with kingdoms; all the east,"
I,V,ALEXAS,"Say thou, shall call her mistress.' So he nodded,"
I,V,ALEXAS,"And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed,"
I,V,ALEXAS,"Who neigh'd so high, that what I would have spoke"
I,V,ALEXAS,"Was beastly dumb'd by him."
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"What, was he sad or merry?"
I,V,ALEXAS,"Like to the time o' the year between the extremes"
I,V,ALEXAS,"Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry."
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"O well-divided disposition! Note him,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Note him good Charmian, 'tis the man; but note him:"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"He was not sad, for he would shine on those"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"That make their looks by his; he was not merry,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Which seem'd to tell them his remembrance lay"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"In Egypt with his joy; but between both:"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"O heavenly mingle! Be'st thou sad or merry,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"The violence of either thee becomes,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts?"
I,V,ALEXAS,"Ay, madam, twenty several messengers:"
I,V,ALEXAS,"Why do you send so thick?"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Who's born that day"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"When I forget to send to Antony,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian."
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Welcome, my good Alexas. Did I, Charmian,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Ever love Caesar so?"
I,V,CHARMIAN,"O that brave Caesar!"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Be choked with such another emphasis!"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Say, the brave Antony."
I,V,CHARMIAN,"The valiant Caesar!"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"If thou with Caesar paragon again"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"My man of men."
I,V,CHARMIAN,"By your most gracious pardon,"
I,V,CHARMIAN,"I sing but after you."
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"My salad days,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"To say as I said then! But, come, away;"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Get me ink and paper:"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"He shall have every day a several greeting,"
I,V,CLEOPATRA,"Or I'll unpeople Egypt."
II,I,POMPEY,"If the great gods be just, they shall assist"
II,I,POMPEY,"The deeds of justest men."
II,I,MENECRATES,"Know, worthy Pompey,"
II,I,MENECRATES,"That what they do delay, they not deny."
II,I,POMPEY,"Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays"
II,I,POMPEY,"The thing we sue for."
II,I,MENECRATES,"We, ignorant of ourselves,"
II,I,MENECRATES,"Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers"
II,I,MENECRATES,"Deny us for our good; so find we profit"
II,I,MENECRATES,"By losing of our prayers."
II,I,POMPEY,"I shall do well:"
II,I,POMPEY,"The people love me, and the sea is mine;"
II,I,POMPEY,"My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope"
II,I,POMPEY,"Says it will come to the full. Mark Antony"
II,I,POMPEY,"In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make"
II,I,POMPEY,"No wars without doors: Caesar gets money where"
II,I,POMPEY,"He loses hearts: Lepidus flatters both,"
II,I,POMPEY,"Of both is flatter'd; but he neither loves,"
II,I,POMPEY,"Nor either cares for him."
II,I,MENAS,"Caesar and Lepidus"
II,I,MENAS,"Are in the field: a mighty strength they carry."
II,I,POMPEY,"Where have you this? 'tis false."
II,I,MENAS,"From Silvius, sir."
II,I,POMPEY,"He dreams: I know they are in Rome together,"
II,I,POMPEY,"Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love,"
II,I,POMPEY,"Salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip!"
II,I,POMPEY,"Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!"
II,I,POMPEY,"Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts,"
II,I,POMPEY,"Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks"
II,I,POMPEY,"Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite;"
II,I,POMPEY,"That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour"
II,I,POMPEY,"Even till a Lethe'd dulness!"
II,I,POMPEY,"How now, Varrius!"
II,I,VARRIUS,"This is most certain that I shall deliver:"
II,I,VARRIUS,"Mark Antony is every hour in Rome"
II,I,VARRIUS,"Expected: since he went from Egypt 'tis"
II,I,VARRIUS,"A space for further travel."
II,I,POMPEY,"I could have given less matter"
II,I,POMPEY,"A better ear. Menas, I did not think"
II,I,POMPEY,"This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm"
II,I,POMPEY,"For such a petty war: his soldiership"
II,I,POMPEY,"Is twice the other twain: but let us rear"
II,I,POMPEY,"The higher our opinion, that our stirring"
II,I,POMPEY,"Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck"
II,I,POMPEY,"The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony."
II,I,MENAS,"I cannot hope"
II,I,MENAS,"Caesar and Antony shall well greet together:"
II,I,MENAS,"His wife that's dead did trespasses to Caesar;"
II,I,MENAS,"His brother warr'd upon him; although, I think,"
II,I,MENAS,"Not moved by Antony."
II,I,POMPEY,"I know not, Menas,"
II,I,POMPEY,"How lesser enmities may give way to greater."
II,I,POMPEY,"Were't not that we stand up against them all,"
II,I,POMPEY,"'Twere pregnant they should square between"
II,I,POMPEY,"themselves;"
II,I,POMPEY,"For they have entertained cause enough"
II,I,POMPEY,"To draw their swords: but how the fear of us"
II,I,POMPEY,"May cement their divisions and bind up"
II,I,POMPEY,"The petty difference, we yet not know."
II,I,POMPEY,"Be't as our gods will have't! It only stands"
II,I,POMPEY,"Our lives upon to use our strongest hands."
II,I,POMPEY,"Come, Menas."
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed,"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"And shall become you well, to entreat your captain"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"To soft and gentle speech."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I shall entreat him"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"To answer like himself: if Caesar move him,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Let Antony look over Caesar's head"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Were I the wearer of Antonius' beard,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I would not shave't to-day."
II,II,LEPIDUS,"'Tis not a time"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"For private stomaching."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Every time"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Serves for the matter that is then born in't."
II,II,LEPIDUS,"But small to greater matters must give way."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Not if the small come first."
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Your speech is passion:"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"But, pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"The noble Antony."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And yonder, Caesar."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"If we compose well here, to Parthia:"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Hark, Ventidius."
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I do not know,"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Mecaenas; ask Agrippa."
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Noble friends,"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"That which combined us was most great, and let not"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"A leaner action rend us. What's amiss,"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"May it be gently heard: when we debate"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Our trivial difference loud, we do commit"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Murder in healing wounds: then, noble partners,"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"The rather, for I earnestly beseech,"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms,"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Nor curstness grow to the matter."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"'Tis spoken well."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Were we before our armies, and to fight."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"I should do thus."
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Welcome to Rome."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Thank you."
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Sit."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Sit, sir."
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Nay, then."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"I learn, you take things ill which are not so,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Or being, concern you not."
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I must be laugh'd at,"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"If, or for nothing or a little, I"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Should say myself offended, and with you"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Chiefly i' the world; more laugh'd at, that I should"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Once name you derogately, when to sound your name"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"It not concern'd me."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"My being in Egypt, Caesar,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"What was't to you?"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"No more than my residing here at Rome"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Might be to you in Egypt: yet, if you there"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Might be my question."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"How intend you, practised?"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"You may be pleased to catch at mine intent"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"By what did here befal me. Your wife and brother"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Made wars upon me; and their contestation"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Was theme for you, you were the word of war."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"You do mistake your business; my brother never"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Did urge me in his act: I did inquire it;"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"And have my learning from some true reports,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Discredit my authority with yours;"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"And make the wars alike against my stomach,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Having alike your cause? Of this my letters"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Before did satisfy you. If you'll patch a quarrel,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"As matter whole you have not to make it with,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"It must not be with this."
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"You praise yourself"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"By laying defects of judgment to me; but"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"You patch'd up your excuses."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Not so, not so;"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"I know you could not lack, I am certain on't,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Very necessity of this thought, that I,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Your partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"I would you had her spirit in such another:"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"The third o' the world is yours; which with a snaffle"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"You may pace easy, but not such a wife."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Would we had all such wives, that the men might go"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"to wars with the women!"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"So much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Made out of her impatience, which not wanted"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Shrewdness of policy too, I grieving grant"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Did you too much disquiet: for that you must"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"But say, I could not help it."
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I wrote to you"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"When rioting in Alexandria; you"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Did gibe my missive out of audience."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Sir,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"He fell upon me ere admitted: then"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Of what I was i' the morning: but next day"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"I told him of myself; which was as much"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"As to have ask'd him pardon. Let this fellow"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Be nothing of our strife; if we contend,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Out of our question wipe him."
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"You have broken"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The article of your oath; which you shall never"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Have tongue to charge me with."
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Soft, Caesar!"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"No,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Lepidus, let him speak:"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"The honour is sacred which he talks on now,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Supposing that I lack'd it. But, on, Caesar;"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"The article of my oath."
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To lend me arms and aid when I required them;"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The which you both denied."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Neglected, rather;"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"And then when poison'd hours had bound me up"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"From mine own knowledge. As nearly as I may,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"I'll play the penitent to you: but mine honesty"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Shall not make poor my greatness, nor my power"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Work without it. Truth is, that Fulvia,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"To have me out of Egypt, made wars here;"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"For which myself, the ignorant motive, do"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"So far ask pardon as befits mine honour"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"To stoop in such a case."
II,II,LEPIDUS,"'Tis noble spoken."
II,II,MECAENAS,"If it might please you, to enforce no further"
II,II,MECAENAS,"The griefs between ye: to forget them quite"
II,II,MECAENAS,"Were to remember that the present need"
II,II,MECAENAS,"Speaks to atone you."
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Worthily spoken, Mecaenas."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Or, if you borrow one another's love for the"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"instant, you may, when you hear no more words of"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Pompey, return it again: you shall have time to"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"wrangle in when you have nothing else to do."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Thou art a soldier only: speak no more."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"You wrong this presence; therefore speak no more."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Go to, then; your considerate stone."
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I do not much dislike the matter, but"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The manner of his speech; for't cannot be"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"We shall remain in friendship, our conditions"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"So differing in their acts. Yet if I knew"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"What hoop should hold us stanch, from edge to edge"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"O' the world I would pursue it."
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Give me leave, Caesar,--"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Speak, Agrippa."
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Thou hast a sister by the mother's side,"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Admired Octavia: great Mark Antony"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Is now a widower."
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Say not so, Agrippa:"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Were well deserved of rashness."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"I am not married, Caesar: let me hear"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Agrippa further speak."
II,II,AGRIPPA,"To hold you in perpetual amity,"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"With an unslipping knot, take Antony"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"No worse a husband than the best of men;"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Whose virtue and whose general graces speak"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"That which none else can utter. By this marriage,"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"All little jealousies, which now seem great,"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"And all great fears, which now import their dangers,"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Would then be nothing: truths would be tales,"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Where now half tales be truths: her love to both"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Would, each to other and all loves to both,"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke;"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"For 'tis a studied, not a present thought,"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"By duty ruminated."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Will Caesar speak?"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Not till he hears how Antony is touch'd"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"With what is spoke already."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"What power is in Agrippa,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"If I would say, 'Agrippa, be it so,'"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"To make this good?"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The power of Caesar, and"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"His power unto Octavia."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"May I never"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"To this good purpose, that so fairly shows,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand:"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Further this act of grace: and from this hour"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"The heart of brothers govern in our loves"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"And sway our great designs!"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"There is my hand."
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"A sister I bequeath you, whom no brother"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Did ever love so dearly: let her live"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Fly off our loves again!"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Happily, amen!"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"I did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey;"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"For he hath laid strange courtesies and great"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Of late upon me: I must thank him only,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Lest my remembrance suffer ill report;"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"At heel of that, defy him."
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Time calls upon's:"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Of us must Pompey presently be sought,"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Or else he seeks out us."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Where lies he?"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"About the mount Misenum."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"What is his strength by land?"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Great and increasing: but by sea"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"He is an absolute master."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"So is the fame."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Would we had spoke together! Haste we for it:"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"The business we have talk'd of."
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"With most gladness:"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And do invite you to my sister's view,"
II,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Whither straight I'll lead you."
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Let us, Lepidus,"
II,II,MARK ANTONY,"Not lack your company."
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Noble Antony,"
II,II,LEPIDUS,"Not sickness should detain me."
II,II,MECAENAS,"Welcome from Egypt, sir."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Mecaenas! My"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"honourable friend, Agrippa!"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Good Enobarbus!"
II,II,MECAENAS,"We have cause to be glad that matters are so well"
II,II,MECAENAS,"digested. You stayed well by 't in Egypt."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Ay, sir; we did sleep day out of countenance, and"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"made the night light with drinking."
II,II,MECAENAS,"Eight wild-boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and"
II,II,MECAENAS,"but twelve persons there; is this true?"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"This was but as a fly by an eagle: we had much more"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"monstrous matter of feast, which worthily deserved noting."
II,II,MECAENAS,"She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to"
II,II,MECAENAS,"her."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"his heart, upon the river of Cydnus."
II,II,AGRIPPA,"There she appeared indeed; or my reporter devised"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"well for her."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I will tell you."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold;"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Purple the sails, and so perfumed that"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The water which they beat to follow faster,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"It beggar'd all description: she did lie"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"In her pavilion--cloth-of-gold of tissue--"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"O'er-picturing that Venus where we see"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The fancy outwork nature: on each side her"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And what they undid did."
II,II,AGRIPPA,"O, rare for Antony!"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And made their bends adornings: at the helm"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"That yarely frame the office. From the barge"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"A strange invisible perfume hits the sense"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Her people out upon her; and Antony,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Enthroned i' the market-place, did sit alone,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And made a gap in nature."
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Rare Egyptian!"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Upon her landing, Antony sent to her,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Invited her to supper: she replied,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"It should be better he became her guest;"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Which she entreated: our courteous Antony,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Whom ne'er the word of 'No' woman heard speak,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Being barber'd ten times o'er, goes to the feast,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And for his ordinary pays his heart"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"For what his eyes eat only."
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Royal wench!"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed:"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"He plough'd her, and she cropp'd."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I saw her once"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Hop forty paces through the public street;"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"That she did make defect perfection,"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And, breathless, power breathe forth."
II,II,MECAENAS,"Now Antony must leave her utterly."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Never; he will not:"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Her infinite variety: other women cloy"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Where most she satisfies; for vilest things"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Become themselves in her: that the holy priests"
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Bless her when she is riggish."
II,II,MECAENAS,"If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle"
II,II,MECAENAS,"The heart of Antony, Octavia is"
II,II,MECAENAS,"A blessed lottery to him."
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Let us go."
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Good Enobarbus, make yourself my guest"
II,II,AGRIPPA,"Whilst you abide here."
II,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Humbly, sir, I thank you."
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"The world and my great office will sometimes"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Divide me from your bosom."
II,III,OCTAVIA,"All which time"
II,III,OCTAVIA,"Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers"
II,III,OCTAVIA,"To them for you."
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Good night, sir. My Octavia,"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Read not my blemishes in the world's report:"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"I have not kept my square; but that to come"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Shall all be done by the rule. Good night, dear lady."
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Good night, sir."
II,III,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Good night."
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Now, sirrah; you do wish yourself in Egypt?"
II,III,Soothsayer,"Would I had never come from thence, nor you Thither!"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"If you can, your reason?"
II,III,Soothsayer,"I see it in"
II,III,Soothsayer,"My motion, have it not in my tongue: but yet"
II,III,Soothsayer,"Hie you to Egypt again."
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Say to me,"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Whose fortunes shall rise higher, Caesar's or mine?"
II,III,Soothsayer,"Caesar's."
II,III,Soothsayer,"Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side:"
II,III,Soothsayer,"Thy demon, that's thy spirit which keeps thee, is"
II,III,Soothsayer,"Noble, courageous high, unmatchable,"
II,III,Soothsayer,"Where Caesar's is not; but, near him, thy angel"
II,III,Soothsayer,"Becomes a fear, as being o'erpower'd: therefore"
II,III,Soothsayer,"Make space enough between you."
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Speak this no more."
II,III,Soothsayer,"To none but thee; no more, but when to thee."
II,III,Soothsayer,"If thou dost play with him at any game,"
II,III,Soothsayer,"Thou art sure to lose; and, of that natural luck,"
II,III,Soothsayer,"He beats thee 'gainst the odds: thy lustre thickens,"
II,III,Soothsayer,"When he shines by: I say again, thy spirit"
II,III,Soothsayer,"Is all afraid to govern thee near him;"
II,III,Soothsayer,"But, he away, 'tis noble."
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Get thee gone:"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Say to Ventidius I would speak with him:"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"He shall to Parthia. Be it art or hap,"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"He hath spoken true: the very dice obey him;"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"And in our sports my better cunning faints"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Under his chance: if we draw lots, he speeds;"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"His cocks do win the battle still of mine,"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"When it is all to nought; and his quails ever"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Beat mine, inhoop'd, at odds. I will to Egypt:"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"And though I make this marriage for my peace,"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"I' the east my pleasure lies."
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"O, come, Ventidius,"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"You must to Parthia: your commission's ready;"
II,III,MARK ANTONY,"Follow me, and receive't."
II,IV,LEPIDUS,"Trouble yourselves no further: pray you, hasten"
II,IV,LEPIDUS,"Your generals after."
II,IV,AGRIPPA,"Sir, Mark Antony"
II,IV,AGRIPPA,"Will e'en but kiss Octavia, and we'll follow."
II,IV,LEPIDUS,"Till I shall see you in your soldier's dress,"
II,IV,LEPIDUS,"Which will become you both, farewell."
II,IV,MECAENAS,"We shall,"
II,IV,MECAENAS,"As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount"
II,IV,MECAENAS,"Before you, Lepidus."
II,IV,LEPIDUS,"Your way is shorter;"
II,IV,LEPIDUS,"My purposes do draw me much about:"
II,IV,LEPIDUS,"You'll win two days upon me."
II,IV,MECAENAS,"Sir, good success!"
II,IV,LEPIDUS,"Farewell."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Give me some music; music, moody food"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Of us that trade in love."
II,V,Attendants,"The music, ho!"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Let it alone; let's to billiards: come, Charmian."
II,V,CHARMIAN,"My arm is sore; best play with Mardian."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"As well a woman with an eunuch play'd"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"As with a woman. Come, you'll play with me, sir?"
II,V,MARDIAN,"As well as I can, madam."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"And when good will is show'd, though't come"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"too short,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now:"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Give me mine angle; we'll to the river: there,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"My music playing far off, I will betray"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Tawny-finn'd fishes; my bended hook shall pierce"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw them up,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"I'll think them every one an Antony,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"And say 'Ah, ha! you're caught.'"
II,V,CHARMIAN,"'Twas merry when"
II,V,CHARMIAN,"You wager'd on your angling; when your diver"
II,V,CHARMIAN,"Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he"
II,V,CHARMIAN,"With fervency drew up."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"That time,--O times!--"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"I laugh'd him out of patience; and that night"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"I laugh'd him into patience; and next morn,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed;"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Then put my tires and mantles on him, whilst"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"I wore his sword Philippan."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"O, from Italy"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"That long time have been barren."
II,V,Messenger,"Madam, madam,--"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Antonius dead!--If thou say so, villain,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Thou kill'st thy mistress: but well and free,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"If thou so yield him, there is gold, and here"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"My bluest veins to kiss; a hand that kings"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing."
II,V,Messenger,"First, madam, he is well."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Why, there's more gold."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"But, sirrah, mark, we use"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"To say the dead are well: bring it to that,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"The gold I give thee will I melt and pour"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Down thy ill-uttering throat."
II,V,Messenger,"Good madam, hear me."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Well, go to, I will;"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"But there's no goodness in thy face: if Antony"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Be free and healthful,--so tart a favour"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"To trumpet such good tidings! If not well,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Thou shouldst come like a Fury crown'd with snakes,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Not like a formal man."
II,V,Messenger,"Will't please you hear me?"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak'st:"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Yet if thou say Antony lives, is well,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Or friends with Caesar, or not captive to him,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Rich pearls upon thee."
II,V,Messenger,"Madam, he's well."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Well said."
II,V,Messenger,"And friends with Caesar."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Thou'rt an honest man."
II,V,Messenger,"Caesar and he are greater friends than ever."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Make thee a fortune from me."
II,V,Messenger,"But yet, madam,--"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"I do not like 'But yet,' it does allay"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"The good precedence; fie upon 'But yet'!"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"'But yet' is as a gaoler to bring forth"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Some monstrous malefactor. Prithee, friend,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"The good and bad together: he's friends with Caesar:"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"In state of health thou say'st; and thou say'st free."
II,V,Messenger,"Free, madam! no; I made no such report:"
II,V,Messenger,"He's bound unto Octavia."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"For what good turn?"
II,V,Messenger,"For the best turn i' the bed."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"I am pale, Charmian."
II,V,Messenger,"Madam, he's married to Octavia."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"The most infectious pestilence upon thee!"
II,V,Messenger,"Good madam, patience."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"What say you? Hence,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Horrible villain! or I'll spurn thine eyes"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Like balls before me; I'll unhair thy head:"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Smarting in lingering pickle."
II,V,Messenger,"Gracious madam,"
II,V,Messenger,"I that do bring the news made not the match."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Say 'tis not so, a province I will give thee,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"And make thy fortunes proud: the blow thou hadst"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Shall make thy peace for moving me to rage;"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"And I will boot thee with what gift beside"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Thy modesty can beg."
II,V,Messenger,"He's married, madam."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Rogue, thou hast lived too long."
II,V,Messenger,"Nay, then I'll run."
II,V,Messenger,"What mean you, madam? I have made no fault."
II,V,CHARMIAN,"Good madam, keep yourself within yourself:"
II,V,CHARMIAN,"The man is innocent."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Melt Egypt into Nile! and kindly creatures"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Turn all to serpents! Call the slave again:"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Though I am mad, I will not bite him: call."
II,V,CHARMIAN,"He is afeard to come."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"I will not hurt him."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"These hands do lack nobility, that they strike"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"A meaner than myself; since I myself"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Have given myself the cause."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Come hither, sir."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Though it be honest, it is never good"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"To bring bad news: give to a gracious message."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Themselves when they be felt."
II,V,Messenger,"I have done my duty."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Is he married?"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"I cannot hate thee worser than I do,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"If thou again say 'Yes.'"
II,V,Messenger,"He's married, madam."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"The gods confound thee! dost thou hold there still?"
II,V,Messenger,"Should I lie, madam?"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"O, I would thou didst,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"So half my Egypt were submerged and made"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"A cistern for scaled snakes! Go, get thee hence:"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Thou wouldst appear most ugly. He is married?"
II,V,Messenger,"I crave your highness' pardon."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"He is married?"
II,V,Messenger,"Take no offence that I would not offend you:"
II,V,Messenger,"To punish me for what you make me do."
II,V,Messenger,"Seems much unequal: he's married to Octavia."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"O, that his fault should make a knave of thee,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"That art not what thou'rt sure of! Get thee hence:"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"The merchandise which thou hast brought from Rome"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Are all too dear for me: lie they upon thy hand,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"And be undone by 'em!"
II,V,CHARMIAN,"Good your highness, patience."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"In praising Antony, I have dispraised Caesar."
II,V,CHARMIAN,"Many times, madam."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"I am paid for't now."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Lead me from hence:"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"I faint: O Iras, Charmian! 'tis no matter."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Go to the fellow, good Alexas; bid him"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Report the feature of Octavia, her years,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Her inclination, let him not leave out"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"The colour of her hair: bring me word quickly."
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Let him for ever go:--let him not--Charmian,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"The other way's a Mars. Bid you Alexas"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian,"
II,V,CLEOPATRA,"But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber."
II,VI,POMPEY,"Your hostages I have, so have you mine;"
II,VI,POMPEY,"And we shall talk before we fight."
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Most meet"
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That first we come to words; and therefore have we"
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Our written purposes before us sent;"
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Which, if thou hast consider'd, let us know"
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"If 'twill tie up thy discontented sword,"
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And carry back to Sicily much tall youth"
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That else must perish here."
II,VI,POMPEY,"To you all three,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"The senators alone of this great world,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Chief factors for the gods, I do not know"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Wherefore my father should revengers want,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Having a son and friends; since Julius Caesar,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"There saw you labouring for him. What was't"
II,VI,POMPEY,"That moved pale Cassius to conspire; and what"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Made the all-honour'd, honest Roman, Brutus,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"With the arm'd rest, courtiers and beauteous freedom,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"To drench the Capitol; but that they would"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Have one man but a man? And that is it"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Hath made me rig my navy; at whose burthen"
II,VI,POMPEY,"The anger'd ocean foams; with which I meant"
II,VI,POMPEY,"To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Cast on my noble father."
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Take your time."
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails;"
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"We'll speak with thee at sea: at land, thou know'st"
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"How much we do o'er-count thee."
II,VI,POMPEY,"At land, indeed,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Thou dost o'er-count me of my father's house:"
II,VI,POMPEY,"But, since the cuckoo builds not for himself,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Remain in't as thou mayst."
II,VI,LEPIDUS,"Be pleased to tell us--"
II,VI,LEPIDUS,"For this is from the present--how you take"
II,VI,LEPIDUS,"The offers we have sent you."
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"There's the point."
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"Which do not be entreated to, but weigh"
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"What it is worth embraced."
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And what may follow,"
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To try a larger fortune."
II,VI,POMPEY,"You have made me offer"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Rid all the sea of pirates; then, to send"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Measures of wheat to Rome; this 'greed upon"
II,VI,POMPEY,"To part with unhack'd edges, and bear back"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Our targes undinted."
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That's our offer."
II,VI,POMPEY,"Know, then,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"I came before you here a man prepared"
II,VI,POMPEY,"To take this offer: but Mark Antony"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Put me to some impatience: though I lose"
II,VI,POMPEY,"The praise of it by telling, you must know,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"When Caesar and your brother were at blows,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Your mother came to Sicily and did find"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Her welcome friendly."
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"I have heard it, Pompey;"
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"And am well studied for a liberal thanks"
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"Which I do owe you."
II,VI,POMPEY,"Let me have your hand:"
II,VI,POMPEY,"I did not think, sir, to have met you here."
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to you,"
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither;"
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"For I have gain'd by 't."
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Since I saw you last,"
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"There is a change upon you."
II,VI,POMPEY,"Well, I know not"
II,VI,POMPEY,"What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face;"
II,VI,POMPEY,"But in my bosom shall she never come,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"To make my heart her vassal."
II,VI,LEPIDUS,"Well met here."
II,VI,POMPEY,"I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed:"
II,VI,POMPEY,"I crave our composition may be written,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"And seal'd between us."
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That's the next to do."
II,VI,POMPEY,"We'll feast each other ere we part; and let's"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Draw lots who shall begin."
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"That will I, Pompey."
II,VI,POMPEY,"No, Antony, take the lot: but, first"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Grew fat with feasting there."
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"You have heard much."
II,VI,POMPEY,"I have fair meanings, sir."
II,VI,MARK ANTONY,"And fair words to them."
II,VI,POMPEY,"Then so much have I heard:"
II,VI,POMPEY,"And I have heard, Apollodorus carried--"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"No more of that: he did so."
II,VI,POMPEY,"What, I pray you?"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress."
II,VI,POMPEY,"I know thee now: how farest thou, soldier?"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Well;"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And well am like to do; for, I perceive,"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Four feasts are toward."
II,VI,POMPEY,"Let me shake thy hand;"
II,VI,POMPEY,"I never hated thee: I have seen thee fight,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"When I have envied thy behavior."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Sir,"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I never loved you much; but I ha' praised ye,"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"When you have well deserved ten times as much"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"As I have said you did."
II,VI,POMPEY,"Enjoy thy plainness,"
II,VI,POMPEY,"It nothing ill becomes thee."
II,VI,POMPEY,"Aboard my galley I invite you all:"
II,VI,POMPEY,"Will you lead, lords?"
II,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Show us the way, sir."
II,VI,POMPEY,"Come."
II,VI,MENAS,"made this treaty.--You and I have known, sir."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"At sea, I think."
II,VI,MENAS,"We have, sir."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"You have done well by water."
II,VI,MENAS,"And you by land."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I will praise any man that will praise me; though it"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"cannot be denied what I have done by land."
II,VI,MENAS,"Nor what I have done by water."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Yes, something you can deny for your own"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"safety: you have been a great thief by sea."
II,VI,MENAS,"And you by land."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"There I deny my land service. But give me your"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"hand, Menas: if our eyes had authority, here they"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"might take two thieves kissing."
II,VI,MENAS,"All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"But there is never a fair woman has a true face."
II,VI,MENAS,"No slander; they steal hearts."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"We came hither to fight with you."
II,VI,MENAS,"For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking."
II,VI,MENAS,"Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"If he do, sure, he cannot weep't back again."
II,VI,MENAS,"You've said, sir. We looked not for Mark Antony"
II,VI,MENAS,"here: pray you, is he married to Cleopatra?"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Caesar's sister is called Octavia."
II,VI,MENAS,"True, sir; she was the wife of Caius Marcellus."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius."
II,VI,MENAS,"Pray ye, sir?"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"'Tis true."
II,VI,MENAS,"Then is Caesar and he for ever knit together."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"not prophesy so."
II,VI,MENAS,"I think the policy of that purpose made more in the"
II,VI,MENAS,"marriage than the love of the parties."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I think so too. But you shall find, the band that"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"seems to tie their friendship together will be the"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"holy, cold, and still conversation."
II,VI,MENAS,"Who would not have his wife so?"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Not he that himself is not so; which is Mark Antony."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"He will to his Egyptian dish again: then shall the"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar; and, as"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I said before, that which is the strength of their"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"amity shall prove the immediate author of their"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"variance. Antony will use his affection where it is:"
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"he married but his occasion here."
II,VI,MENAS,"And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard?"
II,VI,MENAS,"I have a health for you."
II,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I shall take it, sir: we have used our throats in Egypt."
II,VI,MENAS,"Come, let's away."
II,VII,First Servant,"Here they'll be, man. Some o' their plants are"
II,VII,First Servant,"ill-rooted already: the least wind i' the world"
II,VII,First Servant,"will blow them down."
II,VII,Second Servant,"Lepidus is high-coloured."
II,VII,First Servant,"They have made him drink alms-drink."
II,VII,Second Servant,"As they pinch one another by the disposition, he"
II,VII,Second Servant,"cries out 'No more;' reconciles them to his"
II,VII,Second Servant,"entreaty, and himself to the drink."
II,VII,First Servant,"But it raises the greater war between him and"
II,VII,First Servant,"his discretion."
II,VII,Second Servant,"Why, this is to have a name in great men's"
II,VII,Second Servant,"fellowship: I had as lief have a reed that will do"
II,VII,Second Servant,"me no service as a partisan I could not heave."
II,VII,First Servant,"To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen"
II,VII,First Servant,"to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be,"
II,VII,First Servant,"which pitifully disaster the cheeks."
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"the flow o' the Nile"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"By certain scales i' the pyramid; they know,"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Or foison follow: the higher Nilus swells,"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"And shortly comes to harvest."
II,VII,LEPIDUS,"You've strange serpents there."
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Ay, Lepidus."
II,VII,LEPIDUS,"Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the"
II,VII,LEPIDUS,"operation of your sun: so is your crocodile."
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"They are so."
II,VII,POMPEY,"Sit,--and some wine! A health to Lepidus!"
II,VII,LEPIDUS,"I am not so well as I should be, but I'll ne'er out."
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Not till you have slept; I fear me you'll be in till then."
II,VII,LEPIDUS,"Nay, certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies'"
II,VII,LEPIDUS,"pyramises are very goodly things; without"
II,VII,LEPIDUS,"contradiction, I have heard that."
II,VII,POMPEY,"what is't?"
II,VII,MENAS,"thee, captain,"
II,VII,MENAS,"And hear me speak a word."
II,VII,POMPEY,"This wine for Lepidus!"
II,VII,LEPIDUS,"What manner o' thing is your crocodile?"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"It is shaped, sir, like itself; and it is as broad"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is,"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"and moves with its own organs: it lives by that"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"it, it transmigrates."
II,VII,LEPIDUS,"What colour is it of?"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Of it own colour too."
II,VII,LEPIDUS,"'Tis a strange serpent."
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"'Tis so. And the tears of it are wet."
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Will this description satisfy him?"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"With the health that Pompey gives him, else he is a"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"very epicure."
II,VII,POMPEY,"that? away!"
II,VII,POMPEY,"Do as I bid you. Where's this cup I call'd for?"
II,VII,MENAS,"wilt hear me,"
II,VII,MENAS,"Rise from thy stool."
II,VII,POMPEY,"The matter?"
II,VII,MENAS,"I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes."
II,VII,POMPEY,"Thou hast served me with much faith. What's else to say?"
II,VII,POMPEY,"Be jolly, lords."
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"These quick-sands, Lepidus,"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Keep off them, for you sink."
II,VII,MENAS,"Wilt thou be lord of all the world?"
II,VII,POMPEY,"What say'st thou?"
II,VII,MENAS,"Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That's twice."
II,VII,POMPEY,"How should that be?"
II,VII,MENAS,"But entertain it,"
II,VII,MENAS,"And, though thou think me poor, I am the man"
II,VII,MENAS,"Will give thee all the world."
II,VII,POMPEY,"Hast thou drunk well?"
II,VII,MENAS,"Now, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup."
II,VII,MENAS,"Thou art, if thou darest be, the earthly Jove:"
II,VII,MENAS,"Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips,"
II,VII,MENAS,"Is thine, if thou wilt ha't."
II,VII,POMPEY,"Show me which way."
II,VII,MENAS,"These three world-sharers, these competitors,"
II,VII,MENAS,"Are in thy vessel: let me cut the cable;"
II,VII,MENAS,"And, when we are put off, fall to their throats:"
II,VII,MENAS,"All there is thine."
II,VII,POMPEY,"Ah, this thou shouldst have done,"
II,VII,POMPEY,"And not have spoke on't! In me 'tis villany;"
II,VII,POMPEY,"In thee't had been good service. Thou must know,"
II,VII,POMPEY,"'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour;"
II,VII,POMPEY,"Mine honour, it. Repent that e'er thy tongue"
II,VII,POMPEY,"Hath so betray'd thine act: being done unknown,"
II,VII,POMPEY,"I should have found it afterwards well done;"
II,VII,POMPEY,"But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink."
II,VII,MENAS,"I'll never follow thy pall'd fortunes more."
II,VII,MENAS,"Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offer'd,"
II,VII,MENAS,"Shall never find it more."
II,VII,POMPEY,"This health to Lepidus!"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Bear him ashore. I'll pledge it for him, Pompey."
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Here's to thee, Menas!"
II,VII,MENAS,"Enobarbus, welcome!"
II,VII,POMPEY,"Fill till the cup be hid."
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"There's a strong fellow, Menas."
II,VII,MENAS,"Why?"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"A' bears the third part of the world, man; see'st"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"not?"
II,VII,MENAS,"The third part, then, is drunk: would it were all,"
II,VII,MENAS,"That it might go on wheels!"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Drink thou; increase the reels."
II,VII,MENAS,"Come."
II,VII,POMPEY,"This is not yet an Alexandrian feast."
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"It ripens towards it. Strike the vessels, ho?"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Here is to Caesar!"
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I could well forbear't."
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"It's monstrous labour, when I wash my brain,"
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And it grows fouler."
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Be a child o' the time."
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Possess it, I'll make answer:"
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"But I had rather fast from all four days"
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Than drink so much in one."
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Ha, my brave emperor!"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals,"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And celebrate our drink?"
II,VII,POMPEY,"Let's ha't, good soldier."
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Come, let's all take hands,"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our sense"
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"In soft and delicate Lethe."
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"All take hands."
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Make battery to our ears with the loud music:"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The while I'll place you: then the boy shall sing;"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The holding every man shall bear as loud"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"As his strong sides can volley."
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Come, thou monarch of the vine,"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"In thy fats our cares be drown'd,"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"With thy grapes our hairs be crown'd:"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Cup us, till the world go round,"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Cup us, till the world go round!"
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"What would you more? Pompey, good night. Good brother,"
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Let me request you off: our graver business"
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Frowns at this levity. Gentle lords, let's part;"
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb"
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue"
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost"
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Antick'd us all. What needs more words? Good night."
II,VII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Good Antony, your hand."
II,VII,POMPEY,"I'll try you on the shore."
II,VII,MARK ANTONY,"And shall, sir; give's your hand."
II,VII,POMPEY,"O Antony,"
II,VII,POMPEY,"You have my father's house,--But, what? we are friends."
II,VII,POMPEY,"Come, down into the boat."
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Take heed you fall not."
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Menas, I'll not on shore."
II,VII,MENAS,"No, to my cabin."
II,VII,MENAS,"These drums! these trumpets, flutes! what!"
II,VII,MENAS,"Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell"
II,VII,MENAS,"To these great fellows: sound and be hang'd, sound out!"
II,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Ho! says a' There's my cap."
II,VII,MENAS,"Ho! Noble captain, come."
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"Pleased fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"Make me revenger. Bear the king's son's body"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"Pays this for Marcus Crassus."
III,I,SILIUS,"Noble Ventidius,"
III,I,SILIUS,"Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm,"
III,I,SILIUS,"The fugitive Parthians follow; spur through Media,"
III,I,SILIUS,"Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither"
III,I,SILIUS,"The routed fly: so thy grand captain Antony"
III,I,SILIUS,"Shall set thee on triumphant chariots and"
III,I,SILIUS,"Put garlands on thy head."
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"O Silius, Silius,"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"I have done enough; a lower place, note well,"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"May make too great an act: for learn this, Silius;"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"Better to leave undone, than by our deed"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"Acquire too high a fame when him we serve's away."
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"Caesar and Antony have ever won"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"More in their officer than person: Sossius,"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant,"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"For quick accumulation of renown,"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"Which he achieved by the minute, lost his favour."
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"Who does i' the wars more than his captain can"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"Becomes his captain's captain: and ambition,"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss,"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"Than gain which darkens him."
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"I could do more to do Antonius good,"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"But 'twould offend him; and in his offence"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"Should my performance perish."
III,I,SILIUS,"Thou hast, Ventidius,"
III,I,SILIUS,"that"
III,I,SILIUS,"Without the which a soldier, and his sword,"
III,I,SILIUS,"Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony!"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"I'll humbly signify what in his name,"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"That magical word of war, we have effected;"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"How, with his banners and his well-paid ranks,"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"We have jaded out o' the field."
III,I,SILIUS,"Where is he now?"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"He purposeth to Athens: whither, with what haste"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"The weight we must convey with's will permit,"
III,I,VENTIDIUS,"We shall appear before him. On there; pass along!"
III,II,AGRIPPA,"What, are the brothers parted?"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"They have dispatch'd with Pompey, he is gone;"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"To part from Rome; Caesar is sad; and Lepidus,"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"With the green sickness."
III,II,AGRIPPA,"'Tis a noble Lepidus."
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"A very fine one: O, how he loves Caesar!"
III,II,AGRIPPA,"Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men."
III,II,AGRIPPA,"What's Antony? The god of Jupiter."
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Spake you of Caesar? How! the non-pareil!"
III,II,AGRIPPA,"O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Would you praise Caesar, say 'Caesar:' go no further."
III,II,AGRIPPA,"Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises."
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony:"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards,"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"poets, cannot"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho!"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"His love to Antony. But as for Caesar,"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder."
III,II,AGRIPPA,"Both he loves."
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"They are his shards, and he their beetle."
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"So;"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa."
III,II,AGRIPPA,"Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell."
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"No further, sir."
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"You take from me a great part of myself;"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Use me well in 't. Sister, prove such a wife"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony,"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Let not the piece of virtue, which is set"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Betwixt us as the cement of our love,"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To keep it builded, be the ram to batter"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The fortress of it; for better might we"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Have loved without this mean, if on both parts"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"This be not cherish'd."
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"Make me not offended"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"In your distrust."
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I have said."
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"You shall not find,"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"Though you be therein curious, the least cause"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"For what you seem to fear: so, the gods keep you,"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends!"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"We will here part."
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well:"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The elements be kind to thee, and make"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well."
III,II,OCTAVIA,"My noble brother!"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"The April 's in her eyes: it is love's spring,"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful."
III,II,OCTAVIA,"Sir, look well to my husband's house; and--"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"What, Octavia?"
III,II,OCTAVIA,"I'll tell you in your ear."
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"Her heart inform her tongue,--the swan's"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"down-feather,"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"That stands upon the swell at full of tide,"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"And neither way inclines."
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"were he a horse;"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"So is he, being a man."
III,II,AGRIPPA,"When Antony found Julius Caesar dead,"
III,II,AGRIPPA,"He cried almost to roaring; and he wept"
III,II,AGRIPPA,"When at Philippi he found Brutus slain."
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"troubled with a rheum;"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"What willingly he did confound he wail'd,"
III,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Believe't, till I wept too."
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"No, sweet Octavia,"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"You shall hear from me still; the time shall not"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Out-go my thinking on you."
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"Come, sir, come;"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love:"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"Look, here I have you; thus I let you go,"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"And give you to the gods."
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Adieu; be happy!"
III,II,LEPIDUS,"Let all the number of the stars give light"
III,II,LEPIDUS,"To thy fair way!"
III,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Farewell, farewell!"
III,II,MARK ANTONY,"Farewell!"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Where is the fellow?"
III,III,ALEXAS,"Half afeard to come."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Go to, go to."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Come hither, sir."
III,III,ALEXAS,"Good majesty,"
III,III,ALEXAS,"Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you"
III,III,ALEXAS,"But when you are well pleased."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"That Herod's head"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"I'll have: but how, when Antony is gone"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Through whom I might command it? Come thou near."
III,III,Messenger,"Most gracious majesty,--"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Didst thou behold Octavia?"
III,III,Messenger,"Ay, dread queen."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Where?"
III,III,Messenger,"Madam, in Rome;"
III,III,Messenger,"I look'd her in the face, and saw her led"
III,III,Messenger,"Between her brother and Mark Antony."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Is she as tall as me?"
III,III,Messenger,"She is not, madam."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Didst hear her speak? is she shrill-tongued or low?"
III,III,Messenger,"Madam, I heard her speak; she is low-voiced."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"That's not so good: he cannot like her long."
III,III,CHARMIAN,"Like her! O Isis! 'tis impossible."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"I think so, Charmian: dull of tongue, and dwarfish!"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"What majesty is in her gait? Remember,"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"If e'er thou look'dst on majesty."
III,III,Messenger,"She creeps:"
III,III,Messenger,"Her motion and her station are as one;"
III,III,Messenger,"She shows a body rather than a life,"
III,III,Messenger,"A statue than a breather."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Is this certain?"
III,III,Messenger,"Or I have no observance."
III,III,CHARMIAN,"Three in Egypt"
III,III,CHARMIAN,"Cannot make better note."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"He's very knowing;"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"I do perceive't: there's nothing in her yet:"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"The fellow has good judgment."
III,III,CHARMIAN,"Excellent."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Guess at her years, I prithee."
III,III,Messenger,"Madam,"
III,III,Messenger,"She was a widow,--"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Widow! Charmian, hark."
III,III,Messenger,"And I do think she's thirty."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Bear'st thou her face in mind? is't long or round?"
III,III,Messenger,"Round even to faultiness."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Her hair, what colour?"
III,III,Messenger,"Brown, madam: and her forehead"
III,III,Messenger,"As low as she would wish it."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"There's gold for thee."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Thou must not take my former sharpness ill:"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"I will employ thee back again; I find thee"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Most fit for business: go make thee ready;"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Our letters are prepared."
III,III,CHARMIAN,"A proper man."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Indeed, he is so: I repent me much"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"That so I harried him. Why, methinks, by him,"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"This creature's no such thing."
III,III,CHARMIAN,"Nothing, madam."
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"The man hath seen some majesty, and should know."
III,III,CHARMIAN,"Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend,"
III,III,CHARMIAN,"And serving you so long!"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Charmian:"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"But 'tis no matter; thou shalt bring him to me"
III,III,CLEOPATRA,"Where I will write. All may be well enough."
III,III,CHARMIAN,"I warrant you, madam."
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that,--"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"That were excusable, that, and thousands more"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Of semblable import,--but he hath waged"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"New wars 'gainst Pompey; made his will, and read it"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"To public ear:"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Spoke scantly of me: when perforce he could not"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"But pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"He vented them; most narrow measure lent me:"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"When the best hint was given him, he not took't,"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Or did it from his teeth."
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"O my good lord,"
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"Believe not all; or, if you must believe,"
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"Stomach not all. A more unhappy lady,"
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"If this division chance, ne'er stood between,"
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"Praying for both parts:"
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"The good gods me presently,"
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"When I shall pray, 'O bless my lord and husband!'"
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"Undo that prayer, by crying out as loud,"
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"'O, bless my brother!' Husband win, win brother,"
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"Prays, and destroys the prayer; no midway"
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"'Twixt these extremes at all."
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Gentle Octavia,"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Best to preserve it: if I lose mine honour,"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"I lose myself: better I were not yours"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Than yours so branchless. But, as you requested,"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Yourself shall go between 's: the mean time, lady,"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"I'll raise the preparation of a war"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Shall stain your brother: make your soonest haste;"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"So your desires are yours."
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"Thanks to my lord."
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"The Jove of power make me most weak, most weak,"
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"Your reconciler! Wars 'twixt you twain would be"
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"As if the world should cleave, and that slain men"
III,IV,OCTAVIA,"Should solder up the rift."
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"When it appears to you where this begins,"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Turn your displeasure that way: for our faults"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Can never be so equal, that your love"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Can equally move with them. Provide your going;"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Choose your own company, and command what cost"
III,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Your heart has mind to."
III,V,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"How now, friend Eros!"
III,V,EROS,"There's strange news come, sir."
III,V,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"What, man?"
III,V,EROS,"Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey."
III,V,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"This is old: what is the success?"
III,V,EROS,"Caesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst"
III,V,EROS,"Pompey, presently denied him rivality; would not let"
III,V,EROS,"him partake in the glory of the action: and not"
III,V,EROS,"resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly"
III,V,EROS,"wrote to Pompey; upon his own appeal, seizes him: so"
III,V,EROS,"the poor third is up, till death enlarge his confine."
III,V,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more;"
III,V,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And throw between them all the food thou hast,"
III,V,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony?"
III,V,EROS,"He's walking in the garden--thus; and spurns"
III,V,EROS,"The rush that lies before him; cries, 'Fool Lepidus!'"
III,V,EROS,"And threats the throat of that his officer"
III,V,EROS,"That murder'd Pompey."
III,V,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Our great navy's rigg'd."
III,V,EROS,"For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius;"
III,V,EROS,"My lord desires you presently: my news"
III,V,EROS,"I might have told hereafter."
III,V,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"'Twill be naught:"
III,V,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"But let it be. Bring me to Antony."
III,V,EROS,"Come, sir."
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Contemning Rome, he has done all this, and more,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"In Alexandria: here's the manner of 't:"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I' the market-place, on a tribunal silver'd,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Were publicly enthroned: at the feet sat"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Caesarion, whom they call my father's son,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And all the unlawful issue that their lust"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Since then hath made between them. Unto her"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"He gave the stablishment of Egypt; made her"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Absolute queen."
III,VI,MECAENAS,"This in the public eye?"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I' the common show-place, where they exercise."
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"His sons he there proclaim'd the kings of kings:"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia."
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign'd"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia: she"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"In the habiliments of the goddess Isis"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That day appear'd; and oft before gave audience,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"As 'tis reported, so."
III,VI,MECAENAS,"Let Rome be thus Inform'd."
III,VI,AGRIPPA,"Who, queasy with his insolence"
III,VI,AGRIPPA,"Already, will their good thoughts call from him."
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The people know it; and have now received"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"His accusations."
III,VI,AGRIPPA,"Who does he accuse?"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Caesar: and that, having in Sicily"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Sextus Pompeius spoil'd, we had not rated him"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"His part o' the isle: then does he say, he lent me"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Some shipping unrestored: lastly, he frets"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That Lepidus of the triumvirate"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Should be deposed; and, being, that we detain"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"All his revenue."
III,VI,AGRIPPA,"Sir, this should be answer'd."
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"'Tis done already, and the messenger gone."
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I have told him, Lepidus was grown too cruel;"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That he his high authority abused,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And did deserve his change: for what I have conquer'd,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I grant him part; but then, in his Armenia,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And other of his conquer'd kingdoms, I"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Demand the like."
III,VI,MECAENAS,"He'll never yield to that."
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Nor must not then be yielded to in this."
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"Hail, Caesar, and my lord! hail, most dear Caesar!"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That ever I should call thee castaway!"
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"You have not call'd me so, nor have you cause."
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Why have you stol'n upon us thus! You come not"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Like Caesar's sister: the wife of Antony"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Should have an army for an usher, and"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The neighs of horse to tell of her approach"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Long ere she did appear; the trees by the way"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Should have borne men; and expectation fainted,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Longing for what it had not; nay, the dust"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Raised by your populous troops: but you are come"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"A market-maid to Rome; and have prevented"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Is often left unloved; we should have met you"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"By sea and land; supplying every stage"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"With an augmented greeting."
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"Good my lord,"
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did"
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"On my free will. My lord, Mark Antony,"
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"Hearing that you prepared for war, acquainted"
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"My grieved ear withal; whereon, I begg'd"
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"His pardon for return."
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Which soon he granted,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him."
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"Do not say so, my lord."
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I have eyes upon him,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And his affairs come to me on the wind."
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Where is he now?"
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"My lord, in Athens."
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"No, my most wronged sister; Cleopatra"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Up to a whore; who now are levying"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The kings o' the earth for war; he hath assembled"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Bocchus, the king of Libya; Archelaus,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Of Cappadocia; Philadelphos, king"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian king, Adallas;"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"King Malchus of Arabia; King of Pont;"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, king"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Of Comagene; Polemon and Amyntas,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The kings of Mede and Lycaonia,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"With a more larger list of sceptres."
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"Ay me, most wretched,"
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"That have my heart parted betwixt two friends"
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"That do afflict each other!"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Welcome hither:"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Your letters did withhold our breaking forth;"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Till we perceived, both how you were wrong led,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart;"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Be you not troubled with the time, which drives"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"O'er your content these strong necessities;"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"But let determined things to destiny"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Hold unbewail'd their way. Welcome to Rome;"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Nothing more dear to me. You are abused"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Beyond the mark of thought: and the high gods,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To do you justice, make them ministers"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Of us and those that love you. Best of comfort;"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And ever welcome to us."
III,VI,AGRIPPA,"Welcome, lady."
III,VI,MECAENAS,"Welcome, dear madam."
III,VI,MECAENAS,"Each heart in Rome does love and pity you:"
III,VI,MECAENAS,"Only the adulterous Antony, most large"
III,VI,MECAENAS,"In his abominations, turns you off;"
III,VI,MECAENAS,"And gives his potent regiment to a trull,"
III,VI,MECAENAS,"That noises it against us."
III,VI,OCTAVIA,"Is it so, sir?"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Most certain. Sister, welcome: pray you,"
III,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Be ever known to patience: my dear'st sister!"
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"I will be even with thee, doubt it not."
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"But why, why, why?"
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars,"
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"And say'st it is not fit."
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Well, is it, is it?"
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"If not denounced against us, why should not we"
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"Be there in person?"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"If we should serve with horse and mares together,"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The horse were merely lost; the mares would bear"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"A soldier and his horse."
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"What is't you say?"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Your presence needs must puzzle Antony;"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Take from his heart, take from his brain,"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"from's time,"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"What should not then be spared. He is already"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Traduced for levity; and 'tis said in Rome"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"That Photinus an eunuch and your maids"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Manage this war."
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"Sink Rome, and their tongues rot"
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"That speak against us! A charge we bear i' the war,"
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"And, as the president of my kingdom, will"
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"Appear there for a man. Speak not against it:"
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"I will not stay behind."
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Nay, I have done."
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Here comes the emperor."
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Is it not strange, Canidius,"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"That from Tarentum and Brundusium"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea,"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"And take in Toryne? You have heard on't, sweet?"
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"Celerity is never more admired"
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"Than by the negligent."
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"A good rebuke,"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Which might have well becomed the best of men,"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"To taunt at slackness. Canidius, we"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Will fight with him by sea."
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"By sea! what else?"
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"Why will my lord do so?"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"For that he dares us to't."
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"So hath my lord dared him to single fight."
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia."
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"Where Caesar fought with Pompey: but these offers,"
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"Which serve not for his vantage, be shakes off;"
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"And so should you."
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Your ships are not well mann'd;"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Your mariners are muleters, reapers, people"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Ingross'd by swift impress; in Caesar's fleet"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Are those that often have 'gainst Pompey fought:"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Their ships are yare; yours, heavy: no disgrace"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Shall fall you for refusing him at sea,"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Being prepared for land."
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"By sea, by sea."
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Most worthy sir, you therein throw away"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The absolute soldiership you have by land;"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Distract your army, which doth most consist"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Of war-mark'd footmen; leave unexecuted"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Your own renowned knowledge; quite forego"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The way which promises assurance; and"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard,"
III,VII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"From firm security."
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"I'll fight at sea."
III,VII,CLEOPATRA,"I have sixty sails, Caesar none better."
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Our overplus of shipping will we burn;"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"And, with the rest full-mann'd, from the head of Actium"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Beat the approaching Caesar. But if we fail,"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"We then can do't at land."
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Thy business?"
III,VII,Messenger,"The news is true, my lord; he is descried;"
III,VII,Messenger,"Caesar has taken Toryne."
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Can he be there in person? 'tis impossible;"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Strange that power should be. Canidius,"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land,"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"And our twelve thousand horse. We'll to our ship:"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Away, my Thetis!"
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"How now, worthy soldier?"
III,VII,Soldier,"O noble emperor, do not fight by sea;"
III,VII,Soldier,"Trust not to rotten planks: do you misdoubt"
III,VII,Soldier,"This sword and these my wounds? Let the Egyptians"
III,VII,Soldier,"And the Phoenicians go a-ducking; we"
III,VII,Soldier,"Have used to conquer, standing on the earth,"
III,VII,Soldier,"And fighting foot to foot."
III,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Well, well: away!"
III,VII,Soldier,"By Hercules, I think I am i' the right."
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"Soldier, thou art: but his whole action grows"
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"Not in the power on't: so our leader's led,"
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"And we are women's men."
III,VII,Soldier,"You keep by land"
III,VII,Soldier,"The legions and the horse whole, do you not?"
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius,"
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"Publicola, and Caelius, are for sea:"
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar's"
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"Carries beyond belief."
III,VII,Soldier,"While he was yet in Rome,"
III,VII,Soldier,"His power went out in such distractions as"
III,VII,Soldier,"Beguiled all spies."
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"Who's his lieutenant, hear you?"
III,VII,Soldier,"They say, one Taurus."
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"Well I know the man."
III,VII,Messenger,"The emperor calls Canidius."
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"With news the time's with labour, and throes forth,"
III,VII,CANIDIUS,"Each minute, some."
III,VIII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Taurus!"
III,VIII,TAURUS,"My lord?"
III,VIII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Strike not by land; keep whole: provoke not battle,"
III,VIII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Till we have done at sea. Do not exceed"
III,VIII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The prescript of this scroll: our fortune lies"
III,VIII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Upon this jump."
III,IX,MARK ANTONY,"Set we our squadrons on yond side o' the hill,"
III,IX,MARK ANTONY,"In eye of Caesar's battle; from which place"
III,IX,MARK ANTONY,"We may the number of the ships behold,"
III,IX,MARK ANTONY,"And so proceed accordingly."
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Naught, naught all, naught! I can behold no longer:"
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,"
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder:"
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"To see't mine eyes are blasted."
III,X,SCARUS,"Gods and goddesses,"
III,X,SCARUS,"All the whole synod of them!"
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"What's thy passion!"
III,X,SCARUS,"The greater cantle of the world is lost"
III,X,SCARUS,"With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away"
III,X,SCARUS,"Kingdoms and provinces."
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"How appears the fight?"
III,X,SCARUS,"On our side like the token'd pestilence,"
III,X,SCARUS,"Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,--"
III,X,SCARUS,"Whom leprosy o'ertake!--i' the midst o' the fight,"
III,X,SCARUS,"When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd,"
III,X,SCARUS,"Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,"
III,X,SCARUS,"The breese upon her, like a cow in June,"
III,X,SCARUS,"Hoists sails and flies."
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"That I beheld:"
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not"
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Endure a further view."
III,X,SCARUS,"She once being loof'd,"
III,X,SCARUS,"The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,"
III,X,SCARUS,"Claps on his sea-wing, and, like a doting mallard,"
III,X,SCARUS,"Leaving the fight in height, flies after her:"
III,X,SCARUS,"I never saw an action of such shame;"
III,X,SCARUS,"Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before"
III,X,SCARUS,"Did violate so itself."
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Alack, alack!"
III,X,CANIDIUS,"Our fortune on the sea is out of breath,"
III,X,CANIDIUS,"And sinks most lamentably. Had our general"
III,X,CANIDIUS,"Been what he knew himself, it had gone well:"
III,X,CANIDIUS,"O, he has given example for our flight,"
III,X,CANIDIUS,"Most grossly, by his own!"
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Ay, are you thereabouts?"
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Why, then, good night indeed."
III,X,CANIDIUS,"Toward Peloponnesus are they fled."
III,X,SCARUS,"'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend"
III,X,SCARUS,"What further comes."
III,X,CANIDIUS,"To Caesar will I render"
III,X,CANIDIUS,"My legions and my horse: six kings already"
III,X,CANIDIUS,"Show me the way of yielding."
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I'll yet follow"
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason"
III,X,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Sits in the wind against me."
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Hark! the land bids me tread no more upon't;"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"It is ashamed to bear me! Friends, come hither:"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"I am so lated in the world, that I"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Have lost my way for ever: I have a ship"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Laden with gold; take that, divide it; fly,"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"And make your peace with Caesar."
III,XI,All,"Fly! not we."
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone;"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"I have myself resolved upon a course"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Which has no need of you; be gone:"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"My treasure's in the harbour, take it. O,"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"I follow'd that I blush to look upon:"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"My very hairs do mutiny; for the white"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"For fear and doting. Friends, be gone: you shall"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Have letters from me to some friends that will"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Nor make replies of loathness: take the hint"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Which my despair proclaims; let that be left"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Which leaves itself: to the sea-side straightway:"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"I will possess you of that ship and treasure."
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Leave me, I pray, a little: pray you now:"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Nay, do so; for, indeed, I have lost command,"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Therefore I pray you: I'll see you by and by."
III,XI,EROS,"Nay, gentle madam, to him, comfort him."
III,XI,IRAS,"Do, most dear queen."
III,XI,CHARMIAN,"Do! why: what else?"
III,XI,CLEOPATRA,"Let me sit down. O Juno!"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"No, no, no, no, no."
III,XI,EROS,"See you here, sir?"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"O fie, fie, fie!"
III,XI,CHARMIAN,"Madam!"
III,XI,IRAS,"Madam, O good empress!"
III,XI,EROS,"Sir, sir,--"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Yes, my lord, yes; he at Philippi kept"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"That the mad Brutus ended: he alone"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practise had"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"In the brave squares of war: yet now--No matter."
III,XI,CLEOPATRA,"Ah, stand by."
III,XI,EROS,"The queen, my lord, the queen."
III,XI,IRAS,"Go to him, madam, speak to him:"
III,XI,IRAS,"He is unqualitied with very shame."
III,XI,CLEOPATRA,"Well then, sustain him: O!"
III,XI,EROS,"Most noble sir, arise; the queen approaches:"
III,XI,EROS,"Her head's declined, and death will seize her, but"
III,XI,EROS,"Your comfort makes the rescue."
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"I have offended reputation,"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"A most unnoble swerving."
III,XI,EROS,"Sir, the queen."
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See,"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"How I convey my shame out of thine eyes"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"By looking back what I have left behind"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"'Stroy'd in dishonour."
III,XI,CLEOPATRA,"O my lord, my lord,"
III,XI,CLEOPATRA,"Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought"
III,XI,CLEOPATRA,"You would have follow'd."
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Egypt, thou knew'st too well"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings,"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"And thou shouldst tow me after: o'er my spirit"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Thy full supremacy thou knew'st, and that"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Command me."
III,XI,CLEOPATRA,"O, my pardon!"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Now I must"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"To the young man send humble treaties, dodge"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"And palter in the shifts of lowness; who"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"With half the bulk o' the world play'd as I pleased,"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Making and marring fortunes. You did know"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"How much you were my conqueror; and that"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"My sword, made weak by my affection, would"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Obey it on all cause."
III,XI,CLEOPATRA,"Pardon, pardon!"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"All that is won and lost: give me a kiss;"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Even this repays me. We sent our schoolmaster;"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Is he come back? Love, I am full of lead."
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"Some wine, within there, and our viands! Fortune knows"
III,XI,MARK ANTONY,"We scorn her most when most she offers blows."
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Let him appear that's come from Antony."
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Know you him?"
III,XII,DOLABELLA,"Caesar, 'tis his schoolmaster:"
III,XII,DOLABELLA,"An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither"
III,XII,DOLABELLA,"He sends so poor a pinion off his wing,"
III,XII,DOLABELLA,"Which had superfluous kings for messengers"
III,XII,DOLABELLA,"Not many moons gone by."
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Approach, and speak."
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"Such as I am, I come from Antony:"
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"I was of late as petty to his ends"
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"As is the morn-dew on the myrtle-leaf"
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"To his grand sea."
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Be't so: declare thine office."
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and"
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"Requires to live in Egypt: which not granted,"
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"He lessens his requests; and to thee sues"
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"To let him breathe between the heavens and earth,"
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"A private man in Athens: this for him."
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness;"
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"Submits her to thy might; and of thee craves"
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs,"
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"Now hazarded to thy grace."
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"For Antony,"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I have no ears to his request. The queen"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend,"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Or take his life there: this if she perform,"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"She shall not sue unheard. So to them both."
III,XII,EUPHRONIUS,"Fortune pursue thee!"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Bring him through the bands."
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"From Antony win Cleopatra: promise,"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And in our name, what she requires; add more,"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"From thine invention, offers: women are not"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"In their best fortunes strong; but want will perjure"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The ne'er touch'd vestal: try thy cunning, Thyreus;"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Will answer as a law."
III,XII,THYREUS,"Caesar, I go."
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Observe how Antony becomes his flaw,"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And what thou think'st his very action speaks"
III,XII,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"In every power that moves."
III,XII,THYREUS,"Caesar, I shall."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"What shall we do, Enobarbus?"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Think, and die."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Is Antony or we in fault for this?"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Antony only, that would make his will"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Lord of his reason. What though you fled"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"From that great face of war, whose several ranges"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Frighted each other? why should he follow?"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The itch of his affection should not then"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Have nick'd his captainship; at such a point,"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"When half to half the world opposed, he being"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The meered question: 'twas a shame no less"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Than was his loss, to course your flying flags,"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And leave his navy gazing."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Prithee, peace."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Is that his answer?"
III,XIII,EUPHRONIUS,"Ay, my lord."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"The queen shall then have courtesy, so she"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Will yield us up."
III,XIII,EUPHRONIUS,"He says so."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Let her know't."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"To the boy Caesar send this grizzled head,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"And he will fill thy wishes to the brim"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"With principalities."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"That head, my lord?"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"To him again: tell him he wears the rose"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Of youth upon him; from which the world should note"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Something particular: his coin, ships, legions,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"May be a coward's; whose ministers would prevail"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Under the service of a child as soon"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"As i' the command of Caesar: I dare him therefore"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"To lay his gay comparisons apart,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"And answer me declined, sword against sword,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Ourselves alone. I'll write it: follow me."
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Unstate his happiness, and be staged to the show,"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Against a sworder! I see men's judgments are"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Do draw the inward quality after them,"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"To suffer all alike. That he should dream,"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Knowing all measures, the full Caesar will"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Answer his emptiness! Caesar, thou hast subdued"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"His judgment too."
III,XIII,Attendant,"A messenger from CAESAR."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"What, no more ceremony? See, my women!"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Against the blown rose may they stop their nose"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"That kneel'd unto the buds. Admit him, sir."
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The loyalty well held to fools does make"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Our faith mere folly: yet he that can endure"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Does conquer him that did his master conquer"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And earns a place i' the story."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Caesar's will?"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"Hear it apart."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"None but friends: say boldly."
III,XIII,THYREUS,"So, haply, are they friends to Antony."
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has;"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Or needs not us. If Caesar please, our master"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Will leap to be his friend: for us, you know,"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Whose he is we are, and that is, Caesar's."
III,XIII,THYREUS,"So."
III,XIII,THYREUS,"Thus then, thou most renown'd: Caesar entreats,"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"Not to consider in what case thou stand'st,"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"Further than he is Caesar."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Go on: right royal."
III,XIII,THYREUS,"He knows that you embrace not Antony"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"As you did love, but as you fear'd him."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"O!"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"The scars upon your honour, therefore, he"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"Does pity, as constrained blemishes,"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"Not as deserved."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"He is a god, and knows"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"What is most right: mine honour was not yielded,"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"But conquer'd merely."
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I will ask Antony. Sir, sir, thou art so leaky,"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Thy dearest quit thee."
III,XIII,THYREUS,"Shall I say to Caesar"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"What you require of him? for he partly begs"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"To be desired to give. It much would please him,"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"That of his fortunes you should make a staff"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"To lean upon: but it would warm his spirits,"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"To hear from me you had left Antony,"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"And put yourself under his shrowd,"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"The universal landlord."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"What's your name?"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"My name is Thyreus."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Most kind messenger,"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Say to great Caesar this: in deputation"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"I kiss his conquering hand: tell him, I am prompt"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"To lay my crown at 's feet, and there to kneel:"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Tell him from his all-obeying breath I hear"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"The doom of Egypt."
III,XIII,THYREUS,"'Tis your noblest course."
III,XIII,THYREUS,"Wisdom and fortune combating together,"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"If that the former dare but what it can,"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"No chance may shake it. Give me grace to lay"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"My duty on your hand."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Your Caesar's father oft,"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"When he hath mused of taking kingdoms in,"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place,"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"As it rain'd kisses."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Favours, by Jove that thunders!"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"What art thou, fellow?"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"One that but performs"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest"
III,XIII,THYREUS,"To have command obey'd."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Approach, there! Ah, you kite! Now, gods"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"and devils!"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Authority melts from me: of late, when I cried 'Ho!'"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"And cry 'Your will?' Have you no ears? I am"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Antony yet."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Take hence this Jack, and whip him."
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Than with an old one dying."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Moon and stars!"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Whip him. Were't twenty of the greatest tributaries"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"That do acknowledge Caesar, should I find them"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"So saucy with the hand of she here,--what's her name,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Since she was Cleopatra? Whip him, fellows,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"And whine aloud for mercy: take him hence."
III,XIII,THYREUS,"Mark Antony!"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Tug him away: being whipp'd,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Bring him again: this Jack of Caesar's shall"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Bear us an errand to him."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"You were half blasted ere I knew you: ha!"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Have I my pillow left unpress'd in Rome,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Forborne the getting of a lawful race,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"And by a gem of women, to be abused"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"By one that looks on feeders?"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Good my lord,--"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"You have been a boggler ever:"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"But when we in our viciousness grow hard--"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"O misery on't!--the wise gods seel our eyes;"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Adore our errors; laugh at's, while we strut"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"To our confusion."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"O, is't come to this?"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"I found you as a morsel cold upon"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Dead Caesar's trencher; nay, you were a fragment"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Of Cneius Pompey's; besides what hotter hours,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Unregister'd in vulgar fame, you have"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Luxuriously pick'd out: for, I am sure,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Though you can guess what temperance should be,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"You know not what it is."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Wherefore is this?"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"To let a fellow that will take rewards"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"And say 'God quit you!' be familiar with"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"My playfellow, your hand; this kingly seal"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"And plighter of high hearts! O, that I were"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"The horned herd! for I have savage cause;"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"And to proclaim it civilly, were like"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"A halter'd neck which does the hangman thank"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"For being yare about him."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Is he whipp'd?"
III,XIII,First Attendant,"Soundly, my lord."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Cried he? and begg'd a' pardon?"
III,XIII,First Attendant,"He did ask favour."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"If that thy father live, let him repent"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Thou wast not made his daughter; and be thou sorry"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"To follow Caesar in his triumph, since"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Thou hast been whipp'd for following him: henceforth"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"The white hand of a lady fever thee,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Shake thou to look on 't. Get thee back to Caesar,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Tell him thy entertainment: look, thou say"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"He makes me angry with him; for he seems"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Not what he knew I was: he makes me angry;"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"And at this time most easy 'tis to do't,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"When my good stars, that were my former guides,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Into the abysm of hell. If he mislike"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"My speech and what is done, tell him he has"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Hipparchus, my enfranched bondman, whom"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"As he shall like, to quit me: urge it thou:"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Hence with thy stripes, begone!"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Have you done yet?"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Alack, our terrene moon"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Is now eclipsed; and it portends alone"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"The fall of Antony!"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"I must stay his time."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"To flatter Caesar, would you mingle eyes"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"With one that ties his points?"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Not know me yet?"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Cold-hearted toward me?"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Ah, dear, if I be so,"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"From my cold heart let heaven engender hail,"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"And poison it in the source; and the first stone"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Drop in my neck: as it determines, so"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Dissolve my life! The next Caesarion smite!"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Till by degrees the memory of my womb,"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Together with my brave Egyptians all,"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"By the discandying of this pelleted storm,"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Lie graveless, till the flies and gnats of Nile"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Have buried them for prey!"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"I am satisfied."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Caesar sits down in Alexandria; where"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"I will oppose his fate. Our force by land"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Hath nobly held; our sever'd navy too"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Have knit again, and fleet, threatening most sea-like."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Where hast thou been, my heart? Dost thou hear, lady?"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"If from the field I shall return once more"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"To kiss these lips, I will appear in blood;"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"I and my sword will earn our chronicle:"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"There's hope in't yet."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"That's my brave lord!"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"I will be treble-sinew'd, hearted, breathed,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"And fight maliciously: for when mine hours"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"And send to darkness all that stop me. Come,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Let's have one other gaudy night: call to me"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"All my sad captains; fill our bowls once more;"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Let's mock the midnight bell."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"It is my birth-day:"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"I had thought to have held it poor: but, since my lord"
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"We will yet do well."
III,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Call all his noble captains to my lord."
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Do so, we'll speak to them; and to-night I'll force"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"The wine peep through their scars. Come on, my queen;"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"There's sap in't yet. The next time I do fight,"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"I'll make death love me; for I will contend"
III,XIII,MARK ANTONY,"Even with his pestilent scythe."
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious,"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Is to be frighted out of fear; and in that mood"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still,"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"A diminution in our captain's brain"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Restores his heart: when valour preys on reason,"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"It eats the sword it fights with. I will seek"
III,XIII,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Some way to leave him."
IV,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"He calls me boy; and chides, as he had power"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To beat me out of Egypt; my messenger"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"He hath whipp'd with rods; dares me to personal combat,"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Caesar to Antony: let the old ruffian know"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I have many other ways to die; meantime"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Laugh at his challenge."
IV,I,MECAENAS,"Caesar must think,"
IV,I,MECAENAS,"When one so great begins to rage, he's hunted"
IV,I,MECAENAS,"Even to falling. Give him no breath, but now"
IV,I,MECAENAS,"Make boot of his distraction: never anger"
IV,I,MECAENAS,"Made good guard for itself."
IV,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Let our best heads"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Know, that to-morrow the last of many battles"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"We mean to fight: within our files there are,"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Of those that served Mark Antony but late,"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Enough to fetch him in. See it done:"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And feast the army; we have store to do't,"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And they have earn'd the waste. Poor Antony!"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"He will not fight with me, Domitius."
IV,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"No."
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Why should he not?"
IV,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune,"
IV,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"He is twenty men to one."
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"To-morrow, soldier,"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"By sea and land I'll fight: or I will live,"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Or bathe my dying honour in the blood"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Shall make it live again. Woo't thou fight well?"
IV,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I'll strike, and cry 'Take all.'"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Well said; come on."
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Call forth my household servants: let's to-night"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Be bounteous at our meal."
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Give me thy hand,"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Thou hast been rightly honest;--so hast thou;--"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Thou,--and thou,--and thou:--you have served me well,"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"And kings have been your fellows."
IV,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"tricks which sorrow shoots"
IV,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Out of the mind."
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"And thou art honest too."
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"I wish I could be made so many men,"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"And all of you clapp'd up together in"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"An Antony, that I might do you service"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"So good as you have done."
IV,II,All,"The gods forbid!"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Well, my good fellows, wait on me to-night:"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Scant not my cups; and make as much of me"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"As when mine empire was your fellow too,"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"And suffer'd my command."
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Tend me to-night;"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"May be it is the period of your duty:"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Haply you shall not see me more; or if,"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"A mangled shadow: perchance to-morrow"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"You'll serve another master. I look on you"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends,"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"I turn you not away; but, like a master"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Married to your good service, stay till death:"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"And the gods yield you for't!"
IV,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"What mean you, sir,"
IV,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep;"
IV,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame,"
IV,II,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Transform us not to women."
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Ho, ho, ho!"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Now the witch take me, if I meant it thus!"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Grace grow where those drops fall!"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"My hearty friends,"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"You take me in too dolorous a sense;"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"For I spake to you for your comfort; did desire you"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"To burn this night with torches: know, my hearts,"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"I hope well of to-morrow; and will lead you"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Where rather I'll expect victorious life"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"Than death and honour. Let's to supper, come,"
IV,II,MARK ANTONY,"And drown consideration."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Brother, good night: to-morrow is the day."
IV,III,Second Soldier,"It will determine one way: fare you well."
IV,III,Second Soldier,"Heard you of nothing strange about the streets?"
IV,III,First Soldier,"Nothing. What news?"
IV,III,Second Soldier,"Belike 'tis but a rumour. Good night to you."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Well, sir, good night."
IV,III,Second Soldier,"Soldiers, have careful watch."
IV,III,Third Soldier,"And you. Good night, good night."
IV,III,Fourth Soldier,"Here we: and if to-morrow"
IV,III,Fourth Soldier,"Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope"
IV,III,Fourth Soldier,"Our landmen will stand up."
IV,III,Third Soldier,"'Tis a brave army,"
IV,III,Third Soldier,"And full of purpose."
IV,III,Fourth Soldier,"Peace! what noise?"
IV,III,First Soldier,"List, list!"
IV,III,Second Soldier,"Hark!"
IV,III,First Soldier,"Music i' the air."
IV,III,Third Soldier,"Under the earth."
IV,III,Fourth Soldier,"It signs well, does it not?"
IV,III,Third Soldier,"No."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Peace, I say!"
IV,III,First Soldier,"What should this mean?"
IV,III,Second Soldier,"'Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved,"
IV,III,Second Soldier,"Now leaves him."
IV,III,First Soldier,"Walk; let's see if other watchmen"
IV,III,First Soldier,"Do hear what we do?"
IV,III,Second Soldier,"How now, masters!"
IV,III,All,"How now! do you hear this?"
IV,III,First Soldier,"Ay; is't not strange?"
IV,III,Third Soldier,"Do you hear, masters? do you hear?"
IV,III,First Soldier,"Follow the noise so far as we have quarter;"
IV,III,First Soldier,"Let's see how it will give off."
IV,III,All,"Content. 'Tis strange."
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Eros! mine armour, Eros!"
IV,IV,CLEOPATRA,"Sleep a little."
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"No, my chuck. Eros, come; mine armour, Eros!"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Come good fellow, put mine iron on:"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"If fortune be not ours to-day, it is"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Because we brave her: come."
IV,IV,CLEOPATRA,"Nay, I'll help too."
IV,IV,CLEOPATRA,"What's this for?"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Ah, let be, let be! thou art"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"The armourer of my heart: false, false; this, this."
IV,IV,CLEOPATRA,"Sooth, la, I'll help: thus it must be."
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Well, well;"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"We shall thrive now. Seest thou, my good fellow?"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Go put on thy defences."
IV,IV,EROS,"Briefly, sir."
IV,IV,CLEOPATRA,"Is not this buckled well?"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Rarely, rarely:"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"He that unbuckles this, till we do please"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"To daff't for our repose, shall hear a storm."
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Thou fumblest, Eros; and my queen's a squire"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"More tight at this than thou: dispatch. O love,"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"That thou couldst see my wars to-day, and knew'st"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"The royal occupation! thou shouldst see"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"A workman in't."
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Good morrow to thee; welcome:"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"To business that we love we rise betime,"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"And go to't with delight."
IV,IV,Soldier,"A thousand, sir,"
IV,IV,Soldier,"Early though't be, have on their riveted trim,"
IV,IV,Soldier,"And at the port expect you."
IV,IV,Captain,"The morn is fair. Good morrow, general."
IV,IV,All,"Good morrow, general."
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"'Tis well blown, lads:"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"This morning, like the spirit of a youth"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"That means to be of note, begins betimes."
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"So, so; come, give me that: this way; well said."
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Fare thee well, dame, whate'er becomes of me:"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"This is a soldier's kiss: rebukeable"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"And worthy shameful cheque it were, to stand"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"On more mechanic compliment; I'll leave thee"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Now, like a man of steel. You that will fight,"
IV,IV,MARK ANTONY,"Follow me close; I'll bring you to't. Adieu."
IV,IV,CHARMIAN,"Please you, retire to your chamber."
IV,IV,CLEOPATRA,"Lead me."
IV,IV,CLEOPATRA,"He goes forth gallantly. That he and Caesar might"
IV,IV,CLEOPATRA,"Determine this great war in single fight!"
IV,IV,CLEOPATRA,"Then Antony,--but now--Well, on."
IV,V,Soldier,"The gods make this a happy day to Antony!"
IV,V,MARK ANTONY,"Would thou and those thy scars had once prevail'd"
IV,V,MARK ANTONY,"To make me fight at land!"
IV,V,Soldier,"Hadst thou done so,"
IV,V,Soldier,"The kings that have revolted, and the soldier"
IV,V,Soldier,"That has this morning left thee, would have still"
IV,V,Soldier,"Follow'd thy heels."
IV,V,MARK ANTONY,"Who's gone this morning?"
IV,V,Soldier,"Who!"
IV,V,Soldier,"One ever near thee: call for Enobarbus,"
IV,V,Soldier,"He shall not hear thee; or from Caesar's camp"
IV,V,Soldier,"Say 'I am none of thine.'"
IV,V,MARK ANTONY,"What say'st thou?"
IV,V,Soldier,"Sir,"
IV,V,Soldier,"He is with Caesar."
IV,V,EROS,"Sir, his chests and treasure"
IV,V,EROS,"He has not with him."
IV,V,MARK ANTONY,"Is he gone?"
IV,V,Soldier,"Most certain."
IV,V,MARK ANTONY,"Go, Eros, send his treasure after; do it;"
IV,V,MARK ANTONY,"Detain no jot, I charge thee: write to him--"
IV,V,MARK ANTONY,"I will subscribe--gentle adieus and greetings;"
IV,V,MARK ANTONY,"Say that I wish he never find more cause"
IV,V,MARK ANTONY,"To change a master. O, my fortunes have"
IV,V,MARK ANTONY,"Corrupted honest men! Dispatch.--Enobarbus!"
IV,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight:"
IV,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Our will is Antony be took alive;"
IV,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Make it so known."
IV,VI,AGRIPPA,"Caesar, I shall."
IV,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The time of universal peace is near:"
IV,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook'd world"
IV,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Shall bear the olive freely."
IV,VI,Messenger,"Antony"
IV,VI,Messenger,"Is come into the field."
IV,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Go charge Agrippa"
IV,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Plant those that have revolted in the van,"
IV,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That Antony may seem to spend his fury"
IV,VI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Upon himself."
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry on"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Affairs of Antony; there did persuade"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar,"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And leave his master Antony: for this pains"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Caesar hath hang'd him. Canidius and the rest"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"That fell away have entertainment, but"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"No honourable trust. I have done ill;"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Of which I do accuse myself so sorely,"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"That I will joy no more."
IV,VI,Soldier,"Enobarbus, Antony"
IV,VI,Soldier,"Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with"
IV,VI,Soldier,"His bounty overplus: the messenger"
IV,VI,Soldier,"Came on my guard; and at thy tent is now"
IV,VI,Soldier,"Unloading of his mules."
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I give it you."
IV,VI,Soldier,"Mock not, Enobarbus."
IV,VI,Soldier,"I tell you true: best you safed the bringer"
IV,VI,Soldier,"Out of the host; I must attend mine office,"
IV,VI,Soldier,"Or would have done't myself. Your emperor"
IV,VI,Soldier,"Continues still a Jove."
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I am alone the villain of the earth,"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And feel I am so most. O Antony,"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"My better service, when my turpitude"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart:"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do't, I feel."
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"I fight against thee! No: I will go seek"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Some ditch wherein to die; the foul'st best fits"
IV,VI,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"My latter part of life."
IV,VII,AGRIPPA,"Retire, we have engaged ourselves too far:"
IV,VII,AGRIPPA,"Caesar himself has work, and our oppression"
IV,VII,AGRIPPA,"Exceeds what we expected."
IV,VII,SCARUS,"O my brave emperor, this is fought indeed!"
IV,VII,SCARUS,"Had we done so at first, we had droven them home"
IV,VII,SCARUS,"With clouts about their heads."
IV,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Thou bleed'st apace."
IV,VII,SCARUS,"I had a wound here that was like a T,"
IV,VII,SCARUS,"But now 'tis made an H."
IV,VII,MARK ANTONY,"They do retire."
IV,VII,SCARUS,"We'll beat 'em into bench-holes: I have yet"
IV,VII,SCARUS,"Room for six scotches more."
IV,VII,EROS,"They are beaten, sir, and our advantage serves"
IV,VII,EROS,"For a fair victory."
IV,VII,SCARUS,"Let us score their backs,"
IV,VII,SCARUS,"And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind:"
IV,VII,SCARUS,"'Tis sport to maul a runner."
IV,VII,MARK ANTONY,"I will reward thee"
IV,VII,MARK ANTONY,"Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten-fold"
IV,VII,MARK ANTONY,"For thy good valour. Come thee on."
IV,VII,SCARUS,"I'll halt after."
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"We have beat him to his camp: run one before,"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"And let the queen know of our gests. To-morrow,"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Before the sun shall see 's, we'll spill the blood"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"That has to-day escaped. I thank you all;"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"For doughty-handed are you, and have fought"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Not as you served the cause, but as 't had been"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Each man's like mine; you have shown all Hectors."
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends,"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Tell them your feats; whilst they with joyful tears"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Wash the congealment from your wounds, and kiss"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"The honour'd gashes whole."
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Give me thy hand"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts,"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Make her thanks bless thee."
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"O thou day o' the world,"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all,"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Through proof of harness to my heart, and there"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Ride on the pants triumphing!"
IV,VIII,CLEOPATRA,"Lord of lords!"
IV,VIII,CLEOPATRA,"O infinite virtue, comest thou smiling from"
IV,VIII,CLEOPATRA,"The world's great snare uncaught?"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"My nightingale,"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"We have beat them to their beds. What, girl!"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"though grey"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha' we"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man;"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand:"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Kiss it, my warrior: he hath fought to-day"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"As if a god, in hate of mankind, had"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Destroy'd in such a shape."
IV,VIII,CLEOPATRA,"I'll give thee, friend,"
IV,VIII,CLEOPATRA,"An armour all of gold; it was a king's."
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"He has deserved it, were it carbuncled"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Like holy Phoebus' car. Give me thy hand:"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Through Alexandria make a jolly march;"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them:"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Had our great palace the capacity"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"To camp this host, we all would sup together,"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"And drink carouses to the next day's fate,"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Which promises royal peril. Trumpeters,"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"With brazen din blast you the city's ear;"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Make mingle with rattling tabourines;"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together,"
IV,VIII,MARK ANTONY,"Applauding our approach."
IV,IX,First Soldier,"If we be not relieved within this hour,"
IV,IX,First Soldier,"We must return to the court of guard: the night"
IV,IX,First Soldier,"Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle"
IV,IX,First Soldier,"By the second hour i' the morn."
IV,IX,Second Soldier,"This last day was"
IV,IX,Second Soldier,"A shrewd one to's."
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"O, bear me witness, night,--"
IV,IX,Third Soldier,"What man is this?"
IV,IX,Second Soldier,"Stand close, and list him."
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"When men revolted shall upon record"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Before thy face repent!"
IV,IX,First Soldier,"Enobarbus!"
IV,IX,Third Soldier,"Peace!"
IV,IX,Third Soldier,"Hark further."
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"That life, a very rebel to my will,"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"May hang no longer on me: throw my heart"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Against the flint and hardness of my fault:"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Nobler than my revolt is infamous,"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"Forgive me in thine own particular;"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"But let the world rank me in register"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"A master-leaver and a fugitive:"
IV,IX,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,"O Antony! O Antony!"
IV,IX,Second Soldier,"Let's speak To him."
IV,IX,First Soldier,"Let's hear him, for the things he speaks"
IV,IX,First Soldier,"May concern Caesar."
IV,IX,Third Soldier,"Let's do so. But he sleeps."
IV,IX,First Soldier,"Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his"
IV,IX,First Soldier,"Was never yet for sleep."
IV,IX,Second Soldier,"Go we to him."
IV,IX,Third Soldier,"Awake, sir, awake; speak to us."
IV,IX,Second Soldier,"Hear you, sir?"
IV,IX,First Soldier,"The hand of death hath raught him."
IV,IX,First Soldier,"Hark! the drums"
IV,IX,First Soldier,"Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him"
IV,IX,First Soldier,"To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour"
IV,IX,First Soldier,"Is fully out."
IV,IX,Third Soldier,"Come on, then;"
IV,IX,Third Soldier,"He may recover yet."
IV,X,MARK ANTONY,"Their preparation is to-day by sea;"
IV,X,MARK ANTONY,"We please them not by land."
IV,X,SCARUS,"For both, my lord."
IV,X,MARK ANTONY,"I would they'ld fight i' the fire or i' the air;"
IV,X,MARK ANTONY,"We'ld fight there too. But this it is; our foot"
IV,X,MARK ANTONY,"Upon the hills adjoining to the city"
IV,X,MARK ANTONY,"Shall stay with us: order for sea is given;"
IV,X,MARK ANTONY,"They have put forth the haven"
IV,X,MARK ANTONY,"Where their appointment we may best discover,"
IV,X,MARK ANTONY,"And look on their endeavour."
IV,XI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"But being charged, we will be still by land,"
IV,XI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Which, as I take't, we shall; for his best force"
IV,XI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales,"
IV,XI,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And hold our best advantage."
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"does stand,"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Straight, how 'tis like to go."
IV,XII,SCARUS,"Swallows have built"
IV,XII,SCARUS,"In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers"
IV,XII,SCARUS,"Say they know not, they cannot tell; look grimly,"
IV,XII,SCARUS,"And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony"
IV,XII,SCARUS,"Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts,"
IV,XII,SCARUS,"His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear,"
IV,XII,SCARUS,"Of what he has, and has not."
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"All is lost;"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"They cast their caps up and carouse together"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Like friends long lost. Triple-turn'd whore!"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"'tis thou"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Hast sold me to this novice; and my heart"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly;"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"For when I am revenged upon my charm,"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"I have done all. Bid them all fly; begone."
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more:"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Fortune and Antony part here; even here"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is bark'd,"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"That overtopp'd them all. Betray'd I am:"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,--"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home;"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,--"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose,"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Beguiled me to the very heart of loss."
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"What, Eros, Eros!"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Ah, thou spell! Avaunt!"
IV,XII,CLEOPATRA,"Why is my lord enraged against his love?"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving,"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"And blemish Caesar's triumph. Let him take thee,"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians:"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Of all thy sex; most monster-like, be shown"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"For poor'st diminutives, for doits; and let"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Patient Octavia plough thy visage up"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"With her prepared nails."
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"'Tis well thou'rt gone,"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"If it be well to live; but better 'twere"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Might have prevented many. Eros, ho!"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"The shirt of Nessus is upon me: teach me,"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage:"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon;"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"And with those hands, that grasp'd the heaviest club,"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die:"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall"
IV,XII,MARK ANTONY,"Under this plot; she dies for't. Eros, ho!"
IV,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Help me, my women! O, he is more mad"
IV,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thessaly"
IV,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Was never so emboss'd."
IV,XIII,CHARMIAN,"To the monument!"
IV,XIII,CHARMIAN,"There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead."
IV,XIII,CHARMIAN,"The soul and body rive not more in parting"
IV,XIII,CHARMIAN,"Than greatness going off."
IV,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"To the monument!"
IV,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself;"
IV,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"Say, that the last I spoke was 'Antony,'"
IV,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"And word it, prithee, piteously: hence, Mardian,"
IV,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"And bring me how he takes my death."
IV,XIII,CLEOPATRA,"To the monument!"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Eros, thou yet behold'st me?"
IV,XIV,EROS,"Ay, noble lord."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish;"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"A forked mountain, or blue promontory"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"With trees upon't, that nod unto the world,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"these signs;"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"They are black vesper's pageants."
IV,XIV,EROS,"Ay, my lord,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"That which is now a horse, even with a thought"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"As water is in water."
IV,XIV,EROS,"It does, my lord."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"My good knave Eros, now thy captain is"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Even such a body: here I am Antony:"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"I made these wars for Egypt: and the queen,--"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine;"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Which whilst it was mine had annex'd unto't"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"A million more, now lost,--she, Eros, has"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Pack'd cards with Caesar, and false-play'd my glory"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Unto an enemy's triumph."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Nay, weep not, gentle Eros; there is left us"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Ourselves to end ourselves."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"O! thy vile lady!"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"She has robb'd me of my sword."
IV,XIV,MARDIAN,"No, Antony;"
IV,XIV,MARDIAN,"My mistress loved thee, and her fortunes mingled"
IV,XIV,MARDIAN,"With thine entirely."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Hence, saucy eunuch; peace!"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"She hath betray'd me and shall die the death."
IV,XIV,MARDIAN,"Death of one person can be paid but once,"
IV,XIV,MARDIAN,"And that she has discharged: what thou wouldst do"
IV,XIV,MARDIAN,"Is done unto thy hand: the last she spake"
IV,XIV,MARDIAN,"Was 'Antony! most noble Antony!'"
IV,XIV,MARDIAN,"Then in the midst a tearing groan did break"
IV,XIV,MARDIAN,"The name of Antony; it was divided"
IV,XIV,MARDIAN,"Between her heart and lips: she render'd life,"
IV,XIV,MARDIAN,"Thy name so buried in her."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Dead, then?"
IV,XIV,MARDIAN,"Dead."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"And we must sleep."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"That thou depart'st hence safe,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Does pay thy labour richly; go."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Off, pluck off:"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides!"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Heart, once be stronger than thy continent,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Crack thy frail case! Apace, Eros, apace."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"No more a soldier: bruised pieces, go;"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"You have been nobly borne. From me awhile."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Weep for my pardon. So it must be, for now"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"All length is torture: since the torch is out,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Lie down, and stray no farther: now all labour"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Mars what it does; yea, very force entangles"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Itself with strength: seal then, and all is done."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Eros!--I come, my queen:--Eros!--Stay for me:"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze:"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Dido and her AEneas shall want troops,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"And all the haunt be ours. Come, Eros, Eros!"
IV,XIV,EROS,"What would my lord?"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Since Cleopatra died,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"I have lived in such dishonour, that the gods"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Quarter'd the world, and o'er green Neptune's back"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"With ships made cities, condemn myself to lack"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"The courage of a woman; less noble mind"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Than she which by her death our Caesar tells"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"'I am conqueror of myself.' Thou art sworn, Eros,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"That, when the exigent should come, which now"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Is come indeed, when I should see behind me"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"The inevitable prosecution of"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Disgrace and horror, that, on my command,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Thou then wouldst kill me: do't; the time is come:"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Thou strikest not me, 'tis Caesar thou defeat'st."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Put colour in thy cheek."
IV,XIV,EROS,"The gods withhold me!"
IV,XIV,EROS,"Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts,"
IV,XIV,EROS,"Though enemy, lost aim, and could not?"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Eros,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Wouldst thou be window'd in great Rome and see"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"His corrigible neck, his face subdued"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"To penetrative shame, whilst the wheel'd seat"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"His baseness that ensued?"
IV,XIV,EROS,"I would not see't."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Come, then; for with a wound I must be cured."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Draw that thy honest sword, which thou hast worn"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Most useful for thy country."
IV,XIV,EROS,"O, sir, pardon me!"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"When I did make thee free, sworest thou not then"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once;"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Or thy precedent services are all"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"But accidents unpurposed. Draw, and come."
IV,XIV,EROS,"Turn from me, then, that noble countenance,"
IV,XIV,EROS,"Wherein the worship of the whole world lies."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Lo thee!"
IV,XIV,EROS,"My sword is drawn."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Then let it do at once"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"The thing why thou hast drawn it."
IV,XIV,EROS,"My dear master,"
IV,XIV,EROS,"My captain, and my emperor, let me say,"
IV,XIV,EROS,"Before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"'Tis said, man; and farewell."
IV,XIV,EROS,"Farewell, great chief. Shall I strike now?"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Now, Eros."
IV,XIV,EROS,"Why, there then: thus I do escape the sorrow"
IV,XIV,EROS,"Of Antony's death."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Thrice-nobler than myself!"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Thou teachest me, O valiant Eros, what"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"I should, and thou couldst not. My queen and Eros"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Have by their brave instruction got upon me"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"A nobleness in record: but I will be"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"A bridegroom in my death, and run into't"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"As to a lover's bed. Come, then; and, Eros,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Thy master dies thy scholar: to do thus"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"I learn'd of thee. How! not dead? not dead?"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"The guard, ho! O, dispatch me!"
IV,XIV,First Guard,"What's the noise?"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"I have done my work in, friends: O, make an end"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Of what I have begun."
IV,XIV,Second Guard,"The star is fall'n."
IV,XIV,First Guard,"And time is at his period."
IV,XIV,All,"Alas, and woe!"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Let him that loves me strike me dead."
IV,XIV,First Guard,"Not I."
IV,XIV,Second Guard,"Nor I."
IV,XIV,Third Guard,"Nor any one."
IV,XIV,DERCETAS,"Thy death and fortunes bid thy followers fly."
IV,XIV,DERCETAS,"This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings,"
IV,XIV,DERCETAS,"Shall enter me with him."
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"Where's Antony?"
IV,XIV,DERCETAS,"There, Diomed there."
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"Lives he?"
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"Wilt thou not answer, man?"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Art thou there, Diomed? Draw thy sword, and give me"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Sufficing strokes for death."
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"Most absolute lord,"
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"My mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"When did she send thee?"
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"Now, my lord."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Where is she?"
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"Lock'd in her monument. She had a prophesying fear"
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"Of what hath come to pass: for when she saw--"
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"Which never shall be found--you did suspect"
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"She had disposed with Caesar, and that your rage"
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"Would not be purged, she sent you word she was dead;"
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"But, fearing since how it might work, hath sent"
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"Me to proclaim the truth; and I am come,"
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"I dread, too late."
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Too late, good Diomed: call my guard, I prithee."
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"What, ho, the emperor's guard! The guard, what, ho!"
IV,XIV,DIOMEDES,"Come, your lord calls!"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides;"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"'Tis the last service that I shall command you."
IV,XIV,First Guard,"Woe, woe are we, sir, you may not live to wear"
IV,XIV,First Guard,"All your true followers out."
IV,XIV,All,"Most heavy day!"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"To grace it with your sorrows: bid that welcome"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Which comes to punish us, and we punish it"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up:"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"I have led you oft: carry me now, good friends,"
IV,XIV,MARK ANTONY,"And have my thanks for all."
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"O Charmian, I will never go from hence."
IV,XV,CHARMIAN,"Be comforted, dear madam."
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"No, I will not:"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"All strange and terrible events are welcome,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"But comforts we despise; our size of sorrow,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"As that which makes it."
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"How now! is he dead?"
IV,XV,DIOMEDES,"His death's upon him, but not dead."
IV,XV,DIOMEDES,"Look out o' the other side your monument;"
IV,XV,DIOMEDES,"His guard have brought him thither."
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"O sun,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Burn the great sphere thou movest in!"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"darkling stand"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"The varying shore o' the world. O Antony,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Antony, Antony! Help, Charmian, help, Iras, help;"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Help, friends below; let's draw him hither."
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"Peace!"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"Not Caesar's valour hath o'erthrown Antony,"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"But Antony's hath triumph'd on itself."
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"So it should be, that none but Antony"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Should conquer Antony; but woe 'tis so!"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"I am dying, Egypt, dying; only"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"I here importune death awhile, until"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"Of many thousand kisses the poor last"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"I lay up thy lips."
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"I dare not, dear,--"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Dear my lord, pardon,--I dare not,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Lest I be taken: not the imperious show"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Be brooch'd with me; if knife, drugs,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"serpents, have"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe:"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Demuring upon me. But come, come, Antony,--"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Help me, my women,--we must draw thee up:"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Assist, good friends."
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"O, quick, or I am gone."
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Here's sport indeed! How heavy weighs my lord!"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Our strength is all gone into heaviness,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"That makes the weight: had I great Juno's power,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch thee up,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"And set thee by Jove's side. Yet come a little,--"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Wishes were ever fools,--O, come, come, come;"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"And welcome, welcome! die where thou hast lived:"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Quicken with kissing: had my lips that power,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Thus would I wear them out."
IV,XV,All,"A heavy sight!"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"I am dying, Egypt, dying:"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"Give me some wine, and let me speak a little."
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"No, let me speak; and let me rail so high,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Provoked by my offence."
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"One word, sweet queen:"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"Of Caesar seek your honour, with your safety. O!"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"They do not go together."
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"Gentle, hear me:"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"None about Caesar trust but Proculeius."
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"My resolution and my hands I'll trust;"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"None about Caesar."
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"The miserable change now at my end"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"Lament nor sorrow at; but please your thoughts"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"In feeding them with those my former fortunes"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"Wherein I lived, the greatest prince o' the world,"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"The noblest; and do now not basely die,"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"Not cowardly put off my helmet to"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"My countryman,--a Roman by a Roman"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"Valiantly vanquish'd. Now my spirit is going;"
IV,XV,MARK ANTONY,"I can no more."
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Noblest of men, woo't die?"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"In this dull world, which in thy absence is"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"No better than a sty? O, see, my women,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord!"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"O, wither'd is the garland of the war,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Are level now with men; the odds is gone,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"And there is nothing left remarkable"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Beneath the visiting moon."
IV,XV,CHARMIAN,"O, quietness, lady!"
IV,XV,IRAS,"She is dead too, our sovereign."
IV,XV,CHARMIAN,"Lady!"
IV,XV,IRAS,"Madam!"
IV,XV,CHARMIAN,"O madam, madam, madam!"
IV,XV,IRAS,"Royal Egypt, Empress!"
IV,XV,CHARMIAN,"Peace, peace, Iras!"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"No more, but e'en a woman, and commanded"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"By such poor passion as the maid that milks"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"And does the meanest chares. It were for me"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods;"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"To tell them that this world did equal theirs"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Till they had stol'n our jewel. All's but naught;"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Patience is scottish, and impatience does"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Become a dog that's mad: then is it sin"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"To rush into the secret house of death,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Ere death dare come to us? How do you, women?"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"What, what! good cheer! Why, how now, Charmian!"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"My noble girls! Ah, women, women, look,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Our lamp is spent, it's out! Good sirs, take heart:"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"We'll bury him; and then, what's brave,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"what's noble,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"And make death proud to take us. Come, away:"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"This case of that huge spirit now is cold:"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"Ah, women, women! come; we have no friend"
IV,XV,CLEOPATRA,"But resolution, and the briefest end."
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield;"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The pauses that he makes."
V,I,DOLABELLA,"Caesar, I shall."
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Wherefore is that? and what art thou that darest"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Appear thus to us?"
V,I,DERCETAS,"I am call'd Dercetas;"
V,I,DERCETAS,"Mark Antony I served, who best was worthy"
V,I,DERCETAS,"Best to be served: whilst he stood up and spoke,"
V,I,DERCETAS,"He was my master; and I wore my life"
V,I,DERCETAS,"To spend upon his haters. If thou please"
V,I,DERCETAS,"To take me to thee, as I was to him"
V,I,DERCETAS,"I'll be to Caesar; if thou pleasest not,"
V,I,DERCETAS,"I yield thee up my life."
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"What is't thou say'st?"
V,I,DERCETAS,"I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead."
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The breaking of so great a thing should make"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"A greater crack: the round world"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Should have shook lions into civil streets,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And citizens to their dens: the death of Antony"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Is not a single doom; in the name lay"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"A moiety of the world."
V,I,DERCETAS,"He is dead, Caesar:"
V,I,DERCETAS,"Not by a public minister of justice,"
V,I,DERCETAS,"Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand,"
V,I,DERCETAS,"Which writ his honour in the acts it did,"
V,I,DERCETAS,"Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it,"
V,I,DERCETAS,"Splitted the heart. This is his sword;"
V,I,DERCETAS,"I robb'd his wound of it; behold it stain'd"
V,I,DERCETAS,"With his most noble blood."
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Look you sad, friends?"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The gods rebuke me, but it is tidings"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To wash the eyes of kings."
V,I,AGRIPPA,"And strange it is,"
V,I,AGRIPPA,"That nature must compel us to lament"
V,I,AGRIPPA,"Our most persisted deeds."
V,I,MECAENAS,"His taints and honours"
V,I,MECAENAS,"Waged equal with him."
V,I,AGRIPPA,"A rarer spirit never"
V,I,AGRIPPA,"Did steer humanity: but you, gods, will give us"
V,I,AGRIPPA,"Some faults to make us men. Caesar is touch'd."
V,I,MECAENAS,"When such a spacious mirror's set before him,"
V,I,MECAENAS,"He needs must see himself."
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"O Antony!"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I have follow'd thee to this; but we do lance"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Diseases in our bodies: I must perforce"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Have shown to thee such a declining day,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Or look on thine; we could not stall together"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"In the whole world: but yet let me lament,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That thou, my brother, my competitor"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"In top of all design, my mate in empire,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Friend and companion in the front of war,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The arm of mine own body, and the heart"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Where mine his thoughts did kindle,--that our stars,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Unreconciliable, should divide"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends--"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"But I will tell you at some meeter season:"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The business of this man looks out of him;"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"We'll hear him what he says. Whence are you?"
V,I,Egyptian,"A poor Egyptian yet. The queen my mistress,"
V,I,Egyptian,"Confined in all she has, her monument,"
V,I,Egyptian,"Of thy intents desires instruction,"
V,I,Egyptian,"That she preparedly may frame herself"
V,I,Egyptian,"To the way she's forced to."
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Bid her have good heart:"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"She soon shall know of us, by some of ours,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"How honourable and how kindly we"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Determine for her; for Caesar cannot live"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To be ungentle."
V,I,Egyptian,"So the gods preserve thee!"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Come hither, Proculeius. Go and say,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"We purpose her no shame: give her what comforts"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The quality of her passion shall require,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"She do defeat us; for her life in Rome"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Would be eternal in our triumph: go,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And with your speediest bring us what she says,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And how you find of her."
V,I,PROCULEIUS,"Caesar, I shall."
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Gallus, go you along."
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Where's Dolabella,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To second Proculeius?"
V,I,All,"Dolabella!"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Let him alone, for I remember now"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"How he's employ'd: he shall in time be ready."
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Go with me to my tent; where you shall see"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"How hardly I was drawn into this war;"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"How calm and gentle I proceeded still"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"In all my writings: go with me, and see"
V,I,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"What I can show in this."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"My desolation does begin to make"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar;"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"A minister of her will: and it is great"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"To do that thing that ends all other deeds;"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Which shackles accidents and bolts up change;"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Which sleeps, and never palates more the dug,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"The beggar's nurse and Caesar's."
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Caesar sends greeting to the Queen of Egypt;"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"And bids thee study on what fair demands"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Thou mean'st to have him grant thee."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"What's thy name?"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"My name is Proculeius."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Antony"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Did tell me of you, bade me trust you; but"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I do not greatly care to be deceived,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"That have no use for trusting. If your master"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"That majesty, to keep decorum, must"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"No less beg than a kingdom: if he please"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"To give me conquer'd Egypt for my son,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"He gives me so much of mine own, as I"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Will kneel to him with thanks."
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Be of good cheer;"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"You're fall'n into a princely hand, fear nothing:"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Make your full reference freely to my lord,"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Who is so full of grace, that it flows over"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"On all that need: let me report to him"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Your sweet dependency; and you shall find"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"A conqueror that will pray in aid for kindness,"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Where he for grace is kneel'd to."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Pray you, tell him"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I am his fortune's vassal, and I send him"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"The greatness he has got. I hourly learn"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"A doctrine of obedience; and would gladly"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Look him i' the face."
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"This I'll report, dear lady."
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Have comfort, for I know your plight is pitied"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Of him that caused it."
V,II,GALLUS,"You see how easily she may be surprised:"
V,II,GALLUS,"Guard her till Caesar come."
V,II,IRAS,"Royal queen!"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"O Cleopatra! thou art taken, queen:"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Quick, quick, good hands."
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Hold, worthy lady, hold:"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Do not yourself such wrong, who are in this"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Relieved, but not betray'd."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"What, of death too,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"That rids our dogs of languish?"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Cleopatra,"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Do not abuse my master's bounty by"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"The undoing of yourself: let the world see"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"His nobleness well acted, which your death"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Will never let come forth."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Where art thou, death?"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Come hither, come! come, come, and take a queen"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Worthy many babes and beggars!"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"O, temperance, lady!"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Sir, I will eat no meat, I'll not drink, sir;"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"If idle talk will once be necessary,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I'll not sleep neither: this mortal house I'll ruin,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Do Caesar what he can. Know, sir, that I"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court;"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Nor once be chastised with the sober eye"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Of dull Octavia. Shall they hoist me up"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"And show me to the shouting varletry"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Blow me into abhorring! rather make"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"My country's high pyramides my gibbet,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"And hang me up in chains!"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"You do extend"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"These thoughts of horror further than you shall"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"Find cause in Caesar."
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Proculeius,"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"What thou hast done thy master Caesar knows,"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"And he hath sent for thee: for the queen,"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"I'll take her to my guard."
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"So, Dolabella,"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"It shall content me best: be gentle to her."
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"To Caesar I will speak what you shall please,"
V,II,PROCULEIUS,"If you'll employ me to him."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Say, I would die."
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Most noble empress, you have heard of me?"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I cannot tell."
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Assuredly you know me."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"No matter, sir, what I have heard or known."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams;"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Is't not your trick?"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"I understand not, madam."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I dream'd there was an Emperor Antony:"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"O, such another sleep, that I might see"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"But such another man!"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"If it might please ye,--"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"His face was as the heavens; and therein stuck"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"A sun and moon, which kept their course,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"and lighted"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"The little O, the earth."
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Most sovereign creature,--"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Crested the world: his voice was propertied"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"But when he meant to quail and shake the orb,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"That grew the more by reaping: his delights"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"The element they lived in: in his livery"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"As plates dropp'd from his pocket."
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Cleopatra!"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Think you there was, or might be, such a man"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"As this I dream'd of?"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Gentle madam, no."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"You lie, up to the hearing of the gods."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"But, if there be, or ever were, one such,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"And Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Condemning shadows quite."
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Hear me, good madam."
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Your loss is as yourself, great; and you bear it"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"As answering to the weight: would I might never"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"O'ertake pursued success, but I do feel,"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"By the rebound of yours, a grief that smites"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"My very heart at root."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I thank you, sir,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Know you what Caesar means to do with me?"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"I am loath to tell you what I would you knew."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Nay, pray you, sir,--"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Though he be honourable,--"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"He'll lead me, then, in triumph?"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Madam, he will; I know't."
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Which is the Queen of Egypt?"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"It is the emperor, madam."
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Arise, you shall not kneel:"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I pray you, rise; rise, Egypt."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Sir, the gods"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Will have it thus; my master and my lord"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I must obey."
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Take to you no hard thoughts:"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"The record of what injuries you did us,"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Though written in our flesh, we shall remember"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"As things but done by chance."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Sole sir o' the world,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I cannot project mine own cause so well"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"To make it clear; but do confess I have"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Been laden with like frailties which before"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Have often shamed our sex."
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Cleopatra, know,"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"We will extenuate rather than enforce:"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"If you apply yourself to our intents,"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Which towards you are most gentle, you shall find"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"A benefit in this change; but if you seek"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To lay on me a cruelty, by taking"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Antony's course, you shall bereave yourself"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Of my good purposes, and put your children"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"To that destruction which I'll guard them from,"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"If thereon you rely. I'll take my leave."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"And may, through all the world: 'tis yours; and we,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Your scutcheons and your signs of conquest, shall"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Hang in what place you please. Here, my good lord."
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"You shall advise me in all for Cleopatra."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"This is the brief of money, plate, and jewels,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I am possess'd of: 'tis exactly valued;"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Not petty things admitted. Where's Seleucus?"
V,II,SELEUCUS,"Here, madam."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"This is my treasurer: let him speak, my lord,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Upon his peril, that I have reserved"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"To myself nothing. Speak the truth, Seleucus."
V,II,SELEUCUS,"Madam,"
V,II,SELEUCUS,"I had rather seal my lips, than, to my peril,"
V,II,SELEUCUS,"Speak that which is not."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"What have I kept back?"
V,II,SELEUCUS,"Enough to purchase what you have made known."
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Nay, blush not, Cleopatra; I approve"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Your wisdom in the deed."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"See, Caesar! O, behold,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"How pomp is follow'd! mine will now be yours;"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"And, should we shift estates, yours would be mine."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"The ingratitude of this Seleucus does"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Even make me wild: O slave, of no more trust"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Than love that's hired! What, goest thou back? thou shalt"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Go back, I warrant thee; but I'll catch thine eyes,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Though they had wings: slave, soulless villain, dog!"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"O rarely base!"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Good queen, let us entreat you."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"O Caesar, what a wounding shame is this,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"That thou, vouchsafing here to visit me,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Doing the honour of thy lordliness"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"To one so meek, that mine own servant should"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Parcel the sum of my disgraces by"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Addition of his envy! Say, good Caesar,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"That I some lady trifles have reserved,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Immoment toys, things of such dignity"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"As we greet modern friends withal; and say,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Some nobler token I have kept apart"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"For Livia and Octavia, to induce"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Their mediation; must I be unfolded"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"With one that I have bred? The gods! it smites me"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Beneath the fall I have."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Prithee, go hence;"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Or I shall show the cinders of my spirits"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Through the ashes of my chance: wert thou a man,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Thou wouldst have mercy on me."
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Forbear, Seleucus."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"For things that others do; and, when we fall,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"We answer others' merits in our name,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Are therefore to be pitied."
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Cleopatra,"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Not what you have reserved, nor what acknowledged,"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Put we i' the roll of conquest: still be't yours,"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Bestow it at your pleasure; and believe,"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Caesar's no merchant, to make prize with you"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Of things that merchants sold. Therefore be cheer'd;"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Make not your thoughts your prisons: no, dear queen;"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"For we intend so to dispose you as"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Yourself shall give us counsel. Feed, and sleep:"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Our care and pity is so much upon you,"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That we remain your friend; and so, adieu."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"My master, and my lord!"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Not so. Adieu."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Be noble to myself: but, hark thee, Charmian."
V,II,IRAS,"Finish, good lady; the bright day is done,"
V,II,IRAS,"And we are for the dark."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Hie thee again:"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I have spoke already, and it is provided;"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Go put it to the haste."
V,II,CHARMIAN,"Madam, I will."
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Where is the queen?"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"Behold, sir."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Dolabella!"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Madam, as thereto sworn by your command,"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Which my love makes religion to obey,"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"I tell you this: Caesar through Syria"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Intends his journey; and within three days"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"You with your children will he send before:"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Make your best use of this: I have perform'd"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Your pleasure and my promise."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Dolabella,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I shall remain your debtor."
V,II,DOLABELLA,"I your servant,"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Adieu, good queen; I must attend on Caesar."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Farewell, and thanks."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Now, Iras, what think'st thou?"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Thou, an Egyptian puppet, shalt be shown"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"In Rome, as well as I mechanic slaves"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Uplift us to the view; in their thick breaths,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Rank of gross diet, shall be enclouded,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"And forced to drink their vapour."
V,II,IRAS,"The gods forbid!"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Nay, 'tis most certain, Iras: saucy lictors"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Will catch at us, like strumpets; and scald rhymers"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Ballad us out o' tune: the quick comedians"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Extemporally will stage us, and present"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Our Alexandrian revels; Antony"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I' the posture of a whore."
V,II,IRAS,"O the good gods!"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Nay, that's certain."
V,II,IRAS,"I'll never see 't; for, I am sure, my nails"
V,II,IRAS,"Are stronger than mine eyes."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Why, that's the way"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"To fool their preparation, and to conquer"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Their most absurd intents."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Now, Charmian!"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Show me, my women, like a queen: go fetch"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"My best attires: I am again for Cydnus,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"To meet Mark Antony: sirrah Iras, go."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Now, noble Charmian, we'll dispatch indeed;"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"And, when thou hast done this chare, I'll give thee leave"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"To play till doomsday. Bring our crown and all."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Wherefore's this noise?"
V,II,Guard,"Here is a rural fellow"
V,II,Guard,"That will not be denied your highness presence:"
V,II,Guard,"He brings you figs."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Let him come in."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"What poor an instrument"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"May do a noble deed! he brings me liberty."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"My resolution's placed, and I have nothing"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Of woman in me: now from head to foot"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I am marble-constant; now the fleeting moon"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"No planet is of mine."
V,II,Guard,"This is the man."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Avoid, and leave him."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"That kills and pains not?"
V,II,Clown,"Truly, I have him: but I would not be the party"
V,II,Clown,"that should desire you to touch him, for his biting"
V,II,Clown,"is immortal; those that do die of it do seldom or"
V,II,Clown,"never recover."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Rememberest thou any that have died on't?"
V,II,Clown,"Very many, men and women too. I heard of one of"
V,II,Clown,"them no longer than yesterday: a very honest woman,"
V,II,Clown,"but something given to lie; as a woman should not"
V,II,Clown,"do, but in the way of honesty: how she died of the"
V,II,Clown,"biting of it, what pain she felt: truly, she makes"
V,II,Clown,"a very good report o' the worm; but he that will"
V,II,Clown,"believe all that they say, shall never be saved by"
V,II,Clown,"half that they do: but this is most fallible, the"
V,II,Clown,"worm's an odd worm."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Get thee hence; farewell."
V,II,Clown,"I wish you all joy of the worm."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Farewell."
V,II,Clown,"You must think this, look you, that the worm will"
V,II,Clown,"do his kind."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Ay, ay; farewell."
V,II,Clown,"Look you, the worm is not to be trusted but in the"
V,II,Clown,"keeping of wise people; for, indeed, there is no"
V,II,Clown,"goodness in worm."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Take thou no care; it shall be heeded."
V,II,Clown,"Very good. Give it nothing, I pray you, for it is"
V,II,Clown,"not worth the feeding."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Will it eat me?"
V,II,Clown,"You must not think I am so simple but I know the"
V,II,Clown,"devil himself will not eat a woman: I know that a"
V,II,Clown,"woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her"
V,II,Clown,"not. But, truly, these same whoreson devils do the"
V,II,Clown,"gods great harm in their women; for in every ten"
V,II,Clown,"that they make, the devils mar five."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Well, get thee gone; farewell."
V,II,Clown,"Yes, forsooth: I wish you joy o' the worm."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Immortal longings in me: now no more"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip:"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Antony call; I see him rouse himself"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"To praise my noble act; I hear him mock"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"To excuse their after wrath: husband, I come:"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Now to that name my courage prove my title!"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I am fire and air; my other elements"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"I give to baser life. So; have you done?"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Farewell, kind Charmian; Iras, long farewell."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall?"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"If thou and nature can so gently part,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Which hurts, and is desired. Dost thou lie still?"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"It is not worth leave-taking."
V,II,CHARMIAN,"Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain; that I may say,"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"The gods themselves do weep!"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"This proves me base:"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"If she first meet the curled Antony,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"He'll make demand of her, and spend that kiss"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Which is my heaven to have. Come, thou"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"mortal wretch,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Unpolicied!"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"O eastern star!"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Peace, peace!"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"That sucks the nurse asleep?"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"O, break! O, break!"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle,--"
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"O Antony!--Nay, I will take thee too."
V,II,CLEOPATRA,"What should I stay--"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"In this vile world? So, fare thee well."
V,II,CHARMIAN,"Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"A lass unparallel'd. Downy windows, close;"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"And golden Phoebus never be beheld"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"Of eyes again so royal! Your crown's awry;"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"I'll mend it, and then play."
V,II,First Guard,"Where is the queen?"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"Speak softly, wake her not."
V,II,First Guard,"Caesar hath sent--"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"Too slow a messenger."
V,II,CHARMIAN,"O, come apace, dispatch! I partly feel thee."
V,II,First Guard,"Approach, ho! All's not well: Caesar's beguiled."
V,II,Second Guard,"There's Dolabella sent from Caesar; call him."
V,II,First Guard,"What work is here! Charmian, is this well done?"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"It is well done, and fitting for a princess"
V,II,CHARMIAN,"Descended of so many royal kings."
V,II,CHARMIAN,"Ah, soldier!"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"How goes it here?"
V,II,Second Guard,"All dead."
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Caesar, thy thoughts"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Touch their effects in this: thyself art coming"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"To see perform'd the dreaded act which thou"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"So sought'st to hinder."
V,II,DOLABELLA,"O sir, you are too sure an augurer;"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"That you did fear is done."
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Bravest at the last,"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"She levell'd at our purposes, and, being royal,"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Took her own way. The manner of their deaths?"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"I do not see them bleed."
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Who was last with them?"
V,II,First Guard,"A simple countryman, that brought her figs:"
V,II,First Guard,"This was his basket."
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Poison'd, then."
V,II,First Guard,"O Caesar,"
V,II,First Guard,"This Charmian lived but now; she stood and spake:"
V,II,First Guard,"I found her trimming up the diadem"
V,II,First Guard,"On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood"
V,II,First Guard,"And on the sudden dropp'd."
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"O noble weakness!"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"By external swelling: but she looks like sleep,"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"As she would catch another Antony"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"In her strong toil of grace."
V,II,DOLABELLA,"Here, on her breast,"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"There is a vent of blood and something blown:"
V,II,DOLABELLA,"The like is on her arm."
V,II,First Guard,"This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves"
V,II,First Guard,"Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves"
V,II,First Guard,"Upon the caves of Nile."
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Most probable"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"That so she died; for her physician tells me"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"She hath pursued conclusions infinite"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed;"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And bear her women from the monument:"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"She shall be buried by her Antony:"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"No grave upon the earth shall clip in it"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"A pair so famous. High events as these"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Strike those that make them; and their story is"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"No less in pity than his glory which"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"In solemn show attend this funeral;"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"And then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see"
V,II,OCTAVIUS CAESAR,"High order in this great solemnity."
I,I,ORLANDO,"As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion"
I,I,ORLANDO,"bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns,"
I,I,ORLANDO,"and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his"
I,I,ORLANDO,"blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my"
I,I,ORLANDO,"sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and"
I,I,ORLANDO,"report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part,"
I,I,ORLANDO,"he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more"
I,I,ORLANDO,"properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you"
I,I,ORLANDO,"that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that"
I,I,ORLANDO,"differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses"
I,I,ORLANDO,"are bred better; for, besides that they are fair"
I,I,ORLANDO,"with their feeding, they are taught their manage,"
I,I,ORLANDO,"and to that end riders dearly hired: but I, his"
I,I,ORLANDO,"brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the"
I,I,ORLANDO,"which his animals on his dunghills are as much"
I,I,ORLANDO,"bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so"
I,I,ORLANDO,"plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave"
I,I,ORLANDO,"me his countenance seems to take from me: he lets"
I,I,ORLANDO,"me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a"
I,I,ORLANDO,"brother, and, as much as in him lies, mines my"
I,I,ORLANDO,"gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that"
I,I,ORLANDO,"grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I"
I,I,ORLANDO,"think is within me, begins to mutiny against this"
I,I,ORLANDO,"servitude: I will no longer endure it, though yet I"
I,I,ORLANDO,"know no wise remedy how to avoid it."
I,I,ADAM,"Yonder comes my master, your brother."
I,I,ORLANDO,"Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will"
I,I,ORLANDO,"shake me up."
I,I,OLIVER,"Now, sir! what make you here?"
I,I,ORLANDO,"Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing."
I,I,OLIVER,"What mar you then, sir?"
I,I,ORLANDO,"Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God"
I,I,ORLANDO,"made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness."
I,I,OLIVER,"Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile."
I,I,ORLANDO,"Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them?"
I,I,ORLANDO,"What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should"
I,I,ORLANDO,"come to such penury?"
I,I,OLIVER,"Know you where your are, sir?"
I,I,ORLANDO,"O, sir, very well; here in your orchard."
I,I,OLIVER,"Know you before whom, sir?"
I,I,ORLANDO,"Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know"
I,I,ORLANDO,"you are my eldest brother; and, in the gentle"
I,I,ORLANDO,"condition of blood, you should so know me. The"
I,I,ORLANDO,"courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that"
I,I,ORLANDO,"you are the first-born; but the same tradition"
I,I,ORLANDO,"takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers"
I,I,ORLANDO,"betwixt us: I have as much of my father in me as"
I,I,ORLANDO,"you; albeit, I confess, your coming before me is"
I,I,ORLANDO,"nearer to his reverence."
I,I,OLIVER,"What, boy!"
I,I,ORLANDO,"Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this."
I,I,OLIVER,"Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?"
I,I,ORLANDO,"I am no villain; I am the youngest son of Sir"
I,I,ORLANDO,"Rowland de Boys; he was my father, and he is thrice"
I,I,ORLANDO,"a villain that says such a father begot villains."
I,I,ORLANDO,"Wert thou not my brother, I would not take this hand"
I,I,ORLANDO,"from thy throat till this other had pulled out thy"
I,I,ORLANDO,"tongue for saying so: thou hast railed on thyself."
I,I,ADAM,"Sweet masters, be patient: for your father's"
I,I,ADAM,"remembrance, be at accord."
I,I,OLIVER,"Let me go, I say."
I,I,ORLANDO,"I will not, till I please: you shall hear me. My"
I,I,ORLANDO,"father charged you in his will to give me good"
I,I,ORLANDO,"education: you have trained me like a peasant,"
I,I,ORLANDO,"obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like"
I,I,ORLANDO,"qualities. The spirit of my father grows strong in"
I,I,ORLANDO,"me, and I will no longer endure it: therefore allow"
I,I,ORLANDO,"me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or"
I,I,ORLANDO,"give me the poor allottery my father left me by"
I,I,ORLANDO,"testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes."
I,I,OLIVER,"And what wilt thou do? beg, when that is spent?"
I,I,OLIVER,"Well, sir, get you in: I will not long be troubled"
I,I,OLIVER,"with you; you shall have some part of your will: I"
I,I,OLIVER,"pray you, leave me."
I,I,ORLANDO,"I will no further offend you than becomes me for my good."
I,I,OLIVER,"Get you with him, you old dog."
I,I,ADAM,"Is 'old dog' my reward? Most true, I have lost my"
I,I,ADAM,"teeth in your service. God be with my old master!"
I,I,ADAM,"he would not have spoke such a word."
I,I,OLIVER,"Is it even so? begin you to grow upon me? I will"
I,I,OLIVER,"physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand"
I,I,OLIVER,"crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!"
I,I,DENNIS,"Calls your worship?"
I,I,OLIVER,"Was not Charles, the duke's wrestler, here to speak with me?"
I,I,DENNIS,"So please you, he is here at the door and importunes"
I,I,DENNIS,"access to you."
I,I,OLIVER,"Call him in."
I,I,OLIVER,"'Twill be a good way; and to-morrow the wrestling is."
I,I,CHARLES,"Good morrow to your worship."
I,I,OLIVER,"Good Monsieur Charles, what's the new news at the"
I,I,OLIVER,"new court?"
I,I,CHARLES,"There's no news at the court, sir, but the old news:"
I,I,CHARLES,"that is, the old duke is banished by his younger"
I,I,CHARLES,"brother the new duke; and three or four loving lords"
I,I,CHARLES,"have put themselves into voluntary exile with him,"
I,I,CHARLES,"whose lands and revenues enrich the new duke;"
I,I,CHARLES,"therefore he gives them good leave to wander."
I,I,OLIVER,"Can you tell if Rosalind, the duke's daughter, be"
I,I,OLIVER,"banished with her father?"
I,I,CHARLES,"O, no; for the duke's daughter, her cousin, so loves"
I,I,CHARLES,"her, being ever from their cradles bred together,"
I,I,CHARLES,"that she would have followed her exile, or have died"
I,I,CHARLES,"to stay behind her. She is at the court, and no"
I,I,CHARLES,"less beloved of her uncle than his own daughter; and"
I,I,CHARLES,"never two ladies loved as they do."
I,I,OLIVER,"Where will the old duke live?"
I,I,CHARLES,"They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and"
I,I,CHARLES,"a many merry men with him; and there they live like"
I,I,CHARLES,"the old Robin Hood of England: they say many young"
I,I,CHARLES,"gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time"
I,I,CHARLES,"carelessly, as they did in the golden world."
I,I,OLIVER,"What, you wrestle to-morrow before the new duke?"
I,I,CHARLES,"Marry, do I, sir; and I came to acquaint you with a"
I,I,CHARLES,"matter. I am given, sir, secretly to understand"
I,I,CHARLES,"that your younger brother Orlando hath a disposition"
I,I,CHARLES,"to come in disguised against me to try a fall."
I,I,CHARLES,"To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit; and he that"
I,I,CHARLES,"escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him"
I,I,CHARLES,"well. Your brother is but young and tender; and,"
I,I,CHARLES,"for your love, I would be loath to foil him, as I"
I,I,CHARLES,"must, for my own honour, if he come in: therefore,"
I,I,CHARLES,"out of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint you"
I,I,CHARLES,"withal, that either you might stay him from his"
I,I,CHARLES,"intendment or brook such disgrace well as he shall"
I,I,CHARLES,"run into, in that it is a thing of his own search"
I,I,CHARLES,"and altogether against my will."
I,I,OLIVER,"Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which"
I,I,OLIVER,"thou shalt find I will most kindly requite. I had"
I,I,OLIVER,"myself notice of my brother's purpose herein and"
I,I,OLIVER,"have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from"
I,I,OLIVER,"it, but he is resolute. I'll tell thee, Charles:"
I,I,OLIVER,"it is the stubbornest young fellow of France, full"
I,I,OLIVER,"of ambition, an envious emulator of every man's"
I,I,OLIVER,"good parts, a secret and villanous contriver against"
I,I,OLIVER,"me his natural brother: therefore use thy"
I,I,OLIVER,"discretion; I had as lief thou didst break his neck"
I,I,OLIVER,"as his finger. And thou wert best look to't; for if"
I,I,OLIVER,"thou dost him any slight disgrace or if he do not"
I,I,OLIVER,"mightily grace himself on thee, he will practise"
I,I,OLIVER,"against thee by poison, entrap thee by some"
I,I,OLIVER,"treacherous device and never leave thee till he"
I,I,OLIVER,"hath ta'en thy life by some indirect means or other;"
I,I,OLIVER,"for, I assure thee, and almost with tears I speak"
I,I,OLIVER,"it, there is not one so young and so villanous this"
I,I,OLIVER,"day living. I speak but brotherly of him; but"
I,I,OLIVER,"should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must"
I,I,OLIVER,"blush and weep and thou must look pale and wonder."
I,I,CHARLES,"I am heartily glad I came hither to you. If he come"
I,I,CHARLES,"to-morrow, I'll give him his payment: if ever he go"
I,I,CHARLES,"alone again, I'll never wrestle for prize more: and"
I,I,CHARLES,"so God keep your worship!"
I,I,OLIVER,"Farewell, good Charles."
I,I,OLIVER,"Now will I stir this gamester: I hope I shall see"
I,I,OLIVER,"an end of him; for my soul, yet I know not why,"
I,I,OLIVER,"hates nothing more than he. Yet he's gentle, never"
I,I,OLIVER,"schooled and yet learned, full of noble device, of"
I,I,OLIVER,"all sorts enchantingly beloved, and indeed so much"
I,I,OLIVER,"in the heart of the world, and especially of my own"
I,I,OLIVER,"people, who best know him, that I am altogether"
I,I,OLIVER,"misprised: but it shall not be so long; this"
I,I,OLIVER,"wrestler shall clear all: nothing remains but that"
I,I,OLIVER,"I kindle the boy thither; which now I'll go about."
I,II,CELIA,"I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry."
I,II,ROSALIND,"Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of;"
I,II,ROSALIND,"and would you yet I were merrier? Unless you could"
I,II,ROSALIND,"teach me to forget a banished father, you must not"
I,II,ROSALIND,"learn me how to remember any extraordinary pleasure."
I,II,CELIA,"Herein I see thou lovest me not with the full weight"
I,II,CELIA,"that I love thee. If my uncle, thy banished father,"
I,II,CELIA,"had banished thy uncle, the duke my father, so thou"
I,II,CELIA,"hadst been still with me, I could have taught my"
I,II,CELIA,"love to take thy father for mine: so wouldst thou,"
I,II,CELIA,"if the truth of thy love to me were so righteously"
I,II,CELIA,"tempered as mine is to thee."
I,II,ROSALIND,"Well, I will forget the condition of my estate, to"
I,II,ROSALIND,"rejoice in yours."
I,II,CELIA,"You know my father hath no child but I, nor none is"
I,II,CELIA,"like to have: and, truly, when he dies, thou shalt"
I,II,CELIA,"be his heir, for what he hath taken away from thy"
I,II,CELIA,"father perforce, I will render thee again in"
I,II,CELIA,"affection; by mine honour, I will; and when I break"
I,II,CELIA,"that oath, let me turn monster: therefore, my"
I,II,CELIA,"sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be merry."
I,II,ROSALIND,"From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports. Let"
I,II,ROSALIND,"me see; what think you of falling in love?"
I,II,CELIA,"Marry, I prithee, do, to make sport withal: but"
I,II,CELIA,"love no man in good earnest; nor no further in sport"
I,II,CELIA,"neither than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst"
I,II,CELIA,"in honour come off again."
I,II,ROSALIND,"What shall be our sport, then?"
I,II,CELIA,"Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from"
I,II,CELIA,"her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally."
I,II,ROSALIND,"I would we could do so, for her benefits are"
I,II,ROSALIND,"mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman"
I,II,ROSALIND,"doth most mistake in her gifts to women."
I,II,CELIA,"'Tis true; for those that she makes fair she scarce"
I,II,CELIA,"makes honest, and those that she makes honest she"
I,II,CELIA,"makes very ill-favouredly."
I,II,ROSALIND,"Nay, now thou goest from Fortune's office to"
I,II,ROSALIND,"Nature's: Fortune reigns in gifts of the world,"
I,II,ROSALIND,"not in the lineaments of Nature."
I,II,CELIA,"No? when Nature hath made a fair creature, may she"
I,II,CELIA,"not by Fortune fall into the fire? Though Nature"
I,II,CELIA,"hath given us wit to flout at Fortune, hath not"
I,II,CELIA,"Fortune sent in this fool to cut off the argument?"
I,II,ROSALIND,"Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature, when"
I,II,ROSALIND,"Fortune makes Nature's natural the cutter-off of"
I,II,ROSALIND,"Nature's wit."
I,II,CELIA,"Peradventure this is not Fortune's work neither, but"
I,II,CELIA,"Nature's; who perceiveth our natural wits too dull"
I,II,CELIA,"to reason of such goddesses and hath sent this"
I,II,CELIA,"natural for our whetstone; for always the dulness of"
I,II,CELIA,"the fool is the whetstone of the wits. How now,"
I,II,CELIA,"wit! whither wander you?"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Mistress, you must come away to your father."
I,II,CELIA,"Were you made the messenger?"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"No, by mine honour, but I was bid to come for you."
I,II,ROSALIND,"Where learned you that oath, fool?"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Of a certain knight that swore by his honour they"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"were good pancakes and swore by his honour the"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"mustard was naught: now I'll stand to it, the"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"yet was not the knight forsworn."
I,II,CELIA,"How prove you that, in the great heap of your"
I,II,CELIA,"knowledge?"
I,II,ROSALIND,"Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom."
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Stand you both forth now: stroke your chins, and"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"swear by your beards that I am a knave."
I,II,CELIA,"By our beards, if we had them, thou art."
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"By my knavery, if I had it, then I were; but if you"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn: no"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"more was this knight swearing by his honour, for he"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"never had any; or if he had, he had sworn it away"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"before ever he saw those pancakes or that mustard."
I,II,CELIA,"Prithee, who is't that thou meanest?"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"One that old Frederick, your father, loves."
I,II,CELIA,"My father's love is enough to honour him: enough!"
I,II,CELIA,"speak no more of him; you'll be whipped for taxation"
I,II,CELIA,"one of these days."
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"wise men do foolishly."
I,II,CELIA,"By my troth, thou sayest true; for since the little"
I,II,CELIA,"wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery"
I,II,CELIA,"that wise men have makes a great show. Here comes"
I,II,CELIA,"Monsieur Le Beau."
I,II,ROSALIND,"With his mouth full of news."
I,II,CELIA,"Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young."
I,II,ROSALIND,"Then shall we be news-crammed."
I,II,CELIA,"All the better; we shall be the more marketable."
I,II,CELIA,"Bon jour, Monsieur Le Beau: what's the news?"
I,II,LE BEAU,"Fair princess, you have lost much good sport."
I,II,CELIA,"Sport! of what colour?"
I,II,LE BEAU,"What colour, madam! how shall I answer you?"
I,II,ROSALIND,"As wit and fortune will."
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Or as the Destinies decree."
I,II,CELIA,"Well said: that was laid on with a trowel."
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Nay, if I keep not my rank,--"
I,II,ROSALIND,"Thou losest thy old smell."
I,II,LE BEAU,"You amaze me, ladies: I would have told you of good"
I,II,LE BEAU,"wrestling, which you have lost the sight of."
I,II,ROSALIND,"You tell us the manner of the wrestling."
I,II,LE BEAU,"I will tell you the beginning; and, if it please"
I,II,LE BEAU,"your ladyships, you may see the end; for the best is"
I,II,LE BEAU,"yet to do; and here, where you are, they are coming"
I,II,LE BEAU,"to perform it."
I,II,CELIA,"Well, the beginning, that is dead and buried."
I,II,LE BEAU,"There comes an old man and his three sons,--"
I,II,CELIA,"I could match this beginning with an old tale."
I,II,LE BEAU,"Three proper young men, of excellent growth and presence."
I,II,ROSALIND,"With bills on their necks, 'Be it known unto all men"
I,II,ROSALIND,"by these presents.'"
I,II,LE BEAU,"The eldest of the three wrestled with Charles, the"
I,II,LE BEAU,"duke's wrestler; which Charles in a moment threw him"
I,II,LE BEAU,"and broke three of his ribs, that there is little"
I,II,LE BEAU,"hope of life in him: so he served the second, and"
I,II,LE BEAU,"so the third. Yonder they lie; the poor old man,"
I,II,LE BEAU,"their father, making such pitiful dole over them"
I,II,LE BEAU,"that all the beholders take his part with weeping."
I,II,ROSALIND,"Alas!"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"But what is the sport, monsieur, that the ladies"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"have lost?"
I,II,LE BEAU,"Why, this that I speak of."
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Thus men may grow wiser every day: it is the first"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"time that ever I heard breaking of ribs was sport"
I,II,TOUCHSTONE,"for ladies."
I,II,CELIA,"Or I, I promise thee."
I,II,ROSALIND,"But is there any else longs to see this broken music"
I,II,ROSALIND,"in his sides? is there yet another dotes upon"
I,II,ROSALIND,"rib-breaking? Shall we see this wrestling, cousin?"
I,II,LE BEAU,"You must, if you stay here; for here is the place"
I,II,LE BEAU,"appointed for the wrestling, and they are ready to"
I,II,LE BEAU,"perform it."
I,II,CELIA,"Yonder, sure, they are coming: let us now stay and see it."
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"Come on: since the youth will not be entreated, his"
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"own peril on his forwardness."
I,II,ROSALIND,"Is yonder the man?"
I,II,LE BEAU,"Even he, madam."
I,II,CELIA,"Alas, he is too young! yet he looks successfully."
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"How now, daughter and cousin! are you crept hither"
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"to see the wrestling?"
I,II,ROSALIND,"Ay, my liege, so please you give us leave."
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"You will take little delight in it, I can tell you;"
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"there is such odds in the man. In pity of the"
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"challenger's youth I would fain dissuade him, but he"
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"will not be entreated. Speak to him, ladies; see if"
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"you can move him."
I,II,CELIA,"Call him hither, good Monsieur Le Beau."
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"Do so: I'll not be by."
I,II,LE BEAU,"Monsieur the challenger, the princesses call for you."
I,II,ORLANDO,"I attend them with all respect and duty."
I,II,ROSALIND,"Young man, have you challenged Charles the wrestler?"
I,II,ORLANDO,"No, fair princess; he is the general challenger: I"
I,II,ORLANDO,"come but in, as others do, to try with him the"
I,II,ORLANDO,"strength of my youth."
I,II,CELIA,"Young gentleman, your spirits are too bold for your"
I,II,CELIA,"years. You have seen cruel proof of this man's"
I,II,CELIA,"strength: if you saw yourself with your eyes or"
I,II,CELIA,"knew yourself with your judgment, the fear of your"
I,II,CELIA,"adventure would counsel you to a more equal"
I,II,CELIA,"enterprise. We pray you, for your own sake, to"
I,II,CELIA,"embrace your own safety and give over this attempt."
I,II,ROSALIND,"Do, young sir; your reputation shall not therefore"
I,II,ROSALIND,"be misprised: we will make it our suit to the duke"
I,II,ROSALIND,"that the wrestling might not go forward."
I,II,ORLANDO,"I beseech you, punish me not with your hard"
I,II,ORLANDO,"thoughts; wherein I confess me much guilty, to deny"
I,II,ORLANDO,"so fair and excellent ladies any thing. But let"
I,II,ORLANDO,"your fair eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my"
I,II,ORLANDO,"trial: wherein if I be foiled, there is but one"
I,II,ORLANDO,"shamed that was never gracious; if killed, but one"
I,II,ORLANDO,"dead that was willing to be so: I shall do my"
I,II,ORLANDO,"friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me, the"
I,II,ORLANDO,"world no injury, for in it I have nothing; only in"
I,II,ORLANDO,"the world I fill up a place, which may be better"
I,II,ORLANDO,"supplied when I have made it empty."
I,II,ROSALIND,"The little strength that I have, I would it were with you."
I,II,CELIA,"And mine, to eke out hers."
I,II,ROSALIND,"Fare you well: pray heaven I be deceived in you!"
I,II,CELIA,"Your heart's desires be with you!"
I,II,CHARLES,"Come, where is this young gallant that is so"
I,II,CHARLES,"desirous to lie with his mother earth?"
I,II,ORLANDO,"Ready, sir; but his will hath in it a more modest working."
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"You shall try but one fall."
I,II,CHARLES,"No, I warrant your grace, you shall not entreat him"
I,II,CHARLES,"to a second, that have so mightily persuaded him"
I,II,CHARLES,"from a first."
I,II,ORLANDO,"An you mean to mock me after, you should not have"
I,II,ORLANDO,"mocked me before: but come your ways."
I,II,ROSALIND,"Now Hercules be thy speed, young man!"
I,II,CELIA,"I would I were invisible, to catch the strong"
I,II,CELIA,"fellow by the leg."
I,II,ROSALIND,"O excellent young man!"
I,II,CELIA,"If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who"
I,II,CELIA,"should down."
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"No more, no more."
I,II,ORLANDO,"Yes, I beseech your grace: I am not yet well breathed."
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"How dost thou, Charles?"
I,II,LE BEAU,"He cannot speak, my lord."
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"Bear him away. What is thy name, young man?"
I,II,ORLANDO,"Orlando, my liege; the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys."
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"I would thou hadst been son to some man else:"
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"The world esteem'd thy father honourable,"
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"But I did find him still mine enemy:"
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"Thou shouldst have better pleased me with this deed,"
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"Hadst thou descended from another house."
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"But fare thee well; thou art a gallant youth:"
I,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"I would thou hadst told me of another father."
I,II,CELIA,"Were I my father, coz, would I do this?"
I,II,ORLANDO,"I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son,"
I,II,ORLANDO,"His youngest son; and would not change that calling,"
I,II,ORLANDO,"To be adopted heir to Frederick."
I,II,ROSALIND,"My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul,"
I,II,ROSALIND,"And all the world was of my father's mind:"
I,II,ROSALIND,"Had I before known this young man his son,"
I,II,ROSALIND,"I should have given him tears unto entreaties,"
I,II,ROSALIND,"Ere he should thus have ventured."
I,II,CELIA,"Gentle cousin,"
I,II,CELIA,"Let us go thank him and encourage him:"
I,II,CELIA,"My father's rough and envious disposition"
I,II,CELIA,"Sticks me at heart. Sir, you have well deserved:"
I,II,CELIA,"If you do keep your promises in love"
I,II,CELIA,"But justly, as you have exceeded all promise,"
I,II,CELIA,"Your mistress shall be happy."
I,II,ROSALIND,"Gentleman,"
I,II,ROSALIND,"Wear this for me, one out of suits with fortune,"
I,II,ROSALIND,"That could give more, but that her hand lacks means."
I,II,ROSALIND,"Shall we go, coz?"
I,II,CELIA,"Ay. Fare you well, fair gentleman."
I,II,ORLANDO,"Can I not say, I thank you? My better parts"
I,II,ORLANDO,"Are all thrown down, and that which here stands up"
I,II,ORLANDO,"Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block."
I,II,ROSALIND,"He calls us back: my pride fell with my fortunes;"
I,II,ROSALIND,"I'll ask him what he would. Did you call, sir?"
I,II,ROSALIND,"Sir, you have wrestled well and overthrown"
I,II,ROSALIND,"More than your enemies."
I,II,CELIA,"Will you go, coz?"
I,II,ROSALIND,"Have with you. Fare you well."
I,II,ORLANDO,"What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?"
I,II,ORLANDO,"I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference."
I,II,ORLANDO,"O poor Orlando, thou art overthrown!"
I,II,ORLANDO,"Or Charles or something weaker masters thee."
I,II,LE BEAU,"Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you"
I,II,LE BEAU,"To leave this place. Albeit you have deserved"
I,II,LE BEAU,"High commendation, true applause and love,"
I,II,LE BEAU,"Yet such is now the duke's condition"
I,II,LE BEAU,"That he misconstrues all that you have done."
I,II,LE BEAU,"The duke is humorous; what he is indeed,"
I,II,LE BEAU,"More suits you to conceive than I to speak of."
I,II,ORLANDO,"I thank you, sir: and, pray you, tell me this:"
I,II,ORLANDO,"Which of the two was daughter of the duke"
I,II,ORLANDO,"That here was at the wrestling?"
I,II,LE BEAU,"Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners;"
I,II,LE BEAU,"But yet indeed the lesser is his daughter"
I,II,LE BEAU,"The other is daughter to the banish'd duke,"
I,II,LE BEAU,"And here detain'd by her usurping uncle,"
I,II,LE BEAU,"To keep his daughter company; whose loves"
I,II,LE BEAU,"Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters."
I,II,LE BEAU,"But I can tell you that of late this duke"
I,II,LE BEAU,"Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece,"
I,II,LE BEAU,"Grounded upon no other argument"
I,II,LE BEAU,"But that the people praise her for her virtues"
I,II,LE BEAU,"And pity her for her good father's sake;"
I,II,LE BEAU,"And, on my life, his malice 'gainst the lady"
I,II,LE BEAU,"Will suddenly break forth. Sir, fare you well:"
I,II,LE BEAU,"Hereafter, in a better world than this,"
I,II,LE BEAU,"I shall desire more love and knowledge of you."
I,II,ORLANDO,"I rest much bounden to you: fare you well."
I,II,ORLANDO,"Thus must I from the smoke into the smother;"
I,II,ORLANDO,"From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother:"
I,II,ORLANDO,"But heavenly Rosalind!"
I,III,CELIA,"Why, cousin! why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy! not a word?"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Not one to throw at a dog."
I,III,CELIA,"No, thy words are too precious to be cast away upon"
I,III,CELIA,"curs; throw some of them at me; come, lame me with reasons."
I,III,ROSALIND,"Then there were two cousins laid up; when the one"
I,III,ROSALIND,"should be lamed with reasons and the other mad"
I,III,ROSALIND,"without any."
I,III,CELIA,"But is all this for your father?"
I,III,ROSALIND,"No, some of it is for my child's father. O, how"
I,III,ROSALIND,"full of briers is this working-day world!"
I,III,CELIA,"They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in"
I,III,CELIA,"holiday foolery: if we walk not in the trodden"
I,III,CELIA,"paths our very petticoats will catch them."
I,III,ROSALIND,"I could shake them off my coat: these burs are in my heart."
I,III,CELIA,"Hem them away."
I,III,ROSALIND,"I would try, if I could cry 'hem' and have him."
I,III,CELIA,"Come, come, wrestle with thy affections."
I,III,ROSALIND,"O, they take the part of a better wrestler than myself!"
I,III,CELIA,"O, a good wish upon you! you will try in time, in"
I,III,CELIA,"despite of a fall. But, turning these jests out of"
I,III,CELIA,"service, let us talk in good earnest: is it"
I,III,CELIA,"possible, on such a sudden, you should fall into so"
I,III,CELIA,"strong a liking with old Sir Rowland's youngest son?"
I,III,ROSALIND,"The duke my father loved his father dearly."
I,III,CELIA,"Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son"
I,III,CELIA,"dearly? By this kind of chase, I should hate him,"
I,III,CELIA,"for my father hated his father dearly; yet I hate"
I,III,CELIA,"not Orlando."
I,III,ROSALIND,"No, faith, hate him not, for my sake."
I,III,CELIA,"Why should I not? doth he not deserve well?"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Let me love him for that, and do you love him"
I,III,ROSALIND,"because I do. Look, here comes the duke."
I,III,CELIA,"With his eyes full of anger."
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"And get you from our court."
I,III,ROSALIND,"Me, uncle?"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"You, cousin"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"Within these ten days if that thou be'st found"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"So near our public court as twenty miles,"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"Thou diest for it."
I,III,ROSALIND,"I do beseech your grace,"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me:"
I,III,ROSALIND,"If with myself I hold intelligence"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Or have acquaintance with mine own desires,"
I,III,ROSALIND,"If that I do not dream or be not frantic,--"
I,III,ROSALIND,"As I do trust I am not--then, dear uncle,"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Never so much as in a thought unborn"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Did I offend your highness."
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"Thus do all traitors:"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"If their purgation did consist in words,"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"They are as innocent as grace itself:"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not."
I,III,ROSALIND,"Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor:"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Tell me whereon the likelihood depends."
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"Thou art thy father's daughter; there's enough."
I,III,ROSALIND,"So was I when your highness took his dukedom;"
I,III,ROSALIND,"So was I when your highness banish'd him:"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Treason is not inherited, my lord;"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Or, if we did derive it from our friends,"
I,III,ROSALIND,"What's that to me? my father was no traitor:"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much"
I,III,ROSALIND,"To think my poverty is treacherous."
I,III,CELIA,"Dear sovereign, hear me speak."
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"Ay, Celia; we stay'd her for your sake,"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"Else had she with her father ranged along."
I,III,CELIA,"I did not then entreat to have her stay;"
I,III,CELIA,"It was your pleasure and your own remorse:"
I,III,CELIA,"I was too young that time to value her;"
I,III,CELIA,"But now I know her: if she be a traitor,"
I,III,CELIA,"Why so am I; we still have slept together,"
I,III,CELIA,"Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together,"
I,III,CELIA,"And wheresoever we went, like Juno's swans,"
I,III,CELIA,"Still we went coupled and inseparable."
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness,"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"Her very silence and her patience"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"Speak to the people, and they pity her."
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"Thou art a fool: she robs thee of thy name;"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"When she is gone. Then open not thy lips:"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"Firm and irrevocable is my doom"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd."
I,III,CELIA,"Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege:"
I,III,CELIA,"I cannot live out of her company."
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself:"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"If you outstay the time, upon mine honour,"
I,III,DUKE FREDERICK,"And in the greatness of my word, you die."
I,III,CELIA,"O my poor Rosalind, whither wilt thou go?"
I,III,CELIA,"Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine."
I,III,CELIA,"I charge thee, be not thou more grieved than I am."
I,III,ROSALIND,"I have more cause."
I,III,CELIA,"Thou hast not, cousin;"
I,III,CELIA,"Prithee be cheerful: know'st thou not, the duke"
I,III,CELIA,"Hath banish'd me, his daughter?"
I,III,ROSALIND,"That he hath not."
I,III,CELIA,"No, hath not? Rosalind lacks then the love"
I,III,CELIA,"Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one:"
I,III,CELIA,"Shall we be sunder'd? shall we part, sweet girl?"
I,III,CELIA,"No: let my father seek another heir."
I,III,CELIA,"Therefore devise with me how we may fly,"
I,III,CELIA,"Whither to go and what to bear with us;"
I,III,CELIA,"And do not seek to take your change upon you,"
I,III,CELIA,"To bear your griefs yourself and leave me out;"
I,III,CELIA,"For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale,"
I,III,CELIA,"Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee."
I,III,ROSALIND,"Why, whither shall we go?"
I,III,CELIA,"To seek my uncle in the forest of Arden."
I,III,ROSALIND,"Alas, what danger will it be to us,"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold."
I,III,CELIA,"I'll put myself in poor and mean attire"
I,III,CELIA,"And with a kind of umber smirch my face;"
I,III,CELIA,"The like do you: so shall we pass along"
I,III,CELIA,"And never stir assailants."
I,III,ROSALIND,"Were it not better,"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Because that I am more than common tall,"
I,III,ROSALIND,"That I did suit me all points like a man?"
I,III,ROSALIND,"A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh,"
I,III,ROSALIND,"A boar-spear in my hand; and--in my heart"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will--"
I,III,ROSALIND,"We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,"
I,III,ROSALIND,"As many other mannish cowards have"
I,III,ROSALIND,"That do outface it with their semblances."
I,III,CELIA,"What shall I call thee when thou art a man?"
I,III,ROSALIND,"I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page;"
I,III,ROSALIND,"And therefore look you call me Ganymede."
I,III,ROSALIND,"But what will you be call'd?"
I,III,CELIA,"Something that hath a reference to my state"
I,III,CELIA,"No longer Celia, but Aliena."
I,III,ROSALIND,"But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal"
I,III,ROSALIND,"The clownish fool out of your father's court?"
I,III,ROSALIND,"Would he not be a comfort to our travel?"
I,III,CELIA,"He'll go along o'er the wide world with me;"
I,III,CELIA,"Leave me alone to woo him. Let's away,"
I,III,CELIA,"And get our jewels and our wealth together,"
I,III,CELIA,"Devise the fittest time and safest way"
I,III,CELIA,"To hide us from pursuit that will be made"
I,III,CELIA,"After my flight. Now go we in content"
I,III,CELIA,"To liberty and not to banishment."
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Hath not old custom made this life more sweet"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"More free from peril than the envious court?"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"The seasons' difference, as the icy fang"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"'This is no flattery: these are counsellors"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"That feelingly persuade me what I am.'"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Sweet are the uses of adversity,"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"And this our life exempt from public haunt"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Sermons in stones and good in every thing."
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"I would not change it."
II,I,AMIENS,"Happy is your grace,"
II,I,AMIENS,"That can translate the stubbornness of fortune"
II,I,AMIENS,"Into so quiet and so sweet a style."
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Being native burghers of this desert city,"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Should in their own confines with forked heads"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Have their round haunches gored."
II,I,First Lord,"Indeed, my lord,"
II,I,First Lord,"The melancholy Jaques grieves at that,"
II,I,First Lord,"And, in that kind, swears you do more usurp"
II,I,First Lord,"Than doth your brother that hath banish'd you."
II,I,First Lord,"To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself"
II,I,First Lord,"Did steal behind him as he lay along"
II,I,First Lord,"Under an oak whose antique root peeps out"
II,I,First Lord,"Upon the brook that brawls along this wood:"
II,I,First Lord,"To the which place a poor sequester'd stag,"
II,I,First Lord,"That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt,"
II,I,First Lord,"Did come to languish, and indeed, my lord,"
II,I,First Lord,"The wretched animal heaved forth such groans"
II,I,First Lord,"That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat"
II,I,First Lord,"Almost to bursting, and the big round tears"
II,I,First Lord,"Coursed one another down his innocent nose"
II,I,First Lord,"In piteous chase; and thus the hairy fool"
II,I,First Lord,"Much marked of the melancholy Jaques,"
II,I,First Lord,"Stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook,"
II,I,First Lord,"Augmenting it with tears."
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"But what said Jaques?"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Did he not moralize this spectacle?"
II,I,First Lord,"O, yes, into a thousand similes."
II,I,First Lord,"First, for his weeping into the needless stream;"
II,I,First Lord,"'Poor deer,' quoth he, 'thou makest a testament"
II,I,First Lord,"As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more"
II,I,First Lord,"To that which had too much:' then, being there alone,"
II,I,First Lord,"Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends,"
II,I,First Lord,"''Tis right:' quoth he; 'thus misery doth part"
II,I,First Lord,"The flux of company:' anon a careless herd,"
II,I,First Lord,"Full of the pasture, jumps along by him"
II,I,First Lord,"And never stays to greet him; 'Ay' quoth Jaques,"
II,I,First Lord,"'Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;"
II,I,First Lord,"'Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look"
II,I,First Lord,"Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?'"
II,I,First Lord,"Thus most invectively he pierceth through"
II,I,First Lord,"The body of the country, city, court,"
II,I,First Lord,"Yea, and of this our life, swearing that we"
II,I,First Lord,"Are mere usurpers, tyrants and what's worse,"
II,I,First Lord,"To fright the animals and to kill them up"
II,I,First Lord,"In their assign'd and native dwelling-place."
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"And did you leave him in this contemplation?"
II,I,Second Lord,"We did, my lord, weeping and commenting"
II,I,Second Lord,"Upon the sobbing deer."
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"Show me the place:"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"I love to cope him in these sullen fits,"
II,I,DUKE SENIOR,"For then he's full of matter."
II,I,First Lord,"I'll bring you to him straight."
II,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"Can it be possible that no man saw them?"
II,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"It cannot be: some villains of my court"
II,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"Are of consent and sufferance in this."
II,II,First Lord,"I cannot hear of any that did see her."
II,II,First Lord,"The ladies, her attendants of her chamber,"
II,II,First Lord,"Saw her abed, and in the morning early"
II,II,First Lord,"They found the bed untreasured of their mistress."
II,II,Second Lord,"My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft"
II,II,Second Lord,"Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing."
II,II,Second Lord,"Hisperia, the princess' gentlewoman,"
II,II,Second Lord,"Confesses that she secretly o'erheard"
II,II,Second Lord,"Your daughter and her cousin much commend"
II,II,Second Lord,"The parts and graces of the wrestler"
II,II,Second Lord,"That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles;"
II,II,Second Lord,"And she believes, wherever they are gone,"
II,II,Second Lord,"That youth is surely in their company."
II,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither;"
II,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"If he be absent, bring his brother to me;"
II,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"I'll make him find him: do this suddenly,"
II,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"And let not search and inquisition quail"
II,II,DUKE FREDERICK,"To bring again these foolish runaways."
II,III,ORLANDO,"Who's there?"
II,III,ADAM,"What, my young master? O, my gentle master!"
II,III,ADAM,"O my sweet master! O you memory"
II,III,ADAM,"Of old Sir Rowland! why, what make you here?"
II,III,ADAM,"Why are you virtuous? why do people love you?"
II,III,ADAM,"And wherefore are you gentle, strong and valiant?"
II,III,ADAM,"Why would you be so fond to overcome"
II,III,ADAM,"The bonny priser of the humorous duke?"
II,III,ADAM,"Your praise is come too swiftly home before you."
II,III,ADAM,"Know you not, master, to some kind of men"
II,III,ADAM,"Their graces serve them but as enemies?"
II,III,ADAM,"No more do yours: your virtues, gentle master,"
II,III,ADAM,"Are sanctified and holy traitors to you."
II,III,ADAM,"O, what a world is this, when what is comely"
II,III,ADAM,"Envenoms him that bears it!"
II,III,ORLANDO,"Why, what's the matter?"
II,III,ADAM,"O unhappy youth!"
II,III,ADAM,"Come not within these doors; within this roof"
II,III,ADAM,"The enemy of all your graces lives:"
II,III,ADAM,"Your brother--no, no brother; yet the son--"
II,III,ADAM,"Yet not the son, I will not call him son"
II,III,ADAM,"Of him I was about to call his father--"
II,III,ADAM,"Hath heard your praises, and this night he means"
II,III,ADAM,"To burn the lodging where you use to lie"
II,III,ADAM,"And you within it: if he fail of that,"
II,III,ADAM,"He will have other means to cut you off."
II,III,ADAM,"I overheard him and his practises."
II,III,ADAM,"This is no place; this house is but a butchery:"
II,III,ADAM,"Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it."
II,III,ORLANDO,"Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go?"
II,III,ADAM,"No matter whither, so you come not here."
II,III,ORLANDO,"What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food?"
II,III,ORLANDO,"Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce"
II,III,ORLANDO,"A thievish living on the common road?"
II,III,ORLANDO,"This I must do, or know not what to do:"
II,III,ORLANDO,"Yet this I will not do, do how I can;"
II,III,ORLANDO,"I rather will subject me to the malice"
II,III,ORLANDO,"Of a diverted blood and bloody brother."
II,III,ADAM,"But do not so. I have five hundred crowns,"
II,III,ADAM,"The thrifty hire I saved under your father,"
II,III,ADAM,"Which I did store to be my foster-nurse"
II,III,ADAM,"When service should in my old limbs lie lame"
II,III,ADAM,"And unregarded age in corners thrown:"
II,III,ADAM,"Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed,"
II,III,ADAM,"Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,"
II,III,ADAM,"Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold;"
II,III,ADAM,"And all this I give you. Let me be your servant:"
II,III,ADAM,"Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;"
II,III,ADAM,"For in my youth I never did apply"
II,III,ADAM,"Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,"
II,III,ADAM,"Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo"
II,III,ADAM,"The means of weakness and debility;"
II,III,ADAM,"Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,"
II,III,ADAM,"Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you;"
II,III,ADAM,"I'll do the service of a younger man"
II,III,ADAM,"In all your business and necessities."
II,III,ORLANDO,"O good old man, how well in thee appears"
II,III,ORLANDO,"The constant service of the antique world,"
II,III,ORLANDO,"When service sweat for duty, not for meed!"
II,III,ORLANDO,"Thou art not for the fashion of these times,"
II,III,ORLANDO,"Where none will sweat but for promotion,"
II,III,ORLANDO,"And having that, do choke their service up"
II,III,ORLANDO,"Even with the having: it is not so with thee."
II,III,ORLANDO,"But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree,"
II,III,ORLANDO,"That cannot so much as a blossom yield"
II,III,ORLANDO,"In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry"
II,III,ORLANDO,"But come thy ways; well go along together,"
II,III,ORLANDO,"And ere we have thy youthful wages spent,"
II,III,ORLANDO,"We'll light upon some settled low content."
II,III,ADAM,"Master, go on, and I will follow thee,"
II,III,ADAM,"To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty."
II,III,ADAM,"From seventeen years till now almost fourscore"
II,III,ADAM,"Here lived I, but now live here no more."
II,III,ADAM,"At seventeen years many their fortunes seek;"
II,III,ADAM,"But at fourscore it is too late a week:"
II,III,ADAM,"Yet fortune cannot recompense me better"
II,III,ADAM,"Than to die well and not my master's debtor."
II,IV,ROSALIND,"O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary."
II,IV,ROSALIND,"I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"apparel and to cry like a woman; but I must comfort"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"itself courageous to petticoat: therefore courage,"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"good Aliena!"
II,IV,CELIA,"I pray you, bear with me; I cannot go no further."
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"For my part, I had rather bear with you than bear"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"you; yet I should bear no cross if I did bear you,"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"for I think you have no money in your purse."
II,IV,ROSALIND,"Well, this is the forest of Arden."
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"at home, I was in a better place: but travellers"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"must be content."
II,IV,ROSALIND,"Ay, be so, good Touchstone."
II,IV,ROSALIND,"Look you, who comes here; a young man and an old in"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"solemn talk."
II,IV,CORIN,"That is the way to make her scorn you still."
II,IV,SILVIUS,"O Corin, that thou knew'st how I do love her!"
II,IV,CORIN,"I partly guess; for I have loved ere now."
II,IV,SILVIUS,"No, Corin, being old, thou canst not guess,"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow:"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"But if thy love were ever like to mine--"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"As sure I think did never man love so--"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"How many actions most ridiculous"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?"
II,IV,CORIN,"Into a thousand that I have forgotten."
II,IV,SILVIUS,"O, thou didst then ne'er love so heartily!"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"If thou remember'st not the slightest folly"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"That ever love did make thee run into,"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"Thou hast not loved:"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"Or if thou hast not sat as I do now,"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"Wearying thy hearer in thy mistress' praise,"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"Thou hast not loved:"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"Or if thou hast not broke from company"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"Abruptly, as my passion now makes me,"
II,IV,SILVIUS,"Thou hast not loved."
II,IV,SILVIUS,"O Phebe, Phebe, Phebe!"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"Alas, poor shepherd! searching of thy wound,"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"I have by hard adventure found mine own."
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"And I mine. I remember, when I was in love I broke"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"coming a-night to Jane Smile; and I remember the"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"kissing of her batlet and the cow's dugs that her"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"pretty chopt hands had milked; and I remember the"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I took"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"two cods and, giving her them again, said with"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"weeping tears 'Wear these for my sake.' We that are"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly."
II,IV,ROSALIND,"Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of."
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"Nay, I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"break my shins against it."
II,IV,ROSALIND,"Jove, Jove! this shepherd's passion"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"Is much upon my fashion."
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"And mine; but it grows something stale with me."
II,IV,CELIA,"I pray you, one of you question yond man"
II,IV,CELIA,"If he for gold will give us any food:"
II,IV,CELIA,"I faint almost to death."
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"Holla, you clown!"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"Peace, fool: he's not thy kinsman."
II,IV,CORIN,"Who calls?"
II,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"Your betters, sir."
II,IV,CORIN,"Else are they very wretched."
II,IV,ROSALIND,"Peace, I say. Good even to you, friend."
II,IV,CORIN,"And to you, gentle sir, and to you all."
II,IV,ROSALIND,"I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"Can in this desert place buy entertainment,"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed:"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"Here's a young maid with travel much oppress'd"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"And faints for succor."
II,IV,CORIN,"Fair sir, I pity her"
II,IV,CORIN,"And wish, for her sake more than for mine own,"
II,IV,CORIN,"My fortunes were more able to relieve her;"
II,IV,CORIN,"But I am shepherd to another man"
II,IV,CORIN,"And do not shear the fleeces that I graze:"
II,IV,CORIN,"My master is of churlish disposition"
II,IV,CORIN,"And little recks to find the way to heaven"
II,IV,CORIN,"By doing deeds of hospitality:"
II,IV,CORIN,"Besides, his cote, his flocks and bounds of feed"
II,IV,CORIN,"Are now on sale, and at our sheepcote now,"
II,IV,CORIN,"By reason of his absence, there is nothing"
II,IV,CORIN,"That you will feed on; but what is, come see."
II,IV,CORIN,"And in my voice most welcome shall you be."
II,IV,ROSALIND,"What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture?"
II,IV,CORIN,"That young swain that you saw here but erewhile,"
II,IV,CORIN,"That little cares for buying any thing."
II,IV,ROSALIND,"I pray thee, if it stand with honesty,"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"Buy thou the cottage, pasture and the flock,"
II,IV,ROSALIND,"And thou shalt have to pay for it of us."
II,IV,CELIA,"And we will mend thy wages. I like this place."
II,IV,CELIA,"And willingly could waste my time in it."
II,IV,CORIN,"Assuredly the thing is to be sold:"
II,IV,CORIN,"Go with me: if you like upon report"
II,IV,CORIN,"The soil, the profit and this kind of life,"
II,IV,CORIN,"I will your very faithful feeder be"
II,IV,CORIN,"And buy it with your gold right suddenly."
II,V,AMIENS,"Under the greenwood tree"
II,V,AMIENS,"Who loves to lie with me,"
II,V,AMIENS,"And turn his merry note"
II,V,AMIENS,"Unto the sweet bird's throat,"
II,V,AMIENS,"Come hither, come hither, come hither:"
II,V,AMIENS,"Here shall he see No enemy"
II,V,AMIENS,"But winter and rough weather."
II,V,JAQUES,"More, more, I prithee, more."
II,V,AMIENS,"It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques."
II,V,JAQUES,"I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck"
II,V,JAQUES,"melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs."
II,V,JAQUES,"More, I prithee, more."
II,V,AMIENS,"My voice is ragged: I know I cannot please you."
II,V,JAQUES,"I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to"
II,V,JAQUES,"sing. Come, more; another stanzo: call you 'em stanzos?"
II,V,AMIENS,"What you will, Monsieur Jaques."
II,V,JAQUES,"Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me"
II,V,JAQUES,"nothing. Will you sing?"
II,V,AMIENS,"More at your request than to please myself."
II,V,JAQUES,"Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you;"
II,V,JAQUES,"but that they call compliment is like the encounter"
II,V,JAQUES,"of two dog-apes, and when a man thanks me heartily,"
II,V,JAQUES,"methinks I have given him a penny and he renders me"
II,V,JAQUES,"the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will"
II,V,JAQUES,"not, hold your tongues."
II,V,AMIENS,"Well, I'll end the song. Sirs, cover the while; the"
II,V,AMIENS,"duke will drink under this tree. He hath been all"
II,V,AMIENS,"this day to look you."
II,V,JAQUES,"And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is"
II,V,JAQUES,"too disputable for my company: I think of as many"
II,V,JAQUES,"matters as he, but I give heaven thanks and make no"
II,V,JAQUES,"boast of them. Come, warble, come."
II,V,JAQUES,"Who doth ambition shun"
II,V,JAQUES,"And loves to live i' the sun,"
II,V,JAQUES,"Seeking the food he eats"
II,V,JAQUES,"And pleased with what he gets,"
II,V,JAQUES,"Come hither, come hither, come hither:"
II,V,JAQUES,"Here shall he see No enemy"
II,V,JAQUES,"But winter and rough weather."
II,V,JAQUES,"I'll give you a verse to this note that I made"
II,V,JAQUES,"yesterday in despite of my invention."
II,V,AMIENS,"And I'll sing it."
II,V,JAQUES,"Thus it goes:--"
II,V,JAQUES,"If it do come to pass"
II,V,JAQUES,"That any man turn ass,"
II,V,JAQUES,"Leaving his wealth and ease,"
II,V,JAQUES,"A stubborn will to please,"
II,V,JAQUES,"Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame:"
II,V,JAQUES,"Here shall he see"
II,V,JAQUES,"Gross fools as he,"
II,V,JAQUES,"An if he will come to me."
II,V,AMIENS,"What's that 'ducdame'?"
II,V,JAQUES,"'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a"
II,V,JAQUES,"circle. I'll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll"
II,V,JAQUES,"rail against all the first-born of Egypt."
II,V,AMIENS,"And I'll go seek the duke: his banquet is prepared."
II,VI,ADAM,"Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for food!"
II,VI,ADAM,"Here lie I down, and measure out my grave. Farewell,"
II,VI,ADAM,"kind master."
II,VI,ORLANDO,"Why, how now, Adam! no greater heart in thee? Live"
II,VI,ORLANDO,"a little; comfort a little; cheer thyself a little."
II,VI,ORLANDO,"If this uncouth forest yield any thing savage, I"
II,VI,ORLANDO,"will either be food for it or bring it for food to"
II,VI,ORLANDO,"thee. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers."
II,VI,ORLANDO,"For my sake be comfortable; hold death awhile at"
II,VI,ORLANDO,"the arm's end: I will here be with thee presently;"
II,VI,ORLANDO,"and if I bring thee not something to eat, I will"
II,VI,ORLANDO,"give thee leave to die: but if thou diest before I"
II,VI,ORLANDO,"come, thou art a mocker of my labour. Well said!"
II,VI,ORLANDO,"thou lookest cheerly, and I'll be with thee quickly."
II,VI,ORLANDO,"Yet thou liest in the bleak air: come, I will bear"
II,VI,ORLANDO,"thee to some shelter; and thou shalt not die for"
II,VI,ORLANDO,"lack of a dinner, if there live any thing in this"
II,VI,ORLANDO,"desert. Cheerly, good Adam!"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"I think he be transform'd into a beast;"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"For I can no where find him like a man."
II,VII,First Lord,"My lord, he is but even now gone hence:"
II,VII,First Lord,"Here was he merry, hearing of a song."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"If he, compact of jars, grow musical,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"We shall have shortly discord in the spheres."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Go, seek him: tell him I would speak with him."
II,VII,First Lord,"He saves my labour by his own approach."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Why, how now, monsieur! what a life is this,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"That your poor friends must woo your company?"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"What, you look merrily!"
II,VII,JAQUES,"A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"A motley fool; a miserable world!"
II,VII,JAQUES,"As I do live by food, I met a fool"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"In good set terms and yet a motley fool."
II,VII,JAQUES,"'Good morrow, fool,' quoth I. 'No, sir,' quoth he,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune:'"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And then he drew a dial from his poke,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock:"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags:"
II,VII,JAQUES,"'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And thereby hangs a tale.' When I did hear"
II,VII,JAQUES,"The motley fool thus moral on the time,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"That fools should be so deep-contemplative,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And I did laugh sans intermission"
II,VII,JAQUES,"An hour by his dial. O noble fool!"
II,VII,JAQUES,"A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"What fool is this?"
II,VII,JAQUES,"O worthy fool! One that hath been a courtier,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And says, if ladies be but young and fair,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"They have the gift to know it: and in his brain,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit"
II,VII,JAQUES,"After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd"
II,VII,JAQUES,"With observation, the which he vents"
II,VII,JAQUES,"In mangled forms. O that I were a fool!"
II,VII,JAQUES,"I am ambitious for a motley coat."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Thou shalt have one."
II,VII,JAQUES,"It is my only suit;"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Provided that you weed your better judgments"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Of all opinion that grows rank in them"
II,VII,JAQUES,"That I am wise. I must have liberty"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Withal, as large a charter as the wind,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"To blow on whom I please; for so fools have;"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And they that are most galled with my folly,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"They most must laugh. And why, sir, must they so?"
II,VII,JAQUES,"The 'why' is plain as way to parish church:"
II,VII,JAQUES,"He that a fool doth very wisely hit"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Doth very foolishly, although he smart,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Not to seem senseless of the bob: if not,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"The wise man's folly is anatomized"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Even by the squandering glances of the fool."
II,VII,JAQUES,"Invest me in my motley; give me leave"
II,VII,JAQUES,"To speak my mind, and I will through and through"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Cleanse the foul body of the infected world,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"If they will patiently receive my medicine."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do."
II,VII,JAQUES,"What, for a counter, would I do but good?"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin:"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"For thou thyself hast been a libertine,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"As sensual as the brutish sting itself;"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"And all the embossed sores and headed evils,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"That thou with licence of free foot hast caught,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world."
II,VII,JAQUES,"Why, who cries out on pride,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"That can therein tax any private party?"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Till that the weary very means do ebb?"
II,VII,JAQUES,"What woman in the city do I name,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"When that I say the city-woman bears"
II,VII,JAQUES,"The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders?"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Who can come in and say that I mean her,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"When such a one as she such is her neighbour?"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Or what is he of basest function"
II,VII,JAQUES,"That says his bravery is not of my cost,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Thinking that I mean him, but therein suits"
II,VII,JAQUES,"His folly to the mettle of my speech?"
II,VII,JAQUES,"There then; how then? what then? Let me see wherein"
II,VII,JAQUES,"My tongue hath wrong'd him: if it do him right,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Then he hath wrong'd himself; if he be free,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Why then my taxing like a wild-goose flies,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Unclaim'd of any man. But who comes here?"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Forbear, and eat no more."
II,VII,JAQUES,"Why, I have eat none yet."
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Nor shalt not, till necessity be served."
II,VII,JAQUES,"Of what kind should this cock come of?"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Art thou thus bolden'd, man, by thy distress,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Or else a rude despiser of good manners,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"That in civility thou seem'st so empty?"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"You touch'd my vein at first: the thorny point"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Of smooth civility: yet am I inland bred"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"And know some nurture. But forbear, I say:"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"He dies that touches any of this fruit"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Till I and my affairs are answered."
II,VII,JAQUES,"An you will not be answered with reason, I must die."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"What would you have? Your gentleness shall force"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"More than your force move us to gentleness."
II,VII,ORLANDO,"I almost die for food; and let me have it."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table."
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you:"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"I thought that all things had been savage here;"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"And therefore put I on the countenance"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"That in this desert inaccessible,"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Under the shade of melancholy boughs,"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"If ever you have look'd on better days,"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church,"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"If ever sat at any good man's feast,"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied,"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Let gentleness my strong enforcement be:"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"True is it that we have seen better days,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"And sat at good men's feasts and wiped our eyes"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd:"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"And therefore sit you down in gentleness"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"And take upon command what help we have"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"That to your wanting may be minister'd."
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Then but forbear your food a little while,"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"And give it food. There is an old poor man,"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Who after me hath many a weary step"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Limp'd in pure love: till he be first sufficed,"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger,"
II,VII,ORLANDO,"I will not touch a bit."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Go find him out,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"And we will nothing waste till you return."
II,VII,ORLANDO,"I thank ye; and be blest for your good comfort!"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"This wide and universal theatre"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Presents more woeful pageants than the scene"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Wherein we play in."
II,VII,JAQUES,"All the world's a stage,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And all the men and women merely players:"
II,VII,JAQUES,"They have their exits and their entrances;"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And one man in his time plays many parts,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms."
II,VII,JAQUES,"And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And shining morning face, creeping like snail"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Seeking the bubble reputation"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"In fair round belly with good capon lined,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Full of wise saws and modern instances;"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide"
II,VII,JAQUES,"For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Turning again toward childish treble, pipes"
II,VII,JAQUES,"And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"That ends this strange eventful history,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Is second childishness and mere oblivion,"
II,VII,JAQUES,"Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Welcome. Set down your venerable burthen,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"And let him feed."
II,VII,ORLANDO,"I thank you most for him."
II,VII,ADAM,"So had you need:"
II,VII,ADAM,"I scarce can speak to thank you for myself."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Welcome; fall to: I will not trouble you"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"As yet, to question you about your fortunes."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Give us some music; and, good cousin, sing."
II,VII,AMIENS,"Blow, blow, thou winter wind."
II,VII,AMIENS,"Thou art not so unkind"
II,VII,AMIENS,"As man's ingratitude;"
II,VII,AMIENS,"Thy tooth is not so keen,"
II,VII,AMIENS,"Because thou art not seen,"
II,VII,AMIENS,"Although thy breath be rude."
II,VII,AMIENS,"Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:"
II,VII,AMIENS,"Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:"
II,VII,AMIENS,"Then, heigh-ho, the holly!"
II,VII,AMIENS,"This life is most jolly."
II,VII,AMIENS,"Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,"
II,VII,AMIENS,"That dost not bite so nigh"
II,VII,AMIENS,"As benefits forgot:"
II,VII,AMIENS,"Though thou the waters warp,"
II,VII,AMIENS,"Thy sting is not so sharp"
II,VII,AMIENS,"As friend remember'd not."
II,VII,AMIENS,"Heigh-ho! sing, &c."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"As you have whisper'd faithfully you were,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"And as mine eye doth his effigies witness"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Most truly limn'd and living in your face,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Be truly welcome hither: I am the duke"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"That loved your father: the residue of your fortune,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Go to my cave and tell me. Good old man,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Thou art right welcome as thy master is."
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"Support him by the arm. Give me your hand,"
II,VII,DUKE SENIOR,"And let me all your fortunes understand."
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be:"
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"But were I not the better part made mercy,"
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"I should not seek an absent argument"
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:"
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"Find out thy brother, wheresoe'er he is;"
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"Seek him with candle; bring him dead or living"
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more"
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"To seek a living in our territory."
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine"
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"Worth seizure do we seize into our hands,"
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"Till thou canst quit thee by thy brothers mouth"
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"Of what we think against thee."
III,I,OLIVER,"O that your highness knew my heart in this!"
III,I,OLIVER,"I never loved my brother in my life."
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"More villain thou. Well, push him out of doors;"
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"And let my officers of such a nature"
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"Make an extent upon his house and lands:"
III,I,DUKE FREDERICK,"Do this expediently and turn him going."
III,II,ORLANDO,"Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love:"
III,II,ORLANDO,"And thou, thrice-crowned queen of night, survey"
III,II,ORLANDO,"With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above,"
III,II,ORLANDO,"Thy huntress' name that my full life doth sway."
III,II,ORLANDO,"O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books"
III,II,ORLANDO,"And in their barks my thoughts I'll character;"
III,II,ORLANDO,"That every eye which in this forest looks"
III,II,ORLANDO,"Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where."
III,II,ORLANDO,"Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree"
III,II,ORLANDO,"The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she."
III,II,CORIN,"And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone?"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"life, but in respect that it is a shepherd's life,"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"like it very well; but in respect that it is"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"private, it is a very vile life. Now, in respect it"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"respect it is not in the court, it is tedious. As"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"is it a spare life, look you, it fits my humour well;"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"but as there is no more plenty in it, it goes much"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?"
III,II,CORIN,"No more but that I know the more one sickens the"
III,II,CORIN,"worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money,"
III,II,CORIN,"means and content is without three good friends;"
III,II,CORIN,"that the property of rain is to wet and fire to"
III,II,CORIN,"burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and that a"
III,II,CORIN,"great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that"
III,II,CORIN,"he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may"
III,II,CORIN,"complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Such a one is a natural philosopher. Wast ever in"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"court, shepherd?"
III,II,CORIN,"No, truly."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Then thou art damned."
III,II,CORIN,"Nay, I hope."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Truly, thou art damned like an ill-roasted egg, all"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"on one side."
III,II,CORIN,"For not being at court? Your reason."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Why, if thou never wast at court, thou never sawest"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"good manners; if thou never sawest good manners,"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"then thy manners must be wicked; and wickedness is"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"state, shepherd."
III,II,CORIN,"Not a whit, Touchstone: those that are good manners"
III,II,CORIN,"at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the"
III,II,CORIN,"behavior of the country is most mockable at the"
III,II,CORIN,"court. You told me you salute not at the court, but"
III,II,CORIN,"you kiss your hands: that courtesy would be"
III,II,CORIN,"uncleanly, if courtiers were shepherds."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Instance, briefly; come, instance."
III,II,CORIN,"Why, we are still handling our ewes, and their"
III,II,CORIN,"fells, you know, are greasy."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Why, do not your courtier's hands sweat? and is not"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"the grease of a mutton as wholesome as the sweat of"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"a man? Shallow, shallow. A better instance, I say; come."
III,II,CORIN,"Besides, our hands are hard."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Your lips will feel them the sooner. Shallow again."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"A more sounder instance, come."
III,II,CORIN,"And they are often tarred over with the surgery of"
III,II,CORIN,"our sheep: and would you have us kiss tar? The"
III,II,CORIN,"courtier's hands are perfumed with civet."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Most shallow man! thou worms-meat, in respect of a"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"good piece of flesh indeed! Learn of the wise, and"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar, the"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend the instance, shepherd."
III,II,CORIN,"You have too courtly a wit for me: I'll rest."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Wilt thou rest damned? God help thee, shallow man!"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"God make incision in thee! thou art raw."
III,II,CORIN,"Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get"
III,II,CORIN,"that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's"
III,II,CORIN,"happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my"
III,II,CORIN,"harm, and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes"
III,II,CORIN,"graze and my lambs suck."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"That is another simple sin in you, to bring the ewes"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"and the rams together and to offer to get your"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"living by the copulation of cattle; to be bawd to a"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"bell-wether, and to betray a she-lamb of a"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"twelvemonth to a crooked-pated, old, cuckoldly ram,"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"out of all reasonable match. If thou beest not"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"damned for this, the devil himself will have no"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"shepherds; I cannot see else how thou shouldst"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"'scape."
III,II,CORIN,"Here comes young Master Ganymede, my new mistress's brother."
III,II,ROSALIND,"From the east to western Ind,"
III,II,ROSALIND,"No jewel is like Rosalind."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Her worth, being mounted on the wind,"
III,II,ROSALIND,"Through all the world bears Rosalind."
III,II,ROSALIND,"All the pictures fairest lined"
III,II,ROSALIND,"Are but black to Rosalind."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Let no fair be kept in mind"
III,II,ROSALIND,"But the fair of Rosalind."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"I'll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners and"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"suppers and sleeping-hours excepted: it is the"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"right butter-women's rank to market."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Out, fool!"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"For a taste:"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"If a hart do lack a hind,"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Let him seek out Rosalind."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"If the cat will after kind,"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"So be sure will Rosalind."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Winter garments must be lined,"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"So must slender Rosalind."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"They that reap must sheaf and bind;"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Then to cart with Rosalind."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Sweetest nut hath sourest rind,"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Such a nut is Rosalind."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"He that sweetest rose will find"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Must find love's prick and Rosalind."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"This is the very false gallop of verses: why do you"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"infect yourself with them?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"Peace, you dull fool! I found them on a tree."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Truly, the tree yields bad fruit."
III,II,ROSALIND,"I'll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it"
III,II,ROSALIND,"with a medlar: then it will be the earliest fruit"
III,II,ROSALIND,"i' the country; for you'll be rotten ere you be half"
III,II,ROSALIND,"ripe, and that's the right virtue of the medlar."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"forest judge."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Peace! Here comes my sister, reading: stand aside."
III,II,CELIA,"Why should this a desert be?"
III,II,CELIA,"For it is unpeopled? No:"
III,II,CELIA,"Tongues I'll hang on every tree,"
III,II,CELIA,"That shall civil sayings show:"
III,II,CELIA,"Some, how brief the life of man"
III,II,CELIA,"Runs his erring pilgrimage,"
III,II,CELIA,"That the stretching of a span"
III,II,CELIA,"Buckles in his sum of age;"
III,II,CELIA,"Some, of violated vows"
III,II,CELIA,"'Twixt the souls of friend and friend:"
III,II,CELIA,"But upon the fairest boughs,"
III,II,CELIA,"Or at every sentence end,"
III,II,CELIA,"Will I Rosalinda write,"
III,II,CELIA,"Teaching all that read to know"
III,II,CELIA,"The quintessence of every sprite"
III,II,CELIA,"Heaven would in little show."
III,II,CELIA,"Therefore Heaven Nature charged"
III,II,CELIA,"That one body should be fill'd"
III,II,CELIA,"With all graces wide-enlarged:"
III,II,CELIA,"Nature presently distill'd"
III,II,CELIA,"Helen's cheek, but not her heart,"
III,II,CELIA,"Cleopatra's majesty,"
III,II,CELIA,"Atalanta's better part,"
III,II,CELIA,"Sad Lucretia's modesty."
III,II,CELIA,"Thus Rosalind of many parts"
III,II,CELIA,"By heavenly synod was devised,"
III,II,CELIA,"Of many faces, eyes and hearts,"
III,II,CELIA,"To have the touches dearest prized."
III,II,CELIA,"Heaven would that she these gifts should have,"
III,II,CELIA,"And I to live and die her slave."
III,II,ROSALIND,"O most gentle pulpiter! what tedious homily of love"
III,II,ROSALIND,"have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never"
III,II,ROSALIND,"cried 'Have patience, good people!'"
III,II,CELIA,"How now! back, friends! Shepherd, go off a little."
III,II,CELIA,"Go with him, sirrah."
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat;"
III,II,TOUCHSTONE,"though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage."
III,II,CELIA,"Didst thou hear these verses?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"O, yes, I heard them all, and more too; for some of"
III,II,ROSALIND,"them had in them more feet than the verses would bear."
III,II,CELIA,"That's no matter: the feet might bear the verses."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Ay, but the feet were lame and could not bear"
III,II,ROSALIND,"themselves without the verse and therefore stood"
III,II,ROSALIND,"lamely in the verse."
III,II,CELIA,"But didst thou hear without wondering how thy name"
III,II,CELIA,"should be hanged and carved upon these trees?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"I was seven of the nine days out of the wonder"
III,II,ROSALIND,"before you came; for look here what I found on a"
III,II,ROSALIND,"palm-tree. I was never so be-rhymed since"
III,II,ROSALIND,"Pythagoras' time, that I was an Irish rat, which I"
III,II,ROSALIND,"can hardly remember."
III,II,CELIA,"Trow you who hath done this?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"Is it a man?"
III,II,CELIA,"And a chain, that you once wore, about his neck."
III,II,CELIA,"Change you colour?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"I prithee, who?"
III,II,CELIA,"O Lord, Lord! it is a hard matter for friends to"
III,II,CELIA,"meet; but mountains may be removed with earthquakes"
III,II,CELIA,"and so encounter."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Nay, but who is it?"
III,II,CELIA,"Is it possible?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"Nay, I prithee now with most petitionary vehemence,"
III,II,ROSALIND,"tell me who it is."
III,II,CELIA,"O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful"
III,II,CELIA,"wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that,"
III,II,CELIA,"out of all hooping!"
III,II,ROSALIND,"Good my complexion! dost thou think, though I am"
III,II,ROSALIND,"caparisoned like a man, I have a doublet and hose in"
III,II,ROSALIND,"my disposition? One inch of delay more is a"
III,II,ROSALIND,"South-sea of discovery; I prithee, tell me who is it"
III,II,ROSALIND,"quickly, and speak apace. I would thou couldst"
III,II,ROSALIND,"stammer, that thou mightst pour this concealed man"
III,II,ROSALIND,"out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-"
III,II,ROSALIND,"mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at"
III,II,ROSALIND,"all. I prithee, take the cork out of thy mouth that"
III,II,ROSALIND,"may drink thy tidings."
III,II,CELIA,"So you may put a man in your belly."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Is he of God's making? What manner of man? Is his"
III,II,ROSALIND,"head worth a hat, or his chin worth a beard?"
III,II,CELIA,"Nay, he hath but a little beard."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Why, God will send more, if the man will be"
III,II,ROSALIND,"thankful: let me stay the growth of his beard, if"
III,II,ROSALIND,"thou delay me not the knowledge of his chin."
III,II,CELIA,"It is young Orlando, that tripped up the wrestler's"
III,II,CELIA,"heels and your heart both in an instant."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Nay, but the devil take mocking: speak, sad brow and"
III,II,ROSALIND,"true maid."
III,II,CELIA,"I' faith, coz, 'tis he."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Orlando?"
III,II,CELIA,"Orlando."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Alas the day! what shall I do with my doublet and"
III,II,ROSALIND,"hose? What did he when thou sawest him? What said"
III,II,ROSALIND,"he? How looked he? Wherein went he? What makes"
III,II,ROSALIND,"him here? Did he ask for me? Where remains he?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"How parted he with thee? and when shalt thou see"
III,II,ROSALIND,"him again? Answer me in one word."
III,II,CELIA,"You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first: 'tis a"
III,II,CELIA,"word too great for any mouth of this age's size. To"
III,II,CELIA,"say ay and no to these particulars is more than to"
III,II,CELIA,"answer in a catechism."
III,II,ROSALIND,"But doth he know that I am in this forest and in"
III,II,ROSALIND,"man's apparel? Looks he as freshly as he did the"
III,II,ROSALIND,"day he wrestled?"
III,II,CELIA,"It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the"
III,II,CELIA,"propositions of a lover; but take a taste of my"
III,II,CELIA,"finding him, and relish it with good observance."
III,II,CELIA,"I found him under a tree, like a dropped acorn."
III,II,ROSALIND,"It may well be called Jove's tree, when it drops"
III,II,ROSALIND,"forth such fruit."
III,II,CELIA,"Give me audience, good madam."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Proceed."
III,II,CELIA,"There lay he, stretched along, like a wounded knight."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Though it be pity to see such a sight, it well"
III,II,ROSALIND,"becomes the ground."
III,II,CELIA,"Cry 'holla' to thy tongue, I prithee; it curvets"
III,II,CELIA,"unseasonably. He was furnished like a hunter."
III,II,ROSALIND,"O, ominous! he comes to kill my heart."
III,II,CELIA,"I would sing my song without a burden: thou bringest"
III,II,CELIA,"me out of tune."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must"
III,II,ROSALIND,"speak. Sweet, say on."
III,II,CELIA,"You bring me out. Soft! comes he not here?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"'Tis he: slink by, and note him."
III,II,JAQUES,"I thank you for your company; but, good faith, I had"
III,II,JAQUES,"as lief have been myself alone."
III,II,ORLANDO,"And so had I; but yet, for fashion sake, I thank you"
III,II,ORLANDO,"too for your society."
III,II,JAQUES,"God be wi' you: let's meet as little as we can."
III,II,ORLANDO,"I do desire we may be better strangers."
III,II,JAQUES,"I pray you, mar no more trees with writing"
III,II,JAQUES,"love-songs in their barks."
III,II,ORLANDO,"I pray you, mar no more of my verses with reading"
III,II,ORLANDO,"them ill-favouredly."
III,II,JAQUES,"Rosalind is your love's name?"
III,II,ORLANDO,"Yes, just."
III,II,JAQUES,"I do not like her name."
III,II,ORLANDO,"There was no thought of pleasing you when she was"
III,II,ORLANDO,"christened."
III,II,JAQUES,"What stature is she of?"
III,II,ORLANDO,"Just as high as my heart."
III,II,JAQUES,"You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been"
III,II,JAQUES,"acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conned them"
III,II,JAQUES,"out of rings?"
III,II,ORLANDO,"Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth, from"
III,II,ORLANDO,"whence you have studied your questions."
III,II,JAQUES,"You have a nimble wit: I think 'twas made of"
III,II,JAQUES,"Atalanta's heels. Will you sit down with me? and"
III,II,JAQUES,"we two will rail against our mistress the world and"
III,II,JAQUES,"all our misery."
III,II,ORLANDO,"I will chide no breather in the world but myself,"
III,II,ORLANDO,"against whom I know most faults."
III,II,JAQUES,"The worst fault you have is to be in love."
III,II,ORLANDO,"'Tis a fault I will not change for your best virtue."
III,II,ORLANDO,"I am weary of you."
III,II,JAQUES,"By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found"
III,II,JAQUES,"you."
III,II,ORLANDO,"He is drowned in the brook: look but in, and you"
III,II,ORLANDO,"shall see him."
III,II,JAQUES,"There I shall see mine own figure."
III,II,ORLANDO,"Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher."
III,II,JAQUES,"I'll tarry no longer with you: farewell, good"
III,II,JAQUES,"Signior Love."
III,II,ORLANDO,"I am glad of your departure: adieu, good Monsieur"
III,II,ORLANDO,"Melancholy."
III,II,ROSALIND,"lackey and under that habit play the knave with him."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Do you hear, forester?"
III,II,ORLANDO,"Very well: what would you?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"I pray you, what is't o'clock?"
III,II,ORLANDO,"You should ask me what time o' day: there's no clock"
III,II,ORLANDO,"in the forest."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Then there is no true lover in the forest; else"
III,II,ROSALIND,"sighing every minute and groaning every hour would"
III,II,ROSALIND,"detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock."
III,II,ORLANDO,"And why not the swift foot of Time? had not that"
III,II,ORLANDO,"been as proper?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"By no means, sir: Time travels in divers paces with"
III,II,ROSALIND,"divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles"
III,II,ROSALIND,"withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops"
III,II,ROSALIND,"withal and who he stands still withal."
III,II,ORLANDO,"I prithee, who doth he trot withal?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the"
III,II,ROSALIND,"contract of her marriage and the day it is"
III,II,ROSALIND,"solemnized: if the interim be but a se'nnight,"
III,II,ROSALIND,"Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of"
III,II,ROSALIND,"seven year."
III,II,ORLANDO,"Who ambles Time withal?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that"
III,II,ROSALIND,"hath not the gout, for the one sleeps easily because"
III,II,ROSALIND,"he cannot study, and the other lives merrily because"
III,II,ROSALIND,"he feels no pain, the one lacking the burden of lean"
III,II,ROSALIND,"and wasteful learning, the other knowing no burden"
III,II,ROSALIND,"of heavy tedious penury; these Time ambles withal."
III,II,ORLANDO,"Who doth he gallop withal?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"With a thief to the gallows, for though he go as"
III,II,ROSALIND,"softly as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon there."
III,II,ORLANDO,"Who stays it still withal?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"With lawyers in the vacation, for they sleep between"
III,II,ROSALIND,"term and term and then they perceive not how Time moves."
III,II,ORLANDO,"Where dwell you, pretty youth?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"With this shepherdess, my sister; here in the"
III,II,ROSALIND,"skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat."
III,II,ORLANDO,"Are you native of this place?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"As the cony that you see dwell where she is kindled."
III,II,ORLANDO,"Your accent is something finer than you could"
III,II,ORLANDO,"purchase in so removed a dwelling."
III,II,ROSALIND,"I have been told so of many: but indeed an old"
III,II,ROSALIND,"religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was"
III,II,ROSALIND,"in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship"
III,II,ROSALIND,"too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard"
III,II,ROSALIND,"him read many lectures against it, and I thank God"
III,II,ROSALIND,"I am not a woman, to be touched with so many"
III,II,ROSALIND,"giddy offences as he hath generally taxed their"
III,II,ROSALIND,"whole sex withal."
III,II,ORLANDO,"Can you remember any of the principal evils that he"
III,II,ORLANDO,"laid to the charge of women?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"There were none principal; they were all like one"
III,II,ROSALIND,"another as half-pence are, every one fault seeming"
III,II,ROSALIND,"monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it."
III,II,ORLANDO,"I prithee, recount some of them."
III,II,ROSALIND,"No, I will not cast away my physic but on those that"
III,II,ROSALIND,"are sick. There is a man haunts the forest, that"
III,II,ROSALIND,"abuses our young plants with carving 'Rosalind' on"
III,II,ROSALIND,"their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies"
III,II,ROSALIND,"on brambles, all, forsooth, deifying the name of"
III,II,ROSALIND,"Rosalind: if I could meet that fancy-monger I would"
III,II,ROSALIND,"give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the"
III,II,ROSALIND,"quotidian of love upon him."
III,II,ORLANDO,"I am he that is so love-shaked: I pray you tell me"
III,II,ORLANDO,"your remedy."
III,II,ROSALIND,"There is none of my uncle's marks upon you: he"
III,II,ROSALIND,"taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage"
III,II,ROSALIND,"of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner."
III,II,ORLANDO,"What were his marks?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"A lean cheek, which you have not, a blue eye and"
III,II,ROSALIND,"sunken, which you have not, an unquestionable"
III,II,ROSALIND,"spirit, which you have not, a beard neglected,"
III,II,ROSALIND,"which you have not; but I pardon you for that, for"
III,II,ROSALIND,"simply your having in beard is a younger brother's"
III,II,ROSALIND,"revenue: then your hose should be ungartered, your"
III,II,ROSALIND,"bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe"
III,II,ROSALIND,"untied and every thing about you demonstrating a"
III,II,ROSALIND,"careless desolation; but you are no such man; you"
III,II,ROSALIND,"are rather point-device in your accoutrements as"
III,II,ROSALIND,"loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other."
III,II,ORLANDO,"Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Me believe it! you may as soon make her that you"
III,II,ROSALIND,"love believe it; which, I warrant, she is apter to"
III,II,ROSALIND,"do than to confess she does: that is one of the"
III,II,ROSALIND,"points in the which women still give the lie to"
III,II,ROSALIND,"their consciences. But, in good sooth, are you he"
III,II,ROSALIND,"that hangs the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind"
III,II,ROSALIND,"is so admired?"
III,II,ORLANDO,"I swear to thee, youth, by the white hand of"
III,II,ORLANDO,"Rosalind, I am that he, that unfortunate he."
III,II,ROSALIND,"But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?"
III,II,ORLANDO,"Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves"
III,II,ROSALIND,"as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and"
III,II,ROSALIND,"the reason why they are not so punished and cured"
III,II,ROSALIND,"is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers"
III,II,ROSALIND,"are in love too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel."
III,II,ORLANDO,"Did you ever cure any so?"
III,II,ROSALIND,"Yes, one, and in this manner. He was to imagine me"
III,II,ROSALIND,"his love, his mistress; and I set him every day to"
III,II,ROSALIND,"woo me: at which time would I, being but a moonish"
III,II,ROSALIND,"youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing"
III,II,ROSALIND,"and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow,"
III,II,ROSALIND,"inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles, for every"
III,II,ROSALIND,"passion something and for no passion truly any"
III,II,ROSALIND,"thing, as boys and women are for the most part"
III,II,ROSALIND,"cattle of this colour; would now like him, now loathe"
III,II,ROSALIND,"him; then entertain him, then forswear him; now weep"
III,II,ROSALIND,"for him, then spit at him; that I drave my suitor"
III,II,ROSALIND,"from his mad humour of love to a living humour of"
III,II,ROSALIND,"madness; which was, to forswear the full stream of"
III,II,ROSALIND,"the world, and to live in a nook merely monastic."
III,II,ROSALIND,"And thus I cured him; and this way will I take upon"
III,II,ROSALIND,"me to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep's"
III,II,ROSALIND,"heart, that there shall not be one spot of love in't."
III,II,ORLANDO,"I would not be cured, youth."
III,II,ROSALIND,"I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind"
III,II,ROSALIND,"and come every day to my cote and woo me."
III,II,ORLANDO,"Now, by the faith of my love, I will: tell me"
III,II,ORLANDO,"where it is."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Go with me to it and I'll show it you and by the way"
III,II,ROSALIND,"you shall tell me where in the forest you live."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Will you go?"
III,II,ORLANDO,"With all my heart, good youth."
III,II,ROSALIND,"Nay you must call me Rosalind. Come, sister, will you go?"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"Come apace, good Audrey: I will fetch up your"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"goats, Audrey. And how, Audrey? am I the man yet?"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"doth my simple feature content you?"
III,III,AUDREY,"Your features! Lord warrant us! what features!"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths."
III,III,JAQUES,"in a thatched house!"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"man's good wit seconded with the forward child"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"Understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"the gods had made thee poetical."
III,III,AUDREY,"I do not know what 'poetical' is: is it honest in"
III,III,AUDREY,"deed and word? is it a true thing?"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"No, truly; for the truest poetry is the most"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"feigning; and lovers are given to poetry, and what"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign."
III,III,AUDREY,"Do you wish then that the gods had made me poetical?"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"I do, truly; for thou swearest to me thou art"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"honest: now, if thou wert a poet, I might have some"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"hope thou didst feign."
III,III,AUDREY,"Would you not have me honest?"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured; for"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar."
III,III,AUDREY,"Well, I am not fair; and therefore I pray the gods"
III,III,AUDREY,"make me honest."
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul slut"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"were to put good meat into an unclean dish."
III,III,AUDREY,"I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul."
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness!"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"sluttishness may come hereafter. But be it as it may"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"be, I will marry thee, and to that end I have been"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"with Sir Oliver Martext, the vicar of the next"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"village, who hath promised to meet me in this place"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"of the forest and to couple us."
III,III,AUDREY,"Well, the gods give us joy!"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"Amen. A man may, if he were of a fearful heart,"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"stagger in this attempt; for here we have no temple"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"but the wood, no assembly but horn-beasts. But what"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"though? Courage! As horns are odious, they are"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"necessary. It is said, 'many a man knows no end of"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"his goods:' right; many a man has good horns, and"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"knows no end of them. Well, that is the dowry of"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"his wife; 'tis none of his own getting. Horns?"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"Even so. Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"hath them as huge as the rascal. Is the single man"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"therefore blessed? No: as a walled town is more"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"married man more honourable than the bare brow of a"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"bachelor; and by how much defence is better than no"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"skill, by so much is a horn more precious than to"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"want. Here comes Sir Oliver."
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"Sir Oliver Martext, you are well met: will you"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"dispatch us here under this tree, or shall we go"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"with you to your chapel?"
III,III,SIR OLIVER MARTEXT,"Is there none here to give the woman?"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"I will not take her on gift of any man."
III,III,SIR OLIVER MARTEXT,"Truly, she must be given, or the marriage is not lawful."
III,III,JAQUES,"Proceed, proceed I'll give her."
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"Good even, good Master What-ye-call't: how do you,"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"sir? You are very well met: God 'ild you for your"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"last company: I am very glad to see you: even a"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"toy in hand here, sir: nay, pray be covered."
III,III,JAQUES,"Will you be married, motley?"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb and"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be nibbling."
III,III,JAQUES,"And will you, being a man of your breeding, be"
III,III,JAQUES,"married under a bush like a beggar? Get you to"
III,III,JAQUES,"church, and have a good priest that can tell you"
III,III,JAQUES,"what marriage is: this fellow will but join you"
III,III,JAQUES,"together as they join wainscot; then one of you will"
III,III,JAQUES,"prove a shrunk panel and, like green timber, warp, warp."
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"married of him than of another: for he is not like"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"to marry me well; and not being well married, it"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife."
III,III,JAQUES,"Go thou with me, and let me counsel thee."
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"'Come, sweet Audrey:"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"We must be married, or we must live in bawdry."
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"Farewell, good Master Oliver: not,--"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"O sweet Oliver,"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"O brave Oliver,"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"Leave me not behind thee: but,--"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"Wind away,"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"Begone, I say,"
III,III,TOUCHSTONE,"I will not to wedding with thee."
III,III,SIR OLIVER MARTEXT,"'Tis no matter: ne'er a fantastical knave of them"
III,III,SIR OLIVER MARTEXT,"all shall flout me out of my calling."
III,IV,ROSALIND,"Never talk to me; I will weep."
III,IV,CELIA,"Do, I prithee; but yet have the grace to consider"
III,IV,CELIA,"that tears do not become a man."
III,IV,ROSALIND,"But have I not cause to weep?"
III,IV,CELIA,"As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep."
III,IV,ROSALIND,"His very hair is of the dissembling colour."
III,IV,CELIA,"Something browner than Judas's marry, his kisses are"
III,IV,CELIA,"Judas's own children."
III,IV,ROSALIND,"I' faith, his hair is of a good colour."
III,IV,CELIA,"An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the only colour."
III,IV,ROSALIND,"And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch"
III,IV,ROSALIND,"of holy bread."
III,IV,CELIA,"He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana: a nun"
III,IV,CELIA,"of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously;"
III,IV,CELIA,"the very ice of chastity is in them."
III,IV,ROSALIND,"But why did he swear he would come this morning, and"
III,IV,ROSALIND,"comes not?"
III,IV,CELIA,"Nay, certainly, there is no truth in him."
III,IV,ROSALIND,"Do you think so?"
III,IV,CELIA,"Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a"
III,IV,CELIA,"horse-stealer, but for his verity in love, I do"
III,IV,CELIA,"think him as concave as a covered goblet or a"
III,IV,CELIA,"worm-eaten nut."
III,IV,ROSALIND,"Not true in love?"
III,IV,CELIA,"Yes, when he is in; but I think he is not in."
III,IV,ROSALIND,"You have heard him swear downright he was."
III,IV,CELIA,"'Was' is not 'is:' besides, the oath of a lover is"
III,IV,CELIA,"no stronger than the word of a tapster; they are"
III,IV,CELIA,"both the confirmer of false reckonings. He attends"
III,IV,CELIA,"here in the forest on the duke your father."
III,IV,ROSALIND,"I met the duke yesterday and had much question with"
III,IV,ROSALIND,"him: he asked me of what parentage I was; I told"
III,IV,ROSALIND,"him, of as good as he; so he laughed and let me go."
III,IV,ROSALIND,"But what talk we of fathers, when there is such a"
III,IV,ROSALIND,"man as Orlando?"
III,IV,CELIA,"O, that's a brave man! he writes brave verses,"
III,IV,CELIA,"speaks brave words, swears brave oaths and breaks"
III,IV,CELIA,"them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of"
III,IV,CELIA,"his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse"
III,IV,CELIA,"but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble"
III,IV,CELIA,"goose: but all's brave that youth mounts and folly"
III,IV,CELIA,"guides. Who comes here?"
III,IV,CORIN,"Mistress and master, you have oft inquired"
III,IV,CORIN,"After the shepherd that complain'd of love,"
III,IV,CORIN,"Who you saw sitting by me on the turf,"
III,IV,CORIN,"Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess"
III,IV,CORIN,"That was his mistress."
III,IV,CELIA,"Well, and what of him?"
III,IV,CORIN,"If you will see a pageant truly play'd,"
III,IV,CORIN,"Between the pale complexion of true love"
III,IV,CORIN,"And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain,"
III,IV,CORIN,"Go hence a little and I shall conduct you,"
III,IV,CORIN,"If you will mark it."
III,IV,ROSALIND,"O, come, let us remove:"
III,IV,ROSALIND,"The sight of lovers feedeth those in love."
III,IV,ROSALIND,"Bring us to this sight, and you shall say"
III,IV,ROSALIND,"I'll prove a busy actor in their play."
III,V,SILVIUS,"Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me; do not, Phebe;"
III,V,SILVIUS,"Say that you love me not, but say not so"
III,V,SILVIUS,"In bitterness. The common executioner,"
III,V,SILVIUS,"Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard,"
III,V,SILVIUS,"Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck"
III,V,SILVIUS,"But first begs pardon: will you sterner be"
III,V,SILVIUS,"Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops?"
III,V,PHEBE,"I would not be thy executioner:"
III,V,PHEBE,"I fly thee, for I would not injure thee."
III,V,PHEBE,"Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye:"
III,V,PHEBE,"'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable,"
III,V,PHEBE,"That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things,"
III,V,PHEBE,"Who shut their coward gates on atomies,"
III,V,PHEBE,"Should be call'd tyrants, butchers, murderers!"
III,V,PHEBE,"Now I do frown on thee with all my heart;"
III,V,PHEBE,"And if mine eyes can wound, now let them kill thee:"
III,V,PHEBE,"Now counterfeit to swoon; why now fall down;"
III,V,PHEBE,"Or if thou canst not, O, for shame, for shame,"
III,V,PHEBE,"Lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers!"
III,V,PHEBE,"Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee:"
III,V,PHEBE,"Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains"
III,V,PHEBE,"Some scar of it; lean but upon a rush,"
III,V,PHEBE,"The cicatrice and capable impressure"
III,V,PHEBE,"Thy palm some moment keeps; but now mine eyes,"
III,V,PHEBE,"Which I have darted at thee, hurt thee not,"
III,V,PHEBE,"Nor, I am sure, there is no force in eyes"
III,V,PHEBE,"That can do hurt."
III,V,SILVIUS,"O dear Phebe,"
III,V,SILVIUS,"If ever,--as that ever may be near,--"
III,V,SILVIUS,"You meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy,"
III,V,SILVIUS,"Then shall you know the wounds invisible"
III,V,SILVIUS,"That love's keen arrows make."
III,V,PHEBE,"But till that time"
III,V,PHEBE,"Come not thou near me: and when that time comes,"
III,V,PHEBE,"Afflict me with thy mocks, pity me not;"
III,V,PHEBE,"As till that time I shall not pity thee."
III,V,ROSALIND,"And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother,"
III,V,ROSALIND,"That you insult, exult, and all at once,"
III,V,ROSALIND,"Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty,--"
III,V,ROSALIND,"As, by my faith, I see no more in you"
III,V,ROSALIND,"Than without candle may go dark to bed--"
III,V,ROSALIND,"Must you be therefore proud and pitiless?"
III,V,ROSALIND,"Why, what means this? Why do you look on me?"
III,V,ROSALIND,"I see no more in you than in the ordinary"
III,V,ROSALIND,"Of nature's sale-work. 'Od's my little life,"
III,V,ROSALIND,"I think she means to tangle my eyes too!"
III,V,ROSALIND,"No, faith, proud mistress, hope not after it:"
III,V,ROSALIND,"'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair,"
III,V,ROSALIND,"Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,"
III,V,ROSALIND,"That can entame my spirits to your worship."
III,V,ROSALIND,"You foolish shepherd, wherefore do you follow her,"
III,V,ROSALIND,"Like foggy south puffing with wind and rain?"
III,V,ROSALIND,"You are a thousand times a properer man"
III,V,ROSALIND,"Than she a woman: 'tis such fools as you"
III,V,ROSALIND,"That makes the world full of ill-favour'd children:"
III,V,ROSALIND,"'Tis not her glass, but you, that flatters her;"
III,V,ROSALIND,"And out of you she sees herself more proper"
III,V,ROSALIND,"Than any of her lineaments can show her."
III,V,ROSALIND,"But, mistress, know yourself: down on your knees,"
III,V,ROSALIND,"And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love:"
III,V,ROSALIND,"For I must tell you friendly in your ear,"
III,V,ROSALIND,"Sell when you can: you are not for all markets:"
III,V,ROSALIND,"Cry the man mercy; love him; take his offer:"
III,V,ROSALIND,"Foul is most foul, being foul to be a scoffer."
III,V,ROSALIND,"So take her to thee, shepherd: fare you well."
III,V,PHEBE,"Sweet youth, I pray you, chide a year together:"
III,V,PHEBE,"I had rather hear you chide than this man woo."
III,V,ROSALIND,"He's fallen in love with your foulness and she'll"
III,V,ROSALIND,"fall in love with my anger. If it be so, as fast as"
III,V,ROSALIND,"she answers thee with frowning looks, I'll sauce her"
III,V,ROSALIND,"with bitter words. Why look you so upon me?"
III,V,PHEBE,"For no ill will I bear you."
III,V,ROSALIND,"I pray you, do not fall in love with me,"
III,V,ROSALIND,"For I am falser than vows made in wine:"
III,V,ROSALIND,"Besides, I like you not. If you will know my house,"
III,V,ROSALIND,"'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by."
III,V,ROSALIND,"Will you go, sister? Shepherd, ply her hard."
III,V,ROSALIND,"Come, sister. Shepherdess, look on him better,"
III,V,ROSALIND,"And be not proud: though all the world could see,"
III,V,ROSALIND,"None could be so abused in sight as he."
III,V,ROSALIND,"Come, to our flock."
III,V,PHEBE,"Dead Shepherd, now I find thy saw of might,"
III,V,PHEBE,"'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?'"
III,V,SILVIUS,"Sweet Phebe,--"
III,V,PHEBE,"Ha, what say'st thou, Silvius?"
III,V,SILVIUS,"Sweet Phebe, pity me."
III,V,PHEBE,"Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius."
III,V,SILVIUS,"Wherever sorrow is, relief would be:"
III,V,SILVIUS,"If you do sorrow at my grief in love,"
III,V,SILVIUS,"By giving love your sorrow and my grief"
III,V,SILVIUS,"Were both extermined."
III,V,PHEBE,"Thou hast my love: is not that neighbourly?"
III,V,SILVIUS,"I would have you."
III,V,PHEBE,"Why, that were covetousness."
III,V,PHEBE,"Silvius, the time was that I hated thee,"
III,V,PHEBE,"And yet it is not that I bear thee love;"
III,V,PHEBE,"But since that thou canst talk of love so well,"
III,V,PHEBE,"Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,"
III,V,PHEBE,"I will endure, and I'll employ thee too:"
III,V,PHEBE,"But do not look for further recompense"
III,V,PHEBE,"Than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd."
III,V,SILVIUS,"So holy and so perfect is my love,"
III,V,SILVIUS,"And I in such a poverty of grace,"
III,V,SILVIUS,"That I shall think it a most plenteous crop"
III,V,SILVIUS,"To glean the broken ears after the man"
III,V,SILVIUS,"That the main harvest reaps: loose now and then"
III,V,SILVIUS,"A scatter'd smile, and that I'll live upon."
III,V,PHEBE,"Know'st now the youth that spoke to me erewhile?"
III,V,SILVIUS,"Not very well, but I have met him oft;"
III,V,SILVIUS,"And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds"
III,V,SILVIUS,"That the old carlot once was master of."
III,V,PHEBE,"Think not I love him, though I ask for him:"
III,V,PHEBE,"'Tis but a peevish boy; yet he talks well;"
III,V,PHEBE,"But what care I for words? yet words do well"
III,V,PHEBE,"When he that speaks them pleases those that hear."
III,V,PHEBE,"It is a pretty youth: not very pretty:"
III,V,PHEBE,"But, sure, he's proud, and yet his pride becomes him:"
III,V,PHEBE,"He'll make a proper man: the best thing in him"
III,V,PHEBE,"Is his complexion; and faster than his tongue"
III,V,PHEBE,"Did make offence his eye did heal it up."
III,V,PHEBE,"He is not very tall; yet for his years he's tall:"
III,V,PHEBE,"His leg is but so so; and yet 'tis well:"
III,V,PHEBE,"There was a pretty redness in his lip,"
III,V,PHEBE,"A little riper and more lusty red"
III,V,PHEBE,"Than that mix'd in his cheek; 'twas just the difference"
III,V,PHEBE,"Between the constant red and mingled damask."
III,V,PHEBE,"There be some women, Silvius, had they mark'd him"
III,V,PHEBE,"In parcels as I did, would have gone near"
III,V,PHEBE,"To fall in love with him; but, for my part,"
III,V,PHEBE,"I love him not nor hate him not; and yet"
III,V,PHEBE,"I have more cause to hate him than to love him:"
III,V,PHEBE,"For what had he to do to chide at me?"
III,V,PHEBE,"He said mine eyes were black and my hair black:"
III,V,PHEBE,"And, now I am remember'd, scorn'd at me:"
III,V,PHEBE,"I marvel why I answer'd not again:"
III,V,PHEBE,"But that's all one; omittance is no quittance."
III,V,PHEBE,"I'll write to him a very taunting letter,"
III,V,PHEBE,"And thou shalt bear it: wilt thou, Silvius?"
III,V,SILVIUS,"Phebe, with all my heart."
III,V,PHEBE,"I'll write it straight;"
III,V,PHEBE,"The matter's in my head and in my heart:"
III,V,PHEBE,"I will be bitter with him and passing short."
III,V,PHEBE,"Go with me, Silvius."
IV,I,JAQUES,"I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted"
IV,I,JAQUES,"with thee."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"They say you are a melancholy fellow."
IV,I,JAQUES,"I am so; I do love it better than laughing."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Those that are in extremity of either are abominable"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"fellows and betray themselves to every modern"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"censure worse than drunkards."
IV,I,JAQUES,"Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Why then, 'tis good to be a post."
IV,I,JAQUES,"I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is"
IV,I,JAQUES,"emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical,"
IV,I,JAQUES,"nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the"
IV,I,JAQUES,"soldier's, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer's,"
IV,I,JAQUES,"which is politic, nor the lady's, which is nice, nor"
IV,I,JAQUES,"the lover's, which is all these: but it is a"
IV,I,JAQUES,"melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples,"
IV,I,JAQUES,"extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry's"
IV,I,JAQUES,"contemplation of my travels, in which my often"
IV,I,JAQUES,"rumination wraps me m a most humorous sadness."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"other men's; then, to have seen much and to have"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands."
IV,I,JAQUES,"Yes, I have gained my experience."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"And your experience makes you sad: I had rather have"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"a fool to make me merry than experience to make me"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"sad; and to travel for it too!"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"Good day and happiness, dear Rosalind!"
IV,I,JAQUES,"Nay, then, God be wi' you, an you talk in blank verse."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"own country, be out of love with your nativity and"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"almost chide God for making you that countenance you"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"are, or I will scarce think you have swam in a"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"gondola. Why, how now, Orlando! where have you been"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"all this while? You a lover! An you serve me such"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"another trick, never come in my sight more."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my promise."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Break an hour's promise in love! He that will"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"divide a minute into a thousand parts and break but"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"affairs of love, it may be said of him that Cupid"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"hath clapped him o' the shoulder, but I'll warrant"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"him heart-whole."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"Pardon me, dear Rosalind."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight: I"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"had as lief be wooed of a snail."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"Of a snail?"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"carries his house on his head; a better jointure,"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"I think, than you make a woman: besides he brings"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"his destiny with him."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"What's that?"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Why, horns, which such as you are fain to be"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"beholding to your wives for: but he comes armed in"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"his fortune and prevents the slander of his wife."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"Virtue is no horn-maker; and my Rosalind is virtuous."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"And I am your Rosalind."
IV,I,CELIA,"It pleases him to call you so; but he hath a"
IV,I,CELIA,"Rosalind of a better leer than you."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"humour and like enough to consent. What would you"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"say to me now, an I were your very very Rosalind?"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"I would kiss before I spoke."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Nay, you were better speak first, and when you were"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"gravelled for lack of matter, you might take"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"occasion to kiss. Very good orators, when they are"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"out, they will spit; and for lovers lacking--God"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"How if the kiss be denied?"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Then she puts you to entreaty, and there begins new matter."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"Who could be out, being before his beloved mistress?"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Marry, that should you, if I were your mistress, or"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"I should think my honesty ranker than my wit."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"What, of my suit?"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Not out of your apparel, and yet out of your suit."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Am not I your Rosalind?"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"I take some joy to say you are, because I would be"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"talking of her."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Well in her person I say I will not have you."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"Then in mine own person I die."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"almost six thousand years old, and in all this time"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"there was not any man died in his own person,"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"dashed out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"could to die before, and he is one of the patterns"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"of love. Leander, he would have lived many a fair"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.'"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"But these are all lies: men have died from time to"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"time and worms have eaten them, but not for love."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind,"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"for, I protest, her frown might kill me."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"By this hand, it will not kill a fly. But come, now"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"disposition, and ask me what you will. I will grant"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"it."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"Then love me, Rosalind."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Yes, faith, will I, Fridays and Saturdays and all."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"And wilt thou have me?"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Ay, and twenty such."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"What sayest thou?"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Are you not good?"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"I hope so."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Come, sister, you shall be the priest and marry us."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Give me your hand, Orlando. What do you say, sister?"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"Pray thee, marry us."
IV,I,CELIA,"I cannot say the words."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"You must begin, 'Will you, Orlando--'"
IV,I,CELIA,"Go to. Will you, Orlando, have to wife this Rosalind?"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"I will."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Ay, but when?"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"Why now; as fast as she can marry us."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Then you must say 'I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.'"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"I take thee, Rosalind, for wife."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"I might ask you for your commission; but I do take"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"thee, Orlando, for my husband: there's a girl goes"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"before the priest; and certainly a woman's thought"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"runs before her actions."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"So do all thoughts; they are winged."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Now tell me how long you would have her after you"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"have possessed her."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"For ever and a day."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Say 'a day,' without the 'ever.' No, no, Orlando;"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"men are April when they woo, December when they wed:"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"maids are May when they are maids, but the sky"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen,"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like Diana"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"in the fountain, and I will do that when you are"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"that when thou art inclined to sleep."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"But will my Rosalind do so?"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"By my life, she will do as I do."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"O, but she is wise."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Or else she could not have the wit to do this: the"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"wiser, the waywarder: make the doors upon a woman's"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"wit and it will out at the casement; shut that and"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"with the smoke out at the chimney."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"'Wit, whither wilt?'"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Nay, you might keep that cheque for it till you met"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"your wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"And what wit could wit have to excuse that?"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Marry, to say she came to seek you there. You shall"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"never take her without her answer, unless you take"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"her without her tongue. O, that woman that cannot"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"make her fault her husband's occasion, let her"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"never nurse her child herself, for she will breed"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"it like a fool!"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"For these two hours, Rosalind, I will leave thee."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Alas! dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"I must attend the duke at dinner: by two o'clock I"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"will be with thee again."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Ay, go your ways, go your ways; I knew what you"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"would prove: my friends told me as much, and I"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"thought no less: that flattering tongue of yours"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"won me: 'tis but one cast away, and so, come,"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"death! Two o'clock is your hour?"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"Ay, sweet Rosalind."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"By my troth, and in good earnest, and so God mend"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous,"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"if you break one jot of your promise or come one"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"minute behind your hour, I will think you the most"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"pathetical break-promise and the most hollow lover"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"and the most unworthy of her you call Rosalind that"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"may be chosen out of the gross band of the"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"unfaithful: therefore beware my censure and keep"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"your promise."
IV,I,ORLANDO,"With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my"
IV,I,ORLANDO,"Rosalind: so adieu."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"offenders, and let Time try: adieu."
IV,I,CELIA,"You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate:"
IV,I,CELIA,"we must have your doublet and hose plucked over your"
IV,I,CELIA,"head, and show the world what the bird hath done to"
IV,I,CELIA,"her own nest."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"didst know how many fathom deep I am in love! But"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"it cannot be sounded: my affection hath an unknown"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"bottom, like the bay of Portugal."
IV,I,CELIA,"Or rather, bottomless, that as fast as you pour"
IV,I,CELIA,"affection in, it runs out."
IV,I,ROSALIND,"No, that same wicked bastard of Venus that was begot"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"of thought, conceived of spleen and born of madness,"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"that blind rascally boy that abuses every one's eyes"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"because his own are out, let him be judge how deep I"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"am in love. I'll tell thee, Aliena, I cannot be out"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"of the sight of Orlando: I'll go find a shadow and"
IV,I,ROSALIND,"sigh till he come."
IV,I,CELIA,"And I'll sleep."
IV,II,JAQUES,"Which is he that killed the deer?"
IV,II,A Lord,"Sir, it was I."
IV,II,JAQUES,"Let's present him to the duke, like a Roman"
IV,II,JAQUES,"conqueror; and it would do well to set the deer's"
IV,II,JAQUES,"horns upon his head, for a branch of victory. Have"
IV,II,JAQUES,"you no song, forester, for this purpose?"
IV,II,Forester,"Yes, sir."
IV,II,JAQUES,"Sing it: 'tis no matter how it be in tune, so it"
IV,II,JAQUES,"make noise enough."
IV,II,Forester,"What shall he have that kill'd the deer?"
IV,II,Forester,"His leather skin and horns to wear."
IV,II,Forester,"Then sing him home;"
IV,II,Forester,"Take thou no scorn to wear the horn;"
IV,II,Forester,"It was a crest ere thou wast born:"
IV,II,Forester,"Thy father's father wore it,"
IV,II,Forester,"And thy father bore it:"
IV,II,Forester,"The horn, the horn, the lusty horn"
IV,II,Forester,"Is not a thing to laugh to scorn."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"How say you now? Is it not past two o'clock? and"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"here much Orlando!"
IV,III,CELIA,"I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain, he"
IV,III,CELIA,"hath ta'en his bow and arrows and is gone forth to"
IV,III,CELIA,"sleep. Look, who comes here."
IV,III,SILVIUS,"My errand is to you, fair youth;"
IV,III,SILVIUS,"My gentle Phebe bid me give you this:"
IV,III,SILVIUS,"I know not the contents; but, as I guess"
IV,III,SILVIUS,"By the stern brow and waspish action"
IV,III,SILVIUS,"Which she did use as she was writing of it,"
IV,III,SILVIUS,"It bears an angry tenor: pardon me:"
IV,III,SILVIUS,"I am but as a guiltless messenger."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Patience herself would startle at this letter"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"And play the swaggerer; bear this, bear all:"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Were man as rare as phoenix. 'Od's my will!"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Her love is not the hare that I do hunt:"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well,"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"This is a letter of your own device."
IV,III,SILVIUS,"No, I protest, I know not the contents:"
IV,III,SILVIUS,"Phebe did write it."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Come, come, you are a fool"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"And turn'd into the extremity of love."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"I saw her hand: she has a leathern hand."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"A freestone-colour'd hand; I verily did think"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands:"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"She has a huswife's hand; but that's no matter:"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"I say she never did invent this letter;"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"This is a man's invention and his hand."
IV,III,SILVIUS,"Sure, it is hers."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"A style for-challengers; why, she defies me,"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Like Turk to Christian: women's gentle brain"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Such Ethiope words, blacker in their effect"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Than in their countenance. Will you hear the letter?"
IV,III,SILVIUS,"So please you, for I never heard it yet;"
IV,III,SILVIUS,"Yet heard too much of Phebe's cruelty."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"She Phebes me: mark how the tyrant writes."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Art thou god to shepherd turn'd,"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"That a maiden's heart hath burn'd?"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Can a woman rail thus?"
IV,III,SILVIUS,"Call you this railing?"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Why, thy godhead laid apart,"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Warr'st thou with a woman's heart?"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Did you ever hear such railing?"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Whiles the eye of man did woo me,"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"That could do no vengeance to me."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Meaning me a beast."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"If the scorn of your bright eyne"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Have power to raise such love in mine,"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Alack, in me what strange effect"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Would they work in mild aspect!"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Whiles you chid me, I did love;"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"How then might your prayers move!"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"He that brings this love to thee"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Little knows this love in me:"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"And by him seal up thy mind;"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Whether that thy youth and kind"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Will the faithful offer take"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Of me and all that I can make;"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Or else by him my love deny,"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"And then I'll study how to die."
IV,III,SILVIUS,"Call you this chiding?"
IV,III,CELIA,"Alas, poor shepherd!"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Do you pity him? no, he deserves no pity. Wilt"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"thou love such a woman? What, to make thee an"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"instrument and play false strains upon thee! not to"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"be endured! Well, go your way to her, for I see"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"love hath made thee a tame snake, and say this to"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"her: that if she love me, I charge her to love"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"thee; if she will not, I will never have her unless"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"thou entreat for her. If you be a true lover,"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"hence, and not a word; for here comes more company."
IV,III,OLIVER,"Good morrow, fair ones: pray you, if you know,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Where in the purlieus of this forest stands"
IV,III,OLIVER,"A sheep-cote fenced about with olive trees?"
IV,III,CELIA,"West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom:"
IV,III,CELIA,"The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream"
IV,III,CELIA,"Left on your right hand brings you to the place."
IV,III,CELIA,"But at this hour the house doth keep itself;"
IV,III,CELIA,"There's none within."
IV,III,OLIVER,"If that an eye may profit by a tongue,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Then should I know you by description;"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Such garments and such years: 'The boy is fair,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Of female favour, and bestows himself"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Like a ripe sister: the woman low"
IV,III,OLIVER,"And browner than her brother.' Are not you"
IV,III,OLIVER,"The owner of the house I did inquire for?"
IV,III,CELIA,"It is no boast, being ask'd, to say we are."
IV,III,OLIVER,"Orlando doth commend him to you both,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"And to that youth he calls his Rosalind"
IV,III,OLIVER,"He sends this bloody napkin. Are you he?"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"I am: what must we understand by this?"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Some of my shame; if you will know of me"
IV,III,OLIVER,"What man I am, and how, and why, and where"
IV,III,OLIVER,"This handkercher was stain'd."
IV,III,CELIA,"I pray you, tell it."
IV,III,OLIVER,"When last the young Orlando parted from you"
IV,III,OLIVER,"He left a promise to return again"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Within an hour, and pacing through the forest,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Lo, what befell! he threw his eye aside,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"And mark what object did present itself:"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age"
IV,III,OLIVER,"And high top bald with dry antiquity,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Lay sleeping on his back: about his neck"
IV,III,OLIVER,"A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Who with her head nimble in threats approach'd"
IV,III,OLIVER,"The opening of his mouth; but suddenly,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"And with indented glides did slip away"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Into a bush: under which bush's shade"
IV,III,OLIVER,"A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis"
IV,III,OLIVER,"The royal disposition of that beast"
IV,III,OLIVER,"To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead:"
IV,III,OLIVER,"This seen, Orlando did approach the man"
IV,III,OLIVER,"And found it was his brother, his elder brother."
IV,III,CELIA,"O, I have heard him speak of that same brother;"
IV,III,CELIA,"And he did render him the most unnatural"
IV,III,CELIA,"That lived amongst men."
IV,III,OLIVER,"And well he might so do,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"For well I know he was unnatural."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"But, to Orlando: did he leave him there,"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Food to the suck'd and hungry lioness?"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Twice did he turn his back and purposed so;"
IV,III,OLIVER,"But kindness, nobler ever than revenge,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"And nature, stronger than his just occasion,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Made him give battle to the lioness,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Who quickly fell before him: in which hurtling"
IV,III,OLIVER,"From miserable slumber I awaked."
IV,III,CELIA,"Are you his brother?"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Wast you he rescued?"
IV,III,CELIA,"Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him?"
IV,III,OLIVER,"'Twas I; but 'tis not I I do not shame"
IV,III,OLIVER,"To tell you what I was, since my conversion"
IV,III,OLIVER,"So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"But, for the bloody napkin?"
IV,III,OLIVER,"By and by."
IV,III,OLIVER,"When from the first to last betwixt us two"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"As how I came into that desert place:--"
IV,III,OLIVER,"In brief, he led me to the gentle duke,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Who gave me fresh array and entertainment,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Committing me unto my brother's love;"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Who led me instantly unto his cave,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"There stripp'd himself, and here upon his arm"
IV,III,OLIVER,"The lioness had torn some flesh away,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Which all this while had bled; and now he fainted"
IV,III,OLIVER,"And cried, in fainting, upon Rosalind."
IV,III,OLIVER,"Brief, I recover'd him, bound up his wound;"
IV,III,OLIVER,"And, after some small space, being strong at heart,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"He sent me hither, stranger as I am,"
IV,III,OLIVER,"To tell this story, that you might excuse"
IV,III,OLIVER,"His broken promise, and to give this napkin"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Dyed in his blood unto the shepherd youth"
IV,III,OLIVER,"That he in sport doth call his Rosalind."
IV,III,CELIA,"Why, how now, Ganymede! sweet Ganymede!"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Many will swoon when they do look on blood."
IV,III,CELIA,"There is more in it. Cousin Ganymede!"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Look, he recovers."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"I would I were at home."
IV,III,CELIA,"We'll lead you thither."
IV,III,CELIA,"I pray you, will you take him by the arm?"
IV,III,OLIVER,"Be of good cheer, youth: you a man! you lack a"
IV,III,OLIVER,"man's heart."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"I do so, I confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"think this was well counterfeited! I pray you, tell"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"your brother how well I counterfeited. Heigh-ho!"
IV,III,OLIVER,"This was not counterfeit: there is too great"
IV,III,OLIVER,"testimony in your complexion that it was a passion"
IV,III,OLIVER,"of earnest."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"Counterfeit, I assure you."
IV,III,OLIVER,"Well then, take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"So I do: but, i' faith, I should have been a woman by right."
IV,III,CELIA,"Come, you look paler and paler: pray you, draw"
IV,III,CELIA,"homewards. Good sir, go with us."
IV,III,OLIVER,"That will I, for I must bear answer back"
IV,III,OLIVER,"How you excuse my brother, Rosalind."
IV,III,ROSALIND,"I shall devise something: but, I pray you, commend"
IV,III,ROSALIND,"my counterfeiting to him. Will you go?"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"We shall find a time, Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey."
V,I,AUDREY,"Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old"
V,I,AUDREY,"gentleman's saying."
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"forest lays claim to you."
V,I,AUDREY,"Ay, I know who 'tis; he hath no interest in me in"
V,I,AUDREY,"the world: here comes the man you mean."
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"It is meat and drink to me to see a clown: by my"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"troth, we that have good wits have much to answer"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"for; we shall be flouting; we cannot hold."
V,I,WILLIAM,"Good even, Audrey."
V,I,AUDREY,"God ye good even, William."
V,I,WILLIAM,"And good even to you, sir."
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"Good even, gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover thy"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"head; nay, prithee, be covered. How old are you, friend?"
V,I,WILLIAM,"Five and twenty, sir."
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"A ripe age. Is thy name William?"
V,I,WILLIAM,"William, sir."
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"A fair name. Wast born i' the forest here?"
V,I,WILLIAM,"Ay, sir, I thank God."
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"'Thank God;' a good answer. Art rich?"
V,I,WILLIAM,"Faith, sir, so so."
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"'So so' is good, very good, very excellent good; and"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"yet it is not; it is but so so. Art thou wise?"
V,I,WILLIAM,"Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit."
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"Why, thou sayest well. I do now remember a saying,"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"knows himself to be a fool.' The heathen"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape,"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"would open his lips when he put it into his mouth;"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"lips to open. You do love this maid?"
V,I,WILLIAM,"I do, sir."
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"Give me your hand. Art thou learned?"
V,I,WILLIAM,"No, sir."
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"Then learn this of me: to have, is to have; for it"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"the other; for all your writers do consent that ipse"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"is he: now, you are not ipse, for I am he."
V,I,WILLIAM,"Which he, sir?"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"He, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"clown, abandon,--which is in the vulgar leave,--the"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"society,--which in the boorish is company,--of this"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"female,--which in the common is woman; which"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"together is, abandon the society of this female, or,"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"understanding, diest; or, to wit I kill thee, make"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"thee away, translate thy life into death, thy"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"liberty into bondage: I will deal in poison with"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"thee, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"with thee in faction; I will o'errun thee with"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways:"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"therefore tremble and depart."
V,I,AUDREY,"Do, good William."
V,I,WILLIAM,"God rest you merry, sir."
V,I,CORIN,"Our master and mistress seeks you; come, away, away!"
V,I,TOUCHSTONE,"Trip, Audrey! trip, Audrey! I attend, I attend."
V,II,ORLANDO,"Is't possible that on so little acquaintance you"
V,II,ORLANDO,"should like her? that but seeing you should love"
V,II,ORLANDO,"her? and loving woo? and, wooing, she should"
V,II,ORLANDO,"grant? and will you persever to enjoy her?"
V,II,OLIVER,"Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the"
V,II,OLIVER,"poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden"
V,II,OLIVER,"wooing, nor her sudden consenting; but say with me,"
V,II,OLIVER,"I love Aliena; say with her that she loves me;"
V,II,OLIVER,"consent with both that we may enjoy each other: it"
V,II,OLIVER,"shall be to your good; for my father's house and all"
V,II,OLIVER,"the revenue that was old Sir Rowland's will I"
V,II,OLIVER,"estate upon you, and here live and die a shepherd."
V,II,ORLANDO,"You have my consent. Let your wedding be to-morrow:"
V,II,ORLANDO,"thither will I invite the duke and all's contented"
V,II,ORLANDO,"followers. Go you and prepare Aliena; for look"
V,II,ORLANDO,"you, here comes my Rosalind."
V,II,ROSALIND,"God save you, brother."
V,II,OLIVER,"And you, fair sister."
V,II,ROSALIND,"O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee"
V,II,ROSALIND,"wear thy heart in a scarf!"
V,II,ORLANDO,"It is my arm."
V,II,ROSALIND,"I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws"
V,II,ROSALIND,"of a lion."
V,II,ORLANDO,"Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady."
V,II,ROSALIND,"Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to"
V,II,ROSALIND,"swoon when he showed me your handkerchief?"
V,II,ORLANDO,"Ay, and greater wonders than that."
V,II,ROSALIND,"O, I know where you are: nay, 'tis true: there was"
V,II,ROSALIND,"never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams"
V,II,ROSALIND,"and Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and"
V,II,ROSALIND,"overcame:' for your brother and my sister no sooner"
V,II,ROSALIND,"met but they looked, no sooner looked but they"
V,II,ROSALIND,"loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner"
V,II,ROSALIND,"sighed but they asked one another the reason, no"
V,II,ROSALIND,"sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy;"
V,II,ROSALIND,"and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs"
V,II,ROSALIND,"to marriage which they will climb incontinent, or"
V,II,ROSALIND,"else be incontinent before marriage: they are in"
V,II,ROSALIND,"the very wrath of love and they will together; clubs"
V,II,ROSALIND,"cannot part them."
V,II,ORLANDO,"They shall be married to-morrow, and I will bid the"
V,II,ORLANDO,"duke to the nuptial. But, O, how bitter a thing it"
V,II,ORLANDO,"is to look into happiness through another man's"
V,II,ORLANDO,"eyes! By so much the more shall I to-morrow be at"
V,II,ORLANDO,"the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I shall"
V,II,ORLANDO,"think my brother happy in having what he wishes for."
V,II,ROSALIND,"Why then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?"
V,II,ORLANDO,"I can live no longer by thinking."
V,II,ROSALIND,"I will weary you then no longer with idle talking."
V,II,ROSALIND,"Know of me then, for now I speak to some purpose,"
V,II,ROSALIND,"that I know you are a gentleman of good conceit: I"
V,II,ROSALIND,"speak not this that you should bear a good opinion"
V,II,ROSALIND,"of my knowledge, insomuch I say I know you are;"
V,II,ROSALIND,"neither do I labour for a greater esteem than may in"
V,II,ROSALIND,"some little measure draw a belief from you, to do"
V,II,ROSALIND,"yourself good and not to grace me. Believe then, if"
V,II,ROSALIND,"you please, that I can do strange things: I have,"
V,II,ROSALIND,"since I was three year old, conversed with a"
V,II,ROSALIND,"magician, most profound in his art and yet not"
V,II,ROSALIND,"damnable. If you do love Rosalind so near the heart"
V,II,ROSALIND,"as your gesture cries it out, when your brother"
V,II,ROSALIND,"marries Aliena, shall you marry her: I know into"
V,II,ROSALIND,"what straits of fortune she is driven; and it is"
V,II,ROSALIND,"not impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient"
V,II,ROSALIND,"to you, to set her before your eyes tomorrow human"
V,II,ROSALIND,"as she is and without any danger."
V,II,ORLANDO,"Speakest thou in sober meanings?"
V,II,ROSALIND,"By my life, I do; which I tender dearly, though I"
V,II,ROSALIND,"say I am a magician. Therefore, put you in your"
V,II,ROSALIND,"best array: bid your friends; for if you will be"
V,II,ROSALIND,"married to-morrow, you shall, and to Rosalind, if you will."
V,II,ROSALIND,"Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers."
V,II,PHEBE,"Youth, you have done me much ungentleness,"
V,II,PHEBE,"To show the letter that I writ to you."
V,II,ROSALIND,"I care not if I have: it is my study"
V,II,ROSALIND,"To seem despiteful and ungentle to you:"
V,II,ROSALIND,"You are there followed by a faithful shepherd;"
V,II,ROSALIND,"Look upon him, love him; he worships you."
V,II,PHEBE,"Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love."
V,II,SILVIUS,"It is to be all made of sighs and tears;"
V,II,SILVIUS,"And so am I for Phebe."
V,II,PHEBE,"And I for Ganymede."
V,II,ORLANDO,"And I for Rosalind."
V,II,ROSALIND,"And I for no woman."
V,II,SILVIUS,"It is to be all made of faith and service;"
V,II,SILVIUS,"And so am I for Phebe."
V,II,PHEBE,"And I for Ganymede."
V,II,ORLANDO,"And I for Rosalind."
V,II,ROSALIND,"And I for no woman."
V,II,SILVIUS,"It is to be all made of fantasy,"
V,II,SILVIUS,"All made of passion and all made of wishes,"
V,II,SILVIUS,"All adoration, duty, and observance,"
V,II,SILVIUS,"All humbleness, all patience and impatience,"
V,II,SILVIUS,"All purity, all trial, all observance;"
V,II,SILVIUS,"And so am I for Phebe."
V,II,PHEBE,"And so am I for Ganymede."
V,II,ORLANDO,"And so am I for Rosalind."
V,II,ROSALIND,"And so am I for no woman."
V,II,PHEBE,"If this be so, why blame you me to love you?"
V,II,SILVIUS,"If this be so, why blame you me to love you?"
V,II,ORLANDO,"If this be so, why blame you me to love you?"
V,II,ROSALIND,"Who do you speak to, 'Why blame you me to love you?'"
V,II,ORLANDO,"To her that is not here, nor doth not hear."
V,II,ROSALIND,"Pray you, no more of this; 'tis like the howling"
V,II,ROSALIND,"of Irish wolves against the moon."
V,II,ROSALIND,"I will help you, if I can:"
V,II,ROSALIND,"I would love you, if I could. To-morrow meet me all together."
V,II,ROSALIND,"I will marry you, if ever I marry woman, and I'll be"
V,II,ROSALIND,"married to-morrow:"
V,II,ROSALIND,"I will satisfy you, if ever I satisfied man, and you"
V,II,ROSALIND,"shall be married to-morrow:"
V,II,ROSALIND,"I will content you, if what pleases you contents"
V,II,ROSALIND,"you, and you shall be married to-morrow."
V,II,ROSALIND,"As you love Rosalind, meet:"
V,II,ROSALIND,"as you love Phebe, meet: and as I love no woman,"
V,II,ROSALIND,"I'll meet. So fare you well: I have left you commands."
V,II,SILVIUS,"I'll not fail, if I live."
V,II,PHEBE,"Nor I."
V,II,ORLANDO,"Nor I."
V,III,TOUCHSTONE,"To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-morrow will"
V,III,TOUCHSTONE,"we be married."
V,III,AUDREY,"I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is"
V,III,AUDREY,"no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the"
V,III,AUDREY,"world. Here comes two of the banished duke's pages."
V,III,First Page,"Well met, honest gentleman."
V,III,TOUCHSTONE,"By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a song."
V,III,Second Page,"We are for you: sit i' the middle."
V,III,First Page,"Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking or"
V,III,First Page,"spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are the only"
V,III,First Page,"prologues to a bad voice?"
V,III,Second Page,"I'faith, i'faith; and both in a tune, like two"
V,III,Second Page,"gipsies on a horse."
V,III,Second Page,"It was a lover and his lass,"
V,III,Second Page,"With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,"
V,III,Second Page,"That o'er the green corn-field did pass"
V,III,Second Page,"In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,"
V,III,Second Page,"When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding:"
V,III,Second Page,"Sweet lovers love the spring."
V,III,Second Page,"Between the acres of the rye,"
V,III,Second Page,"With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino"
V,III,Second Page,"These pretty country folks would lie,"
V,III,Second Page,"In spring time, &c."
V,III,Second Page,"This carol they began that hour,"
V,III,Second Page,"With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,"
V,III,Second Page,"How that a life was but a flower"
V,III,Second Page,"In spring time, &c."
V,III,Second Page,"And therefore take the present time,"
V,III,Second Page,"With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino;"
V,III,Second Page,"For love is crowned with the prime"
V,III,Second Page,"In spring time, &c."
V,III,TOUCHSTONE,"Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great"
V,III,TOUCHSTONE,"matter in the ditty, yet the note was very"
V,III,TOUCHSTONE,"untuneable."
V,III,First Page,"You are deceived, sir: we kept time, we lost not our time."
V,III,TOUCHSTONE,"By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to hear"
V,III,TOUCHSTONE,"such a foolish song. God be wi' you; and God mend"
V,III,TOUCHSTONE,"your voices! Come, Audrey."
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"Can do all this that he hath promised?"
V,IV,ORLANDO,"I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not;"
V,IV,ORLANDO,"As those that fear they hope, and know they fear."
V,IV,ROSALIND,"Patience once more, whiles our compact is urged:"
V,IV,ROSALIND,"You say, if I bring in your Rosalind,"
V,IV,ROSALIND,"You will bestow her on Orlando here?"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her."
V,IV,ROSALIND,"And you say, you will have her, when I bring her?"
V,IV,ORLANDO,"That would I, were I of all kingdoms king."
V,IV,ROSALIND,"You say, you'll marry me, if I be willing?"
V,IV,PHEBE,"That will I, should I die the hour after."
V,IV,ROSALIND,"But if you do refuse to marry me,"
V,IV,ROSALIND,"You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?"
V,IV,PHEBE,"So is the bargain."
V,IV,ROSALIND,"You say, that you'll have Phebe, if she will?"
V,IV,SILVIUS,"Though to have her and death were both one thing."
V,IV,ROSALIND,"I have promised to make all this matter even."
V,IV,ROSALIND,"Keep you your word, O duke, to give your daughter;"
V,IV,ROSALIND,"You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter:"
V,IV,ROSALIND,"Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me,"
V,IV,ROSALIND,"Or else refusing me, to wed this shepherd:"
V,IV,ROSALIND,"Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her."
V,IV,ROSALIND,"If she refuse me: and from hence I go,"
V,IV,ROSALIND,"To make these doubts all even."
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"I do remember in this shepherd boy"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"Some lively touches of my daughter's favour."
V,IV,ORLANDO,"My lord, the first time that I ever saw him"
V,IV,ORLANDO,"Methought he was a brother to your daughter:"
V,IV,ORLANDO,"But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born,"
V,IV,ORLANDO,"And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments"
V,IV,ORLANDO,"Of many desperate studies by his uncle,"
V,IV,ORLANDO,"Whom he reports to be a great magician,"
V,IV,ORLANDO,"Obscured in the circle of this forest."
V,IV,JAQUES,"There is, sure, another flood toward, and these"
V,IV,JAQUES,"couples are coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of"
V,IV,JAQUES,"very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools."
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"Salutation and greeting to you all!"
V,IV,JAQUES,"Good my lord, bid him welcome: this is the"
V,IV,JAQUES,"motley-minded gentleman that I have so often met in"
V,IV,JAQUES,"the forest: he hath been a courtier, he swears."
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"If any man doubt that, let him put me to my"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"purgation. I have trod a measure; I have flattered"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"a lady; I have been politic with my friend, smooth"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"with mine enemy; I have undone three tailors; I have"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"had four quarrels, and like to have fought one."
V,IV,JAQUES,"And how was that ta'en up?"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was upon the"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"seventh cause."
V,IV,JAQUES,"How seventh cause? Good my lord, like this fellow."
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"I like him very well."
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"God 'ild you, sir; I desire you of the like. I"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"copulatives, to swear and to forswear: according as"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"marriage binds and blood breaks: a poor virgin,"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own; a poor"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"humour of mine, sir, to take that that no man else"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"will: rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster."
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"By my faith, he is very swift and sententious."
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such dulcet diseases."
V,IV,JAQUES,"But, for the seventh cause; how did you find the"
V,IV,JAQUES,"quarrel on the seventh cause?"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"Upon a lie seven times removed:--bear your body more"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"seeming, Audrey:--as thus, sir. I did dislike the"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"cut of a certain courtier's beard: he sent me word,"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"mind it was: this is called the Retort Courteous."
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"If I sent him word again 'it was not well cut,' he"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"would send me word, he cut it to please himself:"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"this is called the Quip Modest. If again 'it was"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"not well cut,' he disabled my judgment: this is"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"called the Reply Churlish. If again 'it was not"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"well cut,' he would answer, I spake not true: this"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"is called the Reproof Valiant. If again 'it was not"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"well cut,' he would say I lied: this is called the"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"Counter-cheque Quarrelsome: and so to the Lie"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"Circumstantial and the Lie Direct."
V,IV,JAQUES,"And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut?"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"I durst go no further than the Lie Circumstantial,"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"nor he durst not give me the Lie Direct; and so we"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"measured swords and parted."
V,IV,JAQUES,"Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie?"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book; as you have"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"books for good manners: I will name you the degrees."
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"Countercheque Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"avoid that too, with an If. I knew when seven"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"parties were met themselves, one of them thought but"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the"
V,IV,TOUCHSTONE,"only peacemaker; much virtue in If."
V,IV,JAQUES,"Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? he's as good at"
V,IV,JAQUES,"any thing and yet a fool."
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"He uses his folly like a stalking-horse and under"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"the presentation of that he shoots his wit."
V,IV,HYMEN,"Then is there mirth in heaven,"
V,IV,HYMEN,"When earthly things made even"
V,IV,HYMEN,"Atone together."
V,IV,HYMEN,"Good duke, receive thy daughter"
V,IV,HYMEN,"Hymen from heaven brought her,"
V,IV,HYMEN,"Yea, brought her hither,"
V,IV,HYMEN,"That thou mightst join her hand with his"
V,IV,HYMEN,"Whose heart within his bosom is."
V,IV,ROSALIND,"To you I give myself, for I am yours."
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter."
V,IV,ORLANDO,"If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind."
V,IV,PHEBE,"If sight and shape be true,"
V,IV,PHEBE,"Why then, my love adieu!"
V,IV,ROSALIND,"I'll have no father, if you be not he:"
V,IV,ROSALIND,"I'll have no husband, if you be not he:"
V,IV,ROSALIND,"Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not she."
V,IV,HYMEN,"Peace, ho! I bar confusion:"
V,IV,HYMEN,"'Tis I must make conclusion"
V,IV,HYMEN,"Of these most strange events:"
V,IV,HYMEN,"Here's eight that must take hands"
V,IV,HYMEN,"To join in Hymen's bands,"
V,IV,HYMEN,"If truth holds true contents."
V,IV,HYMEN,"You and you no cross shall part:"
V,IV,HYMEN,"You and you are heart in heart"
V,IV,HYMEN,"You to his love must accord,"
V,IV,HYMEN,"Or have a woman to your lord:"
V,IV,HYMEN,"You and you are sure together,"
V,IV,HYMEN,"As the winter to foul weather."
V,IV,HYMEN,"Whiles a wedlock-hymn we sing,"
V,IV,HYMEN,"Feed yourselves with questioning;"
V,IV,HYMEN,"That reason wonder may diminish,"
V,IV,HYMEN,"How thus we met, and these things finish."
V,IV,HYMEN,"Wedding is great Juno's crown:"
V,IV,HYMEN,"O blessed bond of board and bed!"
V,IV,HYMEN,"'Tis Hymen peoples every town;"
V,IV,HYMEN,"High wedlock then be honoured:"
V,IV,HYMEN,"Honour, high honour and renown,"
V,IV,HYMEN,"To Hymen, god of every town!"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me!"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"Even daughter, welcome, in no less degree."
V,IV,PHEBE,"I will not eat my word, now thou art mine;"
V,IV,PHEBE,"Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine."
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"Let me have audience for a word or two:"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"I am the second son of old Sir Rowland,"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"That bring these tidings to this fair assembly."
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"Men of great worth resorted to this forest,"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"Address'd a mighty power; which were on foot,"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"In his own conduct, purposely to take"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"His brother here and put him to the sword:"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"And to the skirts of this wild wood he came;"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"Where meeting with an old religious man,"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"After some question with him, was converted"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"Both from his enterprise and from the world,"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother,"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"And all their lands restored to them again"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"That were with him exiled. This to be true,"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"I do engage my life."
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"Welcome, young man;"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"Thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers' wedding:"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"To one his lands withheld, and to the other"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"A land itself at large, a potent dukedom."
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"First, in this forest, let us do those ends"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"That here were well begun and well begot:"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"And after, every of this happy number"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"That have endured shrewd days and nights with us"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"Shall share the good of our returned fortune,"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"According to the measure of their states."
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"Meantime, forget this new-fall'n dignity"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"And fall into our rustic revelry."
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"Play, music! And you, brides and bridegrooms all,"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"With measure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall."
V,IV,JAQUES,"Sir, by your patience. If I heard you rightly,"
V,IV,JAQUES,"The duke hath put on a religious life"
V,IV,JAQUES,"And thrown into neglect the pompous court?"
V,IV,JAQUES DE BOYS,"He hath."
V,IV,JAQUES,"To him will I : out of these convertites"
V,IV,JAQUES,"There is much matter to be heard and learn'd."
V,IV,JAQUES,"You to your former honour I bequeath;"
V,IV,JAQUES,"Your patience and your virtue well deserves it:"
V,IV,JAQUES,"You to a love that your true faith doth merit:"
V,IV,JAQUES,"You to your land and love and great allies:"
V,IV,JAQUES,"You to a long and well-deserved bed:"
V,IV,JAQUES,"And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage"
V,IV,JAQUES,"Is but for two months victuall'd. So, to your pleasures:"
V,IV,JAQUES,"I am for other than for dancing measures."
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"Stay, Jaques, stay."
V,IV,JAQUES,"To see no pastime I what you would have"
V,IV,JAQUES,"I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave."
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites,"
V,IV,DUKE SENIOR,"As we do trust they'll end, in true delights."
I,I,AEGEON,"Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall"
I,I,AEGEON,"And by the doom of death end woes and all."
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more;"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"I am not partial to infringe our laws:"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"The enmity and discord which of late"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Who wanting guilders to redeem their lives"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Excludes all pity from our threatening looks."
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"For, since the mortal and intestine jars"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"'Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"It hath in solemn synods been decreed"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Both by the Syracusians and ourselves,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"To admit no traffic to our adverse towns Nay, more,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"If any born at Ephesus be seen"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"At any Syracusian marts and fairs;"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Again: if any Syracusian born"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Come to the bay of Ephesus, he dies,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"His goods confiscate to the duke's dispose,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Unless a thousand marks be levied,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"To quit the penalty and to ransom him."
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Thy substance, valued at the highest rate,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Cannot amount unto a hundred marks;"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Therefore by law thou art condemned to die."
I,I,AEGEON,"Yet this my comfort: when your words are done,"
I,I,AEGEON,"My woes end likewise with the evening sun."
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Well, Syracusian, say in brief the cause"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Why thou departed'st from thy native home"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"And for what cause thou camest to Ephesus."
I,I,AEGEON,"A heavier task could not have been imposed"
I,I,AEGEON,"Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable:"
I,I,AEGEON,"Yet, that the world may witness that my end"
I,I,AEGEON,"Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence,"
I,I,AEGEON,"I'll utter what my sorrows give me leave."
I,I,AEGEON,"In Syracusa was I born, and wed"
I,I,AEGEON,"Unto a woman, happy but for me,"
I,I,AEGEON,"And by me, had not our hap been bad."
I,I,AEGEON,"With her I lived in joy; our wealth increased"
I,I,AEGEON,"By prosperous voyages I often made"
I,I,AEGEON,"To Epidamnum; till my factor's death"
I,I,AEGEON,"And the great care of goods at random left"
I,I,AEGEON,"Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse:"
I,I,AEGEON,"From whom my absence was not six months old"
I,I,AEGEON,"Before herself, almost at fainting under"
I,I,AEGEON,"The pleasing punishment that women bear,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Had made provision for her following me"
I,I,AEGEON,"And soon and safe arrived where I was."
I,I,AEGEON,"There had she not been long, but she became"
I,I,AEGEON,"A joyful mother of two goodly sons;"
I,I,AEGEON,"And, which was strange, the one so like the other,"
I,I,AEGEON,"As could not be distinguish'd but by names."
I,I,AEGEON,"That very hour, and in the self-same inn,"
I,I,AEGEON,"A meaner woman was delivered"
I,I,AEGEON,"Of such a burden, male twins, both alike:"
I,I,AEGEON,"Those,--for their parents were exceeding poor,--"
I,I,AEGEON,"I bought and brought up to attend my sons."
I,I,AEGEON,"My wife, not meanly proud of two such boys,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Made daily motions for our home return:"
I,I,AEGEON,"Unwilling I agreed. Alas! too soon,"
I,I,AEGEON,"We came aboard."
I,I,AEGEON,"A league from Epidamnum had we sail'd,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Before the always wind-obeying deep"
I,I,AEGEON,"Gave any tragic instance of our harm:"
I,I,AEGEON,"But longer did we not retain much hope;"
I,I,AEGEON,"For what obscured light the heavens did grant"
I,I,AEGEON,"Did but convey unto our fearful minds"
I,I,AEGEON,"A doubtful warrant of immediate death;"
I,I,AEGEON,"Which though myself would gladly have embraced,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Yet the incessant weepings of my wife,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Weeping before for what she saw must come,"
I,I,AEGEON,"And piteous plainings of the pretty babes,"
I,I,AEGEON,"That mourn'd for fashion, ignorant what to fear,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Forced me to seek delays for them and me."
I,I,AEGEON,"And this it was, for other means was none:"
I,I,AEGEON,"The sailors sought for safety by our boat,"
I,I,AEGEON,"And left the ship, then sinking-ripe, to us:"
I,I,AEGEON,"My wife, more careful for the latter-born,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Had fasten'd him unto a small spare mast,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Such as seafaring men provide for storms;"
I,I,AEGEON,"To him one of the other twins was bound,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Whilst I had been like heedful of the other:"
I,I,AEGEON,"The children thus disposed, my wife and I,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Fixing our eyes on whom our care was fix'd,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Fasten'd ourselves at either end the mast;"
I,I,AEGEON,"And floating straight, obedient to the stream,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Was carried towards Corinth, as we thought."
I,I,AEGEON,"At length the sun, gazing upon the earth,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Dispersed those vapours that offended us;"
I,I,AEGEON,"And by the benefit of his wished light,"
I,I,AEGEON,"The seas wax'd calm, and we discovered"
I,I,AEGEON,"Two ships from far making amain to us,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Of Corinth that, of Epidaurus this:"
I,I,AEGEON,"But ere they came,--O, let me say no more!"
I,I,AEGEON,"Gather the sequel by that went before."
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Nay, forward, old man; do not break off so;"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"For we may pity, though not pardon thee."
I,I,AEGEON,"O, had the gods done so, I had not now"
I,I,AEGEON,"Worthily term'd them merciless to us!"
I,I,AEGEON,"For, ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues,"
I,I,AEGEON,"We were encounterd by a mighty rock;"
I,I,AEGEON,"Which being violently borne upon,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst;"
I,I,AEGEON,"So that, in this unjust divorce of us,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Fortune had left to both of us alike"
I,I,AEGEON,"What to delight in, what to sorrow for."
I,I,AEGEON,"Her part, poor soul! seeming as burdened"
I,I,AEGEON,"With lesser weight but not with lesser woe,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Was carried with more speed before the wind;"
I,I,AEGEON,"And in our sight they three were taken up"
I,I,AEGEON,"By fishermen of Corinth, as we thought."
I,I,AEGEON,"At length, another ship had seized on us;"
I,I,AEGEON,"And, knowing whom it was their hap to save,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Gave healthful welcome to their shipwreck'd guests;"
I,I,AEGEON,"And would have reft the fishers of their prey,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Had not their bark been very slow of sail;"
I,I,AEGEON,"And therefore homeward did they bend their course."
I,I,AEGEON,"Thus have you heard me sever'd from my bliss;"
I,I,AEGEON,"That by misfortunes was my life prolong'd,"
I,I,AEGEON,"To tell sad stories of my own mishaps."
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"And for the sake of them thou sorrowest for,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Do me the favour to dilate at full"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"What hath befall'n of them and thee till now."
I,I,AEGEON,"My youngest boy, and yet my eldest care,"
I,I,AEGEON,"At eighteen years became inquisitive"
I,I,AEGEON,"After his brother: and importuned me"
I,I,AEGEON,"That his attendant--so his case was like,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Reft of his brother, but retain'd his name--"
I,I,AEGEON,"Might bear him company in the quest of him:"
I,I,AEGEON,"Whom whilst I labour'd of a love to see,"
I,I,AEGEON,"I hazarded the loss of whom I loved."
I,I,AEGEON,"Five summers have I spent in furthest Greece,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Roaming clean through the bounds of Asia,"
I,I,AEGEON,"And, coasting homeward, came to Ephesus;"
I,I,AEGEON,"Hopeless to find, yet loath to leave unsought"
I,I,AEGEON,"Or that or any place that harbours men."
I,I,AEGEON,"But here must end the story of my life;"
I,I,AEGEON,"And happy were I in my timely death,"
I,I,AEGEON,"Could all my travels warrant me they live."
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Hapless AEgeon, whom the fates have mark'd"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"To bear the extremity of dire mishap!"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Now, trust me, were it not against our laws,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Against my crown, my oath, my dignity,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Which princes, would they, may not disannul,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"My soul would sue as advocate for thee."
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"But, though thou art adjudged to the death"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"And passed sentence may not be recall'd"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"But to our honour's great disparagement,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Yet I will favour thee in what I can."
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Therefore, merchant, I'll limit thee this day"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"To seek thy life by beneficial help:"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Try all the friends thou hast in Ephesus;"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Beg thou, or borrow, to make up the sum,"
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"And live; if no, then thou art doom'd to die."
I,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Gaoler, take him to thy custody."
I,I,Gaoler,"I will, my lord."
I,I,AEGEON,"Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend,"
I,I,AEGEON,"But to procrastinate his lifeless end."
I,II,First Merchant,"Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum,"
I,II,First Merchant,"Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate."
I,II,First Merchant,"This very day a Syracusian merchant"
I,II,First Merchant,"Is apprehended for arrival here;"
I,II,First Merchant,"And not being able to buy out his life"
I,II,First Merchant,"According to the statute of the town,"
I,II,First Merchant,"Dies ere the weary sun set in the west."
I,II,First Merchant,"There is your money that I had to keep."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Go bear it to the Centaur, where we host,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And stay there, Dromio, till I come to thee."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Within this hour it will be dinner-time:"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Till that, I'll view the manners of the town,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And then return and sleep within mine inn,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"For with long travel I am stiff and weary."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Get thee away."
I,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Many a man would take you at your word,"
I,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"And go indeed, having so good a mean."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"A trusty villain, sir, that very oft,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"When I am dull with care and melancholy,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Lightens my humour with his merry jests."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What, will you walk with me about the town,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And then go to my inn and dine with me?"
I,II,First Merchant,"I am invited, sir, to certain merchants,"
I,II,First Merchant,"Of whom I hope to make much benefit;"
I,II,First Merchant,"I crave your pardon. Soon at five o'clock,"
I,II,First Merchant,"Please you, I'll meet with you upon the mart"
I,II,First Merchant,"And afterward consort you till bed-time:"
I,II,First Merchant,"My present business calls me from you now."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Farewell till then: I will go lose myself"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And wander up and down to view the city."
I,II,First Merchant,"Sir, I commend you to your own content."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"He that commends me to mine own content"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Commends me to the thing I cannot get."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I to the world am like a drop of water"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"That in the ocean seeks another drop,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"So I, to find a mother and a brother,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Here comes the almanac of my true date."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What now? how chance thou art return'd so soon?"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Return'd so soon! rather approach'd too late:"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit,"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"My mistress made it one upon my cheek:"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"She is so hot because the meat is cold;"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"The meat is cold because you come not home;"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"You come not home because you have no stomach;"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"You have no stomach having broke your fast;"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"But we that know what 'tis to fast and pray"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Are penitent for your default to-day."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Stop in your wind, sir: tell me this, I pray:"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Where have you left the money that I gave you?"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"O,--sixpence, that I had o' Wednesday last"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"To pay the saddler for my mistress' crupper?"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"The saddler had it, sir; I kept it not."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I am not in a sportive humour now:"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Tell me, and dally not, where is the money?"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"We being strangers here, how darest thou trust"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"So great a charge from thine own custody?"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I pray you, air, as you sit at dinner:"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I from my mistress come to you in post;"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"If I return, I shall be post indeed,"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"For she will score your fault upon my pate."
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Methinks your maw, like mine, should be your clock,"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"And strike you home without a messenger."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Come, Dromio, come, these jests are out of season;"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Reserve them till a merrier hour than this."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Where is the gold I gave in charge to thee?"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"To me, sir? why, you gave no gold to me."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Come on, sir knave, have done your foolishness,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And tell me how thou hast disposed thy charge."
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"My charge was but to fetch you from the mart"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Home to your house, the Phoenix, sir, to dinner:"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"My mistress and her sister stays for you."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"In what safe place you have bestow'd my money,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Or I shall break that merry sconce of yours"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"That stands on tricks when I am undisposed:"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Where is the thousand marks thou hadst of me?"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I have some marks of yours upon my pate,"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Some of my mistress' marks upon my shoulders,"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"But not a thousand marks between you both."
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"If I should pay your worship those again,"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Perchance you will not bear them patiently."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Thy mistress' marks? what mistress, slave, hast thou?"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Your worship's wife, my mistress at the Phoenix;"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"She that doth fast till you come home to dinner,"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"And prays that you will hie you home to dinner."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave."
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"What mean you, sir? for God's sake, hold your hands!"
I,II,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Nay, and you will not, sir, I'll take my heels."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Upon my life, by some device or other"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"The villain is o'er-raught of all my money."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"They say this town is full of cozenage,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Soul-killing witches that deform the body,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And many such-like liberties of sin:"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"If it prove so, I will be gone the sooner."
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I'll to the Centaur, to go seek this slave:"
I,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I greatly fear my money is not safe."
II,I,ADRIANA,"Neither my husband nor the slave return'd,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"That in such haste I sent to seek his master!"
II,I,ADRIANA,"Sure, Luciana, it is two o'clock."
II,I,LUCIANA,"Perhaps some merchant hath invited him,"
II,I,LUCIANA,"And from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner."
II,I,LUCIANA,"Good sister, let us dine and never fret:"
II,I,LUCIANA,"A man is master of his liberty:"
II,I,LUCIANA,"Time is their master, and, when they see time,"
II,I,LUCIANA,"They'll go or come: if so, be patient, sister."
II,I,ADRIANA,"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"
II,I,LUCIANA,"Because their business still lies out o' door."
II,I,ADRIANA,"Look, when I serve him so, he takes it ill."
II,I,LUCIANA,"O, know he is the bridle of your will."
II,I,ADRIANA,"There's none but asses will be bridled so."
II,I,LUCIANA,"Why, headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe."
II,I,LUCIANA,"There's nothing situate under heaven's eye"
II,I,LUCIANA,"But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky:"
II,I,LUCIANA,"The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls,"
II,I,LUCIANA,"Are their males' subjects and at their controls:"
II,I,LUCIANA,"Men, more divine, the masters of all these,"
II,I,LUCIANA,"Lords of the wide world and wild watery seas,"
II,I,LUCIANA,"Indued with intellectual sense and souls,"
II,I,LUCIANA,"Of more preeminence than fish and fowls,"
II,I,LUCIANA,"Are masters to their females, and their lords:"
II,I,LUCIANA,"Then let your will attend on their accords."
II,I,ADRIANA,"This servitude makes you to keep unwed."
II,I,LUCIANA,"Not this, but troubles of the marriage-bed."
II,I,ADRIANA,"But, were you wedded, you would bear some sway."
II,I,LUCIANA,"Ere I learn love, I'll practise to obey."
II,I,ADRIANA,"How if your husband start some other where?"
II,I,LUCIANA,"Till he come home again, I would forbear."
II,I,ADRIANA,"Patience unmoved! no marvel though she pause;"
II,I,ADRIANA,"They can be meek that have no other cause."
II,I,ADRIANA,"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;"
II,I,ADRIANA,"But were we burdened with like weight of pain,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"As much or more would we ourselves complain:"
II,I,ADRIANA,"So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"But, if thou live to see like right bereft,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"This fool-begg'd patience in thee will be left."
II,I,LUCIANA,"Well, I will marry one day, but to try."
II,I,LUCIANA,"Here comes your man; now is your husband nigh."
II,I,ADRIANA,"Say, is your tardy master now at hand?"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Nay, he's at two hands with me, and that my two ears"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"can witness."
II,I,ADRIANA,"Say, didst thou speak with him? know'st thou his mind?"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Ay, ay, he told his mind upon mine ear:"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Beshrew his hand, I scarce could understand it."
II,I,LUCIANA,"Spake he so doubtfully, thou couldst not feel his meaning?"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Nay, he struck so plainly, I could too well feel his"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"blows; and withal so doubtfully that I could scarce"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"understand them."
II,I,ADRIANA,"But say, I prithee, is he coming home? It seems he"
II,I,ADRIANA,"hath great care to please his wife."
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Why, mistress, sure my master is horn-mad."
II,I,ADRIANA,"Horn-mad, thou villain!"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I mean not cuckold-mad;"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"But, sure, he is stark mad."
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"When I desired him to come home to dinner,"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"He ask'd me for a thousand marks in gold:"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"''Tis dinner-time,' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he;"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"'Your meat doth burn,' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he:"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"'Will you come home?' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he."
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"'Where is the thousand marks I gave thee, villain?'"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"'The pig,' quoth I, 'is burn'd;' 'My gold!' quoth he:"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"'My mistress, sir' quoth I; 'Hang up thy mistress!"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I know not thy mistress; out on thy mistress!'"
II,I,LUCIANA,"Quoth who?"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Quoth my master:"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"'I know,' quoth he, 'no house, no wife, no mistress.'"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"So that my errand, due unto my tongue,"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I thank him, I bare home upon my shoulders;"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"For, in conclusion, he did beat me there."
II,I,ADRIANA,"Go back again, thou slave, and fetch him home."
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Go back again, and be new beaten home?"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"For God's sake, send some other messenger."
II,I,ADRIANA,"Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across."
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"And he will bless that cross with other beating:"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Between you I shall have a holy head."
II,I,ADRIANA,"Hence, prating peasant! fetch thy master home."
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Am I so round with you as you with me,"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"That like a football you do spurn me thus?"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither:"
II,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"If I last in this service, you must case me in leather."
II,I,LUCIANA,"Fie, how impatience loureth in your face!"
II,I,ADRIANA,"His company must do his minions grace,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"Whilst I at home starve for a merry look."
II,I,ADRIANA,"Hath homely age the alluring beauty took"
II,I,ADRIANA,"From my poor cheek? then he hath wasted it:"
II,I,ADRIANA,"Are my discourses dull? barren my wit?"
II,I,ADRIANA,"If voluble and sharp discourse be marr'd,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard:"
II,I,ADRIANA,"Do their gay vestments his affections bait?"
II,I,ADRIANA,"That's not my fault: he's master of my state:"
II,I,ADRIANA,"What ruins are in me that can be found,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground"
II,I,ADRIANA,"Of my defeatures. My decayed fair"
II,I,ADRIANA,"A sunny look of his would soon repair"
II,I,ADRIANA,"But, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale"
II,I,ADRIANA,"And feeds from home; poor I am but his stale."
II,I,LUCIANA,"Self-harming jealousy! fie, beat it hence!"
II,I,ADRIANA,"Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense."
II,I,ADRIANA,"I know his eye doth homage otherwhere,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"Or else what lets it but he would be here?"
II,I,ADRIANA,"Sister, you know he promised me a chain;"
II,I,ADRIANA,"Would that alone, alone he would detain,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"So he would keep fair quarter with his bed!"
II,I,ADRIANA,"I see the jewel best enamelled"
II,I,ADRIANA,"Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"That others touch, and often touching will"
II,I,ADRIANA,"Wear gold: and no man that hath a name,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"By falsehood and corruption doth it shame."
II,I,ADRIANA,"Since that my beauty cannot please his eye,"
II,I,ADRIANA,"I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die."
II,I,LUCIANA,"How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"The gold I gave to Dromio is laid up"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Safe at the Centaur; and the heedful slave"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Is wander'd forth, in care to seek me out"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"By computation and mine host's report."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I could not speak with Dromio since at first"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I sent him from the mart. See, here he comes."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"How now sir! is your merry humour alter'd?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"As you love strokes, so jest with me again."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"You know no Centaur? you received no gold?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Your mistress sent to have me home to dinner?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"My house was at the Phoenix? Wast thou mad,"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"That thus so madly thou didst answer me?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"What answer, sir? when spake I such a word?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Even now, even here, not half an hour since."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"I did not see you since you sent me hence,"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Home to the Centaur, with the gold you gave me."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Villain, thou didst deny the gold's receipt,"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And told'st me of a mistress and a dinner;"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"For which, I hope, thou felt'st I was displeased."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"I am glad to see you in this merry vein:"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"What means this jest? I pray you, master, tell me."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Yea, dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Think'st thou I jest? Hold, take thou that, and that."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Hold, sir, for God's sake! now your jest is earnest:"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Upon what bargain do you give it me?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Because that I familiarly sometimes"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Do use you for my fool and chat with you,"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Your sauciness will jest upon my love"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And make a common of my serious hours."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"But creep in crannies when he hides his beams."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"If you will jest with me, know my aspect,"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And fashion your demeanor to my looks,"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Or I will beat this method in your sconce."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Sconce call you it? so you would leave battering, I"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"had rather have it a head: an you use these blows"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"long, I must get a sconce for my head and ensconce"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"it too; or else I shall seek my wit in my shoulders."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"But, I pray, sir why am I beaten?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Dost thou not know?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Nothing, sir, but that I am beaten."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Shall I tell you why?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"a wherefore."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Why, first,--for flouting me; and then, wherefore--"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"For urging it the second time to me."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season,"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"nor reason?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Well, sir, I thank you."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Thank me, sir, for what?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Marry, sir, for this something that you gave me for nothing."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I'll make you amends next, to give you nothing for"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"something. But say, sir, is it dinner-time?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"No, sir; I think the meat wants that I have."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"In good time, sir; what's that?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Basting."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Well, sir, then 'twill be dry."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"If it be, sir, I pray you, eat none of it."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Your reason?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Lest it make you choleric and purchase me another"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"dry basting."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Well, sir, learn to jest in good time: there's a"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"time for all things."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"I durst have denied that, before you were so choleric."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"By what rule, sir?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"pate of father Time himself."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Let's hear it."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"There's no time for a man to recover his hair that"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"grows bald by nature."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"May he not do it by fine and recovery?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig and recover the"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"lost hair of another man."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is,"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"so plentiful an excrement?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts;"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"and what he hath scanted men in hair he hath given them in wit."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Why, but there's many a man hath more hair than wit."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Not a man of those but he hath the wit to lose his hair."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Why, thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"The plainer dealer, the sooner lost: yet he loseth"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"it in a kind of jollity."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"For what reason?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"For two; and sound ones too."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Nay, not sound, I pray you."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Sure ones, then."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Nay, not sure, in a thing falsing."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Certain ones then."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Name them."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"The one, to save the money that he spends in"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"trimming; the other, that at dinner they should not"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"drop in his porridge."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"You would all this time have proved there is no"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"time for all things."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Marry, and did, sir; namely, no time to recover hair"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"lost by nature."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"But your reason was not substantial, why there is no"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"time to recover."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Thus I mend it: Time himself is bald and therefore"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"to the world's end will have bald followers."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I knew 'twould be a bald conclusion:"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"But, soft! who wafts us yonder?"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown:"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects;"
II,II,ADRIANA,"I am not Adriana nor thy wife."
II,II,ADRIANA,"The time was once when thou unurged wouldst vow"
II,II,ADRIANA,"That never words were music to thine ear,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"That never object pleasing in thine eye,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"That never touch well welcome to thy hand,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"That never meat sweet-savor'd in thy taste,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Unless I spake, or look'd, or touch'd, or carved to thee."
II,II,ADRIANA,"How comes it now, my husband, O, how comes it,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"That thou art thus estranged from thyself?"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Thyself I call it, being strange to me,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"That, undividable, incorporate,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Am better than thy dear self's better part."
II,II,ADRIANA,"Ah, do not tear away thyself from me!"
II,II,ADRIANA,"For know, my love, as easy mayest thou fall"
II,II,ADRIANA,"A drop of water in the breaking gulf,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"And take unmingled that same drop again,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Without addition or diminishing,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"As take from me thyself and not me too."
II,II,ADRIANA,"How dearly would it touch me to the quick,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Shouldst thou but hear I were licentious"
II,II,ADRIANA,"And that this body, consecrate to thee,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"By ruffian lust should be contaminate!"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Wouldst thou not spit at me and spurn at me"
II,II,ADRIANA,"And hurl the name of husband in my face"
II,II,ADRIANA,"And tear the stain'd skin off my harlot-brow"
II,II,ADRIANA,"And from my false hand cut the wedding-ring"
II,II,ADRIANA,"And break it with a deep-divorcing vow?"
II,II,ADRIANA,"I know thou canst; and therefore see thou do it."
II,II,ADRIANA,"I am possess'd with an adulterate blot;"
II,II,ADRIANA,"My blood is mingled with the crime of lust:"
II,II,ADRIANA,"For if we too be one and thou play false,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"I do digest the poison of thy flesh,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Being strumpeted by thy contagion."
II,II,ADRIANA,"Keep then far league and truce with thy true bed;"
II,II,ADRIANA,"I live unstain'd, thou undishonoured."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Plead you to me, fair dame? I know you not:"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"In Ephesus I am but two hours old,"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"As strange unto your town as to your talk;"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Who, every word by all my wit being scann'd,"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Want wit in all one word to understand."
II,II,LUCIANA,"Fie, brother! how the world is changed with you!"
II,II,LUCIANA,"When were you wont to use my sister thus?"
II,II,LUCIANA,"She sent for you by Dromio home to dinner."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"By Dromio?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"By me?"
II,II,ADRIANA,"By thee; and this thou didst return from him,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"That he did buffet thee, and, in his blows,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Denied my house for his, me for his wife."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Did you converse, sir, with this gentlewoman?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What is the course and drift of your compact?"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"I, sir? I never saw her till this time."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Villain, thou liest; for even her very words"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Didst thou deliver to me on the mart."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"I never spake with her in all my life."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"How can she thus then call us by our names,"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Unless it be by inspiration."
II,II,ADRIANA,"How ill agrees it with your gravity"
II,II,ADRIANA,"To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Abetting him to thwart me in my mood!"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Be it my wrong you are from me exempt,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt."
II,II,ADRIANA,"Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine:"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Makes me with thy strength to communicate:"
II,II,ADRIANA,"If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss;"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"To me she speaks; she moves me for her theme:"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What, was I married to her in my dream?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Or sleep I now and think I hear all this?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Until I know this sure uncertainty,"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I'll entertain the offer'd fallacy."
II,II,LUCIANA,"Dromio, go bid the servants spread for dinner."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"O, for my beads! I cross me for a sinner."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"This is the fairy land: O spite of spites!"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"We talk with goblins, owls and sprites:"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"If we obey them not, this will ensue,"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue."
II,II,LUCIANA,"Why pratest thou to thyself and answer'st not?"
II,II,LUCIANA,"Dromio, thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot!"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"I am transformed, master, am I not?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I think thou art in mind, and so am I."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Nay, master, both in mind and in my shape."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Thou hast thine own form."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"No, I am an ape."
II,II,LUCIANA,"If thou art changed to aught, 'tis to an ass."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"'Tis true; she rides me and I long for grass."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"'Tis so, I am an ass; else it could never be"
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"But I should know her as well as she knows me."
II,II,ADRIANA,"Come, come, no longer will I be a fool,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"To put the finger in the eye and weep,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Whilst man and master laugh my woes to scorn."
II,II,ADRIANA,"Come, sir, to dinner. Dromio, keep the gate."
II,II,ADRIANA,"Husband, I'll dine above with you to-day"
II,II,ADRIANA,"And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks."
II,II,ADRIANA,"Sirrah, if any ask you for your master,"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Say he dines forth, and let no creature enter."
II,II,ADRIANA,"Come, sister. Dromio, play the porter well."
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Sleeping or waking? mad or well-advised?"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Known unto these, and to myself disguised!"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I'll say as they say and persever so,"
II,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And in this mist at all adventures go."
II,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Master, shall I be porter at the gate?"
II,II,ADRIANA,"Ay; and let none enter, lest I break your pate."
II,II,LUCIANA,"Come, come, Antipholus, we dine too late."
III,I,OF EPHESUS,"Good Signior Angelo, you must excuse us all;"
III,I,OF EPHESUS,"My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours:"
III,I,OF EPHESUS,"Say that I linger'd with you at your shop"
III,I,OF EPHESUS,"To see the making of her carcanet,"
III,I,OF EPHESUS,"And that to-morrow you will bring it home."
III,I,OF EPHESUS,"But here's a villain that would face me down"
III,I,OF EPHESUS,"He met me on the mart, and that I beat him,"
III,I,OF EPHESUS,"And charged him with a thousand marks in gold,"
III,I,OF EPHESUS,"And that I did deny my wife and house."
III,I,OF EPHESUS,"Thou drunkard, thou, what didst thou mean by this?"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Say what you will, sir, but I know what I know;"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"That you beat me at the mart, I have your hand to show:"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"If the skin were parchment, and the blows you gave were ink,"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Your own handwriting would tell you what I think."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I think thou art an ass."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Marry, so it doth appear"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"By the wrongs I suffer and the blows I bear."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I should kick, being kick'd; and, being at that pass,"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"You would keep from my heels and beware of an ass."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"You're sad, Signior Balthazar: pray God our cheer"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"May answer my good will and your good welcome here."
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"welcome dear."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"O, Signior Balthazar, either at flesh or fish,"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"A table full of welcome make scarce one dainty dish."
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"Good meat, sir, is common; that every churl affords."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And welcome more common; for that's nothing but words."
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Ay, to a niggardly host, and more sparing guest:"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"But though my cates be mean, take them in good part;"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Better cheer may you have, but not with better heart."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"But, soft! my door is lock'd. Go bid them let us in."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cicel, Gillian, Ginn!"
III,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"idiot, patch!"
III,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Either get thee from the door, or sit down at the hatch."
III,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st"
III,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"for such store,"
III,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"When one is one too many? Go, get thee from the door."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"What patch is made our porter? My master stays in"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"the street."
III,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"catch cold on's feet."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Who talks within there? ho, open the door!"
III,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"me wherefore."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Wherefore? for my dinner: I have not dined to-day."
III,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"when you may."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"What art thou that keepest me out from the house I owe?"
III,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"is Dromio."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"O villain! thou hast stolen both mine office and my name."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"If thou hadst been Dromio to-day in my place,"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Thou wouldst have changed thy face for a name or thy"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"name for an ass."
III,I,LUCE,"at the gate?"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Let my master in, Luce."
III,I,LUCE,"And so tell your master."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"O Lord, I must laugh!"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Have at you with a proverb--Shall I set in my staff?"
III,I,LUCE,"can you tell?"
III,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"answered him well."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Do you hear, you minion? you'll let us in, I hope?"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"So, come, help: well struck! there was blow for blow."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Thou baggage, let me in."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Master, knock the door hard."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"You'll cry for this, minion, if I beat the door down."
III,I,ADRIANA,"this noise?"
III,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"unruly boys."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Are you there, wife? you might have come before."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"If you went in pain, master, this 'knave' would go sore."
III,I,ANGELO,"Here is neither cheer, sir, nor welcome: we would"
III,I,ANGELO,"fain have either."
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"In debating which was best, we shall part with neither."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"They stand at the door, master; bid them welcome hither."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"There is something in the wind, that we cannot get in."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"You would say so, master, if your garments were thin."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Your cake there is warm within; you stand here in the cold:"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"It would make a man mad as a buck, to be so bought and sold."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Go fetch me something: I'll break ope the gate."
III,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"knave's pate."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind,"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind."
III,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"thee, hind!"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Here's too much 'out upon thee!' I pray thee,"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"let me in."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Well, I'll break in: go borrow me a crow."
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"A crow without feather? Master, mean you so?"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"For a fish without a fin, there's a fowl without a feather;"
III,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"If a crow help us in, sirrah, we'll pluck a crow together."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Go get thee gone; fetch me an iron crow."
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"Have patience, sir; O, let it not be so!"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"Herein you war against your reputation"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"And draw within the compass of suspect"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"The unviolated honour of your wife."
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"Once this,--your long experience of her wisdom,"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"Her sober virtue, years and modesty,"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"Plead on her part some cause to you unknown:"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"And doubt not, sir, but she will well excuse"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"Why at this time the doors are made against you."
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"Be ruled by me: depart in patience,"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"And let us to the Tiger all to dinner,"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"And about evening come yourself alone"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"To know the reason of this strange restraint."
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"If by strong hand you offer to break in"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"Now in the stirring passage of the day,"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"A vulgar comment will be made of it,"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"And that supposed by the common rout"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"Against your yet ungalled estimation"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"That may with foul intrusion enter in"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"And dwell upon your grave when you are dead;"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"For slander lives upon succession,"
III,I,BALTHAZAR,"For ever housed where it gets possession."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"You have prevailed: I will depart in quiet,"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And, in despite of mirth, mean to be merry."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I know a wench of excellent discourse,"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Pretty and witty; wild, and yet, too, gentle:"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"There will we dine. This woman that I mean,"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"My wife--but, I protest, without desert--"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Hath oftentimes upbraided me withal:"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"To her will we to dinner."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Get you home"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And fetch the chain; by this I know 'tis made:"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Bring it, I pray you, to the Porpentine;"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"For there's the house: that chain will I bestow--"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Be it for nothing but to spite my wife--"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Upon mine hostess there: good sir, make haste."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,"
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me."
III,I,ANGELO,"I'll meet you at that place some hour hence."
III,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Do so. This jest shall cost me some expense."
III,II,LUCIANA,"And may it be that you have quite forgot"
III,II,LUCIANA,"A husband's office? shall, Antipholus."
III,II,LUCIANA,"Even in the spring of love, thy love-springs rot?"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Shall love, in building, grow so ruinous?"
III,II,LUCIANA,"If you did wed my sister for her wealth,"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Muffle your false love with some show of blindness:"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Let not my sister read it in your eye;"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Look sweet, be fair, become disloyalty;"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted?"
III,II,LUCIANA,"What simple thief brags of his own attaint?"
III,II,LUCIANA,"'Tis double wrong, to truant with your bed"
III,II,LUCIANA,"And let her read it in thy looks at board:"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed;"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."
III,II,LUCIANA,"Alas, poor women! make us but believe,"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Being compact of credit, that you love us;"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Though others have the arm, show us the sleeve;"
III,II,LUCIANA,"We in your motion turn and you may move us."
III,II,LUCIANA,"Then, gentle brother, get you in again;"
III,II,LUCIANA,"Comfort my sister, cheer her, call her wife:"
III,II,LUCIANA,"'Tis holy sport to be a little vain,"
III,II,LUCIANA,"When the sweet breath of flattery conquers strife."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Sweet mistress--what your name is else, I know not,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Nor by what wonder you do hit of mine,--"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Less in your knowledge and your grace you show not"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Than our earth's wonder, more than earth divine."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak;"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"The folded meaning of your words' deceit."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Against my soul's pure truth why labour you"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"To make it wander in an unknown field?"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Are you a god? would you create me new?"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Transform me then, and to your power I'll yield."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"But if that I am I, then well I know"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Your weeping sister is no wife of mine,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Nor to her bed no homage do I owe"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Far more, far more to you do I decline."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears:"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Sing, siren, for thyself and I will dote:"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And as a bed I'll take them and there lie,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And in that glorious supposition think"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"He gains by death that hath such means to die:"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Let Love, being light, be drowned if she sink!"
III,II,LUCIANA,"What, are you mad, that you do reason so?"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Not mad, but mated; how, I do not know."
III,II,LUCIANA,"It is a fault that springeth from your eye."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"For gazing on your beams, fair sun, being by."
III,II,LUCIANA,"Gaze where you should, and that will clear your sight."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"As good to wink, sweet love, as look on night."
III,II,LUCIANA,"Why call you me love? call my sister so."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Thy sister's sister."
III,II,LUCIANA,"That's my sister."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"No;"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"It is thyself, mine own self's better part,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"My food, my fortune and my sweet hope's aim,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"My sole earth's heaven and my heaven's claim."
III,II,LUCIANA,"All this my sister is, or else should be."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Call thyself sister, sweet, for I am thee."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Thee will I love and with thee lead my life:"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Thou hast no husband yet nor I no wife."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Give me thy hand."
III,II,LUCIANA,"O, soft, air! hold you still:"
III,II,LUCIANA,"I'll fetch my sister, to get her good will."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Why, how now, Dromio! where runn'st thou so fast?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Do you know me, sir? am I Dromio? am I your man?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"am I myself?"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Thou art Dromio, thou art my man, thou art thyself."
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"I am an ass, I am a woman's man and besides myself."
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Marry, sir, besides myself, I am due to a woman; one"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"that claims me, one that haunts me, one that will have me."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What claim lays she to thee?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Marry sir, such claim as you would lay to your"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"horse; and she would have me as a beast: not that, I"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"being a beast, she would have me; but that she,"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"being a very beastly creature, lays claim to me."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What is she?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"A very reverent body; ay, such a one as a man may"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"not speak of without he say 'Sir-reverence.' I have"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"but lean luck in the match, and yet is she a"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"wondrous fat marriage."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"How dost thou mean a fat marriage?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease;"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"and I know not what use to put her to but to make a"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"lamp of her and run from her by her own light. I"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"warrant, her rags and the tallow in them will burn a"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Poland winter: if she lives till doomsday,"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"she'll burn a week longer than the whole world."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What complexion is she of?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Swart, like my shoe, but her face nothing half so"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"clean kept: for why, she sweats; a man may go over"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"shoes in the grime of it."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"That's a fault that water will mend."
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"No, sir, 'tis in grain; Noah's flood could not do it."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What's her name?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Nell, sir; but her name and three quarters, that's"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"an ell and three quarters, will not measure her from"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"hip to hip."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Then she bears some breadth?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip:"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"she is spherical, like a globe; I could find out"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"countries in her."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"In what part of her body stands Ireland?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Marry, in her buttocks: I found it out by the bogs."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Where Scotland?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"I found it by the barrenness; hard in the palm of the hand."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Where France?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"In her forehead; armed and reverted, making war"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"against her heir."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Where England?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I could find no"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"whiteness in them; but I guess it stood in her chin,"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"by the salt rheum that ran between France and it."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Where Spain?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Faith, I saw it not; but I felt it hot in her breath."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Where America, the Indies?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Oh, sir, upon her nose all o'er embellished with"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"aspect to the hot breath of Spain; who sent whole"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Where stood Belgia, the Netherlands?"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Oh, sir, I did not look so low. To conclude, this"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"drudge, or diviner, laid claim to me, call'd me"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Dromio; swore I was assured to her; told me what"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"privy marks I had about me, as, the mark of my"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"shoulder, the mole in my neck, the great wart on my"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"left arm, that I amazed ran from her as a witch:"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"And, I think, if my breast had not been made of"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"faith and my heart of steel,"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"She had transform'd me to a curtal dog and made"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"me turn i' the wheel."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Go hie thee presently, post to the road:"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"An if the wind blow any way from shore,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I will not harbour in this town to-night:"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"If any bark put forth, come to the mart,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Where I will walk till thou return to me."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"If every one knows us and we know none,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"'Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack and be gone."
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"As from a bear a man would run for life,"
III,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"So fly I from her that would be my wife."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"There's none but witches do inhabit here;"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And therefore 'tis high time that I were hence."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"She that doth call me husband, even my soul"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Doth for a wife abhor. But her fair sister,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Possess'd with such a gentle sovereign grace,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Of such enchanting presence and discourse,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Hath almost made me traitor to myself:"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"But, lest myself be guilty to self-wrong,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song."
III,II,ANGELO,"Master Antipholus,--"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Ay, that's my name."
III,II,ANGELO,"I know it well, sir, lo, here is the chain."
III,II,ANGELO,"I thought to have ta'en you at the Porpentine:"
III,II,ANGELO,"The chain unfinish'd made me stay thus long."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What is your will that I shall do with this?"
III,II,ANGELO,"What please yourself, sir: I have made it for you."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Made it for me, sir! I bespoke it not."
III,II,ANGELO,"Not once, nor twice, but twenty times you have."
III,II,ANGELO,"Go home with it and please your wife withal;"
III,II,ANGELO,"And soon at supper-time I'll visit you"
III,II,ANGELO,"And then receive my money for the chain."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I pray you, sir, receive the money now,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more."
III,II,ANGELO,"You are a merry man, sir: fare you well."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What I should think of this, I cannot tell:"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"But this I think, there's no man is so vain"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"That would refuse so fair an offer'd chain."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I see a man here needs not live by shifts,"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"When in the streets he meets such golden gifts."
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I'll to the mart, and there for Dromio stay"
III,II,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"If any ship put out, then straight away."
IV,I,Second Merchant,"You know since Pentecost the sum is due,"
IV,I,Second Merchant,"And since I have not much importuned you;"
IV,I,Second Merchant,"Nor now I had not, but that I am bound"
IV,I,Second Merchant,"To Persia, and want guilders for my voyage:"
IV,I,Second Merchant,"Therefore make present satisfaction,"
IV,I,Second Merchant,"Or I'll attach you by this officer."
IV,I,ANGELO,"Even just the sum that I do owe to you"
IV,I,ANGELO,"Is growing to me by Antipholus,"
IV,I,ANGELO,"And in the instant that I met with you"
IV,I,ANGELO,"He had of me a chain: at five o'clock"
IV,I,ANGELO,"I shall receive the money for the same."
IV,I,ANGELO,"Pleaseth you walk with me down to his house,"
IV,I,ANGELO,"I will discharge my bond and thank you too."
IV,I,Officer,"That labour may you save: see where he comes."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"While I go to the goldsmith's house, go thou"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And buy a rope's end: that will I bestow"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Among my wife and her confederates,"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"For locking me out of my doors by day."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"But, soft! I see the goldsmith. Get thee gone;"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Buy thou a rope and bring it home to me."
IV,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I buy a thousand pound a year: I buy a rope."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"A man is well holp up that trusts to you:"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I promised your presence and the chain;"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"But neither chain nor goldsmith came to me."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Belike you thought our love would last too long,"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"If it were chain'd together, and therefore came not."
IV,I,ANGELO,"Saving your merry humour, here's the note"
IV,I,ANGELO,"How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat,"
IV,I,ANGELO,"The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion."
IV,I,ANGELO,"Which doth amount to three odd ducats more"
IV,I,ANGELO,"Than I stand debted to this gentleman:"
IV,I,ANGELO,"I pray you, see him presently discharged,"
IV,I,ANGELO,"For he is bound to sea and stays but for it."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I am not furnish'd with the present money;"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Besides, I have some business in the town."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Good signior, take the stranger to my house"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And with you take the chain and bid my wife"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Disburse the sum on the receipt thereof:"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Perchance I will be there as soon as you."
IV,I,ANGELO,"Then you will bring the chain to her yourself?"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"No; bear it with you, lest I come not time enough."
IV,I,ANGELO,"Well, sir, I will. Have you the chain about you?"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"An if I have not, sir, I hope you have;"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Or else you may return without your money."
IV,I,ANGELO,"Nay, come, I pray you, sir, give me the chain:"
IV,I,ANGELO,"Both wind and tide stays for this gentleman,"
IV,I,ANGELO,"And I, to blame, have held him here too long."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Good Lord! you use this dalliance to excuse"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Your breach of promise to the Porpentine."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I should have chid you for not bringing it,"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"But, like a shrew, you first begin to brawl."
IV,I,Second Merchant,"The hour steals on; I pray you, sir, dispatch."
IV,I,ANGELO,"You hear how he importunes me;--the chain!"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Why, give it to my wife and fetch your money."
IV,I,ANGELO,"Come, come, you know I gave it you even now."
IV,I,ANGELO,"Either send the chain or send me by some token."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Fie, now you run this humour out of breath,"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"where's the chain? I pray you, let me see it."
IV,I,Second Merchant,"My business cannot brook this dalliance."
IV,I,Second Merchant,"Good sir, say whether you'll answer me or no:"
IV,I,Second Merchant,"If not, I'll leave him to the officer."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I answer you! what should I answer you?"
IV,I,ANGELO,"The money that you owe me for the chain."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I owe you none till I receive the chain."
IV,I,ANGELO,"You know I gave it you half an hour since."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"You gave me none: you wrong me much to say so."
IV,I,ANGELO,"You wrong me more, sir, in denying it:"
IV,I,ANGELO,"Consider how it stands upon my credit."
IV,I,Second Merchant,"Well, officer, arrest him at my suit."
IV,I,Officer,"I do; and charge you in the duke's name to obey me."
IV,I,ANGELO,"This touches me in reputation."
IV,I,ANGELO,"Either consent to pay this sum for me"
IV,I,ANGELO,"Or I attach you by this officer."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Consent to pay thee that I never had!"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Arrest me, foolish fellow, if thou darest."
IV,I,ANGELO,"Here is thy fee; arrest him, officer,"
IV,I,ANGELO,"I would not spare my brother in this case,"
IV,I,ANGELO,"If he should scorn me so apparently."
IV,I,Officer,"I do arrest you, sir: you hear the suit."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I do obey thee till I give thee bail."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"But, sirrah, you shall buy this sport as dear"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"As all the metal in your shop will answer."
IV,I,ANGELO,"Sir, sir, I will have law in Ephesus,"
IV,I,ANGELO,"To your notorious shame; I doubt it not."
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Master, there is a bark of Epidamnum"
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"That stays but till her owner comes aboard,"
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"And then, sir, she bears away. Our fraughtage, sir,"
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"I have convey'd aboard; and I have bought"
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"The oil, the balsamum and aqua-vitae."
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"The ship is in her trim; the merry wind"
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Blows fair from land: they stay for nought at all"
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"But for their owner, master, and yourself."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"How now! a madman! Why, thou peevish sheep,"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"What ship of Epidamnum stays for me?"
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope;"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And told thee to what purpose and what end."
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"You sent me for a rope's end as soon:"
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"You sent me to the bay, sir, for a bark."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I will debate this matter at more leisure"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And teach your ears to list me with more heed."
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"To Adriana, villain, hie thee straight:"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Give her this key, and tell her, in the desk"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"That's cover'd o'er with Turkish tapestry,"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"There is a purse of ducats; let her send it:"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Tell her I am arrested in the street"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And that shall bail me; hie thee, slave, be gone!"
IV,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"On, officer, to prison till it come."
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"To Adriana! that is where we dined,"
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband:"
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"She is too big, I hope, for me to compass."
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Thither I must, although against my will,"
IV,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"For servants must their masters' minds fulfil."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so?"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Mightst thou perceive austerely in his eye"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"That he did plead in earnest? yea or no?"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Look'd he or red or pale, or sad or merrily?"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"What observation madest thou in this case"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face?"
IV,II,LUCIANA,"First he denied you had in him no right."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"He meant he did me none; the more my spite."
IV,II,LUCIANA,"Then swore he that he was a stranger here."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were."
IV,II,LUCIANA,"Then pleaded I for you."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"And what said he?"
IV,II,LUCIANA,"That love I begg'd for you he begg'd of me."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"With what persuasion did he tempt thy love?"
IV,II,LUCIANA,"With words that in an honest suit might move."
IV,II,LUCIANA,"First he did praise my beauty, then my speech."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Didst speak him fair?"
IV,II,LUCIANA,"Have patience, I beseech."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still;"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"He is deformed, crooked, old and sere,"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere;"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Stigmatical in making, worse in mind."
IV,II,LUCIANA,"Who would be jealous then of such a one?"
IV,II,LUCIANA,"No evil lost is wail'd when it is gone."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Ah, but I think him better than I say,"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"And yet would herein others' eyes were worse."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Far from her nest the lapwing cries away:"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse."
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Here! go; the desk, the purse! sweet, now, make haste."
IV,II,LUCIANA,"How hast thou lost thy breath?"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"By running fast."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Where is thy master, Dromio? is he well?"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"No, he's in Tartar limbo, worse than hell."
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"A devil in an everlasting garment hath him;"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel;"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough;"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff;"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"countermands"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"The passages of alleys, creeks and narrow lands;"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"A hound that runs counter and yet draws dryfoot well;"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"One that before the judgement carries poor souls to hell."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Why, man, what is the matter?"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"I do not know the matter: he is 'rested on the case."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"What, is he arrested? Tell me at whose suit."
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"I know not at whose suit he is arrested well;"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"But he's in a suit of buff which 'rested him, that can I tell."
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Will you send him, mistress, redemption, the money in his desk?"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Go fetch it, sister."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"This I wonder at,"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"That he, unknown to me, should be in debt."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Tell me, was he arrested on a band?"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Not on a band, but on a stronger thing;"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"A chain, a chain! Do you not hear it ring?"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"What, the chain?"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"No, no, the bell: 'tis time that I were gone:"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"It was two ere I left him, and now the clock"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"strikes one."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"The hours come back! that did I never hear."
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"O, yes; if any hour meet a sergeant, a' turns back for"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"very fear."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"As if Time were in debt! how fondly dost thou reason!"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"worth, to season."
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"That Time comes stealing on by night and day?"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"If Time be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way,"
IV,II,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day?"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Go, Dromio; there's the money, bear it straight;"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"And bring thy master home immediately."
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Come, sister: I am press'd down with conceit--"
IV,II,ADRIANA,"Conceit, my comfort and my injury."
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"There's not a man I meet but doth salute me"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"As if I were their well-acquainted friend;"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And every one doth call me by my name."
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Some tender money to me; some invite me;"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Some other give me thanks for kindnesses;"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Some offer me commodities to buy:"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Even now a tailor call'd me in his shop"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And show'd me silks that he had bought for me,"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And therewithal took measure of my body."
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Sure, these are but imaginary wiles"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here."
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Master, here's the gold you sent me for. What, have"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"you got the picture of old Adam new-apparelled?"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What gold is this? what Adam dost thou mean?"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"that keeps the prison: he that goes in the calf's"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"skin that was killed for the Prodigal; he that came"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"behind you, sir, like an evil angel, and bid you"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"forsake your liberty."
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I understand thee not."
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"No? why, 'tis a plain case: he that went, like a"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"bass-viol, in a case of leather; the man, sir,"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"that, when gentlemen are tired, gives them a sob"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"and 'rests them; he, sir, that takes pity on decayed"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"men and gives them suits of durance; he that sets up"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"his rest to do more exploits with his mace than a"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"morris-pike."
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What, thou meanest an officer?"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Ay, sir, the sergeant of the band, he that brings"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"any man to answer it that breaks his band; one that"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"thinks a man always going to bed, and says, 'God"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"give you good rest!'"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Well, sir, there rest in your foolery. Is there any"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Why, sir, I brought you word an hour since that the"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"bark Expedition put forth to-night; and then were"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"you hindered by the sergeant, to tarry for the hoy"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Delay. Here are the angels that you sent for to"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"deliver you."
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"The fellow is distract, and so am I;"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And here we wander in illusions:"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Some blessed power deliver us from hence!"
IV,III,Courtezan,"Well met, well met, Master Antipholus."
IV,III,Courtezan,"I see, sir, you have found the goldsmith now:"
IV,III,Courtezan,"Is that the chain you promised me to-day?"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Satan, avoid! I charge thee, tempt me not."
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Master, is this Mistress Satan?"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"It is the devil."
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Nay, she is worse, she is the devil's dam; and here"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"she comes in the habit of a light wench: and thereof"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"comes that the wenches say 'God damn me;' that's as"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"much to say 'God make me a light wench.' It is"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"written, they appear to men like angels of light:"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"light is an effect of fire, and fire will burn;"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"ergo, light wenches will burn. Come not near her."
IV,III,Courtezan,"Your man and you are marvellous merry, sir."
IV,III,Courtezan,"Will you go with me? We'll mend our dinner here?"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat; or bespeak a"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"long spoon."
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Why, Dromio?"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"the devil."
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Avoid then, fiend! what tell'st thou me of supping?"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Thou art, as you are all, a sorceress:"
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I conjure thee to leave me and be gone."
IV,III,Courtezan,"Give me the ring of mine you had at dinner,"
IV,III,Courtezan,"Or, for my diamond, the chain you promised,"
IV,III,Courtezan,"And I'll be gone, sir, and not trouble you."
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Some devils ask but the parings of one's nail,"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"A rush, a hair, a drop of blood, a pin,"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"A nut, a cherry-stone;"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"But she, more covetous, would have a chain."
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Master, be wise: an if you give it her,"
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"The devil will shake her chain and fright us with it."
IV,III,Courtezan,"I pray you, sir, my ring, or else the chain:"
IV,III,Courtezan,"I hope you do not mean to cheat me so."
IV,III,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Avaunt, thou witch! Come, Dromio, let us go."
IV,III,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"'Fly pride,' says the peacock: mistress, that you know."
IV,III,Courtezan,"Now, out of doubt Antipholus is mad,"
IV,III,Courtezan,"Else would he never so demean himself."
IV,III,Courtezan,"A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats,"
IV,III,Courtezan,"And for the same he promised me a chain:"
IV,III,Courtezan,"Both one and other he denies me now."
IV,III,Courtezan,"The reason that I gather he is mad,"
IV,III,Courtezan,"Besides this present instance of his rage,"
IV,III,Courtezan,"Is a mad tale he told to-day at dinner,"
IV,III,Courtezan,"Of his own doors being shut against his entrance."
IV,III,Courtezan,"Belike his wife, acquainted with his fits,"
IV,III,Courtezan,"On purpose shut the doors against his way."
IV,III,Courtezan,"My way is now to hie home to his house,"
IV,III,Courtezan,"And tell his wife that, being lunatic,"
IV,III,Courtezan,"He rush'd into my house and took perforce"
IV,III,Courtezan,"My ring away. This course I fittest choose;"
IV,III,Courtezan,"For forty ducats is too much to lose."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Fear me not, man; I will not break away:"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I'll give thee, ere I leave thee, so much money,"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"To warrant thee, as I am 'rested for."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"My wife is in a wayward mood to-day,"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And will not lightly trust the messenger"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"That I should be attach'd in Ephesus,"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I tell you, 'twill sound harshly in her ears."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Here comes my man; I think he brings the money."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"How now, sir! have you that I sent you for?"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Here's that, I warrant you, will pay them all."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"But where's the money?"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Why, sir, I gave the money for the rope."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Five hundred ducats, villain, for a rope?"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I'll serve you, sir, five hundred at the rate."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"To what end did I bid thee hie thee home?"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"To a rope's-end, sir; and to that end am I returned."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And to that end, sir, I will welcome you."
IV,IV,Officer,"Good sir, be patient."
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Nay, 'tis for me to be patient; I am in adversity."
IV,IV,Officer,"Good, now, hold thy tongue."
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Nay, rather persuade him to hold his hands."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Thou whoreson, senseless villain!"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I would I were senseless, sir, that I might not feel"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"your blows."
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I am an ass, indeed; you may prove it by my long"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"ears. I have served him from the hour of my"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"with beating; I am waked with it when I sleep;"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"raised with it when I sit; driven out of doors with"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"it when I go from home; welcomed home with it when"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I return; nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"beggar wont her brat; and, I think when he hath"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"lamed me, I shall beg with it from door to door."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Come, go along; my wife is coming yonder."
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Mistress, 'respice finem,' respect your end; or"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"rather, the prophecy like the parrot, 'beware the"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"rope's-end.'"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Wilt thou still talk?"
IV,IV,Courtezan,"How say you now? is not your husband mad?"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"His incivility confirms no less."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer;"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Establish him in his true sense again,"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"And I will please you what you will demand."
IV,IV,LUCIANA,"Alas, how fiery and how sharp he looks!"
IV,IV,Courtezan,"Mark how he trembles in his ecstasy!"
IV,IV,PINCH,"Give me your hand and let me feel your pulse."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"There is my hand, and let it feel your ear."
IV,IV,PINCH,"I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,"
IV,IV,PINCH,"To yield possession to my holy prayers"
IV,IV,PINCH,"And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight:"
IV,IV,PINCH,"I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven!"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Peace, doting wizard, peace! I am not mad."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"O, that thou wert not, poor distressed soul!"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"You minion, you, are these your customers?"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Did this companion with the saffron face"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Revel and feast it at my house to-day,"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And I denied to enter in my house?"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"O husband, God doth know you dined at home;"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Where would you had remain'd until this time,"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Free from these slanders and this open shame!"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Dined at home! Thou villain, what sayest thou?"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Sir, sooth to say, you did not dine at home."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Were not my doors lock'd up and I shut out?"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Perdie, your doors were lock'd and you shut out."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And did not she herself revile me there?"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Sans fable, she herself reviled you there."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and scorn me?"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Certes, she did; the kitchen-vestal scorn'd you."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And did not I in rage depart from thence?"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"In verity you did; my bones bear witness,"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"That since have felt the vigour of his rage."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Is't good to soothe him in these contraries?"
IV,IV,PINCH,"It is no shame: the fellow finds his vein,"
IV,IV,PINCH,"And yielding to him humours well his frenzy."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Thou hast suborn'd the goldsmith to arrest me."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Alas, I sent you money to redeem you,"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"By Dromio here, who came in haste for it."
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Money by me! heart and goodwill you might;"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"But surely master, not a rag of money."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Went'st not thou to her for a purse of ducats?"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"He came to me and I deliver'd it."
IV,IV,LUCIANA,"And I am witness with her that she did."
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"God and the rope-maker bear me witness"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"That I was sent for nothing but a rope!"
IV,IV,PINCH,"Mistress, both man and master is possess'd;"
IV,IV,PINCH,"I know it by their pale and deadly looks:"
IV,IV,PINCH,"They must be bound and laid in some dark room."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth to-day?"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And why dost thou deny the bag of gold?"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth."
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"And, gentle master, I received no gold;"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"But I confess, sir, that we were lock'd out."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Dissembling villain, thou speak'st false in both."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all;"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And art confederate with a damned pack"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"To make a loathsome abject scorn of me:"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"But with these nails I'll pluck out these false eyes"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"That would behold in me this shameful sport."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"O, bind him, bind him! let him not come near me."
IV,IV,PINCH,"More company! The fiend is strong within him."
IV,IV,LUCIANA,"Ay me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks!"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"What, will you murder me? Thou gaoler, thou,"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I am thy prisoner: wilt thou suffer them"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"To make a rescue?"
IV,IV,Officer,"Masters, let him go"
IV,IV,Officer,"He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him."
IV,IV,PINCH,"Go bind this man, for he is frantic too."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer?"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Hast thou delight to see a wretched man"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Do outrage and displeasure to himself?"
IV,IV,Officer,"He is my prisoner: if I let him go,"
IV,IV,Officer,"The debt he owes will be required of me."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"I will discharge thee ere I go from thee:"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Bear me forthwith unto his creditor,"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"And, knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Good master doctor, see him safe convey'd"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Home to my house. O most unhappy day!"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"O most unhappy strumpet!"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Master, I am here entered in bond for you."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Out on thee, villain! wherefore dost thou mad me?"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Will you be bound for nothing? be mad, good master:"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"cry 'The devil!'"
IV,IV,LUCIANA,"God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Go bear him hence. Sister, go you with me."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Say now, whose suit is he arrested at?"
IV,IV,Officer,"One Angelo, a goldsmith: do you know him?"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"I know the man. What is the sum he owes?"
IV,IV,Officer,"Two hundred ducats."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Say, how grows it due?"
IV,IV,Officer,"Due for a chain your husband had of him."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not."
IV,IV,Courtezan,"When as your husband all in rage to-day"
IV,IV,Courtezan,"Came to my house and took away my ring--"
IV,IV,Courtezan,"The ring I saw upon his finger now--"
IV,IV,Courtezan,"Straight after did I meet him with a chain."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"It may be so, but I did never see it."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Come, gaoler, bring me where the goldsmith is:"
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"I long to know the truth hereof at large."
IV,IV,LUCIANA,"God, for thy mercy! they are loose again."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"And come with naked swords."
IV,IV,ADRIANA,"Let's call more help to have them bound again."
IV,IV,Officer,"Away! they'll kill us."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I see these witches are afraid of swords."
IV,IV,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"She that would be your wife now ran from you."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Come to the Centaur; fetch our stuff from thence:"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I long that we were safe and sound aboard."
IV,IV,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"no harm: you saw they speak us fair, give us gold:"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"me, I could find in my heart to stay here still and"
IV,IV,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"turn witch."
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I will not stay to-night for all the town;"
IV,IV,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard."
V,I,ANGELO,"I am sorry, sir, that I have hinder'd you;"
V,I,ANGELO,"But, I protest, he had the chain of me,"
V,I,ANGELO,"Though most dishonestly he doth deny it."
V,I,Second Merchant,"How is the man esteemed here in the city?"
V,I,ANGELO,"Of very reverend reputation, sir,"
V,I,ANGELO,"Of credit infinite, highly beloved,"
V,I,ANGELO,"Second to none that lives here in the city:"
V,I,ANGELO,"His word might bear my wealth at any time."
V,I,Second Merchant,"Speak softly; yonder, as I think, he walks."
V,I,ANGELO,"'Tis so; and that self chain about his neck"
V,I,ANGELO,"Which he forswore most monstrously to have."
V,I,ANGELO,"Good sir, draw near to me, I'll speak to him."
V,I,ANGELO,"Signior Antipholus, I wonder much"
V,I,ANGELO,"That you would put me to this shame and trouble;"
V,I,ANGELO,"And, not without some scandal to yourself,"
V,I,ANGELO,"With circumstance and oaths so to deny"
V,I,ANGELO,"This chain which now you wear so openly:"
V,I,ANGELO,"Beside the charge, the shame, imprisonment,"
V,I,ANGELO,"You have done wrong to this my honest friend,"
V,I,ANGELO,"Who, but for staying on our controversy,"
V,I,ANGELO,"Had hoisted sail and put to sea to-day:"
V,I,ANGELO,"This chain you had of me; can you deny it?"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I think I had; I never did deny it."
V,I,Second Merchant,"Yes, that you did, sir, and forswore it too."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Who heard me to deny it or forswear it?"
V,I,Second Merchant,"These ears of mine, thou know'st did hear thee."
V,I,Second Merchant,"Fie on thee, wretch! 'tis pity that thou livest"
V,I,Second Merchant,"To walk where any honest man resort."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Thou art a villain to impeach me thus:"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I'll prove mine honour and mine honesty"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Against thee presently, if thou darest stand."
V,I,Second Merchant,"I dare, and do defy thee for a villain."
V,I,ADRIANA,"Hold, hurt him not, for God's sake! he is mad."
V,I,ADRIANA,"Some get within him, take his sword away:"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Bind Dromio too, and bear them to my house."
V,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Run, master, run; for God's sake, take a house!"
V,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"This is some priory. In, or we are spoil'd!"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Be quiet, people. Wherefore throng you hither?"
V,I,ADRIANA,"To fetch my poor distracted husband hence."
V,I,ADRIANA,"Let us come in, that we may bind him fast"
V,I,ADRIANA,"And bear him home for his recovery."
V,I,ANGELO,"I knew he was not in his perfect wits."
V,I,Second Merchant,"I am sorry now that I did draw on him."
V,I,AEMELIA,"How long hath this possession held the man?"
V,I,ADRIANA,"This week he hath been heavy, sour, sad,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"And much different from the man he was;"
V,I,ADRIANA,"But till this afternoon his passion"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Ne'er brake into extremity of rage."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Hath he not lost much wealth by wreck of sea?"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Buried some dear friend? Hath not else his eye"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Stray'd his affection in unlawful love?"
V,I,AEMELIA,"A sin prevailing much in youthful men,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Who give their eyes the liberty of gazing."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Which of these sorrows is he subject to?"
V,I,ADRIANA,"To none of these, except it be the last;"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Namely, some love that drew him oft from home."
V,I,AEMELIA,"You should for that have reprehended him."
V,I,ADRIANA,"Why, so I did."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Ay, but not rough enough."
V,I,ADRIANA,"As roughly as my modesty would let me."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Haply, in private."
V,I,ADRIANA,"And in assemblies too."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Ay, but not enough."
V,I,ADRIANA,"It was the copy of our conference:"
V,I,ADRIANA,"In bed he slept not for my urging it;"
V,I,ADRIANA,"At board he fed not for my urging it;"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Alone, it was the subject of my theme;"
V,I,ADRIANA,"In company I often glanced it;"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Still did I tell him it was vile and bad."
V,I,AEMELIA,"And thereof came it that the man was mad."
V,I,AEMELIA,"The venom clamours of a jealous woman"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth."
V,I,AEMELIA,"It seems his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"And therefore comes it that his head is light."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings:"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Unquiet meals make ill digestions;"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Thereof the raging fire of fever bred;"
V,I,AEMELIA,"And what's a fever but a fit of madness?"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Thou say'st his sports were hinderd by thy brawls:"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue"
V,I,AEMELIA,"But moody and dull melancholy,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"And at her heels a huge infectious troop"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?"
V,I,AEMELIA,"In food, in sport and life-preserving rest"
V,I,AEMELIA,"To be disturb'd, would mad or man or beast:"
V,I,AEMELIA,"The consequence is then thy jealous fits"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Have scared thy husband from the use of wits."
V,I,LUCIANA,"She never reprehended him but mildly,"
V,I,LUCIANA,"When he demean'd himself rough, rude and wildly."
V,I,LUCIANA,"Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?"
V,I,ADRIANA,"She did betray me to my own reproof."
V,I,ADRIANA,"Good people enter and lay hold on him."
V,I,AEMELIA,"No, not a creature enters in my house."
V,I,ADRIANA,"Then let your servants bring my husband forth."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Neither: he took this place for sanctuary,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"And it shall privilege him from your hands"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Till I have brought him to his wits again,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Or lose my labour in assaying it."
V,I,ADRIANA,"I will attend my husband, be his nurse,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Diet his sickness, for it is my office,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"And will have no attorney but myself;"
V,I,ADRIANA,"And therefore let me have him home with me."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Be patient; for I will not let him stir"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Till I have used the approved means I have,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"With wholesome syrups, drugs and holy prayers,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"To make of him a formal man again:"
V,I,AEMELIA,"It is a branch and parcel of mine oath,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"A charitable duty of my order."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Therefore depart and leave him here with me."
V,I,ADRIANA,"I will not hence and leave my husband here:"
V,I,ADRIANA,"And ill it doth beseem your holiness"
V,I,ADRIANA,"To separate the husband and the wife."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Be quiet and depart: thou shalt not have him."
V,I,LUCIANA,"Complain unto the duke of this indignity."
V,I,ADRIANA,"Come, go: I will fall prostrate at his feet"
V,I,ADRIANA,"And never rise until my tears and prayers"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Have won his grace to come in person hither"
V,I,ADRIANA,"And take perforce my husband from the abbess."
V,I,Second Merchant,"By this, I think, the dial points at five:"
V,I,Second Merchant,"Anon, I'm sure, the duke himself in person"
V,I,Second Merchant,"Comes this way to the melancholy vale,"
V,I,Second Merchant,"The place of death and sorry execution,"
V,I,Second Merchant,"Behind the ditches of the abbey here."
V,I,ANGELO,"Upon what cause?"
V,I,Second Merchant,"To see a reverend Syracusian merchant,"
V,I,Second Merchant,"Who put unluckily into this bay"
V,I,Second Merchant,"Against the laws and statutes of this town,"
V,I,Second Merchant,"Beheaded publicly for his offence."
V,I,ANGELO,"See where they come: we will behold his death."
V,I,LUCIANA,"Kneel to the duke before he pass the abbey."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Yet once again proclaim it publicly,"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"If any friend will pay the sum for him,"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"He shall not die; so much we tender him."
V,I,ADRIANA,"Justice, most sacred duke, against the abbess!"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"She is a virtuous and a reverend lady:"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"It cannot be that she hath done thee wrong."
V,I,ADRIANA,"May it please your grace, Antipholus, my husband,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Whom I made lord of me and all I had,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"At your important letters,--this ill day"
V,I,ADRIANA,"A most outrageous fit of madness took him;"
V,I,ADRIANA,"That desperately he hurried through the street,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"With him his bondman, all as mad as he--"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Doing displeasure to the citizens"
V,I,ADRIANA,"By rushing in their houses, bearing thence"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Rings, jewels, any thing his rage did like."
V,I,ADRIANA,"Once did I get him bound and sent him home,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Whilst to take order for the wrongs I went,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"That here and there his fury had committed."
V,I,ADRIANA,"Anon, I wot not by what strong escape,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"He broke from those that had the guard of him;"
V,I,ADRIANA,"And with his mad attendant and himself,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Each one with ireful passion, with drawn swords,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Met us again and madly bent on us,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Chased us away; till, raising of more aid,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"We came again to bind them. Then they fled"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Into this abbey, whither we pursued them:"
V,I,ADRIANA,"And here the abbess shuts the gates on us"
V,I,ADRIANA,"And will not suffer us to fetch him out,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Nor send him forth that we may bear him hence."
V,I,ADRIANA,"Therefore, most gracious duke, with thy command"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Let him be brought forth and borne hence for help."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Long since thy husband served me in my wars,"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"And I to thee engaged a prince's word,"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"When thou didst make him master of thy bed,"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"To do him all the grace and good I could."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Go, some of you, knock at the abbey-gate"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"And bid the lady abbess come to me."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"I will determine this before I stir."
V,I,Servant,"O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself!"
V,I,Servant,"My master and his man are both broke loose,"
V,I,Servant,"Beaten the maids a-row and bound the doctor"
V,I,Servant,"Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire;"
V,I,Servant,"And ever, as it blazed, they threw on him"
V,I,Servant,"Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair:"
V,I,Servant,"My master preaches patience to him and the while"
V,I,Servant,"His man with scissors nicks him like a fool,"
V,I,Servant,"And sure, unless you send some present help,"
V,I,Servant,"Between them they will kill the conjurer."
V,I,ADRIANA,"Peace, fool! thy master and his man are here,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"And that is false thou dost report to us."
V,I,Servant,"Mistress, upon my life, I tell you true;"
V,I,Servant,"I have not breathed almost since I did see it."
V,I,Servant,"He cries for you, and vows, if he can take you,"
V,I,Servant,"To scorch your face and to disfigure you."
V,I,Servant,"Hark, hark! I hear him, mistress. fly, be gone!"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Come, stand by me; fear nothing. Guard with halberds!"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Ay me, it is my husband! Witness you,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"That he is borne about invisible:"
V,I,ADRIANA,"Even now we housed him in the abbey here;"
V,I,ADRIANA,"And now he's there, past thought of human reason."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Justice, most gracious duke, O, grant me justice!"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Even for the service that long since I did thee,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"When I bestrid thee in the wars and took"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Deep scars to save thy life; even for the blood"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"That then I lost for thee, now grant me justice."
V,I,AEGEON,"Unless the fear of death doth make me dote,"
V,I,AEGEON,"I see my son Antipholus and Dromio."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Justice, sweet prince, against that woman there!"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"She whom thou gavest to me to be my wife,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"That hath abused and dishonour'd me"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Even in the strength and height of injury!"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Beyond imagination is the wrong"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"That she this day hath shameless thrown on me."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Discover how, and thou shalt find me just."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"This day, great duke, she shut the doors upon me,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"While she with harlots feasted in my house."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"A grievous fault! Say, woman, didst thou so?"
V,I,ADRIANA,"No, my good lord: myself, he and my sister"
V,I,ADRIANA,"To-day did dine together. So befall my soul"
V,I,ADRIANA,"As this is false he burdens me withal!"
V,I,LUCIANA,"Ne'er may I look on day, nor sleep on night,"
V,I,LUCIANA,"But she tells to your highness simple truth!"
V,I,ANGELO,"O perjured woman! They are both forsworn:"
V,I,ANGELO,"In this the madman justly chargeth them."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"My liege, I am advised what I say,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Neither disturbed with the effect of wine,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Nor heady-rash, provoked with raging ire,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"This woman lock'd me out this day from dinner:"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"That goldsmith there, were he not pack'd with her,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Could witness it, for he was with me then;"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Who parted with me to go fetch a chain,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Promising to bring it to the Porpentine,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Where Balthazar and I did dine together."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Our dinner done, and he not coming thither,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I went to seek him: in the street I met him"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And in his company that gentleman."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"There did this perjured goldsmith swear me down"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"That I this day of him received the chain,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Which, God he knows, I saw not: for the which"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"He did arrest me with an officer."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I did obey, and sent my peasant home"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"For certain ducats: he with none return'd"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Then fairly I bespoke the officer"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"To go in person with me to my house."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"By the way we met"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"My wife, her sister, and a rabble more"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Of vile confederates. Along with them"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"A mere anatomy, a mountebank,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"A dead-looking man: this pernicious slave,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And, gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And with no face, as 'twere, outfacing me,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Cries out, I was possess'd. Then all together"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"They fell upon me, bound me, bore me thence"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And in a dark and dankish vault at home"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"There left me and my man, both bound together;"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Till, gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I gain'd my freedom, and immediately"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Ran hither to your grace; whom I beseech"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"To give me ample satisfaction"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"For these deep shames and great indignities."
V,I,ANGELO,"My lord, in truth, thus far I witness with him,"
V,I,ANGELO,"That he dined not at home, but was lock'd out."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"But had he such a chain of thee or no?"
V,I,ANGELO,"He had, my lord: and when he ran in here,"
V,I,ANGELO,"These people saw the chain about his neck."
V,I,Second Merchant,"Besides, I will be sworn these ears of mine"
V,I,Second Merchant,"Heard you confess you had the chain of him"
V,I,Second Merchant,"After you first forswore it on the mart:"
V,I,Second Merchant,"And thereupon I drew my sword on you;"
V,I,Second Merchant,"And then you fled into this abbey here,"
V,I,Second Merchant,"From whence, I think, you are come by miracle."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I never came within these abbey-walls,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me:"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I never saw the chain, so help me Heaven!"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And this is false you burden me withal."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Why, what an intricate impeach is this!"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"I think you all have drunk of Circe's cup."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"If here you housed him, here he would have been;"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"If he were mad, he would not plead so coldly:"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"You say he dined at home; the goldsmith here"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Denies that saying. Sirrah, what say you?"
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Sir, he dined with her there, at the Porpentine."
V,I,Courtezan,"He did, and from my finger snatch'd that ring."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"'Tis true, my liege; this ring I had of her."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Saw'st thou him enter at the abbey here?"
V,I,Courtezan,"As sure, my liege, as I do see your grace."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Why, this is strange. Go call the abbess hither."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"I think you are all mated or stark mad."
V,I,AEGEON,"Most mighty duke, vouchsafe me speak a word:"
V,I,AEGEON,"Haply I see a friend will save my life"
V,I,AEGEON,"And pay the sum that may deliver me."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Speak freely, Syracusian, what thou wilt."
V,I,AEGEON,"Is not your name, sir, call'd Antipholus?"
V,I,AEGEON,"And is not that your bondman, Dromio?"
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Within this hour I was his bondman sir,"
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"But he, I thank him, gnaw'd in two my cords:"
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Now am I Dromio and his man unbound."
V,I,AEGEON,"I am sure you both of you remember me."
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Ourselves we do remember, sir, by you;"
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"For lately we were bound, as you are now"
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"You are not Pinch's patient, are you, sir?"
V,I,AEGEON,"Why look you strange on me? you know me well."
V,I,AEGEON,"O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last,"
V,I,AEGEON,"And careful hours with time's deformed hand"
V,I,AEGEON,"Have written strange defeatures in my face:"
V,I,AEGEON,"But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Neither."
V,I,AEGEON,"Dromio, nor thou?"
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"No, trust me, sir, nor I."
V,I,AEGEON,"I am sure thou dost."
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Ay, sir, but I am sure I do not; and whatsoever a"
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"man denies, you are now bound to believe him."
V,I,AEGEON,"Not know my voice! O time's extremity,"
V,I,AEGEON,"Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poor tongue"
V,I,AEGEON,"In seven short years, that here my only son"
V,I,AEGEON,"Knows not my feeble key of untuned cares?"
V,I,AEGEON,"Though now this grained face of mine be hid"
V,I,AEGEON,"In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,"
V,I,AEGEON,"And all the conduits of my blood froze up,"
V,I,AEGEON,"Yet hath my night of life some memory,"
V,I,AEGEON,"My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,"
V,I,AEGEON,"My dull deaf ears a little use to hear:"
V,I,AEGEON,"All these old witnesses--I cannot err--"
V,I,AEGEON,"Tell me thou art my son Antipholus."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I never saw my father in my life."
V,I,AEGEON,"But seven years since, in Syracusa, boy,"
V,I,AEGEON,"Thou know'st we parted: but perhaps, my son,"
V,I,AEGEON,"Thou shamest to acknowledge me in misery."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"The duke and all that know me in the city"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Can witness with me that it is not so"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I ne'er saw Syracusa in my life."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"I tell thee, Syracusian, twenty years"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Have I been patron to Antipholus,"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"During which time he ne'er saw Syracusa:"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"I see thy age and dangers make thee dote."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Most mighty duke, behold a man much wrong'd."
V,I,ADRIANA,"I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"One of these men is Genius to the other;"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"And so of these. Which is the natural man,"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"And which the spirit? who deciphers them?"
V,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"I, sir, am Dromio; command him away."
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"AEgeon art thou not? or else his ghost?"
V,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"O, my old master! who hath bound him here?"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds"
V,I,AEMELIA,"And gain a husband by his liberty."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Speak, old AEgeon, if thou be'st the man"
V,I,AEMELIA,"That hadst a wife once call'd AEmilia"
V,I,AEMELIA,"That bore thee at a burden two fair sons:"
V,I,AEMELIA,"O, if thou be'st the same AEgeon, speak,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"And speak unto the same AEmilia!"
V,I,AEGEON,"If I dream not, thou art AEmilia:"
V,I,AEGEON,"If thou art she, tell me where is that son"
V,I,AEGEON,"That floated with thee on the fatal raft?"
V,I,AEMELIA,"By men of Epidamnum he and I"
V,I,AEMELIA,"And the twin Dromio all were taken up;"
V,I,AEMELIA,"But by and by rude fishermen of Corinth"
V,I,AEMELIA,"By force took Dromio and my son from them"
V,I,AEMELIA,"And me they left with those of Epidamnum."
V,I,AEMELIA,"What then became of them I cannot tell"
V,I,AEMELIA,"I to this fortune that you see me in."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Why, here begins his morning story right;"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"These two Antipholuses, these two so like,"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"And these two Dromios, one in semblance,--"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Besides her urging of her wreck at sea,--"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"These are the parents to these children,"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Which accidentally are met together."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Antipholus, thou camest from Corinth first?"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"No, sir, not I; I came from Syracuse."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"Stay, stand apart; I know not which is which."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord,--"
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"And I with him."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Brought to this town by that most famous warrior,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle."
V,I,ADRIANA,"Which of you two did dine with me to-day?"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I, gentle mistress."
V,I,ADRIANA,"And are not you my husband?"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"No; I say nay to that."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And so do I; yet did she call me so:"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And this fair gentlewoman, her sister here,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Did call me brother."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"What I told you then,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I hope I shall have leisure to make good;"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"If this be not a dream I see and hear."
V,I,ANGELO,"That is the chain, sir, which you had of me."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I think it be, sir; I deny it not."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"And you, sir, for this chain arrested me."
V,I,ANGELO,"I think I did, sir; I deny it not."
V,I,ADRIANA,"I sent you money, sir, to be your bail,"
V,I,ADRIANA,"By Dromio; but I think he brought it not."
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"No, none by me."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"This purse of ducats I received from you,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And Dromio, my man, did bring them me."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"I see we still did meet each other's man,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And I was ta'en for him, and he for me,"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"And thereupon these errors are arose."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"These ducats pawn I for my father here."
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"It shall not need; thy father hath his life."
V,I,Courtezan,"Sir, I must have that diamond from you."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"There, take it; and much thanks for my good cheer."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Renowned duke, vouchsafe to take the pains"
V,I,AEMELIA,"To go with us into the abbey here"
V,I,AEMELIA,"And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes:"
V,I,AEMELIA,"And all that are assembled in this place,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"That by this sympathized one day's error"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Have suffer'd wrong, go keep us company,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"And we shall make full satisfaction."
V,I,AEMELIA,"Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Of you, my sons; and till this present hour"
V,I,AEMELIA,"My heavy burden ne'er delivered."
V,I,AEMELIA,"The duke, my husband and my children both,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"And you the calendars of their nativity,"
V,I,AEMELIA,"Go to a gossips' feast and go with me;"
V,I,AEMELIA,"After so long grief, such festivity!"
V,I,DUKE SOLINUS,"With all my heart, I'll gossip at this feast."
V,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Master, shall I fetch your stuff from shipboard?"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS,"Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark'd?"
V,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur."
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"He speaks to me. I am your master, Dromio:"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Come, go with us; we'll look to that anon:"
V,I,ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE,"Embrace thy brother there; rejoice with him."
V,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"There is a fat friend at your master's house,"
V,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner:"
V,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"She now shall be my sister, not my wife."
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother:"
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth."
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Will you walk in to see their gossiping?"
V,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"Not I, sir; you are my elder."
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"That's a question: how shall we try it?"
V,I,DROMIO OF SYRACUSE,"We'll draw cuts for the senior: till then lead thou first."
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"Nay, then, thus:"
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"We came into the world like brother and brother;"
V,I,DROMIO OF EPHESUS,"And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another."
I,I,First Citizen,"Before we proceed any further, hear me speak."
I,I,All,"Speak, speak."
I,I,First Citizen,"You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?"
I,I,All,"Resolved. resolved."
I,I,First Citizen,"First, you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people."
I,I,All,"We know't, we know't."
I,I,First Citizen,"Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own price."
I,I,First Citizen,"Is't a verdict?"
I,I,All,"No more talking on't; let it be done: away, away!"
I,I,Second Citizen,"One word, good citizens."
I,I,First Citizen,"We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good."
I,I,First Citizen,"What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they"
I,I,First Citizen,"would yield us but the superfluity, while it were"
I,I,First Citizen,"wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely;"
I,I,First Citizen,"but they think we are too dear: the leanness that"
I,I,First Citizen,"afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an"
I,I,First Citizen,"inventory to particularise their abundance; our"
I,I,First Citizen,"sufferance is a gain to them Let us revenge this with"
I,I,First Citizen,"our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I"
I,I,First Citizen,"speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge."
I,I,Second Citizen,"Would you proceed especially against Caius Marcius?"
I,I,All,"Against him first: he's a very dog to the commonalty."
I,I,Second Citizen,"Consider you what services he has done for his country?"
I,I,First Citizen,"Very well; and could be content to give him good"
I,I,First Citizen,"report fort, but that he pays himself with being proud."
I,I,Second Citizen,"Nay, but speak not maliciously."
I,I,First Citizen,"I say unto you, what he hath done famously, he did"
I,I,First Citizen,"it to that end: though soft-conscienced men can be"
I,I,First Citizen,"content to say it was for his country he did it to"
I,I,First Citizen,"please his mother and to be partly proud; which he"
I,I,First Citizen,"is, even till the altitude of his virtue."
I,I,Second Citizen,"What he cannot help in his nature, you account a"
I,I,Second Citizen,"vice in him. You must in no way say he is covetous."
I,I,First Citizen,"If I must not, I need not be barren of accusations;"
I,I,First Citizen,"he hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition."
I,I,First Citizen,"What shouts are these? The other side o' the city"
I,I,First Citizen,"is risen: why stay we prating here? to the Capitol!"
I,I,All,"Come, come."
I,I,First Citizen,"Soft! who comes here?"
I,I,Second Citizen,"Worthy Menenius Agrippa; one that hath always loved"
I,I,Second Citizen,"the people."
I,I,First Citizen,"He's one honest enough: would all the rest were so!"
I,I,MENENIUS,"What work's, my countrymen, in hand? where go you"
I,I,MENENIUS,"With bats and clubs? The matter? speak, I pray you."
I,I,First Citizen,"Our business is not unknown to the senate; they have"
I,I,First Citizen,"had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do,"
I,I,First Citizen,"which now we'll show 'em in deeds. They say poor"
I,I,First Citizen,"suitors have strong breaths: they shall know we"
I,I,First Citizen,"have strong arms too."
I,I,MENENIUS,"Why, masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbours,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Will you undo yourselves?"
I,I,First Citizen,"We cannot, sir, we are undone already."
I,I,MENENIUS,"I tell you, friends, most charitable care"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Have the patricians of you. For your wants,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Your suffering in this dearth, you may as well"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Against the Roman state, whose course will on"
I,I,MENENIUS,"The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Of more strong link asunder than can ever"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Appear in your impediment. For the dearth,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"The gods, not the patricians, make it, and"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Your knees to them, not arms, must help. Alack,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"You are transported by calamity"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Thither where more attends you, and you slander"
I,I,MENENIUS,"The helms o' the state, who care for you like fathers,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"When you curse them as enemies."
I,I,First Citizen,"Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us"
I,I,First Citizen,"yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses"
I,I,First Citizen,"crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to"
I,I,First Citizen,"support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act"
I,I,First Citizen,"established against the rich, and provide more"
I,I,First Citizen,"piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain"
I,I,First Citizen,"the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and"
I,I,First Citizen,"there's all the love they bear us."
I,I,MENENIUS,"Either you must"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Confess yourselves wondrous malicious,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Or be accused of folly. I shall tell you"
I,I,MENENIUS,"A pretty tale: it may be you have heard it;"
I,I,MENENIUS,"But, since it serves my purpose, I will venture"
I,I,MENENIUS,"To stale 't a little more."
I,I,First Citizen,"Well, I'll hear it, sir: yet you must not think to"
I,I,First Citizen,"fob off our disgrace with a tale: but, an 't please"
I,I,First Citizen,"you, deliver."
I,I,MENENIUS,"There was a time when all the body's members"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Rebell'd against the belly, thus accused it:"
I,I,MENENIUS,"That only like a gulf it did remain"
I,I,MENENIUS,"I' the midst o' the body, idle and unactive,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Like labour with the rest, where the other instruments"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"And, mutually participate, did minister"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Unto the appetite and affection common"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Of the whole body. The belly answer'd--"
I,I,First Citizen,"Well, sir, what answer made the belly?"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Which ne'er came from the lungs, but even thus--"
I,I,MENENIUS,"For, look you, I may make the belly smile"
I,I,MENENIUS,"As well as speak--it tauntingly replied"
I,I,MENENIUS,"To the discontented members, the mutinous parts"
I,I,MENENIUS,"That envied his receipt; even so most fitly"
I,I,MENENIUS,"As you malign our senators for that"
I,I,MENENIUS,"They are not such as you."
I,I,First Citizen,"Your belly's answer? What!"
I,I,First Citizen,"The kingly-crowned head, the vigilant eye,"
I,I,First Citizen,"The counsellor heart, the arm our soldier,"
I,I,First Citizen,"Our steed the leg, the tongue our trumpeter."
I,I,First Citizen,"With other muniments and petty helps"
I,I,First Citizen,"In this our fabric, if that they--"
I,I,MENENIUS,"What then?"
I,I,MENENIUS,"'Fore me, this fellow speaks! What then? what then?"
I,I,First Citizen,"Should by the cormorant belly be restrain'd,"
I,I,First Citizen,"Who is the sink o' the body,--"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Well, what then?"
I,I,First Citizen,"The former agents, if they did complain,"
I,I,First Citizen,"What could the belly answer?"
I,I,MENENIUS,"I will tell you"
I,I,MENENIUS,"If you'll bestow a small--of what you have little--"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Patience awhile, you'll hear the belly's answer."
I,I,First Citizen,"Ye're long about it."
I,I,MENENIUS,"Note me this, good friend;"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Your most grave belly was deliberate,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Not rash like his accusers, and thus answer'd:"
I,I,MENENIUS,"'True is it, my incorporate friends,' quoth he,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"'That I receive the general food at first,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Which you do live upon; and fit it is,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Because I am the store-house and the shop"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Of the whole body: but, if you do remember,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"I send it through the rivers of your blood,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Even to the court, the heart, to the seat o' the brain;"
I,I,MENENIUS,"And, through the cranks and offices of man,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"The strongest nerves and small inferior veins"
I,I,MENENIUS,"From me receive that natural competency"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Whereby they live: and though that all at once,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"You, my good friends,'--this says the belly, mark me,--"
I,I,First Citizen,"Ay, sir; well, well."
I,I,MENENIUS,"'Though all at once cannot"
I,I,MENENIUS,"See what I do deliver out to each,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Yet I can make my audit up, that all"
I,I,MENENIUS,"From me do back receive the flour of all,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"And leave me but the bran.' What say you to't?"
I,I,First Citizen,"It was an answer: how apply you this?"
I,I,MENENIUS,"The senators of Rome are this good belly,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"And you the mutinous members; for examine"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Their counsels and their cares, digest things rightly"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Touching the weal o' the common, you shall find"
I,I,MENENIUS,"No public benefit which you receive"
I,I,MENENIUS,"But it proceeds or comes from them to you"
I,I,MENENIUS,"And no way from yourselves. What do you think,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"You, the great toe of this assembly?"
I,I,First Citizen,"I the great toe! why the great toe?"
I,I,MENENIUS,"For that, being one o' the lowest, basest, poorest,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Of this most wise rebellion, thou go'st foremost:"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Thou rascal, that art worst in blood to run,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Lead'st first to win some vantage."
I,I,MENENIUS,"But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs:"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Rome and her rats are at the point of battle;"
I,I,MENENIUS,"The one side must have bale."
I,I,MENENIUS,"Hail, noble Marcius!"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Thanks. What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Make yourselves scabs?"
I,I,First Citizen,"We have ever your good word."
I,I,MARCIUS,"He that will give good words to thee will flatter"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Beneath abhorring. What would you have, you curs,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"That like nor peace nor war? the one affrights you,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Where he should find you lions, finds you hares;"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Where foxes, geese: you are no surer, no,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Than is the coal of fire upon the ice,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is"
I,I,MARCIUS,"To make him worthy whose offence subdues him"
I,I,MARCIUS,"And curse that justice did it."
I,I,MARCIUS,"Who deserves greatness"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Deserves your hate; and your affections are"
I,I,MARCIUS,"A sick man's appetite, who desires most that"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Which would increase his evil. He that depends"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Upon your favours swims with fins of lead"
I,I,MARCIUS,"And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye! Trust Ye?"
I,I,MARCIUS,"With every minute you do change a mind,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"And call him noble that was now your hate,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Him vile that was your garland. What's the matter,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"That in these several places of the city"
I,I,MARCIUS,"You cry against the noble senate, who,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Under the gods, keep you in awe, which else"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Would feed on one another? What's their seeking?"
I,I,MENENIUS,"For corn at their own rates; whereof, they say,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"The city is well stored."
I,I,MARCIUS,"Hang 'em! They say!"
I,I,MARCIUS,"They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know"
I,I,MARCIUS,"What's done i' the Capitol; who's like to rise,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Who thrives and who declines; side factions"
I,I,MARCIUS,"and give out"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Conjectural marriages; making parties strong"
I,I,MARCIUS,"And feebling such as stand not in their liking"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Below their cobbled shoes. They say there's"
I,I,MARCIUS,"grain enough!"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Would the nobility lay aside their ruth,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"And let me use my sword, I'll make a quarry"
I,I,MARCIUS,"With thousands of these quarter'd slaves, as high"
I,I,MARCIUS,"As I could pick my lance."
I,I,MENENIUS,"Nay, these are almost thoroughly persuaded;"
I,I,MENENIUS,"For though abundantly they lack discretion,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"Yet are they passing cowardly. But, I beseech you,"
I,I,MENENIUS,"What says the other troop?"
I,I,MARCIUS,"They are dissolved: hang 'em!"
I,I,MARCIUS,"They said they were an-hungry; sigh'd forth proverbs,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Corn for the rich men only: with these shreds"
I,I,MARCIUS,"They vented their complainings; which being answer'd,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"And a petition granted them, a strange one--"
I,I,MARCIUS,"To break the heart of generosity,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"And make bold power look pale--they threw their caps"
I,I,MARCIUS,"As they would hang them on the horns o' the moon,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Shouting their emulation."
I,I,MENENIUS,"What is granted them?"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Of their own choice: one's Junius Brutus,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Sicinius Velutus, and I know not--'Sdeath!"
I,I,MARCIUS,"The rabble should have first unroof'd the city,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Ere so prevail'd with me: it will in time"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Win upon power and throw forth greater themes"
I,I,MARCIUS,"For insurrection's arguing."
I,I,MENENIUS,"This is strange."
I,I,MARCIUS,"Go, get you home, you fragments!"
I,I,Messenger,"Where's Caius Marcius?"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Here: what's the matter?"
I,I,Messenger,"The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms."
I,I,MARCIUS,"I am glad on 't: then we shall ha' means to vent"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Our musty superfluity. See, our best elders."
I,I,First Senator,"Marcius, 'tis true that you have lately told us;"
I,I,First Senator,"The Volsces are in arms."
I,I,MARCIUS,"They have a leader,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to 't."
I,I,MARCIUS,"I sin in envying his nobility,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"And were I any thing but what I am,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"I would wish me only he."
I,I,COMINIUS,"You have fought together."
I,I,MARCIUS,"Were half to half the world by the ears and he."
I,I,MARCIUS,"Upon my party, I'ld revolt to make"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Only my wars with him: he is a lion"
I,I,MARCIUS,"That I am proud to hunt."
I,I,First Senator,"Then, worthy Marcius,"
I,I,First Senator,"Attend upon Cominius to these wars."
I,I,COMINIUS,"It is your former promise."
I,I,MARCIUS,"Sir, it is;"
I,I,MARCIUS,"And I am constant. Titus Lartius, thou"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus' face."
I,I,MARCIUS,"What, art thou stiff? stand'st out?"
I,I,TITUS,"No, Caius Marcius;"
I,I,TITUS,"I'll lean upon one crutch and fight with t'other,"
I,I,TITUS,"Ere stay behind this business."
I,I,MENENIUS,"O, true-bred!"
I,I,First Senator,"Your company to the Capitol; where, I know,"
I,I,First Senator,"Our greatest friends attend us."
I,I,TITUS,"Right worthy you priority."
I,I,COMINIUS,"Noble Marcius!"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Nay, let them follow:"
I,I,MARCIUS,"The Volsces have much corn; take these rats thither"
I,I,MARCIUS,"To gnaw their garners. Worshipful mutiners,"
I,I,MARCIUS,"Your valour puts well forth: pray, follow."
I,I,SICINIUS,"Was ever man so proud as is this Marcius?"
I,I,BRUTUS,"He has no equal."
I,I,SICINIUS,"When we were chosen tribunes for the people,--"
I,I,BRUTUS,"Mark'd you his lip and eyes?"
I,I,SICINIUS,"Nay. but his taunts."
I,I,BRUTUS,"Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods."
I,I,SICINIUS,"Be-mock the modest moon."
I,I,BRUTUS,"The present wars devour him: he is grown"
I,I,BRUTUS,"Too proud to be so valiant."
I,I,SICINIUS,"Such a nature,"
I,I,SICINIUS,"Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow"
I,I,SICINIUS,"Which he treads on at noon: but I do wonder"
I,I,SICINIUS,"His insolence can brook to be commanded"
I,I,SICINIUS,"Under Cominius."
I,I,BRUTUS,"Fame, at the which he aims,"
I,I,BRUTUS,"In whom already he's well graced, can not"
I,I,BRUTUS,"Better be held nor more attain'd than by"
I,I,BRUTUS,"A place below the first: for what miscarries"
I,I,BRUTUS,"Shall be the general's fault, though he perform"
I,I,BRUTUS,"To the utmost of a man, and giddy censure"
I,I,BRUTUS,"Will then cry out of Marcius 'O if he"
I,I,BRUTUS,"Had borne the business!'"
I,I,SICINIUS,"Besides, if things go well,"
I,I,SICINIUS,"Opinion that so sticks on Marcius shall"
I,I,SICINIUS,"Of his demerits rob Cominius."
I,I,BRUTUS,"Come:"
I,I,BRUTUS,"Half all Cominius' honours are to Marcius."
I,I,BRUTUS,"Though Marcius earned them not, and all his faults"
I,I,BRUTUS,"To Marcius shall be honours, though indeed"
I,I,BRUTUS,"In aught he merit not."
I,I,SICINIUS,"Let's hence, and hear"
I,I,SICINIUS,"How the dispatch is made, and in what fashion,"
I,I,SICINIUS,"More than his singularity, he goes"
I,I,SICINIUS,"Upon this present action."
I,I,BRUTUS,"Lets along."
I,II,First Senator,"So, your opinion is, Aufidius,"
I,II,First Senator,"That they of Rome are entered in our counsels"
I,II,First Senator,"And know how we proceed."
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"Is it not yours?"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"What ever have been thought on in this state,"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"That could be brought to bodily act ere Rome"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"Had circumvention? 'Tis not four days gone"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"Since I heard thence; these are the words: I think"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"I have the letter here; yes, here it is."
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"'They have press'd a power, but it is not known"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"Whether for east or west: the dearth is great;"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"The people mutinous; and it is rumour'd,"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"Cominius, Marcius your old enemy,"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"Who is of Rome worse hated than of you,"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"And Titus Lartius, a most valiant Roman,"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"These three lead on this preparation"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"Whither 'tis bent: most likely 'tis for you:"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"Consider of it.'"
I,II,First Senator,"Our army's in the field"
I,II,First Senator,"We never yet made doubt but Rome was ready"
I,II,First Senator,"To answer us."
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"Nor did you think it folly"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"To keep your great pretences veil'd till when"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"They needs must show themselves; which"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"in the hatching,"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"It seem'd, appear'd to Rome. By the discovery."
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"We shall be shorten'd in our aim, which was"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"To take in many towns ere almost Rome"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"Should know we were afoot."
I,II,Second Senator,"Noble Aufidius,"
I,II,Second Senator,"Take your commission; hie you to your bands:"
I,II,Second Senator,"Let us alone to guard Corioli:"
I,II,Second Senator,"If they set down before 's, for the remove"
I,II,Second Senator,"Bring your army; but, I think, you'll find"
I,II,Second Senator,"They've not prepared for us."
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"O, doubt not that;"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"I speak from certainties. Nay, more,"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"Some parcels of their power are forth already,"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"And only hitherward. I leave your honours."
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"If we and Caius Marcius chance to meet,"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"'Tis sworn between us we shall ever strike"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"Till one can do no more."
I,II,All,"The gods assist you!"
I,II,AUFIDIUS,"And keep your honours safe!"
I,II,First Senator,"Farewell."
I,II,Second Senator,"Farewell."
I,II,All,"Farewell."
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"I pray you, daughter, sing; or express yourself in a"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"more comfortable sort: if my son were my husband, I"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"won honour than in the embracements of his bed where"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"he would show most love. When yet he was but"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"tender-bodied and the only son of my womb, when"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"youth with comeliness plucked all gaze his way, when"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"for a day of kings' entreaties a mother should not"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"sell him an hour from her beholding, I, considering"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"how honour would become such a person. that it was"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"no better than picture-like to hang by the wall, if"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"renown made it not stir, was pleased to let him seek"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"danger where he was like to find fame. To a cruel"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"war I sent him; from whence he returned, his brows"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"bound with oak. I tell thee, daughter, I sprang not"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"more in joy at first hearing he was a man-child"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"than now in first seeing he had proved himself a"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"man."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"But had he died in the business, madam; how then?"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Then his good report should have been my son; I"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"therein would have found issue. Hear me profess"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"alike and none less dear than thine and my good"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Marcius, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action."
I,III,Gentlewoman,"Madam, the Lady Valeria is come to visit you."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"Beseech you, give me leave to retire myself."
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Indeed, you shall not."
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Methinks I hear hither your husband's drum,"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"See him pluck Aufidius down by the hair,"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"As children from a bear, the Volsces shunning him:"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Methinks I see him stamp thus, and call thus:"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"'Come on, you cowards! you were got in fear,"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Though you were born in Rome:' his bloody brow"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"With his mail'd hand then wiping, forth he goes,"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Like to a harvest-man that's task'd to mow"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Or all or lose his hire."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"His bloody brow! O Jupiter, no blood!"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Away, you fool! it more becomes a man"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Than gilt his trophy: the breasts of Hecuba,"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"When she did suckle Hector, look'd not lovelier"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Than Hector's forehead when it spit forth blood"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"At Grecian sword, contemning. Tell Valeria,"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"We are fit to bid her welcome."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"Heavens bless my lord from fell Aufidius!"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"He'll beat Aufidius 'head below his knee"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"And tread upon his neck."
I,III,VALERIA,"My ladies both, good day to you."
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Sweet madam."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"I am glad to see your ladyship."
I,III,VALERIA,"How do you both? you are manifest house-keepers."
I,III,VALERIA,"What are you sewing here? A fine spot, in good"
I,III,VALERIA,"faith. How does your little son?"
I,III,VIRGILIA,"I thank your ladyship; well, good madam."
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"He had rather see the swords, and hear a drum, than"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"look upon his school-master."
I,III,VALERIA,"O' my word, the father's son: I'll swear,'tis a"
I,III,VALERIA,"very pretty boy. O' my troth, I looked upon him o'"
I,III,VALERIA,"Wednesday half an hour together: has such a"
I,III,VALERIA,"confirmed countenance. I saw him run after a gilded"
I,III,VALERIA,"butterfly: and when he caught it, he let it go"
I,III,VALERIA,"again; and after it again; and over and over he"
I,III,VALERIA,"comes, and again; catched it again; or whether his"
I,III,VALERIA,"fall enraged him, or how 'twas, he did so set his"
I,III,VALERIA,"teeth and tear it; O, I warrant it, how he mammocked"
I,III,VALERIA,"it!"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"One on 's father's moods."
I,III,VALERIA,"Indeed, la, 'tis a noble child."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"A crack, madam."
I,III,VALERIA,"Come, lay aside your stitchery; I must have you play"
I,III,VALERIA,"the idle husewife with me this afternoon."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"No, good madam; I will not out of doors."
I,III,VALERIA,"Not out of doors!"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"She shall, she shall."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"Indeed, no, by your patience; I'll not over the"
I,III,VIRGILIA,"threshold till my lord return from the wars."
I,III,VALERIA,"Fie, you confine yourself most unreasonably: come,"
I,III,VALERIA,"you must go visit the good lady that lies in."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"I will wish her speedy strength, and visit her with"
I,III,VIRGILIA,"my prayers; but I cannot go thither."
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Why, I pray you?"
I,III,VIRGILIA,"'Tis not to save labour, nor that I want love."
I,III,VALERIA,"You would be another Penelope: yet, they say, all"
I,III,VALERIA,"the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill"
I,III,VALERIA,"Ithaca full of moths. Come; I would your cambric"
I,III,VALERIA,"were sensible as your finger, that you might leave"
I,III,VALERIA,"pricking it for pity. Come, you shall go with us."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"No, good madam, pardon me; indeed, I will not forth."
I,III,VALERIA,"In truth, la, go with me; and I'll tell you"
I,III,VALERIA,"excellent news of your husband."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"O, good madam, there can be none yet."
I,III,VALERIA,"Verily, I do not jest with you; there came news from"
I,III,VALERIA,"him last night."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"Indeed, madam?"
I,III,VALERIA,"In earnest, it's true; I heard a senator speak it."
I,III,VALERIA,"Thus it is: the Volsces have an army forth; against"
I,III,VALERIA,"whom Cominius the general is gone, with one part of"
I,III,VALERIA,"our Roman power: your lord and Titus Lartius are set"
I,III,VALERIA,"down before their city Corioli; they nothing doubt"
I,III,VALERIA,"prevailing and to make it brief wars. This is true,"
I,III,VALERIA,"on mine honour; and so, I pray, go with us."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"Give me excuse, good madam; I will obey you in every"
I,III,VIRGILIA,"thing hereafter."
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"Let her alone, lady: as she is now, she will but"
I,III,VOLUMNIA,"disease our better mirth."
I,III,VALERIA,"In troth, I think she would. Fare you well, then."
I,III,VALERIA,"Come, good sweet lady. Prithee, Virgilia, turn thy"
I,III,VALERIA,"solemness out o' door. and go along with us."
I,III,VIRGILIA,"No, at a word, madam; indeed, I must not. I wish"
I,III,VIRGILIA,"you much mirth."
I,III,VALERIA,"Well, then, farewell."
I,IV,MARCIUS,"Yonder comes news. A wager they have met."
I,IV,LARTIUS,"My horse to yours, no."
I,IV,MARCIUS,"'Tis done."
I,IV,LARTIUS,"Agreed."
I,IV,MARCIUS,"Say, has our general met the enemy?"
I,IV,Messenger,"They lie in view; but have not spoke as yet."
I,IV,LARTIUS,"So, the good horse is mine."
I,IV,MARCIUS,"I'll buy him of you."
I,IV,LARTIUS,"No, I'll nor sell nor give him: lend you him I will"
I,IV,LARTIUS,"For half a hundred years. Summon the town."
I,IV,MARCIUS,"How far off lie these armies?"
I,IV,Messenger,"Within this mile and half."
I,IV,MARCIUS,"Then shall we hear their 'larum, and they ours."
I,IV,MARCIUS,"Now, Mars, I prithee, make us quick in work,"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"That we with smoking swords may march from hence,"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"To help our fielded friends! Come, blow thy blast."
I,IV,MARCIUS,"Tutus Aufidius, is he within your walls?"
I,IV,First Senator,"No, nor a man that fears you less than he,"
I,IV,First Senator,"That's lesser than a little."
I,IV,First Senator,"Hark! our drums"
I,IV,First Senator,"Are bringing forth our youth. We'll break our walls,"
I,IV,First Senator,"Rather than they shall pound us up: our gates,"
I,IV,First Senator,"Which yet seem shut, we, have but pinn'd with rushes;"
I,IV,First Senator,"They'll open of themselves."
I,IV,First Senator,"Hark you. far off!"
I,IV,First Senator,"There is Aufidius; list, what work he makes"
I,IV,First Senator,"Amongst your cloven army."
I,IV,MARCIUS,"O, they are at it!"
I,IV,LARTIUS,"Their noise be our instruction. Ladders, ho!"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"They fear us not, but issue forth their city."
I,IV,MARCIUS,"Now put your shields before your hearts, and fight"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"With hearts more proof than shields. Advance,"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"brave Titus:"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"They do disdain us much beyond our thoughts,"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"Which makes me sweat with wrath. Come on, my fellows:"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"He that retires I'll take him for a Volsce,"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"And he shall feel mine edge."
I,IV,MARCIUS,"All the contagion of the south light on you,"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"You shames of Rome! you herd of--Boils and plagues"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"Further than seen and one infect another"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"Against the wind a mile! You souls of geese,"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"That bear the shapes of men, how have you run"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"From slaves that apes would beat! Pluto and hell!"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"All hurt behind; backs red, and faces pale"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"With flight and agued fear! Mend and charge home,"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"Or, by the fires of heaven, I'll leave the foe"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"And make my wars on you: look to't: come on;"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"If you'll stand fast, we'll beat them to their wives,"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"As they us to our trenches followed."
I,IV,MARCIUS,"So, now the gates are ope: now prove good seconds:"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"'Tis for the followers fortune widens them,"
I,IV,MARCIUS,"Not for the fliers: mark me, and do the like."
I,IV,First Soldier,"Fool-hardiness; not I."
I,IV,Second Soldier,"Nor I."
I,IV,First Soldier,"See, they have shut him in."
I,IV,All,"To the pot, I warrant him."
I,IV,LARTIUS,"What is become of Marcius?"
I,IV,All,"Slain, sir, doubtless."
I,IV,First Soldier,"Following the fliers at the very heels,"
I,IV,First Soldier,"With them he enters; who, upon the sudden,"
I,IV,First Soldier,"Clapp'd to their gates: he is himself alone,"
I,IV,First Soldier,"To answer all the city."
I,IV,LARTIUS,"O noble fellow!"
I,IV,LARTIUS,"Who sensibly outdares his senseless sword,"
I,IV,LARTIUS,"And, when it bows, stands up. Thou art left, Marcius:"
I,IV,LARTIUS,"A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art,"
I,IV,LARTIUS,"Were not so rich a jewel. Thou wast a soldier"
I,IV,LARTIUS,"Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terrible"
I,IV,LARTIUS,"Only in strokes; but, with thy grim looks and"
I,IV,LARTIUS,"The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds,"
I,IV,LARTIUS,"Thou madst thine enemies shake, as if the world"
I,IV,LARTIUS,"Were feverous and did tremble."
I,IV,First Soldier,"Look, sir."
I,IV,LARTIUS,"O,'tis Marcius!"
I,IV,LARTIUS,"Let's fetch him off, or make remain alike."
I,V,First Roman,"This will I carry to Rome."
I,V,Second Roman,"And I this."
I,V,Third Roman,"A murrain on't! I took this for silver."
I,V,MARCIUS,"See here these movers that do prize their hours"
I,V,MARCIUS,"At a crack'd drachm! Cushions, leaden spoons,"
I,V,MARCIUS,"Irons of a doit, doublets that hangmen would"
I,V,MARCIUS,"Bury with those that wore them, these base slaves,"
I,V,MARCIUS,"Ere yet the fight be done, pack up: down with them!"
I,V,MARCIUS,"And hark, what noise the general makes! To him!"
I,V,MARCIUS,"There is the man of my soul's hate, Aufidius,"
I,V,MARCIUS,"Piercing our Romans: then, valiant Titus, take"
I,V,MARCIUS,"Convenient numbers to make good the city;"
I,V,MARCIUS,"Whilst I, with those that have the spirit, will haste"
I,V,MARCIUS,"To help Cominius."
I,V,LARTIUS,"Worthy sir, thou bleed'st;"
I,V,LARTIUS,"Thy exercise hath been too violent for"
I,V,LARTIUS,"A second course of fight."
I,V,MARCIUS,"Sir, praise me not;"
I,V,MARCIUS,"My work hath yet not warm'd me: fare you well:"
I,V,MARCIUS,"The blood I drop is rather physical"
I,V,MARCIUS,"Than dangerous to me: to Aufidius thus"
I,V,MARCIUS,"I will appear, and fight."
I,V,LARTIUS,"Now the fair goddess, Fortune,"
I,V,LARTIUS,"Fall deep in love with thee; and her great charms"
I,V,LARTIUS,"Misguide thy opposers' swords! Bold gentleman,"
I,V,LARTIUS,"Prosperity be thy page!"
I,V,MARCIUS,"Thy friend no less"
I,V,MARCIUS,"Than those she placeth highest! So, farewell."
I,V,LARTIUS,"Thou worthiest Marcius!"
I,V,LARTIUS,"Go, sound thy trumpet in the market-place;"
I,V,LARTIUS,"Call thither all the officers o' the town,"
I,V,LARTIUS,"Where they shall know our mind: away!"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Breathe you, my friends: well fought;"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"we are come off"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Nor cowardly in retire: believe me, sirs,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"We shall be charged again. Whiles we have struck,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"By interims and conveying gusts we have heard"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"The charges of our friends. Ye Roman gods!"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Lead their successes as we wish our own,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"That both our powers, with smiling"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"fronts encountering,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"May give you thankful sacrifice."
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Thy news?"
I,VI,Messenger,"The citizens of Corioli have issued,"
I,VI,Messenger,"And given to Lartius and to Marcius battle:"
I,VI,Messenger,"I saw our party to their trenches driven,"
I,VI,Messenger,"And then I came away."
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Though thou speak'st truth,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Methinks thou speak'st not well."
I,VI,COMINIUS,"How long is't since?"
I,VI,Messenger,"Above an hour, my lord."
I,VI,COMINIUS,"'Tis not a mile; briefly we heard their drums:"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"And bring thy news so late?"
I,VI,Messenger,"Spies of the Volsces"
I,VI,Messenger,"Held me in chase, that I was forced to wheel"
I,VI,Messenger,"Three or four miles about, else had I, sir,"
I,VI,Messenger,"Half an hour since brought my report."
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Who's yonder,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"That does appear as he were flay'd? O gods"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"He has the stamp of Marcius; and I have"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Before-time seen him thus."
I,VI,COMINIUS,"The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabour"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"More than I know the sound of Marcius' tongue"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"From every meaner man."
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Come I too late?"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Ay, if you come not in the blood of others,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"But mantled in your own."
I,VI,MARCIUS,"O, let me clip ye"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"In arms as sound as when I woo'd, in heart"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"As merry as when our nuptial day was done,"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"And tapers burn'd to bedward!"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Flower of warriors,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"How is it with Titus Lartius?"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"As with a man busied about decrees:"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Condemning some to death, and some to exile;"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Ransoming him, or pitying, threatening the other;"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Holding Corioli in the name of Rome,"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash,"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"To let him slip at will."
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Where is that slave"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Which told me they had beat you to your trenches?"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Where is he? call him hither."
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Let him alone;"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"He did inform the truth: but for our gentlemen,"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"The common file--a plague! tribunes for them!--"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as they did budge"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"From rascals worse than they."
I,VI,COMINIUS,"But how prevail'd you?"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Will the time serve to tell? I do not think."
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Where is the enemy? are you lords o' the field?"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"If not, why cease you till you are so?"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Marcius,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"We have at disadvantage fought and did"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Retire to win our purpose."
I,VI,MARCIUS,"How lies their battle? know you on which side"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"They have placed their men of trust?"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"As I guess, Marcius,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Their bands i' the vaward are the Antiates,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Of their best trust; o'er them Aufidius,"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Their very heart of hope."
I,VI,MARCIUS,"I do beseech you,"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"By all the battles wherein we have fought,"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"By the blood we have shed together, by the vows"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"We have made to endure friends, that you directly"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Set me against Aufidius and his Antiates;"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"And that you not delay the present, but,"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Filling the air with swords advanced and darts,"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"We prove this very hour."
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Though I could wish"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"You were conducted to a gentle bath"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"And balms applied to, you, yet dare I never"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Deny your asking: take your choice of those"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"That best can aid your action."
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Those are they"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"That most are willing. If any such be here--"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"As it were sin to doubt--that love this painting"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Wherein you see me smear'd; if any fear"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Lesser his person than an ill report;"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"If any think brave death outweighs bad life"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"And that his country's dearer than himself;"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Let him alone, or so many so minded,"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Wave thus, to express his disposition,"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"And follow Marcius."
I,VI,MARCIUS,"O, me alone! make you a sword of me?"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"If these shows be not outward, which of you"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"But is four Volsces? none of you but is"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Able to bear against the great Aufidius"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"A shield as hard as his. A certain number,"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Though thanks to all, must I select"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"from all: the rest"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Shall bear the business in some other fight,"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"As cause will be obey'd. Please you to march;"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"And four shall quickly draw out my command,"
I,VI,MARCIUS,"Which men are best inclined."
I,VI,COMINIUS,"March on, my fellows:"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Make good this ostentation, and you shall"
I,VI,COMINIUS,"Divide in all with us."
I,VII,LARTIUS,"So, let the ports be guarded: keep your duties,"
I,VII,LARTIUS,"As I have set them down. If I do send, dispatch"
I,VII,LARTIUS,"Those centuries to our aid: the rest will serve"
I,VII,LARTIUS,"For a short holding: if we lose the field,"
I,VII,LARTIUS,"We cannot keep the town."
I,VII,Lieutenant,"Fear not our care, sir."
I,VII,LARTIUS,"Hence, and shut your gates upon's."
I,VII,LARTIUS,"Our guider, come; to the Roman camp conduct us."
I,VIII,MARCIUS,"I'll fight with none but thee; for I do hate thee"
I,VIII,MARCIUS,"Worse than a promise-breaker."
I,VIII,AUFIDIUS,"We hate alike:"
I,VIII,AUFIDIUS,"Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor"
I,VIII,AUFIDIUS,"More than thy fame and envy. Fix thy foot."
I,VIII,MARCIUS,"Let the first budger die the other's slave,"
I,VIII,MARCIUS,"And the gods doom him after!"
I,VIII,AUFIDIUS,"If I fly, Marcius,"
I,VIII,AUFIDIUS,"Holloa me like a hare."
I,VIII,MARCIUS,"Within these three hours, Tullus,"
I,VIII,MARCIUS,"Alone I fought in your Corioli walls,"
I,VIII,MARCIUS,"And made what work I pleased: 'tis not my blood"
I,VIII,MARCIUS,"Wherein thou seest me mask'd; for thy revenge"
I,VIII,MARCIUS,"Wrench up thy power to the highest."
I,VIII,AUFIDIUS,"Wert thou the Hector"
I,VIII,AUFIDIUS,"That was the whip of your bragg'd progeny,"
I,VIII,AUFIDIUS,"Thou shouldst not scape me here."
I,VIII,AUFIDIUS,"Officious, and not valiant, you have shamed me"
I,VIII,AUFIDIUS,"In your condemned seconds."
I,IX,COMINIUS,"If I should tell thee o'er this thy day's work,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Thou'ldst not believe thy deeds: but I'll report it"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Where great patricians shall attend and shrug,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"I' the end admire, where ladies shall be frighted,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"And, gladly quaked, hear more; where the"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"dull tribunes,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"That, with the fusty plebeians, hate thine honours,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Shall say against their hearts 'We thank the gods"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Our Rome hath such a soldier.'"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Yet camest thou to a morsel of this feast,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Having fully dined before."
I,IX,LARTIUS,"O general,"
I,IX,LARTIUS,"Here is the steed, we the caparison:"
I,IX,LARTIUS,"Hadst thou beheld--"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"Pray now, no more: my mother,"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"Who has a charter to extol her blood,"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"When she does praise me grieves me. I have done"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"As you have done; that's what I can; induced"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"As you have been; that's for my country:"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"He that has but effected his good will"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"Hath overta'en mine act."
I,IX,COMINIUS,"You shall not be"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"The grave of your deserving; Rome must know"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"The value of her own: 'twere a concealment"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"To hide your doings; and to silence that,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Would seem but modest: therefore, I beseech you"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"In sign of what you are, not to reward"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"What you have done--before our army hear me."
I,IX,MARCIUS,"I have some wounds upon me, and they smart"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"To hear themselves remember'd."
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Should they not,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Well might they fester 'gainst ingratitude,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"And tent themselves with death. Of all the horses,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Whereof we have ta'en good and good store, of all"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"The treasure in this field achieved and city,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"We render you the tenth, to be ta'en forth,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Before the common distribution, at"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Your only choice."
I,IX,MARCIUS,"I thank you, general;"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"But cannot make my heart consent to take"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"A bribe to pay my sword: I do refuse it;"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"And stand upon my common part with those"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"That have beheld the doing."
I,IX,MARCIUS,"May these same instruments, which you profane,"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"Never sound more! when drums and trumpets shall"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"I' the field prove flatterers, let courts and cities be"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"Made all of false-faced soothing!"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"When steel grows soft as the parasite's silk,"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"Let him be made a coverture for the wars!"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"No more, I say! For that I have not wash'd"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"My nose that bled, or foil'd some debile wretch.--"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"Which, without note, here's many else have done,--"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"You shout me forth"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"In acclamations hyperbolical;"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"As if I loved my little should be dieted"
I,IX,MARCIUS,"In praises sauced with lies."
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Too modest are you;"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"More cruel to your good report than grateful"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"To us that give you truly: by your patience,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"If 'gainst yourself you be incensed, we'll put you,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Like one that means his proper harm, in manacles,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Then reason safely with you. Therefore, be it known,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"As to us, to all the world, that Caius Marcius"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Wears this war's garland: in token of the which,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"My noble steed, known to the camp, I give him,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"With all his trim belonging; and from this time,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"For what he did before Corioli, call him,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"With all the applause and clamour of the host,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS! Bear"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"The addition nobly ever!"
I,IX,All,"Caius Marcius Coriolanus!"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"I will go wash;"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"And when my face is fair, you shall perceive"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"Whether I blush or no: howbeit, I thank you."
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"I mean to stride your steed, and at all times"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"To undercrest your good addition"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"To the fairness of my power."
I,IX,COMINIUS,"So, to our tent;"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Where, ere we do repose us, we will write"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"To Rome of our success. You, Titus Lartius,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Must to Corioli back: send us to Rome"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"The best, with whom we may articulate,"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"For their own good and ours."
I,IX,LARTIUS,"I shall, my lord."
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"The gods begin to mock me. I, that now"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"Refused most princely gifts, am bound to beg"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"Of my lord general."
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Take't; 'tis yours. What is't?"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"I sometime lay here in Corioli"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"At a poor man's house; he used me kindly:"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"He cried to me; I saw him prisoner;"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"But then Aufidius was within my view,"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"And wrath o'erwhelm'd my pity: I request you"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"To give my poor host freedom."
I,IX,COMINIUS,"O, well begg'd!"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Were he the butcher of my son, he should"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Be free as is the wind. Deliver him, Titus."
I,IX,LARTIUS,"Marcius, his name?"
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"By Jupiter! forgot."
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"I am weary; yea, my memory is tired."
I,IX,CORIOLANUS,"Have we no wine here?"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"Go we to our tent:"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"The blood upon your visage dries; 'tis time"
I,IX,COMINIUS,"It should be look'd to: come."
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"The town is ta'en!"
I,X,First Soldier,"'Twill be deliver'd back on good condition."
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"Condition!"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"I would I were a Roman; for I cannot,"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"Being a Volsce, be that I am. Condition!"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"What good condition can a treaty find"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"I' the part that is at mercy? Five times, Marcius,"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"I have fought with thee: so often hast thou beat me,"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"And wouldst do so, I think, should we encounter"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"As often as we eat. By the elements,"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"If e'er again I meet him beard to beard,"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"He's mine, or I am his: mine emulation"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"Hath not that honour in't it had; for where"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"I thought to crush him in an equal force,"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"True sword to sword, I'll potch at him some way"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"Or wrath or craft may get him."
I,X,First Soldier,"He's the devil."
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"Bolder, though not so subtle. My valour's poison'd"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"With only suffering stain by him; for him"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"Shall fly out of itself: nor sleep nor sanctuary,"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"Being naked, sick, nor fane nor Capitol,"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"The prayers of priests nor times of sacrifice,"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"Embarquements all of fury, shall lift up"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"Their rotten privilege and custom 'gainst"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"My hate to Marcius: where I find him, were it"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"At home, upon my brother's guard, even there,"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"Against the hospitable canon, would I"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"Wash my fierce hand in's heart. Go you to the city;"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"Learn how 'tis held; and what they are that must"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"Be hostages for Rome."
I,X,First Soldier,"Will not you go?"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"I am attended at the cypress grove: I pray you--"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"'Tis south the city mills--bring me word thither"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"How the world goes, that to the pace of it"
I,X,AUFIDIUS,"I may spur on my journey."
I,X,First Soldier,"I shall, sir."
II,I,MENENIUS,"The augurer tells me we shall have news to-night."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Good or bad?"
II,I,MENENIUS,"Not according to the prayer of the people, for they"
II,I,MENENIUS,"love not Marcius."
II,I,SICINIUS,"Nature teaches beasts to know their friends."
II,I,MENENIUS,"Pray you, who does the wolf love?"
II,I,SICINIUS,"The lamb."
II,I,MENENIUS,"Ay, to devour him; as the hungry plebeians would the"
II,I,MENENIUS,"noble Marcius."
II,I,BRUTUS,"He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear."
II,I,MENENIUS,"He's a bear indeed, that lives like a lamb. You two"
II,I,MENENIUS,"are old men: tell me one thing that I shall ask you."
II,I,Both,"Well, sir."
II,I,MENENIUS,"In what enormity is Marcius poor in, that you two"
II,I,MENENIUS,"have not in abundance?"
II,I,BRUTUS,"He's poor in no one fault, but stored with all."
II,I,SICINIUS,"Especially in pride."
II,I,BRUTUS,"And topping all others in boasting."
II,I,MENENIUS,"This is strange now: do you two know how you are"
II,I,MENENIUS,"censured here in the city, I mean of us o' the"
II,I,MENENIUS,"right-hand file? do you?"
II,I,Both,"Why, how are we censured?"
II,I,MENENIUS,"Because you talk of pride now,--will you not be angry?"
II,I,Both,"Well, well, sir, well."
II,I,MENENIUS,"Why, 'tis no great matter; for a very little thief of"
II,I,MENENIUS,"occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience:"
II,I,MENENIUS,"give your dispositions the reins, and be angry at"
II,I,MENENIUS,"your pleasures; at the least if you take it as a"
II,I,MENENIUS,"pleasure to you in being so. You blame Marcius for"
II,I,MENENIUS,"being proud?"
II,I,BRUTUS,"We do it not alone, sir."
II,I,MENENIUS,"I know you can do very little alone; for your helps"
II,I,MENENIUS,"are many, or else your actions would grow wondrous"
II,I,MENENIUS,"single: your abilities are too infant-like for"
II,I,MENENIUS,"doing much alone. You talk of pride: O that you"
II,I,MENENIUS,"could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks,"
II,I,MENENIUS,"and make but an interior survey of your good selves!"
II,I,MENENIUS,"O that you could!"
II,I,BRUTUS,"What then, sir?"
II,I,MENENIUS,"Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting,"
II,I,MENENIUS,"proud, violent, testy magistrates, alias fools, as"
II,I,MENENIUS,"any in Rome."
II,I,SICINIUS,"Menenius, you are known well enough too."
II,I,MENENIUS,"I am known to be a humorous patrician, and one that"
II,I,MENENIUS,"loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying"
II,I,MENENIUS,"Tiber in't; said to be something imperfect in"
II,I,MENENIUS,"favouring the first complaint; hasty and tinder-like"
II,I,MENENIUS,"upon too trivial motion; one that converses more"
II,I,MENENIUS,"with the buttock of the night than with the forehead"
II,I,MENENIUS,"of the morning: what I think I utter, and spend my"
II,I,MENENIUS,"malice in my breath. Meeting two such wealsmen as"
II,I,MENENIUS,"you are--I cannot call you Lycurguses--if the drink"
II,I,MENENIUS,"you give me touch my palate adversely, I make a"
II,I,MENENIUS,"crooked face at it. I can't say your worships have"
II,I,MENENIUS,"delivered the matter well, when I find the ass in"
II,I,MENENIUS,"compound with the major part of your syllables: and"
II,I,MENENIUS,"though I must be content to bear with those that say"
II,I,MENENIUS,"you are reverend grave men, yet they lie deadly that"
II,I,MENENIUS,"tell you you have good faces. If you see this in"
II,I,MENENIUS,"the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known"
II,I,MENENIUS,"well enough too? what barm can your bisson"
II,I,MENENIUS,"conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be"
II,I,MENENIUS,"known well enough too?"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Come, sir, come, we know you well enough."
II,I,MENENIUS,"You know neither me, yourselves nor any thing. You"
II,I,MENENIUS,"are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs: you"
II,I,MENENIUS,"wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a"
II,I,MENENIUS,"cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller;"
II,I,MENENIUS,"and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a"
II,I,MENENIUS,"second day of audience. When you are hearing a"
II,I,MENENIUS,"matter between party and party, if you chance to be"
II,I,MENENIUS,"pinched with the colic, you make faces like"
II,I,MENENIUS,"mummers; set up the bloody flag against all"
II,I,MENENIUS,"patience; and, in roaring for a chamber-pot,"
II,I,MENENIUS,"dismiss the controversy bleeding the more entangled"
II,I,MENENIUS,"by your hearing: all the peace you make in their"
II,I,MENENIUS,"cause is, calling both the parties knaves. You are"
II,I,MENENIUS,"a pair of strange ones."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Come, come, you are well understood to be a"
II,I,BRUTUS,"perfecter giber for the table than a necessary"
II,I,BRUTUS,"bencher in the Capitol."
II,I,MENENIUS,"Our very priests must become mockers, if they shall"
II,I,MENENIUS,"encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are. When"
II,I,MENENIUS,"you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the"
II,I,MENENIUS,"wagging of your beards; and your beards deserve not"
II,I,MENENIUS,"so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's"
II,I,MENENIUS,"cushion, or to be entombed in an ass's pack-"
II,I,MENENIUS,"saddle. Yet you must be saying, Marcius is proud;"
II,I,MENENIUS,"who in a cheap estimation, is worth predecessors"
II,I,MENENIUS,"since Deucalion, though peradventure some of the"
II,I,MENENIUS,"best of 'em were hereditary hangmen. God-den to"
II,I,MENENIUS,"your worships: more of your conversation would"
II,I,MENENIUS,"infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly"
II,I,MENENIUS,"plebeians: I will be bold to take my leave of you."
II,I,MENENIUS,"How now, my as fair as noble ladies,--and the moon,"
II,I,MENENIUS,"were she earthly, no nobler,--whither do you follow"
II,I,MENENIUS,"your eyes so fast?"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"Honourable Menenius, my boy Marcius approaches; for"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"the love of Juno, let's go."
II,I,MENENIUS,"Ha! Marcius coming home!"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"Ay, worthy Menenius; and with most prosperous"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"approbation."
II,I,MENENIUS,"Take my cap, Jupiter, and I thank thee. Hoo!"
II,I,MENENIUS,"Marcius coming home!"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"Nay,'tis true."
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"Look, here's a letter from him: the state hath"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"another, his wife another; and, I think, there's one"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"at home for you."
II,I,MENENIUS,"I will make my very house reel tonight: a letter for"
II,I,MENENIUS,"me!"
II,I,VIRGILIA,"Yes, certain, there's a letter for you; I saw't."
II,I,MENENIUS,"A letter for me! it gives me an estate of seven"
II,I,MENENIUS,"years' health; in which time I will make a lip at"
II,I,MENENIUS,"the physician: the most sovereign prescription in"
II,I,MENENIUS,"Galen is but empiricutic, and, to this preservative,"
II,I,MENENIUS,"of no better report than a horse-drench. Is he"
II,I,MENENIUS,"not wounded? he was wont to come home wounded."
II,I,VIRGILIA,"O, no, no, no."
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"O, he is wounded; I thank the gods for't."
II,I,MENENIUS,"So do I too, if it be not too much: brings a'"
II,I,MENENIUS,"victory in his pocket? the wounds become him."
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"On's brows: Menenius, he comes the third time home"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"with the oaken garland."
II,I,MENENIUS,"Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"Titus Lartius writes, they fought together, but"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"Aufidius got off."
II,I,MENENIUS,"And 'twas time for him too, I'll warrant him that:"
II,I,MENENIUS,"an he had stayed by him, I would not have been so"
II,I,MENENIUS,"fidiused for all the chests in Corioli, and the gold"
II,I,MENENIUS,"that's in them. Is the senate possessed of this?"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"Good ladies, let's go. Yes, yes, yes; the senate"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"has letters from the general, wherein he gives my"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"son the whole name of the war: he hath in this"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"action outdone his former deeds doubly"
II,I,VALERIA,"In troth, there's wondrous things spoke of him."
II,I,MENENIUS,"Wondrous! ay, I warrant you, and not without his"
II,I,MENENIUS,"true purchasing."
II,I,VIRGILIA,"The gods grant them true!"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"True! pow, wow."
II,I,MENENIUS,"True! I'll be sworn they are true."
II,I,MENENIUS,"Where is he wounded?"
II,I,MENENIUS,"God save your good worships! Marcius is coming"
II,I,MENENIUS,"home: he has more cause to be proud. Where is he wounded?"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"I' the shoulder and i' the left arm there will be"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"large cicatrices to show the people, when he shall"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"stand for his place. He received in the repulse of"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"Tarquin seven hurts i' the body."
II,I,MENENIUS,"One i' the neck, and two i' the thigh,--there's"
II,I,MENENIUS,"nine that I know."
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"He had, before this last expedition, twenty-five"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"wounds upon him."
II,I,MENENIUS,"Now it's twenty-seven: every gash was an enemy's grave."
II,I,MENENIUS,"Hark! the trumpets."
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"These are the ushers of Marcius: before him he"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears:"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"Death, that dark spirit, in 's nervy arm doth lie;"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"Which, being advanced, declines, and then men die."
II,I,Herald,"Know, Rome, that all alone Marcius did fight"
II,I,Herald,"Within Corioli gates: where he hath won,"
II,I,Herald,"With fame, a name to Caius Marcius; these"
II,I,Herald,"In honour follows Coriolanus."
II,I,Herald,"Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!"
II,I,All,"Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"No more of this; it does offend my heart:"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"Pray now, no more."
II,I,COMINIUS,"Look, sir, your mother!"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"O,"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"You have, I know, petition'd all the gods"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"For my prosperity!"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"Nay, my good soldier, up;"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"My gentle Marcius, worthy Caius, and"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"By deed-achieving honour newly named,--"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"What is it?--Coriolanus must I call thee?--"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"But O, thy wife!"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"My gracious silence, hail!"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"Wouldst thou have laugh'd had I come coffin'd home,"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"That weep'st to see me triumph? Ay, my dear,"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"Such eyes the widows in Corioli wear,"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"And mothers that lack sons."
II,I,MENENIUS,"Now, the gods crown thee!"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"And live you yet?"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"O my sweet lady, pardon."
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"I know not where to turn: O, welcome home:"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"And welcome, general: and ye're welcome all."
II,I,MENENIUS,"A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep"
II,I,MENENIUS,"And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. Welcome."
II,I,MENENIUS,"A curse begin at very root on's heart,"
II,I,MENENIUS,"That is not glad to see thee! You are three"
II,I,MENENIUS,"That Rome should dote on: yet, by the faith of men,"
II,I,MENENIUS,"We have some old crab-trees here"
II,I,MENENIUS,"at home that will not"
II,I,MENENIUS,"Be grafted to your relish. Yet welcome, warriors:"
II,I,MENENIUS,"We call a nettle but a nettle and"
II,I,MENENIUS,"The faults of fools but folly."
II,I,COMINIUS,"Ever right."
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"Menenius ever, ever."
II,I,Herald,"Give way there, and go on!"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"Ere in our own house I do shade my head,"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"The good patricians must be visited;"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"From whom I have received not only greetings,"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"But with them change of honours."
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"I have lived"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"To see inherited my very wishes"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"And the buildings of my fancy: only"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"There's one thing wanting, which I doubt not but"
II,I,VOLUMNIA,"Our Rome will cast upon thee."
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"Know, good mother,"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"I had rather be their servant in my way,"
II,I,CORIOLANUS,"Than sway with them in theirs."
II,I,COMINIUS,"On, to the Capitol!"
II,I,BRUTUS,"All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Are spectacled to see him: your prattling nurse"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Into a rapture lets her baby cry"
II,I,BRUTUS,"While she chats him: the kitchen malkin pins"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Clambering the walls to eye him: stalls, bulks, windows,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Are smother'd up, leads fill'd, and ridges horsed"
II,I,BRUTUS,"With variable complexions, all agreeing"
II,I,BRUTUS,"In earnestness to see him: seld-shown flamens"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Do press among the popular throngs and puff"
II,I,BRUTUS,"To win a vulgar station: or veil'd dames"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Commit the war of white and damask in"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Their nicely-gawded cheeks to the wanton spoil"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Of Phoebus' burning kisses: such a pother"
II,I,BRUTUS,"As if that whatsoever god who leads him"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Were slily crept into his human powers"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And gave him graceful posture."
II,I,SICINIUS,"On the sudden,"
II,I,SICINIUS,"I warrant him consul."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Then our office may,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"During his power, go sleep."
II,I,SICINIUS,"He cannot temperately transport his honours"
II,I,SICINIUS,"From where he should begin and end, but will"
II,I,SICINIUS,"Lose those he hath won."
II,I,BRUTUS,"In that there's comfort."
II,I,SICINIUS,"Doubt not"
II,I,SICINIUS,"The commoners, for whom we stand, but they"
II,I,SICINIUS,"Upon their ancient malice will forget"
II,I,SICINIUS,"With the least cause these his new honours, which"
II,I,SICINIUS,"That he will give them make I as little question"
II,I,SICINIUS,"As he is proud to do't."
II,I,BRUTUS,"I heard him swear,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Were he to stand for consul, never would he"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Appear i' the market-place nor on him put"
II,I,BRUTUS,"The napless vesture of humility;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Nor showing, as the manner is, his wounds"
II,I,BRUTUS,"To the people, beg their stinking breaths."
II,I,SICINIUS,"'Tis right."
II,I,BRUTUS,"It was his word: O, he would miss it rather"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Than carry it but by the suit of the gentry to him,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And the desire of the nobles."
II,I,SICINIUS,"I wish no better"
II,I,SICINIUS,"Than have him hold that purpose and to put it"
II,I,SICINIUS,"In execution."
II,I,BRUTUS,"'Tis most like he will."
II,I,SICINIUS,"It shall be to him then as our good wills,"
II,I,SICINIUS,"A sure destruction."
II,I,BRUTUS,"So it must fall out"
II,I,BRUTUS,"To him or our authorities. For an end,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"We must suggest the people in what hatred"
II,I,BRUTUS,"He still hath held them; that to's power he would"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Have made them mules, silenced their pleaders and"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Dispropertied their freedoms, holding them,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"In human action and capacity,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Of no more soul nor fitness for the world"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Than camels in the war, who have their provand"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows"
II,I,BRUTUS,"For sinking under them."
II,I,SICINIUS,"This, as you say, suggested"
II,I,SICINIUS,"At some time when his soaring insolence"
II,I,SICINIUS,"Shall touch the people--which time shall not want,"
II,I,SICINIUS,"If he be put upon 't; and that's as easy"
II,I,SICINIUS,"As to set dogs on sheep--will be his fire"
II,I,SICINIUS,"To kindle their dry stubble; and their blaze"
II,I,SICINIUS,"Shall darken him for ever."
II,I,BRUTUS,"What's the matter?"
II,I,Messenger,"You are sent for to the Capitol. 'Tis thought"
II,I,Messenger,"That Marcius shall be consul:"
II,I,Messenger,"I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and"
II,I,Messenger,"The blind to bear him speak: matrons flung gloves,"
II,I,Messenger,"Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchers,"
II,I,Messenger,"Upon him as he pass'd: the nobles bended,"
II,I,Messenger,"As to Jove's statue, and the commons made"
II,I,Messenger,"A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts:"
II,I,Messenger,"I never saw the like."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Let's to the Capitol;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And carry with us ears and eyes for the time,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"But hearts for the event."
II,I,SICINIUS,"Have with you."
II, II,First Officer,"Come, come, they are almost here. How many stand"
II, II,First Officer,"for consulships?"
II, II,Second Officer,"Three, they say: but 'tis thought of every one"
II, II,Second Officer,"Coriolanus will carry it."
II, II,First Officer,"That's a brave fellow; but he's vengeance proud, and"
II, II,First Officer,"loves not the common people."
II, II,Second Officer,"Faith, there had been many great men that have"
II, II,Second Officer,"flattered the people, who ne'er loved them; and there"
II, II,Second Officer,"be many that they have loved, they know not"
II, II,Second Officer,"wherefore: so that, if they love they know not why,"
II, II,Second Officer,"they hate upon no better a ground: therefore, for"
II, II,Second Officer,"Coriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate"
II, II,Second Officer,"him manifests the true knowledge he has in their"
II, II,Second Officer,"disposition; and out of his noble carelessness lets"
II, II,Second Officer,"them plainly see't."
II, II,First Officer,"If he did not care whether he had their love or no,"
II, II,First Officer,"he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither"
II, II,First Officer,"good nor harm: but he seeks their hate with greater"
II, II,First Officer,"devotion than can render it him; and leaves"
II, II,First Officer,"nothing undone that may fully discover him their"
II, II,First Officer,"opposite. Now, to seem to affect the malice and"
II, II,First Officer,"displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he"
II, II,First Officer,"dislikes, to flatter them for their love."
II, II,Second Officer,"He hath deserved worthily of his country: and his"
II, II,Second Officer,"ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who,"
II, II,Second Officer,"having been supple and courteous to the people,"
II, II,Second Officer,"bonneted, without any further deed to have them at"
II, II,Second Officer,"an into their estimation and report: but he hath so"
II, II,Second Officer,"planted his honours in their eyes, and his actions"
II, II,Second Officer,"in their hearts, that for their tongues to be"
II, II,Second Officer,"silent, and not confess so much, were a kind of"
II, II,Second Officer,"ingrateful injury; to report otherwise, were a"
II, II,Second Officer,"malice, that, giving itself the lie, would pluck"
II, II,Second Officer,"reproof and rebuke from every ear that heard it."
II, II,First Officer,"No more of him; he is a worthy man: make way, they"
II, II,First Officer,"are coming."
II, II,MENENIUS,"Having determined of the Volsces and"
II, II,MENENIUS,"To send for Titus Lartius, it remains,"
II, II,MENENIUS,"As the main point of this our after-meeting,"
II, II,MENENIUS,"To gratify his noble service that"
II, II,MENENIUS,"Hath thus stood for his country: therefore,"
II, II,MENENIUS,"please you,"
II, II,MENENIUS,"Most reverend and grave elders, to desire"
II, II,MENENIUS,"The present consul, and last general"
II, II,MENENIUS,"In our well-found successes, to report"
II, II,MENENIUS,"A little of that worthy work perform'd"
II, II,MENENIUS,"By Caius Marcius Coriolanus, whom"
II, II,MENENIUS,"We met here both to thank and to remember"
II, II,MENENIUS,"With honours like himself."
II, II,First Senator,"Speak, good Cominius:"
II, II,First Senator,"Leave nothing out for length, and make us think"
II, II,First Senator,"Rather our state's defective for requital"
II, II,First Senator,"Than we to stretch it out."
II, II,First Senator,"Masters o' the people,"
II, II,First Senator,"We do request your kindest ears, and after,"
II, II,First Senator,"Your loving motion toward the common body,"
II, II,First Senator,"To yield what passes here."
II, II,SICINIUS,"We are convented"
II, II,SICINIUS,"Upon a pleasing treaty, and have hearts"
II, II,SICINIUS,"Inclinable to honour and advance"
II, II,SICINIUS,"The theme of our assembly."
II, II,BRUTUS,"Which the rather"
II, II,BRUTUS,"We shall be blest to do, if he remember"
II, II,BRUTUS,"A kinder value of the people than"
II, II,BRUTUS,"He hath hereto prized them at."
II, II,MENENIUS,"That's off, that's off;"
II, II,MENENIUS,"I would you rather had been silent. Please you"
II, II,MENENIUS,"To hear Cominius speak?"
II, II,BRUTUS,"Most willingly;"
II, II,BRUTUS,"But yet my caution was more pertinent"
II, II,BRUTUS,"Than the rebuke you give it."
II, II,MENENIUS,"He loves your people"
II, II,MENENIUS,"But tie him not to be their bedfellow."
II, II,MENENIUS,"Worthy Cominius, speak."
II, II,MENENIUS,"Nay, keep your place."
II, II,First Senator,"Sit, Coriolanus; never shame to hear"
II, II,First Senator,"What you have nobly done."
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"Your horror's pardon:"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"I had rather have my wounds to heal again"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"Than hear say how I got them."
II, II,BRUTUS,"Sir, I hope"
II, II,BRUTUS,"My words disbench'd you not."
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"No, sir: yet oft,"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"When blows have made me stay, I fled from words."
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"You soothed not, therefore hurt not: but"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"your people,"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"I love them as they weigh."
II, II,MENENIUS,"Pray now, sit down."
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"I had rather have one scratch my head i' the sun"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"When the alarum were struck than idly sit"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"To hear my nothings monster'd."
II, II,MENENIUS,"Masters of the people,"
II, II,MENENIUS,"Your multiplying spawn how can he flatter--"
II, II,MENENIUS,"That's thousand to one good one--when you now see"
II, II,MENENIUS,"He had rather venture all his limbs for honour"
II, II,MENENIUS,"Than one on's ears to hear it? Proceed, Cominius."
II, II,COMINIUS,"I shall lack voice: the deeds of Coriolanus"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Should not be utter'd feebly. It is held"
II, II,COMINIUS,"That valour is the chiefest virtue, and"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Most dignifies the haver: if it be,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"The man I speak of cannot in the world"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Be singly counterpoised. At sixteen years,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he fought"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Beyond the mark of others: our then dictator,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fight,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"When with his Amazonian chin he drove"
II, II,COMINIUS,"The bristled lips before him: be bestrid"
II, II,COMINIUS,"An o'er-press'd Roman and i' the consul's view"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Slew three opposers: Tarquin's self he met,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"And struck him on his knee: in that day's feats,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"When he might act the woman in the scene,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"He proved best man i' the field, and for his meed"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Was brow-bound with the oak. His pupil age"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Man-enter'd thus, he waxed like a sea,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"And in the brunt of seventeen battles since"
II, II,COMINIUS,"He lurch'd all swords of the garland. For this last,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Before and in Corioli, let me say,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"I cannot speak him home: he stopp'd the fliers;"
II, II,COMINIUS,"And by his rare example made the coward"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Turn terror into sport: as weeds before"
II, II,COMINIUS,"A vessel under sail, so men obey'd"
II, II,COMINIUS,"And fell below his stem: his sword, death's stamp,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Where it did mark, it took; from face to foot"
II, II,COMINIUS,"He was a thing of blood, whose every motion"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Was timed with dying cries: alone he enter'd"
II, II,COMINIUS,"The mortal gate of the city, which he painted"
II, II,COMINIUS,"With shunless destiny; aidless came off,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"And with a sudden reinforcement struck"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Corioli like a planet: now all's his:"
II, II,COMINIUS,"When, by and by, the din of war gan pierce"
II, II,COMINIUS,"His ready sense; then straight his doubled spirit"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Re-quicken'd what in flesh was fatigate,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"And to the battle came he; where he did"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Run reeking o'er the lives of men, as if"
II, II,COMINIUS,"'Twere a perpetual spoil: and till we call'd"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Both field and city ours, he never stood"
II, II,COMINIUS,"To ease his breast with panting."
II, II,MENENIUS,"Worthy man!"
II, II,First Senator,"He cannot but with measure fit the honours"
II, II,First Senator,"Which we devise him."
II, II,COMINIUS,"Our spoils he kick'd at,"
II, II,COMINIUS,"And look'd upon things precious as they were"
II, II,COMINIUS,"The common muck of the world: he covets less"
II, II,COMINIUS,"Than misery itself would give; rewards"
II, II,COMINIUS,"His deeds with doing them, and is content"
II, II,COMINIUS,"To spend the time to end it."
II, II,MENENIUS,"He's right noble:"
II, II,MENENIUS,"Let him be call'd for."
II, II,First Senator,"Call Coriolanus."
II, II,Officer,"He doth appear."
II, II,MENENIUS,"The senate, Coriolanus, are well pleased"
II, II,MENENIUS,"To make thee consul."
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"I do owe them still"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"My life and services."
II, II,MENENIUS,"It then remains"
II, II,MENENIUS,"That you do speak to the people."
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"I do beseech you,"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"Let me o'erleap that custom, for I cannot"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"Put on the gown, stand naked and entreat them,"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"For my wounds' sake, to give their suffrage: please you"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"That I may pass this doing."
II, II,SICINIUS,"Sir, the people"
II, II,SICINIUS,"Must have their voices; neither will they bate"
II, II,SICINIUS,"One jot of ceremony."
II, II,MENENIUS,"Put them not to't:"
II, II,MENENIUS,"Pray you, go fit you to the custom and"
II, II,MENENIUS,"Take to you, as your predecessors have,"
II, II,MENENIUS,"Your honour with your form."
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"It is apart"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"That I shall blush in acting, and might well"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"Be taken from the people."
II, II,BRUTUS,"Mark you that?"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"To brag unto them, thus I did, and thus;"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"Show them the unaching scars which I should hide,"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"As if I had received them for the hire"
II, II,CORIOLANUS,"Of their breath only!"
II, II,MENENIUS,"Do not stand upon't."
II, II,MENENIUS,"We recommend to you, tribunes of the people,"
II, II,MENENIUS,"Our purpose to them: and to our noble consul"
II, II,MENENIUS,"Wish we all joy and honour."
II, II,Senators,"To Coriolanus come all joy and honour!"
II, II,BRUTUS,"You see how he intends to use the people."
II, II,SICINIUS,"May they perceive's intent! He will require them,"
II, II,SICINIUS,"As if he did contemn what he requested"
II, II,SICINIUS,"Should be in them to give."
II, II,BRUTUS,"Come, we'll inform them"
II, II,BRUTUS,"Of our proceedings here: on the marketplace,"
II, II,BRUTUS,"I know, they do attend us."
II,III,First Citizen,"Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not to deny him."
II,III,Second Citizen,"We may, sir, if we will."
II,III,Third Citizen,"We have power in ourselves to do it, but it is a"
II,III,Third Citizen,"power that we have no power to do; for if he show us"
II,III,Third Citizen,"his wounds and tell us his deeds, we are to put our"
II,III,Third Citizen,"tongues into those wounds and speak for them; so, if"
II,III,Third Citizen,"he tell us his noble deeds, we must also tell him"
II,III,Third Citizen,"our noble acceptance of them. Ingratitude is"
II,III,Third Citizen,"monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful,"
II,III,Third Citizen,"were to make a monster of the multitude: of the"
II,III,Third Citizen,"which we being members, should bring ourselves to be"
II,III,Third Citizen,"monstrous members."
II,III,First Citizen,"And to make us no better thought of, a little help"
II,III,First Citizen,"will serve; for once we stood up about the corn, he"
II,III,First Citizen,"himself stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude."
II,III,Third Citizen,"We have been called so of many; not that our heads"
II,III,Third Citizen,"are some brown, some black, some auburn, some bald,"
II,III,Third Citizen,"but that our wits are so diversely coloured: and"
II,III,Third Citizen,"truly I think if all our wits were to issue out of"
II,III,Third Citizen,"one skull, they would fly east, west, north, south,"
II,III,Third Citizen,"and their consent of one direct way should be at"
II,III,Third Citizen,"once to all the points o' the compass."
II,III,Second Citizen,"Think you so? Which way do you judge my wit would"
II,III,Second Citizen,"fly?"
II,III,Third Citizen,"Nay, your wit will not so soon out as another man's"
II,III,Third Citizen,"will;'tis strongly wedged up in a block-head, but"
II,III,Third Citizen,"if it were at liberty, 'twould, sure, southward."
II,III,Second Citizen,"Why that way?"
II,III,Third Citizen,"To lose itself in a fog, where being three parts"
II,III,Third Citizen,"melted away with rotten dews, the fourth would return"
II,III,Third Citizen,"for conscience sake, to help to get thee a wife."
II,III,Second Citizen,"You are never without your tricks: you may, you may."
II,III,Third Citizen,"Are you all resolved to give your voices? But"
II,III,Third Citizen,"that's no matter, the greater part carries it. I"
II,III,Third Citizen,"say, if he would incline to the people, there was"
II,III,Third Citizen,"never a worthier man."
II,III,Third Citizen,"Here he comes, and in the gown of humility: mark his"
II,III,Third Citizen,"behavior. We are not to stay all together, but to"
II,III,Third Citizen,"come by him where he stands, by ones, by twos, and"
II,III,Third Citizen,"by threes. He's to make his requests by"
II,III,Third Citizen,"particulars; wherein every one of us has a single"
II,III,Third Citizen,"honour, in giving him our own voices with our own"
II,III,Third Citizen,"tongues: therefore follow me, and I direct you how"
II,III,Third Citizen,"you shall go by him."
II,III,All,"Content, content."
II,III,MENENIUS,"O sir, you are not right: have you not known"
II,III,MENENIUS,"The worthiest men have done't?"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"What must I say?"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"'I Pray, sir'--Plague upon't! I cannot bring"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"My tongue to such a pace:--'Look, sir, my wounds!"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"I got them in my country's service, when"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Some certain of your brethren roar'd and ran"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"From the noise of our own drums.'"
II,III,MENENIUS,"O me, the gods!"
II,III,MENENIUS,"You must not speak of that: you must desire them"
II,III,MENENIUS,"To think upon you."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Think upon me! hang 'em!"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"I would they would forget me, like the virtues"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Which our divines lose by 'em."
II,III,MENENIUS,"You'll mar all:"
II,III,MENENIUS,"I'll leave you: pray you, speak to 'em, I pray you,"
II,III,MENENIUS,"In wholesome manner."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Bid them wash their faces"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"And keep their teeth clean."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"So, here comes a brace."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"You know the cause, air, of my standing here."
II,III,Third Citizen,"We do, sir; tell us what hath brought you to't."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Mine own desert."
II,III,Second Citizen,"Your own desert!"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Ay, but not mine own desire."
II,III,Third Citizen,"How not your own desire?"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"No, sir,'twas never my desire yet to trouble the"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"poor with begging."
II,III,Third Citizen,"You must think, if we give you any thing, we hope to"
II,III,Third Citizen,"gain by you."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Well then, I pray, your price o' the consulship?"
II,III,First Citizen,"The price is to ask it kindly."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Kindly! Sir, I pray, let me ha't: I have wounds to"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"show you, which shall be yours in private. Your"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"good voice, sir; what say you?"
II,III,Second Citizen,"You shall ha' it, worthy sir."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"A match, sir. There's in all two worthy voices"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"begged. I have your alms: adieu."
II,III,Third Citizen,"But this is something odd."
II,III,Second Citizen,"An 'twere to give again,--but 'tis no matter."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Pray you now, if it may stand with the tune of your"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"voices that I may be consul, I have here the"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"customary gown."
II,III,Fourth Citizen,"You have deserved nobly of your country, and you"
II,III,Fourth Citizen,"have not deserved nobly."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Your enigma?"
II,III,Fourth Citizen,"You have been a scourge to her enemies, you have"
II,III,Fourth Citizen,"been a rod to her friends; you have not indeed loved"
II,III,Fourth Citizen,"the common people."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"You should account me the more virtuous that I have"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"not been common in my love. I will, sir, flatter my"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"sworn brother, the people, to earn a dearer"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"estimation of them; 'tis a condition they account"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"gentle: and since the wisdom of their choice is"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"rather to have my hat than my heart, I will practise"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"the insinuating nod and be off to them most"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"counterfeitly; that is, sir, I will counterfeit the"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"bewitchment of some popular man and give it"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"bountiful to the desirers. Therefore, beseech you,"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"I may be consul."
II,III,Fifth Citizen,"We hope to find you our friend; and therefore give"
II,III,Fifth Citizen,"you our voices heartily."
II,III,Fourth Citizen,"You have received many wounds for your country."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"I will not seal your knowledge with showing them. I"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"will make much of your voices, and so trouble you no further."
II,III,Both Citizens,"The gods give you joy, sir, heartily!"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Most sweet voices!"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Better it is to die, better to starve,"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Than crave the hire which first we do deserve."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Why in this woolvish toge should I stand here,"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"To beg of Hob and Dick, that do appear,"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Their needless vouches? Custom calls me to't:"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"What custom wills, in all things should we do't,"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"The dust on antique time would lie unswept,"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"And mountainous error be too highly heapt"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"For truth to o'er-peer. Rather than fool it so,"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Let the high office and the honour go"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"To one that would do thus. I am half through;"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"The one part suffer'd, the other will I do."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Here come more voices."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Your voices: for your voices I have fought;"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Watch'd for your voices; for Your voices bear"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Of wounds two dozen odd; battles thrice six"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"I have seen and heard of; for your voices have"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Done many things, some less, some more your voices:"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Indeed I would be consul."
II,III,Sixth Citizen,"He has done nobly, and cannot go without any honest"
II,III,Sixth Citizen,"man's voice."
II,III,Seventh Citizen,"Therefore let him be consul: the gods give him joy,"
II,III,Seventh Citizen,"and make him good friend to the people!"
II,III,All Citizens,"Amen, amen. God save thee, noble consul!"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Worthy voices!"
II,III,MENENIUS,"You have stood your limitation; and the tribunes"
II,III,MENENIUS,"Endue you with the people's voice: remains"
II,III,MENENIUS,"That, in the official marks invested, you"
II,III,MENENIUS,"Anon do meet the senate."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Is this done?"
II,III,SICINIUS,"The custom of request you have discharged:"
II,III,SICINIUS,"The people do admit you, and are summon'd"
II,III,SICINIUS,"To meet anon, upon your approbation."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Where? at the senate-house?"
II,III,SICINIUS,"There, Coriolanus."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"May I change these garments?"
II,III,SICINIUS,"You may, sir."
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"That I'll straight do; and, knowing myself again,"
II,III,CORIOLANUS,"Repair to the senate-house."
II,III,MENENIUS,"I'll keep you company. Will you along?"
II,III,BRUTUS,"We stay here for the people."
II,III,SICINIUS,"Fare you well."
II,III,SICINIUS,"He has it now, and by his looks methink"
II,III,SICINIUS,"'Tis warm at 's heart."
II,III,BRUTUS,"With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds."
II,III,BRUTUS,"will you dismiss the people?"
II,III,SICINIUS,"How now, my masters! have you chose this man?"
II,III,First Citizen,"He has our voices, sir."
II,III,BRUTUS,"We pray the gods he may deserve your loves."
II,III,Second Citizen,"Amen, sir: to my poor unworthy notice,"
II,III,Second Citizen,"He mock'd us when he begg'd our voices."
II,III,Third Citizen,"Certainly"
II,III,Third Citizen,"He flouted us downright."
II,III,First Citizen,"No,'tis his kind of speech: he did not mock us."
II,III,Second Citizen,"Not one amongst us, save yourself, but says"
II,III,Second Citizen,"He used us scornfully: he should have show'd us"
II,III,Second Citizen,"His marks of merit, wounds received for's country."
II,III,SICINIUS,"Why, so he did, I am sure."
II,III,Citizens,"No, no; no man saw 'em."
II,III,Third Citizen,"He said he had wounds, which he could show"
II,III,Third Citizen,"in private;"
II,III,Third Citizen,"And with his hat, thus waving it in scorn,"
II,III,Third Citizen,"'I would be consul,' says he: 'aged custom,"
II,III,Third Citizen,"But by your voices, will not so permit me;"
II,III,Third Citizen,"Your voices therefore.' When we granted that,"
II,III,Third Citizen,"Here was 'I thank you for your voices: thank you:"
II,III,Third Citizen,"Your most sweet voices: now you have left"
II,III,Third Citizen,"your voices,"
II,III,Third Citizen,"I have no further with you.' Was not this mockery?"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Why either were you ignorant to see't,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Or, seeing it, of such childish friendliness"
II,III,SICINIUS,"To yield your voices?"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Could you not have told him"
II,III,BRUTUS,"As you were lesson'd, when he had no power,"
II,III,BRUTUS,"But was a petty servant to the state,"
II,III,BRUTUS,"He was your enemy, ever spake against"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Your liberties and the charters that you bear"
II,III,BRUTUS,"I' the body of the weal; and now, arriving"
II,III,BRUTUS,"A place of potency and sway o' the state,"
II,III,BRUTUS,"If he should still malignantly remain"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Fast foe to the plebeii, your voices might"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Be curses to yourselves? You should have said"
II,III,BRUTUS,"That as his worthy deeds did claim no less"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Than what he stood for, so his gracious nature"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Would think upon you for your voices and"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Translate his malice towards you into love,"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Standing your friendly lord."
II,III,SICINIUS,"Thus to have said,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"As you were fore-advised, had touch'd his spirit"
II,III,SICINIUS,"And tried his inclination; from him pluck'd"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Either his gracious promise, which you might,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"As cause had call'd you up, have held him to"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Or else it would have gall'd his surly nature,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Which easily endures not article"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Tying him to aught; so putting him to rage,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"You should have ta'en the advantage of his choler"
II,III,SICINIUS,"And pass'd him unelected."
II,III,BRUTUS,"Did you perceive"
II,III,BRUTUS,"He did solicit you in free contempt"
II,III,BRUTUS,"When he did need your loves, and do you think"
II,III,BRUTUS,"That his contempt shall not be bruising to you,"
II,III,BRUTUS,"When he hath power to crush? Why, had your bodies"
II,III,BRUTUS,"No heart among you? or had you tongues to cry"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Against the rectorship of judgment?"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Have you"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Ere now denied the asker? and now again"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Of him that did not ask, but mock, bestow"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Your sued-for tongues?"
II,III,Third Citizen,"He's not confirm'd; we may deny him yet."
II,III,Second Citizen,"And will deny him:"
II,III,Second Citizen,"I'll have five hundred voices of that sound."
II,III,First Citizen,"I twice five hundred and their friends to piece 'em."
II,III,BRUTUS,"Get you hence instantly, and tell those friends,"
II,III,BRUTUS,"They have chose a consul that will from them take"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Their liberties; make them of no more voice"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Than dogs that are as often beat for barking"
II,III,BRUTUS,"As therefore kept to do so."
II,III,SICINIUS,"Let them assemble,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"And on a safer judgment all revoke"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Your ignorant election; enforce his pride,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"And his old hate unto you; besides, forget not"
II,III,SICINIUS,"With what contempt he wore the humble weed,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"How in his suit he scorn'd you; but your loves,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Thinking upon his services, took from you"
II,III,SICINIUS,"The apprehension of his present portance,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Which most gibingly, ungravely, he did fashion"
II,III,SICINIUS,"After the inveterate hate he bears you."
II,III,BRUTUS,"Lay"
II,III,BRUTUS,"A fault on us, your tribunes; that we laboured,"
II,III,BRUTUS,"No impediment between, but that you must"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Cast your election on him."
II,III,SICINIUS,"Say, you chose him"
II,III,SICINIUS,"More after our commandment than as guided"
II,III,SICINIUS,"By your own true affections, and that your minds,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Preoccupied with what you rather must do"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Than what you should, made you against the grain"
II,III,SICINIUS,"To voice him consul: lay the fault on us."
II,III,BRUTUS,"Ay, spare us not. Say we read lectures to you."
II,III,BRUTUS,"How youngly he began to serve his country,"
II,III,BRUTUS,"How long continued, and what stock he springs of,"
II,III,BRUTUS,"The noble house o' the Marcians, from whence came"
II,III,BRUTUS,"That Ancus Marcius, Numa's daughter's son,"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Who, after great Hostilius, here was king;"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Of the same house Publius and Quintus were,"
II,III,BRUTUS,"That our beat water brought by conduits hither;"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Was his great ancestor."
II,III,SICINIUS,"One thus descended,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"That hath beside well in his person wrought"
II,III,SICINIUS,"To be set high in place, we did commend"
II,III,SICINIUS,"To your remembrances: but you have found,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Scaling his present bearing with his past,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"That he's your fixed enemy, and revoke"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Your sudden approbation."
II,III,BRUTUS,"Say, you ne'er had done't--"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Harp on that still--but by our putting on;"
II,III,BRUTUS,"And presently, when you have drawn your number,"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Repair to the Capitol."
II,III,All,"We will so: almost all"
II,III,All,"Repent in their election."
II,III,BRUTUS,"Let them go on;"
II,III,BRUTUS,"This mutiny were better put in hazard,"
II,III,BRUTUS,"Than stay, past doubt, for greater:"
II,III,BRUTUS,"If, as his nature is, he fall in rage"
II,III,BRUTUS,"With their refusal, both observe and answer"
II,III,BRUTUS,"The vantage of his anger."
II,III,SICINIUS,"To the Capitol, come:"
II,III,SICINIUS,"We will be there before the stream o' the people;"
II,III,SICINIUS,"And this shall seem, as partly 'tis, their own,"
II,III,SICINIUS,"Which we have goaded onward."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Tullus Aufidius then had made new head?"
III,I,LARTIUS,"He had, my lord; and that it was which caused"
III,I,LARTIUS,"Our swifter composition."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"So then the Volsces stand but as at first,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Upon's again."
III,I,COMINIUS,"They are worn, lord consul, so,"
III,I,COMINIUS,"That we shall hardly in our ages see"
III,I,COMINIUS,"Their banners wave again."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Saw you Aufidius?"
III,I,LARTIUS,"On safe-guard he came to me; and did curse"
III,I,LARTIUS,"Against the Volsces, for they had so vilely"
III,I,LARTIUS,"Yielded the town: he is retired to Antium."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Spoke he of me?"
III,I,LARTIUS,"He did, my lord."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"How? what?"
III,I,LARTIUS,"How often he had met you, sword to sword;"
III,I,LARTIUS,"That of all things upon the earth he hated"
III,I,LARTIUS,"Your person most, that he would pawn his fortunes"
III,I,LARTIUS,"To hopeless restitution, so he might"
III,I,LARTIUS,"Be call'd your vanquisher."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"At Antium lives he?"
III,I,LARTIUS,"At Antium."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"I wish I had a cause to seek him there,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"To oppose his hatred fully. Welcome home."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Behold, these are the tribunes of the people,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"The tongues o' the common mouth: I do despise them;"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"For they do prank them in authority,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Against all noble sufferance."
III,I,SICINIUS,"Pass no further."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Ha! what is that?"
III,I,BRUTUS,"It will be dangerous to go on: no further."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"What makes this change?"
III,I,MENENIUS,"The matter?"
III,I,COMINIUS,"Hath he not pass'd the noble and the common?"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Cominius, no."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Have I had children's voices?"
III,I,First Senator,"Tribunes, give way; he shall to the market-place."
III,I,BRUTUS,"The people are incensed against him."
III,I,SICINIUS,"Stop,"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Or all will fall in broil."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Are these your herd?"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Must these have voices, that can yield them now"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"And straight disclaim their tongues? What are"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"your offices?"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"You being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth?"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Have you not set them on?"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Be calm, be calm."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"To curb the will of the nobility:"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Suffer't, and live with such as cannot rule"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Nor ever will be ruled."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Call't not a plot:"
III,I,BRUTUS,"The people cry you mock'd them, and of late,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"When corn was given them gratis, you repined;"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Scandal'd the suppliants for the people, call'd them"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Time-pleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Why, this was known before."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Not to them all."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Have you inform'd them sithence?"
III,I,BRUTUS,"How! I inform them!"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"You are like to do such business."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Not unlike,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Each way, to better yours."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Why then should I be consul? By yond clouds,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Let me deserve so ill as you, and make me"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Your fellow tribune."
III,I,SICINIUS,"You show too much of that"
III,I,SICINIUS,"For which the people stir: if you will pass"
III,I,SICINIUS,"To where you are bound, you must inquire your way,"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Which you are out of, with a gentler spirit,"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Or never be so noble as a consul,"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Nor yoke with him for tribune."
III,I,MENENIUS,"Let's be calm."
III,I,COMINIUS,"The people are abused; set on. This paltering"
III,I,COMINIUS,"Becomes not Rome, nor has Coriolanus"
III,I,COMINIUS,"Deserved this so dishonour'd rub, laid falsely"
III,I,COMINIUS,"I' the plain way of his merit."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Tell me of corn!"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"This was my speech, and I will speak't again--"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Not now, not now."
III,I,First Senator,"Not in this heat, sir, now."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Now, as I live, I will. My nobler friends,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"I crave their pardons:"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"For the mutable, rank-scented many, let them"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Regard me as I do not flatter, and"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Therein behold themselves: I say again,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Which we ourselves have plough'd for, sow'd,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"and scatter'd,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"By mingling them with us, the honour'd number,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Which they have given to beggars."
III,I,MENENIUS,"Well, no more."
III,I,First Senator,"No more words, we beseech you."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"How! no more!"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"As for my country I have shed my blood,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Not fearing outward force, so shall my lungs"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Coin words till their decay against those measles,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Which we disdain should tatter us, yet sought"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"The very way to catch them."
III,I,BRUTUS,"You speak o' the people,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"As if you were a god to punish, not"
III,I,BRUTUS,"A man of their infirmity."
III,I,SICINIUS,"'Twere well"
III,I,SICINIUS,"We let the people know't."
III,I,MENENIUS,"What, what? his choler?"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Choler!"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Were I as patient as the midnight sleep,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"By Jove, 'twould be my mind!"
III,I,SICINIUS,"It is a mind"
III,I,SICINIUS,"That shall remain a poison where it is,"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Not poison any further."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Shall remain!"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"His absolute 'shall'?"
III,I,COMINIUS,"'Twas from the canon."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"'Shall'!"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"O good but most unwise patricians! why,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"You grave but reckless senators, have you thus"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Given Hydra here to choose an officer,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"That with his peremptory 'shall,' being but"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"The horn and noise o' the monster's, wants not spirit"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"To say he'll turn your current in a ditch,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"And make your channel his? If he have power"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Then vail your ignorance; if none, awake"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Your dangerous lenity. If you are learn'd,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Be not as common fools; if you are not,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Let them have cushions by you. You are plebeians,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"If they be senators: and they are no less,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"When, both your voices blended, the great'st taste"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Most palates theirs. They choose their magistrate,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"And such a one as he, who puts his 'shall,'"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"His popular 'shall' against a graver bench"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Than ever frown in Greece. By Jove himself!"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"It makes the consuls base: and my soul aches"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"To know, when two authorities are up,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Neither supreme, how soon confusion"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"May enter 'twixt the gap of both and take"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"The one by the other."
III,I,COMINIUS,"Well, on to the market-place."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Whoever gave that counsel, to give forth"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"The corn o' the storehouse gratis, as 'twas used"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Sometime in Greece,--"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Well, well, no more of that."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Though there the people had more absolute power,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"I say, they nourish'd disobedience, fed"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"The ruin of the state."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Why, shall the people give"
III,I,BRUTUS,"One that speaks thus their voice?"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"I'll give my reasons,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"More worthier than their voices. They know the corn"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Was not our recompense, resting well assured"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"That ne'er did service for't: being press'd to the war,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Even when the navel of the state was touch'd,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"They would not thread the gates. This kind of service"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Did not deserve corn gratis. Being i' the war"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Their mutinies and revolts, wherein they show'd"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Most valour, spoke not for them: the accusation"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Which they have often made against the senate,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"All cause unborn, could never be the motive"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Of our so frank donation. Well, what then?"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"How shall this bisson multitude digest"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"The senate's courtesy? Let deeds express"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"What's like to be their words: 'we did request it;"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"We are the greater poll, and in true fear"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"They gave us our demands.' Thus we debase"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"The nature of our seats and make the rabble"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Call our cares fears; which will in time"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Break ope the locks o' the senate and bring in"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"The crows to peck the eagles."
III,I,MENENIUS,"Come, enough."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Enough, with over-measure."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"No, take more:"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"What may be sworn by, both divine and human,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Seal what I end withal! This double worship,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Where one part does disdain with cause, the other"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Insult without all reason, where gentry, title, wisdom,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Cannot conclude but by the yea and no"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Of general ignorance,--it must omit"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Real necessities, and give way the while"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"To unstable slightness: purpose so barr'd,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"it follows,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Nothing is done to purpose. Therefore, beseech you,--"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"You that will be less fearful than discreet,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"That love the fundamental part of state"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"More than you doubt the change on't, that prefer"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"A noble life before a long, and wish"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"To jump a body with a dangerous physic"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"That's sure of death without it, at once pluck out"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"The multitudinous tongue; let them not lick"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"The sweet which is their poison: your dishonour"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Mangles true judgment and bereaves the state"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Of that integrity which should become't,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Not having the power to do the good it would,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"For the in which doth control't."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Has said enough."
III,I,SICINIUS,"Has spoken like a traitor, and shall answer"
III,I,SICINIUS,"As traitors do."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Thou wretch, despite o'erwhelm thee!"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"What should the people do with these bald tribunes?"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"On whom depending, their obedience fails"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"To the greater bench: in a rebellion,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"When what's not meet, but what must be, was law,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Then were they chosen: in a better hour,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Let what is meet be said it must be meet,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"And throw their power i' the dust."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Manifest treason!"
III,I,SICINIUS,"This a consul? no."
III,I,BRUTUS,"The aediles, ho!"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Let him be apprehended."
III,I,SICINIUS,"Go, call the people:"
III,I,SICINIUS,"in whose name myself"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Attach thee as a traitorous innovator,"
III,I,SICINIUS,"A foe to the public weal: obey, I charge thee,"
III,I,SICINIUS,"And follow to thine answer."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Hence, old goat!"
III,I,Senators, &C,"We'll surety him."
III,I,COMINIUS,"Aged sir, hands off."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Hence, rotten thing! or I shall shake thy bones"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Out of thy garments."
III,I,SICINIUS,"Help, ye citizens!"
III,I,MENENIUS,"On both sides more respect."
III,I,SICINIUS,"Here's he that would take from you all your power."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Seize him, AEdiles!"
III,I,Citizens,"Down with him! down with him!"
III,I,Senators, &C,"Weapons, weapons, weapons!"
III,I,Senators, &C,"'Tribunes!' 'Patricians!' 'Citizens!' 'What, ho!'"
III,I,Senators, &C,"'Sicinius!' 'Brutus!' 'Coriolanus!' 'Citizens!'"
III,I,Senators, &C,"'Peace, peace, peace!' 'Stay, hold, peace!'"
III,I,MENENIUS,"What is about to be? I am out of breath;"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Confusion's near; I cannot speak. You, tribunes"
III,I,MENENIUS,"To the people! Coriolanus, patience!"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Speak, good Sicinius."
III,I,SICINIUS,"Hear me, people; peace!"
III,I,Citizens,"Let's hear our tribune: peace Speak, speak, speak."
III,I,SICINIUS,"You are at point to lose your liberties:"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Marcius would have all from you; Marcius,"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Whom late you have named for consul."
III,I,MENENIUS,"Fie, fie, fie!"
III,I,MENENIUS,"This is the way to kindle, not to quench."
III,I,First Senator,"To unbuild the city and to lay all flat."
III,I,SICINIUS,"What is the city but the people?"
III,I,Citizens,"True,"
III,I,Citizens,"The people are the city."
III,I,BRUTUS,"By the consent of all, we were establish'd"
III,I,BRUTUS,"The people's magistrates."
III,I,Citizens,"You so remain."
III,I,MENENIUS,"And so are like to do."
III,I,COMINIUS,"That is the way to lay the city flat;"
III,I,COMINIUS,"To bring the roof to the foundation,"
III,I,COMINIUS,"And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,"
III,I,COMINIUS,"In heaps and piles of ruin."
III,I,SICINIUS,"This deserves death."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Or let us stand to our authority,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Or let us lose it. We do here pronounce,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Upon the part o' the people, in whose power"
III,I,BRUTUS,"We were elected theirs, Marcius is worthy"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Of present death."
III,I,SICINIUS,"Therefore lay hold of him;"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Bear him to the rock Tarpeian, and from thence"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Into destruction cast him."
III,I,BRUTUS,"AEdiles, seize him!"
III,I,Citizens,"Yield, Marcius, yield!"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Hear me one word;"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Beseech you, tribunes, hear me but a word."
III,I,AEdile,"Peace, peace!"
III,I,MENENIUS,"country's friend,"
III,I,MENENIUS,"And temperately proceed to what you would"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Thus violently redress."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Sir, those cold ways,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Where the disease is violent. Lay hands upon him,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"And bear him to the rock."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"No, I'll die here."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"There's some among you have beheld me fighting:"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me."
III,I,MENENIUS,"Down with that sword! Tribunes, withdraw awhile."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Lay hands upon him."
III,I,COMINIUS,"Help Marcius, help,"
III,I,COMINIUS,"You that be noble; help him, young and old!"
III,I,Citizens,"Down with him, down with him!"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Go, get you to your house; be gone, away!"
III,I,MENENIUS,"All will be naught else."
III,I,Second Senator,"Get you gone."
III,I,COMINIUS,"Stand fast;"
III,I,COMINIUS,"We have as many friends as enemies."
III,I,MENENIUS,"Sham it be put to that?"
III,I,First Senator,"The gods forbid!"
III,I,First Senator,"I prithee, noble friend, home to thy house;"
III,I,First Senator,"Leave us to cure this cause."
III,I,MENENIUS,"For 'tis a sore upon us,"
III,I,MENENIUS,"You cannot tent yourself: be gone, beseech you."
III,I,COMINIUS,"Come, sir, along with us."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"I would they were barbarians--as they are,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Though in Rome litter'd--not Romans--as they are not,"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"Though calved i' the porch o' the Capitol--"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Be gone;"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Put not your worthy rage into your tongue;"
III,I,MENENIUS,"One time will owe another."
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"On fair ground"
III,I,CORIOLANUS,"I could beat forty of them."
III,I,COMINIUS,"I could myself"
III,I,COMINIUS,"Take up a brace o' the best of them; yea, the"
III,I,COMINIUS,"two tribunes:"
III,I,COMINIUS,"But now 'tis odds beyond arithmetic;"
III,I,COMINIUS,"And manhood is call'd foolery, when it stands"
III,I,COMINIUS,"Against a falling fabric. Will you hence,"
III,I,COMINIUS,"Before the tag return? whose rage doth rend"
III,I,COMINIUS,"Like interrupted waters and o'erbear"
III,I,COMINIUS,"What they are used to bear."
III,I,MENENIUS,"Pray you, be gone:"
III,I,MENENIUS,"I'll try whether my old wit be in request"
III,I,MENENIUS,"With those that have but little: this must be patch'd"
III,I,MENENIUS,"With cloth of any colour."
III,I,COMINIUS,"Nay, come away."
III,I,A Patrician,"This man has marr'd his fortune."
III,I,MENENIUS,"His nature is too noble for the world:"
III,I,MENENIUS,"He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Or Jove for's power to thunder. His heart's his mouth:"
III,I,MENENIUS,"What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent;"
III,I,MENENIUS,"And, being angry, does forget that ever"
III,I,MENENIUS,"He heard the name of death."
III,I,MENENIUS,"Here's goodly work!"
III,I,Second Patrician,"I would they were abed!"
III,I,MENENIUS,"I would they were in Tiber! What the vengeance!"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Could he not speak 'em fair?"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Where is this viper"
III,I,SICINIUS,"That would depopulate the city and"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Be every man himself?"
III,I,MENENIUS,"You worthy tribunes,--"
III,I,SICINIUS,"He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock"
III,I,SICINIUS,"With rigorous hands: he hath resisted law,"
III,I,SICINIUS,"And therefore law shall scorn him further trial"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Than the severity of the public power"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Which he so sets at nought."
III,I,First Citizen,"He shall well know"
III,I,First Citizen,"The noble tribunes are the people's mouths,"
III,I,First Citizen,"And we their hands."
III,I,Citizens,"He shall, sure on't."
III,I,MENENIUS,"Sir, sir,--"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Peace!"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt"
III,I,MENENIUS,"With modest warrant."
III,I,SICINIUS,"Sir, how comes't that you"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Have holp to make this rescue?"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Hear me speak:"
III,I,MENENIUS,"As I do know the consul's worthiness,"
III,I,MENENIUS,"So can I name his faults,--"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Consul! what consul?"
III,I,MENENIUS,"The consul Coriolanus."
III,I,BRUTUS,"He consul!"
III,I,Citizens,"No, no, no, no, no."
III,I,MENENIUS,"If, by the tribunes' leave, and yours, good people,"
III,I,MENENIUS,"I may be heard, I would crave a word or two;"
III,I,MENENIUS,"The which shall turn you to no further harm"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Than so much loss of time."
III,I,SICINIUS,"Speak briefly then;"
III,I,SICINIUS,"For we are peremptory to dispatch"
III,I,SICINIUS,"This viperous traitor: to eject him hence"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Were but one danger, and to keep him here"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Our certain death: therefore it is decreed"
III,I,SICINIUS,"He dies to-night."
III,I,MENENIUS,"Now the good gods forbid"
III,I,MENENIUS,"That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Towards her deserved children is enroll'd"
III,I,MENENIUS,"In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Should now eat up her own!"
III,I,SICINIUS,"He's a disease that must be cut away."
III,I,MENENIUS,"O, he's a limb that has but a disease;"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy."
III,I,MENENIUS,"What has he done to Rome that's worthy death?"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Killing our enemies, the blood he hath lost--"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Which, I dare vouch, is more than that he hath,"
III,I,MENENIUS,"By many an ounce--he dropp'd it for his country;"
III,I,MENENIUS,"And what is left, to lose it by his country,"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Were to us all, that do't and suffer it,"
III,I,MENENIUS,"A brand to the end o' the world."
III,I,SICINIUS,"This is clean kam."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Merely awry: when he did love his country,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"It honour'd him."
III,I,MENENIUS,"The service of the foot"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Being once gangrened, is not then respected"
III,I,MENENIUS,"For what before it was."
III,I,BRUTUS,"We'll hear no more."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Pursue him to his house, and pluck him thence:"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Lest his infection, being of catching nature,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Spread further."
III,I,MENENIUS,"One word more, one word."
III,I,MENENIUS,"This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find"
III,I,MENENIUS,"The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will too late"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Tie leaden pounds to's heels. Proceed by process;"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Lest parties, as he is beloved, break out,"
III,I,MENENIUS,"And sack great Rome with Romans."
III,I,BRUTUS,"If it were so,--"
III,I,SICINIUS,"What do ye talk?"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Have we not had a taste of his obedience?"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Our aediles smote? ourselves resisted? Come."
III,I,MENENIUS,"Consider this: he has been bred i' the wars"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Since he could draw a sword, and is ill school'd"
III,I,MENENIUS,"In bolted language; meal and bran together"
III,I,MENENIUS,"He throws without distinction. Give me leave,"
III,I,MENENIUS,"I'll go to him, and undertake to bring him"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Where he shall answer, by a lawful form,"
III,I,MENENIUS,"In peace, to his utmost peril."
III,I,First Senator,"Noble tribunes,"
III,I,First Senator,"It is the humane way: the other course"
III,I,First Senator,"Will prove too bloody, and the end of it"
III,I,First Senator,"Unknown to the beginning."
III,I,SICINIUS,"Noble Menenius,"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Be you then as the people's officer."
III,I,SICINIUS,"Masters, lay down your weapons."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Go not home."
III,I,SICINIUS,"Meet on the market-place. We'll attend you there:"
III,I,SICINIUS,"Where, if you bring not Marcius, we'll proceed"
III,I,SICINIUS,"In our first way."
III,I,MENENIUS,"I'll bring him to you."
III,I,MENENIUS,"Let me desire your company: he must come,"
III,I,MENENIUS,"Or what is worst will follow."
III,I,First Senator,"Pray you, let's to him."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Let them puff all about mine ears, present me"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Death on the wheel or at wild horses' heels,"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock,"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"That the precipitation might down stretch"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Below the beam of sight, yet will I still"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Be thus to them."
III,II,A Patrician,"You do the nobler."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"I muse my mother"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Does not approve me further, who was wont"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"To call them woollen vassals, things created"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"To buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"In congregations, to yawn, be still and wonder,"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"When one but of my ordinance stood up"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"To speak of peace or war."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"I talk of you:"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Why did you wish me milder? would you have me"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"False to my nature? Rather say I play"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"The man I am."
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"O, sir, sir, sir,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"I would have had you put your power well on,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Before you had worn it out."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Let go."
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"You might have been enough the man you are,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"With striving less to be so; lesser had been"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"The thwartings of your dispositions, if"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"You had not show'd them how ye were disposed"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Ere they lack'd power to cross you."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Let them hang."
III,II,A Patrician,"Ay, and burn too."
III,II,MENENIUS,"Come, come, you have been too rough, something"
III,II,MENENIUS,"too rough;"
III,II,MENENIUS,"You must return and mend it."
III,II,First Senator,"There's no remedy;"
III,II,First Senator,"Unless, by not so doing, our good city"
III,II,First Senator,"Cleave in the midst, and perish."
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Pray, be counsell'd:"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"I have a heart as little apt as yours,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"But yet a brain that leads my use of anger"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"To better vantage."
III,II,MENENIUS,"Well said, noble woman?"
III,II,MENENIUS,"Before he should thus stoop to the herd, but that"
III,II,MENENIUS,"The violent fit o' the time craves it as physic"
III,II,MENENIUS,"For the whole state, I would put mine armour on,"
III,II,MENENIUS,"Which I can scarcely bear."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"What must I do?"
III,II,MENENIUS,"Return to the tribunes."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Well, what then? what then?"
III,II,MENENIUS,"Repent what you have spoke."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"For them! I cannot do it to the gods;"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Must I then do't to them?"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"You are too absolute;"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Though therein you can never be too noble,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"But when extremities speak. I have heard you say,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"I' the war do grow together: grant that, and tell me,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"In peace what each of them by the other lose,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"That they combine not there."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Tush, tush!"
III,II,MENENIUS,"A good demand."
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"If it be honour in your wars to seem"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"The same you are not, which, for your best ends,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"You adopt your policy, how is it less or worse,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"That it shall hold companionship in peace"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"With honour, as in war, since that to both"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"It stands in like request?"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Why force you this?"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Because that now it lies you on to speak"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"To the people; not by your own instruction,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Nor by the matter which your heart prompts you,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"But with such words that are but rooted in"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Your tongue, though but bastards and syllables"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Of no allowance to your bosom's truth."
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Now, this no more dishonours you at all"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Than to take in a town with gentle words,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Which else would put you to your fortune and"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"The hazard of much blood."
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"I would dissemble with my nature where"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"My fortunes and my friends at stake required"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"I should do so in honour: I am in this,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Your wife, your son, these senators, the nobles;"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"And you will rather show our general louts"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"How you can frown than spend a fawn upon 'em,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"For the inheritance of their loves and safeguard"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Of what that want might ruin."
III,II,MENENIUS,"Noble lady!"
III,II,MENENIUS,"Come, go with us; speak fair: you may salve so,"
III,II,MENENIUS,"Not what is dangerous present, but the loss"
III,II,MENENIUS,"Of what is past."
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"I prithee now, my son,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Go to them, with this bonnet in thy hand;"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"And thus far having stretch'd it--here be with them--"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Thy knee bussing the stones--for in such business"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"More learned than the ears--waving thy head,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Which often, thus, correcting thy stout heart,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Now humble as the ripest mulberry"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"That will not hold the handling: or say to them,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Thou art their soldier, and being bred in broils"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Hast not the soft way which, thou dost confess,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Were fit for thee to use as they to claim,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"In asking their good loves, but thou wilt frame"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Thyself, forsooth, hereafter theirs, so far"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"As thou hast power and person."
III,II,MENENIUS,"This but done,"
III,II,MENENIUS,"Even as she speaks, why, their hearts were yours;"
III,II,MENENIUS,"For they have pardons, being ask'd, as free"
III,II,MENENIUS,"As words to little purpose."
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Prithee now,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Go, and be ruled: although I know thou hadst rather"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Than flatter him in a bower. Here is Cominius."
III,II,COMINIUS,"I have been i' the market-place; and, sir,'tis fit"
III,II,COMINIUS,"You make strong party, or defend yourself"
III,II,COMINIUS,"By calmness or by absence: all's in anger."
III,II,MENENIUS,"Only fair speech."
III,II,COMINIUS,"I think 'twill serve, if he"
III,II,COMINIUS,"Can thereto frame his spirit."
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"He must, and will"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Prithee now, say you will, and go about it."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Must I go show them my unbarbed sconce?"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Must I with base tongue give my noble heart"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"A lie that it must bear? Well, I will do't:"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Yet, were there but this single plot to lose,"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"This mould of Marcius, they to dust should grind it"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"And throw't against the wind. To the market-place!"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"You have put me now to such a part which never"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"I shall discharge to the life."
III,II,COMINIUS,"Come, come, we'll prompt you."
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"I prithee now, sweet son, as thou hast said"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"My praises made thee first a soldier, so,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"To have my praise for this, perform a part"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Thou hast not done before."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Well, I must do't:"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Away, my disposition, and possess me"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Some harlot's spirit! my throat of war be turn'd,"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Which quired with my drum, into a pipe"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"That babies lulls asleep! the smiles of knaves"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"The glasses of my sight! a beggar's tongue"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Make motion through my lips, and my arm'd knees,"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Who bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like his"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"That hath received an alms! I will not do't,"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"And by my body's action teach my mind"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"A most inherent baseness."
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"At thy choice, then:"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Than thou of them. Come all to ruin; let"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Thy mother rather feel thy pride than fear"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Thy dangerous stoutness, for I mock at death"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"With as big heart as thou. Do as thou list"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Thy valiantness was mine, thou suck'dst it from me,"
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"But owe thy pride thyself."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Pray, be content:"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Mother, I am going to the market-place;"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Of all the trades in Rome. Look, I am going:"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Commend me to my wife. I'll return consul;"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Or never trust to what my tongue can do"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"I' the way of flattery further."
III,II,VOLUMNIA,"Do your will."
III,II,COMINIUS,"Away! the tribunes do attend you: arm yourself"
III,II,COMINIUS,"To answer mildly; for they are prepared"
III,II,COMINIUS,"With accusations, as I hear, more strong"
III,II,COMINIUS,"Than are upon you yet."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"The word is 'mildly.' Pray you, let us go:"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Let them accuse me by invention, I"
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Will answer in mine honour."
III,II,MENENIUS,"Ay, but mildly."
III,II,CORIOLANUS,"Well, mildly be it then. Mildly!"
III,III,BRUTUS,"In this point charge him home, that he affects"
III,III,BRUTUS,"Tyrannical power: if he evade us there,"
III,III,BRUTUS,"Enforce him with his envy to the people,"
III,III,BRUTUS,"And that the spoil got on the Antiates"
III,III,BRUTUS,"Was ne'er distributed."
III,III,BRUTUS,"What, will he come?"
III,III,AEdile,"He's coming."
III,III,BRUTUS,"How accompanied?"
III,III,AEdile,"With old Menenius, and those senators"
III,III,AEdile,"That always favour'd him."
III,III,SICINIUS,"Have you a catalogue"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Of all the voices that we have procured"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Set down by the poll?"
III,III,AEdile,"I have; 'tis ready."
III,III,SICINIUS,"Have you collected them by tribes?"
III,III,AEdile,"I have."
III,III,SICINIUS,"Assemble presently the people hither;"
III,III,SICINIUS,"And when they bear me say 'It shall be so"
III,III,SICINIUS,"I' the right and strength o' the commons,' be it either"
III,III,SICINIUS,"For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them"
III,III,SICINIUS,"If I say fine, cry 'Fine;' if death, cry 'Death.'"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Insisting on the old prerogative"
III,III,SICINIUS,"And power i' the truth o' the cause."
III,III,AEdile,"I shall inform them."
III,III,BRUTUS,"And when such time they have begun to cry,"
III,III,BRUTUS,"Let them not cease, but with a din confused"
III,III,BRUTUS,"Enforce the present execution"
III,III,BRUTUS,"Of what we chance to sentence."
III,III,AEdile,"Very well."
III,III,SICINIUS,"Make them be strong and ready for this hint,"
III,III,SICINIUS,"When we shall hap to give 't them."
III,III,BRUTUS,"Go about it."
III,III,BRUTUS,"Put him to choler straight: he hath been used"
III,III,BRUTUS,"Ever to conquer, and to have his worth"
III,III,BRUTUS,"Of contradiction: being once chafed, he cannot"
III,III,BRUTUS,"Be rein'd again to temperance; then he speaks"
III,III,BRUTUS,"What's in his heart; and that is there which looks"
III,III,BRUTUS,"With us to break his neck."
III,III,SICINIUS,"Well, here he comes."
III,III,MENENIUS,"Calmly, I do beseech you."
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Ay, as an ostler, that for the poorest piece"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Will bear the knave by the volume. The honour'd gods"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Keep Rome in safety, and the chairs of justice"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Supplied with worthy men! plant love among 's!"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Throng our large temples with the shows of peace,"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"And not our streets with war!"
III,III,First Senator,"Amen, amen."
III,III,MENENIUS,"A noble wish."
III,III,SICINIUS,"Draw near, ye people."
III,III,AEdile,"List to your tribunes. Audience: peace, I say!"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"First, hear me speak."
III,III,Both Tribunes,"Well, say. Peace, ho!"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Shall I be charged no further than this present?"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Must all determine here?"
III,III,SICINIUS,"I do demand,"
III,III,SICINIUS,"If you submit you to the people's voices,"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Allow their officers and are content"
III,III,SICINIUS,"To suffer lawful censure for such faults"
III,III,SICINIUS,"As shall be proved upon you?"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"I am content."
III,III,MENENIUS,"Lo, citizens, he says he is content:"
III,III,MENENIUS,"The warlike service he has done, consider; think"
III,III,MENENIUS,"Upon the wounds his body bears, which show"
III,III,MENENIUS,"Like graves i' the holy churchyard."
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Scratches with briers,"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Scars to move laughter only."
III,III,MENENIUS,"Consider further,"
III,III,MENENIUS,"That when he speaks not like a citizen,"
III,III,MENENIUS,"You find him like a soldier: do not take"
III,III,MENENIUS,"His rougher accents for malicious sounds,"
III,III,MENENIUS,"But, as I say, such as become a soldier,"
III,III,MENENIUS,"Rather than envy you."
III,III,COMINIUS,"Well, well, no more."
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"What is the matter"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"That being pass'd for consul with full voice,"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"I am so dishonour'd that the very hour"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"You take it off again?"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Answer to us."
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Say, then: 'tis true, I ought so."
III,III,SICINIUS,"We charge you, that you have contrived to take"
III,III,SICINIUS,"From Rome all season'd office and to wind"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Yourself into a power tyrannical;"
III,III,SICINIUS,"For which you are a traitor to the people."
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"How! traitor!"
III,III,MENENIUS,"Nay, temperately; your promise."
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"The fires i' the lowest hell fold-in the people!"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Call me their traitor! Thou injurious tribune!"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths,"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"In thy hand clutch'd as many millions, in"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"'Thou liest' unto thee with a voice as free"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"As I do pray the gods."
III,III,SICINIUS,"Mark you this, people?"
III,III,Citizens,"To the rock, to the rock with him!"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Peace!"
III,III,SICINIUS,"We need not put new matter to his charge:"
III,III,SICINIUS,"What you have seen him do and heard him speak,"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Beating your officers, cursing yourselves,"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Opposing laws with strokes and here defying"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Those whose great power must try him; even this,"
III,III,SICINIUS,"So criminal and in such capital kind,"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Deserves the extremest death."
III,III,BRUTUS,"But since he hath"
III,III,BRUTUS,"Served well for Rome,--"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"What do you prate of service?"
III,III,BRUTUS,"I talk of that, that know it."
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"You?"
III,III,MENENIUS,"Is this the promise that you made your mother?"
III,III,COMINIUS,"Know, I pray you,--"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"I know no further:"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death,"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Vagabond exile, raying, pent to linger"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"But with a grain a day, I would not buy"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Their mercy at the price of one fair word;"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Nor cheque my courage for what they can give,"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"To have't with saying 'Good morrow.'"
III,III,SICINIUS,"For that he has,"
III,III,SICINIUS,"As much as in him lies, from time to time"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Envied against the people, seeking means"
III,III,SICINIUS,"To pluck away their power, as now at last"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers"
III,III,SICINIUS,"That do distribute it; in the name o' the people"
III,III,SICINIUS,"And in the power of us the tribunes, we,"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Even from this instant, banish him our city,"
III,III,SICINIUS,"In peril of precipitation"
III,III,SICINIUS,"From off the rock Tarpeian never more"
III,III,SICINIUS,"To enter our Rome gates: i' the people's name,"
III,III,SICINIUS,"I say it shall be so."
III,III,Citizens,"It shall be so, it shall be so; let him away:"
III,III,Citizens,"He's banish'd, and it shall be so."
III,III,COMINIUS,"Hear me, my masters, and my common friends,--"
III,III,SICINIUS,"He's sentenced; no more hearing."
III,III,COMINIUS,"Let me speak:"
III,III,COMINIUS,"I have been consul, and can show for Rome"
III,III,COMINIUS,"Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love"
III,III,COMINIUS,"My country's good with a respect more tender,"
III,III,COMINIUS,"More holy and profound, than mine own life,"
III,III,COMINIUS,"My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase,"
III,III,COMINIUS,"And treasure of my loins; then if I would"
III,III,COMINIUS,"Speak that,--"
III,III,SICINIUS,"We know your drift: speak what?"
III,III,BRUTUS,"There's no more to be said, but he is banish'd,"
III,III,BRUTUS,"As enemy to the people and his country:"
III,III,BRUTUS,"It shall be so."
III,III,Citizens,"It shall be so, it shall be so."
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"As the dead carcasses of unburied men"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"That do corrupt my air, I banish you;"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"And here remain with your uncertainty!"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Fan you into despair! Have the power still"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"To banish your defenders; till at length"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels,"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Making not reservation of yourselves,"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Still your own foes, deliver you as most"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"Abated captives to some nation"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"That won you without blows! Despising,"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"For you, the city, thus I turn my back:"
III,III,CORIOLANUS,"There is a world elsewhere."
III,III,AEdile,"The people's enemy is gone, is gone!"
III,III,Citizens,"Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo!"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Go, see him out at gates, and follow him,"
III,III,SICINIUS,"As he hath followed you, with all despite;"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard"
III,III,SICINIUS,"Attend us through the city."
III,III,Citizens,"Come, come; let's see him out at gates; come."
III,III,Citizens,"The gods preserve our noble tribunes! Come."
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Come, leave your tears: a brief farewell: the beast"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother,"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Where is your ancient courage? you were used"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"To say extremity was the trier of spirits;"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"That common chances common men could bear;"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"That when the sea was calm all boats alike"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Show'd mastership in floating; fortune's blows,"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"When most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"A noble cunning: you were used to load me"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"With precepts that would make invincible"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"The heart that conn'd them."
IV,I,VIRGILIA,"O heavens! O heavens!"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Nay! prithee, woman,--"
IV,I,VOLUMNIA,"Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome,"
IV,I,VOLUMNIA,"And occupations perish!"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"What, what, what!"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"I shall be loved when I am lack'd. Nay, mother."
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Resume that spirit, when you were wont to say,"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"If you had been the wife of Hercules,"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Six of his labours you'ld have done, and saved"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Your husband so much sweat. Cominius,"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Droop not; adieu. Farewell, my wife, my mother:"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"I'll do well yet. Thou old and true Menenius,"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Thy tears are salter than a younger man's,"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"And venomous to thine eyes. My sometime general,"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"I have seen thee stem, and thou hast oft beheld"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Heart-hardening spectacles; tell these sad women"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes,"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"As 'tis to laugh at 'em. My mother, you wot well"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"My hazards still have been your solace: and"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Believe't not lightly--though I go alone,"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Like to a lonely dragon, that his fen"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seen--your son"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Will or exceed the common or be caught"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"With cautelous baits and practise."
IV,I,VOLUMNIA,"My first son."
IV,I,VOLUMNIA,"Whither wilt thou go? Take good Cominius"
IV,I,VOLUMNIA,"With thee awhile: determine on some course,"
IV,I,VOLUMNIA,"More than a wild exposture to each chance"
IV,I,VOLUMNIA,"That starts i' the way before thee."
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"O the gods!"
IV,I,COMINIUS,"I'll follow thee a month, devise with thee"
IV,I,COMINIUS,"Where thou shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us"
IV,I,COMINIUS,"And we of thee: so if the time thrust forth"
IV,I,COMINIUS,"A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send"
IV,I,COMINIUS,"O'er the vast world to seek a single man,"
IV,I,COMINIUS,"And lose advantage, which doth ever cool"
IV,I,COMINIUS,"I' the absence of the needer."
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Fare ye well:"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Thou hast years upon thee; and thou art too full"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Of the wars' surfeits, to go rove with one"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"That's yet unbruised: bring me but out at gate."
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"My friends of noble touch, when I am forth,"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you, come."
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"While I remain above the ground, you shall"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Hear from me still, and never of me aught"
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"But what is like me formerly."
IV,I,MENENIUS,"That's worthily"
IV,I,MENENIUS,"As any ear can hear. Come, let's not weep."
IV,I,MENENIUS,"If I could shake off but one seven years"
IV,I,MENENIUS,"From these old arms and legs, by the good gods,"
IV,I,MENENIUS,"I'ld with thee every foot."
IV,I,CORIOLANUS,"Give me thy hand: Come."
IV,II,SICINIUS,"Bid them all home; he's gone, and we'll no further."
IV,II,SICINIUS,"The nobility are vex'd, whom we see have sided"
IV,II,SICINIUS,"In his behalf."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Now we have shown our power,"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Let us seem humbler after it is done"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Than when it was a-doing."
IV,II,SICINIUS,"Bid them home:"
IV,II,SICINIUS,"Say their great enemy is gone, and they"
IV,II,SICINIUS,"Stand in their ancient strength."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Dismiss them home."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Here comes his mother."
IV,II,SICINIUS,"Let's not meet her."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Why?"
IV,II,SICINIUS,"They say she's mad."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"They have ta'en note of us: keep on your way."
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"O, ye're well met: the hoarded plague o' the gods"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Requite your love!"
IV,II,MENENIUS,"Peace, peace; be not so loud."
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"If that I could for weeping, you should hear,--"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Nay, and you shall hear some."
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Will you be gone?"
IV,II,VIRGILIA,"To say so to my husband."
IV,II,SICINIUS,"Are you mankind?"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Ay, fool; is that a shame? Note but this fool."
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"To banish him that struck more blows for Rome"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Than thou hast spoken words?"
IV,II,SICINIUS,"O blessed heavens!"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"More noble blows than ever thou wise words;"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"And for Rome's good. I'll tell thee what; yet go:"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Nay, but thou shalt stay too: I would my son"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him,"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"His good sword in his hand."
IV,II,SICINIUS,"What then?"
IV,II,VIRGILIA,"What then!"
IV,II,VIRGILIA,"He'ld make an end of thy posterity."
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Bastards and all."
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Good man, the wounds that he does bear for Rome!"
IV,II,MENENIUS,"Come, come, peace."
IV,II,SICINIUS,"I would he had continued to his country"
IV,II,SICINIUS,"As he began, and not unknit himself"
IV,II,SICINIUS,"The noble knot he made."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"I would he had."
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"'I would he had'! 'Twas you incensed the rabble:"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"As I can of those mysteries which heaven"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Will not have earth to know."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Pray, let us go."
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Now, pray, sir, get you gone:"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"You have done a brave deed. Ere you go, hear this:--"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"As far as doth the Capitol exceed"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"The meanest house in Rome, so far my son--"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"This lady's husband here, this, do you see--"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Whom you have banish'd, does exceed you all."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Well, well, we'll leave you."
IV,II,SICINIUS,"Why stay we to be baited"
IV,II,SICINIUS,"With one that wants her wits?"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Take my prayers with you."
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"I would the gods had nothing else to do"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"But to confirm my curses! Could I meet 'em"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"But once a-day, it would unclog my heart"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Of what lies heavy to't."
IV,II,MENENIUS,"You have told them home;"
IV,II,MENENIUS,"And, by my troth, you have cause. You'll sup with me?"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"And so shall starve with feeding. Come, let's go:"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"Leave this faint puling and lament as I do,"
IV,II,VOLUMNIA,"In anger, Juno-like. Come, come, come."
IV,II,MENENIUS,"Fie, fie, fie!"
IV,III,Roman,"I know you well, sir, and you know"
IV,III,Roman,"me: your name, I think, is Adrian."
IV,III,Volsce,"It is so, sir: truly, I have forgot you."
IV,III,Roman,"I am a Roman; and my services are,"
IV,III,Roman,"as you are, against 'em: know you me yet?"
IV,III,Volsce,"Nicanor? no."
IV,III,Roman,"The same, sir."
IV,III,Volsce,"You had more beard when I last saw you; but your"
IV,III,Volsce,"favour is well approved by your tongue. What's the"
IV,III,Volsce,"news in Rome? I have a note from the Volscian state,"
IV,III,Volsce,"to find you out there: you have well saved me a"
IV,III,Volsce,"day's journey."
IV,III,Roman,"There hath been in Rome strange insurrections; the"
IV,III,Roman,"people against the senators, patricians, and nobles."
IV,III,Volsce,"Hath been! is it ended, then? Our state thinks not"
IV,III,Volsce,"so: they are in a most warlike preparation, and"
IV,III,Volsce,"hope to come upon them in the heat of their division."
IV,III,Roman,"The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing"
IV,III,Roman,"would make it flame again: for the nobles receive"
IV,III,Roman,"so to heart the banishment of that worthy"
IV,III,Roman,"Coriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptness to take"
IV,III,Roman,"all power from the people and to pluck from them"
IV,III,Roman,"their tribunes for ever. This lies glowing, I can"
IV,III,Roman,"tell you, and is almost mature for the violent"
IV,III,Roman,"breaking out."
IV,III,Volsce,"Coriolanus banished!"
IV,III,Roman,"Banished, sir."
IV,III,Volsce,"You will be welcome with this intelligence, Nicanor."
IV,III,Roman,"The day serves well for them now. I have heard it"
IV,III,Roman,"said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is"
IV,III,Roman,"when she's fallen out with her husband. Your noble"
IV,III,Roman,"Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his"
IV,III,Roman,"great opposer, Coriolanus, being now in no request"
IV,III,Roman,"of his country."
IV,III,Volsce,"He cannot choose. I am most fortunate, thus"
IV,III,Volsce,"accidentally to encounter you: you have ended my"
IV,III,Volsce,"business, and I will merrily accompany you home."
IV,III,Roman,"I shall, between this and supper, tell you most"
IV,III,Roman,"strange things from Rome; all tending to the good of"
IV,III,Roman,"their adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you?"
IV,III,Volsce,"A most royal one; the centurions and their charges,"
IV,III,Volsce,"distinctly billeted, already in the entertainment,"
IV,III,Volsce,"and to be on foot at an hour's warning."
IV,III,Roman,"I am joyful to hear of their readiness, and am the"
IV,III,Roman,"man, I think, that shall set them in present action."
IV,III,Roman,"So, sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your company."
IV,III,Volsce,"You take my part from me, sir; I have the most cause"
IV,III,Volsce,"to be glad of yours."
IV,III,Roman,"Well, let us go together."
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"A goodly city is this Antium. City,"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"'Tis I that made thy widows: many an heir"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Of these fair edifices 'fore my wars"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Have I heard groan and drop: then know me not,"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"In puny battle slay me."
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Save you, sir."
IV,IV,Citizen,"And you."
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Direct me, if it be your will,"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Where great Aufidius lies: is he in Antium?"
IV,IV,Citizen,"He is, and feasts the nobles of the state"
IV,IV,Citizen,"At his house this night."
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Which is his house, beseech you?"
IV,IV,Citizen,"This, here before you."
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Thank you, sir: farewell."
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn,"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart,"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Whose house, whose bed, whose meal, and exercise,"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Unseparable, shall within this hour,"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"On a dissension of a doit, break out"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"To bitterest enmity: so, fellest foes,"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep,"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"To take the one the other, by some chance,"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"And interjoin their issues. So with me:"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"My birth-place hate I, and my love's upon"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"This enemy town. I'll enter: if he slay me,"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"He does fair justice; if he give me way,"
IV,IV,CORIOLANUS,"I'll do his country service."
IV,V,First Servingman,"Wine, wine, wine! What service"
IV,V,First Servingman,"is here! I think our fellows are asleep."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"Where's Cotus? my master calls"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"for him. Cotus!"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"A goodly house: the feast smells well; but I"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Appear not like a guest."
IV,V,First Servingman,"What would you have, friend? whence are you?"
IV,V,First Servingman,"Here's no place for you: pray, go to the door."
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"I have deserved no better entertainment,"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"In being Coriolanus."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"Whence are you, sir? Has the porter his eyes in his"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"head; that he gives entrance to such companions?"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"Pray, get you out."
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Away!"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"Away! get you away."
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Now thou'rt troublesome."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"Are you so brave? I'll have you talked with anon."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"What fellow's this?"
IV,V,First Servingman,"A strange one as ever I looked on: I cannot get him"
IV,V,First Servingman,"out of the house: prithee, call my master to him."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"What have you to do here, fellow? Pray you, avoid"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"the house."
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Let me but stand; I will not hurt your hearth."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"What are you?"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"A gentleman."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"A marvellous poor one."
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"True, so I am."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"Pray you, poor gentleman, take up some other"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"station; here's no place for you; pray you, avoid: come."
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Follow your function, go, and batten on cold bits."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"What, you will not? Prithee, tell my master what a"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"strange guest he has here."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"And I shall."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"Where dwellest thou?"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Under the canopy."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"Under the canopy!"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Ay."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"Where's that?"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"I' the city of kites and crows."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"I' the city of kites and crows! What an ass it is!"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"Then thou dwellest with daws too?"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"No, I serve not thy master."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"How, sir! do you meddle with my master?"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Ay; 'tis an honester service than to meddle with thy"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"mistress. Thou pratest, and pratest; serve with thy"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"trencher, hence!"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Where is this fellow?"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"Here, sir: I'ld have beaten him like a dog, but for"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"disturbing the lords within."
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Whence comest thou? what wouldst thou? thy name?"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Why speak'st not? speak, man: what's thy name?"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"If, Tullus,"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Not yet thou knowest me, and, seeing me, dost not"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Think me for the man I am, necessity"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Commands me name myself."
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"What is thy name?"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears,"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"And harsh in sound to thine."
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Say, what's thy name?"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Bears a command in't; though thy tackle's torn."
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Thou show'st a noble vessel: what's thy name?"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Prepare thy brow to frown: know'st"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"thou me yet?"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"I know thee not: thy name?"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"My name is Caius Marcius, who hath done"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"To thee particularly and to all the Volsces"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Great hurt and mischief; thereto witness may"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"My surname, Coriolanus: the painful service,"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"The extreme dangers and the drops of blood"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Shed for my thankless country are requited"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"But with that surname; a good memory,"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"And witness of the malice and displeasure"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Which thou shouldst bear me: only that name remains;"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"The cruelty and envy of the people,"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Permitted by our dastard nobles, who"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Have all forsook me, hath devour'd the rest;"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"And suffer'd me by the voice of slaves to be"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Whoop'd out of Rome. Now this extremity"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Hath brought me to thy hearth; not out of hope--"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Mistake me not--to save my life, for if"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"I had fear'd death, of all the men i' the world"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"I would have 'voided thee, but in mere spite,"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"To be full quit of those my banishers,"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Stand I before thee here. Then if thou hast"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Of shame seen through thy country, speed"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"thee straight,"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"And make my misery serve thy turn: so use it"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"That my revengeful services may prove"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"As benefits to thee, for I will fight"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Against my canker'd country with the spleen"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Of all the under fiends. But if so be"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Thou darest not this and that to prove more fortunes"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Thou'rt tired, then, in a word, I also am"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Longer to live most weary, and present"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"My throat to thee and to thy ancient malice;"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Which not to cut would show thee but a fool,"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Since I have ever follow'd thee with hate,"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"Drawn tuns of blood out of thy country's breast,"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"And cannot live but to thy shame, unless"
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"It be to do thee service."
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"O Marcius, Marcius!"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Should from yond cloud speak divine things,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"And say 'Tis true,' I'ld not believe them more"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Than thee, all noble Marcius. Let me twine"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Mine arms about that body, where against"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"My grained ash an hundred times hath broke"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"The anvil of my sword, and do contest"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"As hotly and as nobly with thy love"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"As ever in ambitious strength I did"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Contend against thy valour. Know thou first,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"I loved the maid I married; never man"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Than when I first my wedded mistress saw"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Bestride my threshold. Why, thou Mars! I tell thee,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"We have a power on foot; and I had purpose"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Or lose mine arm fort: thou hast beat me out"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Twelve several times, and I have nightly since"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me;"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"We have been down together in my sleep,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Unbuckling helms, fisting each other's throat,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"And waked half dead with nothing. Worthy Marcius,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Had we no quarrel else to Rome, but that"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Thou art thence banish'd, we would muster all"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"From twelve to seventy, and pouring war"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Into the bowels of ungrateful Rome,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Like a bold flood o'er-bear. O, come, go in,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"And take our friendly senators by the hands;"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Who now are here, taking their leaves of me,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Who am prepared against your territories,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Though not for Rome itself."
IV,V,CORIOLANUS,"You bless me, gods!"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Therefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"The leading of thine own revenges, take"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"The one half of my commission; and set down--"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"As best thou art experienced, since thou know'st"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Thy country's strength and weakness,--thine own ways;"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Whether to knock against the gates of Rome,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Or rudely visit them in parts remote,"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"To fright them, ere destroy. But come in:"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Let me commend thee first to those that shall"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Say yea to thy desires. A thousand welcomes!"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"And more a friend than e'er an enemy;"
IV,V,AUFIDIUS,"Yet, Marcius, that was much. Your hand: most welcome!"
IV,V,First Servingman,"Here's a strange alteration!"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"By my hand, I had thought to have strucken him with"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"a cudgel; and yet my mind gave me his clothes made a"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"false report of him."
IV,V,First Servingman,"What an arm he has! he turned me about with his"
IV,V,First Servingman,"finger and his thumb, as one would set up a top."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"Nay, I knew by his face that there was something in"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"him: he had, sir, a kind of face, methought,--I"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"cannot tell how to term it."
IV,V,First Servingman,"He had so; looking as it were--would I were hanged,"
IV,V,First Servingman,"but I thought there was more in him than I could think."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"So did I, I'll be sworn: he is simply the rarest"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"man i' the world."
IV,V,First Servingman,"I think he is: but a greater soldier than he you wot on."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"Who, my master?"
IV,V,First Servingman,"Nay, it's no matter for that."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"Worth six on him."
IV,V,First Servingman,"Nay, not so neither: but I take him to be the"
IV,V,First Servingman,"greater soldier."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"Faith, look you, one cannot tell how to say that:"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"for the defence of a town, our general is excellent."
IV,V,First Servingman,"Ay, and for an assault too."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"O slaves, I can tell you news,-- news, you rascals!"
IV,V,First Servingman,"What, what, what? let's partake."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"I would not be a Roman, of all nations; I had as"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"lieve be a condemned man."
IV,V,First Servingman,"Wherefore? wherefore?"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"Why, here's he that was wont to thwack our general,"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"Caius Marcius."
IV,V,First Servingman,"Why do you say 'thwack our general '?"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"I do not say 'thwack our general;' but he was always"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"good enough for him."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"Come, we are fellows and friends: he was ever too"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"hard for him; I have heard him say so himself."
IV,V,First Servingman,"He was too hard for him directly, to say the troth"
IV,V,First Servingman,"on't: before Corioli he scotched him and notched"
IV,V,First Servingman,"him like a carbon ado."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"An he had been cannibally given, he might have"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"broiled and eaten him too."
IV,V,First Servingman,"But, more of thy news?"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"Why, he is so made on here within, as if he were son"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"and heir to Mars; set at upper end o' the table; no"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"question asked him by any of the senators, but they"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"stand bald before him: our general himself makes a"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"mistress of him: sanctifies himself with's hand and"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"turns up the white o' the eye to his discourse. But"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"the bottom of the news is that our general is cut i'"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"the middle and but one half of what he was"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"yesterday; for the other has half, by the entreaty"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"and grant of the whole table. He'll go, he says,"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"and sowl the porter of Rome gates by the ears: he"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"will mow all down before him, and leave his passage polled."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"And he's as like to do't as any man I can imagine."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"Do't! he will do't; for, look you, sir, he has as"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"many friends as enemies; which friends, sir, as it"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"were, durst not, look you, sir, show themselves, as"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"we term it, his friends whilst he's in directitude."
IV,V,First Servingman,"Directitude! what's that?"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"But when they shall see, sir, his crest up again,"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"and the man in blood, they will out of their"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"burrows, like conies after rain, and revel all with"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"him."
IV,V,First Servingman,"But when goes this forward?"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"To-morrow; to-day; presently; you shall have the"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"drum struck up this afternoon: 'tis, as it were, a"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"parcel of their feast, and to be executed ere they"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"wipe their lips."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"Why, then we shall have a stirring world again."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"This peace is nothing, but to rust iron, increase"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"tailors, and breed ballad-makers."
IV,V,First Servingman,"Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as"
IV,V,First Servingman,"day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and"
IV,V,First Servingman,"full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy;"
IV,V,First Servingman,"mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more"
IV,V,First Servingman,"bastard children than war's a destroyer of men."
IV,V,Second Servingman,"'Tis so: and as war, in some sort, may be said to"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"be a ravisher, so it cannot be denied but peace is a"
IV,V,Second Servingman,"great maker of cuckolds."
IV,V,First Servingman,"Ay, and it makes men hate one another."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"Reason; because they then less need one another."
IV,V,Third Servingman,"The wars for my money. I hope to see Romans as cheap"
IV,V,Third Servingman,"as Volscians. They are rising, they are rising."
IV,V,All,"In, in, in, in!"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"We hear not of him, neither need we fear him;"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"His remedies are tame i' the present peace"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"And quietness of the people, which before"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Were in wild hurry. Here do we make his friends"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Blush that the world goes well, who rather had,"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Though they themselves did suffer by't, behold"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Dissentious numbers pestering streets than see"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Our tradesmen with in their shops and going"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"About their functions friendly."
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"We stood to't in good time."
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"Is this Menenius?"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"'Tis he,'tis he: O, he is grown most kind of late."
IV,VI,Both Tribunes,"Hail sir!"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Hail to you both!"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Your Coriolanus"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Is not much miss'd, but with his friends:"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"The commonwealth doth stand, and so would do,"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Were he more angry at it."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"All's well; and might have been much better, if"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"He could have temporized."
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Where is he, hear you?"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Nay, I hear nothing: his mother and his wife"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Hear nothing from him."
IV,VI,Citizens,"The gods preserve you both!"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"God-den, our neighbours."
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"God-den to you all, god-den to you all."
IV,VI,First Citizen,"Ourselves, our wives, and children, on our knees,"
IV,VI,First Citizen,"Are bound to pray for you both."
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Live, and thrive!"
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"Farewell, kind neighbours: we wish'd Coriolanus"
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"Had loved you as we did."
IV,VI,Citizens,"Now the gods keep you!"
IV,VI,Both Tribunes,"Farewell, farewell."
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"This is a happier and more comely time"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Than when these fellows ran about the streets,"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Crying confusion."
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"Caius Marcius was"
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"A worthy officer i' the war; but insolent,"
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"O'ercome with pride, ambitious past all thinking,"
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"Self-loving,--"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"And affecting one sole throne,"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Without assistance."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"I think not so."
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"We should by this, to all our lamentation,"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"If he had gone forth consul, found it so."
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"The gods have well prevented it, and Rome"
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"Sits safe and still without him."
IV,VI,AEdile,"Worthy tribunes,"
IV,VI,AEdile,"There is a slave, whom we have put in prison,"
IV,VI,AEdile,"Reports, the Volsces with two several powers"
IV,VI,AEdile,"Are enter'd in the Roman territories,"
IV,VI,AEdile,"And with the deepest malice of the war"
IV,VI,AEdile,"Destroy what lies before 'em."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"'Tis Aufidius,"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Who, hearing of our Marcius' banishment,"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Thrusts forth his horns again into the world;"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Which were inshell'd when Marcius stood for Rome,"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"And durst not once peep out."
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Come, what talk you"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Of Marcius?"
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"Go see this rumourer whipp'd. It cannot be"
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"The Volsces dare break with us."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Cannot be!"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"We have record that very well it can,"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"And three examples of the like have been"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Within my age. But reason with the fellow,"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Before you punish him, where he heard this,"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Lest you shall chance to whip your information"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"And beat the messenger who bids beware"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Of what is to be dreaded."
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Tell not me:"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"I know this cannot be."
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"Not possible."
IV,VI,Messenger,"The nobles in great earnestness are going"
IV,VI,Messenger,"All to the senate-house: some news is come"
IV,VI,Messenger,"That turns their countenances."
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"'Tis this slave;--"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Go whip him, 'fore the people's eyes:--his raising;"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Nothing but his report."
IV,VI,Messenger,"Yes, worthy sir,"
IV,VI,Messenger,"The slave's report is seconded; and more,"
IV,VI,Messenger,"More fearful, is deliver'd."
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"What more fearful?"
IV,VI,Messenger,"It is spoke freely out of many mouths--"
IV,VI,Messenger,"How probable I do not know--that Marcius,"
IV,VI,Messenger,"Join'd with Aufidius, leads a power 'gainst Rome,"
IV,VI,Messenger,"And vows revenge as spacious as between"
IV,VI,Messenger,"The young'st and oldest thing."
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"This is most likely!"
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"Raised only, that the weaker sort may wish"
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"Good Marcius home again."
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"The very trick on't."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"This is unlikely:"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"He and Aufidius can no more atone"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Than violentest contrariety."
IV,VI,Second Messenger,"You are sent for to the senate:"
IV,VI,Second Messenger,"A fearful army, led by Caius Marcius"
IV,VI,Second Messenger,"Associated with Aufidius, rages"
IV,VI,Second Messenger,"Upon our territories; and have already"
IV,VI,Second Messenger,"O'erborne their way, consumed with fire, and took"
IV,VI,Second Messenger,"What lay before them."
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"O, you have made good work!"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"What news? what news?"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"You have holp to ravish your own daughters and"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"To melt the city leads upon your pates,"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"To see your wives dishonour'd to your noses,--"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"What's the news? what's the news?"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Your temples burned in their cement, and"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Your franchises, whereon you stood, confined"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Into an auger's bore."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Pray now, your news?"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"You have made fair work, I fear me.--Pray, your news?--"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"If Marcius should be join'd with Volscians,--"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"If!"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"He is their god: he leads them like a thing"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Made by some other deity than nature,"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"That shapes man better; and they follow him,"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Against us brats, with no less confidence"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Than boys pursuing summer butterflies,"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Or butchers killing flies."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"You have made good work,"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"You and your apron-men; you that stood so up much"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"on the voice of occupation and"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"The breath of garlic-eaters!"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"He will shake"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Your Rome about your ears."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"As Hercules"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Did shake down mellow fruit."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"You have made fair work!"
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"But is this true, sir?"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Ay; and you'll look pale"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Before you find it other. All the regions"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Do smilingly revolt; and who resist"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Are mock'd for valiant ignorance,"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"And perish constant fools. Who is't can blame him?"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Your enemies and his find something in him."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"We are all undone, unless"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"The noble man have mercy."
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Who shall ask it?"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"The tribunes cannot do't for shame; the people"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Deserve such pity of him as the wolf"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Does of the shepherds: for his best friends, if they"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Should say 'Be good to Rome,' they charged him even"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"As those should do that had deserved his hate,"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"And therein show'd like enemies."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"'Tis true:"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"If he were putting to my house the brand"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"That should consume it, I have not the face"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"To say 'Beseech you, cease.' You have made fair hands,"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"You and your crafts! you have crafted fair!"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"You have brought"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"A trembling upon Rome, such as was never"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"So incapable of help."
IV,VI,Both Tribunes,"Say not we brought it."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"How! Was it we? we loved him but, like beasts"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Who did hoot him out o' the city."
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"But I fear"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"They'll roar him in again. Tullus Aufidius,"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"The second name of men, obeys his points"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"As if he were his officer: desperation"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Is all the policy, strength and defence,"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"That Rome can make against them."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Here come the clusters."
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"And is Aufidius with him? You are they"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"That made the air unwholesome, when you cast"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Your stinking greasy caps in hooting at"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Coriolanus' exile. Now he's coming;"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"And not a hair upon a soldier's head"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Which will not prove a whip: as many coxcombs"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"As you threw caps up will he tumble down,"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"And pay you for your voices. 'Tis no matter;"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"if he could burn us all into one coal,"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"We have deserved it."
IV,VI,Citizens,"Faith, we hear fearful news."
IV,VI,First Citizen,"For mine own part,"
IV,VI,First Citizen,"When I said, banish him, I said 'twas pity."
IV,VI,Second Citizen,"And so did I."
IV,VI,Third Citizen,"And so did I; and, to say the truth, so did very"
IV,VI,Third Citizen,"many of us: that we did, we did for the best; and"
IV,VI,Third Citizen,"though we willingly consented to his banishment, yet"
IV,VI,Third Citizen,"it was against our will."
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"Ye re goodly things, you voices!"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"You have made"
IV,VI,MENENIUS,"Good work, you and your cry! Shall's to the Capitol?"
IV,VI,COMINIUS,"O, ay, what else?"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Go, masters, get you home; be not dismay'd:"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"These are a side that would be glad to have"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"This true which they so seem to fear. Go home,"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"And show no sign of fear."
IV,VI,First Citizen,"The gods be good to us! Come, masters, let's home."
IV,VI,First Citizen,"I ever said we were i' the wrong when we banished"
IV,VI,First Citizen,"him."
IV,VI,Second Citizen,"So did we all. But, come, let's home."
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"I do not like this news."
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Nor I."
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"Let's to the Capitol. Would half my wealth"
IV,VI,BRUTUS,"Would buy this for a lie!"
IV,VI,SICINIUS,"Pray, let us go."
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Do they still fly to the Roman?"
IV,VII,Lieutenant,"I do not know what witchcraft's in him, but"
IV,VII,Lieutenant,"Your soldiers use him as the grace 'fore meat,"
IV,VII,Lieutenant,"Their talk at table, and their thanks at end;"
IV,VII,Lieutenant,"And you are darken'd in this action, sir,"
IV,VII,Lieutenant,"Even by your own."
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"I cannot help it now,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Unless, by using means, I lame the foot"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Of our design. He bears himself more proudlier,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Even to my person, than I thought he would"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"When first I did embrace him: yet his nature"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"In that's no changeling; and I must excuse"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"What cannot be amended."
IV,VII,Lieutenant,"Yet I wish, sir,--"
IV,VII,Lieutenant,"I mean for your particular,--you had not"
IV,VII,Lieutenant,"Join'd in commission with him; but either"
IV,VII,Lieutenant,"Had borne the action of yourself, or else"
IV,VII,Lieutenant,"To him had left it solely."
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"I understand thee well; and be thou sure,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"when he shall come to his account, he knows not"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"What I can urge against him. Although it seems,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"And so he thinks, and is no less apparent"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"To the vulgar eye, that he bears all things fairly."
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"And shows good husbandry for the Volscian state,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Fights dragon-like, and does achieve as soon"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"As draw his sword; yet he hath left undone"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"That which shall break his neck or hazard mine,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Whene'er we come to our account."
IV,VII,Lieutenant,"Sir, I beseech you, think you he'll carry Rome?"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"All places yield to him ere he sits down;"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"And the nobility of Rome are his:"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"The senators and patricians love him too:"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"To expel him thence. I think he'll be to Rome"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"By sovereignty of nature. First he was"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"A noble servant to them; but he could not"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Carry his honours even: whether 'twas pride,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Which out of daily fortune ever taints"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"The happy man; whether defect of judgment,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"To fail in the disposing of those chances"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Which he was lord of; or whether nature,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Not to be other than one thing, not moving"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"From the casque to the cushion, but commanding peace"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Even with the same austerity and garb"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"As he controll'd the war; but one of these--"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"As he hath spices of them all, not all,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"For I dare so far free him--made him fear'd,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"So hated, and so banish'd: but he has a merit,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"To choke it in the utterance. So our virtues"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Lie in the interpretation of the time:"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"And power, unto itself most commendable,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"To extol what it hath done."
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail."
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Come, let's away. When, Caius, Rome is thine,"
IV,VII,AUFIDIUS,"Thou art poor'st of all; then shortly art thou mine."
V,I,MENENIUS,"No, I'll not go: you hear what he hath said"
V,I,MENENIUS,"Which was sometime his general; who loved him"
V,I,MENENIUS,"In a most dear particular. He call'd me father:"
V,I,MENENIUS,"But what o' that? Go, you that banish'd him;"
V,I,MENENIUS,"A mile before his tent fall down, and knee"
V,I,MENENIUS,"The way into his mercy: nay, if he coy'd"
V,I,MENENIUS,"To hear Cominius speak, I'll keep at home."
V,I,COMINIUS,"He would not seem to know me."
V,I,MENENIUS,"Do you hear?"
V,I,COMINIUS,"Yet one time he did call me by my name:"
V,I,COMINIUS,"I urged our old acquaintance, and the drops"
V,I,COMINIUS,"That we have bled together. Coriolanus"
V,I,COMINIUS,"He would not answer to: forbad all names;"
V,I,COMINIUS,"He was a kind of nothing, titleless,"
V,I,COMINIUS,"Till he had forged himself a name o' the fire"
V,I,COMINIUS,"Of burning Rome."
V,I,MENENIUS,"Why, so: you have made good work!"
V,I,MENENIUS,"A pair of tribunes that have rack'd for Rome,"
V,I,MENENIUS,"To make coals cheap,--a noble memory!"
V,I,COMINIUS,"I minded him how royal 'twas to pardon"
V,I,COMINIUS,"When it was less expected: he replied,"
V,I,COMINIUS,"It was a bare petition of a state"
V,I,COMINIUS,"To one whom they had punish'd."
V,I,MENENIUS,"Very well:"
V,I,MENENIUS,"Could he say less?"
V,I,COMINIUS,"I offer'd to awaken his regard"
V,I,COMINIUS,"For's private friends: his answer to me was,"
V,I,COMINIUS,"He could not stay to pick them in a pile"
V,I,COMINIUS,"Of noisome musty chaff: he said 'twas folly,"
V,I,COMINIUS,"For one poor grain or two, to leave unburnt,"
V,I,COMINIUS,"And still to nose the offence."
V,I,MENENIUS,"For one poor grain or two!"
V,I,MENENIUS,"I am one of those; his mother, wife, his child,"
V,I,MENENIUS,"And this brave fellow too, we are the grains:"
V,I,MENENIUS,"You are the musty chaff; and you are smelt"
V,I,MENENIUS,"Above the moon: we must be burnt for you."
V,I,SICINIUS,"Nay, pray, be patient: if you refuse your aid"
V,I,SICINIUS,"In this so never-needed help, yet do not"
V,I,SICINIUS,"Upbraid's with our distress. But, sure, if you"
V,I,SICINIUS,"Would be your country's pleader, your good tongue,"
V,I,SICINIUS,"More than the instant army we can make,"
V,I,SICINIUS,"Might stop our countryman."
V,I,MENENIUS,"No, I'll not meddle."
V,I,SICINIUS,"Pray you, go to him."
V,I,MENENIUS,"What should I do?"
V,I,BRUTUS,"Only make trial what your love can do"
V,I,BRUTUS,"For Rome, towards Marcius."
V,I,MENENIUS,"Well, and say that Marcius"
V,I,MENENIUS,"Return me, as Cominius is return'd,"
V,I,MENENIUS,"Unheard; what then?"
V,I,MENENIUS,"But as a discontented friend, grief-shot"
V,I,MENENIUS,"With his unkindness? say't be so?"
V,I,SICINIUS,"Yet your good will"
V,I,SICINIUS,"must have that thanks from Rome, after the measure"
V,I,SICINIUS,"As you intended well."
V,I,MENENIUS,"I'll undertake 't:"
V,I,MENENIUS,"I think he'll hear me. Yet, to bite his lip"
V,I,MENENIUS,"And hum at good Cominius, much unhearts me."
V,I,MENENIUS,"He was not taken well; he had not dined:"
V,I,MENENIUS,"The veins unfill'd, our blood is cold, and then"
V,I,MENENIUS,"We pout upon the morning, are unapt"
V,I,MENENIUS,"To give or to forgive; but when we have stuff'd"
V,I,MENENIUS,"These and these conveyances of our blood"
V,I,MENENIUS,"With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls"
V,I,MENENIUS,"Than in our priest-like fasts: therefore I'll watch him"
V,I,MENENIUS,"Till he be dieted to my request,"
V,I,MENENIUS,"And then I'll set upon him."
V,I,BRUTUS,"You know the very road into his kindness,"
V,I,BRUTUS,"And cannot lose your way."
V,I,MENENIUS,"Good faith, I'll prove him,"
V,I,MENENIUS,"Speed how it will. I shall ere long have knowledge"
V,I,MENENIUS,"Of my success."
V,I,COMINIUS,"He'll never hear him."
V,I,SICINIUS,"Not?"
V,I,COMINIUS,"I tell you, he does sit in gold, his eye"
V,I,COMINIUS,"Red as 'twould burn Rome; and his injury"
V,I,COMINIUS,"The gaoler to his pity. I kneel'd before him;"
V,I,COMINIUS,"'Twas very faintly he said 'Rise;' dismiss'd me"
V,I,COMINIUS,"Thus, with his speechless hand: what he would do,"
V,I,COMINIUS,"He sent in writing after me; what he would not,"
V,I,COMINIUS,"Bound with an oath to yield to his conditions:"
V,I,COMINIUS,"So that all hope is vain."
V,I,COMINIUS,"Unless his noble mother, and his wife;"
V,I,COMINIUS,"Who, as I hear, mean to solicit him"
V,I,COMINIUS,"For mercy to his country. Therefore, let's hence,"
V,I,COMINIUS,"And with our fair entreaties haste them on."
V,II,First Senator,"Stay: whence are you?"
V,II,Second Senator,"Stand, and go back."
V,II,MENENIUS,"You guard like men; 'tis well: but, by your leave,"
V,II,MENENIUS,"I am an officer of state, and come"
V,II,MENENIUS,"To speak with Coriolanus."
V,II,First Senator,"From whence?"
V,II,MENENIUS,"From Rome."
V,II,First Senator,"You may not pass, you must return: our general"
V,II,First Senator,"Will no more hear from thence."
V,II,Second Senator,"You'll see your Rome embraced with fire before"
V,II,Second Senator,"You'll speak with Coriolanus."
V,II,MENENIUS,"Good my friends,"
V,II,MENENIUS,"If you have heard your general talk of Rome,"
V,II,MENENIUS,"And of his friends there, it is lots to blanks,"
V,II,MENENIUS,"My name hath touch'd your ears it is Menenius."
V,II,First Senator,"Be it so; go back: the virtue of your name"
V,II,First Senator,"Is not here passable."
V,II,MENENIUS,"I tell thee, fellow,"
V,II,MENENIUS,"The general is my lover: I have been"
V,II,MENENIUS,"The book of his good acts, whence men have read"
V,II,MENENIUS,"His name unparallel'd, haply amplified;"
V,II,MENENIUS,"For I have ever verified my friends,"
V,II,MENENIUS,"Of whom he's chief, with all the size that verity"
V,II,MENENIUS,"Would without lapsing suffer: nay, sometimes,"
V,II,MENENIUS,"Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground,"
V,II,MENENIUS,"I have tumbled past the throw; and in his praise"
V,II,MENENIUS,"Have almost stamp'd the leasing: therefore, fellow,"
V,II,MENENIUS,"I must have leave to pass."
V,II,First Senator,"Faith, sir, if you had told as many lies in his"
V,II,First Senator,"behalf as you have uttered words in your own, you"
V,II,First Senator,"should not pass here; no, though it were as virtuous"
V,II,First Senator,"to lie as to live chastely. Therefore, go back."
V,II,MENENIUS,"Prithee, fellow, remember my name is Menenius,"
V,II,MENENIUS,"always factionary on the party of your general."
V,II,Second Senator,"Howsoever you have been his liar, as you say you"
V,II,Second Senator,"have, I am one that, telling true under him, must"
V,II,Second Senator,"say, you cannot pass. Therefore, go back."
V,II,MENENIUS,"Has he dined, canst thou tell? for I would not"
V,II,MENENIUS,"speak with him till after dinner."
V,II,First Senator,"You are a Roman, are you?"
V,II,MENENIUS,"I am, as thy general is."
V,II,First Senator,"Then you should hate Rome, as he does. Can you,"
V,II,First Senator,"when you have pushed out your gates the very"
V,II,First Senator,"defender of them, and, in a violent popular"
V,II,First Senator,"ignorance, given your enemy your shield, think to"
V,II,First Senator,"front his revenges with the easy groans of old"
V,II,First Senator,"women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with"
V,II,First Senator,"the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as"
V,II,First Senator,"you seem to be? Can you think to blow out the"
V,II,First Senator,"intended fire your city is ready to flame in, with"
V,II,First Senator,"such weak breath as this? No, you are deceived;"
V,II,First Senator,"therefore, back to Rome, and prepare for your"
V,II,First Senator,"execution: you are condemned, our general has sworn"
V,II,First Senator,"you out of reprieve and pardon."
V,II,MENENIUS,"Sirrah, if thy captain knew I were here, he would"
V,II,MENENIUS,"use me with estimation."
V,II,Second Senator,"Come, my captain knows you not."
V,II,MENENIUS,"I mean, thy general."
V,II,First Senator,"My general cares not for you. Back, I say, go; lest"
V,II,First Senator,"I let forth your half-pint of blood; back,--that's"
V,II,First Senator,"the utmost of your having: back."
V,II,MENENIUS,"Nay, but, fellow, fellow,--"
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"What's the matter?"
V,II,MENENIUS,"Now, you companion, I'll say an errand for you:"
V,II,MENENIUS,"You shall know now that I am in estimation; you shall"
V,II,MENENIUS,"perceive that a Jack guardant cannot office me from"
V,II,MENENIUS,"my son Coriolanus: guess, but by my entertainment"
V,II,MENENIUS,"with him, if thou standest not i' the state of"
V,II,MENENIUS,"hanging, or of some death more long in"
V,II,MENENIUS,"spectatorship, and crueller in suffering; behold now"
V,II,MENENIUS,"presently, and swoon for what's to come upon thee."
V,II,MENENIUS,"The glorious gods sit in hourly synod about thy"
V,II,MENENIUS,"particular prosperity, and love thee no worse than"
V,II,MENENIUS,"thy old father Menenius does! O my son, my son!"
V,II,MENENIUS,"thou art preparing fire for us; look thee, here's"
V,II,MENENIUS,"water to quench it. I was hardly moved to come to"
V,II,MENENIUS,"thee; but being assured none but myself could move"
V,II,MENENIUS,"thee, I have been blown out of your gates with"
V,II,MENENIUS,"sighs; and conjure thee to pardon Rome, and thy"
V,II,MENENIUS,"petitionary countrymen. The good gods assuage thy"
V,II,MENENIUS,"wrath, and turn the dregs of it upon this varlet"
V,II,MENENIUS,"here,--this, who, like a block, hath denied my"
V,II,MENENIUS,"access to thee."
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"Away!"
V,II,MENENIUS,"How! away!"
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"Wife, mother, child, I know not. My affairs"
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"Are servanted to others: though I owe"
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"My revenge properly, my remission lies"
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"In Volscian breasts. That we have been familiar,"
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison, rather"
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"Than pity note how much. Therefore, be gone."
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"Mine ears against your suits are stronger than"
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"Your gates against my force. Yet, for I loved thee,"
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"Take this along; I writ it for thy sake"
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"And would have rent it. Another word, Menenius,"
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"I will not hear thee speak. This man, Aufidius,"
V,II,CORIOLANUS,"Was my beloved in Rome: yet thou behold'st!"
V,II,AUFIDIUS,"You keep a constant temper."
V,II,First Senator,"Now, sir, is your name Menenius?"
V,II,Second Senator,"'Tis a spell, you see, of much power: you know the"
V,II,Second Senator,"way home again."
V,II,First Senator,"Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your"
V,II,First Senator,"greatness back?"
V,II,Second Senator,"What cause, do you think, I have to swoon?"
V,II,MENENIUS,"I neither care for the world nor your general: for"
V,II,MENENIUS,"such things as you, I can scarce think there's any,"
V,II,MENENIUS,"ye're so slight. He that hath a will to die by"
V,II,MENENIUS,"himself fears it not from another: let your general"
V,II,MENENIUS,"do his worst. For you, be that you are, long; and"
V,II,MENENIUS,"your misery increase with your age! I say to you,"
V,II,MENENIUS,"as I was said to, Away!"
V,II,First Senator,"A noble fellow, I warrant him."
V,II,Second Senator,"The worthy fellow is our general: he's the rock, the"
V,II,Second Senator,"oak not to be wind-shaken."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"We will before the walls of Rome tomorrow"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Set down our host. My partner in this action,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"You must report to the Volscian lords, how plainly"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"I have borne this business."
V,III,AUFIDIUS,"Only their ends"
V,III,AUFIDIUS,"You have respected; stopp'd your ears against"
V,III,AUFIDIUS,"The general suit of Rome; never admitted"
V,III,AUFIDIUS,"A private whisper, no, not with such friends"
V,III,AUFIDIUS,"That thought them sure of you."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"This last old man,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Loved me above the measure of a father;"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Nay, godded me, indeed. Their latest refuge"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Was to send him; for whose old love I have,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Though I show'd sourly to him, once more offer'd"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"The first conditions, which they did refuse"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"And cannot now accept; to grace him only"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"That thought he could do more, a very little"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"I have yielded to: fresh embassies and suits,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Nor from the state nor private friends, hereafter"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Will I lend ear to. Ha! what shout is this?"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Shall I be tempted to infringe my vow"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"In the same time 'tis made? I will not."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"My wife comes foremost; then the honour'd mould"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Wherein this trunk was framed, and in her hand"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"The grandchild to her blood. But, out, affection!"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"All bond and privilege of nature, break!"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Let it be virtuous to be obstinate."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"What is that curt'sy worth? or those doves' eyes,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Which can make gods forsworn? I melt, and am not"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Of stronger earth than others. My mother bows;"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"As if Olympus to a molehill should"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"In supplication nod: and my young boy"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Hath an aspect of intercession, which"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Great nature cries 'Deny not.' let the Volsces"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Plough Rome and harrow Italy: I'll never"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"As if a man were author of himself"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"And knew no other kin."
V,III,VIRGILIA,"My lord and husband!"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"These eyes are not the same I wore in Rome."
V,III,VIRGILIA,"The sorrow that delivers us thus changed"
V,III,VIRGILIA,"Makes you think so."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Like a dull actor now,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"I have forgot my part, and I am out,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Even to a full disgrace. Best of my flesh,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Forgive my tyranny; but do not say"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"For that 'Forgive our Romans.' O, a kiss"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"I carried from thee, dear; and my true lip"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Hath virgin'd it e'er since. You gods! I prate,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"And the most noble mother of the world"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Leave unsaluted: sink, my knee, i' the earth;"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Of thy deep duty more impression show"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Than that of common sons."
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"O, stand up blest!"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Whilst, with no softer cushion than the flint,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"I kneel before thee; and unproperly"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Show duty, as mistaken all this while"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Between the child and parent."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"What is this?"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Your knees to me? to your corrected son?"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Fillip the stars; then let the mutinous winds"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Strike the proud cedars 'gainst the fiery sun;"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Murdering impossibility, to make"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"What cannot be, slight work."
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Thou art my warrior;"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"I holp to frame thee. Do you know this lady?"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"The noble sister of Publicola,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"That's curdied by the frost from purest snow"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"And hangs on Dian's temple: dear Valeria!"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"This is a poor epitome of yours,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Which by the interpretation of full time"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"May show like all yourself."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"The god of soldiers,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"With the consent of supreme Jove, inform"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Thy thoughts with nobleness; that thou mayst prove"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"To shame unvulnerable, and stick i' the wars"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Like a great sea-mark, standing every flaw,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"And saving those that eye thee!"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Your knee, sirrah."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"That's my brave boy!"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Even he, your wife, this lady, and myself,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Are suitors to you."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"I beseech you, peace:"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Or, if you'ld ask, remember this before:"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"The thing I have forsworn to grant may never"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Be held by you denials. Do not bid me"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Dismiss my soldiers, or capitulate"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Again with Rome's mechanics: tell me not"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Wherein I seem unnatural: desire not"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"To ally my rages and revenges with"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Your colder reasons."
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"O, no more, no more!"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"You have said you will not grant us any thing;"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"For we have nothing else to ask, but that"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Which you deny already: yet we will ask;"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"That, if you fail in our request, the blame"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"May hang upon your hardness: therefore hear us."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Aufidius, and you Volsces, mark; for we'll"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Hear nought from Rome in private. Your request?"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"And state of bodies would bewray what life"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"We have led since thy exile. Think with thyself"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"How more unfortunate than all living women"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Are we come hither: since that thy sight,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"which should"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"with comforts,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow;"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Making the mother, wife and child to see"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"The son, the husband and the father tearing"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"His country's bowels out. And to poor we"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Thine enmity's most capital: thou barr'st us"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Our prayers to the gods, which is a comfort"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"That all but we enjoy; for how can we,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Alas, how can we for our country pray."
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Whereto we are bound, together with thy victory,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Whereto we are bound? alack, or we must lose"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"The country, our dear nurse, or else thy person,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Our comfort in the country. We must find"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"An evident calamity, though we had"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Our wish, which side should win: for either thou"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Must, as a foreign recreant, be led"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"With manacles thorough our streets, or else"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"And bear the palm for having bravely shed"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Thy wife and children's blood. For myself, son,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"I purpose not to wait on fortune till"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"These wars determine: if I cannot persuade thee"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Rather to show a noble grace to both parts"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Than seek the end of one, thou shalt no sooner"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"March to assault thy country than to tread--"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Trust to't, thou shalt not--on thy mother's womb,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"That brought thee to this world."
V,III,VIRGILIA,"Ay, and mine,"
V,III,VIRGILIA,"That brought you forth this boy, to keep your name"
V,III,VIRGILIA,"Living to time."
V,III,Young MARCIUS,"A' shall not tread on me;"
V,III,Young MARCIUS,"I'll run away till I am bigger, but then I'll fight."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Not of a woman's tenderness to be,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Requires nor child nor woman's face to see."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"I have sat too long."
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Nay, go not from us thus."
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"If it were so that our request did tend"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"To save the Romans, thereby to destroy"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"The Volsces whom you serve, you might condemn us,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"As poisonous of your honour: no; our suit"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Is that you reconcile them: while the Volsces"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"May say 'This mercy we have show'd;' the Romans,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"'This we received;' and each in either side"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Give the all-hail to thee and cry 'Be blest"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"For making up this peace!' Thou know'st, great son,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Whose repetition will be dogg'd with curses;"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Whose chronicle thus writ: 'The man was noble,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"But with his last attempt he wiped it out;"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Destroy'd his country, and his name remains"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"To the ensuing age abhorr'd.' Speak to me, son:"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Thou hast affected the fine strains of honour,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"To imitate the graces of the gods;"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' the air,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"That should but rive an oak. Why dost not speak?"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Still to remember wrongs? Daughter, speak you:"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"He cares not for your weeping. Speak thou, boy:"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Perhaps thy childishness will move him more"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Than can our reasons. There's no man in the world"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"More bound to 's mother; yet here he lets me prate"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Like one i' the stocks. Thou hast never in thy life"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Show'd thy dear mother any courtesy,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Has cluck'd thee to the wars and safely home,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Loaden with honour. Say my request's unjust,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"And spurn me back: but if it be not so,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Thou art not honest; and the gods will plague thee,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"That thou restrain'st from me the duty which"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"To a mother's part belongs. He turns away:"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Down, ladies; let us shame him with our knees."
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"To his surname Coriolanus 'longs more pride"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Than pity to our prayers. Down: an end;"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"This is the last: so we will home to Rome,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"And die among our neighbours. Nay, behold 's:"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"This boy, that cannot tell what he would have"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"But kneels and holds up bands for fellowship,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Does reason our petition with more strength"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Than thou hast to deny 't. Come, let us go:"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"This fellow had a Volscian to his mother;"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"His wife is in Corioli and his child"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"Like him by chance. Yet give us our dispatch:"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"I am hush'd until our city be a-fire,"
V,III,VOLUMNIA,"And then I'll speak a little."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"O mother, mother!"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"The gods look down, and this unnatural scene"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O!"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"You have won a happy victory to Rome;"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"But, for your son,--believe it, O, believe it,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Most dangerously you have with him prevail'd,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"If not most mortal to him. But, let it come."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Aufidius, though I cannot make true wars,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"I'll frame convenient peace. Now, good Aufidius,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Were you in my stead, would you have heard"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"A mother less? or granted less, Aufidius?"
V,III,AUFIDIUS,"I was moved withal."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"I dare be sworn you were:"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"And, sir, it is no little thing to make"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But, good sir,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"What peace you'll make, advise me: for my part,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"I'll not to Rome, I'll back with you; and pray you,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Stand to me in this cause. O mother! wife!"
V,III,AUFIDIUS,"thy honour"
V,III,AUFIDIUS,"At difference in thee: out of that I'll work"
V,III,AUFIDIUS,"Myself a former fortune."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Ay, by and by;"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"But we will drink together; and you shall bear"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"A better witness back than words, which we,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"On like conditions, will have counter-seal'd."
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Come, enter with us. Ladies, you deserve"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"To have a temple built you: all the swords"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"In Italy, and her confederate arms,"
V,III,CORIOLANUS,"Could not have made this peace."
V,IV,MENENIUS,"See you yond coign o' the Capitol, yond"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"corner-stone?"
V,IV,SICINIUS,"Why, what of that?"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"If it be possible for you to displace it with your"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"little finger, there is some hope the ladies of"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"Rome, especially his mother, may prevail with him."
V,IV,MENENIUS,"But I say there is no hope in't: our throats are"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"sentenced and stay upon execution."
V,IV,SICINIUS,"Is't possible that so short a time can alter the"
V,IV,SICINIUS,"condition of a man!"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"There is differency between a grub and a butterfly;"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"yet your butterfly was a grub. This Marcius is grown"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"from man to dragon: he has wings; he's more than a"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"creeping thing."
V,IV,SICINIUS,"He loved his mother dearly."
V,IV,MENENIUS,"So did he me: and he no more remembers his mother"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"now than an eight-year-old horse. The tartness"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"of his face sours ripe grapes: when he walks, he"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"moves like an engine, and the ground shrinks before"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"his treading: he is able to pierce a corslet with"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"battery. He sits in his state, as a thing made for"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"Alexander. What he bids be done is finished with"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"his bidding. He wants nothing of a god but eternity"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"and a heaven to throne in."
V,IV,SICINIUS,"Yes, mercy, if you report him truly."
V,IV,MENENIUS,"I paint him in the character. Mark what mercy his"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"mother shall bring from him: there is no more mercy"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"in him than there is milk in a male tiger; that"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"shall our poor city find: and all this is long of"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"you."
V,IV,SICINIUS,"The gods be good unto us!"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"No, in such a case the gods will not be good unto"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"us. When we banished him, we respected not them;"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"and, he returning to break our necks, they respect not us."
V,IV,Messenger,"Sir, if you'ld save your life, fly to your house:"
V,IV,Messenger,"The plebeians have got your fellow-tribune"
V,IV,Messenger,"And hale him up and down, all swearing, if"
V,IV,Messenger,"The Roman ladies bring not comfort home,"
V,IV,Messenger,"They'll give him death by inches."
V,IV,SICINIUS,"What's the news?"
V,IV,Second Messenger,"Good news, good news; the ladies have prevail'd,"
V,IV,Second Messenger,"The Volscians are dislodged, and Marcius gone:"
V,IV,Second Messenger,"A merrier day did never yet greet Rome,"
V,IV,Second Messenger,"No, not the expulsion of the Tarquins."
V,IV,SICINIUS,"Friend,"
V,IV,SICINIUS,"Art thou certain this is true? is it most certain?"
V,IV,Second Messenger,"As certain as I know the sun is fire:"
V,IV,Second Messenger,"Where have you lurk'd, that you make doubt of it?"
V,IV,Second Messenger,"Ne'er through an arch so hurried the blown tide,"
V,IV,Second Messenger,"As the recomforted through the gates. Why, hark you!"
V,IV,Second Messenger,"The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes,"
V,IV,Second Messenger,"Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans,"
V,IV,Second Messenger,"Make the sun dance. Hark you!"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"This is good news:"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"I will go meet the ladies. This Volumnia"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"Is worth of consuls, senators, patricians,"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"A city full; of tribunes, such as you,"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"A sea and land full. You have pray'd well to-day:"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"This morning for ten thousand of your throats"
V,IV,MENENIUS,"I'd not have given a doit. Hark, how they joy!"
V,IV,SICINIUS,"First, the gods bless you for your tidings; next,"
V,IV,SICINIUS,"Accept my thankfulness."
V,IV,Second Messenger,"Sir, we have all"
V,IV,Second Messenger,"Great cause to give great thanks."
V,IV,SICINIUS,"They are near the city?"
V,IV,Second Messenger,"Almost at point to enter."
V,IV,SICINIUS,"We will meet them,"
V,IV,SICINIUS,"And help the joy."
V,V,First Senator,"Behold our patroness, the life of Rome!"
V,V,First Senator,"Call all your tribes together, praise the gods,"
V,V,First Senator,"And make triumphant fires; strew flowers before them:"
V,V,First Senator,"Unshout the noise that banish'd Marcius,"
V,V,First Senator,"Repeal him with the welcome of his mother;"
V,V,First Senator,"Cry 'Welcome, ladies, welcome!'"
V,V,All,"Welcome, ladies, Welcome!"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Go tell the lords o' the city I am here:"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Deliver them this paper: having read it,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Bid them repair to the market place; where I,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Even in theirs and in the commons' ears,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Will vouch the truth of it. Him I accuse"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"The city ports by this hath enter'd and"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Intends to appear before the people, hoping"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"To purge herself with words: dispatch."
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Most welcome!"
V,VI,First Conspirator,"How is it with our general?"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Even so"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"As with a man by his own alms empoison'd,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"And with his charity slain."
V,VI,Second Conspirator,"Most noble sir,"
V,VI,Second Conspirator,"If you do hold the same intent wherein"
V,VI,Second Conspirator,"You wish'd us parties, we'll deliver you"
V,VI,Second Conspirator,"Of your great danger."
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Sir, I cannot tell:"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"We must proceed as we do find the people."
V,VI,Third Conspirator,"The people will remain uncertain whilst"
V,VI,Third Conspirator,"'Twixt you there's difference; but the fall of either"
V,VI,Third Conspirator,"Makes the survivor heir of all."
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"I know it;"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"And my pretext to strike at him admits"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"A good construction. I raised him, and I pawn'd"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Mine honour for his truth: who being so heighten'd,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"He water'd his new plants with dews of flattery,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Seducing so my friends; and, to this end,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"He bow'd his nature, never known before"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"But to be rough, unswayable and free."
V,VI,Third Conspirator,"Sir, his stoutness"
V,VI,Third Conspirator,"When he did stand for consul, which he lost"
V,VI,Third Conspirator,"By lack of stooping,--"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"That I would have spoke of:"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Being banish'd for't, he came unto my hearth;"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Presented to my knife his throat: I took him;"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Made him joint-servant with me; gave him way"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"In all his own desires; nay, let him choose"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Out of my files, his projects to accomplish,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"My best and freshest men; served his designments"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"In mine own person; holp to reap the fame"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Which he did end all his; and took some pride"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"To do myself this wrong: till, at the last,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"I seem'd his follower, not partner, and"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"He waged me with his countenance, as if"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"I had been mercenary."
V,VI,First Conspirator,"So he did, my lord:"
V,VI,First Conspirator,"The army marvell'd at it, and, in the last,"
V,VI,First Conspirator,"When he had carried Rome and that we look'd"
V,VI,First Conspirator,"For no less spoil than glory,--"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"There was it:"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"For which my sinews shall be stretch'd upon him."
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"At a few drops of women's rheum, which are"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"As cheap as lies, he sold the blood and labour"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Of our great action: therefore shall he die,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"And I'll renew me in his fall. But, hark!"
V,VI,First Conspirator,"Your native town you enter'd like a post,"
V,VI,First Conspirator,"And had no welcomes home: but he returns,"
V,VI,First Conspirator,"Splitting the air with noise."
V,VI,Second Conspirator,"And patient fools,"
V,VI,Second Conspirator,"Whose children he hath slain, their base throats tear"
V,VI,Second Conspirator,"With giving him glory."
V,VI,Third Conspirator,"Therefore, at your vantage,"
V,VI,Third Conspirator,"Ere he express himself, or move the people"
V,VI,Third Conspirator,"With what he would say, let him feel your sword,"
V,VI,Third Conspirator,"Which we will second. When he lies along,"
V,VI,Third Conspirator,"After your way his tale pronounced shall bury"
V,VI,Third Conspirator,"His reasons with his body."
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Say no more:"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Here come the lords."
V,VI,All The Lords,"You are most welcome home."
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"I have not deserved it."
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"But, worthy lords, have you with heed perused"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"What I have written to you?"
V,VI,Lords,"We have."
V,VI,First Lord,"And grieve to hear't."
V,VI,First Lord,"What faults he made before the last, I think"
V,VI,First Lord,"Might have found easy fines: but there to end"
V,VI,First Lord,"Where he was to begin and give away"
V,VI,First Lord,"The benefit of our levies, answering us"
V,VI,First Lord,"With our own charge, making a treaty where"
V,VI,First Lord,"There was a yielding,--this admits no excuse."
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"He approaches: you shall hear him."
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Hail, lords! I am return'd your soldier,"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"No more infected with my country's love"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Than when I parted hence, but still subsisting"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Under your great command. You are to know"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"That prosperously I have attempted and"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"With bloody passage led your wars even to"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"The gates of Rome. Our spoils we have brought home"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Do more than counterpoise a full third part"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"The charges of the action. We have made peace"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"With no less honour to the Antiates"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Than shame to the Romans: and we here deliver,"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Subscribed by the consuls and patricians,"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Together with the seal o' the senate, what"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"We have compounded on."
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Read it not, noble lords;"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"But tell the traitor, in the high'st degree"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"He hath abused your powers."
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Traitor! how now!"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Ay, traitor, Marcius!"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Marcius!"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Ay, Marcius, Caius Marcius: dost thou think"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"I'll grace thee with that robbery, thy stol'n name"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Coriolanus in Corioli?"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"You lords and heads o' the state, perfidiously"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"He has betray'd your business, and given up,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"For certain drops of salt, your city Rome,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"I say 'your city,' to his wife and mother;"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Breaking his oath and resolution like"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"A twist of rotten silk, never admitting"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Counsel o' the war, but at his nurse's tears"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"He whined and roar'd away your victory,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"That pages blush'd at him and men of heart"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Look'd wondering each at other."
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Hear'st thou, Mars?"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Name not the god, thou boy of tears!"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Ha!"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"No more."
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Measureless liar, thou hast made my heart"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Too great for what contains it. Boy! O slave!"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Pardon me, lords, 'tis the first time that ever"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"I was forced to scold. Your judgments, my grave lords,"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Must give this cur the lie: and his own notion--"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Who wears my stripes impress'd upon him; that"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Must bear my beating to his grave--shall join"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"To thrust the lie unto him."
V,VI,First Lord,"Peace, both, and hear me speak."
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Cut me to pieces, Volsces; men and lads,"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Stain all your edges on me. Boy! false hound!"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there,"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli:"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"Alone I did it. Boy!"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Why, noble lords,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Will you be put in mind of his blind fortune,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Which was your shame, by this unholy braggart,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"'Fore your own eyes and ears?"
V,VI,All Conspirators,"Let him die for't."
V,VI,All The People,"'Tear him to pieces.' 'Do it presently.' 'He kill'd"
V,VI,All The People,"my son.' 'My daughter.' 'He killed my cousin"
V,VI,All The People,"Marcus.' 'He killed my father.'"
V,VI,Second Lord,"Peace, ho! no outrage: peace!"
V,VI,Second Lord,"The man is noble and his fame folds-in"
V,VI,Second Lord,"This orb o' the earth. His last offences to us"
V,VI,Second Lord,"Shall have judicious hearing. Stand, Aufidius,"
V,VI,Second Lord,"And trouble not the peace."
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"O that I had him,"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"With six Aufidiuses, or more, his tribe,"
V,VI,CORIOLANUS,"To use my lawful sword!"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Insolent villain!"
V,VI,All Conspirators,"Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill him!"
V,VI,Lords,"Hold, hold, hold, hold!"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"My noble masters, hear me speak."
V,VI,First Lord,"O Tullus,--"
V,VI,Second Lord,"Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep."
V,VI,Third Lord,"Tread not upon him. Masters all, be quiet;"
V,VI,Third Lord,"Put up your swords."
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"My lords, when you shall know--as in this rage,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Provoked by him, you cannot--the great danger"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Which this man's life did owe you, you'll rejoice"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"That he is thus cut off. Please it your honours"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"To call me to your senate, I'll deliver"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Myself your loyal servant, or endure"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Your heaviest censure."
V,VI,First Lord,"Bear from hence his body;"
V,VI,First Lord,"And mourn you for him: let him be regarded"
V,VI,First Lord,"As the most noble corse that ever herald"
V,VI,First Lord,"Did follow to his urn."
V,VI,Second Lord,"His own impatience"
V,VI,Second Lord,"Takes from Aufidius a great part of blame."
V,VI,Second Lord,"Let's make the best of it."
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"My rage is gone;"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up."
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Help, three o' the chiefest soldiers; I'll be one."
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Beat thou the drum, that it speak mournfully:"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Trail your steel pikes. Though in this city he"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Which to this hour bewail the injury,"
V,VI,AUFIDIUS,"Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist."
I,I,First Gentleman,"You do not meet a man but frowns: our bloods"
I,I,First Gentleman,"No more obey the heavens than our courtiers"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Still seem as does the king."
I,I,Second Gentleman,"But what's the matter?"
I,I,First Gentleman,"His daughter, and the heir of's kingdom, whom"
I,I,First Gentleman,"He purposed to his wife's sole son--a widow"
I,I,First Gentleman,"That late he married--hath referr'd herself"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Unto a poor but worthy gentleman: she's wedded;"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Her husband banish'd; she imprison'd: all"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Is outward sorrow; though I think the king"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Be touch'd at very heart."
I,I,Second Gentleman,"None but the king?"
I,I,First Gentleman,"He that hath lost her too; so is the queen,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"That most desired the match; but not a courtier,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Although they wear their faces to the bent"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Of the king's look's, hath a heart that is not"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Glad at the thing they scowl at."
I,I,Second Gentleman,"And why so?"
I,I,First Gentleman,"He that hath miss'd the princess is a thing"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Too bad for bad report: and he that hath her--"
I,I,First Gentleman,"I mean, that married her, alack, good man!"
I,I,First Gentleman,"And therefore banish'd--is a creature such"
I,I,First Gentleman,"As, to seek through the regions of the earth"
I,I,First Gentleman,"For one his like, there would be something failing"
I,I,First Gentleman,"In him that should compare. I do not think"
I,I,First Gentleman,"So fair an outward and such stuff within"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Endows a man but he."
I,I,Second Gentleman,"You speak him far."
I,I,First Gentleman,"I do extend him, sir, within himself,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Crush him together rather than unfold"
I,I,First Gentleman,"His measure duly."
I,I,Second Gentleman,"What's his name and birth?"
I,I,First Gentleman,"I cannot delve him to the root: his father"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Was call'd Sicilius, who did join his honour"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Against the Romans with Cassibelan,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"But had his titles by Tenantius whom"
I,I,First Gentleman,"He served with glory and admired success,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"So gain'd the sur-addition Leonatus;"
I,I,First Gentleman,"And had, besides this gentleman in question,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Two other sons, who in the wars o' the time"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Died with their swords in hand; for which"
I,I,First Gentleman,"their father,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Then old and fond of issue, took such sorrow"
I,I,First Gentleman,"That he quit being, and his gentle lady,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Big of this gentleman our theme, deceased"
I,I,First Gentleman,"As he was born. The king he takes the babe"
I,I,First Gentleman,"To his protection, calls him Posthumus Leonatus,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Breeds him and makes him of his bed-chamber,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Puts to him all the learnings that his time"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Could make him the receiver of; which he took,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"As we do air, fast as 'twas minister'd,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"And in's spring became a harvest, lived in court--"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Which rare it is to do--most praised, most loved,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"A sample to the youngest, to the more mature"
I,I,First Gentleman,"A glass that feated them, and to the graver"
I,I,First Gentleman,"A child that guided dotards; to his mistress,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"For whom he now is banish'd, her own price"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Proclaims how she esteem'd him and his virtue;"
I,I,First Gentleman,"By her election may be truly read"
I,I,First Gentleman,"What kind of man he is."
I,I,Second Gentleman,"I honour him"
I,I,Second Gentleman,"Even out of your report. But, pray you, tell me,"
I,I,Second Gentleman,"Is she sole child to the king?"
I,I,First Gentleman,"His only child."
I,I,First Gentleman,"He had two sons: if this be worth your hearing,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Mark it: the eldest of them at three years old,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"I' the swathing-clothes the other, from their nursery"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Were stol'n, and to this hour no guess in knowledge"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Which way they went."
I,I,Second Gentleman,"How long is this ago?"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Some twenty years."
I,I,Second Gentleman,"That a king's children should be so convey'd,"
I,I,Second Gentleman,"So slackly guarded, and the search so slow,"
I,I,Second Gentleman,"That could not trace them!"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Howsoe'er 'tis strange,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Or that the negligence may well be laugh'd at,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"Yet is it true, sir."
I,I,Second Gentleman,"I do well believe you."
I,I,First Gentleman,"We must forbear: here comes the gentleman,"
I,I,First Gentleman,"The queen, and princess."
I,I,QUEEN,"No, be assured you shall not find me, daughter,"
I,I,QUEEN,"After the slander of most stepmothers,"
I,I,QUEEN,"Evil-eyed unto you: you're my prisoner, but"
I,I,QUEEN,"Your gaoler shall deliver you the keys"
I,I,QUEEN,"That lock up your restraint. For you, Posthumus,"
I,I,QUEEN,"So soon as I can win the offended king,"
I,I,QUEEN,"I will be known your advocate: marry, yet"
I,I,QUEEN,"The fire of rage is in him, and 'twere good"
I,I,QUEEN,"You lean'd unto his sentence with what patience"
I,I,QUEEN,"Your wisdom may inform you."
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Please your highness,"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I will from hence to-day."
I,I,QUEEN,"You know the peril."
I,I,QUEEN,"I'll fetch a turn about the garden, pitying"
I,I,QUEEN,"The pangs of barr'd affections, though the king"
I,I,QUEEN,"Hath charged you should not speak together."
I,I,IMOGEN,"O"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Can tickle where she wounds! My dearest husband,"
I,I,IMOGEN,"I something fear my father's wrath; but nothing--"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Always reserved my holy duty--what"
I,I,IMOGEN,"His rage can do on me: you must be gone;"
I,I,IMOGEN,"And I shall here abide the hourly shot"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Of angry eyes, not comforted to live,"
I,I,IMOGEN,"But that there is this jewel in the world"
I,I,IMOGEN,"That I may see again."
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"My queen! my mistress!"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"O lady, weep no more, lest I give cause"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To be suspected of more tenderness"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Than doth become a man. I will remain"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The loyal'st husband that did e'er plight troth:"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"My residence in Rome at one Philario's,"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Who to my father was a friend, to me"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Known but by letter: thither write, my queen,"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you send,"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Though ink be made of gall."
I,I,QUEEN,"Be brief, I pray you:"
I,I,QUEEN,"If the king come, I shall incur I know not"
I,I,QUEEN,"How much of his displeasure."
I,I,QUEEN,"Yet I'll move him"
I,I,QUEEN,"To walk this way: I never do him wrong,"
I,I,QUEEN,"But he does buy my injuries, to be friends;"
I,I,QUEEN,"Pays dear for my offences."
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Should we be taking leave"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"As long a term as yet we have to live,"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The loathness to depart would grow. Adieu!"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Nay, stay a little:"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Were you but riding forth to air yourself,"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Such parting were too petty. Look here, love;"
I,I,IMOGEN,"This diamond was my mother's: take it, heart;"
I,I,IMOGEN,"But keep it till you woo another wife,"
I,I,IMOGEN,"When Imogen is dead."
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"How, how! another?"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"You gentle gods, give me but this I have,"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And sear up my embracements from a next"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"With bonds of death!"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Remain, remain thou here"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"While sense can keep it on. And, sweetest, fairest,"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"As I my poor self did exchange for you,"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To your so infinite loss, so in our trifles"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I still win of you: for my sake wear this;"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"It is a manacle of love; I'll place it"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Upon this fairest prisoner."
I,I,IMOGEN,"O the gods!"
I,I,IMOGEN,"When shall we see again?"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Alack, the king!"
I,I,CYMBELINE,"Thou basest thing, avoid! hence, from my sight!"
I,I,CYMBELINE,"If after this command thou fraught the court"
I,I,CYMBELINE,"With thy unworthiness, thou diest: away!"
I,I,CYMBELINE,"Thou'rt poison to my blood."
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The gods protect you!"
I,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And bless the good remainders of the court! I am gone."
I,I,IMOGEN,"There cannot be a pinch in death"
I,I,IMOGEN,"More sharp than this is."
I,I,CYMBELINE,"O disloyal thing,"
I,I,CYMBELINE,"That shouldst repair my youth, thou heap'st"
I,I,CYMBELINE,"A year's age on me."
I,I,IMOGEN,"I beseech you, sir,"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Harm not yourself with your vexation"
I,I,IMOGEN,"I am senseless of your wrath; a touch more rare"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Subdues all pangs, all fears."
I,I,CYMBELINE,"Past grace? obedience?"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Past hope, and in despair; that way, past grace."
I,I,CYMBELINE,"That mightst have had the sole son of my queen!"
I,I,IMOGEN,"O blest, that I might not! I chose an eagle,"
I,I,IMOGEN,"And did avoid a puttock."
I,I,CYMBELINE,"Thou took'st a beggar; wouldst have made my throne"
I,I,CYMBELINE,"A seat for baseness."
I,I,IMOGEN,"No; I rather added"
I,I,IMOGEN,"A lustre to it."
I,I,CYMBELINE,"O thou vile one!"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Sir,"
I,I,IMOGEN,"It is your fault that I have loved Posthumus:"
I,I,IMOGEN,"You bred him as my playfellow, and he is"
I,I,IMOGEN,"A man worth any woman, overbuys me"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Almost the sum he pays."
I,I,CYMBELINE,"What, art thou mad?"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Almost, sir: heaven restore me! Would I were"
I,I,IMOGEN,"A neat-herd's daughter, and my Leonatus"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Our neighbour shepherd's son!"
I,I,CYMBELINE,"Thou foolish thing!"
I,I,CYMBELINE,"They were again together: you have done"
I,I,CYMBELINE,"Not after our command. Away with her,"
I,I,CYMBELINE,"And pen her up."
I,I,QUEEN,"Beseech your patience. Peace,"
I,I,QUEEN,"Dear lady daughter, peace! Sweet sovereign,"
I,I,QUEEN,"Leave us to ourselves; and make yourself some comfort"
I,I,QUEEN,"Out of your best advice."
I,I,CYMBELINE,"Nay, let her languish"
I,I,CYMBELINE,"A drop of blood a day; and, being aged,"
I,I,CYMBELINE,"Die of this folly!"
I,I,QUEEN,"Fie! you must give way."
I,I,QUEEN,"Here is your servant. How now, sir! What news?"
I,I,PISANIO,"My lord your son drew on my master."
I,I,QUEEN,"Ha!"
I,I,QUEEN,"No harm, I trust, is done?"
I,I,PISANIO,"There might have been,"
I,I,PISANIO,"But that my master rather play'd than fought"
I,I,PISANIO,"And had no help of anger: they were parted"
I,I,PISANIO,"By gentlemen at hand."
I,I,QUEEN,"I am very glad on't."
I,I,IMOGEN,"Your son's my father's friend; he takes his part."
I,I,IMOGEN,"To draw upon an exile! O brave sir!"
I,I,IMOGEN,"I would they were in Afric both together;"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Myself by with a needle, that I might prick"
I,I,IMOGEN,"The goer-back. Why came you from your master?"
I,I,PISANIO,"On his command: he would not suffer me"
I,I,PISANIO,"To bring him to the haven; left these notes"
I,I,PISANIO,"Of what commands I should be subject to,"
I,I,PISANIO,"When 't pleased you to employ me."
I,I,QUEEN,"This hath been"
I,I,QUEEN,"Your faithful servant: I dare lay mine honour"
I,I,QUEEN,"He will remain so."
I,I,PISANIO,"I humbly thank your highness."
I,I,QUEEN,"Pray, walk awhile."
I,I,IMOGEN,"About some half-hour hence,"
I,I,IMOGEN,"I pray you, speak with me: you shall at least"
I,I,IMOGEN,"Go see my lord aboard: for this time leave me."
I,II,First Lord,"Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt; the"
I,II,First Lord,"violence of action hath made you reek as a"
I,II,First Lord,"sacrifice: where air comes out, air comes in:"
I,II,First Lord,"there's none abroad so wholesome as that you vent."
I,II,CLOTEN,"If my shirt were bloody, then to shift it. Have I hurt him?"
I,II,First Lord,"Hurt him! his body's a passable carcass, if he be"
I,II,First Lord,"not hurt: it is a thoroughfare for steel, if it be not hurt."
I,II,Second Lord,"backside the town."
I,II,CLOTEN,"The villain would not stand me."
I,II,First Lord,"Stand you! You have land enough of your own: but"
I,II,First Lord,"he added to your having; gave you some ground."
I,II,CLOTEN,"I would they had not come between us."
I,II,Second Lord,"a fool you were upon the ground."
I,II,CLOTEN,"And that she should love this fellow and refuse me!"
I,II,Second Lord,"is damned."
I,II,First Lord,"Sir, as I told you always, her beauty and her brain"
I,II,First Lord,"go not together: she's a good sign, but I have seen"
I,II,First Lord,"small reflection of her wit."
I,II,Second Lord,"reflection should hurt her."
I,II,CLOTEN,"Come, I'll to my chamber. Would there had been some"
I,II,CLOTEN,"hurt done!"
I,II,Second Lord,"of an ass, which is no great hurt."
I,II,CLOTEN,"You'll go with us?"
I,II,First Lord,"I'll attend your lordship."
I,II,CLOTEN,"Nay, come, let's go together."
I,II,Second Lord,"Well, my lord."
I,III,IMOGEN,"I would thou grew'st unto the shores o' the haven,"
I,III,IMOGEN,"And question'dst every sail: if he should write"
I,III,IMOGEN,"And not have it, 'twere a paper lost,"
I,III,IMOGEN,"As offer'd mercy is. What was the last"
I,III,IMOGEN,"That he spake to thee?"
I,III,PISANIO,"It was his queen, his queen!"
I,III,IMOGEN,"Then waved his handkerchief?"
I,III,PISANIO,"And kiss'd it, madam."
I,III,IMOGEN,"Senseless Linen! happier therein than I!"
I,III,IMOGEN,"And that was all?"
I,III,PISANIO,"No, madam; for so long"
I,III,PISANIO,"As he could make me with this eye or ear"
I,III,PISANIO,"Distinguish him from others, he did keep"
I,III,PISANIO,"The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,"
I,III,PISANIO,"Still waving, as the fits and stirs of 's mind"
I,III,PISANIO,"Could best express how slow his soul sail'd on,"
I,III,PISANIO,"How swift his ship."
I,III,IMOGEN,"Thou shouldst have made him"
I,III,IMOGEN,"As little as a crow, or less, ere left"
I,III,IMOGEN,"To after-eye him."
I,III,PISANIO,"Madam, so I did."
I,III,IMOGEN,"I would have broke mine eye-strings; crack'd them, but"
I,III,IMOGEN,"To look upon him, till the diminution"
I,III,IMOGEN,"Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle,"
I,III,IMOGEN,"Nay, follow'd him, till he had melted from"
I,III,IMOGEN,"The smallness of a gnat to air, and then"
I,III,IMOGEN,"Have turn'd mine eye and wept. But, good Pisanio,"
I,III,IMOGEN,"When shall we hear from him?"
I,III,PISANIO,"Be assured, madam,"
I,III,PISANIO,"With his next vantage."
I,III,IMOGEN,"I did not take my leave of him, but had"
I,III,IMOGEN,"Most pretty things to say: ere I could tell him"
I,III,IMOGEN,"How I would think on him at certain hours"
I,III,IMOGEN,"Such thoughts and such, or I could make him swear"
I,III,IMOGEN,"The shes of Italy should not betray"
I,III,IMOGEN,"Mine interest and his honour, or have charged him,"
I,III,IMOGEN,"At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight,"
I,III,IMOGEN,"To encounter me with orisons, for then"
I,III,IMOGEN,"I am in heaven for him; or ere I could"
I,III,IMOGEN,"Give him that parting kiss which I had set"
I,III,IMOGEN,"Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father"
I,III,IMOGEN,"And like the tyrannous breathing of the north"
I,III,IMOGEN,"Shakes all our buds from growing."
I,III,Lady,"The queen, madam,"
I,III,Lady,"Desires your highness' company."
I,III,IMOGEN,"Those things I bid you do, get them dispatch'd."
I,III,IMOGEN,"I will attend the queen."
I,III,PISANIO,"Madam, I shall."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"Believe it, sir, I have seen him in Britain: he was"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"then of a crescent note, expected to prove so worthy"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"as since he hath been allowed the name of; but I"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"could then have looked on him without the help of"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"admiration, though the catalogue of his endowments"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"had been tabled by his side and I to peruse him by items."
I,IV,PHILARIO,"You speak of him when he was less furnished than now"
I,IV,PHILARIO,"he is with that which makes him both without and within."
I,IV,Frenchman,"I have seen him in France: we had very many there"
I,IV,Frenchman,"could behold the sun with as firm eyes as he."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"This matter of marrying his king's daughter, wherein"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"he must be weighed rather by her value than his own,"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the matter."
I,IV,Frenchman,"And then his banishment."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"Ay, and the approbation of those that weep this"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"lamentable divorce under her colours are wonderfully"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"to extend him; be it but to fortify her judgment,"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"which else an easy battery might lay flat, for"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"taking a beggar without less quality. But how comes"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"it he is to sojourn with you? How creeps"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"acquaintance?"
I,IV,PHILARIO,"His father and I were soldiers together; to whom I"
I,IV,PHILARIO,"have been often bound for no less than my life."
I,IV,PHILARIO,"Here comes the Briton: let him be so entertained"
I,IV,PHILARIO,"amongst you as suits, with gentlemen of your"
I,IV,PHILARIO,"knowing, to a stranger of his quality."
I,IV,PHILARIO,"I beseech you all, be better known to this"
I,IV,PHILARIO,"gentleman; whom I commend to you as a noble friend"
I,IV,PHILARIO,"of mine: how worthy he is I will leave to appear"
I,IV,PHILARIO,"hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing."
I,IV,Frenchman,"Sir, we have known together in Orleans."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Since when I have been debtor to you for courtesies,"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"which I will be ever to pay and yet pay still."
I,IV,Frenchman,"Sir, you o'er-rate my poor kindness: I was glad I"
I,IV,Frenchman,"did atone my countryman and you; it had been pity"
I,IV,Frenchman,"you should have been put together with so mortal a"
I,IV,Frenchman,"purpose as then each bore, upon importance of so"
I,IV,Frenchman,"slight and trivial a nature."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"By your pardon, sir, I was then a young traveller;"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"rather shunned to go even with what I heard than in"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"my every action to be guided by others' experiences:"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"but upon my mended judgment--if I offend not to say"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"it is mended--my quarrel was not altogether slight."
I,IV,Frenchman,"'Faith, yes, to be put to the arbitrement of swords,"
I,IV,Frenchman,"and by such two that would by all likelihood have"
I,IV,Frenchman,"confounded one the other, or have fallen both."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"Can we, with manners, ask what was the difference?"
I,IV,Frenchman,"Safely, I think: 'twas a contention in public,"
I,IV,Frenchman,"which may, without contradiction, suffer the report."
I,IV,Frenchman,"It was much like an argument that fell out last"
I,IV,Frenchman,"night, where each of us fell in praise of our"
I,IV,Frenchman,"country mistresses; this gentleman at that time"
I,IV,Frenchman,"vouching--and upon warrant of bloody"
I,IV,Frenchman,"affirmation--his to be more fair, virtuous, wise,"
I,IV,Frenchman,"chaste, constant-qualified and less attemptable"
I,IV,Frenchman,"than any the rarest of our ladies in France."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"That lady is not now living, or this gentleman's"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"opinion by this worn out."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"She holds her virtue still and I my mind."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"You must not so far prefer her 'fore ours of Italy."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Being so far provoked as I was in France, I would"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"abate her nothing, though I profess myself her"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"adorer, not her friend."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"As fair and as good--a kind of hand-in-hand"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"comparison--had been something too fair and too good"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"for any lady in Britain. If she went before others"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"I have seen, as that diamond of yours outlustres"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"many I have beheld. I could not but believe she"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"excelled many: but I have not seen the most"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"precious diamond that is, nor you the lady."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I praised her as I rated her: so do I my stone."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"What do you esteem it at?"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"More than the world enjoys."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"Either your unparagoned mistress is dead, or she's"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"outprized by a trifle."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"You are mistaken: the one may be sold, or given, if"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"there were wealth enough for the purchase, or merit"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"for the gift: the other is not a thing for sale,"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"and only the gift of the gods."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"Which the gods have given you?"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Which, by their graces, I will keep."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"You may wear her in title yours: but, you know,"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds. Your"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"ring may be stolen too: so your brace of unprizable"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"estimations; the one is but frail and the other"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"casual; a cunning thief, or a that way accomplished"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"courtier, would hazard the winning both of first and last."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Your Italy contains none so accomplished a courtier"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"to convince the honour of my mistress, if, in the"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"holding or loss of that, you term her frail. I do"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"nothing doubt you have store of thieves;"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"notwithstanding, I fear not my ring."
I,IV,PHILARIO,"Let us leave here, gentlemen."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Sir, with all my heart. This worthy signior, I"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"thank him, makes no stranger of me; we are familiar at first."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"With five times so much conversation, I should get"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"ground of your fair mistress, make her go back, even"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"to the yielding, had I admittance and opportunity to friend."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"No, no."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"I dare thereupon pawn the moiety of my estate to"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"your ring; which, in my opinion, o'ervalues it"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"something: but I make my wager rather against your"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"confidence than her reputation: and, to bar your"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"offence herein too, I durst attempt it against any"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"lady in the world."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"You are a great deal abused in too bold a"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"persuasion; and I doubt not you sustain what you're"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"worthy of by your attempt."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"What's that?"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"A repulse: though your attempt, as you call it,"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"deserve more; a punishment too."
I,IV,PHILARIO,"Gentlemen, enough of this: it came in too suddenly;"
I,IV,PHILARIO,"let it die as it was born, and, I pray you, be"
I,IV,PHILARIO,"better acquainted."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"Would I had put my estate and my neighbour's on the"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"approbation of what I have spoke!"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"What lady would you choose to assail?"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"Yours; whom in constancy you think stands so safe."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"I will lay you ten thousand ducats to your ring,"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"that, commend me to the court where your lady is,"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"with no more advantage than the opportunity of a"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"second conference, and I will bring from thence"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"that honour of hers which you imagine so reserved."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I will wage against your gold, gold to it: my ring"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I hold dear as my finger; 'tis part of it."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"You are afraid, and therein the wiser. If you buy"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"ladies' flesh at a million a dram, you cannot"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"preserve it from tainting: but I see you have some"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"religion in you, that you fear."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"This is but a custom in your tongue; you bear a"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"graver purpose, I hope."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"I am the master of my speeches, and would undergo"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"what's spoken, I swear."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Will you? I shall but lend my diamond till your"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"return: let there be covenants drawn between's: my"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"mistress exceeds in goodness the hugeness of your"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"unworthy thinking: I dare you to this match: here's my ring."
I,IV,PHILARIO,"I will have it no lay."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"By the gods, it is one. If I bring you no"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"sufficient testimony that I have enjoyed the dearest"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"bodily part of your mistress, my ten thousand ducats"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"are yours; so is your diamond too: if I come off,"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"and leave her in such honour as you have trust in,"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"she your jewel, this your jewel, and my gold are"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"yours: provided I have your commendation for my more"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"free entertainment."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I embrace these conditions; let us have articles"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"betwixt us. Only, thus far you shall answer: if"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"you make your voyage upon her and give me directly"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"to understand you have prevailed, I am no further"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"your enemy; she is not worth our debate: if she"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"remain unseduced, you not making it appear"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"otherwise, for your ill opinion and the assault you"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"have made to her chastity you shall answer me with"
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"your sword."
I,IV,IACHIMO,"Your hand; a covenant: we will have these things set"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"down by lawful counsel, and straight away for"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"Britain, lest the bargain should catch cold and"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"starve: I will fetch my gold and have our two"
I,IV,IACHIMO,"wagers recorded."
I,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Agreed."
I,IV,Frenchman,"Will this hold, think you?"
I,IV,PHILARIO,"Signior Iachimo will not from it."
I,IV,PHILARIO,"Pray, let us follow 'em."
I,V,QUEEN,"Whiles yet the dew's on ground, gather those flowers;"
I,V,QUEEN,"Make haste: who has the note of them?"
I,V,First Lady,"I, madam."
I,V,QUEEN,"Dispatch."
I,V,QUEEN,"Now, master doctor, have you brought those drugs?"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"Pleaseth your highness, ay: here they are, madam:"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"But I beseech your grace, without offence,--"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"My conscience bids me ask--wherefore you have"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"Commanded of me those most poisonous compounds,"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"Which are the movers of a languishing death;"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"But though slow, deadly?"
I,V,QUEEN,"I wonder, doctor,"
I,V,QUEEN,"Thou ask'st me such a question. Have I not been"
I,V,QUEEN,"Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learn'd me how"
I,V,QUEEN,"To make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, so"
I,V,QUEEN,"That our great king himself doth woo me oft"
I,V,QUEEN,"For my confections? Having thus far proceeded,--"
I,V,QUEEN,"Unless thou think'st me devilish--is't not meet"
I,V,QUEEN,"That I did amplify my judgment in"
I,V,QUEEN,"Other conclusions? I will try the forces"
I,V,QUEEN,"Of these thy compounds on such creatures as"
I,V,QUEEN,"We count not worth the hanging, but none human,"
I,V,QUEEN,"To try the vigour of them and apply"
I,V,QUEEN,"Allayments to their act, and by them gather"
I,V,QUEEN,"Their several virtues and effects."
I,V,CORNELIUS,"Your highness"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"Shall from this practise but make hard your heart:"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"Besides, the seeing these effects will be"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"Both noisome and infectious."
I,V,QUEEN,"O, content thee."
I,V,QUEEN,"Here comes a flattering rascal; upon him"
I,V,QUEEN,"Will I first work: he's for his master,"
I,V,QUEEN,"An enemy to my son. How now, Pisanio!"
I,V,QUEEN,"Doctor, your service for this time is ended;"
I,V,QUEEN,"Take your own way."
I,V,CORNELIUS,"But you shall do no harm."
I,V,CORNELIUS,"Strange lingering poisons: I do know her spirit,"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"And will not trust one of her malice with"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"A drug of such damn'd nature. Those she has"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"Will stupefy and dull the sense awhile;"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"Which first, perchance, she'll prove on"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"cats and dogs,"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"Then afterward up higher: but there is"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"No danger in what show of death it makes,"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"More than the locking-up the spirits a time,"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"To be more fresh, reviving. She is fool'd"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"With a most false effect; and I the truer,"
I,V,CORNELIUS,"So to be false with her."
I,V,QUEEN,"No further service, doctor,"
I,V,QUEEN,"Until I send for thee."
I,V,CORNELIUS,"I humbly take my leave."
I,V,QUEEN,"Weeps she still, say'st thou? Dost thou think in time"
I,V,QUEEN,"She will not quench and let instructions enter"
I,V,QUEEN,"Where folly now possesses? Do thou work:"
I,V,QUEEN,"When thou shalt bring me word she loves my son,"
I,V,QUEEN,"I'll tell thee on the instant thou art then"
I,V,QUEEN,"As great as is thy master, greater, for"
I,V,QUEEN,"His fortunes all lie speechless and his name"
I,V,QUEEN,"Is at last gasp: return he cannot, nor"
I,V,QUEEN,"Continue where he is: to shift his being"
I,V,QUEEN,"Is to exchange one misery with another,"
I,V,QUEEN,"And every day that comes comes to decay"
I,V,QUEEN,"A day's work in him. What shalt thou expect,"
I,V,QUEEN,"To be depender on a thing that leans,"
I,V,QUEEN,"Who cannot be new built, nor has no friends,"
I,V,QUEEN,"So much as but to prop him?"
I,V,QUEEN,"Thou takest up"
I,V,QUEEN,"Thou know'st not what; but take it for thy labour:"
I,V,QUEEN,"It is a thing I made, which hath the king"
I,V,QUEEN,"Five times redeem'd from death: I do not know"
I,V,QUEEN,"What is more cordial. Nay, I prethee, take it;"
I,V,QUEEN,"It is an earnest of a further good"
I,V,QUEEN,"That I mean to thee. Tell thy mistress how"
I,V,QUEEN,"The case stands with her; do't as from thyself."
I,V,QUEEN,"Think what a chance thou changest on, but think"
I,V,QUEEN,"Thou hast thy mistress still, to boot, my son,"
I,V,QUEEN,"Who shall take notice of thee: I'll move the king"
I,V,QUEEN,"To any shape of thy preferment such"
I,V,QUEEN,"As thou'lt desire; and then myself, I chiefly,"
I,V,QUEEN,"That set thee on to this desert, am bound"
I,V,QUEEN,"To load thy merit richly. Call my women:"
I,V,QUEEN,"Think on my words."
I,V,QUEEN,"A sly and constant knave,"
I,V,QUEEN,"Not to be shaked; the agent for his master"
I,V,QUEEN,"And the remembrancer of her to hold"
I,V,QUEEN,"The hand-fast to her lord. I have given him that"
I,V,QUEEN,"Which, if he take, shall quite unpeople her"
I,V,QUEEN,"Of liegers for her sweet, and which she after,"
I,V,QUEEN,"Except she bend her humour, shall be assured"
I,V,QUEEN,"To taste of too."
I,V,QUEEN,"So, so: well done, well done:"
I,V,QUEEN,"The violets, cowslips, and the primroses,"
I,V,QUEEN,"Bear to my closet. Fare thee well, Pisanio;"
I,V,QUEEN,"Think on my words."
I,V,PISANIO,"And shall do:"
I,V,PISANIO,"But when to my good lord I prove untrue,"
I,V,PISANIO,"I'll choke myself: there's all I'll do for you."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"A father cruel, and a step-dame false;"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"A foolish suitor to a wedded lady,"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"That hath her husband banish'd;--O, that husband!"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"My supreme crown of grief! and those repeated"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Vexations of it! Had I been thief-stol'n,"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"As my two brothers, happy! but most miserable"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Is the desire that's glorious: blest be those,"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills,"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Which seasons comfort. Who may this be? Fie!"
I,VI,PISANIO,"Madam, a noble gentleman of Rome,"
I,VI,PISANIO,"Comes from my lord with letters."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Change you, madam?"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"The worthy Leonatus is in safety"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"And greets your highness dearly."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Thanks, good sir:"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"You're kindly welcome."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"If she be furnish'd with a mind so rare,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"She is alone the Arabian bird, and I"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Have lost the wager. Boldness be my friend!"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Arm me, audacity, from head to foot!"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Or, like the Parthian, I shall flying fight;"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Rather directly fly."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"kindnesses I am most infinitely tied. Reflect upon"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"him accordingly, as you value your trust--"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"LEONATUS.'"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"So far I read aloud:"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"But even the very middle of my heart"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Is warm'd by the rest, and takes it thankfully."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"You are as welcome, worthy sir, as I"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Have words to bid you, and shall find it so"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"In all that I can do."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Thanks, fairest lady."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"What, are men mad? Hath nature given them eyes"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To see this vaulted arch, and the rich crop"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Of sea and land, which can distinguish 'twixt"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"The fiery orbs above and the twinn'd stones"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Upon the number'd beach? and can we not"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Partition make with spectacles so precious"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"'Twixt fair and foul?"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"What makes your admiration?"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"It cannot be i' the eye, for apes and monkeys"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"'Twixt two such shes would chatter this way and"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Contemn with mows the other; nor i' the judgment,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"For idiots in this case of favour would"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Be wisely definite; nor i' the appetite;"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Sluttery to such neat excellence opposed"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Should make desire vomit emptiness,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Not so allured to feed."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"What is the matter, trow?"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"The cloyed will,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"That satiate yet unsatisfied desire, that tub"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Both fill'd and running, ravening first the lamb"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Longs after for the garbage."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"What, dear sir,"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Thus raps you? Are you well?"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Thanks, madam; well."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Beseech you, sir, desire"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"My man's abode where I did leave him: he"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Is strange and peevish."
I,VI,PISANIO,"I was going, sir,"
I,VI,PISANIO,"To give him welcome."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Continues well my lord? His health, beseech you?"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Well, madam."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Is he disposed to mirth? I hope he is."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Exceeding pleasant; none a stranger there"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"So merry and so gamesome: he is call'd"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"The Briton reveller."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"When he was here,"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"He did incline to sadness, and oft-times"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Not knowing why."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"I never saw him sad."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"There is a Frenchman his companion, one"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"An eminent monsieur, that, it seems, much loves"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"A Gallian girl at home; he furnaces"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"The thick sighs from him, whiles the jolly Briton--"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Your lord, I mean--laughs from's free lungs, cries 'O,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Can my sides hold, to think that man, who knows"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"By history, report, or his own proof,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"What woman is, yea, what she cannot choose"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"But must be, will his free hours languish for"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Assured bondage?'"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Will my lord say so?"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Ay, madam, with his eyes in flood with laughter:"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"It is a recreation to be by"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"And hear him mock the Frenchman. But, heavens know,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Some men are much to blame."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Not he, I hope."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Not he: but yet heaven's bounty towards him might"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Be used more thankfully. In himself, 'tis much;"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"In you, which I account his beyond all talents,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Whilst I am bound to wonder, I am bound"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To pity too."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"What do you pity, sir?"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Two creatures heartily."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Am I one, sir?"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"You look on me: what wreck discern you in me"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Deserves your pity?"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Lamentable! What,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To hide me from the radiant sun and solace"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"I' the dungeon by a snuff?"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"I pray you, sir,"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Deliver with more openness your answers"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"To my demands. Why do you pity me?"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"That others do--"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"I was about to say--enjoy your--But"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"It is an office of the gods to venge it,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Not mine to speak on 't."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"You do seem to know"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Something of me, or what concerns me: pray you,--"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Since doubling things go ill often hurts more"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Than to be sure they do; for certainties"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"The remedy then born--discover to me"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"What both you spur and stop."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Had I this cheek"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To bathe my lips upon; this hand, whose touch,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Whose every touch, would force the feeler's soul"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To the oath of loyalty; this object, which"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Fixing it only here; should I, damn'd then,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Slaver with lips as common as the stairs"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"That mount the Capitol; join gripes with hands"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Made hard with hourly falsehood--falsehood, as"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"With labour; then by-peeping in an eye"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Base and unlustrous as the smoky light"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"That's fed with stinking tallow; it were fit"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"That all the plagues of hell should at one time"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Encounter such revolt."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"My lord, I fear,"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Has forgot Britain."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"And himself. Not I,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Inclined to this intelligence, pronounce"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"The beggary of his change; but 'tis your graces"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"That from pay mutest conscience to my tongue"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Charms this report out."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Let me hear no more."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"O dearest soul! your cause doth strike my heart"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"With pity, that doth make me sick. A lady"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"So fair, and fasten'd to an empery,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Would make the great'st king double,--to be partner'd"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"With tomboys hired with that self-exhibition"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Which your own coffers yield! with diseased ventures"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"That play with all infirmities for gold"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Which rottenness can lend nature! such boil'd stuff"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"As well might poison poison! Be revenged;"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Or she that bore you was no queen, and you"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Recoil from your great stock."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Revenged!"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"How should I be revenged? If this be true,--"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"As I have such a heart that both mine ears"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Must not in haste abuse--if it be true,"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"How should I be revenged?"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Should he make me"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Live, like Diana's priest, betwixt cold sheets,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Whiles he is vaulting variable ramps,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"In your despite, upon your purse? Revenge it."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"I dedicate myself to your sweet pleasure,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"More noble than that runagate to your bed,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"And will continue fast to your affection,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Still close as sure."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"What, ho, Pisanio!"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Let me my service tender on your lips."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Away! I do condemn mine ears that have"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"So long attended thee. If thou wert honourable,"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Thou wouldst have told this tale for virtue, not"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"For such an end thou seek'st,--as base as strange."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Thou wrong'st a gentleman, who is as far"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"From thy report as thou from honour, and"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Solicit'st here a lady that disdains"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Thee and the devil alike. What ho, Pisanio!"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"The king my father shall be made acquainted"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Of thy assault: if he shall think it fit,"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"A saucy stranger in his court to mart"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"As in a Romish stew and to expound"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"His beastly mind to us, he hath a court"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"He little cares for and a daughter who"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"He not respects at all. What, ho, Pisanio!"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"O happy Leonatus! I may say"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"The credit that thy lady hath of thee"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Deserves thy trust, and thy most perfect goodness"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Her assured credit. Blessed live you long!"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"A lady to the worthiest sir that ever"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Country call'd his! and you his mistress, only"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"For the most worthiest fit! Give me your pardon."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"I have spoke this, to know if your affiance"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Were deeply rooted; and shall make your lord,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"That which he is, new o'er: and he is one"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"The truest manner'd; such a holy witch"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"That he enchants societies into him;"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Half all men's hearts are his."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"You make amends."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"He sits 'mongst men like a descended god:"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"He hath a kind of honour sets him off,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"More than a mortal seeming. Be not angry,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Most mighty princess, that I have adventured"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To try your taking a false report; which hath"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Honour'd with confirmation your great judgment"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"In the election of a sir so rare,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Which you know cannot err: the love I bear him"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Made me to fan you thus, but the gods made you,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Unlike all others, chaffless. Pray, your pardon."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"All's well, sir: take my power i' the court"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"for yours."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"My humble thanks. I had almost forgot"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To entreat your grace but in a small request,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"And yet of moment to, for it concerns"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Your lord; myself and other noble friends,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Are partners in the business."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Pray, what is't?"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Some dozen Romans of us and your lord--"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"The best feather of our wing--have mingled sums"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To buy a present for the emperor"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Which I, the factor for the rest, have done"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"In France: 'tis plate of rare device, and jewels"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Of rich and exquisite form; their values great;"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"And I am something curious, being strange,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To have them in safe stowage: may it please you"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To take them in protection?"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Willingly;"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"And pawn mine honour for their safety: since"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"My lord hath interest in them, I will keep them"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"In my bedchamber."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"They are in a trunk,"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Attended by my men: I will make bold"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To send them to you, only for this night;"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"I must aboard to-morrow."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"O, no, no."
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Yes, I beseech; or I shall short my word"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"By lengthening my return. From Gallia"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"I cross'd the seas on purpose and on promise"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To see your grace."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"I thank you for your pains:"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"But not away to-morrow!"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"O, I must, madam:"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"Therefore I shall beseech you, if you please"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To greet your lord with writing, do't to-night:"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"I have outstood my time; which is material"
I,VI,IACHIMO,"To the tender of our present."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"I will write."
I,VI,IMOGEN,"Send your trunk to me; it shall safe be kept,"
I,VI,IMOGEN,"And truly yielded you. You're very welcome."
II,I,CLOTEN,"Was there ever man had such luck! when I kissed the"
II,I,CLOTEN,"jack, upon an up-cast to be hit away! I had a"
II,I,CLOTEN,"hundred pound on't: and then a whoreson jackanapes"
II,I,CLOTEN,"must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine"
II,I,CLOTEN,"oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure."
II,I,First Lord,"What got he by that? You have broke his pate with"
II,I,First Lord,"your bowl."
II,I,Second Lord,"it would have run all out."
II,I,CLOTEN,"When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for"
II,I,CLOTEN,"any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?"
II,I,Second Lord,"No my lord;"
II,I,Second Lord,"nor crop the ears of them."
II,I,CLOTEN,"Whoreson dog! I give him satisfaction?"
II,I,CLOTEN,"Would he had been one of my rank!"
II,I,CLOTEN,"I am not vexed more at any thing in the earth: a"
II,I,CLOTEN,"pox on't! I had rather not be so noble as I am;"
II,I,CLOTEN,"they dare not fight with me, because of the queen my"
II,I,CLOTEN,"mother: every Jack-slave hath his bellyful of"
II,I,CLOTEN,"fighting, and I must go up and down like a cock that"
II,I,CLOTEN,"nobody can match."
II,I,Second Lord,"cock, with your comb on."
II,I,CLOTEN,"Sayest thou?"
II,I,Second Lord,"It is not fit your lordship should undertake every"
II,I,Second Lord,"companion that you give offence to."
II,I,CLOTEN,"No, I know that: but it is fit I should commit"
II,I,CLOTEN,"offence to my inferiors."
II,I,Second Lord,"Ay, it is fit for your lordship only."
II,I,CLOTEN,"Why, so I say."
II,I,First Lord,"Did you hear of a stranger that's come to court to-night?"
II,I,CLOTEN,"A stranger, and I not know on't!"
II,I,Second Lord,"not."
II,I,First Lord,"There's an Italian come; and, 'tis thought, one of"
II,I,First Lord,"Leonatus' friends."
II,I,CLOTEN,"Leonatus! a banished rascal; and he's another,"
II,I,CLOTEN,"whatsoever he be. Who told you of this stranger?"
II,I,First Lord,"One of your lordship's pages."
II,I,CLOTEN,"Is it fit I went to look upon him? is there no"
II,I,CLOTEN,"derogation in't?"
II,I,Second Lord,"You cannot derogate, my lord."
II,I,CLOTEN,"Not easily, I think."
II,I,Second Lord,"issues, being foolish, do not derogate."
II,I,CLOTEN,"Come, I'll go see this Italian: what I have lost"
II,I,CLOTEN,"to-day at bowls I'll win to-night of him. Come, go."
II,I,Second Lord,"I'll attend your lordship."
II,I,Second Lord,"That such a crafty devil as is his mother"
II,I,Second Lord,"Should yield the world this ass! a woman that"
II,I,Second Lord,"Bears all down with her brain; and this her son"
II,I,Second Lord,"Cannot take two from twenty, for his heart,"
II,I,Second Lord,"And leave eighteen. Alas, poor princess,"
II,I,Second Lord,"Thou divine Imogen, what thou endurest,"
II,I,Second Lord,"Betwixt a father by thy step-dame govern'd,"
II,I,Second Lord,"A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer"
II,I,Second Lord,"More hateful than the foul expulsion is"
II,I,Second Lord,"Of thy dear husband, than that horrid act"
II,I,Second Lord,"Of the divorce he'ld make! The heavens hold firm"
II,I,Second Lord,"The walls of thy dear honour, keep unshaked"
II,I,Second Lord,"That temple, thy fair mind, that thou mayst stand,"
II,I,Second Lord,"To enjoy thy banish'd lord and this great land!"
II,II,IMOGEN,"Who's there? my woman Helen?"
II,II,Lady,"Please you, madam"
II,II,IMOGEN,"What hour is it?"
II,II,Lady,"Almost midnight, madam."
II,II,IMOGEN,"I have read three hours then: mine eyes are weak:"
II,II,IMOGEN,"Fold down the leaf where I have left: to bed:"
II,II,IMOGEN,"Take not away the taper, leave it burning;"
II,II,IMOGEN,"And if thou canst awake by four o' the clock,"
II,II,IMOGEN,"I prithee, call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly"
II,II,IMOGEN,"To your protection I commend me, gods."
II,II,IMOGEN,"From fairies and the tempters of the night"
II,II,IMOGEN,"Guard me, beseech ye."
II,II,IACHIMO,"The crickets sing, and man's o'er-labour'd sense"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Repairs itself by rest. Our Tarquin thus"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Did softly press the rushes, ere he waken'd"
II,II,IACHIMO,"The chastity he wounded. Cytherea,"
II,II,IACHIMO,"How bravely thou becomest thy bed, fresh lily,"
II,II,IACHIMO,"And whiter than the sheets! That I might touch!"
II,II,IACHIMO,"But kiss; one kiss! Rubies unparagon'd,"
II,II,IACHIMO,"How dearly they do't! 'Tis her breathing that"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Perfumes the chamber thus: the flame o' the taper"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids,"
II,II,IACHIMO,"To see the enclosed lights, now canopied"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Under these windows, white and azure laced"
II,II,IACHIMO,"With blue of heaven's own tinct. But my design,"
II,II,IACHIMO,"To note the chamber: I will write all down:"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Such and such pictures; there the window; such"
II,II,IACHIMO,"The adornment of her bed; the arras; figures,"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Why, such and such; and the contents o' the story."
II,II,IACHIMO,"Ah, but some natural notes about her body,"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Above ten thousand meaner moveables"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Would testify, to enrich mine inventory."
II,II,IACHIMO,"O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her!"
II,II,IACHIMO,"And be her sense but as a monument,"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Thus in a chapel lying! Come off, come off:"
II,II,IACHIMO,"As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard!"
II,II,IACHIMO,"'Tis mine; and this will witness outwardly,"
II,II,IACHIMO,"As strongly as the conscience does within,"
II,II,IACHIMO,"To the madding of her lord. On her left breast"
II,II,IACHIMO,"A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops"
II,II,IACHIMO,"I' the bottom of a cowslip: here's a voucher,"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Stronger than ever law could make: this secret"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Will force him think I have pick'd the lock and ta'en"
II,II,IACHIMO,"The treasure of her honour. No more. To what end?"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Why should I write this down, that's riveted,"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Screw'd to my memory? She hath been reading late"
II,II,IACHIMO,"The tale of Tereus; here the leaf's turn'd down"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Where Philomel gave up. I have enough:"
II,II,IACHIMO,"To the trunk again, and shut the spring of it."
II,II,IACHIMO,"Swift, swift, you dragons of the night, that dawning"
II,II,IACHIMO,"May bare the raven's eye! I lodge in fear;"
II,II,IACHIMO,"Though this a heavenly angel, hell is here."
II,II,IACHIMO,"One, two, three: time, time!"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,First Lord,"Your lordship is the most patient man in loss, the"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,First Lord,"most coldest that ever turned up ace."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"It would make any man cold to lose."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,First Lord,"But not every man patient after the noble temper of"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,First Lord,"your lordship. You are most hot and furious when you win."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Winning will put any man into courage. If I could"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"get this foolish Imogen, I should have gold enough."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"It's almost morning, is't not?"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,First Lord,"Day, my lord."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"I would this music would come: I am advised to give"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"her music o' mornings; they say it will penetrate."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Come on; tune: if you can penetrate her with your"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"fingering, so; we'll try with tongue too: if none"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"will do, let her remain; but I'll never give o'er."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"First, a very excellent good-conceited thing;"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"after, a wonderful sweet air, with admirable rich"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"words to it: and then let her consider."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"And Phoebus 'gins arise,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"His steeds to water at those springs"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"On chaliced flowers that lies;"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"And winking Mary-buds begin"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"To ope their golden eyes:"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"With every thing that pretty is,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"My lady sweet, arise:"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Arise, arise."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"So, get you gone. If this penetrate, I will"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"consider your music the better: if it do not, it is"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"a vice in her ears, which horse-hairs and"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"calves'-guts, nor the voice of unpaved eunuch to"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"boot, can never amend."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,Second Lord,"Here comes the king."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"I am glad I was up so late; for that's the reason I"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"was up so early: he cannot choose but take this"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"service I have done fatherly."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Good morrow to your majesty and to my gracious mother."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"Attend you here the door of our stern daughter?"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"Will she not forth?"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"I have assailed her with music, but she vouchsafes no notice."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"The exile of her minion is too new;"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"She hath not yet forgot him: some more time"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"Must wear the print of his remembrance out,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"And then she's yours."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,QUEEN,"You are most bound to the king,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,QUEEN,"Who lets go by no vantages that may"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,QUEEN,"Prefer you to his daughter. Frame yourself"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,QUEEN,"To orderly soliciting, and be friended"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,QUEEN,"With aptness of the season; make denials"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,QUEEN,"Increase your services; so seem as if"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,QUEEN,"You were inspired to do those duties which"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,QUEEN,"You tender to her; that you in all obey her,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,QUEEN,"Save when command to your dismission tends,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,QUEEN,"And therein you are senseless."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Senseless! not so."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,Messenger,"So like you, sir, ambassadors from Rome;"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,Messenger,"The one is Caius Lucius."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"A worthy fellow,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"Albeit he comes on angry purpose now;"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"But that's no fault of his: we must receive him"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"According to the honour of his sender;"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"And towards himself, his goodness forespent on us,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"We must extend our notice. Our dear son,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"When you have given good morning to your mistress,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"Attend the queen and us; we shall have need"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CYMBELINE,"To employ you towards this Roman. Come, our queen."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"If she be up, I'll speak with her; if not,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Let her lie still and dream."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"By your leave, ho!"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"I Know her women are about her: what"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"If I do line one of their hands? 'Tis gold"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Which buys admittance; oft it doth; yea, and makes"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Their deer to the stand o' the stealer; and 'tis gold"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief;"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Nay, sometime hangs both thief and true man: what"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Can it not do and undo? I will make"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"One of her women lawyer to me, for"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"I yet not understand the case myself."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"By your leave."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,Lady,"Who's there that knocks?"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"A gentleman."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,Lady,"No more?"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Yes, and a gentlewoman's son."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,Lady,"That's more"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,Lady,"Than some, whose tailors are as dear as yours,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,Lady,"Can justly boast of. What's your lordship's pleasure?"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Your lady's person: is she ready?"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,Lady,"Ay,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,Lady,"To keep her chamber."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"There is gold for you;"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Sell me your good report."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,Lady,"How! my good name? or to report of you"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,Lady,"What I shall think is good?--The princess!"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Good morrow, fairest: sister, your sweet hand."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Good morrow, sir. You lay out too much pains"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"For purchasing but trouble; the thanks I give"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Is telling you that I am poor of thanks"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"And scarce can spare them."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Still, I swear I love you."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"If you but said so, 'twere as deep with me:"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"If you swear still, your recompense is still"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"That I regard it not."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"This is no answer."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"But that you shall not say I yield being silent,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"I would not speak. I pray you, spare me: 'faith,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"I shall unfold equal discourtesy"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"To your best kindness: one of your great knowing"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Should learn, being taught, forbearance."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"To leave you in your madness, 'twere my sin:"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"I will not."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Fools are not mad folks."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Do you call me fool?"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"As I am mad, I do:"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"If you'll be patient, I'll no more be mad;"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"That cures us both. I am much sorry, sir,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"You put me to forget a lady's manners,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"By being so verbal: and learn now, for all,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"That I, which know my heart, do here pronounce,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"By the very truth of it, I care not for you,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"And am so near the lack of charity--"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"To accuse myself--I hate you; which I had rather"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"You felt than make't my boast."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"You sin against"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Obedience, which you owe your father. For"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"The contract you pretend with that base wretch,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"One bred of alms and foster'd with cold dishes,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"With scraps o' the court, it is no contract, none:"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"And though it be allow'd in meaner parties--"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Yet who than he more mean?--to knit their souls,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"On whom there is no more dependency"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"But brats and beggary, in self-figured knot;"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"Yet you are curb'd from that enlargement by"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"The consequence o' the crown, and must not soil"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"The precious note of it with a base slave."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"A hilding for a livery, a squire's cloth,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"A pantler, not so eminent."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Profane fellow"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Wert thou the son of Jupiter and no more"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"But what thou art besides, thou wert too base"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"To be his groom: thou wert dignified enough,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Even to the point of envy, if 'twere made"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Comparative for your virtues, to be styled"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"The under-hangman of his kingdom, and hated"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"For being preferred so well."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"The south-fog rot him!"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"He never can meet more mischance than come"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"To be but named of thee. His meanest garment,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"That ever hath but clipp'd his body, is dearer"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"In my respect than all the hairs above thee,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Were they all made such men. How now, Pisanio!"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"'His garment!' Now the devil--"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"To Dorothy my woman hie thee presently--"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"'His garment!'"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"I am sprited with a fool."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Frighted, and anger'd worse: go bid my woman"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Search for a jewel that too casually"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Hath left mine arm: it was thy master's: 'shrew me,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"If I would lose it for a revenue"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Of any king's in Europe. I do think"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"I saw't this morning: confident I am"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Last night 'twas on mine arm; I kiss'd it:"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"I hope it be not gone to tell my lord"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"That I kiss aught but he."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,PISANIO,"'Twill not be lost."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"I hope so: go and search."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"You have abused me:"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"'His meanest garment!'"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Ay, I said so, sir:"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"If you will make't an action, call witness to't."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"I will inform your father."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"Your mother too:"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"She's my good lady, and will conceive, I hope,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"But the worst of me. So, I leave you, sir,"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,IMOGEN,"To the worst of discontent."
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"I'll be revenged:"
II,Scene III  An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.,CLOTEN,"'His meanest garment!' Well."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Fear it not, sir: I would I were so sure"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To win the king as I am bold her honour"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Will remain hers."
II,IV,PHILARIO,"What means do you make to him?"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Not any, but abide the change of time,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Quake in the present winter's state and wish"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"That warmer days would come: in these sear'd hopes,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I barely gratify your love; they failing,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I must die much your debtor."
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Your very goodness and your company"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"O'erpays all I can do. By this, your king"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Hath heard of great Augustus: Caius Lucius"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Will do's commission throughly: and I think"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"He'll grant the tribute, send the arrearages,"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Or look upon our Romans, whose remembrance"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Is yet fresh in their grief."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I do believe,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Statist though I am none, nor like to be,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"That this will prove a war; and you shall hear"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The legions now in Gallia sooner landed"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"In our not-fearing Britain than have tidings"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Of any penny tribute paid. Our countrymen"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Are men more order'd than when Julius Caesar"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Smiled at their lack of skill, but found"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"their courage"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Worthy his frowning at: their discipline,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Now mingled with their courages, will make known"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To their approvers they are people such"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"That mend upon the world."
II,IV,PHILARIO,"See! Iachimo!"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The swiftest harts have posted you by land;"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And winds of all the comers kiss'd your sails,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To make your vessel nimble."
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Welcome, sir."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I hope the briefness of your answer made"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The speediness of your return."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Your lady"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Is one of the fairest that I have look'd upon."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And therewithal the best; or let her beauty"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Look through a casement to allure false hearts"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And be false with them."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Here are letters for you."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Their tenor good, I trust."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"'Tis very like."
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Was Caius Lucius in the Britain court"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"When you were there?"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"He was expected then,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"But not approach'd."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"All is well yet."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Sparkles this stone as it was wont? or is't not"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Too dull for your good wearing?"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"If I had lost it,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"I should have lost the worth of it in gold."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"I'll make a journey twice as far, to enjoy"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"A second night of such sweet shortness which"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Was mine in Britain, for the ring is won."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The stone's too hard to come by."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Not a whit,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Your lady being so easy."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Make not, sir,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Your loss your sport: I hope you know that we"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Must not continue friends."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Good sir, we must,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"If you keep covenant. Had I not brought"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"The knowledge of your mistress home, I grant"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"We were to question further: but I now"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Profess myself the winner of her honour,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Together with your ring; and not the wronger"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Of her or you, having proceeded but"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"By both your wills."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"If you can make't apparent"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"That you have tasted her in bed, my hand"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And ring is yours; if not, the foul opinion"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"You had of her pure honour gains or loses"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Your sword or mine, or masterless leaves both"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To who shall find them."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Sir, my circumstances,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Being so near the truth as I will make them,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Must first induce you to believe: whose strength"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"I will confirm with oath; which, I doubt not,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"You'll give me leave to spare, when you shall find"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"You need it not."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Proceed."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"First, her bedchamber,--"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Where, I confess, I slept not, but profess"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Had that was well worth watching--it was hang'd"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"With tapesty of silk and silver; the story"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Proud Cleopatra, when she met her Roman,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"And Cydnus swell'd above the banks, or for"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"The press of boats or pride: a piece of work"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"So bravely done, so rich, that it did strive"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"In workmanship and value; which I wonder'd"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Could be so rarely and exactly wrought,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Since the true life on't was--"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"This is true;"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And this you might have heard of here, by me,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Or by some other."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"More particulars"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Must justify my knowledge."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"So they must,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Or do your honour injury."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"The chimney"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Is south the chamber, and the chimney-piece"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Chaste Dian bathing: never saw I figures"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"So likely to report themselves: the cutter"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Was as another nature, dumb; outwent her,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Motion and breath left out."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"This is a thing"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Which you might from relation likewise reap,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Being, as it is, much spoke of."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"The roof o' the chamber"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"With golden cherubins is fretted: her andirons--"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"I had forgot them--were two winking Cupids"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Of silver, each on one foot standing, nicely"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Depending on their brands."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"This is her honour!"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Let it be granted you have seen all this--and praise"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Be given to your remembrance--the description"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Of what is in her chamber nothing saves"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The wager you have laid."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Then, if you can,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Be pale: I beg but leave to air this jewel; see!"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"And now 'tis up again: it must be married"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"To that your diamond; I'll keep them."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Jove!"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Once more let me behold it: is it that"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Which I left with her?"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Sir--I thank her--that:"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"She stripp'd it from her arm; I see her yet;"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Her pretty action did outsell her gift,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"And yet enrich'd it too: she gave it me, and said"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"She prized it once."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"May be she pluck'd it off"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To send it me."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"She writes so to you, doth she?"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"O, no, no, no! 'tis true. Here, take this too;"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"It is a basilisk unto mine eye,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Kills me to look on't. Let there be no honour"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Where there is beauty; truth, where semblance; love,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Where there's another man: the vows of women"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Of no more bondage be, to where they are made,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Than they are to their virtues; which is nothing."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"O, above measure false!"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Have patience, sir,"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"And take your ring again; 'tis not yet won:"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"It may be probable she lost it; or"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Who knows if one of her women, being corrupted,"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Hath stol'n it from her?"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Very true;"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And so, I hope, he came by't. Back my ring:"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Render to me some corporal sign about her,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"More evident than this; for this was stolen."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"By Jupiter, I had it from her arm."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Hark you, he swears; by Jupiter he swears."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"'Tis true:--nay, keep the ring--'tis true: I am sure"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"She would not lose it: her attendants are"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"All sworn and honourable:--they induced to steal it!"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And by a stranger!--No, he hath enjoyed her:"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The cognizance of her incontinency"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Is this: she hath bought the name of whore"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"thus dearly."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"There, take thy hire; and all the fiends of hell"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Divide themselves between you!"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Sir, be patient:"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"This is not strong enough to be believed"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Of one persuaded well of--"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Never talk on't;"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"She hath been colted by him."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"If you seek"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"For further satisfying, under her breast--"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Worthy the pressing--lies a mole, right proud"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Of that most delicate lodging: by my life,"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"I kiss'd it; and it gave me present hunger"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"To feed again, though full. You do remember"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"This stain upon her?"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Ay, and it doth confirm"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Another stain, as big as hell can hold,"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Were there no more but it."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"Will you hear more?"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Spare your arithmetic: never count the turns;"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Once, and a million!"
II,IV,IACHIMO,"I'll be sworn--"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"No swearing."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"If you will swear you have not done't, you lie;"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And I will kill thee, if thou dost deny"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Thou'st made me cuckold."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"I'll deny nothing."
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal!"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I will go there and do't, i' the court, before"
II,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Her father. I'll do something--"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Quite besides"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"The government of patience! You have won:"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath"
II,IV,PHILARIO,"He hath against himself."
II,IV,IACHIMO,"With an my heart."
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Is there no way for men to be but women"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Must be half-workers? We are all bastards;"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And that most venerable man which I"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Did call my father, was I know not where"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"When I was stamp'd; some coiner with his tools"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Made me a counterfeit: yet my mother seem'd"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The Dian of that time so doth my wife"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The nonpareil of this. O, vengeance, vengeance!"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain'd"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And pray'd me oft forbearance; did it with"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"A pudency so rosy the sweet view on't"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Might well have warm'd old Saturn; that I thought her"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"As chaste as unsunn'd snow. O, all the devils!"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"This yellow Iachimo, in an hour,--wast not?--"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Or less,--at first?--perchance he spoke not, but,"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Like a full-acorn'd boar, a German one,"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Cried 'O!' and mounted; found no opposition"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"But what he look'd for should oppose and she"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Should from encounter guard. Could I find out"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The woman's part in me! For there's no motion"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"That tends to vice in man, but I affirm"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"It is the woman's part: be it lying, note it,"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The woman's; flattering, hers; deceiving, hers;"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers; revenges, hers;"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain,"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Nice longing, slanders, mutability,"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"All faults that may be named, nay, that hell knows,"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Why, hers, in part or all; but rather, all;"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"For even to vice"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"They are not constant but are changing still"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"One vice, but of a minute old, for one"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Not half so old as that. I'll write against them,"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Detest them, curse them: yet 'tis greater skill"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"In a true hate, to pray they have their will:"
II,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The very devils cannot plague them better."
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Now say, what would Augustus Caesar with us?"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"When Julius Caesar, whose remembrance yet"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Lives in men's eyes and will to ears and tongues"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Be theme and hearing ever, was in this Britain"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"And conquer'd it, Cassibelan, thine uncle,--"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Famous in Caesar's praises, no whit less"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Than in his feats deserving it--for him"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"And his succession granted Rome a tribute,"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Yearly three thousand pounds, which by thee lately"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Is left untender'd."
III,I,QUEEN,"And, to kill the marvel,"
III,I,QUEEN,"Shall be so ever."
III,I,CLOTEN,"There be many Caesars,"
III,I,CLOTEN,"Ere such another Julius. Britain is"
III,I,CLOTEN,"A world by itself; and we will nothing pay"
III,I,CLOTEN,"For wearing our own noses."
III,I,QUEEN,"That opportunity"
III,I,QUEEN,"Which then they had to take from 's, to resume"
III,I,QUEEN,"We have again. Remember, sir, my liege,"
III,I,QUEEN,"The kings your ancestors, together with"
III,I,QUEEN,"The natural bravery of your isle, which stands"
III,I,QUEEN,"As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in"
III,I,QUEEN,"With rocks unscalable and roaring waters,"
III,I,QUEEN,"With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats,"
III,I,QUEEN,"But suck them up to the topmast. A kind of conquest"
III,I,QUEEN,"Caesar made here; but made not here his brag"
III,I,QUEEN,"Of 'Came' and 'saw' and 'overcame: ' with shame--"
III,I,QUEEN,"That first that ever touch'd him--he was carried"
III,I,QUEEN,"From off our coast, twice beaten; and his shipping--"
III,I,QUEEN,"Poor ignorant baubles!-- upon our terrible seas,"
III,I,QUEEN,"Like egg-shells moved upon their surges, crack'd"
III,I,QUEEN,"As easily 'gainst our rocks: for joy whereof"
III,I,QUEEN,"The famed Cassibelan, who was once at point--"
III,I,QUEEN,"O giglot fortune!--to master Caesar's sword,"
III,I,QUEEN,"Made Lud's town with rejoicing fires bright"
III,I,QUEEN,"And Britons strut with courage."
III,I,CLOTEN,"Come, there's no more tribute to be paid: our"
III,I,CLOTEN,"kingdom is stronger than it was at that time; and,"
III,I,CLOTEN,"as I said, there is no moe such Caesars: other of"
III,I,CLOTEN,"them may have crook'd noses, but to owe such"
III,I,CLOTEN,"straight arms, none."
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Son, let your mother end."
III,I,CLOTEN,"We have yet many among us can gripe as hard as"
III,I,CLOTEN,"Cassibelan: I do not say I am one; but I have a"
III,I,CLOTEN,"hand. Why tribute? why should we pay tribute? If"
III,I,CLOTEN,"Caesar can hide the sun from us with a blanket, or"
III,I,CLOTEN,"put the moon in his pocket, we will pay him tribute"
III,I,CLOTEN,"for light; else, sir, no more tribute, pray you now."
III,I,CYMBELINE,"You must know,"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Till the injurious Romans did extort"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"This tribute from us, we were free:"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Caesar's ambition,"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Which swell'd so much that it did almost stretch"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"The sides o' the world, against all colour here"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Did put the yoke upon 's; which to shake off"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Becomes a warlike people, whom we reckon"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Ourselves to be."
III,I,CLOTEN,"We do."
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Say, then, to Caesar,"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Our ancestor was that Mulmutius which"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Ordain'd our laws, whose use the sword of Caesar"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Hath too much mangled; whose repair and franchise"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Shall, by the power we hold, be our good deed,"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Though Rome be therefore angry: Mulmutius made our laws,"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Who was the first of Britain which did put"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"His brows within a golden crown and call'd"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Himself a king."
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"I am sorry, Cymbeline,"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"That I am to pronounce Augustus Caesar--"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Caesar, that hath more kings his servants than"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Thyself domestic officers--thine enemy:"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Receive it from me, then: war and confusion"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"In Caesar's name pronounce I 'gainst thee: look"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"For fury not to be resisted. Thus defied,"
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"I thank thee for myself."
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Thou art welcome, Caius."
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Thy Caesar knighted me; my youth I spent"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Much under him; of him I gather'd honour;"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Which he to seek of me again, perforce,"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Behoves me keep at utterance. I am perfect"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"That the Pannonians and Dalmatians for"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Their liberties are now in arms; a precedent"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"Which not to read would show the Britons cold:"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"So Caesar shall not find them."
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Let proof speak."
III,I,CLOTEN,"His majesty bids you welcome. Make"
III,I,CLOTEN,"pastime with us a day or two, or longer: if"
III,I,CLOTEN,"you seek us afterwards in other terms, you"
III,I,CLOTEN,"shall find us in our salt-water girdle: if you"
III,I,CLOTEN,"beat us out of it, it is yours; if you fall in"
III,I,CLOTEN,"the adventure, our crows shall fare the better"
III,I,CLOTEN,"for you; and there's an end."
III,I,CAIUS LUCIUS,"So, sir."
III,I,CYMBELINE,"I know your master's pleasure and he mine:"
III,I,CYMBELINE,"All the remain is 'Welcome!'"
III,II,PISANIO,"How? of adultery? Wherefore write you not"
III,II,PISANIO,"What monster's her accuser? Leonatus,"
III,II,PISANIO,"O master! what a strange infection"
III,II,PISANIO,"Is fall'n into thy ear! What false Italian,"
III,II,PISANIO,"As poisonous-tongued as handed, hath prevail'd"
III,II,PISANIO,"On thy too ready hearing? Disloyal! No:"
III,II,PISANIO,"She's punish'd for her truth, and undergoes,"
III,II,PISANIO,"More goddess-like than wife-like, such assaults"
III,II,PISANIO,"As would take in some virtue. O my master!"
III,II,PISANIO,"Thy mind to her is now as low as were"
III,II,PISANIO,"Thy fortunes. How! that I should murder her?"
III,II,PISANIO,"Upon the love and truth and vows which I"
III,II,PISANIO,"Have made to thy command? I, her? her blood?"
III,II,PISANIO,"If it be so to do good service, never"
III,II,PISANIO,"Let me be counted serviceable. How look I,"
III,II,PISANIO,"That I should seem to lack humanity"
III,II,PISANIO,"so much as this fact comes to?"
III,II,PISANIO,"'Do't: the letter"
III,II,PISANIO,"that I have sent her, by her own command"
III,II,PISANIO,"Shall give thee opportunity.' O damn'd paper!"
III,II,PISANIO,"Black as the ink that's on thee! Senseless bauble,"
III,II,PISANIO,"Art thou a feodary for this act, and look'st"
III,II,PISANIO,"So virgin-like without? Lo, here she comes."
III,II,PISANIO,"I am ignorant in what I am commanded."
III,II,IMOGEN,"How now, Pisanio!"
III,II,PISANIO,"Madam, here is a letter from my lord."
III,II,IMOGEN,"Who? thy lord? that is my lord, Leonatus!"
III,II,IMOGEN,"O, learn'd indeed were that astronomer"
III,II,IMOGEN,"That knew the stars as I his characters;"
III,II,IMOGEN,"He'ld lay the future open. You good gods,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Let what is here contain'd relish of love,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Of my lord's health, of his content, yet not"
III,II,IMOGEN,"That we two are asunder; let that grieve him:"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Some griefs are med'cinable; that is one of them,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"For it doth physic love: of his content,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"All but in that! Good wax, thy leave. Blest be"
III,II,IMOGEN,"You bees that make these locks of counsel! Lovers"
III,II,IMOGEN,"And men in dangerous bonds pray not alike:"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Though forfeiters you cast in prison, yet"
III,II,IMOGEN,"You clasp young Cupid's tables. Good news, gods!"
III,II,IMOGEN,"'Justice, and your father's wrath, should he take me"
III,II,IMOGEN,"in his dominion, could not be so cruel to me, as"
III,II,IMOGEN,"you, O the dearest of creatures, would even renew me"
III,II,IMOGEN,"with your eyes. Take notice that I am in Cambria,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"at Milford-Haven: what your own love will out of"
III,II,IMOGEN,"this advise you, follow. So he wishes you all"
III,II,IMOGEN,"happiness, that remains loyal to his vow, and your,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"increasing in love,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"LEONATUS POSTHUMUS.'"
III,II,IMOGEN,"O, for a horse with wings! Hear'st thou, Pisanio?"
III,II,IMOGEN,"He is at Milford-Haven: read, and tell me"
III,II,IMOGEN,"How far 'tis thither. If one of mean affairs"
III,II,IMOGEN,"May plod it in a week, why may not I"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Glide thither in a day? Then, true Pisanio,--"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Who long'st, like me, to see thy lord; who long'st,--"
III,II,IMOGEN,"let me bate,-but not like me--yet long'st,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"But in a fainter kind:--O, not like me;"
III,II,IMOGEN,"For mine's beyond beyond--say, and speak thick;"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"To the smothering of the sense--how far it is"
III,II,IMOGEN,"To this same blessed Milford: and by the way"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Tell me how Wales was made so happy as"
III,II,IMOGEN,"To inherit such a haven: but first of all,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"How we may steal from hence, and for the gap"
III,II,IMOGEN,"That we shall make in time, from our hence-going"
III,II,IMOGEN,"And our return, to excuse: but first, how get hence:"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Why should excuse be born or e'er begot?"
III,II,IMOGEN,"We'll talk of that hereafter. Prithee, speak,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"How many score of miles may we well ride"
III,II,IMOGEN,"'Twixt hour and hour?"
III,II,PISANIO,"One score 'twixt sun and sun,"
III,II,PISANIO,"Madam, 's enough for you:"
III,II,PISANIO,"and too much too."
III,II,IMOGEN,"Why, one that rode to's execution, man,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Could never go so slow: I have heard of"
III,II,IMOGEN,"riding wagers,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Where horses have been nimbler than the sands"
III,II,IMOGEN,"That run i' the clock's behalf. But this is foolery:"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Go bid my woman feign a sickness; say"
III,II,IMOGEN,"She'll home to her father: and provide me presently"
III,II,IMOGEN,"A riding-suit, no costlier than would fit"
III,II,IMOGEN,"A franklin's housewife."
III,II,PISANIO,"Madam, you're best consider."
III,II,IMOGEN,"I see before me, man: nor here, nor here,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Nor what ensues, but have a fog in them,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"That I cannot look through. Away, I prithee;"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Do as I bid thee: there's no more to say,"
III,II,IMOGEN,"Accessible is none but Milford way."
III,III,BELARIUS,"A goodly day not to keep house, with such"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Whose roof's as low as ours! Stoop, boys; this gate"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Instructs you how to adore the heavens and bows you"
III,III,BELARIUS,"To a morning's holy office: the gates of monarchs"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Are arch'd so high that giants may jet through"
III,III,BELARIUS,"And keep their impious turbans on, without"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Good morrow to the sun. Hail, thou fair heaven!"
III,III,BELARIUS,"We house i' the rock, yet use thee not so hardly"
III,III,BELARIUS,"As prouder livers do."
III,III,GUIDERIUS,"Hail, heaven!"
III,III,ARVIRAGUS,"Hail, heaven!"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Now for our mountain sport: up to yond hill;"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Your legs are young; I'll tread these flats. Consider,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"When you above perceive me like a crow,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"That it is place which lessens and sets off;"
III,III,BELARIUS,"And you may then revolve what tales I have told you"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Of courts, of princes, of the tricks in war:"
III,III,BELARIUS,"This service is not service, so being done,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"But being so allow'd: to apprehend thus,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Draws us a profit from all things we see;"
III,III,BELARIUS,"And often, to our comfort, shall we find"
III,III,BELARIUS,"The sharded beetle in a safer hold"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Than is the full-wing'd eagle. O, this life"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Is nobler than attending for a cheque,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Richer than doing nothing for a bauble,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Such gain the cap of him that makes 'em fine,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Yet keeps his book uncross'd: no life to ours."
III,III,GUIDERIUS,"Out of your proof you speak: we, poor unfledged,"
III,III,GUIDERIUS,"Have never wing'd from view o' the nest, nor know not"
III,III,GUIDERIUS,"What air's from home. Haply this life is best,"
III,III,GUIDERIUS,"If quiet life be best; sweeter to you"
III,III,GUIDERIUS,"That have a sharper known; well corresponding"
III,III,GUIDERIUS,"With your stiff age: but unto us it is"
III,III,GUIDERIUS,"A cell of ignorance; travelling a-bed;"
III,III,GUIDERIUS,"A prison for a debtor, that not dares"
III,III,GUIDERIUS,"To stride a limit."
III,III,ARVIRAGUS,"What should we speak of"
III,III,ARVIRAGUS,"When we are old as you? when we shall hear"
III,III,ARVIRAGUS,"The rain and wind beat dark December, how,"
III,III,ARVIRAGUS,"In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse"
III,III,ARVIRAGUS,"The freezing hours away? We have seen nothing;"
III,III,ARVIRAGUS,"We are beastly, subtle as the fox for prey,"
III,III,ARVIRAGUS,"Like warlike as the wolf for what we eat;"
III,III,ARVIRAGUS,"Our valour is to chase what flies; our cage"
III,III,ARVIRAGUS,"We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,"
III,III,ARVIRAGUS,"And sing our bondage freely."
III,III,BELARIUS,"How you speak!"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Did you but know the city's usuries"
III,III,BELARIUS,"And felt them knowingly; the art o' the court"
III,III,BELARIUS,"As hard to leave as keep; whose top to climb"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Is certain falling, or so slippery that"
III,III,BELARIUS,"The fear's as bad as falling; the toil o' the war,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"A pain that only seems to seek out danger"
III,III,BELARIUS,"I' the name of fame and honour; which dies i'"
III,III,BELARIUS,"the search,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"And hath as oft a slanderous epitaph"
III,III,BELARIUS,"As record of fair act; nay, many times,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Doth ill deserve by doing well; what's worse,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Must court'sy at the censure:--O boys, this story"
III,III,BELARIUS,"The world may read in me: my body's mark'd"
III,III,BELARIUS,"With Roman swords, and my report was once"
III,III,BELARIUS,"First with the best of note: Cymbeline loved me,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"And when a soldier was the theme, my name"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Was not far off: then was I as a tree"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Whose boughs did bend with fruit: but in one night,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"A storm or robbery, call it what you will,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"And left me bare to weather."
III,III,GUIDERIUS,"Uncertain favour!"
III,III,BELARIUS,"My fault being nothing--as I have told you oft--"
III,III,BELARIUS,"But that two villains, whose false oaths prevail'd"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Before my perfect honour, swore to Cymbeline"
III,III,BELARIUS,"I was confederate with the Romans: so"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Follow'd my banishment, and this twenty years"
III,III,BELARIUS,"This rock and these demesnes have been my world;"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Where I have lived at honest freedom, paid"
III,III,BELARIUS,"More pious debts to heaven than in all"
III,III,BELARIUS,"The fore-end of my time. But up to the mountains!"
III,III,BELARIUS,"This is not hunters' language: he that strikes"
III,III,BELARIUS,"The venison first shall be the lord o' the feast;"
III,III,BELARIUS,"To him the other two shall minister;"
III,III,BELARIUS,"And we will fear no poison, which attends"
III,III,BELARIUS,"In place of greater state. I'll meet you in the valleys."
III,III,BELARIUS,"How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature!"
III,III,BELARIUS,"These boys know little they are sons to the king;"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive."
III,III,BELARIUS,"They think they are mine; and though train'd"
III,III,BELARIUS,"up thus meanly"
III,III,BELARIUS,"I' the cave wherein they bow, their thoughts do hit"
III,III,BELARIUS,"The roofs of palaces, and nature prompts them"
III,III,BELARIUS,"In simple and low things to prince it much"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Beyond the trick of others. This Polydore,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"The heir of Cymbeline and Britain, who"
III,III,BELARIUS,"The king his father call'd Guiderius,--Jove!"
III,III,BELARIUS,"When on my three-foot stool I sit and tell"
III,III,BELARIUS,"The warlike feats I have done, his spirits fly out"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Into my story: say 'Thus, mine enemy fell,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"And thus I set my foot on 's neck;' even then"
III,III,BELARIUS,"The princely blood flows in his cheek, he sweats,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Strains his young nerves and puts himself in posture"
III,III,BELARIUS,"That acts my words. The younger brother, Cadwal,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Once Arviragus, in as like a figure,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Strikes life into my speech and shows much more"
III,III,BELARIUS,"His own conceiving.--Hark, the game is roused!"
III,III,BELARIUS,"O Cymbeline! heaven and my conscience knows"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Thou didst unjustly banish me: whereon,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"At three and two years old, I stole these babes;"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Thinking to bar thee of succession, as"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Thou reft'st me of my lands. Euriphile,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Thou wast their nurse; they took thee for"
III,III,BELARIUS,"their mother,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"And every day do honour to her grave:"
III,III,BELARIUS,"Myself, Belarius, that am Morgan call'd,"
III,III,BELARIUS,"They take for natural father. The game is up."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Thou told'st me, when we came from horse, the place"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Was near at hand: ne'er long'd my mother so"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"To see me first, as I have now. Pisanio! man!"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Where is Posthumus? What is in thy mind,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"That makes thee stare thus? Wherefore breaks that sigh"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"From the inward of thee? One, but painted thus,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Would be interpreted a thing perplex'd"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Beyond self-explication: put thyself"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Into a havior of less fear, ere wildness"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Vanquish my staider senses. What's the matter?"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Why tender'st thou that paper to me, with"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"A look untender? If't be summer news,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"But keep that countenance still. My husband's hand!"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"That drug-damn'd Italy hath out-craftied him,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"And he's at some hard point. Speak, man: thy tongue"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"May take off some extremity, which to read"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Would be even mortal to me."
III,IV,PISANIO,"Please you, read;"
III,IV,PISANIO,"And you shall find me, wretched man, a thing"
III,IV,PISANIO,"The most disdain'd of fortune."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"strumpet in my bed; the testimonies whereof lie"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"bleeding in me. I speak not out of weak surmises,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"but from proof as strong as my grief and as certain"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"as I expect my revenge. That part thou, Pisanio,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"must act for me, if thy faith be not tainted with"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"the breach of hers. Let thine own hands take away"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"her life: I shall give thee opportunity at"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Milford-Haven. She hath my letter for the purpose"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"where, if thou fear to strike and to make me certain"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"it is done, thou art the pandar to her dishonour and"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"equally to me disloyal.'"
III,IV,PISANIO,"What shall I need to draw my sword? the paper"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Hath cut her throat already. No, 'tis slander,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Rides on the posting winds and doth belie"
III,IV,PISANIO,"All corners of the world: kings, queens and states,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave"
III,IV,PISANIO,"This viperous slander enters. What cheer, madam?"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"False to his bed! What is it to be false?"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"To lie in watch there and to think on him?"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"To weep 'twixt clock and clock? if sleep"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"charge nature,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"To break it with a fearful dream of him"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"And cry myself awake? that's false to's bed, is it?"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Alas, good lady!"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"I false! Thy conscience witness: Iachimo,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Thou didst accuse him of incontinency;"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Thou then look'dst like a villain; now methinks"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Thy favour's good enough. Some jay of Italy"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him:"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion;"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"And, for I am richer than to hang by the walls,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"I must be ripp'd:--to pieces with me!--O,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Put on for villany; not born where't grows,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"But worn a bait for ladies."
III,IV,PISANIO,"Good madam, hear me."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"True honest men being heard, like false Aeneas,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Were in his time thought false, and Sinon's weeping"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Did scandal many a holy tear, took pity"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"From most true wretchedness: so thou, Posthumus,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Wilt lay the leaven on all proper men;"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Goodly and gallant shall be false and perjured"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"From thy great fall. Come, fellow, be thou honest:"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Do thou thy master's bidding: when thou see'st him,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"A little witness my obedience: look!"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"I draw the sword myself: take it, and hit"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"The innocent mansion of my love, my heart;"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Fear not; 'tis empty of all things but grief;"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Thy master is not there, who was indeed"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"The riches of it: do his bidding; strike"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Thou mayst be valiant in a better cause;"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"But now thou seem'st a coward."
III,IV,PISANIO,"Hence, vile instrument!"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Thou shalt not damn my hand."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Why, I must die;"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"And if I do not by thy hand, thou art"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"No servant of thy master's. Against self-slaughter"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"There is a prohibition so divine"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"That cravens my weak hand. Come, here's my heart."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Something's afore't. Soft, soft! we'll no defence;"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Obedient as the scabbard. What is here?"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"The scriptures of the loyal Leonatus,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"All turn'd to heresy? Away, away,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Corrupters of my faith! you shall no more"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Be stomachers to my heart. Thus may poor fools"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Believe false teachers: though those that"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"are betray'd"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Stands in worse case of woe."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"And thou, Posthumus, thou that didst set up"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"My disobedience 'gainst the king my father"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"And make me put into contempt the suits"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Of princely fellows, shalt hereafter find"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"It is no act of common passage, but"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"A strain of rareness: and I grieve myself"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"That now thou tirest on, how thy memory"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Will then be pang'd by me. Prithee, dispatch:"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"The lamb entreats the butcher: where's thy knife?"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Thou art too slow to do thy master's bidding,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"When I desire it too."
III,IV,PISANIO,"O gracious lady,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Since I received command to do this business"
III,IV,PISANIO,"I have not slept one wink."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Do't, and to bed then."
III,IV,PISANIO,"I'll wake mine eye-balls blind first."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Wherefore then"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Didst undertake it? Why hast thou abused"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"So many miles with a pretence? this place?"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Mine action and thine own? our horses' labour?"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"The time inviting thee? the perturb'd court,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"For my being absent? whereunto I never"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Purpose return. Why hast thou gone so far,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"To be unbent when thou hast ta'en thy stand,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"The elected deer before thee?"
III,IV,PISANIO,"But to win time"
III,IV,PISANIO,"To lose so bad employment; in the which"
III,IV,PISANIO,"I have consider'd of a course. Good lady,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Hear me with patience."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Talk thy tongue weary; speak"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"I have heard I am a strumpet; and mine ear"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Therein false struck, can take no greater wound,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Nor tent to bottom that. But speak."
III,IV,PISANIO,"Then, madam,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"I thought you would not back again."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Most like;"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Bringing me here to kill me."
III,IV,PISANIO,"Not so, neither:"
III,IV,PISANIO,"But if I were as wise as honest, then"
III,IV,PISANIO,"My purpose would prove well. It cannot be"
III,IV,PISANIO,"But that my master is abused:"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Some villain, ay, and singular in his art."
III,IV,PISANIO,"Hath done you both this cursed injury."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Some Roman courtezan."
III,IV,PISANIO,"No, on my life."
III,IV,PISANIO,"I'll give but notice you are dead and send him"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Some bloody sign of it; for 'tis commanded"
III,IV,PISANIO,"I should do so: you shall be miss'd at court,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"And that will well confirm it."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Why good fellow,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"What shall I do the where? where bide? how live?"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Or in my life what comfort, when I am"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Dead to my husband?"
III,IV,PISANIO,"If you'll back to the court--"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"No court, no father; nor no more ado"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"With that harsh, noble, simple nothing,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"That Cloten, whose love-suit hath been to me"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"As fearful as a siege."
III,IV,PISANIO,"If not at court,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Then not in Britain must you bide."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Where then"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, night,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Are they not but in Britain? I' the world's volume"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Our Britain seems as of it, but not in 't;"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"In a great pool a swan's nest: prithee, think"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"There's livers out of Britain."
III,IV,PISANIO,"I am most glad"
III,IV,PISANIO,"You think of other place. The ambassador,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Lucius the Roman, comes to Milford-Haven"
III,IV,PISANIO,"To-morrow: now, if you could wear a mind"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Dark as your fortune is, and but disguise"
III,IV,PISANIO,"That which, to appear itself, must not yet be"
III,IV,PISANIO,"But by self-danger, you should tread a course"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Pretty and full of view; yea, haply, near"
III,IV,PISANIO,"The residence of Posthumus; so nigh at least"
III,IV,PISANIO,"That though his actions were not visible, yet"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Report should render him hourly to your ear"
III,IV,PISANIO,"As truly as he moves."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"O, for such means!"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Though peril to my modesty, not death on't,"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"I would adventure."
III,IV,PISANIO,"Well, then, here's the point:"
III,IV,PISANIO,"You must forget to be a woman; change"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Command into obedience: fear and niceness--"
III,IV,PISANIO,"The handmaids of all women, or, more truly,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Woman its pretty self--into a waggish courage:"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Ready in gibes, quick-answer'd, saucy and"
III,IV,PISANIO,"As quarrelous as the weasel; nay, you must"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Forget that rarest treasure of your cheek,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Exposing it--but, O, the harder heart!"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Alack, no remedy!--to the greedy touch"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Of common-kissing Titan, and forget"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Your laboursome and dainty trims, wherein"
III,IV,PISANIO,"You made great Juno angry."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Nay, be brief"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"I see into thy end, and am almost"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"A man already."
III,IV,PISANIO,"First, make yourself but like one."
III,IV,PISANIO,"Fore-thinking this, I have already fit--"
III,IV,PISANIO,"'Tis in my cloak-bag--doublet, hat, hose, all"
III,IV,PISANIO,"That answer to them: would you in their serving,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"And with what imitation you can borrow"
III,IV,PISANIO,"From youth of such a season, 'fore noble Lucius"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Present yourself, desire his service, tell him"
III,IV,PISANIO,"wherein you're happy,--which you'll make him know,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"If that his head have ear in music,--doubtless"
III,IV,PISANIO,"With joy he will embrace you, for he's honourable"
III,IV,PISANIO,"And doubling that, most holy. Your means abroad,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"You have me, rich; and I will never fail"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Beginning nor supplyment."
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Thou art all the comfort"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"The gods will diet me with. Prithee, away:"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"There's more to be consider'd; but we'll even"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"All that good time will give us: this attempt"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"I am soldier to, and will abide it with"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"A prince's courage. Away, I prithee."
III,IV,PISANIO,"Well, madam, we must take a short farewell,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Lest, being miss'd, I be suspected of"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Your carriage from the court. My noble mistress,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Here is a box; I had it from the queen:"
III,IV,PISANIO,"What's in't is precious; if you are sick at sea,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Or stomach-qualm'd at land, a dram of this"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Will drive away distemper. To some shade,"
III,IV,PISANIO,"And fit you to your manhood. May the gods"
III,IV,PISANIO,"Direct you to the best!"
III,IV,IMOGEN,"Amen: I thank thee."
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Thus far; and so farewell."
III,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Thanks, royal sir."
III,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"My emperor hath wrote, I must from hence;"
III,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"And am right sorry that I must report ye"
III,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"My master's enemy."
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Our subjects, sir,"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Will not endure his yoke; and for ourself"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"To show less sovereignty than they, must needs"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Appear unkinglike."
III,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"So, sir: I desire of you"
III,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"A conduct over-land to Milford-Haven."
III,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Madam, all joy befal your grace!"
III,V,QUEEN,"And you!"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"My lords, you are appointed for that office;"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"The due of honour in no point omit."
III,V,CYMBELINE,"So farewell, noble Lucius."
III,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Your hand, my lord."
III,V,CLOTEN,"Receive it friendly; but from this time forth"
III,V,CLOTEN,"I wear it as your enemy."
III,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Sir, the event"
III,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Is yet to name the winner: fare you well."
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Leave not the worthy Lucius, good my lords,"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Till he have cross'd the Severn. Happiness!"
III,V,QUEEN,"He goes hence frowning: but it honours us"
III,V,QUEEN,"That we have given him cause."
III,V,CLOTEN,"'Tis all the better;"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Your valiant Britons have their wishes in it."
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Lucius hath wrote already to the emperor"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"How it goes here. It fits us therefore ripely"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness:"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"The powers that he already hath in Gallia"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Will soon be drawn to head, from whence he moves"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"His war for Britain."
III,V,QUEEN,"'Tis not sleepy business;"
III,V,QUEEN,"But must be look'd to speedily and strongly."
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Our expectation that it would be thus"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Hath made us forward. But, my gentle queen,"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Where is our daughter? She hath not appear'd"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Before the Roman, nor to us hath tender'd"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"The duty of the day: she looks us like"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"A thing more made of malice than of duty:"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"We have noted it. Call her before us; for"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"We have been too slight in sufferance."
III,V,QUEEN,"Royal sir,"
III,V,QUEEN,"Since the exile of Posthumus, most retired"
III,V,QUEEN,"Hath her life been; the cure whereof, my lord,"
III,V,QUEEN,"'Tis time must do. Beseech your majesty,"
III,V,QUEEN,"Forbear sharp speeches to her: she's a lady"
III,V,QUEEN,"So tender of rebukes that words are strokes"
III,V,QUEEN,"And strokes death to her."
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Where is she, sir? How"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Can her contempt be answer'd?"
III,V,Attendant,"Please you, sir,"
III,V,Attendant,"Her chambers are all lock'd; and there's no answer"
III,V,Attendant,"That will be given to the loudest noise we make."
III,V,QUEEN,"My lord, when last I went to visit her,"
III,V,QUEEN,"She pray'd me to excuse her keeping close,"
III,V,QUEEN,"Whereto constrain'd by her infirmity,"
III,V,QUEEN,"She should that duty leave unpaid to you,"
III,V,QUEEN,"Which daily she was bound to proffer: this"
III,V,QUEEN,"She wish'd me to make known; but our great court"
III,V,QUEEN,"Made me to blame in memory."
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Her doors lock'd?"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Not seen of late? Grant, heavens, that which I fear"
III,V,CYMBELINE,"Prove false!"
III,V,QUEEN,"Son, I say, follow the king."
III,V,CLOTEN,"That man of hers, Pisanio, her old servant,"
III,V,CLOTEN,"have not seen these two days."
III,V,QUEEN,"Go, look after."
III,V,QUEEN,"Pisanio, thou that stand'st so for Posthumus!"
III,V,QUEEN,"He hath a drug of mine; I pray his absence"
III,V,QUEEN,"Proceed by swallowing that, for he believes"
III,V,QUEEN,"It is a thing most precious. But for her,"
III,V,QUEEN,"Where is she gone? Haply, despair hath seized her,"
III,V,QUEEN,"Or, wing'd with fervor of her love, she's flown"
III,V,QUEEN,"To her desired Posthumus: gone she is"
III,V,QUEEN,"To death or to dishonour; and my end"
III,V,QUEEN,"Can make good use of either: she being down,"
III,V,QUEEN,"I have the placing of the British crown."
III,V,QUEEN,"How now, my son!"
III,V,CLOTEN,"'Tis certain she is fled."
III,V,CLOTEN,"Go in and cheer the king: he rages; none"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Dare come about him."
III,V,QUEEN,"This night forestall him of the coming day!"
III,V,CLOTEN,"I love and hate her: for she's fair and royal,"
III,V,CLOTEN,"And that she hath all courtly parts more exquisite"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Than lady, ladies, woman; from every one"
III,V,CLOTEN,"The best she hath, and she, of all compounded,"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Outsells them all; I love her therefore: but"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Disdaining me and throwing favours on"
III,V,CLOTEN,"The low Posthumus slanders so her judgment"
III,V,CLOTEN,"That what's else rare is choked; and in that point"
III,V,CLOTEN,"I will conclude to hate her, nay, indeed,"
III,V,CLOTEN,"To be revenged upon her. For when fools Shall--"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Who is here? What, are you packing, sirrah?"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Come hither: ah, you precious pander! Villain,"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Where is thy lady? In a word; or else"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Thou art straightway with the fiends."
III,V,PISANIO,"O, good my lord!"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Where is thy lady? Or, by Jupiter,--"
III,V,CLOTEN,"I will not ask again. Close villain,"
III,V,CLOTEN,"I'll have this secret from thy heart, or rip"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Thy heart to find it. Is she with Posthumus?"
III,V,CLOTEN,"From whose so many weights of baseness cannot"
III,V,CLOTEN,"A dram of worth be drawn."
III,V,PISANIO,"Alas, my lord,"
III,V,PISANIO,"How can she be with him? When was she missed?"
III,V,PISANIO,"He is in Rome."
III,V,CLOTEN,"Where is she, sir? Come nearer;"
III,V,CLOTEN,"No further halting: satisfy me home"
III,V,CLOTEN,"What is become of her."
III,V,PISANIO,"O, my all-worthy lord!"
III,V,CLOTEN,"All-worthy villain!"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Discover where thy mistress is at once,"
III,V,CLOTEN,"At the next word: no more of 'worthy lord!'"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Speak, or thy silence on the instant is"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Thy condemnation and thy death."
III,V,PISANIO,"Then, sir,"
III,V,PISANIO,"This paper is the history of my knowledge"
III,V,PISANIO,"Touching her flight."
III,V,CLOTEN,"Let's see't. I will pursue her"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Even to Augustus' throne."
III,V,PISANIO,"She's far enough; and what he learns by this"
III,V,PISANIO,"May prove his travel, not her danger."
III,V,CLOTEN,"Hum!"
III,V,PISANIO,"Safe mayst thou wander, safe return again!"
III,V,CLOTEN,"Sirrah, is this letter true?"
III,V,PISANIO,"Sir, as I think."
III,V,CLOTEN,"It is Posthumus' hand; I know't. Sirrah, if thou"
III,V,CLOTEN,"wouldst not be a villain, but do me true service,"
III,V,CLOTEN,"undergo those employments wherein I should have"
III,V,CLOTEN,"cause to use thee with a serious industry, that is,"
III,V,CLOTEN,"what villany soe'er I bid thee do, to perform it"
III,V,CLOTEN,"directly and truly, I would think thee an honest"
III,V,CLOTEN,"man: thou shouldst neither want my means for thy"
III,V,CLOTEN,"relief nor my voice for thy preferment."
III,V,PISANIO,"Well, my good lord."
III,V,CLOTEN,"Wilt thou serve me? for since patiently and"
III,V,CLOTEN,"constantly thou hast stuck to the bare fortune of"
III,V,CLOTEN,"that beggar Posthumus, thou canst not, in the"
III,V,CLOTEN,"course of gratitude, but be a diligent follower of"
III,V,CLOTEN,"mine: wilt thou serve me?"
III,V,PISANIO,"Sir, I will."
III,V,CLOTEN,"Give me thy hand; here's my purse. Hast any of thy"
III,V,CLOTEN,"late master's garments in thy possession?"
III,V,PISANIO,"I have, my lord, at my lodging, the same suit he"
III,V,PISANIO,"wore when he took leave of my lady and mistress."
III,V,CLOTEN,"The first service thou dost me, fetch that suit"
III,V,CLOTEN,"hither: let it be thy lint service; go."
III,V,PISANIO,"I shall, my lord."
III,V,CLOTEN,"Meet thee at Milford-Haven!--I forgot to ask him one"
III,V,CLOTEN,"thing; I'll remember't anon:--even there, thou"
III,V,CLOTEN,"villain Posthumus, will I kill thee. I would these"
III,V,CLOTEN,"garments were come. She said upon a time--the"
III,V,CLOTEN,"bitterness of it I now belch from my heart--that she"
III,V,CLOTEN,"held the very garment of Posthumus in more respect"
III,V,CLOTEN,"than my noble and natural person together with the"
III,V,CLOTEN,"adornment of my qualities. With that suit upon my"
III,V,CLOTEN,"back, will I ravish her: first kill him, and in her"
III,V,CLOTEN,"eyes; there shall she see my valour, which will then"
III,V,CLOTEN,"be a torment to her contempt. He on the ground, my"
III,V,CLOTEN,"speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and"
III,V,CLOTEN,"when my lust hath dined,--which, as I say, to vex"
III,V,CLOTEN,"her I will execute in the clothes that she so"
III,V,CLOTEN,"praised,--to the court I'll knock her back, foot"
III,V,CLOTEN,"her home again. She hath despised me rejoicingly,"
III,V,CLOTEN,"and I'll be merry in my revenge."
III,V,CLOTEN,"Be those the garments?"
III,V,PISANIO,"Ay, my noble lord."
III,V,CLOTEN,"How long is't since she went to Milford-Haven?"
III,V,PISANIO,"She can scarce be there yet."
III,V,CLOTEN,"Bring this apparel to my chamber; that is the second"
III,V,CLOTEN,"thing that I have commanded thee: the third is,"
III,V,CLOTEN,"that thou wilt be a voluntary mute to my design. Be"
III,V,CLOTEN,"but duteous, and true preferment shall tender itself"
III,V,CLOTEN,"to thee. My revenge is now at Milford: would I had"
III,V,CLOTEN,"wings to follow it! Come, and be true."
III,V,PISANIO,"Thou bid'st me to my loss: for true to thee"
III,V,PISANIO,"Were to prove false, which I will never be,"
III,V,PISANIO,"To him that is most true. To Milford go,"
III,V,PISANIO,"And find not her whom thou pursuest. Flow, flow,"
III,V,PISANIO,"You heavenly blessings, on her! This fool's speed"
III,V,PISANIO,"Be cross'd with slowness; labour be his meed!"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"I see a man's life is a tedious one:"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"I have tired myself, and for two nights together"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Have made the ground my bed. I should be sick,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"But that my resolution helps me. Milford,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"When from the mountain-top Pisanio show'd thee,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Thou wast within a ken: O Jove! I think"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Foundations fly the wretched; such, I mean,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Where they should be relieved. Two beggars told me"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"I could not miss my way: will poor folks lie,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"That have afflictions on them, knowing 'tis"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"A punishment or trial? Yes; no wonder,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"When rich ones scarce tell true. To lapse in fulness"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Is worse in kings than beggars. My dear lord!"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Thou art one o' the false ones. Now I think on thee,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"My hunger's gone; but even before, I was"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"At point to sink for food. But what is this?"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Here is a path to't: 'tis some savage hold:"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"I were best not to call; I dare not call:"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"yet famine,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Ere clean it o'erthrow nature, makes it valiant,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Plenty and peace breeds cowards: hardness ever"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Of hardiness is mother. Ho! who's here?"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"If any thing that's civil, speak; if savage,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Take or lend. Ho! No answer? Then I'll enter."
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Best draw my sword: and if mine enemy"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"But fear the sword like me, he'll scarcely look on't."
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Such a foe, good heavens!"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"You, Polydote, have proved best woodman and"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Are master of the feast: Cadwal and I"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Will play the cook and servant; 'tis our match:"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"The sweat of industry would dry and die,"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"But for the end it works to. Come; our stomachs"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Will make what's homely savoury: weariness"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Finds the down pillow hard. Now peace be here,"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Poor house, that keep'st thyself!"
III,VI,GUIDERIUS,"I am thoroughly weary."
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"I am weak with toil, yet strong in appetite."
III,VI,GUIDERIUS,"There is cold meat i' the cave; we'll browse on that,"
III,VI,GUIDERIUS,"Whilst what we have kill'd be cook'd."
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Stay; come not in."
III,VI,BELARIUS,"But that it eats our victuals, I should think"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Here were a fairy."
III,VI,GUIDERIUS,"What's the matter, sir?"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"By Jupiter, an angel! or, if not,"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"An earthly paragon! Behold divineness"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"No elder than a boy!"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Good masters, harm me not:"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Before I enter'd here, I call'd; and thought"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"To have begg'd or bought what I have took:"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"good troth,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"I have stol'n nought, nor would not, though I had found"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Gold strew'd i' the floor. Here's money for my meat:"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"I would have left it on the board so soon"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"As I had made my meal, and parted"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"With prayers for the provider."
III,VI,GUIDERIUS,"Money, youth?"
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"All gold and silver rather turn to dirt!"
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"As 'tis no better reckon'd, but of those"
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"Who worship dirty gods."
III,VI,IMOGEN,"I see you're angry:"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Know, if you kill me for my fault, I should"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Have died had I not made it."
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Whither bound?"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"To Milford-Haven."
III,VI,BELARIUS,"What's your name?"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Fidele, sir. I have a kinsman who"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Is bound for Italy; he embark'd at Milford;"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"To whom being going, almost spent with hunger,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"I am fall'n in this offence."
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Prithee, fair youth,"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Think us no churls, nor measure our good minds"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"By this rude place we live in. Well encounter'd!"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"'Tis almost night: you shall have better cheer"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Ere you depart: and thanks to stay and eat it."
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Boys, bid him welcome."
III,VI,GUIDERIUS,"Were you a woman, youth,"
III,VI,GUIDERIUS,"I should woo hard but be your groom. In honesty,"
III,VI,GUIDERIUS,"I bid for you as I'd buy."
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"I'll make't my comfort"
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"He is a man; I'll love him as my brother:"
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"And such a welcome as I'd give to him"
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"After long absence, such is yours: most welcome!"
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"Be sprightly, for you fall 'mongst friends."
III,VI,IMOGEN,"'Mongst friends,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"If brothers."
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Would it had been so, that they"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Had been my father's sons! then had my prize"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Been less, and so more equal ballasting"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"To thee, Posthumus."
III,VI,BELARIUS,"He wrings at some distress."
III,VI,GUIDERIUS,"Would I could free't!"
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"Or I, whate'er it be,"
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"What pain it cost, what danger. God's!"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Hark, boys."
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Great men,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"That had a court no bigger than this cave,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"That did attend themselves and had the virtue"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Which their own conscience seal'd them--laying by"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"That nothing-gift of differing multitudes--"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Could not out-peer these twain. Pardon me, gods!"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"I'd change my sex to be companion with them,"
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Since Leonatus's false."
III,VI,BELARIUS,"It shall be so."
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Boys, we'll go dress our hunt. Fair youth, come in:"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"Discourse is heavy, fasting; when we have supp'd,"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"We'll mannerly demand thee of thy story,"
III,VI,BELARIUS,"So far as thou wilt speak it."
III,VI,GUIDERIUS,"Pray, draw near."
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"The night to the owl and morn to the lark"
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"less welcome."
III,VI,IMOGEN,"Thanks, sir."
III,VI,ARVIRAGUS,"I pray, draw near."
III,VII,First Senator,"This is the tenor of the emperor's writ:"
III,VII,First Senator,"That since the common men are now in action"
III,VII,First Senator,"'Gainst the Pannonians and Dalmatians,"
III,VII,First Senator,"And that the legions now in Gallia are"
III,VII,First Senator,"Full weak to undertake our wars against"
III,VII,First Senator,"The fall'n-off Britons, that we do incite"
III,VII,First Senator,"The gentry to this business. He creates"
III,VII,First Senator,"Lucius preconsul: and to you the tribunes,"
III,VII,First Senator,"For this immediate levy, he commends"
III,VII,First Senator,"His absolute commission. Long live Caesar!"
III,VII,First Tribune,"Is Lucius general of the forces?"
III,VII,Second Senator,"Ay."
III,VII,First Tribune,"Remaining now in Gallia?"
III,VII,First Senator,"With those legions"
III,VII,First Senator,"Which I have spoke of, whereunto your levy"
III,VII,First Senator,"Must be supplyant: the words of your commission"
III,VII,First Senator,"Will tie you to the numbers and the time"
III,VII,First Senator,"Of their dispatch."
III,VII,First Tribune,"We will discharge our duty."
IV,I,CLOTEN,"I am near to the place where they should meet, if"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"Pisanio have mapped it truly. How fit his garments"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"serve me! Why should his mistress, who was made by"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"him that made the tailor, not be fit too? the"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"rather--saving reverence of the word--for 'tis said"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"a woman's fitness comes by fits. Therein I must"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"play the workman. I dare speak it to myself--for it"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"is not vain-glory for a man and his glass to confer"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"in his own chamber--I mean, the lines of my body are"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"as well drawn as his; no less young, more strong,"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"not beneath him in fortunes, beyond him in the"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"advantage of the time, above him in birth, alike"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"conversant in general services, and more remarkable"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"in single oppositions: yet this imperceiverant"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"thing loves him in my despite. What mortality is!"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"Posthumus, thy head, which now is growing upon thy"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"shoulders, shall within this hour be off; thy"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"mistress enforced; thy garments cut to pieces before"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"thy face: and all this done, spurn her home to her"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"father; who may haply be a little angry for my so"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"rough usage; but my mother, having power of his"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"testiness, shall turn all into my commendations. My"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"horse is tied up safe: out, sword, and to a sore"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"purpose! Fortune, put them into my hand! This is"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"the very description of their meeting-place; and"
IV,I,CLOTEN,"the fellow dares not deceive me."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"We'll come to you after hunting."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Are we not brothers?"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"So man and man should be;"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"But clay and clay differs in dignity,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Whose dust is both alike. I am very sick."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Go you to hunting; I'll abide with him."
IV,II,IMOGEN,"So sick I am not, yet I am not well;"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"But not so citizen a wanton as"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"To seem to die ere sick: so please you, leave me;"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Stick to your journal course: the breach of custom"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Is breach of all. I am ill, but your being by me"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Cannot amend me; society is no comfort"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"To one not sociable: I am not very sick,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Since I can reason of it. Pray you, trust me here:"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"I'll rob none but myself; and let me die,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Stealing so poorly."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"I love thee; I have spoke it"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"How much the quantity, the weight as much,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"As I do love my father."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"What! how! how!"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"If it be sin to say so, I yoke me"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"In my good brother's fault: I know not why"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"I love this youth; and I have heard you say,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Love's reason's without reason: the bier at door,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"And a demand who is't shall die, I'd say"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"'My father, not this youth.'"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"O worthiness of nature! breed of greatness!"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Cowards father cowards and base things sire base:"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"I'm not their father; yet who this should be,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Doth miracle itself, loved before me."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"'Tis the ninth hour o' the morn."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Brother, farewell."
IV,II,IMOGEN,"I wish ye sport."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"You health. So please you, sir."
IV,II,IMOGEN,"I have heard!"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Our courtiers say all's savage but at court:"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Experience, O, thou disprovest report!"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"The imperious seas breed monsters, for the dish"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Poor tributary rivers as sweet fish."
IV,II,IMOGEN,"I am sick still; heart-sick. Pisanio,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"I'll now taste of thy drug."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"I could not stir him:"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"He said he was gentle, but unfortunate;"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Dishonestly afflicted, but yet honest."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Thus did he answer me: yet said, hereafter"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"I might know more."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"To the field, to the field!"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"We'll leave you for this time: go in and rest."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"We'll not be long away."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Pray, be not sick,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"For you must be our housewife."
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Well or ill,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"I am bound to you."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"And shalt be ever."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"This youth, how'er distress'd, appears he hath had"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Good ancestors."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"How angel-like he sings!"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"But his neat cookery! he cut our roots"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"In characters,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"And sauced our broths, as Juno had been sick"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"And he her dieter."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Nobly he yokes"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Was that it was, for not being such a smile;"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"The smile mocking the sigh, that it would fly"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"From so divine a temple, to commix"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"With winds that sailors rail at."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"I do note"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"That grief and patience, rooted in him both,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Mingle their spurs together."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Grow, patience!"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"His perishing root with the increasing vine!"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"It is great morning. Come, away!--"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Who's there?"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"I cannot find those runagates; that villain"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"Hath mock'd me. I am faint."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"'Those runagates!'"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Means he not us? I partly know him: 'tis"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Cloten, the son o' the queen. I fear some ambush."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"I saw him not these many years, and yet"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"I know 'tis he. We are held as outlaws: hence!"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"He is but one: you and my brother search"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"What companies are near: pray you, away;"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Let me alone with him."
IV,II,CLOTEN,"Soft! What are you"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"That fly me thus? some villain mountaineers?"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"I have heard of such. What slave art thou?"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"A thing"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"More slavish did I ne'er than answering"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"A slave without a knock."
IV,II,CLOTEN,"Thou art a robber,"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"A law-breaker, a villain: yield thee, thief."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"To who? to thee? What art thou? Have not I"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"An arm as big as thine? a heart as big?"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"My dagger in my mouth. Say what thou art,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Why I should yield to thee?"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"Thou villain base,"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"Know'st me not by my clothes?"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"No, nor thy tailor, rascal,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Who is thy grandfather: he made those clothes,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Which, as it seems, make thee."
IV,II,CLOTEN,"Thou precious varlet,"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"My tailor made them not."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Hence, then, and thank"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"The man that gave them thee. Thou art some fool;"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"I am loath to beat thee."
IV,II,CLOTEN,"Thou injurious thief,"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"Hear but my name, and tremble."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"What's thy name?"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"Cloten, thou villain."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Cloten, thou double villain, be thy name,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"I cannot tremble at it: were it Toad, or"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Adder, Spider,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"'Twould move me sooner."
IV,II,CLOTEN,"To thy further fear,"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"Nay, to thy mere confusion, thou shalt know"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"I am son to the queen."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"I am sorry for 't; not seeming"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"So worthy as thy birth."
IV,II,CLOTEN,"Art not afeard?"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Those that I reverence those I fear, the wise:"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"At fools I laugh, not fear them."
IV,II,CLOTEN,"Die the death:"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"When I have slain thee with my proper hand,"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"I'll follow those that even now fled hence,"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"And on the gates of Lud's-town set your heads:"
IV,II,CLOTEN,"Yield, rustic mountaineer."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"No companies abroad?"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"None in the world: you did mistake him, sure."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"I cannot tell: long is it since I saw him,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"But time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of favour"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Which then he wore; the snatches in his voice,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"And burst of speaking, were as his: I am absolute"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"'Twas very Cloten."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"In this place we left them:"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"I wish my brother make good time with him,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"You say he is so fell."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Being scarce made up,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"I mean, to man, he had not apprehension"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Of roaring terrors; for the effect of judgment"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Is oft the cause of fear. But, see, thy brother."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"This Cloten was a fool, an empty purse;"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"There was no money in't: not Hercules"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none:"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Yet I not doing this, the fool had borne"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"My head as I do his."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"What hast thou done?"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"I am perfect what: cut off one Cloten's head,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Son to the queen, after his own report;"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Who call'd me traitor, mountaineer, and swore"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"With his own single hand he'ld take us in"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Displace our heads where--thank the gods!--they grow,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"And set them on Lud's-town."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"We are all undone."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Why, worthy father, what have we to lose,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"But that he swore to take, our lives? The law"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Protects not us: then why should we be tender"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"To let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Play judge and executioner all himself,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"For we do fear the law? What company"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Discover you abroad?"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"No single soul"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Can we set eye on; but in all safe reason"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"He must have some attendants. Though his humour"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Was nothing but mutation, ay, and that"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"From one bad thing to worse; not frenzy, not"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Absolute madness could so far have raved"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"To bring him here alone; although perhaps"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"It may be heard at court that such as we"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Cave here, hunt here, are outlaws, and in time"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"May make some stronger head; the which he hearing--"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"As it is like him--might break out, and swear"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"He'ld fetch us in; yet is't not probable"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"To come alone, either he so undertaking,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Or they so suffering: then on good ground we fear,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"If we do fear this body hath a tail"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"More perilous than the head."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Let ordinance"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Come as the gods foresay it: howsoe'er,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"My brother hath done well."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"I had no mind"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"To hunt this day: the boy Fidele's sickness"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Did make my way long forth."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"With his own sword,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta'en"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"His head from him: I'll throw't into the creek"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Behind our rock; and let it to the sea,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"And tell the fishes he's the queen's son, Cloten:"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"That's all I reck."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"I fear 'twill be revenged:"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Would, Polydote, thou hadst not done't! though valour"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Becomes thee well enough."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Would I had done't"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"So the revenge alone pursued me! Polydore,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"I love thee brotherly, but envy much"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Thou hast robb'd me of this deed: I would revenges,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"That possible strength might meet, would seek us through"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"And put us to our answer."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Well, 'tis done:"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"We'll hunt no more to-day, nor seek for danger"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Where there's no profit. I prithee, to our rock;"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"You and Fidele play the cooks: I'll stay"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Till hasty Polydote return, and bring him"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"To dinner presently."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Poor sick Fidele!"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"I'll weringly to him: to gain his colour"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"I'ld let a parish of such Clotens' blood,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"And praise myself for charity."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"O thou goddess,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"In these two princely boys! They are as gentle"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"As zephyrs blowing below the violet,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Not wagging his sweet head; and yet as rough,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Their royal blood enchafed, as the rudest wind,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"That by the top doth take the mountain pine,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"And make him stoop to the vale. 'Tis wonder"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"That an invisible instinct should frame them"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"To royalty unlearn'd, honour untaught,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Civility not seen from other, valour"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"That wildly grows in them, but yields a crop"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"As if it had been sow'd. Yet still it's strange"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"What Cloten's being here to us portends,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Or what his death will bring us."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Where's my brother?"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"I have sent Cloten's clotpoll down the stream,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"In embassy to his mother: his body's hostage"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"For his return."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"My ingenious instrument!"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Hark, Polydore, it sounds! But what occasion"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Hath Cadwal now to give it motion? Hark!"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Is he at home?"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"He went hence even now."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"What does he mean? since death of my dear'st mother"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"it did not speak before. All solemn things"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Should answer solemn accidents. The matter?"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Is jollity for apes and grief for boys."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Is Cadwal mad?"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Look, here he comes,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"And brings the dire occasion in his arms"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Of what we blame him for."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"The bird is dead"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"That we have made so much on. I had rather"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to sixty,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"To have turn'd my leaping-time into a crutch,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Than have seen this."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"O sweetest, fairest lily!"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"My brother wears thee not the one half so well"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"As when thou grew'st thyself."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"O melancholy!"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Might easiliest harbour in? Thou blessed thing!"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Jove knows what man thou mightst have made; but I,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Thou diedst, a most rare boy, of melancholy."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"How found you him?"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Stark, as you see:"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Thus smiling, as some fly hid tickled slumber,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Not as death's dart, being laugh'd at; his"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"right cheek"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Reposing on a cushion."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Where?"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"O' the floor;"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"His arms thus leagued: I thought he slept, and put"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"My clouted brogues from off my feet, whose rudeness"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Answer'd my steps too loud."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Why, he but sleeps:"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"If he be gone, he'll make his grave a bed;"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"With female fairies will his tomb be haunted,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"And worms will not come to thee."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"With fairest flowers"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Out-sweeten'd not thy breath: the ruddock would,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"With charitable bill,--O bill, sore-shaming"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Without a monument!--bring thee all this;"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"To winter-ground thy corse."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Prithee, have done;"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"And do not play in wench-like words with that"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Which is so serious. Let us bury him,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"And not protract with admiration what"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Is now due debt. To the grave!"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Say, where shall's lay him?"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"By good Euriphile, our mother."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Be't so:"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"And let us, Polydore, though now our voices"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Have got the mannish crack, sing him to the ground,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"As once our mother; use like note and words,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Save that Euriphile must be Fidele."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Cadwal,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"I cannot sing: I'll weep, and word it with thee;"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"For notes of sorrow out of tune are worse"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Than priests and fanes that lie."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"We'll speak it, then."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Great griefs, I see, medicine the less; for Cloten"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Is quite forgot. He was a queen's son, boys;"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"And though he came our enemy, remember"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"He was paid for that: though mean and"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"mighty, rotting"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Together, have one dust, yet reverence,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"That angel of the world, doth make distinction"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Of place 'tween high and low. Our foe was princely"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"And though you took his life, as being our foe,"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Yet bury him as a prince."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Pray You, fetch him hither."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Thersites' body is as good as Ajax',"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"When neither are alive."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"If you'll go fetch him,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"We'll say our song the whilst. Brother, begin."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Nay, Cadwal, we must lay his head to the east;"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"My father hath a reason for't."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"'Tis true."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Come on then, and remove him."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"So. Begin."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Fear no more the heat o' the sun,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Nor the furious winter's rages;"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Thou thy worldly task hast done,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Golden lads and girls all must,"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"As chimney-sweepers, come to dust."
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Fear no more the frown o' the great;"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Thou art past the tyrant's stroke;"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Care no more to clothe and eat;"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"To thee the reed is as the oak:"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"The sceptre, learning, physic, must"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"All follow this, and come to dust."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Fear no more the lightning flash,"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Fear not slander, censure rash;"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Thou hast finish'd joy and moan:"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"All lovers young, all lovers must"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Consign to thee, and come to dust."
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"No exorciser harm thee!"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Nor no witchcraft charm thee!"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Ghost unlaid forbear thee!"
IV,II,ARVIRAGUS,"Nothing ill come near thee!"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"Quiet consummation have;"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"And renowned be thy grave!"
IV,II,GUIDERIUS,"We have done our obsequies: come, lay him down."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Here's a few flowers; but 'bout midnight, more:"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"The herbs that have on them cold dew o' the night"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Are strewings fitt'st for graves. Upon their faces."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"You were as flowers, now wither'd: even so"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"These herblets shall, which we upon you strew."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Come on, away: apart upon our knees."
IV,II,BELARIUS,"The ground that gave them first has them again:"
IV,II,BELARIUS,"Their pleasures here are past, so is their pain."
IV,II,IMOGEN,"the way?--"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"I thank you.--By yond bush?--Pray, how far thither?"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"'Ods pittikins! can it be six mile yet?--"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"I have gone all night. 'Faith, I'll lie down and sleep."
IV,II,IMOGEN,"But, soft! no bedfellow!--O gods and goddesses!"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"These flowers are like the pleasures of the world;"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"This bloody man, the care on't. I hope I dream;"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"For so I thought I was a cave-keeper,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"And cook to honest creatures: but 'tis not so;"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"'Twas but a bolt of nothing, shot at nothing,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Which the brain makes of fumes: our very eyes"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Are sometimes like our judgments, blind. Good faith,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"I tremble stiff with fear: but if there be"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"As a wren's eye, fear'd gods, a part of it!"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"The dream's here still: even when I wake, it is"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Without me, as within me; not imagined, felt."
IV,II,IMOGEN,"A headless man! The garments of Posthumus!"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"I know the shape of's leg: this is his hand;"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"His foot Mercurial; his Martial thigh;"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"The brawns of Hercules: but his Jovial face"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Murder in heaven?--How!--'Tis gone. Pisanio,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"All curses madded Hecuba gave the Greeks,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"And mine to boot, be darted on thee! Thou,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Conspired with that irregulous devil, Cloten,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Hast here cut off my lord. To write and read"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Be henceforth treacherous! Damn'd Pisanio"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Hath with his forged letters,--damn'd Pisanio--"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"From this most bravest vessel of the world"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Struck the main-top! O Posthumus! alas,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Where is thy head? where's that? Ay me!"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"where's that?"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Pisanio might have kill'd thee at the heart,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"And left this head on. How should this be? Pisanio?"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"'Tis he and Cloten: malice and lucre in them"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Have laid this woe here. O, 'tis pregnant, pregnant!"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"The drug he gave me, which he said was precious"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"And cordial to me, have I not found it"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Murderous to the senses? That confirms it home:"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"This is Pisanio's deed, and Cloten's: O!"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"That we the horrider may seem to those"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Which chance to find us: O, my lord, my lord!"
IV,II,Captain,"To them the legions garrison'd in Gailia,"
IV,II,Captain,"After your will, have cross'd the sea, attending"
IV,II,Captain,"You here at Milford-Haven with your ships:"
IV,II,Captain,"They are in readiness."
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"But what from Rome?"
IV,II,Captain,"The senate hath stirr'd up the confiners"
IV,II,Captain,"And gentlemen of Italy, most willing spirits,"
IV,II,Captain,"That promise noble service: and they come"
IV,II,Captain,"Under the conduct of bold Iachimo,"
IV,II,Captain,"Syenna's brother."
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"When expect you them?"
IV,II,Captain,"With the next benefit o' the wind."
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"This forwardness"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Makes our hopes fair. Command our present numbers"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Be muster'd; bid the captains look to't. Now, sir,"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"What have you dream'd of late of this war's purpose?"
IV,II,Soothsayer,"Last night the very gods show'd me a vision--"
IV,II,Soothsayer,"I fast and pray'd for their intelligence--thus:"
IV,II,Soothsayer,"I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, wing'd"
IV,II,Soothsayer,"From the spongy south to this part of the west,"
IV,II,Soothsayer,"There vanish'd in the sunbeams: which portends--"
IV,II,Soothsayer,"Unless my sins abuse my divination--"
IV,II,Soothsayer,"Success to the Roman host."
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Dream often so,"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"And never false. Soft, ho! what trunk is here"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Without his top? The ruin speaks that sometime"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"It was a worthy building. How! a page!"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Or dead, or sleeping on him? But dead rather;"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"For nature doth abhor to make his bed"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"With the defunct, or sleep upon the dead."
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Let's see the boy's face."
IV,II,Captain,"He's alive, my lord."
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"He'll then instruct us of this body. Young one,"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Inform us of thy fortunes, for it seems"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"They crave to be demanded. Who is this"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Thou makest thy bloody pillow? Or who was he"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"That, otherwise than noble nature did,"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Hath alter'd that good picture? What's thy interest"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"In this sad wreck? How came it? Who is it?"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"What art thou?"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"I am nothing: or if not,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Nothing to be were better. This was my master,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"A very valiant Briton and a good,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"That here by mountaineers lies slain. Alas!"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"There is no more such masters: I may wander"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"From east to occident, cry out for service,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Try many, all good, serve truly, never"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Find such another master."
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"'Lack, good youth!"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Thou movest no less with thy complaining than"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Thy master in bleeding: say his name, good friend."
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Richard du Champ."
IV,II,IMOGEN,"If I do lie and do"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"No harm by it, though the gods hear, I hope"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"They'll pardon it.--Say you, sir?"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Thy name?"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Fidele, sir."
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Thou dost approve thyself the very same:"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Thy name well fits thy faith, thy faith thy name."
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Wilt take thy chance with me? I will not say"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Thou shalt be so well master'd, but, be sure,"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"No less beloved. The Roman emperor's letters,"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Sent by a consul to me, should not sooner"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Than thine own worth prefer thee: go with me."
IV,II,IMOGEN,"I'll follow, sir. But first, an't please the gods,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"I'll hide my master from the flies, as deep"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"As these poor pickaxes can dig; and when"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"With wild wood-leaves and weeds I ha' strew'd his grave,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"And on it said a century of prayers,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"Such as I can, twice o'er, I'll weep and sigh;"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"And leaving so his service, follow you,"
IV,II,IMOGEN,"So please you entertain me."
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Ay, good youth!"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"And rather father thee than master thee."
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"My friends,"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"The boy hath taught us manly duties: let us"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Find out the prettiest daisied plot we can,"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"And make him with our pikes and partisans"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"A grave: come, arm him. Boy, he is preferr'd"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"By thee to us, and he shall be interr'd"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"As soldiers can. Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes"
IV,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Some falls are means the happier to arise."
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"Again; and bring me word how 'tis with her."
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"A fever with the absence of her son,"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"A madness, of which her life's in danger. Heavens,"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"How deeply you at once do touch me! Imogen,"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"The great part of my comfort, gone; my queen"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"Upon a desperate bed, and in a time"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"When fearful wars point at me; her son gone,"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"So needful for this present: it strikes me, past"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"The hope of comfort. But for thee, fellow,"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"Who needs must know of her departure and"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"Dost seem so ignorant, we'll enforce it from thee"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"By a sharp torture."
IV,III,PISANIO,"Sir, my life is yours;"
IV,III,PISANIO,"I humbly set it at your will; but, for my mistress,"
IV,III,PISANIO,"I nothing know where she remains, why gone,"
IV,III,PISANIO,"Nor when she purposes return. Beseech your highness,"
IV,III,PISANIO,"Hold me your loyal servant."
IV,III,First Lord,"Good my liege,"
IV,III,First Lord,"The day that she was missing he was here:"
IV,III,First Lord,"I dare be bound he's true and shall perform"
IV,III,First Lord,"All parts of his subjection loyally. For Cloten,"
IV,III,First Lord,"There wants no diligence in seeking him,"
IV,III,First Lord,"And will, no doubt, be found."
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"The time is troublesome."
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"We'll slip you for a season; but our jealousy"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"Does yet depend."
IV,III,First Lord,"So please your majesty,"
IV,III,First Lord,"The Roman legions, all from Gallia drawn,"
IV,III,First Lord,"Are landed on your coast, with a supply"
IV,III,First Lord,"Of Roman gentlemen, by the senate sent."
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"Now for the counsel of my son and queen!"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"I am amazed with matter."
IV,III,First Lord,"Good my liege,"
IV,III,First Lord,"Your preparation can affront no less"
IV,III,First Lord,"Than what you hear of: come more, for more"
IV,III,First Lord,"you're ready:"
IV,III,First Lord,"The want is but to put those powers in motion"
IV,III,First Lord,"That long to move."
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"I thank you. Let's withdraw;"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"And meet the time as it seeks us. We fear not"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"What can from Italy annoy us; but"
IV,III,CYMBELINE,"We grieve at chances here. Away!"
IV,III,PISANIO,"I heard no letter from my master since"
IV,III,PISANIO,"I wrote him Imogen was slain: 'tis strange:"
IV,III,PISANIO,"Nor hear I from my mistress who did promise"
IV,III,PISANIO,"To yield me often tidings: neither know I"
IV,III,PISANIO,"What is betid to Cloten; but remain"
IV,III,PISANIO,"Perplex'd in all. The heavens still must work."
IV,III,PISANIO,"Wherein I am false I am honest; not true, to be true."
IV,III,PISANIO,"These present wars shall find I love my country,"
IV,III,PISANIO,"Even to the note o' the king, or I'll fall in them."
IV,III,PISANIO,"All other doubts, by time let them be clear'd:"
IV,III,PISANIO,"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd."
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"The noise is round about us."
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"Let us from it."
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"From action and adventure?"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"Nay, what hope"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"Have we in hiding us? This way, the Romans"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"Must or for Britons slay us, or receive us"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"For barbarous and unnatural revolts"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"During their use, and slay us after."
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"Sons,"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"We'll higher to the mountains; there secure us."
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"To the king's party there's no going: newness"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"Of Cloten's death--we being not known, not muster'd"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"Among the bands--may drive us to a render"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"Where we have lived, and so extort from's that"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"Which we have done, whose answer would be death"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"Drawn on with torture."
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"This is, sir, a doubt"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"In such a time nothing becoming you,"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"Nor satisfying us."
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"It is not likely"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"That when they hear the Roman horses neigh,"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"Behold their quarter'd fires, have both their eyes"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"And ears so cloy'd importantly as now,"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"That they will waste their time upon our note,"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"To know from whence we are."
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"O, I am known"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"Of many in the army: many years,"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"Though Cloten then but young, you see, not wore him"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"From my remembrance. And, besides, the king"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"Hath not deserved my service nor your loves;"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"Who find in my exile the want of breeding,"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"The certainty of this hard life; aye hopeless"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"To have the courtesy your cradle promised,"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"But to be still hot summer's tamings and"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"The shrinking slaves of winter."
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"Than be so"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"Better to cease to be. Pray, sir, to the army:"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"I and my brother are not known; yourself"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"So out of thought, and thereto so o'ergrown,"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"Cannot be question'd."
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"By this sun that shines,"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"I'll thither: what thing is it that I never"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"Did see man die! scarce ever look'd on blood,"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"But that of coward hares, hot goats, and venison!"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"Never bestrid a horse, save one that had"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"A rider like myself, who ne'er wore rowel"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"Nor iron on his heel! I am ashamed"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"To look upon the holy sun, to have"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"The benefit of his blest beams, remaining"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"So long a poor unknown."
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"By heavens, I'll go:"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"If you will bless me, sir, and give me leave,"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"I'll take the better care, but if you will not,"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"The hazard therefore due fall on me by"
IV,IV,GUIDERIUS,"The hands of Romans!"
IV,IV,ARVIRAGUS,"So say I amen."
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"No reason I, since of your lives you set"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"So slight a valuation, should reserve"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"My crack'd one to more care. Have with you, boys!"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"If in your country wars you chance to die,"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"That is my bed too, lads, an there I'll lie:"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"Lead, lead."
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"The time seems long; their blood"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"thinks scorn,"
IV,IV,BELARIUS,"Till it fly out and show them princes born."
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee, for I wish'd"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Thou shouldst be colour'd thus. You married ones,"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"If each of you should take this course, how many"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Must murder wives much better than themselves"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"For wrying but a little! O Pisanio!"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Every good servant does not all commands:"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"No bond but to do just ones. Gods! if you"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Should have ta'en vengeance on my faults, I never"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Had lived to put on this: so had you saved"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The noble Imogen to repent, and struck"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Me, wretch more worth your vengeance. But, alack,"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"You snatch some hence for little faults; that's love,"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To have them fall no more: you some permit"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To second ills with ills, each elder worse,"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And make them dread it, to the doers' thrift."
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"But Imogen is your own: do your best wills,"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And make me blest to obey! I am brought hither"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Among the Italian gentry, and to fight"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Against my lady's kingdom: 'tis enough"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"That, Britain, I have kill'd thy mistress; peace!"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I'll give no wound to thee. Therefore, good heavens,"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Hear patiently my purpose: I'll disrobe me"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Of these Italian weeds and suit myself"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"As does a Briton peasant: so I'll fight"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Against the part I come with; so I'll die"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"For thee, O Imogen, even for whom my life"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Is every breath a death; and thus, unknown,"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Pitied nor hated, to the face of peril"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Myself I'll dedicate. Let me make men know"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"More valour in me than my habits show."
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Gods, put the strength o' the Leonati in me!"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To shame the guise o' the world, I will begin"
V,I,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The fashion, less without and more within."
V,II,IACHIMO,"The heaviness and guilt within my bosom"
V,II,IACHIMO,"Takes off my manhood: I have belied a lady,"
V,II,IACHIMO,"The princess of this country, and the air on't"
V,II,IACHIMO,"Revengingly enfeebles me; or could this carl,"
V,II,IACHIMO,"A very drudge of nature's, have subdued me"
V,II,IACHIMO,"In my profession? Knighthoods and honours, borne"
V,II,IACHIMO,"As I wear mine, are titles but of scorn."
V,II,IACHIMO,"If that thy gentry, Britain, go before"
V,II,IACHIMO,"This lout as he exceeds our lords, the odds"
V,II,IACHIMO,"Is that we scarce are men and you are gods."
V,II,BELARIUS,"Stand, stand! We have the advantage of the ground;"
V,II,BELARIUS,"The lane is guarded: nothing routs us but"
V,II,BELARIUS,"The villany of our fears."
V,II,GUIDERIUS,"Stand, stand, and fight!"
V,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Away, boy, from the troops, and save thyself;"
V,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"For friends kill friends, and the disorder's such"
V,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"As war were hoodwink'd."
V,II,IACHIMO,"'Tis their fresh supplies."
V,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"It is a day turn'd strangely: or betimes"
V,II,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Let's reinforce, or fly."
V,III,Lord,"Camest thou from where they made the stand?"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I did."
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Though you, it seems, come from the fliers."
V,III,Lord,"I did."
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"No blame be to you, sir; for all was lost,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"But that the heavens fought: the king himself"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Of his wings destitute, the army broken,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And but the backs of Britons seen, all flying"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Through a straight lane; the enemy full-hearted,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Lolling the tongue with slaughtering, having work"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"More plentiful than tools to do't, struck down"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Some mortally, some slightly touch'd, some falling"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Merely through fear; that the straight pass was damm'd"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"With dead men hurt behind, and cowards living"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To die with lengthen'd shame."
V,III,Lord,"Where was this lane?"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Close by the battle, ditch'd, and wall'd with turf;"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Which gave advantage to an ancient soldier,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"An honest one, I warrant; who deserved"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"So long a breeding as his white beard came to,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"In doing this for's country: athwart the lane,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"He, with two striplings-lads more like to run"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The country base than to commit such slaughter"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"With faces fit for masks, or rather fairer"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Than those for preservation cased, or shame--"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Made good the passage; cried to those that fled,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"'Our Britain s harts die flying, not our men:"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To darkness fleet souls that fly backwards. Stand;"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Or we are Romans and will give you that"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Like beasts which you shun beastly, and may save,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"But to look back in frown: stand, stand.'"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"These three,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Three thousand confident, in act as many--"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"For three performers are the file when all"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The rest do nothing--with this word 'Stand, stand,'"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Accommodated by the place, more charming"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"With their own nobleness, which could have turn'd"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"A distaff to a lance, gilded pale looks,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Part shame, part spirit renew'd; that some,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"turn'd coward"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"But by example--O, a sin in war,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Damn'd in the first beginners!--gan to look"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The way that they did, and to grin like lions"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Upon the pikes o' the hunters. Then began"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"A stop i' the chaser, a retire, anon"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"A rout, confusion thick; forthwith they fly"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Chickens, the way which they stoop'd eagles; slaves,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The strides they victors made: and now our cowards,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Like fragments in hard voyages, became"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The life o' the need: having found the backdoor open"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Of the unguarded hearts, heavens, how they wound!"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Some slain before; some dying; some their friends"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"O'er borne i' the former wave: ten, chased by one,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Are now each one the slaughter-man of twenty:"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Those that would die or ere resist are grown"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The mortal bugs o' the field."
V,III,Lord,"This was strange chance"
V,III,Lord,"A narrow lane, an old man, and two boys."
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Nay, do not wonder at it: you are made"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Rather to wonder at the things you hear"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon't,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And vent it for a mockery? Here is one:"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"'Two boys, an old man twice a boy, a lane,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Preserved the Britons, was the Romans' bane.'"
V,III,Lord,"Nay, be not angry, sir."
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"'Lack, to what end?"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Who dares not stand his foe, I'll be his friend;"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"For if he'll do as he is made to do,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I know he'll quickly fly my friendship too."
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"You have put me into rhyme."
V,III,Lord,"Farewell; you're angry."
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Still going?"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"This is a lord! O noble misery,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To be i' the field, and ask 'what news?' of me!"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To-day how many would have given their honours"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To have saved their carcasses! took heel to do't,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And yet died too! I, in mine own woe charm'd,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Could not find death where I did hear him groan,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Nor feel him where he struck: being an ugly monster,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"'Tis strange he hides him in fresh cups, soft beds,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Sweet words; or hath more ministers than we"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"That draw his knives i' the war. Well, I will find him"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"For being now a favourer to the Briton,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"No more a Briton, I have resumed again"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The part I came in: fight I will no more,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"But yield me to the veriest hind that shall"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Here made by the Roman; great the answer be"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Britons must take. For me, my ransom's death;"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"On either side I come to spend my breath;"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Which neither here I'll keep nor bear again,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"But end it by some means for Imogen."
V,III,First Captain,"Great Jupiter be praised! Lucius is taken."
V,III,First Captain,"'Tis thought the old man and his sons were angels."
V,III,Second Captain,"There was a fourth man, in a silly habit,"
V,III,Second Captain,"That gave the affront with them."
V,III,First Captain,"So 'tis reported:"
V,III,First Captain,"But none of 'em can be found. Stand! who's there?"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"A Roman,"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Who had not now been drooping here, if seconds"
V,III,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Had answer'd him."
V,III,Second Captain,"Lay hands on him; a dog!"
V,III,Second Captain,"A leg of Rome shall not return to tell"
V,III,Second Captain,"What crows have peck'd them here. He brags"
V,III,Second Captain,"his service"
V,III,Second Captain,"As if he were of note: bring him to the king."
V,IV,First Gaoler,"You shall not now be stol'n, you have locks upon you;"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"So graze as you find pasture."
V,IV,Second Gaoler,"Ay, or a stomach."
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Most welcome, bondage! for thou art away,"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"think, to liberty: yet am I better"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Than one that's sick o' the gout; since he had rather"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Groan so in perpetuity than be cured"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"By the sure physician, death, who is the key"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To unbar these locks. My conscience, thou art fetter'd"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"More than my shanks and wrists: you good gods, give me"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The penitent instrument to pick that bolt,"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Then, free for ever! Is't enough I am sorry?"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"So children temporal fathers do appease;"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Gods are more full of mercy. Must I repent?"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I cannot do it better than in gyves,"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Desired more than constrain'd: to satisfy,"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"If of my freedom 'tis the main part, take"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"No stricter render of me than my all."
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I know you are more clement than vile men,"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Who of their broken debtors take a third,"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"A sixth, a tenth, letting them thrive again"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"On their abatement: that's not my desire:"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"For Imogen's dear life take mine; and though"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"'Tis not so dear, yet 'tis a life; you coin'd it:"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"'Tween man and man they weigh not every stamp;"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Though light, take pieces for the figure's sake:"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"You rather mine, being yours: and so, great powers,"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"If you will take this audit, take this life,"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And cancel these cold bonds. O Imogen!"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I'll speak to thee in silence."
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"No more, thou thunder-master, show"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Thy spite on mortal flies:"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"With Mars fall out, with Juno chide,"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"That thy adulteries"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Rates and revenges."
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Hath my poor boy done aught but well,"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Whose face I never saw?"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"I died whilst in the womb he stay'd"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Attending nature's law:"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Whose father then, as men report"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Thou orphans' father art,"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Thou shouldst have been, and shielded him"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"From this earth-vexing smart."
V,IV,Mother,"Lucina lent not me her aid,"
V,IV,Mother,"But took me in my throes;"
V,IV,Mother,"That from me was Posthumus ript,"
V,IV,Mother,"Came crying 'mongst his foes,"
V,IV,Mother,"A thing of pity!"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Great nature, like his ancestry,"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Moulded the stuff so fair,"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"That he deserved the praise o' the world,"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"As great Sicilius' heir."
V,IV,First Brother,"When once he was mature for man,"
V,IV,First Brother,"In Britain where was he"
V,IV,First Brother,"That could stand up his parallel;"
V,IV,First Brother,"Or fruitful object be"
V,IV,First Brother,"In eye of Imogen, that best"
V,IV,First Brother,"Could deem his dignity?"
V,IV,Mother,"With marriage wherefore was he mock'd,"
V,IV,Mother,"To be exiled, and thrown"
V,IV,Mother,"From Leonati seat, and cast"
V,IV,Mother,"From her his dearest one,"
V,IV,Mother,"Sweet Imogen?"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Why did you suffer Iachimo,"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Slight thing of Italy,"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"To taint his nobler heart and brain"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"With needless jealosy;"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"And to become the geck and scorn"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"O' th' other's villany?"
V,IV,Second Brother,"For this from stiller seats we came,"
V,IV,Second Brother,"Our parents and us twain,"
V,IV,Second Brother,"That striking in our country's cause"
V,IV,Second Brother,"Fell bravely and were slain,"
V,IV,Second Brother,"Our fealty and Tenantius' right"
V,IV,Second Brother,"With honour to maintain."
V,IV,First Brother,"Like hardiment Posthumus hath"
V,IV,First Brother,"To Cymbeline perform'd:"
V,IV,First Brother,"Then, Jupiter, thou king of gods,"
V,IV,First Brother,"Why hast thou thus adjourn'd"
V,IV,First Brother,"The graces for his merits due,"
V,IV,First Brother,"Being all to dolours turn'd?"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Thy crystal window ope; look out;"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"No longer exercise"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Upon a valiant race thy harsh"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"And potent injuries."
V,IV,Mother,"Since, Jupiter, our son is good,"
V,IV,Mother,"Take off his miseries."
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Peep through thy marble mansion; help;"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Or we poor ghosts will cry"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"To the shining synod of the rest"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Against thy deity."
V,IV,First Brother,"Help, Jupiter; or we appeal,"
V,IV,First Brother,"And from thy justice fly."
V,IV,Jupiter,"No more, you petty spirits of region low,"
V,IV,Jupiter,"Offend our hearing; hush! How dare you ghosts"
V,IV,Jupiter,"Accuse the thunderer, whose bolt, you know,"
V,IV,Jupiter,"Sky-planted batters all rebelling coasts?"
V,IV,Jupiter,"Poor shadows of Elysium, hence, and rest"
V,IV,Jupiter,"Upon your never-withering banks of flowers:"
V,IV,Jupiter,"Be not with mortal accidents opprest;"
V,IV,Jupiter,"No care of yours it is; you know 'tis ours."
V,IV,Jupiter,"Whom best I love I cross; to make my gift,"
V,IV,Jupiter,"The more delay'd, delighted. Be content;"
V,IV,Jupiter,"Your low-laid son our godhead will uplift:"
V,IV,Jupiter,"His comforts thrive, his trials well are spent."
V,IV,Jupiter,"Our Jovial star reign'd at his birth, and in"
V,IV,Jupiter,"Our temple was he married. Rise, and fade."
V,IV,Jupiter,"He shall be lord of lady Imogen,"
V,IV,Jupiter,"And happier much by his affliction made."
V,IV,Jupiter,"This tablet lay upon his breast, wherein"
V,IV,Jupiter,"Our pleasure his full fortune doth confine:"
V,IV,Jupiter,"and so, away: no further with your din"
V,IV,Jupiter,"Express impatience, lest you stir up mine."
V,IV,Jupiter,"Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline."
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"He came in thunder; his celestial breath"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Was sulphurous to smell: the holy eagle"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Stoop'd as to foot us: his ascension is"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"More sweet than our blest fields: his royal bird"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak,"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"As when his god is pleased."
V,IV,All,"Thanks, Jupiter!"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"The marble pavement closes, he is enter'd"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"His radiant root. Away! and, to be blest,"
V,IV,Sicilius Leonatus,"Let us with care perform his great behest."
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"A father to me; and thou hast created"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"A mother and two brothers: but, O scorn!"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"Gone! they went hence so soon as they were born:"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"And so I am awake. Poor wretches that depend"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"On greatness' favour dream as I have done,"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"Wake and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve:"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"Many dream not to find, neither deserve,"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"And yet are steep'd in favours: so am I,"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"That have this golden chance and know not why."
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"What fairies haunt this ground? A book? O rare one!"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"Nobler than that it covers: let thy effects"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"So follow, to be most unlike our courtiers,"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"As good as promise."
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"'When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself unknown,"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"without seeking find, and be embraced by a piece of"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"tender air; and when from a stately cedar shall be"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"lopped branches, which, being dead many years,"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"shall after revive, be jointed to the old stock and"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"freshly grow; then shall Posthumus end his miseries,"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"Britain be fortunate and flourish in peace and plenty.'"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"Tongue and brain not; either both or nothing;"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"Or senseless speaking or a speaking such"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"As sense cannot untie. Be what it is,"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"The action of my life is like it, which"
V,IV,Posthumus Leonatus,"I'll keep, if but for sympathy."
V,IV,First Gaoler,"Come, sir, are you ready for death?"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Over-roasted rather; ready long ago."
V,IV,First Gaoler,"Hanging is the word, sir: if"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"you be ready for that, you are well cooked."
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"So, if I prove a good repast to the"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"spectators, the dish pays the shot."
V,IV,First Gaoler,"A heavy reckoning for you, sir. But the comfort is,"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"you shall be called to no more payments, fear no"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"more tavern-bills; which are often the sadness of"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"parting, as the procuring of mirth: you come in"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"flint for want of meat, depart reeling with too"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"much drink; sorry that you have paid too much, and"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"sorry that you are paid too much; purse and brain"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"both empty; the brain the heavier for being too"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"light, the purse too light, being drawn of"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"heaviness: of this contradiction you shall now be"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"quit. O, the charity of a penny cord! It sums up"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"thousands in a trice: you have no true debitor and"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"creditor but it; of what's past, is, and to come,"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"the discharge: your neck, sir, is pen, book and"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"counters; so the acquittance follows."
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I am merrier to die than thou art to live."
V,IV,First Gaoler,"Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"tooth-ache: but a man that were to sleep your"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"would change places with his officer; for, look you,"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"sir, you know not which way you shall go."
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Yes, indeed do I, fellow."
V,IV,First Gaoler,"Your death has eyes in 's head then; I have not seen"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"him so pictured: you must either be directed by"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"some that take upon them to know, or do take upon"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"yourself that which I am sure you do not know, or"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"jump the after inquiry on your own peril: and how"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"you shall speed in your journey's end, I think you'll"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"never return to tell one."
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I tell thee, fellow, there are none want eyes to"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"direct them the way I am going, but such as wink and"
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"will not use them."
V,IV,First Gaoler,"What an infinite mock is this, that a man should"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"have the best use of eyes to see the way of"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"blindness! I am sure hanging's the way of winking."
V,IV,Messenger,"Knock off his manacles; bring your prisoner to the king."
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Thou bring'st good news; I am called to be made free."
V,IV,First Gaoler,"I'll be hang'd then."
V,IV,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Thou shalt be then freer than a gaoler; no bolts for the dead."
V,IV,First Gaoler,"Unless a man would marry a gallows and beget young"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"gibbets, I never saw one so prone. Yet, on my"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live,"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"for all he be a Roman: and there be some of them"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"too that die against their wills; so should I, if I"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"were one. I would we were all of one mind, and one"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"mind good; O, there were desolation of gaolers and"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"gallowses! I speak against my present profit, but"
V,IV,First Gaoler,"my wish hath a preferment in 't."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Stand by my side, you whom the gods have made"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Preservers of my throne. Woe is my heart"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"That the poor soldier that so richly fought,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Whose rags shamed gilded arms, whose naked breast"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Stepp'd before larges of proof, cannot be found:"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"He shall be happy that can find him, if"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Our grace can make him so."
V,V,BELARIUS,"I never saw"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Such noble fury in so poor a thing;"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Such precious deeds in one that promises nought"
V,V,BELARIUS,"But beggary and poor looks."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"No tidings of him?"
V,V,PISANIO,"He hath been search'd among the dead and living,"
V,V,PISANIO,"But no trace of him."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"To my grief, I am"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"The heir of his reward;"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"which I will add"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"To you, the liver, heart and brain of Britain,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"By whom I grant she lives. 'Tis now the time"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"To ask of whence you are. Report it."
V,V,BELARIUS,"Sir,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"In Cambria are we born, and gentlemen:"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Further to boast were neither true nor modest,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Unless I add, we are honest."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Bow your knees."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Arise my knights o' the battle: I create you"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Companions to our person and will fit you"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"With dignities becoming your estates."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"There's business in these faces. Why so sadly"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Greet you our victory? you look like Romans,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And not o' the court of Britain."
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Hail, great king!"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"To sour your happiness, I must report"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"The queen is dead."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Who worse than a physician"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Would this report become? But I consider,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Will seize the doctor too. How ended she?"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"With horror, madly dying, like her life,"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Which, being cruel to the world, concluded"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Most cruel to herself. What she confess'd"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"I will report, so please you: these her women"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Can trip me, if I err; who with wet cheeks"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Were present when she finish'd."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Prithee, say."
V,V,CORNELIUS,"First, she confess'd she never loved you, only"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Affected greatness got by you, not you:"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Married your royalty, was wife to your place;"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Abhorr'd your person."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"She alone knew this;"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And, but she spoke it dying, I would not"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Believe her lips in opening it. Proceed."
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Your daughter, whom she bore in hand to love"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"With such integrity, she did confess"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Was as a scorpion to her sight; whose life,"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"But that her flight prevented it, she had"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Ta'en off by poison."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"O most delicate fiend!"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Who is 't can read a woman? Is there more?"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"More, sir, and worse. She did confess she had"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"For you a mortal mineral; which, being took,"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Should by the minute feed on life and lingering"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"By inches waste you: in which time she purposed,"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"By watching, weeping, tendance, kissing, to"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"O'ercome you with her show, and in time,"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"When she had fitted you with her craft, to work"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Her son into the adoption of the crown:"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"But, failing of her end by his strange absence,"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Grew shameless-desperate; open'd, in despite"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Of heaven and men, her purposes; repented"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"The evils she hatch'd were not effected; so"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Despairing died."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Heard you all this, her women?"
V,V,First Lady,"We did, so please your highness."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Mine eyes"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"That thought her like her seeming; it had"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"been vicious"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"To have mistrusted her: yet, O my daughter!"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"That it was folly in me, thou mayst say,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And prove it in thy feeling. Heaven mend all!"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Thou comest not, Caius, now for tribute that"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"The Britons have razed out, though with the loss"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Of many a bold one; whose kinsmen have made suit"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"That their good souls may be appeased with slaughter"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Of you their captives, which ourself have granted:"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"So think of your estate."
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Was yours by accident; had it gone with us,"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"We should not, when the blood was cool,"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"have threaten'd"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Our prisoners with the sword. But since the gods"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Will have it thus, that nothing but our lives"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"May be call'd ransom, let it come: sufficeth"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"A Roman with a Roman's heart can suffer:"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Augustus lives to think on't: and so much"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"For my peculiar care. This one thing only"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"I will entreat; my boy, a Briton born,"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Let him be ransom'd: never master had"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"A page so kind, so duteous, diligent,"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"So tender over his occasions, true,"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"So feat, so nurse-like: let his virtue join"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"With my request, which I make bold your highness"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Cannot deny; he hath done no Briton harm,"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Though he have served a Roman: save him, sir,"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"And spare no blood beside."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"I have surely seen him:"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"His favour is familiar to me. Boy,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Thou hast look'd thyself into my grace,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And art mine own. I know not why, wherefore,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"To say 'live, boy:' ne'er thank thy master; live:"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And ask of Cymbeline what boon thou wilt,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Fitting my bounty and thy state, I'll give it;"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Yea, though thou do demand a prisoner,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"The noblest ta'en."
V,V,IMOGEN,"I humbly thank your highness."
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"I do not bid thee beg my life, good lad;"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"And yet I know thou wilt."
V,V,IMOGEN,"No, no: alack,"
V,V,IMOGEN,"There's other work in hand: I see a thing"
V,V,IMOGEN,"Bitter to me as death: your life, good master,"
V,V,IMOGEN,"Must shuffle for itself."
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"The boy disdains me,"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"He leaves me, scorns me: briefly die their joys"
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"That place them on the truth of girls and boys."
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Why stands he so perplex'd?"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"What wouldst thou, boy?"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"I love thee more and more: think more and more"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"What's best to ask. Know'st him thou look'st on? speak,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Wilt have him live? Is he thy kin? thy friend?"
V,V,IMOGEN,"He is a Roman; no more kin to me"
V,V,IMOGEN,"Than I to your highness; who, being born your vassal,"
V,V,IMOGEN,"Am something nearer."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Wherefore eyest him so?"
V,V,IMOGEN,"I'll tell you, sir, in private, if you please"
V,V,IMOGEN,"To give me hearing."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Ay, with all my heart,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And lend my best attention. What's thy name?"
V,V,IMOGEN,"Fidele, sir."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Thou'rt my good youth, my page;"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"I'll be thy master: walk with me; speak freely."
V,V,BELARIUS,"Is not this boy revived from death?"
V,V,ARVIRAGUS,"One sand another"
V,V,ARVIRAGUS,"Not more resembles that sweet rosy lad"
V,V,ARVIRAGUS,"Who died, and was Fidele. What think you?"
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"The same dead thing alive."
V,V,BELARIUS,"Peace, peace! see further; he eyes us not; forbear;"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Creatures may be alike: were 't he, I am sure"
V,V,BELARIUS,"He would have spoke to us."
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"But we saw him dead."
V,V,BELARIUS,"Be silent; let's see further."
V,V,PISANIO,"Since she is living, let the time run on"
V,V,PISANIO,"To good or bad."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Come, stand thou by our side;"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Make thy demand aloud."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Sir, step you forth;"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Give answer to this boy, and do it freely;"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Or, by our greatness and the grace of it,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Which is our honour, bitter torture shall"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Winnow the truth from falsehood. On, speak to him."
V,V,IMOGEN,"My boon is, that this gentleman may render"
V,V,IMOGEN,"Of whom he had this ring."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"That diamond upon your finger, say"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"How came it yours?"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Thou'lt torture me to leave unspoken that"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Which, to be spoke, would torture thee."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"How! me?"
V,V,IACHIMO,"I am glad to be constrain'd to utter that"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Which torments me to conceal. By villany"
V,V,IACHIMO,"I got this ring: 'twas Leonatus' jewel;"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Whom thou didst banish; and--which more may"
V,V,IACHIMO,"grieve thee,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"As it doth me--a nobler sir ne'er lived"
V,V,IACHIMO,"'Twixt sky and ground. Wilt thou hear more, my lord?"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"All that belongs to this."
V,V,IACHIMO,"That paragon, thy daughter,--"
V,V,IACHIMO,"For whom my heart drops blood, and my false spirits"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Quail to remember--Give me leave; I faint."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"My daughter! what of her? Renew thy strength:"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"I had rather thou shouldst live while nature will"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Than die ere I hear more: strive, man, and speak."
V,V,IACHIMO,"Upon a time,--unhappy was the clock"
V,V,IACHIMO,"That struck the hour!--it was in Rome,--accursed"
V,V,IACHIMO,"The mansion where!--'twas at a feast,--O, would"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Our viands had been poison'd, or at least"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Those which I heaved to head!--the good Posthumus--"
V,V,IACHIMO,"What should I say? he was too good to be"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Where ill men were; and was the best of all"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Amongst the rarest of good ones,--sitting sadly,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Hearing us praise our loves of Italy"
V,V,IACHIMO,"For beauty that made barren the swell'd boast"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Of him that best could speak, for feature, laming"
V,V,IACHIMO,"The shrine of Venus, or straight-pight Minerva."
V,V,IACHIMO,"Postures beyond brief nature, for condition,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"A shop of all the qualities that man"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Loves woman for, besides that hook of wiving,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Fairness which strikes the eye--"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"I stand on fire:"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Come to the matter."
V,V,IACHIMO,"All too soon I shall,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Unless thou wouldst grieve quickly. This Posthumus,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Most like a noble lord in love and one"
V,V,IACHIMO,"That had a royal lover, took his hint;"
V,V,IACHIMO,"And, not dispraising whom we praised,--therein"
V,V,IACHIMO,"He was as calm as virtue--he began"
V,V,IACHIMO,"His mistress' picture; which by his tongue"
V,V,IACHIMO,"being made,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"And then a mind put in't, either our brags"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Were crack'd of kitchen-trolls, or his description"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Proved us unspeaking sots."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Nay, nay, to the purpose."
V,V,IACHIMO,"Your daughter's chastity--there it begins."
V,V,IACHIMO,"He spake of her, as Dian had hot dreams,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"And she alone were cold: whereat I, wretch,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Made scruple of his praise; and wager'd with him"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Pieces of gold 'gainst this which then he wore"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Upon his honour'd finger, to attain"
V,V,IACHIMO,"In suit the place of's bed and win this ring"
V,V,IACHIMO,"By hers and mine adultery. He, true knight,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"No lesser of her honour confident"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Than I did truly find her, stakes this ring;"
V,V,IACHIMO,"And would so, had it been a carbuncle"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Of Phoebus' wheel, and might so safely, had it"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Been all the worth of's car. Away to Britain"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Post I in this design: well may you, sir,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Remember me at court; where I was taught"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Of your chaste daughter the wide difference"
V,V,IACHIMO,"'Twixt amorous and villanous. Being thus quench'd"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Of hope, not longing, mine Italian brain"
V,V,IACHIMO,"'Gan in your duller Britain operate"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Most vilely; for my vantage, excellent:"
V,V,IACHIMO,"And, to be brief, my practise so prevail'd,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"That I return'd with simular proof enough"
V,V,IACHIMO,"To make the noble Leonatus mad,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"By wounding his belief in her renown"
V,V,IACHIMO,"With tokens thus, and thus; averting notes"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Of chamber-hanging, pictures, this her bracelet,--"
V,V,IACHIMO,"O cunning, how I got it!--nay, some marks"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Of secret on her person, that he could not"
V,V,IACHIMO,"But think her bond of chastity quite crack'd,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"I having ta'en the forfeit. Whereupon--"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Methinks, I see him now--"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Italian fiend! Ay me, most credulous fool,"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Egregious murderer, thief, any thing"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"That's due to all the villains past, in being,"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"To come! O, give me cord, or knife, or poison,"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Some upright justicer! Thou, king, send out"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"For torturers ingenious: it is I"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"That all the abhorred things o' the earth amend"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"By being worse than they. I am Posthumus,"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"That kill'd thy daughter:--villain-like, I lie--"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"That caused a lesser villain than myself,"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"A sacrilegious thief, to do't: the temple"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Of virtue was she; yea, and she herself."
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Spit, and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The dogs o' the street to bay me: every villain"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Be call'd Posthumus Leonitus; and"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Be villany less than 'twas! O Imogen!"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"My queen, my life, my wife! O Imogen,"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Imogen, Imogen!"
V,V,IMOGEN,"Peace, my lord; hear, hear--"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Shall's have a play of this? Thou scornful page,"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"There lie thy part."
V,V,PISANIO,"O, gentlemen, help!"
V,V,PISANIO,"Mine and your mistress! O, my lord Posthumus!"
V,V,PISANIO,"You ne'er kill'd Imogen til now. Help, help!"
V,V,PISANIO,"Mine honour'd lady!"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Does the world go round?"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"How come these staggers on me?"
V,V,PISANIO,"Wake, my mistress!"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"To death with mortal joy."
V,V,PISANIO,"How fares thy mistress?"
V,V,IMOGEN,"O, get thee from my sight;"
V,V,IMOGEN,"Thou gavest me poison: dangerous fellow, hence!"
V,V,IMOGEN,"Breathe not where princes are."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"The tune of Imogen!"
V,V,PISANIO,"Lady,"
V,V,PISANIO,"The gods throw stones of sulphur on me, if"
V,V,PISANIO,"That box I gave you was not thought by me"
V,V,PISANIO,"A precious thing: I had it from the queen."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"New matter still?"
V,V,IMOGEN,"It poison'd me."
V,V,CORNELIUS,"O gods!"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"I left out one thing which the queen confess'd."
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Which must approve thee honest: 'If Pisanio"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Have,' said she, 'given his mistress that confection"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Which I gave him for cordial, she is served"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"As I would serve a rat.'"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"What's this, Comelius?"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"The queen, sir, very oft importuned me"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"To temper poisons for her, still pretending"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"The satisfaction of her knowledge only"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"In killing creatures vile, as cats and dogs,"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Of no esteem: I, dreading that her purpose"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Was of more danger, did compound for her"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"A certain stuff, which, being ta'en, would cease"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"The present power of life, but in short time"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"All offices of nature should again"
V,V,CORNELIUS,"Do their due functions. Have you ta'en of it?"
V,V,IMOGEN,"Most like I did, for I was dead."
V,V,BELARIUS,"My boys,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"There was our error."
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"This is, sure, Fidele."
V,V,IMOGEN,"Why did you throw your wedded lady from you?"
V,V,IMOGEN,"Think that you are upon a rock; and now"
V,V,IMOGEN,"Throw me again."
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Hang there like a fruit, my soul,"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Till the tree die!"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"How now, my flesh, my child!"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"What, makest thou me a dullard in this act?"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Wilt thou not speak to me?"
V,V,BELARIUS,"this youth, I blame ye not:"
V,V,BELARIUS,"You had a motive for't."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"My tears that fall"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Prove holy water on thee! Imogen,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Thy mother's dead."
V,V,IMOGEN,"I am sorry for't, my lord."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"O, she was nought; and long of her it was"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"That we meet here so strangely: but her son"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Is gone, we know not how nor where."
V,V,PISANIO,"My lord,"
V,V,PISANIO,"Now fear is from me, I'll speak troth. Lord Cloten,"
V,V,PISANIO,"Upon my lady's missing, came to me"
V,V,PISANIO,"With his sword drawn; foam'd at the mouth, and swore,"
V,V,PISANIO,"If I discover'd not which way she was gone,"
V,V,PISANIO,"It was my instant death. By accident,"
V,V,PISANIO,"had a feigned letter of my master's"
V,V,PISANIO,"Then in my pocket; which directed him"
V,V,PISANIO,"To seek her on the mountains near to Milford;"
V,V,PISANIO,"Where, in a frenzy, in my master's garments,"
V,V,PISANIO,"Which he enforced from me, away he posts"
V,V,PISANIO,"With unchaste purpose and with oath to violate"
V,V,PISANIO,"My lady's honour: what became of him"
V,V,PISANIO,"I further know not."
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"Let me end the story:"
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"I slew him there."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Marry, the gods forfend!"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"I would not thy good deeds should from my lips"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Pluck a bard sentence: prithee, valiant youth,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Deny't again."
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"I have spoke it, and I did it."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"He was a prince."
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"A most incivil one: the wrongs he did me"
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"Were nothing prince-like; for he did provoke me"
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"With language that would make me spurn the sea,"
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"If it could so roar to me: I cut off's head;"
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"And am right glad he is not standing here"
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"To tell this tale of mine."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"I am sorry for thee:"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"By thine own tongue thou art condemn'd, and must"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Endure our law: thou'rt dead."
V,V,IMOGEN,"That headless man"
V,V,IMOGEN,"I thought had been my lord."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Bind the offender,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And take him from our presence."
V,V,BELARIUS,"Stay, sir king:"
V,V,BELARIUS,"This man is better than the man he slew,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"As well descended as thyself; and hath"
V,V,BELARIUS,"More of thee merited than a band of Clotens"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Had ever scar for."
V,V,BELARIUS,"Let his arms alone;"
V,V,BELARIUS,"They were not born for bondage."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Why, old soldier,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Wilt thou undo the worth thou art unpaid for,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"By tasting of our wrath? How of descent"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"As good as we?"
V,V,ARVIRAGUS,"In that he spake too far."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And thou shalt die for't."
V,V,BELARIUS,"We will die all three:"
V,V,BELARIUS,"But I will prove that two on's are as good"
V,V,BELARIUS,"As I have given out him. My sons, I must,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"For mine own part, unfold a dangerous speech,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Though, haply, well for you."
V,V,ARVIRAGUS,"Your danger's ours."
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"And our good his."
V,V,BELARIUS,"Have at it then, by leave."
V,V,BELARIUS,"Thou hadst, great king, a subject who"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Was call'd Belarius."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"What of him? he is"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"A banish'd traitor."
V,V,BELARIUS,"He it is that hath"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Assumed this age; indeed a banish'd man;"
V,V,BELARIUS,"I know not how a traitor."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Take him hence:"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"The whole world shall not save him."
V,V,BELARIUS,"Not too hot:"
V,V,BELARIUS,"First pay me for the nursing of thy sons;"
V,V,BELARIUS,"And let it be confiscate all, so soon"
V,V,BELARIUS,"As I have received it."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Nursing of my sons!"
V,V,BELARIUS,"I am too blunt and saucy: here's my knee:"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Ere I arise, I will prefer my sons;"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Then spare not the old father. Mighty sir,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"These two young gentlemen, that call me father"
V,V,BELARIUS,"And think they are my sons, are none of mine;"
V,V,BELARIUS,"They are the issue of your loins, my liege,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"And blood of your begetting."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"How! my issue!"
V,V,BELARIUS,"So sure as you your father's. I, old Morgan,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Am that Belarius whom you sometime banish'd:"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Your pleasure was my mere offence, my punishment"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Itself, and all my treason; that I suffer'd"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Was all the harm I did. These gentle princes--"
V,V,BELARIUS,"For such and so they are--these twenty years"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Have I train'd up: those arts they have as I"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Could put into them; my breeding was, sir, as"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Your highness knows. Their nurse, Euriphile,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Whom for the theft I wedded, stole these children"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Upon my banishment: I moved her to't,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Having received the punishment before,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"For that which I did then: beaten for loyalty"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Excited me to treason: their dear loss,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shaped"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Unto my end of stealing them. But, gracious sir,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Here are your sons again; and I must lose"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Two of the sweet'st companions in the world."
V,V,BELARIUS,"The benediction of these covering heavens"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Fall on their heads like dew! for they are worthy"
V,V,BELARIUS,"To inlay heaven with stars."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Thou weep'st, and speak'st."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"The service that you three have done is more"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Unlike than this thou tell'st. I lost my children:"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"If these be they, I know not how to wish"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"A pair of worthier sons."
V,V,BELARIUS,"Be pleased awhile."
V,V,BELARIUS,"This gentleman, whom I call Polydore,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Most worthy prince, as yours, is true Guiderius:"
V,V,BELARIUS,"This gentleman, my Cadwal, Arviragus,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Your younger princely son; he, sir, was lapp'd"
V,V,BELARIUS,"In a most curious mantle, wrought by the hand"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Of his queen mother, which for more probation"
V,V,BELARIUS,"I can with ease produce."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Guiderius had"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Upon his neck a mole, a sanguine star;"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"It was a mark of wonder."
V,V,BELARIUS,"This is he;"
V,V,BELARIUS,"Who hath upon him still that natural stamp:"
V,V,BELARIUS,"It was wise nature's end in the donation,"
V,V,BELARIUS,"To be his evidence now."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"O, what, am I"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"A mother to the birth of three? Ne'er mother"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Rejoiced deliverance more. Blest pray you be,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"That, after this strange starting from your orbs,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"may reign in them now! O Imogen,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Thou hast lost by this a kingdom."
V,V,IMOGEN,"No, my lord;"
V,V,IMOGEN,"I have got two worlds by 't. O my gentle brothers,"
V,V,IMOGEN,"Have we thus met? O, never say hereafter"
V,V,IMOGEN,"But I am truest speaker you call'd me brother,"
V,V,IMOGEN,"When I was but your sister; I you brothers,"
V,V,IMOGEN,"When ye were so indeed."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Did you e'er meet?"
V,V,ARVIRAGUS,"Ay, my good lord."
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"And at first meeting loved;"
V,V,GUIDERIUS,"Continued so, until we thought he died."
V,V,CORNELIUS,"By the queen's dram she swallow'd."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"O rare instinct!"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"When shall I hear all through? This fierce"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"abridgement"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Hath to it circumstantial branches, which"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Distinction should be rich in. Where? how lived You?"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And when came you to serve our Roman captive?"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"How parted with your brothers? how first met them?"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Why fled you from the court? and whither? These,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And your three motives to the battle, with"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"I know not how much more, should be demanded;"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And all the other by-dependencies,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"From chance to chance: but nor the time nor place"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Will serve our long inter'gatories. See,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Posthumus anchors upon Imogen,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And she, like harmless lightning, throws her eye"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"On him, her brother, me, her master, hitting"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Each object with a joy: the counterchange"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Is severally in all. Let's quit this ground,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And smoke the temple with our sacrifices."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Thou art my brother; so we'll hold thee ever."
V,V,IMOGEN,"You are my father too, and did relieve me,"
V,V,IMOGEN,"To see this gracious season."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"All o'erjoy'd,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Save these in bonds: let them be joyful too,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"For they shall taste our comfort."
V,V,IMOGEN,"My good master,"
V,V,IMOGEN,"I will yet do you service."
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Happy be you!"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"The forlorn soldier, that so nobly fought,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"He would have well becomed this place, and graced"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"The thankings of a king."
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"I am, sir,"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The soldier that did company these three"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"In poor beseeming; 'twas a fitment for"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The purpose I then follow'd. That I was he,"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Speak, Iachimo: I had you down and might"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Have made you finish."
V,V,IACHIMO,"But now my heavy conscience sinks my knee,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"As then your force did. Take that life, beseech you,"
V,V,IACHIMO,"Which I so often owe: but your ring first;"
V,V,IACHIMO,"And here the bracelet of the truest princess"
V,V,IACHIMO,"That ever swore her faith."
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Kneel not to me:"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The power that I have on you is, to spare you;"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"The malice towards you to forgive you: live,"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"And deal with others better."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Nobly doom'd!"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"We'll learn our freeness of a son-in-law;"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Pardon's the word to all."
V,V,ARVIRAGUS,"You holp us, sir,"
V,V,ARVIRAGUS,"As you did mean indeed to be our brother;"
V,V,ARVIRAGUS,"Joy'd are we that you are."
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Your servant, princes. Good my lord of Rome,"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Call forth your soothsayer: as I slept, methought"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Great Jupiter, upon his eagle back'd,"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Appear'd to me, with other spritely shows"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Of mine own kindred: when I waked, I found"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"This label on my bosom; whose containing"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Is so from sense in hardness, that I can"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"Make no collection of it: let him show"
V,V,POSTHUMUS LEONATUS,"His skill in the construction."
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Philarmonus!"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Here, my good lord."
V,V,CAIUS LUCIUS,"Read, and declare the meaning."
V,V,Soothsayer,"unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced by a"
V,V,Soothsayer,"piece of tender air; and when from a stately cedar"
V,V,Soothsayer,"shall be lopped branches, which, being dead many"
V,V,Soothsayer,"years, shall after revive, be jointed to the old"
V,V,Soothsayer,"stock, and freshly grow; then shall Posthumus end"
V,V,Soothsayer,"his miseries, Britain be fortunate and flourish in"
V,V,Soothsayer,"peace and plenty.'"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp;"
V,V,Soothsayer,"The fit and apt construction of thy name,"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Being Leonatus, doth import so much."
V,V,Soothsayer,"The piece of tender air, thy virtuous daughter,"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Which we call 'mollis aer;' and 'mollis aer'"
V,V,Soothsayer,"We term it 'mulier:' which 'mulier' I divine"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Is this most constant wife; who, even now,"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Answering the letter of the oracle,"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Unknown to you, unsought, were clipp'd about"
V,V,Soothsayer,"With this most tender air."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"This hath some seeming."
V,V,Soothsayer,"The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline,"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Personates thee: and thy lopp'd branches point"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Thy two sons forth; who, by Belarius stol'n,"
V,V,Soothsayer,"For many years thought dead, are now revived,"
V,V,Soothsayer,"To the majestic cedar join'd, whose issue"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Promises Britain peace and plenty."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Well"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"My peace we will begin. And, Caius Lucius,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Although the victor, we submit to Caesar,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And to the Roman empire; promising"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"To pay our wonted tribute, from the which"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"We were dissuaded by our wicked queen;"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Whom heavens, in justice, both on her and hers,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Have laid most heavy hand."
V,V,Soothsayer,"The fingers of the powers above do tune"
V,V,Soothsayer,"The harmony of this peace. The vision"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Which I made known to Lucius, ere the stroke"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Of this yet scarce-cold battle, at this instant"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Is full accomplish'd; for the Roman eagle,"
V,V,Soothsayer,"From south to west on wing soaring aloft,"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Lessen'd herself, and in the beams o' the sun"
V,V,Soothsayer,"So vanish'd: which foreshow'd our princely eagle,"
V,V,Soothsayer,"The imperial Caesar, should again unite"
V,V,Soothsayer,"His favour with the radiant Cymbeline,"
V,V,Soothsayer,"Which shines here in the west."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Laud we the gods;"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"From our blest altars. Publish we this peace"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"To all our subjects. Set we forward: let"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"A Roman and a British ensign wave"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Friendly together: so through Lud's-town march:"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"And in the temple of great Jupiter"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Our peace we'll ratify; seal it with feasts."
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Set on there! Never was a war did cease,"
V,V,CYMBELINE,"Ere bloody hands were wash'd, with such a peace."
I,I,BERNARDO,"Who's there?"
I,I,FRANCISCO,"Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself."
I,I,BERNARDO,"Long live the king!"
I,I,FRANCISCO,"Bernardo?"
I,I,BERNARDO,"He."
I,I,FRANCISCO,"You come most carefully upon your hour."
I,I,BERNARDO,"'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco."
I,I,FRANCISCO,"For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,"
I,I,FRANCISCO,"And I am sick at heart."
I,I,BERNARDO,"Have you had quiet guard?"
I,I,FRANCISCO,"Not a mouse stirring."
I,I,BERNARDO,"Well, good night."
I,I,BERNARDO,"If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,"
I,I,BERNARDO,"The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste."
I,I,FRANCISCO,"I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there?"
I,I,HORATIO,"Friends to this ground."
I,I,MARCELLUS,"And liegemen to the Dane."
I,I,FRANCISCO,"Give you good night."
I,I,MARCELLUS,"O, farewell, honest soldier:"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Who hath relieved you?"
I,I,FRANCISCO,"Bernardo has my place."
I,I,FRANCISCO,"Give you good night."
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Holla! Bernardo!"
I,I,BERNARDO,"Say,"
I,I,BERNARDO,"What, is Horatio there?"
I,I,HORATIO,"A piece of him."
I,I,BERNARDO,"Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus."
I,I,MARCELLUS,"What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?"
I,I,BERNARDO,"I have seen nothing."
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"And will not let belief take hold of him"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Therefore I have entreated him along"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"With us to watch the minutes of this night;"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"That if again this apparition come,"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"He may approve our eyes and speak to it."
I,I,HORATIO,"Tush, tush, 'twill not appear."
I,I,BERNARDO,"Sit down awhile;"
I,I,BERNARDO,"And let us once again assail your ears,"
I,I,BERNARDO,"That are so fortified against our story"
I,I,BERNARDO,"What we have two nights seen."
I,I,HORATIO,"Well, sit we down,"
I,I,HORATIO,"And let us hear Bernardo speak of this."
I,I,BERNARDO,"Last night of all,"
I,I,BERNARDO,"When yond same star that's westward from the pole"
I,I,BERNARDO,"Had made his course to illume that part of heaven"
I,I,BERNARDO,"Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,"
I,I,BERNARDO,"The bell then beating one,--"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again!"
I,I,BERNARDO,"In the same figure, like the king that's dead."
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio."
I,I,BERNARDO,"Looks it not like the king?  mark it, Horatio."
I,I,HORATIO,"Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder."
I,I,BERNARDO,"It would be spoke to."
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Question it, Horatio."
I,I,HORATIO,"What art thou that usurp'st this time of night,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Together with that fair and warlike form"
I,I,HORATIO,"In which the majesty of buried Denmark"
I,I,HORATIO,"Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"It is offended."
I,I,BERNARDO,"See, it stalks away!"
I,I,HORATIO,"Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"'Tis gone, and will not answer."
I,I,BERNARDO,"How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale:"
I,I,BERNARDO,"Is not this something more than fantasy?"
I,I,BERNARDO,"What think you on't?"
I,I,HORATIO,"Before my God, I might not this believe"
I,I,HORATIO,"Without the sensible and true avouch"
I,I,HORATIO,"Of mine own eyes."
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Is it not like the king?"
I,I,HORATIO,"As thou art to thyself:"
I,I,HORATIO,"Such was the very armour he had on"
I,I,HORATIO,"When he the ambitious Norway combated;"
I,I,HORATIO,"So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle,"
I,I,HORATIO,"He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice."
I,I,HORATIO,"'Tis strange."
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch."
I,I,HORATIO,"In what particular thought to work I know not;"
I,I,HORATIO,"But in the gross and scope of my opinion,"
I,I,HORATIO,"This bodes some strange eruption to our state."
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Why this same strict and most observant watch"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"So nightly toils the subject of the land,"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"And foreign mart for implements of war;"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Does not divide the Sunday from the week;"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"What might be toward, that this sweaty haste"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day:"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Who is't that can inform me?"
I,I,HORATIO,"That can I;"
I,I,HORATIO,"At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Whose image even but now appear'd to us,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet--"
I,I,HORATIO,"For so this side of our known world esteem'd him--"
I,I,HORATIO,"Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal'd compact,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Well ratified by law and heraldry,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands"
I,I,HORATIO,"Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror:"
I,I,HORATIO,"Against the which, a moiety competent"
I,I,HORATIO,"Was gaged by our king; which had return'd"
I,I,HORATIO,"To the inheritance of Fortinbras,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant,"
I,I,HORATIO,"And carriage of the article design'd,"
I,I,HORATIO,"His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Of unimproved mettle hot and full,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there"
I,I,HORATIO,"Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes,"
I,I,HORATIO,"For food and diet, to some enterprise"
I,I,HORATIO,"That hath a stomach in't; which is no other--"
I,I,HORATIO,"As it doth well appear unto our state--"
I,I,HORATIO,"But to recover of us, by strong hand"
I,I,HORATIO,"And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands"
I,I,HORATIO,"So by his father lost: and this, I take it,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Is the main motive of our preparations,"
I,I,HORATIO,"The source of this our watch and the chief head"
I,I,HORATIO,"Of this post-haste and romage in the land."
I,I,BERNARDO,"I think it be no other but e'en so:"
I,I,BERNARDO,"Well may it sort that this portentous figure"
I,I,BERNARDO,"Comes armed through our watch; so like the king"
I,I,BERNARDO,"That was and is the question of these wars."
I,I,HORATIO,"A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye."
I,I,HORATIO,"In the most high and palmy state of Rome,"
I,I,HORATIO,"A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,"
I,I,HORATIO,"The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead"
I,I,HORATIO,"Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets:"
I,I,HORATIO,"As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Disasters in the sun; and the moist star"
I,I,HORATIO,"Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands"
I,I,HORATIO,"Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse:"
I,I,HORATIO,"And even the like precurse of fierce events,"
I,I,HORATIO,"As harbingers preceding still the fates"
I,I,HORATIO,"And prologue to the omen coming on,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Have heaven and earth together demonstrated"
I,I,HORATIO,"Unto our climatures and countrymen.--"
I,I,HORATIO,"But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again!"
I,I,HORATIO,"I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion!"
I,I,HORATIO,"If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Speak to me:"
I,I,HORATIO,"If there be any good thing to be done,"
I,I,HORATIO,"That may to thee do ease and grace to me,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Speak to me:"
I,I,HORATIO,"If thou art privy to thy country's fate,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak!"
I,I,HORATIO,"Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life"
I,I,HORATIO,"Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,"
I,I,HORATIO,"For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus."
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Shall I strike at it with my partisan?"
I,I,HORATIO,"Do, if it will not stand."
I,I,BERNARDO,"'Tis here!"
I,I,HORATIO,"'Tis here!"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"'Tis gone!"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"We do it wrong, being so majestical,"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"To offer it the show of violence;"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"For it is, as the air, invulnerable,"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"And our vain blows malicious mockery."
I,I,BERNARDO,"It was about to speak, when the cock crew."
I,I,HORATIO,"And then it started like a guilty thing"
I,I,HORATIO,"Upon a fearful summons. I have heard,"
I,I,HORATIO,"The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat"
I,I,HORATIO,"Awake the god of day; and, at his warning,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,"
I,I,HORATIO,"The extravagant and erring spirit hies"
I,I,HORATIO,"To his confine: and of the truth herein"
I,I,HORATIO,"This present object made probation."
I,I,MARCELLUS,"It faded on the crowing of the cock."
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"The bird of dawning singeth all night long:"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"So hallow'd and so gracious is the time."
I,I,HORATIO,"So have I heard and do in part believe it."
I,I,HORATIO,"But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill:"
I,I,HORATIO,"Break we our watch up; and by my advice,"
I,I,HORATIO,"Let us impart what we have seen to-night"
I,I,HORATIO,"Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,"
I,I,HORATIO,"This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him."
I,I,HORATIO,"Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,"
I,I,HORATIO,"As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know"
I,I,MARCELLUS,"Where we shall find him most conveniently."
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"The memory be green, and that it us befitted"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"To be contracted in one brow of woe,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"That we with wisest sorrow think on him,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Together with remembrance of ourselves."
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"The imperial jointress to this warlike state,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"With an auspicious and a dropping eye,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"With this affair along. For all, our thanks."
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Holding a weak supposal of our worth,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Or thinking by our late dear brother's death"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Importing the surrender of those lands"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"To our most valiant brother. So much for him."
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Thus much the business is: we have here writ"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,--"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"His further gait herein; in that the levies,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"The lists and full proportions, are all made"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Out of his subject: and we here dispatch"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"For bearers of this greeting to old Norway;"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Giving to you no further personal power"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"To business with the king, more than the scope"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Of these delated articles allow."
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty."
I,II,CORNELIUS,"In that and all things will we show our duty."
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell."
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes?"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"You cannot speak of reason to the Dane,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"And loose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"The head is not more native to the heart,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"The hand more instrumental to the mouth,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father."
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"What wouldst thou have, Laertes?"
I,II,LAERTES,"My dread lord,"
I,II,LAERTES,"Your leave and favour to return to France;"
I,II,LAERTES,"From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,"
I,II,LAERTES,"To show my duty in your coronation,"
I,II,LAERTES,"Yet now, I must confess, that duty done,"
I,II,LAERTES,"My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France"
I,II,LAERTES,"And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon."
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?"
I,II,LORD POLONIUS,"He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave"
I,II,LORD POLONIUS,"By laboursome petition, and at last"
I,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent:"
I,II,LORD POLONIUS,"I do beseech you, give him leave to go."
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"And thy best graces spend it at thy will!"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"How is it that the clouds still hang on you?"
I,II,HAMLET,"Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun."
I,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,"
I,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark."
I,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Do not for ever with thy vailed lids"
I,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Seek for thy noble father in the dust:"
I,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,"
I,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Passing through nature to eternity."
I,II,HAMLET,"Ay, madam, it is common."
I,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"If it be,"
I,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Why seems it so particular with thee?"
I,II,HAMLET,"Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.'"
I,II,HAMLET,"'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,"
I,II,HAMLET,"Nor customary suits of solemn black,"
I,II,HAMLET,"Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,"
I,II,HAMLET,"No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,"
I,II,HAMLET,"Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,"
I,II,HAMLET,"Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,"
I,II,HAMLET,"That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,"
I,II,HAMLET,"For they are actions that a man might play:"
I,II,HAMLET,"But I have that within which passeth show;"
I,II,HAMLET,"These but the trappings and the suits of woe."
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"To give these mourning duties to your father:"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"But, you must know, your father lost a father;"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"In filial obligation for some term"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"In obstinate condolement is a course"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief;"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"An understanding simple and unschool'd:"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"For what we know must be and is as common"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"As any the most vulgar thing to sense,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Why should we in our peevish opposition"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"To reason most absurd: whose common theme"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"From the first corse till he that died to-day,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"This unprevailing woe, and think of us"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"As of a father: for let the world take note,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"You are the most immediate to our throne;"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"And with no less nobility of love"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Than that which dearest father bears his son,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Do I impart toward you. For your intent"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"In going back to school in Wittenberg,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"It is most retrograde to our desire:"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"And we beseech you, bend you to remain"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son."
I,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:"
I,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg."
I,II,HAMLET,"I shall in all my best obey you, madam."
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply:"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come;"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"And the king's rouse the heavens all bruit again,"
I,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away."
I,II,HAMLET,"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt"
I,II,HAMLET,"Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!"
I,II,HAMLET,"Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd"
I,II,HAMLET,"His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!"
I,II,HAMLET,"How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,"
I,II,HAMLET,"Seem to me all the uses of this world!"
I,II,HAMLET,"Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,"
I,II,HAMLET,"That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature"
I,II,HAMLET,"Possess it merely. That it should come to this!"
I,II,HAMLET,"But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:"
I,II,HAMLET,"So excellent a king; that was, to this,"
I,II,HAMLET,"Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother"
I,II,HAMLET,"That he might not beteem the winds of heaven"
I,II,HAMLET,"Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!"
I,II,HAMLET,"Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,"
I,II,HAMLET,"As if increase of appetite had grown"
I,II,HAMLET,"By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--"
I,II,HAMLET,"Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--"
I,II,HAMLET,"A little month, or ere those shoes were old"
I,II,HAMLET,"With which she follow'd my poor father's body,"
I,II,HAMLET,"Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--"
I,II,HAMLET,"O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,"
I,II,HAMLET,"Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,"
I,II,HAMLET,"My father's brother, but no more like my father"
I,II,HAMLET,"Than I to Hercules: within a month:"
I,II,HAMLET,"Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears"
I,II,HAMLET,"Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,"
I,II,HAMLET,"She married. O, most wicked speed, to post"
I,II,HAMLET,"With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!"
I,II,HAMLET,"It is not nor it cannot come to good:"
I,II,HAMLET,"But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue."
I,II,HORATIO,"Hail to your lordship!"
I,II,HAMLET,"I am glad to see you well:"
I,II,HAMLET,"Horatio,--or I do forget myself."
I,II,HORATIO,"The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever."
I,II,HAMLET,"Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you:"
I,II,HAMLET,"And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus?"
I,II,MARCELLUS,"My good lord--"
I,II,HAMLET,"I am very glad to see you. Good even, sir."
I,II,HAMLET,"But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?"
I,II,HORATIO,"A truant disposition, good my lord."
I,II,HAMLET,"I would not hear your enemy say so,"
I,II,HAMLET,"Nor shall you do mine ear that violence,"
I,II,HAMLET,"To make it truster of your own report"
I,II,HAMLET,"Against yourself: I know you are no truant."
I,II,HAMLET,"But what is your affair in Elsinore?"
I,II,HAMLET,"We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart."
I,II,HORATIO,"My lord, I came to see your father's funeral."
I,II,HAMLET,"I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student;"
I,II,HAMLET,"I think it was to see my mother's wedding."
I,II,HORATIO,"Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon."
I,II,HAMLET,"Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats"
I,II,HAMLET,"Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."
I,II,HAMLET,"Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven"
I,II,HAMLET,"Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!"
I,II,HAMLET,"My father!--methinks I see my father."
I,II,HORATIO,"Where, my lord?"
I,II,HAMLET,"In my mind's eye, Horatio."
I,II,HORATIO,"I saw him once; he was a goodly king."
I,II,HAMLET,"He was a man, take him for all in all,"
I,II,HAMLET,"I shall not look upon his like again."
I,II,HORATIO,"My lord, I think I saw him yesternight."
I,II,HAMLET,"Saw? who?"
I,II,HORATIO,"My lord, the king your father."
I,II,HAMLET,"The king my father!"
I,II,HORATIO,"Season your admiration for awhile"
I,II,HORATIO,"With an attent ear, till I may deliver,"
I,II,HORATIO,"Upon the witness of these gentlemen,"
I,II,HORATIO,"This marvel to you."
I,II,HAMLET,"For God's love, let me hear."
I,II,HORATIO,"Two nights together had these gentlemen,"
I,II,HORATIO,"Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch,"
I,II,HORATIO,"In the dead vast and middle of the night,"
I,II,HORATIO,"Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father,"
I,II,HORATIO,"Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,"
I,II,HORATIO,"Appears before them, and with solemn march"
I,II,HORATIO,"Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd"
I,II,HORATIO,"By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes,"
I,II,HORATIO,"Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distilled"
I,II,HORATIO,"Almost to jelly with the act of fear,"
I,II,HORATIO,"Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me"
I,II,HORATIO,"In dreadful secrecy impart they did;"
I,II,HORATIO,"And I with them the third night kept the watch;"
I,II,HORATIO,"Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,"
I,II,HORATIO,"Form of the thing, each word made true and good,"
I,II,HORATIO,"The apparition comes: I knew your father;"
I,II,HORATIO,"These hands are not more like."
I,II,HAMLET,"But where was this?"
I,II,MARCELLUS,"My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd."
I,II,HAMLET,"Did you not speak to it?"
I,II,HORATIO,"My lord, I did;"
I,II,HORATIO,"But answer made it none: yet once methought"
I,II,HORATIO,"It lifted up its head and did address"
I,II,HORATIO,"Itself to motion, like as it would speak;"
I,II,HORATIO,"But even then the morning cock crew loud,"
I,II,HORATIO,"And at the sound it shrunk in haste away,"
I,II,HORATIO,"And vanish'd from our sight."
I,II,HAMLET,"'Tis very strange."
I,II,HORATIO,"As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true;"
I,II,HORATIO,"And we did think it writ down in our duty"
I,II,HORATIO,"To let you know of it."
I,II,HAMLET,"Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me."
I,II,HAMLET,"Hold you the watch to-night?"
I,II,MARCELLUS,"We do, my lord."
I,II,HAMLET,"Arm'd, say you?"
I,II,MARCELLUS,"Arm'd, my lord."
I,II,HAMLET,"From top to toe?"
I,II,MARCELLUS,"My lord, from head to foot."
I,II,HAMLET,"Then saw you not his face?"
I,II,HORATIO,"O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up."
I,II,HAMLET,"What, look'd he frowningly?"
I,II,HORATIO,"A countenance more in sorrow than in anger."
I,II,HAMLET,"Pale or red?"
I,II,HORATIO,"Nay, very pale."
I,II,HAMLET,"And fix'd his eyes upon you?"
I,II,HORATIO,"Most constantly."
I,II,HAMLET,"I would I had been there."
I,II,HORATIO,"It would have much amazed you."
I,II,HAMLET,"Very like, very like. Stay'd it long?"
I,II,HORATIO,"While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred."
I,II,MARCELLUS,"Longer, longer."
I,II,HORATIO,"Not when I saw't."
I,II,HAMLET,"His beard was grizzled--no?"
I,II,HORATIO,"It was, as I have seen it in his life,"
I,II,HORATIO,"A sable silver'd."
I,II,HAMLET,"I will watch to-night;"
I,II,HAMLET,"Perchance 'twill walk again."
I,II,HORATIO,"I warrant it will."
I,II,HAMLET,"If it assume my noble father's person,"
I,II,HAMLET,"I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape"
I,II,HAMLET,"And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,"
I,II,HAMLET,"If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,"
I,II,HAMLET,"Let it be tenable in your silence still;"
I,II,HAMLET,"And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,"
I,II,HAMLET,"Give it an understanding, but no tongue:"
I,II,HAMLET,"I will requite your loves. So, fare you well:"
I,II,HAMLET,"Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve,"
I,II,HAMLET,"I'll visit you."
I,II,All,"Our duty to your honour."
I,II,HAMLET,"Your loves, as mine to you: farewell."
I,II,HAMLET,"My father's spirit in arms! all is not well;"
I,II,HAMLET,"I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!"
I,II,HAMLET,"Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,"
I,II,HAMLET,"Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes."
I,III,LAERTES,"My necessaries are embark'd: farewell:"
I,III,LAERTES,"And, sister, as the winds give benefit"
I,III,LAERTES,"And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,"
I,III,LAERTES,"But let me hear from you."
I,III,OPHELIA,"Do you doubt that?"
I,III,LAERTES,"For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour,"
I,III,LAERTES,"Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,"
I,III,LAERTES,"A violet in the youth of primy nature,"
I,III,LAERTES,"Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,"
I,III,LAERTES,"The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more."
I,III,OPHELIA,"No more but so?"
I,III,LAERTES,"Think it no more;"
I,III,LAERTES,"For nature, crescent, does not grow alone"
I,III,LAERTES,"In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes,"
I,III,LAERTES,"The inward service of the mind and soul"
I,III,LAERTES,"Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,"
I,III,LAERTES,"And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch"
I,III,LAERTES,"The virtue of his will: but you must fear,"
I,III,LAERTES,"His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own;"
I,III,LAERTES,"For he himself is subject to his birth:"
I,III,LAERTES,"He may not, as unvalued persons do,"
I,III,LAERTES,"Carve for himself; for on his choice depends"
I,III,LAERTES,"The safety and health of this whole state;"
I,III,LAERTES,"And therefore must his choice be circumscribed"
I,III,LAERTES,"Unto the voice and yielding of that body"
I,III,LAERTES,"Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,"
I,III,LAERTES,"It fits your wisdom so far to believe it"
I,III,LAERTES,"As he in his particular act and place"
I,III,LAERTES,"May give his saying deed; which is no further"
I,III,LAERTES,"Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal."
I,III,LAERTES,"Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain,"
I,III,LAERTES,"If with too credent ear you list his songs,"
I,III,LAERTES,"Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open"
I,III,LAERTES,"To his unmaster'd importunity."
I,III,LAERTES,"Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,"
I,III,LAERTES,"And keep you in the rear of your affection,"
I,III,LAERTES,"Out of the shot and danger of desire."
I,III,LAERTES,"The chariest maid is prodigal enough,"
I,III,LAERTES,"If she unmask her beauty to the moon:"
I,III,LAERTES,"Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes:"
I,III,LAERTES,"The canker galls the infants of the spring,"
I,III,LAERTES,"Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,"
I,III,LAERTES,"And in the morn and liquid dew of youth"
I,III,LAERTES,"Contagious blastments are most imminent."
I,III,LAERTES,"Be wary then; best safety lies in fear:"
I,III,LAERTES,"Youth to itself rebels, though none else near."
I,III,OPHELIA,"I shall the effect of this good lesson keep,"
I,III,OPHELIA,"As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,"
I,III,OPHELIA,"Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,"
I,III,OPHELIA,"Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;"
I,III,OPHELIA,"Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,"
I,III,OPHELIA,"Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,"
I,III,OPHELIA,"And recks not his own rede."
I,III,LAERTES,"O, fear me not."
I,III,LAERTES,"I stay too long: but here my father comes."
I,III,LAERTES,"A double blessing is a double grace,"
I,III,LAERTES,"Occasion smiles upon a second leave."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"And these few precepts in thy memory"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Nor any unproportioned thought his act."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"But do not dull thy palm with entertainment"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"For the apparel oft proclaims the man,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"And they in France of the best rank and station"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Are of a most select and generous chief in that."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Neither a borrower nor a lender be;"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"For loan oft loses both itself and friend,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"This above all: to thine ownself be true,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"And it must follow, as the night the day,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Thou canst not then be false to any man."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!"
I,III,LAERTES,"Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"The time invites you; go; your servants tend."
I,III,LAERTES,"Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well"
I,III,LAERTES,"What I have said to you."
I,III,OPHELIA,"'Tis in my memory lock'd,"
I,III,OPHELIA,"And you yourself shall keep the key of it."
I,III,LAERTES,"Farewell."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"What is't, Ophelia, be hath said to you?"
I,III,OPHELIA,"So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Marry, well bethought:"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Given private time to you; and you yourself"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Have of your audience been most free and bounteous:"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"If it be so, as so 'tis put on me,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"And that in way of caution, I must tell you,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"You do not understand yourself so clearly"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"As it behoves my daughter and your honour."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"What is between you? give me up the truth."
I,III,OPHELIA,"He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders"
I,III,OPHELIA,"Of his affection to me."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Unsifted in such perilous circumstance."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?"
I,III,OPHELIA,"I do not know, my lord, what I should think."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby;"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Running it thus--you'll tender me a fool."
I,III,OPHELIA,"My lord, he hath importuned me with love"
I,III,OPHELIA,"In honourable fashion."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to."
I,III,OPHELIA,"And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,"
I,III,OPHELIA,"With almost all the holy vows of heaven."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Giving more light than heat, extinct in both,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Even in their promise, as it is a-making,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"You must not take for fire. From this time"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence;"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Set your entreatments at a higher rate"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Believe so much in him, that he is young"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"And with a larger tether may he walk"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Not of that dye which their investments show,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"But mere implorators of unholy suits,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"The better to beguile. This is for all:"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Have you so slander any moment leisure,"
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet."
I,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Look to't, I charge you: come your ways."
I,III,OPHELIA,"I shall obey, my lord."
I,IV,HAMLET,"The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold."
I,IV,HORATIO,"It is a nipping and an eager air."
I,IV,HAMLET,"What hour now?"
I,IV,HORATIO,"I think it lacks of twelve."
I,IV,HAMLET,"No, it is struck."
I,IV,HORATIO,"Indeed? I heard it not: then it draws near the season"
I,IV,HORATIO,"Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk."
I,IV,HORATIO,"What does this mean, my lord?"
I,IV,HAMLET,"The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels;"
I,IV,HAMLET,"And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out"
I,IV,HAMLET,"The triumph of his pledge."
I,IV,HORATIO,"Is it a custom?"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Ay, marry, is't:"
I,IV,HAMLET,"But to my mind, though I am native here"
I,IV,HAMLET,"And to the manner born, it is a custom"
I,IV,HAMLET,"More honour'd in the breach than the observance."
I,IV,HAMLET,"This heavy-headed revel east and west"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:"
I,IV,HAMLET,"They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Soil our addition; and indeed it takes"
I,IV,HAMLET,"From our achievements, though perform'd at height,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"The pith and marrow of our attribute."
I,IV,HAMLET,"So, oft it chances in particular men,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"That for some vicious mole of nature in them,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"As, in their birth--wherein they are not guilty,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Since nature cannot choose his origin--"
I,IV,HAMLET,"By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens"
I,IV,HAMLET,"The form of plausive manners, that these men,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,--"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"As infinite as man may undergo--"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Shall in the general censure take corruption"
I,IV,HAMLET,"From that particular fault: the dram of eale"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Doth all the noble substance of a doubt"
I,IV,HAMLET,"To his own scandal."
I,IV,HORATIO,"Look, my lord, it comes!"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Angels and ministers of grace defend us!"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Be thy intents wicked or charitable,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Thou comest in such a questionable shape"
I,IV,HAMLET,"That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"To cast thee up again. What may this mean,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Making night hideous; and we fools of nature"
I,IV,HAMLET,"So horridly to shake our disposition"
I,IV,HAMLET,"With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?"
I,IV,HORATIO,"It beckons you to go away with it,"
I,IV,HORATIO,"As if it some impartment did desire"
I,IV,HORATIO,"To you alone."
I,IV,MARCELLUS,"Look, with what courteous action"
I,IV,MARCELLUS,"It waves you to a more removed ground:"
I,IV,MARCELLUS,"But do not go with it."
I,IV,HORATIO,"No, by no means."
I,IV,HAMLET,"It will not speak; then I will follow it."
I,IV,HORATIO,"Do not, my lord."
I,IV,HAMLET,"Why, what should be the fear?"
I,IV,HAMLET,"I do not set my life in a pin's fee;"
I,IV,HAMLET,"And for my soul, what can it do to that,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"Being a thing immortal as itself?"
I,IV,HAMLET,"It waves me forth again: I'll follow it."
I,IV,HORATIO,"What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,"
I,IV,HORATIO,"Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff"
I,IV,HORATIO,"That beetles o'er his base into the sea,"
I,IV,HORATIO,"And there assume some other horrible form,"
I,IV,HORATIO,"Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason"
I,IV,HORATIO,"And draw you into madness? think of it:"
I,IV,HORATIO,"The very place puts toys of desperation,"
I,IV,HORATIO,"Without more motive, into every brain"
I,IV,HORATIO,"That looks so many fathoms to the sea"
I,IV,HORATIO,"And hears it roar beneath."
I,IV,HAMLET,"It waves me still."
I,IV,HAMLET,"Go on; I'll follow thee."
I,IV,MARCELLUS,"You shall not go, my lord."
I,IV,HAMLET,"Hold off your hands."
I,IV,HORATIO,"Be ruled; you shall not go."
I,IV,HAMLET,"My fate cries out,"
I,IV,HAMLET,"And makes each petty artery in this body"
I,IV,HAMLET,"As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve."
I,IV,HAMLET,"Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen."
I,IV,HAMLET,"By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!"
I,IV,HAMLET,"I say, away! Go on; I'll follow thee."
I,IV,HORATIO,"He waxes desperate with imagination."
I,IV,MARCELLUS,"Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him."
I,IV,HORATIO,"Have after. To what issue will this come?"
I,IV,MARCELLUS,"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
I,IV,HORATIO,"Heaven will direct it."
I,IV,MARCELLUS,"Nay, let's follow him."
I,V,HAMLET,"Where wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no further."
I,V,Ghost,"Mark me."
I,V,HAMLET,"I will."
I,V,Ghost,"My hour is almost come,"
I,V,Ghost,"When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames"
I,V,Ghost,"Must render up myself."
I,V,HAMLET,"Alas, poor ghost!"
I,V,Ghost,"Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing"
I,V,Ghost,"To what I shall unfold."
I,V,HAMLET,"Speak; I am bound to hear."
I,V,Ghost,"So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear."
I,V,HAMLET,"What?"
I,V,Ghost,"I am thy father's spirit,"
I,V,Ghost,"Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,"
I,V,Ghost,"And for the day confined to fast in fires,"
I,V,Ghost,"Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature"
I,V,Ghost,"Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid"
I,V,Ghost,"To tell the secrets of my prison-house,"
I,V,Ghost,"I could a tale unfold whose lightest word"
I,V,Ghost,"Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,"
I,V,Ghost,"Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,"
I,V,Ghost,"Thy knotted and combined locks to part"
I,V,Ghost,"And each particular hair to stand on end,"
I,V,Ghost,"Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:"
I,V,Ghost,"But this eternal blazon must not be"
I,V,Ghost,"To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!"
I,V,Ghost,"If thou didst ever thy dear father love--"
I,V,HAMLET,"O God!"
I,V,Ghost,"Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder."
I,V,HAMLET,"Murder!"
I,V,Ghost,"Murder most foul, as in the best it is;"
I,V,Ghost,"But this most foul, strange and unnatural."
I,V,HAMLET,"Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift"
I,V,HAMLET,"As meditation or the thoughts of love,"
I,V,HAMLET,"May sweep to my revenge."
I,V,Ghost,"I find thee apt;"
I,V,Ghost,"And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed"
I,V,Ghost,"That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,"
I,V,Ghost,"Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear:"
I,V,Ghost,"'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,"
I,V,Ghost,"A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark"
I,V,Ghost,"Is by a forged process of my death"
I,V,Ghost,"Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,"
I,V,Ghost,"The serpent that did sting thy father's life"
I,V,Ghost,"Now wears his crown."
I,V,HAMLET,"O my prophetic soul! My uncle!"
I,V,Ghost,"Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,"
I,V,Ghost,"With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,--"
I,V,Ghost,"O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power"
I,V,Ghost,"So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust"
I,V,Ghost,"The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:"
I,V,Ghost,"O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!"
I,V,Ghost,"From me, whose love was of that dignity"
I,V,Ghost,"That it went hand in hand even with the vow"
I,V,Ghost,"I made to her in marriage, and to decline"
I,V,Ghost,"Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor"
I,V,Ghost,"To those of mine!"
I,V,Ghost,"But virtue, as it never will be moved,"
I,V,Ghost,"Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,"
I,V,Ghost,"So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,"
I,V,Ghost,"Will sate itself in a celestial bed,"
I,V,Ghost,"And prey on garbage."
I,V,Ghost,"But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air;"
I,V,Ghost,"Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,"
I,V,Ghost,"My custom always of the afternoon,"
I,V,Ghost,"Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,"
I,V,Ghost,"With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,"
I,V,Ghost,"And in the porches of my ears did pour"
I,V,Ghost,"The leperous distilment; whose effect"
I,V,Ghost,"Holds such an enmity with blood of man"
I,V,Ghost,"That swift as quicksilver it courses through"
I,V,Ghost,"The natural gates and alleys of the body,"
I,V,Ghost,"And with a sudden vigour doth posset"
I,V,Ghost,"And curd, like eager droppings into milk,"
I,V,Ghost,"The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine;"
I,V,Ghost,"And a most instant tetter bark'd about,"
I,V,Ghost,"Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,"
I,V,Ghost,"All my smooth body."
I,V,Ghost,"Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand"
I,V,Ghost,"Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:"
I,V,Ghost,"Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,"
I,V,Ghost,"Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd,"
I,V,Ghost,"No reckoning made, but sent to my account"
I,V,Ghost,"With all my imperfections on my head:"
I,V,Ghost,"O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!"
I,V,Ghost,"If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not;"
I,V,Ghost,"Let not the royal bed of Denmark be"
I,V,Ghost,"A couch for luxury and damned incest."
I,V,Ghost,"But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,"
I,V,Ghost,"Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive"
I,V,Ghost,"Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven"
I,V,Ghost,"And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,"
I,V,Ghost,"To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once!"
I,V,Ghost,"The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,"
I,V,Ghost,"And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire:"
I,V,Ghost,"Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me."
I,V,HAMLET,"O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else?"
I,V,HAMLET,"And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart;"
I,V,HAMLET,"And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,"
I,V,HAMLET,"But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee!"
I,V,HAMLET,"Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat"
I,V,HAMLET,"In this distracted globe. Remember thee!"
I,V,HAMLET,"Yea, from the table of my memory"
I,V,HAMLET,"I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,"
I,V,HAMLET,"All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,"
I,V,HAMLET,"That youth and observation copied there;"
I,V,HAMLET,"And thy commandment all alone shall live"
I,V,HAMLET,"Within the book and volume of my brain,"
I,V,HAMLET,"Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!"
I,V,HAMLET,"O most pernicious woman!"
I,V,HAMLET,"O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!"
I,V,HAMLET,"My tables,--meet it is I set it down,"
I,V,HAMLET,"That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;"
I,V,HAMLET,"At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark:"
I,V,HAMLET,"So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word;"
I,V,HAMLET,"It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me.'"
I,V,HAMLET,"I have sworn 't."
I,V,HAMLET,"So be it!"
I,V,HAMLET,"Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come."
I,V,MARCELLUS,"How is't, my noble lord?"
I,V,HORATIO,"What news, my lord?"
I,V,HAMLET,"O, wonderful!"
I,V,HORATIO,"Good my lord, tell it."
I,V,HAMLET,"No; you'll reveal it."
I,V,HORATIO,"Not I, my lord, by heaven."
I,V,MARCELLUS,"Nor I, my lord."
I,V,HAMLET,"How say you, then; would heart of man once think it?"
I,V,HAMLET,"But you'll be secret?"
I,V,HORATIO,"Ay, by heaven, my lord."
I,V,HAMLET,"There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark"
I,V,HAMLET,"But he's an arrant knave."
I,V,HORATIO,"There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave"
I,V,HORATIO,"To tell us this."
I,V,HAMLET,"Why, right; you are i' the right;"
I,V,HAMLET,"And so, without more circumstance at all,"
I,V,HAMLET,"I hold it fit that we shake hands and part:"
I,V,HAMLET,"You, as your business and desire shall point you;"
I,V,HAMLET,"For every man has business and desire,"
I,V,HAMLET,"Such as it is; and for mine own poor part,"
I,V,HAMLET,"Look you, I'll go pray."
I,V,HORATIO,"These are but wild and whirling words, my lord."
I,V,HAMLET,"I'm sorry they offend you, heartily;"
I,V,HAMLET,"Yes, 'faith heartily."
I,V,HORATIO,"There's no offence, my lord."
I,V,HAMLET,"Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,"
I,V,HAMLET,"And much offence too. Touching this vision here,"
I,V,HAMLET,"It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you:"
I,V,HAMLET,"For your desire to know what is between us,"
I,V,HAMLET,"O'ermaster 't as you may. And now, good friends,"
I,V,HAMLET,"As you are friends, scholars and soldiers,"
I,V,HAMLET,"Give me one poor request."
I,V,HORATIO,"What is't, my lord? we will."
I,V,HAMLET,"Never make known what you have seen to-night."
I,V,HORATIO,"My lord, we will not."
I,V,HAMLET,"Nay, but swear't."
I,V,HORATIO,"In faith,"
I,V,HORATIO,"My lord, not I."
I,V,MARCELLUS,"Nor I, my lord, in faith."
I,V,HAMLET,"Upon my sword."
I,V,MARCELLUS,"We have sworn, my lord, already."
I,V,HAMLET,"Indeed, upon my sword, indeed."
I,V,HAMLET,"Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there,"
I,V,HAMLET,"truepenny?"
I,V,HAMLET,"Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage--"
I,V,HAMLET,"Consent to swear."
I,V,HORATIO,"Propose the oath, my lord."
I,V,HAMLET,"Never to speak of this that you have seen,"
I,V,HAMLET,"Swear by my sword."
I,V,HAMLET,"Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground."
I,V,HAMLET,"Come hither, gentlemen,"
I,V,HAMLET,"And lay your hands again upon my sword:"
I,V,HAMLET,"Never to speak of this that you have heard,"
I,V,HAMLET,"Swear by my sword."
I,V,HAMLET,"Well said, old mole! canst work i' the earth so fast?"
I,V,HAMLET,"A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends."
I,V,HORATIO,"O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!"
I,V,HAMLET,"And therefore as a stranger give it welcome."
I,V,HAMLET,"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,"
I,V,HAMLET,"Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come;"
I,V,HAMLET,"Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,"
I,V,HAMLET,"How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,"
I,V,HAMLET,"As I perchance hereafter shall think meet"
I,V,HAMLET,"To put an antic disposition on,"
I,V,HAMLET,"That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,"
I,V,HAMLET,"With arms encumber'd thus, or this headshake,"
I,V,HAMLET,"Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,"
I,V,HAMLET,"As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,'"
I,V,HAMLET,"Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,'"
I,V,HAMLET,"Or such ambiguous giving out, to note"
I,V,HAMLET,"That you know aught of me: this not to do,"
I,V,HAMLET,"So grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear."
I,V,HAMLET,"Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!"
I,V,HAMLET,"So, gentlemen,"
I,V,HAMLET,"With all my love I do commend me to you:"
I,V,HAMLET,"And what so poor a man as Hamlet is"
I,V,HAMLET,"May do, to express his love and friending to you,"
I,V,HAMLET,"God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together;"
I,V,HAMLET,"And still your fingers on your lips, I pray."
I,V,HAMLET,"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,"
I,V,HAMLET,"That ever I was born to set it right!"
I,V,HAMLET,"Nay, come, let's go together."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo."
II,I,REYNALDO,"I will, my lord."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Before you visit him, to make inquire"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Of his behavior."
II,I,REYNALDO,"My lord, I did intend it."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris;"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"And how, and who, what means, and where they keep,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"What company, at what expense; and finding"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"By this encompassment and drift of question"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"That they do know my son, come you more nearer"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Than your particular demands will touch it:"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him;"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"As thus, 'I know his father and his friends,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"And in part him: ' do you mark this, Reynaldo?"
II,I,REYNALDO,"Ay, very well, my lord."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"'And in part him; but' you may say 'not well:"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"But, if't be he I mean, he's very wild;"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Addicted so and so:' and there put on him"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"As may dishonour him; take heed of that;"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"As are companions noted and most known"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"To youth and liberty."
II,I,REYNALDO,"As gaming, my lord."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Drabbing: you may go so far."
II,I,REYNALDO,"My lord, that would dishonour him."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"'Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"You must not put another scandal on him,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"That he is open to incontinency;"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"That they may seem the taints of liberty,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"A savageness in unreclaimed blood,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Of general assault."
II,I,REYNALDO,"But, my good lord,--"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Wherefore should you do this?"
II,I,REYNALDO,"Ay, my lord,"
II,I,REYNALDO,"I would know that."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Marry, sir, here's my drift;"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"And I believe, it is a fetch of wit:"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"You laying these slight sullies on my son,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working, Mark you,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Your party in converse, him you would sound,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"He closes with you in this consequence;"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"'Good sir,' or so, or 'friend,' or 'gentleman,'"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"According to the phrase or the addition"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Of man and country."
II,I,REYNALDO,"Very good, my lord."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"And then, sir, does he this--he does--what was I"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"about to say? By the mass, I was about to say"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"something: where did I leave?"
II,I,REYNALDO,"At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,'"
II,I,REYNALDO,"and 'gentleman.'"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"At 'closes in the consequence,' ay, marry;"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"He closes thus: 'I know the gentleman;"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"I saw him yesterday, or t' other day,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Or then, or then; with such, or such; and, as you say,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"There was a' gaming; there o'ertook in's rouse;"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"There falling out at tennis:' or perchance,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"'I saw him enter such a house of sale,'"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"See you now;"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth:"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"With windlasses and with assays of bias,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"By indirections find directions out:"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"So by my former lecture and advice,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?"
II,I,REYNALDO,"My lord, I have."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"God be wi' you; fare you well."
II,I,REYNALDO,"Good my lord!"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Observe his inclination in yourself."
II,I,REYNALDO,"I shall, my lord."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"And let him ply his music."
II,I,REYNALDO,"Well, my lord."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Farewell!"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"How now, Ophelia! what's the matter?"
II,I,OPHELIA,"O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"With what, i' the name of God?"
II,I,OPHELIA,"My lord, as I was sewing in my closet,"
II,I,OPHELIA,"Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced;"
II,I,OPHELIA,"No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd,"
II,I,OPHELIA,"Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle;"
II,I,OPHELIA,"Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;"
II,I,OPHELIA,"And with a look so piteous in purport"
II,I,OPHELIA,"As if he had been loosed out of hell"
II,I,OPHELIA,"To speak of horrors,--he comes before me."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Mad for thy love?"
II,I,OPHELIA,"My lord, I do not know;"
II,I,OPHELIA,"But truly, I do fear it."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"What said he?"
II,I,OPHELIA,"He took me by the wrist and held me hard;"
II,I,OPHELIA,"Then goes he to the length of all his arm;"
II,I,OPHELIA,"And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow,"
II,I,OPHELIA,"He falls to such perusal of my face"
II,I,OPHELIA,"As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so;"
II,I,OPHELIA,"At last, a little shaking of mine arm"
II,I,OPHELIA,"And thrice his head thus waving up and down,"
II,I,OPHELIA,"He raised a sigh so piteous and profound"
II,I,OPHELIA,"As it did seem to shatter all his bulk"
II,I,OPHELIA,"And end his being: that done, he lets me go:"
II,I,OPHELIA,"And, with his head over his shoulder turn'd,"
II,I,OPHELIA,"He seem'd to find his way without his eyes;"
II,I,OPHELIA,"For out o' doors he went without their helps,"
II,I,OPHELIA,"And, to the last, bended their light on me."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Come, go with me: I will go seek the king."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"This is the very ecstasy of love,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Whose violent property fordoes itself"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"And leads the will to desperate undertakings"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"As oft as any passion under heaven"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"That does afflict our natures. I am sorry."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"What, have you given him any hard words of late?"
II,I,OPHELIA,"No, my good lord, but, as you did command,"
II,I,OPHELIA,"I did repel his fetters and denied"
II,I,OPHELIA,"His access to me."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"That hath made him mad."
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"I am sorry that with better heed and judgment"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle,"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"And meant to wreck thee; but, beshrew my jealousy!"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"By heaven, it is as proper to our age"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"As it is common for the younger sort"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king:"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"This must be known; which, being kept close, might"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"move"
II,I,LORD POLONIUS,"More grief to hide than hate to utter love."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern!"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Moreover that we much did long to see you,"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"The need we have to use you did provoke"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Our hasty sending. Something have you heard"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Of Hamlet's transformation; so call it,"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Resembles that it was. What it should be,"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"More than his father's death, that thus hath put him"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"So much from the understanding of himself,"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"I cannot dream of: I entreat you both,"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"That, being of so young days brought up with him,"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"And sith so neighbour'd to his youth and havior,"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Some little time: so by your companies"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather,"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"So much as from occasion you may glean,"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus,"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"That, open'd, lies within our remedy."
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you;"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"And sure I am two men there are not living"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"To whom he more adheres. If it will please you"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"To show us so much gentry and good will"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"As to expend your time with us awhile,"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"For the supply and profit of our hope,"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Your visitation shall receive such thanks"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"As fits a king's remembrance."
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Both your majesties"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Put your dread pleasures more into command"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Than to entreaty."
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"But we both obey,"
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"And here give up ourselves, in the full bent"
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"To lay our service freely at your feet,"
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"To be commanded."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern."
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz:"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"And I beseech you instantly to visit"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"My too much changed son. Go, some of you,"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is."
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"Heavens make our presence and our practises"
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"Pleasant and helpful to him!"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Ay, amen!"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"The ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Are joyfully return'd."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Thou still hast been the father of good news."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Have I, my lord? I assure my good liege,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"I hold my duty, as I hold my soul,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Both to my God and to my gracious king:"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"And I do think, or else this brain of mine"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Hunts not the trail of policy so sure"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"As it hath used to do, that I have found"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"O, speak of that; that do I long to hear."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Give first admittance to the ambassadors;"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"My news shall be the fruit to that great feast."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"The head and source of all your son's distemper."
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"I doubt it is no other but the main;"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"His father's death, and our o'erhasty marriage."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Well, we shall sift him."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Welcome, my good friends!"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Say, Voltimand, what from our brother Norway?"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"Most fair return of greetings and desires."
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"Upon our first, he sent out to suppress"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"His nephew's levies; which to him appear'd"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack;"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"But, better look'd into, he truly found"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"It was against your highness: whereat grieved,"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"That so his sickness, age and impotence"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys;"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"Receives rebuke from Norway, and in fine"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"Makes vow before his uncle never more"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"To give the assay of arms against your majesty."
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee,"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"And his commission to employ those soldiers,"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"So levied as before, against the Polack:"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"With an entreaty, herein further shown,"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"That it might please you to give quiet pass"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"Through your dominions for this enterprise,"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"On such regards of safety and allowance"
II,II,VOLTIMAND,"As therein are set down."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"It likes us well;"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"And at our more consider'd time well read,"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Answer, and think upon this business."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour:"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together:"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Most welcome home!"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"This business is well ended."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"My liege, and madam, to expostulate"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"What majesty should be, what duty is,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Why day is day, night night, and time is time,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Were nothing but to waste night, day and time."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"I will be brief: your noble son is mad:"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"What is't but to be nothing else but mad?"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"But let that go."
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"More matter, with less art."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Madam, I swear I use no art at all."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity;"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure;"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"But farewell it, for I will use no art."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Mad let us grant him, then: and now remains"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"That we find out the cause of this effect,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Or rather say, the cause of this defect,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"For this effect defective comes by cause:"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. Perpend."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"I have a daughter--have while she is mine--"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Who, in her duty and obedience, mark,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Hath given me this: now gather, and surmise."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"'To the celestial and my soul's idol, the most"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"beautified Ophelia,'--"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; 'beautified' is"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"a vile phrase: but you shall hear. Thus:"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"'In her excellent white bosom, these, &c.'"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Came this from Hamlet to her?"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"'Doubt thou the stars are fire;"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Doubt that the sun doth move;"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Doubt truth to be a liar;"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"But never doubt I love."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers;"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"I have not art to reckon my groans: but that"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"'Thine evermore most dear lady, whilst"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"this machine is to him, HAMLET.'"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"And more above, hath his solicitings,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"As they fell out by time, by means and place,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"All given to mine ear."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"But how hath she"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Received his love?"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"What do you think of me?"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"As of a man faithful and honourable."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"I would fain prove so. But what might you think,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"When I had seen this hot love on the wing--"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"As I perceived it, I must tell you that,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Before my daughter told me--what might you,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Or my dear majesty your queen here, think,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"If I had play'd the desk or table-book,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Or look'd upon this love with idle sight;"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"What might you think? No, I went round to work,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"'Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star;"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"This must not be:' and then I precepts gave her,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"That she should lock herself from his resort,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Admit no messengers, receive no tokens."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Which done, she took the fruits of my advice;"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"And he, repulsed--a short tale to make--"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Into the madness wherein now he raves,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"And all we mourn for."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Do you think 'tis this?"
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"It may be, very likely."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Hath there been such a time--I'd fain know that--"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"That I have positively said 'Tis so,'"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"When it proved otherwise?"
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Not that I know."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Take this from this, if this be otherwise:"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"If circumstances lead me, I will find"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Within the centre."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"How may we try it further?"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"You know, sometimes he walks four hours together"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Here in the lobby."
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"So he does indeed."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him:"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Be you and I behind an arras then;"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Mark the encounter: if he love her not"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"And be not from his reason fall'n thereon,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Let me be no assistant for a state,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"But keep a farm and carters."
II,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"We will try it."
II,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"But, look, where sadly the poor wretch comes reading."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Away, I do beseech you, both away:"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"I'll board him presently."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"O, give me leave:"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"How does my good Lord Hamlet?"
II,II,HAMLET,"Well, God-a-mercy."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Do you know me, my lord?"
II,II,HAMLET,"Excellent well; you are a fishmonger."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Not I, my lord."
II,II,HAMLET,"Then I would you were so honest a man."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Honest, my lord!"
II,II,HAMLET,"Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be"
II,II,HAMLET,"one man picked out of ten thousand."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"That's very true, my lord."
II,II,HAMLET,"For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a"
II,II,HAMLET,"god kissing carrion,--Have you a daughter?"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"I have, my lord."
II,II,HAMLET,"Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a"
II,II,HAMLET,"blessing: but not as your daughter may conceive."
II,II,HAMLET,"Friend, look to 't."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"was a fishmonger: he is far gone, far gone: and"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"love; very near this. I'll speak to him again."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"What do you read, my lord?"
II,II,HAMLET,"Words, words, words."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"What is the matter, my lord?"
II,II,HAMLET,"Between who?"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"I mean, the matter that you read, my lord."
II,II,HAMLET,"Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here"
II,II,HAMLET,"that old men have grey beards, that their faces are"
II,II,HAMLET,"wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and"
II,II,HAMLET,"plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of"
II,II,HAMLET,"wit, together with most weak hams: all which, sir,"
II,II,HAMLET,"though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet"
II,II,HAMLET,"I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down, for"
II,II,HAMLET,"yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab"
II,II,HAMLET,"you could go backward."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"in 't. Will you walk out of the air, my lord?"
II,II,HAMLET,"Into my grave."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Indeed, that is out o' the air."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"How pregnant sometimes his replies are! a happiness"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"could not so prosperously be delivered of. I will"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"leave him, and suddenly contrive the means of"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"meeting between him and my daughter.--My honourable"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you."
II,II,HAMLET,"You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will"
II,II,HAMLET,"more willingly part withal: except my life, except"
II,II,HAMLET,"my life, except my life."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Fare you well, my lord."
II,II,HAMLET,"These tedious old fools!"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is."
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"My honoured lord!"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"My most dear lord!"
II,II,HAMLET,"My excellent good friends! How dost thou,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both?"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"As the indifferent children of the earth."
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"Happy, in that we are not over-happy;"
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"On fortune's cap we are not the very button."
II,II,HAMLET,"Nor the soles of her shoe?"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Neither, my lord."
II,II,HAMLET,"Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of"
II,II,HAMLET,"her favours?"
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"'Faith, her privates we."
II,II,HAMLET,"In the secret parts of fortune? O, most true; she"
II,II,HAMLET,"is a strumpet. What's the news?"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest."
II,II,HAMLET,"Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true."
II,II,HAMLET,"Let me question more in particular: what have you,"
II,II,HAMLET,"my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune,"
II,II,HAMLET,"that she sends you to prison hither?"
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"Prison, my lord!"
II,II,HAMLET,"Denmark's a prison."
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Then is the world one."
II,II,HAMLET,"A goodly one; in which there are many confines,"
II,II,HAMLET,"wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst."
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"We think not so, my lord."
II,II,HAMLET,"Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing"
II,II,HAMLET,"either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me"
II,II,HAMLET,"it is a prison."
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Why then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"narrow for your mind."
II,II,HAMLET,"O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count"
II,II,HAMLET,"myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I"
II,II,HAMLET,"have bad dreams."
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very"
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."
II,II,HAMLET,"A dream itself is but a shadow."
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"quality that it is but a shadow's shadow."
II,II,HAMLET,"Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and"
II,II,HAMLET,"outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we"
II,II,HAMLET,"to the court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason."
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"We'll wait upon you."
II,II,HAMLET,"No such matter: I will not sort you with the rest"
II,II,HAMLET,"of my servants, for, to speak to you like an honest"
II,II,HAMLET,"man, I am most dreadfully attended. But, in the"
II,II,HAMLET,"beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"To visit you, my lord; no other occasion."
II,II,HAMLET,"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I"
II,II,HAMLET,"thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are"
II,II,HAMLET,"too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it"
II,II,HAMLET,"your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come,"
II,II,HAMLET,"deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak."
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"What should we say, my lord?"
II,II,HAMLET,"Why, any thing, but to the purpose. You were sent"
II,II,HAMLET,"for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks"
II,II,HAMLET,"which your modesties have not craft enough to colour:"
II,II,HAMLET,"I know the good king and queen have sent for you."
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"To what end, my lord?"
II,II,HAMLET,"That you must teach me. But let me conjure you, by"
II,II,HAMLET,"the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of"
II,II,HAMLET,"our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved"
II,II,HAMLET,"love, and by what more dear a better proposer could"
II,II,HAMLET,"charge you withal, be even and direct with me,"
II,II,HAMLET,"whether you were sent for, or no?"
II,II,HAMLET,"love me, hold not off."
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"My lord, we were sent for."
II,II,HAMLET,"I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation"
II,II,HAMLET,"prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king"
II,II,HAMLET,"and queen moult no feather. I have of late--but"
II,II,HAMLET,"wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all"
II,II,HAMLET,"custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily"
II,II,HAMLET,"with my disposition that this goodly frame, the"
II,II,HAMLET,"earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most"
II,II,HAMLET,"excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave"
II,II,HAMLET,"o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted"
II,II,HAMLET,"with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to"
II,II,HAMLET,"me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours."
II,II,HAMLET,"What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!"
II,II,HAMLET,"how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how"
II,II,HAMLET,"express and admirable! in action how like an angel!"
II,II,HAMLET,"in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the"
II,II,HAMLET,"world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,"
II,II,HAMLET,"what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not"
II,II,HAMLET,"me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling"
II,II,HAMLET,"you seem to say so."
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts."
II,II,HAMLET,"Why did you laugh then, when I said 'man delights not me'?"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"lenten entertainment the players shall receive from"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"you: we coted them on the way; and hither are they"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"coming, to offer you service."
II,II,HAMLET,"He that plays the king shall be welcome; his majesty"
II,II,HAMLET,"shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight"
II,II,HAMLET,"shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not"
II,II,HAMLET,"sigh gratis; the humourous man shall end his part"
II,II,HAMLET,"in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose"
II,II,HAMLET,"lungs are tickled o' the sere; and the lady shall"
II,II,HAMLET,"say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt"
II,II,HAMLET,"for't. What players are they?"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Even those you were wont to take delight in, the"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"tragedians of the city."
II,II,HAMLET,"How chances it they travel? their residence, both"
II,II,HAMLET,"in reputation and profit, was better both ways."
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"I think their inhibition comes by the means of the"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"late innovation."
II,II,HAMLET,"Do they hold the same estimation they did when I was"
II,II,HAMLET,"in the city? are they so followed?"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"No, indeed, are they not."
II,II,HAMLET,"How comes it? do they grow rusty?"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace: but"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases,"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"that cry out on the top of question, and are most"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"tyrannically clapped for't: these are now the"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"fashion, and so berattle the common stages--so they"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"call them--that many wearing rapiers are afraid of"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"goose-quills and dare scarce come thither."
II,II,HAMLET,"What, are they children? who maintains 'em? how are"
II,II,HAMLET,"they escoted? Will they pursue the quality no"
II,II,HAMLET,"longer than they can sing? will they not say"
II,II,HAMLET,"afterwards, if they should grow themselves to common"
II,II,HAMLET,"players--as it is most like, if their means are no"
II,II,HAMLET,"better--their writers do them wrong, to make them"
II,II,HAMLET,"exclaim against their own succession?"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"'Faith, there has been much to do on both sides; and"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"controversy: there was, for a while, no money bid"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"for argument, unless the poet and the player went to"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"cuffs in the question."
II,II,HAMLET,"Is't possible?"
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"O, there has been much throwing about of brains."
II,II,HAMLET,"Do the boys carry it away?"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Ay, that they do, my lord; Hercules and his load too."
II,II,HAMLET,"It is not very strange; for mine uncle is king of"
II,II,HAMLET,"Denmark, and those that would make mows at him while"
II,II,HAMLET,"my father lived, give twenty, forty, fifty, an"
II,II,HAMLET,"hundred ducats a-piece for his picture in little."
II,II,HAMLET,"'Sblood, there is something in this more than"
II,II,HAMLET,"natural, if philosophy could find it out."
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"There are the players."
II,II,HAMLET,"Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands,"
II,II,HAMLET,"come then: the appurtenance of welcome is fashion"
II,II,HAMLET,"and ceremony: let me comply with you in this garb,"
II,II,HAMLET,"lest my extent to the players, which, I tell you,"
II,II,HAMLET,"must show fairly outward, should more appear like"
II,II,HAMLET,"entertainment than yours. You are welcome: but my"
II,II,HAMLET,"uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived."
II,II,GUILDENSTERN,"In what, my dear lord?"
II,II,HAMLET,"I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is"
II,II,HAMLET,"southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Well be with you, gentlemen!"
II,II,HAMLET,"Hark you, Guildenstern; and you too: at each ear a"
II,II,HAMLET,"hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet"
II,II,HAMLET,"out of his swaddling-clouts."
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Happily he's the second time come to them; for they"
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"say an old man is twice a child."
II,II,HAMLET,"I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players;"
II,II,HAMLET,"mark it. You say right, sir: o' Monday morning;"
II,II,HAMLET,"'twas so indeed."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"My lord, I have news to tell you."
II,II,HAMLET,"My lord, I have news to tell you."
II,II,HAMLET,"When Roscius was an actor in Rome,--"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"The actors are come hither, my lord."
II,II,HAMLET,"Buz, buz!"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Upon mine honour,--"
II,II,HAMLET,"Then came each actor on his ass,--"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"The best actors in the world, either for tragedy,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical,"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"liberty, these are the only men."
II,II,HAMLET,"O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"What a treasure had he, my lord?"
II,II,HAMLET,"Why,"
II,II,HAMLET,"'One fair daughter and no more,"
II,II,HAMLET,"The which he loved passing well.'"
II,II,HAMLET,"Am I not i' the right, old Jephthah?"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"that I love passing well."
II,II,HAMLET,"Nay, that follows not."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"What follows, then, my lord?"
II,II,HAMLET,"Why,"
II,II,HAMLET,"'As by lot, God wot,'"
II,II,HAMLET,"and then, you know,"
II,II,HAMLET,"'It came to pass, as most like it was,'--"
II,II,HAMLET,"the first row of the pious chanson will show you"
II,II,HAMLET,"more; for look, where my abridgement comes."
II,II,HAMLET,"You are welcome, masters; welcome, all. I am glad"
II,II,HAMLET,"to see thee well. Welcome, good friends. O, my old"
II,II,HAMLET,"friend! thy face is valenced since I saw thee last:"
II,II,HAMLET,"comest thou to beard me in Denmark? What, my young"
II,II,HAMLET,"lady and mistress! By'r lady, your ladyship is"
II,II,HAMLET,"nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the"
II,II,HAMLET,"altitude of a chopine. Pray God, your voice, like"
II,II,HAMLET,"apiece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the"
II,II,HAMLET,"ring. Masters, you are all welcome. We'll e'en"
II,II,HAMLET,"to't like French falconers, fly at any thing we see:"
II,II,HAMLET,"we'll have a speech straight: come, give us a taste"
II,II,HAMLET,"of your quality; come, a passionate speech."
II,II,First Player,"What speech, my lord?"
II,II,HAMLET,"I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was"
II,II,HAMLET,"never acted; or, if it was, not above once; for the"
II,II,HAMLET,"play, I remember, pleased not the million; 'twas"
II,II,HAMLET,"caviare to the general: but it was--as I received"
II,II,HAMLET,"it, and others, whose judgments in such matters"
II,II,HAMLET,"cried in the top of mine--an excellent play, well"
II,II,HAMLET,"digested in the scenes, set down with as much"
II,II,HAMLET,"modesty as cunning. I remember, one said there"
II,II,HAMLET,"were no sallets in the lines to make the matter"
II,II,HAMLET,"savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might"
II,II,HAMLET,"indict the author of affectation; but called it an"
II,II,HAMLET,"honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and by very"
II,II,HAMLET,"much more handsome than fine. One speech in it I"
II,II,HAMLET,"chiefly loved: 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido; and"
II,II,HAMLET,"thereabout of it especially, where he speaks of"
II,II,HAMLET,"Priam's slaughter: if it live in your memory, begin"
II,II,HAMLET,"at this line: let me see, let me see--"
II,II,HAMLET,"'The rugged Pyrrhus, like the Hyrcanian beast,'--"
II,II,HAMLET,"it is not so:--it begins with Pyrrhus:--"
II,II,HAMLET,"'The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Black as his purpose, did the night resemble"
II,II,HAMLET,"When he lay couched in the ominous horse,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd"
II,II,HAMLET,"With heraldry more dismal; head to foot"
II,II,HAMLET,"Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd"
II,II,HAMLET,"With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Baked and impasted with the parching streets,"
II,II,HAMLET,"That lend a tyrannous and damned light"
II,II,HAMLET,"To their lord's murder: roasted in wrath and fire,"
II,II,HAMLET,"And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore,"
II,II,HAMLET,"With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus"
II,II,HAMLET,"Old grandsire Priam seeks.'"
II,II,HAMLET,"So, proceed you."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"'Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good accent and"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"good discretion."
II,II,First Player,"'Anon he finds him"
II,II,First Player,"Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword,"
II,II,First Player,"Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,"
II,II,First Player,"Repugnant to command: unequal match'd,"
II,II,First Player,"Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide;"
II,II,First Player,"But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword"
II,II,First Player,"The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,"
II,II,First Player,"Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top"
II,II,First Player,"Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash"
II,II,First Player,"Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for, lo! his sword,"
II,II,First Player,"Which was declining on the milky head"
II,II,First Player,"Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:"
II,II,First Player,"So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood,"
II,II,First Player,"And like a neutral to his will and matter,"
II,II,First Player,"Did nothing."
II,II,First Player,"But, as we often see, against some storm,"
II,II,First Player,"A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,"
II,II,First Player,"The bold winds speechless and the orb below"
II,II,First Player,"As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder"
II,II,First Player,"Doth rend the region, so, after Pyrrhus' pause,"
II,II,First Player,"Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work;"
II,II,First Player,"And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall"
II,II,First Player,"On Mars's armour forged for proof eterne"
II,II,First Player,"With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword"
II,II,First Player,"Now falls on Priam."
II,II,First Player,"Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods,"
II,II,First Player,"In general synod 'take away her power;"
II,II,First Player,"Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,"
II,II,First Player,"And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven,"
II,II,First Player,"As low as to the fiends!'"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"This is too long."
II,II,HAMLET,"It shall to the barber's, with your beard. Prithee,"
II,II,HAMLET,"say on: he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he"
II,II,HAMLET,"sleeps: say on: come to Hecuba."
II,II,First Player,"'But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen--'"
II,II,HAMLET,"'The mobled queen?'"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"That's good; 'mobled queen' is good."
II,II,First Player,"'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames"
II,II,First Player,"With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head"
II,II,First Player,"Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe,"
II,II,First Player,"About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins,"
II,II,First Player,"A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up;"
II,II,First Player,"Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd,"
II,II,First Player,"'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have"
II,II,First Player,"pronounced:"
II,II,First Player,"But if the gods themselves did see her then"
II,II,First Player,"When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport"
II,II,First Player,"In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,"
II,II,First Player,"The instant burst of clamour that she made,"
II,II,First Player,"Unless things mortal move them not at all,"
II,II,First Player,"Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven,"
II,II,First Player,"And passion in the gods.'"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Look, whether he has not turned his colour and has"
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"tears in's eyes. Pray you, no more."
II,II,HAMLET,"'Tis well: I'll have thee speak out the rest soon."
II,II,HAMLET,"Good my lord, will you see the players well"
II,II,HAMLET,"bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for"
II,II,HAMLET,"they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the"
II,II,HAMLET,"time: after your death you were better have a bad"
II,II,HAMLET,"epitaph than their ill report while you live."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"My lord, I will use them according to their desert."
II,II,HAMLET,"God's bodykins, man, much better: use every man"
II,II,HAMLET,"after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?"
II,II,HAMLET,"Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less"
II,II,HAMLET,"they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty."
II,II,HAMLET,"Take them in."
II,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Come, sirs."
II,II,HAMLET,"Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play to-morrow."
II,II,HAMLET,"Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the"
II,II,HAMLET,"Murder of Gonzago?"
II,II,First Player,"Ay, my lord."
II,II,HAMLET,"We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need,"
II,II,HAMLET,"study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which"
II,II,HAMLET,"I would set down and insert in't, could you not?"
II,II,First Player,"Ay, my lord."
II,II,HAMLET,"Very well. Follow that lord; and look you mock him"
II,II,HAMLET,"not."
II,II,HAMLET,"My good friends, I'll leave you till night: you are"
II,II,HAMLET,"welcome to Elsinore."
II,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Good my lord!"
II,II,HAMLET,"Ay, so, God be wi' ye;"
II,II,HAMLET,"Now I am alone."
II,II,HAMLET,"O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!"
II,II,HAMLET,"Is it not monstrous that this player here,"
II,II,HAMLET,"But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Could force his soul so to his own conceit"
II,II,HAMLET,"That from her working all his visage wann'd,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,"
II,II,HAMLET,"A broken voice, and his whole function suiting"
II,II,HAMLET,"With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!"
II,II,HAMLET,"For Hecuba!"
II,II,HAMLET,"What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,"
II,II,HAMLET,"That he should weep for her? What would he do,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Had he the motive and the cue for passion"
II,II,HAMLET,"That I have? He would drown the stage with tears"
II,II,HAMLET,"And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Make mad the guilty and appal the free,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed"
II,II,HAMLET,"The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,"
II,II,HAMLET,"A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,"
II,II,HAMLET,"And can say nothing; no, not for a king,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Upon whose property and most dear life"
II,II,HAMLET,"A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?"
II,II,HAMLET,"Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?"
II,II,HAMLET,"Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?"
II,II,HAMLET,"Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat,"
II,II,HAMLET,"As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?"
II,II,HAMLET,"Ha!"
II,II,HAMLET,"'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be"
II,II,HAMLET,"But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall"
II,II,HAMLET,"To make oppression bitter, or ere this"
II,II,HAMLET,"I should have fatted all the region kites"
II,II,HAMLET,"With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain!"
II,II,HAMLET,"Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!"
II,II,HAMLET,"O, vengeance!"
II,II,HAMLET,"Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,"
II,II,HAMLET,"That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,"
II,II,HAMLET,"And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,"
II,II,HAMLET,"A scullion!"
II,II,HAMLET,"Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! I have heard"
II,II,HAMLET,"That guilty creatures sitting at a play"
II,II,HAMLET,"Have by the very cunning of the scene"
II,II,HAMLET,"Been struck so to the soul that presently"
II,II,HAMLET,"They have proclaim'd their malefactions;"
II,II,HAMLET,"For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak"
II,II,HAMLET,"With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players"
II,II,HAMLET,"Play something like the murder of my father"
II,II,HAMLET,"Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks;"
II,II,HAMLET,"I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench,"
II,II,HAMLET,"I know my course. The spirit that I have seen"
II,II,HAMLET,"May be the devil: and the devil hath power"
II,II,HAMLET,"To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps"
II,II,HAMLET,"Out of my weakness and my melancholy,"
II,II,HAMLET,"As he is very potent with such spirits,"
II,II,HAMLET,"Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds"
II,II,HAMLET,"More relative than this: the play 's the thing"
II,II,HAMLET,"Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"And can you, by no drift of circumstance,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Get from him why he puts on this confusion,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Grating so harshly all his days of quiet"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?"
III,I,ROSENCRANTZ,"He does confess he feels himself distracted;"
III,I,ROSENCRANTZ,"But from what cause he will by no means speak."
III,I,GUILDENSTERN,"Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,"
III,I,GUILDENSTERN,"But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof,"
III,I,GUILDENSTERN,"When we would bring him on to some confession"
III,I,GUILDENSTERN,"Of his true state."
III,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Did he receive you well?"
III,I,ROSENCRANTZ,"Most like a gentleman."
III,I,GUILDENSTERN,"But with much forcing of his disposition."
III,I,ROSENCRANTZ,"Niggard of question; but, of our demands,"
III,I,ROSENCRANTZ,"Most free in his reply."
III,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Did you assay him?"
III,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"To any pastime?"
III,I,ROSENCRANTZ,"Madam, it so fell out, that certain players"
III,I,ROSENCRANTZ,"We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him;"
III,I,ROSENCRANTZ,"And there did seem in him a kind of joy"
III,I,ROSENCRANTZ,"To hear of it: they are about the court,"
III,I,ROSENCRANTZ,"And, as I think, they have already order"
III,I,ROSENCRANTZ,"This night to play before him."
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"'Tis most true:"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"To hear and see the matter."
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"With all my heart; and it doth much content me"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"To hear him so inclined."
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"And drive his purpose on to these delights."
III,I,ROSENCRANTZ,"We shall, my lord."
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"That he, as 'twere by accident, may here"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Affront Ophelia:"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Her father and myself, lawful espials,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"We may of their encounter frankly judge,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"And gather by him, as he is behaved,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"If 't be the affliction of his love or no"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"That thus he suffers for."
III,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"I shall obey you."
III,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish"
III,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"That your good beauties be the happy cause"
III,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope your virtues"
III,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Will bring him to his wonted way again,"
III,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"To both your honours."
III,I,OPHELIA,"Madam, I wish it may."
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Ophelia, walk you here. Gracious, so please you,"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"We will bestow ourselves."
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Read on this book;"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"That show of such an exercise may colour"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,--"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"'Tis too much proved--that with devotion's visage"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"And pious action we do sugar o'er"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"The devil himself."
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Than is my deed to my most painted word:"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"O heavy burthen!"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"I hear him coming: let's withdraw, my lord."
III,I,HAMLET,"To be, or not to be: that is the question:"
III,I,HAMLET,"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer"
III,I,HAMLET,"The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,"
III,I,HAMLET,"Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,"
III,I,HAMLET,"And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;"
III,I,HAMLET,"No more; and by a sleep to say we end"
III,I,HAMLET,"The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks"
III,I,HAMLET,"That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation"
III,I,HAMLET,"Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;"
III,I,HAMLET,"To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;"
III,I,HAMLET,"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come"
III,I,HAMLET,"When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,"
III,I,HAMLET,"Must give us pause: there's the respect"
III,I,HAMLET,"That makes calamity of so long life;"
III,I,HAMLET,"For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,"
III,I,HAMLET,"The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,"
III,I,HAMLET,"The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,"
III,I,HAMLET,"The insolence of office and the spurns"
III,I,HAMLET,"That patient merit of the unworthy takes,"
III,I,HAMLET,"When he himself might his quietus make"
III,I,HAMLET,"With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,"
III,I,HAMLET,"To grunt and sweat under a weary life,"
III,I,HAMLET,"But that the dread of something after death,"
III,I,HAMLET,"The undiscover'd country from whose bourn"
III,I,HAMLET,"No traveller returns, puzzles the will"
III,I,HAMLET,"And makes us rather bear those ills we have"
III,I,HAMLET,"Than fly to others that we know not of?"
III,I,HAMLET,"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;"
III,I,HAMLET,"And thus the native hue of resolution"
III,I,HAMLET,"Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,"
III,I,HAMLET,"And enterprises of great pith and moment"
III,I,HAMLET,"With this regard their currents turn awry,"
III,I,HAMLET,"And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!"
III,I,HAMLET,"The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons"
III,I,HAMLET,"Be all my sins remember'd."
III,I,OPHELIA,"Good my lord,"
III,I,OPHELIA,"How does your honour for this many a day?"
III,I,HAMLET,"I humbly thank you; well, well, well."
III,I,OPHELIA,"My lord, I have remembrances of yours,"
III,I,OPHELIA,"That I have longed long to re-deliver;"
III,I,OPHELIA,"I pray you, now receive them."
III,I,HAMLET,"No, not I;"
III,I,HAMLET,"I never gave you aught."
III,I,OPHELIA,"My honour'd lord, you know right well you did;"
III,I,OPHELIA,"And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed"
III,I,OPHELIA,"As made the things more rich: their perfume lost,"
III,I,OPHELIA,"Take these again; for to the noble mind"
III,I,OPHELIA,"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
III,I,OPHELIA,"There, my lord."
III,I,HAMLET,"Ha, ha! are you honest?"
III,I,OPHELIA,"My lord?"
III,I,HAMLET,"Are you fair?"
III,I,OPHELIA,"What means your lordship?"
III,I,HAMLET,"That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should"
III,I,HAMLET,"admit no discourse to your beauty."
III,I,OPHELIA,"Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than"
III,I,OPHELIA,"with honesty?"
III,I,HAMLET,"Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner"
III,I,HAMLET,"transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the"
III,I,HAMLET,"force of honesty can translate beauty into his"
III,I,HAMLET,"likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the"
III,I,HAMLET,"time gives it proof. I did love you once."
III,I,OPHELIA,"Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so."
III,I,HAMLET,"You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot"
III,I,HAMLET,"so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of"
III,I,HAMLET,"it: I loved you not."
III,I,OPHELIA,"I was the more deceived."
III,I,HAMLET,"Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a"
III,I,HAMLET,"breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest;"
III,I,HAMLET,"but yet I could accuse me of such things that it"
III,I,HAMLET,"were better my mother had not borne me: I am very"
III,I,HAMLET,"proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at"
III,I,HAMLET,"my beck than I have thoughts to put them in,"
III,I,HAMLET,"imagination to give them shape, or time to act them"
III,I,HAMLET,"in. What should such fellows as I do crawling"
III,I,HAMLET,"between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves,"
III,I,HAMLET,"all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery."
III,I,HAMLET,"Where's your father?"
III,I,OPHELIA,"At home, my lord."
III,I,HAMLET,"Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the"
III,I,HAMLET,"fool no where but in's own house. Farewell."
III,I,OPHELIA,"O, help him, you sweet heavens!"
III,I,HAMLET,"If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for"
III,I,HAMLET,"thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as"
III,I,HAMLET,"snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a"
III,I,HAMLET,"nunnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs"
III,I,HAMLET,"marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough"
III,I,HAMLET,"what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go,"
III,I,HAMLET,"and quickly too. Farewell."
III,I,OPHELIA,"O heavenly powers, restore him!"
III,I,HAMLET,"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God"
III,I,HAMLET,"has given you one face, and you make yourselves"
III,I,HAMLET,"another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and"
III,I,HAMLET,"nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness"
III,I,HAMLET,"your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath"
III,I,HAMLET,"made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages:"
III,I,HAMLET,"those that are married already, all but one, shall"
III,I,HAMLET,"live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a"
III,I,HAMLET,"nunnery, go."
III,I,OPHELIA,"O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!"
III,I,OPHELIA,"The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword;"
III,I,OPHELIA,"The expectancy and rose of the fair state,"
III,I,OPHELIA,"The glass of fashion and the mould of form,"
III,I,OPHELIA,"The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!"
III,I,OPHELIA,"And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,"
III,I,OPHELIA,"That suck'd the honey of his music vows,"
III,I,OPHELIA,"Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,"
III,I,OPHELIA,"Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;"
III,I,OPHELIA,"That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth"
III,I,OPHELIA,"Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me,"
III,I,OPHELIA,"To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Love! his affections do not that way tend;"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Was not like madness. There's something in his soul,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"O'er which his melancholy sits on brood;"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Will be some danger: which for to prevent,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"I have in quick determination"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"For the demand of our neglected tribute"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Haply the seas and countries different"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"With variable objects shall expel"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"This something-settled matter in his heart,"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"From fashion of himself. What think you on't?"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"It shall do well: but yet do I believe"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"The origin and commencement of his grief"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Sprung from neglected love. How now, Ophelia!"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said;"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"We heard it all. My lord, do as you please;"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"But, if you hold it fit, after the play"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Let his queen mother all alone entreat him"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"To show his grief: let her be round with him;"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"And I'll be placed, so please you, in the ear"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Of all their conference. If she find him not,"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"To England send him, or confine him where"
III,I,LORD POLONIUS,"Your wisdom best shall think."
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"It shall be so:"
III,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go."
III,II,HAMLET,"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to"
III,II,HAMLET,"you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it,"
III,II,HAMLET,"as many of your players do, I had as lief the"
III,II,HAMLET,"town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air"
III,II,HAMLET,"too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently;"
III,II,HAMLET,"for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,"
III,II,HAMLET,"the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget"
III,II,HAMLET,"a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it"
III,II,HAMLET,"offends me to the soul to hear a robustious"
III,II,HAMLET,"periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to"
III,II,HAMLET,"very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who"
III,II,HAMLET,"for the most part are capable of nothing but"
III,II,HAMLET,"inexplicable dumbshows and noise: I would have such"
III,II,HAMLET,"a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it"
III,II,HAMLET,"out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it."
III,II,First Player,"I warrant your honour."
III,II,HAMLET,"Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion"
III,II,HAMLET,"be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the"
III,II,HAMLET,"word to the action; with this special o'erstep not"
III,II,HAMLET,"the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is"
III,II,HAMLET,"from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the"
III,II,HAMLET,"first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the"
III,II,HAMLET,"mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature,"
III,II,HAMLET,"scorn her own image, and the very age and body of"
III,II,HAMLET,"the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone,"
III,II,HAMLET,"or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful"
III,II,HAMLET,"laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the"
III,II,HAMLET,"censure of the which one must in your allowance"
III,II,HAMLET,"o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be"
III,II,HAMLET,"players that I have seen play, and heard others"
III,II,HAMLET,"praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely,"
III,II,HAMLET,"that, neither having the accent of Christians nor"
III,II,HAMLET,"the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so"
III,II,HAMLET,"strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of"
III,II,HAMLET,"nature's journeymen had made men and not made them"
III,II,HAMLET,"well, they imitated humanity so abominably."
III,II,First Player,"I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us,"
III,II,First Player,"sir."
III,II,HAMLET,"O, reform it altogether. And let those that play"
III,II,HAMLET,"your clowns speak no more than is set down for them;"
III,II,HAMLET,"for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to"
III,II,HAMLET,"set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh"
III,II,HAMLET,"too; though, in the mean time, some necessary"
III,II,HAMLET,"question of the play be then to be considered:"
III,II,HAMLET,"that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition"
III,II,HAMLET,"in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready."
III,II,HAMLET,"How now, my lord! I will the king hear this piece of work?"
III,II,LORD POLONIUS,"And the queen too, and that presently."
III,II,HAMLET,"Bid the players make haste."
III,II,HAMLET,"Will you two help to hasten them?"
III,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"We will, my lord."
III,II,HAMLET,"What ho! Horatio!"
III,II,HORATIO,"Here, sweet lord, at your service."
III,II,HAMLET,"Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man"
III,II,HAMLET,"As e'er my conversation coped withal."
III,II,HORATIO,"O, my dear lord,--"
III,II,HAMLET,"Nay, do not think I flatter;"
III,II,HAMLET,"For what advancement may I hope from thee"
III,II,HAMLET,"That no revenue hast but thy good spirits,"
III,II,HAMLET,"To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd?"
III,II,HAMLET,"No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,"
III,II,HAMLET,"And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee"
III,II,HAMLET,"Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?"
III,II,HAMLET,"Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice"
III,II,HAMLET,"And could of men distinguish, her election"
III,II,HAMLET,"Hath seal'd thee for herself; for thou hast been"
III,II,HAMLET,"As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing,"
III,II,HAMLET,"A man that fortune's buffets and rewards"
III,II,HAMLET,"Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and blest are those"
III,II,HAMLET,"Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled,"
III,II,HAMLET,"That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger"
III,II,HAMLET,"To sound what stop she please. Give me that man"
III,II,HAMLET,"That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him"
III,II,HAMLET,"In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,"
III,II,HAMLET,"As I do thee.--Something too much of this.--"
III,II,HAMLET,"There is a play to-night before the king;"
III,II,HAMLET,"One scene of it comes near the circumstance"
III,II,HAMLET,"Which I have told thee of my father's death:"
III,II,HAMLET,"I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,"
III,II,HAMLET,"Even with the very comment of thy soul"
III,II,HAMLET,"Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt"
III,II,HAMLET,"Do not itself unkennel in one speech,"
III,II,HAMLET,"It is a damned ghost that we have seen,"
III,II,HAMLET,"And my imaginations are as foul"
III,II,HAMLET,"As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note;"
III,II,HAMLET,"For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,"
III,II,HAMLET,"And after we will both our judgments join"
III,II,HAMLET,"In censure of his seeming."
III,II,HORATIO,"Well, my lord:"
III,II,HORATIO,"If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,"
III,II,HORATIO,"And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft."
III,II,HAMLET,"They are coming to the play; I must be idle:"
III,II,HAMLET,"Get you a place."
III,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"How fares our cousin Hamlet?"
III,II,HAMLET,"Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat"
III,II,HAMLET,"the air, promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so."
III,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words"
III,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"are not mine."
III,II,HAMLET,"No, nor mine now."
III,II,HAMLET,"My lord, you played once i' the university, you say?"
III,II,LORD POLONIUS,"That did I, my lord; and was accounted a good actor."
III,II,HAMLET,"What did you enact?"
III,II,LORD POLONIUS,"I did enact Julius Caesar: I was killed i' the"
III,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Capitol; Brutus killed me."
III,II,HAMLET,"It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf"
III,II,HAMLET,"there. Be the players ready?"
III,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Ay, my lord; they stay upon your patience."
III,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me."
III,II,HAMLET,"No, good mother, here's metal more attractive."
III,II,HAMLET,"Lady, shall I lie in your lap?"
III,II,OPHELIA,"No, my lord."
III,II,HAMLET,"I mean, my head upon your lap?"
III,II,OPHELIA,"Ay, my lord."
III,II,HAMLET,"Do you think I meant country matters?"
III,II,OPHELIA,"I think nothing, my lord."
III,II,HAMLET,"That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs."
III,II,OPHELIA,"What is, my lord?"
III,II,HAMLET,"Nothing."
III,II,OPHELIA,"You are merry, my lord."
III,II,HAMLET,"Who, I?"
III,II,OPHELIA,"Ay, my lord."
III,II,HAMLET,"O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do"
III,II,HAMLET,"but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my"
III,II,HAMLET,"mother looks, and my father died within these two hours."
III,II,OPHELIA,"Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord."
III,II,HAMLET,"So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for"
III,II,HAMLET,"I'll have a suit of sables. O heavens! die two"
III,II,HAMLET,"months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's"
III,II,HAMLET,"hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half"
III,II,HAMLET,"a year: but, by'r lady, he must build churches,"
III,II,HAMLET,"then; or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with"
III,II,HAMLET,"the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is 'For, O, for, O,"
III,II,HAMLET,"the hobby-horse is forgot.'"
III,II,OPHELIA,"What means this, my lord?"
III,II,HAMLET,"Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief."
III,II,OPHELIA,"Belike this show imports the argument of the play."
III,II,HAMLET,"We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot"
III,II,HAMLET,"keep counsel; they'll tell all."
III,II,OPHELIA,"Will he tell us what this show meant?"
III,II,HAMLET,"Ay, or any show that you'll show him: be not you"
III,II,HAMLET,"ashamed to show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means."
III,II,OPHELIA,"You are naught, you are naught: I'll mark the play."
III,II,Prologue,"For us, and for our tragedy,"
III,II,Prologue,"Here stooping to your clemency,"
III,II,Prologue,"We beg your hearing patiently."
III,II,HAMLET,"Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?"
III,II,OPHELIA,"'Tis brief, my lord."
III,II,HAMLET,"As woman's love."
III,II,Player King,"Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round"
III,II,Player King,"Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground,"
III,II,Player King,"And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen"
III,II,Player King,"About the world have times twelve thirties been,"
III,II,Player King,"Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands"
III,II,Player King,"Unite commutual in most sacred bands."
III,II,Player Queen,"So many journeys may the sun and moon"
III,II,Player Queen,"Make us again count o'er ere love be done!"
III,II,Player Queen,"But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,"
III,II,Player Queen,"So far from cheer and from your former state,"
III,II,Player Queen,"That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,"
III,II,Player Queen,"Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must:"
III,II,Player Queen,"For women's fear and love holds quantity;"
III,II,Player Queen,"In neither aught, or in extremity."
III,II,Player Queen,"Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know;"
III,II,Player Queen,"And as my love is sized, my fear is so:"
III,II,Player Queen,"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;"
III,II,Player Queen,"Where little fears grow great, great love grows there."
III,II,Player King,"'Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too;"
III,II,Player King,"My operant powers their functions leave to do:"
III,II,Player King,"And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,"
III,II,Player King,"Honour'd, beloved; and haply one as kind"
III,II,Player King,"For husband shalt thou--"
III,II,Player Queen,"O, confound the rest!"
III,II,Player Queen,"Such love must needs be treason in my breast:"
III,II,Player Queen,"In second husband let me be accurst!"
III,II,Player Queen,"None wed the second but who kill'd the first."
III,II,Player Queen,"The instances that second marriage move"
III,II,Player Queen,"Are base respects of thrift, but none of love:"
III,II,Player Queen,"A second time I kill my husband dead,"
III,II,Player Queen,"When second husband kisses me in bed."
III,II,Player King,"I do believe you think what now you speak;"
III,II,Player King,"But what we do determine oft we break."
III,II,Player King,"Purpose is but the slave to memory,"
III,II,Player King,"Of violent birth, but poor validity;"
III,II,Player King,"Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree;"
III,II,Player King,"But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be."
III,II,Player King,"Most necessary 'tis that we forget"
III,II,Player King,"To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt:"
III,II,Player King,"What to ourselves in passion we propose,"
III,II,Player King,"The passion ending, doth the purpose lose."
III,II,Player King,"The violence of either grief or joy"
III,II,Player King,"Their own enactures with themselves destroy:"
III,II,Player King,"Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;"
III,II,Player King,"Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident."
III,II,Player King,"This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange"
III,II,Player King,"That even our loves should with our fortunes change;"
III,II,Player King,"For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,"
III,II,Player King,"Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love."
III,II,Player King,"The great man down, you mark his favourite flies;"
III,II,Player King,"The poor advanced makes friends of enemies."
III,II,Player King,"And hitherto doth love on fortune tend;"
III,II,Player King,"For who not needs shall never lack a friend,"
III,II,Player King,"And who in want a hollow friend doth try,"
III,II,Player King,"Directly seasons him his enemy."
III,II,Player King,"But, orderly to end where I begun,"
III,II,Player King,"Our wills and fates do so contrary run"
III,II,Player King,"That our devices still are overthrown;"
III,II,Player King,"Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own:"
III,II,Player King,"So think thou wilt no second husband wed;"
III,II,Player King,"But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead."
III,II,Player Queen,"Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light!"
III,II,Player Queen,"Sport and repose lock from me day and night!"
III,II,Player Queen,"To desperation turn my trust and hope!"
III,II,Player Queen,"An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope!"
III,II,Player Queen,"Each opposite that blanks the face of joy"
III,II,Player Queen,"Meet what I would have well and it destroy!"
III,II,Player Queen,"Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife,"
III,II,Player Queen,"If, once a widow, ever I be wife!"
III,II,HAMLET,"If she should break it now!"
III,II,Player King,"'Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile;"
III,II,Player King,"My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile"
III,II,Player King,"The tedious day with sleep."
III,II,Player Queen,"Sleep rock thy brain,"
III,II,Player Queen,"And never come mischance between us twain!"
III,II,HAMLET,"Madam, how like you this play?"
III,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"The lady protests too much, methinks."
III,II,HAMLET,"O, but she'll keep her word."
III,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in 't?"
III,II,HAMLET,"No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence"
III,II,HAMLET,"i' the world."
III,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"What do you call the play?"
III,II,HAMLET,"The Mouse-trap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play"
III,II,HAMLET,"is the image of a murder done in Vienna: Gonzago is"
III,II,HAMLET,"the duke's name; his wife, Baptista: you shall see"
III,II,HAMLET,"anon; 'tis a knavish piece of work: but what o'"
III,II,HAMLET,"that? your majesty and we that have free souls, it"
III,II,HAMLET,"touches us not: let the galled jade wince, our"
III,II,HAMLET,"withers are unwrung."
III,II,HAMLET,"This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king."
III,II,OPHELIA,"You are as good as a chorus, my lord."
III,II,HAMLET,"I could interpret between you and your love, if I"
III,II,HAMLET,"could see the puppets dallying."
III,II,OPHELIA,"You are keen, my lord, you are keen."
III,II,HAMLET,"It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge."
III,II,OPHELIA,"Still better, and worse."
III,II,HAMLET,"So you must take your husbands. Begin, murderer;"
III,II,HAMLET,"pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin. Come:"
III,II,HAMLET,"'the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.'"
III,II,LUCIANUS,"Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing;"
III,II,LUCIANUS,"Confederate season, else no creature seeing;"
III,II,LUCIANUS,"Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected,"
III,II,LUCIANUS,"With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,"
III,II,LUCIANUS,"Thy natural magic and dire property,"
III,II,LUCIANUS,"On wholesome life usurp immediately."
III,II,HAMLET,"He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. His"
III,II,HAMLET,"name's Gonzago: the story is extant, and writ in"
III,II,HAMLET,"choice Italian: you shall see anon how the murderer"
III,II,HAMLET,"gets the love of Gonzago's wife."
III,II,OPHELIA,"The king rises."
III,II,HAMLET,"What, frighted with false fire!"
III,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"How fares my lord?"
III,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Give o'er the play."
III,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Give me some light: away!"
III,II,All,"Lights, lights, lights!"
III,II,HAMLET,"Why, let the stricken deer go weep,"
III,II,HAMLET,"The hart ungalled play;"
III,II,HAMLET,"For some must watch, while some must sleep:"
III,II,HAMLET,"So runs the world away."
III,II,HAMLET,"Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers-- if"
III,II,HAMLET,"the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me--with two"
III,II,HAMLET,"Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a"
III,II,HAMLET,"fellowship in a cry of players, sir?"
III,II,HORATIO,"Half a share."
III,II,HAMLET,"A whole one, I."
III,II,HAMLET,"For thou dost know, O Damon dear,"
III,II,HAMLET,"This realm dismantled was"
III,II,HAMLET,"Of Jove himself; and now reigns here"
III,II,HAMLET,"A very, very--pajock."
III,II,HORATIO,"You might have rhymed."
III,II,HAMLET,"O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a"
III,II,HAMLET,"thousand pound. Didst perceive?"
III,II,HORATIO,"Very well, my lord."
III,II,HAMLET,"Upon the talk of the poisoning?"
III,II,HORATIO,"I did very well note him."
III,II,HAMLET,"Ah, ha! Come, some music! come, the recorders!"
III,II,HAMLET,"For if the king like not the comedy,"
III,II,HAMLET,"Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy."
III,II,HAMLET,"Come, some music!"
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you."
III,II,HAMLET,"Sir, a whole history."
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"The king, sir,--"
III,II,HAMLET,"Ay, sir, what of him?"
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"Is in his retirement marvellous distempered."
III,II,HAMLET,"With drink, sir?"
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"No, my lord, rather with choler."
III,II,HAMLET,"Your wisdom should show itself more richer to"
III,II,HAMLET,"signify this to his doctor; for, for me to put him"
III,II,HAMLET,"to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far"
III,II,HAMLET,"more choler."
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame and"
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"start not so wildly from my affair."
III,II,HAMLET,"I am tame, sir: pronounce."
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of"
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"spirit, hath sent me to you."
III,II,HAMLET,"You are welcome."
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the right"
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"breed. If it shall please you to make me a"
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"wholesome answer, I will do your mother's"
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"commandment: if not, your pardon and my return"
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"shall be the end of my business."
III,II,HAMLET,"Sir, I cannot."
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"What, my lord?"
III,II,HAMLET,"Make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased: but,"
III,II,HAMLET,"sir, such answer as I can make, you shall command;"
III,II,HAMLET,"or, rather, as you say, my mother: therefore no"
III,II,HAMLET,"more, but to the matter: my mother, you say,--"
III,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Then thus she says; your behavior hath struck her"
III,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"into amazement and admiration."
III,II,HAMLET,"O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother! But"
III,II,HAMLET,"is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's"
III,II,HAMLET,"admiration? Impart."
III,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"She desires to speak with you in her closet, ere you"
III,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"go to bed."
III,II,HAMLET,"We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have"
III,II,HAMLET,"you any further trade with us?"
III,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"My lord, you once did love me."
III,II,HAMLET,"So I do still, by these pickers and stealers."
III,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you"
III,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"do, surely, bar the door upon your own liberty, if"
III,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"you deny your griefs to your friend."
III,II,HAMLET,"Sir, I lack advancement."
III,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"How can that be, when you have the voice of the king"
III,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"himself for your succession in Denmark?"
III,II,HAMLET,"Ay, but sir, 'While the grass grows,'--the proverb"
III,II,HAMLET,"is something musty."
III,II,HAMLET,"O, the recorders! let me see one. To withdraw with"
III,II,HAMLET,"you:--why do you go about to recover the wind of me,"
III,II,HAMLET,"as if you would drive me into a toil?"
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"O, my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too"
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"unmannerly."
III,II,HAMLET,"I do not well understand that. Will you play upon"
III,II,HAMLET,"this pipe?"
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"My lord, I cannot."
III,II,HAMLET,"I pray you."
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"Believe me, I cannot."
III,II,HAMLET,"I do beseech you."
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"I know no touch of it, my lord."
III,II,HAMLET,"'Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with"
III,II,HAMLET,"your lingers and thumb, give it breath with your"
III,II,HAMLET,"mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music."
III,II,HAMLET,"Look you, these are the stops."
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"But these cannot I command to any utterance of"
III,II,GUILDENSTERN,"harmony; I have not the skill."
III,II,HAMLET,"Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of"
III,II,HAMLET,"me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know"
III,II,HAMLET,"my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my"
III,II,HAMLET,"mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to"
III,II,HAMLET,"the top of my compass: and there is much music,"
III,II,HAMLET,"excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot"
III,II,HAMLET,"you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am"
III,II,HAMLET,"easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what"
III,II,HAMLET,"instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you"
III,II,HAMLET,"cannot play upon me."
III,II,HAMLET,"God bless you, sir!"
III,II,LORD POLONIUS,"My lord, the queen would speak with you, and"
III,II,LORD POLONIUS,"presently."
III,II,HAMLET,"Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?"
III,II,LORD POLONIUS,"By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed."
III,II,HAMLET,"Methinks it is like a weasel."
III,II,LORD POLONIUS,"It is backed like a weasel."
III,II,HAMLET,"Or like a whale?"
III,II,LORD POLONIUS,"Very like a whale."
III,II,HAMLET,"Then I will come to my mother by and by. They fool"
III,II,HAMLET,"me to the top of my bent. I will come by and by."
III,II,LORD POLONIUS,"I will say so."
III,II,HAMLET,"By and by is easily said."
III,II,HAMLET,"Leave me, friends."
III,II,HAMLET,"Tis now the very witching time of night,"
III,II,HAMLET,"When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out"
III,II,HAMLET,"Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,"
III,II,HAMLET,"And do such bitter business as the day"
III,II,HAMLET,"Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother."
III,II,HAMLET,"O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever"
III,II,HAMLET,"The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom:"
III,II,HAMLET,"Let me be cruel, not unnatural:"
III,II,HAMLET,"I will speak daggers to her, but use none;"
III,II,HAMLET,"My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites;"
III,II,HAMLET,"How in my words soever she be shent,"
III,II,HAMLET,"To give them seals never, my soul, consent!"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"I like him not, nor stands it safe with us"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"I your commission will forthwith dispatch,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"And he to England shall along with you:"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"The terms of our estate may not endure"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Out of his lunacies."
III,III,GUILDENSTERN,"We will ourselves provide:"
III,III,GUILDENSTERN,"Most holy and religious fear it is"
III,III,GUILDENSTERN,"To keep those many many bodies safe"
III,III,GUILDENSTERN,"That live and feed upon your majesty."
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"The single and peculiar life is bound,"
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"With all the strength and armour of the mind,"
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"To keep itself from noyance; but much more"
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest"
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"The lives of many. The cease of majesty"
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"Dies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw"
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel,"
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount,"
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things"
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"Are mortised and adjoin'd; which, when it falls,"
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"Each small annexment, petty consequence,"
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone"
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"Did the king sigh, but with a general groan."
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage;"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"For we will fetters put upon this fear,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Which now goes too free-footed."
III,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"We will haste us."
III,III,LORD POLONIUS,"My lord, he's going to his mother's closet:"
III,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Behind the arras I'll convey myself,"
III,III,LORD POLONIUS,"To hear the process; and warrant she'll tax him home:"
III,III,LORD POLONIUS,"And, as you said, and wisely was it said,"
III,III,LORD POLONIUS,"'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother,"
III,III,LORD POLONIUS,"Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear"
III,III,LORD POLONIUS,"The speech, of vantage. Fare you well, my liege:"
III,III,LORD POLONIUS,"I'll call upon you ere you go to bed,"
III,III,LORD POLONIUS,"And tell you what I know."
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Thanks, dear my lord."
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven;"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"A brother's murder. Pray can I not,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Though inclination be as sharp as will:"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent;"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"And, like a man to double business bound,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"I stand in pause where I shall first begin,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"And both neglect. What if this cursed hand"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Were thicker than itself with brother's blood,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"But to confront the visage of offence?"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"And what's in prayer but this two-fold force,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"To be forestalled ere we come to fall,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up;"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'?"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"That cannot be; since I am still possess'd"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Of those effects for which I did the murder,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"My crown, mine own ambition and my queen."
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"May one be pardon'd and retain the offence?"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"In the corrupted currents of this world"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above;"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"There is no shuffling, there the action lies"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"To give in evidence. What then? what rests?"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Try what repentance can: what can it not?"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Yet what can it when one can not repent?"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"O wretched state! O bosom black as death!"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay!"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel,"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe!"
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"All may be well."
III,III,HAMLET,"Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;"
III,III,HAMLET,"And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven;"
III,III,HAMLET,"And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd:"
III,III,HAMLET,"A villain kills my father; and for that,"
III,III,HAMLET,"I, his sole son, do this same villain send"
III,III,HAMLET,"To heaven."
III,III,HAMLET,"O, this is hire and salary, not revenge."
III,III,HAMLET,"He took my father grossly, full of bread;"
III,III,HAMLET,"With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;"
III,III,HAMLET,"And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?"
III,III,HAMLET,"But in our circumstance and course of thought,"
III,III,HAMLET,"'Tis heavy with him: and am I then revenged,"
III,III,HAMLET,"To take him in the purging of his soul,"
III,III,HAMLET,"When he is fit and season'd for his passage?"
III,III,HAMLET,"No!"
III,III,HAMLET,"Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent:"
III,III,HAMLET,"When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,"
III,III,HAMLET,"Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed;"
III,III,HAMLET,"At gaming, swearing, or about some act"
III,III,HAMLET,"That has no relish of salvation in't;"
III,III,HAMLET,"Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,"
III,III,HAMLET,"And that his soul may be as damn'd and black"
III,III,HAMLET,"As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays:"
III,III,HAMLET,"This physic but prolongs thy sickly days."
III,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
III,IV,LORD POLONIUS,"He will come straight. Look you lay home to him:"
III,IV,LORD POLONIUS,"Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,"
III,IV,LORD POLONIUS,"And that your grace hath screen'd and stood between"
III,IV,LORD POLONIUS,"Much heat and him. I'll sconce me even here."
III,IV,LORD POLONIUS,"Pray you, be round with him."
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"I'll warrant you,"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Fear me not: withdraw, I hear him coming."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Now, mother, what's the matter?"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Mother, you have my father much offended."
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue."
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Why, how now, Hamlet!"
III,IV,HAMLET,"What's the matter now?"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Have you forgot me?"
III,IV,HAMLET,"No, by the rood, not so:"
III,IV,HAMLET,"You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And--would it were not so!--you are my mother."
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"You go not till I set you up a glass"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Where you may see the inmost part of you."
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Help, help, ho!"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"O me, what hast thou done?"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Nay, I know not:"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Is it the king?"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!"
III,IV,HAMLET,"A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"As kill a king, and marry with his brother."
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"As kill a king!"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Ay, lady, 'twas my word."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!"
III,IV,HAMLET,"I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And let me wring your heart; for so I shall,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"If it be made of penetrable stuff,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"If damned custom have not brass'd it so"
III,IV,HAMLET,"That it is proof and bulwark against sense."
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"In noise so rude against me?"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Such an act"
III,IV,HAMLET,"That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose"
III,IV,HAMLET,"From the fair forehead of an innocent love"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows"
III,IV,HAMLET,"As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed"
III,IV,HAMLET,"As from the body of contraction plucks"
III,IV,HAMLET,"The very soul, and sweet religion makes"
III,IV,HAMLET,"A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow:"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Yea, this solidity and compound mass,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"With tristful visage, as against the doom,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Is thought-sick at the act."
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Ay me, what act,"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Look here, upon this picture, and on this,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"The counterfeit presentment of two brothers."
III,IV,HAMLET,"See, what a grace was seated on this brow;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"A station like the herald Mercury"
III,IV,HAMLET,"New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"A combination and a form indeed,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Where every god did seem to set his seal,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"To give the world assurance of a man:"
III,IV,HAMLET,"This was your husband. Look you now, what follows:"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?"
III,IV,HAMLET,"You cannot call it love; for at your age"
III,IV,HAMLET,"The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Else could you not have motion; but sure, that sense"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd"
III,IV,HAMLET,"But it reserved some quantity of choice,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"To serve in such a difference. What devil was't"
III,IV,HAMLET,"That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Or but a sickly part of one true sense"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Could not so mope."
III,IV,HAMLET,"O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame"
III,IV,HAMLET,"When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Since frost itself as actively doth burn"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And reason panders will."
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"O Hamlet, speak no more:"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul;"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"And there I see such black and grained spots"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"As will not leave their tinct."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Nay, but to live"
III,IV,HAMLET,"In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Over the nasty sty,--"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"O, speak to me no more;"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"These words, like daggers, enter in mine ears;"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"No more, sweet Hamlet!"
III,IV,HAMLET,"A murderer and a villain;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"That from a shelf the precious diadem stole,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And put it in his pocket!"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"No more!"
III,IV,HAMLET,"A king of shreds and patches,--"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"You heavenly guards! What would your gracious figure?"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Alas, he's mad!"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Do you not come your tardy son to chide,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by"
III,IV,HAMLET,"The important acting of your dread command? O, say!"
III,IV,Ghost,"Do not forget: this visitation"
III,IV,Ghost,"Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose."
III,IV,Ghost,"But, look, amazement on thy mother sits:"
III,IV,Ghost,"O, step between her and her fighting soul:"
III,IV,Ghost,"Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works:"
III,IV,Ghost,"Speak to her, Hamlet."
III,IV,HAMLET,"How is it with you, lady?"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Alas, how is't with you,"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"That you do bend your eye on vacancy"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep;"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm,"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Your bedded hair, like life in excrements,"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Starts up, and stands on end. O gentle son,"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look?"
III,IV,HAMLET,"On him, on him! Look you, how pale he glares!"
III,IV,HAMLET,"His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Would make them capable. Do not look upon me;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Lest with this piteous action you convert"
III,IV,HAMLET,"My stern effects: then what I have to do"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood."
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"To whom do you speak this?"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Do you see nothing there?"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Nothing at all; yet all that is I see."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Nor did you nothing hear?"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"No, nothing but ourselves."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Why, look you there! look, how it steals away!"
III,IV,HAMLET,"My father, in his habit as he lived!"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal!"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"This the very coinage of your brain:"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"This bodiless creation ecstasy"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Is very cunning in."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Ecstasy!"
III,IV,HAMLET,"My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And makes as healthful music: it is not madness"
III,IV,HAMLET,"That I have utter'd: bring me to the test,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And I the matter will re-word; which madness"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Lay not that mattering unction to your soul,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"That not your trespass, but my madness speaks:"
III,IV,HAMLET,"It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Repent what's past; avoid what is to come;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And do not spread the compost on the weeds,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"For in the fatness of these pursy times"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good."
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain."
III,IV,HAMLET,"O, throw away the worser part of it,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And live the purer with the other half."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Good night: but go not to mine uncle's bed;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Assume a virtue, if you have it not."
III,IV,HAMLET,"That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"That to the use of actions fair and good"
III,IV,HAMLET,"He likewise gives a frock or livery,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And that shall lend a kind of easiness"
III,IV,HAMLET,"To the next abstinence: the next more easy;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"For use almost can change the stamp of nature,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And either ... the devil, or throw him out"
III,IV,HAMLET,"With wondrous potency. Once more, good night:"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And when you are desirous to be bless'd,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"I'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"To punish me with this and this with me,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"That I must be their scourge and minister."
III,IV,HAMLET,"I will bestow him, and will answer well"
III,IV,HAMLET,"The death I gave him. So, again, good night."
III,IV,HAMLET,"I must be cruel, only to be kind:"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Thus bad begins and worse remains behind."
III,IV,HAMLET,"One word more, good lady."
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"What shall I do?"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Not this, by no means, that I bid you do:"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Pinch wanton on your cheek; call you his mouse;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Make you to ravel all this matter out,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"That I essentially am not in madness,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"But mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"For who, that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Such dear concernings hide? who would do so?"
III,IV,HAMLET,"No, in despite of sense and secrecy,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Unpeg the basket on the house's top."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Let the birds fly, and, like the famous ape,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"To try conclusions, in the basket creep,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And break your own neck down."
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Be thou assured, if words be made of breath,"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"And breath of life, I have no life to breathe"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"What thou hast said to me."
III,IV,HAMLET,"I must to England; you know that?"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Alack,"
III,IV,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"I had forgot: 'tis so concluded on."
III,IV,HAMLET,"There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;"
III,IV,HAMLET,"For 'tis the sport to have the engineer"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Hoist with his own petard: and 't shall go hard"
III,IV,HAMLET,"But I will delve one yard below their mines,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"When in one line two crafts directly meet."
III,IV,HAMLET,"This man shall set me packing:"
III,IV,HAMLET,"I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Mother, good night. Indeed this counsellor"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Is now most still, most secret and most grave,"
III,IV,HAMLET,"Who was in life a foolish prating knave."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you."
III,IV,HAMLET,"Good night, mother."
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves:"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them."
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Where is your son?"
IV,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Bestow this place on us a little while."
IV,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night!"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?"
IV,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend"
IV,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit,"
IV,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Behind the arras hearing something stir,"
IV,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Whips out his rapier, cries, 'A rat, a rat!'"
IV,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"And, in this brainish apprehension, kills"
IV,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"The unseen good old man."
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"O heavy deed!"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"It had been so with us, had we been there:"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"His liberty is full of threats to all;"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"To you yourself, to us, to every one."
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd?"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"It will be laid to us, whose providence"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Should have kept short, restrain'd and out of haunt,"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"This mad young man: but so much was our love,"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"We would not understand what was most fit;"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"But, like the owner of a foul disease,"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"To keep it from divulging, let it feed"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Even on the pith of Life. Where is he gone?"
IV,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"To draw apart the body he hath kill'd:"
IV,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"O'er whom his very madness, like some ore"
IV,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Among a mineral of metals base,"
IV,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Shows itself pure; he weeps for what is done."
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"O Gertrude, come away!"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch,"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"We must, with all our majesty and skill,"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern!"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Friends both, go join you with some further aid:"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him:"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this."
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends;"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"And let them know, both what we mean to do,"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"And what's untimely done..."
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter,"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"As level as the cannon to his blank,"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Transports his poison'd shot, may miss our name,"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"And hit the woundless air. O, come away!"
IV,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"My soul is full of discord and dismay."
IV,II,HAMLET,"Safely stowed."
IV,II,HAMLET,"What noise? who calls on Hamlet?"
IV,II,HAMLET,"O, here they come."
IV,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?"
IV,II,HAMLET,"Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin."
IV,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence"
IV,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"And bear it to the chapel."
IV,II,HAMLET,"Do not believe it."
IV,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Believe what?"
IV,II,HAMLET,"That I can keep your counsel and not mine own."
IV,II,HAMLET,"Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what"
IV,II,HAMLET,"replication should be made by the son of a king?"
IV,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"Take you me for a sponge, my lord?"
IV,II,HAMLET,"Ay, sir, that soaks up the king's countenance, his"
IV,II,HAMLET,"rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the"
IV,II,HAMLET,"king best service in the end: he keeps them, like"
IV,II,HAMLET,"an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to"
IV,II,HAMLET,"be last swallowed: when he needs what you have"
IV,II,HAMLET,"gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you"
IV,II,HAMLET,"shall be dry again."
IV,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"I understand you not, my lord."
IV,II,HAMLET,"I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a"
IV,II,HAMLET,"foolish ear."
IV,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go"
IV,II,ROSENCRANTZ,"with us to the king."
IV,II,HAMLET,"The body is with the king, but the king is not with"
IV,II,HAMLET,"the body. The king is a thing--"
IV,II,GUILDENSTERN,"A thing, my lord!"
IV,II,HAMLET,"Of nothing: bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"I have sent to seek him, and to find the body."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Yet must not we put the strong law on him:"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"He's loved of the distracted multitude,"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes;"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"And where tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd,"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even,"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"This sudden sending him away must seem"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"By desperate appliance are relieved,"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Or not at all."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"How now! what hath befall'n?"
IV,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord,"
IV,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"We cannot get from him."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"But where is he?"
IV,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Bring him before us."
IV,III,ROSENCRANTZ,"Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?"
IV,III,HAMLET,"At supper."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"At supper! where?"
IV,III,HAMLET,"Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain"
IV,III,HAMLET,"convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your"
IV,III,HAMLET,"worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all"
IV,III,HAMLET,"creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for"
IV,III,HAMLET,"maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but"
IV,III,HAMLET,"variable service, two dishes, but to one table:"
IV,III,HAMLET,"that's the end."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Alas, alas!"
IV,III,HAMLET,"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a"
IV,III,HAMLET,"king, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"What dost you mean by this?"
IV,III,HAMLET,"Nothing but to show you how a king may go a"
IV,III,HAMLET,"progress through the guts of a beggar."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Where is Polonius?"
IV,III,HAMLET,"In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger"
IV,III,HAMLET,"find him not there, seek him i' the other place"
IV,III,HAMLET,"yourself. But indeed, if you find him not within"
IV,III,HAMLET,"this month, you shall nose him as you go up the"
IV,III,HAMLET,"stairs into the lobby."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Go seek him there."
IV,III,HAMLET,"He will stay till ye come."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,--"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"For that which thou hast done,--must send thee hence"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself;"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"The bark is ready, and the wind at help,"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"The associates tend, and every thing is bent"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"For England."
IV,III,HAMLET,"For England!"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Ay, Hamlet."
IV,III,HAMLET,"Good."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes."
IV,III,HAMLET,"I see a cherub that sees them. But, come; for"
IV,III,HAMLET,"England! Farewell, dear mother."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Thy loving father, Hamlet."
IV,III,HAMLET,"My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man"
IV,III,HAMLET,"and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England!"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard;"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Delay it not; I'll have him hence to-night:"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Away! for every thing is seal'd and done"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"That else leans on the affair: pray you, make haste."
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught--"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"As my great power thereof may give thee sense,"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"After the Danish sword, and thy free awe"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Pays homage to us--thou mayst not coldly set"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Our sovereign process; which imports at full,"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"By letters congruing to that effect,"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England;"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"For like the hectic in my blood he rages,"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"And thou must cure me: till I know 'tis done,"
IV,III,KING CLAUDIUS,"Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun."
IV,IV,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king;"
IV,IV,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Tell him that, by his licence, Fortinbras"
IV,IV,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Craves the conveyance of a promised march"
IV,IV,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous."
IV,IV,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"If that his majesty would aught with us,"
IV,IV,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"We shall express our duty in his eye;"
IV,IV,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"And let him know so."
IV,IV,Captain,"I will do't, my lord."
IV,IV,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Go softly on."
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Good sir, whose powers are these?"
IV,IV,Captain,"They are of Norway, sir."
IV,IV,HAMLET,"How purposed, sir, I pray you?"
IV,IV,Captain,"Against some part of Poland."
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Who commands them, sir?"
IV,IV,Captain,"The nephews to old Norway, Fortinbras."
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Or for some frontier?"
IV,IV,Captain,"Truly to speak, and with no addition,"
IV,IV,Captain,"We go to gain a little patch of ground"
IV,IV,Captain,"That hath in it no profit but the name."
IV,IV,Captain,"To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;"
IV,IV,Captain,"Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole"
IV,IV,Captain,"A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee."
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Why, then the Polack never will defend it."
IV,IV,Captain,"Yes, it is already garrison'd."
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Will not debate the question of this straw:"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"That inward breaks, and shows no cause without"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir."
IV,IV,Captain,"God be wi' you, sir."
IV,IV,ROSENCRANTZ,"Wilt please you go, my lord?"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"I'll be with you straight go a little before."
IV,IV,HAMLET,"How all occasions do inform against me,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"If his chief good and market of his time"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more."
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Looking before and after, gave us not"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"That capability and god-like reason"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Of thinking too precisely on the event,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"And ever three parts coward, I do not know"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;'"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Sith I have cause and will and strength and means"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me:"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Witness this army of such mass and charge"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Led by a delicate and tender prince,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Makes mouths at the invisible event,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Exposing what is mortal and unsure"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"To all that fortune, death and danger dare,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Is not to stir without great argument,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"But greatly to find quarrel in a straw"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"When honour's at the stake. How stand I then,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Excitements of my reason and my blood,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"The imminent death of twenty thousand men,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"Which is not tomb enough and continent"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,"
IV,IV,HAMLET,"My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!"
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"I will not speak with her."
IV,V,Gentleman,"She is importunate, indeed distract:"
IV,V,Gentleman,"Her mood will needs be pitied."
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"What would she have?"
IV,V,Gentleman,"She speaks much of her father; says she hears"
IV,V,Gentleman,"There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart;"
IV,V,Gentleman,"Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,"
IV,V,Gentleman,"That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing,"
IV,V,Gentleman,"Yet the unshaped use of it doth move"
IV,V,Gentleman,"The hearers to collection; they aim at it,"
IV,V,Gentleman,"And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts;"
IV,V,Gentleman,"Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures"
IV,V,Gentleman,"yield them,"
IV,V,Gentleman,"Indeed would make one think there might be thought,"
IV,V,Gentleman,"Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily."
IV,V,HORATIO,"'Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew"
IV,V,HORATIO,"Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds."
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Let her come in."
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is,"
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss:"
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"So full of artless jealousy is guilt,"
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark?"
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"How now, Ophelia!"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"How should I your true love know"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"From another one?"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"By his cockle hat and staff,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"And his sandal shoon."
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Say you? nay, pray you, mark."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"He is dead and gone, lady,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"He is dead and gone;"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"At his head a grass-green turf,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"At his heels a stone."
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Nay, but, Ophelia,--"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Pray you, mark."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"White his shroud as the mountain snow,--"
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Alas, look here, my lord."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Larded with sweet flowers"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Which bewept to the grave did go"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"With true-love showers."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"How do you, pretty lady?"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Well, God 'ild you! They say the owl was a baker's"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"what we may be. God be at your table!"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Conceit upon her father."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Pray you, let's have no words of this; but when they"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"ask you what it means, say you this:"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"All in the morning betime,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"And I a maid at your window,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"To be your Valentine."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"And dupp'd the chamber-door;"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Let in the maid, that out a maid"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Never departed more."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Pretty Ophelia!"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't:"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"By Gis and by Saint Charity,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Alack, and fie for shame!"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Young men will do't, if they come to't;"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"By cock, they are to blame."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Quoth she, before you tumbled me,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"You promised me to wed."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"So would I ha' done, by yonder sun,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"An thou hadst not come to my bed."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"How long hath she been thus?"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"i' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it:"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies;"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"good night, good night."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Follow her close; give her good watch,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"I pray you."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"All from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"When sorrows come, they come not single spies"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"But in battalions. First, her father slain:"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Next, your son gone; and he most violent author"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Of his own just remove: the people muddied,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Divided from herself and her fair judgment,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts:"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Last, and as much containing as all these,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Her brother is in secret come from France;"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"And wants not buzzers to infect his ear"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"With pestilent speeches of his father's death;"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Will nothing stick our person to arraign"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Like to a murdering-piece, in many places"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Gives me superfluous death."
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Alack, what noise is this?"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"What is the matter?"
IV,V,Gentleman,"Save yourself, my lord:"
IV,V,Gentleman,"The ocean, overpeering of his list,"
IV,V,Gentleman,"Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste"
IV,V,Gentleman,"Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,"
IV,V,Gentleman,"O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord;"
IV,V,Gentleman,"And, as the world were now but to begin,"
IV,V,Gentleman,"Antiquity forgot, custom not known,"
IV,V,Gentleman,"The ratifiers and props of every word,"
IV,V,Gentleman,"They cry 'Choose we: Laertes shall be king:'"
IV,V,Gentleman,"Caps, hands, and tongues, applaud it to the clouds:"
IV,V,Gentleman,"'Laertes shall be king, Laertes king!'"
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!"
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"The doors are broke."
IV,V,LAERTES,"Where is this king? Sirs, stand you all without."
IV,V,Danes,"No, let's come in."
IV,V,LAERTES,"I pray you, give me leave."
IV,V,Danes,"We will, we will."
IV,V,LAERTES,"I thank you: keep the door. O thou vile king,"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Give me my father!"
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Calmly, good Laertes."
IV,V,LAERTES,"That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard,"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Of my true mother."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"What is the cause, Laertes,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person:"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"There's such divinity doth hedge a king,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"That treason can but peep to what it would,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Acts little of his will. Tell me, Laertes,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Why thou art thus incensed. Let him go, Gertrude."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Speak, man."
IV,V,LAERTES,"Where is my father?"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Dead."
IV,V,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"But not by him."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Let him demand his fill."
IV,V,LAERTES,"How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with:"
IV,V,LAERTES,"To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!"
IV,V,LAERTES,"I dare damnation. To this point I stand,"
IV,V,LAERTES,"That both the worlds I give to negligence,"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Most thoroughly for my father."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Who shall stay you?"
IV,V,LAERTES,"My will, not all the world:"
IV,V,LAERTES,"And for my means, I'll husband them so well,"
IV,V,LAERTES,"They shall go far with little."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Good Laertes,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"If you desire to know the certainty"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Of your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"That, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Winner and loser?"
IV,V,LAERTES,"None but his enemies."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Will you know them then?"
IV,V,LAERTES,"To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms;"
IV,V,LAERTES,"And like the kind life-rendering pelican,"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Repast them with my blood."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Why, now you speak"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Like a good child and a true gentleman."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"That I am guiltless of your father's death,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"And am most sensible in grief for it,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"It shall as level to your judgment pierce"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"As day does to your eye."
IV,V,LAERTES,"How now! what noise is that?"
IV,V,LAERTES,"O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt,"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!"
IV,V,LAERTES,"By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight,"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!"
IV,V,LAERTES,"O heavens! is't possible, a young maid's wits"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Should be as moral as an old man's life?"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine,"
IV,V,LAERTES,"It sends some precious instance of itself"
IV,V,LAERTES,"After the thing it loves."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"They bore him barefaced on the bier;"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny;"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"And in his grave rain'd many a tear:--"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Fare you well, my dove!"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge,"
IV,V,LAERTES,"It could not move thus."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"You must sing a-down a-down,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"An you call him a-down-a."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the false"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"steward, that stole his master's daughter."
IV,V,LAERTES,"This nothing's more than matter."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"love, remember: and there is pansies. that's for thoughts."
IV,V,LAERTES,"A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"There's fennel for you, and columbines: there's rue"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"for you; and here's some for me: we may call it"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"a difference. There's a daisy: I would give you"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"some violets, but they withered all when my father"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"died: they say he made a good end,--"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy."
IV,V,LAERTES,"Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself,"
IV,V,LAERTES,"She turns to favour and to prettiness."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"And will he not come again?"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"And will he not come again?"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"No, no, he is dead:"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"Go to thy death-bed:"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"He never will come again."
IV,V,OPHELIA,"His beard was as white as snow,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"All flaxen was his poll:"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"He is gone, he is gone,"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"And we cast away moan:"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"God ha' mercy on his soul!"
IV,V,OPHELIA,"And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God be wi' ye."
IV,V,LAERTES,"Do you see this, O God?"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Laertes, I must commune with your grief,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Or you deny me right. Go but apart,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me:"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"If by direct or by collateral hand"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Our crown, our life, and all that we can ours,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"To you in satisfaction; but if not,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"Be you content to lend your patience to us,"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"And we shall jointly labour with your soul"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"To give it due content."
IV,V,LAERTES,"Let this be so;"
IV,V,LAERTES,"His means of death, his obscure funeral--"
IV,V,LAERTES,"No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones,"
IV,V,LAERTES,"No noble rite nor formal ostentation--"
IV,V,LAERTES,"Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth,"
IV,V,LAERTES,"That I must call't in question."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"So you shall;"
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"And where the offence is let the great axe fall."
IV,V,KING CLAUDIUS,"I pray you, go with me."
IV,VI,HORATIO,"What are they that would speak with me?"
IV,VI,Servant,"Sailors, sir: they say they have letters for you."
IV,VI,HORATIO,"Let them come in."
IV,VI,HORATIO,"I do not know from what part of the world"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet."
IV,VI,First Sailor,"God bless you, sir."
IV,VI,HORATIO,"Let him bless thee too."
IV,VI,First Sailor,"He shall, sir, an't please him. There's a letter for"
IV,VI,First Sailor,"you, sir; it comes from the ambassador that was"
IV,VI,First Sailor,"bound for England; if your name be Horatio, as I am"
IV,VI,First Sailor,"let to know it is."
IV,VI,HORATIO,"this, give these fellows some means to the king:"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"them: on the instant they got clear of our ship; so"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"me like thieves of mercy: but they knew what they"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"did; I am to do a good turn for them. Let the king"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"have the letters I have sent; and repair thou to me"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"with as much speed as thou wouldst fly death. I"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"have words to speak in thine ear will make thee"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"the matter. These good fellows will bring thee"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"course for England: of them I have much to tell"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"thee. Farewell."
IV,VI,HORATIO,"'He that thou knowest thine, HAMLET.'"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"Come, I will make you way for these your letters;"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"And do't the speedier, that you may direct me"
IV,VI,HORATIO,"To him from whom you brought them."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Now must your conscience my acquaintance seal,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And you must put me in your heart for friend,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"That he which hath your noble father slain"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Pursued my life."
IV,VII,LAERTES,"It well appears: but tell me"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Why you proceeded not against these feats,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"So crimeful and so capital in nature,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"You mainly were stirr'd up."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"O, for two special reasons;"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"But yet to me they are strong. The queen his mother"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Lives almost by his looks; and for myself--"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"My virtue or my plague, be it either which--"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"She's so conjunctive to my life and soul,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"I could not but by her. The other motive,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Why to a public count I might not go,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Is the great love the general gender bear him;"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Would have reverted to my bow again,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And not where I had aim'd them."
IV,VII,LAERTES,"And so have I a noble father lost;"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"A sister driven into desperate terms,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Whose worth, if praises may go back again,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Stood challenger on mount of all the age"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"For her perfections: but my revenge will come."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Break not your sleeps for that: you must not think"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"That we are made of stuff so flat and dull"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"That we can let our beard be shook with danger"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more:"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"I loved your father, and we love ourself;"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine--"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"How now! what news?"
IV,VII,Messenger,"Letters, my lord, from Hamlet:"
IV,VII,Messenger,"This to your majesty; this to the queen."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"From Hamlet! who brought them?"
IV,VII,Messenger,"Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not:"
IV,VII,Messenger,"They were given me by Claudio; he received them"
IV,VII,Messenger,"Of him that brought them."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Laertes, you shall hear them. Leave us."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"'High and mighty, You shall know I am set naked on"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"your kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave to see"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"your kingly eyes: when I shall, first asking your"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"pardon thereunto, recount the occasion of my sudden"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"and more strange return.                  'HAMLET.'"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Know you the hand?"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"'Tis Hamlets character. 'Naked!"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And in a postscript here, he says 'alone.'"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Can you advise me?"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"I'm lost in it, my lord. But let him come;"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"It warms the very sickness in my heart,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"'Thus didest thou.'"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"If it be so, Laertes--"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"As how should it be so? how otherwise?--"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Will you be ruled by me?"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Ay, my lord;"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"So you will not o'errule me to a peace."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"To thine own peace. If he be now return'd,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"As checking at his voyage, and that he means"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"No more to undertake it, I will work him"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"To an exploit, now ripe in my device,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Under the which he shall not choose but fall:"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"But even his mother shall uncharge the practise"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And call it accident."
IV,VII,LAERTES,"My lord, I will be ruled;"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"The rather, if you could devise it so"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"That I might be the organ."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"It falls right."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"You have been talk'd of since your travel much,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Wherein, they say, you shine: your sum of parts"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Did not together pluck such envy from him"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"As did that one, and that, in my regard,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Of the unworthiest siege."
IV,VII,LAERTES,"What part is that, my lord?"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"A very riband in the cap of youth,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"The light and careless livery that it wears"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Than settled age his sables and his weeds,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Importing health and graveness. Two months since,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Here was a gentleman of Normandy:--"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"I've seen myself, and served against, the French,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And they can well on horseback: but this gallant"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Had witchcraft in't; he grew unto his seat;"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And to such wondrous doing brought his horse,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"As he had been incorpsed and demi-natured"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"With the brave beast: so far he topp'd my thought,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Come short of what he did."
IV,VII,LAERTES,"A Norman was't?"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"A Norman."
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Upon my life, Lamond."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"The very same."
IV,VII,LAERTES,"I know him well: he is the brooch indeed"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"And gem of all the nation."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"He made confession of you,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And gave you such a masterly report"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"For art and exercise in your defence"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And for your rapier most especially,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"That he cried out, 'twould be a sight indeed,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"If one could match you: the scrimers of their nation,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"He swore, had had neither motion, guard, nor eye,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"If you opposed them. Sir, this report of his"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"That he could nothing do but wish and beg"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Your sudden coming o'er, to play with him."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Now, out of this,--"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"What out of this, my lord?"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Laertes, was your father dear to you?"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"A face without a heart?"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Why ask you this?"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Not that I think you did not love your father;"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"But that I know love is begun by time;"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And that I see, in passages of proof,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Time qualifies the spark and fire of it."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"There lives within the very flame of love"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And nothing is at a like goodness still;"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"For goodness, growing to a plurisy,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Dies in his own too much: that we would do"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And hath abatements and delays as many"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"That hurts by easing. But, to the quick o' the ulcer:--"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"To show yourself your father's son in deed"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"More than in words?"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"To cut his throat i' the church."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize;"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Will you do this, keep close within your chamber."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home:"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"We'll put on those shall praise your excellence"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And set a double varnish on the fame"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"The Frenchman gave you, bring you in fine together"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And wager on your heads: he, being remiss,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Most generous and free from all contriving,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Will not peruse the foils; so that, with ease,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Or with a little shuffling, you may choose"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"A sword unbated, and in a pass of practise"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Requite him for your father."
IV,VII,LAERTES,"I will do't:"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"And, for that purpose, I'll anoint my sword."
IV,VII,LAERTES,"I bought an unction of a mountebank,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Collected from all simples that have virtue"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Under the moon, can save the thing from death"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"That is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"It may be death."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Let's further think of this;"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Weigh what convenience both of time and means"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"May fit us to our shape: if this should fail,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And that our drift look through our bad performance,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"'Twere better not assay'd: therefore this project"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Should have a back or second, that might hold,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"If this should blast in proof. Soft! let me see:"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings: I ha't."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"When in your motion you are hot and dry--"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"As make your bouts more violent to that end--"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Our purpose may hold there."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"How now, sweet queen!"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"One woe doth tread upon another's heel,"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"So fast they follow; your sister's drown'd, Laertes."
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Drown'd! O, where?"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"There is a willow grows aslant a brook,"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"There with fantastic garlands did she come"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"When down her weedy trophies and herself"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"As one incapable of her own distress,"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Or like a creature native and indued"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Unto that element: but long it could not be"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"To muddy death."
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Alas, then, she is drown'd?"
IV,VII,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Drown'd, drown'd."
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"It is our trick; nature her custom holds,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"Let shame say what it will: when these are gone,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord:"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze,"
IV,VII,LAERTES,"But that this folly douts it."
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Let's follow, Gertrude:"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"How much I had to do to calm his rage!"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Now fear I this will give it start again;"
IV,VII,KING CLAUDIUS,"Therefore let's follow."
V,I,First Clown,"Is she to be buried in Christian burial that"
V,I,First Clown,"wilfully seeks her own salvation?"
V,I,Second Clown,"I tell thee she is: and therefore make her grave"
V,I,Second Clown,"straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it"
V,I,Second Clown,"Christian burial."
V,I,First Clown,"How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her"
V,I,First Clown,"own defence?"
V,I,Second Clown,"Why, 'tis found so."
V,I,First Clown,"It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else. For"
V,I,First Clown,"here lies the point:  if I drown myself wittingly,"
V,I,First Clown,"it argues an act: and an act hath three branches: it"
V,I,First Clown,"is, to act, to do, to perform: argal, she drowned"
V,I,First Clown,"herself wittingly."
V,I,Second Clown,"Nay, but hear you, goodman delver,--"
V,I,First Clown,"Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here"
V,I,First Clown,"stands the man; good; if the man go to this water,"
V,I,First Clown,"and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he"
V,I,First Clown,"goes,--mark you that; but if the water come to him"
V,I,First Clown,"and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he"
V,I,First Clown,"that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life."
V,I,Second Clown,"But is this law?"
V,I,First Clown,"Ay, marry, is't; crowner's quest law."
V,I,Second Clown,"Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had not been"
V,I,Second Clown,"a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o'"
V,I,Second Clown,"Christian burial."
V,I,First Clown,"Why, there thou say'st: and the more pity that"
V,I,First Clown,"great folk should have countenance in this world to"
V,I,First Clown,"drown or hang themselves, more than their even"
V,I,First Clown,"Christian. Come, my spade. There is no ancient"
V,I,First Clown,"gentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers:"
V,I,First Clown,"they hold up Adam's profession."
V,I,Second Clown,"Was he a gentleman?"
V,I,First Clown,"He was the first that ever bore arms."
V,I,Second Clown,"Why, he had none."
V,I,First Clown,"What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the"
V,I,First Clown,"Scripture? The Scripture says 'Adam digged:'"
V,I,First Clown,"could he dig without arms? I'll put another"
V,I,First Clown,"question to thee: if thou answerest me not to the"
V,I,First Clown,"purpose, confess thyself--"
V,I,Second Clown,"Go to."
V,I,First Clown,"What is he that builds stronger than either the"
V,I,First Clown,"mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?"
V,I,Second Clown,"The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a"
V,I,Second Clown,"thousand tenants."
V,I,First Clown,"I like thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows"
V,I,First Clown,"does well; but how does it well? it does well to"
V,I,First Clown,"those that do in: now thou dost ill to say the"
V,I,First Clown,"gallows is built stronger than the church: argal,"
V,I,First Clown,"the gallows may do well to thee. To't again, come."
V,I,Second Clown,"'Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or"
V,I,Second Clown,"a carpenter?'"
V,I,First Clown,"Ay, tell me that, and unyoke."
V,I,Second Clown,"Marry, now I can tell."
V,I,First Clown,"To't."
V,I,Second Clown,"Mass, I cannot tell."
V,I,First Clown,"Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull"
V,I,First Clown,"ass will not mend his pace with beating; and, when"
V,I,First Clown,"you are asked this question next, say 'a"
V,I,First Clown,"grave-maker: 'the houses that he makes last till"
V,I,First Clown,"doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan: fetch me a"
V,I,First Clown,"stoup of liquor."
V,I,First Clown,"In youth, when I did love, did love,"
V,I,First Clown,"Methought it was very sweet,"
V,I,First Clown,"To contract, O, the time, for, ah, my behove,"
V,I,First Clown,"O, methought, there was nothing meet."
V,I,HAMLET,"Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he"
V,I,HAMLET,"sings at grave-making?"
V,I,HORATIO,"Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness."
V,I,HAMLET,"'Tis e'en so: the hand of little employment hath"
V,I,HAMLET,"the daintier sense."
V,I,First Clown,"But age, with his stealing steps,"
V,I,First Clown,"Hath claw'd me in his clutch,"
V,I,First Clown,"And hath shipped me intil the land,"
V,I,First Clown,"As if I had never been such."
V,I,HAMLET,"That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once:"
V,I,HAMLET,"how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were"
V,I,HAMLET,"Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It"
V,I,HAMLET,"might be the pate of a politician, which this ass"
V,I,HAMLET,"now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God,"
V,I,HAMLET,"might it not?"
V,I,HORATIO,"It might, my lord."
V,I,HAMLET,"Or of a courtier; which could say 'Good morrow,"
V,I,HAMLET,"sweet lord! How dost thou, good lord?' This might"
V,I,HAMLET,"be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord"
V,I,HAMLET,"such-a-one's horse, when he meant to beg it; might it not?"
V,I,HORATIO,"Ay, my lord."
V,I,HAMLET,"Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and"
V,I,HAMLET,"knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade:"
V,I,HAMLET,"here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to"
V,I,HAMLET,"see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding,"
V,I,HAMLET,"but to play at loggats with 'em? mine ache to think on't."
V,I,First Clown,"A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade,"
V,I,First Clown,"For and a shrouding sheet:"
V,I,First Clown,"O, a pit of clay for to be made"
V,I,First Clown,"For such a guest is meet."
V,I,HAMLET,"There's another: why may not that be the skull of a"
V,I,HAMLET,"lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets,"
V,I,HAMLET,"his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he"
V,I,HAMLET,"suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the"
V,I,HAMLET,"sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of"
V,I,HAMLET,"his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be"
V,I,HAMLET,"in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes,"
V,I,HAMLET,"his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers,"
V,I,HAMLET,"his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and"
V,I,HAMLET,"the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine"
V,I,HAMLET,"pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him"
V,I,HAMLET,"no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than"
V,I,HAMLET,"the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The"
V,I,HAMLET,"very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in"
V,I,HAMLET,"this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha?"
V,I,HORATIO,"Not a jot more, my lord."
V,I,HAMLET,"Is not parchment made of sheepskins?"
V,I,HORATIO,"Ay, my lord, and of calf-skins too."
V,I,HAMLET,"They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance"
V,I,HAMLET,"in that. I will speak to this fellow. Whose"
V,I,HAMLET,"grave's this, sirrah?"
V,I,First Clown,"Mine, sir."
V,I,First Clown,"O, a pit of clay for to be made"
V,I,First Clown,"For such a guest is meet."
V,I,HAMLET,"I think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in't."
V,I,First Clown,"You lie out on't, sir, and therefore it is not"
V,I,First Clown,"yours: for my part, I do not lie in't, and yet it is mine."
V,I,HAMLET,"'Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine:"
V,I,HAMLET,"'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest."
V,I,First Clown,"'Tis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away gain, from me to"
V,I,First Clown,"you."
V,I,HAMLET,"What man dost thou dig it for?"
V,I,First Clown,"For no man, sir."
V,I,HAMLET,"What woman, then?"
V,I,First Clown,"For none, neither."
V,I,HAMLET,"Who is to be buried in't?"
V,I,First Clown,"One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead."
V,I,HAMLET,"How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the"
V,I,HAMLET,"card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord,"
V,I,HAMLET,"Horatio, these three years I have taken a note of"
V,I,HAMLET,"it; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the"
V,I,HAMLET,"peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he"
V,I,HAMLET,"gaffs his kibe. How long hast thou been a"
V,I,HAMLET,"grave-maker?"
V,I,First Clown,"Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day"
V,I,First Clown,"that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras."
V,I,HAMLET,"How long is that since?"
V,I,First Clown,"Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that: it"
V,I,First Clown,"was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that"
V,I,First Clown,"is mad, and sent into England."
V,I,HAMLET,"Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?"
V,I,First Clown,"Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits"
V,I,First Clown,"there; or, if he do not, it's no great matter there."
V,I,HAMLET,"Why?"
V,I,First Clown,"'Twill, a not be seen in him there; there the men"
V,I,First Clown,"are as mad as he."
V,I,HAMLET,"How came he mad?"
V,I,First Clown,"Very strangely, they say."
V,I,HAMLET,"How strangely?"
V,I,First Clown,"Faith, e'en with losing his wits."
V,I,HAMLET,"Upon what ground?"
V,I,First Clown,"Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man"
V,I,First Clown,"and boy, thirty years."
V,I,HAMLET,"How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot?"
V,I,First Clown,"I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die--as we"
V,I,First Clown,"have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce"
V,I,First Clown,"hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year"
V,I,First Clown,"or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year."
V,I,HAMLET,"Why he more than another?"
V,I,First Clown,"Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade, that"
V,I,First Clown,"he will keep out water a great while; and your water"
V,I,First Clown,"is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body."
V,I,First Clown,"Here's a skull now; this skull has lain in the earth"
V,I,First Clown,"three and twenty years."
V,I,HAMLET,"Whose was it?"
V,I,First Clown,"A whoreson mad fellow's it was: whose do you think it was?"
V,I,HAMLET,"Nay, I know not."
V,I,First Clown,"A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a' poured a"
V,I,First Clown,"flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull,"
V,I,First Clown,"sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester."
V,I,HAMLET,"This?"
V,I,First Clown,"E'en that."
V,I,HAMLET,"Let me see."
V,I,HAMLET,"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow"
V,I,HAMLET,"of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath"
V,I,HAMLET,"borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how"
V,I,HAMLET,"abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at"
V,I,HAMLET,"it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know"
V,I,HAMLET,"not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your"
V,I,HAMLET,"gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,"
V,I,HAMLET,"that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one"
V,I,HAMLET,"now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?"
V,I,HAMLET,"Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let"
V,I,HAMLET,"her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must"
V,I,HAMLET,"come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell"
V,I,HAMLET,"me one thing."
V,I,HORATIO,"What's that, my lord?"
V,I,HAMLET,"Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i'"
V,I,HAMLET,"the earth?"
V,I,HORATIO,"E'en so."
V,I,HAMLET,"And smelt so? pah!"
V,I,HORATIO,"E'en so, my lord."
V,I,HAMLET,"To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may"
V,I,HAMLET,"not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander,"
V,I,HAMLET,"till he find it stopping a bung-hole?"
V,I,HORATIO,"'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so."
V,I,HAMLET,"No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with"
V,I,HAMLET,"modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as"
V,I,HAMLET,"thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried,"
V,I,HAMLET,"Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of"
V,I,HAMLET,"earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he"
V,I,HAMLET,"was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?"
V,I,HAMLET,"Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,"
V,I,HAMLET,"Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:"
V,I,HAMLET,"O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,"
V,I,HAMLET,"Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!"
V,I,HAMLET,"But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king."
V,I,HAMLET,"The queen, the courtiers: who is this they follow?"
V,I,HAMLET,"And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken"
V,I,HAMLET,"The corse they follow did with desperate hand"
V,I,HAMLET,"Fordo its own life: 'twas of some estate."
V,I,HAMLET,"Couch we awhile, and mark."
V,I,LAERTES,"What ceremony else?"
V,I,HAMLET,"That is Laertes,"
V,I,HAMLET,"A very noble youth: mark."
V,I,LAERTES,"What ceremony else?"
V,I,First Priest,"Her obsequies have been as far enlarged"
V,I,First Priest,"As we have warrantise: her death was doubtful;"
V,I,First Priest,"And, but that great command o'ersways the order,"
V,I,First Priest,"She should in ground unsanctified have lodged"
V,I,First Priest,"Till the last trumpet: for charitable prayers,"
V,I,First Priest,"Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her;"
V,I,First Priest,"Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants,"
V,I,First Priest,"Her maiden strewments and the bringing home"
V,I,First Priest,"Of bell and burial."
V,I,LAERTES,"Must there no more be done?"
V,I,First Priest,"No more be done:"
V,I,First Priest,"We should profane the service of the dead"
V,I,First Priest,"To sing a requiem and such rest to her"
V,I,First Priest,"As to peace-parted souls."
V,I,LAERTES,"Lay her i' the earth:"
V,I,LAERTES,"And from her fair and unpolluted flesh"
V,I,LAERTES,"May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest,"
V,I,LAERTES,"A ministering angel shall my sister be,"
V,I,LAERTES,"When thou liest howling."
V,I,HAMLET,"What, the fair Ophelia!"
V,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Sweets to the sweet: farewell!"
V,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife;"
V,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid,"
V,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"And not have strew'd thy grave."
V,I,LAERTES,"O, treble woe"
V,I,LAERTES,"Fall ten times treble on that cursed head,"
V,I,LAERTES,"Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense"
V,I,LAERTES,"Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile,"
V,I,LAERTES,"Till I have caught her once more in mine arms:"
V,I,LAERTES,"Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead,"
V,I,LAERTES,"Till of this flat a mountain you have made,"
V,I,LAERTES,"To o'ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head"
V,I,LAERTES,"Of blue Olympus."
V,I,HAMLET,"Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow"
V,I,HAMLET,"Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand"
V,I,HAMLET,"Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,"
V,I,HAMLET,"Hamlet the Dane."
V,I,LAERTES,"The devil take thy soul!"
V,I,HAMLET,"Thou pray'st not well."
V,I,HAMLET,"I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat;"
V,I,HAMLET,"For, though I am not splenitive and rash,"
V,I,HAMLET,"Yet have I something in me dangerous,"
V,I,HAMLET,"Which let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand."
V,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Pluck them asunder."
V,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Hamlet, Hamlet!"
V,I,All,"Gentlemen,--"
V,I,HORATIO,"Good my lord, be quiet."
V,I,HAMLET,"Why I will fight with him upon this theme"
V,I,HAMLET,"Until my eyelids will no longer wag."
V,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"O my son, what theme?"
V,I,HAMLET,"I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers"
V,I,HAMLET,"Could not, with all their quantity of love,"
V,I,HAMLET,"Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?"
V,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"O, he is mad, Laertes."
V,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"For love of God, forbear him."
V,I,HAMLET,"'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do:"
V,I,HAMLET,"Woo't weep? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear thyself?"
V,I,HAMLET,"Woo't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?"
V,I,HAMLET,"I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine?"
V,I,HAMLET,"To outface me with leaping in her grave?"
V,I,HAMLET,"Be buried quick with her, and so will I:"
V,I,HAMLET,"And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw"
V,I,HAMLET,"Millions of acres on us, till our ground,"
V,I,HAMLET,"Singeing his pate against the burning zone,"
V,I,HAMLET,"Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth,"
V,I,HAMLET,"I'll rant as well as thou."
V,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"This is mere madness:"
V,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"And thus awhile the fit will work on him;"
V,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Anon, as patient as the female dove,"
V,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"When that her golden couplets are disclosed,"
V,I,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"His silence will sit drooping."
V,I,HAMLET,"Hear you, sir;"
V,I,HAMLET,"What is the reason that you use me thus?"
V,I,HAMLET,"I loved you ever: but it is no matter;"
V,I,HAMLET,"Let Hercules himself do what he may,"
V,I,HAMLET,"The cat will mew and dog will have his day."
V,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"I pray you, good Horatio, wait upon him."
V,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech;"
V,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"We'll put the matter to the present push."
V,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son."
V,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"This grave shall have a living monument:"
V,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;"
V,I,KING CLAUDIUS,"Till then, in patience our proceeding be."
V,II,HAMLET,"So much for this, sir: now shall you see the other;"
V,II,HAMLET,"You do remember all the circumstance?"
V,II,HORATIO,"Remember it, my lord?"
V,II,HAMLET,"Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting,"
V,II,HAMLET,"That would not let me sleep: methought I lay"
V,II,HAMLET,"Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly,"
V,II,HAMLET,"And praised be rashness for it, let us know,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,"
V,II,HAMLET,"When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us"
V,II,HAMLET,"There's a divinity that shapes our ends,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Rough-hew them how we will,--"
V,II,HORATIO,"That is most certain."
V,II,HAMLET,"Up from my cabin,"
V,II,HAMLET,"My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark"
V,II,HAMLET,"Groped I to find out them; had my desire."
V,II,HAMLET,"Finger'd their packet, and in fine withdrew"
V,II,HAMLET,"To mine own room again; making so bold,"
V,II,HAMLET,"My fears forgetting manners, to unseal"
V,II,HAMLET,"Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio,--"
V,II,HAMLET,"O royal knavery!--an exact command,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Larded with many several sorts of reasons"
V,II,HAMLET,"Importing Denmark's health and England's too,"
V,II,HAMLET,"With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life,"
V,II,HAMLET,"That, on the supervise, no leisure bated,"
V,II,HAMLET,"No, not to stay the grinding of the axe,"
V,II,HAMLET,"My head should be struck off."
V,II,HORATIO,"Is't possible?"
V,II,HAMLET,"Here's the commission: read it at more leisure."
V,II,HAMLET,"But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed?"
V,II,HORATIO,"I beseech you."
V,II,HAMLET,"Being thus be-netted round with villanies,--"
V,II,HAMLET,"Ere I could make a prologue to my brains,"
V,II,HAMLET,"They had begun the play--I sat me down,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Devised a new commission, wrote it fair:"
V,II,HAMLET,"I once did hold it, as our statists do,"
V,II,HAMLET,"A baseness to write fair and labour'd much"
V,II,HAMLET,"How to forget that learning, but, sir, now"
V,II,HAMLET,"It did me yeoman's service: wilt thou know"
V,II,HAMLET,"The effect of what I wrote?"
V,II,HORATIO,"Ay, good my lord."
V,II,HAMLET,"An earnest conjuration from the king,"
V,II,HAMLET,"As England was his faithful tributary,"
V,II,HAMLET,"As love between them like the palm might flourish,"
V,II,HAMLET,"As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear"
V,II,HAMLET,"And stand a comma 'tween their amities,"
V,II,HAMLET,"And many such-like 'As'es of great charge,"
V,II,HAMLET,"That, on the view and knowing of these contents,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Without debatement further, more or less,"
V,II,HAMLET,"He should the bearers put to sudden death,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Not shriving-time allow'd."
V,II,HORATIO,"How was this seal'd?"
V,II,HAMLET,"Why, even in that was heaven ordinant."
V,II,HAMLET,"I had my father's signet in my purse,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Which was the model of that Danish seal;"
V,II,HAMLET,"Folded the writ up in form of the other,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Subscribed it, gave't the impression, placed it safely,"
V,II,HAMLET,"The changeling never known. Now, the next day"
V,II,HAMLET,"Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent"
V,II,HAMLET,"Thou know'st already."
V,II,HORATIO,"So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't."
V,II,HAMLET,"Why, man, they did make love to this employment;"
V,II,HAMLET,"They are not near my conscience; their defeat"
V,II,HAMLET,"Does by their own insinuation grow:"
V,II,HAMLET,"'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes"
V,II,HAMLET,"Between the pass and fell incensed points"
V,II,HAMLET,"Of mighty opposites."
V,II,HORATIO,"Why, what a king is this!"
V,II,HAMLET,"Does it not, think'st thee, stand me now upon--"
V,II,HAMLET,"He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Popp'd in between the election and my hopes,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Thrown out his angle for my proper life,"
V,II,HAMLET,"And with such cozenage--is't not perfect conscience,"
V,II,HAMLET,"To quit him with this arm? and is't not to be damn'd,"
V,II,HAMLET,"To let this canker of our nature come"
V,II,HAMLET,"In further evil?"
V,II,HORATIO,"It must be shortly known to him from England"
V,II,HORATIO,"What is the issue of the business there."
V,II,HAMLET,"It will be short: the interim is mine;"
V,II,HAMLET,"And a man's life's no more than to say 'One.'"
V,II,HAMLET,"But I am very sorry, good Horatio,"
V,II,HAMLET,"That to Laertes I forgot myself;"
V,II,HAMLET,"For, by the image of my cause, I see"
V,II,HAMLET,"The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours."
V,II,HAMLET,"But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me"
V,II,HAMLET,"Into a towering passion."
V,II,HORATIO,"Peace! who comes here?"
V,II,OSRIC,"Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark."
V,II,HAMLET,"I humbly thank you, sir. Dost know this water-fly?"
V,II,HORATIO,"No, my good lord."
V,II,HAMLET,"Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a vice to"
V,II,HAMLET,"know him. He hath much land, and fertile: let a"
V,II,HAMLET,"beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at"
V,II,HAMLET,"the king's mess: 'tis a chough; but, as I say,"
V,II,HAMLET,"spacious in the possession of dirt."
V,II,OSRIC,"Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I"
V,II,OSRIC,"should impart a thing to you from his majesty."
V,II,HAMLET,"I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of"
V,II,HAMLET,"spirit. Put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head."
V,II,OSRIC,"I thank your lordship, it is very hot."
V,II,HAMLET,"No, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is"
V,II,HAMLET,"northerly."
V,II,OSRIC,"It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed."
V,II,HAMLET,"But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my"
V,II,HAMLET,"complexion."
V,II,OSRIC,"Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry,--as"
V,II,OSRIC,"'twere,--I cannot tell how. But, my lord, his"
V,II,OSRIC,"majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a"
V,II,OSRIC,"great wager on your head: sir, this is the matter,--"
V,II,HAMLET,"I beseech you, remember--"
V,II,OSRIC,"Nay, good my lord; for mine ease, in good faith."
V,II,OSRIC,"Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes; believe"
V,II,OSRIC,"me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent"
V,II,OSRIC,"differences, of very soft society and great showing:"
V,II,OSRIC,"indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or"
V,II,OSRIC,"calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the"
V,II,OSRIC,"continent of what part a gentleman would see."
V,II,HAMLET,"Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you;"
V,II,HAMLET,"though, I know, to divide him inventorially would"
V,II,HAMLET,"dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw"
V,II,HAMLET,"neither, in respect of his quick sail. But, in the"
V,II,HAMLET,"verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of"
V,II,HAMLET,"great article; and his infusion of such dearth and"
V,II,HAMLET,"rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his"
V,II,HAMLET,"semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace"
V,II,HAMLET,"him, his umbrage, nothing more."
V,II,OSRIC,"Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him."
V,II,HAMLET,"The concernancy, sir? why do we wrap the gentleman"
V,II,HAMLET,"in our more rawer breath?"
V,II,OSRIC,"Sir?"
V,II,HORATIO,"Is't not possible to understand in another tongue?"
V,II,HORATIO,"You will do't, sir, really."
V,II,HAMLET,"What imports the nomination of this gentleman?"
V,II,OSRIC,"Of Laertes?"
V,II,HORATIO,"His purse is empty already; all's golden words are spent."
V,II,HAMLET,"Of him, sir."
V,II,OSRIC,"I know you are not ignorant--"
V,II,HAMLET,"I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did,"
V,II,HAMLET,"it would not much approve me. Well, sir?"
V,II,OSRIC,"You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is--"
V,II,HAMLET,"I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with"
V,II,HAMLET,"him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to"
V,II,HAMLET,"know himself."
V,II,OSRIC,"I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation"
V,II,OSRIC,"laid on him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed."
V,II,HAMLET,"What's his weapon?"
V,II,OSRIC,"Rapier and dagger."
V,II,HAMLET,"That's two of his weapons: but, well."
V,II,OSRIC,"The king, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary"
V,II,OSRIC,"horses: against the which he has imponed, as I take"
V,II,OSRIC,"it, six French rapiers and poniards, with their"
V,II,OSRIC,"assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so: three of the"
V,II,OSRIC,"carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very"
V,II,OSRIC,"responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages,"
V,II,OSRIC,"and of very liberal conceit."
V,II,HAMLET,"What call you the carriages?"
V,II,HORATIO,"I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done."
V,II,OSRIC,"The carriages, sir, are the hangers."
V,II,HAMLET,"The phrase would be more german to the matter, if we"
V,II,HAMLET,"could carry cannon by our sides: I would it might"
V,II,HAMLET,"be hangers till then. But, on: six Barbary horses"
V,II,HAMLET,"against six French swords, their assigns, and three"
V,II,HAMLET,"liberal-conceited carriages; that's the French bet"
V,II,HAMLET,"against the Danish. Why is this 'imponed,' as you call it?"
V,II,OSRIC,"The king, sir, hath laid, that in a dozen passes"
V,II,OSRIC,"between yourself and him, he shall not exceed you"
V,II,OSRIC,"three hits: he hath laid on twelve for nine; and it"
V,II,OSRIC,"would come to immediate trial, if your lordship"
V,II,OSRIC,"would vouchsafe the answer."
V,II,HAMLET,"How if I answer 'no'?"
V,II,OSRIC,"I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial."
V,II,HAMLET,"Sir, I will walk here in the hall: if it please his"
V,II,HAMLET,"majesty, 'tis the breathing time of day with me; let"
V,II,HAMLET,"the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the"
V,II,HAMLET,"king hold his purpose, I will win for him an I can;"
V,II,HAMLET,"if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits."
V,II,OSRIC,"Shall I re-deliver you e'en so?"
V,II,HAMLET,"To this effect, sir; after what flourish your nature will."
V,II,OSRIC,"I commend my duty to your lordship."
V,II,HAMLET,"Yours, yours."
V,II,HAMLET,"He does well to commend it himself; there are no"
V,II,HAMLET,"tongues else for's turn."
V,II,HORATIO,"This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head."
V,II,HAMLET,"He did comply with his dug, before he sucked it."
V,II,HAMLET,"Thus has he--and many more of the same bevy that I"
V,II,HAMLET,"know the dressy age dotes on--only got the tune of"
V,II,HAMLET,"the time and outward habit of encounter; a kind of"
V,II,HAMLET,"yesty collection, which carries them through and"
V,II,HAMLET,"through the most fond and winnowed opinions; and do"
V,II,HAMLET,"but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out."
V,II,Lord,"My lord, his majesty commended him to you by young"
V,II,Lord,"Osric, who brings back to him that you attend him in"
V,II,Lord,"the hall: he sends to know if your pleasure hold to"
V,II,Lord,"play with Laertes, or that you will take longer time."
V,II,HAMLET,"I am constant to my purpose; they follow the king's"
V,II,HAMLET,"pleasure: if his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now"
V,II,HAMLET,"or whensoever, provided I be so able as now."
V,II,Lord,"The king and queen and all are coming down."
V,II,HAMLET,"In happy time."
V,II,Lord,"The queen desires you to use some gentle"
V,II,Lord,"entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play."
V,II,HAMLET,"She well instructs me."
V,II,HORATIO,"You will lose this wager, my lord."
V,II,HAMLET,"I do not think so: since he went into France, I"
V,II,HAMLET,"have been in continual practise: I shall win at the"
V,II,HAMLET,"odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here"
V,II,HAMLET,"about my heart: but it is no matter."
V,II,HORATIO,"Nay, good my lord,--"
V,II,HAMLET,"It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of"
V,II,HAMLET,"gain-giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman."
V,II,HORATIO,"If your mind dislike any thing, obey it: I will"
V,II,HORATIO,"forestall their repair hither, and say you are not"
V,II,HORATIO,"fit."
V,II,HAMLET,"Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special"
V,II,HAMLET,"providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,"
V,II,HAMLET,"'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be"
V,II,HAMLET,"now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the"
V,II,HAMLET,"readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he"
V,II,HAMLET,"leaves, what is't to leave betimes?"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me."
V,II,HAMLET,"Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong;"
V,II,HAMLET,"But pardon't, as you are a gentleman."
V,II,HAMLET,"This presence knows,"
V,II,HAMLET,"And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd"
V,II,HAMLET,"With sore distraction. What I have done,"
V,II,HAMLET,"That might your nature, honour and exception"
V,II,HAMLET,"Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness."
V,II,HAMLET,"Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet:"
V,II,HAMLET,"If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,"
V,II,HAMLET,"And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it."
V,II,HAMLET,"Who does it, then? His madness: if't be so,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd;"
V,II,HAMLET,"His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy."
V,II,HAMLET,"Sir, in this audience,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil"
V,II,HAMLET,"Free me so far in your most generous thoughts,"
V,II,HAMLET,"That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,"
V,II,HAMLET,"And hurt my brother."
V,II,LAERTES,"I am satisfied in nature,"
V,II,LAERTES,"Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most"
V,II,LAERTES,"To my revenge: but in my terms of honour"
V,II,LAERTES,"I stand aloof; and will no reconcilement,"
V,II,LAERTES,"Till by some elder masters, of known honour,"
V,II,LAERTES,"I have a voice and precedent of peace,"
V,II,LAERTES,"To keep my name ungored. But till that time,"
V,II,LAERTES,"I do receive your offer'd love like love,"
V,II,LAERTES,"And will not wrong it."
V,II,HAMLET,"I embrace it freely;"
V,II,HAMLET,"And will this brother's wager frankly play."
V,II,HAMLET,"Give us the foils. Come on."
V,II,LAERTES,"Come, one for me."
V,II,HAMLET,"I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance"
V,II,HAMLET,"Your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Stick fiery off indeed."
V,II,LAERTES,"You mock me, sir."
V,II,HAMLET,"No, by this hand."
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"You know the wager?"
V,II,HAMLET,"Very well, my lord"
V,II,HAMLET,"Your grace hath laid the odds o' the weaker side."
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"I do not fear it; I have seen you both:"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"But since he is better'd, we have therefore odds."
V,II,LAERTES,"This is too heavy, let me see another."
V,II,HAMLET,"This likes me well. These foils have all a length?"
V,II,OSRIC,"Ay, my good lord."
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Set me the stoops of wine upon that table."
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"If Hamlet give the first or second hit,"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Or quit in answer of the third exchange,"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Let all the battlements their ordnance fire:"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath;"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"And in the cup an union shall he throw,"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Richer than that which four successive kings"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups;"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"The trumpet to the cannoneer without,"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth,"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"'Now the king dunks to Hamlet.' Come, begin:"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"And you, the judges, bear a wary eye."
V,II,HAMLET,"Come on, sir."
V,II,LAERTES,"Come, my lord."
V,II,HAMLET,"One."
V,II,LAERTES,"No."
V,II,HAMLET,"Judgment."
V,II,OSRIC,"A hit, a very palpable hit."
V,II,LAERTES,"Well; again."
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Stay; give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine;"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Here's to thy health."
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Give him the cup."
V,II,HAMLET,"I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile. Come."
V,II,HAMLET,"Another hit; what say you?"
V,II,LAERTES,"A touch, a touch, I do confess."
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Our son shall win."
V,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"He's fat, and scant of breath."
V,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows;"
V,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet."
V,II,HAMLET,"Good madam!"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Gertrude, do not drink."
V,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"I will, my lord; I pray you, pardon me."
V,II,HAMLET,"I dare not drink yet, madam; by and by."
V,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"Come, let me wipe thy face."
V,II,LAERTES,"My lord, I'll hit him now."
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"I do not think't."
V,II,HAMLET,"Come, for the third, Laertes: you but dally;"
V,II,HAMLET,"I pray you, pass with your best violence;"
V,II,HAMLET,"I am afeard you make a wanton of me."
V,II,LAERTES,"Say you so? come on."
V,II,OSRIC,"Nothing, neither way."
V,II,LAERTES,"Have at you now!"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"Part them; they are incensed."
V,II,HAMLET,"Nay, come, again."
V,II,OSRIC,"Look to the queen there, ho!"
V,II,HORATIO,"They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord?"
V,II,OSRIC,"How is't, Laertes?"
V,II,LAERTES,"Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric;"
V,II,LAERTES,"I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery."
V,II,HAMLET,"How does the queen?"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"She swounds to see them bleed."
V,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"No, no, the drink, the drink,--O my dear Hamlet,--"
V,II,QUEEN GERTRUDE,"The drink, the drink! I am poison'd."
V,II,HAMLET,"O villany! Ho! let the door be lock'd:"
V,II,HAMLET,"Treachery! Seek it out."
V,II,LAERTES,"It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain;"
V,II,LAERTES,"No medicine in the world can do thee good;"
V,II,LAERTES,"In thee there is not half an hour of life;"
V,II,LAERTES,"The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,"
V,II,LAERTES,"Unbated and envenom'd: the foul practise"
V,II,LAERTES,"Hath turn'd itself on me lo, here I lie,"
V,II,LAERTES,"Never to rise again: thy mother's poison'd:"
V,II,LAERTES,"I can no more: the king, the king's to blame."
V,II,HAMLET,"The point!--envenom'd too!"
V,II,HAMLET,"Then, venom, to thy work."
V,II,All,"Treason! treason!"
V,II,KING CLAUDIUS,"O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt."
V,II,HAMLET,"Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?"
V,II,HAMLET,"Follow my mother."
V,II,LAERTES,"He is justly served;"
V,II,LAERTES,"It is a poison temper'd by himself."
V,II,LAERTES,"Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet:"
V,II,LAERTES,"Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,"
V,II,LAERTES,"Nor thine on me."
V,II,HAMLET,"Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee."
V,II,HAMLET,"I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu!"
V,II,HAMLET,"You that look pale and tremble at this chance,"
V,II,HAMLET,"That are but mutes or audience to this act,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Had I but time--as this fell sergeant, death,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Is strict in his arrest--O, I could tell you--"
V,II,HAMLET,"But let it be. Horatio, I am dead;"
V,II,HAMLET,"Thou livest; report me and my cause aright"
V,II,HAMLET,"To the unsatisfied."
V,II,HORATIO,"Never believe it:"
V,II,HORATIO,"I am more an antique Roman than a Dane:"
V,II,HORATIO,"Here's yet some liquor left."
V,II,HAMLET,"As thou'rt a man,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Give me the cup: let go; by heaven, I'll have't."
V,II,HAMLET,"O good Horatio, what a wounded name,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!"
V,II,HAMLET,"If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart"
V,II,HAMLET,"Absent thee from felicity awhile,"
V,II,HAMLET,"And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,"
V,II,HAMLET,"To tell my story."
V,II,HAMLET,"What warlike noise is this?"
V,II,OSRIC,"Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,"
V,II,OSRIC,"To the ambassadors of England gives"
V,II,OSRIC,"This warlike volley."
V,II,HAMLET,"O, I die, Horatio;"
V,II,HAMLET,"The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:"
V,II,HAMLET,"I cannot live to hear the news from England;"
V,II,HAMLET,"But I do prophesy the election lights"
V,II,HAMLET,"On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;"
V,II,HAMLET,"So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,"
V,II,HAMLET,"Which have solicited. The rest is silence."
V,II,HORATIO,"Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:"
V,II,HORATIO,"And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"
V,II,HORATIO,"Why does the drum come hither?"
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Where is this sight?"
V,II,HORATIO,"What is it ye would see?"
V,II,HORATIO,"If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search."
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death,"
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,"
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"That thou so many princes at a shot"
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"So bloodily hast struck?"
V,II,First Ambassador,"The sight is dismal;"
V,II,First Ambassador,"And our affairs from England come too late:"
V,II,First Ambassador,"The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,"
V,II,First Ambassador,"To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd,"
V,II,First Ambassador,"That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:"
V,II,First Ambassador,"Where should we have our thanks?"
V,II,HORATIO,"Not from his mouth,"
V,II,HORATIO,"Had it the ability of life to thank you:"
V,II,HORATIO,"He never gave commandment for their death."
V,II,HORATIO,"But since, so jump upon this bloody question,"
V,II,HORATIO,"You from the Polack wars, and you from England,"
V,II,HORATIO,"Are here arrived give order that these bodies"
V,II,HORATIO,"High on a stage be placed to the view;"
V,II,HORATIO,"And let me speak to the yet unknowing world"
V,II,HORATIO,"How these things came about: so shall you hear"
V,II,HORATIO,"Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,"
V,II,HORATIO,"Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,"
V,II,HORATIO,"Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,"
V,II,HORATIO,"And, in this upshot, purposes mistook"
V,II,HORATIO,"Fall'n on the inventors' reads: all this can I"
V,II,HORATIO,"Truly deliver."
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Let us haste to hear it,"
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"And call the noblest to the audience."
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune:"
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,"
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me."
V,II,HORATIO,"Of that I shall have also cause to speak,"
V,II,HORATIO,"And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more;"
V,II,HORATIO,"But let this same be presently perform'd,"
V,II,HORATIO,"Even while men's minds are wild; lest more mischance"
V,II,HORATIO,"On plots and errors, happen."
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Let four captains"
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;"
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"For he was likely, had he been put on,"
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"To have proved most royally: and, for his passage,"
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"The soldiers' music and the rites of war"
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Speak loudly for him."
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Take up the bodies: such a sight as this"
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss."
V,II,PRINCE FORTINBRAS,"Go, bid the soldiers shoot."
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"So shaken as we are, so wan with care,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"And breathe short-winded accents of new broils"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"To be commenced in strands afar remote."
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"No more the thirsty entrance of this soil"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood;"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"All of one nature, of one substance bred,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Did lately meet in the intestine shock"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"And furious close of civil butchery"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"March all one way and be no more opposed"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Against acquaintance, kindred and allies:"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"As far as to the sepulchre of Christ,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"We are impressed and engaged to fight,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Forthwith a power of English shall we levy;"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"To chase these pagans in those holy fields"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"For our advantage on the bitter cross."
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"But this our purpose now is twelve month old,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go:"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"What yesternight our council did decree"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"In forwarding this dear expedience."
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"My liege, this haste was hot in question,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"And many limits of the charge set down"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"But yesternight: when all athwart there came"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"A post from Wales loaden with heavy news;"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Against the irregular and wild Glendower,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"A thousand of his people butchered;"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Such beastly shameless transformation,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"By those Welshwomen done as may not be"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Without much shame retold or spoken of."
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"It seems then that the tidings of this broil"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Brake off our business for the Holy Land."
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"This match'd with other did, my gracious lord;"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"For more uneven and unwelcome news"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Came from the north and thus it did import:"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"That ever-valiant and approved Scot,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"At Holmedon met,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"As by discharge of their artillery,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"And shape of likelihood, the news was told;"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"For he that brought them, in the very heat"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"And pride of their contention did take horse,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Uncertain of the issue any way."
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Here is a dear, a true industrious friend,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse."
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Stain'd with the variation of each soil"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours;"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news."
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"The Earl of Douglas is discomfited:"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners, Hotspur took"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith:"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"And is not this an honourable spoil?"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not?"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"In faith,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"It is a conquest for a prince to boast of."
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Yea, there thou makest me sad and makest me sin"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"In envy that my Lord Northumberland"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Should be the father to so blest a son,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"A son who is the theme of honour's tongue;"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant;"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride:"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"See riot and dishonour stain the brow"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Of my young Harry. O that it could be proved"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"In cradle-clothes our children where they lay,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"And call'd mine Percy, his Plantagenet!"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Then would I have his Harry, and he mine."
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"But let him from my thoughts. What think you, coz,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Of this young Percy's pride? the prisoners,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Which he in this adventure hath surprised,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"To his own use he keeps; and sends me word,"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"I shall have none but Mordake Earl of Fife."
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"This is his uncle's teaching; this is Worcester,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Malevolent to you in all aspects;"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"The crest of youth against your dignity."
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"But I have sent for him to answer this;"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"And for this cause awhile we must neglect"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Our holy purpose to Jerusalem."
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Cousin, on Wednesday next our council we"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Will hold at Windsor; so inform the lords:"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"But come yourself with speed to us again;"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"For more is to be said and to be done"
I,I,KING HENRY IV,"Than out of anger can be uttered."
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"I will, my liege."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"day? Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"the time of the day."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Indeed, you come near me now, Hal; for we that take"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"purses go by the moon and the seven stars, and not"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"by Phoebus, he,'that wandering knight so fair.' And,"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art king, as, God"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"save thy grace,--majesty I should say, for grace"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"thou wilt have none,--"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"What, none?"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"prologue to an egg and butter."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Well, how then? come, roundly, roundly."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"us that are squires of the night's body be called"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"thieves of the day's beauty: let us be Diana's"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"moon; and let men say we be men of good government,"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Thou sayest well, and it holds well too; for the"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is,"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"by the moon. As, for proof, now: a purse of gold"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"swearing 'Lay by' and spent with crying 'Bring in;'"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"By the Lord, thou sayest true, lad. And is not my"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench?"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle. And"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance?"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"How now, how now, mad wag! what, in thy quips and"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"thy quiddities? what a plague have I to do with a"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"buff jerkin?"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Why, what a pox have I to do with my hostess of the tavern?"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Well, thou hast called her to a reckoning many a"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"time and oft."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part?"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"No; I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all there."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Yea, and elsewhere, so far as my coin would stretch;"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"and where it would not, I have used my credit."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Yea, and so used it that were it not here apparent"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"that thou art heir apparent--But, I prithee, sweet"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"thou art king? and resolution thus fobbed as it is"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"with the rusty curb of old father antic the law? Do"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"not thou, when thou art king, hang a thief."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"No; thou shalt."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Shall I? O rare! By the Lord, I'll be a brave judge."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Thou judgest false already: I mean, thou shalt have"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"the hanging of the thieves and so become a rare hangman."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Well, Hal, well; and in some sort it jumps with my"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"humour as well as waiting in the court, I can tell"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"you."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"For obtaining of suits?"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I am as melancholy"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"as a gib cat or a lugged bear."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Or an old lion, or a lover's lute."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"What sayest thou to a hare, or the melancholy of"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Moor-ditch?"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Thou hast the most unsavoury similes and art indeed"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"the most comparative, rascalliest, sweet young"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"prince. But, Hal, I prithee, trouble me no more"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"with vanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"commodity of good names were to be bought. An old"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"lord of the council rated me the other day in the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"street about you, sir, but I marked him not; and yet"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"he talked very wisely, but I regarded him not; and"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"yet he talked wisely, and in the street too."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Thou didst well; for wisdom cries out in the"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"streets, and no man regards it."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"O, thou hast damnable iteration and art indeed able"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"me, Hal; God forgive thee for it! Before I knew"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"thee, Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, if a man"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"should speak truly, little better than one of the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"wicked. I must give over this life, and I will give"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"it over: by the Lord, and I do not, I am a villain:"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"I'll be damned for never a king's son in"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Christendom."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Where shall we take a purse tomorrow, Jack?"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"'Zounds, where thou wilt, lad; I'll make one; an I"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"do not, call me villain and baffle me."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"I see a good amendment of life in thee; from praying"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"to purse-taking."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"man to labour in his vocation."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Poins! Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"match. O, if men were to be saved by merit, what"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"hole in hell were hot enough for him? This is the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"most omnipotent villain that ever cried 'Stand' to"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"a true man."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Good morrow, Ned."
I,II,POINS,"Good morrow, sweet Hal. What says Monsieur Remorse?"
I,II,POINS,"what says Sir John Sack and Sugar? Jack! how"
I,II,POINS,"agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that thou"
I,II,POINS,"soldest him on Good-Friday last for a cup of Madeira"
I,II,POINS,"and a cold capon's leg?"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Sir John stands to his word, the devil shall have"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"proverbs: he will give the devil his due."
I,II,POINS,"Then art thou damned for keeping thy word with the devil."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Else he had been damned for cozening the devil."
I,II,POINS,"But, my lads, my lads, to-morrow morning, by four"
I,II,POINS,"o'clock, early at Gadshill! there are pilgrims going"
I,II,POINS,"to Canterbury with rich offerings, and traders"
I,II,POINS,"riding to London with fat purses: I have vizards"
I,II,POINS,"for you all; you have horses for yourselves:"
I,II,POINS,"Gadshill lies to-night in Rochester: I have bespoke"
I,II,POINS,"supper to-morrow night in Eastcheap: we may do it"
I,II,POINS,"as secure as sleep. If you will go, I will stuff"
I,II,POINS,"your purses full of crowns; if you will not, tarry"
I,II,POINS,"at home and be hanged."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Hear ye, Yedward; if I tarry at home and go not,"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"I'll hang you for going."
I,II,POINS,"You will, chops?"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Hal, wilt thou make one?"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Who, I rob? I a thief? not I, by my faith."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"fellowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"royal, if thou darest not stand for ten shillings."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Well then, once in my days I'll be a madcap."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Why, that's well said."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Well, come what will, I'll tarry at home."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"By the Lord, I'll be a traitor then, when thou art king."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"I care not."
I,II,POINS,"Sir John, I prithee, leave the prince and me alone:"
I,II,POINS,"I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure"
I,II,POINS,"that he shall go."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and him"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"move and what he hears may be believed, that the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"true prince may, for recreation sake, prove a false"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"thief; for the poor abuses of the time want"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"countenance. Farewell: you shall find me in Eastcheap."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Farewell, thou latter spring! farewell, All-hallown summer!"
I,II,POINS,"Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us"
I,II,POINS,"to-morrow: I have a jest to execute that I cannot"
I,II,POINS,"manage alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto and Gadshill"
I,II,POINS,"shall rob those men that we have already waylaid:"
I,II,POINS,"yourself and I will not be there; and when they"
I,II,POINS,"have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut"
I,II,POINS,"this head off from my shoulders."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"How shall we part with them in setting forth?"
I,II,POINS,"Why, we will set forth before or after them, and"
I,II,POINS,"appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at"
I,II,POINS,"our pleasure to fail, and then will they adventure"
I,II,POINS,"upon the exploit themselves; which they shall have"
I,II,POINS,"no sooner achieved, but we'll set upon them."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Yea, but 'tis like that they will know us by our"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"horses, by our habits and by every other"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"appointment, to be ourselves."
I,II,POINS,"Tut! our horses they shall not see: I'll tie them"
I,II,POINS,"in the wood; our vizards we will change after we"
I,II,POINS,"leave them: and, sirrah, I have cases of buckram"
I,II,POINS,"for the nonce, to immask our noted outward garments."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Yea, but I doubt they will be too hard for us."
I,II,POINS,"Well, for two of them, I know them to be as"
I,II,POINS,"true-bred cowards as ever turned back; and for the"
I,II,POINS,"third, if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll"
I,II,POINS,"forswear arms. The virtue of this jest will be, the"
I,II,POINS,"incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will"
I,II,POINS,"tell us when we meet at supper: how thirty, at"
I,II,POINS,"least, he fought with; what wards, what blows, what"
I,II,POINS,"extremities he endured; and in the reproof of this"
I,II,POINS,"lies the jest."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Well, I'll go with thee: provide us all things"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"necessary and meet me to-morrow night in Eastcheap;"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"there I'll sup. Farewell."
I,II,POINS,"Farewell, my lord."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"I know you all, and will awhile uphold"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"The unyoked humour of your idleness:"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Yet herein will I imitate the sun,"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Who doth permit the base contagious clouds"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"To smother up his beauty from the world,"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"That, when he please again to be himself,"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at,"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"By breaking through the foul and ugly mists"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Of vapours that did seem to strangle him."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"If all the year were playing holidays,"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"To sport would be as tedious as to work;"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come,"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"So, when this loose behavior I throw off"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And pay the debt I never promised,"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"By how much better than my word I am,"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And like bright metal on a sullen ground,"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Than that which hath no foil to set it off."
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"I'll so offend, to make offence a skill;"
I,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Redeeming time when men think least I will."
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"My blood hath been too cold and temperate,"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Unapt to stir at these indignities,"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"And you have found me; for accordingly"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"You tread upon my patience: but be sure"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"I will from henceforth rather be myself,"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Mighty and to be fear'd, than my condition;"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down,"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"And therefore lost that title of respect"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The scourge of greatness to be used on it;"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And that same greatness too which our own hands"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Have holp to make so portly."
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"My lord.--"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Worcester, get thee gone; for I do see"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Danger and disobedience in thine eye:"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"O, sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory,"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"And majesty might never yet endure"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"The moody frontier of a servant brow."
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"You have good leave to leave us: when we need"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Your use and counsel, we shall send for you."
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"You were about to speak."
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Yea, my good lord."
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Those prisoners in your highness' name demanded,"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took,"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Were, as he says, not with such strength denied"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"As is deliver'd to your majesty:"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Either envy, therefore, or misprison"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Is guilty of this fault and not my son."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"My liege, I did deny no prisoners."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"But I remember, when the fight was done,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"He was perfumed like a milliner;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"A pouncet-box, which ever and anon"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"He gave his nose and took't away again;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Who therewith angry, when it next came there,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Took it in snuff; and still he smiled and talk'd,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Betwixt the wind and his nobility."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"With many holiday and lady terms"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"He question'd me; amongst the rest, demanded"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"My prisoners in your majesty's behalf."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"To be so pester'd with a popinjay,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Out of my grief and my impatience,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Answer'd neglectingly I know not what,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"He should or he should not; for he made me mad"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Of guns and drums and wounds,--God save the mark!--"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And that it was great pity, so it was,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"This villanous salt-petre should be digg'd"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"So cowardly; and but for these vile guns,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"He would himself have been a soldier."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"I answer'd indirectly, as I said;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And I beseech you, let not his report"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Come current for an accusation"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Betwixt my love and your high majesty."
I,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"The circumstance consider'd, good my lord,"
I,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"Whate'er Lord Harry Percy then had said"
I,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"To such a person and in such a place,"
I,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"At such a time, with all the rest retold,"
I,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"May reasonably die and never rise"
I,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"To do him wrong or any way impeach"
I,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"What then he said, so he unsay it now."
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners,"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"But with proviso and exception,"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"That we at our own charge shall ransom straight"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer;"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betray'd"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"The lives of those that he did lead to fight"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Against that great magician, damn'd Glendower,"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Hath lately married. Shall our coffers, then,"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Be emptied to redeem a traitor home?"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Shall we but treason? and indent with fears,"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"When they have lost and forfeited themselves?"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"No, on the barren mountains let him starve;"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"For I shall never hold that man my friend"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"To ransom home revolted Mortimer."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Revolted Mortimer!"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"But by the chance of war; to prove that true"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"In single opposition, hand to hand,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"He did confound the best part of an hour"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"In changing hardiment with great Glendower:"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Three times they breathed and three times did"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"they drink,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Who then, affrighted with their bloody looks,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Bloodstained with these valiant combatants."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Never did base and rotten policy"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Colour her working with such deadly wounds;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Nor could the noble Mortimer"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Receive so many, and all willingly:"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Then let not him be slander'd with revolt."
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him;"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"He never did encounter with Glendower:"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"I tell thee,"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"He durst as well have met the devil alone"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"As Owen Glendower for an enemy."
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Art thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer:"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Send me your prisoners with the speediest means,"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Or you shall hear in such a kind from me"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"As will displease you. My Lord Northumberland,"
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"We licence your departure with your son."
I,III,KING HENRY IV,"Send us your prisoners, or you will hear of it."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"An if the devil come and roar for them,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"I will not send them: I will after straight"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And tell him so; for I will ease my heart,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Albeit I make a hazard of my head."
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"What, drunk with choler? stay and pause awhile:"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Here comes your uncle."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Speak of Mortimer!"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"'Zounds, I will speak of him; and let my soul"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Want mercy, if I do not join with him:"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Yea, on his part I'll empty all these veins,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And shed my dear blood drop by drop in the dust,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"As high in the air as this unthankful king,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke."
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Brother, the king hath made your nephew mad."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Who struck this heat up after I was gone?"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"He will, forsooth, have all my prisoners;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And when I urged the ransom once again"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Of my wife's brother, then his cheek look'd pale,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And on my face he turn'd an eye of death,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Trembling even at the name of Mortimer."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"I cannot blame him: was not he proclaim'd"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"By Richard that dead is the next of blood?"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"He was; I heard the proclamation:"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And then it was when the unhappy king,"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"--Whose wrongs in us God pardon!--did set forth"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Upon his Irish expedition;"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"From whence he intercepted did return"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"To be deposed and shortly murdered."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And for whose death we in the world's wide mouth"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Live scandalized and foully spoken of."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"But soft, I pray you; did King Richard then"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Heir to the crown?"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"He did; myself did hear it."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin king,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"That wished him on the barren mountains starve."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"But shall it be that you, that set the crown"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Upon the head of this forgetful man"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And for his sake wear the detested blot"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Of murderous subornation, shall it be,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"That you a world of curses undergo,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Being the agents, or base second means,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"The cords, the ladder, or the hangman rather?"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"O, pardon me that I descend so low,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"To show the line and the predicament"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Wherein you range under this subtle king;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Shall it for shame be spoken in these days,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Or fill up chronicles in time to come,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"That men of your nobility and power"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Did gage them both in an unjust behalf,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"As both of you--God pardon it!--have done,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"An plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And shall it in more shame be further spoken,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"That you are fool'd, discarded and shook off"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"By him for whom these shames ye underwent?"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"No; yet time serves wherein you may redeem"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Your banish'd honours and restore yourselves"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Into the good thoughts of the world again,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Of this proud king, who studies day and night"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"To answer all the debt he owes to you"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Even with the bloody payment of your deaths:"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Therefore, I say--"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Peace, cousin, say no more:"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And now I will unclasp a secret book,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And to your quick-conceiving discontents"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"I'll read you matter deep and dangerous,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"As full of peril and adventurous spirit"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"On the unsteadfast footing of a spear."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"If he fall in, good night! or sink or swim:"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Send danger from the east unto the west,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"So honour cross it from the north to south,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And let them grapple: O, the blood more stirs"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"To rouse a lion than to start a hare!"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Imagination of some great exploit"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Drives him beyond the bounds of patience."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Or dive into the bottom of the deep,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And pluck up drowned honour by the locks;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"So he that doth redeem her thence might wear"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Without corrival, all her dignities:"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"But out upon this half-faced fellowship!"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"He apprehends a world of figures here,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"But not the form of what he should attend."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Good cousin, give me audience for a while."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"I cry you mercy."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Those same noble Scots"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"That are your prisoners,--"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"I'll keep them all;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"By God, he shall not have a Scot of them;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not:"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"I'll keep them, by this hand."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"You start away"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And lend no ear unto my purposes."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Those prisoners you shall keep."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Nay, I will; that's flat:"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"He said he would not ransom Mortimer;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Forbad my tongue to speak of Mortimer;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"But I will find him when he lies asleep,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And in his ear I'll holla 'Mortimer!'"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Nay,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Nothing but 'Mortimer,' and give it him"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"To keep his anger still in motion."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Hear you, cousin; a word."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"All studies here I solemnly defy,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke:"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"But that I think his father loves him not"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And would be glad he met with some mischance,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"I would have him poison'd with a pot of ale."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Farewell, kinsman: I'll talk to you"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"When you are better temper'd to attend."
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Art thou to break into this woman's mood,"
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourged with rods,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"In Richard's time,--what do you call the place?--"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"A plague upon it, it is in Gloucestershire;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"'Twas where the madcap duke his uncle kept,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"His uncle York; where I first bow'd my knee"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke,--"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"'Sblood!--"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"When you and he came back from Ravenspurgh."
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"At Berkley castle."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"You say true:"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Why, what a candy deal of courtesy"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Look,'when his infant fortune came to age,'"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And 'gentle Harry Percy,' and 'kind cousin;'"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"O, the devil take such cozeners! God forgive me!"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Good uncle, tell your tale; I have done."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Nay, if you have not, to it again;"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"We will stay your leisure."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"I have done, i' faith."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Then once more to your Scottish prisoners."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Deliver them up without their ransom straight,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And make the Douglas' son your only mean"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"For powers in Scotland; which, for divers reasons"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Which I shall send you written, be assured,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Will easily be granted. You, my lord,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Your son in Scotland being thus employ'd,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Shall secretly into the bosom creep"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Of that same noble prelate, well beloved,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The archbishop."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Of York, is it not?"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"True; who bears hard"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scroop."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"I speak not this in estimation,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"As what I think might be, but what I know"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Is ruminated, plotted and set down,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And only stays but to behold the face"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Of that occasion that shall bring it on."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"I smell it: upon my life, it will do well."
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Before the game is afoot, thou still let'st slip."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot;"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"And then the power of Scotland and of York,"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"To join with Mortimer, ha?"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And so they shall."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"In faith, it is exceedingly well aim'd."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And 'tis no little reason bids us speed,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"To save our heads by raising of a head;"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"For, bear ourselves as even as we can,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The king will always think him in our debt,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And think we think ourselves unsatisfied,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Till he hath found a time to pay us home:"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And see already how he doth begin"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"To make us strangers to his looks of love."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"He does, he does: we'll be revenged on him."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Cousin, farewell: no further go in this"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Than I by letters shall direct your course."
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"When time is ripe, which will be suddenly,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"I'll steal to Glendower and Lord Mortimer;"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Where you and Douglas and our powers at once,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"As I will fashion it, shall happily meet,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms,"
I,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Which now we hold at much uncertainty."
I,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Farewell, good brother: we shall thrive, I trust."
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Uncle, Adieu: O, let the hours be short"
I,III,HOTSPUR,"Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport!"
II,I,First Carrier,"Heigh-ho! an it be not four by the day, I'll be"
II,I,First Carrier,"hanged: Charles' wain is over the new chimney, and"
II,I,First Carrier,"yet our horse not packed. What, ostler!"
II,I,First Carrier,"I prithee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks"
II,I,First Carrier,"in the point; poor jade, is wrung in the withers out"
II,I,First Carrier,"of all cess."
II,I,Second Carrier,"Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that"
II,I,Second Carrier,"is the next way to give poor jades the bots: this"
II,I,Second Carrier,"house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died."
II,I,First Carrier,"Poor fellow, never joyed since the price of oats"
II,I,First Carrier,"rose; it was the death of him."
II,I,Second Carrier,"I think this be the most villanous house in all"
II,I,Second Carrier,"London road for fleas: I am stung like a tench."
II,I,First Carrier,"Like a tench! by the mass, there is ne'er a king"
II,I,First Carrier,"christen could be better bit than I have been since"
II,I,First Carrier,"the first cock."
II,I,Second Carrier,"Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan, and then we"
II,I,Second Carrier,"leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds"
II,I,Second Carrier,"fleas like a loach."
II,I,First Carrier,"What, ostler! come away and be hanged!"
II,I,Second Carrier,"I have a gammon of bacon and two razors of ginger,"
II,I,Second Carrier,"to be delivered as far as Charing-cross."
II,I,First Carrier,"God's body! the turkeys in my pannier are quite"
II,I,First Carrier,"starved. What, ostler! A plague on thee! hast thou"
II,I,First Carrier,"never an eye in thy head? canst not hear? An"
II,I,First Carrier,"'twere not as good deed as drink, to break the pate"
II,I,First Carrier,"on thee, I am a very villain. Come, and be hanged!"
II,I,First Carrier,"hast thou no faith in thee?"
II,I,GADSHILL,"Good morrow, carriers. What's o'clock?"
II,I,First Carrier,"I think it be two o'clock."
II,I,GADSHILL,"I pray thee lend me thy lantern, to see my gelding"
II,I,GADSHILL,"in the stable."
II,I,First Carrier,"Nay, by God, soft; I know a trick worth two of that, i' faith."
II,I,GADSHILL,"I pray thee, lend me thine."
II,I,Second Carrier,"Ay, when? can'st tell? Lend me thy lantern, quoth"
II,I,Second Carrier,"he? marry, I'll see thee hanged first."
II,I,GADSHILL,"Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come to London?"
II,I,Second Carrier,"Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I warrant"
II,I,Second Carrier,"thee. Come, neighbour Mugs, we'll call up the"
II,I,Second Carrier,"gentleman: they will along with company, for they"
II,I,Second Carrier,"have great charge."
II,I,GADSHILL,"What, ho! chamberlain!"
II,I,GADSHILL,"That's even as fair as--at hand, quoth the"
II,I,GADSHILL,"chamberlain; for thou variest no more from picking"
II,I,GADSHILL,"of purses than giving direction doth from labouring;"
II,I,GADSHILL,"thou layest the plot how."
II,I,Chamberlain,"Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It holds current that"
II,I,Chamberlain,"I told you yesternight: there's a franklin in the"
II,I,Chamberlain,"wild of Kent hath brought three hundred marks with"
II,I,Chamberlain,"him in gold: I heard him tell it to one of his"
II,I,Chamberlain,"company last night at supper; a kind of auditor; one"
II,I,Chamberlain,"that hath abundance of charge too, God knows what."
II,I,Chamberlain,"They are up already, and call for eggs and butter;"
II,I,Chamberlain,"they will away presently."
II,I,GADSHILL,"Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas'"
II,I,GADSHILL,"clerks, I'll give thee this neck."
II,I,Chamberlain,"No, I'll none of it: I pray thee keep that for the"
II,I,Chamberlain,"hangman; for I know thou worshippest St. Nicholas"
II,I,Chamberlain,"as truly as a man of falsehood may."
II,I,GADSHILL,"What talkest thou to me of the hangman? if I hang,"
II,I,GADSHILL,"I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old"
II,I,GADSHILL,"Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no"
II,I,GADSHILL,"starveling. Tut! there are other Trojans that thou"
II,I,GADSHILL,"dreamest not of, the which for sport sake are"
II,I,GADSHILL,"content to do the profession some grace; that would,"
II,I,GADSHILL,"if matters should be looked into, for their own"
II,I,GADSHILL,"credit sake, make all whole. I am joined with no"
II,I,GADSHILL,"foot-land rakers, no long-staff sixpenny strikers,"
II,I,GADSHILL,"none of these mad mustachio purple-hued malt-worms;"
II,I,GADSHILL,"but with nobility and tranquillity, burgomasters and"
II,I,GADSHILL,"great oneyers, such as can hold in, such as will"
II,I,GADSHILL,"strike sooner than speak, and speak sooner than"
II,I,GADSHILL,"drink, and drink sooner than pray: and yet, zounds,"
II,I,GADSHILL,"I lie; for they pray continually to their saint, the"
II,I,GADSHILL,"commonwealth; or rather, not pray to her, but prey"
II,I,GADSHILL,"on her, for they ride up and down on her and make"
II,I,GADSHILL,"her their boots."
II,I,Chamberlain,"What, the commonwealth their boots? will she hold"
II,I,Chamberlain,"out water in foul way?"
II,I,GADSHILL,"She will, she will; justice hath liquored her. We"
II,I,GADSHILL,"steal as in a castle, cocksure; we have the receipt"
II,I,GADSHILL,"of fern-seed, we walk invisible."
II,I,Chamberlain,"Nay, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to"
II,I,Chamberlain,"the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible."
II,I,GADSHILL,"Give me thy hand: thou shalt have a share in our"
II,I,GADSHILL,"purchase, as I am a true man."
II,I,Chamberlain,"Nay, rather let me have it, as you are a false thief."
II,I,GADSHILL,"Go to; 'homo' is a common name to all men. Bid the"
II,I,GADSHILL,"ostler bring my gelding out of the stable. Farewell,"
II,I,GADSHILL,"you muddy knave."
II,II,POINS,"Come, shelter, shelter: I have removed Falstaff's"
II,II,POINS,"horse, and he frets like a gummed velvet."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Stand close."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Poins! Poins, and be hanged! Poins!"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! what a brawling dost"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"thou keep!"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Where's Poins, Hal?"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"He is walked up to the top of the hill: I'll go seek him."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"I am accursed to rob in that thief's company: the"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"rascal hath removed my horse, and tied him I know"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"not where. If I travel but four foot by the squier"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"further afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"not but to die a fair death for all this, if I"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"'scape hanging for killing that rogue. I have"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"forsworn his company hourly any time this two and"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"twenty years, and yet I am bewitched with the"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"rogue's company. If the rascal hath not given me"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged; it"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"could not be else: I have drunk medicines. Poins!"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Hal! a plague upon you both! Bardolph! Peto!"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further. An 'twere"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"not as good a deed as drink, to turn true man and to"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"leave these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"ever chewed with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"ground is threescore and ten miles afoot with me;"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"and the stony-hearted villains know it well enough:"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"a plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"rogues; give me my horse, and be hanged!"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Peace, ye fat-guts! lie down; lay thine ear close"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"to the ground and list if thou canst hear the tread"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"of travellers."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Have you any levers to lift me up again, being down?"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"'Sblood, I'll not bear mine own flesh so far afoot"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Thou liest; thou art not colted, thou art uncolted."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse,"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"good king's son."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Out, ye rogue! shall I be your ostler?"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Go, hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"garters! If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. An I"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"have not ballads made on you all and sung to filthy"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"tunes, let a cup of sack be my poison: when a jest"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"is so forward, and afoot too! I hate it."
II,II,GADSHILL,"Stand."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"So I do, against my will."
II,II,POINS,"O, 'tis our setter: I know his voice. Bardolph,"
II,II,POINS,"what news?"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"Case ye, case ye; on with your vizards: there 's"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"money of the king's coming down the hill; 'tis going"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"to the king's exchequer."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"You lie, ye rogue; 'tis going to the king's tavern."
II,II,GADSHILL,"There's enough to make us all."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"To be hanged."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow lane;"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Ned Poins and I will walk lower: if they 'scape"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"from your encounter, then they light on us."
II,II,PETO,"How many be there of them?"
II,II,GADSHILL,"Some eight or ten."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"'Zounds, will they not rob us?"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your grandfather;"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"but yet no coward, Hal."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Well, we leave that to the proof."
II,II,POINS,"Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge:"
II,II,POINS,"when thou needest him, there thou shalt find him."
II,II,POINS,"Farewell, and stand fast."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Now cannot I strike him, if I should be hanged."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Ned, where are our disguises?"
II,II,POINS,"Here, hard by: stand close."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I:"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"every man to his business."
II,II,First Traveller,"Come, neighbour: the boy shall lead our horses down"
II,II,First Traveller,"the hill; we'll walk afoot awhile, and ease our legs."
II,II,Thieves,"Stand!"
II,II,Travellers,"Jesus bless us!"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Strike; down with them; cut the villains' throats:"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"ah! whoreson caterpillars! bacon-fed knaves! they"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"hate us youth: down with them: fleece them."
II,II,Travellers,"O, we are undone, both we and ours for ever!"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No, ye"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"fat chuffs: I would your store were here! On,"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"bacons, on! What, ye knaves! young men must live."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"You are Grand-jurors, are ye? we'll jure ye, 'faith."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"The thieves have bound the true men. Now could thou"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"would be argument for a week, laughter for a month"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"and a good jest for ever."
II,II,POINS,"Stand close; I hear them coming."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Come, my masters, let us share, and then to horse"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"before day. An the Prince and Poins be not two"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring: there's"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"no more valour in that Poins than in a wild-duck."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Your money!"
II,II,POINS,"Villains!"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse:"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"The thieves are all scatter'd and possess'd with fear"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"So strongly that they dare not meet each other;"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Each takes his fellow for an officer."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Away, good Ned. Falstaff sweats to death,"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And lards the lean earth as he walks along:"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him."
II,II,POINS,"How the rogue roar'd!"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"'But for mine own part, my lord, I could be well"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"contented to be there, in respect of the love I bear"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"your house.' He could be contented: why is he not,"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"then? In respect of the love he bears our house:"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"he shows in this, he loves his own barn better than"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"he loves our house. Let me see some more. 'The"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"purpose you undertake is dangerous;'--why, that's"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"certain: 'tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. 'The"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"have named uncertain; the time itself unsorted; and"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"your whole plot too light for the counterpoise of so"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"great an opposition.' Say you so, say you so? I say"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"unto you again, you are a shallow cowardly hind, and"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"you lie.  What a lack-brain is this! By the Lord,"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"our plot is a good plot as ever was laid; our"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"friends true and constant: a good plot, good"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot,"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"very good friends. What a frosty-spirited rogue is"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"this! Why, my lord of York commends the plot and the"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"general course of action. 'Zounds, an I were now by"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan."
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Is there not my father, my uncle and myself? lord"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Edmund Mortimer, My lord of York and Owen Glendower?"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"is there not besides the Douglas? have I not all"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"their letters to meet me in arms by the ninth of the"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"next month? and are they not some of them set"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"forward already? What a pagan rascal is this! an"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"infidel! Ha! you shall see now in very sincerity"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"of fear and cold heart, will he to the king and lay"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"open all our proceedings. O, I could divide myself"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"and go to buffets, for moving such a dish of"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"skim milk with so honourable an action! Hang him!"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"let him tell the king: we are prepared. I will set"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"forward to-night."
II,III,HOTSPUR,"How now, Kate! I must leave you within these two hours."
II,III,LADY PERCY,"O, my good lord, why are you thus alone?"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"For what offence have I this fortnight been"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed?"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that takes from thee"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Thy stomach, pleasure and thy golden sleep?"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"And start so often when thou sit'st alone?"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks;"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"And given my treasures and my rights of thee"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"To thick-eyed musing and cursed melancholy?"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch'd,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars;"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed;"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Cry 'Courage! to the field!' And thou hast talk'd"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Of prisoners' ransom and of soldiers slain,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"And all the currents of a heady fight."
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream;"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Such as we see when men restrain their breath"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"And I must know it, else he loves me not."
II,III,HOTSPUR,"What, ho!"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Is Gilliams with the packet gone?"
II,III,Servant,"He is, my lord, an hour ago."
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff?"
II,III,Servant,"One horse, my lord, he brought even now."
II,III,HOTSPUR,"What horse? a roan, a crop-ear, is it not?"
II,III,Servant,"It is, my lord."
II,III,HOTSPUR,"That roan shall by my throne."
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Well, I will back him straight: O esperance!"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Bid Butler lead him forth into the park."
II,III,LADY PERCY,"But hear you, my lord."
II,III,HOTSPUR,"What say'st thou, my lady?"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"What is it carries you away?"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Why, my horse, my love, my horse."
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Out, you mad-headed ape!"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"As you are toss'd with. In faith,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"I'll know your business, Harry, that I will."
II,III,LADY PERCY,"I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"About his title, and hath sent for you"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"To line his enterprise: but if you go,--"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"So far afoot, I shall be weary, love."
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Come, come, you paraquito, answer me"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Directly unto this question that I ask:"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"In faith, I'll break thy little finger, Harry,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"An if thou wilt not tell me all things true."
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Away,"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"We must have bloody noses and crack'd crowns,"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"And pass them current too. God's me, my horse!"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"What say'st thou, Kate? what would'st thou"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"have with me?"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Do you not love me? do you not, indeed?"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Well, do not then; for since you love me not,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"I will not love myself. Do you not love me?"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no."
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Come, wilt thou see me ride?"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"And when I am on horseback, I will swear"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"I love thee infinitely. But hark you, Kate;"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"I must not have you henceforth question me"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Whither I go, nor reason whereabout:"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Whither I must, I must; and, to conclude,"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate."
II,III,HOTSPUR,"I know you wise, but yet no farther wise"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Than Harry Percy's wife: constant you are,"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"But yet a woman: and for secrecy,"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"No lady closer; for I well believe"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know;"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate."
II,III,LADY PERCY,"How! so far?"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Not an inch further. But hark you, Kate:"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Whither I go, thither shall you go too;"
II,III,HOTSPUR,"To-day will I set forth, to-morrow you."
II,III,HOTSPUR,"Will this content you, Kate?"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"It must of force."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Ned, prithee, come out of that fat room, and lend me"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"thy hand to laugh a little."
II,IV,POINS,"Where hast been, Hal?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"With three or four loggerheads amongst three or four"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"score hogsheads. I have sounded the very"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"base-string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"their christen names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"They take it already upon their salvation, that"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"of courtesy; and tell me flatly I am no proud Jack,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"like Falstaff, but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"good boy, by the Lord, so they call me, and when I"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"am king of England, I shall command all the good"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"lads in Eastcheap. They call drinking deep, dyeing"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"scarlet; and when you breathe in your watering, they"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"cry  'hem!' and bid you play it off. To conclude, I"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"that I can drink with any tinker in his own language"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"during my life. I tell thee, Ned, thou hast lost"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"much honour, that thou wert not with me in this sweet"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"action. But, sweet Ned,--to sweeten which name of"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Ned, I give thee this pennyworth of sugar, clapped"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"even now into my hand by an under-skinker, one that"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"never spake other English in his life than 'Eight"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"shillings and sixpence' and 'You are welcome,' with"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"this shrill addition, 'Anon, anon, sir! Score a pint"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"of bastard in the Half-Moon,' or so. But, Ned, to"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"drive away the time till Falstaff come, I prithee,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"do thou stand in some by-room, while I question my"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"puny drawer to what end he gave me the sugar; and do"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"thou never leave calling 'Francis,' that his tale"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"to me may be nothing but 'Anon.' Step aside, and"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I'll show thee a precedent."
II,IV,POINS,"Francis!"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Thou art perfect."
II,IV,POINS,"Francis!"
II,IV,FRANCIS,"Anon, anon, sir. Look down into the Pomgarnet, Ralph."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Come hither, Francis."
II,IV,FRANCIS,"My lord?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"How long hast thou to serve, Francis?"
II,IV,FRANCIS,"Forsooth, five years, and as much as to--"
II,IV,FRANCIS,"Anon, anon, sir."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Five year! by'r lady, a long lease for the clinking"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"of pewter. But, Francis, darest thou be so valiant"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"as to play the coward with thy indenture and show it"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"a fair pair of heels and run from it?"
II,IV,FRANCIS,"O Lord, sir, I'll be sworn upon all the books in"
II,IV,FRANCIS,"England, I could find in my heart."
II,IV,FRANCIS,"Anon, sir."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"How old art thou, Francis?"
II,IV,FRANCIS,"Let me see--about Michaelmas next I shall be--"
II,IV,FRANCIS,"Anon, sir. Pray stay a little, my lord."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Nay, but hark you, Francis: for the sugar thou"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"gavest me,'twas a pennyworth, wast't not?"
II,IV,FRANCIS,"O Lord, I would it had been two!"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I will give thee for it a thousand pound: ask me"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it."
II,IV,FRANCIS,"Anon, anon."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Anon, Francis? No, Francis; but to-morrow, Francis;"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"or, Francis, o' Thursday; or indeed, Francis, when"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"thou wilt. But, Francis!"
II,IV,FRANCIS,"My lord?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Wilt thou rob this leathern jerkin, crystal-button,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"not-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch,--"
II,IV,FRANCIS,"O Lord, sir, who do you mean?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Why, then, your brown bastard is your only drink;"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"for look you, Francis, your white canvas doublet"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"will sully: in Barbary, sir, it cannot come to so much."
II,IV,FRANCIS,"What, sir?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Away, you rogue! dost thou not hear them call?"
II,IV,Vintner,"What, standest thou still, and hearest such a"
II,IV,Vintner,"calling? Look to the guests within."
II,IV,Vintner,"My lord, old Sir John, with half-a-dozen more, are"
II,IV,Vintner,"at the door: shall I let them in?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Let them alone awhile, and then open the door."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Poins!"
II,IV,POINS,"Anon, anon, sir."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Sirrah, Falstaff and the rest of the thieves are at"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"the door: shall we be merry?"
II,IV,POINS,"As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye; what"
II,IV,POINS,"cunning match have you made with this jest of the"
II,IV,POINS,"drawer? come, what's the issue?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I am now of all humours that have showed themselves"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"humours since the old days of goodman Adam to the"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"What's o'clock, Francis?"
II,IV,FRANCIS,"Anon, anon, sir."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"That ever this fellow should have fewer words than a"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"parrot, and yet the son of a woman! His industry is"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"upstairs and downstairs; his eloquence the parcel of"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Hotspur of the north; he that kills me some six or"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"hands, and says to his wife 'Fie upon this quiet"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"life! I want work.' 'O my sweet Harry,' says she,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"'how many hast thou killed to-day?' 'Give my roan"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"horse a drench,' says he; and answers 'Some"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"fourteen,' an hour after; 'a trifle, a trifle.' I"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"prithee, call in Falstaff: I'll play Percy, and"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"that damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"wife. 'Rivo!' says the drunkard. Call in ribs, call in tallow."
II,IV,POINS,"Welcome, Jack: where hast thou been?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"marry, and amen! Give me a cup of sack, boy. Ere I"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"lead this life long, I'll sew nether stocks and mend"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"them and foot them too. A plague of all cowards!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of butter?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"pitiful-hearted Titan, that melted at the sweet tale"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"of the sun's! if thou didst, then behold that compound."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"You rogue, here's lime in this sack too: there is"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"nothing but roguery to be found in villanous man:"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"in it. A villanous coward! Go thy ways, old Jack;"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"shotten herring. There live not three good men"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"grows old: God help the while! a bad world, I say."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or any"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"How now, wool-sack! what mutter you?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"A king's son! If I do not beat thee out of thy"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive all thy"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"subjects afore thee like a flock of wild-geese,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"I'll never wear hair on my face more. You Prince of Wales!"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Why, you whoreson round man, what's the matter?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Are not you a coward? answer me to that: and Poins there?"
II,IV,POINS,"'Zounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me coward, by the"
II,IV,POINS,"Lord, I'll stab thee."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"I call thee coward! I'll see thee damned ere I call"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"thee coward: but I would give a thousand pound I"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"could run as fast as thou canst. You are straight"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"enough in the shoulders, you care not who sees your"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"back: call you that backing of your friends? A"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"plague upon such backing! give me them that will"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"face me. Give me a cup of sack: I am a rogue, if I"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"drunk to-day."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"O villain! thy lips are scarce wiped since thou"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"drunkest last."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"All's one for that."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"A plague of all cowards, still say I."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"What's the matter?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"What's the matter! there be four of us here have"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"ta'en a thousand pound this day morning."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Where is it, Jack? where is it?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Where is it! taken from us it is: a hundred upon"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"poor four of us."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"What, a hundred, man?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"I am a rogue, if I were not at half-sword with a"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"dozen of them two hours together. I have 'scaped by"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"miracle. I am eight times thrust through the"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"doublet, four through the hose; my buckler cut"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"through and through; my sword hacked like a"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"hand-saw--ecce signum! I never dealt better since"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"I was a man: all would not do. A plague of all"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"cowards! Let them speak: if they speak more or"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"less than truth, they are villains and the sons of darkness."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Speak, sirs; how was it?"
II,IV,GADSHILL,"We four set upon some dozen--"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Sixteen at least, my lord."
II,IV,GADSHILL,"And bound them."
II,IV,PETO,"No, no, they were not bound."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"You rogue, they were bound, every man of them; or I"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew."
II,IV,GADSHILL,"As we were sharing, some six or seven fresh men set upon us--"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"And unbound the rest, and then come in the other."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"What, fought you with them all?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"All! I know not what you call all; but if I fought"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish: if"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Jack, then am I no two-legged creature."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Pray God you have not murdered some of them."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Nay, that's past praying for: I have peppered two"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"of them; two I am sure I have paid, two rogues"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"knowest my old ward; here I lay and thus I bore my"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me--"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"What, four? thou saidst but two even now."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Four, Hal; I told thee four."
II,IV,POINS,"Ay, ay, he said four."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"These four came all a-front, and mainly thrust at"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"points in my target, thus."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Seven? why, there were but four even now."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"In buckram?"
II,IV,POINS,"Ay, four, in buckram suits."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Seven, by these hilts, or I am a villain else."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Prithee, let him alone; we shall have more anon."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Dost thou hear me, Hal?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Ay, and mark thee too, Jack."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Do so, for it is worth the listening to. These nine"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"in buckram that I told thee of--"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"So, two more already."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Their points being broken,--"
II,IV,POINS,"Down fell their hose."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Began to give me ground: but I followed me close,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"came in foot and hand; and with a thought seven of"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"the eleven I paid."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"But, as the devil would have it, three misbegotten"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"knaves in Kendal green came at my back and let drive"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"at me; for it was so dark, Hal, that thou couldst"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"not see thy hand."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"These lies are like their father that begets them;"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"whoreson, obscene, grease tallow-catch,--"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"What, art thou mad? art thou mad? is not the truth"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"the truth?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Why, how couldst thou know these men in Kendal"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"green, when it was so dark thou couldst not see thy"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"hand? come, tell us your reason: what sayest thou to this?"
II,IV,POINS,"Come, your reason, Jack, your reason."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"What, upon compulsion? 'Zounds, an I were at the"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"compulsion, I."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"this huge hill of flesh,--"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"for breath to utter what is like thee! you"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"standing-tuck,--"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Well, breathe awhile, and then to it again: and"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"hear me speak but this."
II,IV,POINS,"Mark, Jack."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"We two saw you four set on four and bound them, and"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"were masters of their wealth. Mark now, how a plain"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"tale shall put you down. Then did we two set on you"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"four; and, with a word, out-faced you from your"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"prize, and have it; yea, and can show it you here in"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"the house: and, Falstaff, you carried your guts"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"away as nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and roared"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"for mercy and still run and roared, as ever I heard"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"bull-calf. What a slave art thou, to hack thy sword"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"as thou hast done, and then say it was in fight!"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"What trick, what device, what starting-hole, canst"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"thou now find out to hide thee from this open and"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"apparent shame?"
II,IV,POINS,"Come, let's hear, Jack; what trick hast thou now?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"heir-apparent? should I turn upon the true prince?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules: but"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was now a"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"coward on instinct. I shall think the better of"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"myself and thee during my life; I for a valiant"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"lion, and thou for a true prince. But, by the Lord,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"lads, I am glad you have the money. Hostess, clap"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"to the doors: watch to-night, pray to-morrow."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"merry? shall we have a play extempore?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Content; and the argument shall be thy running away."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Ah, no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!"
II,IV,Hostess,"O Jesu, my lord the prince!"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"How now, my lady the hostess! what sayest thou to"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"me?"
II,IV,Hostess,"Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the court at"
II,IV,Hostess,"door would speak with you: he says he comes from"
II,IV,Hostess,"your father."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Give him as much as will make him a royal man, and"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"send him back again to my mother."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"What manner of man is he?"
II,IV,Hostess,"An old man."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? Shall"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"I give him his answer?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Prithee, do, Jack."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"'Faith, and I'll send him packing."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Now, sirs: by'r lady, you fought fair; so did you,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Peto; so did you, Bardolph: you are lions too, you"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"ran away upon instinct, you will not touch the true"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"prince; no, fie!"
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"'Faith, I ran when I saw others run."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"'Faith, tell me now in earnest, how came Falstaff's"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"sword so hacked?"
II,IV,PETO,"Why, he hacked it with his dagger, and said he would"
II,IV,PETO,"swear truth out of England but he would make you"
II,IV,PETO,"believe it was done in fight, and persuaded us to do the like."
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"Yea, and to tickle our noses with spear-grass to"
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"make them bleed, and then to beslubber our garments"
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"with it and swear it was the blood of true men. I"
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"did that I did not this seven year before, I blushed"
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"to hear his monstrous devices."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"thou hast blushed extempore. Thou hadst fire and"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"sword on thy side, and yet thou rannest away: what"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"instinct hadst thou for it?"
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"My lord, do you see these meteors? do you behold"
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"these exhalations?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I do."
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"What think you they portend?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Hot livers and cold purses."
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"Choler, my lord, if rightly taken."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"No, if rightly taken, halter."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"How now, my sweet creature of bombast!"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"How long is't ago, Jack, since thou sawest thine own knee?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"My own knee! when I was about thy years, Hal, I was"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could have"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"crept into any alderman's thumb-ring: a plague of"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"bladder. There's villanous news abroad: here was"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Sir John Bracy from your father; you must to the"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"court in the morning. That same mad fellow of the"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"north, Percy, and he of Wales, that gave Amamon the"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"bastinado and made Lucifer cuckold and swore the"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"hook--what a plague call you him?"
II,IV,POINS,"O, Glendower."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Owen, Owen, the same; and his son-in-law Mortimer,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"and old Northumberland, and that sprightly Scot of"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Scots, Douglas, that runs o' horseback up a hill"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"perpendicular,--"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"He that rides at high speed and with his pistol"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"kills a sparrow flying."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"You have hit it."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"So did he never the sparrow."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Well, that rascal hath good mettle in him; he will not run."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Why, what a rascal art thou then, to praise him so"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"for running!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"O' horseback, ye cuckoo; but afoot he will not budge a foot."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Yes, Jack, upon instinct."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"and one Mordake, and a thousand blue-caps more:"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Worcester is stolen away to-night; thy father's"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"beard is turned white with the news: you may buy"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"land now as cheap as stinking mackerel."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Why, then, it is like, if there come a hot June and"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"as they buy hob-nails, by the hundreds."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"By the mass, lad, thou sayest true; it is like we"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"shall have good trading that way. But tell me, Hal,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"art not thou horrible afeard? thou being"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"heir-apparent, could the world pick thee out three"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"such enemies again as that fiend Douglas, that"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"spirit Percy, and that devil Glendower? Art thou"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"not horribly afraid? doth not thy blood thrill at"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"it?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Not a whit, i' faith; I lack some of thy instinct."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Well, thou wert be horribly chid tomorrow when thou"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"comest to thy father: if thou love me, practise an answer."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Do thou stand for my father, and examine me upon the"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"particulars of my life."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Shall I? content: this chair shall be my state,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Thy state is taken for a joined-stool, thy golden"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious rich"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"crown for a pitiful bald crown!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Well, an the fire of grace be not quite out of thee,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"now shalt thou be moved. Give me a cup of sack to"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"make my eyes look red, that it may be thought I have"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"wept; for I must speak in passion, and I will do it"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"in King Cambyses' vein."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Well, here is my leg."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"And here is my speech. Stand aside, nobility."
II,IV,Hostess,"O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i' faith!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Weep not, sweet queen; for trickling tears are vain."
II,IV,Hostess,"O, the father, how he holds his countenance!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful queen;"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"For tears do stop the flood-gates of her eyes."
II,IV,Hostess,"O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry"
II,IV,Hostess,"players as ever I see!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Peace, good pint-pot; peace, good tickle-brain."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"time, but also how thou art accompanied: for though"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"sooner it wears. That thou art my son, I have"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"partly thy mother's word, partly my own opinion,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"but chiefly a villanous trick of thine eye and a"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"foolish-hanging of thy nether lip, that doth warrant"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"me. If then thou be son to me, here lies the point;"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"why, being son to me, art thou so pointed at? Shall"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"blackberries? a question not to be asked. Shall"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"the sun of England prove a thief and take purses? a"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"question to be asked. There is a thing, Harry,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"which thou hast often heard of and it is known to"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"many in our land by the name of pitch: this pitch,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"as ancient writers do report, doth defile; so doth"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"the company thou keepest: for, Harry, now I do not"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"woes also: and yet there is a virtuous man whom I"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"have often noted in thy company, but I know not his name."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"What manner of man, an it like your majesty?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"cheerful look, a pleasing eye and a most noble"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"by'r lady, inclining to three score; and now I"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"remember me, his name is Falstaff: if that man"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me; for, Harry,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"I see virtue in his looks. If then the tree may be"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"peremptorily I speak it, there is virtue in that"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Falstaff: him keep with, the rest banish. And tell"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"me now, thou naughty varlet, tell me, where hast"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"thou been this month?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Dost thou speak like a king? Do thou stand for me,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"and I'll play my father."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Depose me? if thou dost it half so gravely, so"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"majestically, both in word and matter, hang me up by"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"the heels for a rabbit-sucker or a poulter's hare."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Well, here I am set."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"And here I stand: judge, my masters."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Now, Harry, whence come you?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"My noble lord, from Eastcheap."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"The complaints I hear of thee are grievous."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"'Sblood, my lord, they are false: nay, I'll tickle"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"ye for a young prince, i' faith."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Swearest thou, ungracious boy? henceforth ne'er look"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"on me. Thou art violently carried away from grace:"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion. Why"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"years? Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"drink it? wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"capon and eat it? wherein cunning, but in craft?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"wherein crafty, but in villany? wherein villanous,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"but in all things? wherein worthy, but in nothing?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"I would your grace would take me with you: whom"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"means your grace?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"That villanous abominable misleader of youth,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Falstaff, that old white-bearded Satan."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"My lord, the man I know."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I know thou dost."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"But to say I know more harm in him than in myself,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"were to say more than I know. That he is old, the"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"more the pity, his white hairs do witness it; but"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I do, I will."
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"O, my lord, my lord! the sheriff with a most"
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"monstrous watch is at the door."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Out, ye rogue! Play out the play: I have much to"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"say in the behalf of that Falstaff."
II,IV,Hostess,"O Jesu, my lord, my lord!"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Heigh, heigh! the devil rides upon a fiddlestick:"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"what's the matter?"
II,IV,Hostess,"The sheriff and all the watch are at the door: they"
II,IV,Hostess,"are come to search the house. Shall I let them in?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Dost thou hear, Hal? never call a true piece of"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"gold a counterfeit: thou art essentially mad,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"without seeming so."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"And thou a natural coward, without instinct."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"I deny your major: if you will deny the sheriff,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"so; if not, let him enter: if I become not a cart"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"as well as another man, a plague on my bringing up!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"I hope I shall as soon be strangled with a halter as another."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Go, hide thee behind the arras: the rest walk up"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"above. Now, my masters, for a true face and good"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"conscience."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Both which I have had: but their date is out, and"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"therefore I'll hide me."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Call in the sheriff."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Now, master sheriff, what is your will with me?"
II,IV,Sheriff,"First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and cry"
II,IV,Sheriff,"Hath follow'd certain men unto this house."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"What men?"
II,IV,Sheriff,"One of them is well known, my gracious lord,"
II,IV,Sheriff,"A gross fat man."
II,IV,Carrier,"As fat as butter."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"The man, I do assure you, is not here;"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"For I myself at this time have employ'd him."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"That I will, by to-morrow dinner-time,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Send him to answer thee, or any man,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"For any thing he shall be charged withal:"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"And so let me entreat you leave the house."
II,IV,Sheriff,"I will, my lord. There are two gentlemen"
II,IV,Sheriff,"Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"It may be so: if he have robb'd these men,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"He shall be answerable; and so farewell."
II,IV,Sheriff,"Good night, my noble lord."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I think it is good morrow, is it not?"
II,IV,Sheriff,"Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's. Go,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"call him forth."
II,IV,PETO,"Falstaff!--Fast asleep behind the arras, and"
II,IV,PETO,"snorting like a horse."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Hark, how hard he fetches breath. Search his pockets."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"What hast thou found?"
II,IV,PETO,"Nothing but papers, my lord."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Let's see what they be: read them."
II,IV,PETO,"Item, Sauce,. . . 4d."
II,IV,PETO,"Item, Sack, two gallons, 5s. 8d."
II,IV,PETO,"Item, Anchovies and sack after supper, 2s. 6d."
II,IV,PETO,"Item, Bread,        ob."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"O monstrous! but one half-penny-worth of bread to"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"this intolerable deal of sack! What there is else,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"keep close; we'll read it at more advantage: there"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"let him sleep till day. I'll to the court in the"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"morning. We must all to the wars, and thy place"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"shall be honourable. I'll procure this fat rogue a"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"charge of foot; and I know his death will be a"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"march of twelve-score. The money shall be paid"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"back again with advantage. Be with me betimes in"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"the morning; and so, good morrow, Peto."
II,IV,PETO,"Good morrow, good my lord."
III,I,MORTIMER,"These promises are fair, the parties sure,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"And our induction full of prosperous hope."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Lord Mortimer, and cousin Glendower,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Will you sit down?"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And uncle Worcester: a plague upon it!"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"I have forgot the map."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"No, here it is."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur,"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"For by that name as oft as Lancaster"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Doth speak of you, his cheek looks pale and with"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"A rising sigh he wisheth you in heaven."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And you in hell, as oft as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"I cannot blame him: at my nativity"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Of burning cressets; and at my birth"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"The frame and huge foundation of the earth"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Shaked like a coward."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Why, so it would have done at the same season, if"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"your mother's cat had but kittened, though yourself"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"had never been born."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"I say the earth did shake when I was born."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And I say the earth was not of my mind,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"If you suppose as fearing you it shook."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And not in fear of your nativity."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"By the imprisoning of unruly wind"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Our grandam earth, having this distemperature,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"In passion shook."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Cousin, of many men"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"To tell you once again that at my birth"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"These signs have mark'd me extraordinary;"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"And all the courses of my life do show"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"I am not in the roll of common men."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Where is he living, clipp'd in with the sea"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"And bring him out that is but woman's son"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Can trace me in the tedious ways of art"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"And hold me pace in deep experiments."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"I think there's no man speaks better Welsh."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"I'll to dinner."
III,I,MORTIMER,"Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him mad."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"I can call spirits from the vasty deep."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Why, so can I, or so can any man;"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"But will they come when you do call for them?"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"The devil."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Bootless home and weather-beaten back."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Home without boots, and in foul weather too!"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name?"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Come, here's the map: shall we divide our right"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"According to our threefold order ta'en?"
III,I,MORTIMER,"The archdeacon hath divided it"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Into three limits very equally:"
III,I,MORTIMER,"England, from Trent and Severn hitherto,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"By south and east is to my part assign'd:"
III,I,MORTIMER,"All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"And all the fertile land within that bound,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"To Owen Glendower: and, dear coz, to you"
III,I,MORTIMER,"The remnant northward, lying off from Trent."
III,I,MORTIMER,"And our indentures tripartite are drawn;"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Which being sealed interchangeably,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"A business that this night may execute,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"To-morrow, cousin Percy, you and I"
III,I,MORTIMER,"And my good Lord of Worcester will set forth"
III,I,MORTIMER,"To meet your father and the Scottish power,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury."
III,I,MORTIMER,"My father Glendower is not ready yet,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Not shall we need his help these fourteen days."
III,I,MORTIMER,"Within that space you may have drawn together"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Your tenants, friends and neighbouring gentlemen."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"A shorter time shall send me to you, lords:"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"And in my conduct shall your ladies come;"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"From whom you now must steal and take no leave,"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"For there will be a world of water shed"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Upon the parting of your wives and you."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"In quantity equals not one of yours:"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"See how this river comes me cranking in,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And cuts me from the best of all my land"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"I'll have the current in this place damm'd up;"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And here the smug and silver Trent shall run"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"In a new channel, fair and evenly;"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"It shall not wind with such a deep indent,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"To rob me of so rich a bottom here."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Not wind? it shall, it must; you see it doth."
III,I,MORTIMER,"Yea, but"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Mark how he bears his course, and runs me up"
III,I,MORTIMER,"With like advantage on the other side;"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Gelding the opposed continent as much"
III,I,MORTIMER,"As on the other side it takes from you."
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Yea, but a little charge will trench him here"
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And on this north side win this cape of land;"
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And then he runs straight and even."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"I'll have it so: a little charge will do it."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"I'll not have it alter'd."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Will not you?"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"No, nor you shall not."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Who shall say me nay?"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Why, that will I."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Let me not understand you, then; speak it in Welsh."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"I can speak English, lord, as well as you;"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"For I was train'd up in the English court;"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Where, being but young, I framed to the harp"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Many an English ditty lovely well"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"And gave the tongue a helpful ornament,"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"A virtue that was never seen in you."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Marry,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And I am glad of it with all my heart:"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"I had rather be a kitten and cry mew"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers;"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree;"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Nothing so much as mincing poetry:"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Come, you shall have Trent turn'd."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"I do not care: I'll give thrice so much land"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"To any well-deserving friend;"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"But in the way of bargain, mark ye me,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Are the indentures drawn? shall we be gone?"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"The moon shines fair; you may away by night:"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"I'll haste the writer and withal"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Break with your wives of your departure hence:"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"I am afraid my daughter will run mad,"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"So much she doteth on her Mortimer."
III,I,MORTIMER,"Fie, cousin Percy! how you cross my father!"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"I cannot choose: sometime he angers me"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"With telling me of the mouldwarp and the ant,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And of a dragon and a finless fish,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"A clip-wing'd griffin and a moulten raven,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"A couching lion and a ramping cat,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"As puts me from my faith. I tell you what;"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"He held me last night at least nine hours"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"In reckoning up the several devils' names"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"That were his lackeys: I cried 'hum,' and 'well, go to,'"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"But mark'd him not a word. O, he is as tedious"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"As a tired horse, a railing wife;"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Worse than a smoky house: I had rather live"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Than feed on cates and have him talk to me"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"In any summer-house in Christendom."
III,I,MORTIMER,"In faith, he is a worthy gentleman,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Exceedingly well read, and profited"
III,I,MORTIMER,"In strange concealments, valiant as a lion"
III,I,MORTIMER,"And as wondrous affable and as bountiful"
III,I,MORTIMER,"As mines of India. Shall I tell you, cousin?"
III,I,MORTIMER,"He holds your temper in a high respect"
III,I,MORTIMER,"And curbs himself even of his natural scope"
III,I,MORTIMER,"When you come 'cross his humour; faith, he does:"
III,I,MORTIMER,"I warrant you, that man is not alive"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Might so have tempted him as you have done,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Without the taste of danger and reproof:"
III,I,MORTIMER,"But do not use it oft, let me entreat you."
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"In faith, my lord, you are too wilful-blame;"
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And since your coming hither have done enough"
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"To put him quite beside his patience."
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault:"
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood,--"
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And that's the dearest grace it renders you,--"
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage,"
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Defect of manners, want of government,"
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Pride, haughtiness, opinion and disdain:"
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The least of which haunting a nobleman"
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Loseth men's hearts and leaves behind a stain"
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Upon the beauty of all parts besides,"
III,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Beguiling them of commendation."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Well, I am school'd: good manners be your speed!"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Here come our wives, and let us take our leave."
III,I,MORTIMER,"This is the deadly spite that angers me;"
III,I,MORTIMER,"My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"My daughter weeps: she will not part with you;"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"She'll be a soldier too, she'll to the wars."
III,I,MORTIMER,"Good father, tell her that she and my aunt Percy"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Shall follow in your conduct speedily."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"She is desperate here; a peevish self-wind harlotry,"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"one that no persuasion can do good upon."
III,I,MORTIMER,"I understand thy looks: that pretty Welsh"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Which thou pour'st down from these swelling heavens"
III,I,MORTIMER,"I am too perfect in; and, but for shame,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"In such a parley should I answer thee."
III,I,MORTIMER,"I understand thy kisses and thou mine,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"And that's a feeling disputation:"
III,I,MORTIMER,"But I will never be a truant, love,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Till I have learned thy language; for thy tongue"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,"
III,I,MORTIMER,"With ravishing division, to her lute."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad."
III,I,MORTIMER,"O, I am ignorance itself in this!"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"And rest your gentle head upon her lap,"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"And she will sing the song that pleaseth you"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"As is the difference betwixt day and night"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Begins his golden progress in the east."
III,I,MORTIMER,"With all my heart I'll sit and hear her sing:"
III,I,MORTIMER,"By that time will our book, I think, be drawn"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Do so;"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"And those musicians that shall play to you"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"And straight they shall be here: sit, and attend."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down: come,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap."
III,I,LADY PERCY,"Go, ye giddy goose."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh;"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"By'r lady, he is a good musician."
III,I,LADY PERCY,"Then should you be nothing but musical for you are"
III,I,LADY PERCY,"altogether governed by humours. Lie still, ye thief,"
III,I,LADY PERCY,"and hear the lady sing in Welsh."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish."
III,I,LADY PERCY,"Wouldst thou have thy head broken?"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"No."
III,I,LADY PERCY,"Then be still."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Neither;'tis a woman's fault."
III,I,LADY PERCY,"Now God help thee!"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"To the Welsh lady's bed."
III,I,LADY PERCY,"What's that?"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Peace! she sings."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Come, Kate, I'll have your song too."
III,I,LADY PERCY,"Not mine, in good sooth."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Not yours, in good sooth! Heart! you swear like a"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"comfit-maker's wife. 'Not you, in good sooth,' and"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"'as true as I live,' and 'as God shall mend me,' and"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"'as sure as day,'"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And givest such sarcenet surety for thy oaths,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"As if thou never walk'st further than Finsbury."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"A good mouth-filling oath, and leave 'in sooth,'"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"And such protest of pepper-gingerbread,"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"To velvet-guards and Sunday-citizens."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"Come, sing."
III,I,LADY PERCY,"I will not sing."
III,I,HOTSPUR,"'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be red-breast"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"teacher. An the indentures be drawn, I'll away"
III,I,HOTSPUR,"within these two hours; and so, come in when ye will."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"Come, come, Lord Mortimer; you are as slow"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go."
III,I,GLENDOWER,"By this our book is drawn; we'll but seal,"
III,I,GLENDOWER,"And then to horse immediately."
III,I,MORTIMER,"With all my heart."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Lords, give us leave; the Prince of Wales and I"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Must have some private conference; but be near at hand,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"For we shall presently have need of you."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"I know not whether God will have it so,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"For some displeasing service I have done,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"That, in his secret doom, out of my blood"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me;"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"But thou dost in thy passages of life"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Make me believe that thou art only mark'd"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Could such inordinate and low desires,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Such barren pleasures, rude society,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"As thou art match'd withal and grafted to,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Accompany the greatness of thy blood"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"And hold their level with thy princely heart?"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"So please your majesty, I would I could"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Quit all offences with as clear excuse"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"As well as I am doubtless I can purge"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Myself of many I am charged withal:"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Yet such extenuation let me beg,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"As, in reproof of many tales devised,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"By smiling pick-thanks and base news-mongers,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"I may, for some things true, wherein my youth"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Hath faulty wander'd and irregular,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Find pardon on my true submission."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"God pardon thee! yet let me wonder, Harry,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"At thy affections, which do hold a wing"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Which by thy younger brother is supplied,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"And art almost an alien to the hearts"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Of all the court and princes of my blood:"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"The hope and expectation of thy time"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Is ruin'd, and the soul of every man"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Prophetically doth forethink thy fall."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Had I so lavish of my presence been,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"So stale and cheap to vulgar company,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Opinion, that did help me to the crown,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Had still kept loyal to possession"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"And left me in reputeless banishment,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"A fellow of no mark nor likelihood."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"By being seldom seen, I could not stir"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"But like a comet I was wonder'd at;"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"That men would tell their children 'This is he;'"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Others would say 'Where, which is Bolingbroke?'"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"And then I stole all courtesy from heaven,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"And dress'd myself in such humility"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Even in the presence of the crowned king."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Thus did I keep my person fresh and new;"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"My presence, like a robe pontifical,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Ne'er seen but wonder'd at: and so my state,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"And won by rareness such solemnity."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"The skipping king, he ambled up and down"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Soon kindled and soon burnt; carded his state,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Mingled his royalty with capering fools,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Had his great name profaned with their scorns"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"And gave his countenance, against his name,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"To laugh at gibing boys and stand the push"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Of every beardless vain comparative,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Grew a companion to the common streets,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Enfeoff'd himself to popularity;"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"That, being daily swallow'd by men's eyes,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"They surfeited with honey and began"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"More than a little is by much too much."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"So when he had occasion to be seen,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"He was but as the cuckoo is in June,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Heard, not regarded; seen, but with such eyes"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"As, sick and blunted with community,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Afford no extraordinary gaze,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Such as is bent on sun-like majesty"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"When it shines seldom in admiring eyes;"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"But rather drowzed and hung their eyelids down,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Slept in his face and render'd such aspect"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"As cloudy men use to their adversaries,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Being with his presence glutted, gorged and full."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"And in that very line, Harry, standest thou;"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"For thou has lost thy princely privilege"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"With vile participation: not an eye"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"But is a-weary of thy common sight,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Save mine, which hath desired to see thee more;"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Which now doth that I would not have it do,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Make blind itself with foolish tenderness."
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious lord,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Be more myself."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"For all the world"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"As thou art to this hour was Richard then"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"And even as I was then is Percy now."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Now, by my sceptre and my soul to boot,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"He hath more worthy interest to the state"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Than thou the shadow of succession;"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"For of no right, nor colour like to right,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"He doth fill fields with harness in the realm,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Turns head against the lion's armed jaws,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"And, being no more in debt to years than thou,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"To bloody battles and to bruising arms."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"What never-dying honour hath he got"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Against renowned Douglas! whose high deeds,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Whose hot incursions and great name in arms"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Holds from all soldiers chief majority"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"And military title capital"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ:"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Thrice hath this Hotspur, Mars in swathling clothes,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"This infant warrior, in his enterprises"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Discomfited great Douglas, ta'en him once,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Enlarged him and made a friend of him,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"To fill the mouth of deep defiance up"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"And shake the peace and safety of our throne."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"And what say you to this? Percy, Northumberland,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"The Archbishop's grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Capitulate against us and are up."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"But wherefore do I tell these news to thee?"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Which art my near'st and dearest enemy?"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Thou that art like enough, through vassal fear,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Base inclination and the start of spleen"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"To fight against me under Percy's pay,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"To dog his heels and curtsy at his frowns,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"To show how much thou art degenerate."
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Do not think so; you shall not find it so:"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And God forgive them that so much have sway'd"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Your majesty's good thoughts away from me!"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"I will redeem all this on Percy's head"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And in the closing of some glorious day"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Be bold to tell you that I am your son;"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"When I will wear a garment all of blood"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And stain my favours in a bloody mask,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Which, wash'd away, shall scour my shame with it:"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And that shall be the day, whene'er it lights,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"That this same child of honour and renown,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"This gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And your unthought-of Harry chance to meet."
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"For every honour sitting on his helm,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Would they were multitudes, and on my head"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"My shames redoubled! for the time will come,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"That I shall make this northern youth exchange"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"His glorious deeds for my indignities."
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Percy is but my factor, good my lord,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf;"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And I will call him to so strict account,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"That he shall render every glory up,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart."
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"This, in the name of God, I promise here:"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"The which if He be pleased I shall perform,"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"I do beseech your majesty may salve"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"The long-grown wounds of my intemperance:"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"If not, the end of life cancels all bands;"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And I will die a hundred thousand deaths"
III,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"A hundred thousand rebels die in this:"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"How now, good Blunt? thy looks are full of speed."
III,II,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"So hath the business that I come to speak of."
III,II,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word"
III,II,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"That Douglas and the English rebels met"
III,II,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury"
III,II,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"A mighty and a fearful head they are,"
III,II,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"If promises be kept on every hand,"
III,II,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"As ever offer'd foul play in the state."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"The Earl of Westmoreland set forth to-day;"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"With him my son, Lord John of Lancaster;"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"For this advertisement is five days old:"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"On Wednesday next, Harry, you shall set forward;"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"On Thursday we ourselves will march: our meeting"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Is Bridgenorth: and, Harry, you shall march"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Through Gloucestershire; by which account,"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Our business valued, some twelve days hence"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Our general forces at Bridgenorth shall meet."
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Our hands are full of business: let's away;"
III,II,KING HENRY IV,"Advantage feeds him fat, while men delay."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why my"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"skin hangs about me like an like an old lady's loose"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"gown; I am withered like an old apple-john. Well,"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"shall have no strength to repent. An I have not"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse: the inside of a"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"church! Company, villanous company, hath been the"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"spoil of me."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,BARDOLPH,"Sir John, you are so fretful, you cannot live long."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Why, there is it: come sing me a bawdy song; make"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"me merry. I was as virtuously given as a gentleman"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"good compass: and now I live out of all order, out"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"of all compass."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,BARDOLPH,"Why, you are so fat, Sir John, that you must needs"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,BARDOLPH,"be out of all compass, out of all reasonable"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,BARDOLPH,"compass, Sir John."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life:"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"the poop, but 'tis in the nose of thee; thou art the"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Knight of the Burning Lamp."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,BARDOLPH,"Why, Sir John, my face does you no harm."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"No, I'll be sworn; I make as good use of it as many"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"a man doth of a Death's-head or a memento mori: I"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire and"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Dives that lived in purple; for there he is in his"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"robes, burning, burning. If thou wert any way"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"given to virtue, I would swear by thy face; my oath"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"should be 'By this fire, that's God's angel:' but"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"thou art altogether given over; and wert indeed, but"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"for the light in thy face, the son of utter"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"darkness. When thou rannest up Gadshill in the"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"night to catch my horse, if I did not think thou"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"hadst been an ignis fatuus or a ball of wildfire,"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"there's no purchase in money. O, thou art a"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"perpetual triumph, an everlasting bonfire-light!"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"torches, walking with thee in the night betwixt"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"tavern and tavern: but the sack that thou hast"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"at the dearest chandler's in Europe. I have"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"maintained that salamander of yours with fire any"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"time this two and thirty years; God reward me for"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"it!"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,BARDOLPH,"'Sblood, I would my face were in your belly!"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"God-a-mercy! so should I be sure to be heart-burned."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"How now, Dame Partlet the hen! have you inquired"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"yet who picked my pocket?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"Why, Sir John, what do you think, Sir John? do you"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"think I keep thieves in my house? I have searched,"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"I have inquired, so has my husband, man by man, boy"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"by boy, servant by servant: the tithe of a hair"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"was never lost in my house before."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Ye lie, hostess: Bardolph was shaved and lost many"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"a hair; and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked. Go"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"to, you are a woman, go."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"Who, I? no; I defy thee: God's light, I was never"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"called so in mine own house before."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Go to, I know you well enough."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"No, Sir John; You do not know me, Sir John. I know"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"you, Sir John: you owe me money, Sir John; and now"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it: I bought"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"you a dozen of shirts to your back."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given them away to"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"bakers' wives, and they have made bolters of them."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"Now, as I am a true woman, holland of eight"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"shillings an ell. You owe money here besides, Sir"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"John, for your diet and by-drinkings, and money lent"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"you, four and twenty pound."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"He had his part of it; let him pay."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"He? alas, he is poor; he hath nothing."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"How! poor? look upon his face; what call you rich?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"let them coin his nose, let them coin his cheeks:"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Ill not pay a denier. What, will you make a younker"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"of me? shall I not take mine case in mine inn but I"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"shall have my pocket picked? I have lost a"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"seal-ring of my grandfather's worth forty mark."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"O Jesu, I have heard the prince tell him, I know not"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"how oft, that ring was copper!"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"How! the prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup: 'sblood, an"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"he were here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"would say so."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"How now, lad! is the wind in that door, i' faith?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"must we all march?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,BARDOLPH,"Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"My lord, I pray you, hear me."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"What sayest thou, Mistress Quickly? How doth thy"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"husband? I love him well; he is an honest man."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"Good my lord, hear me."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Prithee, let her alone, and list to me."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"What sayest thou, Jack?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"The other night I fell asleep here behind the arras"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"and had my pocket picked: this house is turned"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"bawdy-house; they pick pockets."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"What didst thou lose, Jack?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Wilt thou believe me, Hal? three or four bonds of"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"forty pound apiece, and a seal-ring of my"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"grandfather's."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"A trifle, some eight-penny matter."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"So I told him, my lord; and I said I heard your"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"grace say so: and, my lord, he speaks most vilely"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"of you, like a foul-mouthed man as he is; and said"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"he would cudgel you."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"What! he did not?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"There's neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in me else."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"prune; nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"fox; and for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"deputy's wife of the ward to thee. Go, you thing,"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"go"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"Say, what thing? what thing?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"What thing! why, a thing to thank God on."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"I am no thing to thank God on, I would thou"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"shouldst know it; I am an honest man's wife: and,"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"call me so."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast to say"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"otherwise."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"What beast! why, an otter."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"An otter, Sir John! Why an otter?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Why, she's neither fish nor flesh; a man knows not"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"where to have her."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"Thou art an unjust man in saying so: thou or any"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"man knows where to have me, thou knave, thou!"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"Thou sayest true, hostess; and he slanders thee most grossly."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"So he doth you, my lord; and said this other day you"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"ought him a thousand pound."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"A thousand pound, Ha! a million: thy love is worth"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"a million: thou owest me thy love."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"Nay, my lord, he called you Jack, and said he would"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,Hostess,"cudgel you."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Did I, Bardolph?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,BARDOLPH,"Indeed, Sir John, you said so."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Yea, if he said my ring was copper."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"I say 'tis copper: darest thou be as good as thy word now?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Why, Hal, thou knowest, as thou art but man, I dare:"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"but as thou art prince, I fear thee as I fear the"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"roaring of a lion's whelp."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"And why not as the lion?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"The king is to be feared as the lion: dost thou"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"think I'll fear thee as I fear thy father? nay, an"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"I do, I pray God my girdle break."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"O, if it should, how would thy guts fall about thy"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"knees! But, sirrah, there's no room for faith,"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"truth, nor honesty in this bosom of thine; it is all"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"filled up with guts and midriff. Charge an honest"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"woman with picking thy pocket! why, thou whoreson,"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"impudent, embossed rascal, if there were anything in"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"thy pocket but tavern-reckonings, memorandums of"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"bawdy-houses, and one poor penny-worth of"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"sugar-candy to make thee long-winded, if thy pocket"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"were enriched with any other injuries but these, I"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"am a villain: and yet you will stand to if; you will"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"not pocket up wrong: art thou not ashamed?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Dost thou hear, Hal? thou knowest in the state of"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"innocency Adam fell; and what should poor Jack"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Falstaff do in the days of villany? Thou seest I"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"have more flesh than another man, and therefore more"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"frailty. You confess then, you picked my pocket?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"It appears so by the story."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Hostess, I forgive thee: go, make ready breakfast;"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"love thy husband, look to thy servants, cherish thy"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"guests: thou shalt find me tractable to any honest"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"reason: thou seest I am pacified still. Nay,"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"prithee, be gone."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Now Hal, to the news at court: for the robbery,"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"lad, how is that answered?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel to"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"thee: the money is paid back again."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"O, I do not like that paying back; 'tis a double labour."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"I am good friends with my father and may do any thing."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou doest, and"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"do it with unwashed hands too."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,BARDOLPH,"Do, my lord."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"I have procured thee, Jack, a charge of foot."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"I would it had been of horse. Where shall I find"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"one that can steal well? O for a fine thief, of the"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"age of two and twenty or thereabouts! I am"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"heinously unprovided. Well, God be thanked for"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"these rebels, they offend none but the virtuous: I"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"laud them, I praise them."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"Bardolph!"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,BARDOLPH,"My lord?"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"Go bear this letter to Lord John of Lancaster, to my"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"brother John; this to my Lord of Westmoreland."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"Go, Peto, to horse, to horse; for thou and I have"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner time."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"Jack, meet me to-morrow in the temple hall at two"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"o'clock in the afternoon."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"There shalt thou know thy charge; and there receive"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"Money and order for their furniture."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"The land is burning; Percy stands on high;"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,PRINCE HENRY,"And either we or they must lower lie."
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"Rare words! brave world! Hostess, my breakfast, come!"
III,Scene III  Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.,FALSTAFF,"O, I could wish this tavern were my drum!"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Well said, my noble Scot: if speaking truth"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"In this fine age were not thought flattery,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Such attribution should the Douglas have,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"As not a soldier of this season's stamp"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Should go so general current through the world."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"By God, I cannot flatter; I do defy"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"The tongues of soothers; but a braver place"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"In my heart's love hath no man than yourself:"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord."
IV,I,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Thou art the king of honour:"
IV,I,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"No man so potent breathes upon the ground"
IV,I,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"But I will beard him."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Do so, and 'tis well."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"What letters hast thou there?--I can but thank you."
IV,I,Messenger,"These letters come from your father."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Letters from him! why comes he not himself?"
IV,I,Messenger,"He cannot come, my lord; he is grievous sick."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"'Zounds! how has he the leisure to be sick"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"In such a rustling time? Who leads his power?"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Under whose government come they along?"
IV,I,Messenger,"His letters bear his mind, not I, my lord."
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"I prithee, tell me, doth he keep his bed?"
IV,I,Messenger,"He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth;"
IV,I,Messenger,"And at the time of my departure thence"
IV,I,Messenger,"He was much fear'd by his physicians."
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"I would the state of time had first been whole"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Ere he by sickness had been visited:"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"His health was never better worth than now."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Sick now! droop now! this sickness doth infect"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"The very life-blood of our enterprise;"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"'Tis catching hither, even to our camp."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"He writes me here, that inward sickness--"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"And that his friends by deputation could not"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"So soon be drawn, nor did he think it meet"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"To lay so dangerous and dear a trust"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"On any soul removed but on his own."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Yet doth he give us bold advertisement,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"That with our small conjunction we should on,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"To see how fortune is disposed to us;"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"For, as he writes, there is no quailing now."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Because the king is certainly possess'd"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Of all our purposes. What say you to it?"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Your father's sickness is a maim to us."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"A perilous gash, a very limb lopp'd off:"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"And yet, in faith, it is not; his present want"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Seems more than we shall find it: were it good"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"To set the exact wealth of all our states"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"All at one cast? to set so rich a main"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"It were not good; for therein should we read"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"The very bottom and the soul of hope,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"The very list, the very utmost bound"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Of all our fortunes."
IV,I,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"'Faith, and so we should;"
IV,I,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Where now remains a sweet reversion:"
IV,I,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"We may boldly spend upon the hope of what"
IV,I,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Is to come in:"
IV,I,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"A comfort of retirement lives in this."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"A rendezvous, a home to fly unto."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"If that the devil and mischance look big"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Upon the maidenhead of our affairs."
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"But yet I would your father had been here."
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The quality and hair of our attempt"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Brooks no division: it will be thought"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"By some, that know not why he is away,"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"That wisdom, loyalty and mere dislike"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Of our proceedings kept the earl from hence:"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And think how such an apprehension"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"May turn the tide of fearful faction"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And breed a kind of question in our cause;"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"For well you know we of the offering side"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement,"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The eye of reason may pry in upon us:"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"This absence of your father's draws a curtain,"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"That shows the ignorant a kind of fear"
IV,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Before not dreamt of."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"You strain too far."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"I rather of his absence make this use:"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"It lends a lustre and more great opinion,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"A larger dare to our great enterprise,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Than if the earl were here; for men must think,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"If we without his help can make a head"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"To push against a kingdom, with his help"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"We shall o'erturn it topsy-turvy down."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Yet all goes well, yet all our joints are whole."
IV,I,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"As heart can think: there is not such a word"
IV,I,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"My cousin Vernon, welcome, by my soul."
IV,I,VERNON,"Pray God my news be worth a welcome, lord."
IV,I,VERNON,"The Earl of Westmoreland, seven thousand strong,"
IV,I,VERNON,"Is marching hitherwards; with him Prince John."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"No harm: what more?"
IV,I,VERNON,"And further, I have learn'd,"
IV,I,VERNON,"The king himself in person is set forth,"
IV,I,VERNON,"Or hitherwards intended speedily,"
IV,I,VERNON,"With strong and mighty preparation."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"He shall be welcome too. Where is his son,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"And his comrades, that daff'd the world aside,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"And bid it pass?"
IV,I,VERNON,"All furnish'd, all in arms;"
IV,I,VERNON,"All plumed like estridges that with the wind"
IV,I,VERNON,"Baited like eagles having lately bathed;"
IV,I,VERNON,"Glittering in golden coats, like images;"
IV,I,VERNON,"As full of spirit as the month of May,"
IV,I,VERNON,"And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;"
IV,I,VERNON,"Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls."
IV,I,VERNON,"I saw young Harry, with his beaver on,"
IV,I,VERNON,"His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd"
IV,I,VERNON,"Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury,"
IV,I,VERNON,"And vaulted with such ease into his seat,"
IV,I,VERNON,"As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds,"
IV,I,VERNON,"To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus"
IV,I,VERNON,"And witch the world with noble horsemanship."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"No more, no more: worse than the sun in March,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come:"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"They come like sacrifices in their trim,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"All hot and bleeding will we offer them:"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Up to the ears in blood. I am on fire"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"And yet not ours. Come, let me taste my horse,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales:"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corse."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"O that Glendower were come!"
IV,I,VERNON,"There is more news:"
IV,I,VERNON,"I learn'd in Worcester, as I rode along,"
IV,I,VERNON,"He cannot draw his power this fourteen days."
IV,I,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet."
IV,I,WORCESTER,"Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"What may the king's whole battle reach unto?"
IV,I,VERNON,"To thirty thousand."
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Forty let it be:"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"My father and Glendower being both away,"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"The powers of us may serve so great a day"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Come, let us take a muster speedily:"
IV,I,HOTSPUR,"Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily."
IV,I,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Talk not of dying: I am out of fear"
IV,I,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Of death or death's hand for this one-half year."
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry; fill me a"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"bottle of sack: our soldiers shall march through;"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"we'll to Sutton Co'fil' tonight."
IV,II,BARDOLPH,"Will you give me money, captain?"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"Lay out, lay out."
IV,II,BARDOLPH,"This bottle makes an angel."
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"An if it do, take it for thy labour; and if it make"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"twenty, take them all; I'll answer the coinage. Bid"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"my lieutenant Peto meet me at town's end."
IV,II,BARDOLPH,"I will, captain: farewell."
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"gurnet. I have misused the king's press damnably."
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"I have got, in exchange of a hundred and fifty"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"soldiers, three hundred and odd pounds. I press me"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"none but good house-holders, yeoman's sons; inquire"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"me out contracted bachelors, such as had been asked"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"twice on the banns; such a commodity of warm slaves,"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"as had as lieve hear the devil as a drum; such as"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"fear the report of a caliver worse than a struck"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"fowl or a hurt wild-duck. I pressed me none but such"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"toasts-and-butter, with hearts in their bellies no"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"bigger than pins' heads, and they have bought out"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"their services; and now my whole charge consists of"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"ancients, corporals, lieutenants, gentlemen of"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"companies, slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked his"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"sores; and such as indeed were never soldiers, but"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"discarded unjust serving-men, younger sons to"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"younger brothers, revolted tapsters and ostlers"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"trade-fallen, the cankers of a calm world and a"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"long peace, ten times more dishonourable ragged than"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"an old faced ancient: and such have I, to fill up"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"the rooms of them that have bought out their"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"services, that you would think that I had a hundred"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"and fifty tattered prodigals lately come from"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. A mad"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march through"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"Coventry with them, that's flat: nay, and the"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"prison. There's but a shirt and a half in all my"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"company; and the half shirt is two napkins tacked"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"together and thrown over the shoulders like an"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"herald's coat without sleeves; and the shirt, to say"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"the truth, stolen from my host at Saint Alban's, or"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"the red-nose innkeeper of Daventry. But that's all"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"one; they'll find linen enough on every hedge."
IV,II,PRINCE HENRY,"How now, blown Jack! how now, quilt!"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"What, Hal! how now, mad wag! what a devil dost thou"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"in Warwickshire? My good Lord of Westmoreland, I"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"cry you mercy: I thought your honour had already been"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"at Shrewsbury."
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"Faith, Sir John,'tis more than time that I were"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"there, and you too; but my powers are there already."
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"The king, I can tell you, looks for us all: we must"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"away all night."
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"Tut, never fear me: I am as vigilant as a cat to"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"steal cream."
IV,II,PRINCE HENRY,"I think, to steal cream indeed, for thy theft hath"
IV,II,PRINCE HENRY,"already made thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose"
IV,II,PRINCE HENRY,"fellows are these that come after?"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"Mine, Hal, mine."
IV,II,PRINCE HENRY,"I did never see such pitiful rascals."
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder, food"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better:"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"tush, man, mortal men, mortal men."
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"Ay, but, Sir John, methinks they are exceeding poor"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"and bare, too beggarly."
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"'Faith, for their poverty, I know not where they had"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"that; and for their bareness, I am sure they never"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"learned that of me."
IV,II,PRINCE HENRY,"No I'll be sworn; unless you call three fingers on"
IV,II,PRINCE HENRY,"the ribs bare. But, sirrah, make haste: Percy is"
IV,II,PRINCE HENRY,"already in the field."
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"What, is the king encamped?"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"He is, Sir John: I fear we shall stay too long."
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"Well,"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"We'll fight with him to-night."
IV,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"It may not be."
IV,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"You give him then the advantage."
IV,III,VERNON,"Not a whit."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Why say you so? looks he not for supply?"
IV,III,VERNON,"So do we."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"His is certain, ours is doubtful."
IV,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Good cousin, be advised; stir not tonight."
IV,III,VERNON,"Do not, my lord."
IV,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"You do not counsel well:"
IV,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"You speak it out of fear and cold heart."
IV,III,VERNON,"Do me no slander, Douglas: by my life,"
IV,III,VERNON,"And I dare well maintain it with my life,"
IV,III,VERNON,"If well-respected honour bid me on,"
IV,III,VERNON,"I hold as little counsel with weak fear"
IV,III,VERNON,"As you, my lord, or any Scot that this day lives:"
IV,III,VERNON,"Let it be seen to-morrow in the battle"
IV,III,VERNON,"Which of us fears."
IV,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Yea, or to-night."
IV,III,VERNON,"Content."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"To-night, say I."
IV,III,VERNON,"Come, come it nay not be. I wonder much,"
IV,III,VERNON,"Being men of such great leading as you are,"
IV,III,VERNON,"That you foresee not what impediments"
IV,III,VERNON,"Drag back our expedition: certain horse"
IV,III,VERNON,"Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up:"
IV,III,VERNON,"Your uncle Worcester's horse came but today;"
IV,III,VERNON,"And now their pride and mettle is asleep,"
IV,III,VERNON,"Their courage with hard labour tame and dull,"
IV,III,VERNON,"That not a horse is half the half of himself."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"So are the horses of the enemy"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"In general, journey-bated and brought low:"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"The better part of ours are full of rest."
IV,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The number of the king exceedeth ours:"
IV,III,EARL OF WORCESTER,"For God's sake. cousin, stay till all come in."
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"I come with gracious offers from the king,"
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"if you vouchsafe me hearing and respect."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt; and would to God"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"You were of our determination!"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Some of us love you well; and even those some"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Envy your great deservings and good name,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Because you are not of our quality,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"But stand against us like an enemy."
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"And God defend but still I should stand so,"
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"So long as out of limit and true rule"
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"You stand against anointed majesty."
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"But to my charge. The king hath sent to know"
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"The nature of your griefs, and whereupon"
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"You conjure from the breast of civil peace"
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"Such bold hostility, teaching his duteous land"
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"Audacious cruelty. If that the king"
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"Have any way your good deserts forgot,"
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"Which he confesseth to be manifold,"
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"He bids you name your griefs; and with all speed"
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"You shall have your desires with interest"
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"And pardon absolute for yourself and these"
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"Herein misled by your suggestion."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"The king is kind; and well we know the king"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Knows at what time to promise, when to pay."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"My father and my uncle and myself"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Did give him that same royalty he wears;"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"And when he was not six and twenty strong,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"My father gave him welcome to the shore;"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"And when he heard him swear and vow to God"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"He came but to be Duke of Lancaster,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"To sue his livery and beg his peace,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"With tears of innocency and terms of zeal,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"My father, in kind heart and pity moved,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Swore him assistance and perform'd it too."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Now when the lords and barons of the realm"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Perceived Northumberland did lean to him,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"The more and less came in with cap and knee;"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Met him in boroughs, cities, villages,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Laid gifts before him, proffer'd him their oaths,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Gave him their heirs, as pages follow'd him"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Even at the heels in golden multitudes."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"He presently, as greatness knows itself,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Steps me a little higher than his vow"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Made to my father, while his blood was poor,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh;"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"And now, forsooth, takes on him to reform"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Some certain edicts and some strait decrees"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"That lie too heavy on the commonwealth,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Over his country's wrongs; and by this face,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"This seeming brow of justice, did he win"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"The hearts of all that he did angle for;"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Proceeded further; cut me off the heads"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Of all the favourites that the absent king"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"In deputation left behind him here,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"When he was personal in the Irish war."
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"Tut, I came not to hear this."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Then to the point."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"In short time after, he deposed the king;"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Soon after that, deprived him of his life;"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"And in the neck of that, task'd the whole state:"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"To make that worse, suffer'd his kinsman March,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Who is, if every owner were well placed,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Indeed his king, to be engaged in Wales,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"There without ransom to lie forfeited;"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Disgraced me in my happy victories,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Sought to entrap me by intelligence;"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Rated mine uncle from the council-board;"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"In rage dismiss'd my father from the court;"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"And in conclusion drove us to seek out"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"This head of safety; and withal to pry"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Into his title, the which we find"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Too indirect for long continuance."
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"Shall I return this answer to the king?"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Not so, Sir Walter: we'll withdraw awhile."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Go to the king; and let there be impawn'd"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Some surety for a safe return again,"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"And in the morning early shall my uncle"
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"Bring him our purposes: and so farewell."
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"I would you would accept of grace and love."
IV,III,HOTSPUR,"And may be so we shall."
IV,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"Pray God you do."
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Hie, good Sir Michael; bear this sealed brief"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"With winged haste to the lord marshal;"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"This to my cousin Scroop, and all the rest"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"To whom they are directed. If you knew"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"How much they do to import, you would make haste."
IV,IV,SIR MICHAEL,"My good lord,"
IV,IV,SIR MICHAEL,"I guess their tenor."
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Like enough you do."
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"To-morrow, good Sir Michael, is a day"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Must bide the touch; for, sir, at Shrewsbury,"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"As I am truly given to understand,"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"The king with mighty and quick-raised power"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Meets with Lord Harry: and, I fear, Sir Michael,"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"What with the sickness of Northumberland,"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Whose power was in the first proportion,"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And what with Owen Glendower's absence thence,"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Who with them was a rated sinew too"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And comes not in, o'er-ruled by prophecies,"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"I fear the power of Percy is too weak"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"To wage an instant trial with the king."
IV,IV,SIR MICHAEL,"Why, my good lord, you need not fear;"
IV,IV,SIR MICHAEL,"There is Douglas and Lord Mortimer."
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"No, Mortimer is not there."
IV,IV,SIR MICHAEL,"But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy,"
IV,IV,SIR MICHAEL,"And there is my Lord of Worcester and a head"
IV,IV,SIR MICHAEL,"Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen."
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And so there is: but yet the king hath drawn"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"The special head of all the land together:"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"The noble Westmoreland and warlike Blunt;"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And moe corrivals and dear men"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Of estimation and command in arms."
IV,IV,SIR MICHAEL,"Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well opposed."
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear;"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And, to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed:"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the king"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Dismiss his power, he means to visit us,"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"For he hath heard of our confederacy,"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him:"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Therefore make haste. I must go write again"
IV,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"To other friends; and so farewell, Sir Michael."
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"How bloodily the sun begins to peer"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Above yon busky hill! the day looks pale"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"At his distemperature."
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"The southern wind"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"And by his hollow whistling in the leaves"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"Foretells a tempest and a blustering day."
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Then with the losers let it sympathize,"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"For nothing can seem foul to those that win."
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"How now, my Lord of Worcester! 'tis not well"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"That you and I should meet upon such terms"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"As now we meet. You have deceived our trust,"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"And made us doff our easy robes of peace,"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel:"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"This is not well, my lord, this is not well."
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"What say you to it? will you again unknit"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"This curlish knot of all-abhorred war?"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"And move in that obedient orb again"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Where you did give a fair and natural light,"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"And be no more an exhaled meteor,"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"A prodigy of fear and a portent"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Of broached mischief to the unborn times?"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Hear me, my liege:"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"For mine own part, I could be well content"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"To entertain the lag-end of my life"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"With quiet hours; for I do protest,"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"I have not sought the day of this dislike."
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"You have not sought it! how comes it, then?"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it."
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"Peace, chewet, peace!"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"It pleased your majesty to turn your looks"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Of favour from myself and all our house;"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And yet I must remember you, my lord,"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"We were the first and dearest of your friends."
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"For you my staff of office did I break"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"In Richard's time; and posted day and night"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"to meet you on the way, and kiss your hand,"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"When yet you were in place and in account"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Nothing so strong and fortunate as I."
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"It was myself, my brother and his son,"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"That brought you home and boldly did outdare"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The dangers of the time. You swore to us,"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And you did swear that oath at Doncaster,"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"That you did nothing purpose 'gainst the state;"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Nor claim no further than your new-fall'n right,"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The seat of Gaunt, dukedom of Lancaster:"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"To this we swore our aid. But in short space"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"It rain'd down fortune showering on your head;"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And such a flood of greatness fell on you,"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"What with our help, what with the absent king,"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"What with the injuries of a wanton time,"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The seeming sufferances that you had borne,"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And the contrarious winds that held the king"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"So long in his unlucky Irish wars"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"That all in England did repute him dead:"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And from this swarm of fair advantages"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"You took occasion to be quickly woo'd"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"To gripe the general sway into your hand;"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Forget your oath to us at Doncaster;"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And being fed by us you used us so"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"As that ungentle hull, the cuckoo's bird,"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Useth the sparrow; did oppress our nest;"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"That even our love durst not come near your sight"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"For fear of swallowing; but with nimble wing"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"We were enforced, for safety sake, to fly"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Out of sight and raise this present head;"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Whereby we stand opposed by such means"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"As you yourself have forged against yourself"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"By unkind usage, dangerous countenance,"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And violation of all faith and troth"
V,I,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Sworn to us in your younger enterprise."
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"These things indeed you have articulate,"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Proclaim'd at market-crosses, read in churches,"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"To face the garment of rebellion"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"With some fine colour that may please the eye"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Of fickle changelings and poor discontents,"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Which gape and rub the elbow at the news"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Of hurlyburly innovation:"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"And never yet did insurrection want"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Such water-colours to impaint his cause;"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Nor moody beggars, starving for a time"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Of pellmell havoc and confusion."
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"In both your armies there is many a soul"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"Shall pay full dearly for this encounter,"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"If once they join in trial. Tell your nephew,"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"The Prince of Wales doth join with all the world"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"In praise of Henry Percy: by my hopes,"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"This present enterprise set off his head,"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"I do not think a braver gentleman,"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"More active-valiant or more valiant-young,"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"More daring or more bold, is now alive"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"To grace this latter age with noble deeds."
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"For my part, I may speak it to my shame,"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"I have a truant been to chivalry;"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"And so I hear he doth account me too;"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"Yet this before my father's majesty--"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"I am content that he shall take the odds"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"Of his great name and estimation,"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"And will, to save the blood on either side,"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"Try fortune with him in a single fight."
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"And, Prince of Wales, so dare we venture thee,"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Albeit considerations infinite"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Do make against it. No, good Worcester, no,"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"We love our people well; even those we love"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"That are misled upon your cousin's part;"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"And, will they take the offer of our grace,"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Both he and they and you, every man"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Shall be my friend again and I'll be his:"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"So tell your cousin, and bring me word"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"What he will do: but if he will not yield,"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Rebuke and dread correction wait on us"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"And they shall do their office. So, be gone;"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"We will not now be troubled with reply:"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"We offer fair; take it advisedly."
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"It will not be accepted, on my life:"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"The Douglas and the Hotspur both together"
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"Are confident against the world in arms."
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"For, on their answer, will we set on them:"
V,I,KING HENRY IV,"And God befriend us, as our cause is just!"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"Hal, if thou see me down in the battle and bestride"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"me, so; 'tis a point of friendship."
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"Nothing but a colossus can do thee that friendship."
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"Say thy prayers, and farewell."
V,I,FALSTAFF,"I  would 'twere bed-time, Hal, and all well."
V,I,PRINCE HENRY,"Why, thou owest God a death."
V,I,FALSTAFF,"'Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"his day. What need I be so forward with him that"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; honour pricks"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no."
V,I,FALSTAFF,"Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it?"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no."
V,I,FALSTAFF,"Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then. Yea,"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"to the dead. But will it not live with the living?"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"ends my catechism."
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"O, no, my nephew must not know, Sir Richard,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The liberal and kind offer of the king."
V,II,VERNON,"'Twere best he did."
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Then are we all undone."
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"It is not possible, it cannot be,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The king should keep his word in loving us;"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"He will suspect us still and find a time"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"To punish this offence in other faults:"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes;"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"For treason is but trusted like the fox,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd and lock'd up,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Will have a wild trick of his ancestors."
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Look how we can, or sad or merrily,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Interpretation will misquote our looks,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And we shall feed like oxen at a stall,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The better cherish'd, still the nearer death."
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"My nephew's trespass may be well forgot;"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"it hath the excuse of youth and heat of blood,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And an adopted name of privilege,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"A hair-brain'd Hotspur, govern'd by a spleen:"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"All his offences live upon my head"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And on his father's; we did train him on,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And, his corruption being ta'en from us,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"We, as the spring of all, shall pay for all."
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Therefore, good cousin, let not Harry know,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"In any case, the offer of the king."
V,II,VERNON,"Deliver what you will; I'll say 'tis so."
V,II,VERNON,"Here comes your cousin."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"My uncle is return'd:"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Deliver up my Lord of Westmoreland."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Uncle, what news?"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The king will bid you battle presently."
V,II,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Defy him by the Lord of Westmoreland."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so."
V,II,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Marry, and shall, and very willingly."
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"There is no seeming mercy in the king."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Did you beg any? God forbid!"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"I told him gently of our grievances,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Of his oath-breaking; which he mended thus,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"By now forswearing that he is forsworn:"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"He calls us rebels, traitors; and will scourge"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"With haughty arms this hateful name in us."
V,II,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Arm, gentlemen; to arms! for I have thrown"
V,II,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth,"
V,II,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"And Westmoreland, that was engaged, did bear it;"
V,II,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Which cannot choose but bring him quickly on."
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"The Prince of Wales stepp'd forth before the king,"
V,II,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And, nephew, challenged you to single fight."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"O, would the quarrel lay upon our heads,"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"And that no man might draw short breath today"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"But I and Harry Monmouth! Tell me, tell me,"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"How show'd his tasking? seem'd it in contempt?"
V,II,VERNON,"No, by my soul; I never in my life"
V,II,VERNON,"Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,"
V,II,VERNON,"Unless a brother should a brother dare"
V,II,VERNON,"To gentle exercise and proof of arms."
V,II,VERNON,"He gave you all the duties of a man;"
V,II,VERNON,"Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue,"
V,II,VERNON,"Spoke to your deservings like a chronicle,"
V,II,VERNON,"Making you ever better than his praise"
V,II,VERNON,"By still dispraising praise valued in you;"
V,II,VERNON,"And, which became him like a prince indeed,"
V,II,VERNON,"He made a blushing cital of himself;"
V,II,VERNON,"And chid his truant youth with such a grace"
V,II,VERNON,"As if he master'd there a double spirit."
V,II,VERNON,"Of teaching and of learning instantly."
V,II,VERNON,"There did he pause: but let me tell the world,"
V,II,VERNON,"If he outlive the envy of this day,"
V,II,VERNON,"England did never owe so sweet a hope,"
V,II,VERNON,"So much misconstrued in his wantonness."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Cousin, I think thou art enamoured"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"On his follies: never did I hear"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Of any prince so wild a libertine."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"But be he as he will, yet once ere night"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"I will embrace him with a soldier's arm,"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"That he shall shrink under my courtesy."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Arm, arm with speed: and, fellows, soldiers, friends,"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Better consider what you have to do"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue,"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Can lift your blood up with persuasion."
V,II,Messenger,"My lord, here are letters for you."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"I cannot read them now."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"O gentlemen, the time of life is short!"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"To spend that shortness basely were too long,"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"If life did ride upon a dial's point,"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Still ending at the arrival of an hour."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"An if we live, we live to tread on kings;"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"If die, brave death, when princes die with us!"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair,"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"When the intent of bearing them is just."
V,II,Messenger,"My lord, prepare; the king comes on apace."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"I thank him, that he cuts me from my tale,"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"For I profess not talking; only this--"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Let each man do his best: and here draw I"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"A sword, whose temper I intend to stain"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"With the best blood that I can meet withal"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"In the adventure of this perilous day."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Now, Esperance! Percy! and set on."
V,II,HOTSPUR,"Sound all the lofty instruments of war,"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"And by that music let us all embrace;"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall"
V,II,HOTSPUR,"A second time do such a courtesy."
V,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"What is thy name, that in the battle thus"
V,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"Thou crossest me? what honour dost thou seek"
V,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"Upon my head?"
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Know then, my name is Douglas;"
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"And I do haunt thee in the battle thus"
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Because some tell me that thou art a king."
V,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"They tell thee true."
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"The Lord of Stafford dear to-day hath bought"
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Thy likeness, for instead of thee, King Harry,"
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"This sword hath ended him: so shall it thee,"
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner."
V,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot;"
V,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"And thou shalt find a king that will revenge"
V,III,SIR WALTER BLUNT,"Lord Stafford's death."
V,III,HOTSPUR,"O Douglas, hadst thou fought at Holmedon thus,"
V,III,HOTSPUR,"never had triumph'd upon a Scot."
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"All's done, all's won; here breathless lies the king."
V,III,HOTSPUR,"Where?"
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Here."
V,III,HOTSPUR,"This, Douglas? no: I know this face full well:"
V,III,HOTSPUR,"A gallant knight he was, his name was Blunt;"
V,III,HOTSPUR,"Semblably furnish'd like the king himself."
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"A fool go with thy soul, whither it goes!"
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"A borrow'd title hast thou bought too dear:"
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king?"
V,III,HOTSPUR,"The king hath many marching in his coats."
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Now, by my sword, I will kill all his coats;"
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"I'll murder all his wardrobe, piece by piece,"
V,III,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Until I meet the king."
V,III,HOTSPUR,"Up, and away!"
V,III,HOTSPUR,"Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Though I could 'scape shot-free at London, I fear"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"the shot here; here's no scoring but upon the pate."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Soft! who are you? Sir Walter Blunt: there's honour"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"for you! here's no vanity! I am as hot as moulten"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"lead, and as heavy too: God keep lead out of me! I"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"need no more weight than mine own bowels. I have"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"led my ragamuffins where they are peppered: there's"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"not three of my hundred and fifty left alive; and"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"they are for the town's end, to beg during life."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"But who comes here?"
V,III,PRINCE HENRY,"What, stand'st thou idle here? lend me thy sword:"
V,III,PRINCE HENRY,"Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff"
V,III,PRINCE HENRY,"Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies,"
V,III,PRINCE HENRY,"Whose deaths are yet unrevenged: I prithee,"
V,III,PRINCE HENRY,"lend me thy sword."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"O Hal, I prithee, give me leave to breathe awhile."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms as I have"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"done this day. I have paid Percy, I have made him sure."
V,III,PRINCE HENRY,"He is, indeed; and living to kill thee. I prithee,"
V,III,PRINCE HENRY,"lend me thy sword."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Nay, before God, Hal, if Percy be alive, thou get'st"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"not my sword; but take my pistol, if thou wilt."
V,III,PRINCE HENRY,"Give it to me: what, is it in the case?"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Ay, Hal; 'tis hot, 'tis hot; there's that will sack a city."
V,III,PRINCE HENRY,"What, is it a time to jest and dally now?"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Well, if Percy be alive, I'll pierce him. If he do"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"come in my way, so: if he do not, if I come in his"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"willingly, let him make a carbonado of me. I like"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"not such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath: give me"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"life: which if I can save, so; if not, honour comes"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"unlooked for, and there's an end."
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"I prithee,"
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Harry, withdraw thyself; thou bleed'st too much."
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him."
V,IV,LANCASTER,"Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I beseech your majesty, make up,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Lest your retirement do amaze your friends."
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"I will do so."
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"My Lord of Westmoreland, lead him to his tent."
V,IV,WESTMORELAND,"Come, my lord, I'll lead you to your tent."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help:"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"The Prince of Wales from such a field as this,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Where stain'd nobility lies trodden on,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"and rebels' arms triumph in massacres!"
V,IV,LANCASTER,"We breathe too long: come, cousin Westmoreland,"
V,IV,LANCASTER,"Our duty this way lies; for God's sake come."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"By God, thou hast deceived me, Lancaster;"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I did not think thee lord of such a spirit:"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Before, I loved thee as a brother, John;"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"But now, I do respect thee as my soul."
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point"
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"With lustier maintenance than I did look for"
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Of such an ungrown warrior."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"O, this boy"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Lends mettle to us all!"
V,IV,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"Another king! they grow like Hydra's heads:"
V,IV,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"I am the Douglas, fatal to all those"
V,IV,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"That wear those colours on them: what art thou,"
V,IV,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"That counterfeit'st the person of a king?"
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"The king himself; who, Douglas, grieves at heart"
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"So many of his shadows thou hast met"
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And not the very king. I have two boys"
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Seek Percy and thyself about the field:"
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"But, seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily,"
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"I will assay thee: so, defend thyself."
V,IV,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"I fear thou art another counterfeit;"
V,IV,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king:"
V,IV,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"But mine I am sure thou art, whoe'er thou be,"
V,IV,EARL OF DOUGLAS,"And thus I win thee."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Never to hold it up again! the spirits"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms:"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee;"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Who never promiseth but he means to pay."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Cheerly, my lord how fares your grace?"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succor sent,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"And so hath Clifton: I'll to Clifton straight."
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Stay, and breathe awhile:"
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion,"
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And show'd thou makest some tender of my life,"
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"O God! they did me too much injury"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"That ever said I hearken'd for your death."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"If it were so, I might have let alone"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"The insulting hand of Douglas over you,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Which would have been as speedy in your end"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"As all the poisonous potions in the world"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"And saved the treacherous labour of your son."
V,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Make up to Clifton: I'll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey."
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Thou speak'st as if I would deny my name."
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"My name is Harry Percy."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Why, then I see"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"A very valiant rebel of the name."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"To share with me in glory any more:"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere;"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Nor can one England brook a double reign,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales."
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"Nor shall it, Harry; for the hour is come"
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"To end the one of us; and would to God"
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"Thy name in arms were now as great as mine!"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I'll make it greater ere I part from thee;"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"And all the budding honours on thy crest"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I'll crop, to make a garland for my head."
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"I can no longer brook thy vanities."
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"Well said, Hal! to it Hal! Nay, you shall find no"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"boy's play here, I can tell you."
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"O, Harry, thou hast robb'd me of my youth!"
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"I better brook the loss of brittle life"
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"Than those proud titles thou hast won of me;"
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"They wound my thoughts worse than sword my flesh:"
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;"
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"And time, that takes survey of all the world,"
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,"
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"But that the earthy and cold hand of death"
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"Lies on my tongue: no, Percy, thou art dust"
V,IV,HOTSPUR,"And food for--"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"For worms, brave Percy: fare thee well, great heart!"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"When that this body did contain a spirit,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"A kingdom for it was too small a bound;"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"But now two paces of the vilest earth"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Is room enough: this earth that bears thee dead"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Bears not alive so stout a gentleman."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"If thou wert sensible of courtesy,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I should not make so dear a show of zeal:"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"But let my favours hide thy mangled face;"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"And, even in thy behalf, I'll thank myself"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"For doing these fair rites of tenderness."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven!"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"But not remember'd in thy epitaph!"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"What, old acquaintance! could not all this flesh"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell!"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I could have better spared a better man:"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"O, I should have a heavy miss of thee,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"If I were much in love with vanity!"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Death hath not struck so fat a deer to-day,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Though many dearer, in this bloody fray."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Embowell'd will I see thee by and by:"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Till then in blood by noble Percy lie."
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"I'll give you leave to powder me and eat me too"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"to-morrow. 'Sblood,'twas time to counterfeit, or"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too."
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die,"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man:"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"perfect image of life indeed. The better part of"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"valour is discretion; in the which better part I"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"have saved my life.'Zounds, I am afraid of this"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"gunpowder Percy, though he be dead: how, if he"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"should counterfeit too and rise? by my faith, I am"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"afraid he would prove the better counterfeit."
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"Therefore I'll make him sure; yea, and I'll swear I"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"killed him. Why may not he rise as well as I?"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"Nothing confutes me but eyes, and nobody sees me."
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"Therefore, sirrah,"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"with a new wound in your thigh, come you along with me."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Come, brother John; full bravely hast thou flesh'd"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Thy maiden sword."
V,IV,LANCASTER,"But, soft! whom have we here?"
V,IV,LANCASTER,"Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I did; I saw him dead,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Breathless and bleeding on the ground. Art"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"thou alive?"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I prithee, speak; we will not trust our eyes"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Without our ears: thou art not what thou seem'st."
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"No, that's certain; I am not a double man: but if I"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy:"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"if your father will do me any honour, so; if not, let"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"earl or duke, I can assure you."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Why, Percy I killed myself and saw thee dead."
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"Didst thou? Lord, Lord, how this world is given to"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath;"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"and so was he: but we rose both at an instant and"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"believed, so; if not, let them that should reward"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"valour bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"it upon my death, I gave him this wound in the"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"thigh: if the man were alive and would deny it,"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"'zounds, I would make him eat a piece of my sword."
V,IV,LANCASTER,"This is the strangest tale that ever I heard."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"This is the strangest fellow, brother John."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back:"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours."
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field,"
V,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"To see what friends are living, who are dead."
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"rewards me, God reward him! If I do grow great,"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and"
V,IV,FALSTAFF,"live cleanly as a nobleman should do."
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke."
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Ill-spirited Worcester! did not we send grace,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Pardon and terms of love to all of you?"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary?"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust?"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Three knights upon our party slain to-day,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"A noble earl and many a creature else"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Had been alive this hour,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"If like a Christian thou hadst truly borne"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Betwixt our armies true intelligence."
V,V,EARL OF WORCESTER,"What I have done my safety urged me to;"
V,V,EARL OF WORCESTER,"And I embrace this fortune patiently,"
V,V,EARL OF WORCESTER,"Since not to be avoided it falls on me."
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Bear Worcester to the death and Vernon too:"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Other offenders we will pause upon."
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"How goes the field?"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him,"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"The noble Percy slain, and all his men"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest;"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"And falling from a hill, he was so bruised"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"That the pursuers took him. At my tent"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"The Douglas is; and I beseech your grace"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"I may dispose of him."
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"With all my heart."
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"This honourable bounty shall belong:"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Go to the Douglas, and deliver him"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Up to his pleasure, ransomless and free:"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"His valour shown upon our crests to-day"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds"
V,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Even in the bosom of our adversaries."
V,V,LANCASTER,"I thank your grace for this high courtesy,"
V,V,LANCASTER,"Which I shall give away immediately."
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Then this remains, that we divide our power."
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scroop,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Who, as we hear, are busily in arms:"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"To fight with Glendower and the Earl of March."
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Meeting the cheque of such another day:"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"And since this business so fair is done,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Let us not leave till all our own be won."
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Who keeps the gate here, ho?"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Where is the earl?"
I,I,Porter,"What shall I say you are?"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Tell thou the earl"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"That the Lord Bardolph doth attend him here."
I,I,Porter,"His lordship is walk'd forth into the orchard;"
I,I,Porter,"Please it your honour, knock but at the gate,"
I,I,Porter,"And he himself wilt answer."
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Here comes the earl."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"What news, Lord Bardolph? every minute now"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Should be the father of some stratagem:"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The times are wild: contention, like a horse"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And bears down all before him."
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Noble earl,"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Good, an God will!"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"As good as heart can wish:"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"The king is almost wounded to the death;"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"And, in the fortune of my lord your son,"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Prince Harry slain outright; and both the Blunts"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Kill'd by the hand of Douglas; young Prince John"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"And Westmoreland and Stafford fled the field;"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"And Harry Monmouth's brawn, the hulk Sir John,"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Is prisoner to your son: O, such a day,"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"So fought, so follow'd and so fairly won,"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Came not till now to dignify the times,"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Since Caesar's fortunes!"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"How is this derived?"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Saw you the field? came you from Shrewsbury?"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"I spake with one, my lord, that came from thence,"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"A gentleman well bred and of good name,"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"That freely render'd me these news for true."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Here comes my servant Travers, whom I sent"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"On Tuesday last to listen after news."
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"My lord, I over-rode him on the way;"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"And he is furnish'd with no certainties"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"More than he haply may retail from me."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Now, Travers, what good tidings comes with you?"
I,I,TRAVERS,"My lord, Sir John Umfrevile turn'd me back"
I,I,TRAVERS,"With joyful tidings; and, being better horsed,"
I,I,TRAVERS,"Out-rode me. After him came spurring hard"
I,I,TRAVERS,"A gentleman, almost forspent with speed,"
I,I,TRAVERS,"That stopp'd by me to breathe his bloodied horse."
I,I,TRAVERS,"He ask'd the way to Chester; and of him"
I,I,TRAVERS,"I did demand what news from Shrewsbury:"
I,I,TRAVERS,"He told me that rebellion had bad luck"
I,I,TRAVERS,"And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold."
I,I,TRAVERS,"With that, he gave his able horse the head,"
I,I,TRAVERS,"And bending forward struck his armed heels"
I,I,TRAVERS,"Against the panting sides of his poor jade"
I,I,TRAVERS,"Up to the rowel-head, and starting so"
I,I,TRAVERS,"He seem'd in running to devour the way,"
I,I,TRAVERS,"Staying no longer question."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Ha! Again:"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Said he young Harry Percy's spur was cold?"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Of Hotspur Coldspur? that rebellion"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Had met ill luck?"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"My lord, I'll tell you what;"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"If my young lord your son have not the day,"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Upon mine honour, for a silken point"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"I'll give my barony: never talk of it."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Why should that gentleman that rode by Travers"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Give then such instances of loss?"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Who, he?"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"He was some hilding fellow that had stolen"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"The horse he rode on, and, upon my life,"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Spoke at a venture. Look, here comes more news."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Yea, this man's brow, like to a title-leaf,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Foretells the nature of a tragic volume:"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"So looks the strand whereon the imperious flood"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Hath left a witness'd usurpation."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Say, Morton, didst thou come from Shrewsbury?"
I,I,MORTON,"I ran from Shrewsbury, my noble lord;"
I,I,MORTON,"Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask"
I,I,MORTON,"To fright our party."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"How doth my son and brother?"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And would have told him half his Troy was burnt;"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"This thou wouldst say, 'Your son did thus and thus;"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Your brother thus: so fought the noble Douglas:'"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds:"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"But in the end, to stop my ear indeed,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Ending with 'Brother, son, and all are dead.'"
I,I,MORTON,"Douglas is living, and your brother, yet;"
I,I,MORTON,"But, for my lord your son--"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Why, he is dead."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"He that but fears the thing he would not know"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Hath by instinct knowledge from others' eyes"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"That what he fear'd is chanced. Yet speak, Morton;"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Tell thou an earl his divination lies,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And I will take it as a sweet disgrace"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And make thee rich for doing me such wrong."
I,I,MORTON,"You are too great to be by me gainsaid:"
I,I,MORTON,"Your spirit is too true, your fears too certain."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Yet, for all this, say not that Percy's dead."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"I see a strange confession in thine eye:"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Thou shakest thy head and hold'st it fear or sin"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"To speak a truth. If he be slain, say so;"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The tongue offends not that reports his death:"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And he doth sin that doth belie the dead,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Not he which says the dead is not alive."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Hath but a losing office, and his tongue"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Remember'd tolling a departing friend."
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"I cannot think, my lord, your son is dead."
I,I,MORTON,"I am sorry I should force you to believe"
I,I,MORTON,"That which I would to God I had not seen;"
I,I,MORTON,"But these mine eyes saw him in bloody state,"
I,I,MORTON,"Rendering faint quittance, wearied and out-breathed,"
I,I,MORTON,"To Harry Monmouth; whose swift wrath beat down"
I,I,MORTON,"The never-daunted Percy to the earth,"
I,I,MORTON,"From whence with life he never more sprung up."
I,I,MORTON,"In few, his death, whose spirit lent a fire"
I,I,MORTON,"Even to the dullest peasant in his camp,"
I,I,MORTON,"Being bruited once, took fire and heat away"
I,I,MORTON,"From the best temper'd courage in his troops;"
I,I,MORTON,"For from his metal was his party steel'd;"
I,I,MORTON,"Which once in him abated, all the rest"
I,I,MORTON,"Turn'd on themselves, like dull and heavy lead:"
I,I,MORTON,"And as the thing that's heavy in itself,"
I,I,MORTON,"Upon enforcement flies with greatest speed,"
I,I,MORTON,"So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss,"
I,I,MORTON,"Lend to this weight such lightness with their fear"
I,I,MORTON,"That arrows fled not swifter toward their aim"
I,I,MORTON,"Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety,"
I,I,MORTON,"Fly from the field. Then was the noble Worcester"
I,I,MORTON,"Too soon ta'en prisoner; and that furious Scot,"
I,I,MORTON,"The bloody Douglas, whose well-labouring sword"
I,I,MORTON,"Had three times slain the appearance of the king,"
I,I,MORTON,"'Gan vail his stomach and did grace the shame"
I,I,MORTON,"Of those that turn'd their backs, and in his flight,"
I,I,MORTON,"Stumbling in fear, was took. The sum of all"
I,I,MORTON,"Is that the king hath won, and hath sent out"
I,I,MORTON,"A speedy power to encounter you, my lord,"
I,I,MORTON,"Under the conduct of young Lancaster"
I,I,MORTON,"And Westmoreland. This is the news at full."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"For this I shall have time enough to mourn."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"In poison there is physic; and these news,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Having been well, that would have made me sick,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Being sick, have in some measure made me well:"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And as the wretch, whose fever-weaken'd joints,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Out of his keeper's arms, even so my limbs,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Weaken'd with grief, being now enraged with grief,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Are thrice themselves. Hence, therefore, thou nice crutch!"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif!"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Thou art a guard too wanton for the head"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim to hit."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Now bind my brows with iron; and approach"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"To frown upon the enraged Northumberland!"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Let heaven kiss earth! now let not Nature's hand"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And let this world no longer be a stage"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"To feed contention in a lingering act;"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"But let one spirit of the first-born Cain"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"On bloody courses, the rude scene may end,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And darkness be the burier of the dead!"
I,I,TRAVERS,"This strained passion doth you wrong, my lord."
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Sweet earl, divorce not wisdom from your honour."
I,I,MORTON,"The lives of all your loving complices"
I,I,MORTON,"Lean on your health; the which, if you give o'er"
I,I,MORTON,"To stormy passion, must perforce decay."
I,I,MORTON,"You cast the event of war, my noble lord,"
I,I,MORTON,"And summ'd the account of chance, before you said"
I,I,MORTON,"'Let us make head.' It was your presurmise,"
I,I,MORTON,"That, in the dole of blows, your son might drop:"
I,I,MORTON,"You knew he walk'd o'er perils, on an edge,"
I,I,MORTON,"More likely to fall in than to get o'er;"
I,I,MORTON,"You were advised his flesh was capable"
I,I,MORTON,"Of wounds and scars and that his forward spirit"
I,I,MORTON,"Would lift him where most trade of danger ranged:"
I,I,MORTON,"Yet did you say 'Go forth;' and none of this,"
I,I,MORTON,"Though strongly apprehended, could restrain"
I,I,MORTON,"The stiff-borne action: what hath then befallen,"
I,I,MORTON,"Or what hath this bold enterprise brought forth,"
I,I,MORTON,"More than that being which was like to be?"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"We all that are engaged to this loss"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Knew that we ventured on such dangerous seas"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"That if we wrought our life 'twas ten to one;"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"And yet we ventured, for the gain proposed"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Choked the respect of likely peril fear'd;"
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"And since we are o'erset, venture again."
I,I,LORD BARDOLPH,"Come, we will all put forth, body and goods."
I,I,MORTON,"'Tis more than time: and, my most noble lord,"
I,I,MORTON,"I hear for certain, and do speak the truth,"
I,I,MORTON,"The gentle Archbishop of York is up"
I,I,MORTON,"With well-appointed powers: he is a man"
I,I,MORTON,"Who with a double surety binds his followers."
I,I,MORTON,"My lord your son had only but the corpse,"
I,I,MORTON,"But shadows and the shows of men, to fight;"
I,I,MORTON,"For that same word, rebellion, did divide"
I,I,MORTON,"The action of their bodies from their souls;"
I,I,MORTON,"And they did fight with queasiness, constrain'd,"
I,I,MORTON,"As men drink potions, that their weapons only"
I,I,MORTON,"Seem'd on our side; but, for their spirits and souls,"
I,I,MORTON,"This word, rebellion, it had froze them up,"
I,I,MORTON,"As fish are in a pond. But now the bishop"
I,I,MORTON,"Turns insurrection to religion:"
I,I,MORTON,"Supposed sincere and holy in his thoughts,"
I,I,MORTON,"He's followed both with body and with mind;"
I,I,MORTON,"And doth enlarge his rising with the blood"
I,I,MORTON,"Of fair King Richard, scraped from Pomfret stones;"
I,I,MORTON,"Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause;"
I,I,MORTON,"Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land,"
I,I,MORTON,"Gasping for life under great Bolingbroke;"
I,I,MORTON,"And more and less do flock to follow him."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"I knew of this before; but, to speak truth,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"This present grief had wiped it from my mind."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Go in with me; and counsel every man"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The aptest way for safety and revenge:"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Get posts and letters, and make friends with speed:"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Never so few, and never yet more need."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor to my water?"
I,II,Page,"He said, sir, the water itself was a good healthy"
I,II,Page,"water; but, for the party that owed it, he might"
I,II,Page,"have more diseases than he knew for."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"than I invent or is invented on me: I am not only"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"men. I do here walk before thee like a sow that"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"hath overwhelmed all her litter but one. If the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"prince put thee into my service for any other reason"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"than to set me off, why then I have no judgment."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Thou whoreson mandrake, thou art fitter to be worn"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"in my cap than to wait at my heels. I was never"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"manned with an agate till now: but I will inset you"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, and"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"send you back again to your master, for a jewel,--"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"the juvenal, the prince your master, whose chin is"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"not yet fledged. I will sooner have a beard grow in"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"the palm of my hand than he shall get one on his"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"cheek; and yet he will not stick to say his face is"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"a face-royal: God may finish it when he will, 'tis"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"not a hair amiss yet: he may keep it still at a"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"face-royal, for a barber shall never earn sixpence"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"out of it; and yet he'll be crowing as if he had"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"writ man ever since his father was a bachelor. He"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"may keep his own grace, but he's almost out of mine,"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"I can assure him. What said Master Dombledon about"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"the satin for my short cloak and my slops?"
I,II,Page,"He said, sir, you should procure him better"
I,II,Page,"assurance than Bardolph: he would not take his"
I,II,Page,"band and yours; he liked not the security."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Let him be damned, like the glutton! pray God his"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"tongue be hotter! A whoreson Achitophel! a rascally"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"yea-forsooth knave! to bear a gentleman in hand,"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"and then stand upon security! The whoreson"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"smooth-pates do now wear nothing but high shoes, and"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"bunches of keys at their girdles; and if a man is"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"through with them in honest taking up, then they"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"must stand upon security. I had as lief they would"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"put ratsbane in my mouth as offer to stop it with"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"security. I looked a' should have sent me two and"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"twenty yards of satin, as I am a true knight, and he"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"sends me security. Well, he may sleep in security;"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"for he hath the horn of abundance, and the lightness"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"of his wife shines through it: and yet cannot he"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"see, though he have his own lanthorn to light him."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Where's Bardolph?"
I,II,Page,"He's gone into Smithfield to buy your worship a horse."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy me a horse in"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Smithfield: an I could get me but a wife in the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"stews, I were manned, horsed, and wived."
I,II,Page,"Sir, here comes the nobleman that committed the"
I,II,Page,"Prince for striking him about Bardolph."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Wait, close; I will not see him."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"What's he that goes there?"
I,II,Servant,"Falstaff, an't please your lordship."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"He that was in question for the robbery?"
I,II,Servant,"He, my lord: but he hath since done good service at"
I,II,Servant,"Shrewsbury; and, as I hear, is now going with some"
I,II,Servant,"charge to the Lord John of Lancaster."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"What, to York? Call him back again."
I,II,Servant,"Sir John Falstaff!"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Boy, tell him I am deaf."
I,II,Page,"You must speak louder; my master is deaf."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"I am sure he is, to the hearing of any thing good."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Go, pluck him by the elbow; I must speak with him."
I,II,Servant,"Sir John!"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"What! a young knave, and begging! Is there not"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"wars? is there not employment? doth not the king"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"lack subjects? do not the rebels need soldiers?"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Though it be a shame to be on any side but one, it"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"is worse shame to beg than to be on the worst side,"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"were it worse than the name of rebellion can tell"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"how to make it."
I,II,Servant,"You mistake me, sir."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Why, sir, did I say you were an honest man? setting"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"my knighthood and my soldiership aside, I had lied"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"in my throat, if I had said so."
I,II,Servant,"I pray you, sir, then set your knighthood and our"
I,II,Servant,"soldiership aside; and give me leave to tell you,"
I,II,Servant,"you lie in your throat, if you say I am any other"
I,II,Servant,"than an honest man."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"I give thee leave to tell me so! I lay aside that"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"which grows to me! if thou gettest any leave of me,"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"hang me; if thou takest leave, thou wert better be"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"hanged. You hunt counter: hence! avaunt!"
I,II,Servant,"Sir, my lord would speak with you."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Sir John Falstaff, a word with you."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"My good lord! God give your lordship good time of"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"day. I am glad to see your lordship abroad: I heard"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"say your lordship was sick: I hope your lordship"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"goes abroad by advice. Your lordship, though not"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"you, some relish of the saltness of time; and I must"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"humbly beseech your lordship to have a reverent care"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"of your health."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Sir John, I sent for you before your expedition to"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Shrewsbury."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"An't please your lordship, I hear his majesty is"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"returned with some discomfort from Wales."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"I talk not of his majesty: you would not come when"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"I sent for you."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"And I hear, moreover, his highness is fallen into"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"this same whoreson apoplexy."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Well, God mend him! I pray you, let me speak with"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"you."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy,"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"an't please your lordship; a kind of sleeping in the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"blood, a whoreson tingling."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"What tell you me of it? be it as it is."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"It hath its original from much grief, from study and"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"perturbation of the brain: I have read the cause of"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"his effects in Galen: it is a kind of deafness."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"I think you are fallen into the disease; for you"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"hear not what I say to you."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Very well, my lord, very well: rather, an't please"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"you, it is the disease of not listening, the malady"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"of not marking, that I am troubled withal."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"To punish you by the heels would amend the"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"attention of your ears; and I care not if I do"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"become your physician."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient:"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"your lordship may minister the potion of"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"imprisonment to me in respect of poverty; but how"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"should I be your patient to follow your"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"prescriptions, the wise may make some dram of a"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"scruple, or indeed a scruple itself."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"I sent for you, when there were matters against you"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"for your life, to come speak with me."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"As I was then advised by my learned counsel in the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"laws of this land-service, I did not come."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Well, the truth is, Sir John, you live in great infamy."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"He that buckles him in my belt cannot live in less."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Your means are very slender, and your waste is great."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"I would it were otherwise; I would my means were"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"greater, and my waist slenderer."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"You have misled the youthful prince."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"The young prince hath misled me: I am the fellow"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"with the great belly, and he my dog."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Well, I am loath to gall a new-healed wound: your"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"day's service at Shrewsbury hath a little gilded"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"over your night's exploit on Gad's-hill: you may"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"thank the unquiet time for your quiet o'er-posting"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"that action."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"My lord?"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"But since all is well, keep it so: wake not a"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"sleeping wolf."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"To wake a wolf is as bad as to smell a fox."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"What! you are as a candle, the better part burnt"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"out."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"A wassail candle, my lord, all tallow: if I did say"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"of wax, my growth would approve the truth."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"There is not a white hair on your face but should"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"have his effect of gravity."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"His effect of gravy, gravy, gravy."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"You follow the young prince up and down, like his"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"ill angel."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Not so, my lord; your ill angel is light; but I hope"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"he that looks upon me will take me without weighing:"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"and yet, in some respects, I grant, I cannot go: I"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"cannot tell. Virtue is of so little regard in these"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"costermonger times that true valour is turned"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"bear-herd: pregnancy is made a tapster, and hath"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"his quick wit wasted in giving reckonings: all the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"this age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"You that are old consider not the capacities of us"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"that are young; you do measure the heat of our"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"livers with the bitterness of your galls: and we"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"that are in the vaward of our youth, I must confess,"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"are wags too."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth,"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"that are written down old with all the characters of"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"age? Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"yellow cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"increasing belly? is not your voice broken? your"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"wind short? your chin double? your wit single? and"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"every part about you blasted with antiquity? and"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"will you yet call yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John!"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"My lord, I was born about three of the clock in the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"afternoon, with a white head and something a round"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"belly. For my voice, I have lost it with halloing"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"and singing of anthems. To approve my youth"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"further, I will not: the truth is, I am only old in"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"judgment and understanding; and he that will caper"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"with me for a thousand marks, let him lend me the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"money, and have at him! For the box of the ear that"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"the prince gave you, he gave it like a rude prince,"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"and you took it like a sensible lord. I have"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"chequed him for it, and the young lion repents;"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"and old sack."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Well, God send the prince a better companion!"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"God send the companion a better prince! I cannot"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"rid my hands of him."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Well, the king hath severed you and Prince Harry: I"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"hear you are going with Lord John of Lancaster"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"against the Archbishop and the Earl of"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Northumberland."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Yea; I thank your pretty sweet wit for it. But look"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"you pray, all you that kiss my lady Peace at home,"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"that our armies join not in a hot day; for, by the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Lord, I take but two shirts out with me, and I mean"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"not to sweat extraordinarily: if it be a hot day,"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"and I brandish any thing but a bottle, I would I"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"might never spit white again. There is not a"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"dangerous action can peep out his head but I am"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"thrust upon it: well, I cannot last ever: but it"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"they have a good thing, to make it too common. If"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"ye will needs say I am an old man, you should give"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"me rest. I would to God my name were not so"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"terrible to the enemy as it is: I were better to be"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"nothing with perpetual motion."
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Well, be honest, be honest; and God bless your"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"expedition!"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Will your lordship lend me a thousand pound to"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"furnish me forth?"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Not a penny, not a penny; you are too impatient to"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"bear crosses. Fare you well: commend me to my"
I,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"cousin Westmoreland."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. A man"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"can no more separate age and covetousness than a'"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"can part young limbs and lechery: but the gout"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"galls the one, and the pox pinches the other; and"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"so both the degrees prevent my curses. Boy!"
I,II,Page,"Sir?"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"What money is in my purse?"
I,II,Page,"Seven groats and two pence."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"I can get no remedy against this consumption of the"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out,"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"but the disease is incurable. Go bear this letter"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"to my Lord of Lancaster; this to the prince; this"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"to the Earl of Westmoreland; and this to old"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"Mistress Ursula, whom I have weekly sworn to marry"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"since I perceived the first white hair on my chin."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"About it: you know where to find me."
I,II,FALSTAFF,"A pox of this gout! or, a gout of this pox! for"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"the one or the other plays the rogue with my great"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"toe. 'Tis no matter if I do halt; I have the wars"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"for my colour, and my pension shall seem the more"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"reasonable. A good wit will make use of any thing:"
I,II,FALSTAFF,"I will turn diseases to commodity."
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Thus have you heard our cause and known our means;"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And, my most noble friends, I pray you all,"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Speak plainly your opinions of our hopes:"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And first, lord marshal, what say you to it?"
I,III,MOWBRAY,"I well allow the occasion of our arms;"
I,III,MOWBRAY,"But gladly would be better satisfied"
I,III,MOWBRAY,"How in our means we should advance ourselves"
I,III,MOWBRAY,"To look with forehead bold and big enough"
I,III,MOWBRAY,"Upon the power and puissance of the king."
I,III,HASTINGS,"Our present musters grow upon the file"
I,III,HASTINGS,"To five and twenty thousand men of choice;"
I,III,HASTINGS,"And our supplies live largely in the hope"
I,III,HASTINGS,"Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns"
I,III,HASTINGS,"With an incensed fire of injuries."
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"The question then, Lord Hastings, standeth thus;"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Whether our present five and twenty thousand"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"May hold up head without Northumberland?"
I,III,HASTINGS,"With him, we may."
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Yea, marry, there's the point:"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"But if without him we be thought too feeble,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"My judgment is, we should not step too far"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Till we had his assistance by the hand;"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"For in a theme so bloody-faced as this"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Conjecture, expectation, and surmise"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Of aids incertain should not be admitted."
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"'Tis very true, Lord Bardolph; for indeed"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"It was young Hotspur's case at Shrewsbury."
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"It was, my lord; who lined himself with hope,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Eating the air on promise of supply,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Flattering himself in project of a power"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts:"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"And so, with great imagination"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Proper to madmen, led his powers to death"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"And winking leap'd into destruction."
I,III,HASTINGS,"But, by your leave, it never yet did hurt"
I,III,HASTINGS,"To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope."
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Yes, if this present quality of war,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Indeed the instant action: a cause on foot"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Lives so in hope as in an early spring"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"We see the appearing buds; which to prove fruit,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Hope gives not so much warrant as despair"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"We first survey the plot, then draw the model;"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"And when we see the figure of the house,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Then must we rate the cost of the erection;"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Which if we find outweighs ability,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"What do we then but draw anew the model"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"In fewer offices, or at last desist"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"To build at all? Much more, in this great work,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"And set another up, should we survey"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"The plot of situation and the model,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Consent upon a sure foundation,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Question surveyors, know our own estate,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"How able such a work to undergo,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"To weigh against his opposite; or else"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"We fortify in paper and in figures,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Using the names of men instead of men:"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Like one that draws the model of a house"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Beyond his power to build it; who, half through,"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Gives o'er and leaves his part-created cost"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"A naked subject to the weeping clouds"
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"And waste for churlish winter's tyranny."
I,III,HASTINGS,"Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair birth,"
I,III,HASTINGS,"Should be still-born, and that we now possess'd"
I,III,HASTINGS,"The utmost man of expectation,"
I,III,HASTINGS,"I think we are a body strong enough,"
I,III,HASTINGS,"Even as we are, to equal with the king."
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"What, is the king but five and twenty thousand?"
I,III,HASTINGS,"To us no more; nay, not so much, Lord Bardolph."
I,III,HASTINGS,"For his divisions, as the times do brawl,"
I,III,HASTINGS,"Are in three heads: one power against the French,"
I,III,HASTINGS,"And one against Glendower; perforce a third"
I,III,HASTINGS,"Must take up us: so is the unfirm king"
I,III,HASTINGS,"In three divided; and his coffers sound"
I,III,HASTINGS,"With hollow poverty and emptiness."
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"That he should draw his several strengths together"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And come against us in full puissance,"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Need not be dreaded."
I,III,HASTINGS,"If he should do so,"
I,III,HASTINGS,"He leaves his back unarm'd, the French and Welsh"
I,III,HASTINGS,"Baying him at the heels: never fear that."
I,III,LORD BARDOLPH,"Who is it like should lead his forces hither?"
I,III,HASTINGS,"The Duke of Lancaster and Westmoreland;"
I,III,HASTINGS,"Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth:"
I,III,HASTINGS,"But who is substituted 'gainst the French,"
I,III,HASTINGS,"I have no certain notice."
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Let us on,"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And publish the occasion of our arms."
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Their over-greedy love hath surfeited:"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"An habitation giddy and unsure"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart."
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"O thou fond many, with what loud applause"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke,"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Before he was what thou wouldst have him be!"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And being now trimm'd in thine own desires,"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him,"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"That thou provokest thyself to cast him up."
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard;"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up,"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And howl'st to find it. What trust is in"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"these times?"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"They that, when Richard lived, would have him die,"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Are now become enamour'd on his grave:"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Thou, that threw'st dust upon his goodly head"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"When through proud London he came sighing on"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"After the admired heels of Bolingbroke,"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Criest now 'O earth, yield us that king again,"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And take thou this!' O thoughts of men accursed!"
I,III,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Past and to come seems best; things present worst."
I,III,MOWBRAY,"Shall we go draw our numbers and set on?"
I,III,HASTINGS,"We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"How now! whose mare's dead? what's the matter?"
II,I,FANG,"Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"Away, varlets! Draw, Bardolph: cut me off the"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"villain's head: throw the quean in the channel."
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Throw me in the channel! I'll throw thee in the"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"channel. Wilt thou? wilt thou? thou bastardly"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"rogue! Murder, murder! Ah, thou honeysuckle"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"villain! wilt thou kill God's officers and the"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"king's? Ah, thou honey-seed rogue! thou art a"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"honey-seed, a man-queller, and a woman-queller."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"Keep them off, Bardolph."
II,I,FANG,"A rescue! a rescue!"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Good people, bring a rescue or two. Thou wo't, wo't"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"thou? Thou wo't, wo't ta? do, do, thou rogue! do,"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"thou hemp-seed!"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"Away, you scullion! you rampallion! You"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe."
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"What is the matter? keep the peace here, ho!"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Good my lord, be good to me. I beseech you, stand to me."
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"How now, Sir John! what are you brawling here?"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"Doth this become your place, your time and business?"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"You should have been well on your way to York."
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"Stand from him, fellow: wherefore hang'st upon him?"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"O most worshipful lord, an't please your grace, I am"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"a poor widow of Eastcheap, and he is arrested at my suit."
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"For what sum?"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"It is more than for some, my lord; it is for all,"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"all I have. He hath eaten me out of house and home;"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"he hath put all my substance into that fat belly of"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"his: but I will have some of it out again, or I"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"will ride thee o' nights like the mare."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"I think I am as like to ride the mare, if I have"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"any vantage of ground to get up."
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"How comes this, Sir John? Fie! what man of good"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"temper would endure this tempest of exclamation?"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"Are you not ashamed to enforce a poor widow to so"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"rough a course to come by her own?"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"What is the gross sum that I owe thee?"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Marry, if thou wert an honest man, thyself and the"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"money too. Thou didst swear to me upon a"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber,"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"thy wife. Canst thou deny it? Did not goodwife"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"gossip Quickly? coming in to borrow a mess of"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns;"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"whereby thou didst desire to eat some; whereby I"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"told thee they were ill for a green wound? And"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"didst thou not, when she was gone down stairs,"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"desire me to be no more so familiarity with such"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"poor people; saying that ere long they should call"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"me madam? And didst thou not kiss me and bid me"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"fetch thee thirty shillings? I put thee now to thy"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"book-oath: deny it, if thou canst."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"My lord, this is a poor mad soul; and she says up"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"and down the town that the eldest son is like you:"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"she hath been in good case, and the truth is,"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"poverty hath distracted her. But for these foolish"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"officers, I beseech you I may have redress against them."
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted with your"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"manner of wrenching the true cause the false way. It"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"is not a confident brow, nor the throng of words"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"that come with such more than impudent sauciness"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"from you, can thrust me from a level consideration:"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"you have, as it appears to me, practised upon the"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and made her"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"serve your uses both in purse and in person."
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Yea, in truth, my lord."
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"Pray thee, peace. Pay her the debt you owe her, and"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"unpay the villany you have done her: the one you"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"may do with sterling money, and the other with"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"current repentance."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"reply. You call honourable boldness impudent"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"sauciness: if a man will make courtesy and say"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"nothing, he is virtuous: no, my lord, my humble"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"duty remembered, I will not be your suitor. I say"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"to you, I do desire deliverance from these officers,"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"being upon hasty employment in the king's affairs."
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"You speak as having power to do wrong: but answer"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"in the effect of your reputation, and satisfy this"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"poor woman."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"Come hither, hostess."
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"Now, Master Gower, what news?"
II,I,GOWER,"The king, my lord, and Harry Prince of Wales"
II,I,GOWER,"Are near at hand: the rest the paper tells."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"As I am a gentleman."
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Faith, you said so before."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"As I am a gentleman. Come, no more words of it."
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"By this heavenly ground I tread on, I must be fain"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"to pawn both my plate and the tapestry of my"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"dining-chambers."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"Glasses, glasses is the only drinking: and for thy"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the story of"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"the Prodigal, or the German hunting in water-work,"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"is worth a thousand of these bed-hangings and these"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"fly-bitten tapestries. Let it be ten pound, if thou"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"canst. Come, an 'twere not for thy humours, there's"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"not a better wench in England. Go, wash thy face,"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"and draw the action. Come, thou must not be in"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"this humour with me; dost not know me? come, come, I"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"know thou wast set on to this."
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty nobles: i'"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"faith, I am loath to pawn my plate, so God save me,"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"la!"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"Let it alone; I'll make other shift: you'll be a"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"fool still."
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Well, you shall have it, though I pawn my gown. I"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"hope you'll come to supper. You'll pay me all together?"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"Will I live?"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"Go, with her, with her; hook on, hook on."
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you at supper?"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"No more words; let's have her."
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"I have heard better news."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"What's the news, my lord?"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"Where lay the king last night?"
II,I,GOWER,"At Basingstoke, my lord."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"I hope, my lord, all's well: what is the news, my lord?"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"Come all his forces back?"
II,I,GOWER,"No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse,"
II,I,GOWER,"Are marched up to my lord of Lancaster,"
II,I,GOWER,"Against Northumberland and the Archbishop."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"Comes the king back from Wales, my noble lord?"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"You shall have letters of me presently:"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"Come, go along with me, good Master Gower."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"My lord!"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"What's the matter?"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to dinner?"
II,I,GOWER,"I must wait upon my good lord here; I thank you,"
II,I,GOWER,"good Sir John."
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are to"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"take soldiers up in counties as you go."
II,I,FALSTAFF,"Will you sup with me, Master Gower?"
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"What foolish master taught you these manners, Sir John?"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"Master Gower, if they become me not, he was a fool"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"that taught them me. This is the right fencing"
II,I,FALSTAFF,"grace, my lord; tap for tap, and so part fair."
II,I,Lord Chief-Justice,"Now the Lord lighten thee! thou art a great fool."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Before God, I am exceeding weary."
II,II,POINS,"Is't come to that? I had thought weariness durst not"
II,II,POINS,"have attached one of so high blood."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Faith, it does me; though it discolours the"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"complexion of my greatness to acknowledge it. Doth"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"it not show vilely in me to desire small beer?"
II,II,POINS,"Why, a prince should not be so loosely studied as"
II,II,POINS,"to remember so weak a composition."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Belike then my appetite was not princely got; for,"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"by my troth, I do now remember the poor creature,"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"small beer. But, indeed, these humble"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"considerations make me out of love with my"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"greatness. What a disgrace is it to me to remember"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"thy name! or to know thy face to-morrow! or to"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"take note how many pair of silk stockings thou"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"hast, viz. these, and those that were thy"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"peach-coloured ones! or to bear the inventory of thy"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"shirts, as, one for superfluity, and another for"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"use! But that the tennis-court-keeper knows better"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"than I; for it is a low ebb of linen with thee when"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"thou keepest not racket there; as thou hast not done"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"a great while, because the rest of thy low"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"countries have made a shift to eat up thy holland:"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"and God knows, whether those that bawl out the ruins"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"of thy linen shall inherit his kingdom: but the"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"midwives say the children are not in the fault;"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"whereupon the world increases, and kindreds are"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"mightily strengthened."
II,II,POINS,"How ill it follows, after you have laboured so hard,"
II,II,POINS,"you should talk so idly! Tell me, how many good"
II,II,POINS,"young princes would do so, their fathers being so"
II,II,POINS,"sick as yours at this time is?"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Shall I tell thee one thing, Poins?"
II,II,POINS,"Yes, faith; and let it be an excellent good thing."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"It shall serve among wits of no higher breeding than thine."
II,II,POINS,"Go to; I stand the push of your one thing that you"
II,II,POINS,"will tell."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Marry, I tell thee, it is not meet that I should be"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"sad, now my father is sick: albeit I could tell"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"thee, as to one it pleases me, for fault of a"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"better, to call my friend, I could be sad, and sad"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"indeed too."
II,II,POINS,"Very hardly upon such a subject."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"By this hand thou thinkest me as far in the devil's"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"book as thou and Falstaff for obduracy and"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"persistency: let the end try the man. But I tell"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"thee, my heart bleeds inwardly that my father is so"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"sick: and keeping such vile company as thou art"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"hath in reason taken from me all ostentation of sorrow."
II,II,POINS,"The reason?"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"What wouldst thou think of me, if I should weep?"
II,II,POINS,"I would think thee a most princely hypocrite."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"It would be every man's thought; and thou art a"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"blessed fellow to think as every man thinks: never"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"a man's thought in the world keeps the road-way"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"better than thine: every man would think me an"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"hypocrite indeed. And what accites your most"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"worshipful thought to think so?"
II,II,POINS,"Why, because you have been so lewd and so much"
II,II,POINS,"engraffed to Falstaff."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And to thee."
II,II,POINS,"By this light, I am well spoke on; I can hear it"
II,II,POINS,"with my own ears: the worst that they can say of"
II,II,POINS,"me is that I am a second brother and that I am a"
II,II,POINS,"proper fellow of my hands; and those two things, I"
II,II,POINS,"confess, I cannot help. By the mass, here comes Bardolph."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And the boy that I gave Falstaff: a' had him from"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"me Christian; and look, if the fat villain have not"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"transformed him ape."
II,II,BARDOLPH,"God save your grace!"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And yours, most noble Bardolph!"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"Come, you virtuous ass, you bashful fool, must you"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"be blushing? wherefore blush you now? What a"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"maidenly man-at-arms are you become! Is't such a"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"matter to get a pottle-pot's maidenhead?"
II,II,Page,"A' calls me e'en now, my lord, through a red"
II,II,Page,"lattice, and I could discern no part of his face"
II,II,Page,"from the window: at last I spied his eyes, and"
II,II,Page,"methought he had made two holes in the ale-wife's"
II,II,Page,"new petticoat and so peeped through."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Has not the boy profited?"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away!"
II,II,Page,"Away, you rascally Althaea's dream, away!"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Instruct us, boy; what dream, boy?"
II,II,Page,"Marry, my lord, Althaea dreamed she was delivered"
II,II,Page,"of a fire-brand; and therefore I call him her dream."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"A crown's worth of good interpretation: there 'tis,"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"boy."
II,II,POINS,"O, that this good blossom could be kept from"
II,II,POINS,"cankers! Well, there is sixpence to preserve thee."
II,II,BARDOLPH,"An you do not make him hanged among you, the"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"gallows shall have wrong."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"And how doth thy master, Bardolph?"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"Well, my lord. He heard of your grace's coming to"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"town: there's a letter for you."
II,II,POINS,"Delivered with good respect. And how doth the"
II,II,POINS,"martlemas, your master?"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"In bodily health, sir."
II,II,POINS,"Marry, the immortal part needs a physician; but"
II,II,POINS,"that moves not him: though that be sick, it dies"
II,II,POINS,"not."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"I do allow this wen to be as familiar with me as my"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"dog; and he holds his place; for look you how be writes."
II,II,POINS,"know that, as oft as he has occasion to name"
II,II,POINS,"himself: even like those that are kin to the king;"
II,II,POINS,"for they never prick their finger but they say,"
II,II,POINS,"'There's some of the king's blood spilt.' 'How"
II,II,POINS,"comes that?' says he, that takes upon him not to"
II,II,POINS,"conceive. The answer is as ready as a borrower's"
II,II,POINS,"cap, 'I am the king's poor cousin, sir.'"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Nay, they will be kin to us, or they will fetch it"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"from Japhet. But to the letter."
II,II,POINS,"the king, nearest his father, Harry Prince of"
II,II,POINS,"Wales, greeting.' Why, this is a certificate."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Peace!"
II,II,POINS,"brevity:' he sure means brevity in breath,"
II,II,POINS,"short-winded. 'I commend me to thee, I commend"
II,II,POINS,"thee, and I leave thee. Be not too familiar with"
II,II,POINS,"Poins; for he misuses thy favours so much, that he"
II,II,POINS,"swears thou art to marry his sister Nell. Repent"
II,II,POINS,"at idle times as thou mayest; and so, farewell."
II,II,POINS,"Thine, by yea and no, which is as much as to"
II,II,POINS,"say, as thou usest him, JACK FALSTAFF with my"
II,II,POINS,"familiars, JOHN with my brothers and sisters,"
II,II,POINS,"and SIR JOHN with all Europe.'"
II,II,POINS,"My lord, I'll steep this letter in sack and make him eat it."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"That's to make him eat twenty of his words. But do"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"you use me thus, Ned? must I marry your sister?"
II,II,POINS,"God send the wench no worse fortune! But I never said so."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Is your master here in London?"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"Yea, my lord."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Where sups he? doth the old boar feed in the old frank?"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"At the old place, my lord, in Eastcheap."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"What company?"
II,II,Page,"Ephesians, my lord, of the old church."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Sup any women with him?"
II,II,Page,"None, my lord, but old Mistress Quickly and"
II,II,Page,"Mistress Doll Tearsheet."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"What pagan may that be?"
II,II,Page,"A proper gentlewoman, sir, and a kinswoman of my master's."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Even such kin as the parish heifers are to the town"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"bull. Shall we steal upon them, Ned, at supper?"
II,II,POINS,"I am your shadow, my lord; I'll follow you."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Sirrah, you boy, and Bardolph, no word to your"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"master that I am yet come to town: there's for"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"your silence."
II,II,BARDOLPH,"I have no tongue, sir."
II,II,Page,"And for mine, sir, I will govern it."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Fare you well; go."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"This Doll Tearsheet should be some road."
II,II,POINS,"I warrant you, as common as the way between Saint"
II,II,POINS,"Alban's and London."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"in his true colours, and not ourselves be seen?"
II,II,POINS,"Put on two leathern jerkins and aprons, and wait"
II,II,POINS,"upon him at his table as drawers."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"From a God to a bull? a heavy decension! it was"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Jove's case. From a prince to a prentice? a low"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"transformation! that shall be mine; for in every"
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"thing the purpose must weigh with the folly."
II,II,PRINCE HENRY,"Follow me, Ned."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"I pray thee, loving wife, and gentle daughter,"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Give even way unto my rough affairs:"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Put not you on the visage of the times"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And be like them to Percy troublesome."
II,III,LADY NORTHUMBERLAND,"I have given over, I will speak no more:"
II,III,LADY NORTHUMBERLAND,"Do what you will; your wisdom be your guide."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Alas, sweet wife, my honour is at pawn;"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And, but my going, nothing can redeem it."
II,III,LADY PERCY,"O yet, for God's sake, go not to these wars!"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"The time was, father, that you broke your word,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"When you were more endeared to it than now;"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"When your own Percy, when my heart's dear Harry,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Threw many a northward look to see his father"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain."
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Who then persuaded you to stay at home?"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"There were two honours lost, yours and your son's."
II,III,LADY PERCY,"For yours, the God of heaven brighten it!"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"For his, it stuck upon him as the sun"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"In the grey vault of heaven, and by his light"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Did all the chivalry of England move"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"To do brave acts: he was indeed the glass"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves:"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"He had no legs that practised not his gait;"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Became the accents of the valiant;"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"For those that could speak low and tardily"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Would turn their own perfection to abuse,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"To seem like him: so that in speech, in gait,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"In diet, in affections of delight,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"In military rules, humours of blood,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"He was the mark and glass, copy and book,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"That fashion'd others. And him, O wondrous him!"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"O miracle of men! him did you leave,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Second to none, unseconded by you,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"To look upon the hideous god of war"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"In disadvantage; to abide a field"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur's name"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Did seem defensible: so you left him."
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Never, O never, do his ghost the wrong"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"To hold your honour more precise and nice"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"With others than with him! let them alone:"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"The marshal and the archbishop are strong:"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Had my sweet Harry had but half their numbers,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"To-day might I, hanging on Hotspur's neck,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Have talk'd of Monmouth's grave."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Beshrew your heart,"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Fair daughter, you do draw my spirits from me"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"With new lamenting ancient oversights."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"But I must go and meet with danger there,"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Or it will seek me in another place"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And find me worse provided."
II,III,LADY NORTHUMBERLAND,"O, fly to Scotland,"
II,III,LADY NORTHUMBERLAND,"Till that the nobles and the armed commons"
II,III,LADY NORTHUMBERLAND,"Have of their puissance made a little taste."
II,III,LADY PERCY,"If they get ground and vantage of the king,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"Then join you with them, like a rib of steel,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"To make strength stronger; but, for all our loves,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"First let them try themselves. So did your son;"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"He was so suffer'd: so came I a widow;"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"And never shall have length of life enough"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"That it may grow and sprout as high as heaven,"
II,III,LADY PERCY,"For recordation to my noble husband."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Come, come, go in with me. 'Tis with my mind"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"As with the tide swell'd up unto his height,"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"That makes a still-stand, running neither way:"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Fain would I go to meet the archbishop,"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"But many thousand reasons hold me back."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"I will resolve for Scotland: there am I,"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Till time and vantage crave my company."
II,IV,First Drawer,"What the devil hast thou brought there? apple-johns?"
II,IV,First Drawer,"thou knowest Sir John cannot endure an apple-john."
II,IV,Second Drawer,"Mass, thou sayest true. The prince once set a dish"
II,IV,Second Drawer,"of apple-johns before him, and told him there were"
II,IV,Second Drawer,"five more Sir Johns, and, putting off his hat, said"
II,IV,Second Drawer,"'I will now take my leave of these six dry, round,"
II,IV,Second Drawer,"old, withered knights.' It angered him to the"
II,IV,Second Drawer,"heart: but he hath forgot that."
II,IV,First Drawer,"Why, then, cover, and set them down: and see if"
II,IV,First Drawer,"thou canst find out Sneak's noise; Mistress"
II,IV,First Drawer,"Tearsheet would fain hear some music. Dispatch: the"
II,IV,First Drawer,"room where they supped is too hot; they'll come in straight."
II,IV,Second Drawer,"Sirrah, here will be the prince and Master Poins"
II,IV,Second Drawer,"anon; and they will put on two of our jerkins and"
II,IV,Second Drawer,"aprons; and Sir John must not know of it: Bardolph"
II,IV,Second Drawer,"hath brought word."
II,IV,First Drawer,"By the mass, here will be old Utis: it will be an"
II,IV,First Drawer,"excellent stratagem."
II,IV,Second Drawer,"I'll see if I can find out Sneak."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"I' faith, sweetheart, methinks now you are in an"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"excellent good temperality: your pulsidge beats as"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"extraordinarily as heart would desire; and your"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose, in good"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"truth, la! But, i' faith, you have drunk too much"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"canaries; and that's a marvellous searching wine,"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"and it perfumes the blood ere one can say 'What's"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"this?' How do you now?"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Better than I was: hem!"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Why, that's well said; a good heart's worth gold."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Lo, here comes Sir John."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"--Empty the jordan."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"--'And was a worthy king.' How now, Mistress Doll!"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Sick of a calm; yea, good faith."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"So is all her sect; an they be once in a calm, they are sick."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"You muddy rascal, is that all the comfort you give me?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"You make fat rascals, Mistress Doll."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"I make them! gluttony and diseases make them; I"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"make them not."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"If the cook help to make the gluttony, you help to"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"make the diseases, Doll: we catch of you, Doll, we"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"catch of you; grant that, my poor virtue grant that."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Yea, joy, our chains and our jewels."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"'Your broaches, pearls, and ouches:' for to serve"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"bravely is to come halting off, you know: to come"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"off the breach with his pike bent bravely, and to"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"surgery bravely; to venture upon the charged"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"chambers bravely,--"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Hang yourself, you muddy conger, hang yourself!"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"By my troth, this is the old fashion; you two never"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"meet but you fall to some discord: you are both,"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"i' good truth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts; you"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"cannot one bear with another's confirmities. What"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"the good-year! one must bear, and that must be"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"you: you are the weaker vessel, as they say, the"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"emptier vessel."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"hogshead? there's a whole merchant's venture of"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Bourdeaux stuff in him; you have not seen a hulk"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"better stuffed in the hold. Come, I'll be friends"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"with thee, Jack: thou art going to the wars; and"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"whether I shall ever see thee again or no, there is"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"nobody cares."
II,IV,First Drawer,"Sir, Ancient Pistol's below, and would speak with"
II,IV,First Drawer,"you."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Hang him, swaggering rascal! let him not come"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"hither: it is the foul-mouthed'st rogue in England."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"If he swagger, let him not come here: no, by my"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"faith; I must live among my neighbours: I'll no"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"swaggerers: I am in good name and fame with the"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"very best: shut the door; there comes no swaggerers"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"here: I have not lived all this while, to have"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"swaggering now: shut the door, I pray you."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Dost thou hear, hostess?"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Pray ye, pacify yourself, Sir John: there comes no"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"swaggerers here."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Dost thou hear? it is mine ancient."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Tilly-fally, Sir John, ne'er tell me: your ancient"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"swaggerer comes not in my doors. I was before Master"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Tisick, the debuty, t'other day; and, as he said to"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"me, 'twas no longer ago than Wednesday last, 'I'"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"good faith, neighbour Quickly,' says he; Master"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Dumbe, our minister, was by then; 'neighbour"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Quickly,' says he, 'receive those that are civil;"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"for,' said he, 'you are in an ill name:' now a'"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"said so, I can tell whereupon; 'for,' says he, 'you"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"are an honest woman, and well thought on; therefore"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"take heed what guests you receive: receive,' says"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"he, 'no swaggering companions.' There comes none"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"here: you would bless you to hear what he said:"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"no, I'll no swaggerers."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"He's no swaggerer, hostess; a tame cheater, i'"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"faith; you may stroke him as gently as a puppy"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"greyhound: he'll not swagger with a Barbary hen, if"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"her feathers turn back in any show of resistance."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Call him up, drawer."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Cheater, call you him? I will bar no honest man my"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"house, nor no cheater: but I do not love"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"swaggering, by my troth; I am the worse, when one"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"says swagger: feel, masters, how I shake; look you,"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"I warrant you."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"So you do, hostess."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Do I? yea, in very truth, do I, an 'twere an aspen"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"leaf: I cannot abide swaggerers."
II,IV,PISTOL,"God save you, Sir John!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Welcome, Ancient Pistol. Here, Pistol, I charge"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"you with a cup of sack: do you discharge upon mine hostess."
II,IV,PISTOL,"I will discharge upon her, Sir John, with two bullets."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"She is Pistol-proof, sir; you shall hardly offend"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"her."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Come, I'll drink no proofs nor no bullets: I'll"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"drink no more than will do me good, for no man's"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"pleasure, I."
II,IV,PISTOL,"Then to you, Mistress Dorothy; I will charge you."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Charge me! I scorn you, scurvy companion. What!"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"you poor, base, rascally, cheating, lack-linen"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"mate! Away, you mouldy rogue, away! I am meat for"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"your master."
II,IV,PISTOL,"I know you, Mistress Dorothy."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away!"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"by this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away,"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"juggler, you! Since when, I pray you, sir? God's"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"light, with two points on your shoulder? much!"
II,IV,PISTOL,"God let me not live, but I will murder your ruff for this."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"No more, Pistol; I would not have you go off here:"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"discharge yourself of our company, Pistol."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"No, Good Captain Pistol; not here, sweet captain."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Captain! thou abominable damned cheater, art thou"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"not ashamed to be called captain? An captains were"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"of my mind, they would truncheon you out, for"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"taking their names upon you before you have earned"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"them. You a captain! you slave, for what? for"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"tearing a poor whore's ruff in a bawdy-house? He a"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"captain! hang him, rogue! he lives upon mouldy"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"stewed prunes and dried cakes. A captain! God's"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"light, these villains will make the word as odious"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"as the word 'occupy;' which was an excellent good"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"word before it was ill sorted: therefore captains"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"had need look to 't."
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"Pray thee, go down, good ancient."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Hark thee hither, Mistress Doll."
II,IV,PISTOL,"Not I I tell thee what, Corporal Bardolph, I could"
II,IV,PISTOL,"tear her: I'll be revenged of her."
II,IV,Page,"Pray thee, go down."
II,IV,PISTOL,"I'll see her damned first; to Pluto's damned lake,"
II,IV,PISTOL,"by this hand, to the infernal deep, with Erebus and"
II,IV,PISTOL,"tortures vile also. Hold hook and line, say I."
II,IV,PISTOL,"Down, down, dogs! down, faitors! Have we not"
II,IV,PISTOL,"Hiren here?"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Good Captain Peesel, be quiet; 'tis very late, i'"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"faith: I beseek you now, aggravate your choler."
II,IV,PISTOL,"These be good humours, indeed! Shall pack-horses"
II,IV,PISTOL,"And hollow pamper'd jades of Asia,"
II,IV,PISTOL,"Which cannot go but thirty mile a-day,"
II,IV,PISTOL,"Compare with Caesars, and with Cannibals,"
II,IV,PISTOL,"And Trojan Greeks? nay, rather damn them with"
II,IV,PISTOL,"King Cerberus; and let the welkin roar."
II,IV,PISTOL,"Shall we fall foul for toys?"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"By my troth, captain, these are very bitter words."
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"Be gone, good ancient: this will grow to abrawl anon."
II,IV,PISTOL,"Die men like dogs! give crowns like pins! Have we"
II,IV,PISTOL,"not Heren here?"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"O' my word, captain, there's none such here. What"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"the good-year! do you think I would deny her? For"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"God's sake, be quiet."
II,IV,PISTOL,"Then feed, and be fat, my fair Calipolis."
II,IV,PISTOL,"Come, give's some sack."
II,IV,PISTOL,"'Si fortune me tormente, sperato me contento.'"
II,IV,PISTOL,"Fear we broadsides? no, let the fiend give fire:"
II,IV,PISTOL,"Give me some sack: and, sweetheart, lie thou there."
II,IV,PISTOL,"Come we to full points here; and are etceteras nothing?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Pistol, I would be quiet."
II,IV,PISTOL,"Sweet knight, I kiss thy neaf: what! we have seen"
II,IV,PISTOL,"the seven stars."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"For God's sake, thrust him down stairs: I cannot"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"endure such a fustian rascal."
II,IV,PISTOL,"Thrust him down stairs! know we not Galloway nags?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-groat"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"shilling: nay, an a' do nothing but speak nothing,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"a' shall be nothing here."
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"Come, get you down stairs."
II,IV,PISTOL,"What! shall we have incision? shall we imbrue?"
II,IV,PISTOL,"Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days!"
II,IV,PISTOL,"Why, then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds"
II,IV,PISTOL,"Untwine the Sisters Three! Come, Atropos, I say!"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Here's goodly stuff toward!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Give me my rapier, boy."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"I pray thee, Jack, I pray thee, do not draw."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Get you down stairs."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Here's a goodly tumult! I'll forswear keeping"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"house, afore I'll be in these tirrits and frights."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"So; murder, I warrant now. Alas, alas! put up"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"your naked weapons, put up your naked weapons."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"I pray thee, Jack, be quiet; the rascal's gone."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Ah, you whoreson little valiant villain, you!"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"He you not hurt i' the groin? methought a' made a"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"shrewd thrust at your belly."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Have you turned him out o' doors?"
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"Yea, sir. The rascal's drunk: you have hurt him,"
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"sir, i' the shoulder."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"A rascal! to brave me!"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! alas, poor ape,"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"how thou sweatest! come, let me wipe thy face;"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"come on, you whoreson chops: ah, rogue! i'faith, I"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"love thee: thou art as valorous as Hector of Troy,"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"worth five of Agamemnon, and ten times better than"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"the Nine Worthies: ah, villain!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"A rascally slave! I will toss the rogue in a blanket."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Do, an thou darest for thy heart: an thou dost,"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"I'll canvass thee between a pair of sheets."
II,IV,Page,"The music is come, sir."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Let them play. Play, sirs. Sit on my knee, Doll."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"A rascal bragging slave! the rogue fled from me"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"like quicksilver."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"I' faith, and thou followedst him like a church."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Thou whoreson little tidy Bartholomew boar-pig,"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"when wilt thou leave fighting o' days and foining"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"o' nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for heaven?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Peace, good Doll! do not speak like a death's-head;"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"do not bid me remember mine end."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Sirrah, what humour's the prince of?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"A good shallow young fellow: a' would have made a"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"good pantler, a' would ha' chipp'd bread well."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"They say Poins has a good wit."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"He a good wit? hang him, baboon! his wit's as thick"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"as Tewksbury mustard; there's no more conceit in him"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"than is in a mallet."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Why does the prince love him so, then?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Because their legs are both of a bigness, and a'"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"plays at quoits well, and eats conger and fennel,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"and drinks off candles' ends for flap-dragons, and"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"rides the wild-mare with the boys, and jumps upon"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"joined-stools, and swears with a good grace, and"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"wears his boots very smooth, like unto the sign of"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"the leg, and breeds no bate with telling of discreet"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"stories; and such other gambol faculties a' has,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"that show a weak mind and an able body, for the"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"which the prince admits him: for the prince himself"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"is such another; the weight of a hair will turn the"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"scales between their avoirdupois."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Would not this nave of a wheel have his ears cut off?"
II,IV,POINS,"Let's beat him before his whore."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Look, whether the withered elder hath not his poll"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"clawed like a parrot."
II,IV,POINS,"Is it not strange that desire should so many years"
II,IV,POINS,"outlive performance?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Kiss me, Doll."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Saturn and Venus this year in conjunction! what"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"says the almanac to that?"
II,IV,POINS,"And look, whether the fiery Trigon, his man, be not"
II,IV,POINS,"lisping to his master's old tables, his note-book,"
II,IV,POINS,"his counsel-keeper."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Thou dost give me flattering busses."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"By my troth, I kiss thee with a most constant heart."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"I am old, I am old."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"I love thee better than I love e'er a scurvy young"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"boy of them all."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? I shall receive"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"money o' Thursday: shalt have a cap to-morrow. A"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"merry song, come: it grows late; we'll to bed."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Thou'lt forget me when I am gone."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"By my troth, thou'lt set me a-weeping, an thou"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"sayest so: prove that ever I dress myself handsome"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"till thy return: well, harken at the end."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Some sack, Francis."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Anon, anon, sir."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Ha! a bastard son of the king's? And art not thou"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Poins his brother?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Why, thou globe of sinful continents! what a life"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"dost thou lead!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"A better than thou: I am a gentleman; thou art a drawer."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Very true, sir; and I come to draw you out by the ears."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"O, the Lord preserve thy good grace! by my troth,"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"welcome to London. Now, the Lord bless that sweet"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"face of thine! O, Jesu, are you come from Wales?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Thou whoreson mad compound of majesty, by this light"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"flesh and corrupt blood, thou art welcome."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"How, you fat fool! I scorn you."
II,IV,POINS,"My lord, he will drive you out of your revenge and"
II,IV,POINS,"turn all to a merriment, if you take not the heat."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"You whoreson candle-mine, you, how vilely did you"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"speak of me even now before this honest, virtuous,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"civil gentlewoman!"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"God's blessing of your good heart! and so she is,"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"by my troth."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Didst thou hear me?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Yea, and you knew me, as you did when you ran away"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"by Gad's-hill: you knew I was at your back, and"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"spoke it on purpose to try my patience."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"No, no, no; not so; I did not think thou wast within hearing."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"I shall drive you then to confess the wilful abuse;"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"and then I know how to handle you."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"No abuse, Hal, o' mine honour, no abuse."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Not to dispraise me, and call me pantier and"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"bread-chipper and I know not what?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"No abuse, Hal."
II,IV,POINS,"No abuse?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"No abuse, Ned, i' the world; honest Ned, none. I"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"might not fall in love with him; in which doing, I"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"have done the part of a careful friend and a true"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"subject, and thy father is to give me thanks for it."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"No abuse, Hal: none, Ned, none: no, faith, boys, none."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"not make thee wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"close with us? is she of the wicked? is thine"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"hostess here of the wicked? or is thy boy of the"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"wicked? or honest Bardolph, whose zeal burns in his"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"nose, of the wicked?"
II,IV,POINS,"Answer, thou dead elm, answer."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"The fiend hath pricked down Bardolph irrecoverable;"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"and his face is Lucifer's privy-kitchen, where he"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"doth nothing but roast malt-worms. For the boy,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"there is a good angel about him; but the devil"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"outbids him too."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"For the women?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"For one of them, she is in hell already, and burns"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"poor souls. For the other, I owe her money, and"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"whether she be damned for that, I know not."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"No, I warrant you."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"No, I think thou art not; I think thou art quit for"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"that. Marry, there is another indictment upon thee,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"for suffering flesh to be eaten in thy house,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"contrary to the law; for the which I think thou wilt howl."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"All victuallers do so; what's a joint of mutton or"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"two in a whole Lent?"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"You, gentlewoman,-"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"What says your grace?"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"His grace says that which his flesh rebels against."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Who knocks so loud at door? Look to the door there, Francis."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Peto, how now! what news?"
II,IV,PETO,"The king your father is at Westminster:"
II,IV,PETO,"And there are twenty weak and wearied posts"
II,IV,PETO,"Come from the north: and, as I came along,"
II,IV,PETO,"I met and overtook a dozen captains,"
II,IV,PETO,"Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the taverns,"
II,IV,PETO,"And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"By heaven, Poins, I feel me much to blame,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"So idly to profane the precious time,"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"When tempest of commotion, like the south"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt"
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"And drop upon our bare unarmed heads."
II,IV,PRINCE HENRY,"Give me my sword and cloak. Falstaff, good night."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Now comes in the sweetest morsel of the night, and"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"we must hence and leave it unpicked."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"More knocking at the door!"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"How now! what's the matter?"
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"You must away to court, sir, presently;"
II,IV,BARDOLPH,"A dozen captains stay at door for you."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"hostess; farewell, Doll. You see, my good wenches,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"how men of merit are sought after: the undeserver"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"may sleep, when the man of action is called on."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Farewell good wenches: if I be not sent away post,"
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"I will see you again ere I go."
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"I cannot speak; if my heart be not read to burst,--"
II,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"well, sweet Jack, have a care of thyself."
II,IV,FALSTAFF,"Farewell, farewell."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Well, fare thee well: I have known thee these"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"twenty-nine years, come peascod-time; but an"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"honester and truer-hearted man,--well, fare thee well."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"What's the matter?"
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"O, run, Doll, run; run, good Doll: come."
II,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Yea, will you come, Doll?"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Go call the Earls of Surrey and of Warwick;"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"But, ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"And well consider of them; make good speed."
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"How many thousand of my poorest subjects"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"And steep my senses in forgetfulness?"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Under the canopies of costly state,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"A watch-case or a common 'larum-bell?"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"In cradle of the rude imperious surge"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"And in the visitation of the winds,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Who take the ruffian billows by the top,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"And in the calmest and most stillest night,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"With all appliances and means to boot,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down!"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
III,I,WARWICK,"Many good morrows to your majesty!"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Is it good morrow, lords?"
III,I,WARWICK,"'Tis one o'clock, and past."
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Why, then, good morrow to you all, my lords."
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Have you read o'er the letters that I sent you?"
III,I,WARWICK,"We have, my liege."
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Then you perceive the body of our kingdom"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"How foul it is; what rank diseases grow"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"And with what danger, near the heart of it."
III,I,WARWICK,"It is but as a body yet distemper'd;"
III,I,WARWICK,"Which to his former strength may be restored"
III,I,WARWICK,"With good advice and little medicine:"
III,I,WARWICK,"My Lord Northumberland will soon be cool'd."
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"O God! that one might read the book of fate,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"And see the revolution of the times"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Make mountains level, and the continent,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Weary of solid firmness, melt itself"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Into the sea! and, other times, to see"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"The beachy girdle of the ocean"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"And changes fill the cup of alteration"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"With divers liquors! O, if this were seen,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"What perils past, what crosses to ensue,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Would shut the book, and sit him down and die."
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"'Tis not 'ten years gone"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Since Richard and Northumberland, great friends,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Did feast together, and in two years after"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Were they at wars: it is but eight years since"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"This Percy was the man nearest my soul,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Who like a brother toil'd in my affairs"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"And laid his love and life under my foot,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Yea, for my sake, even to the eyes of Richard"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Gave him defiance. But which of you was by--"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"You, cousin Nevil, as I may remember--"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"When Richard, with his eye brimful of tears,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Then cheque'd and rated by Northumberland,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Did speak these words, now proved a prophecy?"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"'Northumberland, thou ladder by the which"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne;'"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Though then, God knows, I had no such intent,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"But that necessity so bow'd the state"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"That I and greatness were compell'd to kiss:"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"'The time shall come,' thus did he follow it,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"'The time will come, that foul sin, gathering head,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Shall break into corruption:' so went on,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Foretelling this same time's condition"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"And the division of our amity."
III,I,WARWICK,"There is a history in all men's lives,"
III,I,WARWICK,"Figuring the nature of the times deceased;"
III,I,WARWICK,"The which observed, a man may prophesy,"
III,I,WARWICK,"With a near aim, of the main chance of things"
III,I,WARWICK,"As yet not come to life, which in their seeds"
III,I,WARWICK,"And weak beginnings lie intreasured."
III,I,WARWICK,"Such things become the hatch and brood of time;"
III,I,WARWICK,"And by the necessary form of this"
III,I,WARWICK,"King Richard might create a perfect guess"
III,I,WARWICK,"That great Northumberland, then false to him,"
III,I,WARWICK,"Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness;"
III,I,WARWICK,"Which should not find a ground to root upon,"
III,I,WARWICK,"Unless on you."
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Are these things then necessities?"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Then let us meet them like necessities:"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"And that same word even now cries out on us:"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"They say the bishop and Northumberland"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"Are fifty thousand strong."
III,I,WARWICK,"It cannot be, my lord;"
III,I,WARWICK,"Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,"
III,I,WARWICK,"The numbers of the fear'd. Please it your grace"
III,I,WARWICK,"To go to bed. Upon my soul, my lord,"
III,I,WARWICK,"The powers that you already have sent forth"
III,I,WARWICK,"Shall bring this prize in very easily."
III,I,WARWICK,"To comfort you the more, I have received"
III,I,WARWICK,"A certain instance that Glendower is dead."
III,I,WARWICK,"Your majesty hath been this fortnight ill,"
III,I,WARWICK,"And these unseason'd hours perforce must add"
III,I,WARWICK,"Unto your sickness."
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"I will take your counsel:"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"And were these inward wars once out of hand,"
III,I,KING HENRY IV,"We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Come on, come on, come on, sir; give me your hand,"
III,II,SHALLOW,"sir, give me your hand, sir: an early stirrer, by"
III,II,SHALLOW,"the rood! And how doth my good cousin Silence?"
III,II,SILENCE,"Good morrow, good cousin Shallow."
III,II,SHALLOW,"And how doth my cousin, your bedfellow? and your"
III,II,SHALLOW,"fairest daughter and mine, my god-daughter Ellen?"
III,II,SILENCE,"Alas, a black ousel, cousin Shallow!"
III,II,SHALLOW,"By yea and nay, sir, I dare say my cousin William is"
III,II,SHALLOW,"become a good scholar: he is at Oxford still, is he not?"
III,II,SILENCE,"Indeed, sir, to my cost."
III,II,SHALLOW,"A' must, then, to the inns o' court shortly. I was"
III,II,SHALLOW,"once of Clement's Inn, where I think they will"
III,II,SHALLOW,"talk of mad Shallow yet."
III,II,SILENCE,"You were called 'lusty Shallow' then, cousin."
III,II,SHALLOW,"By the mass, I was called any thing; and I would"
III,II,SHALLOW,"have done any thing indeed too, and roundly too."
III,II,SHALLOW,"There was I, and little John Doit of Staffordshire,"
III,II,SHALLOW,"and black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Will Squele, a Cotswold man; you had not four such"
III,II,SHALLOW,"swinge-bucklers in all the inns o' court again: and"
III,II,SHALLOW,"I may say to you, we knew where the bona-robas were"
III,II,SHALLOW,"and had the best of them all at commandment. Then"
III,II,SHALLOW,"was Jack Falstaff, now Sir John, a boy, and page to"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk."
III,II,SILENCE,"This Sir John, cousin, that comes hither anon about soldiers?"
III,II,SHALLOW,"The same Sir John, the very same. I  see him break"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Skogan's head at the court-gate, when a' was a"
III,II,SHALLOW,"crack not thus high: and the very same day did I"
III,II,SHALLOW,"fight with one Sampson Stockfish, a fruiterer,"
III,II,SHALLOW,"behind Gray's Inn. Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I"
III,II,SHALLOW,"have spent! and to see how many of my old"
III,II,SHALLOW,"acquaintance are dead!"
III,II,SILENCE,"We shall all follow, cousin."
III,II,SHADOW,"Certain, 'tis certain; very sure, very sure: death,"
III,II,SHADOW,"as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall"
III,II,SHADOW,"die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?"
III,II,SILENCE,"By my troth, I was not there."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Death is certain. Is old Double of your town living"
III,II,SHALLOW,"yet?"
III,II,SILENCE,"Dead, sir."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Jesu, Jesu, dead! a' drew a good bow; and dead! a'"
III,II,SHALLOW,"shot a fine shoot: John a Gaunt loved him well, and"
III,II,SHALLOW,"betted much money on his head. Dead! a' would have"
III,II,SHALLOW,"clapped i' the clout at twelve score; and carried"
III,II,SHALLOW,"you a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a"
III,II,SHALLOW,"half, that it would have done a man's heart good to"
III,II,SHALLOW,"see. How a score of ewes now?"
III,II,SILENCE,"Thereafter as they be: a score of good ewes may be"
III,II,SILENCE,"worth ten pounds."
III,II,SHALLOW,"And is old Double dead?"
III,II,SILENCE,"Here come two of Sir John Falstaff's men, as I think."
III,II,BARDOLPH,"Good morrow, honest gentlemen: I beseech you, which"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"is Justice Shallow?"
III,II,SHALLOW,"I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of this"
III,II,SHALLOW,"county, and one of the king's justices of the peace:"
III,II,SHALLOW,"What is your good pleasure with me?"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"My captain, sir, commends him to you; my captain,"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"Sir John Falstaff, a tall gentleman, by heaven, and"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"a most gallant leader."
III,II,SHALLOW,"He greets me well, sir. I knew him a good backsword"
III,II,SHALLOW,"man. How doth the good knight? may I ask how my"
III,II,SHALLOW,"lady his wife doth?"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"Sir, pardon; a soldier is better accommodated than"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"with a wife."
III,II,SHALLOW,"It is well said, in faith, sir; and it is well said"
III,II,SHALLOW,"indeed too. Better accommodated! it is good; yea,"
III,II,SHALLOW,"indeed, is it: good phrases are surely, and ever"
III,II,SHALLOW,"were, very commendable. Accommodated! it comes of"
III,II,SHALLOW,"'accommodo' very good; a good phrase."
III,II,BARDOLPH,"Pardon me, sir; I have heard the word. Phrase call"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"you it? by this good day, I know not the phrase;"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"but I will maintain the word with my sword to be a"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"soldier-like word, and a word of exceeding good"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"command, by heaven. Accommodated; that is, when a"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is,"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated;"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"which is an excellent thing."
III,II,SHALLOW,"It is very just."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Look, here comes good Sir John. Give me your good"
III,II,SHALLOW,"hand, give me your worship's good hand: by my"
III,II,SHALLOW,"troth, you like well and bear your years very well:"
III,II,SHALLOW,"welcome, good Sir John."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"I am glad to see you well, good Master Robert"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Shallow: Master Surecard, as I think?"
III,II,SHALLOW,"No, Sir John; it is my cousin Silence, in commission with me."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Good Master Silence, it well befits you should be of"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"the peace."
III,II,SILENCE,"Your good-worship is welcome."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Fie! this is hot weather, gentlemen. Have you"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"provided me here half a dozen sufficient men?"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Marry, have we, sir. Will you sit?"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Let me see them, I beseech you."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Where's the roll? where's the roll? where's the"
III,II,SHALLOW,"roll? Let me see, let me see, let me see. So, so:"
III,II,SHALLOW,"yea, marry, sir: Ralph Mouldy! Let them appear as"
III,II,SHALLOW,"I call; let them do so, let them do so. Let me"
III,II,SHALLOW,"see; where is Mouldy?"
III,II,MOULDY,"Here, an't please you."
III,II,SHALLOW,"What think you, Sir John? a good-limbed fellow;"
III,II,SHALLOW,"young, strong, and of good friends."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Is thy name Mouldy?"
III,II,MOULDY,"Yea, an't please you."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"'Tis the more time thou wert used."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Ha, ha, ha! most excellent, i' faith! Things that"
III,II,SHALLOW,"are mouldy lack use: very singular good! in faith,"
III,II,SHALLOW,"well said, Sir John, very well said."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Prick him."
III,II,MOULDY,"I was pricked well enough before, an you could have"
III,II,MOULDY,"let me alone: my old dame will be undone now for"
III,II,MOULDY,"one to do her husbandry and her drudgery: you need"
III,II,MOULDY,"not to have pricked me; there are other men fitter"
III,II,MOULDY,"to go out than I."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Go to: peace, Mouldy; you shall go. Mouldy, it is"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"time you were spent."
III,II,MOULDY,"Spent!"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Peace, fellow, peace; stand aside: know you where"
III,II,SHALLOW,"you are? For the other, Sir John: let me see:"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Simon Shadow!"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Yea, marry, let me have him to sit under: he's like"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"to be a cold soldier."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Where's Shadow?"
III,II,SHADOW,"Here, sir."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Shadow, whose son art thou?"
III,II,SHADOW,"My mother's son, sir."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Thy mother's son! like enough, and thy father's"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"shadow: so the son of the female is the shadow of"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"the male: it is often so, indeed; but much of the"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"father's substance!"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Do you like him, Sir John?"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Shadow will serve for summer; prick him, for we have"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"a number of shadows to fill up the muster-book."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Thomas Wart!"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Where's he?"
III,II,WART,"Here, sir."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Is thy name Wart?"
III,II,WART,"Yea, sir."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Thou art a very ragged wart."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Shall I prick him down, Sir John?"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"It were superfluous; for his apparel is built upon"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"his back and the whole frame stands upon pins:"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"prick him no more."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Ha, ha, ha! you can do it, sir; you can do it: I"
III,II,SHALLOW,"commend you well. Francis Feeble!"
III,II,FEEBLE,"Here, sir."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"What trade art thou, Feeble?"
III,II,FEEBLE,"A woman's tailor, sir."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Shall I prick him, sir?"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"You may: but if he had been a man's tailor, he'ld"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"ha' pricked you. Wilt thou make as many holes in"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"an enemy's battle as thou hast done in a woman's petticoat?"
III,II,FEEBLE,"I will do my good will, sir; you can have no more."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Well said, good woman's tailor! well said,"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"courageous Feeble! thou wilt be as valiant as the"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse. Prick the"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"woman's tailor: well, Master Shallow; deep, Master Shallow."
III,II,FEEBLE,"I would Wart might have gone, sir."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"I would thou wert a man's tailor, that thou mightst"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"mend him and make him fit to go. I cannot put him"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"to a private soldier that is the leader of so many"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"thousands: let that suffice, most forcible Feeble."
III,II,FEEBLE,"It shall suffice, sir."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"I am bound to thee, reverend Feeble. Who is next?"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Peter Bullcalf o' the green!"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Yea, marry, let's see Bullcalf."
III,II,BULLCALF,"Here, sir."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"'Fore God, a likely fellow! Come, prick me Bullcalf"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"till he roar again."
III,II,BULLCALF,"O Lord! good my lord captain,--"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"What, dost thou roar before thou art pricked?"
III,II,BULLCALF,"O Lord, sir! I am a diseased man."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"What disease hast thou?"
III,II,BULLCALF,"A whoreson cold, sir, a cough, sir, which I caught"
III,II,BULLCALF,"with ringing in the king's affairs upon his"
III,II,BULLCALF,"coronation-day, sir."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Come, thou shalt go to the wars in a gown; we wilt"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"have away thy cold; and I will take such order that"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"my friends shall ring for thee. Is here all?"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Here is two more called than your number, you must"
III,II,SHALLOW,"have but four here, sir: and so, I pray you, go in"
III,II,SHALLOW,"with me to dinner."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Come, I will go drink with you, but I cannot tarry"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"dinner. I am glad to see you, by my troth, Master Shallow."
III,II,SHALLOW,"O, Sir John, do you remember since we lay all night"
III,II,SHALLOW,"in the windmill in Saint George's field?"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"No more of that, good Master Shallow, no more of that."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Ha! 'twas a merry night. And is Jane Nightwork alive?"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"She lives, Master Shallow."
III,II,SHALLOW,"She never could away with me."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Never, never; she would always say she could not"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"abide Master Shallow."
III,II,SHALLOW,"By the mass, I could anger her to the heart. She"
III,II,SHALLOW,"was then a bona-roba. Doth she hold her own well?"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Old, old, Master Shallow."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Nay, she must be old; she cannot choose but be old;"
III,II,SHALLOW,"certain she's old; and had Robin Nightwork by old"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Nightwork before I came to Clement's Inn."
III,II,SILENCE,"That's fifty-five year ago."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Ha, cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that that"
III,II,SHALLOW,"this knight and I have seen! Ha, Sir John, said I well?"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow."
III,II,SHALLOW,"That we have, that we have, that we have; in faith,"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Sir John, we have: our watch-word was 'Hem boys!'"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Come, let's to dinner; come, let's to dinner:"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Jesus, the days that we have seen! Come, come."
III,II,BULLCALF,"Good Master Corporate Bardolph, stand my friend;"
III,II,BULLCALF,"and here's four Harry ten shillings in French crowns"
III,II,BULLCALF,"for you. In very truth, sir, I had as lief be"
III,II,BULLCALF,"hanged, sir, as go: and yet, for mine own part, sir,"
III,II,BULLCALF,"I do not care; but rather, because I am unwilling,"
III,II,BULLCALF,"and, for mine own part, have a desire to stay with"
III,II,BULLCALF,"my friends; else, sir, I did not care, for mine own"
III,II,BULLCALF,"part, so much."
III,II,BARDOLPH,"Go to; stand aside."
III,II,MOULDY,"And, good master corporal captain, for my old"
III,II,MOULDY,"dame's sake, stand my friend: she has nobody to do"
III,II,MOULDY,"any thing about her when I am gone; and she is old,"
III,II,MOULDY,"and cannot help herself: You shall have forty, sir."
III,II,BARDOLPH,"Go to; stand aside."
III,II,FEEBLE,"By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once: we"
III,II,FEEBLE,"owe God a death: I'll ne'er bear a base mind:"
III,II,FEEBLE,"an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: no man is"
III,II,FEEBLE,"too good to serve's prince; and let it go which way"
III,II,FEEBLE,"it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next."
III,II,BARDOLPH,"Well said; thou'rt a good fellow."
III,II,FEEBLE,"Faith, I'll bear no base mind."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Come, sir, which men shall I have?"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Four of which you please."
III,II,BARDOLPH,"Sir, a word with you: I have three pound to free"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"Mouldy and Bullcalf."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Go to; well."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Come, Sir John, which four will you have?"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Do you choose for me."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Marry, then, Mouldy, Bullcalf, Feeble and Shadow."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Mouldy and Bullcalf: for you, Mouldy, stay at home"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"till you are past service: and for your part,"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Bullcalf, grow till you come unto it: I will none of you."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Sir John, Sir John, do not yourself wrong: they are"
III,II,SHALLOW,"your likeliest men, and I would have you served with the best."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Will you tell me, Master Shallow, how to choose a"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"man? Care I for the limb, the thewes, the stature,"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"spirit, Master Shallow. Here's Wart; you see what a"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"ragged appearance it is; a' shall charge you and"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"discharge you with the motion of a pewterer's"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"hammer, come off and on swifter than he that gibbets"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"on the brewer's bucket. And this same half-faced"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"fellow, Shadow; give me this man: he presents no"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"mark to the enemy; the foeman may with as great aim"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"level at the edge of a penknife. And for a retreat;"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"how swiftly will this Feeble the woman's tailor run"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"off! O, give me the spare men, and spare me the"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"great ones. Put me a caliver into Wart's hand, Bardolph."
III,II,BARDOLPH,"Hold, Wart, traverse; thus, thus, thus."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Come, manage me your caliver. So: very well: go"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"to: very good, exceeding good. O, give me always a"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"little, lean, old, chapt, bald shot. Well said, i'"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"faith, Wart; thou'rt a good scab: hold, there's a"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"tester for thee."
III,II,SHALLOW,"He is not his craft's master; he doth not do it"
III,II,SHALLOW,"right. I remember at Mile-end Green, when I lay at"
III,II,SHALLOW,"Clement's Inn--I was then Sir Dagonet in Arthur's"
III,II,SHALLOW,"show,--there was a little quiver fellow, and a'"
III,II,SHALLOW,"would manage you his piece thus; and a' would about"
III,II,SHALLOW,"and about, and come you in and come you in: 'rah,"
III,II,SHALLOW,"tah, tah,' would a' say; 'bounce' would a' say; and"
III,II,SHALLOW,"away again would a' go, and again would a' come: I"
III,II,SHALLOW,"shall ne'er see such a fellow."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"These fellows will do well, Master Shallow. God"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"keep you, Master Silence: I will not use many words"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"with you. Fare you well, gentlemen both: I thank"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"you: I must a dozen mile to-night. Bardolph, give"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"the soldiers coats."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Sir John, the Lord bless you! God prosper your"
III,II,SHALLOW,"affairs! God send us peace! At your return visit"
III,II,SHALLOW,"our house; let our old acquaintance be renewed;"
III,II,SHALLOW,"peradventure I will with ye to the court."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"'Fore God, I would you would, Master Shallow."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Go to; I have spoke at a word. God keep you."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Fare you well, gentle gentlemen."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"On, Bardolph; lead the men away."
III,II,FALSTAFF,"As I return, I will fetch off these justices: I do"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"see the bottom of Justice Shallow. Lord, Lord, how"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"subject we old men are to this vice of lying! This"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"me of the wildness of his youth, and the feats he"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"hath done about Turnbull Street: and every third"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"word a lie, duer paid to the hearer than the Turk's"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"tribute. I do remember him at Clement's Inn like a"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a'"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"with a knife: a' was so forlorn, that his"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"dimensions to any thick sight were invincible: a'"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"was the very genius of famine; yet lecherous as a"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"monkey, and the whores called him mandrake: a' came"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"ever in the rearward of the fashion, and sung those"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"tunes to the overscutched huswives that he heard the"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"carmen whistle, and swear they were his fancies or"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"his good-nights. And now is this Vice's dagger"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"become a squire, and talks as familiarly of John a"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Gaunt as if he had been sworn brother to him; and"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"I'll be sworn a' ne'er saw him but once in the"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Tilt-yard; and then he burst his head for crowding"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"among the marshal's men. I saw it, and told John a"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"Gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"court: and now has he land and beefs. Well, I'll"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"be acquainted with him, if I return; and it shall"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"go hard but I will make him a philosopher's two"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"stones to me: if the young dace be a bait for the"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"old pike, I see no reason in the law of nature but I"
III,II,FALSTAFF,"may snap at him. Let time shape, and there an end."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"What is this forest call'd?"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"'Tis Gaultree Forest, an't shall please your grace."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Here stand, my lords; and send discoverers forth"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"To know the numbers of our enemies."
IV,I,HASTINGS,"We have sent forth already."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"'Tis well done."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"My friends and brethren in these great affairs,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"I must acquaint you that I have received"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"New-dated letters from Northumberland;"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Their cold intent, tenor and substance, thus:"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Here doth he wish his person, with such powers"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"As might hold sortance with his quality,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"The which he could not levy; whereupon"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"He is retired, to ripe his growing fortunes,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"To Scotland: and concludes in hearty prayers"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"That your attempts may overlive the hazard"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And fearful melting of their opposite."
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"And dash themselves to pieces."
IV,I,HASTINGS,"Now, what news?"
IV,I,Messenger,"West of this forest, scarcely off a mile,"
IV,I,Messenger,"In goodly form comes on the enemy;"
IV,I,Messenger,"And, by the ground they hide, I judge their number"
IV,I,Messenger,"Upon or near the rate of thirty thousand."
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"The just proportion that we gave them out"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Let us sway on and face them in the field."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"What well-appointed leader fronts us here?"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"I think it is my Lord of Westmoreland."
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Health and fair greeting from our general,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"The prince, Lord John and Duke of Lancaster."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Say on, my Lord of Westmoreland, in peace:"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"What doth concern your coming?"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Then, my lord,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Unto your grace do I in chief address"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"The substance of my speech. If that rebellion"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Came like itself, in base and abject routs,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rags,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"And countenanced by boys and beggary,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"I say, if damn'd commotion so appear'd,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"In his true, native and most proper shape,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"You, reverend father, and these noble lords"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Had not been here, to dress the ugly form"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Of base and bloody insurrection"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"With your fair honours. You, lord archbishop,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Whose see is by a civil peace maintained,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Whose white investments figure innocence,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"The dove and very blessed spirit of peace,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Wherefore do you so ill translate ourself"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Out of the speech of peace that bears such grace,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war;"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Your pens to lances and your tongue divine"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"To a trumpet and a point of war?"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Wherefore do I this? so the question stands."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Briefly to this end: we are all diseased,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And with our surfeiting and wanton hours"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Have brought ourselves into a burning fever,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And we must bleed for it; of which disease"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Our late king, Richard, being infected, died."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"But, my most noble Lord of Westmoreland,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"I take not on me here as a physician,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Nor do I as an enemy to peace"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Troop in the throngs of military men;"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"But rather show awhile like fearful war,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"To diet rank minds sick of happiness"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And purge the obstructions which begin to stop"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Our very veins of life. Hear me more plainly."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"I have in equal balance justly weigh'd"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And find our griefs heavier than our offences."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"We see which way the stream of time doth run,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And are enforced from our most quiet there"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"By the rough torrent of occasion;"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And have the summary of all our griefs,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"When time shall serve, to show in articles;"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Which long ere this we offer'd to the king,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And might by no suit gain our audience:"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"When we are wrong'd and would unfold our griefs,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"We are denied access unto his person"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Even by those men that most have done us wrong."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"The dangers of the days but newly gone,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Whose memory is written on the earth"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"With yet appearing blood, and the examples"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Of every minute's instance, present now,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Hath put us in these ill-beseeming arms,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Not to break peace or any branch of it,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"But to establish here a peace indeed,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Concurring both in name and quality."
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"When ever yet was your appeal denied?"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Wherein have you been galled by the king?"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"What peer hath been suborn'd to grate on you,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"That you should seal this lawless bloody book"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Of forged rebellion with a seal divine"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"And consecrate commotion's bitter edge?"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"My brother general, the commonwealth,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"To brother born an household cruelty,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"I make my quarrel in particular."
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"There is no need of any such redress;"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Or if there were, it not belongs to you."
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Why not to him in part, and to us all"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"That feel the bruises of the days before,"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"And suffer the condition of these times"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"To lay a heavy and unequal hand"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Upon our honours?"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"O, my good Lord Mowbray,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Construe the times to their necessities,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"And you shall say indeed, it is the time,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"And not the king, that doth you injuries."
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Yet for your part, it not appears to me"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Either from the king or in the present time"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"That you should have an inch of any ground"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"To build a grief on: were you not restored"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"To all the Duke of Norfolk's signories,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Your noble and right well remember'd father's?"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"What thing, in honour, had my father lost,"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"That need to be revived and breathed in me?"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"The king that loved him, as the state stood then,"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Was force perforce compell'd to banish him:"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"And then that Harry Bolingbroke and he,"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Being mounted and both roused in their seats,"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Their neighing coursers daring of the spur,"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down,"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Their eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"And the loud trumpet blowing them together,"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Then, then, when there was nothing could have stay'd"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"My father from the breast of Bolingbroke,"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"O when the king did throw his warder down,"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"His own life hung upon the staff he threw;"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Then threw he down himself and all their lives"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"That by indictment and by dint of sword"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Have since miscarried under Bolingbroke."
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"You speak, Lord Mowbray, now you know not what."
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"The Earl of Hereford was reputed then"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"In England the most valiant gentlemen:"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Who knows on whom fortune would then have smiled?"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"But if your father had been victor there,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"He ne'er had borne it out of Coventry:"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"For all the country in a general voice"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Cried hate upon him; and all their prayers and love"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Were set on Hereford, whom they doted on"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"And bless'd and graced indeed, more than the king."
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"But this is mere digression from my purpose."
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Here come I from our princely general"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"To know your griefs; to tell you from his grace"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"That he will give you audience; and wherein"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"It shall appear that your demands are just,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"You shall enjoy them, every thing set off"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"That might so much as think you enemies."
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"But he hath forced us to compel this offer;"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"And it proceeds from policy, not love."
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Mowbray, you overween to take it so;"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"This offer comes from mercy, not from fear:"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"For, lo! within a ken our army lies,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Upon mine honour, all too confident"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"To give admittance to a thought of fear."
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Our battle is more full of names than yours,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Our men more perfect in the use of arms,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Our armour all as strong, our cause the best;"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Then reason will our heart should be as good"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Say you not then our offer is compell'd."
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Well, by my will we shall admit no parley."
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"That argues but the shame of your offence:"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"A rotten case abides no handling."
IV,I,HASTINGS,"Hath the Prince John a full commission,"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"In very ample virtue of his father,"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"To hear and absolutely to determine"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"Of what conditions we shall stand upon?"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"That is intended in the general's name:"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"I muse you make so slight a question."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Then take, my Lord of Westmoreland, this schedule,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"For this contains our general grievances:"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Each several article herein redress'd,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"All members of our cause, both here and hence,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"That are insinew'd to this action,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Acquitted by a true substantial form"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And present execution of our wills"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"To us and to our purposes confined,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"We come within our awful banks again"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And knit our powers to the arm of peace."
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"This will I show the general. Please you, lords,"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"In sight of both our battles we may meet;"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"And either end in peace, which God so frame!"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Or to the place of difference call the swords"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"Which must decide it."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"My lord, we will do so."
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"There is a thing within my bosom tells me"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"That no conditions of our peace can stand."
IV,I,HASTINGS,"Fear you not that: if we can make our peace"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"Upon such large terms and so absolute"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"As our conditions shall consist upon,"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Yea, but our valuation shall be such"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"That every slight and false-derived cause,"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Yea, every idle, nice and wanton reason"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Shall to the king taste of this action;"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"That, were our royal faiths martyrs in love,"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff"
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"And good from bad find no partition."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"No, no, my lord. Note this; the king is weary"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Of dainty and such picking grievances:"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"For he hath found to end one doubt by death"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Revives two greater in the heirs of life,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And therefore will he wipe his tables clean"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And keep no tell-tale to his memory"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"That may repeat and history his loss"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"To new remembrance; for full well he knows"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"He cannot so precisely weed this land"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"As his misdoubts present occasion:"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"His foes are so enrooted with his friends"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"That, plucking to unfix an enemy,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"He doth unfasten so and shake a friend:"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"So that this land, like an offensive wife"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"That hath enraged him on to offer strokes,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"As he is striking, holds his infant up"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And hangs resolved correction in the arm"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"That was uprear'd to execution."
IV,I,HASTINGS,"Besides, the king hath wasted all his rods"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"On late offenders, that he now doth lack"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"The very instruments of chastisement:"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"So that his power, like to a fangless lion,"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"May offer, but not hold."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"'Tis very true:"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And therefore be assured, my good lord marshal,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"If we do now make our atonement well,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Our peace will, like a broken limb united,"
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Grow stronger for the breaking."
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Be it so."
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Here is return'd my Lord of Westmoreland."
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship"
IV,I,WESTMORELAND,"To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies."
IV,I,MOWBRAY,"Your grace of York, in God's name then, set forward."
IV,I,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Before, and greet his grace: my lord, we come."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"You are well encounter'd here, my cousin Mowbray:"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Good day to you, gentle lord archbishop;"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"And so to you, Lord Hastings, and to all."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"My Lord of York, it better show'd with you"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"When that your flock, assembled by the bell,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Encircled you to hear with reverence"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Your exposition on the holy text"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Than now to see you here an iron man,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Cheering a rout of rebels with your drum,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Turning the word to sword and life to death."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"That man that sits within a monarch's heart,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"And ripens in the sunshine of his favour,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Would he abuse the countenance of the king,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Alack, what mischiefs might he set abrooch"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"In shadow of such greatness! With you, lord bishop,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"It is even so. Who hath not heard it spoken"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"How deep you were within the books of God?"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"To us the speaker in his parliament;"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"To us the imagined voice of God himself;"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"The very opener and intelligencer"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"And our dull workings. O, who shall believe"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"But you misuse the reverence of your place,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Employ the countenance and grace of heaven,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"As a false favourite doth his prince's name,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"In deeds dishonourable? You have ta'en up,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Under the counterfeited zeal of God,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"The subjects of his substitute, my father,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"And both against the peace of heaven and him"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Have here up-swarm'd them."
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Good my Lord of Lancaster,"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"I am not here against your father's peace;"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"But, as I told my lord of Westmoreland,"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"The time misorder'd doth, in common sense,"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form,"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"To hold our safety up. I sent your grace"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"The parcels and particulars of our grief,"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"The which hath been with scorn shoved from the court,"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Whereon this Hydra son of war is born;"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm'd asleep"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"With grant of our most just and right desires,"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And true obedience, of this madness cured,"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty."
IV,II,MOWBRAY,"If not, we ready are to try our fortunes"
IV,II,MOWBRAY,"To the last man."
IV,II,HASTINGS,"And though we here fall down,"
IV,II,HASTINGS,"We have supplies to second our attempt:"
IV,II,HASTINGS,"If they miscarry, theirs shall second them;"
IV,II,HASTINGS,"And so success of mischief shall be born"
IV,II,HASTINGS,"And heir from heir shall hold this quarrel up"
IV,II,HASTINGS,"Whiles England shall have generation."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"You are too shallow, Hastings, much too shallow,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"To sound the bottom of the after-times."
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"Pleaseth your grace to answer them directly"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"How far forth you do like their articles."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"I like them all, and do allow them well,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"And swear here, by the honour of my blood,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"My father's purposes have been mistook,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"And some about him have too lavishly"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Wrested his meaning and authority."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"My lord, these griefs shall be with speed redress'd;"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Upon my soul, they shall. If this may please you,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Discharge your powers unto their several counties,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"As we will ours: and here between the armies"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Let's drink together friendly and embrace,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"That all their eyes may bear those tokens home"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Of our restored love and amity."
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"I take your princely word for these redresses."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"I give it you, and will maintain my word:"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"And thereupon I drink unto your grace."
IV,II,HASTINGS,"Go, captain, and deliver to the army"
IV,II,HASTINGS,"This news of peace: let them have pay, and part:"
IV,II,HASTINGS,"I know it will well please them. Hie thee, captain."
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"To you, my noble Lord of Westmoreland."
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"I pledge your grace; and, if you knew what pains"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"I have bestow'd to breed this present peace,"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"You would drink freely: but my love to ye"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"Shall show itself more openly hereafter."
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"I do not doubt you."
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"I am glad of it."
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"Health to my lord and gentle cousin, Mowbray."
IV,II,MOWBRAY,"You wish me health in very happy season;"
IV,II,MOWBRAY,"For I am, on the sudden, something ill."
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Against ill chances men are ever merry;"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"But heaviness foreruns the good event."
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"Therefore be merry, coz; since sudden sorrow"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"Serves to say thus, 'some good thing comes"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"to-morrow.'"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Believe me, I am passing light in spirit."
IV,II,MOWBRAY,"So much the worse, if your own rule be true."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"The word of peace is render'd: hark, how they shout!"
IV,II,MOWBRAY,"This had been cheerful after victory."
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"A peace is of the nature of a conquest;"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"For then both parties nobly are subdued,"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And neither party loser."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Go, my lord,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"And let our army be discharged too."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"And, good my lord, so please you, let our trains"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"March, by us, that we may peruse the men"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"We should have coped withal."
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Go, good Lord Hastings,"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And, ere they be dismissed, let them march by."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"I trust, lords, we shall lie to-night together."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Now, cousin, wherefore stands our army still?"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"The leaders, having charge from you to stand,"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"Will not go off until they hear you speak."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"They know their duties."
IV,II,HASTINGS,"My lord, our army is dispersed already;"
IV,II,HASTINGS,"Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses"
IV,II,HASTINGS,"East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up,"
IV,II,HASTINGS,"Each hurries toward his home and sporting-place."
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"Good tidings, my Lord Hastings; for the which"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"I do arrest thee, traitor, of high treason:"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"And you, lord archbishop, and you, Lord Mowbray,"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"Of capitol treason I attach you both."
IV,II,MOWBRAY,"Is this proceeding just and honourable?"
IV,II,WESTMORELAND,"Is your assembly so?"
IV,II,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Will you thus break your faith?"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"I pawn'd thee none:"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"I promised you redress of these same grievances"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Whereof you did complain; which, by mine honour,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"I will perform with a most Christian care."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"But for you, rebels, look to taste the due"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Meet for rebellion and such acts as yours."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Most shallowly did you these arms commence,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Fondly brought here and foolishly sent hence."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Strike up our drums, pursue the scatter'd stray:"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"God, and not we, hath safely fought to-day."
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Some guard these traitors to the block of death,"
IV,II,LANCASTER,"Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"What's your name, sir? of what condition are you,"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"and of what place, I pray?"
IV,III,COLEVILE,"I am a knight, sir, and my name is Colevile of the dale."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"Well, then, Colevile is your name, a knight is your"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"degree, and your place the dale: Colevile shall be"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"still your name, a traitor your degree, and the"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"dungeon your place, a place deep enough; so shall"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"you be still Colevile of the dale."
IV,III,COLEVILE,"Are not you Sir John Falstaff?"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"As good a man as he, sir, whoe'er I am. Do ye"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"yield, sir? or shall I sweat for you? if I do"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"sweat, they are the drops of thy lovers, and they"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"weep for thy death: therefore rouse up fear and"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"trembling, and do observance to my mercy."
IV,III,COLEVILE,"I think you are Sir John Falstaff, and in that"
IV,III,COLEVILE,"thought yield me."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"I have a whole school of tongues in this belly of"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"mine, and not a tongue of them all speaks any other"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"word but my name. An I had but a belly of any"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"indifference, I were simply the most active fellow"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"in Europe: my womb, my womb, my womb, undoes me."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"Here comes our general."
IV,III,LANCASTER,"The heat is past; follow no further now:"
IV,III,LANCASTER,"Call in the powers, good cousin Westmoreland."
IV,III,LANCASTER,"Now, Falstaff, where have you been all this while?"
IV,III,LANCASTER,"When every thing is ended, then you come:"
IV,III,LANCASTER,"These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life,"
IV,III,LANCASTER,"One time or other break some gallows' back."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"I would be sorry, my lord, but it should be thus: I"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"never knew yet but rebuke and cheque was the reward"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"of valour. Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"bullet? have I, in my poor and old motion, the"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"expedition of thought? I have speeded hither with"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"the very extremest inch of possibility; I have"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"foundered nine score and odd posts: and here,"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"travel-tainted as I am, have in my pure and"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"immaculate valour, taken Sir John Colevile of the"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"dale, a most furious knight and valorous enemy."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"But what of that? he saw me, and yielded; that I"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome,"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"'I came, saw, and overcame.'"
IV,III,LANCASTER,"It was more of his courtesy than your deserving."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"I know not: here he is, and here I yield him: and"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"I beseech your grace, let it be booked with the"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"rest of this day's deeds; or, by the Lord, I will"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"have it in a particular ballad else, with mine own"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"picture on the top on't, Colevile kissing my foot:"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"to the which course if I be enforced, if you do not"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"all show like gilt twopences to me, and I in the"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"clear sky of fame o'ershine you as much as the full"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"moon doth the cinders of the element, which show"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"like pins' heads to her, believe not the word of"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"the noble: therefore let me have right, and let"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"desert mount."
IV,III,LANCASTER,"Thine's too heavy to mount."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"Let it shine, then."
IV,III,LANCASTER,"Thine's too thick to shine."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"Let it do something, my good lord, that may do me"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"good, and call it what you will."
IV,III,LANCASTER,"Is thy name Colevile?"
IV,III,COLEVILE,"It is, my lord."
IV,III,LANCASTER,"A famous rebel art thou, Colevile."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"And a famous true subject took him."
IV,III,COLEVILE,"I am, my lord, but as my betters are"
IV,III,COLEVILE,"That led me hither: had they been ruled by me,"
IV,III,COLEVILE,"You should have won them dearer than you have."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"I know not how they sold themselves: but thou, like"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"a kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis; and I"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"thank thee for thee."
IV,III,LANCASTER,"Now, have you left pursuit?"
IV,III,WESTMORELAND,"Retreat is made and execution stay'd."
IV,III,LANCASTER,"Send Colevile with his confederates"
IV,III,LANCASTER,"To York, to present execution:"
IV,III,LANCASTER,"Blunt, lead him hence; and see you guard him sure."
IV,III,LANCASTER,"And now dispatch we toward the court, my lords:"
IV,III,LANCASTER,"I hear the king my father is sore sick:"
IV,III,LANCASTER,"Our news shall go before us to his majesty,"
IV,III,LANCASTER,"Which, cousin, you shall bear to comfort him,"
IV,III,LANCASTER,"And we with sober speed will follow you."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"My lord, I beseech you, give me leave to go"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"Through Gloucestershire: and, when you come to court,"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"Stand my good lord, pray, in your good report."
IV,III,LANCASTER,"Fare you well, Falstaff: I, in my condition,"
IV,III,LANCASTER,"Shall better speak of you than you deserve."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"I would you had but the wit: 'twere better than"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"your dukedom. Good faith, this same young sober-"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"blooded boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"him laugh; but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"There's never none of these demure boys come to any"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood,"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"and making many fish-meals, that they fall into a"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"kind of male green-sickness; and then when they"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"marry, they get wenches: they are generally fools"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"and cowards; which some of us should be too, but for"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"inflammation. A good sherris sack hath a two-fold"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"operation in it. It ascends me into the brain;"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive,"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"excellent wit. The second property of your"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"excellent sherris is, the warming of the blood;"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"which, before cold and settled, left the liver"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"and cowardice; but the sherris warms it and makes"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"it course from the inwards to the parts extreme:"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"it illumineth the face, which as a beacon gives"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"warning to all the rest of this little kingdom,"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"man, to arm; and then the vital commoners and"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain,"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"the heart, who, great and puffed up with this"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"retinue, doth any deed of courage; and this valour"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"comes of sherris. So that skill in the weapon is"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"nothing without sack, for that sets it a-work; and"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil, till"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"sack commences it and sets it in act and use."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant; for"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"father, he hath, like lean, sterile and bare land,"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"manured, husbanded and tilled with excellent"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"endeavour of drinking good and good store of fertile"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"sherris, that he is become very hot and valiant. If"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"would teach them should be, to forswear thin"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"potations and to addict themselves to sack."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"How now Bardolph?"
IV,III,BARDOLPH,"The army is discharged all and gone."
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"Let them go. I'll through Gloucestershire; and"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire:"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"I have him already tempering between my finger and"
IV,III,FALSTAFF,"my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Now, lords, if God doth give successful end"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"To this debate that bleedeth at our doors,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"We will our youth lead on to higher fields"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And draw no swords but what are sanctified."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Our navy is address'd, our power collected,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Our substitutes in absence well invested,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And every thing lies level to our wish:"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Only, we want a little personal strength;"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And pause us, till these rebels, now afoot,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Come underneath the yoke of government."
IV,IV,WARWICK,"Both which we doubt not but your majesty"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"Shall soon enjoy."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Humphrey, my son of Gloucester,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Where is the prince your brother?"
IV,IV,GLOUCESTER,"I think he's gone to hunt, my lord, at Windsor."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And how accompanied?"
IV,IV,GLOUCESTER,"I do not know, my lord."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Is not his brother, Thomas of Clarence, with him?"
IV,IV,GLOUCESTER,"No, my good lord; he is in presence here."
IV,IV,CLARENCE,"What would my lord and father?"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of Clarence."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"How chance thou art not with the prince thy brother?"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"He loves thee, and thou dost neglect him, Thomas;"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Thou hast a better place in his affection"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Than all thy brothers: cherish it, my boy,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And noble offices thou mayst effect"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Of mediation, after I am dead,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Between his greatness and thy other brethren:"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Therefore omit him not; blunt not his love,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Nor lose the good advantage of his grace"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"By seeming cold or careless of his will;"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"For he is gracious, if he be observed:"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"He hath a tear for pity and a hand"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Open as day for melting charity:"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Yet notwithstanding, being incensed, he's flint,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"As humorous as winter and as sudden"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"As flaws congealed in the spring of day."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"His temper, therefore, must be well observed:"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"When thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth;"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"But, being moody, give him line and scope,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Confound themselves with working. Learn this, Thomas,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"That the united vessel of their blood,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Mingled with venom of suggestion--"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"As, force perforce, the age will pour it in--"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Shall never leak, though it do work as strong"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"As aconitum or rash gunpowder."
IV,IV,CLARENCE,"I shall observe him with all care and love."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Why art thou not at Windsor with him, Thomas?"
IV,IV,CLARENCE,"He is not there to-day; he dines in London."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And how accompanied? canst thou tell that?"
IV,IV,CLARENCE,"With Poins, and other his continual followers."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds;"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And he, the noble image of my youth,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Is overspread with them: therefore my grief"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Stretches itself beyond the hour of death:"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"In forms imaginary the unguided days"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And rotten times that you shall look upon"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"When I am sleeping with my ancestors."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"For when his headstrong riot hath no curb,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"When rage and hot blood are his counsellors,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"When means and lavish manners meet together,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"O, with what wings shall his affections fly"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Towards fronting peril and opposed decay!"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"My gracious lord, you look beyond him quite:"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"The prince but studies his companions"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"Like a strange tongue, wherein, to gain the language,"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"'Tis needful that the most immodest word"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"Be look'd upon and learn'd; which once attain'd,"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"Your highness knows, comes to no further use"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"But to be known and hated. So, like gross terms,"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"The prince will in the perfectness of time"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"Cast off his followers; and their memory"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"Shall as a pattern or a measure live,"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"By which his grace must mete the lives of others,"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"Turning past evils to advantages."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"In the dead carrion."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Who's here? Westmoreland?"
IV,IV,WESTMORELAND,"Health to my sovereign, and new happiness"
IV,IV,WESTMORELAND,"Added to that that I am to deliver!"
IV,IV,WESTMORELAND,"Prince John your son doth kiss your grace's hand:"
IV,IV,WESTMORELAND,"Mowbray, the Bishop Scroop, Hastings and all"
IV,IV,WESTMORELAND,"Are brought to the correction of your law;"
IV,IV,WESTMORELAND,"There is not now a rebel's sword unsheath'd"
IV,IV,WESTMORELAND,"But peace puts forth her olive every where."
IV,IV,WESTMORELAND,"The manner how this action hath been borne"
IV,IV,WESTMORELAND,"Here at more leisure may your highness read,"
IV,IV,WESTMORELAND,"With every course in his particular."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"O Westmoreland, thou art a summer bird,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Which ever in the haunch of winter sings"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"The lifting up of day."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Look, here's more news."
IV,IV,HARCOURT,"From enemies heaven keep your majesty;"
IV,IV,HARCOURT,"And, when they stand against you, may they fall"
IV,IV,HARCOURT,"As those that I am come to tell you of!"
IV,IV,HARCOURT,"The Earl Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph,"
IV,IV,HARCOURT,"With a great power of English and of Scots"
IV,IV,HARCOURT,"Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown:"
IV,IV,HARCOURT,"The manner and true order of the fight"
IV,IV,HARCOURT,"This packet, please it you, contains at large."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And wherefore should these good news make me sick?"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Will fortune never come with both hands full,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"But write her fair words still in foulest letters?"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"She either gives a stomach and no food;"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Such are the poor, in health; or else a feast"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And takes away the stomach; such are the rich,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"That have abundance and enjoy it not."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"I should rejoice now at this happy news;"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"And now my sight fails, and my brain is giddy:"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"O me! come near me; now I am much ill."
IV,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Comfort, your majesty!"
IV,IV,CLARENCE,"O my royal father!"
IV,IV,WESTMORELAND,"My sovereign lord, cheer up yourself, look up."
IV,IV,WARWICK,"Be patient, princes; you do know, these fits"
IV,IV,WARWICK,"Are with his highness very ordinary."
IV,IV,WARWICK,"Stand from him. Give him air; he'll straight be well."
IV,IV,CLARENCE,"No, no, he cannot long hold out these pangs:"
IV,IV,CLARENCE,"The incessant care and labour of his mind"
IV,IV,CLARENCE,"Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in"
IV,IV,CLARENCE,"So thin that life looks through and will break out."
IV,IV,GLOUCESTER,"The people fear me; for they do observe"
IV,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Unfather'd heirs and loathly births of nature:"
IV,IV,GLOUCESTER,"The seasons change their manners, as the year"
IV,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Had found some months asleep and leap'd them over."
IV,IV,CLARENCE,"The river hath thrice flow'd, no ebb between;"
IV,IV,CLARENCE,"And the old folk, time's doting chronicles,"
IV,IV,CLARENCE,"Say it did so a little time before"
IV,IV,CLARENCE,"That our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died."
IV,IV,WARWICK,"Speak lower, princes, for the king recovers."
IV,IV,GLOUCESTER,"This apoplexy will certain be his end."
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"I pray you, take me up, and bear me hence"
IV,IV,KING HENRY IV,"Into some other chamber: softly, pray."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Unless some dull and favourable hand"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Will whisper music to my weary spirit."
IV,V,WARWICK,"Call for the music in the other room."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Set me the crown upon my pillow here."
IV,V,CLARENCE,"His eye is hollow, and he changes much."
IV,V,WARWICK,"Less noise, less noise!"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Who saw the Duke of Clarence?"
IV,V,CLARENCE,"I am here, brother, full of heaviness."
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"How now! rain within doors, and none abroad!"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"How doth the king?"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"Exceeding ill."
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Heard he the good news yet?"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Tell it him."
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"He alter'd much upon the hearing it."
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"If he be sick with joy, he'll recover without physic."
IV,V,WARWICK,"Not so much noise, my lords: sweet prince,"
IV,V,WARWICK,"speak low;"
IV,V,WARWICK,"The king your father is disposed to sleep."
IV,V,CLARENCE,"Let us withdraw into the other room."
IV,V,WARWICK,"Will't please your grace to go along with us?"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"No; I will sit and watch here by the king."
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Being so troublesome a bedfellow?"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"O polish'd perturbation! golden care!"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"To many a watchful night! sleep with it now!"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Yet not so sound and half so deeply sweet"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"As he whose brow with homely biggen bound"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Snores out the watch of night. O majesty!"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Like a rich armour worn in heat of day,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"That scalds with safety. By his gates of breath"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"There lies a downy feather which stirs not:"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Did he suspire, that light and weightless down"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Perforce must move. My gracious lord! my father!"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"This sleep is sound indeed, this is a sleep"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"That from this golden rigol hath divorced"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"So many English kings. Thy due from me"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Which nature, love, and filial tenderness,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Shall, O dear father, pay thee plenteously:"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"My due from thee is this imperial crown,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Which, as immediate as thy place and blood,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Derives itself to me. Lo, here it sits,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Which God shall guard: and put the world's whole strength"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Into one giant arm, it shall not force"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"This lineal honour from me: this from thee"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Will I to mine leave, as 'tis left to me."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Warwick! Gloucester! Clarence!"
IV,V,CLARENCE,"Doth the king call?"
IV,V,WARWICK,"What would your majesty? How fares your grace?"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Why did you leave me here alone, my lords?"
IV,V,CLARENCE,"We left the prince my brother here, my liege,"
IV,V,CLARENCE,"Who undertook to sit and watch by you."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"The Prince of Wales! Where is he? let me see him:"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"He is not here."
IV,V,WARWICK,"This door is open; he is gone this way."
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"He came not through the chamber where we stay'd."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Where is the crown? who took it from my pillow?"
IV,V,WARWICK,"When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"The prince hath ta'en it hence: go, seek him out."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Is he so hasty that he doth suppose"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"My sleep my death?"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Find him, my Lord of Warwick; chide him hither."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"This part of his conjoins with my disease,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"And helps to end me. See, sons, what things you are!"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"How quickly nature falls into revolt"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"When gold becomes her object!"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"For this the foolish over-careful fathers"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Their bones with industry;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"For this they have engrossed and piled up"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved gold;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"For this they have been thoughtful to invest"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Their sons with arts and martial exercises:"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"When, like the bee, culling from every flower"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"The virtuous sweets,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"We bring it to the hive, and, like the bees,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Are murdered for our pains. This bitter taste"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Yield his engrossments to the ending father."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Now, where is he that will not stay so long"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Till his friend sickness hath determined me?"
IV,V,WARWICK,"My lord, I found the prince in the next room,"
IV,V,WARWICK,"Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks,"
IV,V,WARWICK,"With such a deep demeanor in great sorrow"
IV,V,WARWICK,"That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood,"
IV,V,WARWICK,"Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife"
IV,V,WARWICK,"With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"But wherefore did he take away the crown?"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Lo, where he comes. Come hither to me, Harry."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Depart the chamber, leave us here alone."
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"I never thought to hear you speak again."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought:"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"I stay too long by thee, I weary thee."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth!"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Thou seek'st the greatness that will o'erwhelm thee."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Stay but a little; for my cloud of dignity"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Is held from falling with so weak a wind"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"That it will quickly drop: my day is dim."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Thou hast stolen that which after some few hours"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Were thine without offence; and at my death"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Thou hast seal'd up my expectation:"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Thy life did manifest thou lovedst me not,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"And thou wilt have me die assured of it."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Thou hidest a thousand daggers in thy thoughts,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"To stab at half an hour of my life."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"What! canst thou not forbear me half an hour?"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"That thou art crowned, not that I am dead."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head:"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Only compound me with forgotten dust"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Give that which gave thee life unto the worms."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Pluck down my officers, break my decrees;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"For now a time is come to mock at form:"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Harry the Fifth is crown'd: up, vanity!"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Down, royal state! all you sage counsellors, hence!"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"And to the English court assemble now,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"From every region, apes of idleness!"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum:"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Be happy, he will trouble you no more;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"England shall double gild his treble guilt,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"England shall give him office, honour, might;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"For the fifth Harry from curb'd licence plucks"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"O my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows!"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"When that my care could not withhold thy riots,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"What wilt thou do when riot is thy care?"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"O, thou wilt be a wilderness again,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants!"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"O, pardon me, my liege! but for my tears,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"The moist impediments unto my speech,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"I had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"The course of it so far. There is your crown;"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"And He that wears the crown immortally"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Long guard it yours! If I affect it more"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Than as your honour and as your renown,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Let me no more from this obedience rise,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Which my most inward true and duteous spirit"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Teacheth, this prostrate and exterior bending."
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"God witness with me, when I here came in,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"And found no course of breath within your majesty,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"How cold it struck my heart! If I do feign,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"O, let me in my present wildness die"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"And never live to show the incredulous world"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"The noble change that I have purposed!"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Coming to look on you, thinking you dead,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"And dead almost, my liege, to think you were,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"I spake unto this crown as having sense,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"And thus upbraided it: 'The care on thee depending"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Hath fed upon the body of my father;"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Therefore, thou best of gold art worst of gold:"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Other, less fine in carat, is more precious,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Preserving life in medicine potable;"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"But thou, most fine, most honour'd: most renown'd,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Hast eat thy bearer up.' Thus, my most royal liege,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Accusing it, I put it on my head,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"To try with it, as with an enemy"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"That had before my face murder'd my father,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"The quarrel of a true inheritor."
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"But if it did infect my blood with joy,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride;"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"If any rebel or vain spirit of mine"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Did with the least affection of a welcome"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Give entertainment to the might of it,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Let God for ever keep it from my head"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"And make me as the poorest vassal is"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"That doth with awe and terror kneel to it!"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"O my son,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"God put it in thy mind to take it hence,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"That thou mightst win the more thy father's love,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Pleading so wisely in excuse of it!"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Come hither, Harry, sit thou by my bed;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"And hear, I think, the very latest counsel"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"That ever I shall breathe. God knows, my son,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"I met this crown; and I myself know well"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"How troublesome it sat upon my head."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"To thee it shall descend with bitter quiet,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Better opinion, better confirmation;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"For all the soil of the achievement goes"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"With me into the earth. It seem'd in me"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"But as an honour snatch'd with boisterous hand,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"And I had many living to upbraid"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"My gain of it by their assistances;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Wounding supposed peace: all these bold fears"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Thou see'st with peril I have answered;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"For all my reign hath been but as a scene"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Acting that argument: and now my death"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Changes the mode; for what in me was purchased,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"So thou the garland wear'st successively."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Yet, though thou stand'st more sure than I could do,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Thou art not firm enough, since griefs are green;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"And all my friends, which thou must make thy friends,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"By whose fell working I was first advanced"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"And by whose power I well might lodge a fear"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"To be again displaced: which to avoid,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"I cut them off; and had a purpose now"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"To lead out many to the Holy Land,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Lest rest and lying still might make them look"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Too near unto my state. Therefore, my Harry,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Be it thy course to busy giddy minds"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"May waste the memory of the former days."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"More would I, but my lungs are wasted so"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"That strength of speech is utterly denied me."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"How I came by the crown, O God forgive;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"And grant it may with thee in true peace live!"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"My gracious liege,"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me;"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Then plain and right must my possession be:"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"Which I with more than with a common pain"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"'Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Look, look, here comes my John of Lancaster."
IV,V,LANCASTER,"Health, peace, and happiness to my royal father!"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Thou bring'st me happiness and peace, son John;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"From this bare wither'd trunk: upon thy sight"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"My worldly business makes a period."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Where is my Lord of Warwick?"
IV,V,PRINCE HENRY,"My Lord of Warwick!"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Doth any name particular belong"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Unto the lodging where I first did swoon?"
IV,V,WARWICK,"'Tis call'd Jerusalem, my noble lord."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Laud be to God! even there my life must end."
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"It hath been prophesied to me many years,"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"I should not die but in Jerusalem;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land:"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"But bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie;"
IV,V,KING HENRY IV,"In that Jerusalem shall Harry die."
V,I,SHALLOW,"By cock and pie, sir, you shall not away to-night."
V,I,SHALLOW,"What, Davy, I say!"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"You must excuse me, Master Robert Shallow."
V,I,SHALLOW,"I will not excuse you; you shall not be excused;"
V,I,SHALLOW,"excuses shall not be admitted; there is no excuse"
V,I,SHALLOW,"shall serve; you shall not be excused. Why, Davy!"
V,I,DAVY,"Here, sir."
V,I,SHALLOW,"Davy, Davy, Davy, Davy, let me see, Davy; let me"
V,I,SHALLOW,"see, Davy; let me see: yea, marry, William cook,"
V,I,SHALLOW,"bid him come hither. Sir John, you shall not be excused."
V,I,DAVY,"Marry, sir, thus; those precepts cannot be served:"
V,I,DAVY,"and, again, sir, shall we sow the headland with wheat?"
V,I,SHALLOW,"With red wheat, Davy. But for William cook: are"
V,I,SHALLOW,"there no young pigeons?"
V,I,DAVY,"Yes, sir. Here is now the smith's note for shoeing"
V,I,DAVY,"and plough-irons."
V,I,SHALLOW,"Let it be cast and paid. Sir John, you shall not be excused."
V,I,DAVY,"Now, sir, a new link to the bucket must need be"
V,I,DAVY,"had: and, sir, do you mean to stop any of William's"
V,I,DAVY,"wages, about the sack he lost the other day at"
V,I,DAVY,"Hinckley fair?"
V,I,SHALLOW,"A' shall answer it. Some pigeons, Davy, a couple"
V,I,SHALLOW,"of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any"
V,I,SHALLOW,"pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook."
V,I,DAVY,"Doth the man of war stay all night, sir?"
V,I,SHALLOW,"Yea, Davy. I will use him well: a friend i' the"
V,I,SHALLOW,"court is better than a penny in purse. Use his men"
V,I,SHALLOW,"well, Davy; for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite."
V,I,DAVY,"No worse than they are backbitten, sir; for they"
V,I,DAVY,"have marvellous foul linen."
V,I,SHALLOW,"Well conceited, Davy: about thy business, Davy."
V,I,DAVY,"I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of"
V,I,DAVY,"Woncot against Clement Perkes of the hill."
V,I,SHALLOW,"There is many complaints, Davy, against that Visor:"
V,I,SHALLOW,"that Visor is an arrant knave, on my knowledge."
V,I,DAVY,"I grant your worship that he is a knave, sir; but"
V,I,DAVY,"yet, God forbid, sir, but a knave should have some"
V,I,DAVY,"countenance at his friend's request. An honest"
V,I,DAVY,"man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave"
V,I,DAVY,"is not. I have served your worship truly, sir,"
V,I,DAVY,"this eight years; and if I cannot once or twice in"
V,I,DAVY,"a quarter bear out a knave against an honest man, I"
V,I,DAVY,"have but a very little credit with your worship. The"
V,I,DAVY,"knave is mine honest friend, sir; therefore, I"
V,I,DAVY,"beseech your worship, let him be countenanced."
V,I,SHALLOW,"Go to; I say he shall have no wrong. Look about, Davy."
V,I,SHALLOW,"Where are you, Sir John? Come, come, come, off"
V,I,SHALLOW,"with your boots. Give me your hand, Master Bardolph."
V,I,BARDOLPH,"I am glad to see your worship."
V,I,SHALLOW,"I thank thee with all my heart, kind"
V,I,SHALLOW,"Master Bardolph: and welcome, my tall fellow."
V,I,SHALLOW,"Come, Sir John."
V,I,FALSTAFF,"I'll follow you, good Master Robert Shallow."
V,I,FALSTAFF,"Bardolph, look to our horses."
V,I,FALSTAFF,"If I were sawed into quantities, I should make four"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"dozen of such bearded hermits' staves as Master"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"Shallow. It is a wonderful thing to see the"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"semblable coherence of his men's spirits and his:"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"they, by observing of him, do bear themselves like"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"turned into a justice-like serving-man: their"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"spirits are so married in conjunction with the"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"participation of society that they flock together in"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"consent, like so many wild-geese. If I had a suit"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"to Master Shallow, I would humour his men with the"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"imputation of being near their master: if to his"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"men, I would curry with Master Shallow that no man"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"could better command his servants. It is certain"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"caught, as men take diseases, one of another:"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"therefore let men take heed of their company. I"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"keep Prince Harry in continual laughter the wearing"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"out of six fashions, which is four terms, or two"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"actions, and a' shall laugh without intervallums. O,"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"it is much that a lie with a slight oath and a jest"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"with a sad brow will do with a fellow that never"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"had the ache in his shoulders! O, you shall see him"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up!"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"I come, Master Shallow; I come, Master Shallow."
V,II,WARWICK,"How now, my lord chief-justice! whither away?"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"How doth the king?"
V,II,WARWICK,"Exceeding well; his cares are now all ended."
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"I hope, not dead."
V,II,WARWICK,"He's walk'd the way of nature;"
V,II,WARWICK,"And to our purposes he lives no more."
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"I would his majesty had call'd me with him:"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"The service that I truly did his life"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Hath left me open to all injuries."
V,II,WARWICK,"Indeed I think the young king loves you not."
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"I know he doth not, and do arm myself"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"To welcome the condition of the time,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Which cannot look more hideously upon me"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Than I have drawn it in my fantasy."
V,II,WARWICK,"Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry:"
V,II,WARWICK,"O that the living Harry had the temper"
V,II,WARWICK,"Of him, the worst of these three gentlemen!"
V,II,WARWICK,"How many nobles then should hold their places"
V,II,WARWICK,"That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"O God, I fear all will be overturn'd!"
V,II,LANCASTER,"Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow."
V,II,GLOUCESTER,"Good morrow, cousin."
V,II,LANCASTER,"We meet like men that had forgot to speak."
V,II,WARWICK,"We do remember; but our argument"
V,II,WARWICK,"Is all too heavy to admit much talk."
V,II,LANCASTER,"Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy."
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Peace be with us, lest we be heavier!"
V,II,GLOUCESTER,"O, good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed;"
V,II,GLOUCESTER,"And I dare swear you borrow not that face"
V,II,GLOUCESTER,"Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your own."
V,II,LANCASTER,"Though no man be assured what grace to find,"
V,II,LANCASTER,"You stand in coldest expectation:"
V,II,LANCASTER,"I am the sorrier; would 'twere otherwise."
V,II,CLARENCE,"Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair;"
V,II,CLARENCE,"Which swims against your stream of quality."
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Sweet princes, what I did, I did in honour,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Led by the impartial conduct of my soul:"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"And never shall you see that I will beg"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"A ragged and forestall'd remission."
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"If truth and upright innocency fail me,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"I'll to the king my master that is dead,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"And tell him who hath sent me after him."
V,II,WARWICK,"Here comes the prince."
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Good morrow; and God save your majesty!"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"This new and gorgeous garment, majesty,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Sits not so easy on me as you think."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear:"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"This is the English, not the Turkish court;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"For, by my faith, it very well becomes you:"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Sorrow so royally in you appears"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"That I will deeply put the fashion on"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And wear it in my heart: why then, be sad;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"But entertain no more of it, good brothers,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Than a joint burden laid upon us all."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"I'll be your father and your brother too;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Let me but bear your love, I 'll bear your cares:"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Yet weep that Harry's dead; and so will I;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"But Harry lives, that shall convert those tears"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"By number into hours of happiness."
V,II,Princes,"We hope no other from your majesty."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"You all look strangely on me: and you most;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"You are, I think, assured I love you not."
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"I am assured, if I be measured rightly,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"No!"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"How might a prince of my great hopes forget"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"So great indignities you laid upon me?"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"The immediate heir of England! Was this easy?"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"May this be wash'd in Lethe, and forgotten?"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"I then did use the person of your father;"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"The image of his power lay then in me:"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"And, in the administration of his law,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Your highness pleased to forget my place,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"The majesty and power of law and justice,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"The image of the king whom I presented,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"And struck me in my very seat of judgment;"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Whereon, as an offender to your father,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"I gave bold way to my authority"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"And did commit you. If the deed were ill,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Be you contented, wearing now the garland,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"To have a son set your decrees at nought,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"To pluck down justice from your awful bench,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"To trip the course of law and blunt the sword"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"That guards the peace and safety of your person;"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"And mock your workings in a second body."
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Be now the father and propose a son,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Hear your own dignity so much profaned,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd;"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"And then imagine me taking your part"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"And in your power soft silencing your son:"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"After this cold considerance, sentence me;"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"And, as you are a king, speak in your state"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"What I have done that misbecame my place,"
V,II,Lord Chief-Justice,"My person, or my liege's sovereignty."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"You are right, justice, and you weigh this well;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Therefore still bear the balance and the sword:"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And I do wish your honours may increase,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Till you do live to see a son of mine"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Offend you and obey you, as I did."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"So shall I live to speak my father's words:"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"'Happy am I, that have a man so bold,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"That dares do justice on my proper son;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And not less happy, having such a son,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"That would deliver up his greatness so"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Into the hands of justice.' You did commit me:"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"For which, I do commit into your hand"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"The unstained sword that you have used to bear;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"With this remembrance, that you use the same"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"With the like bold, just and impartial spirit"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"You shall be as a father to my youth:"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And I will stoop and humble my intents"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"To your well-practised wise directions."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"My father is gone wild into his grave,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"For in his tomb lie my affections;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And with his spirit sadly I survive,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"To mock the expectation of the world,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"To frustrate prophecies and to raze out"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"After my seeming. The tide of blood in me"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now:"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Where it shall mingle with the state of floods"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And flow henceforth in formal majesty."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Now call we our high court of parliament:"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"That the great body of our state may go"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"In equal rank with the best govern'd nation;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"That war, or peace, or both at once, may be"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"As things acquainted and familiar to us;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"In which you, father, shall have foremost hand."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Our coronation done, we will accite,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"As I before remember'd, all our state:"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And, God consigning to my good intents,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"God shorten Harry's happy life one day!"
V,III,SHALLOW,"Nay, you shall see my orchard, where, in an arbour,"
V,III,SHALLOW,"we will eat a last year's pippin of my own graffing,"
V,III,SHALLOW,"with a dish of caraways, and so forth: come,"
V,III,SHALLOW,"cousin Silence: and then to bed."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"'Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich."
V,III,SHALLOW,"Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars all,"
V,III,SHALLOW,"Sir John: marry, good air. Spread, Davy; spread,"
V,III,SHALLOW,"Davy; well said, Davy."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"This Davy serves you for good uses; he is your"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"serving-man and your husband."
V,III,SHALLOW,"A good varlet, a good varlet, a very good varlet,"
V,III,SHALLOW,"Sir John: by the mass, I have drunk too much sack"
V,III,SHALLOW,"at supper: a good varlet. Now sit down, now sit"
V,III,SHALLOW,"down: come, cousin."
V,III,SILENCE,"Ah, sirrah! quoth-a, we shall"
V,III,SILENCE,"Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer,"
V,III,SILENCE,"And praise God for the merry year;"
V,III,SILENCE,"When flesh is cheap and females dear,"
V,III,SILENCE,"And lusty lads roam here and there"
V,III,SILENCE,"So merrily,"
V,III,SILENCE,"And ever among so merrily."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"There's a merry heart! Good Master Silence, I'll"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"give you a health for that anon."
V,III,SHALLOW,"Give Master Bardolph some wine, Davy."
V,III,DAVY,"Sweet sir, sit; I'll be with you anon. most sweet"
V,III,DAVY,"sir, sit. Master page, good master page, sit."
V,III,DAVY,"Proface! What you want in meat, we'll have in drink:"
V,III,DAVY,"but you must bear; the heart's all."
V,III,SHALLOW,"Be merry, Master Bardolph; and, my little soldier"
V,III,SHALLOW,"there, be merry."
V,III,SILENCE,"Be merry, be merry, my wife has all;"
V,III,SILENCE,"For women are shrews, both short and tall:"
V,III,SILENCE,"'Tis merry in hall when beards wag all,"
V,III,SILENCE,"And welcome merry Shrove-tide."
V,III,SILENCE,"Be merry, be merry."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"I did not think Master Silence had been a man of"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"this mettle."
V,III,SILENCE,"Who, I? I have been merry twice and once ere now."
V,III,DAVY,"There's a dish of leather-coats for you."
V,III,SHALLOW,"Davy!"
V,III,DAVY,"Your worship! I'll be with you straight."
V,III,DAVY,"A cup of wine, sir?"
V,III,SILENCE,"A cup of wine that's brisk and fine,"
V,III,SILENCE,"And drink unto the leman mine;"
V,III,SILENCE,"And a merry heart lives long-a."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Well said, Master Silence."
V,III,SILENCE,"An we shall be merry, now comes in the sweet o' the night."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Health and long life to you, Master Silence."
V,III,SILENCE,"Fill the cup, and let it come;"
V,III,SILENCE,"I'll pledge you a mile to the bottom."
V,III,SHALLOW,"Honest Bardolph, welcome: if thou wantest any"
V,III,SHALLOW,"thing, and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart."
V,III,SHALLOW,"Welcome, my little tiny thief."
V,III,SHALLOW,"And welcome indeed too. I'll drink to Master"
V,III,SHALLOW,"Bardolph, and to all the cavaleros about London."
V,III,DAVY,"I hove to see London once ere I die."
V,III,BARDOLPH,"An I might see you there, Davy,--"
V,III,SHALLOW,"By the mass, you'll crack a quart together, ha!"
V,III,SHALLOW,"Will you not, Master Bardolph?"
V,III,BARDOLPH,"Yea, sir, in a pottle-pot."
V,III,SHALLOW,"By God's liggens, I thank thee: the knave will"
V,III,SHALLOW,"stick by thee, I can assure thee that. A' will not"
V,III,SHALLOW,"out; he is true bred."
V,III,BARDOLPH,"And I'll stick by him, sir."
V,III,SHALLOW,"Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing: be merry."
V,III,SHALLOW,"Look who's at door there, ho! who knocks?"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Why, now you have done me right."
V,III,SILENCE,"Do me right,"
V,III,SILENCE,"And dub me knight: Samingo."
V,III,SILENCE,"Is't not so?"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"'Tis so."
V,III,SILENCE,"Is't so? Why then, say an old man can do somewhat."
V,III,DAVY,"An't please your worship, there's one Pistol come"
V,III,DAVY,"from the court with news."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"From the court! let him come in."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"How now, Pistol!"
V,III,PISTOL,"Sir John, God save you!"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"What wind blew you hither, Pistol?"
V,III,PISTOL,"Not the ill wind which blows no man to good. Sweet"
V,III,PISTOL,"knight, thou art now one of the greatest men in this realm."
V,III,SILENCE,"By'r lady, I think a' be, but goodman Puff of Barson."
V,III,PISTOL,"Puff!"
V,III,PISTOL,"Puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base!"
V,III,PISTOL,"Sir John, I am thy Pistol and thy friend,"
V,III,PISTOL,"And helter-skelter have I rode to thee,"
V,III,PISTOL,"And tidings do I bring and lucky joys"
V,III,PISTOL,"And golden times and happy news of price."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this world."
V,III,PISTOL,"A foutre for the world and worldlings base!"
V,III,PISTOL,"I speak of Africa and golden joys."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news?"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof."
V,III,SILENCE,"And Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John."
V,III,PISTOL,"Shall dunghill curs confront the Helicons?"
V,III,PISTOL,"And shall good news be baffled?"
V,III,PISTOL,"Then, Pistol, lay thy head in Furies' lap."
V,III,SILENCE,"Honest gentleman, I know not your breeding."
V,III,PISTOL,"Why then, lament therefore."
V,III,SHALLOW,"Give me pardon, sir: if, sir, you come with news"
V,III,SHALLOW,"from the court, I take it there's but two ways,"
V,III,SHALLOW,"either to utter them, or to conceal them. I am,"
V,III,SHALLOW,"sir, under the king, in some authority."
V,III,PISTOL,"Under which king, Besonian? speak, or die."
V,III,SHALLOW,"Under King Harry."
V,III,PISTOL,"Harry the Fourth? or Fifth?"
V,III,SHALLOW,"Harry the Fourth."
V,III,PISTOL,"A foutre for thine office!"
V,III,PISTOL,"Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king;"
V,III,PISTOL,"Harry the Fifth's the man. I speak the truth:"
V,III,PISTOL,"When Pistol lies, do this; and fig me, like"
V,III,PISTOL,"The bragging Spaniard."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"What, is the old king dead?"
V,III,PISTOL,"As nail in door: the things I speak are just."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Away, Bardolph! saddle my horse. Master Robert"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Shallow, choose what office thou wilt in the land,"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"'tis thine. Pistol, I will double-charge thee with dignities."
V,III,BARDOLPH,"O joyful day!"
V,III,BARDOLPH,"I would not take a knighthood for my fortune."
V,III,PISTOL,"What! I do bring good news."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Carry Master Silence to bed. Master Shallow, my"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Lord Shallow,--be what thou wilt; I am fortune's"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"steward--get on thy boots: we'll ride all night."
V,III,FALSTAFF,"O sweet Pistol! Away, Bardolph!"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Come, Pistol, utter more to me; and withal devise"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"something to do thyself good. Boot, boot, Master"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"Shallow: I know the young king is sick for me. Let"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"us take any man's horses; the laws of England are at"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"my commandment. Blessed are they that have been my"
V,III,FALSTAFF,"friends; and woe to my lord chief-justice!"
V,III,PISTOL,"Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also!"
V,III,PISTOL,"'Where is the life that late I led?' say they:"
V,III,PISTOL,"Why, here it is; welcome these pleasant days!"
V,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"No, thou arrant knave; I would to God that I might"
V,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"die, that I might have thee hanged: thou hast"
V,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"drawn my shoulder out of joint."
V,IV,First Beadle,"The constables have delivered her over to me; and"
V,IV,First Beadle,"she shall have whipping-cheer enough, I warrant"
V,IV,First Beadle,"her: there hath been a man or two lately killed about her."
V,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie. Come on; I 'll tell"
V,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal, an"
V,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"the child I now go with do miscarry, thou wert"
V,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"better thou hadst struck thy mother, thou"
V,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"paper-faced villain."
V,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"O the Lord, that Sir John were come! he would make"
V,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"this a bloody day to somebody. But I pray God the"
V,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"fruit of her womb miscarry!"
V,IV,First Beadle,"If it do, you shall have a dozen of cushions again;"
V,IV,First Beadle,"you have but eleven now. Come, I charge you both go"
V,IV,First Beadle,"with me; for the man is dead that you and Pistol"
V,IV,First Beadle,"beat amongst you."
V,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"I'll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I"
V,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"will have you as soundly swinged for this,--you"
V,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner,"
V,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"if you be not swinged, I'll forswear half-kirtles."
V,IV,First Beadle,"Come, come, you she knight-errant, come."
V,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"O God, that right should thus overcome might!"
V,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Well, of sufferance comes ease."
V,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Come, you rogue, come; bring me to a justice."
V,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Ay, come, you starved blood-hound."
V,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Goodman death, goodman bones!"
V,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Thou atomy, thou!"
V,IV,DOLL TEARSHEET,"Come, you thin thing; come you rascal."
V,IV,First Beadle,"Very well."
V,V,First Groom,"More rushes, more rushes."
V,V,Second Groom,"The trumpets have sounded twice."
V,V,First Groom,"'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the"
V,V,First Groom,"coronation: dispatch, dispatch."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow; I will"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him as"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"a' comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"will give me."
V,V,PISTOL,"God bless thy lungs, good knight."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. O, if I had had"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"time to have made new liveries, I would have"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"'tis no matter; this poor show doth better: this"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"doth infer the zeal I had to see him."
V,V,SHALLOW,"It doth so."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"It shows my earnestness of affection,--"
V,V,SHALLOW,"It doth so."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"My devotion,--"
V,V,SHALLOW,"It doth, it doth, it doth."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"As it were, to ride day and night; and not to"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"to shift me,--"
V,V,SHALLOW,"It is best, certain."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"desire to see him; thinking of nothing else,"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"putting all affairs else in oblivion, as if there"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"were nothing else to be done but to see him."
V,V,PISTOL,"'Tis 'semper idem,' for 'obsque hoc nihil est:'"
V,V,PISTOL,"'tis all in every part."
V,V,SHALLOW,"'Tis so, indeed."
V,V,PISTOL,"My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,"
V,V,PISTOL,"And make thee rage."
V,V,PISTOL,"Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,"
V,V,PISTOL,"Is in base durance and contagious prison;"
V,V,PISTOL,"Haled thither"
V,V,PISTOL,"By most mechanical and dirty hand:"
V,V,PISTOL,"Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell"
V,V,PISTOL,"Alecto's snake,"
V,V,PISTOL,"For Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"I will deliver her."
V,V,PISTOL,"There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"God save thy grace, King Hal! my royal Hal!"
V,V,PISTOL,"The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"God save thee, my sweet boy!"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"My lord chief-justice, speak to that vain man."
V,V,Lord Chief-Justice,"Have you your wits? know you what 'tis to speak?"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane;"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"But, being awaked, I do despise my dream."
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"For thee thrice wider than for other men."
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Reply not to me with a fool-born jest:"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Presume not that I am the thing I was;"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"That I have turn'd away my former self;"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"So will I those that kept me company."
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"When thou dost hear I am as I have been,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"The tutor and the feeder of my riots:"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"As I have done the rest of my misleaders,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Not to come near our person by ten mile."
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"For competence of life I will allow you,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"That lack of means enforce you not to evil:"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"We will, according to your strengths and qualities,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,"
V,V,KING HENRY IV,"To see perform'd the tenor of our word. Set on."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound."
V,V,SHALLOW,"Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me"
V,V,SHALLOW,"have home with me."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"grieve at this; I shall be sent for in private to"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"him: look you, he must seem thus to the world:"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"fear not your advancements; I will be the man yet"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"that shall make you great."
V,V,SHALLOW,"I cannot well perceive how, unless you should give"
V,V,SHALLOW,"me your doublet and stuff me out with straw. I"
V,V,SHALLOW,"beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred"
V,V,SHALLOW,"of my thousand."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that you"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"heard was but a colour."
V,V,SHALLOW,"A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir John."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Fear no colours: go with me to dinner: come,"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph: I shall be sent"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"for soon at night."
V,V,Lord Chief-Justice,"Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet:"
V,V,Lord Chief-Justice,"Take all his company along with him."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"My lord, my lord,--"
V,V,Lord Chief-Justice,"I cannot now speak: I will hear you soon."
V,V,Lord Chief-Justice,"Take them away."
V,V,PISTOL,"Si fortune me tormenta, spero contenta."
V,V,LANCASTER,"I like this fair proceeding of the king's:"
V,V,LANCASTER,"He hath intent his wonted followers"
V,V,LANCASTER,"Shall all be very well provided for;"
V,V,LANCASTER,"But all are banish'd till their conversations"
V,V,LANCASTER,"Appear more wise and modest to the world."
V,V,Lord Chief-Justice,"And so they are."
V,V,LANCASTER,"The king hath call'd his parliament, my lord."
V,V,Lord Chief-Justice,"He hath."
V,V,LANCASTER,"I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,"
V,V,LANCASTER,"We bear our civil swords and native fire"
V,V,LANCASTER,"As far as France: I heard a bird so sing,"
V,V,LANCASTER,"Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king."
V,V,LANCASTER,"Come, will you hence?"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"My lord, I'll tell you; that self bill is urged,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"But that the scambling and unquiet time"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Did push it out of farther question."
I,I,ELY,"But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"It must be thought on. If it pass against us,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"We lose the better half of our possession:"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"For all the temporal lands which men devout"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"By testament have given to the church"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Would they strip from us; being valued thus:"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"As much as would maintain, to the king's honour,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"And, to relief of lazars and weak age,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil."
I,I,CANTERBURY,"A hundred almshouses right well supplied;"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"And to the coffers of the king beside,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill."
I,I,ELY,"This would drink deep."
I,I,CANTERBURY,"'Twould drink the cup and all."
I,I,ELY,"But what prevention?"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"The king is full of grace and fair regard."
I,I,ELY,"And a true lover of the holy church."
I,I,CANTERBURY,"The courses of his youth promised it not."
I,I,CANTERBURY,"The breath no sooner left his father's body,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"But that his wildness, mortified in him,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Consideration, like an angel, came"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Leaving his body as a paradise,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"To envelop and contain celestial spirits."
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Never was such a sudden scholar made;"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Never came reformation in a flood,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"With such a heady currance, scouring faults"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"So soon did lose his seat and all at once"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"As in this king."
I,I,ELY,"We are blessed in the change."
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Hear him but reason in divinity,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"And all-admiring with an inward wish"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"You would desire the king were made a prelate:"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"You would say it hath been all in all his study:"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"List his discourse of war, and you shall hear"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"A fearful battle render'd you in music:"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Turn him to any cause of policy,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences;"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"So that the art and practic part of life"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Must be the mistress to this theoric:"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Since his addiction was to courses vain,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"His companies unletter'd, rude and shallow,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"And never noted in him any study,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Any retirement, any sequestration"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"From open haunts and popularity."
I,I,ELY,"The strawberry grows underneath the nettle"
I,I,ELY,"And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best"
I,I,ELY,"Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality:"
I,I,ELY,"And so the prince obscured his contemplation"
I,I,ELY,"Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,"
I,I,ELY,"Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,"
I,I,ELY,"Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty."
I,I,CANTERBURY,"It must be so; for miracles are ceased;"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"And therefore we must needs admit the means"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"How things are perfected."
I,I,ELY,"But, my good lord,"
I,I,ELY,"How now for mitigation of this bill"
I,I,ELY,"Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty"
I,I,ELY,"Incline to it, or no?"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"He seems indifferent,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Or rather swaying more upon our part"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Than cherishing the exhibiters against us;"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"For I have made an offer to his majesty,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Upon our spiritual convocation"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"And in regard of causes now in hand,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Which I have open'd to his grace at large,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"As touching France, to give a greater sum"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Than ever at one time the clergy yet"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Did to his predecessors part withal."
I,I,ELY,"How did this offer seem received, my lord?"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"With good acceptance of his majesty;"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Save that there was not time enough to hear,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"As I perceived his grace would fain have done,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"The severals and unhidden passages"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"And generally to the crown and seat of France"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather."
I,I,ELY,"What was the impediment that broke this off?"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"The French ambassador upon that instant"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Craved audience; and the hour, I think, is come"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"To give him hearing: is it four o'clock?"
I,I,ELY,"It is."
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Then go we in, to know his embassy;"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Which I could with a ready guess declare,"
I,I,CANTERBURY,"Before the Frenchman speak a word of it."
I,I,ELY,"I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?"
I,II,EXETER,"Not here in presence."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Send for him, good uncle."
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolved,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Before we hear him, of some things of weight"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"That task our thoughts, concerning us and France."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"God and his angels guard your sacred throne"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"And make you long become it!"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Sure, we thank you."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"My learned lord, we pray you to proceed"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"And justly and religiously unfold"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Why the law Salique that they have in France"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim:"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Or nicely charge your understanding soul"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"With opening titles miscreate, whose right"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Suits not in native colours with the truth;"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"For God doth know how many now in health"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Shall drop their blood in approbation"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Of what your reverence shall incite us to."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"How you awake our sleeping sword of war:"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"We charge you, in the name of God, take heed;"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"For never two such kingdoms did contend"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless drops"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Are every one a woe, a sore complaint"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"'Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the swords"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"That make such waste in brief mortality."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Under this conjuration, speak, my lord;"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"For we will hear, note and believe in heart"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"As pure as sin with baptism."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"That owe yourselves, your lives and services"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"To this imperial throne. There is no bar"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"To make against your highness' claim to France"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"But this, which they produce from Pharamond,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant:'"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"'No woman shall succeed in Salique land:'"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"To be the realm of France, and Pharamond"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"The founder of this law and female bar."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Yet their own authors faithfully affirm"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"That the land Salique is in Germany,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"There left behind and settled certain French;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Who, holding in disdain the German women"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"For some dishonest manners of their life,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Establish'd then this law; to wit, no female"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Should be inheritrix in Salique land:"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Then doth it well appear that Salique law"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Was not devised for the realm of France:"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Nor did the French possess the Salique land"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Until four hundred one and twenty years"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"After defunction of King Pharamond,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Idly supposed the founder of this law;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Who died within the year of our redemption"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Beyond the river Sala, in the year"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"King Pepin, which deposed Childeric,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Did, as heir general, being descended"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Make claim and title to the crown of France."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Hugh Capet also, who usurped the crown"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Of Charles the duke of Lorraine, sole heir male"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"To find his title with some shows of truth,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"'Through, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tenth,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Could not keep quiet in his conscience,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorraine:"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Was re-united to the crown of France."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"So that, as clear as is the summer's sun."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"King Pepin's title and Hugh Capet's claim,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"To hold in right and title of the female:"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"So do the kings of France unto this day;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"To bar your highness claiming from the female,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"And rather choose to hide them in a net"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Than amply to imbar their crooked titles"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Usurp'd from you and your progenitors."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"May I with right and conscience make this claim?"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"For in the book of Numbers is it writ,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"When the man dies, let the inheritance"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Look back into your mighty ancestors:"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Making defeat on the full power of France,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Whiles his most mighty father on a hill"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Forage in blood of French nobility."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"O noble English. that could entertain"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"With half their forces the full Pride of France"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"And let another half stand laughing by,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"All out of work and cold for action!"
I,II,ELY,"Awake remembrance of these valiant dead"
I,II,ELY,"And with your puissant arm renew their feats:"
I,II,ELY,"You are their heir; you sit upon their throne;"
I,II,ELY,"The blood and courage that renowned them"
I,II,ELY,"Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege"
I,II,ELY,"Is in the very May-morn of his youth,"
I,II,ELY,"Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises."
I,II,EXETER,"Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth"
I,II,EXETER,"Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,"
I,II,EXETER,"As did the former lions of your blood."
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"They know your grace hath cause and means and might;"
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"So hath your highness; never king of England"
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,"
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England"
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"With blood and sword and fire to win your right;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"In aid whereof we of the spiritualty"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Will raise your highness such a mighty sum"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"As never did the clergy at one time"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Bring in to any of your ancestors."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"We must not only arm to invade the French,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"But lay down our proportions to defend"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Against the Scot, who will make road upon us"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"With all advantages."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"They of those marches, gracious sovereign,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Shall be a wall sufficient to defend"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Our inland from the pilfering borderers."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"We do not mean the coursing snatchers only,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"But fear the main intendment of the Scot,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us;"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"For you shall read that my great-grandfather"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Never went with his forces into France"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Came pouring, like the tide into a breach,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"With ample and brim fulness of his force,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Galling the gleaned land with hot assays,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Girding with grievous siege castles and towns;"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"That England, being empty of defence,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"For hear her but exampled by herself:"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"When all her chivalry hath been in France"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"And she a mourning widow of her nobles,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"She hath herself not only well defended"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"But taken and impounded as a stray"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"The King of Scots; whom she did send to France,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"And make her chronicle as rich with praise"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"As is the ooze and bottom of the sea"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"With sunken wreck and sunless treasuries."
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"But there's a saying very old and true,"
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"'If that you will France win,"
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"Then with Scotland first begin:'"
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"For once the eagle England being in prey,"
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot"
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs,"
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"Playing the mouse in absence of the cat,"
I,II,WESTMORELAND,"To tear and havoc more than she can eat."
I,II,EXETER,"It follows then the cat must stay at home:"
I,II,EXETER,"Yet that is but a crush'd necessity,"
I,II,EXETER,"Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries,"
I,II,EXETER,"And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves."
I,II,EXETER,"While that the armed hand doth fight abroad,"
I,II,EXETER,"The advised head defends itself at home;"
I,II,EXETER,"For government, though high and low and lower,"
I,II,EXETER,"Put into parts, doth keep in one consent,"
I,II,EXETER,"Congreeing in a full and natural close,"
I,II,EXETER,"Like music."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Therefore doth heaven divide"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"The state of man in divers functions,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Setting endeavour in continual motion;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Obedience: for so work the honey-bees,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Creatures that by a rule in nature teach"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"The act of order to a peopled kingdom."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"They have a king and officers of sorts;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Where some, like magistrates, correct at home,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Which pillage they with merry march bring home"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"To the tent-royal of their emperor;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Who, busied in his majesty, surveys"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"The singing masons building roofs of gold,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"The civil citizens kneading up the honey,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"The poor mechanic porters crowding in"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Delivering o'er to executors pale"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"That many things, having full reference"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"To one consent, may work contrariously:"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"As many arrows, loosed several ways,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Come to one mark; as many ways meet in one town;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"As many lines close in the dial's centre;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"So may a thousand actions, once afoot."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"End in one purpose, and be all well borne"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Without defeat. Therefore to France, my liege."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Divide your happy England into four;"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Whereof take you one quarter into France,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"And you withal shall make all Gallia shake."
I,II,CANTERBURY,"If we, with thrice such powers left at home,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Cannot defend our own doors from the dog,"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"Let us be worried and our nation lose"
I,II,CANTERBURY,"The name of hardiness and policy."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Now are we well resolved; and, by God's help,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"And yours, the noble sinews of our power,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Or break it all to pieces: or there we'll sit,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Ruling in large and ample empery"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Tombless, with no remembrance over them:"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Either our history shall with full mouth"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Now are we well prepared to know the pleasure"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for we hear"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Your greeting is from him, not from the king."
I,II,First Ambassador,"May't please your majesty to give us leave"
I,II,First Ambassador,"Freely to render what we have in charge;"
I,II,First Ambassador,"Or shall we sparingly show you far off"
I,II,First Ambassador,"The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy?"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"We are no tyrant, but a Christian king;"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Unto whose grace our passion is as subject"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons:"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Tell us the Dauphin's mind."
I,II,First Ambassador,"Thus, then, in few."
I,II,First Ambassador,"Your highness, lately sending into France,"
I,II,First Ambassador,"Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right"
I,II,First Ambassador,"Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third."
I,II,First Ambassador,"In answer of which claim, the prince our master"
I,II,First Ambassador,"Says that you savour too much of your youth,"
I,II,First Ambassador,"And bids you be advised there's nought in France"
I,II,First Ambassador,"That can be with a nimble galliard won;"
I,II,First Ambassador,"You cannot revel into dukedoms there."
I,II,First Ambassador,"He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,"
I,II,First Ambassador,"This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,"
I,II,First Ambassador,"Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim"
I,II,First Ambassador,"Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"What treasure, uncle?"
I,II,EXETER,"Tennis-balls, my liege."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"His present and your pains we thank you for:"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"When we have march'd our rackets to these balls,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"That all the courts of France will be disturb'd"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"With chaces. And we understand him well,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"How he comes o'er us with our wilder days,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Not measuring what use we made of them."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"We never valued this poor seat of England;"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"And therefore, living hence, did give ourself"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"To barbarous licence; as 'tis ever common"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"That men are merriest when they are from home."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"But tell the Dauphin I will keep my state,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Be like a king and show my sail of greatness"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"When I do rouse me in my throne of France:"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"For that I have laid by my majesty"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"And plodded like a man for working-days,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"But I will rise there with so full a glory"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his soul"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"That shall fly with them: for many a thousand widows"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands;"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"And some are yet ungotten and unborn"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"But this lies all within the will of God,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"To whom I do appeal; and in whose name"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"To venge me as I may and to put forth"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"So get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"His jest will savour but of shallow wit,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"When thousands weep more than did laugh at it."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Convey them with safe conduct. Fare you well."
I,II,EXETER,"This was a merry message."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"We hope to make the sender blush at it."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"That may give furtherance to our expedition;"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"For we have now no thought in us but France,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Save those to God, that run before our business."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Therefore let our proportions for these wars"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Be soon collected and all things thought upon"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"That may with reasonable swiftness add"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"More feathers to our wings; for, God before,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door."
I,II,KING HENRY V,"Therefore let every man now task his thought,"
I,II,KING HENRY V,"That this fair action may on foot be brought."
II,I,BARDOLPH,"Well met, Corporal Nym."
II,I,NYM,"Good morrow, Lieutenant Bardolph."
II,I,BARDOLPH,"What, are Ancient Pistol and you friends yet?"
II,I,NYM,"For my part, I care not: I say little; but when"
II,I,NYM,"time shall serve, there shall be smiles; but that"
II,I,NYM,"shall be as it may. I dare not fight; but I will"
II,I,NYM,"wink and hold out mine iron: it is a simple one; but"
II,I,NYM,"what though? it will toast cheese, and it will"
II,I,NYM,"endure cold as another man's sword will: and"
II,I,NYM,"there's an end."
II,I,BARDOLPH,"I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends; and"
II,I,BARDOLPH,"we'll be all three sworn brothers to France: let it"
II,I,BARDOLPH,"be so, good Corporal Nym."
II,I,NYM,"Faith, I will live so long as I may, that's the"
II,I,NYM,"certain of it; and when I cannot live any longer, I"
II,I,NYM,"will do as I may: that is my rest, that is the"
II,I,NYM,"rendezvous of it."
II,I,BARDOLPH,"It is certain, corporal, that he is married to Nell"
II,I,BARDOLPH,"Quickly: and certainly she did you wrong; for you"
II,I,BARDOLPH,"were troth-plight to her."
II,I,NYM,"I cannot tell: things must be as they may: men may"
II,I,NYM,"sleep, and they may have their throats about them at"
II,I,NYM,"that time; and some say knives have edges. It must"
II,I,NYM,"be as it may: though patience be a tired mare, yet"
II,I,NYM,"she will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I"
II,I,NYM,"cannot tell."
II,I,BARDOLPH,"Here comes Ancient Pistol and his wife: good"
II,I,BARDOLPH,"corporal, be patient here. How now, mine host Pistol!"
II,I,PISTOL,"Base tike, call'st thou me host? Now, by this hand,"
II,I,PISTOL,"I swear, I scorn the term; Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers."
II,I,Hostess,"No, by my troth, not long; for we cannot lodge and"
II,I,Hostess,"board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live"
II,I,Hostess,"honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will"
II,I,Hostess,"be thought we keep a bawdy house straight."
II,I,Hostess,"O well a day, Lady, if he be not drawn now! we"
II,I,Hostess,"shall see wilful adultery and murder committed."
II,I,BARDOLPH,"Good lieutenant! good corporal! offer nothing here."
II,I,NYM,"Pish!"
II,I,PISTOL,"Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland!"
II,I,Hostess,"Good Corporal Nym, show thy valour, and put up your sword."
II,I,NYM,"Will you shog off? I would have you solus."
II,I,PISTOL,"'Solus,' egregious dog? O viper vile!"
II,I,PISTOL,"The 'solus' in thy most mervailous face;"
II,I,PISTOL,"The 'solus' in thy teeth, and in thy throat,"
II,I,PISTOL,"And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy,"
II,I,PISTOL,"And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth!"
II,I,PISTOL,"I do retort the 'solus' in thy bowels;"
II,I,PISTOL,"For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up,"
II,I,PISTOL,"And flashing fire will follow."
II,I,NYM,"I am not Barbason; you cannot conjure me. I have an"
II,I,NYM,"humour to knock you indifferently well. If you grow"
II,I,NYM,"foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my"
II,I,NYM,"rapier, as I may, in fair terms: if you would walk"
II,I,NYM,"off, I would prick your guts a little, in good"
II,I,NYM,"terms, as I may: and that's the humour of it."
II,I,PISTOL,"O braggart vile and damned furious wight!"
II,I,PISTOL,"The grave doth gape, and doting death is near;"
II,I,PISTOL,"Therefore exhale."
II,I,BARDOLPH,"Hear me, hear me what I say: he that strikes the"
II,I,BARDOLPH,"first stroke, I'll run him up to the hilts, as I am a soldier."
II,I,PISTOL,"An oath of mickle might; and fury shall abate."
II,I,PISTOL,"Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give:"
II,I,PISTOL,"Thy spirits are most tall."
II,I,NYM,"I will cut thy throat, one time or other, in fair"
II,I,NYM,"terms: that is the humour of it."
II,I,PISTOL,"'Couple a gorge!'"
II,I,PISTOL,"That is the word. I thee defy again."
II,I,PISTOL,"O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get?"
II,I,PISTOL,"No; to the spital go,"
II,I,PISTOL,"And from the powdering tub of infamy"
II,I,PISTOL,"Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind,"
II,I,PISTOL,"Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse:"
II,I,PISTOL,"I have, and I will hold, the quondam Quickly"
II,I,PISTOL,"For the only she; and--pauca, there's enough. Go to."
II,I,Boy,"Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master, and"
II,I,Boy,"you, hostess: he is very sick, and would to bed."
II,I,Boy,"Good Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and"
II,I,Boy,"do the office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill."
II,I,BARDOLPH,"Away, you rogue!"
II,I,Hostess,"By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of"
II,I,Hostess,"these days. The king has killed his heart. Good"
II,I,Hostess,"husband, come home presently."
II,I,BARDOLPH,"Come, shall I make you two friends? We must to"
II,I,BARDOLPH,"France together: why the devil should we keep"
II,I,BARDOLPH,"knives to cut one another's throats?"
II,I,PISTOL,"Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on!"
II,I,NYM,"You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting?"
II,I,PISTOL,"Base is the slave that pays."
II,I,NYM,"That now I will have: that's the humour of it."
II,I,PISTOL,"As manhood shall compound: push home."
II,I,BARDOLPH,"By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I'll"
II,I,BARDOLPH,"kill him; by this sword, I will."
II,I,PISTOL,"Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course."
II,I,BARDOLPH,"Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, be friends:"
II,I,BARDOLPH,"an thou wilt not, why, then, be enemies with me too."
II,I,BARDOLPH,"Prithee, put up."
II,I,NYM,"I shall have my eight shillings I won of you at betting?"
II,I,PISTOL,"A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;"
II,I,PISTOL,"And liquor likewise will I give to thee,"
II,I,PISTOL,"And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood:"
II,I,PISTOL,"I'll live by Nym, and Nym shall live by me;"
II,I,PISTOL,"Is not this just? for I shall sutler be"
II,I,PISTOL,"Unto the camp, and profits will accrue."
II,I,PISTOL,"Give me thy hand."
II,I,NYM,"I shall have my noble?"
II,I,PISTOL,"In cash most justly paid."
II,I,NYM,"Well, then, that's the humour of't."
II,I,Hostess,"As ever you came of women, come in quickly to Sir"
II,I,Hostess,"John. Ah, poor heart! he is so shaked of a burning"
II,I,Hostess,"quotidian tertian, that it is most lamentable to"
II,I,Hostess,"behold. Sweet men, come to him."
II,I,NYM,"The king hath run bad humours on the knight; that's"
II,I,NYM,"the even of it."
II,I,PISTOL,"Nym, thou hast spoke the right;"
II,I,PISTOL,"His heart is fracted and corroborate."
II,I,NYM,"The king is a good king: but it must be as it may;"
II,I,NYM,"he passes some humours and careers."
II,I,PISTOL,"Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins we will live."
II,II,BEDFORD,"'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors."
II,II,EXETER,"They shall be apprehended by and by."
II,II,WESTMORELAND,"How smooth and even they do bear themselves!"
II,II,WESTMORELAND,"As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,"
II,II,WESTMORELAND,"Crowned with faith and constant loyalty."
II,II,BEDFORD,"The king hath note of all that they intend,"
II,II,BEDFORD,"By interception which they dream not of."
II,II,EXETER,"Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,"
II,II,EXETER,"Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours,"
II,II,EXETER,"That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell"
II,II,EXETER,"His sovereign's life to death and treachery."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"My Lord of Cambridge, and my kind Lord of Masham,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts:"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Think you not that the powers we bear with us"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Will cut their passage through the force of France,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Doing the execution and the act"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"For which we have in head assembled them?"
II,II,SCROOP,"No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"We carry not a heart with us from hence"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"That grows not in a fair consent with ours,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Success and conquest to attend on us."
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"Never was monarch better fear'd and loved"
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject"
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness"
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"Under the sweet shade of your government."
II,II,GREY,"True: those that were your father's enemies"
II,II,GREY,"Have steep'd their galls in honey and do serve you"
II,II,GREY,"With hearts create of duty and of zeal."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"We therefore have great cause of thankfulness;"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"And shall forget the office of our hand,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Sooner than quittance of desert and merit"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"According to the weight and worthiness."
II,II,SCROOP,"So service shall with steeled sinews toil,"
II,II,SCROOP,"And labour shall refresh itself with hope,"
II,II,SCROOP,"To do your grace incessant services."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"We judge no less. Uncle of Exeter,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Enlarge the man committed yesterday,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"That rail'd against our person: we consider"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"it was excess of wine that set him on;"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"And on his more advice we pardon him."
II,II,SCROOP,"That's mercy, but too much security:"
II,II,SCROOP,"Let him be punish'd, sovereign, lest example"
II,II,SCROOP,"Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"O, let us yet be merciful."
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"So may your highness, and yet punish too."
II,II,GREY,"Sir,"
II,II,GREY,"You show great mercy, if you give him life,"
II,II,GREY,"After the taste of much correction."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Alas, your too much love and care of me"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch!"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"If little faults, proceeding on distemper,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Appear before us? We'll yet enlarge that man,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Though Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, in their dear care"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"And tender preservation of our person,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Would have him punished. And now to our French causes:"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Who are the late commissioners?"
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"I one, my lord:"
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"Your highness bade me ask for it to-day."
II,II,SCROOP,"So did you me, my liege."
II,II,GREY,"And I, my royal sovereign."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Then, Richard Earl of Cambridge, there is yours;"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham; and, sir knight,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours:"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Read them; and know, I know your worthiness."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"My Lord of Westmoreland, and uncle Exeter,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"We will aboard to night. Why, how now, gentlemen!"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"What see you in those papers that you lose"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"So much complexion? Look ye, how they change!"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Their cheeks are paper. Why, what read you there"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"That hath so cowarded and chased your blood"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Out of appearance?"
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"I do confess my fault;"
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"And do submit me to your highness' mercy."
II,II,GREY,"To which we all appeal."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"The mercy that was quick in us but late,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd:"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy;"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"As dogs upon their masters, worrying you."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"See you, my princes, and my noble peers,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"These English monsters! My Lord of Cambridge here,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"You know how apt our love was to accord"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"To furnish him with all appertinents"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Belonging to his honour; and this man"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"And sworn unto the practises of France,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"To kill us here in Hampton: to the which"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"This knight, no less for bounty bound to us"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But, O,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature!"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"That knew'st the very bottom of my soul,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Wouldst thou have practised on me for thy use,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"May it be possible, that foreign hire"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Could out of thee extract one spark of evil"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"That, though the truth of it stands off as gross"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Treason and murder ever kept together,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Working so grossly in a natural cause,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"That admiration did not whoop at them:"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Wonder to wait on treason and on murder:"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"And whatsoever cunning fiend it was"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"That wrought upon thee so preposterously"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Hath got the voice in hell for excellence:"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"All other devils that suggest by treasons"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Do botch and bungle up damnation"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"From glistering semblances of piety;"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"He might return to vasty Tartar back,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"And tell the legions 'I can never win"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"A soul so easy as that Englishman's.'"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"O, how hast thou with 'jealousy infected"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful?"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned?"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family?"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Why, so didst thou: seem they religious?"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Why, so didst thou: or are they spare in diet,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Not working with the eye without the ear,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"And but in purged judgment trusting neither?"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem:"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"To mark the full-fraught man and best indued"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"With some suspicion. I will weep for thee;"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Another fall of man. Their faults are open:"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Arrest them to the answer of the law;"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"And God acquit them of their practises!"
II,II,EXETER,"I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of"
II,II,EXETER,"Richard Earl of Cambridge."
II,II,EXETER,"I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of"
II,II,EXETER,"Henry Lord Scroop of Masham."
II,II,EXETER,"I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of"
II,II,EXETER,"Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland."
II,II,SCROOP,"Our purposes God justly hath discover'd;"
II,II,SCROOP,"And I repent my fault more than my death;"
II,II,SCROOP,"Which I beseech your highness to forgive,"
II,II,SCROOP,"Although my body pay the price of it."
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"For me, the gold of France did not seduce;"
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"Although I did admit it as a motive"
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"The sooner to effect what I intended:"
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"But God be thanked for prevention;"
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,"
II,II,CAMBRIDGE,"Beseeching God and you to pardon me."
II,II,GREY,"Never did faithful subject more rejoice"
II,II,GREY,"At the discovery of most dangerous treason"
II,II,GREY,"Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself."
II,II,GREY,"Prevented from a damned enterprise:"
II,II,GREY,"My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"You have conspired against our royal person,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd and from his coffers"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Received the golden earnest of our death;"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"His princes and his peers to servitude,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"His subjects to oppression and contempt"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"And his whole kingdom into desolation."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Touching our person seek we no revenge;"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Poor miserable wretches, to your death:"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"The taste whereof, God of his mercy give"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"You patience to endure, and true repentance"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Of all your dear offences! Bear them hence."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Shall be to you, as us, like glorious."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Since God so graciously hath brought to light"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"This dangerous treason lurking in our way"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"But every rub is smoothed on our way."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Our puissance into the hand of God,"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Putting it straight in expedition."
II,II,KING HENRY V,"Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:"
II,II,KING HENRY V,"No king of England, if not king of France."
II,III,Hostess,"Prithee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines."
II,III,PISTOL,"No; for my manly heart doth yearn."
II,III,PISTOL,"Bardolph, be blithe: Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins:"
II,III,PISTOL,"Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,"
II,III,PISTOL,"And we must yearn therefore."
II,III,BARDOLPH,"Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in"
II,III,BARDOLPH,"heaven or in hell!"
II,III,Hostess,"Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in Arthur's"
II,III,Hostess,"bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. A' made"
II,III,Hostess,"a finer end and went away an it had been any"
II,III,Hostess,"christom child; a' parted even just between twelve"
II,III,Hostess,"and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after"
II,III,Hostess,"I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with"
II,III,Hostess,"flowers and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew"
II,III,Hostess,"there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as"
II,III,Hostess,"a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. 'How now,"
II,III,Hostess,"sir John!' quoth I 'what, man! be o' good"
II,III,Hostess,"cheer.' So a' cried out 'God, God, God!' three or"
II,III,Hostess,"four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a'"
II,III,Hostess,"should not think of God; I hoped there was no need"
II,III,Hostess,"to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So"
II,III,Hostess,"a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my"
II,III,Hostess,"hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as"
II,III,Hostess,"cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and"
II,III,Hostess,"they were as cold as any stone, and so upward and"
II,III,Hostess,"upward, and all was as cold as any stone."
II,III,NYM,"They say he cried out of sack."
II,III,Hostess,"Ay, that a' did."
II,III,BARDOLPH,"And of women."
II,III,Hostess,"Nay, that a' did not."
II,III,Boy,"Yes, that a' did; and said they were devils"
II,III,Boy,"incarnate."
II,III,Hostess,"A' could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour he"
II,III,Hostess,"never liked."
II,III,Boy,"A' said once, the devil would have him about women."
II,III,Hostess,"A' did in some sort, indeed, handle women; but then"
II,III,Hostess,"he was rheumatic, and talked of the whore of Babylon."
II,III,Boy,"Do you not remember, a' saw a flea stick upon"
II,III,Boy,"Bardolph's nose, and a' said it was a black soul"
II,III,Boy,"burning in hell-fire?"
II,III,BARDOLPH,"Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire:"
II,III,BARDOLPH,"that's all the riches I got in his service."
II,III,NYM,"Shall we shog? the king will be gone from"
II,III,NYM,"Southampton."
II,III,PISTOL,"Come, let's away. My love, give me thy lips."
II,III,PISTOL,"Look to my chattels and my movables:"
II,III,PISTOL,"Let senses rule; the word is 'Pitch and Pay:'"
II,III,PISTOL,"Trust none;"
II,III,PISTOL,"For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,"
II,III,PISTOL,"And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck:"
II,III,PISTOL,"Therefore, Caveto be thy counsellor."
II,III,PISTOL,"Go, clear thy crystals. Yoke-fellows in arms,"
II,III,PISTOL,"Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,"
II,III,PISTOL,"To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!"
II,III,Boy,"And that's but unwholesome food they say."
II,III,PISTOL,"Touch her soft mouth, and march."
II,III,BARDOLPH,"Farewell, hostess."
II,III,NYM,"I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but, adieu."
II,III,PISTOL,"Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command."
II,III,Hostess,"Farewell; adieu."
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Thus comes the English with full power upon us;"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"And more than carefully it us concerns"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"To answer royally in our defences."
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Therefore the Dukes of Berri and of Bretagne,"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch,"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"To line and new repair our towns of war"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"With men of courage and with means defendant;"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"For England his approaches makes as fierce"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"As waters to the sucking of a gulf."
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"It fits us then to be as provident"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"As fear may teach us out of late examples"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Left by the fatal and neglected English"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Upon our fields."
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"My most redoubted father,"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe;"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Though war nor no known quarrel were in question,"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"But that defences, musters, preparations,"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected,"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"As were a war in expectation."
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Therefore, I say 'tis meet we all go forth"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"To view the sick and feeble parts of France:"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"And let us do it with no show of fear;"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"No, with no more than if we heard that England"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Her sceptre so fantastically borne"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"That fear attends her not."
II,IV,Constable,"O peace, Prince Dauphin!"
II,IV,Constable,"You are too much mistaken in this king:"
II,IV,Constable,"Question your grace the late ambassadors,"
II,IV,Constable,"With what great state he heard their embassy,"
II,IV,Constable,"How well supplied with noble counsellors,"
II,IV,Constable,"How modest in exception, and withal"
II,IV,Constable,"How terrible in constant resolution,"
II,IV,Constable,"And you shall find his vanities forespent"
II,IV,Constable,"Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,"
II,IV,Constable,"Covering discretion with a coat of folly;"
II,IV,Constable,"As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots"
II,IV,Constable,"That shall first spring and be most delicate."
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable;"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"But though we think it so, it is no matter:"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"The enemy more mighty than he seems:"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"So the proportions of defence are fill'd;"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Which of a weak or niggardly projection"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"A little cloth."
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Think we King Harry strong;"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him."
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us;"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"And he is bred out of that bloody strain"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"That haunted us in our familiar paths:"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Witness our too much memorable shame"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"When Cressy battle fatally was struck,"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"And all our princes captiv'd by the hand"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing,"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him,"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Mangle the work of nature and deface"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"The patterns that by God and by French fathers"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Had twenty years been made. This is a stem"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Of that victorious stock; and let us fear"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"The native mightiness and fate of him."
II,IV,Messenger,"Ambassadors from Harry King of England"
II,IV,Messenger,"Do crave admittance to your majesty."
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"We'll give them present audience. Go, and bring them."
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends."
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Take up the English short, and let them know"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Of what a monarchy you are the head:"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"As self-neglecting."
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"From our brother England?"
II,IV,EXETER,"From him; and thus he greets your majesty."
II,IV,EXETER,"He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,"
II,IV,EXETER,"That you divest yourself, and lay apart"
II,IV,EXETER,"The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven,"
II,IV,EXETER,"By law of nature and of nations, 'long"
II,IV,EXETER,"To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown"
II,IV,EXETER,"And all wide-stretched honours that pertain"
II,IV,EXETER,"By custom and the ordinance of times"
II,IV,EXETER,"Unto the crown of France. That you may know"
II,IV,EXETER,"'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,"
II,IV,EXETER,"Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,"
II,IV,EXETER,"Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked,"
II,IV,EXETER,"He sends you this most memorable line,"
II,IV,EXETER,"In every branch truly demonstrative;"
II,IV,EXETER,"Willing to overlook this pedigree:"
II,IV,EXETER,"And when you find him evenly derived"
II,IV,EXETER,"From his most famed of famous ancestors,"
II,IV,EXETER,"Edward the Third, he bids you then resign"
II,IV,EXETER,"Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held"
II,IV,EXETER,"From him the native and true challenger."
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Or else what follows?"
II,IV,EXETER,"Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown"
II,IV,EXETER,"Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:"
II,IV,EXETER,"Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,"
II,IV,EXETER,"In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove,"
II,IV,EXETER,"That, if requiring fail, he will compel;"
II,IV,EXETER,"And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,"
II,IV,EXETER,"Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy"
II,IV,EXETER,"On the poor souls for whom this hungry war"
II,IV,EXETER,"Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head"
II,IV,EXETER,"Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries"
II,IV,EXETER,"The dead men's blood, the pining maidens groans,"
II,IV,EXETER,"For husbands, fathers and betrothed lovers,"
II,IV,EXETER,"That shall be swallow'd in this controversy."
II,IV,EXETER,"This is his claim, his threatening and my message;"
II,IV,EXETER,"Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,"
II,IV,EXETER,"To whom expressly I bring greeting too."
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"For us, we will consider of this further:"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"To-morrow shall you bear our full intent"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"Back to our brother England."
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"For the Dauphin,"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"I stand here for him: what to him from England?"
II,IV,EXETER,"Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,"
II,IV,EXETER,"And any thing that may not misbecome"
II,IV,EXETER,"The mighty sender, doth he prize you at."
II,IV,EXETER,"Thus says my king; an' if your father's highness"
II,IV,EXETER,"Do not, in grant of all demands at large,"
II,IV,EXETER,"Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,"
II,IV,EXETER,"He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,"
II,IV,EXETER,"That caves and womby vaultages of France"
II,IV,EXETER,"Shall chide your trespass and return your mock"
II,IV,EXETER,"In second accent of his ordnance."
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Say, if my father render fair return,"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"It is against my will; for I desire"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"Nothing but odds with England: to that end,"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"As matching to his youth and vanity,"
II,IV,DAUPHIN,"I did present him with the Paris balls."
II,IV,EXETER,"He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,"
II,IV,EXETER,"Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe:"
II,IV,EXETER,"And, be assured, you'll find a difference,"
II,IV,EXETER,"As we his subjects have in wonder found,"
II,IV,EXETER,"Between the promise of his greener days"
II,IV,EXETER,"And these he masters now: now he weighs time"
II,IV,EXETER,"Even to the utmost grain: that you shall read"
II,IV,EXETER,"In your own losses, if he stay in France."
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"To-morrow shall you know our mind at full."
II,IV,EXETER,"Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king"
II,IV,EXETER,"Come here himself to question our delay;"
II,IV,EXETER,"For he is footed in this land already."
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"You shall be soon dispatch's with fair conditions:"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"A night is but small breath and little pause"
II,IV,KING OF FRANCE,"To answer matters of this consequence."
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Or close the wall up with our English dead."
III,I,KING HENRY V,"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"As modest stillness and humility:"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"But when the blast of war blows in our ears,"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Then imitate the action of the tiger;"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Let pry through the portage of the head"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"As fearfully as doth a galled rock"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean."
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"To his full height. On, on, you noblest English."
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Have in these parts from morn till even fought"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Dishonour not your mothers; now attest"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you."
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Be copy now to men of grosser blood,"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Whose limbs were made in England, show us here"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"The mettle of your pasture; let us swear"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"For there is none of you so mean and base,"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"That hath not noble lustre in your eyes."
III,I,KING HENRY V,"I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Follow your spirit, and upon this charge"
III,I,KING HENRY V,"Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'"
III,II,BARDOLPH,"On, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to the breach!"
III,II,NYM,"Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks are too hot;"
III,II,NYM,"and, for mine own part, I have not a case of lives:"
III,II,NYM,"the humour of it is too hot, that is the very"
III,II,NYM,"plain-song of it."
III,II,PISTOL,"The plain-song is most just: for humours do abound:"
III,II,PISTOL,"Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die;"
III,II,PISTOL,"And sword and shield,"
III,II,PISTOL,"In bloody field,"
III,II,PISTOL,"Doth win immortal fame."
III,II,Boy,"Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would give"
III,II,Boy,"all my fame for a pot of ale and safety."
III,II,PISTOL,"And I:"
III,II,PISTOL,"If wishes would prevail with me,"
III,II,PISTOL,"My purpose should not fail with me,"
III,II,PISTOL,"But thither would I hie."
III,II,Boy,"As duly, but not as truly,"
III,II,Boy,"As bird doth sing on bough."
III,II,FLUELLEN,"Up to the breach, you dogs! avaunt, you cullions!"
III,II,PISTOL,"Be merciful, great duke, to men of mould."
III,II,PISTOL,"Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage,"
III,II,PISTOL,"Abate thy rage, great duke!"
III,II,PISTOL,"Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, sweet chuck!"
III,II,NYM,"These be good humours! your honour wins bad humours."
III,II,Boy,"As young as I am, I have observed these three"
III,II,Boy,"swashers. I am boy to them all three: but all they"
III,II,Boy,"three, though they would serve me, could not be man"
III,II,Boy,"to me; for indeed three such antics do not amount to"
III,II,Boy,"a man. For Bardolph, he is white-livered and"
III,II,Boy,"red-faced; by the means whereof a' faces it out, but"
III,II,Boy,"fights not. For Pistol, he hath a killing tongue"
III,II,Boy,"and a quiet sword; by the means whereof a' breaks"
III,II,Boy,"words, and keeps whole weapons. For Nym, he hath"
III,II,Boy,"heard that men of few words are the best men; and"
III,II,Boy,"therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest a'"
III,II,Boy,"should be thought a coward: but his few bad words"
III,II,Boy,"are matched with as few good deeds; for a' never"
III,II,Boy,"broke any man's head but his own, and that was"
III,II,Boy,"against a post when he was drunk. They will steal"
III,II,Boy,"any thing, and call it purchase. Bardolph stole a"
III,II,Boy,"lute-case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for"
III,II,Boy,"three half pence. Nym and Bardolph are sworn"
III,II,Boy,"brothers in filching, and in Calais they stole a"
III,II,Boy,"fire-shovel: I knew by that piece of service the"
III,II,Boy,"men would carry coals. They would have me as"
III,II,Boy,"familiar with men's pockets as their gloves or their"
III,II,Boy,"handkerchers: which makes much against my manhood,"
III,II,Boy,"if I should take from another's pocket to put into"
III,II,Boy,"mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I"
III,II,Boy,"must leave them, and seek some better service:"
III,II,Boy,"their villany goes against my weak stomach, and"
III,II,Boy,"therefore I must cast it up."
III,II,GOWER,"Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to the"
III,II,GOWER,"mines; the Duke of Gloucester would speak with you."
III,II,FLUELLEN,"To the mines! tell you the duke, it is not so good"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"to come to the mines; for, look you, the mines is"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"not according to the disciplines of the war: the"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"concavities of it is not sufficient; for, look you,"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"the athversary, you may discuss unto the duke, look"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"you, is digt himself four yard under the"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"countermines: by Cheshu, I think a' will plough up"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"all, if there is not better directions."
III,II,GOWER,"The Duke of Gloucester, to whom the order of the"
III,II,GOWER,"siege is given, is altogether directed by an"
III,II,GOWER,"Irishman, a very valiant gentleman, i' faith."
III,II,FLUELLEN,"It is Captain Macmorris, is it not?"
III,II,GOWER,"I think it be."
III,II,FLUELLEN,"By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world: I will"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"verify as much in his beard: be has no more"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy-dog."
III,II,GOWER,"Here a' comes; and the Scots captain, Captain Jamy, with him."
III,II,FLUELLEN,"Captain Jamy is a marvellous falourous gentleman,"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"that is certain; and of great expedition and"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"knowledge in th' aunchient wars, upon my particular"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"knowledge of his directions: by Cheshu, he will"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"maintain his argument as well as any military man in"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"the world, in the disciplines of the pristine wars"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"of the Romans."
III,II,JAMY,"I say gud-day, Captain Fluellen."
III,II,FLUELLEN,"God-den to your worship, good Captain James."
III,II,GOWER,"How now, Captain Macmorris! have you quit the"
III,II,GOWER,"mines? have the pioneers given o'er?"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"By Chrish, la! tish ill done: the work ish give"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"over, the trompet sound the retreat. By my hand, I"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"swear, and my father's soul, the work ish ill done;"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"it ish give over: I would have blowed up the town, so"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"Chrish save me, la! in an hour: O, tish ill done,"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"tish ill done; by my hand, tish ill done!"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"Captain Macmorris, I beseech you now, will you"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"voutsafe me, look you, a few disputations with you,"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"as partly touching or concerning the disciplines of"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"the war, the Roman wars, in the way of argument,"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"look you, and friendly communication; partly to"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"satisfy my opinion, and partly for the satisfaction,"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"look you, of my mind, as touching the direction of"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"the military discipline; that is the point."
III,II,JAMY,"It sall be vary gud, gud feith, gud captains bath:"
III,II,JAMY,"and I sall quit you with gud leve, as I may pick"
III,II,JAMY,"occasion; that sall I, marry."
III,II,MACMORRIS,"It is no time to discourse, so Chrish save me: the"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"day is hot, and the weather, and the wars, and the"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"king, and the dukes: it is no time to discourse. The"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"town is beseeched, and the trumpet call us to the"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"breach; and we talk, and, be Chrish, do nothing:"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"'tis shame for us all: so God sa' me, 'tis shame to"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"stand still; it is shame, by my hand: and there is"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"throats to be cut, and works to be done; and there"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"ish nothing done, so Chrish sa' me, la!"
III,II,JAMY,"By the mess, ere theise eyes of mine take themselves"
III,II,JAMY,"to slomber, ay'll de gud service, or ay'll lig i'"
III,II,JAMY,"the grund for it; ay, or go to death; and ay'll pay"
III,II,JAMY,"'t as valourously as I may, that sall I suerly do,"
III,II,JAMY,"that is the breff and the long. Marry, I wad full"
III,II,JAMY,"fain hear some question 'tween you tway."
III,II,FLUELLEN,"Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under your"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"correction, there is not many of your nation--"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"Of my nation! What ish my nation? Ish a villain,"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal. What ish"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"my nation? Who talks of my nation?"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than is"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"meant, Captain Macmorris, peradventure I shall think"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"you do not use me with that affability as in"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"discretion you ought to use me, look you: being as"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"good a man as yourself, both in the disciplines of"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"war, and in the derivation of my birth, and in"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"other particularities."
III,II,MACMORRIS,"I do not know you so good a man as myself: so"
III,II,MACMORRIS,"Chrish save me, I will cut off your head."
III,II,GOWER,"Gentlemen both, you will mistake each other."
III,II,JAMY,"A! that's a foul fault."
III,II,GOWER,"The town sounds a parley."
III,II,FLUELLEN,"Captain Macmorris, when there is more better"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"opportunity to be required, look you, I will be so"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"bold as to tell you I know the disciplines of war;"
III,II,FLUELLEN,"and there is an end."
III,III,KING HENRY V,"How yet resolves the governor of the town?"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"This is the latest parle we will admit;"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves;"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Or like to men proud of destruction"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"If I begin the battery once again,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Till in her ashes she lie buried."
III,III,KING HENRY V,"The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"In liberty of bloody hand shall range"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants."
III,III,KING HENRY V,"What is it then to me, if impious war,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Enlink'd to waste and desolation?"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"If your pure maidens fall into the hand"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Of hot and forcing violation?"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"What rein can hold licentious wickedness"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"When down the hill he holds his fierce career?"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"We may as bootless spend our vain command"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"As send precepts to the leviathan"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Take pity of your town and of your people,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Of heady murder, spoil and villany."
III,III,KING HENRY V,"If not, why, in a moment look to see"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Your fathers taken by the silver beards,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen."
III,III,KING HENRY V,"What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?"
III,III,GOVERNOR,"Our expectation hath this day an end:"
III,III,GOVERNOR,"The Dauphin, whom of succors we entreated,"
III,III,GOVERNOR,"Returns us that his powers are yet not ready"
III,III,GOVERNOR,"To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great king,"
III,III,GOVERNOR,"We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy."
III,III,GOVERNOR,"Enter our gates; dispose of us and ours;"
III,III,GOVERNOR,"For we no longer are defensible."
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Open your gates. Come, uncle Exeter,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French:"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"The winter coming on and sickness growing"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais."
III,III,KING HENRY V,"To-night in Harfleur we will be your guest;"
III,III,KING HENRY V,"To-morrow for the march are we addrest."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"Alice, tu as ete en Angleterre, et tu parles bien le langage."
III,IV,ALICE,"Un peu, madame."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"Je te prie, m'enseignez: il faut que j'apprenne a"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"parler. Comment appelez-vous la main en Anglois?"
III,IV,ALICE,"La main? elle est appelee de hand."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"De hand. Et les doigts?"
III,IV,ALICE,"Les doigts? ma foi, j'oublie les doigts; mais je me"
III,IV,ALICE,"souviendrai. Les doigts? je pense qu'ils sont"
III,IV,ALICE,"appeles de fingres; oui, de fingres."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"La main, de hand; les doigts, de fingres. Je pense"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"que je suis le bon ecolier; j'ai gagne deux mots"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"d'Anglois vitement. Comment appelez-vous les ongles?"
III,IV,ALICE,"Les ongles? nous les appelons de nails."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"De nails. Ecoutez; dites-moi, si je parle bien: de"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"hand, de fingres, et de nails."
III,IV,ALICE,"C'est bien dit, madame; il est fort bon Anglois."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"Dites-moi l'Anglois pour le bras."
III,IV,ALICE,"De arm, madame."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"Et le coude?"
III,IV,ALICE,"De elbow."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"De elbow. Je m'en fais la repetition de tous les"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"mots que vous m'avez appris des a present."
III,IV,ALICE,"Il est trop difficile, madame, comme je pense."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"Excusez-moi, Alice; ecoutez: de hand, de fingres,"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"de nails, de arma, de bilbow."
III,IV,ALICE,"De elbow, madame."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"O Seigneur Dieu, je m'en oublie! de elbow. Comment"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"appelez-vous le col?"
III,IV,ALICE,"De neck, madame."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"De nick. Et le menton?"
III,IV,ALICE,"De chin."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"De sin. Le col, de nick; de menton, de sin."
III,IV,ALICE,"Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en verite, vous prononcez"
III,IV,ALICE,"les mots aussi droit que les natifs d'Angleterre."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"Je ne doute point d'apprendre, par la grace de Dieu,"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"et en peu de temps."
III,IV,ALICE,"N'avez vous pas deja oublie ce que je vous ai enseigne?"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"Non, je reciterai a vous promptement: de hand, de"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"fingres, de mails--"
III,IV,ALICE,"De nails, madame."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"De nails, de arm, de ilbow."
III,IV,ALICE,"Sauf votre honneur, de elbow."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"Ainsi dis-je; de elbow, de nick, et de sin. Comment"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"appelez-vous le pied et la robe?"
III,IV,ALICE,"De foot, madame; et de coun."
III,IV,KATHARINE,"De foot et de coun! O Seigneur Dieu! ce sont mots"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"non pour les dames d'honneur d'user: je ne voudrais"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"pour tout le monde. Foh! le foot et le coun!"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"ensemble: de hand, de fingres, de nails, de arm, de"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"elbow, de nick, de sin, de foot, de coun."
III,IV,ALICE,"Excellent, madame!"
III,IV,KATHARINE,"C'est assez pour une fois: allons-nous a diner."
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"'Tis certain he hath pass'd the river Somme."
III,V,Constable,"And if he be not fought withal, my lord,"
III,V,Constable,"Let us not live in France; let us quit all"
III,V,Constable,"And give our vineyards to a barbarous people."
III,V,DAUPHIN,"O Dieu vivant! shall a few sprays of us,"
III,V,DAUPHIN,"The emptying of our fathers' luxury,"
III,V,DAUPHIN,"Our scions, put in wild and savage stock,"
III,V,DAUPHIN,"Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds,"
III,V,DAUPHIN,"And overlook their grafters?"
III,V,BOURBON,"Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards!"
III,V,BOURBON,"Mort de ma vie! if they march along"
III,V,BOURBON,"Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom,"
III,V,BOURBON,"To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm"
III,V,BOURBON,"In that nook-shotten isle of Albion."
III,V,Constable,"Dieu de batailles! where have they this mettle?"
III,V,Constable,"Is not their climate foggy, raw and dull,"
III,V,Constable,"On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale,"
III,V,Constable,"Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,"
III,V,Constable,"A drench for sur-rein'd jades, their barley-broth,"
III,V,Constable,"Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat?"
III,V,Constable,"And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine,"
III,V,Constable,"Seem frosty? O, for honour of our land,"
III,V,Constable,"Let us not hang like roping icicles"
III,V,Constable,"Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty people"
III,V,Constable,"Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields!"
III,V,Constable,"Poor we may call them in their native lords."
III,V,DAUPHIN,"By faith and honour,"
III,V,DAUPHIN,"Our madams mock at us, and plainly say"
III,V,DAUPHIN,"Our mettle is bred out and they will give"
III,V,DAUPHIN,"Their bodies to the lust of English youth"
III,V,DAUPHIN,"To new-store France with bastard warriors."
III,V,BOURBON,"They bid us to the English dancing-schools,"
III,V,BOURBON,"And teach lavoltas high and swift corantos;"
III,V,BOURBON,"Saying our grace is only in our heels,"
III,V,BOURBON,"And that we are most lofty runaways."
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence:"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Let him greet England with our sharp defiance."
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Up, princes! and, with spirit of honour edged"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"More sharper than your swords, hie to the field:"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"You Dukes of Orleans, Bourbon, and of Berri,"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Alencon, Brabant, Bar, and Burgundy;"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Jaques Chatillon, Rambures, Vaudemont,"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Beaumont, Grandpre, Roussi, and Fauconberg,"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Foix, Lestrale, Bouciqualt, and Charolois;"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"High dukes, great princes, barons, lords and knights,"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"For your great seats now quit you of great shames."
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Upon the valleys, whose low vassal seat"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon:"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Go down upon him, you have power enough,"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"And in a captive chariot into Rouen"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Bring him our prisoner."
III,V,Constable,"This becomes the great."
III,V,Constable,"Sorry am I his numbers are so few,"
III,V,Constable,"His soldiers sick and famish'd in their march,"
III,V,Constable,"For I am sure, when he shall see our army,"
III,V,Constable,"He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear"
III,V,Constable,"And for achievement offer us his ransom."
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Therefore, lord constable, haste on Montjoy."
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"And let him say to England that we send"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"To know what willing ransom he will give."
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen."
III,V,DAUPHIN,"Not so, I do beseech your majesty."
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Be patient, for you shall remain with us."
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"Now forth, lord constable and princes all,"
III,V,KING OF FRANCE,"And quickly bring us word of England's fall."
III,VI,GOWER,"How now, Captain Fluellen! come you from the bridge?"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"I assure you, there is very excellent services"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"committed at the bridge."
III,VI,GOWER,"Is the Duke of Exeter safe?"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon;"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"and a man that I love and honour with my soul, and my"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"heart, and my duty, and my life, and my living, and"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"my uttermost power: he is not-God be praised and"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"blessed!--any hurt in the world; but keeps the"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"bridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline."
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"There is an aunchient lieutenant there at the"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"pridge, I think in my very conscience he is as"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"valiant a man as Mark Antony; and he is a man of no"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"estimation in the world; but did see him do as"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"gallant service."
III,VI,GOWER,"What do you call him?"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"He is called Aunchient Pistol."
III,VI,GOWER,"I know him not."
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"Here is the man."
III,VI,PISTOL,"Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours:"
III,VI,PISTOL,"The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well."
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"Ay, I praise God; and I have merited some love at"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"his hands."
III,VI,PISTOL,"Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,"
III,VI,PISTOL,"And of buxom valour, hath, by cruel fate,"
III,VI,PISTOL,"And giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel,"
III,VI,PISTOL,"That goddess blind,"
III,VI,PISTOL,"That stands upon the rolling restless stone--"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"By your patience, Aunchient Pistol. Fortune is"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"signify to you that Fortune is blind; and she is"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"is the moral of it, that she is turning, and"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"inconstant, and mutability, and variation: and her"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone,"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"which rolls, and rolls, and rolls: in good truth,"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"the poet makes a most excellent description of it:"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"Fortune is an excellent moral."
III,VI,PISTOL,"Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him;"
III,VI,PISTOL,"For he hath stolen a pax, and hanged must a' be:"
III,VI,PISTOL,"A damned death!"
III,VI,PISTOL,"Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free"
III,VI,PISTOL,"And let not hemp his wind-pipe suffocate:"
III,VI,PISTOL,"But Exeter hath given the doom of death"
III,VI,PISTOL,"For pax of little price."
III,VI,PISTOL,"Therefore, go speak: the duke will hear thy voice:"
III,VI,PISTOL,"And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut"
III,VI,PISTOL,"With edge of penny cord and vile reproach:"
III,VI,PISTOL,"Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite."
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"Aunchient Pistol, I do partly understand your meaning."
III,VI,PISTOL,"Why then, rejoice therefore."
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"Certainly, aunchient, it is not a thing to rejoice"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"at: for if, look you, he were my brother, I would"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"desire the duke to use his good pleasure, and put"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"him to execution; for discipline ought to be used."
III,VI,PISTOL,"Die and be damn'd! and figo for thy friendship!"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"It is well."
III,VI,PISTOL,"The fig of Spain!"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"Very good."
III,VI,GOWER,"Why, this is an arrant counterfeit rascal; I"
III,VI,GOWER,"remember him now; a bawd, a cutpurse."
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"I'll assure you, a' uttered as brave words at the"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"bridge as you shall see in a summer's day. But it"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"is very well; what he has spoke to me, that is well,"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"I warrant you, when time is serve."
III,VI,GOWER,"Why, 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and then"
III,VI,GOWER,"goes to the wars, to grace himself at his return"
III,VI,GOWER,"into London under the form of a soldier. And such"
III,VI,GOWER,"fellows are perfect in the great commanders' names:"
III,VI,GOWER,"and they will learn you by rote where services were"
III,VI,GOWER,"done; at such and such a sconce, at such a breach,"
III,VI,GOWER,"at such a convoy; who came off bravely, who was"
III,VI,GOWER,"shot, who disgraced, what terms the enemy stood on;"
III,VI,GOWER,"and this they con perfectly in the phrase of war,"
III,VI,GOWER,"which they trick up with new-tuned oaths: and what"
III,VI,GOWER,"a beard of the general's cut and a horrid suit of"
III,VI,GOWER,"the camp will do among foaming bottles and"
III,VI,GOWER,"ale-washed wits, is wonderful to be thought on. But"
III,VI,GOWER,"you must learn to know such slanders of the age, or"
III,VI,GOWER,"else you may be marvellously mistook."
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"I tell you what, Captain Gower; I do perceive he is"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"not the man that he would gladly make show to the"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"world he is: if I find a hole in his coat, I will"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"tell him my mind."
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"Hark you, the king is coming, and I must speak with"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"him from the pridge."
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"God pless your majesty!"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"How now, Fluellen! camest thou from the bridge?"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"Ay, so please your majesty. The Duke of Exeter has"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"very gallantly maintained the pridge: the French is"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"gone off, look you; and there is gallant and most"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"prave passages; marry, th' athversary was have"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"possession of the pridge; but he is enforced to"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"retire, and the Duke of Exeter is master of the"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"pridge: I can tell your majesty, the duke is a"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"prave man."
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"What men have you lost, Fluellen?"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"The perdition of th' athversary hath been very"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"great, reasonable great: marry, for my part, I"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"think the duke hath lost never a man, but one that"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"is like to be executed for robbing a church, one"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"Bardolph, if your majesty know the man: his face is"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o'"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"fire: and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red;"
III,VI,FLUELLEN,"but his nose is executed and his fire's out."
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"We would have all such offenders so cut off: and we"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"give express charge, that in our marches through the"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"country, there be nothing compelled from the"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"French upbraided or abused in disdainful language;"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"gentler gamester is the soonest winner."
III,VI,MONTJOY,"You know me by my habit."
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Well then I know thee: what shall I know of thee?"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"My master's mind."
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Unfold it."
III,VI,MONTJOY,"Thus says my king: Say thou to Harry of England:"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"Though we seemed dead, we did but sleep: advantage"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"is a better soldier than rashness. Tell him we"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"could have rebuked him at Harfleur, but that we"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"thought not good to bruise an injury till it were"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"full ripe: now we speak upon our cue, and our voice"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"is imperial: England shall repent his folly, see"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"his weakness, and admire our sufferance. Bid him"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"therefore consider of his ransom; which must"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"proportion the losses we have borne, the subjects we"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"have lost, the disgrace we have digested; which in"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"weight to re-answer, his pettiness would bow under."
III,VI,MONTJOY,"For our losses, his exchequer is too poor; for the"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"effusion of our blood, the muster of his kingdom too"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"faint a number; and for our disgrace, his own"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"person, kneeling at our feet, but a weak and"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"worthless satisfaction. To this add defiance: and"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"tell him, for conclusion, he hath betrayed his"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"followers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far"
III,VI,MONTJOY,"my king and master; so much my office."
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"What is thy name? I know thy quality."
III,VI,MONTJOY,"Montjoy."
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back."
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"And tell thy king I do not seek him now;"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"But could be willing to march on to Calais"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Without impeachment: for, to say the sooth,"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Unto an enemy of craft and vantage,"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"My people are with sickness much enfeebled,"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"My numbers lessened, and those few I have"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Almost no better than so many French;"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Who when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"I thought upon one pair of English legs"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Did march three Frenchmen. Yet, forgive me, God,"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"That I do brag thus! This your air of France"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Hath blown that vice in me: I must repent."
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Go therefore, tell thy master here I am;"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk,"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"My army but a weak and sickly guard;"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Yet, God before, tell him we will come on,"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Though France himself and such another neighbour"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Stand in our way. There's for thy labour, Montjoy."
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Go bid thy master well advise himself:"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder'd,"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"We shall your tawny ground with your red blood"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Discolour: and so Montjoy, fare you well."
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"The sum of all our answer is but this:"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"We would not seek a battle, as we are;"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it:"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"So tell your master."
III,VI,MONTJOY,"I shall deliver so. Thanks to your highness."
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"I hope they will not come upon us now."
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs."
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"March to the bridge; it now draws toward night:"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves,"
III,VI,KING HENRY V,"And on to-morrow, bid them march away."
III,VII,Constable,"Tut! I have the best armour of the world. Would it were day!"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"You have an excellent armour; but let my horse have his due."
III,VII,Constable,"It is the best horse of Europe."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"Will it never be morning?"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"My lord of Orleans, and my lord high constable, you"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"talk of horse and armour?"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"You are as well provided of both as any prince in the world."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"What a long night is this! I will not change my"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"horse with any that treads but on four pasterns."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"Ca, ha! he bounds from the earth, as if his"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"entrails were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus,"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"chez les narines de feu! When I bestride him, I"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"He's of the colour of the nutmeg."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"And of the heat of the ginger. It is a beast for"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"Perseus: he is pure air and fire; and the dull"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"elements of earth and water never appear in him, but"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"only in Patient stillness while his rider mounts"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"him: he is indeed a horse; and all other jades you"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"may call beasts."
III,VII,Constable,"Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute and excellent horse."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"It is the prince of palfreys; his neigh is like the"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"bidding of a monarch and his countenance enforces homage."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"No more, cousin."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"Nay, the man hath no wit that cannot, from the"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb, vary"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"deserved praise on my palfrey: it is a theme as"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"fluent as the sea: turn the sands into eloquent"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"tongues, and my horse is argument for them all:"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"'tis a subject for a sovereign to reason on, and for"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"a sovereign's sovereign to ride on; and for the"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"world, familiar to us and unknown to lay apart"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"their particular functions and wonder at him. I"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"once writ a sonnet in his praise and began thus:"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"'Wonder of nature,'--"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"Then did they imitate that which I composed to my"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"courser, for my horse is my mistress."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"Your mistress bears well."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"Me well; which is the prescript praise and"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"perfection of a good and particular mistress."
III,VII,Constable,"Nay, for methought yesterday your mistress shrewdly"
III,VII,Constable,"shook your back."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"So perhaps did yours."
III,VII,Constable,"Mine was not bridled."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"O then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode,"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off, and in"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"your straight strossers."
III,VII,Constable,"You have good judgment in horsemanship."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"Be warned by me, then: they that ride so and ride"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"not warily, fall into foul bogs. I had rather have"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"my horse to my mistress."
III,VII,Constable,"I had as lief have my mistress a jade."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"I tell thee, constable, my mistress wears his own hair."
III,VII,Constable,"I could make as true a boast as that, if I had a sow"
III,VII,Constable,"to my mistress."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"'Le chien est retourne a son propre vomissement, et"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"la truie lavee au bourbier;' thou makest use of any thing."
III,VII,Constable,"Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress, or any"
III,VII,Constable,"such proverb so little kin to the purpose."
III,VII,RAMBURES,"My lord constable, the armour that I saw in your tent"
III,VII,RAMBURES,"to-night, are those stars or suns upon it?"
III,VII,Constable,"Stars, my lord."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope."
III,VII,Constable,"And yet my sky shall not want."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"That may be, for you bear a many superfluously, and"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"'twere more honour some were away."
III,VII,Constable,"Even as your horse bears your praises; who would"
III,VII,Constable,"trot as well, were some of your brags dismounted."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"Would I were able to load him with his desert! Will"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"it never be day? I will trot to-morrow a mile, and"
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"my way shall be paved with English faces."
III,VII,Constable,"I will not say so, for fear I should be faced out of"
III,VII,Constable,"my way: but I would it were morning; for I would"
III,VII,Constable,"fain be about the ears of the English."
III,VII,RAMBURES,"Who will go to hazard with me for twenty prisoners?"
III,VII,Constable,"You must first go yourself to hazard, ere you have them."
III,VII,DAUPHIN,"'Tis midnight; I'll go arm myself."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"The Dauphin longs for morning."
III,VII,RAMBURES,"He longs to eat the English."
III,VII,Constable,"I think he will eat all he kills."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"By the white hand of my lady, he's a gallant prince."
III,VII,Constable,"Swear by her foot, that she may tread out the oath."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"He is simply the most active gentleman of France."
III,VII,Constable,"Doing is activity; and he will still be doing."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"He never did harm, that I heard of."
III,VII,Constable,"Nor will do none to-morrow: he will keep that good name still."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"I know him to be valiant."
III,VII,Constable,"I was told that by one that knows him better than"
III,VII,Constable,"you."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"What's he?"
III,VII,Constable,"Marry, he told me so himself; and he said he cared"
III,VII,Constable,"not who knew it"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"He needs not; it is no hidden virtue in him."
III,VII,Constable,"By my faith, sir, but it is; never any body saw it"
III,VII,Constable,"but his lackey: 'tis a hooded valour; and when it"
III,VII,Constable,"appears, it will bate."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"Ill will never said well."
III,VII,Constable,"I will cap that proverb with 'There is flattery in friendship.'"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"And I will take up that with 'Give the devil his due.'"
III,VII,Constable,"Well placed: there stands your friend for the"
III,VII,Constable,"devil: have at the very eye of that proverb with 'A"
III,VII,Constable,"pox of the devil.'"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"You are the better at proverbs, by how much 'A"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"fool's bolt is soon shot.'"
III,VII,Constable,"You have shot over."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"'Tis not the first time you were overshot."
III,VII,Messenger,"My lord high constable, the English lie within"
III,VII,Messenger,"fifteen hundred paces of your tents."
III,VII,Constable,"Who hath measured the ground?"
III,VII,Messenger,"The Lord Grandpre."
III,VII,Constable,"A valiant and most expert gentleman. Would it were"
III,VII,Constable,"day! Alas, poor Harry of England! he longs not for"
III,VII,Constable,"the dawning as we do."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"What a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"far out of his knowledge!"
III,VII,Constable,"If the English had any apprehension, they would run away."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"That they lack; for if their heads had any"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"intellectual armour, they could never wear such heavy"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"head-pieces."
III,VII,RAMBURES,"That island of England breeds very valiant"
III,VII,RAMBURES,"creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"Russian bear and have their heads crushed like"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"rotten apples! You may as well say, that's a"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion."
III,VII,Constable,"Just, just; and the men do sympathize with the"
III,VII,Constable,"mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on, leaving"
III,VII,Constable,"their wits with their wives: and then give them"
III,VII,Constable,"great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will"
III,VII,Constable,"eat like wolves and fight like devils."
III,VII,ORLEANS,"Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef."
III,VII,Constable,"Then shall we find to-morrow they have only stomachs"
III,VII,Constable,"to eat and none to fight. Now is it time to arm:"
III,VII,Constable,"come, shall we about it?"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"It is now two o'clock: but, let me see, by ten"
III,VII,ORLEANS,"We shall have each a hundred Englishmen."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Gloucester, 'tis true that we are in great danger;"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"The greater therefore should our courage be."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Good morrow, brother Bedford. God Almighty!"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"There is some soul of goodness in things evil,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Would men observingly distil it out."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Which is both healthful and good husbandry:"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Besides, they are our outward consciences,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"And preachers to us all, admonishing"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"That we should dress us fairly for our end."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Thus may we gather honey from the weed,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"And make a moral of the devil himself."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"A good soft pillow for that good white head"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Were better than a churlish turf of France."
IV,I,ERPINGHAM,"Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me better,"
IV,I,ERPINGHAM,"Since I may say 'Now lie I like a king.'"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"'Tis good for men to love their present pains"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Upon example; so the spirit is eased:"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"And when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"The organs, though defunct and dead before,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Break up their drowsy grave and newly move,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"With casted slough and fresh legerity."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas. Brothers both,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Commend me to the princes in our camp;"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Do my good morrow to them, and anon"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Desire them an to my pavilion."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"We shall, my liege."
IV,I,ERPINGHAM,"Shall I attend your grace?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"No, my good knight;"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Go with my brothers to my lords of England:"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"I and my bosom must debate awhile,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"And then I would no other company."
IV,I,ERPINGHAM,"The Lord in heaven bless thee, noble Harry!"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"God-a-mercy, old heart! thou speak'st cheerfully."
IV,I,PISTOL,"Qui va la?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"A friend."
IV,I,PISTOL,"Discuss unto me; art thou officer?"
IV,I,PISTOL,"Or art thou base, common and popular?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"I am a gentleman of a company."
IV,I,PISTOL,"Trail'st thou the puissant pike?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Even so. What are you?"
IV,I,PISTOL,"As good a gentleman as the emperor."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Then you are a better than the king."
IV,I,PISTOL,"The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold,"
IV,I,PISTOL,"A lad of life, an imp of fame;"
IV,I,PISTOL,"Of parents good, of fist most valiant."
IV,I,PISTOL,"I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string"
IV,I,PISTOL,"I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Harry le Roy."
IV,I,PISTOL,"Le Roy! a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish crew?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"No, I am a Welshman."
IV,I,PISTOL,"Know'st thou Fluellen?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Yes."
IV,I,PISTOL,"Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate"
IV,I,PISTOL,"Upon Saint Davy's day."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"lest he knock that about yours."
IV,I,PISTOL,"Art thou his friend?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"And his kinsman too."
IV,I,PISTOL,"The figo for thee, then!"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"I thank you: God be with you!"
IV,I,PISTOL,"My name is Pistol call'd."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"It sorts well with your fierceness."
IV,I,GOWER,"Captain Fluellen!"
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"So! in the name of Jesu Christ, speak lower. It is"
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"the greatest admiration of the universal world, when"
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"the true and aunchient prerogatifes and laws of the"
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"wars is not kept: if you would take the pains but to"
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall"
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"find, I warrant you, that there is no tiddle toddle"
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"nor pibble pabble in Pompey's camp; I warrant you,"
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, and the"
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"cares of it, and the forms of it, and the sobriety"
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise."
IV,I,GOWER,"Why, the enemy is loud; you hear him all night."
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating"
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also,"
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating"
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"coxcomb? in your own conscience, now?"
IV,I,GOWER,"I will speak lower."
IV,I,FLUELLEN,"I pray you and beseech you that you will."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Though it appear a little out of fashion,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"There is much care and valour in this Welshman."
IV,I,COURT,"Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which"
IV,I,COURT,"breaks yonder?"
IV,I,BATES,"I think it be: but we have no great cause to desire"
IV,I,BATES,"the approach of day."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I think"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"we shall never see the end of it. Who goes there?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"A friend."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"Under what captain serve you?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Under Sir Thomas Erpingham."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"A good old commander and a most kind gentleman: I"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"pray you, what thinks he of our estate?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"washed off the next tide."
IV,I,BATES,"He hath not told his thought to the king?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"No; nor it is not meet he should. For, though I"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me: the"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"element shows to him as it doth to me; all his"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"senses have but human conditions: his ceremonies"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"though his affections are higher mounted than ours,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"wing. Therefore when he sees reason of fears, as we"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the same relish"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"as ours are: yet, in reason, no man should possess"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"him with any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"it, should dishearten his army."
IV,I,BATES,"He may show what outward courage he will; but I"
IV,I,BATES,"believe, as cold a night as 'tis, he could wish"
IV,I,BATES,"himself in Thames up to the neck; and so I would he"
IV,I,BATES,"were, and I by him, at all adventures, so we were quit here."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the king:"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"I think he would not wish himself any where but"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"where he is."
IV,I,BATES,"Then I would he were here alone; so should he be"
IV,I,BATES,"sure to be ransomed, and a many poor men's lives saved."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other men's"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"minds: methinks I could not die any where so"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"contented as in the king's company; his cause being"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"just and his quarrel honourable."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"That's more than we know."
IV,I,BATES,"Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know"
IV,I,BATES,"enough, if we know we are the kings subjects: if"
IV,I,BATES,"his cause be wrong, our obedience to the king wipes"
IV,I,BATES,"the crime of it out of us."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"well that die in a battle; for how can they"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"will be a black matter for the king that led them to"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"subjection."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"So, if a son that is by his father sent about"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"imputation of his wickedness by your rule, should be"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"imposed upon his father that sent him: or if a"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"servant, under his master's command transporting a"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"sum of money, be assailed by robbers and die in"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"business of the master the author of the servant's"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"damnation: but this is not so: the king is not"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"bound to answer the particular endings of his"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"his servant; for they purpose not their death, when"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"they purpose their services. Besides, there is no"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"unspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on them"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder;"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"pillage and robbery. Now, if these men have"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"defeated the law and outrun native punishment,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"fly from God: war is his beadle, war is vengeance;"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"so that here men are punished for before-breach of"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"the king's laws in now the king's quarrel: where"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"they feared the death, they have borne life away;"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"and where they would be safe, they perish: then if"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"their damnation than he was before guilty of those"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"impieties for the which they are now visited. Every"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"mote out of his conscience: and dying so, death"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained:"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"and in him that escapes, it were not sin to think"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"that, making God so free an offer, He let him"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"outlive that day to see His greatness and to teach"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"others how they should prepare."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill upon"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"his own head, the king is not to answer it."
IV,I,BATES,"But I do not desire he should answer for me; and"
IV,I,BATES,"yet I determine to fight lustily for him."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"I myself heard the king say he would not be ransomed."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully: but"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"when our throats are cut, he may be ransomed, and we"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"ne'er the wiser."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"You pay him then. That's a perilous shot out of an"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"elder-gun, that a poor and private displeasure can"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"do against a monarch! you may as well go about to"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"after! come, 'tis a foolish saying."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Your reproof is something too round: I should be"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"angry with you, if the time were convenient."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"Let it be a quarrel between us, if you live."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"I embrace it."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"How shall I know thee again?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"bonnet: then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"will make it my quarrel."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"Here's my glove: give me another of thine."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"There."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"to me and say, after to-morrow, 'This is my glove,'"
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"by this hand, I will take thee a box on the ear."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"Thou darest as well be hanged."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Well. I will do it, though I take thee in the"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"king's company."
IV,I,WILLIAMS,"Keep thy word: fare thee well."
IV,I,BATES,"Be friends, you English fools, be friends: we have"
IV,I,BATES,"French quarrels enow, if you could tell how to reckon."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Indeed, the French may lay twenty French crowns to"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"one, they will beat us; for they bear them on their"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"shoulders: but it is no English treason to cut"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"French crowns, and to-morrow the king himself will"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"be a clipper."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Our debts, our careful wives,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Our children and our sins lay on the king!"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"We must bear all. O hard condition,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"But his own wringing! What infinite heart's-ease"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"And what have kings, that privates have not too,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Save ceremony, save general ceremony?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"And what art thou, thou idle ceremony?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"What are thy rents? what are thy comings in?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"O ceremony, show me but thy worth!"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"What is thy soul of adoration?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Art thou aught else but place, degree and form,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Creating awe and fear in other men?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Than they in fearing."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"With titles blown from adulation?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Will it give place to flexure and low bending?"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"That play'st so subtly with a king's repose;"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"I am a king that find thee, and I know"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"The farced title running 'fore the king,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"That beats upon the high shore of this world,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Not all these, laid in bed majestical,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread;"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Never sees horrid night, the child of hell,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"But, like a lackey, from the rise to set"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Sweats in the eye of Phoebus and all night"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"And follows so the ever-running year,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"With profitable labour, to his grave:"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"And, but for ceremony, such a wretch,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"The slave, a member of the country's peace,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Enjoys it; but in gross brain little wots"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Whose hours the peasant best advantages."
IV,I,ERPINGHAM,"My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,"
IV,I,ERPINGHAM,"Seek through your camp to find you."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Good old knight,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Collect them all together at my tent:"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"I'll be before thee."
IV,I,ERPINGHAM,"I shall do't, my lord."
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts;"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Possess them not with fear; take from them now"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Pluck their hearts from them. Not to-day, O Lord,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"O, not to-day, think not upon the fault"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"My father made in compassing the crown!"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"I Richard's body have interred anew;"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Than from it issued forced drops of blood:"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Who twice a-day their wither'd hands hold up"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Toward heaven, to pardon blood; and I have built"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Sing still for Richard's soul. More will I do;"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Though all that I can do is nothing worth,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Since that my penitence comes after all,"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"Imploring pardon."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"My liege!"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"My brother Gloucester's voice? Ay;"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"I know thy errand, I will go with thee:"
IV,I,KING HENRY V,"The day, my friends and all things stay for me."
IV,II,ORLEANS,"The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords!"
IV,II,DAUPHIN,"Montez A cheval! My horse! varlet! laquais! ha!"
IV,II,ORLEANS,"O brave spirit!"
IV,II,DAUPHIN,"Via! les eaux et la terre."
IV,II,ORLEANS,"Rien puis? L'air et la feu."
IV,II,DAUPHIN,"Ciel, cousin Orleans."
IV,II,DAUPHIN,"Now, my lord constable!"
IV,II,Constable,"Hark, how our steeds for present service neigh!"
IV,II,DAUPHIN,"Mount them, and make incision in their hides,"
IV,II,DAUPHIN,"That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,"
IV,II,DAUPHIN,"And dout them with superfluous courage, ha!"
IV,II,RAMBURES,"What, will you have them weep our horses' blood?"
IV,II,RAMBURES,"How shall we, then, behold their natural tears?"
IV,II,Messenger,"The English are embattled, you French peers."
IV,II,Constable,"To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!"
IV,II,Constable,"Do but behold yon poor and starved band,"
IV,II,Constable,"And your fair show shall suck away their souls,"
IV,II,Constable,"Leaving them but the shales and husks of men."
IV,II,Constable,"There is not work enough for all our hands;"
IV,II,Constable,"Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins"
IV,II,Constable,"To give each naked curtle-axe a stain,"
IV,II,Constable,"That our French gallants shall to-day draw out,"
IV,II,Constable,"And sheathe for lack of sport: let us but blow on them,"
IV,II,Constable,"The vapour of our valour will o'erturn them."
IV,II,Constable,"'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords,"
IV,II,Constable,"That our superfluous lackeys and our peasants,"
IV,II,Constable,"Who in unnecessary action swarm"
IV,II,Constable,"About our squares of battle, were enow"
IV,II,Constable,"To purge this field of such a hilding foe,"
IV,II,Constable,"Though we upon this mountain's basis by"
IV,II,Constable,"Took stand for idle speculation:"
IV,II,Constable,"But that our honours must not. What's to say?"
IV,II,Constable,"A very little little let us do."
IV,II,Constable,"And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound"
IV,II,Constable,"The tucket sonance and the note to mount;"
IV,II,Constable,"For our approach shall so much dare the field"
IV,II,Constable,"That England shall couch down in fear and yield."
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones,"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"Ill-favouredly become the morning field:"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"And our air shakes them passing scornfully:"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps:"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks,"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"With torch-staves in their hand; and their poor jades"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips,"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and motionless;"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"And their executors, the knavish crows,"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"Fly o'er them, all impatient for their hour."
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"Description cannot suit itself in words"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"To demonstrate the life of such a battle"
IV,II,GRANDPRE,"In life so lifeless as it shows itself."
IV,II,Constable,"They have said their prayers, and they stay for death."
IV,II,DAUPHIN,"Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits"
IV,II,DAUPHIN,"And give their fasting horses provender,"
IV,II,DAUPHIN,"And after fight with them?"
IV,II,Constable,"I stay but for my guidon: to the field!"
IV,II,Constable,"I will the banner from a trumpet take,"
IV,II,Constable,"And use it for my haste. Come, come, away!"
IV,II,Constable,"The sun is high, and we outwear the day."
IV,III,GLOUCESTER,"Where is the king?"
IV,III,BEDFORD,"The king himself is rode to view their battle."
IV,III,WESTMORELAND,"Of fighting men they have full three score thousand."
IV,III,EXETER,"There's five to one; besides, they all are fresh."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"God's arm strike with us! 'tis a fearful odds."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"God be wi' you, princes all; I'll to my charge:"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Then, joyfully, my noble Lord of Bedford,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu!"
IV,III,BEDFORD,"Farewell, good Salisbury; and good luck go with thee!"
IV,III,EXETER,"Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day:"
IV,III,EXETER,"And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it,"
IV,III,EXETER,"For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour."
IV,III,BEDFORD,"He is full of valour as of kindness;"
IV,III,BEDFORD,"Princely in both."
IV,III,WESTMORELAND,"O that we now had here"
IV,III,WESTMORELAND,"But one ten thousand of those men in England"
IV,III,WESTMORELAND,"That do no work to-day!"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"What's he that wishes so?"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"If we are mark'd to die, we are enow"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"To do our country loss; and if to live,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"The fewer men, the greater share of honour."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"It yearns me not if men my garments wear;"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Such outward things dwell not in my desires:"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"But if it be a sin to covet honour,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"I am the most offending soul alive."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"As one man more, methinks, would share from me"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"That he which hath no stomach to this fight,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Let him depart; his passport shall be made"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"And crowns for convoy put into his purse:"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"We would not die in that man's company"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"That fears his fellowship to die with us."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"This day is called the feast of Crispian:"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"And rouse him at the name of Crispian."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"He that shall live this day, and see old age,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"But he'll remember with advantages"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"What feats he did that day: then shall our names."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Familiar in his mouth as household words"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"This story shall the good man teach his son;"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"From this day to the ending of the world,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"But we in it shall be remember'd;"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"For he to-day that sheds his blood with me"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"This day shall gentle his condition:"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"And gentlemen in England now a-bed"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed:"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"The French are bravely in their battles set,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"And will with all expedience charge on us."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"All things are ready, if our minds be so."
IV,III,WESTMORELAND,"Perish the man whose mind is backward now!"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Thou dost not wish more help from England, coz?"
IV,III,WESTMORELAND,"God's will! my liege, would you and I alone,"
IV,III,WESTMORELAND,"Without more help, could fight this royal battle!"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Why, now thou hast unwish'd five thousand men;"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Which likes me better than to wish us one."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"You know your places: God be with you all!"
IV,III,MONTJOY,"Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,"
IV,III,MONTJOY,"If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,"
IV,III,MONTJOY,"Before thy most assured overthrow:"
IV,III,MONTJOY,"For certainly thou art so near the gulf,"
IV,III,MONTJOY,"Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy,"
IV,III,MONTJOY,"The constable desires thee thou wilt mind"
IV,III,MONTJOY,"Thy followers of repentance; that their souls"
IV,III,MONTJOY,"May make a peaceful and a sweet retire"
IV,III,MONTJOY,"From off these fields, where, wretches, their poor bodies"
IV,III,MONTJOY,"Must lie and fester."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Who hath sent thee now?"
IV,III,MONTJOY,"The Constable of France."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"I pray thee, bear my former answer back:"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Good God! why should they mock poor fellows thus?"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"The man that once did sell the lion's skin"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"A many of our bodies shall no doubt"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Find native graves; upon the which, I trust,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Shall witness live in brass of this day's work:"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"And those that leave their valiant bones in France,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"They shall be famed; for there the sun shall greet them,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"And draw their honours reeking up to heaven;"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Mark then abounding valour in our English,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"That being dead, like to the bullet's grazing,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Break out into a second course of mischief,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Killing in relapse of mortality."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Let me speak proudly: tell the constable"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"We are but warriors for the working-day;"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"With rainy marching in the painful field;"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"There's not a piece of feather in our host--"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Good argument, I hope, we will not fly--"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"And time hath worn us into slovenry:"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"They'll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"And turn them out of service. If they do this,--"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"As, if God please, they shall,--my ransom then"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy labour;"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints;"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Which if they have as I will leave 'em them,"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Shall yield them little, tell the constable."
IV,III,MONTJOY,"I shall, King Harry. And so fare thee well:"
IV,III,MONTJOY,"Thou never shalt hear herald any more."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"I fear thou'lt once more come again for ransom."
IV,III,YORK,"My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg"
IV,III,YORK,"The leading of the vaward."
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"Take it, brave York. Now, soldiers, march away:"
IV,III,KING HENRY V,"And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Yield, cur!"
IV,IV,French Soldier,"Je pense que vous etes gentilhomme de bonne qualite."
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Qualtitie calmie custure me! Art thou a gentleman?"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"what is thy name? discuss."
IV,IV,French Soldier,"O Seigneur Dieu!"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"O, Signieur Dew should be a gentleman:"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark;"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox,"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Except, O signieur, thou do give to me"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Egregious ransom."
IV,IV,French Soldier,"O, prenez misericorde! ayez pitie de moi!"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys;"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"In drops of crimson blood."
IV,IV,French Soldier,"Est-il impossible d'echapper la force de ton bras?"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Brass, cur!"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat,"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Offer'st me brass?"
IV,IV,French Soldier,"O pardonnez moi!"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"What is his name."
IV,IV,Boy,"Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele?"
IV,IV,French Soldier,"Monsieur le Fer."
IV,IV,Boy,"He says his name is Master Fer."
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"him: discuss the same in French unto him."
IV,IV,Boy,"I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk."
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Bid him prepare; for I will cut his throat."
IV,IV,French Soldier,"Que dit-il, monsieur?"
IV,IV,Boy,"Il me commande de vous dire que vous faites vous"
IV,IV,Boy,"pret; car ce soldat ici est dispose tout a cette"
IV,IV,Boy,"heure de couper votre gorge."
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Owy, cuppele gorge, permafoy,"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Peasant, unless thou give me crowns, brave crowns;"
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword."
IV,IV,French Soldier,"O, je vous supplie, pour l'amour de Dieu, me"
IV,IV,French Soldier,"pardonner! Je suis gentilhomme de bonne maison:"
IV,IV,French Soldier,"gardez ma vie, et je vous donnerai deux cents ecus."
IV,IV,PISTOL,"What are his words?"
IV,IV,Boy,"He prays you to save his life: he is a gentleman of"
IV,IV,Boy,"a good house; and for his ransom he will give you"
IV,IV,Boy,"two hundred crowns."
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Tell him my fury shall abate, and I the crowns will take."
IV,IV,French Soldier,"Petit monsieur, que dit-il?"
IV,IV,Boy,"Encore qu'il est contre son jurement de pardonner"
IV,IV,Boy,"aucun prisonnier, neanmoins, pour les ecus que vous"
IV,IV,Boy,"l'avez promis, il est content de vous donner la"
IV,IV,Boy,"liberte, le franchisement."
IV,IV,French Soldier,"Sur mes genoux je vous donne mille remercimens; et"
IV,IV,French Soldier,"je m'estime heureux que je suis tombe entre les"
IV,IV,French Soldier,"mains d'un chevalier, je pense, le plus brave,"
IV,IV,French Soldier,"vaillant, et tres distingue seigneur d'Angleterre."
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Expound unto me, boy."
IV,IV,Boy,"He gives you, upon his knees, a thousand thanks; and"
IV,IV,Boy,"he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into"
IV,IV,Boy,"the hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave,"
IV,IV,Boy,"valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England."
IV,IV,PISTOL,"As I suck blood, I will some mercy show."
IV,IV,PISTOL,"Follow me!"
IV,IV,Boy,"Suivez-vous le grand capitaine."
IV,IV,Boy,"I did never know so full a voice issue from so"
IV,IV,Boy,"empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty"
IV,IV,Boy,"vessel makes the greatest sound.' Bardolph and Nym"
IV,IV,Boy,"had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i'"
IV,IV,Boy,"the old play, that every one may pare his nails with"
IV,IV,Boy,"a wooden dagger; and they are both hanged; and so"
IV,IV,Boy,"would this be, if he durst steal any thing"
IV,IV,Boy,"adventurously. I must stay with the lackeys, with"
IV,IV,Boy,"the luggage of our camp: the French might have a"
IV,IV,Boy,"good prey of us, if he knew of it; for there is"
IV,IV,Boy,"none to guard it but boys."
IV,V,Constable,"O diable!"
IV,V,ORLEANS,"O seigneur! le jour est perdu, tout est perdu!"
IV,V,DAUPHIN,"Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!"
IV,V,DAUPHIN,"Reproach and everlasting shame"
IV,V,DAUPHIN,"Sits mocking in our plumes. O merchante fortune!"
IV,V,DAUPHIN,"Do not run away."
IV,V,Constable,"Why, all our ranks are broke."
IV,V,DAUPHIN,"O perdurable shame! let's stab ourselves."
IV,V,DAUPHIN,"Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for?"
IV,V,ORLEANS,"Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?"
IV,V,BOURBON,"Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!"
IV,V,BOURBON,"Let us die in honour: once more back again;"
IV,V,BOURBON,"And he that will not follow Bourbon now,"
IV,V,BOURBON,"Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand,"
IV,V,BOURBON,"Like a base pander, hold the chamber-door"
IV,V,BOURBON,"Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog,"
IV,V,BOURBON,"His fairest daughter is contaminated."
IV,V,Constable,"Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!"
IV,V,Constable,"Let us on heaps go offer up our lives."
IV,V,ORLEANS,"We are enow yet living in the field"
IV,V,ORLEANS,"To smother up the English in our throngs,"
IV,V,ORLEANS,"If any order might be thought upon."
IV,V,BOURBON,"The devil take order now! I'll to the throng:"
IV,V,BOURBON,"Let life be short; else shame will be too long."
IV,VI,KING HENRY V,"Well have we done, thrice valiant countrymen:"
IV,VI,KING HENRY V,"But all's not done; yet keep the French the field."
IV,VI,EXETER,"The Duke of York commends him to your majesty."
IV,VI,KING HENRY V,"Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour"
IV,VI,KING HENRY V,"I saw him down; thrice up again and fighting;"
IV,VI,KING HENRY V,"From helmet to the spur all blood he was."
IV,VI,EXETER,"In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie,"
IV,VI,EXETER,"Larding the plain; and by his bloody side,"
IV,VI,EXETER,"Yoke-fellow to his honour-owing wounds,"
IV,VI,EXETER,"The noble Earl of Suffolk also lies."
IV,VI,EXETER,"Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over,"
IV,VI,EXETER,"Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd,"
IV,VI,EXETER,"And takes him by the beard; kisses the gashes"
IV,VI,EXETER,"That bloodily did spawn upon his face;"
IV,VI,EXETER,"And cries aloud 'Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk!"
IV,VI,EXETER,"My soul shall thine keep company to heaven;"
IV,VI,EXETER,"Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast,"
IV,VI,EXETER,"As in this glorious and well-foughten field"
IV,VI,EXETER,"We kept together in our chivalry!'"
IV,VI,EXETER,"Upon these words I came and cheer'd him up:"
IV,VI,EXETER,"He smiled me in the face, raught me his hand,"
IV,VI,EXETER,"And, with a feeble gripe, says 'Dear my lord,"
IV,VI,EXETER,"Commend my service to me sovereign.'"
IV,VI,EXETER,"So did he turn and over Suffolk's neck"
IV,VI,EXETER,"He threw his wounded arm and kiss'd his lips;"
IV,VI,EXETER,"And so espoused to death, with blood he seal'd"
IV,VI,EXETER,"A testament of noble-ending love."
IV,VI,EXETER,"The pretty and sweet manner of it forced"
IV,VI,EXETER,"Those waters from me which I would have stopp'd;"
IV,VI,EXETER,"But I had not so much of man in me,"
IV,VI,EXETER,"And all my mother came into mine eyes"
IV,VI,EXETER,"And gave me up to tears."
IV,VI,KING HENRY V,"I blame you not;"
IV,VI,KING HENRY V,"For, hearing this, I must perforce compound"
IV,VI,KING HENRY V,"With mistful eyes, or they will issue too."
IV,VI,KING HENRY V,"But, hark! what new alarum is this same?"
IV,VI,KING HENRY V,"The French have reinforced their scatter'd men:"
IV,VI,KING HENRY V,"Then every soldier kill his prisoners:"
IV,VI,KING HENRY V,"Give the word through."
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Kill the poys and the luggage! 'tis expressly"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"against the law of arms: 'tis as arrant a piece of"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"knavery, mark you now, as can be offer't; in your"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"conscience, now, is it not?"
IV,VII,GOWER,"'Tis certain there's not a boy left alive; and the"
IV,VII,GOWER,"cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done"
IV,VII,GOWER,"this slaughter: besides, they have burned and"
IV,VII,GOWER,"carried away all that was in the king's tent;"
IV,VII,GOWER,"wherefore the king, most worthily, hath caused every"
IV,VII,GOWER,"soldier to cut his prisoner's throat. O, 'tis a"
IV,VII,GOWER,"gallant king!"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"call you the town's name where Alexander the Pig was born!"
IV,VII,GOWER,"Alexander the Great."
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Why, I pray you, is not pig great? the pig, or the"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"magnanimous, are all one reckonings, save the phrase"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"is a little variations."
IV,VII,GOWER,"I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon; his"
IV,VII,GOWER,"father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it."
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"'orld, I warrant you sall find, in the comparisons"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations,"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"look you, is both alike. There is a river in"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth; but it is"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"out of my prains what is the name of the other"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"mark Alexander's life well, Harry of Monmouth's life"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"is come after it indifferent well; for there is"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"figures in all things. Alexander, God knows, and"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"you know, in his rages, and his furies, and his"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"wraths, and his cholers, and his moods, and his"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"displeasures, and his indignations, and also being a"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"little intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales and"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"his angers, look you, kill his best friend, Cleitus."
IV,VII,GOWER,"Our king is not like him in that: he never killed"
IV,VII,GOWER,"any of his friends."
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"It is not well done, mark you now take the tales out"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"of my mouth, ere it is made and finished. I speak"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"but in the figures and comparisons of it: as"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"ales and his cups; so also Harry Monmouth, being in"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"his right wits and his good judgments, turned away"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"the fat knight with the great belly-doublet: he"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"mocks; I have forgot his name."
IV,VII,GOWER,"Sir John Falstaff."
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"That is he: I'll tell you there is good men porn at Monmouth."
IV,VII,GOWER,"Here comes his majesty."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"I was not angry since I came to France"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald;"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"If they will fight with us, bid them come down,"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Or void the field; they do offend our sight:"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"If they'll do neither, we will come to them,"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"And make them skirr away, as swift as stones"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Enforced from the old Assyrian slings:"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have,"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"And not a man of them that we shall take"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so."
IV,VII,EXETER,"Here comes the herald of the French, my liege."
IV,VII,GLOUCESTER,"His eyes are humbler than they used to be."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"How now! what means this, herald? know'st thou not"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"That I have fined these bones of mine for ransom?"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Comest thou again for ransom?"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"No, great king:"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"I come to thee for charitable licence,"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"That we may wander o'er this bloody field"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"To look our dead, and then to bury them;"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"To sort our nobles from our common men."
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"For many of our princes--woe the while!--"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood;"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"In blood of princes; and their wounded steeds"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"Fret fetlock deep in gore and with wild rage"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great king,"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"To view the field in safety and dispose"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"Of their dead bodies!"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"I tell thee truly, herald,"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"I know not if the day be ours or no;"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"For yet a many of your horsemen peer"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"And gallop o'er the field."
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"The day is yours."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"What is this castle call'd that stands hard by?"
IV,VII,MONTJOY,"They call it Agincourt."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Then call we this the field of Agincourt,"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus."
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles,"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"fought a most prave pattle here in France."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"They did, Fluellen."
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Monmouth caps; which, your majesty know, to this"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"hour is an honourable badge of the service; and I do"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"upon Saint Tavy's day."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"I wear it for a memorable honour;"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman."
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that:"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"God pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"his grace, and his majesty too!"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Thanks, good my countryman."
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"By Jeshu, I am your majesty's countryman, I care not"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"who know it; I will confess it to all the 'orld: I"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"God, so long as your majesty is an honest man."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"God keep me so! Our heralds go with him:"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Bring me just notice of the numbers dead"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither."
IV,VII,EXETER,"Soldier, you must come to the king."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Soldier, why wearest thou that glove in thy cap?"
IV,VII,WILLIAMS,"An't please your majesty, 'tis the gage of one that"
IV,VII,WILLIAMS,"I should fight withal, if he be alive."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"An Englishman?"
IV,VII,WILLIAMS,"An't please your majesty, a rascal that swaggered"
IV,VII,WILLIAMS,"with me last night; who, if alive and ever dare to"
IV,VII,WILLIAMS,"challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box"
IV,VII,WILLIAMS,"o' th' ear: or if I can see my glove in his cap,"
IV,VII,WILLIAMS,"which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear"
IV,VII,WILLIAMS,"if alive, I will strike it out soundly."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"soldier keep his oath?"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"He is a craven and a villain else, an't please your"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"majesty, in my conscience."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort,"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"quite from the answer of his degree."
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath: if"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"arrant a villain and a Jacksauce, as ever his black"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"shoe trod upon God's ground and his earth, in my"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"conscience, la!"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meetest the fellow."
IV,VII,WILLIAMS,"So I will, my liege, as I live."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Who servest thou under?"
IV,VII,WILLIAMS,"Under Captain Gower, my liege."
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge and"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"literatured in the wars."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Call him hither to me, soldier."
IV,VII,WILLIAMS,"I will, my liege."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me and"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"stick it in thy cap: when Alencon and myself were"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"down together, I plucked this glove from his helm:"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"if any man challenge this, he is a friend to"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Alencon, and an enemy to our person; if thou"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love."
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"Your grace doo's me as great honours as can be"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"desired in the hearts of his subjects: I would fain"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"see the man, that has but two legs, that shall find"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"himself aggrieved at this glove; that is all; but I"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"would fain see it once, an please God of his grace"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"that I might see."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Knowest thou Gower?"
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"He is my dear friend, an please you."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent."
IV,VII,FLUELLEN,"I will fetch him."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"My Lord of Warwick, and my brother Gloucester,"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"The glove which I have given him for a favour"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"May haply purchase him a box o' th' ear;"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"It is the soldier's; I by bargain should"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick:"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"If that the soldier strike him, as I judge"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"By his blunt bearing he will keep his word,"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Some sudden mischief may arise of it;"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"For I do know Fluellen valiant"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"And, touched with choler, hot as gunpowder,"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"And quickly will return an injury:"
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Follow and see there be no harm between them."
IV,VII,KING HENRY V,"Go you with me, uncle of Exeter."
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"I warrant it is to knight you, captain."
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"God's will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"now, come apace to the king: there is more good"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of."
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"Sir, know you this glove?"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"Know the glove! I know the glove is glove."
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"I know this; and thus I challenge it."
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"'Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"universal world, or in France, or in England!"
IV,VIII,GOWER,"How now, sir! you villain!"
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"Do you think I'll be forsworn?"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"payment into ploughs, I warrant you."
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"I am no traitor."
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"That's a lie in thy throat. I charge you in his"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"majesty's name, apprehend him: he's a friend of the"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"Duke Alencon's."
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"How now, how now! what's the matter?"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"My Lord of Warwick, here is--praised be God for it!"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"--a most contagious treason come to light, look"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"you, as you shall desire in a summer's day. Here is"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"his majesty."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"How now! what's the matter?"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that,"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"look your grace, has struck the glove which your"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"majesty is take out of the helmet of Alencon."
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of"
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"it; and he that I gave it to in change promised to"
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"wear it in his cap: I promised to strike him, if he"
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"did: I met this man with my glove in his cap, and I"
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"have been as good as my word."
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"Your majesty hear now, saving your majesty's"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"manhood, what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"knave it is: I hope your majesty is pear me"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"testimony and witness, and will avouchment, that"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"this is the glove of Alencon, that your majesty is"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"give me; in your conscience, now?"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Give me thy glove, soldier: look, here is the"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"fellow of it."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike;"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"And thou hast given me most bitter terms."
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it,"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"if there is any martial law in the world."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"How canst thou make me satisfaction?"
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"All offences, my lord, come from the heart: never"
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"came any from mine that might offend your majesty."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"It was ourself thou didst abuse."
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"Your majesty came not like yourself: you appeared to"
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"me but as a common man; witness the night, your"
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"garments, your lowliness; and what your highness"
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"suffered under that shape, I beseech you take it for"
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"your own fault and not mine: for had you been as I"
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"took you for, I made no offence; therefore, I"
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"beseech your highness, pardon me."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"And give it to this fellow. Keep it, fellow;"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"And wear it for an honour in thy cap"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Till I do challenge it. Give him the crowns:"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"And, captain, you must needs be friends with him."
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"enough in his belly. Hold, there is twelve pence"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"for you; and I pray you to serve Got, and keep you"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"out of prawls, and prabbles' and quarrels, and"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"dissensions, and, I warrant you, it is the better for you."
IV,VIII,WILLIAMS,"I will none of your money."
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"It is with a good will; I can tell you, it will"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"serve you to mend your shoes: come, wherefore should"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"you be so pashful? your shoes is not so good: 'tis"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"a good silling, I warrant you, or I will change it."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Now, herald, are the dead number'd?"
IV,VIII,Herald,"Here is the number of the slaughter'd French."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?"
IV,VIII,EXETER,"Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king;"
IV,VIII,EXETER,"John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt:"
IV,VIII,EXETER,"Of other lords and barons, knights and squires,"
IV,VIII,EXETER,"Full fifteen hundred, besides common men."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"This note doth tell me of ten thousand French"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"One hundred twenty six: added to these,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights:"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries;"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"And gentlemen of blood and quality."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"The names of those their nobles that lie dead:"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Jaques of Chatillon, admiral of France;"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures;"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dolphin,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"John Duke of Alencon, Anthony Duke of Brabant,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"The brother of the Duke of Burgundy,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"And Edward Duke of Bar: of lusty earls,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Grandpre and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrale."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Here was a royal fellowship of death!"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Where is the number of our English dead?"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire:"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"None else of name; and of all other men"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"But five and twenty. O God, thy arm was here;"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"And not to us, but to thy arm alone,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"But in plain shock and even play of battle,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Was ever known so great and little loss"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"On one part and on the other? Take it, God,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"For it is none but thine!"
IV,VIII,EXETER,"'Tis wonderful!"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Come, go we in procession to the village."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"And be it death proclaimed through our host"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"To boast of this or take the praise from God"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Which is his only."
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell"
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"how many is killed?"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgement,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"That God fought for us."
IV,VIII,FLUELLEN,"Yes, my conscience, he did us great good."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Do we all holy rites;"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Let there be sung 'Non nobis' and 'Te Deum;'"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"The dead with charity enclosed in clay:"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"And then to Calais; and to England then:"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY V,"Where ne'er from France arrived more happy men."
V,I,GOWER,"Nay, that's right; but why wear you your leek today?"
V,I,GOWER,"Saint Davy's day is past."
V,I,FLUELLEN,"There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"all things: I will tell you, asse my friend,"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"Captain Gower: the rascally, scald, beggarly,"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"lousy, pragging knave, Pistol, which you and"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"yourself and all the world know to be no petter"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"than a fellow, look you now, of no merits, he is"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"come to me and prings me pread and salt yesterday,"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"look you, and bid me eat my leek: it was in place"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"where I could not breed no contention with him; but"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"I will be so bold as to wear it in my cap till I see"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"him once again, and then I will tell him a little"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"piece of my desires."
V,I,GOWER,"Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock."
V,I,FLUELLEN,"'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"turkey-cocks. God pless you, Aunchient Pistol! you"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"scurvy, lousy knave, God pless you!"
V,I,PISTOL,"Ha! art thou bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,"
V,I,PISTOL,"To have me fold up Parca's fatal web?"
V,I,PISTOL,"Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek."
V,I,FLUELLEN,"I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lousy knave, at my"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat,"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"look you, this leek: because, look you, you do not"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"love it, nor your affections and your appetites and"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"your digestions doo's not agree with it, I would"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"desire you to eat it."
V,I,PISTOL,"Not for Cadwallader and all his goats."
V,I,FLUELLEN,"There is one goat for you."
V,I,FLUELLEN,"Will you be so good, scauld knave, as eat it?"
V,I,PISTOL,"Base Trojan, thou shalt die."
V,I,FLUELLEN,"You say very true, scauld knave, when God's will is:"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"I will desire you to live in the mean time, and eat"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"your victuals: come, there is sauce for it."
V,I,FLUELLEN,"You called me yesterday mountain-squire; but I will"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"make you to-day a squire of low degree. I pray you,"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"fall to: if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek."
V,I,GOWER,"Enough, captain: you have astonished him."
V,I,FLUELLEN,"I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"I will peat his pate four days. Bite, I pray you; it"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"is good for your green wound and your ploody coxcomb."
V,I,PISTOL,"Must I bite?"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"Yes, certainly, and out of doubt and out of question"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"too, and ambiguities."
V,I,PISTOL,"By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat"
V,I,PISTOL,"and eat, I swear--"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"Eat, I pray you: will you have some more sauce to"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"your leek? there is not enough leek to swear by."
V,I,PISTOL,"Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see I eat."
V,I,FLUELLEN,"Much good do you, scauld knave, heartily. Nay, pray"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"you, throw none away; the skin is good for your"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"broken coxcomb. When you take occasions to see leeks"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"hereafter, I pray you, mock at 'em; that is all."
V,I,PISTOL,"Good."
V,I,FLUELLEN,"Ay, leeks is good: hold you, there is a groat to"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"heal your pate."
V,I,PISTOL,"Me a groat!"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"Yes, verily and in truth, you shall take it; or I"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat."
V,I,PISTOL,"I take thy groat in earnest of revenge."
V,I,FLUELLEN,"If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels:"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but"
V,I,FLUELLEN,"cudgels. God b' wi' you, and keep you, and heal your pate."
V,I,PISTOL,"All hell shall stir for this."
V,I,GOWER,"Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will"
V,I,GOWER,"you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an"
V,I,GOWER,"honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of"
V,I,GOWER,"predeceased valour and dare not avouch in your deeds"
V,I,GOWER,"any of your words? I have seen you gleeking and"
V,I,GOWER,"galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You"
V,I,GOWER,"thought, because he could not speak English in the"
V,I,GOWER,"native garb, he could not therefore handle an"
V,I,GOWER,"English cudgel: you find it otherwise; and"
V,I,GOWER,"henceforth let a Welsh correction teach you a good"
V,I,GOWER,"English condition. Fare ye well."
V,I,PISTOL,"Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now?"
V,I,PISTOL,"News have I, that my Nell is dead i' the spital"
V,I,PISTOL,"Of malady of France;"
V,I,PISTOL,"And there my rendezvous is quite cut off."
V,I,PISTOL,"Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs"
V,I,PISTOL,"Honour is cudgelled. Well, bawd I'll turn,"
V,I,PISTOL,"And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand."
V,I,PISTOL,"To England will I steal, and there I'll steal:"
V,I,PISTOL,"And patches will I get unto these cudgell'd scars,"
V,I,PISTOL,"And swear I got them in the Gallia wars."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met!"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Unto our brother France, and to our sister,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Health and fair time of day; joy and good wishes"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And, as a branch and member of this royalty,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"By whom this great assembly is contrived,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!"
V,II,KING OF FRANCE,"Right joyous are we to behold your face,"
V,II,KING OF FRANCE,"Most worthy brother England; fairly met:"
V,II,KING OF FRANCE,"So are you, princes English, every one."
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"So happy be the issue, brother England,"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"Of this good day and of this gracious meeting,"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"As we are now glad to behold your eyes;"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"Against the French, that met them in their bent,"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"Have lost their quality, and that this day"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"To cry amen to that, thus we appear."
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"You English princes all, I do salute you."
V,II,BURGUNDY,"My duty to you both, on equal love,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Great Kings of France and England! That I have labour'd,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"With all my wits, my pains and strong endeavours,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"To bring your most imperial majesties"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Unto this bar and royal interview,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Your mightiness on both parts best can witness."
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Since then my office hath so far prevail'd"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"That, face to face and royal eye to eye,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"You have congreeted, let it not disgrace me,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"If I demand, before this royal view,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"What rub or what impediment there is,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Why that the naked, poor and mangled Peace,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Dear nurse of arts and joyful births,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Should not in this best garden of the world"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Alas, she hath from France too long been chased,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Corrupting in its own fertility."
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleach'd,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Put forth disorder'd twigs; her fallow leas"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"The darnel, hemlock and rank fumitory"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"That should deracinate such savagery;"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Conceives by idleness and nothing teems"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Losing both beauty and utility."
V,II,BURGUNDY,"And as our vineyards, fallows, meads and hedges,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Defective in their natures, grow to wildness,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Even so our houses and ourselves and children"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"The sciences that should become our country;"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"But grow like savages,--as soldiers will"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"That nothing do but meditate on blood,--"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"To swearing and stern looks, diffused attire"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"And every thing that seems unnatural."
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Which to reduce into our former favour"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"You are assembled: and my speech entreats"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"That I may know the let, why gentle Peace"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Should not expel these inconveniences"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"And bless us with her former qualities."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Whose want gives growth to the imperfections"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Which you have cited, you must buy that peace"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"With full accord to all our just demands;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Whose tenors and particular effects"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"You have enscheduled briefly in your hands."
V,II,BURGUNDY,"The king hath heard them; to the which as yet"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"There is no answer made."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Well then the peace,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Which you before so urged, lies in his answer."
V,II,KING OF FRANCE,"I have but with a cursorary eye"
V,II,KING OF FRANCE,"O'erglanced the articles: pleaseth your grace"
V,II,KING OF FRANCE,"To appoint some of your council presently"
V,II,KING OF FRANCE,"To sit with us once more, with better heed"
V,II,KING OF FRANCE,"To re-survey them, we will suddenly"
V,II,KING OF FRANCE,"Pass our accept and peremptory answer."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Brother, we shall. Go, uncle Exeter,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the king;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And take with you free power to ratify,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Shall see advantageable for our dignity,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Any thing in or out of our demands,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And we'll consign thereto. Will you, fair sister,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Go with the princes, or stay here with us?"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"Our gracious brother, I will go with them:"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"Haply a woman's voice may do some good,"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"When articles too nicely urged be stood on."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"She is our capital demand, comprised"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Within the fore-rank of our articles."
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"She hath good leave."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Fair Katharine, and most fair,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Such as will enter at a lady's ear"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Your majesty shall mock at me; I cannot speak your England."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"your French heart, I will be glad to hear you"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"you like me, Kate?"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is 'like me.'"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Que dit-il? que je suis semblable a les anges?"
V,II,ALICE,"Oui, vraiment, sauf votre grace, ainsi dit-il."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"affirm it."
V,II,KATHARINE,"O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de"
V,II,KATHARINE,"tromperies."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"What says she, fair one? that the tongues of men"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"are full of deceits?"
V,II,ALICE,"Oui, dat de tongues of de mans is be full of"
V,II,ALICE,"deceits: dat is de princess."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"The princess is the better Englishwoman. I' faith,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding: I am"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"glad thou canst speak no better English; for, if"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"directly to say 'I love you:' then if you urge me"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"farther than to say 'do you in faith?' I wear out"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"my suit. Give me your answer; i' faith, do: and so"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"clap hands and a bargain: how say you, lady?"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Sauf votre honneur, me understand vell."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one, I"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"have neither words nor measure, and for the other, I"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"have no strength in measure, yet a reasonable"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"measure in strength. If I could win a lady at"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"leap-frog, or by vaulting into my saddle with my"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"armour on my back, under the correction of bragging"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"be it spoken. I should quickly leap into a wife."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. But, before God,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"only downright oaths, which I never use till urged,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"sun-burning, that never looks in his glass for love"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be thy"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: If thou canst"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"love me for this, take me: if not, to say to thee"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"that I shall die, is true; but for thy love, by the"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Lord, no; yet I love thee too. And while thou"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"places: for these fellows of infinite tongue, that"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"always reason themselves out again. What! a"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"shines bright and never changes, but keeps his"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"course truly. If thou would have such a one, take"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"me; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"take a king. And what sayest thou then to my love?"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Is it possible dat I sould love de enemy of France?"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"France, Kate: but, in loving me, you should love"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"the friend of France; for I love France so well that"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"I will not part with a village of it; I will have it"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine and I am"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"yours, then yours is France and you are mine."
V,II,KATHARINE,"I cannot tell vat is dat."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"No, Kate? I will tell thee in French; which I am"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"sure will hang upon my tongue like a new-married"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"off. Je quand sur le possession de France, et quand"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"vous avez le possession de moi,--let me see, what"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"then? Saint Denis be my speed!--donc votre est"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"France et vous etes mienne. It is as easy for me,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Kate, to conquer the kingdom as to speak so much"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"more French: I shall never move thee in French,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"unless it be to laugh at me."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Sauf votre honneur, le Francois que vous parlez, il"
V,II,KATHARINE,"est meilleur que l'Anglois lequel je parle."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"No, faith, is't not, Kate: but thy speaking of my"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"tongue, and I thine, most truly-falsely, must needs"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"be granted to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"understand thus much English, canst thou love me?"
V,II,KATHARINE,"I cannot tell."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"them. Come, I know thou lovest me: and at night,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"when you come into your closet, you'll question this"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"her dispraise those parts in me that you love with"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"your heart: but, good Kate, mock me mercifully; the"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"rather, gentle princess, because I love thee"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"cruelly. If ever thou beest mine, Kate, as I have a"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"saving faith within me tells me thou shalt, I get"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"thee with scambling, and thou must therefore needs"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"prove a good soldier-breeder: shall not thou and I,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"boy, half French, half English, that shall go to"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"flower-de-luce?"
V,II,KATHARINE,"I do not know dat"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"No; 'tis hereafter to know, but now to promise: do"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"but now promise, Kate, you will endeavour for your"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"French part of such a boy; and for my English moiety"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"take the word of a king and a bachelor. How answer"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"you, la plus belle Katharine du monde, mon tres cher"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"et devin deesse?"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Your majestee ave fausse French enough to deceive de"
V,II,KATHARINE,"most sage demoiselle dat is en France."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"true English, I love thee, Kate: by which honour I"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"dare not swear thou lovest me; yet my blood begins to"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the poor"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"and untempering effect of my visage. Now, beshrew"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"my father's ambition! he was thinking of civil wars"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"when he got me: therefore was I created with a"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear:"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"my comfort is, that old age, that ill layer up of"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"beauty, can do no more, spoil upon my face: thou"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better:"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"and therefore tell me, most fair Katharine, will you"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"have me? Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"take me by the hand, and say 'Harry of England I am"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"thine:' which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud 'England is"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine, and Harry"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Plantagenet is thine;' who though I speak it before"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"his face, if he be not fellow with the best king,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"thou shalt find the best king of good fellows."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Come, your answer in broken music; for thy voice is"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"music and thy English broken; therefore, queen of"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"English; wilt thou have me?"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Dat is as it sall please de roi mon pere."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Nay, it will please him well, Kate it shall please"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"him, Kate."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Den it sall also content me."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Upon that I kiss your hand, and I call you my queen."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez: ma foi, je"
V,II,KATHARINE,"ne veux point que vous abaissiez votre grandeur en"
V,II,KATHARINE,"baisant la main d'une de votre seigeurie indigne"
V,II,KATHARINE,"serviteur; excusez-moi, je vous supplie, mon"
V,II,KATHARINE,"tres-puissant seigneur."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Then I will kiss your lips, Kate."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Les dames et demoiselles pour etre baisees devant"
V,II,KATHARINE,"leur noces, il n'est pas la coutume de France."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Madam my interpreter, what says she?"
V,II,ALICE,"Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of"
V,II,ALICE,"France,--I cannot tell vat is baiser en Anglish."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"To kiss."
V,II,ALICE,"Your majesty entendre bettre que moi."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"before they are married, would she say?"
V,II,ALICE,"Oui, vraiment."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"places stops the mouth of all find-faults; as I will"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"do yours, for upholding the nice fashion of your"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"country in denying me a kiss: therefore, patiently"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"and yielding."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"tongues of the French council; and they should"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"sooner persuade Harry of England than a general"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"petition of monarchs. Here comes your father."
V,II,BURGUNDY,"God save your majesty! my royal cousin, teach you"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"our princess English?"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"perfectly I love her; and that is good English."
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Is she not apt?"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"smooth; so that, having neither the voice nor the"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"heart of flattery about me, I cannot so conjure up"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"the spirit of love in her, that he will appear in"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"his true likeness."
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer you"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"for that. If you would conjure in her, you must"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"make a circle; if conjure up love in her in his true"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"likeness, he must appear naked and blind. Can you"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"virgin crimson of modesty, if she deny the"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"self? It were, my lord, a hard condition for a maid"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"to consign to."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind and enforces."
V,II,BURGUNDY,"They are then excused, my lord, when they see not"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"what they do."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Then, good my lord, teach your cousin to consent winking."
V,II,BURGUNDY,"I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you will"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"teach her to know my meaning: for maids, well"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"summered and warm kept, are like flies at"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have their"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"eyes; and then they will endure handling, which"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"before would not abide looking on."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"This moral ties me over to time and a hot summer;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in the"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"latter end and she must be blind too."
V,II,BURGUNDY,"As love is, my lord, before it loves."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"It is so: and you may, some of you, thank love for"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"my blindness, who cannot see many a fair French city"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"for one fair French maid that stands in my way."
V,II,FRENCH KING,"Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively, the cities"
V,II,FRENCH KING,"turned into a maid; for they are all girdled with"
V,II,FRENCH KING,"maiden walls that war hath never entered."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Shall Kate be my wife?"
V,II,FRENCH KING,"So please you."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"I am content; so the maiden cities you talk of may"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"wait on her: so the maid that stood in the way for"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"my wish shall show me the way to my will."
V,II,FRENCH KING,"We have consented to all terms of reason."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Is't so, my lords of England?"
V,II,WESTMORELAND,"The king hath granted every article:"
V,II,WESTMORELAND,"His daughter first, and then in sequel all,"
V,II,WESTMORELAND,"According to their firm proposed natures."
V,II,EXETER,"Only he hath not yet subscribed this:"
V,II,EXETER,"Where your majesty demands, that the King of France,"
V,II,EXETER,"having any occasion to write for matter of grant,"
V,II,EXETER,"shall name your highness in this form and with this"
V,II,EXETER,"addition in French, Notre trescher fils Henri, Roi"
V,II,EXETER,"d'Angleterre, Heritier de France; and thus in"
V,II,EXETER,"Latin, Praeclarissimus filius noster Henricus, Rex"
V,II,EXETER,"Angliae, et Haeres Franciae."
V,II,FRENCH KING,"Nor this I have not, brother, so denied,"
V,II,FRENCH KING,"But your request shall make me let it pass."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"I pray you then, in love and dear alliance,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Let that one article rank with the rest;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And thereupon give me your daughter."
V,II,FRENCH KING,"Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up"
V,II,FRENCH KING,"Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms"
V,II,FRENCH KING,"Of France and England, whose very shores look pale"
V,II,FRENCH KING,"With envy of each other's happiness,"
V,II,FRENCH KING,"May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction"
V,II,FRENCH KING,"Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord"
V,II,FRENCH KING,"In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance"
V,II,FRENCH KING,"His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France."
V,II,ALL,"Amen!"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Now, welcome, Kate: and bear me witness all,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"That here I kiss her as my sovereign queen."
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"God, the best maker of all marriages,"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one!"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"As man and wife, being two, are one in love,"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal,"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"That never may ill office, or fell jealousy,"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage,"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms,"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"To make divorce of their incorporate league;"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"That English may as French, French Englishmen,"
V,II,QUEEN ISABEL,"Receive each other. God speak this Amen!"
V,II,ALL,"Amen!"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Prepare we for our marriage--on which day,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"My Lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath,"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And all the peers', for surety of our leagues."
V,II,KING HENRY V,"Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me;"
V,II,KING HENRY V,"And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be!"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Comets, importing change of times and states,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"And with them scourge the bad revolting stars"
I,I,BEDFORD,"That have consented unto Henry's death!"
I,I,BEDFORD,"King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long!"
I,I,BEDFORD,"England ne'er lost a king of so much worth."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"England ne'er had a king until his time."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Virtue he had, deserving to command:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"His brandish'd sword did blind men with his beams:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"His sparking eyes, replete with wrathful fire,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"More dazzled and drove back his enemies"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Than mid-day sun fierce bent against their faces."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"What should I say? his deeds exceed all speech:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered."
I,I,EXETER,"We mourn in black: why mourn we not in blood?"
I,I,EXETER,"Henry is dead and never shall revive:"
I,I,EXETER,"Upon a wooden coffin we attend,"
I,I,EXETER,"And death's dishonourable victory"
I,I,EXETER,"We with our stately presence glorify,"
I,I,EXETER,"Like captives bound to a triumphant car."
I,I,EXETER,"What! shall we curse the planets of mishap"
I,I,EXETER,"That plotted thus our glory's overthrow?"
I,I,EXETER,"Or shall we think the subtle-witted French"
I,I,EXETER,"Conjurers and sorcerers, that afraid of him"
I,I,EXETER,"By magic verses have contrived his end?"
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"He was a king bless'd of the King of kings."
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Unto the French the dreadful judgement-day"
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"So dreadful will not be as was his sight."
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"The battles of the Lord of hosts he fought:"
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"The church's prayers made him so prosperous."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"The church! where is it? Had not churchmen pray'd,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"His thread of life had not so soon decay'd:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"None do you like but an effeminate prince,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Whom, like a school-boy, you may over-awe."
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Gloucester, whate'er we like, thou art protector"
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"And lookest to command the prince and realm."
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Thy wife is proud; she holdeth thee in awe,"
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"More than God or religious churchmen may."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Name not religion, for thou lovest the flesh,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Except it be to pray against thy foes."
I,I,BEDFORD,"Cease, cease these jars and rest your minds in peace:"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Let's to the altar: heralds, wait on us:"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Instead of gold, we'll offer up our arms:"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Since arms avail not now that Henry's dead."
I,I,BEDFORD,"Posterity, await for wretched years,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"When at their mothers' moist eyes babes shall suck,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"And none but women left to wail the dead."
I,I,BEDFORD,"Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate:"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Prosper this realm, keep it from civil broils,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Combat with adverse planets in the heavens!"
I,I,BEDFORD,"A far more glorious star thy soul will make"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Than Julius Caesar or bright--"
I,I,Messenger,"My honourable lords, health to you all!"
I,I,Messenger,"Sad tidings bring I to you out of France,"
I,I,Messenger,"Of loss, of slaughter and discomfiture:"
I,I,Messenger,"Guienne, Champagne, Rheims, Orleans,"
I,I,Messenger,"Paris, Guysors, Poictiers, are all quite lost."
I,I,BEDFORD,"What say'st thou, man, before dead Henry's corse?"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Speak softly, or the loss of those great towns"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Will make him burst his lead and rise from death."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Is Paris lost? is Rouen yielded up?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"If Henry were recall'd to life again,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"These news would cause him once more yield the ghost."
I,I,EXETER,"How were they lost? what treachery was used?"
I,I,Messenger,"No treachery; but want of men and money."
I,I,Messenger,"Amongst the soldiers this is muttered,"
I,I,Messenger,"That here you maintain several factions,"
I,I,Messenger,"And whilst a field should be dispatch'd and fought,"
I,I,Messenger,"You are disputing of your generals:"
I,I,Messenger,"One would have lingering wars with little cost;"
I,I,Messenger,"Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings;"
I,I,Messenger,"A third thinks, without expense at all,"
I,I,Messenger,"By guileful fair words peace may be obtain'd."
I,I,Messenger,"Awake, awake, English nobility!"
I,I,Messenger,"Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot:"
I,I,Messenger,"Cropp'd are the flower-de-luces in your arms;"
I,I,Messenger,"Of England's coat one half is cut away."
I,I,EXETER,"Were our tears wanting to this funeral,"
I,I,EXETER,"These tidings would call forth their flowing tides."
I,I,BEDFORD,"Me they concern; Regent I am of France."
I,I,BEDFORD,"Give me my steeled coat. I'll fight for France."
I,I,BEDFORD,"Away with these disgraceful wailing robes!"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Wounds will I lend the French instead of eyes,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"To weep their intermissive miseries."
I,I,Messenger,"Lords, view these letters full of bad mischance."
I,I,Messenger,"France is revolted from the English quite,"
I,I,Messenger,"Except some petty towns of no import:"
I,I,Messenger,"The Dauphin Charles is crowned king of Rheims;"
I,I,Messenger,"The Bastard of Orleans with him is join'd;"
I,I,Messenger,"Reignier, Duke of Anjou, doth take his part;"
I,I,Messenger,"The Duke of Alencon flieth to his side."
I,I,EXETER,"The Dauphin crowned king! all fly to him!"
I,I,EXETER,"O, whither shall we fly from this reproach?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"We will not fly, but to our enemies' throats."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out."
I,I,BEDFORD,"Gloucester, why doubt'st thou of my forwardness?"
I,I,BEDFORD,"An army have I muster'd in my thoughts,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Wherewith already France is overrun."
I,I,Messenger,"My gracious lords, to add to your laments,"
I,I,Messenger,"Wherewith you now bedew King Henry's hearse,"
I,I,Messenger,"I must inform you of a dismal fight"
I,I,Messenger,"Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot and the French."
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"What! wherein Talbot overcame? is't so?"
I,I,Messenger,"O, no; wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown:"
I,I,Messenger,"The circumstance I'll tell you more at large."
I,I,Messenger,"The tenth of August last this dreadful lord,"
I,I,Messenger,"Retiring from the siege of Orleans,"
I,I,Messenger,"Having full scarce six thousand in his troop."
I,I,Messenger,"By three and twenty thousand of the French"
I,I,Messenger,"Was round encompassed and set upon."
I,I,Messenger,"No leisure had he to enrank his men;"
I,I,Messenger,"He wanted pikes to set before his archers;"
I,I,Messenger,"Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck'd out of hedges"
I,I,Messenger,"They pitched in the ground confusedly,"
I,I,Messenger,"To keep the horsemen off from breaking in."
I,I,Messenger,"More than three hours the fight continued;"
I,I,Messenger,"Where valiant Talbot above human thought"
I,I,Messenger,"Enacted wonders with his sword and lance:"
I,I,Messenger,"Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him;"
I,I,Messenger,"Here, there, and every where, enraged he flew:"
I,I,Messenger,"The French exclaim'd, the devil was in arms;"
I,I,Messenger,"All the whole army stood agazed on him:"
I,I,Messenger,"His soldiers spying his undaunted spirit"
I,I,Messenger,"A Talbot! a Talbot! cried out amain"
I,I,Messenger,"And rush'd into the bowels of the battle."
I,I,Messenger,"Here had the conquest fully been seal'd up,"
I,I,Messenger,"If Sir John Fastolfe had not play'd the coward:"
I,I,Messenger,"He, being in the vaward, placed behind"
I,I,Messenger,"With purpose to relieve and follow them,"
I,I,Messenger,"Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke."
I,I,Messenger,"Hence grew the general wreck and massacre;"
I,I,Messenger,"Enclosed were they with their enemies:"
I,I,Messenger,"A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace,"
I,I,Messenger,"Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back,"
I,I,Messenger,"Whom all France with their chief assembled strength"
I,I,Messenger,"Durst not presume to look once in the face."
I,I,BEDFORD,"Is Talbot slain? then I will slay myself,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"For living idly here in pomp and ease,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Whilst such a worthy leader, wanting aid,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Unto his dastard foemen is betray'd."
I,I,Messenger,"O no, he lives; but is took prisoner,"
I,I,Messenger,"And Lord Scales with him and Lord Hungerford:"
I,I,Messenger,"Most of the rest slaughter'd or took likewise."
I,I,BEDFORD,"His ransom there is none but I shall pay:"
I,I,BEDFORD,"I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne:"
I,I,BEDFORD,"His crown shall be the ransom of my friend;"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours."
I,I,BEDFORD,"Farewell, my masters; to my task will I;"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"To keep our great Saint George's feast withal:"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake."
I,I,Messenger,"So you had need; for Orleans is besieged;"
I,I,Messenger,"The English army is grown weak and faint:"
I,I,Messenger,"The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply,"
I,I,Messenger,"And hardly keeps his men from mutiny,"
I,I,Messenger,"Since they, so few, watch such a multitude."
I,I,EXETER,"Remember, lords, your oaths to Henry sworn,"
I,I,EXETER,"Either to quell the Dauphin utterly,"
I,I,EXETER,"Or bring him in obedience to your yoke."
I,I,BEDFORD,"I do remember it; and here take my leave,"
I,I,BEDFORD,"To go about my preparation."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"I'll to the Tower with all the haste I can,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"To view the artillery and munition;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And then I will proclaim young Henry king."
I,I,EXETER,"To Eltham will I, where the young king is,"
I,I,EXETER,"Being ordain'd his special governor,"
I,I,EXETER,"And for his safety there I'll best devise."
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Each hath his place and function to attend:"
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"I am left out; for me nothing remains."
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"But long I will not be Jack out of office:"
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"The king from Eltham I intend to steal"
I,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"And sit at chiefest stern of public weal."
I,II,CHARLES,"Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens"
I,II,CHARLES,"So in the earth, to this day is not known:"
I,II,CHARLES,"Late did he shine upon the English side;"
I,II,CHARLES,"Now we are victors; upon us he smiles."
I,II,CHARLES,"What towns of any moment but we have?"
I,II,CHARLES,"At pleasure here we lie near Orleans;"
I,II,CHARLES,"Otherwhiles the famish'd English, like pale ghosts,"
I,II,CHARLES,"Faintly besiege us one hour in a month."
I,II,ALENCON,"They want their porridge and their fat bull-beeves:"
I,II,ALENCON,"Either they must be dieted like mules"
I,II,ALENCON,"And have their provender tied to their mouths"
I,II,ALENCON,"Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice."
I,II,REIGNIER,"Let's raise the siege: why live we idly here?"
I,II,REIGNIER,"Talbot is taken, whom we wont to fear:"
I,II,REIGNIER,"Remaineth none but mad-brain'd Salisbury;"
I,II,REIGNIER,"And he may well in fretting spend his gall,"
I,II,REIGNIER,"Nor men nor money hath he to make war."
I,II,CHARLES,"Sound, sound alarum! we will rush on them."
I,II,CHARLES,"Now for the honour of the forlorn French!"
I,II,CHARLES,"Him I forgive my death that killeth me"
I,II,CHARLES,"When he sees me go back one foot or fly."
I,II,CHARLES,"Who ever saw the like? what men have I!"
I,II,CHARLES,"Dogs! cowards! dastards! I would ne'er have fled,"
I,II,CHARLES,"But that they left me 'midst my enemies."
I,II,REIGNIER,"Salisbury is a desperate homicide;"
I,II,REIGNIER,"He fighteth as one weary of his life."
I,II,REIGNIER,"The other lords, like lions wanting food,"
I,II,REIGNIER,"Do rush upon us as their hungry prey."
I,II,ALENCON,"Froissart, a countryman of ours, records,"
I,II,ALENCON,"England all Olivers and Rowlands bred,"
I,II,ALENCON,"During the time Edward the Third did reign."
I,II,ALENCON,"More truly now may this be verified;"
I,II,ALENCON,"For none but Samsons and Goliases"
I,II,ALENCON,"It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten!"
I,II,ALENCON,"Lean, raw-boned rascals! who would e'er suppose"
I,II,ALENCON,"They had such courage and audacity?"
I,II,CHARLES,"Let's leave this town; for they are hare-brain'd slaves,"
I,II,CHARLES,"And hunger will enforce them to be more eager:"
I,II,CHARLES,"Of old I know them; rather with their teeth"
I,II,CHARLES,"The walls they'll tear down than forsake the siege."
I,II,REIGNIER,"I think, by some odd gimmors or device"
I,II,REIGNIER,"Their arms are set like clocks, stiff to strike on;"
I,II,REIGNIER,"Else ne'er could they hold out so as they do."
I,II,REIGNIER,"By my consent, we'll even let them alone."
I,II,ALENCON,"Be it so."
I,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Where's the Prince Dauphin? I have news for him."
I,II,CHARLES,"Bastard of Orleans, thrice welcome to us."
I,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Methinks your looks are sad, your cheer appall'd:"
I,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Hath the late overthrow wrought this offence?"
I,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Be not dismay'd, for succor is at hand:"
I,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"A holy maid hither with me I bring,"
I,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Which by a vision sent to her from heaven"
I,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Ordained is to raise this tedious siege"
I,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"And drive the English forth the bounds of France."
I,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"The spirit of deep prophecy she hath,"
I,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome:"
I,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"What's past and what's to come she can descry."
I,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Speak, shall I call her in? Believe my words,"
I,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"For they are certain and unfallible."
I,II,CHARLES,"Go, call her in."
I,II,CHARLES,"But first, to try her skill,"
I,II,CHARLES,"Reignier, stand thou as Dauphin in my place:"
I,II,CHARLES,"Question her proudly; let thy looks be stern:"
I,II,CHARLES,"By this means shall we sound what skill she hath."
I,II,REIGNIER,"Fair maid, is't thou wilt do these wondrous feats?"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Reignier, is't thou that thinkest to beguile me?"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Where is the Dauphin? Come, come from behind;"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"I know thee well, though never seen before."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Be not amazed, there's nothing hid from me:"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"In private will I talk with thee apart."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Stand back, you lords, and give us leave awhile."
I,II,REIGNIER,"She takes upon her bravely at first dash."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd's daughter,"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"My wit untrain'd in any kind of art."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Heaven and our Lady gracious hath it pleased"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"To shine on my contemptible estate:"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Lo, whilst I waited on my tender lambs,"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And to sun's parching heat display'd my cheeks,"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"God's mother deigned to appear to me"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And in a vision full of majesty"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Will'd me to leave my base vocation"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And free my country from calamity:"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Her aid she promised and assured success:"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"In complete glory she reveal'd herself;"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And, whereas I was black and swart before,"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"With those clear rays which she infused on me"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"That beauty am I bless'd with which you see."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Ask me what question thou canst possible,"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And I will answer unpremeditated:"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"My courage try by combat, if thou darest,"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Resolve on this, thou shalt be fortunate,"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"If thou receive me for thy warlike mate."
I,II,CHARLES,"Thou hast astonish'd me with thy high terms:"
I,II,CHARLES,"Only this proof I'll of thy valour make,"
I,II,CHARLES,"In single combat thou shalt buckle with me,"
I,II,CHARLES,"And if thou vanquishest, thy words are true;"
I,II,CHARLES,"Otherwise I renounce all confidence."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"I am prepared: here is my keen-edged sword,"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Deck'd with five flower-de-luces on each side;"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"The which at Touraine, in Saint Katharine's"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"churchyard,"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Out of a great deal of old iron I chose forth."
I,II,CHARLES,"Then come, o' God's name; I fear no woman."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And while I live, I'll ne'er fly from a man."
I,II,CHARLES,"Stay, stay thy hands! thou art an Amazon"
I,II,CHARLES,"And fightest with the sword of Deborah."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Christ's mother helps me, else I were too weak."
I,II,CHARLES,"Whoe'er helps thee, 'tis thou that must help me:"
I,II,CHARLES,"Impatiently I burn with thy desire;"
I,II,CHARLES,"My heart and hands thou hast at once subdued."
I,II,CHARLES,"Excellent Pucelle, if thy name be so,"
I,II,CHARLES,"Let me thy servant and not sovereign be:"
I,II,CHARLES,"'Tis the French Dauphin sueth to thee thus."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"I must not yield to any rites of love,"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"For my profession's sacred from above:"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"When I have chased all thy foes from hence,"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Then will I think upon a recompense."
I,II,CHARLES,"Meantime look gracious on thy prostrate thrall."
I,II,REIGNIER,"My lord, methinks, is very long in talk."
I,II,ALENCON,"Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock;"
I,II,ALENCON,"Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech."
I,II,REIGNIER,"Shall we disturb him, since he keeps no mean?"
I,II,ALENCON,"He may mean more than we poor men do know:"
I,II,ALENCON,"These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues."
I,II,REIGNIER,"My lord, where are you? what devise you on?"
I,II,REIGNIER,"Shall we give over Orleans, or no?"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Why, no, I say, distrustful recreants!"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Fight till the last gasp; I will be your guard."
I,II,CHARLES,"What she says I'll confirm: we'll fight it out."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Assign'd am I to be the English scourge."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"This night the siege assuredly I'll raise:"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days,"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Since I have entered into these wars."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Glory is like a circle in the water,"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"With Henry's death the English circle ends;"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Dispersed are the glories it included."
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Now am I like that proud insulting ship"
I,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Which Caesar and his fortune bare at once."
I,II,CHARLES,"Was Mahomet inspired with a dove?"
I,II,CHARLES,"Thou with an eagle art inspired then."
I,II,CHARLES,"Helen, the mother of great Constantine,"
I,II,CHARLES,"Nor yet Saint Philip's daughters, were like thee."
I,II,CHARLES,"Bright star of Venus, fall'n down on the earth,"
I,II,CHARLES,"How may I reverently worship thee enough?"
I,II,ALENCON,"Leave off delays, and let us raise the siege."
I,II,REIGNIER,"Woman, do what thou canst to save our honours;"
I,II,REIGNIER,"Drive them from Orleans and be immortalized."
I,II,CHARLES,"Presently we'll try: come, let's away about it:"
I,II,CHARLES,"No prophet will I trust, if she prove false."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I am come to survey the Tower this day:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Since Henry's death, I fear, there is conveyance."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Where be these warders, that they wait not here?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Open the gates; 'tis Gloucester that calls."
I,III,First Serving-Man,"It is the noble Duke of Gloucester."
I,III,First Serving-Man,"Villains, answer you so the lord protector?"
I,III,First Warder,"We do no otherwise than we are will'd."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Who willed you? or whose will stands but mine?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"There's none protector of the realm but I."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Break up the gates, I'll be your warrantize."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms?"
I,III,WOODVILE,"What noise is this? what traitors have we here?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Lieutenant, is it you whose voice I hear?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Open the gates; here's Gloucester that would enter."
I,III,WOODVILE,"Have patience, noble duke; I may not open;"
I,III,WOODVILE,"The Cardinal of Winchester forbids:"
I,III,WOODVILE,"From him I have express commandment"
I,III,WOODVILE,"That thou nor none of thine shall be let in."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Faint-hearted Woodvile, prizest him 'fore me?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne'er could brook?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Thou art no friend to God or to the king:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Open the gates, or I'll shut thee out shortly."
I,III,Serving-Men,"Open the gates unto the lord protector,"
I,III,Serving-Men,"Or we'll burst them open, if that you come not quickly."
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"How now, ambitious Humphry! what means this?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Peel'd priest, dost thou command me to be shut out?"
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"I do, thou most usurping proditor,"
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"And not protector, of the king or realm."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Stand back, thou manifest conspirator,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Thou that contrivedst to murder our dead lord;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Thou that givest whores indulgences to sin:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I'll canvass thee in thy broad cardinal's hat,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"If thou proceed in this thy insolence."
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Nay, stand thou back, I will not budge a foot:"
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain,"
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I will not slay thee, but I'll drive thee back:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Thy scarlet robes as a child's bearing-cloth"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I'll use to carry thee out of this place."
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Do what thou darest; I beard thee to thy face."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"What! am I dared and bearded to my face?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Draw, men, for all this privileged place;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Blue coats to tawny coats. Priest, beware your beard,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Under my feet I stamp thy cardinal's hat:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"In spite of pope or dignities of church,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down."
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Gloucester, thou wilt answer this before the pope."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Winchester goose, I cry, a rope! a rope!"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Now beat them hence; why do you let them stay?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Thee I'll chase hence, thou wolf in sheep's array."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Out, tawny coats! out, scarlet hypocrite!"
I,III,Mayor,"Fie, lords! that you, being supreme magistrates,"
I,III,Mayor,"Thus contumeliously should break the peace!"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Peace, mayor! thou know'st little of my wrongs:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Hath here distrain'd the Tower to his use."
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Here's Gloucester, a foe to citizens,"
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"One that still motions war and never peace,"
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"O'ercharging your free purses with large fines,"
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"That seeks to overthrow religion,"
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Because he is protector of the realm,"
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"And would have armour here out of the Tower,"
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"To crown himself king and suppress the prince."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I will not answer thee with words, but blows."
I,III,Mayor,"Naught rests for me in this tumultuous strife"
I,III,Mayor,"But to make open proclamation:"
I,III,Mayor,"Come, officer; as loud as e'er thou canst,"
I,III,Mayor,"Cry."
I,III,Officer,"All manner of men assembled here in arms this day"
I,III,Officer,"against God's peace and the king's, we charge and"
I,III,Officer,"command you, in his highness' name, to repair to"
I,III,Officer,"your several dwelling-places; and not to wear,"
I,III,Officer,"handle, or use any sword, weapon, or dagger,"
I,III,Officer,"henceforward, upon pain of death."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Cardinal, I'll be no breaker of the law:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"But we shall meet, and break our minds at large."
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Gloucester, we will meet; to thy cost, be sure:"
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Thy heart-blood I will have for this day's work."
I,III,Mayor,"I'll call for clubs, if you will not away."
I,III,Mayor,"This cardinal's more haughty than the devil."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Mayor, farewell: thou dost but what thou mayst."
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head;"
I,III,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"For I intend to have it ere long."
I,III,Mayor,"See the coast clear'd, and then we will depart."
I,III,Mayor,"Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear!"
I,III,Mayor,"I myself fight not once in forty year."
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"Sirrah, thou know'st how Orleans is besieged,"
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"And how the English have the suburbs won."
I,IV,Boy,"Father, I know; and oft have shot at them,"
I,IV,Boy,"Howe'er unfortunate I miss'd my aim."
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"But now thou shalt not. Be thou ruled by me:"
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"Chief master-gunner am I of this town;"
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"Something I must do to procure me grace."
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"The prince's espials have informed me"
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"How the English, in the suburbs close intrench'd,"
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars"
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,"
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"And thence discover how with most advantage"
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"They may vex us with shot, or with assault."
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"To intercept this inconvenience,"
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have placed;"
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"And even these three days have I watch'd,"
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"If I could see them."
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"Now do thou watch, for I can stay no longer."
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"If thou spy'st any, run and bring me word;"
I,IV,Master-Gunner,"And thou shalt find me at the governor's."
I,IV,Boy,"Father, I warrant you; take you no care;"
I,IV,Boy,"I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them."
I,IV,SALISBURY,"Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd!"
I,IV,SALISBURY,"How wert thou handled being prisoner?"
I,IV,SALISBURY,"Or by what means got'st thou to be released?"
I,IV,SALISBURY,"Discourse, I prithee, on this turret's top."
I,IV,TALBOT,"The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Call'd the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles;"
I,IV,TALBOT,"For him was I exchanged and ransomed."
I,IV,TALBOT,"But with a baser man of arms by far"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Once in contempt they would have barter'd me:"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Which I, disdaining, scorn'd; and craved death,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Rather than I would be so vile esteem'd."
I,IV,TALBOT,"In fine, redeem'd I was as I desired."
I,IV,TALBOT,"But, O! the treacherous Fastolfe wounds my heart,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Whom with my bare fists I would execute,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"If I now had him brought into my power."
I,IV,SALISBURY,"Yet tell'st thou not how thou wert entertain'd."
I,IV,TALBOT,"With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts."
I,IV,TALBOT,"In open market-place produced they me,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"To be a public spectacle to all:"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Here, said they, is the terror of the French,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"The scarecrow that affrights our children so."
I,IV,TALBOT,"Then broke I from the officers that led me,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"And with my nails digg'd stones out of the ground,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"To hurl at the beholders of my shame:"
I,IV,TALBOT,"My grisly countenance made others fly;"
I,IV,TALBOT,"None durst come near for fear of sudden death."
I,IV,TALBOT,"In iron walls they deem'd me not secure;"
I,IV,TALBOT,"So great fear of my name 'mongst them was spread,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"That they supposed I could rend bars of steel,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"And spurn in pieces posts of adamant:"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"That walked about me every minute-while;"
I,IV,TALBOT,"And if I did but stir out of my bed,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Ready they were to shoot me to the heart."
I,IV,SALISBURY,"I grieve to hear what torments you endured,"
I,IV,SALISBURY,"But we will be revenged sufficiently"
I,IV,SALISBURY,"Now it is supper-time in Orleans:"
I,IV,SALISBURY,"Here, through this grate, I count each one"
I,IV,SALISBURY,"and view the Frenchmen how they fortify:"
I,IV,SALISBURY,"Let us look in; the sight will much delight thee."
I,IV,SALISBURY,"Sir Thomas Gargrave, and Sir William Glansdale,"
I,IV,SALISBURY,"Let me have your express opinions"
I,IV,SALISBURY,"Where is best place to make our battery next."
I,IV,GARGRAVE,"I think, at the north gate; for there stand lords."
I,IV,GLANSDALE,"And I, here, at the bulwark of the bridge."
I,IV,TALBOT,"For aught I see, this city must be famish'd,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Or with light skirmishes enfeebled."
I,IV,SALISBURY,"O Lord, have mercy on us, wretched sinners!"
I,IV,GARGRAVE,"O Lord, have mercy on me, woful man!"
I,IV,TALBOT,"What chance is this that suddenly hath cross'd us?"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Speak, Salisbury; at least, if thou canst speak:"
I,IV,TALBOT,"How farest thou, mirror of all martial men?"
I,IV,TALBOT,"One of thy eyes and thy cheek's side struck off!"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Accursed tower! accursed fatal hand"
I,IV,TALBOT,"That hath contrived this woful tragedy!"
I,IV,TALBOT,"In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame;"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Henry the Fifth he first train'd to the wars;"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"His sword did ne'er leave striking in the field."
I,IV,TALBOT,"Yet livest thou, Salisbury? though thy speech doth fail,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"One eye thou hast, to look to heaven for grace:"
I,IV,TALBOT,"The sun with one eye vieweth all the world."
I,IV,TALBOT,"Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands!"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Bear hence his body; I will help to bury it."
I,IV,TALBOT,"Sir Thomas Gargrave, hast thou any life?"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Speak unto Talbot; nay, look up to him."
I,IV,TALBOT,"Salisbury, cheer thy spirit with this comfort;"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Thou shalt not die whiles--"
I,IV,TALBOT,"He beckons with his hand and smiles on me."
I,IV,TALBOT,"As who should say 'When I am dead and gone,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Remember to avenge me on the French.'"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Plantagenet, I will; and like thee, Nero,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn:"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Wretched shall France be only in my name."
I,IV,TALBOT,"What stir is this? what tumult's in the heavens?"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Whence cometh this alarum and the noise?"
I,IV,Messenger,"My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head:"
I,IV,Messenger,"The Dauphin, with one Joan la Pucelle join'd,"
I,IV,Messenger,"A holy prophetess new risen up,"
I,IV,Messenger,"Is come with a great power to raise the siege."
I,IV,TALBOT,"Hear, hear how dying Salisbury doth groan!"
I,IV,TALBOT,"It irks his heart he cannot be revenged."
I,IV,TALBOT,"Frenchmen, I'll be a Salisbury to you:"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Pucelle or puzzel, dolphin or dogfish,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"And make a quagmire of your mingled brains."
I,IV,TALBOT,"Convey me Salisbury into his tent,"
I,IV,TALBOT,"And then we'll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare."
I,V,TALBOT,"Where is my strength, my valour, and my force?"
I,V,TALBOT,"Our English troops retire, I cannot stay them:"
I,V,TALBOT,"A woman clad in armour chaseth them."
I,V,TALBOT,"Here, here she comes. I'll have a bout with thee;"
I,V,TALBOT,"Devil or devil's dam, I'll conjure thee:"
I,V,TALBOT,"Blood will I draw on thee, thou art a witch,"
I,V,TALBOT,"And straightway give thy soul to him thou servest."
I,V,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Come, come, 'tis only I that must disgrace thee."
I,V,TALBOT,"Heavens, can you suffer hell so to prevail?"
I,V,TALBOT,"My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage"
I,V,TALBOT,"And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder."
I,V,TALBOT,"But I will chastise this high-minded strumpet."
I,V,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Talbot, farewell; thy hour is not yet come:"
I,V,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"I must go victual Orleans forthwith."
I,V,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"O'ertake me, if thou canst; I scorn thy strength."
I,V,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Go, go, cheer up thy hungry-starved men;"
I,V,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Help Salisbury to make his testament:"
I,V,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"This day is ours, as many more shall be."
I,V,TALBOT,"My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel;"
I,V,TALBOT,"I know not where I am, nor what I do;"
I,V,TALBOT,"A witch, by fear, not force, like Hannibal,"
I,V,TALBOT,"Drives back our troops and conquers as she lists:"
I,V,TALBOT,"So bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench"
I,V,TALBOT,"Are from their hives and houses driven away."
I,V,TALBOT,"They call'd us for our fierceness English dogs;"
I,V,TALBOT,"Now, like to whelps, we crying run away."
I,V,TALBOT,"Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight,"
I,V,TALBOT,"Or tear the lions out of England's coat;"
I,V,TALBOT,"Renounce your soil, give sheep in lions' stead:"
I,V,TALBOT,"Sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf,"
I,V,TALBOT,"Or horse or oxen from the leopard,"
I,V,TALBOT,"As you fly from your oft-subdued slaves."
I,V,TALBOT,"It will not be: retire into your trenches:"
I,V,TALBOT,"You all consented unto Salisbury's death,"
I,V,TALBOT,"For none would strike a stroke in his revenge."
I,V,TALBOT,"Pucelle is enter'd into Orleans,"
I,V,TALBOT,"In spite of us or aught that we could do."
I,V,TALBOT,"O, would I were to die with Salisbury!"
I,V,TALBOT,"The shame hereof will make me hide my head."
I,VI,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Advance our waving colours on the walls;"
I,VI,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Rescued is Orleans from the English"
I,VI,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Thus Joan la Pucelle hath perform'd her word."
I,VI,CHARLES,"Divinest creature, Astraea's daughter,"
I,VI,CHARLES,"How shall I honour thee for this success?"
I,VI,CHARLES,"Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens"
I,VI,CHARLES,"That one day bloom'd and fruitful were the next."
I,VI,CHARLES,"France, triumph in thy glorious prophetess!"
I,VI,CHARLES,"Recover'd is the town of Orleans:"
I,VI,CHARLES,"More blessed hap did ne'er befall our state."
I,VI,REIGNIER,"Why ring not out the bells aloud throughout the town?"
I,VI,REIGNIER,"Dauphin, command the citizens make bonfires"
I,VI,REIGNIER,"And feast and banquet in the open streets,"
I,VI,REIGNIER,"To celebrate the joy that God hath given us."
I,VI,ALENCON,"All France will be replete with mirth and joy,"
I,VI,ALENCON,"When they shall hear how we have play'd the men."
I,VI,CHARLES,"'Tis Joan, not we, by whom the day is won;"
I,VI,CHARLES,"For which I will divide my crown with her,"
I,VI,CHARLES,"And all the priests and friars in my realm"
I,VI,CHARLES,"Shall in procession sing her endless praise."
I,VI,CHARLES,"A statelier pyramis to her I'll rear"
I,VI,CHARLES,"Than Rhodope's or Memphis' ever was:"
I,VI,CHARLES,"In memory of her when she is dead,"
I,VI,CHARLES,"Her ashes, in an urn more precious"
I,VI,CHARLES,"Than the rich-jewel'd of Darius,"
I,VI,CHARLES,"Transported shall be at high festivals"
I,VI,CHARLES,"Before the kings and queens of France."
I,VI,CHARLES,"No longer on Saint Denis will we cry,"
I,VI,CHARLES,"But Joan la Pucelle shall be France's saint."
I,VI,CHARLES,"Come in, and let us banquet royally,"
I,VI,CHARLES,"After this golden day of victory."
II,I,Sergeant,"Sirs, take your places and be vigilant:"
II,I,Sergeant,"If any noise or soldier you perceive"
II,I,Sergeant,"Near to the walls, by some apparent sign"
II,I,Sergeant,"Let us have knowledge at the court of guard."
II,I,First Sentinel,"Sergeant, you shall."
II,I,First Sentinel,"Thus are poor servitors,"
II,I,First Sentinel,"When others sleep upon their quiet beds,"
II,I,First Sentinel,"Constrain'd to watch in darkness, rain and cold."
II,I,TALBOT,"Lord Regent, and redoubted Burgundy,"
II,I,TALBOT,"By whose approach the regions of Artois,"
II,I,TALBOT,"Wallon and Picardy are friends to us,"
II,I,TALBOT,"This happy night the Frenchmen are secure,"
II,I,TALBOT,"Having all day caroused and banqueted:"
II,I,TALBOT,"Embrace we then this opportunity"
II,I,TALBOT,"As fitting best to quittance their deceit"
II,I,TALBOT,"Contrived by art and baleful sorcery."
II,I,BEDFORD,"Coward of France! how much he wrongs his fame,"
II,I,BEDFORD,"Despairing of his own arm's fortitude,"
II,I,BEDFORD,"To join with witches and the help of hell!"
II,I,BURGUNDY,"Traitors have never other company."
II,I,BURGUNDY,"But what's that Pucelle whom they term so pure?"
II,I,TALBOT,"A maid, they say."
II,I,BEDFORD,"A maid! and be so martial!"
II,I,BURGUNDY,"Pray God she prove not masculine ere long,"
II,I,BURGUNDY,"If underneath the standard of the French"
II,I,BURGUNDY,"She carry armour as she hath begun."
II,I,TALBOT,"Well, let them practise and converse with spirits:"
II,I,TALBOT,"God is our fortress, in whose conquering name"
II,I,TALBOT,"Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks."
II,I,BEDFORD,"Ascend, brave Talbot; we will follow thee."
II,I,TALBOT,"Not all together: better far, I guess,"
II,I,TALBOT,"That we do make our entrance several ways;"
II,I,TALBOT,"That, if it chance the one of us do fail,"
II,I,TALBOT,"The other yet may rise against their force."
II,I,BEDFORD,"Agreed: I'll to yond corner."
II,I,BURGUNDY,"And I to this."
II,I,TALBOT,"And here will Talbot mount, or make his grave."
II,I,TALBOT,"Now, Salisbury, for thee, and for the right"
II,I,TALBOT,"Of English Henry, shall this night appear"
II,I,TALBOT,"How much in duty I am bound to both."
II,I,Sentinels,"Arm! arm! the enemy doth make assault!"
II,I,ALENCON,"How now, my lords! what, all unready so?"
II,I,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Unready! ay, and glad we 'scaped so well."
II,I,REIGNIER,"'Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds,"
II,I,REIGNIER,"Hearing alarums at our chamber-doors."
II,I,ALENCON,"Of all exploits since first I follow'd arms,"
II,I,ALENCON,"Ne'er heard I of a warlike enterprise"
II,I,ALENCON,"More venturous or desperate than this."
II,I,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"I think this Talbot be a fiend of hell."
II,I,REIGNIER,"If not of hell, the heavens, sure, favour him."
II,I,ALENCON,"Here cometh Charles: I marvel how he sped."
II,I,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Tut, holy Joan was his defensive guard."
II,I,CHARLES,"Is this thy cunning, thou deceitful dame?"
II,I,CHARLES,"Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal,"
II,I,CHARLES,"Make us partakers of a little gain,"
II,I,CHARLES,"That now our loss might be ten times so much?"
II,I,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend!"
II,I,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"At all times will you have my power alike?"
II,I,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Sleeping or waking must I still prevail,"
II,I,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Or will you blame and lay the fault on me?"
II,I,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Improvident soldiers! had your watch been good,"
II,I,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"This sudden mischief never could have fall'n."
II,I,CHARLES,"Duke of Alencon, this was your default,"
II,I,CHARLES,"That, being captain of the watch to-night,"
II,I,CHARLES,"Did look no better to that weighty charge."
II,I,ALENCON,"Had all your quarters been as safely kept"
II,I,ALENCON,"As that whereof I had the government,"
II,I,ALENCON,"We had not been thus shamefully surprised."
II,I,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Mine was secure."
II,I,REIGNIER,"And so was mine, my lord."
II,I,CHARLES,"And, for myself, most part of all this night,"
II,I,CHARLES,"Within her quarter and mine own precinct"
II,I,CHARLES,"I was employ'd in passing to and fro,"
II,I,CHARLES,"About relieving of the sentinels:"
II,I,CHARLES,"Then how or which way should they first break in?"
II,I,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Question, my lords, no further of the case,"
II,I,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"How or which way: 'tis sure they found some place"
II,I,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"But weakly guarded, where the breach was made."
II,I,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And now there rests no other shift but this;"
II,I,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"To gather our soldiers, scatter'd and dispersed,"
II,I,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And lay new platforms to endamage them."
II,I,Soldier,"I'll be so bold to take what they have left."
II,I,Soldier,"The cry of Talbot serves me for a sword;"
II,I,Soldier,"For I have loaden me with many spoils,"
II,I,Soldier,"Using no other weapon but his name."
II,II,BEDFORD,"The day begins to break, and night is fled,"
II,II,BEDFORD,"Whose pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth."
II,II,BEDFORD,"Here sound retreat, and cease our hot pursuit."
II,II,TALBOT,"Bring forth the body of old Salisbury,"
II,II,TALBOT,"And here advance it in the market-place,"
II,II,TALBOT,"The middle centre of this cursed town."
II,II,TALBOT,"Now have I paid my vow unto his soul;"
II,II,TALBOT,"For every drop of blood was drawn from him,"
II,II,TALBOT,"There hath at least five Frenchmen died tonight."
II,II,TALBOT,"And that hereafter ages may behold"
II,II,TALBOT,"What ruin happen'd in revenge of him,"
II,II,TALBOT,"Within their chiefest temple I'll erect"
II,II,TALBOT,"A tomb, wherein his corpse shall be interr'd:"
II,II,TALBOT,"Upon the which, that every one may read,"
II,II,TALBOT,"Shall be engraved the sack of Orleans,"
II,II,TALBOT,"The treacherous manner of his mournful death"
II,II,TALBOT,"And what a terror he had been to France."
II,II,TALBOT,"But, lords, in all our bloody massacre,"
II,II,TALBOT,"I muse we met not with the Dauphin's grace,"
II,II,TALBOT,"His new-come champion, virtuous Joan of Arc,"
II,II,TALBOT,"Nor any of his false confederates."
II,II,BEDFORD,"'Tis thought, Lord Talbot, when the fight began,"
II,II,BEDFORD,"Roused on the sudden from their drowsy beds,"
II,II,BEDFORD,"They did amongst the troops of armed men"
II,II,BEDFORD,"Leap o'er the walls for refuge in the field."
II,II,BURGUNDY,"Myself, as far as I could well discern"
II,II,BURGUNDY,"For smoke and dusky vapours of the night,"
II,II,BURGUNDY,"Am sure I scared the Dauphin and his trull,"
II,II,BURGUNDY,"When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,"
II,II,BURGUNDY,"Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves"
II,II,BURGUNDY,"That could not live asunder day or night."
II,II,BURGUNDY,"After that things are set in order here,"
II,II,BURGUNDY,"We'll follow them with all the power we have."
II,II,Messenger,"All hail, my lords! which of this princely train"
II,II,Messenger,"Call ye the warlike Talbot, for his acts"
II,II,Messenger,"So much applauded through the realm of France?"
II,II,TALBOT,"Here is the Talbot: who would speak with him?"
II,II,Messenger,"The virtuous lady, Countess of Auvergne,"
II,II,Messenger,"With modesty admiring thy renown,"
II,II,Messenger,"By me entreats, great lord, thou wouldst vouchsafe"
II,II,Messenger,"To visit her poor castle where she lies,"
II,II,Messenger,"That she may boast she hath beheld the man"
II,II,Messenger,"Whose glory fills the world with loud report."
II,II,BURGUNDY,"Is it even so? Nay, then, I see our wars"
II,II,BURGUNDY,"Will turn unto a peaceful comic sport,"
II,II,BURGUNDY,"When ladies crave to be encounter'd with."
II,II,BURGUNDY,"You may not, my lord, despise her gentle suit."
II,II,TALBOT,"Ne'er trust me then; for when a world of men"
II,II,TALBOT,"Could not prevail with all their oratory,"
II,II,TALBOT,"Yet hath a woman's kindness over-ruled:"
II,II,TALBOT,"And therefore tell her I return great thanks,"
II,II,TALBOT,"And in submission will attend on her."
II,II,TALBOT,"Will not your honours bear me company?"
II,II,BEDFORD,"No, truly; it is more than manners will:"
II,II,BEDFORD,"And I have heard it said, unbidden guests"
II,II,BEDFORD,"Are often welcomest when they are gone."
II,II,TALBOT,"Well then, alone, since there's no remedy,"
II,II,TALBOT,"I mean to prove this lady's courtesy."
II,II,TALBOT,"Come hither, captain."
II,II,TALBOT,"You perceive my mind?"
II,II,Captain,"I do, my lord, and mean accordingly."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Porter, remember what I gave in charge;"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"And when you have done so, bring the keys to me."
II,III,Porter,"Madam, I will."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"The plot is laid: if all things fall out right,"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"I shall as famous be by this exploit"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"As Scythian Tomyris by Cyrus' death."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight,"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"And his achievements of no less account:"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears,"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"To give their censure of these rare reports."
II,III,Messenger,"Madam,"
II,III,Messenger,"According as your ladyship desired,"
II,III,Messenger,"By message craved, so is Lord Talbot come."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"And he is welcome. What! is this the man?"
II,III,Messenger,"Madam, it is."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Is this the scourge of France?"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Is this the Talbot, so much fear'd abroad"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"That with his name the mothers still their babes?"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"I see report is fabulous and false:"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"I thought I should have seen some Hercules,"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"A second Hector, for his grim aspect,"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Alas, this is a child, a silly dwarf!"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Should strike such terror to his enemies."
II,III,TALBOT,"Madam, I have been bold to trouble you;"
II,III,TALBOT,"But since your ladyship is not at leisure,"
II,III,TALBOT,"I'll sort some other time to visit you."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"What means he now? Go ask him whither he goes."
II,III,Messenger,"Stay, my Lord Talbot; for my lady craves"
II,III,Messenger,"To know the cause of your abrupt departure."
II,III,TALBOT,"Marry, for that she's in a wrong belief,"
II,III,TALBOT,"I go to certify her Talbot's here."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"If thou be he, then art thou prisoner."
II,III,TALBOT,"Prisoner! to whom?"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"To me, blood-thirsty lord;"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"And for that cause I trained thee to my house."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me,"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"For in my gallery thy picture hangs:"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"But now the substance shall endure the like,"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"And I will chain these legs and arms of thine,"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"That hast by tyranny these many years"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Wasted our country, slain our citizens"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"And sent our sons and husbands captivate."
II,III,TALBOT,"Ha, ha, ha!"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Laughest thou, wretch? thy mirth shall turn to moan."
II,III,TALBOT,"I laugh to see your ladyship so fond"
II,III,TALBOT,"To think that you have aught but Talbot's shadow"
II,III,TALBOT,"Whereon to practise your severity."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Why, art not thou the man?"
II,III,TALBOT,"I am indeed."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Then have I substance too."
II,III,TALBOT,"No, no, I am but shadow of myself:"
II,III,TALBOT,"You are deceived, my substance is not here;"
II,III,TALBOT,"For what you see is but the smallest part"
II,III,TALBOT,"And least proportion of humanity:"
II,III,TALBOT,"I tell you, madam, were the whole frame here,"
II,III,TALBOT,"It is of such a spacious lofty pitch,"
II,III,TALBOT,"Your roof were not sufficient to contain't."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"This is a riddling merchant for the nonce;"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"He will be here, and yet he is not here:"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"How can these contrarieties agree?"
II,III,TALBOT,"That will I show you presently."
II,III,TALBOT,"How say you, madam? are you now persuaded"
II,III,TALBOT,"That Talbot is but shadow of himself?"
II,III,TALBOT,"These are his substance, sinews, arms and strength,"
II,III,TALBOT,"With which he yoketh your rebellious necks,"
II,III,TALBOT,"Razeth your cities and subverts your towns"
II,III,TALBOT,"And in a moment makes them desolate."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Victorious Talbot! pardon my abuse:"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"And more than may be gather'd by thy shape."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath;"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"For I am sorry that with reverence"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"I did not entertain thee as thou art."
II,III,TALBOT,"Be not dismay'd, fair lady; nor misconstrue"
II,III,TALBOT,"The mind of Talbot, as you did mistake"
II,III,TALBOT,"The outward composition of his body."
II,III,TALBOT,"What you have done hath not offended me;"
II,III,TALBOT,"Nor other satisfaction do I crave,"
II,III,TALBOT,"But only, with your patience, that we may"
II,III,TALBOT,"Taste of your wine and see what cates you have;"
II,III,TALBOT,"For soldiers' stomachs always serve them well."
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"With all my heart, and think me honoured"
II,III,COUNTESS OF AUVERGNE,"To feast so great a warrior in my house."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Great lords and gentlemen, what means this silence?"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Dare no man answer in a case of truth?"
II,IV,SUFFOLK,"Within the Temple-hall we were too loud;"
II,IV,SUFFOLK,"The garden here is more convenient."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Then say at once if I maintain'd the truth;"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Or else was wrangling Somerset in the error?"
II,IV,SUFFOLK,"Faith, I have been a truant in the law,"
II,IV,SUFFOLK,"And never yet could frame my will to it;"
II,IV,SUFFOLK,"And therefore frame the law unto my will."
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Judge you, my Lord of Warwick, then, between us."
II,IV,WARWICK,"Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Between two blades, which bears the better temper:"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Between two horses, which doth bear him best;"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye;"
II,IV,WARWICK,"I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement;"
II,IV,WARWICK,"But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance:"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"The truth appears so naked on my side"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"That any purblind eye may find it out."
II,IV,SOMERSET,"And on my side it is so well apparell'd,"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"So clear, so shining and so evident"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to speak,"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts:"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Let him that is a true-born gentleman"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And stands upon the honour of his birth,"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"From off this brier pluck a white rose with me."
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"But dare maintain the party of the truth,"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me."
II,IV,WARWICK,"I love no colours, and without all colour"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Of base insinuating flattery"
II,IV,WARWICK,"I pluck this white rose with Plantagenet."
II,IV,SUFFOLK,"I pluck this red rose with young Somerset"
II,IV,SUFFOLK,"And say withal I think he held the right."
II,IV,VERNON,"Stay, lords and gentlemen, and pluck no more,"
II,IV,VERNON,"Till you conclude that he upon whose side"
II,IV,VERNON,"The fewest roses are cropp'd from the tree"
II,IV,VERNON,"Shall yield the other in the right opinion."
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Good Master Vernon, it is well objected:"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"If I have fewest, I subscribe in silence."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And I."
II,IV,VERNON,"Then for the truth and plainness of the case."
II,IV,VERNON,"I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here,"
II,IV,VERNON,"Giving my verdict on the white rose side."
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Prick not your finger as you pluck it off,"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Lest bleeding you do paint the white rose red"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"And fall on my side so, against your will."
II,IV,VERNON,"If I my lord, for my opinion bleed,"
II,IV,VERNON,"Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt"
II,IV,VERNON,"And keep me on the side where still I am."
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Well, well, come on: who else?"
II,IV,Lawyer,"Unless my study and my books be false,"
II,IV,Lawyer,"The argument you held was wrong in you:"
II,IV,Lawyer,"In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Now, Somerset, where is your argument?"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Here in my scabbard, meditating that"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses;"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"For pale they look with fear, as witnessing"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"The truth on our side."
II,IV,SOMERSET,"No, Plantagenet,"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"'Tis not for fear but anger that thy cheeks"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses,"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth;"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood."
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses,"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"That shall maintain what I have said is true,"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Where false Plantagenet dare not be seen."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Now, by this maiden blossom in my hand,"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy."
II,IV,SUFFOLK,"Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Proud Pole, I will, and scorn both him and thee."
II,IV,SUFFOLK,"I'll turn my part thereof into thy throat."
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Away, away, good William de la Pole!"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"We grace the yeoman by conversing with him."
II,IV,WARWICK,"Now, by God's will, thou wrong'st him, Somerset;"
II,IV,WARWICK,"His grandfather was Lionel Duke of Clarence,"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Third son to the third Edward King of England:"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root?"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"He bears him on the place's privilege,"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Or durst not, for his craven heart, say thus."
II,IV,SOMERSET,"By him that made me, I'll maintain my words"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"On any plot of ground in Christendom."
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Was not thy father, Richard Earl of Cambridge,"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"For treason executed in our late king's days?"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"And, by his treason, stand'st not thou attainted,"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry?"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood;"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"And, till thou be restored, thou art a yeoman."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"My father was attached, not attainted,"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Condemn'd to die for treason, but no traitor;"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And that I'll prove on better men than Somerset,"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Were growing time once ripen'd to my will."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"For your partaker Pole and you yourself,"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"I'll note you in my book of memory,"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"To scourge you for this apprehension:"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Look to it well and say you are well warn'd."
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Ah, thou shalt find us ready for thee still;"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"And know us by these colours for thy foes,"
II,IV,SOMERSET,"For these my friends in spite of thee shall wear."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose,"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate,"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Will I for ever and my faction wear,"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Until it wither with me to my grave"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Or flourish to the height of my degree."
II,IV,SUFFOLK,"Go forward and be choked with thy ambition!"
II,IV,SUFFOLK,"And so farewell until I meet thee next."
II,IV,SOMERSET,"Have with thee, Pole. Farewell, ambitious Richard."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"How I am braved and must perforce endure it!"
II,IV,WARWICK,"This blot that they object against your house"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Shall be wiped out in the next parliament"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Call'd for the truce of Winchester and Gloucester;"
II,IV,WARWICK,"And if thou be not then created York,"
II,IV,WARWICK,"I will not live to be accounted Warwick."
II,IV,WARWICK,"Meantime, in signal of my love to thee,"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Against proud Somerset and William Pole,"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Will I upon thy party wear this rose:"
II,IV,WARWICK,"And here I prophesy: this brawl to-day,"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Grown to this faction in the Temple-garden,"
II,IV,WARWICK,"Shall send between the red rose and the white"
II,IV,WARWICK,"A thousand souls to death and deadly night."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Good Master Vernon, I am bound to you,"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"That you on my behalf would pluck a flower."
II,IV,VERNON,"In your behalf still will I wear the same."
II,IV,Lawyer,"And so will I."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Thanks, gentle sir."
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Come, let us four to dinner: I dare say"
II,IV,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"This quarrel will drink blood another day."
II,V,MORTIMER,"Kind keepers of my weak decaying age,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Let dying Mortimer here rest himself."
II,V,MORTIMER,"Even like a man new haled from the rack,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"So fare my limbs with long imprisonment."
II,V,MORTIMER,"And these grey locks, the pursuivants of death,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Nestor-like aged in an age of care,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer."
II,V,MORTIMER,"These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent;"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Weak shoulders, overborne with burthening grief,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"And pithless arms, like to a wither'd vine"
II,V,MORTIMER,"That droops his sapless branches to the ground;"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Yet are these feet, whose strengthless stay is numb,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Unable to support this lump of clay,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Swift-winged with desire to get a grave,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"As witting I no other comfort have."
II,V,MORTIMER,"But tell me, keeper, will my nephew come?"
II,V,First Gaoler,"Richard Plantagenet, my lord, will come:"
II,V,First Gaoler,"We sent unto the Temple, unto his chamber;"
II,V,First Gaoler,"And answer was return'd that he will come."
II,V,MORTIMER,"Enough: my soul shall then be satisfied."
II,V,MORTIMER,"Poor gentleman! his wrong doth equal mine."
II,V,MORTIMER,"Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Before whose glory I was great in arms,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"This loathsome sequestration have I had:"
II,V,MORTIMER,"And even since then hath Richard been obscured,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Deprived of honour and inheritance."
II,V,MORTIMER,"But now the arbitrator of despairs,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence:"
II,V,MORTIMER,"I would his troubles likewise were expired,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"That so he might recover what was lost."
II,V,First Gaoler,"My lord, your loving nephew now is come."
II,V,MORTIMER,"Richard Plantagenet, my friend, is he come?"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Ay, noble uncle, thus ignobly used,"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Your nephew, late despised Richard, comes."
II,V,MORTIMER,"Direct mine arms I may embrace his neck,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"And in his bosom spend my latter gasp:"
II,V,MORTIMER,"O, tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"That I may kindly give one fainting kiss."
II,V,MORTIMER,"And now declare, sweet stem from York's great stock,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Why didst thou say, of late thou wert despised?"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"First, lean thine aged back against mine arm;"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And, in that ease, I'll tell thee my disease."
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"This day, in argument upon a case,"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me;"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Among which terms he used his lavish tongue"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And did upbraid me with my father's death:"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Which obloquy set bars before my tongue,"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Else with the like I had requited him."
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Therefore, good uncle, for my father's sake,"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"In honour of a true Plantagenet"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And for alliance sake, declare the cause"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"My father, Earl of Cambridge, lost his head."
II,V,MORTIMER,"That cause, fair nephew, that imprison'd me"
II,V,MORTIMER,"And hath detain'd me all my flowering youth"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Within a loathsome dungeon, there to pine,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Was cursed instrument of his decease."
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Discover more at large what cause that was,"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"For I am ignorant and cannot guess."
II,V,MORTIMER,"I will, if that my fading breath permit"
II,V,MORTIMER,"And death approach not ere my tale be done."
II,V,MORTIMER,"Henry the Fourth, grandfather to this king,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Deposed his nephew Richard, Edward's son,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"The first-begotten and the lawful heir,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Of Edward king, the third of that descent:"
II,V,MORTIMER,"During whose reign the Percies of the north,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Finding his usurpation most unjust,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Endeavor'd my advancement to the throne:"
II,V,MORTIMER,"The reason moved these warlike lords to this"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Was, for that--young King Richard thus removed,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Leaving no heir begotten of his body--"
II,V,MORTIMER,"I was the next by birth and parentage;"
II,V,MORTIMER,"For by my mother I derived am"
II,V,MORTIMER,"From Lionel Duke of Clarence, the third son"
II,V,MORTIMER,"To King Edward the Third; whereas he"
II,V,MORTIMER,"From John of Gaunt doth bring his pedigree,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Being but fourth of that heroic line."
II,V,MORTIMER,"But mark: as in this haughty attempt"
II,V,MORTIMER,"They laboured to plant the rightful heir,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"I lost my liberty and they their lives."
II,V,MORTIMER,"Long after this, when Henry the Fifth,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Succeeding his father Bolingbroke, did reign,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Thy father, Earl of Cambridge, then derived"
II,V,MORTIMER,"From famous Edmund Langley, Duke of York,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Marrying my sister that thy mother was,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Again in pity of my hard distress"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Levied an army, weening to redeem"
II,V,MORTIMER,"And have install'd me in the diadem:"
II,V,MORTIMER,"But, as the rest, so fell that noble earl"
II,V,MORTIMER,"And was beheaded. Thus the Mortimers,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"In whom the tide rested, were suppress'd."
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Of which, my lord, your honour is the last."
II,V,MORTIMER,"True; and thou seest that I no issue have"
II,V,MORTIMER,"And that my fainting words do warrant death;"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Thou art my heir; the rest I wish thee gather:"
II,V,MORTIMER,"But yet be wary in thy studious care."
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Thy grave admonishments prevail with me:"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"But yet, methinks, my father's execution"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Was nothing less than bloody tyranny."
II,V,MORTIMER,"With silence, nephew, be thou politic:"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Strong-fixed is the house of Lancaster,"
II,V,MORTIMER,"And like a mountain, not to be removed."
II,V,MORTIMER,"But now thy uncle is removing hence:"
II,V,MORTIMER,"As princes do their courts, when they are cloy'd"
II,V,MORTIMER,"With long continuance in a settled place."
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"O, uncle, would some part of my young years"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Might but redeem the passage of your age!"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Which giveth many wounds when one will kill."
II,V,MORTIMER,"Mourn not, except thou sorrow for my good;"
II,V,MORTIMER,"Only give order for my funeral:"
II,V,MORTIMER,"And so farewell, and fair be all thy hopes"
II,V,MORTIMER,"And prosperous be thy life in peace and war!"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And peace, no war, befall thy parting soul!"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And like a hermit overpass'd thy days."
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast;"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And what I do imagine let that rest."
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Keepers, convey him hence, and I myself"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Will see his burial better than his life."
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer,"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Choked with ambition of the meaner sort:"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And for those wrongs, those bitter injuries,"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Which Somerset hath offer'd to my house:"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"I doubt not but with honour to redress;"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And therefore haste I to the parliament,"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Either to be restored to my blood,"
II,V,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Or make my ill the advantage of my good."
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Comest thou with deep premeditated lines,"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"With written pamphlets studiously devised,"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Humphrey of Gloucester? If thou canst accuse,"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge,"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Do it without invention, suddenly;"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"As I with sudden and extemporal speech"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Purpose to answer what thou canst object."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Presumptuous priest! this place commands my patience,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Or thou shouldst find thou hast dishonour'd me."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Think not, although in writing I preferr'd"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"That therefore I have forged, or am not able"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen:"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"No, prelate; such is thy audacious wickedness,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Thy lewd, pestiferous and dissentious pranks,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"As very infants prattle of thy pride."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Thou art a most pernicious usurer,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Forward by nature, enemy to peace;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"A man of thy profession and degree;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And for thy treachery, what's more manifest?"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"In that thou laid'st a trap to take my life,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"As well at London bridge as at the Tower."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Beside, I fear me, if thy thoughts were sifted,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"The king, thy sovereign, is not quite exempt"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"From envious malice of thy swelling heart."
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Gloucester, I do defy thee. Lords, vouchsafe"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"To give me hearing what I shall reply."
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"If I were covetous, ambitious or perverse,"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"As he will have me, how am I so poor?"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Or how haps it I seek not to advance"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Or raise myself, but keep my wonted calling?"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"And for dissension, who preferreth peace"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"More than I do?--except I be provoked."
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"No, my good lords, it is not that offends;"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"It is not that that hath incensed the duke:"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"It is, because no one should sway but he;"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"No one but he should be about the king;"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"And that engenders thunder in his breast"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"And makes him roar these accusations forth."
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"But he shall know I am as good--"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"As good!"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Thou bastard of my grandfather!"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Ay, lordly sir; for what are you, I pray,"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"But one imperious in another's throne?"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Am I not protector, saucy priest?"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"And am not I a prelate of the church?"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Yes, as an outlaw in a castle keeps"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And useth it to patronage his theft."
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Unreverent Gloster!"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Thou art reverent"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life."
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Rome shall remedy this."
III,I,WARWICK,"Roam thither, then."
III,I,SOMERSET,"My lord, it were your duty to forbear."
III,I,WARWICK,"Ay, see the bishop be not overborne."
III,I,SOMERSET,"Methinks my lord should be religious"
III,I,SOMERSET,"And know the office that belongs to such."
III,I,WARWICK,"Methinks his lordship should be humbler;"
III,I,WARWICK,"it fitteth not a prelate so to plead."
III,I,SOMERSET,"Yes, when his holy state is touch'd so near."
III,I,WARWICK,"State holy or unhallow'd, what of that?"
III,I,WARWICK,"Is not his grace protector to the king?"
III,I,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Lest it be said 'Speak, sirrah, when you should;"
III,I,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Must your bold verdict enter talk with lords?'"
III,I,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Else would I have a fling at Winchester."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Uncles of Gloucester and of Winchester,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"The special watchmen of our English weal,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"I would prevail, if prayers might prevail,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"To join your hearts in love and amity."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"O, what a scandal is it to our crown,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"That two such noble peers as ye should jar!"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Civil dissension is a viperous worm"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"What tumult's this?"
III,I,WARWICK,"An uproar, I dare warrant,"
III,I,WARWICK,"Begun through malice of the bishop's men."
III,I,Mayor,"O, my good lords, and virtuous Henry,"
III,I,Mayor,"Pity the city of London, pity us!"
III,I,Mayor,"The bishop and the Duke of Gloucester's men,"
III,I,Mayor,"Forbidden late to carry any weapon,"
III,I,Mayor,"Have fill'd their pockets full of pebble stones"
III,I,Mayor,"And banding themselves in contrary parts"
III,I,Mayor,"Do pelt so fast at one another's pate"
III,I,Mayor,"That many have their giddy brains knock'd out:"
III,I,Mayor,"Our windows are broke down in every street"
III,I,Mayor,"And we for fear compell'd to shut our shops."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"We charge you, on allegiance to ourself,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"To hold your slaughtering hands and keep the peace."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Pray, uncle Gloucester, mitigate this strife."
III,I,First Serving-man,"Nay, if we be forbidden stones,"
III,I,First Serving-man,"We'll fall to it with our teeth."
III,I,Second Serving-man,"Do what ye dare, we are as resolute."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"You of my household, leave this peevish broil"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And set this unaccustom'd fight aside."
III,I,Third Serving-man,"My lord, we know your grace to be a man"
III,I,Third Serving-man,"Just and upright; and, for your royal birth,"
III,I,Third Serving-man,"Inferior to none but to his majesty:"
III,I,Third Serving-man,"And ere that we will suffer such a prince,"
III,I,Third Serving-man,"So kind a father of the commonweal,"
III,I,Third Serving-man,"To be disgraced by an inkhorn mate,"
III,I,Third Serving-man,"We and our wives and children all will fight"
III,I,Third Serving-man,"And have our bodies slaughtered by thy foes."
III,I,First Serving-man,"Ay, and the very parings of our nails"
III,I,First Serving-man,"Shall pitch a field when we are dead."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Stay, stay, I say!"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And if you love me, as you say you do,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Let me persuade you to forbear awhile."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"O, how this discord doth afflict my soul!"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Can you, my Lord of Winchester, behold"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"My sighs and tears and will not once relent?"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Who should be pitiful, if you be not?"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Or who should study to prefer a peace."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"If holy churchmen take delight in broils?"
III,I,WARWICK,"Yield, my lord protector; yield, Winchester;"
III,I,WARWICK,"Except you mean with obstinate repulse"
III,I,WARWICK,"To slay your sovereign and destroy the realm."
III,I,WARWICK,"You see what mischief and what murder too"
III,I,WARWICK,"Hath been enacted through your enmity;"
III,I,WARWICK,"Then be at peace except ye thirst for blood."
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"He shall submit, or I will never yield."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Compassion on the king commands me stoop;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Or I would see his heart out, ere the priest"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Should ever get that privilege of me."
III,I,WARWICK,"Behold, my Lord of Winchester, the duke"
III,I,WARWICK,"Hath banish'd moody discontented fury,"
III,I,WARWICK,"As by his smoothed brows it doth appear:"
III,I,WARWICK,"Why look you still so stern and tragical?"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Here, Winchester, I offer thee my hand."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Fie, uncle Beaufort! I have heard you preach"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"That malice was a great and grievous sin;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And will not you maintain the thing you teach,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"But prove a chief offender in the same?"
III,I,WARWICK,"Sweet king! the bishop hath a kindly gird."
III,I,WARWICK,"For shame, my lord of Winchester, relent!"
III,I,WARWICK,"What, shall a child instruct you what to do?"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Well, Duke of Gloucester, I will yield to thee;"
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"Love for thy love and hand for hand I give."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"See here, my friends and loving countrymen,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"This token serveth for a flag of truce"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Betwixt ourselves and all our followers:"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"So help me God, as I dissemble not!"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"O, loving uncle, kind Duke of Gloucester,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"How joyful am I made by this contract!"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Away, my masters! trouble us no more;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"But join in friendship, as your lords have done."
III,I,First Serving-man,"Content: I'll to the surgeon's."
III,I,Second Serving-man,"And so will I."
III,I,Third Serving-man,"And I will see what physic the tavern affords."
III,I,WARWICK,"Accept this scroll, most gracious sovereign,"
III,I,WARWICK,"Which in the right of Richard Plantagenet"
III,I,WARWICK,"We do exhibit to your majesty."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Well urged, my Lord of Warwick: or sweet prince,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And if your grace mark every circumstance,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"You have great reason to do Richard right;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Especially for those occasions"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"At Eltham Place I told your majesty."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And those occasions, uncle, were of force:"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Therefore, my loving lords, our pleasure is"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"That Richard be restored to his blood."
III,I,WARWICK,"Let Richard be restored to his blood;"
III,I,WARWICK,"So shall his father's wrongs be recompensed."
III,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"As will the rest, so willeth Winchester."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"If Richard will be true, not that alone"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"But all the whole inheritance I give"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"That doth belong unto the house of York,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"From whence you spring by lineal descent."
III,I,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"Thy humble servant vows obedience"
III,I,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And humble service till the point of death."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Stoop then and set your knee against my foot;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And, in reguerdon of that duty done,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"I gird thee with the valiant sword of York:"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Rise Richard, like a true Plantagenet,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And rise created princely Duke of York."
III,I,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And so thrive Richard as thy foes may fall!"
III,I,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"And as my duty springs, so perish they"
III,I,RICHARD PLANTAGENET,"That grudge one thought against your majesty!"
III,I,ALL,"Welcome, high prince, the mighty Duke of York!"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Now will it best avail your majesty"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France:"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"The presence of a king engenders love"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"As it disanimates his enemies."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"When Gloucester says the word, King Henry goes;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"For friendly counsel cuts off many foes."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Your ships already are in readiness."
III,I,EXETER,"Ay, we may march in England or in France,"
III,I,EXETER,"Not seeing what is likely to ensue."
III,I,EXETER,"This late dissension grown betwixt the peers"
III,I,EXETER,"Burns under feigned ashes of forged love"
III,I,EXETER,"And will at last break out into a flame:"
III,I,EXETER,"As fester'd members rot but by degree,"
III,I,EXETER,"Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,"
III,I,EXETER,"So will this base and envious discord breed."
III,I,EXETER,"And now I fear that fatal prophecy"
III,I,EXETER,"Which in the time of Henry named the Fifth"
III,I,EXETER,"Was in the mouth of every sucking babe;"
III,I,EXETER,"That Henry born at Monmouth should win all"
III,I,EXETER,"And Henry born at Windsor lose all:"
III,I,EXETER,"Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish"
III,I,EXETER,"His days may finish ere that hapless time."
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"These are the city gates, the gates of Rouen,"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Through which our policy must make a breach:"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Take heed, be wary how you place your words;"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Talk like the vulgar sort of market men"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"That come to gather money for their corn."
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"If we have entrance, as I hope we shall,"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And that we find the slothful watch but weak,"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"I'll by a sign give notice to our friends,"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"That Charles the Dauphin may encounter them."
III,II,First Soldier,"Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city,"
III,II,First Soldier,"And we be lords and rulers over Rouen;"
III,II,First Soldier,"Therefore we'll knock."
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Paysans, pauvres gens de France;"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Poor market folks that come to sell their corn."
III,II,Watch,"Enter, go in; the market bell is rung."
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Now, Rouen, I'll shake thy bulwarks to the ground."
III,II,CHARLES,"Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem!"
III,II,CHARLES,"And once again we'll sleep secure in Rouen."
III,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Here enter'd Pucelle and her practisants;"
III,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Now she is there, how will she specify"
III,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Where is the best and safest passage in?"
III,II,REIGNIER,"By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower;"
III,II,REIGNIER,"Which, once discern'd, shows that her meaning is,"
III,II,REIGNIER,"No way to that, for weakness, which she enter'd."
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Behold, this is the happy wedding torch"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen,"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"But burning fatal to the Talbotites!"
III,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"See, noble Charles, the beacon of our friend;"
III,II,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"The burning torch in yonder turret stands."
III,II,CHARLES,"Now shine it like a comet of revenge,"
III,II,CHARLES,"A prophet to the fall of all our foes!"
III,II,REIGNIER,"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends;"
III,II,REIGNIER,"Enter, and cry 'The Dauphin!' presently,"
III,II,REIGNIER,"And then do execution on the watch."
III,II,TALBOT,"France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy tears,"
III,II,TALBOT,"If Talbot but survive thy treachery."
III,II,TALBOT,"Pucelle, that witch, that damned sorceress,"
III,II,TALBOT,"Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares,"
III,II,TALBOT,"That hardly we escaped the pride of France."
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Good morrow, gallants! want ye corn for bread?"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Before he'll buy again at such a rate:"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"'Twas full of darnel; do you like the taste?"
III,II,BURGUNDY,"Scoff on, vile fiend and shameless courtezan!"
III,II,BURGUNDY,"I trust ere long to choke thee with thine own"
III,II,BURGUNDY,"And make thee curse the harvest of that corn."
III,II,CHARLES,"Your grace may starve perhaps before that time."
III,II,BEDFORD,"O, let no words, but deeds, revenge this treason!"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"What will you do, good grey-beard? break a lance,"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And run a tilt at death within a chair?"
III,II,TALBOT,"Foul fiend of France, and hag of all despite,"
III,II,TALBOT,"Encompass'd with thy lustful paramours!"
III,II,TALBOT,"Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age"
III,II,TALBOT,"And twit with cowardice a man half dead?"
III,II,TALBOT,"Damsel, I'll have a bout with you again,"
III,II,TALBOT,"Or else let Talbot perish with this shame."
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Are ye so hot, sir? yet, Pucelle, hold thy peace;"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"If Talbot do but thunder, rain will follow."
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"God speed the parliament! who shall be the speaker?"
III,II,TALBOT,"Dare ye come forth and meet us in the field?"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Belike your lordship takes us then for fools,"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"To try if that our own be ours or no."
III,II,TALBOT,"I speak not to that railing Hecate,"
III,II,TALBOT,"But unto thee, Alencon, and the rest;"
III,II,TALBOT,"Will ye, like soldiers, come and fight it out?"
III,II,ALENCON,"Signior, no."
III,II,TALBOT,"Signior, hang! base muleters of France!"
III,II,TALBOT,"Like peasant foot-boys do they keep the walls"
III,II,TALBOT,"And dare not take up arms like gentlemen."
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Away, captains! let's get us from the walls;"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"For Talbot means no goodness by his looks."
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"God be wi' you, my lord! we came but to tell you"
III,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"That we are here."
III,II,TALBOT,"And there will we be too, ere it be long,"
III,II,TALBOT,"Or else reproach be Talbot's greatest fame!"
III,II,TALBOT,"Vow, Burgundy, by honour of thy house,"
III,II,TALBOT,"Prick'd on by public wrongs sustain'd in France,"
III,II,TALBOT,"Either to get the town again or die:"
III,II,TALBOT,"And I, as sure as English Henry lives"
III,II,TALBOT,"And as his father here was conqueror,"
III,II,TALBOT,"As sure as in this late-betrayed town"
III,II,TALBOT,"Great Coeur-de-lion's heart was buried,"
III,II,TALBOT,"So sure I swear to get the town or die."
III,II,BURGUNDY,"My vows are equal partners with thy vows."
III,II,TALBOT,"But, ere we go, regard this dying prince,"
III,II,TALBOT,"The valiant Duke of Bedford. Come, my lord,"
III,II,TALBOT,"We will bestow you in some better place,"
III,II,TALBOT,"Fitter for sickness and for crazy age."
III,II,BEDFORD,"Lord Talbot, do not so dishonour me:"
III,II,BEDFORD,"Here will I sit before the walls of Rouen"
III,II,BEDFORD,"And will be partner of your weal or woe."
III,II,BURGUNDY,"Courageous Bedford, let us now persuade you."
III,II,BEDFORD,"Not to be gone from hence; for once I read"
III,II,BEDFORD,"That stout Pendragon in his litter sick"
III,II,BEDFORD,"Came to the field and vanquished his foes:"
III,II,BEDFORD,"Methinks I should revive the soldiers' hearts,"
III,II,BEDFORD,"Because I ever found them as myself."
III,II,TALBOT,"Undaunted spirit in a dying breast!"
III,II,TALBOT,"Then be it so: heavens keep old Bedford safe!"
III,II,TALBOT,"And now no more ado, brave Burgundy,"
III,II,TALBOT,"But gather we our forces out of hand"
III,II,TALBOT,"And set upon our boasting enemy."
III,II,Captain,"Whither away, Sir John Fastolfe, in such haste?"
III,II,FASTOLFE,"Whither away! to save myself by flight:"
III,II,FASTOLFE,"We are like to have the overthrow again."
III,II,Captain,"What! will you fly, and leave Lord Talbot?"
III,II,FASTOLFE,"Ay,"
III,II,FASTOLFE,"All the Talbots in the world, to save my life!"
III,II,Captain,"Cowardly knight! ill fortune follow thee!"
III,II,BEDFORD,"Now, quiet soul, depart when heaven please,"
III,II,BEDFORD,"For I have seen our enemies' overthrow."
III,II,BEDFORD,"What is the trust or strength of foolish man?"
III,II,BEDFORD,"They that of late were daring with their scoffs"
III,II,BEDFORD,"Are glad and fain by flight to save themselves."
III,II,TALBOT,"Lost, and recover'd in a day again!"
III,II,TALBOT,"This is a double honour, Burgundy:"
III,II,TALBOT,"Yet heavens have glory for this victory!"
III,II,BURGUNDY,"Warlike and martial Talbot, Burgundy"
III,II,BURGUNDY,"Enshrines thee in his heart and there erects"
III,II,BURGUNDY,"Thy noble deeds as valour's monuments."
III,II,TALBOT,"Thanks, gentle duke. But where is Pucelle now?"
III,II,TALBOT,"I think her old familiar is asleep:"
III,II,TALBOT,"Now where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks?"
III,II,TALBOT,"What, all amort? Rouen hangs her head for grief"
III,II,TALBOT,"That such a valiant company are fled."
III,II,TALBOT,"Now will we take some order in the town,"
III,II,TALBOT,"Placing therein some expert officers,"
III,II,TALBOT,"And then depart to Paris to the king,"
III,II,TALBOT,"For there young Henry with his nobles lie."
III,II,BURGUNDY,"What wills Lord Talbot pleaseth Burgundy."
III,II,TALBOT,"But yet, before we go, let's not forget"
III,II,TALBOT,"The noble Duke of Bedford late deceased,"
III,II,TALBOT,"But see his exequies fulfill'd in Rouen:"
III,II,TALBOT,"A braver soldier never couched lance,"
III,II,TALBOT,"A gentler heart did never sway in court;"
III,II,TALBOT,"But kings and mightiest potentates must die,"
III,II,TALBOT,"For that's the end of human misery."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Dismay not, princes, at this accident,"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Nor grieve that Rouen is so recovered:"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Care is no cure, but rather corrosive,"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"For things that are not to be remedied."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And like a peacock sweep along his tail;"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled."
III,III,CHARLES,"We have been guided by thee hitherto,"
III,III,CHARLES,"And of thy cunning had no diffidence:"
III,III,CHARLES,"One sudden foil shall never breed distrust."
III,III,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Search out thy wit for secret policies,"
III,III,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"And we will make thee famous through the world."
III,III,ALENCON,"We'll set thy statue in some holy place,"
III,III,ALENCON,"And have thee reverenced like a blessed saint:"
III,III,ALENCON,"Employ thee then, sweet virgin, for our good."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Then thus it must be; this doth Joan devise:"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"By fair persuasions mix'd with sugar'd words"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"We will entice the Duke of Burgundy"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"To leave the Talbot and to follow us."
III,III,CHARLES,"Ay, marry, sweeting, if we could do that,"
III,III,CHARLES,"France were no place for Henry's warriors;"
III,III,CHARLES,"Nor should that nation boast it so with us,"
III,III,CHARLES,"But be extirped from our provinces."
III,III,ALENCON,"For ever should they be expulsed from France"
III,III,ALENCON,"And not have title of an earldom here."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Your honours shall perceive how I will work"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"To bring this matter to the wished end."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Hark! by the sound of drum you may perceive"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Their powers are marching unto Paris-ward."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"There goes the Talbot, with his colours spread,"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And all the troops of English after him."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Now in the rearward comes the duke and his:"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Fortune in favour makes him lag behind."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Summon a parley; we will talk with him."
III,III,CHARLES,"A parley with the Duke of Burgundy!"
III,III,BURGUNDY,"Who craves a parley with the Burgundy?"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"The princely Charles of France, thy countryman."
III,III,BURGUNDY,"What say'st thou, Charles? for I am marching hence."
III,III,CHARLES,"Speak, Pucelle, and enchant him with thy words."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Brave Burgundy, undoubted hope of France!"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Stay, let thy humble handmaid speak to thee."
III,III,BURGUNDY,"Speak on; but be not over-tedious."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Look on thy country, look on fertile France,"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And see the cities and the towns defaced"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"By wasting ruin of the cruel foe."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"As looks the mother on her lowly babe"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"When death doth close his tender dying eyes,"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"See, see the pining malady of France;"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds,"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Which thou thyself hast given her woful breast."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"O, turn thy edged sword another way;"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"One drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore:"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Return thee therefore with a flood of tears,"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And wash away thy country's stained spots."
III,III,BURGUNDY,"Either she hath bewitch'd me with her words,"
III,III,BURGUNDY,"Or nature makes me suddenly relent."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Besides, all French and France exclaims on thee,"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Who joint'st thou with but with a lordly nation"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"That will not trust thee but for profit's sake?"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"When Talbot hath set footing once in France"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And fashion'd thee that instrument of ill,"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Who then but English Henry will be lord"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And thou be thrust out like a fugitive?"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Call we to mind, and mark but this for proof,"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Was not the Duke of Orleans thy foe?"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And was he not in England prisoner?"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"But when they heard he was thine enemy,"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"They set him free without his ransom paid,"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"In spite of Burgundy and all his friends."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"See, then, thou fight'st against thy countrymen"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And joint'st with them will be thy slaughtermen."
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Come, come, return; return, thou wandering lord:"
III,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Charles and the rest will take thee in their arms."
III,III,BURGUNDY,"I am vanquished; these haughty words of hers"
III,III,BURGUNDY,"Have batter'd me like roaring cannon-shot,"
III,III,BURGUNDY,"And made me almost yield upon my knees."
III,III,BURGUNDY,"Forgive me, country, and sweet countrymen,"
III,III,BURGUNDY,"And, lords, accept this hearty kind embrace:"
III,III,BURGUNDY,"My forces and my power of men are yours:"
III,III,BURGUNDY,"So farewell, Talbot; I'll no longer trust thee."
III,III,CHARLES,"Welcome, brave duke! thy friendship makes us fresh."
III,III,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"And doth beget new courage in our breasts."
III,III,ALENCON,"Pucelle hath bravely play'd her part in this,"
III,III,ALENCON,"And doth deserve a coronet of gold."
III,III,CHARLES,"Now let us on, my lords, and join our powers,"
III,III,CHARLES,"And seek how we may prejudice the foe."
III,IV,TALBOT,"My gracious prince, and honourable peers,"
III,IV,TALBOT,"Hearing of your arrival in this realm,"
III,IV,TALBOT,"I have awhile given truce unto my wars,"
III,IV,TALBOT,"To do my duty to my sovereign:"
III,IV,TALBOT,"In sign, whereof, this arm, that hath reclaim'd"
III,IV,TALBOT,"To your obedience fifty fortresses,"
III,IV,TALBOT,"Twelve cities and seven walled towns of strength,"
III,IV,TALBOT,"Beside five hundred prisoners of esteem,"
III,IV,TALBOT,"Lets fall his sword before your highness' feet,"
III,IV,TALBOT,"And with submissive loyalty of heart"
III,IV,TALBOT,"Ascribes the glory of his conquest got"
III,IV,TALBOT,"First to my God and next unto your grace."
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Is this the Lord Talbot, uncle Gloucester,"
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"That hath so long been resident in France?"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Yes, if it please your majesty, my liege."
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Welcome, brave captain and victorious lord!"
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"When I was young, as yet I am not old,"
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"I do remember how my father said"
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"A stouter champion never handled sword."
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Long since we were resolved of your truth,"
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Your faithful service and your toil in war;"
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Yet never have you tasted our reward,"
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Or been reguerdon'd with so much as thanks,"
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Because till now we never saw your face:"
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Therefore, stand up; and, for these good deserts,"
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"We here create you Earl of Shrewsbury;"
III,IV,KING HENRY VI,"And in our coronation take your place."
III,IV,VERNON,"Now, sir, to you, that were so hot at sea,"
III,IV,VERNON,"Disgracing of these colours that I wear"
III,IV,VERNON,"In honour of my noble Lord of York:"
III,IV,VERNON,"Darest thou maintain the former words thou spakest?"
III,IV,BASSET,"Yes, sir; as well as you dare patronage"
III,IV,BASSET,"The envious barking of your saucy tongue"
III,IV,BASSET,"Against my lord the Duke of Somerset."
III,IV,VERNON,"Sirrah, thy lord I honour as he is."
III,IV,BASSET,"Why, what is he? as good a man as York."
III,IV,VERNON,"Hark ye; not so: in witness, take ye that."
III,IV,BASSET,"Villain, thou know'st the law of arms is such"
III,IV,BASSET,"That whoso draws a sword, 'tis present death,"
III,IV,BASSET,"Or else this blow should broach thy dearest blood."
III,IV,BASSET,"But I'll unto his majesty, and crave"
III,IV,BASSET,"I may have liberty to venge this wrong;"
III,IV,BASSET,"When thou shalt see I'll meet thee to thy cost."
III,IV,VERNON,"Well, miscreant, I'll be there as soon as you;"
III,IV,VERNON,"And, after, meet you sooner than you would."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Lord bishop, set the crown upon his head."
IV,I,BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,"God save King Henry, of that name the sixth!"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Now, governor of Paris, take your oath,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"That you elect no other king but him;"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Esteem none friends but such as are his friends,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"And none your foes but such as shall pretend"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Malicious practises against his state:"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"This shall ye do, so help you righteous God!"
IV,I,FASTOLFE,"My gracious sovereign, as I rode from Calais,"
IV,I,FASTOLFE,"To haste unto your coronation,"
IV,I,FASTOLFE,"A letter was deliver'd to my hands,"
IV,I,FASTOLFE,"Writ to your grace from the Duke of Burgundy."
IV,I,TALBOT,"Shame to the Duke of Burgundy and thee!"
IV,I,TALBOT,"I vow'd, base knight, when I did meet thee next,"
IV,I,TALBOT,"To tear the garter from thy craven's leg,"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Which I have done, because unworthily"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Thou wast installed in that high degree."
IV,I,TALBOT,"Pardon me, princely Henry, and the rest"
IV,I,TALBOT,"This dastard, at the battle of Patay,"
IV,I,TALBOT,"When but in all I was six thousand strong"
IV,I,TALBOT,"And that the French were almost ten to one,"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Before we met or that a stroke was given,"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Like to a trusty squire did run away:"
IV,I,TALBOT,"In which assault we lost twelve hundred men;"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Myself and divers gentlemen beside"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Were there surprised and taken prisoners."
IV,I,TALBOT,"Then judge, great lords, if I have done amiss;"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Or whether that such cowards ought to wear"
IV,I,TALBOT,"This ornament of knighthood, yea or no."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"To say the truth, this fact was infamous"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"And ill beseeming any common man,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Much more a knight, a captain and a leader."
IV,I,TALBOT,"When first this order was ordain'd, my lords,"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Knights of the garter were of noble birth,"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty courage,"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Such as were grown to credit by the wars;"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress,"
IV,I,TALBOT,"But always resolute in most extremes."
IV,I,TALBOT,"He then that is not furnish'd in this sort"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight,"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Profaning this most honourable order,"
IV,I,TALBOT,"And should, if I were worthy to be judge,"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain"
IV,I,TALBOT,"That doth presume to boast of gentle blood."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Stain to thy countrymen, thou hear'st thy doom!"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Be packing, therefore, thou that wast a knight:"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Henceforth we banish thee, on pain of death."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"And now, my lord protector, view the letter"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Sent from our uncle Duke of Burgundy."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"What means his grace, that he hath changed his style?"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"No more but, plain and bluntly, 'To the king!'"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Hath he forgot he is his sovereign?"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Or doth this churlish superscription"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Pretend some alteration in good will?"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"What's here?"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"'I have, upon especial cause,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Moved with compassion of my country's wreck,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Together with the pitiful complaints"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Of such as your oppression feeds upon,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Forsaken your pernicious faction"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"And join'd with Charles, the rightful King of France.'"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"O monstrous treachery! can this be so,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"That in alliance, amity and oaths,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"There should be found such false dissembling guile?"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"What! doth my uncle Burgundy revolt?"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"He doth, my lord, and is become your foe."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Is that the worst this letter doth contain?"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"It is the worst, and all, my lord, he writes."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Why, then, Lord Talbot there shall talk with him"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"And give him chastisement for this abuse."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"How say you, my lord? are you not content?"
IV,I,TALBOT,"Content, my liege! yes, but that I am prevented,"
IV,I,TALBOT,"I should have begg'd I might have been employ'd."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Then gather strength and march unto him straight:"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"And what offence it is to flout his friends."
IV,I,TALBOT,"I go, my lord, in heart desiring still"
IV,I,TALBOT,"You may behold confusion of your foes."
IV,I,VERNON,"Grant me the combat, gracious sovereign."
IV,I,BASSET,"And me, my lord, grant me the combat too."
IV,I,YORK,"This is my servant: hear him, noble prince."
IV,I,SOMERSET,"And this is mine: sweet Henry, favour him."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Be patient, lords; and give them leave to speak."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Say, gentlemen, what makes you thus exclaim?"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"And wherefore crave you combat? or with whom?"
IV,I,VERNON,"With him, my lord; for he hath done me wrong."
IV,I,BASSET,"And I with him; for he hath done me wrong."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"What is that wrong whereof you both complain?"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"First let me know, and then I'll answer you."
IV,I,BASSET,"Crossing the sea from England into France,"
IV,I,BASSET,"This fellow here, with envious carping tongue,"
IV,I,BASSET,"Upbraided me about the rose I wear;"
IV,I,BASSET,"Saying, the sanguine colour of the leaves"
IV,I,BASSET,"Did represent my master's blushing cheeks,"
IV,I,BASSET,"When stubbornly he did repugn the truth"
IV,I,BASSET,"About a certain question in the law"
IV,I,BASSET,"Argued betwixt the Duke of York and him;"
IV,I,BASSET,"With other vile and ignominious terms:"
IV,I,BASSET,"In confutation of which rude reproach"
IV,I,BASSET,"And in defence of my lord's worthiness,"
IV,I,BASSET,"I crave the benefit of law of arms."
IV,I,VERNON,"And that is my petition, noble lord:"
IV,I,VERNON,"For though he seem with forged quaint conceit"
IV,I,VERNON,"To set a gloss upon his bold intent,"
IV,I,VERNON,"Yet know, my lord, I was provoked by him;"
IV,I,VERNON,"And he first took exceptions at this badge,"
IV,I,VERNON,"Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower"
IV,I,VERNON,"Bewray'd the faintness of my master's heart."
IV,I,YORK,"Will not this malice, Somerset, be left?"
IV,I,SOMERSET,"Your private grudge, my Lord of York, will out,"
IV,I,SOMERSET,"Though ne'er so cunningly you smother it."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men,"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"When for so slight and frivolous a cause"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Such factious emulations shall arise!"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Good cousins both, of York and Somerset,"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace."
IV,I,YORK,"Let this dissension first be tried by fight,"
IV,I,YORK,"And then your highness shall command a peace."
IV,I,SOMERSET,"The quarrel toucheth none but us alone;"
IV,I,SOMERSET,"Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then."
IV,I,YORK,"There is my pledge; accept it, Somerset."
IV,I,VERNON,"Nay, let it rest where it began at first."
IV,I,BASSET,"Confirm it so, mine honourable lord."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Confirm it so! Confounded be your strife!"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"And perish ye, with your audacious prate!"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Presumptuous vassals, are you not ashamed"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"With this immodest clamorous outrage"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"To trouble and disturb the king and us?"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"And you, my lords, methinks you do not well"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"To bear with their perverse objections;"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Much less to take occasion from their mouths"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves:"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Let me persuade you take a better course."
IV,I,EXETER,"It grieves his highness: good my lords, be friends."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Come hither, you that would be combatants:"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Henceforth I charge you, as you love our favour,"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"And you, my lords, remember where we are,"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"In France, amongst a fickle wavering nation:"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"If they perceive dissension in our looks"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"And that within ourselves we disagree,"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"How will their grudging stomachs be provoked"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"To wilful disobedience, and rebel!"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Beside, what infamy will there arise,"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"When foreign princes shall be certified"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"That for a toy, a thing of no regard,"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"King Henry's peers and chief nobility"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Destroy'd themselves, and lost the realm of France!"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"O, think upon the conquest of my father,"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"My tender years, and let us not forego"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"That for a trifle that was bought with blood"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"I see no reason, if I wear this rose,"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"That any one should therefore be suspicious"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"I more incline to Somerset than York:"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Both are my kinsmen, and I love them both:"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"As well they may upbraid me with my crown,"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Because, forsooth, the king of Scots is crown'd."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"But your discretions better can persuade"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Than I am able to instruct or teach:"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"And therefore, as we hither came in peace,"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"So let us still continue peace and love."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Cousin of York, we institute your grace"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"To be our regent in these parts of France:"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"And, good my Lord of Somerset, unite"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Your troops of horsemen with his bands of foot;"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"And, like true subjects, sons of your progenitors,"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Go cheerfully together and digest."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Your angry choler on your enemies."
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"Ourself, my lord protector and the rest"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"After some respite will return to Calais;"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"From thence to England; where I hope ere long"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"To be presented, by your victories,"
IV,I,KING HENRY VI,"With Charles, Alencon and that traitorous rout."
IV,I,WARWICK,"My Lord of York, I promise you, the king"
IV,I,WARWICK,"Prettily, methought, did play the orator."
IV,I,YORK,"And so he did; but yet I like it not,"
IV,I,YORK,"In that he wears the badge of Somerset."
IV,I,WARWICK,"Tush, that was but his fancy, blame him not;"
IV,I,WARWICK,"I dare presume, sweet prince, he thought no harm."
IV,I,YORK,"An if I wist he did,--but let it rest;"
IV,I,YORK,"Other affairs must now be managed."
IV,I,EXETER,"Well didst thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice;"
IV,I,EXETER,"For, had the passions of thy heart burst out,"
IV,I,EXETER,"I fear we should have seen decipher'd there"
IV,I,EXETER,"More rancorous spite, more furious raging broils,"
IV,I,EXETER,"Than yet can be imagined or supposed."
IV,I,EXETER,"But howsoe'er, no simple man that sees"
IV,I,EXETER,"This jarring discord of nobility,"
IV,I,EXETER,"This shouldering of each other in the court,"
IV,I,EXETER,"This factious bandying of their favourites,"
IV,I,EXETER,"But that it doth presage some ill event."
IV,I,EXETER,"'Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands;"
IV,I,EXETER,"But more when envy breeds unkind division;"
IV,I,EXETER,"There comes the rain, there begins confusion."
IV,II,TALBOT,"Go to the gates of Bourdeaux, trumpeter:"
IV,II,TALBOT,"Summon their general unto the wall."
IV,II,TALBOT,"English John Talbot, captains, calls you forth,"
IV,II,TALBOT,"Servant in arms to Harry King of England;"
IV,II,TALBOT,"And thus he would: Open your city gates;"
IV,II,TALBOT,"Be humble to us; call my sovereign yours,"
IV,II,TALBOT,"And do him homage as obedient subjects;"
IV,II,TALBOT,"And I'll withdraw me and my bloody power:"
IV,II,TALBOT,"But, if you frown upon this proffer'd peace,"
IV,II,TALBOT,"You tempt the fury of my three attendants,"
IV,II,TALBOT,"Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire;"
IV,II,TALBOT,"Who in a moment even with the earth"
IV,II,TALBOT,"Shall lay your stately and air-braving towers,"
IV,II,TALBOT,"If you forsake the offer of their love."
IV,II,General,"Thou ominous and fearful owl of death,"
IV,II,General,"Our nation's terror and their bloody scourge!"
IV,II,General,"The period of thy tyranny approacheth."
IV,II,General,"On us thou canst not enter but by death;"
IV,II,General,"For, I protest, we are well fortified"
IV,II,General,"And strong enough to issue out and fight:"
IV,II,General,"If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed,"
IV,II,General,"Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:"
IV,II,General,"On either hand thee there are squadrons pitch'd,"
IV,II,General,"To wall thee from the liberty of flight;"
IV,II,General,"And no way canst thou turn thee for redress,"
IV,II,General,"But death doth front thee with apparent spoil"
IV,II,General,"And pale destruction meets thee in the face."
IV,II,General,"Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament"
IV,II,General,"To rive their dangerous artillery"
IV,II,General,"Upon no Christian soul but English Talbot."
IV,II,General,"Lo, there thou stand'st, a breathing valiant man,"
IV,II,General,"Of an invincible unconquer'd spirit!"
IV,II,General,"This is the latest glory of thy praise"
IV,II,General,"That I, thy enemy, due thee withal;"
IV,II,General,"For ere the glass, that now begins to run,"
IV,II,General,"Finish the process of his sandy hour,"
IV,II,General,"These eyes, that see thee now well coloured,"
IV,II,General,"Shall see thee wither'd, bloody, pale and dead."
IV,II,General,"Hark! hark! the Dauphin's drum, a warning bell,"
IV,II,General,"Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul;"
IV,II,General,"And mine shall ring thy dire departure out."
IV,II,TALBOT,"He fables not; I hear the enemy:"
IV,II,TALBOT,"Out, some light horsemen, and peruse their wings."
IV,II,TALBOT,"O, negligent and heedless discipline!"
IV,II,TALBOT,"How are we park'd and bounded in a pale,"
IV,II,TALBOT,"A little herd of England's timorous deer,"
IV,II,TALBOT,"Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!"
IV,II,TALBOT,"If we be English deer, be then in blood;"
IV,II,TALBOT,"Not rascal-like, to fall down with a pinch,"
IV,II,TALBOT,"But rather, moody-mad and desperate stags,"
IV,II,TALBOT,"Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel"
IV,II,TALBOT,"And make the cowards stand aloof at bay:"
IV,II,TALBOT,"Sell every man his life as dear as mine,"
IV,II,TALBOT,"And they shall find dear deer of us, my friends."
IV,II,TALBOT,"God and Saint George, Talbot and England's right,"
IV,II,TALBOT,"Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight!"
IV,III,YORK,"Are not the speedy scouts return'd again,"
IV,III,YORK,"That dogg'd the mighty army of the Dauphin?"
IV,III,Messenger,"They are return'd, my lord, and give it out"
IV,III,Messenger,"That he is march'd to Bourdeaux with his power,"
IV,III,Messenger,"To fight with Talbot: as he march'd along,"
IV,III,Messenger,"By your espials were discovered"
IV,III,Messenger,"Two mightier troops than that the Dauphin led,"
IV,III,Messenger,"Which join'd with him and made their march for Bourdeaux."
IV,III,YORK,"A plague upon that villain Somerset,"
IV,III,YORK,"That thus delays my promised supply"
IV,III,YORK,"Of horsemen, that were levied for this siege!"
IV,III,YORK,"Renowned Talbot doth expect my aid,"
IV,III,YORK,"And I am lowted by a traitor villain"
IV,III,YORK,"And cannot help the noble chevalier:"
IV,III,YORK,"God comfort him in this necessity!"
IV,III,YORK,"If he miscarry, farewell wars in France."
IV,III,LUCY,"Thou princely leader of our English strength,"
IV,III,LUCY,"Never so needful on the earth of France,"
IV,III,LUCY,"Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot,"
IV,III,LUCY,"Who now is girdled with a waist of iron"
IV,III,LUCY,"And hemm'd about with grim destruction:"
IV,III,LUCY,"To Bourdeaux, warlike duke! to Bourdeaux, York!"
IV,III,LUCY,"Else, farewell Talbot, France, and England's honour."
IV,III,YORK,"O God, that Somerset, who in proud heart"
IV,III,YORK,"Doth stop my cornets, were in Talbot's place!"
IV,III,YORK,"So should we save a valiant gentleman"
IV,III,YORK,"By forfeiting a traitor and a coward."
IV,III,YORK,"Mad ire and wrathful fury makes me weep,"
IV,III,YORK,"That thus we die, while remiss traitors sleep."
IV,III,LUCY,"O, send some succor to the distress'd lord!"
IV,III,YORK,"He dies, we lose; I break my warlike word;"
IV,III,YORK,"We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get;"
IV,III,YORK,"All 'long of this vile traitor Somerset."
IV,III,LUCY,"Then God take mercy on brave Talbot's soul;"
IV,III,LUCY,"And on his son young John, who two hours since"
IV,III,LUCY,"I met in travel toward his warlike father!"
IV,III,LUCY,"This seven years did not Talbot see his son;"
IV,III,LUCY,"And now they meet where both their lives are done."
IV,III,YORK,"Alas, what joy shall noble Talbot have"
IV,III,YORK,"To bid his young son welcome to his grave?"
IV,III,YORK,"Away! vexation almost stops my breath,"
IV,III,YORK,"That sunder'd friends greet in the hour of death."
IV,III,YORK,"Lucy, farewell; no more my fortune can,"
IV,III,YORK,"But curse the cause I cannot aid the man."
IV,III,YORK,"Maine, Blois, Poictiers, and Tours, are won away,"
IV,III,YORK,"'Long all of Somerset and his delay."
IV,III,LUCY,"Thus, while the vulture of sedition"
IV,III,LUCY,"Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders,"
IV,III,LUCY,"Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss"
IV,III,LUCY,"The conquest of our scarce cold conqueror,"
IV,III,LUCY,"That ever living man of memory,"
IV,III,LUCY,"Henry the Fifth: whiles they each other cross,"
IV,III,LUCY,"Lives, honours, lands and all hurry to loss."
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"It is too late; I cannot send them now:"
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"This expedition was by York and Talbot"
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"Too rashly plotted: all our general force"
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"Might with a sally of the very town"
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"Be buckled with: the over-daring Talbot"
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour"
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure:"
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"York set him on to fight and die in shame,"
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"That, Talbot dead, great York might bear the name."
IV,IV,Captain,"Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me"
IV,IV,Captain,"Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid."
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"How now, Sir William! whither were you sent?"
IV,IV,LUCY,"Whither, my lord? from bought and sold Lord Talbot;"
IV,IV,LUCY,"Who, ring'd about with bold adversity,"
IV,IV,LUCY,"Cries out for noble York and Somerset,"
IV,IV,LUCY,"To beat assailing death from his weak legions:"
IV,IV,LUCY,"And whiles the honourable captain there"
IV,IV,LUCY,"Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs,"
IV,IV,LUCY,"And, in advantage lingering, looks for rescue,"
IV,IV,LUCY,"You, his false hopes, the trust of England's honour,"
IV,IV,LUCY,"Keep off aloof with worthless emulation."
IV,IV,LUCY,"Let not your private discord keep away"
IV,IV,LUCY,"The levied succors that should lend him aid,"
IV,IV,LUCY,"While he, renowned noble gentleman,"
IV,IV,LUCY,"Yields up his life unto a world of odds:"
IV,IV,LUCY,"Orleans the Bastard, Charles, Burgundy,"
IV,IV,LUCY,"Alencon, Reignier, compass him about,"
IV,IV,LUCY,"And Talbot perisheth by your default."
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"York set him on; York should have sent him aid."
IV,IV,LUCY,"And York as fast upon your grace exclaims;"
IV,IV,LUCY,"Swearing that you withhold his levied host,"
IV,IV,LUCY,"Collected for this expedition."
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"York lies; he might have sent and had the horse;"
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"I owe him little duty, and less love;"
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending."
IV,IV,LUCY,"The fraud of England, not the force of France,"
IV,IV,LUCY,"Hath now entrapp'd the noble-minded Talbot:"
IV,IV,LUCY,"Never to England shall he bear his life;"
IV,IV,LUCY,"But dies, betray'd to fortune by your strife."
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"Come, go; I will dispatch the horsemen straight:"
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"Within six hours they will be at his aid."
IV,IV,LUCY,"Too late comes rescue: he is ta'en or slain;"
IV,IV,LUCY,"For fly he could not, if he would have fled;"
IV,IV,LUCY,"And fly would Talbot never, though he might."
IV,IV,SOMERSET,"If he be dead, brave Talbot, then adieu!"
IV,IV,LUCY,"His fame lives in the world, his shame in you."
IV,V,TALBOT,"O young John Talbot! I did send for thee"
IV,V,TALBOT,"To tutor thee in stratagems of war,"
IV,V,TALBOT,"That Talbot's name might be in thee revived"
IV,V,TALBOT,"When sapless age and weak unable limbs"
IV,V,TALBOT,"Should bring thy father to his drooping chair."
IV,V,TALBOT,"But, O malignant and ill-boding stars!"
IV,V,TALBOT,"Now thou art come unto a feast of death,"
IV,V,TALBOT,"A terrible and unavoided danger:"
IV,V,TALBOT,"Therefore, dear boy, mount on my swiftest horse;"
IV,V,TALBOT,"And I'll direct thee how thou shalt escape"
IV,V,TALBOT,"By sudden flight: come, dally not, be gone."
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"Is my name Talbot? and am I your son?"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"And shall I fly? O if you love my mother,"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"Dishonour not her honourable name,"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"To make a bastard and a slave of me!"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"The world will say, he is not Talbot's blood,"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"That basely fled when noble Talbot stood."
IV,V,TALBOT,"Fly, to revenge my death, if I be slain."
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"He that flies so will ne'er return again."
IV,V,TALBOT,"If we both stay, we both are sure to die."
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"Then let me stay; and, father, do you fly:"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"Your loss is great, so your regard should be;"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"My worth unknown, no loss is known in me."
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"Upon my death the French can little boast;"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"In yours they will, in you all hopes are lost."
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"Flight cannot stain the honour you have won;"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"But mine it will, that no exploit have done:"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"You fled for vantage, everyone will swear;"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"But, if I bow, they'll say it was for fear."
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"There is no hope that ever I will stay,"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"If the first hour I shrink and run away."
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"Here on my knee I beg mortality,"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"Rather than life preserved with infamy."
IV,V,TALBOT,"Shall all thy mother's hopes lie in one tomb?"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"Ay, rather than I'll shame my mother's womb."
IV,V,TALBOT,"Upon my blessing, I command thee go."
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"To fight I will, but not to fly the foe."
IV,V,TALBOT,"Part of thy father may be saved in thee."
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"No part of him but will be shame in me."
IV,V,TALBOT,"Thou never hadst renown, nor canst not lose it."
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"Yes, your renowned name: shall flight abuse it?"
IV,V,TALBOT,"Thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain."
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"You cannot witness for me, being slain."
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"If death be so apparent, then both fly."
IV,V,TALBOT,"And leave my followers here to fight and die?"
IV,V,TALBOT,"My age was never tainted with such shame."
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"And shall my youth be guilty of such blame?"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"No more can I be sever'd from your side,"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"Than can yourself yourself in twain divide:"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"Stay, go, do what you will, the like do I;"
IV,V,JOHN TALBOT,"For live I will not, if my father die."
IV,V,TALBOT,"Then here I take my leave of thee, fair son,"
IV,V,TALBOT,"Born to eclipse thy life this afternoon."
IV,V,TALBOT,"Come, side by side together live and die."
IV,V,TALBOT,"And soul with soul from France to heaven fly."
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Saint George and victory! fight, soldiers, fight."
IV,VI,TALBOT,"The regent hath with Talbot broke his word"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"And left us to the rage of France his sword."
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Where is John Talbot? Pause, and take thy breath;"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"I gave thee life and rescued thee from death."
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"O, twice my father, twice am I thy son!"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"The life thou gavest me first was lost and done,"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"Till with thy warlike sword, despite of late,"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"To my determined time thou gavest new date."
IV,VI,TALBOT,"When from the Dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire,"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"It warm'd thy father's heart with proud desire"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Of bold-faced victory. Then leaden age,"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Quicken'd with youthful spleen and warlike rage,"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Beat down Alencon, Orleans, Burgundy,"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"And from the pride of Gallia rescued thee."
IV,VI,TALBOT,"The ireful bastard Orleans, that drew blood"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"From thee, my boy, and had the maidenhood"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Of thy first fight, I soon encountered,"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"And interchanging blows I quickly shed"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Some of his bastard blood; and in disgrace"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Bespoke him thus; 'Contaminated, base"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"And misbegotten blood I spill of thine,"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Mean and right poor, for that pure blood of mine"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Which thou didst force from Talbot, my brave boy:'"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Here, purposing the Bastard to destroy,"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Came in strong rescue. Speak, thy father's care,"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Art thou not weary, John? how dost thou fare?"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Wilt thou yet leave the battle, boy, and fly,"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Now thou art seal'd the son of chivalry?"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Fly, to revenge my death when I am dead:"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"The help of one stands me in little stead."
IV,VI,TALBOT,"O, too much folly is it, well I wot,"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"To hazard all our lives in one small boat!"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"If I to-day die not with Frenchmen's rage,"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"To-morrow I shall die with mickle age:"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"By me they nothing gain an if I stay;"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"'Tis but the shortening of my life one day:"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"In thee thy mother dies, our household's name,"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame:"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"All these and more we hazard by thy stay;"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"All these are saved if thou wilt fly away."
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"The sword of Orleans hath not made me smart;"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"These words of yours draw life-blood from my heart:"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"On that advantage, bought with such a shame,"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"To save a paltry life and slay bright fame,"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"Before young Talbot from old Talbot fly,"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"The coward horse that bears me fail and die!"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"And like me to the peasant boys of France,"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"To be shame's scorn and subject of mischance!"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"Surely, by all the glory you have won,"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"An if I fly, I am not Talbot's son:"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot;"
IV,VI,JOHN TALBOT,"If son to Talbot, die at Talbot's foot."
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete,"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"Thou Icarus; thy life to me is sweet:"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"If thou wilt fight, fight by thy father's side;"
IV,VI,TALBOT,"And, commendable proved, let's die in pride."
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Where is my other life? mine own is gone;"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"O, where's young Talbot? where is valiant John?"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Triumphant death, smear'd with captivity,"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Young Talbot's valour makes me smile at thee:"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"When he perceived me shrink and on my knee,"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"His bloody sword he brandish'd over me,"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"And, like a hungry lion, did commence"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience;"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"But when my angry guardant stood alone,"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Tendering my ruin and assail'd of none,"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Dizzy-eyed fury and great rage of heart"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Suddenly made him from my side to start"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Into the clustering battle of the French;"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"And in that sea of blood my boy did drench"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"His over-mounting spirit, and there died,"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"My Icarus, my blossom, in his pride."
IV,VII,Servant,"O, my dear lord, lo, where your son is borne!"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Thou antic death, which laugh'st us here to scorn,"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Anon, from thy insulting tyranny,"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Coupled in bonds of perpetuity,"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Two Talbots, winged through the lither sky,"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"In thy despite shall 'scape mortality."
IV,VII,TALBOT,"O, thou, whose wounds become hard-favour'd death,"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Speak to thy father ere thou yield thy breath!"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Brave death by speaking, whether he will or no;"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Imagine him a Frenchman and thy foe."
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Poor boy! he smiles, methinks, as who should say,"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Had death been French, then death had died to-day."
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Come, come and lay him in his father's arms:"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"My spirit can no longer bear these harms."
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Soldiers, adieu! I have what I would have,"
IV,VII,TALBOT,"Now my old arms are young John Talbot's grave."
IV,VII,CHARLES,"Had York and Somerset brought rescue in,"
IV,VII,CHARLES,"We should have found a bloody day of this."
IV,VII,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging-wood,"
IV,VII,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood!"
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Once I encounter'd him, and thus I said:"
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"'Thou maiden youth, be vanquish'd by a maid:'"
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"But, with a proud majestical high scorn,"
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"He answer'd thus: 'Young Talbot was not born"
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"To be the pillage of a giglot wench:'"
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"So, rushing in the bowels of the French,"
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"He left me proudly, as unworthy fight."
IV,VII,BURGUNDY,"Doubtless he would have made a noble knight;"
IV,VII,BURGUNDY,"See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms"
IV,VII,BURGUNDY,"Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!"
IV,VII,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder"
IV,VII,BASTARD OF ORLEANS,"Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's wonder."
IV,VII,CHARLES,"O, no, forbear! for that which we have fled"
IV,VII,CHARLES,"During the life, let us not wrong it dead."
IV,VII,LUCY,"Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin's tent,"
IV,VII,LUCY,"To know who hath obtained the glory of the day."
IV,VII,CHARLES,"On what submissive message art thou sent?"
IV,VII,LUCY,"Submission, Dauphin! 'tis a mere French word;"
IV,VII,LUCY,"We English warriors wot not what it means."
IV,VII,LUCY,"I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta'en"
IV,VII,LUCY,"And to survey the bodies of the dead."
IV,VII,CHARLES,"For prisoners ask'st thou? hell our prison is."
IV,VII,CHARLES,"But tell me whom thou seek'st."
IV,VII,LUCY,"But where's the great Alcides of the field,"
IV,VII,LUCY,"Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,"
IV,VII,LUCY,"Created, for his rare success in arms,"
IV,VII,LUCY,"Great Earl of Washford, Waterford and Valence;"
IV,VII,LUCY,"Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinfield,"
IV,VII,LUCY,"Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton,"
IV,VII,LUCY,"Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Furnival of Sheffield,"
IV,VII,LUCY,"The thrice-victorious Lord of Falconbridge;"
IV,VII,LUCY,"Knight of the noble order of Saint George,"
IV,VII,LUCY,"Worthy Saint Michael and the Golden Fleece;"
IV,VII,LUCY,"Great marshal to Henry the Sixth"
IV,VII,LUCY,"Of all his wars within the realm of France?"
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Here is a silly stately style indeed!"
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"The Turk, that two and fifty kingdoms hath,"
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Writes not so tedious a style as this."
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles"
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet."
IV,VII,LUCY,"Is Talbot slain, the Frenchmen's only scourge,"
IV,VII,LUCY,"Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis?"
IV,VII,LUCY,"O, were mine eyeballs into bullets turn'd,"
IV,VII,LUCY,"That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!"
IV,VII,LUCY,"O, that I could but call these dead to life!"
IV,VII,LUCY,"It were enough to fright the realm of France:"
IV,VII,LUCY,"Were but his picture left amongst you here,"
IV,VII,LUCY,"It would amaze the proudest of you all."
IV,VII,LUCY,"Give me their bodies, that I may bear them hence"
IV,VII,LUCY,"And give them burial as beseems their worth."
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"I think this upstart is old Talbot's ghost,"
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit."
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"For God's sake let him have 'em; to keep them here,"
IV,VII,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"They would but stink, and putrefy the air."
IV,VII,CHARLES,"Go, take their bodies hence."
IV,VII,LUCY,"I'll bear them hence; but from their ashes shall be rear'd"
IV,VII,LUCY,"A phoenix that shall make all France afeard."
IV,VII,CHARLES,"So we be rid of them, do with 'em what thou wilt."
IV,VII,CHARLES,"And now to Paris, in this conquering vein:"
IV,VII,CHARLES,"All will be ours, now bloody Talbot's slain."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Have you perused the letters from the pope,"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"The emperor and the Earl of Armagnac?"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"I have, my lord: and their intent is this:"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"They humbly sue unto your excellence"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"To have a godly peace concluded of"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Between the realms of England and of France."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"How doth your grace affect their motion?"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Well, my good lord; and as the only means"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"To stop effusion of our Christian blood"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"And 'stablish quietness on every side."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"It was both impious and unnatural"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"That such immanity and bloody strife"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Should reign among professors of one faith."
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Beside, my lord, the sooner to effect"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"And surer bind this knot of amity,"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles,"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"A man of great authority in France,"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Proffers his only daughter to your grace"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Marriage, uncle! alas, my years are young!"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"And fitter is my study and my books"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Than wanton dalliance with a paramour."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Yet call the ambassador; and, as you please,"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"So let them have their answers every one:"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"I shall be well content with any choice"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Tends to God's glory and my country's weal."
V,I,EXETER,"What! is my Lord of Winchester install'd,"
V,I,EXETER,"And call'd unto a cardinal's degree?"
V,I,EXETER,"Then I perceive that will be verified"
V,I,EXETER,"Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy,"
V,I,EXETER,"'If once he come to be a cardinal,"
V,I,EXETER,"He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown.'"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"My lords ambassadors, your several suits"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Have been consider'd and debated on."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"And therefore are we certainly resolved"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"To draw conditions of a friendly peace;"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Which by my Lord of Winchester we mean"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Shall be transported presently to France."
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"And for the proffer of my lord your master,"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"I have inform'd his highness so at large"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"As liking of the lady's virtuous gifts,"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Her beauty and the value of her dower,"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"He doth intend she shall be England's queen."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"In argument and proof of which contract,"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"And so, my lord protector, see them guarded"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"And safely brought to Dover; where inshipp'd"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Commit them to the fortune of the sea."
V,I,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"Stay, my lord legate: you shall first receive"
V,I,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"The sum of money which I promised"
V,I,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"Should be deliver'd to his holiness"
V,I,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"For clothing me in these grave ornaments."
V,I,Legate,"I will attend upon your lordship's leisure."
V,I,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"Or be inferior to the proudest peer."
V,I,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive"
V,I,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"That, neither in birth or for authority,"
V,I,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"The bishop will be overborne by thee:"
V,I,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"I'll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,"
V,I,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"Or sack this country with a mutiny."
V,II,CHARLES,"These news, my lord, may cheer our drooping spirits:"
V,II,CHARLES,"'Tis said the stout Parisians do revolt"
V,II,CHARLES,"And turn again unto the warlike French."
V,II,ALENCON,"Then march to Paris, royal Charles of France,"
V,II,ALENCON,"And keep not back your powers in dalliance."
V,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Peace be amongst them, if they turn to us;"
V,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Else, ruin combat with their palaces!"
V,II,Scout,"Success unto our valiant general,"
V,II,Scout,"And happiness to his accomplices!"
V,II,CHARLES,"What tidings send our scouts? I prithee, speak."
V,II,Scout,"The English army, that divided was"
V,II,Scout,"Into two parties, is now conjoined in one,"
V,II,Scout,"And means to give you battle presently."
V,II,CHARLES,"Somewhat too sudden, sirs, the warning is;"
V,II,CHARLES,"But we will presently provide for them."
V,II,BURGUNDY,"I trust the ghost of Talbot is not there:"
V,II,BURGUNDY,"Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear."
V,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Of all base passions, fear is most accursed."
V,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Command the conquest, Charles, it shall be thine,"
V,II,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Let Henry fret and all the world repine."
V,II,CHARLES,"Then on, my lords; and France be fortunate!"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"The regent conquers, and the Frenchmen fly."
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Now help, ye charming spells and periapts;"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And ye choice spirits that admonish me"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And give me signs of future accidents."
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"You speedy helpers, that are substitutes"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Under the lordly monarch of the north,"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Appear and aid me in this enterprise."
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"This speedy and quick appearance argues proof"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Of your accustom'd diligence to me."
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Now, ye familiar spirits, that are cull'd"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Out of the powerful regions under earth,"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Help me this once, that France may get the field."
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"O, hold me not with silence over-long!"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Where I was wont to feed you with my blood,"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"I'll lop a member off and give it you"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"In earnest of further benefit,"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"So you do condescend to help me now."
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"No hope to have redress? My body shall"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Pay recompense, if you will grant my suit."
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Cannot my body nor blood-sacrifice"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Entreat you to your wonted furtherance?"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Then take my soul, my body, soul and all,"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Before that England give the French the foil."
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"See, they forsake me! Now the time is come"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And let her head fall into England's lap."
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"My ancient incantations are too weak,"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And hell too strong for me to buckle with:"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Now, France, thy glory droopeth to the dust."
V,III,YORK,"Damsel of France, I think I have you fast:"
V,III,YORK,"Unchain your spirits now with spelling charms"
V,III,YORK,"And try if they can gain your liberty."
V,III,YORK,"A goodly prize, fit for the devil's grace!"
V,III,YORK,"See, how the ugly wench doth bend her brows,"
V,III,YORK,"As if with Circe she would change my shape!"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Changed to a worser shape thou canst not be."
V,III,YORK,"O, Charles the Dauphin is a proper man;"
V,III,YORK,"No shape but his can please your dainty eye."
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"A plaguing mischief light on Charles and thee!"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"And may ye both be suddenly surprised"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"By bloody hands, in sleeping on your beds!"
V,III,YORK,"Fell banning hag, enchantress, hold thy tongue!"
V,III,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"I prithee, give me leave to curse awhile."
V,III,YORK,"Curse, miscreant, when thou comest to the stake."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Be what thou wilt, thou art my prisoner."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"O fairest beauty, do not fear nor fly!"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"For I will touch thee but with reverent hands;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"I kiss these fingers for eternal peace,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And lay them gently on thy tender side."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Who art thou? say, that I may honour thee."
V,III,MARGARET,"Margaret my name, and daughter to a king,"
V,III,MARGARET,"The King of Naples, whosoe'er thou art."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"An earl I am, and Suffolk am I call'd."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Be not offended, nature's miracle,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Thou art allotted to be ta'en by me:"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"So doth the swan her downy cygnets save,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Keeping them prisoner underneath her wings."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Yet, if this servile usage once offend."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Go, and be free again, as Suffolk's friend."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"O, stay! I have no power to let her pass;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"My hand would free her, but my heart says no"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"As plays the sun upon the glassy streams,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Twinkling another counterfeited beam,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Fain would I woo her, yet I dare not speak:"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Fie, de la Pole! disable not thyself;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Hast not a tongue? is she not here?"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight?"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Ay, beauty's princely majesty is such,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough."
V,III,MARGARET,"Say, Earl of Suffolk--if thy name be so--"
V,III,MARGARET,"What ransom must I pay before I pass?"
V,III,MARGARET,"For I perceive I am thy prisoner."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"How canst thou tell she will deny thy suit,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Before thou make a trial of her love?"
V,III,MARGARET,"Why speak'st thou not? what ransom must I pay?"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"She is a woman, therefore to be won."
V,III,MARGARET,"Wilt thou accept of ransom? yea, or no."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Fond man, remember that thou hast a wife;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Then how can Margaret be thy paramour?"
V,III,MARGARET,"I were best to leave him, for he will not hear."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"There all is marr'd; there lies a cooling card."
V,III,MARGARET,"He talks at random; sure, the man is mad."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And yet a dispensation may be had."
V,III,MARGARET,"And yet I would that you would answer me."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"I'll win this Lady Margaret. For whom?"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Why, for my king: tush, that's a wooden thing!"
V,III,MARGARET,"He talks of wood: it is some carpenter."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Yet so my fancy may be satisfied,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And peace established between these realms"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"But there remains a scruple in that too;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"For though her father be the King of Naples,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Duke of Anjou and Maine, yet is he poor,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And our nobility will scorn the match."
V,III,MARGARET,"Hear ye, captain, are you not at leisure?"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"It shall be so, disdain they ne'er so much."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Henry is youthful and will quickly yield."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Madam, I have a secret to reveal."
V,III,MARGARET,"What though I be enthrall'd? he seems a knight,"
V,III,MARGARET,"And will not any way dishonour me."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say."
V,III,MARGARET,"Perhaps I shall be rescued by the French;"
V,III,MARGARET,"And then I need not crave his courtesy."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Sweet madam, give me a hearing in a cause--"
V,III,MARGARET,"Tush, women have been captivate ere now."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Lady, wherefore talk you so?"
V,III,MARGARET,"I cry you mercy, 'tis but Quid for Quo."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Say, gentle princess, would you not suppose"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Your bondage happy, to be made a queen?"
V,III,MARGARET,"To be a queen in bondage is more vile"
V,III,MARGARET,"Than is a slave in base servility;"
V,III,MARGARET,"For princes should be free."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And so shall you,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"If happy England's royal king be free."
V,III,MARGARET,"Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"I'll undertake to make thee Henry's queen,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"To put a golden sceptre in thy hand"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And set a precious crown upon thy head,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"If thou wilt condescend to be my--"
V,III,MARGARET,"What?"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"His love."
V,III,MARGARET,"I am unworthy to be Henry's wife."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"No, gentle madam; I unworthy am"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"To woo so fair a dame to be his wife,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And have no portion in the choice myself."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"How say you, madam, are ye so content?"
V,III,MARGARET,"An if my father please, I am content."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Then call our captains and our colours forth."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And, madam, at your father's castle walls"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"We'll crave a parley, to confer with him."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"See, Reignier, see, thy daughter prisoner!"
V,III,REIGNIER,"To whom?"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"To me."
V,III,REIGNIER,"Suffolk, what remedy?"
V,III,REIGNIER,"I am a soldier, and unapt to weep,"
V,III,REIGNIER,"Or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Yes, there is remedy enough, my lord:"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Consent, and for thy honour give consent,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Thy daughter shall be wedded to my king;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Whom I with pain have woo'd and won thereto;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And this her easy-held imprisonment"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Hath gained thy daughter princely liberty."
V,III,REIGNIER,"Speaks Suffolk as he thinks?"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Fair Margaret knows"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"That Suffolk doth not flatter, face, or feign."
V,III,REIGNIER,"Upon thy princely warrant, I descend"
V,III,REIGNIER,"To give thee answer of thy just demand."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And here I will expect thy coming."
V,III,REIGNIER,"Welcome, brave earl, into our territories:"
V,III,REIGNIER,"Command in Anjou what your honour pleases."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Thanks, Reignier, happy for so sweet a child,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Fit to be made companion with a king:"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"What answer makes your grace unto my suit?"
V,III,REIGNIER,"Since thou dost deign to woo her little worth"
V,III,REIGNIER,"To be the princely bride of such a lord;"
V,III,REIGNIER,"Upon condition I may quietly"
V,III,REIGNIER,"Enjoy mine own, the country Maine and Anjou,"
V,III,REIGNIER,"Free from oppression or the stroke of war,"
V,III,REIGNIER,"My daughter shall be Henry's, if he please."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"That is her ransom; I deliver her;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And those two counties I will undertake"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Your grace shall well and quietly enjoy."
V,III,REIGNIER,"And I again, in Henry's royal name,"
V,III,REIGNIER,"As deputy unto that gracious king,"
V,III,REIGNIER,"Give thee her hand, for sign of plighted faith."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Reignier of France, I give thee kingly thanks,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Because this is in traffic of a king."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And yet, methinks, I could be well content"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"To be mine own attorney in this case."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"I'll over then to England with this news,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And make this marriage to be solemnized."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"So farewell, Reignier: set this diamond safe"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"In golden palaces, as it becomes."
V,III,REIGNIER,"I do embrace thee, as I would embrace"
V,III,REIGNIER,"The Christian prince, King Henry, were he here."
V,III,MARGARET,"Farewell, my lord: good wishes, praise and prayers"
V,III,MARGARET,"Shall Suffolk ever have of Margaret."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Farewell, sweet madam: but hark you, Margaret;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"No princely commendations to my king?"
V,III,MARGARET,"Such commendations as becomes a maid,"
V,III,MARGARET,"A virgin and his servant, say to him."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Words sweetly placed and modestly directed."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"But madam, I must trouble you again;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"No loving token to his majesty?"
V,III,MARGARET,"Yes, my good lord, a pure unspotted heart,"
V,III,MARGARET,"Never yet taint with love, I send the king."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And this withal."
V,III,MARGARET,"That for thyself: I will not so presume"
V,III,MARGARET,"To send such peevish tokens to a king."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"O, wert thou for myself! But, Suffolk, stay;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Thou mayst not wander in that labyrinth;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"There Minotaurs and ugly treasons lurk."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Solicit Henry with her wondrous praise:"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And natural graces that extinguish art;"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Repeat their semblance often on the seas,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"That, when thou comest to kneel at Henry's feet,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Thou mayst bereave him of his wits with wonder."
V,IV,YORK,"Bring forth that sorceress condemn'd to burn."
V,IV,Shepherd,"Ah, Joan, this kills thy father's heart outright!"
V,IV,Shepherd,"Have I sought every country far and near,"
V,IV,Shepherd,"And, now it is my chance to find thee out,"
V,IV,Shepherd,"Must I behold thy timeless cruel death?"
V,IV,Shepherd,"Ah, Joan, sweet daughter Joan, I'll die with thee!"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch!"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"I am descended of a gentler blood:"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Thou art no father nor no friend of mine."
V,IV,Shepherd,"Out, out! My lords, an please you, 'tis not so;"
V,IV,Shepherd,"I did beget her, all the parish knows:"
V,IV,Shepherd,"Her mother liveth yet, can testify"
V,IV,Shepherd,"She was the first fruit of my bachelorship."
V,IV,WARWICK,"Graceless! wilt thou deny thy parentage?"
V,IV,YORK,"This argues what her kind of life hath been,"
V,IV,YORK,"Wicked and vile; and so her death concludes."
V,IV,Shepherd,"Fie, Joan, that thou wilt be so obstacle!"
V,IV,Shepherd,"God knows thou art a collop of my flesh;"
V,IV,Shepherd,"And for thy sake have I shed many a tear:"
V,IV,Shepherd,"Deny me not, I prithee, gentle Joan."
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Peasant, avaunt! You have suborn'd this man,"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Of purpose to obscure my noble birth."
V,IV,Shepherd,"'Tis true, I gave a noble to the priest"
V,IV,Shepherd,"The morn that I was wedded to her mother."
V,IV,Shepherd,"Kneel down and take my blessing, good my girl."
V,IV,Shepherd,"Wilt thou not stoop? Now cursed be the time"
V,IV,Shepherd,"Of thy nativity! I would the milk"
V,IV,Shepherd,"Thy mother gave thee when thou suck'dst her breast,"
V,IV,Shepherd,"Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake!"
V,IV,Shepherd,"Or else, when thou didst keep my lambs a-field,"
V,IV,Shepherd,"I wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee!"
V,IV,Shepherd,"Dost thou deny thy father, cursed drab?"
V,IV,Shepherd,"O, burn her, burn her! hanging is too good."
V,IV,YORK,"Take her away; for she hath lived too long,"
V,IV,YORK,"To fill the world with vicious qualities."
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"First, let me tell you whom you have condemn'd:"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Not me begotten of a shepherd swain,"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"But issued from the progeny of kings;"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Virtuous and holy; chosen from above,"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"By inspiration of celestial grace,"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"To work exceeding miracles on earth."
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"I never had to do with wicked spirits:"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"But you, that are polluted with your lusts,"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Stain'd with the guiltless blood of innocents,"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices,"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Because you want the grace that others have,"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"You judge it straight a thing impossible"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"To compass wonders but by help of devils."
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"No, misconceived! Joan of Arc hath been"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"A virgin from her tender infancy,"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Chaste and immaculate in very thought;"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Whose maiden blood, thus rigorously effused,"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Will cry for vengeance at the gates of heaven."
V,IV,YORK,"Ay, ay: away with her to execution!"
V,IV,WARWICK,"And hark ye, sirs; because she is a maid,"
V,IV,WARWICK,"Spare for no faggots, let there be enow:"
V,IV,WARWICK,"Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake,"
V,IV,WARWICK,"That so her torture may be shortened."
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Will nothing turn your unrelenting hearts?"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Then, Joan, discover thine infirmity,"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"That warranteth by law to be thy privilege."
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"I am with child, ye bloody homicides:"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Murder not then the fruit within my womb,"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Although ye hale me to a violent death."
V,IV,YORK,"Now heaven forfend! the holy maid with child!"
V,IV,WARWICK,"The greatest miracle that e'er ye wrought:"
V,IV,WARWICK,"Is all your strict preciseness come to this?"
V,IV,YORK,"She and the Dauphin have been juggling:"
V,IV,YORK,"I did imagine what would be her refuge."
V,IV,WARWICK,"Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live;"
V,IV,WARWICK,"Especially since Charles must father it."
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"You are deceived; my child is none of his:"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"It was Alencon that enjoy'd my love."
V,IV,YORK,"Alencon! that notorious Machiavel!"
V,IV,YORK,"It dies, an if it had a thousand lives."
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"O, give me leave, I have deluded you:"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"'Twas neither Charles nor yet the duke I named,"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"But Reignier, king of Naples, that prevail'd."
V,IV,WARWICK,"A married man! that's most intolerable."
V,IV,YORK,"Why, here's a girl! I think she knows not well,"
V,IV,YORK,"There were so many, whom she may accuse."
V,IV,WARWICK,"It's sign she hath been liberal and free."
V,IV,YORK,"And yet, forsooth, she is a virgin pure."
V,IV,YORK,"Strumpet, thy words condemn thy brat and thee:"
V,IV,YORK,"Use no entreaty, for it is in vain."
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Then lead me hence; with whom I leave my curse:"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"May never glorious sun reflex his beams"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Upon the country where you make abode;"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"But darkness and the gloomy shade of death"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Environ you, till mischief and despair"
V,IV,JOAN LA PUCELLE,"Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!"
V,IV,YORK,"Break thou in pieces and consume to ashes,"
V,IV,YORK,"Thou foul accursed minister of hell!"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"Lord regent, I do greet your excellence"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"With letters of commission from the king."
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"For know, my lords, the states of Christendom,"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils,"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"Have earnestly implored a general peace"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French;"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"And here at hand the Dauphin and his train"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"Approacheth, to confer about some matter."
V,IV,YORK,"Is all our travail turn'd to this effect?"
V,IV,YORK,"After the slaughter of so many peers,"
V,IV,YORK,"So many captains, gentlemen and soldiers,"
V,IV,YORK,"That in this quarrel have been overthrown"
V,IV,YORK,"And sold their bodies for their country's benefit,"
V,IV,YORK,"Shall we at last conclude effeminate peace?"
V,IV,YORK,"Have we not lost most part of all the towns,"
V,IV,YORK,"By treason, falsehood and by treachery,"
V,IV,YORK,"Our great progenitors had conquered?"
V,IV,YORK,"O Warwick, Warwick! I foresee with grief"
V,IV,YORK,"The utter loss of all the realm of France."
V,IV,WARWICK,"Be patient, York: if we conclude a peace,"
V,IV,WARWICK,"It shall be with such strict and severe covenants"
V,IV,WARWICK,"As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby."
V,IV,CHARLES,"Since, lords of England, it is thus agreed"
V,IV,CHARLES,"That peaceful truce shall be proclaim'd in France,"
V,IV,CHARLES,"We come to be informed by yourselves"
V,IV,CHARLES,"What the conditions of that league must be."
V,IV,YORK,"Speak, Winchester; for boiling choler chokes"
V,IV,YORK,"The hollow passage of my poison'd voice,"
V,IV,YORK,"By sight of these our baleful enemies."
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"Charles, and the rest, it is enacted thus:"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"That, in regard King Henry gives consent,"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"Of mere compassion and of lenity,"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"To ease your country of distressful war,"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"And suffer you to breathe in fruitful peace,"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"You shall become true liegemen to his crown:"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"And Charles, upon condition thou wilt swear"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"To pay him tribute, submit thyself,"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"Thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him,"
V,IV,CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER,"And still enjoy thy regal dignity."
V,IV,ALENCON,"Must he be then as shadow of himself?"
V,IV,ALENCON,"Adorn his temples with a coronet,"
V,IV,ALENCON,"And yet, in substance and authority,"
V,IV,ALENCON,"Retain but privilege of a private man?"
V,IV,ALENCON,"This proffer is absurd and reasonless."
V,IV,CHARLES,"'Tis known already that I am possess'd"
V,IV,CHARLES,"With more than half the Gallian territories,"
V,IV,CHARLES,"And therein reverenced for their lawful king:"
V,IV,CHARLES,"Shall I, for lucre of the rest unvanquish'd,"
V,IV,CHARLES,"Detract so much from that prerogative,"
V,IV,CHARLES,"As to be call'd but viceroy of the whole?"
V,IV,CHARLES,"No, lord ambassador, I'll rather keep"
V,IV,CHARLES,"That which I have than, coveting for more,"
V,IV,CHARLES,"Be cast from possibility of all."
V,IV,YORK,"Insulting Charles! hast thou by secret means"
V,IV,YORK,"Used intercession to obtain a league,"
V,IV,YORK,"And, now the matter grows to compromise,"
V,IV,YORK,"Stand'st thou aloof upon comparison?"
V,IV,YORK,"Either accept the title thou usurp'st,"
V,IV,YORK,"Of benefit proceeding from our king"
V,IV,YORK,"And not of any challenge of desert,"
V,IV,YORK,"Or we will plague thee with incessant wars."
V,IV,REIGNIER,"My lord, you do not well in obstinacy"
V,IV,REIGNIER,"To cavil in the course of this contract:"
V,IV,REIGNIER,"If once it be neglected, ten to one"
V,IV,REIGNIER,"We shall not find like opportunity."
V,IV,ALENCON,"To say the truth, it is your policy"
V,IV,ALENCON,"To save your subjects from such massacre"
V,IV,ALENCON,"And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen"
V,IV,ALENCON,"By our proceeding in hostility;"
V,IV,ALENCON,"And therefore take this compact of a truce,"
V,IV,ALENCON,"Although you break it when your pleasure serves."
V,IV,WARWICK,"How say'st thou, Charles? shall our condition stand?"
V,IV,CHARLES,"It shall;"
V,IV,CHARLES,"Only reserved, you claim no interest"
V,IV,CHARLES,"In any of our towns of garrison."
V,IV,YORK,"Then swear allegiance to his majesty,"
V,IV,YORK,"As thou art knight, never to disobey"
V,IV,YORK,"Nor be rebellious to the crown of England,"
V,IV,YORK,"Thou, nor thy nobles, to the crown of England."
V,IV,YORK,"So, now dismiss your army when ye please:"
V,IV,YORK,"Hang up your ensign, let your drums be still,"
V,IV,YORK,"For here we entertain a solemn peace."
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Your wondrous rare description, noble earl,"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Of beauteous Margaret hath astonish'd me:"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Her virtues graced with external gifts"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Do breed love's settled passions in my heart:"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"And like as rigor of tempestuous gusts"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide,"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"So am I driven by breath of her renown"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Where I may have fruition of her love."
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Tush, my good lord, this superficial tale"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Is but a preface of her worthy praise;"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"The chief perfections of that lovely dame"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Had I sufficient skill to utter them,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Would make a volume of enticing lines,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Able to ravish any dull conceit:"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"And, which is more, she is not so divine,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"So full-replete with choice of all delights,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"But with as humble lowliness of mind"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"She is content to be at your command;"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Command, I mean, of virtuous chaste intents,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"To love and honour Henry as her lord."
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"And otherwise will Henry ne'er presume."
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Therefore, my lord protector, give consent"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"That Margaret may be England's royal queen."
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"So should I give consent to flatter sin."
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"You know, my lord, your highness is betroth'd"
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"Unto another lady of esteem:"
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"How shall we then dispense with that contract,"
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"And not deface your honour with reproach?"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"As doth a ruler with unlawful oaths;"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Or one that, at a triumph having vow'd"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"To try his strength, forsaketh yet the lists"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"By reason of his adversary's odds:"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"A poor earl's daughter is unequal odds,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"And therefore may be broke without offence."
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"Why, what, I pray, is Margaret more than that?"
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"Her father is no better than an earl,"
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"Although in glorious titles he excel."
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Yes, lord, her father is a king,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"The King of Naples and Jerusalem;"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"And of such great authority in France"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"As his alliance will confirm our peace"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"And keep the Frenchmen in allegiance."
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"And so the Earl of Armagnac may do,"
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"Because he is near kinsman unto Charles."
V,V,EXETER,"Beside, his wealth doth warrant a liberal dower,"
V,V,EXETER,"Where Reignier sooner will receive than give."
V,V,SUFFOLK,"A dower, my lords! disgrace not so your king,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"That he should be so abject, base and poor,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"To choose for wealth and not for perfect love."
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Henry is able to enrich his queen"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"And not seek a queen to make him rich:"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"So worthless peasants bargain for their wives,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"As market-men for oxen, sheep, or horse."
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Marriage is a matter of more worth"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Than to be dealt in by attorneyship;"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Not whom we will, but whom his grace affects,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Must be companion of his nuptial bed:"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"And therefore, lords, since he affects her most,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"It most of all these reasons bindeth us,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"In our opinions she should be preferr'd."
V,V,SUFFOLK,"For what is wedlock forced but a hell,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"An age of discord and continual strife?"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"And is a pattern of celestial peace."
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Whom should we match with Henry, being a king,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"But Margaret, that is daughter to a king?"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Her peerless feature, joined with her birth,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Approves her fit for none but for a king:"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"More than in women commonly is seen,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Will answer our hope in issue of a king;"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"For Henry, son unto a conqueror,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Is likely to beget more conquerors,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"If with a lady of so high resolve"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"As is fair Margaret he be link'd in love."
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Then yield, my lords; and here conclude with me"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"That Margaret shall be queen, and none but she."
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Whether it be through force of your report,"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"My noble Lord of Suffolk, or for that"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"My tender youth was never yet attaint"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"With any passion of inflaming love,"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"I cannot tell; but this I am assured,"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"I feel such sharp dissension in my breast,"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear,"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"As I am sick with working of my thoughts."
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Take, therefore, shipping; post, my lord, to France;"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Agree to any covenants, and procure"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"To cross the seas to England and be crown'd"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"King Henry's faithful and anointed queen:"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"For your expenses and sufficient charge,"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Among the people gather up a tenth."
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Be gone, I say; for, till you do return,"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"I rest perplexed with a thousand cares."
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"And you, good uncle, banish all offence:"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"If you do censure me by what you were,"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"Not what you are, I know it will excuse"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"This sudden execution of my will."
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"And so, conduct me where, from company,"
V,V,KING HENRY VI,"I may revolve and ruminate my grief."
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and last."
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd; and thus he goes,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"With hope to find the like event in love,"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"But prosper better than the Trojan did."
V,V,SUFFOLK,"Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;"
V,V,SUFFOLK,"But I will rule both her, the king and realm."
I,I,SUFFOLK,"As by your high imperial majesty"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"I had in charge at my depart for France,"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"As procurator to your excellence,"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"To marry Princess Margaret for your grace,"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"So, in the famous ancient city, Tours,"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil,"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne and Alencon,"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"Seven earls, twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops,"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"I have perform'd my task and was espoused:"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"And humbly now upon my bended knee,"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"In sight of England and her lordly peers,"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"Deliver up my title in the queen"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"To your most gracious hands, that are the substance"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"Of that great shadow I did represent;"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"The happiest gift that ever marquess gave,"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"The fairest queen that ever king received."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Suffolk, arise. Welcome, Queen Margaret:"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"I can express no kinder sign of love"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Than this kind kiss. O Lord, that lends me life,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"For thou hast given me in this beauteous face"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"A world of earthly blessings to my soul,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"If sympathy of love unite our thoughts."
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Great King of England and my gracious lord,"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"The mutual conference that my mind hath had,"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"By day, by night, waking and in my dreams,"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"In courtly company or at my beads,"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"With you, mine alder-liefest sovereign,"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Makes me the bolder to salute my king"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"With ruder terms, such as my wit affords"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And over-joy of heart doth minister."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Her sight did ravish; but her grace in speech,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Her words y-clad with wisdom's majesty,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Makes me from wondering fall to weeping joys;"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Such is the fulness of my heart's content."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Lords, with one cheerful voice welcome my love."
I,I,ALL,"happiness!"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"We thank you all."
I,I,SUFFOLK,"My lord protector, so it please your grace,"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"Here are the articles of contracted peace"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"Between our sovereign and the French king Charles,"
I,I,SUFFOLK,"For eighteen months concluded by consent."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"king Charles, and William de la Pole, Marquess of"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Suffolk, ambassador for Henry King of England, that"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"the said Henry shall espouse the Lady Margaret,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"daughter unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia and"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Jerusalem, and crown her Queen of England ere the"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"thirtieth of May next ensuing. Item, that the duchy"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"of Anjou and the county of Maine shall be released"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"and delivered to the king her father'--"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Uncle, how now!"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Pardon me, gracious lord;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And dimm'd mine eyes, that I can read no further."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Uncle of Winchester, I pray, read on."
I,I,CARDINAL,"that the duchies of Anjou and Maine shall be"
I,I,CARDINAL,"released and delivered over to the king her father,"
I,I,CARDINAL,"and she sent over of the King of England's own"
I,I,CARDINAL,"proper cost and charges, without having any dowry.'"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"They please us well. Lord marquess, kneel down:"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"And gird thee with the sword. Cousin of York,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"We here discharge your grace from being regent"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"I' the parts of France, till term of eighteen months"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Be full expired. Thanks, uncle Winchester,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Gloucester, York, Buckingham, Somerset,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Salisbury, and Warwick;"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"We thank you all for the great favour done,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"In entertainment to my princely queen."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Come, let us in, and with all speed provide"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"To see her coronation be perform'd."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Brave peers of England, pillars of the state,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"To you Duke Humphrey must unload his grief,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Your grief, the common grief of all the land."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"What! did my brother Henry spend his youth,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"His valour, coin and people, in the wars?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Did he so often lodge in open field,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"To conquer France, his true inheritance?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And did my brother Bedford toil his wits,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"To keep by policy what Henry got?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Have you yourselves, Somerset, Buckingham,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Brave York, Salisbury, and victorious Warwick,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Received deep scars in France and Normandy?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Or hath mine uncle Beaufort and myself,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"With all the learned council of the realm,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Studied so long, sat in the council-house"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Early and late, debating to and fro"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And had his highness in his infancy"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Crowned in Paris in despite of foes?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And shall these labours and these honours die?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Shall Henry's conquest, Bedford's vigilance,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Your deeds of war and all our counsel die?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"O peers of England, shameful is this league!"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Fatal this marriage, cancelling your fame,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Blotting your names from books of memory,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Razing the characters of your renown,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Defacing monuments of conquer'd France,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Undoing all, as all had never been!"
I,I,CARDINAL,"Nephew, what means this passionate discourse,"
I,I,CARDINAL,"This peroration with such circumstance?"
I,I,CARDINAL,"For France, 'tis ours; and we will keep it still."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Ay, uncle, we will keep it, if we can;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"But now it is impossible we should:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Hath given the duchy of Anjou and Maine"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Unto the poor King Reignier, whose large style"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Agrees not with the leanness of his purse."
I,I,SALISBURY,"Now, by the death of Him that died for all,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"These counties were the keys of Normandy."
I,I,SALISBURY,"But wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant son?"
I,I,WARWICK,"For grief that they are past recovery:"
I,I,WARWICK,"For, were there hope to conquer them again,"
I,I,WARWICK,"My sword should shed hot blood, mine eyes no tears."
I,I,WARWICK,"Anjou and Maine! myself did win them both;"
I,I,WARWICK,"Those provinces these arms of mine did conquer:"
I,I,WARWICK,"And are the cities, that I got with wounds,"
I,I,WARWICK,"Delivered up again with peaceful words?"
I,I,WARWICK,"Mort Dieu!"
I,I,YORK,"For Suffolk's duke, may he be suffocate,"
I,I,YORK,"That dims the honour of this warlike isle!"
I,I,YORK,"France should have torn and rent my very heart,"
I,I,YORK,"Before I would have yielded to this league."
I,I,YORK,"I never read but England's kings have had"
I,I,YORK,"Large sums of gold and dowries with their wives:"
I,I,YORK,"And our King Henry gives away his own,"
I,I,YORK,"To match with her that brings no vantages."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"A proper jest, and never heard before,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"For costs and charges in transporting her!"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"She should have stayed in France and starved"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"in France, Before--"
I,I,CARDINAL,"My Lord of Gloucester, now ye grow too hot:"
I,I,CARDINAL,"It was the pleasure of my lord the King."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"My Lord of Winchester, I know your mind;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"But 'tis my presence that doth trouble ye."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Rancour will out: proud prelate, in thy face"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"I see thy fury: if I longer stay,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"We shall begin our ancient bickerings."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Lordings, farewell; and say, when I am gone,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"I prophesied France will be lost ere long."
I,I,CARDINAL,"So, there goes our protector in a rage."
I,I,CARDINAL,"'Tis known to you he is mine enemy,"
I,I,CARDINAL,"Nay, more, an enemy unto you all,"
I,I,CARDINAL,"And no great friend, I fear me, to the king."
I,I,CARDINAL,"Consider, lords, he is the next of blood,"
I,I,CARDINAL,"And heir apparent to the English crown:"
I,I,CARDINAL,"Had Henry got an empire by his marriage,"
I,I,CARDINAL,"And all the wealthy kingdoms of the west,"
I,I,CARDINAL,"There's reason he should be displeased at it."
I,I,CARDINAL,"Look to it, lords! let not his smoothing words"
I,I,CARDINAL,"Bewitch your hearts; be wise and circumspect."
I,I,CARDINAL,"What though the common people favour him,"
I,I,CARDINAL,"Calling him 'Humphrey, the good Duke of"
I,I,CARDINAL,"Gloucester,'"
I,I,CARDINAL,"Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice,"
I,I,CARDINAL,"'Jesu maintain your royal excellence!'"
I,I,CARDINAL,"With 'God preserve the good Duke Humphrey!'"
I,I,CARDINAL,"I fear me, lords, for all this flattering gloss,"
I,I,CARDINAL,"He will be found a dangerous protector."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Why should he, then, protect our sovereign,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"He being of age to govern of himself?"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Cousin of Somerset, join you with me,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And all together, with the Duke of Suffolk,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"We'll quickly hoise Duke Humphrey from his seat."
I,I,CARDINAL,"This weighty business will not brook delay:"
I,I,CARDINAL,"I'll to the Duke of Suffolk presently."
I,I,SOMERSET,"Cousin of Buckingham, though Humphrey's pride"
I,I,SOMERSET,"And greatness of his place be grief to us,"
I,I,SOMERSET,"Yet let us watch the haughty cardinal:"
I,I,SOMERSET,"His insolence is more intolerable"
I,I,SOMERSET,"Than all the princes in the land beside:"
I,I,SOMERSET,"If Gloucester be displaced, he'll be protector."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Or thou or I, Somerset, will be protector,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Despite Duke Humphrey or the cardinal."
I,I,SALISBURY,"Pride went before, ambition follows him."
I,I,SALISBURY,"While these do labour for their own preferment,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"Behoves it us to labour for the realm."
I,I,SALISBURY,"I never saw but Humphrey Duke of Gloucester"
I,I,SALISBURY,"Did bear him like a noble gentleman."
I,I,SALISBURY,"Oft have I seen the haughty cardinal,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"More like a soldier than a man o' the church,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"As stout and proud as he were lord of all,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"Swear like a ruffian and demean himself"
I,I,SALISBURY,"Unlike the ruler of a commonweal."
I,I,SALISBURY,"Warwick, my son, the comfort of my age,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"Thy deeds, thy plainness and thy housekeeping,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"Hath won the greatest favour of the commons,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"Excepting none but good Duke Humphrey:"
I,I,SALISBURY,"And, brother York, thy acts in Ireland,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"In bringing them to civil discipline,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"Thy late exploits done in the heart of France,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"When thou wert regent for our sovereign,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"Have made thee fear'd and honour'd of the people:"
I,I,SALISBURY,"Join we together, for the public good,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"In what we can, to bridle and suppress"
I,I,SALISBURY,"The pride of Suffolk and the cardinal,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"With Somerset's and Buckingham's ambition;"
I,I,SALISBURY,"And, as we may, cherish Duke Humphrey's deeds,"
I,I,SALISBURY,"While they do tend the profit of the land."
I,I,WARWICK,"So God help Warwick, as he loves the land,"
I,I,WARWICK,"And common profit of his country!"
I,I,SALISBURY,"Then let's make haste away, and look unto the main."
I,I,WARWICK,"Unto the main! O father, Maine is lost;"
I,I,WARWICK,"That Maine which by main force Warwick did win,"
I,I,WARWICK,"And would have kept so long as breath did last!"
I,I,WARWICK,"Main chance, father, you meant; but I meant Maine,"
I,I,WARWICK,"Which I will win from France, or else be slain,"
I,I,YORK,"Anjou and Maine are given to the French;"
I,I,YORK,"Paris is lost; the state of Normandy"
I,I,YORK,"Stands on a tickle point, now they are gone:"
I,I,YORK,"Suffolk concluded on the articles,"
I,I,YORK,"The peers agreed, and Henry was well pleased"
I,I,YORK,"To change two dukedoms for a duke's fair daughter."
I,I,YORK,"I cannot blame them all: what is't to them?"
I,I,YORK,"'Tis thine they give away, and not their own."
I,I,YORK,"Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage"
I,I,YORK,"And purchase friends and give to courtezans,"
I,I,YORK,"Still revelling like lords till all be gone;"
I,I,YORK,"While as the silly owner of the goods"
I,I,YORK,"Weeps over them and wrings his hapless hands"
I,I,YORK,"And shakes his head and trembling stands aloof,"
I,I,YORK,"While all is shared and all is borne away,"
I,I,YORK,"Ready to starve and dare not touch his own:"
I,I,YORK,"So York must sit and fret and bite his tongue,"
I,I,YORK,"While his own lands are bargain'd for and sold."
I,I,YORK,"Methinks the realms of England, France and Ireland"
I,I,YORK,"Bear that proportion to my flesh and blood"
I,I,YORK,"As did the fatal brand Althaea burn'd"
I,I,YORK,"Unto the prince's heart of Calydon."
I,I,YORK,"Anjou and Maine both given unto the French!"
I,I,YORK,"Cold news for me, for I had hope of France,"
I,I,YORK,"Even as I have of fertile England's soil."
I,I,YORK,"A day will come when York shall claim his own;"
I,I,YORK,"And therefore I will take the Nevils' parts"
I,I,YORK,"And make a show of love to proud Duke Humphrey,"
I,I,YORK,"And, when I spy advantage, claim the crown,"
I,I,YORK,"For that's the golden mark I seek to hit:"
I,I,YORK,"Nor shall proud Lancaster usurp my right,"
I,I,YORK,"Nor hold the sceptre in his childish fist,"
I,I,YORK,"Nor wear the diadem upon his head,"
I,I,YORK,"Whose church-like humours fits not for a crown."
I,I,YORK,"Then, York, be still awhile, till time do serve:"
I,I,YORK,"Watch thou and wake when others be asleep,"
I,I,YORK,"To pry into the secrets of the state;"
I,I,YORK,"Till Henry, surfeiting in joys of love,"
I,I,YORK,"With his new bride and England's dear-bought queen,"
I,I,YORK,"And Humphrey with the peers be fall'n at jars:"
I,I,YORK,"Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose,"
I,I,YORK,"With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed;"
I,I,YORK,"And in my standard bear the arms of York"
I,I,YORK,"To grapple with the house of Lancaster;"
I,I,YORK,"And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown,"
I,I,YORK,"Whose bookish rule hath pull'd fair England down."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Why droops my lord, like over-ripen'd corn,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Hanging the head at Ceres' plenteous load?"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Why doth the great Duke Humphrey knit his brows,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"As frowning at the favours of the world?"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Why are thine eyes fixed to the sullen earth,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Gazing on that which seems to dim thy sight?"
I,II,DUCHESS,"What seest thou there? King Henry's diadem,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Enchased with all the honours of the world?"
I,II,DUCHESS,"If so, gaze on, and grovel on thy face,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Until thy head be circled with the same."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold."
I,II,DUCHESS,"What, is't too short? I'll lengthen it with mine:"
I,II,DUCHESS,"And, having both together heaved it up,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"We'll both together lift our heads to heaven,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"And never more abase our sight so low"
I,II,DUCHESS,"As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou dost love thy lord,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And may that thought, when I imagine ill"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Against my king and nephew, virtuous Henry,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Be my last breathing in this mortal world!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"My troublous dream this night doth make me sad."
I,II,DUCHESS,"What dream'd my lord? tell me, and I'll requite it"
I,II,DUCHESS,"With sweet rehearsal of my morning's dream."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Methought this staff, mine office-badge in court,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Was broke in twain; by whom I have forgot,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"But, as I think, it was by the cardinal;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And on the pieces of the broken wand"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Were placed the heads of Edmund Duke of Somerset,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And William de la Pole, first duke of Suffolk."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"This was my dream: what it doth bode, God knows."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Tut, this was nothing but an argument"
I,II,DUCHESS,"That he that breaks a stick of Gloucester's grove"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Shall lose his head for his presumption."
I,II,DUCHESS,"But list to me, my Humphrey, my sweet duke:"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Methought I sat in seat of majesty"
I,II,DUCHESS,"In the cathedral church of Westminster,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"And in that chair where kings and queens are crown'd;"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Where Henry and dame Margaret kneel'd to me"
I,II,DUCHESS,"And on my head did set the diadem."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Nay, Eleanor, then must I chide outright:"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Presumptuous dame, ill-nurtured Eleanor,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Art thou not second woman in the realm,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And the protector's wife, beloved of him?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Hast thou not worldly pleasure at command,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Above the reach or compass of thy thought?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And wilt thou still be hammering treachery,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"To tumble down thy husband and thyself"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"From top of honour to disgrace's feet?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Away from me, and let me hear no more!"
I,II,DUCHESS,"What, what, my lord! are you so choleric"
I,II,DUCHESS,"With Eleanor, for telling but her dream?"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Next time I'll keep my dreams unto myself,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"And not be cheque'd."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Nay, be not angry; I am pleased again."
I,II,Messenger,"My lord protector, 'tis his highness' pleasure"
I,II,Messenger,"You do prepare to ride unto Saint Alban's,"
I,II,Messenger,"Where as the king and queen do mean to hawk."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"I go. Come, Nell, thou wilt ride with us?"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Yes, my good lord, I'll follow presently."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Follow I must; I cannot go before,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"While Gloucester bears this base and humble mind."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"I would remove these tedious stumbling-blocks"
I,II,DUCHESS,"And smooth my way upon their headless necks;"
I,II,DUCHESS,"And, being a woman, I will not be slack"
I,II,DUCHESS,"To play my part in Fortune's pageant."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Where are you there? Sir John! nay, fear not, man,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"We are alone; here's none but thee and I."
I,II,HUME,"Jesus preserve your royal majesty!"
I,II,DUCHESS,"What say'st thou? majesty! I am but grace."
I,II,HUME,"But, by the grace of God, and Hume's advice,"
I,II,HUME,"Your grace's title shall be multiplied."
I,II,DUCHESS,"What say'st thou, man? hast thou as yet conferr'd"
I,II,DUCHESS,"With Margery Jourdain, the cunning witch,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"With Roger Bolingbroke, the conjurer?"
I,II,DUCHESS,"And will they undertake to do me good?"
I,II,HUME,"This they have promised, to show your highness"
I,II,HUME,"A spirit raised from depth of under-ground,"
I,II,HUME,"That shall make answer to such questions"
I,II,HUME,"As by your grace shall be propounded him."
I,II,DUCHESS,"It is enough; I'll think upon the questions:"
I,II,DUCHESS,"When from St. Alban's we do make return,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"We'll see these things effected to the full."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Here, Hume, take this reward; make merry, man,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"With thy confederates in this weighty cause."
I,II,HUME,"Hume must make merry with the duchess' gold;"
I,II,HUME,"Marry, and shall. But how now, Sir John Hume!"
I,II,HUME,"Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum:"
I,II,HUME,"The business asketh silent secrecy."
I,II,HUME,"Dame Eleanor gives gold to bring the witch:"
I,II,HUME,"Gold cannot come amiss, were she a devil."
I,II,HUME,"Yet have I gold flies from another coast;"
I,II,HUME,"I dare not say, from the rich cardinal"
I,II,HUME,"And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk,"
I,II,HUME,"Yet I do find it so; for to be plain,"
I,II,HUME,"They, knowing Dame Eleanor's aspiring humour,"
I,II,HUME,"Have hired me to undermine the duchess"
I,II,HUME,"And buz these conjurations in her brain."
I,II,HUME,"They say 'A crafty knave does need no broker;'"
I,II,HUME,"Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker."
I,II,HUME,"Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near"
I,II,HUME,"To call them both a pair of crafty knaves."
I,II,HUME,"Well, so it stands; and thus, I fear, at last"
I,II,HUME,"Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wreck,"
I,II,HUME,"And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall:"
I,II,HUME,"Sort how it will, I shall have gold for all."
I,III,First Petitioner,"My masters, let's stand close: my lord protector"
I,III,First Petitioner,"will come this way by and by, and then we may deliver"
I,III,First Petitioner,"our supplications in the quill."
I,III,Second Petitioner,"Marry, the Lord protect him, for he's a good man!"
I,III,Second Petitioner,"Jesu bless him!"
I,III,PETER,"Here a' comes, methinks, and the queen with him."
I,III,PETER,"I'll be the first, sure."
I,III,Second Petitioner,"Come back, fool; this is the Duke of Suffolk, and"
I,III,Second Petitioner,"not my lord protector."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"How now, fellow! would'st anything with me?"
I,III,First Petitioner,"I pray, my lord, pardon me; I took ye for my lord"
I,III,First Petitioner,"protector."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"supplications to his lordship? Let me see them:"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"what is thine?"
I,III,First Petitioner,"Mine is, an't please your grace, against John"
I,III,First Petitioner,"Goodman, my lord cardinal's man, for keeping my"
I,III,First Petitioner,"house, and lands, and wife and all, from me."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Thy wife, too! that's some wrong, indeed. What's"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"yours? What's here!"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"'Against the Duke of Suffolk, for enclosing the"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"commons of Melford.' How now, sir knave!"
I,III,Second Petitioner,"Alas, sir, I am but a poor petitioner of our whole township."
I,III,PETER,"Horner, for saying that the Duke of York was rightful"
I,III,PETER,"heir to the crown."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"What sayst thou? did the Duke of York say he was"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"rightful heir to the crown?"
I,III,PETER,"That my master was? no, forsooth: my master said"
I,III,PETER,"that he was, and that the king was an usurper."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Who is there?"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Take this fellow in, and send for"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"his master with a pursuivant presently: we'll hear"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"more of your matter before the King."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And as for you, that love to be protected"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Under the wings of our protector's grace,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Begin your suits anew, and sue to him."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Away, base cullions! Suffolk, let them go."
I,III,ALL,"Come, let's be gone."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"My Lord of Suffolk, say, is this the guise,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Is this the fashion in the court of England?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Is this the government of Britain's isle,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And this the royalty of Albion's king?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"What shall King Henry be a pupil still"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Under the surly Gloucester's governance?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Am I a queen in title and in style,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And must be made a subject to a duke?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"I tell thee, Pole, when in the city Tours"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou ran'st a tilt in honour of my love"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And stolest away the ladies' hearts of France,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"I thought King Henry had resembled thee"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"In courage, courtship and proportion:"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"But all his mind is bent to holiness,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"To number Ave-Maries on his beads;"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"His champions are the prophets and apostles,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"His weapons holy saws of sacred writ,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Are brazen images of canonized saints."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"I would the college of the cardinals"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Would choose him pope, and carry him to Rome,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And set the triple crown upon his head:"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"That were a state fit for his holiness."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Madam, be patient: as I was cause"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Your highness came to England, so will I"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"In England work your grace's full content."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Beside the haughty protector, have we Beaufort,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"The imperious churchman, Somerset, Buckingham,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And grumbling York: and not the least of these"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"But can do more in England than the king."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"And he of these that can do most of all"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Cannot do more in England than the Nevils:"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Salisbury and Warwick are no simple peers."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Not all these lords do vex me half so much"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"She sweeps it through the court with troops of ladies,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"More like an empress than Duke Humphrey's wife:"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Strangers in court do take her for the queen:"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"She bears a duke's revenues on her back,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And in her heart she scorns our poverty:"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Shall I not live to be avenged on her?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Contemptuous base-born callet as she is,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"She vaunted 'mongst her minions t'other day,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"The very train of her worst wearing gown"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Was better worth than all my father's lands,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Till Suffolk gave two dukedoms for his daughter."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Madam, myself have limed a bush for her,"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"And placed a quire of such enticing birds,"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"That she will light to listen to the lays,"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"And never mount to trouble you again."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"So, let her rest: and, madam, list to me;"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"For I am bold to counsel you in this."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Although we fancy not the cardinal,"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Yet must we join with him and with the lords,"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Till we have brought Duke Humphrey in disgrace."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"As for the Duke of York, this late complaint"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Will make but little for his benefit."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"So, one by one, we'll weed them all at last,"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"And you yourself shall steer the happy helm."
I,III,KING HENRY VI,"For my part, noble lords, I care not which;"
I,III,KING HENRY VI,"Or Somerset or York, all's one to me."
I,III,YORK,"If York have ill demean'd himself in France,"
I,III,YORK,"Then let him be denay'd the regentship."
I,III,SOMERSET,"If Somerset be unworthy of the place,"
I,III,SOMERSET,"Let York be regent; I will yield to him."
I,III,WARWICK,"Whether your grace be worthy, yea or no,"
I,III,WARWICK,"Dispute not that: York is the worthier."
I,III,CARDINAL,"Ambitious Warwick, let thy betters speak."
I,III,WARWICK,"The cardinal's not my better in the field."
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"All in this presence are thy betters, Warwick."
I,III,WARWICK,"Warwick may live to be the best of all."
I,III,SALISBURY,"Peace, son! and show some reason, Buckingham,"
I,III,SALISBURY,"Why Somerset should be preferred in this."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Because the king, forsooth, will have it so."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Madam, the king is old enough himself"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"To give his censure: these are no women's matters."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"If he be old enough, what needs your grace"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"To be protector of his excellence?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Madam, I am protector of the realm;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"And, at his pleasure, will resign my place."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Resign it then and leave thine insolence."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Since thou wert king--as who is king but thou?--"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"The commonwealth hath daily run to wreck;"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"The Dauphin hath prevail'd beyond the seas;"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"And all the peers and nobles of the realm"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Have been as bondmen to thy sovereignty."
I,III,CARDINAL,"The commons hast thou rack'd; the clergy's bags"
I,III,CARDINAL,"Are lank and lean with thy extortions."
I,III,SOMERSET,"Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire"
I,III,SOMERSET,"Have cost a mass of public treasury."
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"Thy cruelty in execution"
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"Upon offenders, hath exceeded law,"
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"And left thee to the mercy of the law."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"They sale of offices and towns in France,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"If they were known, as the suspect is great,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Would make thee quickly hop without thy head."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Give me my fan: what, minion! can ye not?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"I cry you mercy, madam; was it you?"
I,III,DUCHESS,"Was't I! yea, I it was, proud Frenchwoman:"
I,III,DUCHESS,"Could I come near your beauty with my nails,"
I,III,DUCHESS,"I'd set my ten commandments in your face."
I,III,KING HENRY VI,"Sweet aunt, be quiet; 'twas against her will."
I,III,DUCHESS,"Against her will! good king, look to't in time;"
I,III,DUCHESS,"She'll hamper thee, and dandle thee like a baby:"
I,III,DUCHESS,"Though in this place most master wear no breeches,"
I,III,DUCHESS,"She shall not strike Dame Eleanor unrevenged."
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"Lord cardinal, I will follow Eleanor,"
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"And listen after Humphrey, how he proceeds:"
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"She's tickled now; her fume needs no spurs,"
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"She'll gallop far enough to her destruction."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Now, lords, my choler being over-blown"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"With walking once about the quadrangle,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I come to talk of commonwealth affairs."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"As for your spiteful false objections,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Prove them, and I lie open to the law:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"But God in mercy so deal with my soul,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"As I in duty love my king and country!"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"But, to the matter that we have in hand:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I say, my sovereign, York is meetest man"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"To be your regent in the realm of France."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Before we make election, give me leave"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"To show some reason, of no little force,"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"That York is most unmeet of any man."
I,III,YORK,"I'll tell thee, Suffolk, why I am unmeet:"
I,III,YORK,"First, for I cannot flatter thee in pride;"
I,III,YORK,"Next, if I be appointed for the place,"
I,III,YORK,"My Lord of Somerset will keep me here,"
I,III,YORK,"Without discharge, money, or furniture,"
I,III,YORK,"Till France be won into the Dauphin's hands:"
I,III,YORK,"Last time, I danced attendance on his will"
I,III,YORK,"Till Paris was besieged, famish'd, and lost."
I,III,WARWICK,"That can I witness; and a fouler fact"
I,III,WARWICK,"Did never traitor in the land commit."
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Peace, headstrong Warwick!"
I,III,WARWICK,"Image of pride, why should I hold my peace?"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Because here is a man accused of treason:"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Pray God the Duke of York excuse himself!"
I,III,YORK,"Doth any one accuse York for a traitor?"
I,III,KING HENRY VI,"What mean'st thou, Suffolk; tell me, what are these?"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Please it your majesty, this is the man"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"That doth accuse his master of high treason:"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"His words were these: that Richard, Duke of York,"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"Was rightful heir unto the English crown"
I,III,SUFFOLK,"And that your majesty was a usurper."
I,III,KING HENRY VI,"Say, man, were these thy words?"
I,III,HORNER,"An't shall please your majesty, I never said nor"
I,III,HORNER,"thought any such matter: God is my witness, I am"
I,III,HORNER,"falsely accused by the villain."
I,III,PETER,"By these ten bones, my lords, he did speak them to"
I,III,PETER,"me in the garret one night, as we were scouring my"
I,III,PETER,"Lord of York's armour."
I,III,YORK,"Base dunghill villain and mechanical,"
I,III,YORK,"I'll have thy head for this thy traitor's speech."
I,III,YORK,"I do beseech your royal majesty,"
I,III,YORK,"Let him have all the rigor of the law."
I,III,HORNER,"Alas, my lord, hang me, if ever I spake the words."
I,III,HORNER,"My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct"
I,III,HORNER,"him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his"
I,III,HORNER,"knees he would be even with me: I have good"
I,III,HORNER,"witness of this: therefore I beseech your majesty,"
I,III,HORNER,"do not cast away an honest man for a villain's"
I,III,HORNER,"accusation."
I,III,KING HENRY VI,"Uncle, what shall we say to this in law?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"This doom, my lord, if I may judge:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Let Somerset be regent over the French,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Because in York this breeds suspicion:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"And let these have a day appointed them"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"For single combat in convenient place,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"For he hath witness of his servant's malice:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"This is the law, and this Duke Humphrey's doom."
I,III,SOMERSET,"I humbly thank your royal majesty."
I,III,HORNER,"And I accept the combat willingly."
I,III,PETER,"Alas, my lord, I cannot fight; for God's sake, pity"
I,III,PETER,"my case. The spite of man prevaileth against me. O"
I,III,PETER,"Lord, have mercy upon me! I shall never be able to"
I,III,PETER,"fight a blow. O Lord, my heart!"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Sirrah, or you must fight, or else be hang'd."
I,III,KING HENRY VI,"Away with them to prison; and the day of combat"
I,III,KING HENRY VI,"shall be the last of the next month. Come,"
I,III,KING HENRY VI,"Somerset, we'll see thee sent away."
I,IV,HUME,"Come, my masters; the duchess, I tell you, expects"
I,IV,HUME,"performance of your promises."
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"Master Hume, we are therefore provided: will her"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"ladyship behold and hear our exorcisms?"
I,IV,HUME,"Ay, what else? fear you not her courage."
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"I have heard her reported to be a woman of an"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"invincible spirit: but it shall be convenient,"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"Master Hume, that you be by her aloft, while we be"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"busy below; and so, I pray you, go, in God's name,"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"and leave us."
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"Mother Jourdain, be you"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"prostrate and grovel on the earth; John Southwell,"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"read you; and let us to our work."
I,IV,DUCHESS,"Well said, my masters; and welcome all. To this"
I,IV,DUCHESS,"gear the sooner the better."
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"Patience, good lady; wizards know their times:"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"The time of night when Troy was set on fire;"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl,"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"And spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves,"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"That time best fits the work we have in hand."
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"Madam, sit you and fear not: whom we raise,"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"We will make fast within a hallow'd verge."
I,IV,Spirit,"Adsum."
I,IV,MARGARET JOURDAIN,"Asmath,"
I,IV,MARGARET JOURDAIN,"By the eternal God, whose name and power"
I,IV,MARGARET JOURDAIN,"Thou tremblest at, answer that I shall ask;"
I,IV,MARGARET JOURDAIN,"For, till thou speak, thou shalt not pass from hence."
I,IV,Spirit,"Ask what thou wilt. That I had said and done!"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"'First of the king: what shall of him become?'"
I,IV,Spirit,"The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose;"
I,IV,Spirit,"But him outlive, and die a violent death."
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"'What fates await the Duke of Suffolk?'"
I,IV,Spirit,"By water shall he die, and take his end."
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"'What shall befall the Duke of Somerset?'"
I,IV,Spirit,"Let him shun castles;"
I,IV,Spirit,"Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains"
I,IV,Spirit,"Than where castles mounted stand."
I,IV,Spirit,"Have done, for more I hardly can endure."
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"Descend to darkness and the burning lake!"
I,IV,BOLINGBROKE,"False fiend, avoid!"
I,IV,YORK,"Lay hands upon these traitors and their trash."
I,IV,YORK,"Beldam, I think we watch'd you at an inch."
I,IV,YORK,"What, madam, are you there? the king and commonweal"
I,IV,YORK,"Are deeply indebted for this piece of pains:"
I,IV,YORK,"My lord protector will, I doubt it not,"
I,IV,YORK,"See you well guerdon'd for these good deserts."
I,IV,DUCHESS,"Not half so bad as thine to England's king,"
I,IV,DUCHESS,"Injurious duke, that threatest where's no cause."
I,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"True, madam, none at all: what call you this?"
I,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Away with them! let them be clapp'd up close."
I,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"And kept asunder. You, madam, shall with us."
I,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Stafford, take her to thee."
I,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"We'll see your trinkets here all forthcoming."
I,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"All, away!"
I,IV,YORK,"Lord Buckingham, methinks, you watch'd her well:"
I,IV,YORK,"A pretty plot, well chosen to build upon!"
I,IV,YORK,"Now, pray, my lord, let's see the devil's writ."
I,IV,YORK,"What have we here?"
I,IV,YORK,"'The duke yet lives, that Henry shall depose;"
I,IV,YORK,"But him outlive, and die a violent death.'"
I,IV,YORK,"Why, this is just"
I,IV,YORK,"'Aio te, AEacida, Romanos vincere posse.'"
I,IV,YORK,"Well, to the rest:"
I,IV,YORK,"'Tell me what fate awaits the Duke of Suffolk?"
I,IV,YORK,"By water shall he die, and take his end."
I,IV,YORK,"What shall betide the Duke of Somerset?"
I,IV,YORK,"Let him shun castles;"
I,IV,YORK,"Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains"
I,IV,YORK,"Than where castles mounted stand.'"
I,IV,YORK,"Come, come, my lords;"
I,IV,YORK,"These oracles are hardly attain'd,"
I,IV,YORK,"And hardly understood."
I,IV,YORK,"The king is now in progress towards Saint Alban's,"
I,IV,YORK,"With him the husband of this lovely lady:"
I,IV,YORK,"Thither go these news, as fast as horse can"
I,IV,YORK,"carry them:"
I,IV,YORK,"A sorry breakfast for my lord protector."
I,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Your grace shall give me leave, my Lord of York,"
I,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"To be the post, in hope of his reward."
I,IV,YORK,"At your pleasure, my good lord. Who's within"
I,IV,YORK,"there, ho!"
I,IV,YORK,"Invite my Lords of Salisbury and Warwick"
I,IV,YORK,"To sup with me to-morrow night. Away!"
II,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Believe me, lords, for flying at the brook,"
II,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"I saw not better sport these seven years' day:"
II,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Yet, by your leave, the wind was very high;"
II,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And, ten to one, old Joan had not gone out."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"But what a point, my lord, your falcon made,"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"And what a pitch she flew above the rest!"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"To see how God in all his creatures works!"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high."
II,I,SUFFOLK,"No marvel, an it like your majesty,"
II,I,SUFFOLK,"My lord protector's hawks do tower so well;"
II,I,SUFFOLK,"They know their master loves to be aloft,"
II,I,SUFFOLK,"And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"That mounts no higher than a bird can soar."
II,I,CARDINAL,"I thought as much; he would be above the clouds."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Ay, my lord cardinal? how think you by that?"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Were it not good your grace could fly to heaven?"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"The treasury of everlasting joy."
II,I,CARDINAL,"Thy heaven is on earth; thine eyes and thoughts"
II,I,CARDINAL,"Beat on a crown, the treasure of thy heart;"
II,I,CARDINAL,"Pernicious protector, dangerous peer,"
II,I,CARDINAL,"That smooth'st it so with king and commonweal!"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"What, cardinal, is your priesthood grown peremptory?"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Tantaene animis coelestibus irae?"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Churchmen so hot? good uncle, hide such malice;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"With such holiness can you do it?"
II,I,SUFFOLK,"No malice, sir; no more than well becomes"
II,I,SUFFOLK,"So good a quarrel and so bad a peer."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"As who, my lord?"
II,I,SUFFOLK,"Why, as you, my lord,"
II,I,SUFFOLK,"An't like your lordly lord-protectorship."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Why, Suffolk, England knows thine insolence."
II,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And thy ambition, Gloucester."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"I prithee, peace, good queen,"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"And whet not on these furious peers;"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"For blessed are the peacemakers on earth."
II,I,CARDINAL,"Let me be blessed for the peace I make,"
II,I,CARDINAL,"Against this proud protector, with my sword!"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"'twere come to that!"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"numbers for the matter;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"In thine own person answer thy abuse."
II,I,CARDINAL,"not peep: an if thou darest,"
II,I,CARDINAL,"This evening, on the east side of the grove."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"How now, my lords!"
II,I,CARDINAL,"Believe me, cousin Gloucester,"
II,I,CARDINAL,"Had not your man put up the fowl so suddenly,"
II,I,CARDINAL,"We had had more sport."
II,I,CARDINAL,"Come with thy two-hand sword."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"True, uncle."
II,I,CARDINAL,"east side of the grove?"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Why, how now, uncle Gloucester!"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Talking of hawking; nothing else, my lord."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Now, by God's mother, priest, I'll shave your crown for this,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Or all my fence shall fail."
II,I,CARDINAL,"Protector, see to't well, protect yourself."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"The winds grow high; so do your stomachs, lords."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"How irksome is this music to my heart!"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"What means this noise?"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Fellow, what miracle dost thou proclaim?"
II,I,Townsman,"A miracle! a miracle!"
II,I,SUFFOLK,"Come to the king and tell him what miracle."
II,I,Townsman,"Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine,"
II,I,Townsman,"Within this half-hour, hath received his sight;"
II,I,Townsman,"A man that ne'er saw in his life before."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!"
II,I,CARDINAL,"Here comes the townsmen on procession,"
II,I,CARDINAL,"To present your highness with the man."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Great is his comfort in this earthly vale,"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Although by his sight his sin be multiplied."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Stand by, my masters: bring him near the king;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"His highness' pleasure is to talk with him."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Good fellow, tell us here the circumstance,"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"That we for thee may glorify the Lord."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"What, hast thou been long blind and now restored?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"Born blind, an't please your grace."
II,I,Wife,"Ay, indeed, was he."
II,I,SUFFOLK,"What woman is this?"
II,I,Wife,"His wife, an't like your worship."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Hadst thou been his mother, thou couldst have"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"better told."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Where wert thou born?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"At Berwick in the north, an't like your grace."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Poor soul, God's goodness hath been great to thee:"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"But still remember what the Lord hath done."
II,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Tell me, good fellow, camest thou here by chance,"
II,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Or of devotion, to this holy shrine?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"God knows, of pure devotion; being call'd"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"A hundred times and oftener, in my sleep,"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"By good Saint Alban; who said, 'Simpcox, come,"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"Come, offer at my shrine, and I will help thee.'"
II,I,Wife,"Most true, forsooth; and many time and oft"
II,I,Wife,"Myself have heard a voice to call him so."
II,I,CARDINAL,"What, art thou lame?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"Ay, God Almighty help me!"
II,I,SUFFOLK,"How camest thou so?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"A fall off of a tree."
II,I,Wife,"A plum-tree, master."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"How long hast thou been blind?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"Born so, master."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"What, and wouldst climb a tree?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"But that in all my life, when I was a youth."
II,I,Wife,"Too true; and bought his climbing very dear."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Mass, thou lovedst plums well, that wouldst"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"venture so."
II,I,SIMPCOX,"Alas, good master, my wife desired some damsons,"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"And made me climb, with danger of my life."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"A subtle knave! but yet it shall not serve."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Let me see thine eyes: wink now: now open them:"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"In my opinion yet thou seest not well."
II,I,SIMPCOX,"Yes, master, clear as day, I thank God and"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"Saint Alban."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Say'st thou me so? What colour is this cloak of?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"Red, master; red as blood."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Why, that's well said. What colour is my gown of?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"Black, forsooth: coal-black as jet."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Why, then, thou know'st what colour jet is of?"
II,I,SUFFOLK,"And yet, I think, jet did he never see."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"But cloaks and gowns, before this day, a many."
II,I,Wife,"Never, before this day, in all his life."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Tell me, sirrah, what's my name?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"Alas, master, I know not."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"What's his name?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"I know not."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Nor his?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"No, indeed, master."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"What's thine own name?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"Saunder Simpcox, an if it please you, master."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Then, Saunder, sit there, the lyingest knave in"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Christendom. If thou hadst been born blind, thou"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"mightest as well have known all our names as thus to"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"name the several colours we do wear. Sight may"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"distinguish of colours, but suddenly to nominate them"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"all, it is impossible. My lords, Saint Alban here"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"hath done a miracle; and would ye not think his"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"cunning to be great, that could restore this cripple"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"to his legs again?"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"O master, that you could!"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"My masters of Saint Alban's, have you not beadles in"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"your town, and things called whips?"
II,I,Mayor,"Yes, my lord, if it please your grace."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Then send for one presently."
II,I,Mayor,"Sirrah, go fetch the beadle hither straight."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Now fetch me a stool hither by and by. Now, sirrah,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"if you mean to save yourself from whipping, leap me"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"over this stool and run away."
II,I,SIMPCOX,"Alas, master, I am not able to stand alone:"
II,I,SIMPCOX,"You go about to torture me in vain."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Well, sir, we must have you find your legs. Sirrah"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"beadle, whip him till he leap over that same stool."
II,I,Beadle,"I will, my lord. Come on, sirrah; off with your"
II,I,Beadle,"doublet quickly."
II,I,SIMPCOX,"Alas, master, what shall I do? I am not able to stand."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"O God, seest Thou this, and bearest so long?"
II,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"It made me laugh to see the villain run."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Follow the knave; and take this drab away."
II,I,Wife,"Alas, sir, we did it for pure need."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Let them be whipped through every market-town, till"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"they come to Berwick, from whence they came."
II,I,CARDINAL,"Duke Humphrey has done a miracle to-day."
II,I,SUFFOLK,"True; made the lame to leap and fly away."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"But you have done more miracles than I;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"You made in a day, my lord, whole towns to fly."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"What tidings with our cousin Buckingham?"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Such as my heart doth tremble to unfold."
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Under the countenance and confederacy"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Of Lady Eleanor, the protector's wife,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"The ringleader and head of all this rout,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Have practised dangerously against your state,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Dealing with witches and with conjurers:"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Whom we have apprehended in the fact;"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Raising up wicked spirits from under ground,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Demanding of King Henry's life and death,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And other of your highness' privy-council;"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"As more at large your grace shall understand."
II,I,CARDINAL,"by this means"
II,I,CARDINAL,"Your lady is forthcoming yet at London."
II,I,CARDINAL,"This news, I think, hath turn'd your weapon's edge;"
II,I,CARDINAL,"'Tis like, my lord, you will not keep your hour."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Ambitious churchman, leave to afflict my heart:"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Sorrow and grief have vanquish'd all my powers;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"And, vanquish'd as I am, I yield to thee,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Or to the meanest groom."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"O God, what mischiefs work the wicked ones,"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby!"
II,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Gloucester, see here the tainture of thy nest."
II,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And look thyself be faultless, thou wert best."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Madam, for myself, to heaven I do appeal,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"How I have loved my king and commonweal:"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"And, for my wife, I know not how it stands;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Sorry I am to hear what I have heard:"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Noble she is, but if she have forgot"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Honour and virtue and conversed with such"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"As, like to pitch, defile nobility,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"I banish her my bed and company"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"And give her as a prey to law and shame,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"That hath dishonour'd Gloucester's honest name."
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Well, for this night we will repose us here:"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"To-morrow toward London back again,"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"To look into this business thoroughly"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"And call these foul offenders to their answers"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"And poise the cause in justice' equal scales,"
II,I,KING HENRY VI,"Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails."
II,II,YORK,"Now, my good Lords of Salisbury and Warwick,"
II,II,YORK,"Our simple supper ended, give me leave"
II,II,YORK,"In this close walk to satisfy myself,"
II,II,YORK,"In craving your opinion of my title,"
II,II,YORK,"Which is infallible, to England's crown."
II,II,SALISBURY,"My lord, I long to hear it at full."
II,II,WARWICK,"Sweet York, begin: and if thy claim be good,"
II,II,WARWICK,"The Nevils are thy subjects to command."
II,II,YORK,"Then thus:"
II,II,YORK,"Edward the Third, my lords, had seven sons:"
II,II,YORK,"The first, Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales;"
II,II,YORK,"The second, William of Hatfield, and the third,"
II,II,YORK,"Lionel Duke of Clarence: next to whom"
II,II,YORK,"Was John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster;"
II,II,YORK,"The fifth was Edmund Langley, Duke of York;"
II,II,YORK,"The sixth was Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester;"
II,II,YORK,"William of Windsor was the seventh and last."
II,II,YORK,"Edward the Black Prince died before his father"
II,II,YORK,"And left behind him Richard, his only son,"
II,II,YORK,"Who after Edward the Third's death reign'd as king;"
II,II,YORK,"Till Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster,"
II,II,YORK,"The eldest son and heir of John of Gaunt,"
II,II,YORK,"Crown'd by the name of Henry the Fourth,"
II,II,YORK,"Seized on the realm, deposed the rightful king,"
II,II,YORK,"Sent his poor queen to France, from whence she came,"
II,II,YORK,"And him to Pomfret; where, as all you know,"
II,II,YORK,"Harmless Richard was murder'd traitorously."
II,II,WARWICK,"Father, the duke hath told the truth:"
II,II,WARWICK,"Thus got the house of Lancaster the crown."
II,II,YORK,"Which now they hold by force and not by right;"
II,II,YORK,"For Richard, the first son's heir, being dead,"
II,II,YORK,"The issue of the next son should have reign'd."
II,II,SALISBURY,"But William of Hatfield died without an heir."
II,II,YORK,"The third son, Duke of Clarence, from whose line"
II,II,YORK,"I claimed the crown, had issue, Philippe, a daughter,"
II,II,YORK,"Who married Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March:"
II,II,YORK,"Edmund had issue, Roger Earl of March;"
II,II,YORK,"Roger had issue, Edmund, Anne and Eleanor."
II,II,SALISBURY,"This Edmund, in the reign of Bolingbroke,"
II,II,SALISBURY,"As I have read, laid claim unto the crown;"
II,II,SALISBURY,"And, but for Owen Glendower, had been king,"
II,II,SALISBURY,"Who kept him in captivity till he died."
II,II,SALISBURY,"But to the rest."
II,II,YORK,"His eldest sister, Anne,"
II,II,YORK,"My mother, being heir unto the crown"
II,II,YORK,"Married Richard Earl of Cambridge; who was son"
II,II,YORK,"To Edmund Langley, Edward the Third's fifth son."
II,II,YORK,"By her I claim the kingdom: she was heir"
II,II,YORK,"To Roger Earl of March, who was the son"
II,II,YORK,"Of Edmund Mortimer, who married Philippe,"
II,II,YORK,"Sole daughter unto Lionel Duke of Clarence:"
II,II,YORK,"So, if the issue of the elder son"
II,II,YORK,"Succeed before the younger, I am king."
II,II,WARWICK,"What plain proceeding is more plain than this?"
II,II,WARWICK,"Henry doth claim the crown from John of Gaunt,"
II,II,WARWICK,"The fourth son; York claims it from the third."
II,II,WARWICK,"Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign:"
II,II,WARWICK,"It fails not yet, but flourishes in thee"
II,II,WARWICK,"And in thy sons, fair slips of such a stock."
II,II,WARWICK,"Then, father Salisbury, kneel we together;"
II,II,WARWICK,"And in this private plot be we the first"
II,II,WARWICK,"That shall salute our rightful sovereign"
II,II,WARWICK,"With honour of his birthright to the crown."
II,II,BOTH,"Long live our sovereign Richard, England's king!"
II,II,YORK,"We thank you, lords. But I am not your king"
II,II,YORK,"Till I be crown'd and that my sword be stain'd"
II,II,YORK,"With heart-blood of the house of Lancaster;"
II,II,YORK,"And that's not suddenly to be perform'd,"
II,II,YORK,"But with advice and silent secrecy."
II,II,YORK,"Do you as I do in these dangerous days:"
II,II,YORK,"Wink at the Duke of Suffolk's insolence,"
II,II,YORK,"At Beaufort's pride, at Somerset's ambition,"
II,II,YORK,"At Buckingham and all the crew of them,"
II,II,YORK,"Till they have snared the shepherd of the flock,"
II,II,YORK,"That virtuous prince, the good Duke Humphrey:"
II,II,YORK,"'Tis that they seek, and they in seeking that"
II,II,YORK,"Shall find their deaths, if York can prophesy."
II,II,SALISBURY,"My lord, break we off; we know your mind at full."
II,II,WARWICK,"My heart assures me that the Earl of Warwick"
II,II,WARWICK,"Shall one day make the Duke of York a king."
II,II,YORK,"And, Nevil, this I do assure myself:"
II,II,YORK,"Richard shall live to make the Earl of Warwick"
II,II,YORK,"The greatest man in England but the king."
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Stand forth, Dame Eleanor Cobham, Gloucester's wife:"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"In sight of God and us, your guilt is great:"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Receive the sentence of the law for sins"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Such as by God's book are adjudged to death."
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"You four, from hence to prison back again;"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"From thence unto the place of execution:"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"The witch in Smithfield shall be burn'd to ashes,"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"And you three shall be strangled on the gallows."
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"You, madam, for you are more nobly born,"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Despoiled of your honour in your life,"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Shall, after three days' open penance done,"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Live in your country here in banishment,"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"With Sir John Stanley, in the Isle of Man."
II,III,DUCHESS,"Welcome is banishment; welcome were my death."
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"Eleanor, the law, thou see'st, hath judged thee:"
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"I cannot justify whom the law condemns."
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief."
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"Ah, Humphrey, this dishonour in thine age"
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"Will bring thy head with sorrow to the ground!"
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"I beseech your majesty, give me leave to go;"
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"Sorrow would solace and mine age would ease."
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Stay, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester: ere thou go,"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Give up thy staff: Henry will to himself"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Protector be; and God shall be my hope,"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet:"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"And go in peace, Humphrey, no less beloved"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Than when thou wert protector to thy King."
II,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"I see no reason why a king of years"
II,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Should be to be protected like a child."
II,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"God and King Henry govern England's realm."
II,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Give up your staff, sir, and the king his realm."
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"My staff? here, noble Henry, is my staff:"
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"As willingly do I the same resign"
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"As e'er thy father Henry made it mine;"
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"And even as willingly at thy feet I leave it"
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"As others would ambitiously receive it."
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"Farewell, good king: when I am dead and gone,"
II,III,GLOUCESTER,"May honourable peace attend thy throne!"
II,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Why, now is Henry king, and Margaret queen;"
II,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And Humphrey Duke of Gloucester scarce himself,"
II,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"That bears so shrewd a maim; two pulls at once;"
II,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"His lady banish'd, and a limb lopp'd off."
II,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"This staff of honour raught, there let it stand"
II,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Where it best fits to be, in Henry's hand."
II,III,SUFFOLK,"Thus droops this lofty pine and hangs his sprays;"
II,III,SUFFOLK,"Thus Eleanor's pride dies in her youngest days."
II,III,YORK,"Lords, let him go. Please it your majesty,"
II,III,YORK,"This is the day appointed for the combat;"
II,III,YORK,"And ready are the appellant and defendant,"
II,III,YORK,"The armourer and his man, to enter the lists,"
II,III,YORK,"So please your highness to behold the fight."
II,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ay, good my lord; for purposely therefore"
II,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried."
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"O God's name, see the lists and all things fit:"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Here let them end it; and God defend the right!"
II,III,YORK,"I never saw a fellow worse bested,"
II,III,YORK,"Or more afraid to fight, than is the appellant,"
II,III,YORK,"The servant of this armourer, my lords."
II,III,First Neighbour,"Here, neighbour Horner, I drink to you in a cup of"
II,III,First Neighbour,"sack: and fear not, neighbour, you shall do well enough."
II,III,Second Neighbour,"And here, neighbour, here's a cup of charneco."
II,III,Third Neighbour,"And here's a pot of good double beer, neighbour:"
II,III,Third Neighbour,"drink, and fear not your man."
II,III,HORNER,"Let it come, i' faith, and I'll pledge you all; and"
II,III,HORNER,"a fig for Peter!"
II,III,First 'Prentice,"Here, Peter, I drink to thee: and be not afraid."
II,III,Second 'Prentice,"Be merry, Peter, and fear not thy master: fight"
II,III,Second 'Prentice,"for credit of the 'prentices."
II,III,PETER,"I thank you all: drink, and pray for me, I pray"
II,III,PETER,"you; for I think I have taken my last draught in"
II,III,PETER,"this world. Here, Robin, an if I die, I give thee"
II,III,PETER,"my apron: and, Will, thou shalt have my hammer:"
II,III,PETER,"and here, Tom, take all the money that I have. O"
II,III,PETER,"Lord bless me! I pray God! for I am never able to"
II,III,PETER,"deal with my master, he hath learnt me so much fence already."
II,III,SALISBURY,"Come, leave your drinking, and fall to blows."
II,III,SALISBURY,"Sirrah, what's thy name?"
II,III,PETER,"Peter, forsooth."
II,III,SALISBURY,"Peter! what more?"
II,III,PETER,"Thump."
II,III,SALISBURY,"Thump! then see thou thump thy master well."
II,III,HORNER,"Masters, I am come hither, as it were, upon my man's"
II,III,HORNER,"instigation, to prove him a knave and myself an"
II,III,HORNER,"honest man: and touching the Duke of York, I will"
II,III,HORNER,"take my death, I never meant him any ill, nor the"
II,III,HORNER,"king, nor the queen: and therefore, Peter, have at"
II,III,HORNER,"thee with a downright blow!"
II,III,YORK,"Dispatch: this knave's tongue begins to double."
II,III,YORK,"Sound, trumpets, alarum to the combatants!"
II,III,HORNER,"Hold, Peter, hold! I confess, I confess treason."
II,III,YORK,"Take away his weapon. Fellow, thank God, and the"
II,III,YORK,"good wine in thy master's way."
II,III,PETER,"O God, have I overcome mine enemy in this presence?"
II,III,PETER,"O Peter, thou hast prevailed in right!"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Go, take hence that traitor from our sight;"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"For his death we do perceive his guilt:"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"And God in justice hath revealed to us"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"The truth and innocence of this poor fellow,"
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Which he had thought to have murder'd wrongfully."
II,III,KING HENRY VI,"Come, fellow, follow us for thy reward."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"And after summer evermore succeeds"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Sirs, what's o'clock?"
II,IV,Servants,"Ten, my lord."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Ten is the hour that was appointed me"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"To watch the coming of my punish'd duchess:"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Uneath may she endure the flinty streets,"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"To tread them with her tender-feeling feet."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"The abject people gazing on thy face,"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"With envious looks, laughing at thy shame,"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"That erst did follow thy proud chariot-wheels"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"When thou didst ride in triumph through the streets."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"But, soft! I think she comes; and I'll prepare"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"My tear-stain'd eyes to see her miseries."
II,IV,Servant,"So please your grace, we'll take her from the sheriff."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"No, stir not, for your lives; let her pass by."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Come you, my lord, to see my open shame?"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Now thou dost penance too. Look how they gaze!"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"See how the giddy multitude do point,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"And nod their heads, and throw their eyes on thee!"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Ah, Gloucester, hide thee from their hateful looks,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"And, in thy closet pent up, rue my shame,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"And ban thine enemies, both mine and thine!"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Be patient, gentle Nell; forget this grief."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Ah, Gloucester, teach me to forget myself!"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"For whilst I think I am thy married wife"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"And thou a prince, protector of this land,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Methinks I should not thus be led along,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Mail'd up in shame, with papers on my back,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"And followed with a rabble that rejoice"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"To see my tears and hear my deep-fet groans."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"And when I start, the envious people laugh"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"And bid me be advised how I tread."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Ah, Humphrey, can I bear this shameful yoke?"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Trow'st thou that e'er I'll look upon the world,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Or count them happy that enjoy the sun?"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"No; dark shall be my light and night my day;"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"To think upon my pomp shall be my hell."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Sometime I'll say, I am Duke Humphrey's wife,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"And he a prince and ruler of the land:"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Yet so he ruled and such a prince he was"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"As he stood by whilst I, his forlorn duchess,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Was made a wonder and a pointing-stock"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"To every idle rascal follower."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"But be thou mild and blush not at my shame,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Nor stir at nothing till the axe of death"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Hang over thee, as, sure, it shortly will;"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"For Suffolk, he that can do all in all"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"With her that hateth thee and hates us all,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"And York and impious Beaufort, that false priest,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"And, fly thou how thou canst, they'll tangle thee:"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"But fear not thou, until thy foot be snared,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Nor never seek prevention of thy foes."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Ah, Nell, forbear! thou aimest all awry;"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"I must offend before I be attainted;"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"And had I twenty times so many foes,"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"And each of them had twenty times their power,"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"All these could not procure me any scathe,"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"So long as I am loyal, true and crimeless."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Wouldst have me rescue thee from this reproach?"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Why, yet thy scandal were not wiped away"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"But I in danger for the breach of law."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Thy greatest help is quiet, gentle Nell:"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience;"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"These few days' wonder will be quickly worn."
II,IV,Herald,"I summon your grace to his majesty's parliament,"
II,IV,Herald,"Holden at Bury the first of this next month."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"And my consent ne'er ask'd herein before!"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"This is close dealing. Well, I will be there."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"My Nell, I take my leave: and, master sheriff,"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Let not her penance exceed the king's commission."
II,IV,Sheriff,"An't please your grace, here my commission stays,"
II,IV,Sheriff,"And Sir John Stanley is appointed now"
II,IV,Sheriff,"To take her with him to the Isle of Man."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Must you, Sir John, protect my lady here?"
II,IV,STANLEY,"So am I given in charge, may't please your grace."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Entreat her not the worse in that I pray"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"You use her well: the world may laugh again;"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"And I may live to do you kindness if"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"You do it her: and so, Sir John, farewell!"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"What, gone, my lord, and bid me not farewell!"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Witness my tears, I cannot stay to speak."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Art thou gone too? all comfort go with thee!"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"For none abides with me: my joy is death;"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Death, at whose name I oft have been afear'd,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Because I wish'd this world's eternity."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Stanley, I prithee, go, and take me hence;"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"I care not whither, for I beg no favour,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Only convey me where thou art commanded."
II,IV,STANLEY,"Why, madam, that is to the Isle of Man;"
II,IV,STANLEY,"There to be used according to your state."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"That's bad enough, for I am but reproach:"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"And shall I then be used reproachfully?"
II,IV,STANLEY,"Like to a duchess, and Duke Humphrey's lady;"
II,IV,STANLEY,"According to that state you shall be used."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Sheriff, farewell, and better than I fare,"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Although thou hast been conduct of my shame."
II,IV,Sheriff,"It is my office; and, madam, pardon me."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Ay, ay, farewell; thy office is discharged."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Come, Stanley, shall we go?"
II,IV,STANLEY,"Madam, your penance done, throw off this sheet,"
II,IV,STANLEY,"And go we to attire you for our journey."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"My shame will not be shifted with my sheet:"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"No, it will hang upon my richest robes"
II,IV,DUCHESS,"And show itself, attire me how I can."
II,IV,DUCHESS,"Go, lead the way; I long to see my prison."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"I muse my Lord of Gloucester is not come:"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"'Tis not his wont to be the hindmost man,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Whate'er occasion keeps him from us now."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Can you not see? or will ye not observe"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"The strangeness of his alter'd countenance?"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"With what a majesty he bears himself,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"How insolent of late he is become,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"How proud, how peremptory, and unlike himself?"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"We know the time since he was mild and affable,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And if we did but glance a far-off look,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Immediately he was upon his knee,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"That all the court admired him for submission:"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"But meet him now, and, be it in the morn,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"When every one will give the time of day,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"He knits his brow and shows an angry eye,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And passeth by with stiff unbowed knee,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Disdaining duty that to us belongs."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Small curs are not regarded when they grin;"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"But great men tremble when the lion roars;"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And Humphrey is no little man in England."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"First note that he is near you in descent,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And should you fall, he as the next will mount."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Me seemeth then it is no policy,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Respecting what a rancorous mind he bears"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And his advantage following your decease,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"That he should come about your royal person"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Or be admitted to your highness' council."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"By flattery hath he won the commons' hearts,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And when he please to make commotion,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"'Tis to be fear'd they all will follow him."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And choke the herbs for want of husbandry."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"The reverent care I bear unto my lord"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Made me collect these dangers in the duke."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"If it be fond, call it a woman's fear;"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Which fear if better reasons can supplant,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"I will subscribe and say I wrong'd the duke."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"My Lord of Suffolk, Buckingham, and York,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Reprove my allegation, if you can;"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Or else conclude my words effectual."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Well hath your highness seen into this duke;"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"And, had I first been put to speak my mind,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"I think I should have told your grace's tale."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"The duchess, by his subornation,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Upon my life, began her devilish practises:"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Or, if he were not privy to those faults,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Yet, by reputing of his high descent,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"As next the king he was successive heir,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"And such high vaunts of his nobility,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Did instigate the bedlam brain-sick duchess"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"By wicked means to frame our sovereign's fall."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep;"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"And in his simple show he harbours treason."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"No, no, my sovereign; Gloucester is a man"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Unsounded yet and full of deep deceit."
III,I,CARDINAL,"Did he not, contrary to form of law,"
III,I,CARDINAL,"Devise strange deaths for small offences done?"
III,I,YORK,"And did he not, in his protectorship,"
III,I,YORK,"Levy great sums of money through the realm"
III,I,YORK,"For soldiers' pay in France, and never sent it?"
III,I,YORK,"By means whereof the towns each day revolted."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Tut, these are petty faults to faults unknown."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Which time will bring to light in smooth"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Duke Humphrey."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"My lords, at once: the care you have of us,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"To mow down thorns that would annoy our foot,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Is worthy praise: but, shall I speak my conscience,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Our kinsman Gloucester is as innocent"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"From meaning treason to our royal person"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove:"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"The duke is virtuous, mild and too well given"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"To dream on evil or to work my downfall."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ah, what's more dangerous than this fond affiance!"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Seems he a dove? his feathers are but borrowed,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"For he's disposed as the hateful raven:"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Is he a lamb? his skin is surely lent him,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"For he's inclined as is the ravenous wolf."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Who cannot steal a shape that means deceit?"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Take heed, my lord; the welfare of us all"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man."
III,I,SOMERSET,"All health unto my gracious sovereign!"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Welcome, Lord Somerset. What news from France?"
III,I,SOMERSET,"That all your interest in those territories"
III,I,SOMERSET,"Is utterly bereft you; all is lost."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Cold news, Lord Somerset: but God's will be done!"
III,I,YORK,"As firmly as I hope for fertile England."
III,I,YORK,"Thus are my blossoms blasted in the bud"
III,I,YORK,"And caterpillars eat my leaves away;"
III,I,YORK,"But I will remedy this gear ere long,"
III,I,YORK,"Or sell my title for a glorious grave."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"All happiness unto my lord the king!"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Pardon, my liege, that I have stay'd so long."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Nay, Gloucester, know that thou art come too soon,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Unless thou wert more loyal than thou art:"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"I do arrest thee of high treason here."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Well, Suffolk, thou shalt not see me blush"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Nor change my countenance for this arrest:"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"A heart unspotted is not easily daunted."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"The purest spring is not so free from mud"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"As I am clear from treason to my sovereign:"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Who can accuse me? wherein am I guilty?"
III,I,YORK,"'Tis thought, my lord, that you took bribes of France,"
III,I,YORK,"And, being protector, stayed the soldiers' pay;"
III,I,YORK,"By means whereof his highness hath lost France."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Is it but thought so? what are they that think it?"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"I never robb'd the soldiers of their pay,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Nor ever had one penny bribe from France."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"So help me God, as I have watch'd the night,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Ay, night by night, in studying good for England,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"That doit that e'er I wrested from the king,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Or any groat I hoarded to my use,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Be brought against me at my trial-day!"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"No; many a pound of mine own proper store,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Because I would not tax the needy commons,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Have I disbursed to the garrisons,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And never ask'd for restitution."
III,I,CARDINAL,"It serves you well, my lord, to say so much."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"I say no more than truth, so help me God!"
III,I,YORK,"In your protectorship you did devise"
III,I,YORK,"Strange tortures for offenders never heard of,"
III,I,YORK,"That England was defamed by tyranny."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Why, 'tis well known that, whiles I was"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"protector,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Pity was all the fault that was in me;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"For I should melt at an offender's tears,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And lowly words were ransom for their fault."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Unless it were a bloody murderer,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Or foul felonious thief that fleeced poor passengers,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"I never gave them condign punishment:"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Murder indeed, that bloody sin, I tortured"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Above the felon or what trespass else."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"My lord, these faults are easy, quickly answered:"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"But mightier crimes are laid unto your charge,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Whereof you cannot easily purge yourself."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"I do arrest you in his highness' name;"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"And here commit you to my lord cardinal"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"To keep, until your further time of trial."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"My lord of Gloucester, 'tis my special hope"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"That you will clear yourself from all suspect:"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"My conscience tells me you are innocent."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Ah, gracious lord, these days are dangerous:"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Virtue is choked with foul ambition"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And charity chased hence by rancour's hand;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Foul subornation is predominant"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And equity exiled your highness' land."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"I know their complot is to have my life,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And if my death might make this island happy,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And prove the period of their tyranny,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"I would expend it with all willingness:"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"But mine is made the prologue to their play;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"For thousands more, that yet suspect no peril,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Will not conclude their plotted tragedy."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Beaufort's red sparkling eyes blab his heart's malice,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And Suffolk's cloudy brow his stormy hate;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Sharp Buckingham unburthens with his tongue"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"The envious load that lies upon his heart;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And dogged York, that reaches at the moon,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Whose overweening arm I have pluck'd back,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"By false accuse doth level at my life:"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And you, my sovereign lady, with the rest,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Causeless have laid disgraces on my head,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And with your best endeavour have stirr'd up"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"My liefest liege to be mine enemy:"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Ay, all you have laid your heads together--"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Myself had notice of your conventicles--"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And all to make away my guiltless life."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"I shall not want false witness to condemn me,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"The ancient proverb will be well effected:"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"'A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.'"
III,I,CARDINAL,"My liege, his railing is intolerable:"
III,I,CARDINAL,"If those that care to keep your royal person"
III,I,CARDINAL,"From treason's secret knife and traitors' rage"
III,I,CARDINAL,"Be thus upbraided, chid and rated at,"
III,I,CARDINAL,"And the offender granted scope of speech,"
III,I,CARDINAL,"'Twill make them cool in zeal unto your grace."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"With ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"As if she had suborned some to swear"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"False allegations to o'erthrow his state?"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"But I can give the loser leave to chide."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Far truer spoke than meant: I lose, indeed;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Beshrew the winners, for they play'd me false!"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And well such losers may have leave to speak."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"He'll wrest the sense and hold us here all day:"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Lord cardinal, he is your prisoner."
III,I,CARDINAL,"Sirs, take away the duke, and guard him sure."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Ah! thus King Henry throws away his crutch"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Before his legs be firm to bear his body."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Thus is the shepherd beaten from thy side,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Ah, that my fear were false! ah, that it were!"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"For, good King Henry, thy decay I fear."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"My lords, what to your wisdoms seemeth best,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Do or undo, as if ourself were here."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"What, will your highness leave the parliament?"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Ay, Margaret; my heart is drown'd with grief,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Whose flood begins to flow within mine eyes,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"My body round engirt with misery,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"For what's more miserable than discontent?"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Ah, uncle Humphrey! in thy face I see"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"The map of honour, truth and loyalty:"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And yet, good Humphrey, is the hour to come"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"That e'er I proved thee false or fear'd thy faith."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"What louring star now envies thy estate,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"That these great lords and Margaret our queen"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Do seek subversion of thy harmless life?"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man wrong;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And as the butcher takes away the calf"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And binds the wretch, and beats it when it strays,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Bearing it to the bloody slaughter-house,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Even so remorseless have they borne him hence;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And as the dam runs lowing up and down,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Looking the way her harmless young one went,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And can do nought but wail her darling's loss,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Even so myself bewails good Gloucester's case"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"With sad unhelpful tears, and with dimm'd eyes"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Look after him and cannot do him good,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"So mighty are his vowed enemies."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"His fortunes I will weep; and, 'twixt each groan"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Say 'Who's a traitor? Gloucester he is none.'"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Free lords, cold snow melts with the sun's hot beams."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Henry my lord is cold in great affairs,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Too full of foolish pity, and Gloucester's show"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Beguiles him as the mournful crocodile"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"With sorrow snares relenting passengers,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Or as the snake roll'd in a flowering bank,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"With shining chequer'd slough, doth sting a child"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"That for the beauty thinks it excellent."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Believe me, lords, were none more wise than I--"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And yet herein I judge mine own wit good--"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"This Gloucester should be quickly rid the world,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"To rid us of the fear we have of him."
III,I,CARDINAL,"That he should die is worthy policy;"
III,I,CARDINAL,"But yet we want a colour for his death:"
III,I,CARDINAL,"'Tis meet he be condemn'd by course of law."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"But, in my mind, that were no policy:"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"The king will labour still to save his life,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"The commons haply rise, to save his life;"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"And yet we have but trivial argument,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"More than mistrust, that shows him worthy death."
III,I,YORK,"So that, by this, you would not have him die."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Ah, York, no man alive so fain as I!"
III,I,YORK,"'Tis York that hath more reason for his death."
III,I,YORK,"But, my lord cardinal, and you, my Lord of Suffolk,"
III,I,YORK,"Say as you think, and speak it from your souls,"
III,I,YORK,"Were't not all one, an empty eagle were set"
III,I,YORK,"To guard the chicken from a hungry kite,"
III,I,YORK,"As place Duke Humphrey for the king's protector?"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"So the poor chicken should be sure of death."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Madam, 'tis true; and were't not madness, then,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"To make the fox surveyor of the fold?"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Who being accused a crafty murderer,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"His guilt should be but idly posted over,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Because his purpose is not executed."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"No; let him die, in that he is a fox,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"By nature proved an enemy to the flock,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Before his chaps be stain'd with crimson blood,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"As Humphrey, proved by reasons, to my liege."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"And do not stand on quillets how to slay him:"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Be it by gins, by snares, by subtlety,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Sleeping or waking, 'tis no matter how,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"So he be dead; for that is good deceit"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Which mates him first that first intends deceit."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thrice-noble Suffolk, 'tis resolutely spoke."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Not resolute, except so much were done;"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"For things are often spoke and seldom meant:"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Seeing the deed is meritorious,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"And to preserve my sovereign from his foe,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Say but the word, and I will be his priest."
III,I,CARDINAL,"But I would have him dead, my Lord of Suffolk,"
III,I,CARDINAL,"Ere you can take due orders for a priest:"
III,I,CARDINAL,"Say you consent and censure well the deed,"
III,I,CARDINAL,"And I'll provide his executioner,"
III,I,CARDINAL,"I tender so the safety of my liege."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Here is my hand, the deed is worthy doing."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And so say I."
III,I,YORK,"And I    and now we three have spoke it,"
III,I,YORK,"It skills not greatly who impugns our doom."
III,I,Post,"Great lords, from Ireland am I come amain,"
III,I,Post,"To signify that rebels there are up"
III,I,Post,"And put the Englishmen unto the sword:"
III,I,Post,"Send succors, lords, and stop the rage betime,"
III,I,Post,"Before the wound do grow uncurable;"
III,I,Post,"For, being green, there is great hope of help."
III,I,CARDINAL,"A breach that craves a quick expedient stop!"
III,I,CARDINAL,"What counsel give you in this weighty cause?"
III,I,YORK,"That Somerset be sent as regent thither:"
III,I,YORK,"'Tis meet that lucky ruler be employ'd;"
III,I,YORK,"Witness the fortune he hath had in France."
III,I,SOMERSET,"If York, with all his far-fet policy,"
III,I,SOMERSET,"Had been the regent there instead of me,"
III,I,SOMERSET,"He never would have stay'd in France so long."
III,I,YORK,"No, not to lose it all, as thou hast done:"
III,I,YORK,"I rather would have lost my life betimes"
III,I,YORK,"Than bring a burthen of dishonour home"
III,I,YORK,"By staying there so long till all were lost."
III,I,YORK,"Show me one scar character'd on thy skin:"
III,I,YORK,"Men's flesh preserved so whole do seldom win."
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Nay, then, this spark will prove a raging fire,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"If wind and fuel be brought to feed it with:"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"No more, good York; sweet Somerset, be still:"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thy fortune, York, hadst thou been regent there,"
III,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Might happily have proved far worse than his."
III,I,YORK,"What, worse than nought? nay, then, a shame take all!"
III,I,SOMERSET,"And, in the number, thee that wishest shame!"
III,I,CARDINAL,"My Lord of York, try what your fortune is."
III,I,CARDINAL,"The uncivil kerns of Ireland are in arms"
III,I,CARDINAL,"And temper clay with blood of Englishmen:"
III,I,CARDINAL,"To Ireland will you lead a band of men,"
III,I,CARDINAL,"Collected choicely, from each county some,"
III,I,CARDINAL,"And try your hap against the Irishmen?"
III,I,YORK,"I will, my lord, so please his majesty."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Why, our authority is his consent,"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"And what we do establish he confirms:"
III,I,SUFFOLK,"Then, noble York, take thou this task in hand."
III,I,YORK,"I am content: provide me soldiers, lords,"
III,I,YORK,"Whiles I take order for mine own affairs."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"A charge, Lord York, that I will see perform'd."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"But now return we to the false Duke Humphrey."
III,I,CARDINAL,"No more of him; for I will deal with him"
III,I,CARDINAL,"That henceforth he shall trouble us no more."
III,I,CARDINAL,"And so break off; the day is almost spent:"
III,I,CARDINAL,"Lord Suffolk, you and I must talk of that event."
III,I,YORK,"My Lord of Suffolk, within fourteen days"
III,I,YORK,"At Bristol I expect my soldiers;"
III,I,YORK,"For there I'll ship them all for Ireland."
III,I,SUFFOLK,"I'll see it truly done, my Lord of York."
III,I,YORK,"Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts,"
III,I,YORK,"And change misdoubt to resolution:"
III,I,YORK,"Be that thou hopest to be, or what thou art"
III,I,YORK,"Resign to death; it is not worth the enjoying:"
III,I,YORK,"Let pale-faced fear keep with the mean-born man,"
III,I,YORK,"And find no harbour in a royal heart."
III,I,YORK,"Faster than spring-time showers comes thought"
III,I,YORK,"on thought,"
III,I,YORK,"And not a thought but thinks on dignity."
III,I,YORK,"My brain more busy than the labouring spider"
III,I,YORK,"Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies."
III,I,YORK,"Well, nobles, well, 'tis politicly done,"
III,I,YORK,"To send me packing with an host of men:"
III,I,YORK,"I fear me you but warm the starved snake,"
III,I,YORK,"Who, cherish'd in your breasts, will sting"
III,I,YORK,"your hearts."
III,I,YORK,"'Twas men I lack'd and you will give them me:"
III,I,YORK,"I take it kindly; and yet be well assured"
III,I,YORK,"You put sharp weapons in a madman's hands."
III,I,YORK,"Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band,"
III,I,YORK,"I will stir up in England some black storm"
III,I,YORK,"Shall blow ten thousand souls to heaven or hell;"
III,I,YORK,"And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage"
III,I,YORK,"Until the golden circuit on my head,"
III,I,YORK,"Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams,"
III,I,YORK,"Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw."
III,I,YORK,"And, for a minister of my intent,"
III,I,YORK,"I have seduced a headstrong Kentishman,"
III,I,YORK,"John Cade of Ashford,"
III,I,YORK,"To make commotion, as full well he can,"
III,I,YORK,"Under the title of John Mortimer."
III,I,YORK,"In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade"
III,I,YORK,"Oppose himself against a troop of kerns,"
III,I,YORK,"And fought so long, till that his thighs with darts"
III,I,YORK,"Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine;"
III,I,YORK,"And, in the end being rescued, I have seen"
III,I,YORK,"Him caper upright like a wild Morisco,"
III,I,YORK,"Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells."
III,I,YORK,"Full often, like a shag-hair'd crafty kern,"
III,I,YORK,"Hath he conversed with the enemy,"
III,I,YORK,"And undiscover'd come to me again"
III,I,YORK,"And given me notice of their villanies."
III,I,YORK,"This devil here shall be my substitute;"
III,I,YORK,"For that John Mortimer, which now is dead,"
III,I,YORK,"In face, in gait, in speech, he doth resemble:"
III,I,YORK,"By this I shall perceive the commons' mind,"
III,I,YORK,"How they affect the house and claim of York."
III,I,YORK,"Say he be taken, rack'd and tortured,"
III,I,YORK,"I know no pain they can inflict upon him"
III,I,YORK,"Will make him say I moved him to those arms."
III,I,YORK,"Say that he thrive, as 'tis great like he will,"
III,I,YORK,"Why, then from Ireland come I with my strength"
III,I,YORK,"And reap the harvest which that rascal sow'd;"
III,I,YORK,"For Humphrey being dead, as he shall be,"
III,I,YORK,"And Henry put apart, the next for me."
III,II,First Murderer,"Run to my Lord of Suffolk; let him know"
III,II,First Murderer,"We have dispatch'd the duke, as he commanded."
III,II,Second Murderer,"O that it were to do! What have we done?"
III,II,Second Murderer,"Didst ever hear a man so penitent?"
III,II,First Murder,"Here comes my lord."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Now, sirs, have you dispatch'd this thing?"
III,II,First Murderer,"Ay, my good lord, he's dead."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Why, that's well said. Go, get you to my house;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"I will reward you for this venturous deed."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"The king and all the peers are here at hand."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Have you laid fair the bed? Is all things well,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"According as I gave directions?"
III,II,First Murderer,"'Tis, my good lord."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Away! be gone."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Go, call our uncle to our presence straight;"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Say we intend to try his grace to-day."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"If he be guilty, as 'tis published."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"I'll call him presently, my noble lord."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Lords, take your places; and, I pray you all,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Gloucester"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Than from true evidence of good esteem"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"He be approved in practise culpable."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"God forbid any malice should prevail,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"That faultless may condemn a nobleman!"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Pray God he may acquit him of suspicion!"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"I thank thee, Meg; these words content me much."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"How now! why look'st thou pale? why tremblest thou?"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Where is our uncle? what's the matter, Suffolk?"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Dead in his bed, my lord; Gloucester is dead."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Marry, God forfend!"
III,II,CARDINAL,"God's secret judgment: I did dream to-night"
III,II,CARDINAL,"The duke was dumb and could not speak a word."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"How fares my lord? Help, lords! the king is dead."
III,II,SOMERSET,"Rear up his body; wring him by the nose."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Run, go, help, help! O Henry, ope thine eyes!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"He doth revive again: madam, be patient."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"O heavenly God!"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"How fares my gracious lord?"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Comfort, my sovereign! gracious Henry, comfort!"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"What, doth my Lord of Suffolk comfort me?"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Came he right now to sing a raven's note,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers;"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"And thinks he that the chirping of a wren,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"By crying comfort from a hollow breast,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Can chase away the first-conceived sound?"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words;"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Lay not thy hands on me; forbear, I say;"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Thou baleful messenger, out of my sight!"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Upon thy eye-balls murderous tyranny"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Sits in grim majesty, to fright the world."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Look not upon me, for thine eyes are wounding:"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Yet do not go away: come, basilisk,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight;"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"For in the shade of death I shall find joy;"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"In life but double death, now Gloucester's dead."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Why do you rate my Lord of Suffolk thus?"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Although the duke was enemy to him,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Yet he most Christian-like laments his death:"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And for myself, foe as he was to me,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Might liquid tears or heart-offending groans"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Or blood-consuming sighs recall his life,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"I would be blind with weeping, sick with groans,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Look pale as primrose with blood-drinking sighs,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And all to have the noble duke alive."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"What know I how the world may deem of me?"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"For it is known we were but hollow friends:"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"It may be judged I made the duke away;"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"So shall my name with slander's tongue be wounded,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And princes' courts be fill'd with my reproach."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"This get I by his death: ay me, unhappy!"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"To be a queen, and crown'd with infamy!"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Ah, woe is me for Gloucester, wretched man!"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Be woe for me, more wretched than he is."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"What, dost thou turn away and hide thy face?"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"I am no loathsome leper; look on me."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"What! art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf?"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Be poisonous too and kill thy forlorn queen."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Is all thy comfort shut in Gloucester's tomb?"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Why, then, dame Margaret was ne'er thy joy."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Erect his statue and worship it,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And make my image but an alehouse sign."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Was I for this nigh wreck'd upon the sea"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And twice by awkward wind from England's bank"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Drove back again unto my native clime?"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"What boded this, but well forewarning wind"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Did seem to say 'Seek not a scorpion's nest,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Nor set no footing on this unkind shore'?"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"What did I then, but cursed the gentle gusts"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And he that loosed them forth their brazen caves:"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And bid them blow towards England's blessed shore,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Or turn our stern upon a dreadful rock"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Yet AEolus would not be a murderer,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"But left that hateful office unto thee:"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"The pretty-vaulting sea refused to drown me,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Knowing that thou wouldst have me drown'd on shore,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"With tears as salt as sea, through thy unkindness:"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"The splitting rocks cower'd in the sinking sands"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And would not dash me with their ragged sides,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Because thy flinty heart, more hard than they,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Might in thy palace perish Margaret."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"As far as I could ken thy chalky cliffs,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"I stood upon the hatches in the storm,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And when the dusky sky began to rob"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"My earnest-gaping sight of thy land's view,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"I took a costly jewel from my neck,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"A heart it was, bound in with diamonds,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And threw it towards thy land: the sea received it,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And so I wish'd thy body might my heart:"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And even with this I lost fair England's view"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And bid mine eyes be packing with my heart"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And call'd them blind and dusky spectacles,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"For losing ken of Albion's wished coast."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"How often have I tempted Suffolk's tongue,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"The agent of thy foul inconstancy,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"To sit and witch me, as Ascanius did"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"When he to madding Dido would unfold"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"His father's acts commenced in burning Troy!"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Am I not witch'd like her? or thou not false like him?"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ay me, I can no more! die, Margaret!"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"For Henry weeps that thou dost live so long."
III,II,WARWICK,"It is reported, mighty sovereign,"
III,II,WARWICK,"That good Duke Humphrey traitorously is murder'd"
III,II,WARWICK,"By Suffolk and the Cardinal Beaufort's means."
III,II,WARWICK,"The commons, like an angry hive of bees"
III,II,WARWICK,"That want their leader, scatter up and down"
III,II,WARWICK,"And care not who they sting in his revenge."
III,II,WARWICK,"Myself have calm'd their spleenful mutiny,"
III,II,WARWICK,"Until they hear the order of his death."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"That he is dead, good Warwick, 'tis too true;"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"But how he died God knows, not Henry:"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Enter his chamber, view his breathless corpse,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"And comment then upon his sudden death."
III,II,WARWICK,"That shall I do, my liege. Stay, Salisbury,"
III,II,WARWICK,"With the rude multitude till I return."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"O Thou that judgest all things, stay my thoughts,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"My thoughts, that labour to persuade my soul"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life!"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"If my suspect be false, forgive me, God,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"For judgment only doth belong to thee."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"With twenty thousand kisses, and to drain"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Upon his face an ocean of salt tears,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"To tell my love unto his dumb deaf trunk,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"And with my fingers feel his hand unfeeling:"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"But all in vain are these mean obsequies;"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"And to survey his dead and earthly image,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"What were it but to make my sorrow greater?"
III,II,WARWICK,"Come hither, gracious sovereign, view this body."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"That is to see how deep my grave is made;"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"For with his soul fled all my worldly solace,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"For seeing him I see my life in death."
III,II,WARWICK,"As surely as my soul intends to live"
III,II,WARWICK,"With that dread King that took our state upon him"
III,II,WARWICK,"To free us from his father's wrathful curse,"
III,II,WARWICK,"I do believe that violent hands were laid"
III,II,WARWICK,"Upon the life of this thrice-famed duke."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"A dreadful oath, sworn with a solemn tongue!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"What instance gives Lord Warwick for his vow?"
III,II,WARWICK,"See how the blood is settled in his face."
III,II,WARWICK,"Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost,"
III,II,WARWICK,"Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale and bloodless,"
III,II,WARWICK,"Being all descended to the labouring heart;"
III,II,WARWICK,"Who, in the conflict that it holds with death,"
III,II,WARWICK,"Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy;"
III,II,WARWICK,"Which with the heart there cools and ne'er returneth"
III,II,WARWICK,"To blush and beautify the cheek again."
III,II,WARWICK,"But see, his face is black and full of blood,"
III,II,WARWICK,"His eye-balls further out than when he lived,"
III,II,WARWICK,"Staring full ghastly like a strangled man;"
III,II,WARWICK,"His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretched with struggling;"
III,II,WARWICK,"His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd"
III,II,WARWICK,"And tugg'd for life and was by strength subdued:"
III,II,WARWICK,"Look, on the sheets his hair you see, is sticking;"
III,II,WARWICK,"His well-proportion'd beard made rough and rugged,"
III,II,WARWICK,"Like to the summer's corn by tempest lodged."
III,II,WARWICK,"It cannot be but he was murder'd here;"
III,II,WARWICK,"The least of all these signs were probable."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Why, Warwick, who should do the duke to death?"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Myself and Beaufort had him in protection;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"And we, I hope, sir, are no murderers."
III,II,WARWICK,"But both of you were vow'd Duke Humphrey's foes,"
III,II,WARWICK,"And you, forsooth, had the good duke to keep:"
III,II,WARWICK,"'Tis like you would not feast him like a friend;"
III,II,WARWICK,"And 'tis well seen he found an enemy."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Then you, belike, suspect these noblemen"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"As guilty of Duke Humphrey's timeless death."
III,II,WARWICK,"Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh"
III,II,WARWICK,"And sees fast by a butcher with an axe,"
III,II,WARWICK,"But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?"
III,II,WARWICK,"Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,"
III,II,WARWICK,"But may imagine how the bird was dead,"
III,II,WARWICK,"Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak?"
III,II,WARWICK,"Even so suspicious is this tragedy."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Are you the butcher, Suffolk? Where's your knife?"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Is Beaufort term'd a kite? Where are his talons?"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"But here's a vengeful sword, rusted with ease,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"That shall be scoured in his rancorous heart"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"That slanders me with murder's crimson badge."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Say, if thou darest, proud Lord of Warwick-shire,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"That I am faulty in Duke Humphrey's death."
III,II,WARWICK,"What dares not Warwick, if false Suffolk dare him?"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"He dares not calm his contumelious spirit"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Nor cease to be an arrogant controller,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Though Suffolk dare him twenty thousand times."
III,II,WARWICK,"Madam, be still; with reverence may I say;"
III,II,WARWICK,"For every word you speak in his behalf"
III,II,WARWICK,"Is slander to your royal dignity."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanor!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"If ever lady wrong'd her lord so much,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Thy mother took into her blameful bed"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Some stern untutor'd churl, and noble stock"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Was graft with crab-tree slip; whose fruit thou art,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"And never of the Nevils' noble race."
III,II,WARWICK,"But that the guilt of murder bucklers thee"
III,II,WARWICK,"And I should rob the deathsman of his fee,"
III,II,WARWICK,"Quitting thee thereby of ten thousand shames,"
III,II,WARWICK,"And that my sovereign's presence makes me mild,"
III,II,WARWICK,"I would, false murderous coward, on thy knee"
III,II,WARWICK,"Make thee beg pardon for thy passed speech,"
III,II,WARWICK,"And say it was thy mother that thou meant'st"
III,II,WARWICK,"That thou thyself was born in bastardy;"
III,II,WARWICK,"And after all this fearful homage done,"
III,II,WARWICK,"Give thee thy hire and send thy soul to hell,"
III,II,WARWICK,"Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Thou shall be waking well I shed thy blood,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"If from this presence thou darest go with me."
III,II,WARWICK,"Away even now, or I will drag thee hence:"
III,II,WARWICK,"Unworthy though thou art, I'll cope with thee"
III,II,WARWICK,"And do some service to Duke Humphrey's ghost."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"What noise is this?"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Why, how now, lords! your wrathful weapons drawn"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Here in our presence! dare you be so bold?"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Why, what tumultuous clamour have we here?"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"The traitorous Warwick with the men of Bury"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Set all upon me, mighty sovereign."
III,II,SALISBURY,"the king shall know your mind."
III,II,SALISBURY,"Dread lord, the commons send you word by me,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"Unless Lord Suffolk straight be done to death,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"Or banished fair England's territories,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"They will by violence tear him from your palace"
III,II,SALISBURY,"And torture him with grievous lingering death."
III,II,SALISBURY,"They say, by him the good Duke Humphrey died;"
III,II,SALISBURY,"They say, in him they fear your highness' death;"
III,II,SALISBURY,"And mere instinct of love and loyalty,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"Free from a stubborn opposite intent,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"As being thought to contradict your liking,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"Makes them thus forward in his banishment."
III,II,SALISBURY,"They say, in care of your most royal person,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"That if your highness should intend to sleep"
III,II,SALISBURY,"And charge that no man should disturb your rest"
III,II,SALISBURY,"In pain of your dislike or pain of death,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"Yet, notwithstanding such a strait edict,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"Were there a serpent seen, with forked tongue,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"That slily glided towards your majesty,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"It were but necessary you were waked,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"Lest, being suffer'd in that harmful slumber,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"The mortal worm might make the sleep eternal;"
III,II,SALISBURY,"And therefore do they cry, though you forbid,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"That they will guard you, whether you will or no,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"From such fell serpents as false Suffolk is,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"With whose envenomed and fatal sting,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"Your loving uncle, twenty times his worth,"
III,II,SALISBURY,"They say, is shamefully bereft of life."
III,II,Commons,"Lord of Salisbury!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"'Tis like the commons, rude unpolish'd hinds,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Could send such message to their sovereign:"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"But you, my lord, were glad to be employ'd,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"To show how quaint an orator you are:"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"But all the honour Salisbury hath won"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Is, that he was the lord ambassador"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Sent from a sort of tinkers to the king."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Go, Salisbury, and tell them all from me."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"I thank them for their tender loving care;"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"And had I not been cited so by them,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Yet did I purpose as they do entreat;"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"For, sure, my thoughts do hourly prophesy"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Mischance unto my state by Suffolk's means:"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"And therefore, by His majesty I swear,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Whose far unworthy deputy I am,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"He shall not breathe infection in this air"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"But three days longer, on the pain of death."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"O Henry, let me plead for gentle Suffolk!"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Ungentle queen, to call him gentle Suffolk!"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"No more, I say: if thou dost plead for him,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Thou wilt but add increase unto my wrath."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Had I but said, I would have kept my word,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"But when I swear, it is irrevocable."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"If, after three days' space, thou here be'st found"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"On any ground that I am ruler of,"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"The world shall not be ransom for thy life."
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"Come, Warwick, come, good Warwick, go with me;"
III,II,KING HENRY VI,"I have great matters to impart to thee."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Mischance and sorrow go along with you!"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Heart's discontent and sour affliction"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Be playfellows to keep you company!"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"There's two of you; the devil make a third!"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And threefold vengeance tend upon your steps!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Cease, gentle queen, these execrations,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"And let thy Suffolk take his heavy leave."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Fie, coward woman and soft-hearted wretch!"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Hast thou not spirit to curse thine enemy?"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"A plague upon them! wherefore should I curse them?"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's groan,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"I would invent as bitter-searching terms,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"As curst, as harsh and horrible to hear,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Deliver'd strongly through my fixed teeth,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"With full as many signs of deadly hate,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"As lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave:"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Mine hair be fixed on end, as one distract;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban:"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"And even now my burthen'd heart would break,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Their sweetest shade a grove of cypress trees!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Their chiefest prospect murdering basilisks!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Their softest touch as smart as lizards' sting!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Their music frightful as the serpent's hiss,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"And boding screech-owls make the concert full!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"All the foul terrors in dark-seated hell--"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Enough, sweet Suffolk; thou torment'st thyself;"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And these dread curses, like the sun 'gainst glass,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Or like an overcharged gun, recoil,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And turn the force of them upon thyself."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"You bade me ban, and will you bid me leave?"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Well could I curse away a winter's night,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Though standing naked on a mountain top,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Where biting cold would never let grass grow,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"And think it but a minute spent in sport."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"O, let me entreat thee cease. Give me thy hand,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"That I may dew it with my mournful tears;"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Nor let the rain of heaven wet this place,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"To wash away my woful monuments."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"O, could this kiss be printed in thy hand,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"That thou mightst think upon these by the seal,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Through whom a thousand sighs are breathed for thee!"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"So, get thee gone, that I may know my grief;"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"'Tis but surmised whiles thou art standing by,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"As one that surfeits thinking on a want."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"I will repeal thee, or, be well assured,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Adventure to be banished myself:"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And banished I am, if but from thee."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Go; speak not to me; even now be gone."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"O, go not yet! Even thus two friends condemn'd"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Embrace and kiss and take ten thousand leaves,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Loather a hundred times to part than die."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Yet now farewell; and farewell life with thee!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Thus is poor Suffolk ten times banished;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Once by the king, and three times thrice by thee."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"'Tis not the land I care for, wert thou thence;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"A wilderness is populous enough,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"So Suffolk had thy heavenly company:"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"For where thou art, there is the world itself,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"With every several pleasure in the world,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"And where thou art not, desolation."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"I can no more: live thou to joy thy life;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Myself no joy in nought but that thou livest."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Wither goes Vaux so fast? what news, I prithee?"
III,II,VAUX,"To signify unto his majesty"
III,II,VAUX,"That Cardinal Beaufort is at point of death;"
III,II,VAUX,"For suddenly a grievous sickness took him,"
III,II,VAUX,"That makes him gasp and stare and catch the air,"
III,II,VAUX,"Blaspheming God and cursing men on earth."
III,II,VAUX,"Sometimes he talks as if Duke Humphrey's ghost"
III,II,VAUX,"Were by his side; sometime he calls the king,"
III,II,VAUX,"And whispers to his pillow, as to him,"
III,II,VAUX,"The secrets of his overcharged soul;"
III,II,VAUX,"And I am sent to tell his majesty"
III,II,VAUX,"That even now he cries aloud for him."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Go tell this heavy message to the king."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ay me! what is this world! what news are these!"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"But wherefore grieve I at an hour's poor loss,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Omitting Suffolk's exile, my soul's treasure?"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Why only, Suffolk, mourn I not for thee,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And with the southern clouds contend in tears,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Theirs for the earth's increase, mine for my sorrows?"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Now get thee hence: the king, thou know'st, is coming;"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"If thou be found by me, thou art but dead."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"If I depart from thee, I cannot live;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"And in thy sight to die, what were it else"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap?"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Here could I breathe my soul into the air,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"As mild and gentle as the cradle-babe"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Dying with mother's dug between its lips:"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Where, from thy sight, I should be raging mad,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"And cry out for thee to close up mine eyes,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"To have thee with thy lips to stop my mouth;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"So shouldst thou either turn my flying soul,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Or I should breathe it so into thy body,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"And then it lived in sweet Elysium."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"To die by thee were but to die in jest;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"From thee to die were torture more than death:"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"O, let me stay, befall what may befall!"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Away! though parting be a fretful corrosive,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"It is applied to a deathful wound."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"To France, sweet Suffolk: let me hear from thee;"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"For wheresoe'er thou art in this world's globe,"
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"I'll have an Iris that shall find thee out."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"I go."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And take my heart with thee."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"A jewel, lock'd into the wofull'st cask"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"That ever did contain a thing of worth."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Even as a splitted bark, so sunder we"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"This way fall I to death."
III,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"This way for me."
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"How fares my lord? speak, Beaufort, to"
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"thy sovereign."
III,III,CARDINAL,"If thou be'st death, I'll give thee England's treasure,"
III,III,CARDINAL,"Enough to purchase such another island,"
III,III,CARDINAL,"So thou wilt let me live, and feel no pain."
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,"
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"Where death's approach is seen so terrible!"
III,III,WARWICK,"Beaufort, it is thy sovereign speaks to thee."
III,III,CARDINAL,"Bring me unto my trial when you will."
III,III,CARDINAL,"Died he not in his bed? where should he die?"
III,III,CARDINAL,"Can I make men live, whether they will or no?"
III,III,CARDINAL,"O, torture me no more! I will confess."
III,III,CARDINAL,"Alive again? then show me where he is:"
III,III,CARDINAL,"I'll give a thousand pound to look upon him."
III,III,CARDINAL,"He hath no eyes, the dust hath blinded them."
III,III,CARDINAL,"Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright,"
III,III,CARDINAL,"Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged soul."
III,III,CARDINAL,"Give me some drink; and bid the apothecary"
III,III,CARDINAL,"Bring the strong poison that I bought of him."
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"O thou eternal Mover of the heavens."
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch!"
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"O, beat away the busy meddling fiend"
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"That lays strong siege unto this wretch's soul."
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"And from his bosom purge this black despair!"
III,III,WARWICK,"See, how the pangs of death do make him grin!"
III,III,SALISBURY,"Disturb him not; let him pass peaceably."
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be!"
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss,"
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope."
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"He dies, and makes no sign. O God, forgive him!"
III,III,WARWICK,"So bad a death argues a monstrous life."
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all."
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;"
III,III,KING HENRY VI,"And let us all to meditation."
IV,I,Captain,"The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day"
IV,I,Captain,"Is crept into the bosom of the sea;"
IV,I,Captain,"And now loud-howling wolves arouse the jades"
IV,I,Captain,"That drag the tragic melancholy night;"
IV,I,Captain,"Who, with their drowsy, slow and flagging wings,"
IV,I,Captain,"Clip dead men's graves and from their misty jaws"
IV,I,Captain,"Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air."
IV,I,Captain,"Therefore bring forth the soldiers of our prize;"
IV,I,Captain,"For, whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs,"
IV,I,Captain,"Here shall they make their ransom on the sand,"
IV,I,Captain,"Or with their blood stain this discolour'd shore."
IV,I,Captain,"Master, this prisoner freely give I thee;"
IV,I,Captain,"And thou that art his mate, make boot of this;"
IV,I,Captain,"The other, Walter Whitmore, is thy share."
IV,I,First Gentleman,"What is my ransom, master? let me know."
IV,I,Master,"A thousand crowns, or else lay down your head."
IV,I,Master's-Mate,"And so much shall you give, or off goes yours."
IV,I,Captain,"What, think you much to pay two thousand crowns,"
IV,I,Captain,"And bear the name and port of gentlemen?"
IV,I,Captain,"Cut both the villains' throats; for die you shall:"
IV,I,Captain,"The lives of those which we have lost in fight"
IV,I,Captain,"Be counterpoised with such a petty sum!"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"I'll give it, sir; and therefore spare my life."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"And so will I and write home for it straight."
IV,I,WHITMORE,"I lost mine eye in laying the prize aboard,"
IV,I,WHITMORE,"And therefore to revenge it, shalt thou die;"
IV,I,WHITMORE,"And so should these, if I might have my will."
IV,I,Captain,"Be not so rash; take ransom, let him live."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Look on my George; I am a gentleman:"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be paid."
IV,I,WHITMORE,"And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore."
IV,I,WHITMORE,"How now! why start'st thou? what, doth"
IV,I,WHITMORE,"death affright?"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"A cunning man did calculate my birth"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"And told me that by water I should die:"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded;"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Thy name is Gaultier, being rightly sounded."
IV,I,WHITMORE,"Gaultier or Walter, which it is, I care not:"
IV,I,WHITMORE,"Never yet did base dishonour blur our name,"
IV,I,WHITMORE,"But with our sword we wiped away the blot;"
IV,I,WHITMORE,"Therefore, when merchant-like I sell revenge,"
IV,I,WHITMORE,"Broke be my sword, my arms torn and defaced,"
IV,I,WHITMORE,"And I proclaim'd a coward through the world!"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Stay, Whitmore; for thy prisoner is a prince,"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"The Duke of Suffolk, William de la Pole."
IV,I,WHITMORE,"The Duke of Suffolk muffled up in rags!"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Ay, but these rags are no part of the duke:"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Jove sometimes went disguised, and why not I?"
IV,I,Captain,"But Jove was never slain, as thou shalt be."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Obscure and lowly swain, King Henry's blood,"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"The honourable blood of Lancaster,"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Must not be shed by such a jaded groom."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Hast thou not kiss'd thy hand and held my stirrup?"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Bare-headed plodded by my foot-cloth mule"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"And thought thee happy when I shook my head?"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"How often hast thou waited at my cup,"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Fed from my trencher, kneel'd down at the board."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"When I have feasted with Queen Margaret?"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Remember it and let it make thee crest-fall'n,"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride;"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"And duly waited for my coming forth?"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"This hand of mine hath writ in thy behalf,"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"And therefore shall it charm thy riotous tongue."
IV,I,WHITMORE,"Speak, captain, shall I stab the forlorn swain?"
IV,I,Captain,"First let my words stab him, as he hath me."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Base slave, thy words are blunt and so art thou."
IV,I,Captain,"Convey him hence and on our longboat's side"
IV,I,Captain,"Strike off his head."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Thou darest not, for thy own."
IV,I,Captain,"Yes, Pole."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Pole!"
IV,I,Captain,"Pool! Sir Pool! lord!"
IV,I,Captain,"Ay, kennel, puddle, sink; whose filth and dirt"
IV,I,Captain,"Troubles the silver spring where England drinks."
IV,I,Captain,"Now will I dam up this thy yawning mouth"
IV,I,Captain,"For swallowing the treasure of the realm:"
IV,I,Captain,"Thy lips that kiss'd the queen shall sweep the ground;"
IV,I,Captain,"And thou that smiledst at good Duke Humphrey's death,"
IV,I,Captain,"Against the senseless winds shalt grin in vain,"
IV,I,Captain,"Who in contempt shall hiss at thee again:"
IV,I,Captain,"And wedded be thou to the hags of hell,"
IV,I,Captain,"For daring to affy a mighty lord"
IV,I,Captain,"Unto the daughter of a worthless king,"
IV,I,Captain,"Having neither subject, wealth, nor diadem."
IV,I,Captain,"By devilish policy art thou grown great,"
IV,I,Captain,"And, like ambitious Sylla, overgorged"
IV,I,Captain,"With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart."
IV,I,Captain,"By thee Anjou and Maine were sold to France,"
IV,I,Captain,"The false revolting Normans thorough thee"
IV,I,Captain,"Disdain to call us lord, and Picardy"
IV,I,Captain,"Hath slain their governors, surprised our forts,"
IV,I,Captain,"And sent the ragged soldiers wounded home."
IV,I,Captain,"The princely Warwick, and the Nevils all,"
IV,I,Captain,"Whose dreadful swords were never drawn in vain,"
IV,I,Captain,"As hating thee, are rising up in arms:"
IV,I,Captain,"And now the house of York, thrust from the crown"
IV,I,Captain,"By shameful murder of a guiltless king"
IV,I,Captain,"And lofty proud encroaching tyranny,"
IV,I,Captain,"Burns with revenging fire; whose hopeful colours"
IV,I,Captain,"Advance our half-faced sun, striving to shine,"
IV,I,Captain,"Under the which is writ 'Invitis nubibus.'"
IV,I,Captain,"The commons here in Kent are up in arms:"
IV,I,Captain,"And, to conclude, reproach and beggary"
IV,I,Captain,"Is crept into the palace of our king."
IV,I,Captain,"And all by thee. Away! convey him hence."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"O that I were a god, to shoot forth thunder"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Upon these paltry, servile, abject drudges!"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Small things make base men proud: this villain here,"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Being captain of a pinnace, threatens more"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Than Bargulus the strong Illyrian pirate."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Drones suck not eagles' blood but rob beehives:"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"It is impossible that I should die"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"By such a lowly vassal as thyself."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Thy words move rage and not remorse in me:"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"I go of message from the queen to France;"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"I charge thee waft me safely cross the Channel."
IV,I,Captain,"Walter,--"
IV,I,WHITMORE,"Come, Suffolk, I must waft thee to thy death."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Gelidus timor occupat artus it is thee I fear."
IV,I,WHITMORE,"Thou shalt have cause to fear before I leave thee."
IV,I,WHITMORE,"What, are ye daunted now? now will ye stoop?"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"My gracious lord, entreat him, speak him fair."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Suffolk's imperial tongue is stern and rough,"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Used to command, untaught to plead for favour."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Far be it we should honour such as these"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"With humble suit: no, rather let my head"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Stoop to the block than these knees bow to any"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Save to the God of heaven and to my king;"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"And sooner dance upon a bloody pole"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Than stand uncover'd to the vulgar groom."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"True nobility is exempt from fear:"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"More can I bear than you dare execute."
IV,I,Captain,"Hale him away, and let him talk no more."
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Come, soldiers, show what cruelty ye can,"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"That this my death may never be forgot!"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Great men oft die by vile bezonians:"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"A Roman sworder and banditto slave"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Murder'd sweet Tully; Brutus' bastard hand"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Stabb'd Julius Caesar; savage islanders"
IV,I,SUFFOLK,"Pompey the Great; and Suffolk dies by pirates."
IV,I,Captain,"And as for these whose ransom we have set,"
IV,I,Captain,"It is our pleasure one of them depart;"
IV,I,Captain,"Therefore come you with us and let him go."
IV,I,WHITMORE,"There let his head and lifeless body lie,"
IV,I,WHITMORE,"Until the queen his mistress bury it."
IV,I,First Gentleman,"O barbarous and bloody spectacle!"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"His body will I bear unto the king:"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"If he revenge it not, yet will his friends;"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"So will the queen, that living held him dear."
IV,II,BEVIS,"Come, and get thee a sword, though made of a lath;"
IV,II,BEVIS,"they have been up these two days."
IV,II,HOLLAND,"They have the more need to sleep now, then."
IV,II,BEVIS,"I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress"
IV,II,BEVIS,"the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it."
IV,II,HOLLAND,"So he had need, for 'tis threadbare. Well, I say it"
IV,II,HOLLAND,"was never merry world in England since gentlemen came up."
IV,II,BEVIS,"O miserable age! virtue is not regarded in handicrafts-men."
IV,II,HOLLAND,"The nobility think scorn to go in leather aprons."
IV,II,BEVIS,"Nay, more, the king's council are no good workmen."
IV,II,HOLLAND,"True; and yet it is said, labour in thy vocation;"
IV,II,HOLLAND,"which is as much to say as, let the magistrates be"
IV,II,HOLLAND,"labouring men; and therefore should we be"
IV,II,HOLLAND,"magistrates."
IV,II,BEVIS,"Thou hast hit it; for there's no better sign of a"
IV,II,BEVIS,"brave mind than a hard hand."
IV,II,HOLLAND,"I see them! I see them! there's Best's son, the"
IV,II,HOLLAND,"tanner of Wingham,--"
IV,II,BEVIS,"He shall have the skin of our enemies, to make"
IV,II,BEVIS,"dog's-leather of."
IV,II,HOLLAND,"And Dick the Butcher,--"
IV,II,BEVIS,"Then is sin struck down like an ox, and iniquity's"
IV,II,BEVIS,"throat cut like a calf."
IV,II,HOLLAND,"And Smith the weaver,--"
IV,II,BEVIS,"Argo, their thread of life is spun."
IV,II,HOLLAND,"Come, come, let's fall in with them."
IV,II,CADE,"We John Cade, so termed of our supposed father,--"
IV,II,CADE,"For our enemies shall fall before us, inspired with"
IV,II,CADE,"the spirit of putting down kings and princes,"
IV,II,CADE,"--Command silence."
IV,II,DICK,"Silence!"
IV,II,CADE,"My father was a Mortimer,--"
IV,II,DICK,"bricklayer."
IV,II,CADE,"My mother a Plantagenet,--"
IV,II,CADE,"My wife descended of the Lacies,--"
IV,II,DICK,"sold many laces."
IV,II,SMITH,"furred pack, she washes bucks here at home."
IV,II,CADE,"Therefore am I of an honourable house."
IV,II,DICK,"and there was he borne, under a hedge, for his"
IV,II,DICK,"father had never a house but the cage."
IV,II,CADE,"Valiant I am."
IV,II,CADE,"I am able to endure much."
IV,II,DICK,"whipped three market-days together."
IV,II,CADE,"I fear neither sword nor fire."
IV,II,DICK,"fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep."
IV,II,CADE,"Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows"
IV,II,CADE,"reformation. There shall be in England seven"
IV,II,CADE,"halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped"
IV,II,CADE,"pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony"
IV,II,CADE,"to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in"
IV,II,CADE,"common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to"
IV,II,CADE,"grass: and when I am king, as king I will be,--"
IV,II,ALL,"God save your majesty!"
IV,II,CADE,"I thank you, good people: there shall be no money;"
IV,II,CADE,"all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will"
IV,II,CADE,"apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree"
IV,II,CADE,"like brothers and worship me their lord."
IV,II,DICK,"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
IV,II,CADE,"Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable"
IV,II,CADE,"thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should"
IV,II,CADE,"be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled"
IV,II,CADE,"o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings:"
IV,II,CADE,"but I say, 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal"
IV,II,CADE,"once to a thing, and I was never mine own man"
IV,II,CADE,"since. How now! who's there?"
IV,II,SMITH,"The clerk of Chatham: he can write and read and"
IV,II,SMITH,"cast accompt."
IV,II,CADE,"O monstrous!"
IV,II,SMITH,"We took him setting of boys' copies."
IV,II,CADE,"Here's a villain!"
IV,II,SMITH,"Has a book in his pocket with red letters in't."
IV,II,CADE,"Nay, then, he is a conjurer."
IV,II,DICK,"Nay, he can make obligations, and write court-hand."
IV,II,CADE,"I am sorry for't: the man is a proper man, of mine"
IV,II,CADE,"honour; unless I find him guilty, he shall not die."
IV,II,CADE,"Come hither, sirrah, I must examine thee: what is thy name?"
IV,II,Clerk,"Emmanuel."
IV,II,DICK,"They use to write it on the top of letters: 'twill"
IV,II,DICK,"go hard with you."
IV,II,CADE,"Let me alone. Dost thou use to write thy name? or"
IV,II,CADE,"hast thou a mark to thyself, like an honest"
IV,II,CADE,"plain-dealing man?"
IV,II,CLERK,"Sir, I thank God, I have been so well brought up"
IV,II,CLERK,"that I can write my name."
IV,II,ALL,"He hath confessed: away with him! he's a villain"
IV,II,ALL,"and a traitor."
IV,II,CADE,"Away with him, I say! hang him with his pen and"
IV,II,CADE,"ink-horn about his neck."
IV,II,MICHAEL,"Where's our general?"
IV,II,CADE,"Here I am, thou particular fellow."
IV,II,MICHAEL,"Fly, fly, fly! Sir Humphrey Stafford and his"
IV,II,MICHAEL,"brother are hard by, with the king's forces."
IV,II,CADE,"Stand, villain, stand, or I'll fell thee down. He"
IV,II,CADE,"shall be encountered with a man as good as himself:"
IV,II,CADE,"he is but a knight, is a'?"
IV,II,MICHAEL,"No."
IV,II,CADE,"To equal him, I will make myself a knight presently."
IV,II,CADE,"Rise up Sir John Mortimer."
IV,II,CADE,"Now have at him!"
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"Rebellious hinds, the filth and scum of Kent,"
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"Mark'd for the gallows, lay your weapons down;"
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"Home to your cottages, forsake this groom:"
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"The king is merciful, if you revolt."
IV,II,WILLIAM STAFFORD,"But angry, wrathful, and inclined to blood,"
IV,II,WILLIAM STAFFORD,"If you go forward; therefore yield, or die."
IV,II,CADE,"As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not:"
IV,II,CADE,"It is to you, good people, that I speak,"
IV,II,CADE,"Over whom, in time to come, I hope to reign;"
IV,II,CADE,"For I am rightful heir unto the crown."
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"Villain, thy father was a plasterer;"
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"And thou thyself a shearman, art thou not?"
IV,II,CADE,"And Adam was a gardener."
IV,II,WILLIAM STAFFORD,"And what of that?"
IV,II,CADE,"Marry, this: Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March."
IV,II,CADE,"Married the Duke of Clarence' daughter, did he not?"
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"Ay, sir."
IV,II,CADE,"By her he had two children at one birth."
IV,II,WILLIAM STAFFORD,"That's false."
IV,II,CADE,"Ay, there's the question; but I say, 'tis true:"
IV,II,CADE,"The elder of them, being put to nurse,"
IV,II,CADE,"Was by a beggar-woman stolen away;"
IV,II,CADE,"And, ignorant of his birth and parentage,"
IV,II,CADE,"Became a bricklayer when he came to age:"
IV,II,CADE,"His son am I; deny it, if you can."
IV,II,DICK,"Nay, 'tis too true; therefore he shall be king."
IV,II,SMITH,"Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and"
IV,II,SMITH,"the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;"
IV,II,SMITH,"therefore deny it not."
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"And will you credit this base drudge's words,"
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"That speaks he knows not what?"
IV,II,ALL,"Ay, marry, will we; therefore get ye gone."
IV,II,WILLIAM STAFFORD,"Jack Cade, the Duke of York hath taught you this."
IV,II,CADE,"Go to, sirrah, tell the king from me, that, for his"
IV,II,CADE,"father's sake, Henry the Fifth, in whose time boys"
IV,II,CADE,"went to span-counter for French crowns, I am content"
IV,II,CADE,"he shall reign; but I'll be protector over him."
IV,II,DICK,"And furthermore, well have the Lord Say's head for"
IV,II,DICK,"selling the dukedom of Maine."
IV,II,CADE,"And good reason; for thereby is England mained, and"
IV,II,CADE,"fain to go with a staff, but that my puissance holds"
IV,II,CADE,"it up. Fellow kings, I tell you that that Lord Say"
IV,II,CADE,"hath gelded the commonwealth, and made it an eunuch:"
IV,II,CADE,"and more than that, he can speak French; and"
IV,II,CADE,"therefore he is a traitor."
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"O gross and miserable ignorance!"
IV,II,CADE,"Nay, answer, if you can: the Frenchmen are our"
IV,II,CADE,"enemies; go to, then, I ask but this: can he that"
IV,II,CADE,"speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good"
IV,II,CADE,"counsellor, or no?"
IV,II,ALL,"No, no; and therefore we'll have his head."
IV,II,WILLIAM STAFFORD,"Well, seeing gentle words will not prevail,"
IV,II,WILLIAM STAFFORD,"Assail them with the army of the king."
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"Herald, away; and throughout every town"
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"Proclaim them traitors that are up with Cade;"
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"That those which fly before the battle ends"
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"May, even in their wives' and children's sight,"
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"Be hang'd up for example at their doors:"
IV,II,SIR HUMPHREY,"And you that be the king's friends, follow me."
IV,II,CADE,"And you that love the commons, follow me."
IV,II,CADE,"Now show yourselves men; 'tis for liberty."
IV,II,CADE,"We will not leave one lord, one gentleman:"
IV,II,CADE,"Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon;"
IV,II,CADE,"For they are thrifty honest men, and such"
IV,II,CADE,"As would, but that they dare not, take our parts."
IV,II,DICK,"They are all in order and march toward us."
IV,II,CADE,"But then are we in order when we are most"
IV,II,CADE,"out of order. Come, march forward."
IV,III,CADE,"Where's Dick, the butcher of Ashford?"
IV,III,DICK,"Here, sir."
IV,III,CADE,"They fell before thee like sheep and oxen, and thou"
IV,III,CADE,"behavedst thyself as if thou hadst been in thine own"
IV,III,CADE,"slaughter-house: therefore thus will I reward thee,"
IV,III,CADE,"the Lent shall be as long again as it is; and thou"
IV,III,CADE,"shalt have a licence to kill for a hundred lacking"
IV,III,CADE,"one."
IV,III,DICK,"I desire no more."
IV,III,CADE,"And, to speak truth, thou deservest no less. This"
IV,III,CADE,"monument of the victory will I bear;"
IV,III,CADE,"and the bodies shall be dragged at my horse' heels"
IV,III,CADE,"till I do come to London, where we will have the"
IV,III,CADE,"mayor's sword borne before us."
IV,III,DICK,"If we mean to thrive and do good, break open the"
IV,III,DICK,"gaols and let out the prisoners."
IV,III,CADE,"Fear not that, I warrant thee. Come, let's march"
IV,III,CADE,"towards London."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And makes it fearful and degenerate;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"But who can cease to weep and look on this?"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast:"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"But where's the body that I should embrace?"
IV,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"What answer makes your grace to the rebels'"
IV,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"supplication?"
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"I'll send some holy bishop to entreat;"
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"For God forbid so many simple souls"
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Should perish by the sword! And I myself,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Rather than bloody war shall cut them short,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Will parley with Jack Cade their general:"
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"But stay, I'll read it over once again."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ah, barbarous villains! hath this lovely face"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ruled, like a wandering planet, over me,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And could it not enforce them to relent,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"That were unworthy to behold the same?"
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Lord Say, Jack Cade hath sworn to have thy head."
IV,IV,SAY,"Ay, but I hope your highness shall have his."
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"How now, madam!"
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Still lamenting and mourning for Suffolk's death?"
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"I fear me, love, if that I had been dead,"
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Thou wouldst not have mourn'd so much for me."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"No, my love, I should not mourn, but die for thee."
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"How now! what news? why comest thou in such haste?"
IV,IV,Messenger,"The rebels are in Southwark; fly, my lord!"
IV,IV,Messenger,"Jack Cade proclaims himself Lord Mortimer,"
IV,IV,Messenger,"Descended from the Duke of Clarence' house,"
IV,IV,Messenger,"And calls your grace usurper openly"
IV,IV,Messenger,"And vows to crown himself in Westminster."
IV,IV,Messenger,"His army is a ragged multitude"
IV,IV,Messenger,"Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless:"
IV,IV,Messenger,"Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother's death"
IV,IV,Messenger,"Hath given them heart and courage to proceed:"
IV,IV,Messenger,"All scholars, lawyers, courtiers, gentlemen,"
IV,IV,Messenger,"They call false caterpillars, and intend their death."
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"O graceless men! they know not what they do."
IV,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"My gracious lord, return to Killingworth,"
IV,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Until a power be raised to put them down."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ah, were the Duke of Suffolk now alive,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"These Kentish rebels would be soon appeased!"
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Lord Say, the traitors hate thee;"
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Therefore away with us to Killingworth."
IV,IV,SAY,"So might your grace's person be in danger."
IV,IV,SAY,"The sight of me is odious in their eyes;"
IV,IV,SAY,"And therefore in this city will I stay"
IV,IV,SAY,"And live alone as secret as I may."
IV,IV,Messenger,"Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge:"
IV,IV,Messenger,"The citizens fly and forsake their houses:"
IV,IV,Messenger,"The rascal people, thirsting after prey,"
IV,IV,Messenger,"Join with the traitor, and they jointly swear"
IV,IV,Messenger,"To spoil the city and your royal court."
IV,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Then linger not, my lord, away, take horse."
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Come, Margaret; God, our hope, will succor us."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"My hope is gone, now Suffolk is deceased."
IV,IV,KING HENRY VI,"Farewell, my lord: trust not the Kentish rebels."
IV,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Trust nobody, for fear you be betray'd."
IV,IV,SAY,"The trust I have is in mine innocence,"
IV,IV,SAY,"And therefore am I bold and resolute."
IV,V,SCALES,"How now! is Jack Cade slain?"
IV,V,First Citizen,"No, my lord, nor likely to be slain; for they have"
IV,V,First Citizen,"won the bridge, killing all those that withstand"
IV,V,First Citizen,"them: the lord mayor craves aid of your honour from"
IV,V,First Citizen,"the Tower, to defend the city from the rebels."
IV,V,SCALES,"Such aid as I can spare you shall command;"
IV,V,SCALES,"But I am troubled here with them myself;"
IV,V,SCALES,"The rebels have assay'd to win the Tower."
IV,V,SCALES,"But get you to Smithfield, and gather head,"
IV,V,SCALES,"And thither I will send you Matthew Goffe;"
IV,V,SCALES,"Fight for your king, your country and your lives;"
IV,V,SCALES,"And so, farewell, for I must hence again."
IV,VI,CADE,"Now is Mortimer lord of this city. And here, sitting"
IV,VI,CADE,"upon London-stone, I charge and command that, of the"
IV,VI,CADE,"city's cost, the pissing-conduit run nothing but"
IV,VI,CADE,"claret wine this first year of our reign. And now"
IV,VI,CADE,"henceforward it shall be treason for any that calls"
IV,VI,CADE,"me other than Lord Mortimer."
IV,VI,Soldier,"Jack Cade! Jack Cade!"
IV,VI,CADE,"Knock him down there."
IV,VI,SMITH,"If this fellow be wise, he'll never call ye Jack"
IV,VI,SMITH,"Cade more: I think he hath a very fair warning."
IV,VI,DICK,"My lord, there's an army gathered together in"
IV,VI,DICK,"Smithfield."
IV,VI,CADE,"Come, then, let's go fight with them; but first, go"
IV,VI,CADE,"and set London bridge on fire; and, if you can, burn"
IV,VI,CADE,"down the Tower too. Come, let's away."
IV,VII,CADE,"So, sirs: now go some and pull down the Savoy;"
IV,VII,CADE,"others to the inns of court; down with them all."
IV,VII,DICK,"I have a suit unto your lordship."
IV,VII,CADE,"Be it a lordship, thou shalt have it for that word."
IV,VII,DICK,"Only that the laws of England may come out of your mouth."
IV,VII,HOLLAND,"thrust in the mouth with a spear, and 'tis not whole"
IV,VII,HOLLAND,"yet."
IV,VII,SMITH,"breath stinks with eating toasted cheese."
IV,VII,CADE,"I have thought upon it, it shall be so. Away, burn"
IV,VII,CADE,"all the records of the realm: my mouth shall be"
IV,VII,CADE,"the parliament of England."
IV,VII,HOLLAND,"unless his teeth be pulled out."
IV,VII,CADE,"And henceforward all things shall be in common."
IV,VII,Messenger,"My lord, a prize, a prize! here's the Lord Say,"
IV,VII,Messenger,"which sold the towns in France; he that made us pay"
IV,VII,Messenger,"one and twenty fifteens, and one shilling to the"
IV,VII,Messenger,"pound, the last subsidy."
IV,VII,CADE,"Well, he shall be beheaded for it ten times. Ah,"
IV,VII,CADE,"thou say, thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord! now"
IV,VII,CADE,"art thou within point-blank of our jurisdiction"
IV,VII,CADE,"regal. What canst thou answer to my majesty for"
IV,VII,CADE,"giving up of Normandy unto Mounsieur Basimecu, the"
IV,VII,CADE,"dauphin of France? Be it known unto thee by these"
IV,VII,CADE,"presence, even the presence of Lord Mortimer, that I"
IV,VII,CADE,"am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such"
IV,VII,CADE,"filth as thou art. Thou hast most traitorously"
IV,VII,CADE,"corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a"
IV,VII,CADE,"grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers"
IV,VII,CADE,"had no other books but the score and the tally, thou"
IV,VII,CADE,"hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to"
IV,VII,CADE,"the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a"
IV,VII,CADE,"paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou"
IV,VII,CADE,"hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and"
IV,VII,CADE,"a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian"
IV,VII,CADE,"ear can endure to hear. Thou hast appointed"
IV,VII,CADE,"justices of peace, to call poor men before them"
IV,VII,CADE,"about matters they were not able to answer."
IV,VII,CADE,"Moreover, thou hast put them in prison; and because"
IV,VII,CADE,"they could not read, thou hast hanged them; when,"
IV,VII,CADE,"indeed, only for that cause they have been most"
IV,VII,CADE,"worthy to live. Thou dost ride in a foot-cloth, dost thou not?"
IV,VII,SAY,"What of that?"
IV,VII,CADE,"Marry, thou oughtest not to let thy horse wear a"
IV,VII,CADE,"cloak, when honester men than thou go in their hose"
IV,VII,CADE,"and doublets."
IV,VII,DICK,"And work in their shirt too; as myself, for example,"
IV,VII,DICK,"that am a butcher."
IV,VII,SAY,"You men of Kent,--"
IV,VII,DICK,"What say you of Kent?"
IV,VII,SAY,"Nothing but this; 'tis 'bona terra, mala gens.'"
IV,VII,CADE,"Away with him, away with him! he speaks Latin."
IV,VII,SAY,"Hear me but speak, and bear me where you will."
IV,VII,SAY,"Kent, in the Commentaries Caesar writ,"
IV,VII,SAY,"Is term'd the civil'st place of this isle:"
IV,VII,SAY,"Sweet is the country, because full of riches;"
IV,VII,SAY,"The people liberal, valiant, active, wealthy;"
IV,VII,SAY,"Which makes me hope you are not void of pity."
IV,VII,SAY,"I sold not Maine, I lost not Normandy,"
IV,VII,SAY,"Yet, to recover them, would lose my life."
IV,VII,SAY,"Justice with favour have I always done;"
IV,VII,SAY,"Prayers and tears have moved me, gifts could never."
IV,VII,SAY,"When have I aught exacted at your hands,"
IV,VII,SAY,"But to maintain the king, the realm and you?"
IV,VII,SAY,"Large gifts have I bestow'd on learned clerks,"
IV,VII,SAY,"Because my book preferr'd me to the king,"
IV,VII,SAY,"And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,"
IV,VII,SAY,"Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven,"
IV,VII,SAY,"Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits,"
IV,VII,SAY,"You cannot but forbear to murder me:"
IV,VII,SAY,"This tongue hath parley'd unto foreign kings"
IV,VII,SAY,"For your behoof,--"
IV,VII,CADE,"Tut, when struck'st thou one blow in the field?"
IV,VII,SAY,"Great men have reaching hands: oft have I struck"
IV,VII,SAY,"Those that I never saw and struck them dead."
IV,VII,BEVIS,"O monstrous coward! what, to come behind folks?"
IV,VII,SAY,"These cheeks are pale for watching for your good."
IV,VII,CADE,"Give him a box o' the ear and that will make 'em red again."
IV,VII,SAY,"Long sitting to determine poor men's causes"
IV,VII,SAY,"Hath made me full of sickness and diseases."
IV,VII,CADE,"Ye shall have a hempen caudle, then, and the help of hatchet."
IV,VII,DICK,"Why dost thou quiver, man?"
IV,VII,SAY,"The palsy, and not fear, provokes me."
IV,VII,CADE,"Nay, he nods at us, as who should say, I'll be even"
IV,VII,CADE,"with you: I'll see if his head will stand steadier"
IV,VII,CADE,"on a pole, or no. Take him away, and behead him."
IV,VII,SAY,"Tell me wherein have I offended most?"
IV,VII,SAY,"Have I affected wealth or honour? speak."
IV,VII,SAY,"Are my chests fill'd up with extorted gold?"
IV,VII,SAY,"Is my apparel sumptuous to behold?"
IV,VII,SAY,"Whom have I injured, that ye seek my death?"
IV,VII,SAY,"These hands are free from guiltless bloodshedding,"
IV,VII,SAY,"This breast from harbouring foul deceitful thoughts."
IV,VII,SAY,"O, let me live!"
IV,VII,CADE,"but I'll bridle it: he shall die, an it be but for"
IV,VII,CADE,"pleading so well for his life. Away with him! he"
IV,VII,CADE,"has a familiar under his tongue; he speaks not o'"
IV,VII,CADE,"God's name. Go, take him away, I say, and strike"
IV,VII,CADE,"off his head presently; and then break into his"
IV,VII,CADE,"son-in-law's house, Sir James Cromer, and strike off"
IV,VII,CADE,"his head, and bring them both upon two poles hither."
IV,VII,ALL,"It shall be done."
IV,VII,SAY,"Ah, countrymen! if when you make your prayers,"
IV,VII,SAY,"God should be so obdurate as yourselves,"
IV,VII,SAY,"How would it fare with your departed souls?"
IV,VII,SAY,"And therefore yet relent, and save my life."
IV,VII,CADE,"Away with him! and do as I command ye."
IV,VII,CADE,"The proudest peer in the realm shall not wear a head"
IV,VII,CADE,"on his shoulders, unless he pay me tribute; there"
IV,VII,CADE,"shall not a maid be married, but she shall pay to me"
IV,VII,CADE,"her maidenhead ere they have it: men shall hold of"
IV,VII,CADE,"me in capite; and we charge and command that their"
IV,VII,CADE,"wives be as free as heart can wish or tongue can tell."
IV,VII,DICK,"My lord, when shall we go to Cheapside and take up"
IV,VII,DICK,"commodities upon our bills?"
IV,VII,CADE,"Marry, presently."
IV,VII,ALL,"O, brave!"
IV,VII,CADE,"But is not this braver? Let them kiss one another,"
IV,VII,CADE,"for they loved well when they were alive. Now part"
IV,VII,CADE,"them again, lest they consult about the giving up of"
IV,VII,CADE,"some more towns in France. Soldiers, defer the"
IV,VII,CADE,"spoil of the city until night: for with these borne"
IV,VII,CADE,"before us, instead of maces, will we ride through"
IV,VII,CADE,"the streets, and at every corner have them kiss. Away!"
IV,VIII,CADE,"Up Fish Street! down Saint Magnus' Corner! Kill"
IV,VIII,CADE,"and knock down! throw them into Thames!"
IV,VIII,CADE,"What noise is this I hear? Dare any be so bold to"
IV,VIII,CADE,"sound retreat or parley, when I command them kill?"
IV,VIII,BUCKINGHAM,"Ay, here they be that dare and will disturb thee:"
IV,VIII,BUCKINGHAM,"Know, Cade, we come ambassadors from the king"
IV,VIII,BUCKINGHAM,"Unto the commons whom thou hast misled;"
IV,VIII,BUCKINGHAM,"And here pronounce free pardon to them all"
IV,VIII,BUCKINGHAM,"That will forsake thee and go home in peace."
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"What say ye, countrymen? will ye relent,"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"And yield to mercy whilst 'tis offer'd you;"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Or let a rebel lead you to your deaths?"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Who loves the king and will embrace his pardon,"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Fling up his cap, and say 'God save his majesty!'"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Who hateth him and honours not his father,"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Henry the Fifth, that made all France to quake,"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Shake he his weapon at us and pass by."
IV,VIII,ALL,"God save the king! God save the king!"
IV,VIII,CADE,"What, Buckingham and Clifford, are ye so brave? And"
IV,VIII,CADE,"you, base peasants, do ye believe him? will you"
IV,VIII,CADE,"needs be hanged with your pardons about your necks?"
IV,VIII,CADE,"Hath my sword therefore broke through London gates,"
IV,VIII,CADE,"that you should leave me at the White Hart in"
IV,VIII,CADE,"Southwark? I thought ye would never have given out"
IV,VIII,CADE,"these arms till you had recovered your ancient"
IV,VIII,CADE,"freedom: but you are all recreants and dastards,"
IV,VIII,CADE,"and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Let"
IV,VIII,CADE,"them break your backs with burthens, take your"
IV,VIII,CADE,"houses over your heads, ravish your wives and"
IV,VIII,CADE,"daughters before your faces: for me, I will make"
IV,VIII,CADE,"shift for one; and so, God's curse light upon you"
IV,VIII,CADE,"all!"
IV,VIII,ALL,"We'll follow Cade, we'll follow Cade!"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Is Cade the son of Henry the Fifth,"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"That thus you do exclaim you'll go with him?"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Will he conduct you through the heart of France,"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"And make the meanest of you earls and dukes?"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Alas, he hath no home, no place to fly to;"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Nor knows he how to live but by the spoil,"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Unless by robbing of your friends and us."
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Were't not a shame, that whilst you live at jar,"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"The fearful French, whom you late vanquished,"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Should make a start o'er seas and vanquish you?"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Methinks already in this civil broil"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"I see them lording it in London streets,"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Crying 'Villiago!' unto all they meet."
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Better ten thousand base-born Cades miscarry"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Than you should stoop unto a Frenchman's mercy."
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"To France, to France, and get what you have lost;"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Spare England, for it is your native coast;"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"Henry hath money, you are strong and manly;"
IV,VIII,CLIFFORD,"God on our side, doubt not of victory."
IV,VIII,ALL,"A Clifford! a Clifford! we'll follow the king and Clifford."
IV,VIII,CADE,"Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this"
IV,VIII,CADE,"multitude? The name of Henry the Fifth hales them"
IV,VIII,CADE,"to an hundred mischiefs, and makes them leave me"
IV,VIII,CADE,"desolate. I see them lay their heads together to"
IV,VIII,CADE,"surprise me. My sword make way for me, for here is"
IV,VIII,CADE,"no staying. In despite of the devils and hell, have"
IV,VIII,CADE,"through the very middest of you? and heavens and"
IV,VIII,CADE,"honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me."
IV,VIII,CADE,"but only my followers' base and ignominious"
IV,VIII,CADE,"treasons, makes me betake me to my heels."
IV,VIII,BUCKINGHAM,"What, is he fled? Go some, and follow him;"
IV,VIII,BUCKINGHAM,"And he that brings his head unto the king"
IV,VIII,BUCKINGHAM,"Shall have a thousand crowns for his reward."
IV,VIII,BUCKINGHAM,"Follow me, soldiers: we'll devise a mean"
IV,VIII,BUCKINGHAM,"To reconcile you all unto the king."
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Was ever king that joy'd an earthly throne,"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"And could command no more content than I?"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"No sooner was I crept out of my cradle"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"But I was made a king, at nine months old."
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Was never subject long'd to be a king"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"As I do long and wish to be a subject."
IV,IX,BUCKINGHAM,"Health and glad tidings to your majesty!"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Why, Buckingham, is the traitor Cade surprised?"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Or is he but retired to make him strong?"
IV,IX,CLIFFORD,"He is fled, my lord, and all his powers do yield;"
IV,IX,CLIFFORD,"And humbly thus, with halters on their necks,"
IV,IX,CLIFFORD,"Expect your highness' doom of life or death."
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Then, heaven, set ope thy everlasting gates,"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"To entertain my vows of thanks and praise!"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Soldiers, this day have you redeemed your lives,"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"And show'd how well you love your prince and country:"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Continue still in this so good a mind,"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"And Henry, though he be infortunate,"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Assure yourselves, will never be unkind:"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"And so, with thanks and pardon to you all,"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"I do dismiss you to your several countries."
IV,IX,ALL,"God save the king! God save the king!"
IV,IX,Messenger,"Please it your grace to be advertised"
IV,IX,Messenger,"The Duke of York is newly come from Ireland,"
IV,IX,Messenger,"And with a puissant and a mighty power"
IV,IX,Messenger,"Of gallowglasses and stout kerns"
IV,IX,Messenger,"Is marching hitherward in proud array,"
IV,IX,Messenger,"And still proclaimeth, as he comes along,"
IV,IX,Messenger,"His arms are only to remove from thee"
IV,IX,Messenger,"The Duke of Somerset, whom he terms traitor."
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Thus stands my state, 'twixt Cade and York distress'd."
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Like to a ship that, having 'scaped a tempest,"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Is straightway calm'd and boarded with a pirate:"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"But now is Cade driven back, his men dispersed;"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"And now is York in arms to second him."
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"I pray thee, Buckingham, go and meet him,"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"And ask him what's the reason of these arms."
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Tell him I'll send Duke Edmund to the Tower;"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"And, Somerset, we'll commit thee thither,"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Until his army be dismiss'd from him."
IV,IX,SOMERSET,"My lord,"
IV,IX,SOMERSET,"I'll yield myself to prison willingly,"
IV,IX,SOMERSET,"Or unto death, to do my country good."
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"In any case, be not too rough in terms;"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language."
IV,IX,BUCKINGHAM,"I will, my lord; and doubt not so to deal"
IV,IX,BUCKINGHAM,"As all things shall redound unto your good."
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"Come, wife, let's in, and learn to govern better;"
IV,IX,KING HENRY VI,"For yet may England curse my wretched reign."
IV,X,CADE,"Fie on ambition! fie on myself, that have a sword,"
IV,X,CADE,"and yet am ready to famish! These five days have I"
IV,X,CADE,"hid me in these woods and durst not peep out, for"
IV,X,CADE,"all the country is laid for me; but now am I so"
IV,X,CADE,"hungry that if I might have a lease of my life for a"
IV,X,CADE,"thousand years I could stay no longer. Wherefore,"
IV,X,CADE,"on a brick wall have I climbed into this garden, to"
IV,X,CADE,"see if I can eat grass, or pick a sallet another"
IV,X,CADE,"while, which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach"
IV,X,CADE,"this hot weather. And I think this word 'sallet'"
IV,X,CADE,"was born to do me good: for many a time, but for a"
IV,X,CADE,"sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown"
IV,X,CADE,"bill; and many a time, when I have been dry and"
IV,X,CADE,"bravely marching, it hath served me instead of a"
IV,X,CADE,"quart pot to drink in; and now the word 'sallet'"
IV,X,CADE,"must serve me to feed on."
IV,X,IDEN,"Lord, who would live turmoiled in the court,"
IV,X,IDEN,"And may enjoy such quiet walks as these?"
IV,X,IDEN,"This small inheritance my father left me"
IV,X,IDEN,"Contenteth me, and worth a monarchy."
IV,X,IDEN,"I seek not to wax great by others' waning,"
IV,X,IDEN,"Or gather wealth, I care not, with what envy:"
IV,X,IDEN,"Sufficeth that I have maintains my state"
IV,X,IDEN,"And sends the poor well pleased from my gate."
IV,X,CADE,"Here's the lord of the soil come to seize me for a"
IV,X,CADE,"stray, for entering his fee-simple without leave."
IV,X,CADE,"Ah, villain, thou wilt betray me, and get a thousand"
IV,X,CADE,"crowns of the king carrying my head to him: but"
IV,X,CADE,"I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow"
IV,X,CADE,"my sword like a great pin, ere thou and I part."
IV,X,IDEN,"Why, rude companion, whatsoe'er thou be,"
IV,X,IDEN,"I know thee not; why, then, should I betray thee?"
IV,X,IDEN,"Is't not enough to break into my garden,"
IV,X,IDEN,"And, like a thief, to come to rob my grounds,"
IV,X,IDEN,"Climbing my walls in spite of me the owner,"
IV,X,IDEN,"But thou wilt brave me with these saucy terms?"
IV,X,CADE,"Brave thee! ay, by the best blood that ever was"
IV,X,CADE,"broached, and beard thee too. Look on me well: I"
IV,X,CADE,"have eat no meat these five days; yet, come thou and"
IV,X,CADE,"thy five men, and if I do not leave you all as dead"
IV,X,CADE,"as a doornail, I pray God I may never eat grass more."
IV,X,IDEN,"Nay, it shall ne'er be said, while England stands,"
IV,X,IDEN,"That Alexander Iden, an esquire of Kent,"
IV,X,IDEN,"Took odds to combat a poor famish'd man."
IV,X,IDEN,"Oppose thy steadfast-gazing eyes to mine,"
IV,X,IDEN,"See if thou canst outface me with thy looks:"
IV,X,IDEN,"Set limb to limb, and thou art far the lesser;"
IV,X,IDEN,"Thy hand is but a finger to my fist,"
IV,X,IDEN,"Thy leg a stick compared with this truncheon;"
IV,X,IDEN,"My foot shall fight with all the strength thou hast;"
IV,X,IDEN,"And if mine arm be heaved in the air,"
IV,X,IDEN,"Thy grave is digg'd already in the earth."
IV,X,IDEN,"As for words, whose greatness answers words,"
IV,X,IDEN,"Let this my sword report what speech forbears."
IV,X,CADE,"By my valour, the most complete champion that ever I"
IV,X,CADE,"heard! Steel, if thou turn the edge, or cut not out"
IV,X,CADE,"the burly-boned clown in chines of beef ere thou"
IV,X,CADE,"sleep in thy sheath, I beseech God on my knees thou"
IV,X,CADE,"mayst be turned to hobnails."
IV,X,CADE,"O, I am slain! famine and no other hath slain me:"
IV,X,CADE,"let ten thousand devils come against me, and give me"
IV,X,CADE,"but the ten meals I have lost, and I'll defy them"
IV,X,CADE,"all. Wither, garden; and be henceforth a"
IV,X,CADE,"burying-place to all that do dwell in this house,"
IV,X,CADE,"because the unconquered soul of Cade is fled."
IV,X,IDEN,"Is't Cade that I have slain, that monstrous traitor?"
IV,X,IDEN,"Sword, I will hollow thee for this thy deed,"
IV,X,IDEN,"And hang thee o'er my tomb when I am dead:"
IV,X,IDEN,"Ne'er shall this blood be wiped from thy point;"
IV,X,IDEN,"But thou shalt wear it as a herald's coat,"
IV,X,IDEN,"To emblaze the honour that thy master got."
IV,X,CADE,"Iden, farewell, and be proud of thy victory. Tell"
IV,X,CADE,"Kent from me, she hath lost her best man, and exhort"
IV,X,CADE,"all the world to be cowards; for I, that never"
IV,X,CADE,"feared any, am vanquished by famine, not by valour."
IV,X,IDEN,"How much thou wrong'st me, heaven be my judge."
IV,X,IDEN,"Die, damned wretch, the curse of her that bare thee;"
IV,X,IDEN,"And as I thrust thy body in with my sword,"
IV,X,IDEN,"So wish I, I might thrust thy soul to hell."
IV,X,IDEN,"Hence will I drag thee headlong by the heels"
IV,X,IDEN,"Unto a dunghill which shall be thy grave,"
IV,X,IDEN,"And there cut off thy most ungracious head;"
IV,X,IDEN,"Which I will bear in triumph to the king,"
IV,X,IDEN,"Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon."
V,I,YORK,"From Ireland thus comes York to claim his right,"
V,I,YORK,"And pluck the crown from feeble Henry's head:"
V,I,YORK,"Ring, bells, aloud; burn, bonfires, clear and bright,"
V,I,YORK,"To entertain great England's lawful king."
V,I,YORK,"Ah! sancta majestas, who would not buy thee dear?"
V,I,YORK,"Let them obey that know not how to rule;"
V,I,YORK,"This hand was made to handle naught but gold."
V,I,YORK,"I cannot give due action to my words,"
V,I,YORK,"Except a sword or sceptre balance it:"
V,I,YORK,"A sceptre shall it have, have I a soul,"
V,I,YORK,"On which I'll toss the flower-de-luce of France."
V,I,YORK,"Whom have we here? Buckingham, to disturb me?"
V,I,YORK,"The king hath sent him, sure: I must dissemble."
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"York, if thou meanest well, I greet thee well."
V,I,YORK,"Humphrey of Buckingham, I accept thy greeting."
V,I,YORK,"Art thou a messenger, or come of pleasure?"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"A messenger from Henry, our dread liege,"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To know the reason of these arms in peace;"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Or why thou, being a subject as I am,"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Against thy oath and true allegiance sworn,"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Should raise so great a power without his leave,"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Or dare to bring thy force so near the court."
V,I,YORK,"O, I could hew up rocks and fight with flint,"
V,I,YORK,"I am so angry at these abject terms;"
V,I,YORK,"And now, like Ajax Telamonius,"
V,I,YORK,"On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury."
V,I,YORK,"I am far better born than is the king,"
V,I,YORK,"More like a king, more kingly in my thoughts:"
V,I,YORK,"But I must make fair weather yet a while,"
V,I,YORK,"Till Henry be more weak and I more strong,--"
V,I,YORK,"Buckingham, I prithee, pardon me,"
V,I,YORK,"That I have given no answer all this while;"
V,I,YORK,"My mind was troubled with deep melancholy."
V,I,YORK,"The cause why I have brought this army hither"
V,I,YORK,"Is to remove proud Somerset from the king,"
V,I,YORK,"Seditious to his grace and to the state."
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"That is too much presumption on thy part:"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"But if thy arms be to no other end,"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"The king hath yielded unto thy demand:"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"The Duke of Somerset is in the Tower."
V,I,YORK,"Upon thine honour, is he prisoner?"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Upon mine honour, he is prisoner."
V,I,YORK,"Then, Buckingham, I do dismiss my powers."
V,I,YORK,"Soldiers, I thank you all; disperse yourselves;"
V,I,YORK,"Meet me to-morrow in St. George's field,"
V,I,YORK,"You shall have pay and every thing you wish."
V,I,YORK,"And let my sovereign, virtuous Henry,"
V,I,YORK,"Command my eldest son, nay, all my sons,"
V,I,YORK,"As pledges of my fealty and love;"
V,I,YORK,"I'll send them all as willing as I live:"
V,I,YORK,"Lands, goods, horse, armour, any thing I have,"
V,I,YORK,"Is his to use, so Somerset may die."
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"York, I commend this kind submission:"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"We twain will go into his highness' tent."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Buckingham, doth York intend no harm to us,"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"That thus he marcheth with thee arm in arm?"
V,I,YORK,"In all submission and humility"
V,I,YORK,"York doth present himself unto your highness."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Then what intends these forces thou dost bring?"
V,I,YORK,"To heave the traitor Somerset from hence,"
V,I,YORK,"And fight against that monstrous rebel Cade,"
V,I,YORK,"Who since I heard to be discomfited."
V,I,IDEN,"If one so rude and of so mean condition"
V,I,IDEN,"May pass into the presence of a king,"
V,I,IDEN,"Lo, I present your grace a traitor's head,"
V,I,IDEN,"The head of Cade, whom I in combat slew."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"The head of Cade! Great God, how just art Thou!"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"O, let me view his visage, being dead,"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"That living wrought me such exceeding trouble."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Tell me, my friend, art thou the man that slew him?"
V,I,IDEN,"I was, an't like your majesty."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"How art thou call'd? and what is thy degree?"
V,I,IDEN,"Alexander Iden, that's my name;"
V,I,IDEN,"A poor esquire of Kent, that loves his king."
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"So please it you, my lord, 'twere not amiss"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"He were created knight for his good service."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Iden, kneel down."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Rise up a knight."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"We give thee for reward a thousand marks,"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"And will that thou henceforth attend on us."
V,I,IDEN,"May Iden live to merit such a bounty."
V,I,IDEN,"And never live but true unto his liege!"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"See, Buckingham, Somerset comes with the queen:"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Go, bid her hide him quickly from the duke."
V,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"For thousand Yorks he shall not hide his head,"
V,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"But boldly stand and front him to his face."
V,I,YORK,"How now! is Somerset at liberty?"
V,I,YORK,"Then, York, unloose thy long-imprison'd thoughts,"
V,I,YORK,"And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart."
V,I,YORK,"Shall I endure the sight of Somerset?"
V,I,YORK,"False king! why hast thou broken faith with me,"
V,I,YORK,"Knowing how hardly I can brook abuse?"
V,I,YORK,"King did I call thee? no, thou art not king,"
V,I,YORK,"Not fit to govern and rule multitudes,"
V,I,YORK,"Which darest not, no, nor canst not rule a traitor."
V,I,YORK,"That head of thine doth not become a crown;"
V,I,YORK,"Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff,"
V,I,YORK,"And not to grace an awful princely sceptre."
V,I,YORK,"That gold must round engirt these brows of mine,"
V,I,YORK,"Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,"
V,I,YORK,"Is able with the change to kill and cure."
V,I,YORK,"Here is a hand to hold a sceptre up"
V,I,YORK,"And with the same to act controlling laws."
V,I,YORK,"Give place: by heaven, thou shalt rule no more"
V,I,YORK,"O'er him whom heaven created for thy ruler."
V,I,SOMERSET,"O monstrous traitor! I arrest thee, York,"
V,I,SOMERSET,"Of capital treason 'gainst the king and crown;"
V,I,SOMERSET,"Obey, audacious traitor; kneel for grace."
V,I,YORK,"Wouldst have me kneel? first let me ask of these,"
V,I,YORK,"If they can brook I bow a knee to man."
V,I,YORK,"Sirrah, call in my sons to be my bail;"
V,I,YORK,"I know, ere they will have me go to ward,"
V,I,YORK,"They'll pawn their swords for my enfranchisement."
V,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Call hither Clifford! bid him come amain,"
V,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"To say if that the bastard boys of York"
V,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Shall be the surety for their traitor father."
V,I,YORK,"O blood-besotted Neapolitan,"
V,I,YORK,"Outcast of Naples, England's bloody scourge!"
V,I,YORK,"The sons of York, thy betters in their birth,"
V,I,YORK,"Shall be their father's bail; and bane to those"
V,I,YORK,"That for my surety will refuse the boys!"
V,I,YORK,"See where they come: I'll warrant they'll"
V,I,YORK,"make it good."
V,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And here comes Clifford to deny their bail."
V,I,CLIFFORD,"Health and all happiness to my lord the king!"
V,I,YORK,"I thank thee, Clifford: say, what news with thee?"
V,I,YORK,"Nay, do not fright us with an angry look;"
V,I,YORK,"We are thy sovereign, Clifford, kneel again;"
V,I,YORK,"For thy mistaking so, we pardon thee."
V,I,CLIFFORD,"This is my king, York, I do not mistake;"
V,I,CLIFFORD,"But thou mistakest me much to think I do:"
V,I,CLIFFORD,"To Bedlam with him! is the man grown mad?"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Ay, Clifford; a bedlam and ambitious humour"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Makes him oppose himself against his king."
V,I,CLIFFORD,"He is a traitor; let him to the Tower,"
V,I,CLIFFORD,"And chop away that factious pate of his."
V,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"He is arrested, but will not obey;"
V,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"His sons, he says, shall give their words for him."
V,I,YORK,"Will you not, sons?"
V,I,EDWARD,"Ay, noble father, if our words will serve."
V,I,RICHARD,"And if words will not, then our weapons shall."
V,I,CLIFFORD,"Why, what a brood of traitors have we here!"
V,I,YORK,"Look in a glass, and call thy image so:"
V,I,YORK,"I am thy king, and thou a false-heart traitor."
V,I,YORK,"Call hither to the stake my two brave bears,"
V,I,YORK,"That with the very shaking of their chains"
V,I,YORK,"They may astonish these fell-lurking curs:"
V,I,YORK,"Bid Salisbury and Warwick come to me."
V,I,CLIFFORD,"Are these thy bears? we'll bait thy bears to death."
V,I,CLIFFORD,"And manacle the bear-ward in their chains,"
V,I,CLIFFORD,"If thou darest bring them to the baiting place."
V,I,RICHARD,"Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening cur"
V,I,RICHARD,"Run back and bite, because he was withheld;"
V,I,RICHARD,"Who, being suffer'd with the bear's fell paw,"
V,I,RICHARD,"Hath clapp'd his tail between his legs and cried:"
V,I,RICHARD,"And such a piece of service will you do,"
V,I,RICHARD,"If you oppose yourselves to match Lord Warwick."
V,I,CLIFFORD,"Hence, heap of wrath, foul indigested lump,"
V,I,CLIFFORD,"As crooked in thy manners as thy shape!"
V,I,YORK,"Nay, we shall heat you thoroughly anon."
V,I,CLIFFORD,"Take heed, lest by your heat you burn yourselves."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Why, Warwick, hath thy knee forgot to bow?"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair,"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Thou mad misleader of thy brain-sick son!"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"What, wilt thou on thy death-bed play the ruffian,"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"And seek for sorrow with thy spectacles?"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"O, where is faith? O, where is loyalty?"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"If it be banish'd from the frosty head,"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Wilt thou go dig a grave to find out war,"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"And shame thine honourable age with blood?"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Why art thou old, and want'st experience?"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Or wherefore dost abuse it, if thou hast it?"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"For shame! in duty bend thy knee to me"
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"That bows unto the grave with mickle age."
V,I,SALISBURY,"My lord, I have consider'd with myself"
V,I,SALISBURY,"The title of this most renowned duke;"
V,I,SALISBURY,"And in my conscience do repute his grace"
V,I,SALISBURY,"The rightful heir to England's royal seat."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Hast thou not sworn allegiance unto me?"
V,I,SALISBURY,"I have."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath?"
V,I,SALISBURY,"It is great sin to swear unto a sin,"
V,I,SALISBURY,"But greater sin to keep a sinful oath."
V,I,SALISBURY,"Who can be bound by any solemn vow"
V,I,SALISBURY,"To do a murderous deed, to rob a man,"
V,I,SALISBURY,"To force a spotless virgin's chastity,"
V,I,SALISBURY,"To reave the orphan of his patrimony,"
V,I,SALISBURY,"To wring the widow from her custom'd right,"
V,I,SALISBURY,"And have no other reason for this wrong"
V,I,SALISBURY,"But that he was bound by a solemn oath?"
V,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"A subtle traitor needs no sophister."
V,I,KING HENRY VI,"Call Buckingham, and bid him arm himself."
V,I,YORK,"Call Buckingham, and all the friends thou hast,"
V,I,YORK,"I am resolved for death or dignity."
V,I,CLIFFORD,"The first I warrant thee, if dreams prove true."
V,I,WARWICK,"You were best to go to bed and dream again,"
V,I,WARWICK,"To keep thee from the tempest of the field."
V,I,CLIFFORD,"I am resolved to bear a greater storm"
V,I,CLIFFORD,"Than any thou canst conjure up to-day;"
V,I,CLIFFORD,"And that I'll write upon thy burgonet,"
V,I,CLIFFORD,"Might I but know thee by thy household badge."
V,I,WARWICK,"Now, by my father's badge, old Nevil's crest,"
V,I,WARWICK,"The rampant bear chain'd to the ragged staff,"
V,I,WARWICK,"This day I'll wear aloft my burgonet,"
V,I,WARWICK,"As on a mountain top the cedar shows"
V,I,WARWICK,"That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm,"
V,I,WARWICK,"Even to affright thee with the view thereof."
V,I,CLIFFORD,"And from thy burgonet I'll rend thy bear"
V,I,CLIFFORD,"And tread it under foot with all contempt,"
V,I,CLIFFORD,"Despite the bear-ward that protects the bear."
V,I,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"And so to arms, victorious father,"
V,I,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"To quell the rebels and their complices."
V,I,RICHARD,"Fie! charity, for shame! speak not in spite,"
V,I,RICHARD,"For you shall sup with Jesu Christ to-night."
V,I,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Foul stigmatic, that's more than thou canst tell."
V,I,RICHARD,"If not in heaven, you'll surely sup in hell."
V,II,WARWICK,"Clifford of Cumberland, 'tis Warwick calls:"
V,II,WARWICK,"And if thou dost not hide thee from the bear,"
V,II,WARWICK,"Now, when the angry trumpet sounds alarum"
V,II,WARWICK,"And dead men's cries do fill the empty air,"
V,II,WARWICK,"Clifford, I say, come forth and fight with me:"
V,II,WARWICK,"Proud northern lord, Clifford of Cumberland,"
V,II,WARWICK,"Warwick is hoarse with calling thee to arms."
V,II,WARWICK,"How now, my noble lord? what, all afoot?"
V,II,YORK,"The deadly-handed Clifford slew my steed,"
V,II,YORK,"But match to match I have encounter'd him"
V,II,YORK,"And made a prey for carrion kites and crows"
V,II,YORK,"Even of the bonny beast he loved so well."
V,II,WARWICK,"Of one or both of us the time is come."
V,II,YORK,"Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,"
V,II,YORK,"For I myself must hunt this deer to death."
V,II,WARWICK,"Then, nobly, York; 'tis for a crown thou fight'st."
V,II,WARWICK,"As I intend, Clifford, to thrive to-day,"
V,II,WARWICK,"It grieves my soul to leave thee unassail'd."
V,II,CLIFFORD,"What seest thou in me, York? why dost thou pause?"
V,II,YORK,"With thy brave bearing should I be in love,"
V,II,YORK,"But that thou art so fast mine enemy."
V,II,CLIFFORD,"Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem,"
V,II,CLIFFORD,"But that 'tis shown ignobly and in treason."
V,II,YORK,"So let it help me now against thy sword"
V,II,YORK,"As I in justice and true right express it."
V,II,CLIFFORD,"My soul and body on the action both!"
V,II,YORK,"A dreadful lay! Address thee instantly."
V,II,CLIFFORD,"La fin couronne les oeuvres."
V,II,YORK,"Thus war hath given thee peace, for thou art still."
V,II,YORK,"Peace with his soul, heaven, if it be thy will!"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Shame and confusion! all is on the rout;"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Where it should guard. O war, thou son of hell,"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Whom angry heavens do make their minister"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Hot coals of vengeance! Let no soldier fly."
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"He that is truly dedicate to war"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Hath no self-love, nor he that loves himself"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Hath not essentially but by circumstance"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"The name of valour."
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"O, let the vile world end,"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"And the premised flames of the last day"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Knit earth and heaven together!"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Now let the general trumpet blow his blast,"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Particularities and petty sounds"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"To cease! Wast thou ordain'd, dear father,"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"To lose thy youth in peace, and to achieve"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"The silver livery of advised age,"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"And, in thy reverence and thy chair-days, thus"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"To die in ruffian battle? Even at this sight"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine,"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"It shall be stony. York not our old men spares;"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"No more will I their babes: tears virginal"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Shall be to me even as the dew to fire,"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"And beauty that the tyrant oft reclaims"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax."
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Henceforth I will not have to do with pity:"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Meet I an infant of the house of York,"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Into as many gobbets will I cut it"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"As wild Medea young Absyrtus did:"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"In cruelty will I seek out my fame."
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Come, thou new ruin of old Clifford's house:"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"As did AEneas old Anchises bear,"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"So bear I thee upon my manly shoulders;"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"But then AEneas bare a living load,"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine."
V,II,RICHARD,"So, lie thou there;"
V,II,RICHARD,"For underneath an alehouse' paltry sign,"
V,II,RICHARD,"The Castle in Saint Alban's, Somerset"
V,II,RICHARD,"Hath made the wizard famous in his death."
V,II,RICHARD,"Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful still:"
V,II,RICHARD,"Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill."
V,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Away, my lord! you are slow; for shame, away!"
V,II,KING HENRY VI,"Can we outrun the heavens? good Margaret, stay."
V,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"What are you made of? you'll nor fight nor fly:"
V,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Now is it manhood, wisdom and defence,"
V,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"To give the enemy way, and to secure us"
V,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"By what we can, which can no more but fly."
V,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom"
V,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Of all our fortunes: but if we haply scape,"
V,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"As well we may, if not through your neglect,"
V,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"We shall to London get, where you are loved"
V,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And where this breach now in our fortunes made"
V,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"May readily be stopp'd."
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"But that my heart's on future mischief set,"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly:"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"But fly you must; uncurable discomfit"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts."
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Away, for your relief! and we will live"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"To see their day and them our fortune give:"
V,II,YOUNG CLIFFORD,"Away, my lord, away!"
V,III,YORK,"Of Salisbury, who can report of him,"
V,III,YORK,"That winter lion, who in rage forgets"
V,III,YORK,"Aged contusions and all brush of time,"
V,III,YORK,"And, like a gallant in the brow of youth,"
V,III,YORK,"Repairs him with occasion? This happy day"
V,III,YORK,"Is not itself, nor have we won one foot,"
V,III,YORK,"If Salisbury be lost."
V,III,RICHARD,"My noble father,"
V,III,RICHARD,"Three times to-day I holp him to his horse,"
V,III,RICHARD,"Three times bestrid him; thrice I led him off,"
V,III,RICHARD,"Persuaded him from any further act:"
V,III,RICHARD,"But still, where danger was, still there I met him;"
V,III,RICHARD,"And like rich hangings in a homely house,"
V,III,RICHARD,"So was his will in his old feeble body."
V,III,RICHARD,"But, noble as he is, look where he comes."
V,III,SALISBURY,"Now, by my sword, well hast thou fought to-day;"
V,III,SALISBURY,"By the mass, so did we all. I thank you, Richard:"
V,III,SALISBURY,"God knows how long it is I have to live;"
V,III,SALISBURY,"And it hath pleased him that three times to-day"
V,III,SALISBURY,"You have defended me from imminent death."
V,III,SALISBURY,"Well, lords, we have not got that which we have:"
V,III,SALISBURY,"'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled,"
V,III,SALISBURY,"Being opposites of such repairing nature."
V,III,YORK,"I know our safety is to follow them;"
V,III,YORK,"For, as I hear, the king is fled to London,"
V,III,YORK,"To call a present court of parliament."
V,III,YORK,"Let us pursue him ere the writs go forth."
V,III,YORK,"What says Lord Warwick? shall we after them?"
V,III,WARWICK,"After them! nay, before them, if we can."
V,III,WARWICK,"Now, by my faith, lords, 'twas a glorious day:"
V,III,WARWICK,"Saint Alban's battle won by famous York"
V,III,WARWICK,"Shall be eternized in all age to come."
V,III,WARWICK,"Sound drums and trumpets, and to London all:"
V,III,WARWICK,"And more such days as these to us befall!"
I,I,WARWICK,"I wonder how the king escaped our hands."
I,I,YORK,"While we pursued the horsemen of the north,"
I,I,YORK,"He slily stole away and left his men:"
I,I,YORK,"Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland,"
I,I,YORK,"Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat,"
I,I,YORK,"Cheer'd up the drooping army; and himself,"
I,I,YORK,"Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford, all abreast,"
I,I,YORK,"Charged our main battle's front, and breaking in"
I,I,YORK,"Were by the swords of common soldiers slain."
I,I,EDWARD,"Lord Stafford's father, Duke of Buckingham,"
I,I,EDWARD,"Is either slain or wounded dangerously;"
I,I,EDWARD,"I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:"
I,I,EDWARD,"That this is true, father, behold his blood."
I,I,MONTAGUE,"And, brother, here's the Earl of Wiltshire's blood,"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Whom I encounter'd as the battles join'd."
I,I,RICHARD,"Speak thou for me and tell them what I did."
I,I,YORK,"Richard hath best deserved of all my sons."
I,I,YORK,"But is your grace dead, my Lord of Somerset?"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Such hope have all the line of John of Gaunt!"
I,I,RICHARD,"Thus do I hope to shake King Henry's head."
I,I,WARWICK,"And so do I. Victorious Prince of York,"
I,I,WARWICK,"Before I see thee seated in that throne"
I,I,WARWICK,"Which now the house of Lancaster usurps,"
I,I,WARWICK,"I vow by heaven these eyes shall never close."
I,I,WARWICK,"This is the palace of the fearful king,"
I,I,WARWICK,"And this the regal seat: possess it, York;"
I,I,WARWICK,"For this is thine and not King Henry's heirs'"
I,I,YORK,"Assist me, then, sweet Warwick, and I will;"
I,I,YORK,"For hither we have broken in by force."
I,I,NORFOLK,"We'll all assist you; he that flies shall die."
I,I,YORK,"Thanks, gentle Norfolk: stay by me, my lords;"
I,I,YORK,"And, soldiers, stay and lodge by me this night."
I,I,WARWICK,"And when the king comes, offer no violence,"
I,I,WARWICK,"Unless he seek to thrust you out perforce."
I,I,YORK,"The queen this day here holds her parliament,"
I,I,YORK,"But little thinks we shall be of her council:"
I,I,YORK,"By words or blows here let us win our right."
I,I,RICHARD,"Arm'd as we are, let's stay within this house."
I,I,WARWICK,"The bloody parliament shall this be call'd,"
I,I,WARWICK,"Unless Plantagenet, Duke of York, be king,"
I,I,WARWICK,"And bashful Henry deposed, whose cowardice"
I,I,WARWICK,"Hath made us by-words to our enemies."
I,I,YORK,"Then leave me not, my lords; be resolute;"
I,I,YORK,"I mean to take possession of my right."
I,I,WARWICK,"Neither the king, nor he that loves him best,"
I,I,WARWICK,"The proudest he that holds up Lancaster,"
I,I,WARWICK,"Dares stir a wing, if Warwick shake his bells."
I,I,WARWICK,"I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares:"
I,I,WARWICK,"Resolve thee, Richard; claim the English crown."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"My lords, look where the sturdy rebel sits,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Even in the chair of state: belike he means,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Back'd by the power of Warwick, that false peer,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"To aspire unto the crown and reign as king."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"And thine, Lord Clifford; and you both have vow'd revenge"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"On him, his sons, his favourites and his friends."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"If I be not, heavens be revenged on me!"
I,I,CLIFFORD,"The hope thereof makes Clifford mourn in steel."
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"What, shall we suffer this? let's pluck him down:"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"My heart for anger burns; I cannot brook it."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Be patient, gentle Earl of Westmoreland."
I,I,CLIFFORD,"Patience is for poltroons, such as he:"
I,I,CLIFFORD,"He durst not sit there, had your father lived."
I,I,CLIFFORD,"My gracious lord, here in the parliament"
I,I,CLIFFORD,"Let us assail the family of York."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Well hast thou spoken, cousin: be it so."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Ah, know you not the city favours them,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"And they have troops of soldiers at their beck?"
I,I,EXETER,"But when the duke is slain, they'll quickly fly."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Far be the thought of this from Henry's heart,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"To make a shambles of the parliament-house!"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Cousin of Exeter, frowns, words and threats"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Shall be the war that Henry means to use."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Thou factious Duke of York, descend my throne,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"and kneel for grace and mercy at my feet;"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"I am thy sovereign."
I,I,YORK,"I am thine."
I,I,EXETER,"For shame, come down: he made thee Duke of York."
I,I,YORK,"'Twas my inheritance, as the earldom was."
I,I,EXETER,"Thy father was a traitor to the crown."
I,I,WARWICK,"Exeter, thou art a traitor to the crown"
I,I,WARWICK,"In following this usurping Henry."
I,I,CLIFFORD,"Whom should he follow but his natural king?"
I,I,WARWICK,"True, Clifford; and that's Richard Duke of York."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"And shall I stand, and thou sit in my throne?"
I,I,YORK,"It must and shall be so: content thyself."
I,I,WARWICK,"Be Duke of Lancaster; let him be king."
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"He is both king and Duke of Lancaster;"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"And that the Lord of Westmoreland shall maintain."
I,I,WARWICK,"And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget"
I,I,WARWICK,"That we are those which chased you from the field"
I,I,WARWICK,"And slew your fathers, and with colours spread"
I,I,WARWICK,"March'd through the city to the palace gates."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Yes, Warwick, I remember it to my grief;"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And, by his soul, thou and thy house shall rue it."
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Plantagenet, of thee and these thy sons,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Thy kinsman and thy friends, I'll have more lives"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Than drops of blood were in my father's veins."
I,I,CLIFFORD,"Urge it no more; lest that, instead of words,"
I,I,CLIFFORD,"I send thee, Warwick, such a messenger"
I,I,CLIFFORD,"As shall revenge his death before I stir."
I,I,WARWICK,"Poor Clifford! how I scorn his worthless threats!"
I,I,YORK,"Will you we show our title to the crown?"
I,I,YORK,"If not, our swords shall plead it in the field."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"What title hast thou, traitor, to the crown?"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Thy father was, as thou art, Duke of York;"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Thy grandfather, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March:"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"I am the son of Henry the Fifth,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"And seized upon their towns and provinces."
I,I,WARWICK,"Talk not of France, sith thou hast lost it all."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"The lord protector lost it, and not I:"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"When I was crown'd I was but nine months old."
I,I,RICHARD,"You are old enough now, and yet, methinks, you lose."
I,I,RICHARD,"Father, tear the crown from the usurper's head."
I,I,EDWARD,"Sweet father, do so; set it on your head."
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Good brother, as thou lovest and honourest arms,"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Let's fight it out and not stand cavilling thus."
I,I,RICHARD,"Sound drums and trumpets, and the king will fly."
I,I,YORK,"Sons, peace!"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Peace, thou! and give King Henry leave to speak."
I,I,WARWICK,"Plantagenet shall speak first: hear him, lords;"
I,I,WARWICK,"And be you silent and attentive too,"
I,I,WARWICK,"For he that interrupts him shall not live."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Think'st thou that I will leave my kingly throne,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Wherein my grandsire and my father sat?"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"No: first shall war unpeople this my realm;"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Ay, and their colours, often borne in France,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"And now in England to our heart's great sorrow,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Shall be my winding-sheet. Why faint you, lords?"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"My title's good, and better far than his."
I,I,WARWICK,"Prove it, Henry, and thou shalt be king."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Henry the Fourth by conquest got the crown."
I,I,YORK,"'Twas by rebellion against his king."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Tell me, may not a king adopt an heir?"
I,I,YORK,"What then?"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"An if he may, then am I lawful king;"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"For Richard, in the view of many lords,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Resign'd the crown to Henry the Fourth,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Whose heir my father was, and I am his."
I,I,YORK,"He rose against him, being his sovereign,"
I,I,YORK,"And made him to resign his crown perforce."
I,I,WARWICK,"Suppose, my lords, he did it unconstrain'd,"
I,I,WARWICK,"Think you 'twere prejudicial to his crown?"
I,I,EXETER,"No; for he could not so resign his crown"
I,I,EXETER,"But that the next heir should succeed and reign."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Art thou against us, Duke of Exeter?"
I,I,EXETER,"His is the right, and therefore pardon me."
I,I,YORK,"Why whisper you, my lords, and answer not?"
I,I,EXETER,"My conscience tells me he is lawful king."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Plantagenet, for all the claim thou lay'st,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Think not that Henry shall be so deposed."
I,I,WARWICK,"Deposed he shall be, in despite of all."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Thou art deceived: 'tis not thy southern power,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, nor of Kent,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Which makes thee thus presumptuous and proud,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Can set the duke up in despite of me."
I,I,CLIFFORD,"King Henry, be thy title right or wrong,"
I,I,CLIFFORD,"Lord Clifford vows to fight in thy defence:"
I,I,CLIFFORD,"May that ground gape and swallow me alive,"
I,I,CLIFFORD,"Where I shall kneel to him that slew my father!"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"O Clifford, how thy words revive my heart!"
I,I,YORK,"Henry of Lancaster, resign thy crown."
I,I,YORK,"What mutter you, or what conspire you, lords?"
I,I,WARWICK,"Do right unto this princely Duke of York,"
I,I,WARWICK,"Or I will fill the house with armed men,"
I,I,WARWICK,"And over the chair of state, where now he sits,"
I,I,WARWICK,"Write up his title with usurping blood."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"My Lord of Warwick, hear me but one word:"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Let me for this my life-time reign as king."
I,I,YORK,"Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs,"
I,I,YORK,"And thou shalt reign in quiet while thou livest."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"I am content: Richard Plantagenet,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Enjoy the kingdom after my decease."
I,I,CLIFFORD,"What wrong is this unto the prince your son!"
I,I,WARWICK,"What good is this to England and himself!"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Base, fearful and despairing Henry!"
I,I,CLIFFORD,"How hast thou injured both thyself and us!"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"I cannot stay to hear these articles."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Nor I."
I,I,CLIFFORD,"Come, cousin, let us tell the queen these news."
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"Farewell, faint-hearted and degenerate king,"
I,I,WESTMORELAND,"In whose cold blood no spark of honour bides."
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Be thou a prey unto the house of York,"
I,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And die in bands for this unmanly deed!"
I,I,CLIFFORD,"In dreadful war mayst thou be overcome,"
I,I,CLIFFORD,"Or live in peace abandon'd and despised!"
I,I,WARWICK,"Turn this way, Henry, and regard them not."
I,I,EXETER,"They seek revenge and therefore will not yield."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Ah, Exeter!"
I,I,WARWICK,"Why should you sigh, my lord?"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Not for myself, Lord Warwick, but my son,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Whom I unnaturally shall disinherit."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"But be it as it may: I here entail"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"The crown to thee and to thine heirs for ever;"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Conditionally, that here thou take an oath"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"To cease this civil war, and, whilst I live,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"To honour me as thy king and sovereign,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"And neither by treason nor hostility"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"To seek to put me down and reign thyself."
I,I,YORK,"This oath I willingly take and will perform."
I,I,WARWICK,"Long live King Henry! Plantagenet embrace him."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"And long live thou and these thy forward sons!"
I,I,YORK,"Now York and Lancaster are reconciled."
I,I,EXETER,"Accursed be he that seeks to make them foes!"
I,I,YORK,"Farewell, my gracious lord; I'll to my castle."
I,I,WARWICK,"And I'll keep London with my soldiers."
I,I,NORFOLK,"And I to Norfolk with my followers."
I,I,MONTAGUE,"And I unto the sea from whence I came."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"And I, with grief and sorrow, to the court."
I,I,EXETER,"Here comes the queen, whose looks bewray her anger:"
I,I,EXETER,"I'll steal away."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Exeter, so will I."
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Nay, go not from me; I will follow thee."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Be patient, gentle queen, and I will stay."
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Who can be patient in such extremes?"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ah, wretched man! would I had died a maid"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And never seen thee, never borne thee son,"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Seeing thou hast proved so unnatural a father"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Hath he deserved to lose his birthright thus?"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Hadst thou but loved him half so well as I,"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Or felt that pain which I did for him once,"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Or nourish'd him as I did with my blood,"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou wouldst have left thy dearest heart-blood there,"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Rather than have that savage duke thine heir"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And disinherited thine only son."
I,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Father, you cannot disinherit me:"
I,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"If you be king, why should not I succeed?"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Pardon me, Margaret; pardon me, sweet son:"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"The Earl of Warwick and the duke enforced me."
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Enforced thee! art thou king, and wilt be forced?"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"I shame to hear thee speak. Ah, timorous wretch!"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou hast undone thyself, thy son and me;"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And given unto the house of York such head"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"As thou shalt reign but by their sufferance."
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"To entail him and his heirs unto the crown,"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"What is it, but to make thy sepulchre"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And creep into it far before thy time?"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Warwick is chancellor and the lord of Calais;"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Stern Falconbridge commands the narrow seas;"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"The duke is made protector of the realm;"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And yet shalt thou be safe? such safety finds"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"The trembling lamb environed with wolves."
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Had I been there, which am a silly woman,"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"The soldiers should have toss'd me on their pikes"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Before I would have granted to that act."
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honour:"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And seeing thou dost, I here divorce myself"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Both from thy table, Henry, and thy bed,"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Until that act of parliament be repeal'd"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Whereby my son is disinherited."
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"The northern lords that have forsworn thy colours"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Will follow mine, if once they see them spread;"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And spread they shall be, to thy foul disgrace"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"And utter ruin of the house of York."
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thus do I leave thee. Come, son, let's away;"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Our army is ready; come, we'll after them."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Stay, gentle Margaret, and hear me speak."
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou hast spoke too much already: get thee gone."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Gentle son Edward, thou wilt stay with me?"
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ay, to be murder'd by his enemies."
I,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"When I return with victory from the field"
I,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"I'll see your grace: till then I'll follow her."
I,I,QUEEN MARGARET,"Come, son, away; we may not linger thus."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Poor queen! how love to me and to her son"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Hath made her break out into terms of rage!"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Revenged may she be on that hateful duke,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Whose haughty spirit, winged with desire,"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Tire on the flesh of me and of my son!"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"The loss of those three lords torments my heart:"
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"I'll write unto them and entreat them fair."
I,I,KING HENRY VI,"Come, cousin you shall be the messenger."
I,I,EXETER,"And I, I hope, shall reconcile them all."
I,I,EXETER,"3 KING HENRY VI"
I,II,RICHARD,"Brother, though I be youngest, give me leave."
I,II,EDWARD,"No, I can better play the orator."
I,II,MONTAGUE,"But I have reasons strong and forcible."
I,II,YORK,"Why, how now, sons and brother! at a strife?"
I,II,YORK,"What is your quarrel? how began it first?"
I,II,EDWARD,"No quarrel, but a slight contention."
I,II,YORK,"About what?"
I,II,RICHARD,"About that which concerns your grace and us;"
I,II,RICHARD,"The crown of England, father, which is yours."
I,II,YORK,"Mine boy? not till King Henry be dead."
I,II,RICHARD,"Your right depends not on his life or death."
I,II,EDWARD,"Now you are heir, therefore enjoy it now:"
I,II,EDWARD,"By giving the house of Lancaster leave to breathe,"
I,II,EDWARD,"It will outrun you, father, in the end."
I,II,YORK,"I took an oath that he should quietly reign."
I,II,EDWARD,"But for a kingdom any oath may be broken:"
I,II,EDWARD,"I would break a thousand oaths to reign one year."
I,II,RICHARD,"No; God forbid your grace should be forsworn."
I,II,YORK,"I shall be, if I claim by open war."
I,II,RICHARD,"I'll prove the contrary, if you'll hear me speak."
I,II,YORK,"Thou canst not, son; it is impossible."
I,II,RICHARD,"An oath is of no moment, being not took"
I,II,RICHARD,"Before a true and lawful magistrate,"
I,II,RICHARD,"That hath authority over him that swears:"
I,II,RICHARD,"Henry had none, but did usurp the place;"
I,II,RICHARD,"Then, seeing 'twas he that made you to depose,"
I,II,RICHARD,"Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous."
I,II,RICHARD,"Therefore, to arms! And, father, do but think"
I,II,RICHARD,"How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown;"
I,II,RICHARD,"Within whose circuit is Elysium"
I,II,RICHARD,"And all that poets feign of bliss and joy."
I,II,RICHARD,"Why do we finger thus? I cannot rest"
I,II,RICHARD,"Until the white rose that I wear be dyed"
I,II,RICHARD,"Even in the lukewarm blood of Henry's heart."
I,II,YORK,"Richard, enough; I will be king, or die."
I,II,YORK,"Brother, thou shalt to London presently,"
I,II,YORK,"And whet on Warwick to this enterprise."
I,II,YORK,"Thou, Richard, shalt to the Duke of Norfolk,"
I,II,YORK,"And tell him privily of our intent."
I,II,YORK,"You Edward, shall unto my Lord Cobham,"
I,II,YORK,"With whom the Kentishmen will willingly rise:"
I,II,YORK,"In them I trust; for they are soldiers,"
I,II,YORK,"Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit."
I,II,YORK,"While you are thus employ'd, what resteth more,"
I,II,YORK,"But that I seek occasion how to rise,"
I,II,YORK,"And yet the king not privy to my drift,"
I,II,YORK,"Nor any of the house of Lancaster?"
I,II,YORK,"But, stay: what news? Why comest thou in such post?"
I,II,Messenger,"The queen with all the northern earls and lords"
I,II,Messenger,"Intend here to besiege you in your castle:"
I,II,Messenger,"She is hard by with twenty thousand men;"
I,II,Messenger,"And therefore fortify your hold, my lord."
I,II,YORK,"Ay, with my sword. What! think'st thou that we fear them?"
I,II,YORK,"Edward and Richard, you shall stay with me;"
I,II,YORK,"My brother Montague shall post to London:"
I,II,YORK,"Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,"
I,II,YORK,"Whom we have left protectors of the king,"
I,II,YORK,"With powerful policy strengthen themselves,"
I,II,YORK,"And trust not simple Henry nor his oaths."
I,II,MONTAGUE,"Brother, I go; I'll win them, fear it not:"
I,II,MONTAGUE,"And thus most humbly I do take my leave."
I,II,MONTAGUE,"Sir John and Sir Hugh Mortimer, mine uncles,"
I,II,MONTAGUE,"You are come to Sandal in a happy hour;"
I,II,MONTAGUE,"The army of the queen mean to besiege us."
I,II,JOHN MORTIMER,"She shall not need; we'll meet her in the field."
I,II,YORK,"What, with five thousand men?"
I,II,RICHARD,"Ay, with five hundred, father, for a need:"
I,II,RICHARD,"A woman's general; what should we fear?"
I,II,EDWARD,"I hear their drums: let's set our men in order,"
I,II,EDWARD,"And issue forth and bid them battle straight."
I,II,YORK,"Five men to twenty! though the odds be great,"
I,II,YORK,"I doubt not, uncle, of our victory."
I,II,YORK,"Many a battle have I won in France,"
I,II,YORK,"When as the enemy hath been ten to one:"
I,II,YORK,"Why should I not now have the like success?"
I,II,YORK,"3 KING HENRY VI"
I,III,RUTLAND,"Ah, whither shall I fly to 'scape their hands?"
I,III,RUTLAND,"Ah, tutor, look where bloody Clifford comes!"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Chaplain, away! thy priesthood saves thy life."
I,III,CLIFFORD,"As for the brat of this accursed duke,"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Whose father slew my father, he shall die."
I,III,Tutor,"And I, my lord, will bear him company."
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Soldiers, away with him!"
I,III,Tutor,"Ah, Clifford, murder not this innocent child,"
I,III,Tutor,"Lest thou be hated both of God and man!"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"How now! is he dead already? or is it fear"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"That makes him close his eyes? I'll open them."
I,III,RUTLAND,"So looks the pent-up lion o'er the wretch"
I,III,RUTLAND,"That trembles under his devouring paws;"
I,III,RUTLAND,"And so he walks, insulting o'er his prey,"
I,III,RUTLAND,"And so he comes, to rend his limbs asunder."
I,III,RUTLAND,"Ah, gentle Clifford, kill me with thy sword,"
I,III,RUTLAND,"And not with such a cruel threatening look."
I,III,RUTLAND,"Sweet Clifford, hear me speak before I die."
I,III,RUTLAND,"I am too mean a subject for thy wrath:"
I,III,RUTLAND,"Be thou revenged on men, and let me live."
I,III,CLIFFORD,"In vain thou speak'st, poor boy; my father's blood"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Hath stopp'd the passage where thy words should enter."
I,III,RUTLAND,"Then let my father's blood open it again:"
I,III,RUTLAND,"He is a man, and, Clifford, cope with him."
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Had thy brethren here, their lives and thine"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Were not revenge sufficient for me;"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"No, if I digg'd up thy forefathers' graves"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"And hung their rotten coffins up in chains,"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart."
I,III,CLIFFORD,"The sight of any of the house of York"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Is as a fury to torment my soul;"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"And till I root out their accursed line"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"And leave not one alive, I live in hell."
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Therefore--"
I,III,RUTLAND,"O, let me pray before I take my death!"
I,III,RUTLAND,"To thee I pray; sweet Clifford, pity me!"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Such pity as my rapier's point affords."
I,III,RUTLAND,"I never did thee harm: why wilt thou slay me?"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Thy father hath."
I,III,RUTLAND,"But 'twas ere I was born."
I,III,RUTLAND,"Thou hast one son; for his sake pity me,"
I,III,RUTLAND,"Lest in revenge thereof, sith God is just,"
I,III,RUTLAND,"He be as miserably slain as I."
I,III,RUTLAND,"Ah, let me live in prison all my days;"
I,III,RUTLAND,"And when I give occasion of offence,"
I,III,RUTLAND,"Then let me die, for now thou hast no cause."
I,III,CLIFFORD,"No cause!"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Thy father slew my father; therefore, die."
I,III,RUTLAND,"Di faciant laudis summa sit ista tuae!"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Plantagenet! I come, Plantagenet!"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"And this thy son's blood cleaving to my blade"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Shall rust upon my weapon, till thy blood,"
I,III,CLIFFORD,"Congeal'd with this, do make me wipe off both."
I,III,CLIFFORD,"3 KING HENRY VI"
I,IV,YORK,"The army of the queen hath got the field:"
I,IV,YORK,"My uncles both are slain in rescuing me;"
I,IV,YORK,"And all my followers to the eager foe"
I,IV,YORK,"Turn back and fly, like ships before the wind"
I,IV,YORK,"Or lambs pursued by hunger-starved wolves."
I,IV,YORK,"My sons, God knows what hath bechanced them:"
I,IV,YORK,"But this I know, they have demean'd themselves"
I,IV,YORK,"Like men born to renown by life or death."
I,IV,YORK,"Three times did Richard make a lane to me."
I,IV,YORK,"And thrice cried 'Courage, father! fight it out!'"
I,IV,YORK,"And full as oft came Edward to my side,"
I,IV,YORK,"With purple falchion, painted to the hilt"
I,IV,YORK,"In blood of those that had encounter'd him:"
I,IV,YORK,"And when the hardiest warriors did retire,"
I,IV,YORK,"Richard cried 'Charge! and give no foot of ground!'"
I,IV,YORK,"And cried 'A crown, or else a glorious tomb!"
I,IV,YORK,"A sceptre, or an earthly sepulchre!'"
I,IV,YORK,"With this, we charged again: but, out, alas!"
I,IV,YORK,"We bodged again; as I have seen a swan"
I,IV,YORK,"With bootless labour swim against the tide"
I,IV,YORK,"And spend her strength with over-matching waves."
I,IV,YORK,"Ah, hark! the fatal followers do pursue;"
I,IV,YORK,"And I am faint and cannot fly their fury:"
I,IV,YORK,"And were I strong, I would not shun their fury:"
I,IV,YORK,"The sands are number'd that make up my life;"
I,IV,YORK,"Here must I stay, and here my life must end."
I,IV,YORK,"Come, bloody Clifford, rough Northumberland,"
I,IV,YORK,"I dare your quenchless fury to more rage:"
I,IV,YORK,"I am your butt, and I abide your shot."
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Yield to our mercy, proud Plantagenet."
I,IV,CLIFFORD,"Ay, to such mercy as his ruthless arm,"
I,IV,CLIFFORD,"With downright payment, show'd unto my father."
I,IV,CLIFFORD,"Now Phaethon hath tumbled from his car,"
I,IV,CLIFFORD,"And made an evening at the noontide prick."
I,IV,YORK,"My ashes, as the phoenix, may bring forth"
I,IV,YORK,"A bird that will revenge upon you all:"
I,IV,YORK,"And in that hope I throw mine eyes to heaven,"
I,IV,YORK,"Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with."
I,IV,YORK,"Why come you not? what! multitudes, and fear?"
I,IV,CLIFFORD,"So cowards fight when they can fly no further;"
I,IV,CLIFFORD,"So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;"
I,IV,CLIFFORD,"So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,"
I,IV,CLIFFORD,"Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers."
I,IV,YORK,"O Clifford, but bethink thee once again,"
I,IV,YORK,"And in thy thought o'er-run my former time;"
I,IV,YORK,"And, if though canst for blushing, view this face,"
I,IV,YORK,"And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with cowardice"
I,IV,YORK,"Whose frown hath made thee faint and fly ere this!"
I,IV,CLIFFORD,"I will not bandy with thee word for word,"
I,IV,CLIFFORD,"But buckle with thee blows, twice two for one."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Hold, valiant Clifford! for a thousand causes"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"I would prolong awhile the traitor's life."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Wrath makes him deaf: speak thou, Northumberland."
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Hold, Clifford! do not honour him so much"
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"To prick thy finger, though to wound his heart:"
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"What valour were it, when a cur doth grin,"
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"For one to thrust his hand between his teeth,"
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"When he might spurn him with his foot away?"
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"It is war's prize to take all vantages;"
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And ten to one is no impeach of valour."
I,IV,CLIFFORD,"Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock with the gin."
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"So doth the cony struggle in the net."
I,IV,YORK,"So triumph thieves upon their conquer'd booty;"
I,IV,YORK,"So true men yield, with robbers so o'ermatch'd."
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"What would your grace have done unto him now?"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland,"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Come, make him stand upon this molehill here,"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"That raught at mountains with outstretched arms,"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Yet parted but the shadow with his hand."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"What! was it you that would be England's king?"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Was't you that revell'd in our parliament,"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And made a preachment of your high descent?"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Where are your mess of sons to back you now?"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"The wanton Edward, and the lusty George?"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And where's that valiant crook-back prodigy,"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Dicky your boy, that with his grumbling voice"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Was wont to cheer his dad in mutinies?"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Or, with the rest, where is your darling Rutland?"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Look, York: I stain'd this napkin with the blood"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"That valiant Clifford, with his rapier's point,"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Made issue from the bosom of the boy;"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And if thine eyes can water for his death,"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Alas poor York! but that I hate thee deadly,"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"I should lament thy miserable state."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"I prithee, grieve, to make me merry, York."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"What, hath thy fiery heart so parch'd thine entrails"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"That not a tear can fall for Rutland's death?"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Why art thou patient, man? thou shouldst be mad;"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And I, to make thee mad, do mock thee thus."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou wouldst be fee'd, I see, to make me sport:"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"York cannot speak, unless he wear a crown."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"A crown for York! and, lords, bow low to him:"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Hold you his hands, whilst I do set it on."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ay, marry, sir, now looks he like a king!"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ay, this is he that took King Henry's chair,"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And this is he was his adopted heir."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"But how is it that great Plantagenet"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Is crown'd so soon, and broke his solemn oath?"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"As I bethink me, you should not be king"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Till our King Henry had shook hands with death."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And will you pale your head in Henry's glory,"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And rob his temples of the diadem,"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Now in his life, against your holy oath?"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"O, 'tis a fault too too unpardonable!"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Off with the crown, and with the crown his head;"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And, whilst we breathe, take time to do him dead."
I,IV,CLIFFORD,"That is my office, for my father's sake."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Nay, stay; lets hear the orisons he makes."
I,IV,YORK,"She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France,"
I,IV,YORK,"Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!"
I,IV,YORK,"How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex"
I,IV,YORK,"To triumph, like an Amazonian trull,"
I,IV,YORK,"Upon their woes whom fortune captivates!"
I,IV,YORK,"But that thy face is, vizard-like, unchanging,"
I,IV,YORK,"Made impudent with use of evil deeds,"
I,IV,YORK,"I would assay, proud queen, to make thee blush."
I,IV,YORK,"To tell thee whence thou camest, of whom derived,"
I,IV,YORK,"Were shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless."
I,IV,YORK,"Thy father bears the type of King of Naples,"
I,IV,YORK,"Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem,"
I,IV,YORK,"Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman."
I,IV,YORK,"Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult?"
I,IV,YORK,"It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud queen,"
I,IV,YORK,"Unless the adage must be verified,"
I,IV,YORK,"That beggars mounted run their horse to death."
I,IV,YORK,"'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud;"
I,IV,YORK,"But, God he knows, thy share thereof is small:"
I,IV,YORK,"'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired;"
I,IV,YORK,"The contrary doth make thee wonder'd at:"
I,IV,YORK,"'Tis government that makes them seem divine;"
I,IV,YORK,"The want thereof makes thee abominable:"
I,IV,YORK,"Thou art as opposite to every good"
I,IV,YORK,"As the Antipodes are unto us,"
I,IV,YORK,"Or as the south to the septentrion."
I,IV,YORK,"O tiger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide!"
I,IV,YORK,"How couldst thou drain the life-blood of the child,"
I,IV,YORK,"To bid the father wipe his eyes withal,"
I,IV,YORK,"And yet be seen to bear a woman's face?"
I,IV,YORK,"Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible;"
I,IV,YORK,"Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless."
I,IV,YORK,"Bids't thou me rage? why, now thou hast thy wish:"
I,IV,YORK,"Wouldst have me weep? why, now thou hast thy will:"
I,IV,YORK,"For raging wind blows up incessant showers,"
I,IV,YORK,"And when the rage allays, the rain begins."
I,IV,YORK,"These tears are my sweet Rutland's obsequies:"
I,IV,YORK,"And every drop cries vengeance for his death,"
I,IV,YORK,"'Gainst thee, fell Clifford, and thee, false"
I,IV,YORK,"Frenchwoman."
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Beshrew me, but his passion moves me so"
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"That hardly can I cheque my eyes from tears."
I,IV,YORK,"That face of his the hungry cannibals"
I,IV,YORK,"Would not have touch'd, would not have stain'd with blood:"
I,IV,YORK,"But you are more inhuman, more inexorable,"
I,IV,YORK,"O, ten times more, than tigers of Hyrcania."
I,IV,YORK,"See, ruthless queen, a hapless father's tears:"
I,IV,YORK,"This cloth thou dip'dst in blood of my sweet boy,"
I,IV,YORK,"And I with tears do wash the blood away."
I,IV,YORK,"Keep thou the napkin, and go boast of this:"
I,IV,YORK,"And if thou tell'st the heavy story right,"
I,IV,YORK,"Upon my soul, the hearers will shed tears;"
I,IV,YORK,"Yea even my foes will shed fast-falling tears,"
I,IV,YORK,"And say 'Alas, it was a piteous deed!'"
I,IV,YORK,"There, take the crown, and, with the crown, my curse;"
I,IV,YORK,"And in thy need such comfort come to thee"
I,IV,YORK,"As now I reap at thy too cruel hand!"
I,IV,YORK,"Hard-hearted Clifford, take me from the world:"
I,IV,YORK,"My soul to heaven, my blood upon your heads!"
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Had he been slaughter-man to all my kin,"
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"I should not for my life but weep with him."
I,IV,NORTHUMBERLAND,"To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"What, weeping-ripe, my Lord Northumberland?"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Think but upon the wrong he did us all,"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And that will quickly dry thy melting tears."
I,IV,CLIFFORD,"Here's for my oath, here's for my father's death."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And here's to right our gentle-hearted king."
I,IV,YORK,"Open Thy gate of mercy, gracious God!"
I,IV,YORK,"My soul flies through these wounds to seek out Thee."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Off with his head, and set it on York gates;"
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"So York may overlook the town of York."
I,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"3 KING HENRY VI"
II,I,EDWARD,"I wonder how our princely father 'scaped,"
II,I,EDWARD,"Or whether he be 'scaped away or no"
II,I,EDWARD,"From Clifford's and Northumberland's pursuit:"
II,I,EDWARD,"Had he been ta'en, we should have heard the news;"
II,I,EDWARD,"Had he been slain, we should have heard the news;"
II,I,EDWARD,"Or had he 'scaped, methinks we should have heard"
II,I,EDWARD,"The happy tidings of his good escape."
II,I,EDWARD,"How fares my brother? why is he so sad?"
II,I,RICHARD,"I cannot joy, until I be resolved"
II,I,RICHARD,"Where our right valiant father is become."
II,I,RICHARD,"I saw him in the battle range about;"
II,I,RICHARD,"And watch'd him how he singled Clifford forth."
II,I,RICHARD,"Methought he bore him in the thickest troop"
II,I,RICHARD,"As doth a lion in a herd of neat;"
II,I,RICHARD,"Or as a bear, encompass'd round with dogs,"
II,I,RICHARD,"Who having pinch'd a few and made them cry,"
II,I,RICHARD,"The rest stand all aloof, and bark at him."
II,I,RICHARD,"So fared our father with his enemies;"
II,I,RICHARD,"So fled his enemies my warlike father:"
II,I,RICHARD,"Methinks, 'tis prize enough to be his son."
II,I,RICHARD,"See how the morning opes her golden gates,"
II,I,RICHARD,"And takes her farewell of the glorious sun!"
II,I,RICHARD,"How well resembles it the prime of youth,"
II,I,RICHARD,"Trimm'd like a younker prancing to his love!"
II,I,EDWARD,"Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?"
II,I,RICHARD,"Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun;"
II,I,RICHARD,"Not separated with the racking clouds,"
II,I,RICHARD,"But sever'd in a pale clear-shining sky."
II,I,RICHARD,"See, see! they join, embrace, and seem to kiss,"
II,I,RICHARD,"As if they vow'd some league inviolable:"
II,I,RICHARD,"Now are they but one lamp, one light, one sun."
II,I,RICHARD,"In this the heaven figures some event."
II,I,EDWARD,"'Tis wondrous strange, the like yet never heard of."
II,I,EDWARD,"I think it cites us, brother, to the field,"
II,I,EDWARD,"That we, the sons of brave Plantagenet,"
II,I,EDWARD,"Each one already blazing by our meeds,"
II,I,EDWARD,"Should notwithstanding join our lights together"
II,I,EDWARD,"And over-shine the earth as this the world."
II,I,EDWARD,"Whate'er it bodes, henceforward will I bear"
II,I,EDWARD,"Upon my target three fair-shining suns."
II,I,RICHARD,"Nay, bear three daughters: by your leave I speak it,"
II,I,RICHARD,"You love the breeder better than the male."
II,I,RICHARD,"But what art thou, whose heavy looks foretell"
II,I,RICHARD,"Some dreadful story hanging on thy tongue?"
II,I,Messenger,"Ah, one that was a woful looker-on"
II,I,Messenger,"When as the noble Duke of York was slain,"
II,I,Messenger,"Your princely father and my loving lord!"
II,I,EDWARD,"O, speak no more, for I have heard too much."
II,I,RICHARD,"Say how he died, for I will hear it all."
II,I,Messenger,"Environed he was with many foes,"
II,I,Messenger,"And stood against them, as the hope of Troy"
II,I,Messenger,"Against the Greeks that would have enter'd Troy."
II,I,Messenger,"But Hercules himself must yield to odds;"
II,I,Messenger,"And many strokes, though with a little axe,"
II,I,Messenger,"Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak."
II,I,Messenger,"By many hands your father was subdued;"
II,I,Messenger,"But only slaughter'd by the ireful arm"
II,I,Messenger,"Of unrelenting Clifford and the queen,"
II,I,Messenger,"Who crown'd the gracious duke in high despite,"
II,I,Messenger,"Laugh'd in his face; and when with grief he wept,"
II,I,Messenger,"The ruthless queen gave him to dry his cheeks"
II,I,Messenger,"A napkin steeped in the harmless blood"
II,I,Messenger,"Of sweet young Rutland, by rough Clifford slain:"
II,I,Messenger,"And after many scorns, many foul taunts,"
II,I,Messenger,"They took his head, and on the gates of York"
II,I,Messenger,"They set the same; and there it doth remain,"
II,I,Messenger,"The saddest spectacle that e'er I view'd."
II,I,EDWARD,"Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon,"
II,I,EDWARD,"Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay."
II,I,EDWARD,"O Clifford, boisterous Clifford! thou hast slain"
II,I,EDWARD,"The flower of Europe for his chivalry;"
II,I,EDWARD,"And treacherously hast thou vanquish'd him,"
II,I,EDWARD,"For hand to hand he would have vanquish'd thee."
II,I,EDWARD,"Now my soul's palace is become a prison:"
II,I,EDWARD,"Ah, would she break from hence, that this my body"
II,I,EDWARD,"Might in the ground be closed up in rest!"
II,I,EDWARD,"For never henceforth shall I joy again,"
II,I,EDWARD,"Never, O never shall I see more joy!"
II,I,RICHARD,"I cannot weep; for all my body's moisture"
II,I,RICHARD,"Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart:"
II,I,RICHARD,"Nor can my tongue unload my heart's great burthen;"
II,I,RICHARD,"For selfsame wind that I should speak withal"
II,I,RICHARD,"Is kindling coals that fires all my breast,"
II,I,RICHARD,"And burns me up with flames that tears would quench."
II,I,RICHARD,"To weep is to make less the depth of grief:"
II,I,RICHARD,"Tears then for babes; blows and revenge for me"
II,I,RICHARD,"Richard, I bear thy name; I'll venge thy death,"
II,I,RICHARD,"Or die renowned by attempting it."
II,I,EDWARD,"His name that valiant duke hath left with thee;"
II,I,EDWARD,"His dukedom and his chair with me is left."
II,I,RICHARD,"Nay, if thou be that princely eagle's bird,"
II,I,RICHARD,"Show thy descent by gazing 'gainst the sun:"
II,I,RICHARD,"For chair and dukedom, throne and kingdom say;"
II,I,RICHARD,"Either that is thine, or else thou wert not his."
II,I,WARWICK,"How now, fair lords! What fare? what news abroad?"
II,I,RICHARD,"Great Lord of Warwick, if we should recount"
II,I,RICHARD,"Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance"
II,I,RICHARD,"Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told,"
II,I,RICHARD,"The words would add more anguish than the wounds."
II,I,RICHARD,"O valiant lord, the Duke of York is slain!"
II,I,EDWARD,"O Warwick, Warwick! that Plantagenet,"
II,I,EDWARD,"Which held three dearly as his soul's redemption,"
II,I,EDWARD,"Is by the stern Lord Clifford done to death."
II,I,WARWICK,"Ten days ago I drown'd these news in tears;"
II,I,WARWICK,"And now, to add more measure to your woes,"
II,I,WARWICK,"I come to tell you things sith then befall'n."
II,I,WARWICK,"After the bloody fray at Wakefield fought,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Where your brave father breathed his latest gasp,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Tidings, as swiftly as the posts could run,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Were brought me of your loss and his depart."
II,I,WARWICK,"I, then in London keeper of the king,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Muster'd my soldiers, gather'd flocks of friends,"
II,I,WARWICK,"And very well appointed, as I thought,"
II,I,WARWICK,"March'd toward Saint Alban's to intercept the queen,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Bearing the king in my behalf along;"
II,I,WARWICK,"For by my scouts I was advertised"
II,I,WARWICK,"That she was coming with a full intent"
II,I,WARWICK,"To dash our late decree in parliament"
II,I,WARWICK,"Touching King Henry's oath and your succession."
II,I,WARWICK,"Short tale to make, we at Saint Alban's met"
II,I,WARWICK,"Our battles join'd, and both sides fiercely fought:"
II,I,WARWICK,"But whether 'twas the coldness of the king,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Who look'd full gently on his warlike queen,"
II,I,WARWICK,"That robb'd my soldiers of their heated spleen;"
II,I,WARWICK,"Or whether 'twas report of her success;"
II,I,WARWICK,"Or more than common fear of Clifford's rigour,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Who thunders to his captives blood and death,"
II,I,WARWICK,"I cannot judge: but to conclude with truth,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Their weapons like to lightning came and went;"
II,I,WARWICK,"Our soldiers', like the night-owl's lazy flight,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Or like an idle thresher with a flail,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Fell gently down, as if they struck their friends."
II,I,WARWICK,"I cheer'd them up with justice of our cause,"
II,I,WARWICK,"With promise of high pay and great rewards:"
II,I,WARWICK,"But all in vain; they had no heart to fight,"
II,I,WARWICK,"And we in them no hope to win the day;"
II,I,WARWICK,"So that we fled; the king unto the queen;"
II,I,WARWICK,"Lord George your brother, Norfolk and myself,"
II,I,WARWICK,"In haste, post-haste, are come to join with you:"
II,I,WARWICK,"For in the marches here we heard you were,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Making another head to fight again."
II,I,EDWARD,"Where is the Duke of Norfolk, gentle Warwick?"
II,I,EDWARD,"And when came George from Burgundy to England?"
II,I,WARWICK,"Some six miles off the duke is with the soldiers;"
II,I,WARWICK,"And for your brother, he was lately sent"
II,I,WARWICK,"From your kind aunt, Duchess of Burgundy,"
II,I,WARWICK,"With aid of soldiers to this needful war."
II,I,RICHARD,"'Twas odds, belike, when valiant Warwick fled:"
II,I,RICHARD,"Oft have I heard his praises in pursuit,"
II,I,RICHARD,"But ne'er till now his scandal of retire."
II,I,WARWICK,"Nor now my scandal, Richard, dost thou hear;"
II,I,WARWICK,"For thou shalt know this strong right hand of mine"
II,I,WARWICK,"Can pluck the diadem from faint Henry's head,"
II,I,WARWICK,"And wring the awful sceptre from his fist,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Were he as famous and as bold in war"
II,I,WARWICK,"As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer."
II,I,RICHARD,"I know it well, Lord Warwick; blame me not:"
II,I,RICHARD,"'Tis love I bear thy glories makes me speak."
II,I,RICHARD,"But in this troublous time what's to be done?"
II,I,RICHARD,"Shall we go throw away our coats of steel,"
II,I,RICHARD,"And wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns,"
II,I,RICHARD,"Numbering our Ave-Maries with our beads?"
II,I,RICHARD,"Or shall we on the helmets of our foes"
II,I,RICHARD,"Tell our devotion with revengeful arms?"
II,I,RICHARD,"If for the last, say ay, and to it, lords."
II,I,WARWICK,"Why, therefore Warwick came to seek you out;"
II,I,WARWICK,"And therefore comes my brother Montague."
II,I,WARWICK,"Attend me, lords. The proud insulting queen,"
II,I,WARWICK,"With Clifford and the haught Northumberland,"
II,I,WARWICK,"And of their feather many more proud birds,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Have wrought the easy-melting king like wax."
II,I,WARWICK,"He swore consent to your succession,"
II,I,WARWICK,"His oath enrolled in the parliament;"
II,I,WARWICK,"And now to London all the crew are gone,"
II,I,WARWICK,"To frustrate both his oath and what beside"
II,I,WARWICK,"May make against the house of Lancaster."
II,I,WARWICK,"Their power, I think, is thirty thousand strong:"
II,I,WARWICK,"Now, if the help of Norfolk and myself,"
II,I,WARWICK,"With all the friends that thou, brave Earl of March,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Amongst the loving Welshmen canst procure,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Will but amount to five and twenty thousand,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Why, Via! to London will we march amain,"
II,I,WARWICK,"And once again bestride our foaming steeds,"
II,I,WARWICK,"And once again cry 'Charge upon our foes!'"
II,I,WARWICK,"But never once again turn back and fly."
II,I,RICHARD,"Ay, now methinks I hear great Warwick speak:"
II,I,RICHARD,"Ne'er may he live to see a sunshine day,"
II,I,RICHARD,"That cries 'Retire,' if Warwick bid him stay."
II,I,EDWARD,"Lord Warwick, on thy shoulder will I lean;"
II,I,EDWARD,"And when thou fail'st--as God forbid the hour!--"
II,I,EDWARD,"Must Edward fall, which peril heaven forfend!"
II,I,WARWICK,"No longer Earl of March, but Duke of York:"
II,I,WARWICK,"The next degree is England's royal throne;"
II,I,WARWICK,"For King of England shalt thou be proclaim'd"
II,I,WARWICK,"In every borough as we pass along;"
II,I,WARWICK,"And he that throws not up his cap for joy"
II,I,WARWICK,"Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head."
II,I,WARWICK,"King Edward, valiant Richard, Montague,"
II,I,WARWICK,"Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown,"
II,I,WARWICK,"But sound the trumpets, and about our task."
II,I,RICHARD,"Then, Clifford, were thy heart as hard as steel,"
II,I,RICHARD,"As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds,"
II,I,RICHARD,"I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine."
II,I,EDWARD,"Then strike up drums: God and Saint George for us!"
II,I,WARWICK,"How now! what news?"
II,I,Messenger,"The Duke of Norfolk sends you word by me,"
II,I,Messenger,"The queen is coming with a puissant host;"
II,I,Messenger,"And craves your company for speedy counsel."
II,I,WARWICK,"Why then it sorts, brave warriors, let's away."
II,I,WARWICK,"3 KING HENRY VI"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Welcome, my lord, to this brave town of York."
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Yonder's the head of that arch-enemy"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"That sought to be encompass'd with your crown:"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Doth not the object cheer your heart, my lord?"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"Ay, as the rocks cheer them that fear their wreck:"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"To see this sight, it irks my very soul."
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"Withhold revenge, dear God! 'tis not my fault,"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"Nor wittingly have I infringed my vow."
II,II,CLIFFORD,"My gracious liege, this too much lenity"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"And harmful pity must be laid aside."
II,II,CLIFFORD,"To whom do lions cast their gentle looks?"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Not to the beast that would usurp their den."
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick?"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Not his that spoils her young before her face."
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting?"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Not he that sets his foot upon her back."
II,II,CLIFFORD,"The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood."
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Ambitious York doth level at thy crown,"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows:"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"He, but a duke, would have his son a king,"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"And raise his issue, like a loving sire;"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Thou, being a king, blest with a goodly son,"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Didst yield consent to disinherit him,"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Which argued thee a most unloving father."
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Unreasonable creatures feed their young;"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"And though man's face be fearful to their eyes,"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Yet, in protection of their tender ones,"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Who hath not seen them, even with those wings"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Which sometime they have used with fearful flight,"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Make war with him that climb'd unto their nest,"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Offer their own lives in their young's defence?"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"For shame, my liege, make them your precedent!"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Were it not pity that this goodly boy"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Should lose his birthright by his father's fault,"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"And long hereafter say unto his child,"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"'What my great-grandfather and his grandsire got"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"My careless father fondly gave away'?"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Ah, what a shame were this! Look on the boy;"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"And let his manly face, which promiseth"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Successful fortune, steel thy melting heart"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"To hold thine own and leave thine own with him."
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"Full well hath Clifford play'd the orator,"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"Inferring arguments of mighty force."
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"That things ill-got had ever bad success?"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"And happy always was it for that son"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind;"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"And would my father had left me no more!"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"For all the rest is held at such a rate"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"As brings a thousand-fold more care to keep"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"Than in possession and jot of pleasure."
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"Ah, cousin York! would thy best friends did know"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"How it doth grieve me that thy head is here!"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"My lord, cheer up your spirits: our foes are nigh,"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"And this soft courage makes your followers faint."
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"You promised knighthood to our forward son:"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Unsheathe your sword, and dub him presently."
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Edward, kneel down."
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"Edward Plantagenet, arise a knight;"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"And learn this lesson, draw thy sword in right."
II,II,PRINCE,"My gracious father, by your kingly leave,"
II,II,PRINCE,"I'll draw it as apparent to the crown,"
II,II,PRINCE,"And in that quarrel use it to the death."
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Why, that is spoken like a toward prince."
II,II,Messenger,"Royal commanders, be in readiness:"
II,II,Messenger,"For with a band of thirty thousand men"
II,II,Messenger,"Comes Warwick, backing of the Duke of York;"
II,II,Messenger,"And in the towns, as they do march along,"
II,II,Messenger,"Proclaims him king, and many fly to him:"
II,II,Messenger,"Darraign your battle, for they are at hand."
II,II,CLIFFORD,"I would your highness would depart the field:"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"The queen hath best success when you are absent."
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ay, good my lord, and leave us to our fortune."
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"Why, that's my fortune too; therefore I'll stay."
II,II,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Be it with resolution then to fight."
II,II,PRINCE EDWARD,"My royal father, cheer these noble lords"
II,II,PRINCE EDWARD,"And hearten those that fight in your defence:"
II,II,PRINCE EDWARD,"Unsheathe your sword, good father; cry 'Saint George!'"
II,II,EDWARD,"Now, perjured Henry! wilt thou kneel for grace,"
II,II,EDWARD,"And set thy diadem upon my head;"
II,II,EDWARD,"Or bide the mortal fortune of the field?"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Go, rate thy minions, proud insulting boy!"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Becomes it thee to be thus bold in terms"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Before thy sovereign and thy lawful king?"
II,II,EDWARD,"I am his king, and he should bow his knee;"
II,II,EDWARD,"I was adopted heir by his consent:"
II,II,EDWARD,"Since when, his oath is broke; for, as I hear,"
II,II,EDWARD,"You, that are king, though he do wear the crown,"
II,II,EDWARD,"Have caused him, by new act of parliament,"
II,II,EDWARD,"To blot out me, and put his own son in."
II,II,CLIFFORD,"And reason too:"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Who should succeed the father but the son?"
II,II,RICHARD,"Are you there, butcher? O, I cannot speak!"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Ay, crook-back, here I stand to answer thee,"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Or any he the proudest of thy sort."
II,II,RICHARD,"'Twas you that kill'd young Rutland, was it not?"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Ay, and old York, and yet not satisfied."
II,II,RICHARD,"For God's sake, lords, give signal to the fight."
II,II,WARWICK,"What say'st thou, Henry, wilt thou yield the crown?"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Why, how now, long-tongued Warwick! dare you speak?"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"When you and I met at Saint Alban's last,"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Your legs did better service than your hands."
II,II,WARWICK,"Then 'twas my turn to fly, and now 'tis thine."
II,II,CLIFFORD,"You said so much before, and yet you fled."
II,II,WARWICK,"'Twas not your valour, Clifford, drove me thence."
II,II,NORTHUMBERLAND,"No, nor your manhood that durst make you stay."
II,II,RICHARD,"Northumberland, I hold thee reverently."
II,II,RICHARD,"Break off the parley; for scarce I can refrain"
II,II,RICHARD,"The execution of my big-swoln heart"
II,II,RICHARD,"Upon that Clifford, that cruel child-killer."
II,II,CLIFFORD,"I slew thy father, call'st thou him a child?"
II,II,RICHARD,"Ay, like a dastard and a treacherous coward,"
II,II,RICHARD,"As thou didst kill our tender brother Rutland;"
II,II,RICHARD,"But ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed."
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"Have done with words, my lords, and hear me speak."
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Defy them then, or else hold close thy lips."
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"I prithee, give no limits to my tongue:"
II,II,KING HENRY VI,"I am a king, and privileged to speak."
II,II,CLIFFORD,"My liege, the wound that bred this meeting here"
II,II,CLIFFORD,"Cannot be cured by words; therefore be still."
II,II,RICHARD,"Then, executioner, unsheathe thy sword:"
II,II,RICHARD,"By him that made us all, I am resolved"
II,II,RICHARD,"that Clifford's manhood lies upon his tongue."
II,II,EDWARD,"Say, Henry, shall I have my right, or no?"
II,II,EDWARD,"A thousand men have broke their fasts to-day,"
II,II,EDWARD,"That ne'er shall dine unless thou yield the crown."
II,II,WARWICK,"If thou deny, their blood upon thy head;"
II,II,WARWICK,"For York in justice puts his armour on."
II,II,PRINCE EDWARD,"If that be right which Warwick says is right,"
II,II,PRINCE EDWARD,"There is no wrong, but every thing is right."
II,II,RICHARD,"Whoever got thee, there thy mother stands;"
II,II,RICHARD,"For, well I wot, thou hast thy mother's tongue."
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"But thou art neither like thy sire nor dam;"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"But like a foul mis-shapen stigmatic,"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Mark'd by the destinies to be avoided,"
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"As venom toads, or lizards' dreadful stings."
II,II,RICHARD,"Iron of Naples hid with English gilt,"
II,II,RICHARD,"Whose father bears the title of a king,--"
II,II,RICHARD,"As if a channel should be call'd the sea,--"
II,II,RICHARD,"Shamest thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught,"
II,II,RICHARD,"To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart?"
II,II,EDWARD,"A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns,"
II,II,EDWARD,"To make this shameless callet know herself."
II,II,EDWARD,"Helen of Greece was fairer far than thou,"
II,II,EDWARD,"Although thy husband may be Menelaus;"
II,II,EDWARD,"And ne'er was Agamemnon's brother wrong'd"
II,II,EDWARD,"By that false woman, as this king by thee."
II,II,EDWARD,"His father revell'd in the heart of France,"
II,II,EDWARD,"And tamed the king, and made the dauphin stoop;"
II,II,EDWARD,"And had he match'd according to his state,"
II,II,EDWARD,"He might have kept that glory to this day;"
II,II,EDWARD,"But when he took a beggar to his bed,"
II,II,EDWARD,"And graced thy poor sire with his bridal-day,"
II,II,EDWARD,"Even then that sunshine brew'd a shower for him,"
II,II,EDWARD,"That wash'd his father's fortunes forth of France,"
II,II,EDWARD,"And heap'd sedition on his crown at home."
II,II,EDWARD,"For what hath broach'd this tumult but thy pride?"
II,II,EDWARD,"Hadst thou been meek, our title still had slept;"
II,II,EDWARD,"And we, in pity of the gentle king,"
II,II,EDWARD,"Had slipp'd our claim until another age."
II,II,GEORGE,"But when we saw our sunshine made thy spring,"
II,II,GEORGE,"And that thy summer bred us no increase,"
II,II,GEORGE,"We set the axe to thy usurping root;"
II,II,GEORGE,"And though the edge hath something hit ourselves,"
II,II,GEORGE,"Yet, know thou, since we have begun to strike,"
II,II,GEORGE,"We'll never leave till we have hewn thee down,"
II,II,GEORGE,"Or bathed thy growing with our heated bloods."
II,II,EDWARD,"And, in this resolution, I defy thee;"
II,II,EDWARD,"Not willing any longer conference,"
II,II,EDWARD,"Since thou deniest the gentle king to speak."
II,II,EDWARD,"Sound trumpets! let our bloody colours wave!"
II,II,EDWARD,"And either victory, or else a grave."
II,II,QUEEN MARGARET,"Stay, Edward."
II,II,EDWARD,"No, wrangling woman, we'll no longer stay:"
II,II,EDWARD,"These words will cost ten thousand lives this day."
II,II,EDWARD,"3 KING HENRY VI"
II,III,WARWICK,"Forspent with toil, as runners with a race,"
II,III,WARWICK,"I lay me down a little while to breathe;"
II,III,WARWICK,"For strokes received, and many blows repaid,"
II,III,WARWICK,"Have robb'd my strong-knit sinews of their strength,"
II,III,WARWICK,"And spite of spite needs must I rest awhile."
II,III,EDWARD,"Smile, gentle heaven! or strike, ungentle death!"
II,III,EDWARD,"For this world frowns, and Edward's sun is clouded."
II,III,WARWICK,"How now, my lord! what hap? what hope of good?"
II,III,GEORGE,"Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair;"
II,III,GEORGE,"Our ranks are broke, and ruin follows us:"
II,III,GEORGE,"What counsel give you? whither shall we fly?"
II,III,EDWARD,"Bootless is flight, they follow us with wings;"
II,III,EDWARD,"And weak we are and cannot shun pursuit."
II,III,RICHARD,"Ah, Warwick, why hast thou withdrawn thyself?"
II,III,RICHARD,"Thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath drunk,"
II,III,RICHARD,"Broach'd with the steely point of Clifford's lance;"
II,III,RICHARD,"And in the very pangs of death he cried,"
II,III,RICHARD,"Like to a dismal clangour heard from far,"
II,III,RICHARD,"'Warwick, revenge! brother, revenge my death!'"
II,III,RICHARD,"So, underneath the belly of their steeds,"
II,III,RICHARD,"That stain'd their fetlocks in his smoking blood,"
II,III,RICHARD,"The noble gentleman gave up the ghost."
II,III,WARWICK,"Then let the earth be drunken with our blood:"
II,III,WARWICK,"I'll kill my horse, because I will not fly."
II,III,WARWICK,"Why stand we like soft-hearted women here,"
II,III,WARWICK,"Wailing our losses, whiles the foe doth rage;"
II,III,WARWICK,"And look upon, as if the tragedy"
II,III,WARWICK,"Were play'd in jest by counterfeiting actors?"
II,III,WARWICK,"Here on my knee I vow to God above,"
II,III,WARWICK,"I'll never pause again, never stand still,"
II,III,WARWICK,"Till either death hath closed these eyes of mine"
II,III,WARWICK,"Or fortune given me measure of revenge."
II,III,EDWARD,"O Warwick, I do bend my knee with thine;"
II,III,EDWARD,"And in this vow do chain my soul to thine!"
II,III,EDWARD,"And, ere my knee rise from the earth's cold face,"
II,III,EDWARD,"I throw my hands, mine eyes, my heart to thee,"
II,III,EDWARD,"Thou setter up and plucker down of kings,"
II,III,EDWARD,"Beseeching thee, if with they will it stands"
II,III,EDWARD,"That to my foes this body must be prey,"
II,III,EDWARD,"Yet that thy brazen gates of heaven may ope,"
II,III,EDWARD,"And give sweet passage to my sinful soul!"
II,III,EDWARD,"Now, lords, take leave until we meet again,"
II,III,EDWARD,"Where'er it be, in heaven or in earth."
II,III,RICHARD,"Brother, give me thy hand; and, gentle Warwick,"
II,III,RICHARD,"Let me embrace thee in my weary arms:"
II,III,RICHARD,"I, that did never weep, now melt with woe"
II,III,RICHARD,"That winter should cut off our spring-time so."
II,III,WARWICK,"Away, away! Once more, sweet lords farewell."
II,III,GEORGE,"Yet let us all together to our troops,"
II,III,GEORGE,"And give them leave to fly that will not stay;"
II,III,GEORGE,"And call them pillars that will stand to us;"
II,III,GEORGE,"And, if we thrive, promise them such rewards"
II,III,GEORGE,"As victors wear at the Olympian games:"
II,III,GEORGE,"This may plant courage in their quailing breasts;"
II,III,GEORGE,"For yet is hope of life and victory."
II,III,GEORGE,"Forslow no longer, make we hence amain."
II,III,GEORGE,"3 KING HENRY VI"
II,IV,RICHARD,"Now, Clifford, I have singled thee alone:"
II,IV,RICHARD,"Suppose this arm is for the Duke of York,"
II,IV,RICHARD,"And this for Rutland; both bound to revenge,"
II,IV,RICHARD,"Wert thou environ'd with a brazen wall."
II,IV,CLIFFORD,"Now, Richard, I am with thee here alone:"
II,IV,CLIFFORD,"This is the hand that stabb'd thy father York;"
II,IV,CLIFFORD,"And this the hand that slew thy brother Rutland;"
II,IV,CLIFFORD,"And here's the heart that triumphs in their death"
II,IV,CLIFFORD,"And cheers these hands that slew thy sire and brother"
II,IV,CLIFFORD,"To execute the like upon thyself;"
II,IV,CLIFFORD,"And so, have at thee!"
II,IV,RICHARD,"Nay Warwick, single out some other chase;"
II,IV,RICHARD,"For I myself will hunt this wolf to death."
II,IV,RICHARD,"3 KING HENRY VI"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"This battle fares like to the morning's war,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"When dying clouds contend with growing light,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Can neither call it perfect day nor night."
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Now sways it this way, like a mighty sea"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Forced by the tide to combat with the wind;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Now sways it that way, like the selfsame sea"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Forced to retire by fury of the wind:"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Sometime the flood prevails, and then the wind;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Now one the better, then another best;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Yet neither conqueror nor conquered:"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"So is the equal of this fell war."
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Here on this molehill will I sit me down."
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"To whom God will, there be the victory!"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"For Margaret my queen, and Clifford too,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Have chid me from the battle; swearing both"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"They prosper best of all when I am thence."
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Would I were dead! if God's good will were so;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"For what is in this world but grief and woe?"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"O God! methinks it were a happy life,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"To be no better than a homely swain;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"To sit upon a hill, as I do now,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Thereby to see the minutes how they run,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"How many make the hour full complete;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"How many hours bring about the day;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"How many days will finish up the year;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"How many years a mortal man may live."
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"When this is known, then to divide the times:"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"So many hours must I tend my flock;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"So many hours must I take my rest;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"So many hours must I contemplate;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"So many hours must I sport myself;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"So many days my ewes have been with young;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean:"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"So many years ere I shall shear the fleece:"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"So minutes, hours, days, months, and years,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Pass'd over to the end they were created,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave."
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely!"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"To kings that fear their subjects' treachery?"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth."
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle."
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"All which secure and sweetly he enjoys,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Is far beyond a prince's delicates,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"His viands sparkling in a golden cup,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"His body couched in a curious bed,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"When care, mistrust, and treason waits on him."
II,V,Son,"Ill blows the wind that profits nobody."
II,V,Son,"This man, whom hand to hand I slew in fight,"
II,V,Son,"May be possessed with some store of crowns;"
II,V,Son,"And I, that haply take them from him now,"
II,V,Son,"May yet ere night yield both my life and them"
II,V,Son,"To some man else, as this dead man doth me."
II,V,Son,"Who's this? O God! it is my father's face,"
II,V,Son,"Whom in this conflict I unwares have kill'd."
II,V,Son,"O heavy times, begetting such events!"
II,V,Son,"From London by the king was I press'd forth;"
II,V,Son,"My father, being the Earl of Warwick's man,"
II,V,Son,"Came on the part of York, press'd by his master;"
II,V,Son,"And I, who at his hands received my life, him"
II,V,Son,"Have by my hands of life bereaved him."
II,V,Son,"Pardon me, God, I knew not what I did!"
II,V,Son,"And pardon, father, for I knew not thee!"
II,V,Son,"My tears shall wipe away these bloody marks;"
II,V,Son,"And no more words till they have flow'd their fill."
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"O piteous spectacle! O bloody times!"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Whiles lions war and battle for their dens,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity."
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Weep, wretched man, I'll aid thee tear for tear;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"And let our hearts and eyes, like civil war,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Be blind with tears, and break o'ercharged with grief."
II,V,Father,"Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me,"
II,V,Father,"Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold:"
II,V,Father,"For I have bought it with an hundred blows."
II,V,Father,"But let me see: is this our foeman's face?"
II,V,Father,"Ah, no, no, no, it is mine only son!"
II,V,Father,"Ah, boy, if any life be left in thee,"
II,V,Father,"Throw up thine eye! see, see what showers arise,"
II,V,Father,"Blown with the windy tempest of my heart,"
II,V,Father,"Upon thy words, that kill mine eye and heart!"
II,V,Father,"O, pity, God, this miserable age!"
II,V,Father,"What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,"
II,V,Father,"Erroneous, mutinous and unnatural,"
II,V,Father,"This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!"
II,V,Father,"O boy, thy father gave thee life too soon,"
II,V,Father,"And hath bereft thee of thy life too late!"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Woe above woe! grief more than common grief!"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"O that my death would stay these ruthful deeds!"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"O pity, pity, gentle heaven, pity!"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"The red rose and the white are on his face,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"The fatal colours of our striving houses:"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"The one his purple blood right well resembles;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"The other his pale cheeks, methinks, presenteth:"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Wither one rose, and let the other flourish;"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"If you contend, a thousand lives must wither."
II,V,Son,"How will my mother for a father's death"
II,V,Son,"Take on with me and ne'er be satisfied!"
II,V,Father,"How will my wife for slaughter of my son"
II,V,Father,"Shed seas of tears and ne'er be satisfied!"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"How will the country for these woful chances"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Misthink the king and not be satisfied!"
II,V,Son,"Was ever son so rued a father's death?"
II,V,Father,"Was ever father so bemoan'd his son?"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Was ever king so grieved for subjects' woe?"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Much is your sorrow; mine ten times so much."
II,V,Son,"I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill."
II,V,Father,"These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet;"
II,V,Father,"My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre,"
II,V,Father,"For from my heart thine image ne'er shall go;"
II,V,Father,"My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell;"
II,V,Father,"And so obsequious will thy father be,"
II,V,Father,"Even for the loss of thee, having no more,"
II,V,Father,"As Priam was for all his valiant sons."
II,V,Father,"I'll bear thee hence; and let them fight that will,"
II,V,Father,"For I have murdered where I should not kill."
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Sad-hearted men, much overgone with care,"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Here sits a king more woful than you are."
II,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"Fly, father, fly! for all your friends are fled,"
II,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"And Warwick rages like a chafed bull:"
II,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"Away! for death doth hold us in pursuit."
II,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Mount you, my lord; towards Berwick post amain:"
II,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds"
II,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Having the fearful flying hare in sight,"
II,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath,"
II,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"And bloody steel grasp'd in their ireful hands,"
II,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Are at our backs; and therefore hence amain."
II,V,EXETER,"Away! for vengeance comes along with them:"
II,V,EXETER,"Nay, stay not to expostulate, make speed;"
II,V,EXETER,"Or else come after: I'll away before."
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Nay, take me with thee, good sweet Exeter:"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Not that I fear to stay, but love to go"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"Whither the queen intends. Forward; away!"
II,V,KING HENRY VI,"3 KING HENRY VI"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies,"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light."
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"O Lancaster, I fear thy overthrow"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"More than my body's parting with my soul!"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"My love and fear glued many friends to thee;"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"And, now I fall, thy tough commixture melts."
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York,"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"The common people swarm like summer flies;"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"And who shines now but Henry's enemies?"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"O Phoebus, hadst thou never given consent"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"That Phaethon should cheque thy fiery steeds,"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"Thy burning car never had scorch'd the earth!"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"And, Henry, hadst thou sway'd as kings should do,"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"Or as thy father and his father did,"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"Giving no ground unto the house of York,"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"They never then had sprung like summer flies;"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"I and ten thousand in this luckless realm"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"Had left no mourning widows for our death;"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"And thou this day hadst kept thy chair in peace."
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air?"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"Bootless are plaints, and cureless are my wounds;"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"No way to fly, nor strength to hold out flight:"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"The foe is merciless, and will not pity;"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"For at their hands I have deserved no pity."
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"The air hath got into my deadly wounds,"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"And much effuse of blood doth make me faint."
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"Come, York and Richard, Warwick and the rest;"
II,VI,CLIFFORD,"I stabb'd your fathers' bosoms, split my breast."
II,VI,EDWARD,"Now breathe we, lords: good fortune bids us pause,"
II,VI,EDWARD,"And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks."
II,VI,EDWARD,"Some troops pursue the bloody-minded queen,"
II,VI,EDWARD,"That led calm Henry, though he were a king,"
II,VI,EDWARD,"As doth a sail, fill'd with a fretting gust,"
II,VI,EDWARD,"Command an argosy to stem the waves."
II,VI,EDWARD,"But think you, lords, that Clifford fled with them?"
II,VI,WARWICK,"No, 'tis impossible he should escape,"
II,VI,WARWICK,"For, though before his face I speak the words"
II,VI,WARWICK,"Your brother Richard mark'd him for the grave:"
II,VI,WARWICK,"And wheresoe'er he is, he's surely dead."
II,VI,EDWARD,"Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave?"
II,VI,RICHARD,"A deadly groan, like life and death's departing."
II,VI,EDWARD,"See who it is: and, now the battle's ended,"
II,VI,EDWARD,"If friend or foe, let him be gently used."
II,VI,RICHARD,"Revoke that doom of mercy, for 'tis Clifford;"
II,VI,RICHARD,"Who not contented that he lopp'd the branch"
II,VI,RICHARD,"In hewing Rutland when his leaves put forth,"
II,VI,RICHARD,"But set his murdering knife unto the root"
II,VI,RICHARD,"From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring,"
II,VI,RICHARD,"I mean our princely father, Duke of York."
II,VI,WARWICK,"From off the gates of York fetch down the head,"
II,VI,WARWICK,"Your father's head, which Clifford placed there;"
II,VI,WARWICK,"Instead whereof let this supply the room:"
II,VI,WARWICK,"Measure for measure must be answered."
II,VI,EDWARD,"Bring forth that fatal screech-owl to our house,"
II,VI,EDWARD,"That nothing sung but death to us and ours:"
II,VI,EDWARD,"Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound,"
II,VI,EDWARD,"And his ill-boding tongue no more shall speak."
II,VI,WARWICK,"I think his understanding is bereft."
II,VI,WARWICK,"Speak, Clifford, dost thou know who speaks to thee?"
II,VI,WARWICK,"Dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life,"
II,VI,WARWICK,"And he nor sees nor hears us what we say."
II,VI,RICHARD,"O, would he did! and so perhaps he doth:"
II,VI,RICHARD,"'Tis but his policy to counterfeit,"
II,VI,RICHARD,"Because he would avoid such bitter taunts"
II,VI,RICHARD,"Which in the time of death he gave our father."
II,VI,GEORGE,"If so thou think'st, vex him with eager words."
II,VI,RICHARD,"Clifford, ask mercy and obtain no grace."
II,VI,EDWARD,"Clifford, repent in bootless penitence."
II,VI,WARWICK,"Clifford, devise excuses for thy faults."
II,VI,GEORGE,"While we devise fell tortures for thy faults."
II,VI,RICHARD,"Thou didst love York, and I am son to York."
II,VI,EDWARD,"Thou pitied'st Rutland; I will pity thee."
II,VI,GEORGE,"Where's Captain Margaret, to fence you now?"
II,VI,WARWICK,"They mock thee, Clifford: swear as thou wast wont."
II,VI,RICHARD,"What, not an oath? nay, then the world goes hard"
II,VI,RICHARD,"When Clifford cannot spare his friends an oath."
II,VI,RICHARD,"I know by that he's dead; and, by my soul,"
II,VI,RICHARD,"If this right hand would buy two hour's life,"
II,VI,RICHARD,"That I in all despite might rail at him,"
II,VI,RICHARD,"This hand should chop it off, and with the"
II,VI,RICHARD,"issuing blood"
II,VI,RICHARD,"Stifle the villain whose unstanched thirst"
II,VI,RICHARD,"York and young Rutland could not satisfy."
II,VI,WARWICK,"Ay, but he's dead: off with the traitor's head,"
II,VI,WARWICK,"And rear it in the place your father's stands."
II,VI,WARWICK,"And now to London with triumphant march,"
II,VI,WARWICK,"There to be crowned England's royal king:"
II,VI,WARWICK,"From whence shall Warwick cut the sea to France,"
II,VI,WARWICK,"And ask the Lady Bona for thy queen:"
II,VI,WARWICK,"So shalt thou sinew both these lands together;"
II,VI,WARWICK,"And, having France thy friend, thou shalt not dread"
II,VI,WARWICK,"The scatter'd foe that hopes to rise again;"
II,VI,WARWICK,"For though they cannot greatly sting to hurt,"
II,VI,WARWICK,"Yet look to have them buzz to offend thine ears."
II,VI,WARWICK,"First will I see the coronation;"
II,VI,WARWICK,"And then to Brittany I'll cross the sea,"
II,VI,WARWICK,"To effect this marriage, so it please my lord."
II,VI,EDWARD,"Even as thou wilt, sweet Warwick, let it be;"
II,VI,EDWARD,"For in thy shoulder do I build my seat,"
II,VI,EDWARD,"And never will I undertake the thing"
II,VI,EDWARD,"Wherein thy counsel and consent is wanting."
II,VI,EDWARD,"Richard, I will create thee Duke of Gloucester,"
II,VI,EDWARD,"And George, of Clarence: Warwick, as ourself,"
II,VI,EDWARD,"Shall do and undo as him pleaseth best."
II,VI,RICHARD,"Let me be Duke of Clarence, George of Gloucester;"
II,VI,RICHARD,"For Gloucester's dukedom is too ominous."
II,VI,WARWICK,"Tut, that's a foolish observation:"
II,VI,WARWICK,"Richard, be Duke of Gloucester. Now to London,"
II,VI,WARWICK,"To see these honours in possession."
II,VI,WARWICK,"3 KING HENRY VI"
III,I,First Keeper,"Under this thick-grown brake we'll shroud ourselves;"
III,I,First Keeper,"For through this laund anon the deer will come;"
III,I,First Keeper,"And in this covert will we make our stand,"
III,I,First Keeper,"Culling the principal of all the deer."
III,I,Second Keeper,"I'll stay above the hill, so both may shoot."
III,I,First Keeper,"That cannot be; the noise of thy cross-bow"
III,I,First Keeper,"Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost."
III,I,First Keeper,"Here stand we both, and aim we at the best:"
III,I,First Keeper,"And, for the time shall not seem tedious,"
III,I,First Keeper,"I'll tell thee what befell me on a day"
III,I,First Keeper,"In this self-place where now we mean to stand."
III,I,Second Keeper,"Here comes a man; let's stay till he be past."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"From Scotland am I stol'n, even of pure love,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"To greet mine own land with my wishful sight."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"No, Harry, Harry, 'tis no land of thine;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Thy place is fill'd, thy sceptre wrung from thee,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Thy balm wash'd off wherewith thou wast anointed:"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"No bending knee will call thee Caesar now,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"No humble suitors press to speak for right,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"No, not a man comes for redress of thee;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"For how can I help them, and not myself?"
III,I,First Keeper,"Ay, here's a deer whose skin's a keeper's fee:"
III,I,First Keeper,"This is the quondam king; let's seize upon him."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"For wise men say it is the wisest course."
III,I,Second Keeper,"Why linger we? let us lay hands upon him."
III,I,First Keeper,"Forbear awhile; we'll hear a little more."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"My queen and son are gone to France for aid;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And, as I hear, the great commanding Warwick"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Is thither gone, to crave the French king's sister"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"To wife for Edward: if this news be true,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Poor queen and son, your labour is but lost;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"For Warwick is a subtle orator,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And Lewis a prince soon won with moving words."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"By this account then Margaret may win him;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"For she's a woman to be pitied much:"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Her sighs will make a battery in his breast;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Her tears will pierce into a marble heart;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"The tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And Nero will be tainted with remorse,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"To hear and see her plaints, her brinish tears."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Ay, but she's come to beg, Warwick to give;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"She, on his left side, craving aid for Henry,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"He, on his right, asking a wife for Edward."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"She weeps, and says her Henry is deposed;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"He smiles, and says his Edward is install'd;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"That she, poor wretch, for grief can speak no more;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Whiles Warwick tells his title, smooths the wrong,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Inferreth arguments of mighty strength,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And in conclusion wins the king from her,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"With promise of his sister, and what else,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"To strengthen and support King Edward's place."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"O Margaret, thus 'twill be; and thou, poor soul,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Art then forsaken, as thou went'st forlorn!"
III,I,Second Keeper,"Say, what art thou that talk'st of kings and queens?"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"More than I seem, and less than I was born to:"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"A man at least, for less I should not be;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And men may talk of kings, and why not I?"
III,I,Second Keeper,"Ay, but thou talk'st as if thou wert a king."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Why, so I am, in mind; and that's enough."
III,I,Second Keeper,"But, if thou be a king, where is thy crown?"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"My crown is in my heart, not on my head;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Nor to be seen: my crown is called content:"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy."
III,I,Second Keeper,"Well, if you be a king crown'd with content,"
III,I,Second Keeper,"Your crown content and you must be contented"
III,I,Second Keeper,"To go along with us; for as we think,"
III,I,Second Keeper,"You are the king King Edward hath deposed;"
III,I,Second Keeper,"And we his subjects sworn in all allegiance"
III,I,Second Keeper,"Will apprehend you as his enemy."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"But did you never swear, and break an oath?"
III,I,Second Keeper,"No, never such an oath; nor will not now."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Where did you dwell when I was King of England?"
III,I,Second Keeper,"Here in this country, where we now remain."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"I was anointed king at nine months old;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"My father and my grandfather were kings,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And you were sworn true subjects unto me:"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And tell me, then, have you not broke your oaths?"
III,I,First Keeper,"No;"
III,I,First Keeper,"For we were subjects but while you were king."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Why, am I dead? do I not breathe a man?"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Ah, simple men, you know not what you swear!"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Look, as I blow this feather from my face,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And as the air blows it to me again,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Obeying with my wind when I do blow,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And yielding to another when it blows,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Commanded always by the greater gust;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Such is the lightness of you common men."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"But do not break your oaths; for of that sin"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"My mild entreaty shall not make you guilty."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"Go where you will, the king shall be commanded;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And be you kings, command, and I'll obey."
III,I,First Keeper,"We are true subjects to the king, King Edward."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"So would you be again to Henry,"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"If he were seated as King Edward is."
III,I,First Keeper,"We charge you, in God's name, and the king's,"
III,I,First Keeper,"To go with us unto the officers."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"In God's name, lead; your king's name be obey'd:"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And what God will, that let your king perform;"
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"And what he will, I humbly yield unto."
III,I,KING HENRY VI,"3 KING HENRY VI"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Brother of Gloucester, at Saint Alban's field"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"This lady's husband, Sir Richard Grey, was slain,"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"His lands then seized on by the conqueror:"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Her suit is now to repossess those lands;"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Which we in justice cannot well deny,"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Because in quarrel of the house of York"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"The worthy gentleman did lose his life."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Your highness shall do well to grant her suit;"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"It were dishonour to deny it her."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"It were no less; but yet I'll make a pause."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"I see the lady hath a thing to grant,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Before the king will grant her humble suit."
III,II,CLARENCE,"he keeps the wind!"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Widow, we will consider of your suit;"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"And come some other time to know our mind."
III,II,LADY GREY,"Right gracious lord, I cannot brook delay:"
III,II,LADY GREY,"May it please your highness to resolve me now;"
III,II,LADY GREY,"And what your pleasure is, shall satisfy me."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"you all your lands,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"An if what pleases him shall pleasure you."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Fight closer, or, good faith, you'll catch a blow."
III,II,CLARENCE,"chance to fall."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"take vantages."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"How many children hast thou, widow? tell me."
III,II,CLARENCE,"child of her."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"give her two."
III,II,LADY GREY,"Three, my most gracious lord."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"be ruled by him."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"'Twere pity they should lose their father's lands."
III,II,LADY GREY,"Be pitiful, dread lord, and grant it then."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Lords, give us leave: I'll try this widow's wit."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"you will have leave,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Till youth take leave and leave you to the crutch."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Now tell me, madam, do you love your children?"
III,II,LADY GREY,"Ay, full as dearly as I love myself."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"And would you not do much to do them good?"
III,II,LADY GREY,"To do them good, I would sustain some harm."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Then get your husband's lands, to do them good."
III,II,LADY GREY,"Therefore I came unto your majesty."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"I'll tell you how these lands are to be got."
III,II,LADY GREY,"So shall you bind me to your highness' service."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"What service wilt thou do me, if I give them?"
III,II,LADY GREY,"What you command, that rests in me to do."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"But you will take exceptions to my boon."
III,II,LADY GREY,"No, gracious lord, except I cannot do it."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Ay, but thou canst do what I mean to ask."
III,II,LADY GREY,"Why, then I will do what your grace commands."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"wears the marble."
III,II,CLARENCE,"her wax must melt."
III,II,LADY GREY,"Why stops my lord, shall I not hear my task?"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"An easy task; 'tis but to love a king."
III,II,LADY GREY,"That's soon perform'd, because I am a subject."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Why, then, thy husband's lands I freely give thee."
III,II,LADY GREY,"I take my leave with many thousand thanks."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"with a curtsy."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"But stay thee, 'tis the fruits of love I mean."
III,II,LADY GREY,"The fruits of love I mean, my loving liege."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Ay, but, I fear me, in another sense."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"What love, think'st thou, I sue so much to get?"
III,II,LADY GREY,"My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers;"
III,II,LADY GREY,"That love which virtue begs and virtue grants."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"No, by my troth, I did not mean such love."
III,II,LADY GREY,"Why, then you mean not as I thought you did."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"But now you partly may perceive my mind."
III,II,LADY GREY,"My mind will never grant what I perceive"
III,II,LADY GREY,"Your highness aims at, if I aim aright."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee."
III,II,LADY GREY,"To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Why, then thou shalt not have thy husband's lands."
III,II,LADY GREY,"Why, then mine honesty shall be my dower;"
III,II,LADY GREY,"For by that loss I will not purchase them."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Therein thou wrong'st thy children mightily."
III,II,LADY GREY,"Herein your highness wrongs both them and me."
III,II,LADY GREY,"But, mighty lord, this merry inclination"
III,II,LADY GREY,"Accords not with the sadness of my suit:"
III,II,LADY GREY,"Please you dismiss me either with 'ay' or 'no.'"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Ay, if thou wilt say 'ay' to my request;"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"No if thou dost say 'no' to my demand."
III,II,LADY GREY,"Then, no, my lord. My suit is at an end."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"knits her brows."
III,II,CLARENCE,"Christendom."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Her words do show her wit incomparable;"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"All her perfections challenge sovereignty:"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"One way or other, she is for a king;"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"And she shall be my love, or else my queen.--"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Say that King Edward take thee for his queen?"
III,II,LADY GREY,"'Tis better said than done, my gracious lord:"
III,II,LADY GREY,"I am a subject fit to jest withal,"
III,II,LADY GREY,"But far unfit to be a sovereign."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Sweet widow, by my state I swear to thee"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"I speak no more than what my soul intends;"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"And that is, to enjoy thee for my love."
III,II,LADY GREY,"And that is more than I will yield unto:"
III,II,LADY GREY,"I know I am too mean to be your queen,"
III,II,LADY GREY,"And yet too good to be your concubine."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"You cavil, widow: I did mean, my queen."
III,II,LADY GREY,"'Twill grieve your grace my sons should call you father."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"No more than when my daughters call thee mother."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Thou art a widow, and thou hast some children;"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"And, by God's mother, I, being but a bachelor,"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Have other some: why, 'tis a happy thing"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"To be the father unto many sons."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Answer no more, for thou shalt be my queen."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"his shrift."
III,II,CLARENCE,"'twas for shift."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Brothers, you muse what chat we two have had."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"The widow likes it not, for she looks very sad."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"You'll think it strange if I should marry her."
III,II,CLARENCE,"To whom, my lord?"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Why, Clarence, to myself."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"That would be ten days' wonder at the least."
III,II,CLARENCE,"That's a day longer than a wonder lasts."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"By so much is the wonder in extremes."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Well, jest on, brothers: I can tell you both"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Her suit is granted for her husband's lands."
III,II,Nobleman,"My gracious lord, Henry your foe is taken,"
III,II,Nobleman,"And brought your prisoner to your palace gate."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"See that he be convey'd unto the Tower:"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"And go we, brothers, to the man that took him,"
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"To question of his apprehension."
III,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Widow, go you along. Lords, use her honourably."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Ay, Edward will use women honourably."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Would he were wasted, marrow, bones and all,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"To cross me from the golden time I look for!"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And yet, between my soul's desire and me--"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"The lustful Edward's title buried--"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Is Clarence, Henry, and his son young Edward,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And all the unlook'd for issue of their bodies,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"To take their rooms, ere I can place myself:"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"A cold premeditation for my purpose!"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Why, then, I do but dream on sovereignty;"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Like one that stands upon a promontory,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And spies a far-off shore where he would tread,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Wishing his foot were equal with his eye,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And chides the sea that sunders him from thence,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way:"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"So do I wish the crown, being so far off;"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And so I chide the means that keeps me from it;"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And so I say, I'll cut the causes off,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Flattering me with impossibilities."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"My eye's too quick, my heart o'erweens too much,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Unless my hand and strength could equal them."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Well, say there is no kingdom then for Richard;"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"What other pleasure can the world afford?"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And deck my body in gay ornaments,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"O miserable thought! and more unlikely"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb:"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And, for I should not deal in her soft laws,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"To shrink mine arm up like a wither'd shrub;"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"To make an envious mountain on my back,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Where sits deformity to mock my body;"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"To shape my legs of an unequal size;"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"To disproportion me in every part,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Like to a chaos, or an unlick'd bear-whelp"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"That carries no impression like the dam."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And am I then a man to be beloved?"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"O monstrous fault, to harbour such a thought!"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Then, since this earth affords no joy to me,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"But to command, to cheque, to o'erbear such"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"As are of better person than myself,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"I'll make my heaven to dream upon the crown,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And, whiles I live, to account this world but hell,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Until my mis-shaped trunk that bears this head"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Be round impaled with a glorious crown."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And yet I know not how to get the crown,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"For many lives stand between me and home:"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And I,--like one lost in a thorny wood,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"That rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Seeking a way and straying from the way;"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Not knowing how to find the open air,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"But toiling desperately to find it out,--"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Torment myself to catch the English crown:"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And from that torment I will free myself,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Or hew my way out with a bloody axe."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And frame my face to all occasions."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Deceive more slily than Ulysses could,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And, like a Sinon, take another Troy."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"I can add colours to the chameleon,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"And set the murderous Machiavel to school."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?"
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down."
III,II,GLOUCESTER,"3 KING HENRY VI"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Fair Queen of England, worthy Margaret,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Sit down with us: it ill befits thy state"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"And birth, that thou shouldst stand while Lewis doth sit."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"No, mighty King of France: now Margaret"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Must strike her sail and learn awhile to serve"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Where kings command. I was, I must confess,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Great Albion's queen in former golden days:"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"But now mischance hath trod my title down,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And with dishonour laid me on the ground;"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Where I must take like seat unto my fortune,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And to my humble seat conform myself."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Why, say, fair queen, whence springs this deep despair?"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"From such a cause as fills mine eyes with tears"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And stops my tongue, while heart is drown'd in cares."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Whate'er it be, be thou still like thyself,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"And sit thee by our side:"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Yield not thy neck"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Still ride in triumph over all mischance."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Be plain, Queen Margaret, and tell thy grief;"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"It shall be eased, if France can yield relief."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And give my tongue-tied sorrows leave to speak."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Now, therefore, be it known to noble Lewis,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"That Henry, sole possessor of my love,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Is of a king become a banish'd man,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And forced to live in Scotland a forlorn;"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"While proud ambitious Edward Duke of York"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Usurps the regal title and the seat"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Of England's true-anointed lawful king."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"This is the cause that I, poor Margaret,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"With this my son, Prince Edward, Henry's heir,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Am come to crave thy just and lawful aid;"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And if thou fail us, all our hope is done:"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help;"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Our people and our peers are both misled,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Our treasures seized, our soldiers put to flight,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And, as thou seest, ourselves in heavy plight."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Renowned queen, with patience calm the storm,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"While we bethink a means to break it off."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"The more we stay, the stronger grows our foe."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"The more I stay, the more I'll succor thee."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"O, but impatience waiteth on true sorrow."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And see where comes the breeder of my sorrow!"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"What's he approacheth boldly to our presence?"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Our Earl of Warwick, Edward's greatest friend."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Welcome, brave Warwick! What brings thee to France?"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ay, now begins a second storm to rise;"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"For this is he that moves both wind and tide."
III,III,WARWICK,"From worthy Edward, King of Albion,"
III,III,WARWICK,"My lord and sovereign, and thy vowed friend,"
III,III,WARWICK,"I come, in kindness and unfeigned love,"
III,III,WARWICK,"First, to do greetings to thy royal person;"
III,III,WARWICK,"And then to crave a league of amity;"
III,III,WARWICK,"And lastly, to confirm that amity"
III,III,WARWICK,"With a nuptial knot, if thou vouchsafe to grant"
III,III,WARWICK,"That virtuous Lady Bona, thy fair sister,"
III,III,WARWICK,"To England's king in lawful marriage."
III,III,WARWICK,"I am commanded, with your leave and favour,"
III,III,WARWICK,"Humbly to kiss your hand, and with my tongue"
III,III,WARWICK,"To tell the passion of my sovereign's heart;"
III,III,WARWICK,"Where fame, late entering at his heedful ears,"
III,III,WARWICK,"Hath placed thy beauty's image and thy virtue."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"King Lewis and Lady Bona, hear me speak,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Before you answer Warwick. His demand"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"But from deceit bred by necessity;"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"For how can tyrants safely govern home,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"To prove him tyrant this reason may suffice,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"That Henry liveth still: but were he dead,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Yet here Prince Edward stands, King Henry's son."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Look, therefore, Lewis, that by this league and marriage"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou draw not on thy danger and dishonour;"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"For though usurpers sway the rule awhile,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Yet heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrongs."
III,III,WARWICK,"Injurious Margaret!"
III,III,PRINCE EDWARD,"And why not queen?"
III,III,WARWICK,"Because thy father Henry did usurp;"
III,III,WARWICK,"And thou no more are prince than she is queen."
III,III,OXFORD,"Then Warwick disannuls great John of Gaunt,"
III,III,OXFORD,"Which did subdue the greatest part of Spain;"
III,III,OXFORD,"And, after John of Gaunt, Henry the Fourth,"
III,III,OXFORD,"Whose wisdom was a mirror to the wisest;"
III,III,OXFORD,"And, after that wise prince, Henry the Fifth,"
III,III,OXFORD,"Who by his prowess conquered all France:"
III,III,OXFORD,"From these our Henry lineally descends."
III,III,WARWICK,"Oxford, how haps it, in this smooth discourse,"
III,III,WARWICK,"You told not how Henry the Sixth hath lost"
III,III,WARWICK,"All that which Henry Fifth had gotten?"
III,III,WARWICK,"Methinks these peers of France should smile at that."
III,III,WARWICK,"But for the rest, you tell a pedigree"
III,III,WARWICK,"Of threescore and two years; a silly time"
III,III,WARWICK,"To make prescription for a kingdom's worth."
III,III,OXFORD,"Why, Warwick, canst thou speak against thy liege,"
III,III,OXFORD,"Whom thou obeyed'st thirty and six years,"
III,III,OXFORD,"And not bewray thy treason with a blush?"
III,III,WARWICK,"Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right,"
III,III,WARWICK,"Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree?"
III,III,WARWICK,"For shame! leave Henry, and call Edward king."
III,III,OXFORD,"Call him my king by whose injurious doom"
III,III,OXFORD,"My elder brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere,"
III,III,OXFORD,"Was done to death? and more than so, my father,"
III,III,OXFORD,"Even in the downfall of his mellow'd years,"
III,III,OXFORD,"When nature brought him to the door of death?"
III,III,OXFORD,"No, Warwick, no; while life upholds this arm,"
III,III,OXFORD,"This arm upholds the house of Lancaster."
III,III,WARWICK,"And I the house of York."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Queen Margaret, Prince Edward, and Oxford,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Vouchsafe, at our request, to stand aside,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"While I use further conference with Warwick."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Heavens grant that Warwick's words bewitch him not!"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Now Warwick, tell me, even upon thy conscience,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Is Edward your true king? for I were loath"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"To link with him that were not lawful chosen."
III,III,WARWICK,"Thereon I pawn my credit and mine honour."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"But is he gracious in the people's eye?"
III,III,WARWICK,"The more that Henry was unfortunate."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Then further, all dissembling set aside,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Tell me for truth the measure of his love"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Unto our sister Bona."
III,III,WARWICK,"Such it seems"
III,III,WARWICK,"As may beseem a monarch like himself."
III,III,WARWICK,"Myself have often heard him say and swear"
III,III,WARWICK,"That this his love was an eternal plant,"
III,III,WARWICK,"Whereof the root was fix'd in virtue's ground,"
III,III,WARWICK,"The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun,"
III,III,WARWICK,"Exempt from envy, but not from disdain,"
III,III,WARWICK,"Unless the Lady Bona quit his pain."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Now, sister, let us hear your firm resolve."
III,III,BONA,"Your grant, or your denial, shall be mine:"
III,III,BONA,"Yet I confess that often ere this day,"
III,III,BONA,"When I have heard your king's desert recounted,"
III,III,BONA,"Mine ear hath tempted judgment to desire."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Then, Warwick, thus: our sister shall be Edward's;"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"And now forthwith shall articles be drawn"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Touching the jointure that your king must make,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Draw near, Queen Margaret, and be a witness"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"That Bona shall be wife to the English king."
III,III,PRINCE EDWARD,"To Edward, but not to the English king."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Deceitful Warwick! it was thy device"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"By this alliance to make void my suit:"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Before thy coming Lewis was Henry's friend."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"And still is friend to him and Margaret:"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"But if your title to the crown be weak,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"As may appear by Edward's good success,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Then 'tis but reason that I be released"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"From giving aid which late I promised."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Yet shall you have all kindness at my hand"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"That your estate requires and mine can yield."
III,III,WARWICK,"Henry now lives in Scotland at his ease,"
III,III,WARWICK,"Where having nothing, nothing can he lose."
III,III,WARWICK,"And as for you yourself, our quondam queen,"
III,III,WARWICK,"You have a father able to maintain you;"
III,III,WARWICK,"And better 'twere you troubled him than France."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Peace, impudent and shameless Warwick, peace,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Proud setter up and puller down of kings!"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"I will not hence, till, with my talk and tears,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Both full of truth, I make King Lewis behold"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thy sly conveyance and thy lord's false love;"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"For both of you are birds of selfsame feather."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Warwick, this is some post to us or thee."
III,III,Post,"Sent from your brother, Marquess Montague:"
III,III,Post,"These from our king unto your majesty:"
III,III,Post,"And, madam, these for you; from whom I know not."
III,III,OXFORD,"I like it well that our fair queen and mistress"
III,III,OXFORD,"Smiles at her news, while Warwick frowns at his."
III,III,PRINCE EDWARD,"Nay, mark how Lewis stamps, as he were nettled:"
III,III,PRINCE EDWARD,"I hope all's for the best."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Warwick, what are thy news? and yours, fair queen?"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Mine, such as fill my heart with unhoped joys."
III,III,WARWICK,"Mine, full of sorrow and heart's discontent."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"What! has your king married the Lady Grey!"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"And now, to soothe your forgery and his,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Sends me a paper to persuade me patience?"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Is this the alliance that he seeks with France?"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Dare he presume to scorn us in this manner?"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"I told your majesty as much before:"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"This proveth Edward's love and Warwick's honesty."
III,III,WARWICK,"King Lewis, I here protest, in sight of heaven,"
III,III,WARWICK,"And by the hope I have of heavenly bliss,"
III,III,WARWICK,"That I am clear from this misdeed of Edward's,"
III,III,WARWICK,"No more my king, for he dishonours me,"
III,III,WARWICK,"But most himself, if he could see his shame."
III,III,WARWICK,"Did I forget that by the house of York"
III,III,WARWICK,"My father came untimely to his death?"
III,III,WARWICK,"Did I let pass the abuse done to my niece?"
III,III,WARWICK,"Did I impale him with the regal crown?"
III,III,WARWICK,"Did I put Henry from his native right?"
III,III,WARWICK,"And am I guerdon'd at the last with shame?"
III,III,WARWICK,"Shame on himself! for my desert is honour:"
III,III,WARWICK,"And to repair my honour lost for him,"
III,III,WARWICK,"I here renounce him and return to Henry."
III,III,WARWICK,"My noble queen, let former grudges pass,"
III,III,WARWICK,"And henceforth I am thy true servitor:"
III,III,WARWICK,"I will revenge his wrong to Lady Bona,"
III,III,WARWICK,"And replant Henry in his former state."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Warwick, these words have turn'd my hate to love;"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And I forgive and quite forget old faults,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And joy that thou becomest King Henry's friend."
III,III,WARWICK,"So much his friend, ay, his unfeigned friend,"
III,III,WARWICK,"That, if King Lewis vouchsafe to furnish us"
III,III,WARWICK,"With some few bands of chosen soldiers,"
III,III,WARWICK,"I'll undertake to land them on our coast"
III,III,WARWICK,"And force the tyrant from his seat by war."
III,III,WARWICK,"'Tis not his new-made bride shall succor him:"
III,III,WARWICK,"And as for Clarence, as my letters tell me,"
III,III,WARWICK,"He's very likely now to fall from him,"
III,III,WARWICK,"For matching more for wanton lust than honour,"
III,III,WARWICK,"Or than for strength and safety of our country."
III,III,BONA,"Dear brother, how shall Bona be revenged"
III,III,BONA,"But by thy help to this distressed queen?"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Renowned prince, how shall poor Henry live,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Unless thou rescue him from foul despair?"
III,III,BONA,"My quarrel and this English queen's are one."
III,III,WARWICK,"And mine, fair lady Bona, joins with yours."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"And mine with hers, and thine, and Margaret's."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Therefore at last I firmly am resolved"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"You shall have aid."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Let me give humble thanks for all at once."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Then, England's messenger, return in post,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"And tell false Edward, thy supposed king,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"That Lewis of France is sending over masquers"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"To revel it with him and his new bride:"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Thou seest what's past, go fear thy king withal."
III,III,BONA,"Tell him, in hope he'll prove a widower shortly,"
III,III,BONA,"I'll wear the willow garland for his sake."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Tell him, my mourning weeds are laid aside,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And I am ready to put armour on."
III,III,WARWICK,"Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,"
III,III,WARWICK,"And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long."
III,III,WARWICK,"There's thy reward: be gone."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"But, Warwick,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Thou and Oxford, with five thousand men,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Shall cross the seas, and bid false Edward battle;"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"And, as occasion serves, this noble queen"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"And prince shall follow with a fresh supply."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Yet, ere thou go, but answer me one doubt,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"What pledge have we of thy firm loyalty?"
III,III,WARWICK,"This shall assure my constant loyalty,"
III,III,WARWICK,"That if our queen and this young prince agree,"
III,III,WARWICK,"I'll join mine eldest daughter and my joy"
III,III,WARWICK,"To him forthwith in holy wedlock bands."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion."
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Son Edward, she is fair and virtuous,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Therefore delay not, give thy hand to Warwick;"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And, with thy hand, thy faith irrevocable,"
III,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"That only Warwick's daughter shall be thine."
III,III,PRINCE EDWARD,"Yes, I accept her, for she well deserves it;"
III,III,PRINCE EDWARD,"And here, to pledge my vow, I give my hand."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Why stay we now? These soldiers shall be levied,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"And thou, Lord Bourbon, our high admiral,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"Shalt waft them over with our royal fleet."
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"I long till Edward fall by war's mischance,"
III,III,KING LEWIS XI,"For mocking marriage with a dame of France."
III,III,WARWICK,"I came from Edward as ambassador,"
III,III,WARWICK,"But I return his sworn and mortal foe:"
III,III,WARWICK,"Matter of marriage was the charge he gave me,"
III,III,WARWICK,"But dreadful war shall answer his demand."
III,III,WARWICK,"Had he none else to make a stale but me?"
III,III,WARWICK,"Then none but I shall turn his jest to sorrow."
III,III,WARWICK,"I was the chief that raised him to the crown,"
III,III,WARWICK,"And I'll be chief to bring him down again:"
III,III,WARWICK,"Not that I pity Henry's misery,"
III,III,WARWICK,"But seek revenge on Edward's mockery."
III,III,WARWICK,"3 KING HENRY VI"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Now tell me, brother Clarence, what think you"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Of this new marriage with the Lady Grey?"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Hath not our brother made a worthy choice?"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"Alas, you know, 'tis far from hence to France;"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"How could he stay till Warwick made return?"
IV,I,SOMERSET,"My lords, forbear this talk; here comes the king."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"And his well-chosen bride."
IV,I,CLARENCE,"I mind to tell him plainly what I think."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Now, brother of Clarence, how like you our choice,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"That you stand pensive, as half malcontent?"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"As well as Lewis of France, or the Earl of Warwick,"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"Which are so weak of courage and in judgment"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"That they'll take no offence at our abuse."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Suppose they take offence without a cause,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"They are but Lewis and Warwick: I am Edward,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Your king and Warwick's, and must have my will."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"And shall have your will, because our king:"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Yea, brother Richard, are you offended too?"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Not I:"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"No, God forbid that I should wish them sever'd"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Whom God hath join'd together; ay, and 'twere pity"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"To sunder them that yoke so well together."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Setting your scorns and your mislike aside,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Tell me some reason why the Lady Grey"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Should not become my wife and England's queen."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And you too, Somerset and Montague,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Speak freely what you think."
IV,I,CLARENCE,"Then this is mine opinion: that King Lewis"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"Becomes your enemy, for mocking him"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"About the marriage of the Lady Bona."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"And Warwick, doing what you gave in charge,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Is now dishonoured by this new marriage."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"What if both Lewis and Warwick be appeased"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"By such invention as I can devise?"
IV,I,MONTAGUE,"Yet, to have join'd with France in such alliance"
IV,I,MONTAGUE,"Would more have strengthen'd this our commonwealth"
IV,I,MONTAGUE,"'Gainst foreign storms than any home-bred marriage."
IV,I,HASTINGS,"Why, knows not Montague that of itself"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"England is safe, if true within itself?"
IV,I,MONTAGUE,"But the safer when 'tis back'd with France."
IV,I,HASTINGS,"'Tis better using France than trusting France:"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"Let us be back'd with God and with the seas"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"Which He hath given for fence impregnable,"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"And with their helps only defend ourselves;"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"In them and in ourselves our safety lies."
IV,I,CLARENCE,"For this one speech Lord Hastings well deserves"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"To have the heir of the Lord Hungerford."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Ay, what of that? it was my will and grant;"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And for this once my will shall stand for law."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"And yet methinks your grace hath not done well,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"To give the heir and daughter of Lord Scales"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Unto the brother of your loving bride;"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"She better would have fitted me or Clarence:"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"But in your bride you bury brotherhood."
IV,I,CLARENCE,"Or else you would not have bestow'd the heir"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"Of the Lord Bonville on your new wife's son,"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"And leave your brothers to go speed elsewhere."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Alas, poor Clarence! is it for a wife"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"That thou art malcontent? I will provide thee."
IV,I,CLARENCE,"In choosing for yourself, you show'd your judgment,"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"Which being shallow, you give me leave"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"To play the broker in mine own behalf;"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"And to that end I shortly mind to leave you."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Leave me, or tarry, Edward will be king,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And not be tied unto his brother's will."
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"My lords, before it pleased his majesty"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To raise my state to title of a queen,"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Do me but right, and you must all confess"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"That I was not ignoble of descent;"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And meaner than myself have had like fortune."
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"But as this title honours me and mine,"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"So your dislike, to whom I would be pleasing,"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Doth cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"My love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns:"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"What danger or what sorrow can befall thee,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"So long as Edward is thy constant friend,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And their true sovereign, whom they must obey?"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Nay, whom they shall obey, and love thee too,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Unless they seek for hatred at my hands;"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Which if they do, yet will I keep thee safe,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And they shall feel the vengeance of my wrath."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Now, messenger, what letters or what news"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"From France?"
IV,I,Post,"My sovereign liege, no letters; and few words,"
IV,I,Post,"But such as I, without your special pardon,"
IV,I,Post,"Dare not relate."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Go to, we pardon thee: therefore, in brief,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Tell me their words as near as thou canst guess them."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"What answer makes King Lewis unto our letters?"
IV,I,Post,"At my depart, these were his very words:"
IV,I,Post,"'Go tell false Edward, thy supposed king,"
IV,I,Post,"That Lewis of France is sending over masquers"
IV,I,Post,"To revel it with him and his new bride.'"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Is Lewis so brave? belike he thinks me Henry."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"But what said Lady Bona to my marriage?"
IV,I,Post,"These were her words, utter'd with mad disdain:"
IV,I,Post,"'Tell him, in hope he'll prove a widower shortly,"
IV,I,Post,"I'll wear the willow garland for his sake.'"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"I blame not her, she could say little less;"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"She had the wrong. But what said Henry's queen?"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"For I have heard that she was there in place."
IV,I,Post,"'Tell him,' quoth she, 'my mourning weeds are done,"
IV,I,Post,"And I am ready to put armour on.'"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Belike she minds to play the Amazon."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"But what said Warwick to these injuries?"
IV,I,Post,"He, more incensed against your majesty"
IV,I,Post,"Than all the rest, discharged me with these words:"
IV,I,Post,"'Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,"
IV,I,Post,"And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.'"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Ha! durst the traitor breathe out so proud words?"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Well I will arm me, being thus forewarn'd:"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"They shall have wars and pay for their presumption."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"But say, is Warwick friends with Margaret?"
IV,I,Post,"Ay, gracious sovereign; they are so link'd in"
IV,I,Post,"friendship"
IV,I,Post,"That young Prince Edward marries Warwick's daughter."
IV,I,CLARENCE,"Belike the elder; Clarence will have the younger."
IV,I,CLARENCE,"Now, brother king, farewell, and sit you fast,"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"For I will hence to Warwick's other daughter;"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"That, though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage"
IV,I,CLARENCE,"I may not prove inferior to yourself."
IV,I,CLARENCE,"You that love me and Warwick, follow me."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"My thoughts aim at a further matter; I"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Stay not for the love of Edward, but the crown."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Clarence and Somerset both gone to Warwick!"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Yet am I arm'd against the worst can happen;"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And haste is needful in this desperate case."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Pembroke and Stafford, you in our behalf"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Go levy men, and make prepare for war;"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"They are already, or quickly will be landed:"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Myself in person will straight follow you."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"But, ere I go, Hastings and Montague,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Resolve my doubt. You twain, of all the rest,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Are near to Warwick by blood and by alliance:"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Tell me if you love Warwick more than me?"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"If it be so, then both depart to him;"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"I rather wish you foes than hollow friends:"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"But if you mind to hold your true obedience,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Give me assurance with some friendly vow,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"That I may never have you in suspect."
IV,I,MONTAGUE,"So God help Montague as he proves true!"
IV,I,HASTINGS,"And Hastings as he favours Edward's cause!"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Now, brother Richard, will you stand by us?"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Ay, in despite of all that shall withstand you."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Why, so! then am I sure of victory."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Now therefore let us hence; and lose no hour,"
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Till we meet Warwick with his foreign power."
IV,I,KING EDWARD IV,"3 KING HENRY VI"
IV,II,WARWICK,"Trust me, my lord, all hitherto goes well;"
IV,II,WARWICK,"The common people by numbers swarm to us."
IV,II,WARWICK,"But see where Somerset and Clarence come!"
IV,II,WARWICK,"Speak suddenly, my lords, are we all friends?"
IV,II,CLARENCE,"Fear not that, my lord."
IV,II,WARWICK,"Then, gentle Clarence, welcome unto Warwick;"
IV,II,WARWICK,"And welcome, Somerset: I hold it cowardice"
IV,II,WARWICK,"To rest mistrustful where a noble heart"
IV,II,WARWICK,"Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love;"
IV,II,WARWICK,"Else might I think that Clarence, Edward's brother,"
IV,II,WARWICK,"Were but a feigned friend to our proceedings:"
IV,II,WARWICK,"But welcome, sweet Clarence; my daughter shall be thine."
IV,II,WARWICK,"And now what rests but, in night's coverture,"
IV,II,WARWICK,"Thy brother being carelessly encamp'd,"
IV,II,WARWICK,"His soldiers lurking in the towns about,"
IV,II,WARWICK,"And but attended by a simple guard,"
IV,II,WARWICK,"We may surprise and take him at our pleasure?"
IV,II,WARWICK,"Our scouts have found the adventure very easy:"
IV,II,WARWICK,"That as Ulysses and stout Diomede"
IV,II,WARWICK,"With sleight and manhood stole to Rhesus' tents,"
IV,II,WARWICK,"And brought from thence the Thracian fatal steeds,"
IV,II,WARWICK,"So we, well cover'd with the night's black mantle,"
IV,II,WARWICK,"At unawares may beat down Edward's guard"
IV,II,WARWICK,"And seize himself; I say not, slaughter him,"
IV,II,WARWICK,"For I intend but only to surprise him."
IV,II,WARWICK,"You that will follow me to this attempt,"
IV,II,WARWICK,"Applaud the name of Henry with your leader."
IV,II,WARWICK,"Why, then, let's on our way in silent sort:"
IV,II,WARWICK,"For Warwick and his friends, God and Saint George!"
IV,II,WARWICK,"3 KING HENRY VI"
IV,III,First Watchman,"Come on, my masters, each man take his stand:"
IV,III,First Watchman,"The king by this is set him down to sleep."
IV,III,Second Watchman,"What, will he not to bed?"
IV,III,First Watchman,"Why, no; for he hath made a solemn vow"
IV,III,First Watchman,"Never to lie and take his natural rest"
IV,III,First Watchman,"Till Warwick or himself be quite suppress'd."
IV,III,Second Watchman,"To-morrow then belike shall be the day,"
IV,III,Second Watchman,"If Warwick be so near as men report."
IV,III,Third Watchman,"But say, I pray, what nobleman is that"
IV,III,Third Watchman,"That with the king here resteth in his tent?"
IV,III,First Watchman,"'Tis the Lord Hastings, the king's chiefest friend."
IV,III,Third Watchman,"O, is it so? But why commands the king"
IV,III,Third Watchman,"That his chief followers lodge in towns about him,"
IV,III,Third Watchman,"While he himself keeps in the cold field?"
IV,III,Second Watchman,"'Tis the more honour, because more dangerous."
IV,III,Third Watchman,"Ay, but give me worship and quietness;"
IV,III,Third Watchman,"I like it better than a dangerous honour."
IV,III,Third Watchman,"If Warwick knew in what estate he stands,"
IV,III,Third Watchman,"'Tis to be doubted he would waken him."
IV,III,First Watchman,"Unless our halberds did shut up his passage."
IV,III,Second Watchman,"Ay, wherefore else guard we his royal tent,"
IV,III,Second Watchman,"But to defend his person from night-foes?"
IV,III,WARWICK,"This is his tent; and see where stand his guard."
IV,III,WARWICK,"Courage, my masters! honour now or never!"
IV,III,WARWICK,"But follow me, and Edward shall be ours."
IV,III,First Watchman,"Who goes there?"
IV,III,Second Watchman,"Stay, or thou diest!"
IV,III,SOMERSET,"What are they that fly there?"
IV,III,WARWICK,"Richard and Hastings: let them go; here is The duke."
IV,III,KING EDWARD IV,"The duke! Why, Warwick, when we parted,"
IV,III,KING EDWARD IV,"Thou call'dst me king."
IV,III,WARWICK,"Ay, but the case is alter'd:"
IV,III,WARWICK,"When you disgraced me in my embassade,"
IV,III,WARWICK,"Then I degraded you from being king,"
IV,III,WARWICK,"And come now to create you Duke of York."
IV,III,WARWICK,"Alas! how should you govern any kingdom,"
IV,III,WARWICK,"That know not how to use ambassadors,"
IV,III,WARWICK,"Nor how to be contented with one wife,"
IV,III,WARWICK,"Nor how to use your brothers brotherly,"
IV,III,WARWICK,"Nor how to study for the people's welfare,"
IV,III,WARWICK,"Nor how to shroud yourself from enemies?"
IV,III,KING EDWARD IV,"Yea, brother of Clarence, are thou here too?"
IV,III,KING EDWARD IV,"Nay, then I see that Edward needs must down."
IV,III,KING EDWARD IV,"Yet, Warwick, in despite of all mischance,"
IV,III,KING EDWARD IV,"Of thee thyself and all thy complices,"
IV,III,KING EDWARD IV,"Edward will always bear himself as king:"
IV,III,KING EDWARD IV,"Though fortune's malice overthrow my state,"
IV,III,KING EDWARD IV,"My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel."
IV,III,WARWICK,"Then, for his mind, be Edward England's king:"
IV,III,WARWICK,"But Henry now shall wear the English crown,"
IV,III,WARWICK,"And be true king indeed, thou but the shadow."
IV,III,WARWICK,"My Lord of Somerset, at my request,"
IV,III,WARWICK,"See that forthwith Duke Edward be convey'd"
IV,III,WARWICK,"Unto my brother, Archbishop of York."
IV,III,WARWICK,"When I have fought with Pembroke and his fellows,"
IV,III,WARWICK,"I'll follow you, and tell what answer"
IV,III,WARWICK,"Lewis and the Lady Bona send to him."
IV,III,WARWICK,"Now, for a while farewell, good Duke of York."
IV,III,KING EDWARD IV,"What fates impose, that men must needs abide;"
IV,III,KING EDWARD IV,"It boots not to resist both wind and tide."
IV,III,OXFORD,"What now remains, my lords, for us to do"
IV,III,OXFORD,"But march to London with our soldiers?"
IV,III,WARWICK,"Ay, that's the first thing that we have to do;"
IV,III,WARWICK,"To free King Henry from imprisonment"
IV,III,WARWICK,"And see him seated in the regal throne."
IV,III,WARWICK,"3 KING HENRY VI"
IV,IV,RIVERS,"Madam, what makes you in this sudden change?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Why brother Rivers, are you yet to learn"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"What late misfortune is befall'n King Edward?"
IV,IV,RIVERS,"What! loss of some pitch'd battle against Warwick?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"No, but the loss of his own royal person."
IV,IV,RIVERS,"Then is my sovereign slain?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Ay, almost slain, for he is taken prisoner,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Either betray'd by falsehood of his guard"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Or by his foe surprised at unawares:"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And, as I further have to understand,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Is new committed to the Bishop of York,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Fell Warwick's brother and by that our foe."
IV,IV,RIVERS,"These news I must confess are full of grief;"
IV,IV,RIVERS,"Yet, gracious madam, bear it as you may:"
IV,IV,RIVERS,"Warwick may lose, that now hath won the day."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Till then fair hope must hinder life's decay."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And I the rather wean me from despair"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"For love of Edward's offspring in my womb:"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"This is it that makes me bridle passion"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And bear with mildness my misfortune's cross;"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Ay, ay, for this I draw in many a tear"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown."
IV,IV,RIVERS,"But, madam, where is Warwick then become?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I am inform'd that he comes towards London,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To set the crown once more on Henry's head:"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Guess thou the rest; King Edward's friends must down,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"But, to prevent the tyrant's violence,--"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"For trust not him that hath once broken faith,--"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I'll hence forthwith unto the sanctuary,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To save at least the heir of Edward's right:"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"There shall I rest secure from force and fraud."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Come, therefore, let us fly while we may fly:"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"If Warwick take us we are sure to die."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"3 KING HENRY VI"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"Now, my Lord Hastings and Sir William Stanley,"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"Leave off to wonder why I drew you hither,"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"Into this chiefest thicket of the park."
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"Thus stands the case: you know our king, my brother,"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"He hath good usage and great liberty,"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"And, often but attended with weak guard,"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"Comes hunting this way to disport himself."
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"I have advertised him by secret means"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"That if about this hour he make his way"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"Under the colour of his usual game,"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"He shall here find his friends with horse and men"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"To set him free from his captivity."
IV,V,Huntsman,"This way, my lord; for this way lies the game."
IV,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Nay, this way, man: see where the huntsmen stand."
IV,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Now, brother of Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and the rest,"
IV,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Stand you thus close, to steal the bishop's deer?"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"Brother, the time and case requireth haste:"
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"Your horse stands ready at the park-corner."
IV,V,KING EDWARD IV,"But whither shall we then?"
IV,V,HASTINGS,"To Lynn, my lord,"
IV,V,HASTINGS,"And ship from thence to Flanders."
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"Well guess'd, believe me; for that was my meaning."
IV,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Stanley, I will requite thy forwardness."
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"But wherefore stay we? 'tis no time to talk."
IV,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Huntsman, what say'st thou? wilt thou go along?"
IV,V,Huntsman,"Better do so than tarry and be hang'd."
IV,V,GLOUCESTER,"Come then, away; let's ha' no more ado."
IV,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Bishop, farewell: shield thee from Warwick's frown;"
IV,V,KING EDWARD IV,"And pray that I may repossess the crown."
IV,V,KING EDWARD IV,"3 KING HENRY VI"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Master lieutenant, now that God and friends"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Have shaken Edward from the regal seat,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And turn'd my captive state to liberty,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"My fear to hope, my sorrows unto joys,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"At our enlargement what are thy due fees?"
IV,VI,Lieutenant,"Subjects may challenge nothing of their sovereigns;"
IV,VI,Lieutenant,"But if an humble prayer may prevail,"
IV,VI,Lieutenant,"I then crave pardon of your majesty."
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"For what, lieutenant? for well using me?"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Nay, be thou sure I'll well requite thy kindness,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"For that it made my imprisonment a pleasure;"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Ay, such a pleasure as incaged birds"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Conceive when after many moody thoughts"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"At last by notes of household harmony"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"They quite forget their loss of liberty."
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"But, Warwick, after God, thou set'st me free,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And chiefly therefore I thank God and thee;"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"He was the author, thou the instrument."
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Therefore, that I may conquer fortune's spite"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"By living low, where fortune cannot hurt me,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And that the people of this blessed land"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"May not be punish'd with my thwarting stars,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Warwick, although my head still wear the crown,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"I here resign my government to thee,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"For thou art fortunate in all thy deeds."
IV,VI,WARWICK,"Your grace hath still been famed for virtuous;"
IV,VI,WARWICK,"And now may seem as wise as virtuous,"
IV,VI,WARWICK,"By spying and avoiding fortune's malice,"
IV,VI,WARWICK,"For few men rightly temper with the stars:"
IV,VI,WARWICK,"Yet in this one thing let me blame your grace,"
IV,VI,WARWICK,"For choosing me when Clarence is in place."
IV,VI,CLARENCE,"No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway,"
IV,VI,CLARENCE,"To whom the heavens in thy nativity"
IV,VI,CLARENCE,"Adjudged an olive branch and laurel crown,"
IV,VI,CLARENCE,"As likely to be blest in peace and war;"
IV,VI,CLARENCE,"And therefore I yield thee my free consent."
IV,VI,WARWICK,"And I choose Clarence only for protector."
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Warwick and Clarence give me both your hands:"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"That no dissension hinder government:"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"I make you both protectors of this land,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"While I myself will lead a private life"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And in devotion spend my latter days,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"To sin's rebuke and my Creator's praise."
IV,VI,WARWICK,"What answers Clarence to his sovereign's will?"
IV,VI,CLARENCE,"That he consents, if Warwick yield consent;"
IV,VI,CLARENCE,"For on thy fortune I repose myself."
IV,VI,WARWICK,"Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content:"
IV,VI,WARWICK,"We'll yoke together, like a double shadow"
IV,VI,WARWICK,"To Henry's body, and supply his place;"
IV,VI,WARWICK,"I mean, in bearing weight of government,"
IV,VI,WARWICK,"While he enjoys the honour and his ease."
IV,VI,WARWICK,"And, Clarence, now then it is more than needful"
IV,VI,WARWICK,"Forthwith that Edward be pronounced a traitor,"
IV,VI,WARWICK,"And all his lands and goods be confiscate."
IV,VI,CLARENCE,"What else? and that succession be determined."
IV,VI,WARWICK,"Ay, therein Clarence shall not want his part."
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"But, with the first of all your chief affairs,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Let me entreat, for I command no more,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"That Margaret your queen and my son Edward"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Be sent for, to return from France with speed;"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"For, till I see them here, by doubtful fear"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"My joy of liberty is half eclipsed."
IV,VI,CLARENCE,"It shall be done, my sovereign, with all speed."
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"My Lord of Somerset, what youth is that,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Of whom you seem to have so tender care?"
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"My liege, it is young Henry, earl of Richmond."
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Come hither, England's hope."
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"If secret powers"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"This pretty lad will prove our country's bliss."
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"His looks are full of peaceful majesty,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"His head by nature framed to wear a crown,"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"His hand to wield a sceptre, and himself"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Likely in time to bless a regal throne."
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Make much of him, my lords, for this is he"
IV,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Must help you more than you are hurt by me."
IV,VI,WARWICK,"What news, my friend?"
IV,VI,Post,"That Edward is escaped from your brother,"
IV,VI,Post,"And fled, as he hears since, to Burgundy."
IV,VI,WARWICK,"Unsavoury news! but how made he escape?"
IV,VI,Post,"He was convey'd by Richard Duke of Gloucester"
IV,VI,Post,"And the Lord Hastings, who attended him"
IV,VI,Post,"In secret ambush on the forest side"
IV,VI,Post,"And from the bishop's huntsmen rescued him;"
IV,VI,Post,"For hunting was his daily exercise."
IV,VI,WARWICK,"My brother was too careless of his charge."
IV,VI,WARWICK,"But let us hence, my sovereign, to provide"
IV,VI,WARWICK,"A salve for any sore that may betide."
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"My lord, I like not of this flight of Edward's;"
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"For doubtless Burgundy will yield him help,"
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"And we shall have more wars before 't be long."
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"As Henry's late presaging prophecy"
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"Did glad my heart with hope of this young Richmond,"
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"So doth my heart misgive me, in these conflicts"
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"What may befall him, to his harm and ours:"
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"Therefore, Lord Oxford, to prevent the worst,"
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"Forthwith we'll send him hence to Brittany,"
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"Till storms be past of civil enmity."
IV,VI,OXFORD,"Ay, for if Edward repossess the crown,"
IV,VI,OXFORD,"'Tis like that Richmond with the rest shall down."
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"It shall be so; he shall to Brittany."
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"Come, therefore, let's about it speedily."
IV,VI,SOMERSET,"3 KING HENRY VI"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Now, brother Richard, Lord Hastings, and the rest,"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends,"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"And says that once more I shall interchange"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"My waned state for Henry's regal crown."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Well have we pass'd and now repass'd the seas"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"And brought desired help from Burgundy:"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"What then remains, we being thus arrived"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"From Ravenspurgh haven before the gates of York,"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"But that we enter, as into our dukedom?"
IV,VII,GLOUCESTER,"The gates made fast! Brother, I like not this;"
IV,VII,GLOUCESTER,"For many men that stumble at the threshold"
IV,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Are well foretold that danger lurks within."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Tush, man, abodements must not now affright us:"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"By fair or foul means we must enter in,"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"For hither will our friends repair to us."
IV,VII,HASTINGS,"My liege, I'll knock once more to summon them."
IV,VII,Mayor,"My lords, we were forewarned of your coming,"
IV,VII,Mayor,"And shut the gates for safety of ourselves;"
IV,VII,Mayor,"For now we owe allegiance unto Henry."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"But, master mayor, if Henry be your king,"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Yet Edward at the least is Duke of York."
IV,VII,Mayor,"True, my good lord; I know you for no less."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Why, and I challenge nothing but my dukedom,"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"As being well content with that alone."
IV,VII,GLOUCESTER,"He'll soon find means to make the body follow."
IV,VII,HASTINGS,"Why, master mayor, why stand you in a doubt?"
IV,VII,HASTINGS,"Open the gates; we are King Henry's friends."
IV,VII,Mayor,"Ay, say you so? the gates shall then be open'd."
IV,VII,GLOUCESTER,"A wise stout captain, and soon persuaded!"
IV,VII,HASTINGS,"The good old man would fain that all were well,"
IV,VII,HASTINGS,"So 'twere not 'long of him; but being enter'd,"
IV,VII,HASTINGS,"I doubt not, I, but we shall soon persuade"
IV,VII,HASTINGS,"Both him and all his brothers unto reason."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"So, master mayor: these gates must not be shut"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"But in the night or in the time of war."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"What! fear not, man, but yield me up the keys;"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"For Edward will defend the town and thee,"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"And all those friends that deign to follow me."
IV,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Brother, this is Sir John Montgomery,"
IV,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Our trusty friend, unless I be deceived."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Welcome, Sir John! But why come you in arms?"
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"To help King Edward in his time of storm,"
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"As every loyal subject ought to do."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Thanks, good Montgomery; but we now forget"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Our title to the crown and only claim"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Our dukedom till God please to send the rest."
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"Then fare you well, for I will hence again:"
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"I came to serve a king and not a duke."
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"Drummer, strike up, and let us march away."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Nay, stay, Sir John, awhile, and we'll debate"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"By what safe means the crown may be recover'd."
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"What talk you of debating? in few words,"
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"If you'll not here proclaim yourself our king,"
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"I'll leave you to your fortune and be gone"
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"To keep them back that come to succor you:"
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"Why shall we fight, if you pretend no title?"
IV,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Why, brother, wherefore stand you on nice points?"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"When we grow stronger, then we'll make our claim:"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Till then, 'tis wisdom to conceal our meaning."
IV,VII,HASTINGS,"Away with scrupulous wit! now arms must rule."
IV,VII,GLOUCESTER,"And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns."
IV,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand:"
IV,VII,GLOUCESTER,"The bruit thereof will bring you many friends."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Then be it as you will; for 'tis my right,"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"And Henry but usurps the diadem."
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"Ay, now my sovereign speaketh like himself;"
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"And now will I be Edward's champion."
IV,VII,HASTINGS,"Sound trumpet; Edward shall be here proclaim'd:"
IV,VII,HASTINGS,"Come, fellow-soldier, make thou proclamation."
IV,VII,Soldier,"Edward the Fourth, by the grace of God, king of"
IV,VII,Soldier,"England and France, and lord of Ireland, &c."
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"And whosoe'er gainsays King Edward's right,"
IV,VII,MONTAGUE,"By this I challenge him to single fight."
IV,VII,All,"Long live Edward the Fourth!"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Thanks, brave Montgomery; and thanks unto you all:"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"If fortune serve me, I'll requite this kindness."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Now, for this night, let's harbour here in York;"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"And when the morning sun shall raise his car"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Above the border of this horizon,"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"We'll forward towards Warwick and his mates;"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"For well I wot that Henry is no soldier."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Ah, froward Clarence! how evil it beseems thee"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"To flatter Henry and forsake thy brother!"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Yet, as we may, we'll meet both thee and Warwick."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Come on, brave soldiers: doubt not of the day,"
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"And, that once gotten, doubt not of large pay."
IV,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"3 KING HENRY VI"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"What counsel, lords? Edward from Belgia,"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"With hasty Germans and blunt Hollanders,"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"Hath pass'd in safety through the narrow seas,"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"And with his troops doth march amain to London;"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"And many giddy people flock to him."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"Let's levy men, and beat him back again."
IV,VIII,CLARENCE,"A little fire is quickly trodden out;"
IV,VIII,CLARENCE,"Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench."
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"In Warwickshire I have true-hearted friends,"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"Not mutinous in peace, yet bold in war;"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"Those will I muster up: and thou, son Clarence,"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"Shalt stir up in Suffolk, Norfolk, and in Kent,"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"The knights and gentlemen to come with thee:"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"Thou, brother Montague, in Buckingham,"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"Northampton and in Leicestershire, shalt find"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"Men well inclined to hear what thou command'st:"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"And thou, brave Oxford, wondrous well beloved,"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"In Oxfordshire shalt muster up thy friends."
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"My sovereign, with the loving citizens,"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"Like to his island girt in with the ocean,"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"Or modest Dian circled with her nymphs,"
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"Shall rest in London till we come to him."
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"Fair lords, take leave and stand not to reply."
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"Farewell, my sovereign."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"Farewell, my Hector, and my Troy's true hope."
IV,VIII,CLARENCE,"In sign of truth, I kiss your highness' hand."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"Well-minded Clarence, be thou fortunate!"
IV,VIII,MONTAGUE,"Comfort, my lord; and so I take my leave."
IV,VIII,OXFORD,"And thus I seal my truth, and bid adieu."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"Sweet Oxford, and my loving Montague,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"And all at once, once more a happy farewell."
IV,VIII,WARWICK,"Farewell, sweet lords: let's meet at Coventry."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"Here at the palace I will rest awhile."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"Cousin of Exeter, what thinks your lordship?"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"Methinks the power that Edward hath in field"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"Should not be able to encounter mine."
IV,VIII,EXETER,"The doubt is that he will seduce the rest."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"That's not my fear; my meed hath got me fame:"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"I have not stopp'd mine ears to their demands,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"Nor posted off their suits with slow delays;"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"My mildness hath allay'd their swelling griefs,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"My mercy dried their water-flowing tears;"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"I have not been desirous of their wealth,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"Nor much oppress'd them with great subsidies."
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"Nor forward of revenge, though they much err'd:"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"Then why should they love Edward more than me?"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"No, Exeter, these graces challenge grace:"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"And when the lion fawns upon the lamb,"
IV,VIII,KING HENRY VI,"The lamb will never cease to follow him."
IV,VIII,EXETER,"Hark, hark, my lord! what shouts are these?"
IV,VIII,KING EDWARD IV,"Seize on the shame-faced Henry, bear him hence;"
IV,VIII,KING EDWARD IV,"And once again proclaim us King of England."
IV,VIII,KING EDWARD IV,"You are the fount that makes small brooks to flow:"
IV,VIII,KING EDWARD IV,"Now stops thy spring; my sea sha$l suck them dry,"
IV,VIII,KING EDWARD IV,"And swell so much the higher by their ebb."
IV,VIII,KING EDWARD IV,"Hence with him to the Tower; let him not speak."
IV,VIII,KING EDWARD IV,"And, lords, towards Coventry bend we our course"
IV,VIII,KING EDWARD IV,"Where peremptory Warwick now remains:"
IV,VIII,KING EDWARD IV,"The sun shines hot; and, if we use delay,"
IV,VIII,KING EDWARD IV,"Cold biting winter mars our hoped-for hay."
IV,VIII,GLOUCESTER,"Away betimes, before his forces join,"
IV,VIII,GLOUCESTER,"And take the great-grown traitor unawares:"
IV,VIII,GLOUCESTER,"Brave warriors, march amain towards Coventry."
IV,VIII,GLOUCESTER,"3 KING HENRY VI"
V,I,WARWICK,"Where is the post that came from valiant Oxford?"
V,I,WARWICK,"How far hence is thy lord, mine honest fellow?"
V,I,First Messenger,"By this at Dunsmore, marching hitherward."
V,I,WARWICK,"How far off is our brother Montague?"
V,I,WARWICK,"Where is the post that came from Montague?"
V,I,Second Messenger,"By this at Daintry, with a puissant troop."
V,I,WARWICK,"Say, Somerville, what says my loving son?"
V,I,WARWICK,"And, by thy guess, how nigh is Clarence now?"
V,I,SOMERSET,"At Southam I did leave him with his forces,"
V,I,SOMERSET,"And do expect him here some two hours hence."
V,I,WARWICK,"Then Clarence is at hand, I hear his drum."
V,I,SOMERSET,"It is not his, my lord; here Southam lies:"
V,I,SOMERSET,"The drum your honour hears marcheth from Warwick."
V,I,WARWICK,"Who should that be? belike, unlook'd-for friends."
V,I,SOMERSET,"They are at hand, and you shall quickly know."
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Go, trumpet, to the walls, and sound a parle."
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"See how the surly Warwick mans the wall!"
V,I,WARWICK,"O unbid spite! is sportful Edward come?"
V,I,WARWICK,"Where slept our scouts, or how are they seduced,"
V,I,WARWICK,"That we could hear no news of his repair?"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Now, Warwick, wilt thou ope the city gates,"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Speak gentle words and humbly bend thy knee,"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Call Edward king and at his hands beg mercy?"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And he shall pardon thee these outrages."
V,I,WARWICK,"Nay, rather, wilt thou draw thy forces hence,"
V,I,WARWICK,"Confess who set thee up and pluck'd thee own,"
V,I,WARWICK,"Call Warwick patron and be penitent?"
V,I,WARWICK,"And thou shalt still remain the Duke of York."
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"I thought, at least, he would have said the king;"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Or did he make the jest against his will?"
V,I,WARWICK,"Is not a dukedom, sir, a goodly gift?"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Ay, by my faith, for a poor earl to give:"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"I'll do thee service for so good a gift."
V,I,WARWICK,"'Twas I that gave the kingdom to thy brother."
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Why then 'tis mine, if but by Warwick's gift."
V,I,WARWICK,"Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight:"
V,I,WARWICK,"And weakling, Warwick takes his gift again;"
V,I,WARWICK,"And Henry is my king, Warwick his subject."
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"But Warwick's king is Edward's prisoner:"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And, gallant Warwick, do but answer this:"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"What is the body when the head is off?"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Alas, that Warwick had no more forecast,"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"But, whiles he thought to steal the single ten,"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"The king was slily finger'd from the deck!"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"You left poor Henry at the Bishop's palace,"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"And, ten to one, you'll meet him in the Tower."
V,I,EDWARD,"'Tis even so; yet you are Warwick still."
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Come, Warwick, take the time; kneel down, kneel down:"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Nay, when? strike now, or else the iron cools."
V,I,WARWICK,"I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,"
V,I,WARWICK,"And with the other fling it at thy face,"
V,I,WARWICK,"Than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee."
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Sail how thou canst, have wind and tide thy friend,"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"This hand, fast wound about thy coal-black hair"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Shall, whiles thy head is warm and new cut off,"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Write in the dust this sentence with thy blood,"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"'Wind-changing Warwick now can change no more.'"
V,I,WARWICK,"O cheerful colours! see where Oxford comes!"
V,I,OXFORD,"Oxford, Oxford, for Lancaster!"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"The gates are open, let us enter too."
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"So other foes may set upon our backs."
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Stand we in good array; for they no doubt"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Will issue out again and bid us battle:"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"If not, the city being but of small defence,"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"We'll quickly rouse the traitors in the same."
V,I,WARWICK,"O, welcome, Oxford! for we want thy help."
V,I,MONTAGUE,"Montague, Montague, for Lancaster!"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Thou and thy brother both shall buy this treason"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Even with the dearest blood your bodies bear."
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"The harder match'd, the greater victory:"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"My mind presageth happy gain and conquest."
V,I,SOMERSET,"Somerset, Somerset, for Lancaster!"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Two of thy name, both Dukes of Somerset,"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Have sold their lives unto the house of York;"
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"And thou shalt be the third if this sword hold."
V,I,WARWICK,"And lo, where George of Clarence sweeps along,"
V,I,WARWICK,"Of force enough to bid his brother battle;"
V,I,WARWICK,"With whom an upright zeal to right prevails"
V,I,WARWICK,"More than the nature of a brother's love!"
V,I,WARWICK,"Come, Clarence, come; thou wilt, if Warwick call."
V,I,CLARENCE,"Father of Warwick, know you what this means?"
V,I,CLARENCE,"Look here, I throw my infamy at thee"
V,I,CLARENCE,"I will not ruinate my father's house,"
V,I,CLARENCE,"Who gave his blood to lime the stones together,"
V,I,CLARENCE,"And set up Lancaster. Why, trow'st thou, Warwick,"
V,I,CLARENCE,"That Clarence is so harsh, so blunt, unnatural,"
V,I,CLARENCE,"To bend the fatal instruments of war"
V,I,CLARENCE,"Against his brother and his lawful king?"
V,I,CLARENCE,"Perhaps thou wilt object my holy oath:"
V,I,CLARENCE,"To keep that oath were more impiety"
V,I,CLARENCE,"Than Jephthah's, when he sacrificed his daughter."
V,I,CLARENCE,"I am so sorry for my trespass made"
V,I,CLARENCE,"That, to deserve well at my brother's hands,"
V,I,CLARENCE,"I here proclaim myself thy mortal foe,"
V,I,CLARENCE,"With resolution, wheresoe'er I meet thee--"
V,I,CLARENCE,"As I will meet thee, if thou stir abroad--"
V,I,CLARENCE,"To plague thee for thy foul misleading me."
V,I,CLARENCE,"And so, proud-hearted Warwick, I defy thee,"
V,I,CLARENCE,"And to my brother turn my blushing cheeks."
V,I,CLARENCE,"Pardon me, Edward, I will make amends:"
V,I,CLARENCE,"And, Richard, do not frown upon my faults,"
V,I,CLARENCE,"For I will henceforth be no more unconstant."
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Now welcome more, and ten times more beloved,"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Than if thou never hadst deserved our hate."
V,I,GLOUCESTER,"Welcome, good Clarence; this is brotherlike."
V,I,WARWICK,"O passing traitor, perjured and unjust!"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"What, Warwick, wilt thou leave the town and fight?"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Or shall we beat the stones about thine ears?"
V,I,WARWICK,"Alas, I am not coop'd here for defence!"
V,I,WARWICK,"I will away towards Barnet presently,"
V,I,WARWICK,"And bid thee battle, Edward, if thou darest."
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Yes, Warwick, Edward dares, and leads the way."
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Lords, to the field; Saint George and victory!"
V,I,KING EDWARD IV,"3 KING HENRY VI"
V,II,KING EDWARD IV,"So, lie thou there: die thou, and die our fear;"
V,II,KING EDWARD IV,"For Warwick was a bug that fear'd us all."
V,II,KING EDWARD IV,"Now, Montague, sit fast; I seek for thee,"
V,II,KING EDWARD IV,"That Warwick's bones may keep thine company."
V,II,WARWICK,"Ah, who is nigh? come to me, friend or foe,"
V,II,WARWICK,"And tell me who is victor, York or Warwick?"
V,II,WARWICK,"Why ask I that? my mangled body shows,"
V,II,WARWICK,"My blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows."
V,II,WARWICK,"That I must yield my body to the earth"
V,II,WARWICK,"And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe."
V,II,WARWICK,"Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge,"
V,II,WARWICK,"Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle,"
V,II,WARWICK,"Under whose shade the ramping lion slept,"
V,II,WARWICK,"Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree"
V,II,WARWICK,"And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind."
V,II,WARWICK,"These eyes, that now are dimm'd with death's black veil,"
V,II,WARWICK,"Have been as piercing as the mid-day sun,"
V,II,WARWICK,"To search the secret treasons of the world:"
V,II,WARWICK,"The wrinkles in my brows, now filled with blood,"
V,II,WARWICK,"Were liken'd oft to kingly sepulchres;"
V,II,WARWICK,"For who lived king, but I could dig his grave?"
V,II,WARWICK,"And who durst mine when Warwick bent his brow?"
V,II,WARWICK,"Lo, now my glory smear'd in dust and blood!"
V,II,WARWICK,"My parks, my walks, my manors that I had."
V,II,WARWICK,"Even now forsake me, and of all my lands"
V,II,WARWICK,"Is nothing left me but my body's length."
V,II,WARWICK,"Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?"
V,II,WARWICK,"And, live we how we can, yet die we must."
V,II,SOMERSET,"Ah, Warwick, Warwick! wert thou as we are."
V,II,SOMERSET,"We might recover all our loss again;"
V,II,SOMERSET,"The queen from France hath brought a puissant power:"
V,II,SOMERSET,"Even now we heard the news: ah, could'st thou fly!"
V,II,WARWICK,"Why, then I would not fly. Ah, Montague,"
V,II,WARWICK,"If thou be there, sweet brother, take my hand."
V,II,WARWICK,"And with thy lips keep in my soul awhile!"
V,II,WARWICK,"Thou lovest me not; for, brother, if thou didst,"
V,II,WARWICK,"Thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood"
V,II,WARWICK,"That glues my lips and will not let me speak."
V,II,WARWICK,"Come quickly, Montague, or I am dead."
V,II,SOMERSET,"Ah, Warwick! Montague hath breathed his last;"
V,II,SOMERSET,"And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,"
V,II,SOMERSET,"And said 'Commend me to my valiant brother.'"
V,II,SOMERSET,"And more he would have said, and more he spoke,"
V,II,SOMERSET,"Which sounded like a clamour in a vault,"
V,II,SOMERSET,"That mought not be distinguished; but at last"
V,II,SOMERSET,"I well might hear, delivered with a groan,"
V,II,SOMERSET,"'O, farewell, Warwick!'"
V,II,WARWICK,"Sweet rest his soul! Fly, lords, and save yourselves;"
V,II,WARWICK,"For Warwick bids you all farewell to meet in heaven."
V,II,OXFORD,"Away, away, to meet the queen's great power!"
V,II,OXFORD,"3 KING HENRY VI"
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,"
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"And we are graced with wreaths of victory."
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"But, in the midst of this bright-shining day,"
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud,"
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"That will encounter with our glorious sun,"
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"Ere he attain his easeful western bed:"
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"I mean, my lords, those powers that the queen"
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"Hath raised in Gallia have arrived our coast"
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"And, as we hear, march on to fight with us."
V,III,CLARENCE,"A little gale will soon disperse that cloud"
V,III,CLARENCE,"And blow it to the source from whence it came:"
V,III,CLARENCE,"The very beams will dry those vapours up,"
V,III,CLARENCE,"For every cloud engenders not a storm."
V,III,GLOUCESTER,"The queen is valued thirty thousand strong,"
V,III,GLOUCESTER,"And Somerset, with Oxford fled to her:"
V,III,GLOUCESTER,"If she have time to breathe be well assured"
V,III,GLOUCESTER,"Her faction will be full as strong as ours."
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"We are advertised by our loving friends"
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"That they do hold their course toward Tewksbury:"
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"We, having now the best at Barnet field,"
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"Will thither straight, for willingness rids way;"
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"And, as we march, our strength will be augmented"
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"In every county as we go along."
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"Strike up the drum; cry 'Courage!' and away."
V,III,KING EDWARD IV,"3 KING HENRY VI"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"But cheerly seek how to redress their harms."
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"What though the mast be now blown overboard,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Yet lives our pilot still. Is't meet that he"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Should leave the helm and like a fearful lad"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"With tearful eyes add water to the sea"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And give more strength to that which hath too much,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Whiles, in his moan, the ship splits on the rock,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Which industry and courage might have saved?"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ah, what a shame! ah, what a fault were this!"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Say Warwick was our anchor; what of that?"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And Montague our topmost; what of him?"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Our slaughter'd friends the tackles; what of these?"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Why, is not Oxford here another anchor?"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And Somerset another goodly mast?"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"The friends of France our shrouds and tacklings?"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And, though unskilful, why not Ned and I"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"For once allow'd the skilful pilot's charge?"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"We will not from the helm to sit and weep,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"But keep our course, though the rough wind say no,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wreck."
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"As good to chide the waves as speak them fair."
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And what is Edward but ruthless sea?"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"What Clarence but a quicksand of deceit?"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And Richard but a ragged fatal rock?"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"All these the enemies to our poor bark."
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Say you can swim; alas, 'tis but a while!"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Tread on the sand; why, there you quickly sink:"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Bestride the rock; the tide will wash you off,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Or else you famish; that's a threefold death."
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"This speak I, lords, to let you understand,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"If case some one of you would fly from us,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"That there's no hoped-for mercy with the brothers"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"More than with ruthless waves, with sands and rocks."
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear."
V,IV,PRINCE EDWARD,"Methinks a woman of this valiant spirit"
V,IV,PRINCE EDWARD,"Should, if a coward heard her speak these words,"
V,IV,PRINCE EDWARD,"Infuse his breast with magnanimity"
V,IV,PRINCE EDWARD,"And make him, naked, foil a man at arms."
V,IV,PRINCE EDWARD,"I speak not this as doubting any here"
V,IV,PRINCE EDWARD,"For did I but suspect a fearful man"
V,IV,PRINCE EDWARD,"He should have leave to go away betimes,"
V,IV,PRINCE EDWARD,"Lest in our need he might infect another"
V,IV,PRINCE EDWARD,"And make him of like spirit to himself."
V,IV,PRINCE EDWARD,"If any such be here--as God forbid!--"
V,IV,PRINCE EDWARD,"Let him depart before we need his help."
V,IV,OXFORD,"Women and children of so high a courage,"
V,IV,OXFORD,"And warriors faint! why, 'twere perpetual shame."
V,IV,OXFORD,"O brave young prince! thy famous grandfather"
V,IV,OXFORD,"Doth live again in thee: long mayst thou live"
V,IV,OXFORD,"To bear his image and renew his glories!"
V,IV,SOMERSET,"And he that will not fight for such a hope."
V,IV,SOMERSET,"Go home to bed, and like the owl by day,"
V,IV,SOMERSET,"If he arise, be mock'd and wonder'd at."
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thanks, gentle Somerset; sweet Oxford, thanks."
V,IV,PRINCE EDWARD,"And take his thanks that yet hath nothing else."
V,IV,Messenger,"Prepare you, lords, for Edward is at hand."
V,IV,Messenger,"Ready to fight; therefore be resolute."
V,IV,OXFORD,"I thought no less: it is his policy"
V,IV,OXFORD,"To haste thus fast, to find us unprovided."
V,IV,SOMERSET,"But he's deceived; we are in readiness."
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"This cheers my heart, to see your forwardness."
V,IV,OXFORD,"Here pitch our battle; hence we will not budge."
V,IV,KING EDWARD IV,"Brave followers, yonder stands the thorny wood,"
V,IV,KING EDWARD IV,"Which, by the heavens' assistance and your strength,"
V,IV,KING EDWARD IV,"Must by the roots be hewn up yet ere night."
V,IV,KING EDWARD IV,"I need not add more fuel to your fire,"
V,IV,KING EDWARD IV,"For well I wot ye blaze to burn them out"
V,IV,KING EDWARD IV,"Give signal to the fight, and to it, lords!"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Lords, knights, and gentlemen, what I should say"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"My tears gainsay; for every word I speak,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ye see, I drink the water of mine eyes."
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Therefore, no more but this: Henry, your sovereign,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Is prisoner to the foe; his state usurp'd,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"His realm a slaughter-house, his subjects slain,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"His statutes cancell'd and his treasure spent;"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And yonder is the wolf that makes this spoil."
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"You fight in justice: then, in God's name, lords,"
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Be valiant and give signal to the fight."
V,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"3 KING HENRY VI"
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Now here a period of tumultuous broils."
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Away with Oxford to Hames Castle straight:"
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"For Somerset, off with his guilty head."
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Go, bear them hence; I will not hear them speak."
V,V,OXFORD,"For my part, I'll not trouble thee with words."
V,V,SOMERSET,"Nor I, but stoop with patience to my fortune."
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"So part we sadly in this troublous world,"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem."
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Is proclamation made, that who finds Edward"
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Shall have a high reward, and he his life?"
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"It is: and lo, where youthful Edward comes!"
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Bring forth the gallant, let us hear him speak."
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?"
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Edward, what satisfaction canst thou make"
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"For bearing arms, for stirring up my subjects,"
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"And all the trouble thou hast turn'd me to?"
V,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"Speak like a subject, proud ambitious York!"
V,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"Suppose that I am now my father's mouth;"
V,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"Resign thy chair, and where I stand kneel thou,"
V,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"Whilst I propose the selfsame words to thee,"
V,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"Which traitor, thou wouldst have me answer to."
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ah, that thy father had been so resolved!"
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"That you might still have worn the petticoat,"
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"And ne'er have stol'n the breech from Lancaster."
V,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"Let AEsop fable in a winter's night;"
V,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"His currish riddles sort not with this place."
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"By heaven, brat, I'll plague ye for that word."
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ay, thou wast born to be a plague to men."
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"For God's sake, take away this captive scold."
V,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"Nay, take away this scolding crookback rather."
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Peace, wilful boy, or I will charm your tongue."
V,V,CLARENCE,"Untutor'd lad, thou art too malapert."
V,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"I know my duty; you are all undutiful:"
V,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"Lascivious Edward, and thou perjured George,"
V,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"And thou mis-shapen Dick, I tell ye all"
V,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"I am your better, traitors as ye are:"
V,V,PRINCE EDWARD,"And thou usurp'st my father's right and mine."
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Take that, thou likeness of this railer here."
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"Sprawl'st thou? take that, to end thy agony."
V,V,CLARENCE,"And there's for twitting me with perjury."
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"O, kill me too!"
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"Marry, and shall."
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Hold, Richard, hold; for we have done too much."
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"Why should she live, to fill the world with words?"
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"What, doth she swoon? use means for her recovery."
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"Clarence, excuse me to the king my brother;"
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"I'll hence to London on a serious matter:"
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"Ere ye come there, be sure to hear some news."
V,V,CLARENCE,"What? what?"
V,V,GLOUCESTER,"The Tower, the Tower."
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"O Ned, sweet Ned! speak to thy mother, boy!"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Canst thou not speak? O traitors! murderers!"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"They that stabb'd Caesar shed no blood at all,"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Did not offend, nor were not worthy blame,"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"If this foul deed were by to equal it:"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"He was a man; this, in respect, a child:"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"And men ne'er spend their fury on a child."
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"What's worse than murderer, that I may name it?"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"No, no, my heart will burst, and if I speak:"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"And I will speak, that so my heart may burst."
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Butchers and villains! bloody cannibals!"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"How sweet a plant have you untimely cropp'd!"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"You have no children, butchers! if you had,"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"The thought of them would have stirr'd up remorse:"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"But if you ever chance to have a child,"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Look in his youth to have him so cut off"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"As, deathmen, you have rid this sweet young prince!"
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Away with her; go, bear her hence perforce."
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Nay, never bear me hence, dispatch me here,"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Here sheathe thy sword, I'll pardon thee my death:"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"What, wilt thou not? then, Clarence, do it thou."
V,V,CLARENCE,"By heaven, I will not do thee so much ease."
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Good Clarence, do; sweet Clarence, do thou do it."
V,V,CLARENCE,"Didst thou not hear me swear I would not do it?"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ay, but thou usest to forswear thyself:"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"'Twas sin before, but now 'tis charity."
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"What, wilt thou not? Where is that devil's butcher,"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Hard-favour'd Richard? Richard, where art thou?"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou art not here: murder is thy alms-deed;"
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"Petitioners for blood thou ne'er put'st back."
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Away, I say; I charge ye, bear her hence."
V,V,QUEEN MARGARET,"So come to you and yours, as to this Prince!"
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Where's Richard gone?"
V,V,CLARENCE,"To London, all in post; and, as I guess,"
V,V,CLARENCE,"To make a bloody supper in the Tower."
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"He's sudden, if a thing comes in his head."
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"Now march we hence: discharge the common sort"
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"With pay and thanks, and let's away to London"
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"And see our gentle queen how well she fares:"
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"By this, I hope, she hath a son for me."
V,V,KING EDWARD IV,"3 KING HENRY VI"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Good day, my lord. What, at your book so hard?"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Ay, my good lord:--my lord, I should say rather;"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"'Tis sin to flatter; 'good' was little better:"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"'Good Gloucester' and 'good devil' were alike,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And both preposterous; therefore, not 'good lord.'"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Sirrah, leave us to ourselves: we must confer."
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf;"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"So first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And next his throat unto the butcher's knife."
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"What scene of death hath Roscius now to act?"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"The thief doth fear each bush an officer."
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"The bird that hath been limed in a bush,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush;"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Have now the fatal object in my eye"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Where my poor young was limed, was caught and kill'd."
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Why, what a peevish fool was that of Crete,"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"That taught his son the office of a fowl!"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"An yet, for all his wings, the fool was drown'd."
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"I, Daedalus; my poor boy, Icarus;"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Thy father, Minos, that denied our course;"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"The sun that sear'd the wings of my sweet boy"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Thy brother Edward, and thyself the sea"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life."
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words!"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"My breast can better brook thy dagger's point"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Than can my ears that tragic history."
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"But wherefore dost thou come? is't for my life?"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Think'st thou I am an executioner?"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"A persecutor, I am sure, thou art:"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"If murdering innocents be executing,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Why, then thou art an executioner."
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Thy son I kill'd for his presumption."
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Hadst thou been kill'd when first thou didst presume,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Thou hadst not lived to kill a son of mine."
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And thus I prophesy, that many a thousand,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Which now mistrust no parcel of my fear,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And many an old man's sigh and many a widow's,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And many an orphan's water-standing eye--"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Men for their sons, wives for their husbands,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And orphans for their parents timeless death--"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born."
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"The owl shriek'd at thy birth,--an evil sign;"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time;"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Dogs howl'd, and hideous tempest shook down trees;"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"The raven rook'd her on the chimney's top,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And chattering pies in dismal discords sung."
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And, yet brought forth less than a mother's hope,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"To wit, an indigested and deformed lump,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree."
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"To signify thou camest to bite the world:"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"And, if the rest be true which I have heard,"
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Thou camest--"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"I'll hear no more: die, prophet in thy speech:"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"For this amongst the rest, was I ordain'd."
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"Ay, and for much more slaughter after this."
V,VI,KING HENRY VI,"God forgive my sins, and pardon thee!"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"What, will the aspiring blood of Lancaster"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Sink in the ground? I thought it would have mounted."
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"See how my sword weeps for the poor king's death!"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"O, may such purple tears be alway shed"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"From those that wish the downfall of our house!"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"If any spark of life be yet remaining,"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither:"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"I, that have neither pity, love, nor fear."
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Indeed, 'tis true that Henry told me of;"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"For I have often heard my mother say"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"I came into the world with my legs forward:"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Had I not reason, think ye, to make haste,"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"And seek their ruin that usurp'd our right?"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"The midwife wonder'd and the women cried"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"'O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!'"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"And so I was; which plainly signified"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"That I should snarl and bite and play the dog."
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so,"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it."
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"I have no brother, I am like no brother;"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"And this word 'love,' which graybeards call divine,"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Be resident in men like one another"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"And not in me: I am myself alone."
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Clarence, beware; thou keep'st me from the light:"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"But I will sort a pitchy day for thee;"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"For I will buz abroad such prophecies"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"That Edward shall be fearful of his life,"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"And then, to purge his fear, I'll be thy death."
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"King Henry and the prince his son are gone:"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Clarence, thy turn is next, and then the rest,"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Counting myself but bad till I be best."
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"I'll throw thy body in another room"
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"And triumph, Henry, in thy day of doom."
V,VI,GLOUCESTER,"3 KING HENRY VI"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Once more we sit in England's royal throne,"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Re-purchased with the blood of enemies."
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"What valiant foemen, like to autumn's corn,"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Have we mow'd down, in tops of all their pride!"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Three Dukes of Somerset, threefold renown'd"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"For hardy and undoubted champions;"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Two Cliffords, as the father and the son,"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"And two Northumberlands; two braver men"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Ne'er spurr'd their coursers at the trumpet's sound;"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"With them, the two brave bears, Warwick and Montague,"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"That in their chains fetter'd the kingly lion"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"And made the forest tremble when they roar'd."
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Thus have we swept suspicion from our seat"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"And made our footstool of security."
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my boy."
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Young Ned, for thee, thine uncles and myself"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Have in our armours watch'd the winter's night,"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Went all afoot in summer's scalding heat,"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"That thou mightst repossess the crown in peace;"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"And of our labours thou shalt reap the gain."
V,VII,GLOUCESTER,"For yet I am not look'd on in the world."
V,VII,GLOUCESTER,"This shoulder was ordain'd so thick to heave;"
V,VII,GLOUCESTER,"And heave it shall some weight, or break my back:"
V,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Work thou the way,--and thou shalt execute."
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Clarence and Gloucester, love my lovely queen;"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"And kiss your princely nephew, brothers both."
V,VII,CLARENCE,"The duty that I owe unto your majesty"
V,VII,CLARENCE,"I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe."
V,VII,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Thanks, noble Clarence; worthy brother, thanks."
V,VII,GLOUCESTER,"And, that I love the tree from whence thou sprang'st,"
V,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit."
V,VII,GLOUCESTER,"And cried 'all hail!' when as he meant all harm."
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Now am I seated as my soul delights,"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Having my country's peace and brothers' loves."
V,VII,CLARENCE,"What will your grace have done with Margaret?"
V,VII,CLARENCE,"Reignier, her father, to the king of France"
V,VII,CLARENCE,"Hath pawn'd the Sicils and Jerusalem,"
V,VII,CLARENCE,"And hither have they sent it for her ransom."
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Away with her, and waft her hence to France."
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"And now what rests but that we spend the time"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows,"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Such as befits the pleasure of the court?"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"Sound drums and trumpets! farewell sour annoy!"
V,VII,KING EDWARD IV,"For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Good morrow, and well met. How have ye done"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Since last we saw in France?"
I,I,NORFOLK,"I thank your grace,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Healthful; and ever since a fresh admirer"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Of what I saw there."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"An untimely ague"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber when"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Those suns of glory, those two lights of men,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Met in the vale of Andren."
I,I,NORFOLK,"'Twixt Guynes and Arde:"
I,I,NORFOLK,"I was then present, saw them salute on horseback;"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Beheld them, when they lighted, how they clung"
I,I,NORFOLK,"In their embracement, as they grew together;"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Which had they, what four throned ones could have weigh'd"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Such a compounded one?"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"All the whole time"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"I was my chamber's prisoner."
I,I,NORFOLK,"Then you lost"
I,I,NORFOLK,"The view of earthly glory: men might say,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Till this time pomp was single, but now married"
I,I,NORFOLK,"To one above itself. Each following day"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Became the next day's master, till the last"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Made former wonders its. To-day the French,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Shone down the English; and, to-morrow, they"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Made Britain India: every man that stood"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Show'd like a mine. Their dwarfish pages were"
I,I,NORFOLK,"As cherubins, all guilt: the madams too,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Not used to toil, did almost sweat to bear"
I,I,NORFOLK,"The pride upon them, that their very labour"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Was to them as a painting: now this masque"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Was cried incomparable; and the ensuing night"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Made it a fool and beggar. The two kings,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Equal in lustre, were now best, now worst,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"As presence did present them; him in eye,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Still him in praise: and, being present both"
I,I,NORFOLK,"'Twas said they saw but one; and no discerner"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Durst wag his tongue in censure. When these suns--"
I,I,NORFOLK,"For so they phrase 'em--by their heralds challenged"
I,I,NORFOLK,"The noble spirits to arms, they did perform"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Beyond thought's compass; that former fabulous story,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Being now seen possible enough, got credit,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"That Bevis was believed."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"O, you go far."
I,I,NORFOLK,"As I belong to worship and affect"
I,I,NORFOLK,"In honour honesty, the tract of every thing"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Would by a good discourser lose some life,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Which action's self was tongue to. All was royal;"
I,I,NORFOLK,"To the disposing of it nought rebell'd."
I,I,NORFOLK,"Order gave each thing view; the office did"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Distinctly his full function."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Who did guide,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"I mean, who set the body and the limbs"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Of this great sport together, as you guess?"
I,I,NORFOLK,"One, certes, that promises no element"
I,I,NORFOLK,"In such a business."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"I pray you, who, my lord?"
I,I,NORFOLK,"All this was order'd by the good discretion"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Of the right reverend Cardinal of York."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"The devil speed him! no man's pie is freed"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"From his ambitious finger. What had he"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"That such a keech can with his very bulk"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Take up the rays o' the beneficial sun"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And keep it from the earth."
I,I,NORFOLK,"Surely, sir,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends;"
I,I,NORFOLK,"For, being not propp'd by ancestry, whose grace"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Chalks successors their way, nor call'd upon"
I,I,NORFOLK,"For high feats done to the crown; neither allied"
I,I,NORFOLK,"For eminent assistants; but, spider-like,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"The force of his own merit makes his way"
I,I,NORFOLK,"A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys"
I,I,NORFOLK,"A place next to the king."
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"I cannot tell"
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"What heaven hath given him,--let some graver eye"
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"Pierce into that; but I can see his pride"
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"Peep through each part of him: whence has he that,"
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"If not from hell? the devil is a niggard,"
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"Or has given all before, and he begins"
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"A new hell in himself."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Why the devil,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Upon this French going out, took he upon him,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Without the privity o' the king, to appoint"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Who should attend on him? He makes up the file"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Of all the gentry; for the most part such"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To whom as great a charge as little honour"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"He meant to lay upon: and his own letter,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"The honourable board of council out,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Must fetch him in the papers."
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"I do know"
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have"
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"By this so sickened their estates, that never"
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"They shall abound as formerly."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"O, many"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"For this great journey. What did this vanity"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"But minister communication of"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"A most poor issue?"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Grievingly I think,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"The peace between the French and us not values"
I,I,NORFOLK,"The cost that did conclude it."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Every man,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"After the hideous storm that follow'd, was"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"A thing inspired; and, not consulting, broke"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Into a general prophecy; That this tempest,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Dashing the garment of this peace, aboded"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"The sudden breach on't."
I,I,NORFOLK,"Which is budded out;"
I,I,NORFOLK,"For France hath flaw'd the league, and hath attach'd"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Our merchants' goods at Bourdeaux."
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"Is it therefore"
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"The ambassador is silenced?"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Marry, is't."
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"A proper title of a peace; and purchased"
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"At a superfluous rate!"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Why, all this business"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Our reverend cardinal carried."
I,I,NORFOLK,"Like it your grace,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"The state takes notice of the private difference"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Betwixt you and the cardinal. I advise you--"
I,I,NORFOLK,"And take it from a heart that wishes towards you"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Honour and plenteous safety--that you read"
I,I,NORFOLK,"The cardinal's malice and his potency"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Together; to consider further that"
I,I,NORFOLK,"What his high hatred would effect wants not"
I,I,NORFOLK,"A minister in his power. You know his nature,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"That he's revengeful, and I know his sword"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Hath a sharp edge: it's long and, 't may be said,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"It reaches far, and where 'twill not extend,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counsel,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"You'll find it wholesome. Lo, where comes that rock"
I,I,NORFOLK,"That I advise your shunning."
I,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The Duke of Buckingham's surveyor, ha?"
I,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Where's his examination?"
I,I,First Secretary,"Here, so please you."
I,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Is he in person ready?"
I,I,First Secretary,"Ay, please your grace."
I,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Well, we shall then know more; and Buckingham"
I,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Shall lessen this big look."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore best"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Outworths a noble's blood."
I,I,NORFOLK,"What, are you chafed?"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance only"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Which your disease requires."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"I read in's looks"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Matter against me; and his eye reviled"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Me, as his abject object: at this instant"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"He bores me with some trick: he's gone to the king;"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"I'll follow and outstare him."
I,I,NORFOLK,"Stay, my lord,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"And let your reason with your choler question"
I,I,NORFOLK,"What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Requires slow pace at first: anger is like"
I,I,NORFOLK,"A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Can advise me like you: be to yourself"
I,I,NORFOLK,"As you would to your friend."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"I'll to the king;"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And from a mouth of honour quite cry down"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"This Ipswich fellow's insolence; or proclaim"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"There's difference in no persons."
I,I,NORFOLK,"Be advised;"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot"
I,I,NORFOLK,"That it do singe yourself: we may outrun,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"By violent swiftness, that which we run at,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"And lose by over-running. Know you not,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advised:"
I,I,NORFOLK,"I say again, there is no English soul"
I,I,NORFOLK,"More stronger to direct you than yourself,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"If with the sap of reason you would quench,"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Or but allay, the fire of passion."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Sir,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"I am thankful to you; and I'll go along"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"By your prescription: but this top-proud fellow,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Whom from the flow of gall I name not but"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"From sincere motions, by intelligence,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And proofs as clear as founts in July when"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"We see each grain of gravel, I do know"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To be corrupt and treasonous."
I,I,NORFOLK,"Say not 'treasonous.'"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To the king I'll say't; and make my vouch as strong"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Or wolf, or both,--for he is equal ravenous"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"As he is subtle, and as prone to mischief"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"As able to perform't; his mind and place"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Infecting one another, yea, reciprocally--"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Only to show his pomp as well in France"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"As here at home, suggests the king our master"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To this last costly treaty, the interview,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"That swallow'd so much treasure, and like a glass"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Did break i' the rinsing."
I,I,NORFOLK,"Faith, and so it did."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Pray, give me favour, sir. This cunning cardinal"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"The articles o' the combination drew"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"As himself pleased; and they were ratified"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"As he cried 'Thus let be': to as much end"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"As give a crutch to the dead: but our count-cardinal"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Has done this, and 'tis well; for worthy Wolsey,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Who cannot err, he did it. Now this follows,--"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To the old dam, treason,--Charles the emperor,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Under pretence to see the queen his aunt--"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"For 'twas indeed his colour, but he came"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To whisper Wolsey,--here makes visitation:"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"His fears were, that the interview betwixt"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"England and France might, through their amity,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Breed him some prejudice; for from this league"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Peep'd harms that menaced him: he privily"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Deals with our cardinal; and, as I trow,--"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Which I do well; for I am sure the emperor"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Paid ere he promised; whereby his suit was granted"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Ere it was ask'd; but when the way was made,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And paved with gold, the emperor thus desired,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"That he would please to alter the king's course,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And break the foresaid peace. Let the king know,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"As soon he shall by me, that thus the cardinal"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And for his own advantage."
I,I,NORFOLK,"I am sorry"
I,I,NORFOLK,"To hear this of him; and could wish he were"
I,I,NORFOLK,"Something mistaken in't."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"No, not a syllable:"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"I  do pronounce him in that very shape"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"He shall appear in proof."
I,I,BRANDON,"Your office, sergeant; execute it."
I,I,Sergeant,"Sir,"
I,I,Sergeant,"My lord the Duke of Buckingham, and Earl"
I,I,Sergeant,"Of Hereford, Stafford, and Northampton, I"
I,I,Sergeant,"Arrest thee of high treason, in the name"
I,I,Sergeant,"Of our most sovereign king."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Lo, you, my lord,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"The net has fall'n upon me! I shall perish"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Under device and practise."
I,I,BRANDON,"I am sorry"
I,I,BRANDON,"To see you ta'en from liberty, to look on"
I,I,BRANDON,"The business present: 'tis his highness' pleasure"
I,I,BRANDON,"You shall to the Tower."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"It will help me nothing"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To plead mine innocence; for that dye is on me"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Which makes my whitest part black. The will of heaven"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Be done in this and all things! I obey."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"O my Lord Abergavenny, fare you well!"
I,I,BRANDON,"Nay, he must bear you company. The king"
I,I,BRANDON,"Is pleased you shall to the Tower, till you know"
I,I,BRANDON,"How he determines further."
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"As the duke said,"
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"The will of heaven be done, and the king's pleasure"
I,I,ABERGAVENNY,"By me obey'd!"
I,I,BRANDON,"Here is a warrant from"
I,I,BRANDON,"The king to attach Lord Montacute; and the bodies"
I,I,BRANDON,"Of the duke's confessor, John de la Car,"
I,I,BRANDON,"One Gilbert Peck, his chancellor--"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"So, so;"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"These are the limbs o' the plot: no more, I hope."
I,I,BRANDON,"A monk o' the Chartreux."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"O, Nicholas Hopkins?"
I,I,BRANDON,"He."
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"My surveyor is false; the o'er-great cardinal"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Hath show'd him gold; my life is spann'd already:"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on,"
I,I,BUCKINGHAM,"By darkening my clear sun. My lord, farewell."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"My life itself, and the best heart of it,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Thanks you for this great care: I stood i' the level"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Of a full-charged confederacy, and give thanks"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"To you that choked it. Let be call'd before us"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"That gentleman of Buckingham's; in person"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"I'll hear him his confessions justify;"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"And point by point the treasons of his master"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"He shall again relate."
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Nay, we must longer kneel: I am a suitor."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Arise, and take place by us: half your suit"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Never name to us; you have half our power:"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"The other moiety, ere you ask, is given;"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Repeat your will and take it."
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Thank your majesty."
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"That you would love yourself, and in that love"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Not unconsider'd leave your honour, nor"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"The dignity of your office, is the point"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Of my petition."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Lady mine, proceed."
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I am solicited, not by a few,"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And those of true condition, that your subjects"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Are in great grievance: there have been commissions"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Sent down among 'em, which hath flaw'd the heart"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Of all their loyalties: wherein, although,"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"My good lord cardinal, they vent reproaches"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Most bitterly on you, as putter on"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Of these exactions, yet the king our master--"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Whose honour heaven shield from soil!--even he"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"escapes not"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Language unmannerly, yea, such which breaks"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"The sides of loyalty, and almost appears"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"In loud rebellion."
I,II,NORFOLK,"Not almost appears,"
I,II,NORFOLK,"It doth appear; for, upon these taxations,"
I,II,NORFOLK,"The clothiers all, not able to maintain"
I,II,NORFOLK,"The many to them longing, have put off"
I,II,NORFOLK,"The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who,"
I,II,NORFOLK,"Unfit for other life, compell'd by hunger"
I,II,NORFOLK,"And lack of other means, in desperate manner"
I,II,NORFOLK,"Daring the event to the teeth, are all in uproar,"
I,II,NORFOLK,"And danger serves among then!"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Taxation!"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Wherein? and what taxation? My lord cardinal,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"You that are blamed for it alike with us,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Know you of this taxation?"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Please you, sir,"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I know but of a single part, in aught"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Pertains to the state; and front but in that file"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Where others tell steps with me."
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"No, my lord,"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"You know no more than others; but you frame"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Things that are known alike; which are not wholesome"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"To those which would not know them, and yet must"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Perforce be their acquaintance. These exactions,"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Most pestilent to the bearing; and, to bear 'em,"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"The back is sacrifice to the load. They say"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"They are devised by you; or else you suffer"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Too hard an exclamation."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Still exaction!"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"The nature of it? in what kind, let's know,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Is this exaction?"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I am much too venturous"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"In tempting of your patience; but am bolden'd"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Under your promised pardon. The subjects' grief"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Comes through commissions, which compel from each"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"The sixth part of his substance, to be levied"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Without delay; and the pretence for this"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Is named, your wars in France: this makes bold mouths:"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Allegiance in them; their curses now"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Live where their prayers did: and it's come to pass,"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"This tractable obedience is a slave"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"To each incensed will. I would your highness"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Would give it quick consideration, for"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"There is no primer business."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"By my life,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"This is against our pleasure."
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And for me,"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I have no further gone in this than by"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A single voice; and that not pass'd me but"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"By learned approbation of the judges. If I am"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Traduced by ignorant tongues, which neither know"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"My faculties nor person, yet will be"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The chronicles of my doing, let me say"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That virtue must go through. We must not stint"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Our necessary actions, in the fear"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"To cope malicious censurers; which ever,"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That is new-trimm'd, but benefit no further"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Than vainly longing. What we oft do best,"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Not ours, or not allow'd; what worst, as oft,"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"For our best act. If we shall stand still,"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at,"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"We should take root here where we sit, or sit"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"State-statues only."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Things done well,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"And with a care, exempt themselves from fear;"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Things done without example, in their issue"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Are to be fear'd. Have you a precedent"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Of this commission? I believe, not any."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"We must not rend our subjects from our laws,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each?"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"A trembling contribution! Why, we take"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"From every tree lop, bark, and part o' the timber;"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"And, though we leave it with a root, thus hack'd,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"The air will drink the sap. To every county"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Where this is question'd send our letters, with"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Free pardon to each man that has denied"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"The force of this commission: pray, look to't;"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"I put it to your care."
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A word with you."
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Let there be letters writ to every shire,"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Of the king's grace and pardon. The grieved commons"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Hardly conceive of me; let it be noised"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That through our intercession this revokement"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And pardon comes: I shall anon advise you"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Further in the proceeding."
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I am sorry that the Duke of Buckingham"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Is run in your displeasure."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"It grieves many:"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare speaker;"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"To nature none more bound; his training such,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"That he may furnish and instruct great teachers,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet see,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"When these so noble benefits shall prove"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Not well disposed, the mind growing once corrupt,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"They turn to vicious forms, ten times more ugly"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Than ever they were fair. This man so complete,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Who was enroll'd 'mongst wonders, and when we,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Almost with ravish'd listening, could not find"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"His hour of speech a minute; he, my lady,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Hath into monstrous habits put the graces"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"That once were his, and is become as black"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"As if besmear'd in hell. Sit by us; you shall hear--"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"This was his gentleman in trust--of him"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Things to strike honour sad. Bid him recount"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"The fore-recited practises; whereof"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"We cannot feel too little, hear too much."
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Stand forth, and with bold spirit relate what you,"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Most like a careful subject, have collected"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Out of the Duke of Buckingham."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Speak freely."
I,II,Surveyor,"First, it was usual with him, every day"
I,II,Surveyor,"It would infect his speech, that if the king"
I,II,Surveyor,"Should without issue die, he'll carry it so"
I,II,Surveyor,"To make the sceptre his: these very words"
I,II,Surveyor,"I've heard him utter to his son-in-law,"
I,II,Surveyor,"Lord Abergavenny; to whom by oath he menaced"
I,II,Surveyor,"Revenge upon the cardinal."
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Please your highness, note"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"This dangerous conception in this point."
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Not friended by by his wish, to your high person"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"His will is most malignant; and it stretches"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Beyond you, to your friends."
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"My learn'd lord cardinal,"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Deliver all with charity."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Speak on:"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"How grounded he his title to the crown,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Upon our fail? to this point hast thou heard him"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"At any time speak aught?"
I,II,Surveyor,"He was brought to this"
I,II,Surveyor,"By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Hopkins."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"What was that Hopkins?"
I,II,Surveyor,"Sir, a Chartreux friar,"
I,II,Surveyor,"His confessor, who fed him every minute"
I,II,Surveyor,"With words of sovereignty."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"How know'st thou this?"
I,II,Surveyor,"Not long before your highness sped to France,"
I,II,Surveyor,"The duke being at the Rose, within the parish"
I,II,Surveyor,"Saint Lawrence Poultney, did of me demand"
I,II,Surveyor,"What was the speech among the Londoners"
I,II,Surveyor,"Concerning the French journey: I replied,"
I,II,Surveyor,"Men fear'd the French would prove perfidious,"
I,II,Surveyor,"To the king's danger. Presently the duke"
I,II,Surveyor,"Said, 'twas the fear, indeed; and that he doubted"
I,II,Surveyor,"'Twould prove the verity of certain words"
I,II,Surveyor,"Spoke by a holy monk; 'that oft,' says he,"
I,II,Surveyor,"'Hath sent to me, wishing me to permit"
I,II,Surveyor,"John de la Car, my chaplain, a choice hour"
I,II,Surveyor,"To hear from him a matter of some moment:"
I,II,Surveyor,"Whom after under the confession's seal"
I,II,Surveyor,"He solemnly had sworn, that what he spoke"
I,II,Surveyor,"My chaplain to no creature living, but"
I,II,Surveyor,"To me, should utter, with demure confidence"
I,II,Surveyor,"This pausingly ensued: neither the king nor's heirs,"
I,II,Surveyor,"Tell you the duke, shall prosper: bid him strive"
I,II,Surveyor,"To gain the love o' the commonalty: the duke"
I,II,Surveyor,"Shall govern England.'"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"If I know you well,"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"You were the duke's surveyor, and lost your office"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"On the complaint o' the tenants: take good heed"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"You charge not in your spleen a noble person"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And spoil your nobler soul: I say, take heed;"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Yes, heartily beseech you."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Let him on."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Go forward."
I,II,Surveyor,"On my soul, I'll speak but truth."
I,II,Surveyor,"I told my lord the duke, by the devil's illusions"
I,II,Surveyor,"The monk might be deceived; and that 'twas dangerous for him"
I,II,Surveyor,"To ruminate on this so far, until"
I,II,Surveyor,"It forged him some design, which, being believed,"
I,II,Surveyor,"It was much like to do: he answer'd, 'Tush,"
I,II,Surveyor,"It can do me no damage;' adding further,"
I,II,Surveyor,"That, had the king in his last sickness fail'd,"
I,II,Surveyor,"The cardinal's and Sir Thomas Lovell's heads"
I,II,Surveyor,"Should have gone off."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Ha! what, so rank? Ah ha!"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"There's mischief in this man: canst thou say further?"
I,II,Surveyor,"I can, my liege."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Proceed."
I,II,Surveyor,"Being at Greenwich,"
I,II,Surveyor,"After your highness had reproved the duke"
I,II,Surveyor,"About Sir William Blomer,--"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"I remember"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Of such a time: being my sworn servant,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"The duke retain'd him his. But on; what hence?"
I,II,Surveyor,"'If,' quoth he, 'I for this had been committed,"
I,II,Surveyor,"As, to the Tower, I thought, I would have play'd"
I,II,Surveyor,"The part my father meant to act upon"
I,II,Surveyor,"The usurper Richard; who, being at Salisbury,"
I,II,Surveyor,"Made suit to come in's presence; which if granted,"
I,II,Surveyor,"As he made semblance of his duty, would"
I,II,Surveyor,"Have put his knife to him.'"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"A giant traitor!"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Now, madam, may his highness live in freedom,"
I,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"and this man out of prison?"
I,II,QUEEN KATHARINE,"God mend all!"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"There's something more would out of thee; what say'st?"
I,II,Surveyor,"After 'the duke his father,' with 'the knife,'"
I,II,Surveyor,"He stretch'd him, and, with one hand on his dagger,"
I,II,Surveyor,"Another spread on's breast, mounting his eyes"
I,II,Surveyor,"He did discharge a horrible oath; whose tenor"
I,II,Surveyor,"Was,--were he evil used, he would outgo"
I,II,Surveyor,"His father by as much as a performance"
I,II,Surveyor,"Does an irresolute purpose."
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"There's his period,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"To sheathe his knife in us. He is attach'd;"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Call him to present trial: if he may"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Find mercy in the law, 'tis his: if none,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Let him not seek 't of us: by day and night,"
I,II,KING HENRY VIII,"He's traitor to the height."
I,III,Chamberlain,"Is't possible the spells of France should juggle"
I,III,Chamberlain,"Men into such strange mysteries?"
I,III,SANDS,"New customs,"
I,III,SANDS,"Though they be never so ridiculous,"
I,III,SANDS,"Nay, let 'em be unmanly, yet are follow'd."
I,III,Chamberlain,"As far as I see, all the good our English"
I,III,Chamberlain,"Have got by the late voyage is but merely"
I,III,Chamberlain,"A fit or two o' the face; but they are shrewd ones;"
I,III,Chamberlain,"For when they hold 'em, you would swear directly"
I,III,Chamberlain,"Their very noses had been counsellors"
I,III,Chamberlain,"To Pepin or Clotharius, they keep state so."
I,III,SANDS,"They have all new legs, and lame ones: one would take it,"
I,III,SANDS,"That never saw 'em pace before, the spavin"
I,III,SANDS,"Or springhalt reign'd among 'em."
I,III,Chamberlain,"Death! my lord,"
I,III,Chamberlain,"Their clothes are after such a pagan cut too,"
I,III,Chamberlain,"That, sure, they've worn out Christendom."
I,III,Chamberlain,"How now!"
I,III,Chamberlain,"What news, Sir Thomas Lovell?"
I,III,LOVELL,"Faith, my lord,"
I,III,LOVELL,"I hear of none, but the new proclamation"
I,III,LOVELL,"That's clapp'd upon the court-gate."
I,III,Chamberlain,"What is't for?"
I,III,LOVELL,"The reformation of our travell'd gallants,"
I,III,LOVELL,"That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors."
I,III,Chamberlain,"I'm glad 'tis there: now I would pray our monsieurs"
I,III,Chamberlain,"To think an English courtier may be wise,"
I,III,Chamberlain,"And never see the Louvre."
I,III,LOVELL,"They must either,"
I,III,LOVELL,"For so run the conditions, leave those remnants"
I,III,LOVELL,"Of fool and feather that they got in France,"
I,III,LOVELL,"With all their honourable point of ignorance"
I,III,LOVELL,"Pertaining thereunto, as fights and fireworks,"
I,III,LOVELL,"Abusing better men than they can be,"
I,III,LOVELL,"Out of a foreign wisdom, renouncing clean"
I,III,LOVELL,"The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings,"
I,III,LOVELL,"Short blister'd breeches, and those types of travel,"
I,III,LOVELL,"And understand again like honest men;"
I,III,LOVELL,"Or pack to their old playfellows: there, I take it,"
I,III,LOVELL,"They may, 'cum privilegio,' wear away"
I,III,LOVELL,"The lag end of their lewdness and be laugh'd at."
I,III,SANDS,"'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases"
I,III,SANDS,"Are grown so catching."
I,III,Chamberlain,"What a loss our ladies"
I,III,Chamberlain,"Will have of these trim vanities!"
I,III,LOVELL,"Ay, marry,"
I,III,LOVELL,"There will be woe indeed, lords: the sly whoresons"
I,III,LOVELL,"Have got a speeding trick to lay down ladies;"
I,III,LOVELL,"A French song and a fiddle has no fellow."
I,III,SANDS,"The devil fiddle 'em! I am glad they are going,"
I,III,SANDS,"For, sure, there's no converting of 'em: now"
I,III,SANDS,"An honest country lord, as I am, beaten"
I,III,SANDS,"A long time out of play, may bring his plainsong"
I,III,SANDS,"And have an hour of hearing; and, by'r lady,"
I,III,SANDS,"Held current music too."
I,III,Chamberlain,"Well said, Lord Sands;"
I,III,Chamberlain,"Your colt's tooth is not cast yet."
I,III,SANDS,"No, my lord;"
I,III,SANDS,"Nor shall not, while I have a stump."
I,III,Chamberlain,"Sir Thomas,"
I,III,Chamberlain,"Whither were you a-going?"
I,III,LOVELL,"To the cardinal's:"
I,III,LOVELL,"Your lordship is a guest too."
I,III,Chamberlain,"O, 'tis true:"
I,III,Chamberlain,"This night he makes a supper, and a great one,"
I,III,Chamberlain,"To many lords and ladies; there will be"
I,III,Chamberlain,"The beauty of this kingdom, I'll assure you."
I,III,LOVELL,"That churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed,"
I,III,LOVELL,"A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us;"
I,III,LOVELL,"His dews fall every where."
I,III,Chamberlain,"No doubt he's noble;"
I,III,Chamberlain,"He had a black mouth that said other of him."
I,III,SANDS,"He may, my lord; has wherewithal: in him"
I,III,SANDS,"Sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine:"
I,III,SANDS,"Men of his way should be most liberal;"
I,III,SANDS,"They are set here for examples."
I,III,Chamberlain,"True, they are so:"
I,III,Chamberlain,"But few now give so great ones. My barge stays;"
I,III,Chamberlain,"Your lordship shall along. Come, good Sir Thomas,"
I,III,Chamberlain,"We shall be late else; which I would not be,"
I,III,Chamberlain,"For I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guildford"
I,III,Chamberlain,"This night to be comptrollers."
I,III,SANDS,"I am your lordship's."
I,IV,GUILDFORD,"Ladies, a general welcome from his grace"
I,IV,GUILDFORD,"Salutes ye all; this night he dedicates"
I,IV,GUILDFORD,"To fair content and you: none here, he hopes,"
I,IV,GUILDFORD,"In all this noble bevy, has brought with her"
I,IV,GUILDFORD,"One care abroad; he would have all as merry"
I,IV,GUILDFORD,"As, first, good company, good wine, good welcome,"
I,IV,GUILDFORD,"Can make good people. O, my lord, you're tardy:"
I,IV,GUILDFORD,"The very thought of this fair company"
I,IV,GUILDFORD,"Clapp'd wings to me."
I,IV,Chamberlain,"You are young, Sir Harry Guildford."
I,IV,SANDS,"Sir Thomas Lovell, had the cardinal"
I,IV,SANDS,"But half my lay thoughts in him, some of these"
I,IV,SANDS,"Should find a running banquet ere they rested,"
I,IV,SANDS,"I think would better please 'em: by my life,"
I,IV,SANDS,"They are a sweet society of fair ones."
I,IV,LOVELL,"O, that your lordship were but now confessor"
I,IV,LOVELL,"To one or two of these!"
I,IV,SANDS,"I would I were;"
I,IV,SANDS,"They should find easy penance."
I,IV,LOVELL,"Faith, how easy?"
I,IV,SANDS,"As easy as a down-bed would afford it."
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Sweet ladies, will it please you sit? Sir Harry,"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Place you that side; I'll take the charge of this:"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"His grace is entering. Nay, you must not freeze;"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Two women placed together makes cold weather:"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"My Lord Sands, you are one will keep 'em waking;"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Pray, sit between these ladies."
I,IV,SANDS,"By my faith,"
I,IV,SANDS,"And thank your lordship. By your leave, sweet ladies:"
I,IV,SANDS,"If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;"
I,IV,SANDS,"I had it from my father."
I,IV,ANNE,"Was he mad, sir?"
I,IV,SANDS,"O, very mad, exceeding mad, in love too:"
I,IV,SANDS,"But he would bite none; just as I do now,"
I,IV,SANDS,"He would kiss you twenty with a breath."
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Well said, my lord."
I,IV,Chamberlain,"So, now you're fairly seated. Gentlemen,"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"The penance lies on you, if these fair ladies"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Pass away frowning."
I,IV,SANDS,"For my little cure,"
I,IV,SANDS,"Let me alone."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"You're welcome, my fair guests: that noble lady,"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Or gentleman, that is not freely merry,"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Is not my friend: this, to confirm my welcome;"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And to you all, good health."
I,IV,SANDS,"Your grace is noble:"
I,IV,SANDS,"Let me have such a bowl may hold my thanks,"
I,IV,SANDS,"And save me so much talking."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"My Lord Sands,"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I am beholding to you: cheer your neighbours."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Ladies, you are not merry: gentlemen,"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Whose fault is this?"
I,IV,SANDS,"The red wine first must rise"
I,IV,SANDS,"In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em"
I,IV,SANDS,"Talk us to silence."
I,IV,ANNE,"You are a merry gamester,"
I,IV,ANNE,"My Lord Sands."
I,IV,SANDS,"Yes, if I make my play."
I,IV,SANDS,"Here's to your ladyship: and pledge it, madam,"
I,IV,SANDS,"For 'tis to such a thing,--"
I,IV,ANNE,"You cannot show me."
I,IV,SANDS,"I told your grace they would talk anon."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"What's that?"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Look out there, some of ye."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"What warlike voice,"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And to what end is this? Nay, ladies, fear not;"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"By all the laws of war you're privileged."
I,IV,Chamberlain,"How now! what is't?"
I,IV,Servant,"A noble troop of strangers;"
I,IV,Servant,"For so they seem: they've left their barge and landed;"
I,IV,Servant,"And hither make, as great ambassadors"
I,IV,Servant,"From foreign princes."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Good lord chamberlain,"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Go, give 'em welcome; you can speak the French tongue;"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And, pray, receive 'em nobly, and conduct 'em"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Into our presence, where this heaven of beauty"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Shall shine at full upon them. Some attend him."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"You have now a broken banquet; but we'll mend it."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A good digestion to you all: and once more"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I shower a welcome on ye; welcome all."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A noble company! what are their pleasures?"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Because they speak no English, thus they pray'd"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"To tell your grace, that, having heard by fame"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Of this so noble and so fair assembly"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"This night to meet here, they could do no less"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Out of the great respect they bear to beauty,"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"But leave their flocks; and, under your fair conduct,"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Crave leave to view these ladies and entreat"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"An hour of revels with 'em."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Say, lord chamberlain,"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"They have done my poor house grace; for which I pay 'em"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A thousand thanks, and pray 'em take their pleasures."
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"The fairest hand I ever touch'd! O beauty,"
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Till now I never knew thee!"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"My lord!"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Your grace?"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Pray, tell 'em thus much from me:"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"There should be one amongst 'em, by his person,"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"More worthy this place than myself; to whom,"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"If I but knew him, with my love and duty"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I would surrender it."
I,IV,Chamberlain,"I will, my lord."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"What say they?"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Such a one, they all confess,"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"There is indeed; which they would have your grace"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"Find out, and he will take it."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Let me see, then."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"By all your good leaves, gentlemen; here I'll make"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"My royal choice."
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Ye have found him, cardinal:"
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"You hold a fair assembly; you do well, lord:"
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"You are a churchman, or, I'll tell you, cardinal,"
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I should judge now unhappily."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I am glad"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Your grace is grown so pleasant."
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"My lord chamberlain,"
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Prithee, come hither: what fair lady's that?"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"An't please your grace, Sir Thomas Bullen's daughter--"
I,IV,Chamberlain,"The Viscount Rochford,--one of her highness' women."
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"By heaven, she is a dainty one. Sweetheart,"
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I were unmannerly, to take you out,"
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"And not to kiss you. A health, gentlemen!"
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Let it go round."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Sir Thomas Lovell, is the banquet ready"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I' the privy chamber?"
I,IV,LOVELL,"Yes, my lord."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Your grace,"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I fear, with dancing is a little heated."
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I fear, too much."
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"There's fresher air, my lord,"
I,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"In the next chamber."
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Lead in your ladies, every one: sweet partner,"
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I must not yet forsake you: let's be merry:"
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Good my lord cardinal, I have half a dozen healths"
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"To drink to these fair ladies, and a measure"
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"To lead 'em once again; and then let's dream"
I,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Who's best in favour. Let the music knock it."
II,I,First Gentleman,"Whither away so fast?"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"O, God save ye!"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Even to the hall, to hear what shall become"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Of the great Duke of Buckingham."
II,I,First Gentleman,"I'll save you"
II,I,First Gentleman,"That labour, sir. All's now done, but the ceremony"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Of bringing back the prisoner."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Were you there?"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Yes, indeed, was I."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Pray, speak what has happen'd."
II,I,First Gentleman,"You may guess quickly what."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Is he found guilty?"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Yes, truly is he, and condemn'd upon't."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"I am sorry for't."
II,I,First Gentleman,"So are a number more."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"But, pray, how pass'd it?"
II,I,First Gentleman,"I'll tell you in a little. The great duke"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Came to the bar; where to his accusations"
II,I,First Gentleman,"He pleaded still not guilty and alleged"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Many sharp reasons to defeat the law."
II,I,First Gentleman,"The king's attorney on the contrary"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Urged on the examinations, proofs, confessions"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Of divers witnesses; which the duke desired"
II,I,First Gentleman,"To have brought viva voce to his face:"
II,I,First Gentleman,"At which appear'd against him his surveyor;"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Sir Gilbert Peck his chancellor; and John Car,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Confessor to him; with that devil-monk,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Hopkins, that made this mischief."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"That was he"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"That fed him with his prophecies?"
II,I,First Gentleman,"The same."
II,I,First Gentleman,"All these accused him strongly; which he fain"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Would have flung from him, but, indeed, he could not:"
II,I,First Gentleman,"And so his peers, upon this evidence,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Have found him guilty of high treason. Much"
II,I,First Gentleman,"He spoke, and learnedly, for life; but all"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Was either pitied in him or forgotten."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"After all this, how did he bear himself?"
II,I,First Gentleman,"When he was brought again to the bar, to hear"
II,I,First Gentleman,"His knell rung out, his judgment, he was stirr'd"
II,I,First Gentleman,"With such an agony, he sweat extremely,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"And something spoke in choler, ill, and hasty:"
II,I,First Gentleman,"But he fell to himself again, and sweetly"
II,I,First Gentleman,"In all the rest show'd a most noble patience."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"I do not think he fears death."
II,I,First Gentleman,"Sure, he does not:"
II,I,First Gentleman,"He never was so womanish; the cause"
II,I,First Gentleman,"He may a little grieve at."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Certainly"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"The cardinal is the end of this."
II,I,First Gentleman,"'Tis likely,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"By all conjectures: first, Kildare's attainder,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Then deputy of Ireland; who removed,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Earl Surrey was sent thither, and in haste too,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Lest he should help his father."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"That trick of state"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Was a deep envious one."
II,I,First Gentleman,"At his return"
II,I,First Gentleman,"No doubt he will requite it. This is noted,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"And generally, whoever the king favours,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"The cardinal instantly will find employment,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"And far enough from court too."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"All the commons"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Hate him perniciously, and, o' my conscience,"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Wish him ten fathom deep: this duke as much"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"They love and dote on; call him bounteous Buckingham,"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"The mirror of all courtesy;--"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Stay there, sir,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"And see the noble ruin'd man you speak of."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Let's stand close, and behold him."
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"All good people,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"You that thus far have come to pity me,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Hear what I say, and then go home and lose me."
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"I have this day received a traitor's judgment,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And by that name must die: yet, heaven bear witness,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And if I have a conscience, let it sink me,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Even as the axe falls, if I be not faithful!"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"The law I bear no malice for my death;"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"'T has done, upon the premises, but justice:"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"But those that sought it I could wish more Christians:"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Be what they will, I heartily forgive 'em:"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Yet let 'em look they glory not in mischief,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Nor build their evils on the graves of great men;"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"For then my guiltless blood must cry against 'em."
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"For further life in this world I ne'er hope,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Nor will I sue, although the king have mercies"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"More than I dare make faults. You few that loved me,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And dare be bold to weep for Buckingham,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"His noble friends and fellows, whom to leave"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Is only bitter to him, only dying,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Go with me, like good angels, to my end;"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And, as the long divorce of steel falls on me,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And lift my soul to heaven. Lead on, o' God's name."
II,I,LOVELL,"I do beseech your grace, for charity,"
II,I,LOVELL,"If ever any malice in your heart"
II,I,LOVELL,"Were hid against me, now to forgive me frankly."
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Sir Thomas Lovell, I as free forgive you"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"As I would be forgiven: I forgive all;"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"There cannot be those numberless offences"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"'Gainst me, that I cannot take peace with:"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"no black envy"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Shall mark my grave. Commend me to his grace;"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And if he speak of Buckingham, pray, tell him"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"You met him half in heaven: my vows and prayers"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Yet are the king's; and, till my soul forsake,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Shall cry for blessings on him: may he live"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Longer than I have time to tell his years!"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Ever beloved and loving may his rule be!"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And when old time shall lead him to his end,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Goodness and he fill up one monument!"
II,I,LOVELL,"To the water side I must conduct your grace;"
II,I,LOVELL,"Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux,"
II,I,LOVELL,"Who undertakes you to your end."
II,I,VAUX,"Prepare there,"
II,I,VAUX,"The duke is coming: see the barge be ready;"
II,I,VAUX,"And fit it with such furniture as suits"
II,I,VAUX,"The greatness of his person."
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Nay, Sir Nicholas,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Let it alone; my state now will but mock me."
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"When I came hither, I was lord high constable"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And Duke of Buckingham; now, poor Edward Bohun:"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Yet I am richer than my base accusers,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"That never knew what truth meant: I now seal it;"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And with that blood will make 'em one day groan for't."
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"My noble father, Henry of Buckingham,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Who first raised head against usurping Richard,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Flying for succor to his servant Banister,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Being distress'd, was by that wretch betray'd,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And without trial fell; God's peace be with him!"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Henry the Seventh succeeding, truly pitying"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"My father's loss, like a most royal prince,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Restored me to my honours, and, out of ruins,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Made my name once more noble. Now his son,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Henry the Eighth, life, honour, name and all"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"That made me happy at one stroke has taken"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"For ever from the world. I had my trial,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And, must needs say, a noble one; which makes me,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"A little happier than my wretched father:"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Yet thus far we are one in fortunes: both"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Fell by our servants, by those men we loved most;"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"A most unnatural and faithless service!"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Heaven has an end in all: yet, you that hear me,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"This from a dying man receive as certain:"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And give your hearts to, when they once perceive"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"The least rub in your fortunes, fall away"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Like water from ye, never found again"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"But where they mean to sink ye. All good people,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Pray for me! I must now forsake ye: the last hour"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Of my long weary life is come upon me. Farewell:"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And when you would say something that is sad,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Speak how I fell. I have done; and God forgive me!"
II,I,First Gentleman,"O, this is full of pity! Sir, it calls,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"I fear, too many curses on their beads"
II,I,First Gentleman,"That were the authors."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"If the duke be guiltless,"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"'Tis full of woe: yet I can give you inkling"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Of an ensuing evil, if it fall,"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Greater than this."
II,I,First Gentleman,"Good angels keep it from us!"
II,I,First Gentleman,"What may it be? You do not doubt my faith, sir?"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"This secret is so weighty, 'twill require"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"A strong faith to conceal it."
II,I,First Gentleman,"Let me have it;"
II,I,First Gentleman,"I do not talk much."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"I am confident,"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"You shall, sir: did you not of late days hear"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"A buzzing of a separation"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Between the king and Katharine?"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Yes, but it held not:"
II,I,First Gentleman,"For when the king once heard it, out of anger"
II,I,First Gentleman,"He sent command to the lord mayor straight"
II,I,First Gentleman,"To stop the rumor, and allay those tongues"
II,I,First Gentleman,"That durst disperse it."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"But that slander, sir,"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Is found a truth now: for it grows again"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Fresher than e'er it was; and held for certain"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"The king will venture at it. Either the cardinal,"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Or some about him near, have, out of malice"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"To the good queen, possess'd him with a scruple"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"That will undo her: to confirm this too,"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Cardinal Campeius is arrived, and lately;"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"As all think, for this business."
II,I,First Gentleman,"'Tis the cardinal;"
II,I,First Gentleman,"And merely to revenge him on the emperor"
II,I,First Gentleman,"For not bestowing on him, at his asking,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"The archbishopric of Toledo, this is purposed."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"I think you have hit the mark: but is't not cruel"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"That she should feel the smart of this? The cardinal"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"Will have his will, and she must fall."
II,I,First Gentleman,"'Tis woful."
II,I,First Gentleman,"We are too open here to argue this;"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Let's think in private more."
II,II,Chamberlain,"'My lord, the horses your lordship sent for, with"
II,II,Chamberlain,"all the care I had, I saw well chosen, ridden, and"
II,II,Chamberlain,"furnished. They were young and handsome, and of the"
II,II,Chamberlain,"best breed in the north. When they were ready to"
II,II,Chamberlain,"set out for London, a man of my lord cardinal's, by"
II,II,Chamberlain,"commission and main power, took 'em from me; with"
II,II,Chamberlain,"this reason: His master would be served before a"
II,II,Chamberlain,"subject, if not before the king; which stopped our"
II,II,Chamberlain,"mouths, sir.'"
II,II,Chamberlain,"I fear he will indeed: well, let him have them:"
II,II,Chamberlain,"He will have all, I think."
II,II,NORFOLK,"Well met, my lord chamberlain."
II,II,Chamberlain,"Good day to both your graces."
II,II,SUFFOLK,"How is the king employ'd?"
II,II,Chamberlain,"I left him private,"
II,II,Chamberlain,"Full of sad thoughts and troubles."
II,II,NORFOLK,"What's the cause?"
II,II,Chamberlain,"It seems the marriage with his brother's wife"
II,II,Chamberlain,"Has crept too near his conscience."
II,II,SUFFOLK,"No, his conscience"
II,II,SUFFOLK,"Has crept too near another lady."
II,II,NORFOLK,"'Tis so:"
II,II,NORFOLK,"This is the cardinal's doing, the king-cardinal:"
II,II,NORFOLK,"That blind priest, like the eldest son of fortune,"
II,II,NORFOLK,"Turns what he list. The king will know him one day."
II,II,SUFFOLK,"Pray God he do! he'll never know himself else."
II,II,NORFOLK,"How holily he works in all his business!"
II,II,NORFOLK,"And with what zeal! for, now he has crack'd the league"
II,II,NORFOLK,"Between us and the emperor, the queen's great nephew,"
II,II,NORFOLK,"He dives into the king's soul, and there scatters"
II,II,NORFOLK,"Dangers, doubts, wringing of the conscience,"
II,II,NORFOLK,"Fears, and despairs; and all these for his marriage:"
II,II,NORFOLK,"And out of all these to restore the king,"
II,II,NORFOLK,"He counsels a divorce; a loss of her"
II,II,NORFOLK,"That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years"
II,II,NORFOLK,"About his neck, yet never lost her lustre;"
II,II,NORFOLK,"Of her that loves him with that excellence"
II,II,NORFOLK,"That angels love good men with; even of her"
II,II,NORFOLK,"That, when the greatest stroke of fortune falls,"
II,II,NORFOLK,"Will bless the king: and is not this course pious?"
II,II,Chamberlain,"Heaven keep me from such counsel! 'Tis most true"
II,II,Chamberlain,"These news are every where; every tongue speaks 'em,"
II,II,Chamberlain,"And every true heart weeps for't: all that dare"
II,II,Chamberlain,"Look into these affairs see this main end,"
II,II,Chamberlain,"The French king's sister. Heaven will one day open"
II,II,Chamberlain,"The king's eyes, that so long have slept upon"
II,II,Chamberlain,"This bold bad man."
II,II,SUFFOLK,"And free us from his slavery."
II,II,NORFOLK,"We had need pray,"
II,II,NORFOLK,"And heartily, for our deliverance;"
II,II,NORFOLK,"Or this imperious man will work us all"
II,II,NORFOLK,"From princes into pages: all men's honours"
II,II,NORFOLK,"Lie like one lump before him, to be fashion'd"
II,II,NORFOLK,"Into what pitch he please."
II,II,SUFFOLK,"For me, my lords,"
II,II,SUFFOLK,"I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed:"
II,II,SUFFOLK,"As I am made without him, so I'll stand,"
II,II,SUFFOLK,"If the king please; his curses and his blessings"
II,II,SUFFOLK,"Touch me alike, they're breath I not believe in."
II,II,SUFFOLK,"I knew him, and I know him; so I leave him"
II,II,SUFFOLK,"To him that made him proud, the pope."
II,II,NORFOLK,"Let's in;"
II,II,NORFOLK,"And with some other business put the king"
II,II,NORFOLK,"From these sad thoughts, that work too much upon him:"
II,II,NORFOLK,"My lord, you'll bear us company?"
II,II,Chamberlain,"Excuse me;"
II,II,Chamberlain,"The king has sent me otherwhere: besides,"
II,II,Chamberlain,"You'll find a most unfit time to disturb him:"
II,II,Chamberlain,"Health to your lordships."
II,II,NORFOLK,"Thanks, my good lord chamberlain."
II,II,SUFFOLK,"How sad he looks! sure, he is much afflicted."
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Who's there, ha?"
II,II,NORFOLK,"Pray God he be not angry."
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Who's there, I say? How dare you thrust yourselves"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Into my private meditations?"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Who am I? ha?"
II,II,NORFOLK,"A gracious king that pardons all offences"
II,II,NORFOLK,"Malice ne'er meant: our breach of duty this way"
II,II,NORFOLK,"Is business of estate; in which we come"
II,II,NORFOLK,"To know your royal pleasure."
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Ye are too bold:"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Go to; I'll make ye know your times of business:"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Is this an hour for temporal affairs, ha?"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Who's there? my good lord cardinal? O my Wolsey,"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"The quiet of my wounded conscience;"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Thou art a cure fit for a king."
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"You're welcome,"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom:"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Use us and it."
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"My good lord, have great care"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"I be not found a talker."
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Sir, you cannot."
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I would your grace would give us but an hour"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Of private conference."
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"We are busy; go."
II,II,NORFOLK,"This priest has no pride in him?"
II,II,SUFFOLK,"I would not be so sick though for his place:"
II,II,SUFFOLK,"But this cannot continue."
II,II,NORFOLK,"I'll venture one have-at-him."
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Your grace has given a precedent of wisdom"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Above all princes, in committing freely"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Your scruple to the voice of Christendom:"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Who can be angry now? what envy reach you?"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The Spaniard, tied blood and favour to her,"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Must now confess, if they have any goodness,"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The trial just and noble. All the clerks,"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I mean the learned ones, in Christian kingdoms"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Have their free voices: Rome, the nurse of judgment,"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Invited by your noble self, hath sent"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"One general tongue unto us, this good man,"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"This just and learned priest, Cardinal Campeius;"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Whom once more I present unto your highness."
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"And once more in mine arms I bid him welcome,"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"And thank the holy conclave for their loves:"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"They have sent me such a man I would have wish'd for."
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Your grace must needs deserve all strangers' loves,"
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"You are so noble. To your highness' hand"
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"I tender my commission; by whose virtue,"
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"The court of Rome commanding, you, my lord"
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Cardinal of York, are join'd with me their servant"
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"In the unpartial judging of this business."
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Two equal men. The queen shall be acquainted"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Forthwith for what you come. Where's Gardiner?"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I know your majesty has always loved her"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"So dear in heart, not to deny her that"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A woman of less place might ask by law:"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Scholars allow'd freely to argue for her."
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Ay, and the best she shall have; and my favour"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"To him that does best: God forbid else. Cardinal,"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Prithee, call Gardiner to me, my new secretary:"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"I find him a fit fellow."
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"favour to you;"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"You are the king's now."
II,II,GARDINER,"But to be commanded"
II,II,GARDINER,"For ever by your grace, whose hand has raised me."
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Come hither, Gardiner."
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"My Lord of York, was not one Doctor Pace"
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"In this man's place before him?"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Yes, he was."
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Was he not held a learned man?"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Yes, surely."
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Believe me, there's an ill opinion spread then"
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Even of yourself, lord cardinal."
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"How! of me?"
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"They will not stick to say you envied him,"
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"And fearing he would rise, he was so virtuous,"
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him,"
II,II,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"That he ran mad and died."
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Heaven's peace be with him!"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That's Christian care enough: for living murmurers"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"There's places of rebuke. He was a fool;"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"For he would needs be virtuous: that good fellow,"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"If I command him, follows my appointment:"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I will have none so near else. Learn this, brother,"
II,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"We live not to be grip'd by meaner persons."
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Deliver this with modesty to the queen."
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"The most convenient place that I can think of"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"For such receipt of learning is Black-Friars;"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"There ye shall meet about this weighty business."
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"My Wolsey, see it furnish'd. O, my lord,"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Would it not grieve an able man to leave"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"So sweet a bedfellow? But, conscience, conscience!"
II,II,KING HENRY VIII,"O, 'tis a tender place; and I must leave her."
II,III,ANNE,"Not for that neither: here's the pang that pinches:"
II,III,ANNE,"His highness having lived so long with her, and she"
II,III,ANNE,"So good a lady that no tongue could ever"
II,III,ANNE,"Pronounce dishonour of her; by my life,"
II,III,ANNE,"She never knew harm-doing: O, now, after"
II,III,ANNE,"So many courses of the sun enthroned,"
II,III,ANNE,"Still growing in a majesty and pomp, the which"
II,III,ANNE,"To leave a thousand-fold more bitter than"
II,III,ANNE,"'Tis sweet at first to acquire,--after this process,"
II,III,ANNE,"To give her the avaunt! it is a pity"
II,III,ANNE,"Would move a monster."
II,III,Old Lady,"Hearts of most hard temper"
II,III,Old Lady,"Melt and lament for her."
II,III,ANNE,"O, God's will! much better"
II,III,ANNE,"She ne'er had known pomp: though't be temporal,"
II,III,ANNE,"Yet, if that quarrel, fortune, do divorce"
II,III,ANNE,"It from the bearer, 'tis a sufferance panging"
II,III,ANNE,"As soul and body's severing."
II,III,Old Lady,"Alas, poor lady!"
II,III,Old Lady,"She's a stranger now again."
II,III,ANNE,"So much the more"
II,III,ANNE,"Must pity drop upon her. Verily,"
II,III,ANNE,"I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born,"
II,III,ANNE,"And range with humble livers in content,"
II,III,ANNE,"Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief,"
II,III,ANNE,"And wear a golden sorrow."
II,III,Old Lady,"Our content"
II,III,Old Lady,"Is our best having."
II,III,ANNE,"By my troth and maidenhead,"
II,III,ANNE,"I would not be a queen."
II,III,Old Lady,"Beshrew me, I would,"
II,III,Old Lady,"And venture maidenhead for't; and so would you,"
II,III,Old Lady,"For all this spice of your hypocrisy:"
II,III,Old Lady,"You, that have so fair parts of woman on you,"
II,III,Old Lady,"Have too a woman's heart; which ever yet"
II,III,Old Lady,"Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty;"
II,III,Old Lady,"Which, to say sooth, are blessings; and which gifts,"
II,III,Old Lady,"Saving your mincing, the capacity"
II,III,Old Lady,"Of your soft cheveril conscience would receive,"
II,III,Old Lady,"If you might please to stretch it."
II,III,ANNE,"Nay, good troth."
II,III,Old Lady,"Yes, troth, and troth; you would not be a queen?"
II,III,ANNE,"No, not for all the riches under heaven."
II,III,Old Lady:,"'Tis strange: a three-pence bow'd would hire me,"
II,III,Old Lady:,"Old as I am, to queen it: but, I pray you,"
II,III,Old Lady:,"What think you of a duchess? have you limbs"
II,III,Old Lady:,"To bear that load of title?"
II,III,ANNE,"No, in truth."
II,III,Old Lady,"Then you are weakly made: pluck off a little;"
II,III,Old Lady,"I would not be a young count in your way,"
II,III,Old Lady,"For more than blushing comes to: if your back"
II,III,Old Lady,"Cannot vouchsafe this burthen,'tis too weak"
II,III,Old Lady,"Ever to get a boy."
II,III,ANNE,"How you do talk!"
II,III,ANNE,"I swear again, I would not be a queen"
II,III,ANNE,"For all the world."
II,III,Old Lady,"In faith, for little England"
II,III,Old Lady,"You'ld venture an emballing: I myself"
II,III,Old Lady,"Would for Carnarvonshire, although there long'd"
II,III,Old Lady,"No more to the crown but that. Lo, who comes here?"
II,III,Chamberlain,"Good morrow, ladies. What were't worth to know"
II,III,Chamberlain,"The secret of your conference?"
II,III,ANNE,"My good lord,"
II,III,ANNE,"Not your demand; it values not your asking:"
II,III,ANNE,"Our mistress' sorrows we were pitying."
II,III,Chamberlain,"It was a gentle business, and becoming"
II,III,Chamberlain,"The action of good women: there is hope"
II,III,Chamberlain,"All will be well."
II,III,ANNE,"Now, I pray God, amen!"
II,III,Chamberlain,"You bear a gentle mind, and heavenly blessings"
II,III,Chamberlain,"Follow such creatures. That you may, fair lady,"
II,III,Chamberlain,"Perceive I speak sincerely, and high note's"
II,III,Chamberlain,"Ta'en of your many virtues, the king's majesty"
II,III,Chamberlain,"Commends his good opinion of you, and"
II,III,Chamberlain,"Does purpose honour to you no less flowing"
II,III,Chamberlain,"Than Marchioness of Pembroke: to which title"
II,III,Chamberlain,"A thousand pound a year, annual support,"
II,III,Chamberlain,"Out of his grace he adds."
II,III,ANNE,"I do not know"
II,III,ANNE,"What kind of my obedience I should tender;"
II,III,ANNE,"More than my all is nothing: nor my prayers"
II,III,ANNE,"Are not words duly hallow'd, nor my wishes"
II,III,ANNE,"More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes"
II,III,ANNE,"Are all I can return. Beseech your lordship,"
II,III,ANNE,"Vouchsafe to speak my thanks and my obedience,"
II,III,ANNE,"As from a blushing handmaid, to his highness;"
II,III,ANNE,"Whose health and royalty I pray for."
II,III,Chamberlain,"Lady,"
II,III,Chamberlain,"I shall not fail to approve the fair conceit"
II,III,Chamberlain,"The king hath of you."
II,III,Chamberlain,"I have perused her well;"
II,III,Chamberlain,"Beauty and honour in her are so mingled"
II,III,Chamberlain,"That they have caught the king: and who knows yet"
II,III,Chamberlain,"But from this lady may proceed a gem"
II,III,Chamberlain,"To lighten all this isle? I'll to the king,"
II,III,Chamberlain,"And say I spoke with you."
II,III,ANNE,"My honour'd lord."
II,III,Old Lady,"Why, this it is; see, see!"
II,III,Old Lady,"I have been begging sixteen years in court,"
II,III,Old Lady,"Am yet a courtier beggarly, nor could"
II,III,Old Lady,"Come pat betwixt too early and too late"
II,III,Old Lady,"For any suit of pounds; and you, O fate!"
II,III,Old Lady,"A very fresh-fish here--fie, fie, fie upon"
II,III,Old Lady,"This compell'd fortune!--have your mouth fill'd up"
II,III,Old Lady,"Before you open it."
II,III,ANNE,"This is strange to me."
II,III,Old Lady,"How tastes it? is it bitter? forty pence, no."
II,III,Old Lady,"There was a lady once, 'tis an old story,"
II,III,Old Lady,"That would not be a queen, that would she not,"
II,III,Old Lady,"For all the mud in Egypt: have you heard it?"
II,III,ANNE,"Come, you are pleasant."
II,III,Old Lady,"With your theme, I could"
II,III,Old Lady,"O'ermount the lark. The Marchioness of Pembroke!"
II,III,Old Lady,"A thousand pounds a year for pure respect!"
II,III,Old Lady,"No other obligation! By my life,"
II,III,Old Lady,"That promises moe thousands: honour's train"
II,III,Old Lady,"Is longer than his foreskirt. By this time"
II,III,Old Lady,"I know your back will bear a duchess: say,"
II,III,Old Lady,"Are you not stronger than you were?"
II,III,ANNE,"Good lady,"
II,III,ANNE,"Make yourself mirth with your particular fancy,"
II,III,ANNE,"And leave me out on't. Would I had no being,"
II,III,ANNE,"If this salute my blood a jot: it faints me,"
II,III,ANNE,"To think what follows."
II,III,ANNE,"The queen is comfortless, and we forgetful"
II,III,ANNE,"In our long absence: pray, do not deliver"
II,III,ANNE,"What here you've heard to her."
II,III,Old Lady,"What do you think me?"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Whilst our commission from Rome is read,"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Let silence be commanded."
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"What's the need?"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"It hath already publicly been read,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"And on all sides the authority allow'd;"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"You may, then, spare that time."
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Be't so. Proceed."
II,IV,Scribe,"Say, Henry King of England, come into the court."
II,IV,Crier,"Henry King of England, &c."
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Here."
II,IV,Scribe,"Say, Katharine Queen of England, come into the court."
II,IV,Crier,"Katharine Queen of England, &c."
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Sir, I desire you do me right and justice;"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And to bestow your pity on me: for"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I am a most poor woman, and a stranger,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Born out of your dominions; having here"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"No judge indifferent, nor no more assurance"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Of equal friendship and proceeding. Alas, sir,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"In what have I offended you? what cause"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Hath my behavior given to your displeasure,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"That thus you should proceed to put me off,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And take your good grace from me? Heaven witness,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I have been to you a true and humble wife,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"At all times to your will conformable;"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Ever in fear to kindle your dislike,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Yea, subject to your countenance, glad or sorry"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"As I saw it inclined: when was the hour"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I ever contradicted your desire,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Or made it not mine too? Or which of your friends"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Have I not strove to love, although I knew"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"He were mine enemy? what friend of mine"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"That had to him derived your anger, did I"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Continue in my liking? nay, gave notice"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"He was from thence discharged. Sir, call to mind"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"That I have been your wife, in this obedience,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Upward of twenty years, and have been blest"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"With many children by you: if, in the course"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And process of this time, you can report,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And prove it too, against mine honour aught,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Against your sacred person, in God's name,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Turn me away; and let the foul'st contempt"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Shut door upon me, and so give me up"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"To the sharp'st kind of justice. Please you sir,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"The king, your father, was reputed for"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"A prince most prudent, of an excellent"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And unmatch'd wit and judgment: Ferdinand,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"My father, king of Spain, was reckon'd one"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"The wisest prince that there had reign'd by many"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"A year before: it is not to be question'd"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"That they had gather'd a wise council to them"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Of every realm, that did debate this business,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Who deem'd our marriage lawful: wherefore I humbly"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Beseech you, sir, to spare me, till I may"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Be by my friends in Spain advised; whose counsel"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I will implore: if not, i' the name of God,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Your pleasure be fulfill'd!"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"You have here, lady,"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And of your choice, these reverend fathers; men"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Of singular integrity and learning,"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Yea, the elect o' the land, who are assembled"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"To plead your cause: it shall be therefore bootless"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That longer you desire the court; as well"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"For your own quiet, as to rectify"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"What is unsettled in the king."
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"His grace"
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Hath spoken well and justly: therefore, madam,"
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"It's fit this royal session do proceed;"
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"And that, without delay, their arguments"
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Be now produced and heard."
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Lord cardinal,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"To you I speak."
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Your pleasure, madam?"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Sir,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I am about to weep; but, thinking that"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"We are a queen, or long have dream'd so, certain"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"The daughter of a king, my drops of tears"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I'll turn to sparks of fire."
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Be patient yet."
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I will, when you are humble; nay, before,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Or God will punish me. I do believe,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Induced by potent circumstances, that"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"You are mine enemy, and make my challenge"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"You shall not be my judge: for it is you"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Have blown this coal betwixt my lord and me;"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Which God's dew quench! Therefore I say again,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Refuse you for my judge; whom, yet once more,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I hold my most malicious foe, and think not"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"At all a friend to truth."
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I do profess"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"You speak not like yourself; who ever yet"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Have stood to charity, and display'd the effects"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Of disposition gentle, and of wisdom"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"O'ertopping woman's power. Madam, you do me wrong:"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I have no spleen against you; nor injustice"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"For you or any: how far I have proceeded,"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Or how far further shall, is warranted"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"By a commission from the consistory,"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Yea, the whole consistory of Rome. You charge me"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That I have blown this coal: I do deny it:"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The king is present: if it be known to him"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That I gainsay my deed, how may he wound,"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And worthily, my falsehood! yea, as much"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"As you have done my truth. If he know"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That I am free of your report, he knows"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I am not of your wrong. Therefore in him"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"It lies to cure me: and the cure is, to"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Remove these thoughts from you: the which before"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"His highness shall speak in, I do beseech"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"You, gracious madam, to unthink your speaking"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And to say so no more."
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"My lord, my lord,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I am a simple woman, much too weak"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"To oppose your cunning. You're meek and"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"humble-mouth'd;"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"You sign your place and calling, in full seeming,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"With meekness and humility; but your heart"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Is cramm'd with arrogancy, spleen, and pride."
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"You have, by fortune and his highness' favours,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Gone slightly o'er low steps and now are mounted"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Where powers are your retainers, and your words,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Domestics to you, serve your will as't please"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Yourself pronounce their office. I must tell you,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"You tender more your person's honour than"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Your high profession spiritual: that again"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I do refuse you for my judge; and here,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Before you all, appeal unto the pope,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And to be judged by him."
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"The queen is obstinate,"
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Stubborn to justice, apt to accuse it, and"
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Disdainful to be tried by't: 'tis not well."
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"She's going away."
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Call her again."
II,IV,Crier,"Katharine Queen of England, come into the court."
II,IV,GRIFFITH,"Madam, you are call'd back."
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"What need you note it? pray you, keep your way:"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"When you are call'd, return. Now, the Lord help,"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"They vex me past my patience! Pray you, pass on:"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I will not tarry; no, nor ever more"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Upon this business my appearance make"
II,IV,QUEEN KATHARINE,"In any of their courts."
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Go thy ways, Kate:"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"That man i' the world who shall report he has"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"A better wife, let him in nought be trusted,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"For speaking false in that: thou art, alone,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Thy meekness saint-like, wife-like government,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Obeying in commanding, and thy parts"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Sovereign and pious else, could speak thee out,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"The queen of earthly queens: she's noble born;"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"And, like her true nobility, she has"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Carried herself towards me."
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Most gracious sir,"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"In humblest manner I require your highness,"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That it shall please you to declare, in hearing"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Of all these ears,--for where I am robb'd and bound,"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"There must I be unloosed, although not there"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"At once and fully satisfied,--whether ever I"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Did broach this business to your highness; or"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Laid any scruple in your way, which might"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Induce you to the question on't? or ever"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Have to you, but with thanks to God for such"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A royal lady, spake one the least word that might"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Be to the prejudice of her present state,"
II,IV,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Or touch of her good person?"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"My lord cardinal,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I do excuse you; yea, upon mine honour,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I free you from't. You are not to be taught"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"That you have many enemies, that know not"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Why they are so, but, like to village-curs,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Bark when their fellows do: by some of these"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"The queen is put in anger. You're excused:"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"But will you be more justified? You ever"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Have wish'd the sleeping of this business; never desired"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"It to be stirr'd; but oft have hinder'd, oft,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"The passages made toward it: on my honour,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I speak my good lord cardinal to this point,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"And thus far clear him. Now, what moved me to't,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I will be bold with time and your attention:"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Then mark the inducement. Thus it came; give heed to't:"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"My conscience first received a tenderness,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Scruple, and prick, on certain speeches utter'd"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"By the Bishop of Bayonne, then French ambassador;"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Who had been hither sent on the debating"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"A marriage 'twixt the Duke of Orleans and"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Our daughter Mary: i' the progress of this business,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Ere a determinate resolution, he,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I mean the bishop, did require a respite;"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Wherein he might the king his lord advertise"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Whether our daughter were legitimate,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Respecting this our marriage with the dowager,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Sometimes our brother's wife. This respite shook"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"The bosom of my conscience, enter'd me,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Yea, with a splitting power, and made to tremble"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"The region of my breast; which forced such way,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"That many mazed considerings did throng"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"And press'd in with this caution. First, methought"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I stood not in the smile of heaven; who had"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Commanded nature, that my lady's womb,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"If it conceived a male child by me, should"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Do no more offices of life to't than"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"The grave does to the dead; for her male issue"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Or died where they were made, or shortly after"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"This world had air'd them: hence I took a thought,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"This was a judgment on me; that my kingdom,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Well worthy the best heir o' the world, should not"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Be gladded in't by me: then follows, that"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I weigh'd the danger which my realms stood in"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"By this my issue's fail; and that gave to me"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Many a groaning throe. Thus hulling in"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Toward this remedy, whereupon we are"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Now present here together: that's to say,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I meant to rectify my conscience,--which"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I then did feel full sick, and yet not well,--"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"By all the reverend fathers of the land"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"And doctors learn'd: first I began in private"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"With you, my Lord of Lincoln; you remember"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"How under my oppression I did reek,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"When I first moved you."
II,IV,LINCOLN,"Very well, my liege."
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I have spoke long: be pleased yourself to say"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"How far you satisfied me."
II,IV,LINCOLN,"So please your highness,"
II,IV,LINCOLN,"The question did at first so stagger me,"
II,IV,LINCOLN,"Bearing a state of mighty moment in't"
II,IV,LINCOLN,"And consequence of dread, that I committed"
II,IV,LINCOLN,"The daring'st counsel which I had to doubt;"
II,IV,LINCOLN,"And did entreat your highness to this course"
II,IV,LINCOLN,"Which you are running here."
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I then moved you,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"My Lord of Canterbury; and got your leave"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"To make this present summons: unsolicited"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I left no reverend person in this court;"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"But by particular consent proceeded"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Under your hands and seals: therefore, go on:"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"For no dislike i' the world against the person"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Of the good queen, but the sharp thorny points"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Of my alleged reasons, drive this forward:"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Prove but our marriage lawful, by my life"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"And kingly dignity, we are contented"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"To wear our mortal state to come with her,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Katharine our queen, before the primest creature"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"That's paragon'd o' the world."
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"So please your highness,"
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"The queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness"
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"That we adjourn this court till further day:"
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Meanwhile must be an earnest motion"
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Made to the queen, to call back her appeal"
II,IV,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"She intends unto his holiness."
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"These cardinals trifle with me: I abhor"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome."
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"My learn'd and well-beloved servant, Cranmer,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"Prithee, return: with thy approach, I know,"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"My comfort comes along. Break up the court:"
II,IV,KING HENRY VIII,"I say, set on."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Take thy lute, wench: my soul grows sad with troubles;"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Sing, and disperse 'em, if thou canst: leave working."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Orpheus with his lute made trees,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And the mountain tops that freeze,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Bow themselves when he did sing:"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"To his music plants and flowers"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Ever sprung; as sun and showers"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"There had made a lasting spring."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Every thing that heard him play,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Even the billows of the sea,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Hung their heads, and then lay by."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"In sweet music is such art,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Killing care and grief of heart"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Fall asleep, or hearing, die."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"How now!"
III,I,Gentleman,"An't please your grace, the two great cardinals"
III,I,Gentleman,"Wait in the presence."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Would they speak with me?"
III,I,Gentleman,"They will'd me say so, madam."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Pray their graces"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"To come near."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"What can be their business"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"With me, a poor weak woman, fall'n from favour?"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I do not like their coming. Now I think on't,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"They should be good men; their affairs as righteous:"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"But all hoods make not monks."
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Peace to your highness!"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Your graces find me here part of a housewife,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I would be all, against the worst may happen."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"What are your pleasures with me, reverend lords?"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"May it please you noble madam, to withdraw"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Into your private chamber, we shall give you"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The full cause of our coming."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Speak it here:"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"There's nothing I have done yet, o' my conscience,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Deserves a corner: would all other women"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Could speak this with as free a soul as I do!"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"My lords, I care not, so much I am happy"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Above a number, if my actions"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Were tried by every tongue, every eye saw 'em,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Envy and base opinion set against 'em,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I know my life so even. If your business"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Seek me out, and that way I am wife in,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Out with it boldly: truth loves open dealing."
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, regina"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"serenissima,--"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"O, good my lord, no Latin;"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I am not such a truant since my coming,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"As not to know the language I have lived in:"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"A strange tongue makes my cause more strange,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"suspicious;"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Pray, speak in English: here are some will thank you,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"If you speak truth, for their poor mistress' sake;"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Believe me, she has had much wrong: lord cardinal,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"The willing'st sin I ever yet committed"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"May be absolved in English."
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Noble lady,"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I am sorry my integrity should breed,"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And service to his majesty and you,"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"So deep suspicion, where all faith was meant."
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"We come not by the way of accusation,"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"To taint that honour every good tongue blesses,"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Nor to betray you any way to sorrow,"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"You have too much, good lady; but to know"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"How you stand minded in the weighty difference"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Between the king and you; and to deliver,"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Like free and honest men, our just opinions"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And comforts to your cause."
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Most honour'd madam,"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"My Lord of York, out of his noble nature,"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Zeal and obedience he still bore your grace,"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Forgetting, like a good man your late censure"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Both of his truth and him, which was too far,"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Offers, as I do, in a sign of peace,"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"His service and his counsel."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"My lords, I thank you both for your good wills;"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Ye speak like honest men; pray God, ye prove so!"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"But how to make ye suddenly an answer,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"In such a point of weight, so near mine honour,--"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"More near my life, I fear,--with my weak wit,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And to such men of gravity and learning,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"In truth, I know not. I was set at work"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Among my maids: full little, God knows, looking"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Either for such men or such business."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"For her sake that I have been,--for I feel"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"The last fit of my greatness,--good your graces,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Let me have time and counsel for my cause:"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Alas, I am a woman, friendless, hopeless!"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Madam, you wrong the king's love with these fears:"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Your hopes and friends are infinite."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"In England"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"But little for my profit: can you think, lords,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"That any Englishman dare give me counsel?"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Or be a known friend, 'gainst his highness' pleasure,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Though he be grown so desperate to be honest,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And live a subject? Nay, forsooth, my friends,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"They that must weigh out my afflictions,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"They that my trust must grow to, live not here:"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"They are, as all my other comforts, far hence"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"In mine own country, lords."
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"I would your grace"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Would leave your griefs, and take my counsel."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"How, sir?"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Put your main cause into the king's protection;"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"He's loving and most gracious: 'twill be much"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Both for your honour better and your cause;"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"For if the trial of the law o'ertake ye,"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"You'll part away disgraced."
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"He tells you rightly."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Ye tell me what ye wish for both,--my ruin:"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Is this your Christian counsel? out upon ye!"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"That no king can corrupt."
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Your rage mistakes us."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"The more shame for ye: holy men I thought ye,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues;"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear ye:"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Mend 'em, for shame, my lords. Is this your comfort?"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"The cordial that ye bring a wretched lady,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"A woman lost among ye, laugh'd at, scorn'd?"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I will not wish ye half my miseries;"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I have more charity: but say, I warn'd ye;"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Take heed, for heaven's sake, take heed, lest at once"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"The burthen of my sorrows fall upon ye."
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Madam, this is a mere distraction;"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"You turn the good we offer into envy."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Ye turn me into nothing: woe upon ye"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And all such false professors! would you have me--"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"If you have any justice, any pity;"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"If ye be any thing but churchmen's habits--"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Put my sick cause into his hands that hates me?"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Alas, has banish'd me his bed already,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"His love, too long ago! I am old, my lords,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And all the fellowship I hold now with him"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Is only my obedience. What can happen"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"To me above this wretchedness? all your studies"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Make me a curse like this."
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Your fears are worse."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Have I lived thus long--let me speak myself,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Since virtue finds no friends--a wife, a true one?"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"A woman, I dare say without vain-glory,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Never yet branded with suspicion?"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Have I with all my full affections"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Still met the king? loved him next heaven?"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"obey'd him?"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Been, out of fondness, superstitious to him?"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Almost forgot my prayers to content him?"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And am I thus rewarded? 'tis not well, lords."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Bring me a constant woman to her husband,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure;"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"And to that woman, when she has done most,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Yet will I add an honour, a great patience."
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Madam, you wander from the good we aim at."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"My lord, I dare not make myself so guilty,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"To give up willingly that noble title"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Your master wed me to: nothing but death"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Shall e'er divorce my dignities."
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Pray, hear me."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Would I had never trod this English earth,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it!"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your hearts."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"What will become of me now, wretched lady!"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I am the most unhappy woman living."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Alas, poor wenches, where are now your fortunes!"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Shipwreck'd upon a kingdom, where no pity,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"No friend, no hope; no kindred weep for me;"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Almost no grave allow'd me: like the lily,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"That once was mistress of the field and flourish'd,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"I'll hang my head and perish."
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"If your grace"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Could but be brought to know our ends are honest,"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"You'ld feel more comfort: why should we, good lady,"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Upon what cause, wrong you? alas, our places,"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The way of our profession is against it:"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"We are to cure such sorrows, not to sow 'em."
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"For goodness' sake, consider what you do;"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"How you may hurt yourself, ay, utterly"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Grow from the king's acquaintance, by this carriage."
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The hearts of princes kiss obedience,"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"So much they love it; but to stubborn spirits"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"They swell, and grow as terrible as storms."
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I know you have a gentle, noble temper,"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A soul as even as a calm: pray, think us"
III,I,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Those we profess, peace-makers, friends, and servants."
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Madam, you'll find it so. You wrong your virtues"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"With these weak women's fears: a noble spirit,"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"As yours was put into you, ever casts"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Such doubts, as false coin, from it. The king loves you;"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"Beware you lose it not: for us, if you please"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"To trust us in your business, we are ready"
III,I,CARDINAL CAMPEIUS,"To use our utmost studies in your service."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Do what ye will, my lords: and, pray, forgive me,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"If I have used myself unmannerly;"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"You know I am a woman, lacking wit"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"To make a seemly answer to such persons."
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Pray, do my service to his majesty:"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"He has my heart yet; and shall have my prayers"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"While I shall have my life. Come, reverend fathers,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"Bestow your counsels on me: she now begs,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"That little thought, when she set footing here,"
III,I,QUEEN KATHARINE,"She should have bought her dignities so dear."
III,II,NORFOLK,"If you will now unite in your complaints,"
III,II,NORFOLK,"And force them with a constancy, the cardinal"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Cannot stand under them: if you omit"
III,II,NORFOLK,"The offer of this time, I cannot promise"
III,II,NORFOLK,"But that you shall sustain moe new disgraces,"
III,II,NORFOLK,"With these you bear already."
III,II,SURREY,"I am joyful"
III,II,SURREY,"To meet the least occasion that may give me"
III,II,SURREY,"Remembrance of my father-in-law, the duke,"
III,II,SURREY,"To be revenged on him."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Which of the peers"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Have uncontemn'd gone by him, or at least"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Strangely neglected? when did he regard"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"The stamp of nobleness in any person"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Out of himself?"
III,II,Chamberlain,"My lords, you speak your pleasures:"
III,II,Chamberlain,"What he deserves of you and me I know;"
III,II,Chamberlain,"What we can do to him, though now the time"
III,II,Chamberlain,"Gives way to us, I much fear. If you cannot"
III,II,Chamberlain,"Bar his access to the king, never attempt"
III,II,Chamberlain,"Any thing on him; for he hath a witchcraft"
III,II,Chamberlain,"Over the king in's tongue."
III,II,NORFOLK,"O, fear him not;"
III,II,NORFOLK,"His spell in that is out: the king hath found"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Matter against him that for ever mars"
III,II,NORFOLK,"The honey of his language. No, he's settled,"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Not to come off, in his displeasure."
III,II,SURREY,"Sir,"
III,II,SURREY,"I should be glad to hear such news as this"
III,II,SURREY,"Once every hour."
III,II,NORFOLK,"Believe it, this is true:"
III,II,NORFOLK,"In the divorce his contrary proceedings"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Are all unfolded wherein he appears"
III,II,NORFOLK,"As I would wish mine enemy."
III,II,SURREY,"How came"
III,II,SURREY,"His practises to light?"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Most strangely."
III,II,SURREY,"O, how, how?"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"And came to the eye o' the king: wherein was read,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"How that the cardinal did entreat his holiness"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"To stay the judgment o' the divorce; for if"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"It did take place, 'I do,' quoth he, 'perceive"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"My king is tangled in affection to"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen.'"
III,II,SURREY,"Has the king this?"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Believe it."
III,II,SURREY,"Will this work?"
III,II,Chamberlain,"The king in this perceives him, how he coasts"
III,II,Chamberlain,"And hedges his own way. But in this point"
III,II,Chamberlain,"All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic"
III,II,Chamberlain,"After his patient's death: the king already"
III,II,Chamberlain,"Hath married the fair lady."
III,II,SURREY,"Would he had!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"May you be happy in your wish, my lord"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"For, I profess, you have it."
III,II,SURREY,"Now, all my joy"
III,II,SURREY,"Trace the conjunction!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"My amen to't!"
III,II,NORFOLK,"All men's!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"There's order given for her coronation:"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Marry, this is yet but young, and may be left"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"To some ears unrecounted. But, my lords,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"She is a gallant creature, and complete"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"In mind and feature: I persuade me, from her"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Will fall some blessing to this land, which shall"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"In it be memorised."
III,II,SURREY,"But, will the king"
III,II,SURREY,"Digest this letter of the cardinal's?"
III,II,SURREY,"The Lord forbid!"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Marry, amen!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"No, no;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"There be moe wasps that buzz about his nose"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Will make this sting the sooner. Cardinal Campeius"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Is stol'n away to Rome; hath ta'en no leave;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Has left the cause o' the king unhandled; and"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Is posted, as the agent of our cardinal,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"To second all his plot. I do assure you"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"The king cried Ha! at this."
III,II,Chamberlain,"Now, God incense him,"
III,II,Chamberlain,"And let him cry Ha! louder!"
III,II,NORFOLK,"But, my lord,"
III,II,NORFOLK,"When returns Cranmer?"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"He is return'd in his opinions; which"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Have satisfied the king for his divorce,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Together with all famous colleges"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Almost in Christendom: shortly, I believe,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"His second marriage shall be publish'd, and"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Her coronation. Katharine no more"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Shall be call'd queen, but princess dowager"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"And widow to Prince Arthur."
III,II,NORFOLK,"This same Cranmer's"
III,II,NORFOLK,"A worthy fellow, and hath ta'en much pain"
III,II,NORFOLK,"In the king's business."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"He has; and we shall see him"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"For it an archbishop."
III,II,NORFOLK,"So I hear."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"'Tis so."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"The cardinal!"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Observe, observe, he's moody."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The packet, Cromwell."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Gave't you the king?"
III,II,CROMWELL,"To his own hand, in's bedchamber."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Look'd he o' the inside of the paper?"
III,II,CROMWELL,"Presently"
III,II,CROMWELL,"He did unseal them: and the first he view'd,"
III,II,CROMWELL,"He did it with a serious mind; a heed"
III,II,CROMWELL,"Was in his countenance. You he bade"
III,II,CROMWELL,"Attend him here this morning."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Is he ready"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"To come abroad?"
III,II,CROMWELL,"I think, by this he is."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Leave me awhile."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"It shall be to the Duchess of Alencon,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The French king's sister: he shall marry her."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Anne Bullen! No; I'll no Anne Bullens for him:"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"There's more in't than fair visage. Bullen!"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"No, we'll no Bullens. Speedily I wish"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"To hear from Rome. The Marchioness of Pembroke!"
III,II,NORFOLK,"He's discontented."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"May be, he hears the king"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Does whet his anger to him."
III,II,SURREY,"Sharp enough,"
III,II,SURREY,"Lord, for thy justice!"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"a knight's daughter,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"To be her mistress' mistress! the queen's queen!"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"This candle burns not clear: 'tis I must snuff it;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Then out it goes. What though I know her virtuous"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And well deserving? yet I know her for"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A spleeny Lutheran; and not wholesome to"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Our cause, that she should lie i' the bosom of"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Our hard-ruled king. Again, there is sprung up"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"An heretic, an arch one, Cranmer; one"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Hath crawl'd into the favour of the king,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And is his oracle."
III,II,NORFOLK,"He is vex'd at something."
III,II,SURREY,"I would 'twere something that would fret the string,"
III,II,SURREY,"The master-cord on's heart!"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"The king, the king!"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"What piles of wealth hath he accumulated"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"To his own portion! and what expense by the hour"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Seems to flow from him! How, i' the name of thrift,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Does he rake this together! Now, my lords,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Saw you the cardinal?"
III,II,NORFOLK,"My lord, we have"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Stood here observing him: some strange commotion"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Is in his brain: he bites his lip, and starts;"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground,"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Then lays his finger on his temple, straight"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Springs out into fast gait; then stops again,"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts"
III,II,NORFOLK,"His eye against the moon: in most strange postures"
III,II,NORFOLK,"We have seen him set himself."
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"It may well be;"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"There is a mutiny in's mind. This morning"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Papers of state he sent me to peruse,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"As I required: and wot you what I found"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"There,--on my conscience, put unwittingly?"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing;"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"The several parcels of his plate, his treasure,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Rich stuffs, and ornaments of household; which"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"I find at such proud rate, that it out-speaks"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Possession of a subject."
III,II,NORFOLK,"It's heaven's will:"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Some spirit put this paper in the packet,"
III,II,NORFOLK,"To bless your eye withal."
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"If we did think"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"His contemplation were above the earth,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"And fix'd on spiritual object, he should still"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Dwell in his musings: but I am afraid"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"His thinkings are below the moon, not worth"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"His serious considering."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Heaven forgive me!"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Ever God bless your highness!"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Good my lord,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"You are full of heavenly stuff, and bear the inventory"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Of your best graces in your mind; the which"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"You were now running o'er: you have scarce time"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"To keep your earthly audit: sure, in that"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"I deem you an ill husband, and am glad"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"To have you therein my companion."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Sir,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"For holy offices I have a time; a time"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"To think upon the part of business which"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I bear i' the state; and nature does require"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Her times of preservation, which perforce"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I, her frail son, amongst my brethren mortal,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Must give my tendence to."
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"You have said well."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And ever may your highness yoke together,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"As I will lend you cause, my doing well"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"With my well saying!"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"'Tis well said again;"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"And yet words are no deeds. My father loved you:"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"His said he did; and with his deed did crown"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"His word upon you. Since I had my office,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"I have kept you next my heart; have not alone"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Employ'd you where high profits might come home,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"But pared my present havings, to bestow"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"My bounties upon you."
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Have I not made you,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"The prime man of the state? I pray you, tell me,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"If what I now pronounce you have found true:"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"And, if you may confess it, say withal,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"If you are bound to us or no. What say you?"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"My sovereign, I confess your royal graces,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Shower'd on me daily, have been more than could"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"My studied purposes requite; which went"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Beyond all man's endeavours: my endeavours"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Have ever come too short of my desires,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Yet filed with my abilities: mine own ends"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Have been mine so that evermore they pointed"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"To the good of your most sacred person and"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The profit of the state. For your great graces"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Heap'd upon me, poor undeserver, I"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Can nothing render but allegiant thanks,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"My prayers to heaven for you, my loyalty,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Which ever has and ever shall be growing,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Till death, that winter, kill it."
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Fairly answer'd;"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"A loyal and obedient subject is"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Therein illustrated: the honour of it"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Does pay the act of it; as, i' the contrary,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"The foulness is the punishment. I presume"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"That, as my hand has open'd bounty to you,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"My heart dropp'd love, my power rain'd honour, more"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"On you than any; so your hand and heart,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Your brain, and every function of your power,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"As 'twere in love's particular, be more"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"To me, your friend, than any."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I do profess"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That for your highness' good I ever labour'd"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"More than mine own; that am, have, and will be--"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Though all the world should crack their duty to you,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And throw it from their soul; though perils did"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Abound, as thick as thought could make 'em, and"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Appear in forms more horrid,--yet my duty,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"As doth a rock against the chiding flood,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Should the approach of this wild river break,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And stand unshaken yours."
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"'Tis nobly spoken:"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Take notice, lords, he has a loyal breast,"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"For you have seen him open't. Read o'er this;"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"And after, this: and then to breakfast with"
III,II,KING HENRY VIII,"What appetite you have."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"What should this mean?"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"What sudden anger's this? how have I reap'd it?"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"He parted frowning from me, as if ruin"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Leap'd from his eyes: so looks the chafed lion"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Upon the daring huntsman that has gall'd him;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Then makes him nothing. I must read this paper;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I fear, the story of his anger. 'Tis so;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"This paper has undone me: 'tis the account"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Of all that world of wealth I have drawn together"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"For mine own ends; indeed, to gain the popedom,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And fee my friends in Rome. O negligence!"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Fit for a fool to fall by: what cross devil"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Made me put this main secret in the packet"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I sent the king? Is there no way to cure this?"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"No new device to beat this from his brains?"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I know 'twill stir him strongly; yet I know"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A way, if it take right, in spite of fortune"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Will bring me off again. What's this? 'To the Pope!'"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The letter, as I live, with all the business"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I writ to's holiness. Nay then, farewell!"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And, from that full meridian of my glory,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I haste now to my setting: I shall fall"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Like a bright exhalation m the evening,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And no man see me more."
III,II,NORFOLK,"Hear the king's pleasure, cardinal: who commands you"
III,II,NORFOLK,"To render up the great seal presently"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Into our hands; and to confine yourself"
III,II,NORFOLK,"To Asher House, my Lord of Winchester's,"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Till you hear further from his highness."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Stay:"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Where's your commission, lords? words cannot carry"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Authority so weighty."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Who dare cross 'em,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Bearing the king's will from his mouth expressly?"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Till I find more than will or words to do it,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I mean your malice, know, officious lords,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I dare and must deny it. Now I feel"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Of what coarse metal ye are moulded, envy:"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"How eagerly ye follow my disgraces,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"As if it fed ye! and how sleek and wanton"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Ye appear in every thing may bring my ruin!"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Follow your envious courses, men of malice;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"You have Christian warrant for 'em, and, no doubt,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"In time will find their fit rewards. That seal,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"You ask with such a violence, the king,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Bade me enjoy it, with the place and honours,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"During my life; and, to confirm his goodness,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Tied it by letters-patents: now, who'll take it?"
III,II,SURREY,"The king, that gave it."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"It must be himself, then."
III,II,SURREY,"Thou art a proud traitor, priest."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Proud lord, thou liest:"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Within these forty hours Surrey durst better"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Have burnt that tongue than said so."
III,II,SURREY,"Thy ambition,"
III,II,SURREY,"Thou scarlet sin, robb'd this bewailing land"
III,II,SURREY,"Of noble Buckingham, my father-in-law:"
III,II,SURREY,"The heads of all thy brother cardinals,"
III,II,SURREY,"With thee and all thy best parts bound together,"
III,II,SURREY,"Weigh'd not a hair of his. Plague of your policy!"
III,II,SURREY,"You sent me deputy for Ireland;"
III,II,SURREY,"Far from his succor, from the king, from all"
III,II,SURREY,"That might have mercy on the fault thou gavest him;"
III,II,SURREY,"Whilst your great goodness, out of holy pity,"
III,II,SURREY,"Absolved him with an axe."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"This, and all else"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"This talking lord can lay upon my credit,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I answer is most false. The duke by law"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Found his deserts: how innocent I was"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"From any private malice in his end,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"His noble jury and foul cause can witness."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"If I loved many words, lord, I should tell you"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"You have as little honesty as honour,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That in the way of loyalty and truth"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Toward the king, my ever royal master,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And all that love his follies."
III,II,SURREY,"By my soul,"
III,II,SURREY,"Your long coat, priest, protects you; thou"
III,II,SURREY,"shouldst feel"
III,II,SURREY,"My sword i' the life-blood of thee else. My lords,"
III,II,SURREY,"Can ye endure to hear this arrogance?"
III,II,SURREY,"And from this fellow? if we live thus tamely,"
III,II,SURREY,"To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet,"
III,II,SURREY,"Farewell nobility; let his grace go forward,"
III,II,SURREY,"And dare us with his cap like larks."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"All goodness"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Is poison to thy stomach."
III,II,SURREY,"Yes, that goodness"
III,II,SURREY,"Of gleaning all the land's wealth into one,"
III,II,SURREY,"Into your own hands, cardinal, by extortion;"
III,II,SURREY,"The goodness of your intercepted packets"
III,II,SURREY,"You writ to the pope against the king: your goodness,"
III,II,SURREY,"Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious."
III,II,SURREY,"My Lord of Norfolk, as you are truly noble,"
III,II,SURREY,"As you respect the common good, the state"
III,II,SURREY,"Of our despised nobility, our issues,"
III,II,SURREY,"Who, if he live, will scarce be gentlemen,"
III,II,SURREY,"Produce the grand sum of his sins, the articles"
III,II,SURREY,"Collected from his life. I'll startle you"
III,II,SURREY,"Worse than the scaring bell, when the brown wench"
III,II,SURREY,"Lay kissing in your arms, lord cardinal."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"How much, methinks, I could despise this man,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"But that I am bound in charity against it!"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Those articles, my lord, are in the king's hand:"
III,II,NORFOLK,"But, thus much, they are foul ones."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"So much fairer"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And spotless shall mine innocence arise,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"When the king knows my truth."
III,II,SURREY,"This cannot save you:"
III,II,SURREY,"I thank my memory, I yet remember"
III,II,SURREY,"Some of these articles; and out they shall."
III,II,SURREY,"Now, if you can blush and cry 'guilty,' cardinal,"
III,II,SURREY,"You'll show a little honesty."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Speak on, sir;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I dare your worst objections: if I blush,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"It is to see a nobleman want manners."
III,II,SURREY,"I had rather want those than my head. Have at you!"
III,II,SURREY,"First, that, without the king's assent or knowledge,"
III,II,SURREY,"You wrought to be a legate; by which power"
III,II,SURREY,"You maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops."
III,II,NORFOLK,"Then, that in all you writ to Rome, or else"
III,II,NORFOLK,"To foreign princes, 'Ego et Rex meus'"
III,II,NORFOLK,"Was still inscribed; in which you brought the king"
III,II,NORFOLK,"To be your servant."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Then that, without the knowledge"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Either of king or council, when you went"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Ambassador to the emperor, you made bold"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"To carry into Flanders the great seal."
III,II,SURREY,"Item, you sent a large commission"
III,II,SURREY,"To Gregory de Cassado, to conclude,"
III,II,SURREY,"Without the king's will or the state's allowance,"
III,II,SURREY,"A league between his highness and Ferrara."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"That, out of mere ambition, you have caused"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Your holy hat to be stamp'd on the king's coin."
III,II,SURREY,"Then that you have sent innumerable substance--"
III,II,SURREY,"By what means got, I leave to your own conscience--"
III,II,SURREY,"To furnish Rome, and to prepare the ways"
III,II,SURREY,"You have for dignities; to the mere undoing"
III,II,SURREY,"Of all the kingdom. Many more there are;"
III,II,SURREY,"Which, since they are of you, and odious,"
III,II,SURREY,"I will not taint my mouth with."
III,II,Chamberlain,"O my lord,"
III,II,Chamberlain,"Press not a falling man too far! 'tis virtue:"
III,II,Chamberlain,"His faults lie open to the laws; let them,"
III,II,Chamberlain,"Not you, correct him. My heart weeps to see him"
III,II,Chamberlain,"So little of his great self."
III,II,SURREY,"I forgive him."
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Lord cardinal, the king's further pleasure is,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Because all those things you have done of late,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"By your power legatine, within this kingdom,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Fall into the compass of a praemunire,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"That therefore such a writ be sued against you;"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements,"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Chattels, and whatsoever, and to be"
III,II,SUFFOLK,"Out of the king's protection. This is my charge."
III,II,NORFOLK,"And so we'll leave you to your meditations"
III,II,NORFOLK,"How to live better. For your stubborn answer"
III,II,NORFOLK,"About the giving back the great seal to us,"
III,II,NORFOLK,"The king shall know it, and, no doubt, shall thank you."
III,II,NORFOLK,"So fare you well, my little good lord cardinal."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"So farewell to the little good you bear me."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"This many summers in a sea of glory,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"At length broke under me and now has left me,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Weary and old with service, to the mercy"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye:"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"More pangs and fears than wars or women have:"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Never to hope again."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Why, how now, Cromwell!"
III,II,CROMWELL,"I have no power to speak, sir."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"What, amazed"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"At my misfortunes? can thy spirit wonder"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A great man should decline? Nay, an you weep,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I am fall'n indeed."
III,II,CROMWELL,"How does your grace?"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Why, well;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I know myself now; and I feel within me"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A peace above all earthly dignities,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A still and quiet conscience. The king has cured me,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I humbly thank his grace; and from these shoulders,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"These ruin'd pillars, out of pity, taken"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A load would sink a navy, too much honour:"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"O, 'tis a burthen, Cromwell, 'tis a burthen"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven!"
III,II,CROMWELL,"I am glad your grace has made that right use of it."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I hope I have: I am able now, methinks,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Out of a fortitude of soul I feel,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"To endure more miseries and greater far"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"What news abroad?"
III,II,CROMWELL,"The heaviest and the worst"
III,II,CROMWELL,"Is your displeasure with the king."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"God bless him!"
III,II,CROMWELL,"The next is, that Sir Thomas More is chosen"
III,II,CROMWELL,"Lord chancellor in your place."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That's somewhat sudden:"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"But he's a learned man. May he continue"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Long in his highness' favour, and do justice"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"For truth's sake and his conscience; that his bones,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on em! What more?"
III,II,CROMWELL,"That Cranmer is return'd with welcome,"
III,II,CROMWELL,"Install'd lord archbishop of Canterbury."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That's news indeed."
III,II,CROMWELL,"Last, that the Lady Anne,"
III,II,CROMWELL,"Whom the king hath in secrecy long married,"
III,II,CROMWELL,"This day was view'd in open as his queen,"
III,II,CROMWELL,"Going to chapel; and the voice is now"
III,II,CROMWELL,"Only about her coronation."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"There was the weight that pull'd me down. O Cromwell,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The king has gone beyond me: all my glories"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"In that one woman I have lost for ever:"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Or gild again the noble troops that waited"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Upon my smiles. Go, get thee from me, Cromwell;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I am a poor fall'n man, unworthy now"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"To be thy lord and master: seek the king;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"That sun, I pray, may never set! I have told him"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"What and how true thou art: he will advance thee;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Some little memory of me will stir him--"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I know his noble nature--not to let"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Thy hopeful service perish too: good Cromwell,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Neglect him not; make use now, and provide"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"For thine own future safety."
III,II,CROMWELL,"O my lord,"
III,II,CROMWELL,"Must I, then, leave you? must I needs forego"
III,II,CROMWELL,"So good, so noble and so true a master?"
III,II,CROMWELL,"Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron,"
III,II,CROMWELL,"With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord."
III,II,CROMWELL,"The king shall have my service: but my prayers"
III,II,CROMWELL,"For ever and for ever shall be yours."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"A sure and safe one, though thy master miss'd it."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition:"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Corruption wins not more than honesty."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not:"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"O Cromwell,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Thou fall'st a blessed martyr! Serve the king;"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And,--prithee, lead me in:"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"There take an inventory of all I have,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"To the last penny; 'tis the king's: my robe,"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"And my integrity to heaven, is all"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell!"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Had I but served my God with half the zeal"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"I served my king, he would not in mine age"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"Have left me naked to mine enemies."
III,II,CROMWELL,"Good sir, have patience."
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"So I have. Farewell"
III,II,CARDINAL WOLSEY,"The hopes of court! my hopes in heaven do dwell."
IV,I,First Gentleman,"You're well met once again."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"So are you."
IV,I,First Gentleman,"You come to take your stand here, and behold"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"The Lady Anne pass from her coronation?"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"'Tis all my business. At our last encounter,"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"The Duke of Buckingham came from his trial."
IV,I,First Gentleman,"'Tis very true: but that time offer'd sorrow;"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"This, general joy."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"'Tis well: the citizens,"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"I am sure, have shown at full their royal minds--"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"As, let 'em have their rights, they are ever forward--"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"In celebration of this day with shows,"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Pageants and sights of honour."
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Never greater,"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Nor, I'll assure you, better taken, sir."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"May I be bold to ask at what that contains,"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"That paper in your hand?"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Yes; 'tis the list"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Of those that claim their offices this day"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"By custom of the coronation."
IV,I,First Gentleman,"The Duke of Suffolk is the first, and claims"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"To be high-steward; next, the Duke of Norfolk,"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"He to be earl marshal: you may read the rest."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"I thank you, sir: had I not known those customs,"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"I should have been beholding to your paper."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"But, I beseech you, what's become of Katharine,"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"The princess dowager? how goes her business?"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"That I can tell you too. The Archbishop"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Of Canterbury, accompanied with other"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Learned and reverend fathers of his order,"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Held a late court at Dunstable, six miles off"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"From Ampthill where the princess lay; to which"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"She was often cited by them, but appear'd not:"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"And, to be short, for not appearance and"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"The king's late scruple, by the main assent"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Of all these learned men she was divorced,"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"And the late marriage made of none effect"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Since which she was removed to Kimbolton,"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Where she remains now sick."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Alas, good lady!"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"The trumpets sound: stand close, the queen is coming."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"A royal train, believe me. These I know:"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Who's that that bears the sceptre?"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Marquess Dorset:"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"And that the Earl of Surrey, with the rod."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"A bold brave gentleman. That should be"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"The Duke of Suffolk?"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"'Tis the same: high-steward."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"And that my Lord of Norfolk?"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Yes;"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Heaven bless thee!"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Thou hast the sweetest face I ever look'd on."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel;"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Our king has all the Indies in his arms,"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"And more and richer, when he strains that lady:"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"I cannot blame his conscience."
IV,I,First Gentleman,"They that bear"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"The cloth of honour over her, are four barons"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Of the Cinque-ports."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Those men are happy; and so are all are near her."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"I take it, she that carries up the train"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Is that old noble lady, Duchess of Norfolk."
IV,I,First Gentleman,"It is; and all the rest are countesses."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Their coronets say so. These are stars indeed;"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"And sometimes falling ones."
IV,I,First Gentleman,"No more of that."
IV,I,First Gentleman,"God save you, sir! where have you been broiling?"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Among the crowd i' the Abbey; where a finger"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Could not be wedged in more: I am stifled"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"With the mere rankness of their joy."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"You saw"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"The ceremony?"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"That I did."
IV,I,First Gentleman,"How was it?"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Well worth the seeing."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Good sir, speak it to us."
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"As well as I am able. The rich stream"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Of lords and ladies, having brought the queen"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"To a prepared place in the choir, fell off"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"A distance from her; while her grace sat down"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"To rest awhile, some half an hour or so,"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"In a rich chair of state, opposing freely"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"The beauty of her person to the people."
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Believe me, sir, she is the goodliest woman"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"That ever lay by man: which when the people"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Had the full view of, such a noise arose"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest,"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"As loud, and to as many tunes: hats, cloaks--"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Doublets, I think,--flew up; and had their faces"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Been loose, this day they had been lost. Such joy"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"I never saw before. Great-bellied women,"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"That had not half a week to go, like rams"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"In the old time of war, would shake the press,"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"And make 'em reel before 'em. No man living"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Could say 'This is my wife' there; all were woven"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"So strangely in one piece."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"But, what follow'd?"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"At length her grace rose, and with modest paces"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Came to the altar; where she kneel'd, and saint-like"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Cast her fair eyes to heaven and pray'd devoutly."
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Then rose again and bow'd her to the people:"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"When by the Archbishop of Canterbury"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"She had all the royal makings of a queen;"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Laid nobly on her: which perform'd, the choir,"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"With all the choicest music of the kingdom,"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted,"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"And with the same full state paced back again"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"To York-place, where the feast is held."
IV,I,First Gentleman,"Sir,"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"You must no more call it York-place, that's past;"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"For, since the cardinal fell, that title's lost:"
IV,I,First Gentleman,"'Tis now the king's, and call'd Whitehall."
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"I know it;"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"But 'tis so lately alter'd, that the old name"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Is fresh about me."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"What two reverend bishops"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Were those that went on each side of the queen?"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Stokesly and Gardiner; the one of Winchester,"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Newly preferr'd from the king's secretary,"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"The other, London."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"He of Winchester"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Is held no great good lover of the archbishop's,"
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"The virtuous Cranmer."
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"All the land knows that:"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"However, yet there is no great breach; when it comes,"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"Who may that be, I pray you?"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Thomas Cromwell;"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"A man in much esteem with the king, and truly"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"A worthy friend. The king has made him master"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"O' the jewel house,"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"And one, already, of the privy council."
IV,I,Second Gentleman,"He will deserve more."
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Yes, without all doubt."
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Come, gentlemen, ye shall go my way, which"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Is to the court, and there ye shall be my guests:"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"Something I can command. As I walk thither,"
IV,I,Third Gentleman,"I'll tell ye more."
IV,I,Both,"You may command us, sir."
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"How does your grace?"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"O Griffith, sick to death!"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"My legs, like loaden branches, bow to the earth,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Willing to leave their burthen. Reach a chair:"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"So; now, methinks, I feel a little ease."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Didst thou not tell me, Griffith, as thou led'st me,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"That the great child of honour, Cardinal Wolsey, Was dead?"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Yes, madam; but I think your grace,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Out of the pain you suffer'd, gave no ear to't."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Prithee, good Griffith, tell me how he died:"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"If well, he stepp'd before me, happily"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"For my example."
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Well, the voice goes, madam:"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"For after the stout Earl Northumberland"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Arrested him at York, and brought him forward,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"As a man sorely tainted, to his answer,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"He fell sick suddenly, and grew so ill"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"He could not sit his mule."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Alas, poor man!"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Lodged in the abbey; where the reverend abbot,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"With all his covent, honourably received him;"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"To whom he gave these words, 'O, father abbot,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"An old man, broken with the storms of state,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Give him a little earth for charity!'"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"So went to bed; where eagerly his sickness"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Pursued him still: and, three nights after this,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"About the hour of eight, which he himself"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Foretold should be his last, full of repentance,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"He gave his honours to the world again,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Yet thus far, Griffith, give me leave to speak him,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"And yet with charity. He was a man"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Himself with princes; one that, by suggestion,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Tied all the kingdom: simony was fair-play;"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"His own opinion was his law: i' the presence"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"He would say untruths; and be ever double"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Both in his words and meaning: he was never,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"But where he meant to ruin, pitiful:"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"His promises were, as he then was, mighty;"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"But his performance, as he is now, nothing:"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Of his own body he was ill, and gave"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"The clergy in example."
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Noble madam,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"We write in water. May it please your highness"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"To hear me speak his good now?"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Yes, good Griffith;"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"I were malicious else."
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"This cardinal,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle."
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading:"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"But to those men that sought him sweet as summer."
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"And though he were unsatisfied in getting,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Which was a sin, yet in bestowing, madam,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"He was most princely: ever witness for him"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Those twins Of learning that he raised in you,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Ipswich and Oxford! one of which fell with him,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Unwilling to outlive the good that did it;"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"So excellent in art, and still so rising,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue."
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him;"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"For then, and not till then, he felt himself,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"And found the blessedness of being little:"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"And, to add greater honours to his age"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Than man could give him, he died fearing God."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"After my death I wish no other herald,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"No other speaker of my living actions,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"To keep mine honour from corruption,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"But such an honest chronicler as Griffith."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Whom I most hated living, thou hast made me,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"With thy religious truth and modesty,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Now in his ashes honour: peace be with him!"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Patience, be near me still; and set me lower:"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"I have not long to trouble thee. Good Griffith,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Cause the musicians play me that sad note"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"I named my knell, whilst I sit meditating"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"On that celestial harmony I go to."
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"She is asleep: good wench, let's sit down quiet,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"For fear we wake her: softly, gentle Patience."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Spirits of peace, where are ye? are ye all gone,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye?"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Madam, we are here."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"It is not you I call for:"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Saw ye none enter since I slept?"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"None, madam."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"No? Saw you not, even now, a blessed troop"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Invite me to a banquet; whose bright faces"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun?"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"They promised me eternal happiness;"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I feel"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"I am not worthy yet to wear: I shall, assuredly."
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"I am most joyful, madam, such good dreams"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Possess your fancy."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Bid the music leave,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"They are harsh and heavy to me."
IV,II,PATIENCE,"Do you note"
IV,II,PATIENCE,"How much her grace is alter'd on the sudden?"
IV,II,PATIENCE,"How long her face is drawn? how pale she looks,"
IV,II,PATIENCE,"And of an earthy cold? Mark her eyes!"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"She is going, wench: pray, pray."
IV,II,PATIENCE,"Heaven comfort her!"
IV,II,Messenger,"An't like your grace,--"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"You are a saucy fellow:"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Deserve we no more reverence?"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"You are to blame,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"Knowing she will not lose her wonted greatness,"
IV,II,GRIFFITH,"To use so rude behavior; go to, kneel."
IV,II,Messenger,"I humbly do entreat your highness' pardon;"
IV,II,Messenger,"My haste made me unmannerly. There is staying"
IV,II,Messenger,"A gentleman, sent from the king, to see you."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Admit him entrance, Griffith: but this fellow"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Let me ne'er see again."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"If my sight fail not,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"You should be lord ambassador from the emperor,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"My royal nephew, and your name Capucius."
IV,II,CAPUCIUS,"Madam, the same; your servant."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"O, my lord,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"The times and titles now are alter'd strangely"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"With me since first you knew me. But, I pray you,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"What is your pleasure with me?"
IV,II,CAPUCIUS,"Noble lady,"
IV,II,CAPUCIUS,"First mine own service to your grace; the next,"
IV,II,CAPUCIUS,"The king's request that I would visit you;"
IV,II,CAPUCIUS,"Who grieves much for your weakness, and by me"
IV,II,CAPUCIUS,"Sends you his princely commendations,"
IV,II,CAPUCIUS,"And heartily entreats you take good comfort."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"O my good lord, that comfort comes too late;"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"'Tis like a pardon after execution:"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me;"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"But now I am past an comforts here, but prayers."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"How does his highness?"
IV,II,CAPUCIUS,"Madam, in good health."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"So may he ever do! and ever flourish,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"When I shall dwell with worms, and my poor name"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Banish'd the kingdom! Patience, is that letter,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"I caused you write, yet sent away?"
IV,II,PATIENCE,"No, madam."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Sir, I most humbly pray you to deliver"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"This to my lord the king."
IV,II,CAPUCIUS,"Most willing, madam."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"In which I have commended to his goodness"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter;"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her!"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding--"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"She is young, and of a noble modest nature,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"I hope she will deserve well,--and a little"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"To love her for her mother's sake, that loved him,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Heaven knows how dearly. My next poor petition"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Is, that his noble grace would have some pity"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Upon my wretched women, that so long"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Have follow'd both my fortunes faithfully:"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Of which there is not one, I dare avow,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"And now I should not lie, but will deserve"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"For virtue and true beauty of the soul,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"For honesty and decent carriage,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"A right good husband, let him be a noble"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"And, sure, those men are happy that shall have 'em."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"The last is, for my men; they are the poorest,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"But poverty could never draw 'em from me;"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"That they may have their wages duly paid 'em,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"And something over to remember me by:"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"If heaven had pleased to have given me longer life"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"And able means, we had not parted thus."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"These are the whole contents: and, good my lord,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"By that you love the dearest in this world,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"As you wish Christian peace to souls departed,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Stand these poor people's friend, and urge the king"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"To do me this last right."
IV,II,CAPUCIUS,"By heaven, I will,"
IV,II,CAPUCIUS,"Or let me lose the fashion of a man!"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"I thank you, honest lord. Remember me"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"In all humility unto his highness:"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Say his long trouble now is passing"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Out of this world; tell him, in death I bless'd him,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"For so I will. Mine eyes grow dim. Farewell,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"My lord. Griffith, farewell. Nay, Patience,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"You must not leave me yet: I must to bed;"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Call in more women. When I am dead, good wench,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Let me be used with honour: strew me over"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"With maiden flowers, that all the world may know"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"I was a chaste wife to my grave: embalm me,"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"Then lay me forth: although unqueen'd, yet like"
IV,II,KATHARINE,"A queen, and daughter to a king, inter me."
IV,II,KATHARINE,"I can no more."
V,I,GARDINER,"It's one o'clock, boy, is't not?"
V,I,Boy,"It hath struck."
V,I,GARDINER,"These should be hours for necessities,"
V,I,GARDINER,"Not for delights; times to repair our nature"
V,I,GARDINER,"With comforting repose, and not for us"
V,I,GARDINER,"To waste these times. Good hour of night, Sir Thomas!"
V,I,GARDINER,"Whither so late?"
V,I,LOVELL,"Came you from the king, my lord"
V,I,GARDINER,"I did, Sir Thomas: and left him at primero"
V,I,GARDINER,"With the Duke of Suffolk."
V,I,LOVELL,"I must to him too,"
V,I,LOVELL,"Before he go to bed. I'll take my leave."
V,I,GARDINER,"Not yet, Sir Thomas Lovell. What's the matter?"
V,I,GARDINER,"It seems you are in haste: an if there be"
V,I,GARDINER,"No great offence belongs to't, give your friend"
V,I,GARDINER,"Some touch of your late business: affairs, that walk,"
V,I,GARDINER,"As they say spirits do, at midnight, have"
V,I,GARDINER,"In them a wilder nature than the business"
V,I,GARDINER,"That seeks dispatch by day."
V,I,LOVELL,"My lord, I love you;"
V,I,LOVELL,"And durst commend a secret to your ear"
V,I,LOVELL,"Much weightier than this work. The queen's in labour,"
V,I,LOVELL,"They say, in great extremity; and fear'd"
V,I,LOVELL,"She'll with the labour end."
V,I,GARDINER,"The fruit she goes with"
V,I,GARDINER,"I pray for heartily, that it may find"
V,I,GARDINER,"Good time, and live: but for the stock, Sir Thomas,"
V,I,GARDINER,"I wish it grubb'd up now."
V,I,LOVELL,"Methinks I could"
V,I,LOVELL,"Cry the amen; and yet my conscience says"
V,I,LOVELL,"She's a good creature, and, sweet lady, does"
V,I,LOVELL,"Deserve our better wishes."
V,I,GARDINER,"But, sir, sir,"
V,I,GARDINER,"Hear me, Sir Thomas: you're a gentleman"
V,I,GARDINER,"Of mine own way; I know you wise, religious;"
V,I,GARDINER,"And, let me tell you, it will ne'er be well,"
V,I,GARDINER,"'Twill not, Sir Thomas Lovell, take't of me,"
V,I,GARDINER,"Till Cranmer, Cromwell, her two hands, and she,"
V,I,GARDINER,"Sleep in their graves."
V,I,LOVELL,"Now, sir, you speak of two"
V,I,LOVELL,"The most remark'd i' the kingdom. As for Cromwell,"
V,I,LOVELL,"Beside that of the jewel house, is made master"
V,I,LOVELL,"O' the rolls, and the king's secretary; further, sir,"
V,I,LOVELL,"Stands in the gap and trade of moe preferments,"
V,I,LOVELL,"With which the time will load him. The archbishop"
V,I,LOVELL,"Is the king's hand and tongue; and who dare speak"
V,I,LOVELL,"One syllable against him?"
V,I,GARDINER,"Yes, yes, Sir Thomas,"
V,I,GARDINER,"There are that dare; and I myself have ventured"
V,I,GARDINER,"To speak my mind of him: and indeed this day,"
V,I,GARDINER,"Sir, I may tell it you, I think I have"
V,I,GARDINER,"Incensed the lords o' the council, that he is,"
V,I,GARDINER,"For so I know he is, they know he is,"
V,I,GARDINER,"A most arch heretic, a pestilence"
V,I,GARDINER,"That does infect the land: with which they moved"
V,I,GARDINER,"Have broken with the king; who hath so far"
V,I,GARDINER,"Given ear to our complaint, of his great grace"
V,I,GARDINER,"And princely care foreseeing those fell mischiefs"
V,I,GARDINER,"Our reasons laid before him, hath commanded"
V,I,GARDINER,"To-morrow morning to the council-board"
V,I,GARDINER,"He be convented. He's a rank weed, Sir Thomas,"
V,I,GARDINER,"And we must root him out. From your affairs"
V,I,GARDINER,"I hinder you too long: good night, Sir Thomas."
V,I,LOVELL,"Many good nights, my lord: I rest your servant."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Charles, I will play no more tonight;"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"My mind's not on't; you are too hard for me."
V,I,SUFFOLK,"Sir, I did never win of you before."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"But little, Charles;"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Nor shall not, when my fancy's on my play."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Now, Lovell, from the queen what is the news?"
V,I,LOVELL,"I could not personally deliver to her"
V,I,LOVELL,"What you commanded me, but by her woman"
V,I,LOVELL,"I sent your message; who return'd her thanks"
V,I,LOVELL,"In the great'st humbleness, and desired your highness"
V,I,LOVELL,"Most heartily to pray for her."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"What say'st thou, ha?"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"To pray for her? what, is she crying out?"
V,I,LOVELL,"So said her woman; and that her sufferance made"
V,I,LOVELL,"Almost each pang a death."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Alas, good lady!"
V,I,SUFFOLK,"God safely quit her of her burthen, and"
V,I,SUFFOLK,"With gentle travail, to the gladding of"
V,I,SUFFOLK,"Your highness with an heir!"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"'Tis midnight, Charles;"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Prithee, to bed; and in thy prayers remember"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"The estate of my poor queen. Leave me alone;"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"For I must think of that which company"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Would not be friendly to."
V,I,SUFFOLK,"I wish your highness"
V,I,SUFFOLK,"A quiet night; and my good mistress will"
V,I,SUFFOLK,"Remember in my prayers."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Charles, good night."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Well, sir, what follows?"
V,I,DENNY,"Sir, I have brought my lord the archbishop,"
V,I,DENNY,"As you commanded me."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Ha! Canterbury?"
V,I,DENNY,"Ay, my good lord."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"'Tis true: where is he, Denny?"
V,I,DENNY,"He attends your highness' pleasure."
V,I,LOVELL,"I am happily come hither."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Avoid the gallery."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Ha! I have said. Be gone. What!"
V,I,CRANMER,"I am fearful: wherefore frowns he thus?"
V,I,CRANMER,"'Tis his aspect of terror. All's not well."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"How now, my lord! you desire to know"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Wherefore I sent for you."
V,I,CRANMER,"To attend your highness' pleasure."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Pray you, arise,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"My good and gracious Lord of Canterbury."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Come, you and I must walk a turn together;"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"I have news to tell you: come, come, give me your hand."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Ah, my good lord, I grieve at what I speak,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"And am right sorry to repeat what follows"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"I have, and most unwillingly, of late"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Heard many grievous, I do say, my lord,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Grievous complaints of you; which, being consider'd,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Have moved us and our council, that you shall"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"This morning come before us; where, I know,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"You cannot with such freedom purge yourself,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"But that, till further trial in those charges"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Which will require your answer, you must take"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Your patience to you, and be well contented"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"To make your house our Tower: you a brother of us,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"It fits we thus proceed, or else no witness"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Would come against you."
V,I,CRANMER,"I humbly thank your highness;"
V,I,CRANMER,"And am right glad to catch this good occasion"
V,I,CRANMER,"Most throughly to be winnow'd, where my chaff"
V,I,CRANMER,"And corn shall fly asunder: for, I know,"
V,I,CRANMER,"There's none stands under more calumnious tongues"
V,I,CRANMER,"Than I myself, poor man."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Stand up, good Canterbury:"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"In us, thy friend: give me thy hand, stand up:"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Prithee, let's walk. Now, by my holidame."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"What manner of man are you? My lord, I look'd"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"You would have given me your petition, that"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"I should have ta'en some pains to bring together"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Yourself and your accusers; and to have heard you,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Without indurance, further."
V,I,CRANMER,"Most dread liege,"
V,I,CRANMER,"The good I stand on is my truth and honesty:"
V,I,CRANMER,"If they shall fail, I, with mine enemies,"
V,I,CRANMER,"Will triumph o'er my person; which I weigh not,"
V,I,CRANMER,"Being of those virtues vacant. I fear nothing"
V,I,CRANMER,"What can be said against me."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Know you not"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"How your state stands i' the world, with the whole world?"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Your enemies are many, and not small; their practises"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Must bear the same proportion; and not ever"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"The justice and the truth o' the question carries"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"The due o' the verdict with it: at what ease"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"To swear against you? such things have been done."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"You are potently opposed; and with a malice"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Of as great size. Ween you of better luck,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"I mean, in perjured witness, than your master,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Whose minister you are, whiles here he lived"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Upon this naughty earth? Go to, go to;"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"You take a precipice for no leap of danger,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"And woo your own destruction."
V,I,CRANMER,"God and your majesty"
V,I,CRANMER,"Protect mine innocence, or I fall into"
V,I,CRANMER,"The trap is laid for me!"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Be of good cheer;"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"They shall no more prevail than we give way to."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Keep comfort to you; and this morning see"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"You do appear before them: if they shall chance,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"In charging you with matters, to commit you,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"The best persuasions to the contrary"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Fail not to use, and with what vehemency"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"The occasion shall instruct you: if entreaties"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Will render you no remedy, this ring"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Deliver them, and your appeal to us"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"There make before them. Look, the good man weeps!"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"He's honest, on mine honour. God's blest mother!"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"I swear he is true--hearted; and a soul"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"None better in my kingdom. Get you gone,"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"And do as I have bid you."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"He has strangled"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"His language in his tears."
V,I,Old Lady,"I'll not come back; the tidings that I bring"
V,I,Old Lady,"Will make my boldness manners. Now, good angels"
V,I,Old Lady,"Fly o'er thy royal head, and shade thy person"
V,I,Old Lady,"Under their blessed wings!"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Now, by thy looks"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"I guess thy message. Is the queen deliver'd?"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Say, ay; and of a boy."
V,I,Old Lady,"Ay, ay, my liege;"
V,I,Old Lady,"And of a lovely boy: the God of heaven"
V,I,Old Lady,"Both now and ever bless her! 'tis a girl,"
V,I,Old Lady,"Promises boys hereafter. Sir, your queen"
V,I,Old Lady,"Desires your visitation, and to be"
V,I,Old Lady,"Acquainted with this stranger 'tis as like you"
V,I,Old Lady,"As cherry is to cherry."
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Lovell!"
V,I,LOVELL,"Sir?"
V,I,KING HENRY VIII,"Give her an hundred marks. I'll to the queen."
V,I,Old Lady,"An hundred marks! By this light, I'll ha' more."
V,I,Old Lady,"An ordinary groom is for such payment."
V,I,Old Lady,"I will have more, or scold it out of him."
V,I,Old Lady,"Said I for this, the girl was like to him?"
V,I,Old Lady,"I will have more, or else unsay't; and now,"
V,I,Old Lady,"While it is hot, I'll put it to the issue."
V,II,CRANMER,"I hope I am not too late; and yet the gentleman,"
V,II,CRANMER,"That was sent to me from the council, pray'd me"
V,II,CRANMER,"To make great haste. All fast? what means this? Ho!"
V,II,CRANMER,"Who waits there? Sure, you know me?"
V,II,Keeper,"Yes, my lord;"
V,II,Keeper,"But yet I cannot help you."
V,II,CRANMER,"Why?"
V,II,Keeper,"Your grace must wait till you be call'd for."
V,II,CRANMER,"So."
V,II,DOCTOR BUTTS,"I came this way so happily: the king"
V,II,DOCTOR BUTTS,"Shall understand it presently."
V,II,CRANMER,"The king's physician: as he pass'd along,"
V,II,CRANMER,"How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!"
V,II,CRANMER,"Pray heaven, he sound not my disgrace! For certain,"
V,II,CRANMER,"This is of purpose laid by some that hate me--"
V,II,CRANMER,"God turn their hearts! I never sought their malice--"
V,II,CRANMER,"To quench mine honour: they would shame to make me"
V,II,CRANMER,"Wait else at door, a fellow-counsellor,"
V,II,CRANMER,"'Mong boys, grooms, and lackeys. But their pleasures"
V,II,CRANMER,"Must be fulfill'd, and I attend with patience."
V,II,DOCTOR BUTTS,"I'll show your grace the strangest sight--"
V,II,KING HENRY VIII,"What's that, Butts?"
V,II,DOCTOR BUTTS,"I think your highness saw this many a day."
V,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Body o' me, where is it?"
V,II,DOCTOR BUTTS,"There, my lord:"
V,II,DOCTOR BUTTS,"The high promotion of his grace of Canterbury;"
V,II,DOCTOR BUTTS,"Who holds his state at door, 'mongst pursuivants,"
V,II,DOCTOR BUTTS,"Pages, and footboys."
V,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Ha! 'tis he, indeed:"
V,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Is this the honour they do one another?"
V,II,KING HENRY VIII,"'Tis well there's one above 'em yet. I had thought"
V,II,KING HENRY VIII,"They had parted so much honesty among 'em"
V,II,KING HENRY VIII,"At least, good manners, as not thus to suffer"
V,II,KING HENRY VIII,"A man of his place, and so near our favour,"
V,II,KING HENRY VIII,"To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures,"
V,II,KING HENRY VIII,"And at the door too, like a post with packets."
V,II,KING HENRY VIII,"By holy Mary, Butts, there's knavery:"
V,II,KING HENRY VIII,"Let 'em alone, and draw the curtain close:"
V,II,KING HENRY VIII,"We shall hear more anon."
V,III,Chancellor,"Speak to the business, master-secretary:"
V,III,Chancellor,"Why are we met in council?"
V,III,CROMWELL,"Please your honours,"
V,III,CROMWELL,"The chief cause concerns his grace of Canterbury."
V,III,GARDINER,"Has he had knowledge of it?"
V,III,CROMWELL,"Yes."
V,III,NORFOLK,"Who waits there?"
V,III,Keeper,"Without, my noble lords?"
V,III,GARDINER,"Yes."
V,III,Keeper,"My lord archbishop;"
V,III,Keeper,"And has done half an hour, to know your pleasures."
V,III,Chancellor,"Let him come in."
V,III,Keeper,"Your grace may enter now."
V,III,Chancellor,"My good lord archbishop, I'm very sorry"
V,III,Chancellor,"To sit here at this present, and behold"
V,III,Chancellor,"That chair stand empty: but we all are men,"
V,III,Chancellor,"In our own natures frail, and capable"
V,III,Chancellor,"Of our flesh; few are angels: out of which frailty"
V,III,Chancellor,"And want of wisdom, you, that best should teach us,"
V,III,Chancellor,"Have misdemean'd yourself, and not a little,"
V,III,Chancellor,"Toward the king first, then his laws, in filling"
V,III,Chancellor,"The whole realm, by your teaching and your chaplains,"
V,III,Chancellor,"For so we are inform'd, with new opinions,"
V,III,Chancellor,"Divers and dangerous; which are heresies,"
V,III,Chancellor,"And, not reform'd, may prove pernicious."
V,III,GARDINER,"Which reformation must be sudden too,"
V,III,GARDINER,"My noble lords; for those that tame wild horses"
V,III,GARDINER,"Pace 'em not in their hands to make 'em gentle,"
V,III,GARDINER,"But stop their mouths with stubborn bits, and spur 'em,"
V,III,GARDINER,"Till they obey the manage. If we suffer,"
V,III,GARDINER,"Out of our easiness and childish pity"
V,III,GARDINER,"To one man's honour, this contagious sickness,"
V,III,GARDINER,"Farewell all physic: and what follows then?"
V,III,GARDINER,"Commotions, uproars, with a general taint"
V,III,GARDINER,"Of the whole state: as, of late days, our neighbours,"
V,III,GARDINER,"The upper Germany, can dearly witness,"
V,III,GARDINER,"Yet freshly pitied in our memories."
V,III,CRANMER,"My good lords, hitherto, in all the progress"
V,III,CRANMER,"Both of my life and office, I have labour'd,"
V,III,CRANMER,"And with no little study, that my teaching"
V,III,CRANMER,"And the strong course of my authority"
V,III,CRANMER,"Might go one way, and safely; and the end"
V,III,CRANMER,"Was ever, to do well: nor is there living,"
V,III,CRANMER,"I speak it with a single heart, my lords,"
V,III,CRANMER,"A man that more detests, more stirs against,"
V,III,CRANMER,"Both in his private conscience and his place,"
V,III,CRANMER,"Defacers of a public peace, than I do."
V,III,CRANMER,"Pray heaven, the king may never find a heart"
V,III,CRANMER,"With less allegiance in it! Men that make"
V,III,CRANMER,"Envy and crooked malice nourishment"
V,III,CRANMER,"Dare bite the best. I do beseech your lordships,"
V,III,CRANMER,"That, in this case of justice, my accusers,"
V,III,CRANMER,"Be what they will, may stand forth face to face,"
V,III,CRANMER,"And freely urge against me."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"Nay, my lord,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"That cannot be: you are a counsellor,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"And, by that virtue, no man dare accuse you."
V,III,GARDINER,"My lord, because we have business of more moment,"
V,III,GARDINER,"We will be short with you. 'Tis his highness' pleasure,"
V,III,GARDINER,"And our consent, for better trial of you,"
V,III,GARDINER,"From hence you be committed to the Tower;"
V,III,GARDINER,"Where, being but a private man again,"
V,III,GARDINER,"You shall know many dare accuse you boldly,"
V,III,GARDINER,"More than, I fear, you are provided for."
V,III,CRANMER,"Ah, my good Lord of Winchester, I thank you;"
V,III,CRANMER,"You are always my good friend; if your will pass,"
V,III,CRANMER,"I shall both find your lordship judge and juror,"
V,III,CRANMER,"You are so merciful: I see your end;"
V,III,CRANMER,"'Tis my undoing: love and meekness, lord,"
V,III,CRANMER,"Become a churchman better than ambition:"
V,III,CRANMER,"Win straying souls with modesty again,"
V,III,CRANMER,"Cast none away. That I shall clear myself,"
V,III,CRANMER,"Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience,"
V,III,CRANMER,"I make as little doubt, as you do conscience"
V,III,CRANMER,"In doing daily wrongs. I could say more,"
V,III,CRANMER,"But reverence to your calling makes me modest."
V,III,GARDINER,"My lord, my lord, you are a sectary,"
V,III,GARDINER,"That's the plain truth: your painted gloss discovers,"
V,III,GARDINER,"To men that understand you, words and weakness."
V,III,CROMWELL,"My Lord of Winchester, you are a little,"
V,III,CROMWELL,"By your good favour, too sharp; men so noble,"
V,III,CROMWELL,"However faulty, yet should find respect"
V,III,CROMWELL,"For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty"
V,III,CROMWELL,"To load a falling man."
V,III,GARDINER,"Good master secretary,"
V,III,GARDINER,"I cry your honour mercy; you may, worst"
V,III,GARDINER,"Of all this table, say so."
V,III,CROMWELL,"Why, my lord?"
V,III,GARDINER,"Do not I know you for a favourer"
V,III,GARDINER,"Of this new sect? ye are not sound."
V,III,CROMWELL,"Not sound?"
V,III,GARDINER,"Not sound, I say."
V,III,CROMWELL,"Would you were half so honest!"
V,III,CROMWELL,"Men's prayers then would seek you, not their fears."
V,III,GARDINER,"I shall remember this bold language."
V,III,CROMWELL,"Do."
V,III,CROMWELL,"Remember your bold life too."
V,III,Chancellor,"This is too much;"
V,III,Chancellor,"Forbear, for shame, my lords."
V,III,GARDINER,"I have done."
V,III,CROMWELL,"And I."
V,III,Chancellor,"Then thus for you, my lord: it stands agreed,"
V,III,Chancellor,"I take it, by all voices, that forthwith"
V,III,Chancellor,"You be convey'd to the Tower a prisoner;"
V,III,Chancellor,"There to remain till the king's further pleasure"
V,III,Chancellor,"Be known unto us: are you all agreed, lords?"
V,III,All,"We are."
V,III,CRANMER,"Is there no other way of mercy,"
V,III,CRANMER,"But I must needs to the Tower, my lords?"
V,III,GARDINER,"What other"
V,III,GARDINER,"Would you expect? you are strangely troublesome."
V,III,GARDINER,"Let some o' the guard be ready there."
V,III,CRANMER,"For me?"
V,III,CRANMER,"Must I go like a traitor thither?"
V,III,GARDINER,"Receive him,"
V,III,GARDINER,"And see him safe i' the Tower."
V,III,CRANMER,"Stay, good my lords,"
V,III,CRANMER,"I have a little yet to say. Look there, my lords;"
V,III,CRANMER,"By virtue of that ring, I take my cause"
V,III,CRANMER,"Out of the gripes of cruel men, and give it"
V,III,CRANMER,"To a most noble judge, the king my master."
V,III,Chamberlain,"This is the king's ring."
V,III,SURREY,"'Tis no counterfeit."
V,III,SUFFOLK,"'Tis the right ring, by heaven: I told ye all,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"When ye first put this dangerous stone a-rolling,"
V,III,SUFFOLK,"'Twould fall upon ourselves."
V,III,NORFOLK,"Do you think, my lords,"
V,III,NORFOLK,"The king will suffer but the little finger"
V,III,NORFOLK,"Of this man to be vex'd?"
V,III,Chancellor,"'Tis now too certain:"
V,III,Chancellor,"How much more is his life in value with him?"
V,III,Chancellor,"Would I were fairly out on't!"
V,III,CROMWELL,"My mind gave me,"
V,III,CROMWELL,"In seeking tales and informations"
V,III,CROMWELL,"Against this man, whose honesty the devil"
V,III,CROMWELL,"And his disciples only envy at,"
V,III,CROMWELL,"Ye blew the fire that burns ye: now have at ye!"
V,III,GARDINER,"Dread sovereign, how much are we bound to heaven"
V,III,GARDINER,"In daily thanks, that gave us such a prince;"
V,III,GARDINER,"Not only good and wise, but most religious:"
V,III,GARDINER,"One that, in all obedience, makes the church"
V,III,GARDINER,"The chief aim of his honour; and, to strengthen"
V,III,GARDINER,"That holy duty, out of dear respect,"
V,III,GARDINER,"His royal self in judgment comes to hear"
V,III,GARDINER,"The cause betwixt her and this great offender."
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"You were ever good at sudden commendations,"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Bishop of Winchester. But know, I come not"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"To hear such flattery now, and in my presence;"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"They are too thin and bare to hide offences."
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"To me you cannot reach, you play the spaniel,"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"And think with wagging of your tongue to win me;"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"But, whatsoe'er thou takest me for, I'm sure"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody."
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Good man, sit down. Now let me see the proudest"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"He, that dares most, but wag his finger at thee:"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"By all that's holy, he had better starve"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Than but once think this place becomes thee not."
V,III,SURREY,"May it please your grace,--"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"No, sir, it does not please me."
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"I had thought I had had men of some understanding"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"And wisdom of my council; but I find none."
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Was it discretion, lords, to let this man,"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"This good man,--few of you deserve that title,--"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"This honest man, wait like a lousy footboy"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"At chamber--door? and one as great as you are?"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Why, what a shame was this! Did my commission"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Bid ye so far forget yourselves? I gave ye"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Power as he was a counsellor to try him,"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Not as a groom: there's some of ye, I see,"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"More out of malice than integrity,"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Would try him to the utmost, had ye mean;"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Which ye shall never have while I live."
V,III,Chancellor,"Thus far,"
V,III,Chancellor,"My most dread sovereign, may it like your grace"
V,III,Chancellor,"To let my tongue excuse all. What was purposed"
V,III,Chancellor,"Concerning his imprisonment, was rather,"
V,III,Chancellor,"If there be faith in men, meant for his trial,"
V,III,Chancellor,"And fair purgation to the world, than malice,"
V,III,Chancellor,"I'm sure, in me."
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Well, well, my lords, respect him;"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Take him, and use him well, he's worthy of it."
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"I will say thus much for him, if a prince"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"May be beholding to a subject, I"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Am, for his love and service, so to him."
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Make me no more ado, but all embrace him:"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Be friends, for shame, my lords! My Lord of"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Canterbury,"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"I have a suit which you must not deny me;"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"That is, a fair young maid that yet wants baptism,"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"You must be godfather, and answer for her."
V,III,CRANMER,"The greatest monarch now alive may glory"
V,III,CRANMER,"In such an honour: how may I deserve it"
V,III,CRANMER,"That am a poor and humble subject to you?"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Come, come, my lord, you'ld spare your spoons: you"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"shall have two noble partners with you; the old"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Duchess of Norfolk, and Lady Marquess Dorset: will"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"these please you?"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Once more, my Lord of Winchester, I charge you,"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Embrace and love this man."
V,III,GARDINER,"With a true heart"
V,III,GARDINER,"And brother-love I do it."
V,III,CRANMER,"And let heaven"
V,III,CRANMER,"Witness, how dear I hold this confirmation."
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Good man, those joyful tears show thy true heart:"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"The common voice, I see, is verified"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Of thee, which says thus, 'Do my Lord of Canterbury"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"A shrewd turn, and he is your friend for ever.'"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"Come, lords, we trifle time away; I long"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"To have this young one made a Christian."
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"As I have made ye one, lords, one remain;"
V,III,KING HENRY VIII,"So I grow stronger, you more honour gain."
V,IV,Porter,"You'll leave your noise anon, ye rascals: do you"
V,IV,Porter,"take the court for Paris-garden? ye rude slaves,"
V,IV,Porter,"leave your gaping."
V,IV,Porter,"Good master porter, I belong to the larder."
V,IV,Porter,"Belong to the gallows, and be hanged, ye rogue! is"
V,IV,Porter,"this a place to roar in? Fetch me a dozen crab-tree"
V,IV,Porter,"staves, and strong ones: these are but switches to"
V,IV,Porter,"'em. I'll scratch your heads: you must be seeing"
V,IV,Porter,"christenings? do you look for ale and cakes here,"
V,IV,Porter,"you rude rascals?"
V,IV,Man,"Pray, sir, be patient: 'tis as much impossible--"
V,IV,Man,"Unless we sweep 'em from the door with cannons--"
V,IV,Man,"To scatter 'em, as 'tis to make 'em sleep"
V,IV,Man,"On May-day morning; which will never be:"
V,IV,Man,"We may as well push against Powle's, as stir em."
V,IV,Porter,"How got they in, and be hang'd?"
V,IV,Man,"Alas, I know not; how gets the tide in?"
V,IV,Man,"As much as one sound cudgel of four foot--"
V,IV,Man,"You see the poor remainder--could distribute,"
V,IV,Man,"I made no spare, sir."
V,IV,Porter,"You did nothing, sir."
V,IV,Man,"I am not Samson, nor Sir Guy, nor Colbrand,"
V,IV,Man,"To mow 'em down before me: but if I spared any"
V,IV,Man,"That had a head to hit, either young or old,"
V,IV,Man,"He or she, cuckold or cuckold-maker,"
V,IV,Man,"Let me ne'er hope to see a chine again"
V,IV,Man,"And that I would not for a cow, God save her!"
V,IV,Man,"Do you hear, master porter?"
V,IV,Porter,"I shall be with you presently, good master puppy."
V,IV,Porter,"Keep the door close, sirrah."
V,IV,Man,"What would you have me do?"
V,IV,Porter,"What should you do, but knock 'em down by the"
V,IV,Porter,"dozens? Is this Moorfields to muster in? or have"
V,IV,Porter,"we some strange Indian with the great tool come to"
V,IV,Porter,"court, the women so besiege us? Bless me, what a"
V,IV,Porter,"fry of fornication is at door! On my Christian"
V,IV,Porter,"conscience, this one christening will beget a"
V,IV,Porter,"thousand; here will be father, godfather, and all together."
V,IV,Man,"The spoons will be the bigger, sir. There is a"
V,IV,Man,"fellow somewhat near the door, he should be a"
V,IV,Man,"brazier by his face, for, o' my conscience, twenty"
V,IV,Man,"of the dog-days now reign in's nose; all that stand"
V,IV,Man,"about him are under the line, they need no other"
V,IV,Man,"penance: that fire-drake did I hit three times on"
V,IV,Man,"the head, and three times was his nose discharged"
V,IV,Man,"against me; he stands there, like a mortar-piece, to"
V,IV,Man,"blow us. There was a haberdasher's wife of small"
V,IV,Man,"wit near him, that railed upon me till her pinked"
V,IV,Man,"porringer fell off her head, for kindling such a"
V,IV,Man,"combustion in the state. I missed the meteor once,"
V,IV,Man,"and hit that woman; who cried out 'Clubs!' when I"
V,IV,Man,"might see from far some forty truncheoners draw to"
V,IV,Man,"her succor, which were the hope o' the Strand, where"
V,IV,Man,"she was quartered. They fell on; I made good my"
V,IV,Man,"place: at length they came to the broom-staff to"
V,IV,Man,"me; I defied 'em still: when suddenly a file of"
V,IV,Man,"boys behind 'em, loose shot, delivered such a shower"
V,IV,Man,"of pebbles, that I was fain to draw mine honour in,"
V,IV,Man,"and let 'em win the work: the devil was amongst"
V,IV,Man,"'em, I think, surely."
V,IV,Porter,"These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse,"
V,IV,Porter,"and fight for bitten apples; that no audience, but"
V,IV,Porter,"the tribulation of Tower-hill, or the limbs of"
V,IV,Porter,"Limehouse, their dear brothers, are able to endure."
V,IV,Porter,"I have some of 'em in Limbo Patrum, and there they"
V,IV,Porter,"are like to dance these three days; besides the"
V,IV,Porter,"running banquet of two beadles that is to come."
V,IV,Chamberlain,"Mercy o' me, what a multitude are here!"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"They grow still too; from all parts they are coming,"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"As if we kept a fair here! Where are these porters,"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"These lazy knaves? Ye have made a fine hand, fellows:"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"There's a trim rabble let in: are all these"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"Your faithful friends o' the suburbs? We shall have"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"Great store of room, no doubt, left for the ladies,"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"When they pass back from the christening."
V,IV,Porter,"An't please"
V,IV,Porter,"your honour,"
V,IV,Porter,"We are but men; and what so many may do,"
V,IV,Porter,"Not being torn a-pieces, we have done:"
V,IV,Porter,"An army cannot rule 'em."
V,IV,Chamberlain,"As I live,"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"If the king blame me for't, I'll lay ye all"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"By the heels, and suddenly; and on your heads"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"Clap round fines for neglect: ye are lazy knaves;"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"And here ye lie baiting of bombards, when"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"Ye should do service. Hark! the trumpets sound;"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"They're come already from the christening:"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"Go, break among the press, and find a way out"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"To let the troop pass fairly; or I'll find"
V,IV,Chamberlain,"A Marshalsea shall hold ye play these two months."
V,IV,Porter,"Make way there for the princess."
V,IV,Man,"You great fellow,"
V,IV,Man,"Stand close up, or I'll make your head ache."
V,IV,Porter,"You i' the camlet, get up o' the rail;"
V,IV,Porter,"I'll peck you o'er the pales else."
V,V,Garter,"Heaven, from thy endless goodness, send prosperous"
V,V,Garter,"life, long, and ever happy, to the high and mighty"
V,V,Garter,"princess of England, Elizabeth!"
V,V,CRANMER,"My noble partners, and myself, thus pray:"
V,V,CRANMER,"All comfort, joy, in this most gracious lady,"
V,V,CRANMER,"Heaven ever laid up to make parents happy,"
V,V,CRANMER,"May hourly fall upon ye!"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"Thank you, good lord archbishop:"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"What is her name?"
V,V,CRANMER,"Elizabeth."
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"Stand up, lord."
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"With this kiss take my blessing: God protect thee!"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"Into whose hand I give thy life."
V,V,CRANMER,"Amen."
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal:"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"I thank ye heartily; so shall this lady,"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"When she has so much English."
V,V,CRANMER,"Let me speak, sir,"
V,V,CRANMER,"For heaven now bids me; and the words I utter"
V,V,CRANMER,"Let none think flattery, for they'll find 'em truth."
V,V,CRANMER,"This royal infant--heaven still move about her!--"
V,V,CRANMER,"Though in her cradle, yet now promises"
V,V,CRANMER,"Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings,"
V,V,CRANMER,"Which time shall bring to ripeness: she shall be--"
V,V,CRANMER,"But few now living can behold that goodness--"
V,V,CRANMER,"A pattern to all princes living with her,"
V,V,CRANMER,"And all that shall succeed: Saba was never"
V,V,CRANMER,"More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue"
V,V,CRANMER,"Than this pure soul shall be: all princely graces,"
V,V,CRANMER,"That mould up such a mighty piece as this is,"
V,V,CRANMER,"With all the virtues that attend the good,"
V,V,CRANMER,"Shall still be doubled on her: truth shall nurse her,"
V,V,CRANMER,"Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her:"
V,V,CRANMER,"She shall be loved and fear'd: her own shall bless her;"
V,V,CRANMER,"Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,"
V,V,CRANMER,"And hang their heads with sorrow: good grows with her:"
V,V,CRANMER,"In her days every man shall eat in safety,"
V,V,CRANMER,"Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing"
V,V,CRANMER,"The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours:"
V,V,CRANMER,"God shall be truly known; and those about her"
V,V,CRANMER,"From her shall read the perfect ways of honour,"
V,V,CRANMER,"And by those claim their greatness, not by blood."
V,V,CRANMER,"Nor shall this peace sleep with her: but as when"
V,V,CRANMER,"The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,"
V,V,CRANMER,"Her ashes new create another heir,"
V,V,CRANMER,"As great in admiration as herself;"
V,V,CRANMER,"So shall she leave her blessedness to one,"
V,V,CRANMER,"When heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness,"
V,V,CRANMER,"Who from the sacred ashes of her honour"
V,V,CRANMER,"Shall star-like rise, as great in fame as she was,"
V,V,CRANMER,"And so stand fix'd: peace, plenty, love, truth, terror,"
V,V,CRANMER,"That were the servants to this chosen infant,"
V,V,CRANMER,"Shall then be his, and like a vine grow to him:"
V,V,CRANMER,"Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,"
V,V,CRANMER,"His honour and the greatness of his name"
V,V,CRANMER,"Shall be, and make new nations: he shall flourish,"
V,V,CRANMER,"And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches"
V,V,CRANMER,"To all the plains about him: our children's children"
V,V,CRANMER,"Shall see this, and bless heaven."
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"Thou speakest wonders."
V,V,CRANMER,"She shall be, to the happiness of England,"
V,V,CRANMER,"An aged princess; many days shall see her,"
V,V,CRANMER,"And yet no day without a deed to crown it."
V,V,CRANMER,"Would I had known no more! but she must die,"
V,V,CRANMER,"She must, the saints must have her; yet a virgin,"
V,V,CRANMER,"A most unspotted lily shall she pass"
V,V,CRANMER,"To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her."
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"O lord archbishop,"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"Thou hast made me now a man! never, before"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"This happy child, did I get any thing:"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"This oracle of comfort has so pleased me,"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"That when I am in heaven I shall desire"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"To see what this child does, and praise my Maker."
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"I thank ye all. To you, my good lord mayor,"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"And your good brethren, I am much beholding;"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"I have received much honour by your presence,"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"And ye shall find me thankful. Lead the way, lords:"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"Ye must all see the queen, and she must thank ye,"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"She will be sick else. This day, no man think"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"Has business at his house; for all shall stay:"
V,V,KING HENRY VIII,"This little one shall make it holiday."
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Is this a holiday? what! know you not,"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Being mechanical, you ought not walk"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Upon a labouring day without the sign"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?"
I,I,First Commoner,"Why, sir, a carpenter."
I,I,MARULLUS,"Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?"
I,I,MARULLUS,"What dost thou with thy best apparel on?"
I,I,MARULLUS,"You, sir, what trade are you?"
I,I,Second Commoner,"Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but,"
I,I,Second Commoner,"as you would say, a cobbler."
I,I,MARULLUS,"But what trade art thou? answer me directly."
I,I,Second Commoner,"A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe"
I,I,Second Commoner,"conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles."
I,I,MARULLUS,"What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?"
I,I,Second Commoner,"Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet,"
I,I,Second Commoner,"if you be out, sir, I can mend you."
I,I,MARULLUS,"What meanest thou by that? mend me, thou saucy fellow!"
I,I,Second Commoner,"Why, sir, cobble you."
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Thou art a cobbler, art thou?"
I,I,Second Commoner,"Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I"
I,I,Second Commoner,"meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's"
I,I,Second Commoner,"matters, but with awl. I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon"
I,I,Second Commoner,"to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I"
I,I,Second Commoner,"recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon"
I,I,Second Commoner,"neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork."
I,I,FLAVIUS,"But wherefore art not in thy shop today?"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?"
I,I,Second Commoner,"Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself"
I,I,Second Commoner,"into more work. But, indeed, sir, we make holiday,"
I,I,Second Commoner,"to see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph."
I,I,MARULLUS,"Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?"
I,I,MARULLUS,"What tributaries follow him to Rome,"
I,I,MARULLUS,"To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?"
I,I,MARULLUS,"You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!"
I,I,MARULLUS,"O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,"
I,I,MARULLUS,"Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft"
I,I,MARULLUS,"Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements,"
I,I,MARULLUS,"To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,"
I,I,MARULLUS,"Your infants in your arms, and there have sat"
I,I,MARULLUS,"The livelong day, with patient expectation,"
I,I,MARULLUS,"To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:"
I,I,MARULLUS,"And when you saw his chariot but appear,"
I,I,MARULLUS,"Have you not made an universal shout,"
I,I,MARULLUS,"That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,"
I,I,MARULLUS,"To hear the replication of your sounds"
I,I,MARULLUS,"Made in her concave shores?"
I,I,MARULLUS,"And do you now put on your best attire?"
I,I,MARULLUS,"And do you now cull out a holiday?"
I,I,MARULLUS,"And do you now strew flowers in his way"
I,I,MARULLUS,"That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone!"
I,I,MARULLUS,"Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,"
I,I,MARULLUS,"Pray to the gods to intermit the plague"
I,I,MARULLUS,"That needs must light on this ingratitude."
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Assemble all the poor men of your sort;"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Into the channel, till the lowest stream"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Do kiss the most exalted shores of all."
I,I,FLAVIUS,"See whether their basest metal be not moved;"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness."
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Go you down that way towards the Capitol;"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"This way will I disrobe the images,"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies."
I,I,MARULLUS,"May we do so?"
I,I,MARULLUS,"You know it is the feast of Lupercal."
I,I,FLAVIUS,"It is no matter; let no images"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about,"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"And drive away the vulgar from the streets:"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"So do you too, where you perceive them thick."
I,I,FLAVIUS,"These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"Who else would soar above the view of men"
I,I,FLAVIUS,"And keep us all in servile fearfulness."
I,II,CAESAR,"Calpurnia!"
I,II,CASCA,"Peace, ho! Caesar speaks."
I,II,CAESAR,"Calpurnia!"
I,II,CALPURNIA,"Here, my lord."
I,II,CAESAR,"Stand you directly in Antonius' way,"
I,II,CAESAR,"When he doth run his course. Antonius!"
I,II,ANTONY,"Caesar, my lord?"
I,II,CAESAR,"Forget not, in your speed, Antonius,"
I,II,CAESAR,"To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say,"
I,II,CAESAR,"The barren, touched in this holy chase,"
I,II,CAESAR,"Shake off their sterile curse."
I,II,ANTONY,"I shall remember:"
I,II,ANTONY,"When Caesar says 'do this,' it is perform'd."
I,II,CAESAR,"Set on; and leave no ceremony out."
I,II,Soothsayer,"Caesar!"
I,II,CAESAR,"Ha! who calls?"
I,II,CASCA,"Bid every noise be still: peace yet again!"
I,II,CAESAR,"Who is it in the press that calls on me?"
I,II,CAESAR,"I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,"
I,II,CAESAR,"Cry 'Caesar!' Speak; Caesar is turn'd to hear."
I,II,Soothsayer,"Beware the ides of March."
I,II,CAESAR,"What man is that?"
I,II,BRUTUS,"A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March."
I,II,CAESAR,"Set him before me; let me see his face."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar."
I,II,CAESAR,"What say'st thou to me now? speak once again."
I,II,Soothsayer,"Beware the ides of March."
I,II,CAESAR,"He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Will you go see the order of the course?"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Not I."
I,II,CASSIUS,"I pray you, do."
I,II,BRUTUS,"I am not gamesome: I do lack some part"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Of that quick spirit that is in Antony."
I,II,BRUTUS,"Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;"
I,II,BRUTUS,"I'll leave you."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Brutus, I do observe you now of late:"
I,II,CASSIUS,"I have not from your eyes that gentleness"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And show of love as I was wont to have:"
I,II,CASSIUS,"You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Over your friend that loves you."
I,II,BRUTUS,"Cassius,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"I turn the trouble of my countenance"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Merely upon myself. Vexed I am"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Of late with passions of some difference,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Conceptions only proper to myself,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors;"
I,II,BRUTUS,"But let not therefore my good friends be grieved--"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Among which number, Cassius, be you one--"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Nor construe any further my neglect,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Forgets the shows of love to other men."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;"
I,II,CASSIUS,"By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?"
I,II,BRUTUS,"No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"But by reflection, by some other things."
I,II,CASSIUS,"'Tis just:"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And it is very much lamented, Brutus,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"That you have no such mirrors as will turn"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Your hidden worthiness into your eye,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"That you might see your shadow. I have heard,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Where many of the best respect in Rome,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And groaning underneath this age's yoke,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes."
I,II,BRUTUS,"Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"That you would have me seek into myself"
I,II,BRUTUS,"For that which is not in me?"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear:"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And since you know you cannot see yourself"
I,II,CASSIUS,"So well as by reflection, I, your glass,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Will modestly discover to yourself"
I,II,CASSIUS,"That of yourself which you yet know not of."
I,II,CASSIUS,"And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus:"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Were I a common laugher, or did use"
I,II,CASSIUS,"To stale with ordinary oaths my love"
I,II,CASSIUS,"To every new protester; if you know"
I,II,CASSIUS,"That I do fawn on men and hug them hard"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And after scandal them, or if you know"
I,II,CASSIUS,"That I profess myself in banqueting"
I,II,CASSIUS,"To all the rout, then hold me dangerous."
I,II,BRUTUS,"What means this shouting? I do fear, the people"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Choose Caesar for their king."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Ay, do you fear it?"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Then must I think you would not have it so."
I,II,BRUTUS,"I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well."
I,II,BRUTUS,"But wherefore do you hold me here so long?"
I,II,BRUTUS,"What is it that you would impart to me?"
I,II,BRUTUS,"If it be aught toward the general good,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Set honour in one eye and death i' the other,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"And I will look on both indifferently,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"For let the gods so speed me as I love"
I,II,BRUTUS,"The name of honour more than I fear death."
I,II,CASSIUS,"I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"As well as I do know your outward favour."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Well, honour is the subject of my story."
I,II,CASSIUS,"I cannot tell what you and other men"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Think of this life; but, for my single self,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"I had as lief not be as live to be"
I,II,CASSIUS,"In awe of such a thing as I myself."
I,II,CASSIUS,"I was born free as Caesar; so were you:"
I,II,CASSIUS,"We both have fed as well, and we can both"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Endure the winter's cold as well as he:"
I,II,CASSIUS,"For once, upon a raw and gusty day,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Leap in with me into this angry flood,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Accoutred as I was, I plunged in"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And bade him follow; so indeed he did."
I,II,CASSIUS,"The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it"
I,II,CASSIUS,"With lusty sinews, throwing it aside"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And stemming it with hearts of controversy;"
I,II,CASSIUS,"But ere we could arrive the point proposed,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'"
I,II,CASSIUS,"I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder"
I,II,CASSIUS,"The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Did I the tired Caesar. And this man"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Is now become a god, and Cassius is"
I,II,CASSIUS,"A wretched creature and must bend his body,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"If Caesar carelessly but nod on him."
I,II,CASSIUS,"He had a fever when he was in Spain,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And when the fit was on him, I did mark"
I,II,CASSIUS,"How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake;"
I,II,CASSIUS,"His coward lips did from their colour fly,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Did lose his lustre: I did hear him groan:"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Mark him and write his speeches in their books,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Alas, it cried 'Give me some drink, Titinius,'"
I,II,CASSIUS,"As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me"
I,II,CASSIUS,"A man of such a feeble temper should"
I,II,CASSIUS,"So get the start of the majestic world"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And bear the palm alone."
I,II,BRUTUS,"Another general shout!"
I,II,BRUTUS,"I do believe that these applauses are"
I,II,BRUTUS,"For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Like a Colossus, and we petty men"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Walk under his huge legs and peep about"
I,II,CASSIUS,"To find ourselves dishonourable graves."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Men at some time are masters of their fates:"
I,II,CASSIUS,"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Why should that name be sounded more than yours?"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Write them together, yours is as fair a name;"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Now, in the names of all the gods at once,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!"
I,II,CASSIUS,"When went there by an age, since the great flood,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"But it was famed with more than with one man?"
I,II,CASSIUS,"When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"When there is in it but one only man."
I,II,CASSIUS,"O, you and I have heard our fathers say,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd"
I,II,CASSIUS,"The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome"
I,II,CASSIUS,"As easily as a king."
I,II,BRUTUS,"That you do love me, I am nothing jealous;"
I,II,BRUTUS,"What you would work me to, I have some aim:"
I,II,BRUTUS,"How I have thought of this and of these times,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"I shall recount hereafter; for this present,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"I would not, so with love I might entreat you,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Be any further moved. What you have said"
I,II,BRUTUS,"I will consider; what you have to say"
I,II,BRUTUS,"I will with patience hear, and find a time"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Both meet to hear and answer such high things."
I,II,BRUTUS,"Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this:"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Brutus had rather be a villager"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Than to repute himself a son of Rome"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Under these hard conditions as this time"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Is like to lay upon us."
I,II,CASSIUS,"I am glad that my weak words"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus."
I,II,BRUTUS,"The games are done and Caesar is returning."
I,II,CASSIUS,"As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve;"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you"
I,II,CASSIUS,"What hath proceeded worthy note to-day."
I,II,BRUTUS,"I will do so. But, look you, Cassius,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"And all the rest look like a chidden train:"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Calpurnia's cheek is pale; and Cicero"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes"
I,II,BRUTUS,"As we have seen him in the Capitol,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Being cross'd in conference by some senators."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Casca will tell us what the matter is."
I,II,CAESAR,"Antonius!"
I,II,ANTONY,"Caesar?"
I,II,CAESAR,"Let me have men about me that are fat;"
I,II,CAESAR,"Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:"
I,II,CAESAR,"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;"
I,II,CAESAR,"He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."
I,II,ANTONY,"Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous;"
I,II,ANTONY,"He is a noble Roman and well given."
I,II,CAESAR,"Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:"
I,II,CAESAR,"Yet if my name were liable to fear,"
I,II,CAESAR,"I do not know the man I should avoid"
I,II,CAESAR,"So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much;"
I,II,CAESAR,"He is a great observer and he looks"
I,II,CAESAR,"Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,"
I,II,CAESAR,"As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;"
I,II,CAESAR,"Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort"
I,II,CAESAR,"As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit"
I,II,CAESAR,"That could be moved to smile at any thing."
I,II,CAESAR,"Such men as he be never at heart's ease"
I,II,CAESAR,"Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,"
I,II,CAESAR,"And therefore are they very dangerous."
I,II,CAESAR,"I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd"
I,II,CAESAR,"Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar."
I,II,CAESAR,"Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,"
I,II,CAESAR,"And tell me truly what thou think'st of him."
I,II,CASCA,"You pull'd me by the cloak; would you speak with me?"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Ay, Casca; tell us what hath chanced to-day,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"That Caesar looks so sad."
I,II,CASCA,"Why, you were with him, were you not?"
I,II,BRUTUS,"I should not then ask Casca what had chanced."
I,II,CASCA,"Why, there was a crown offered him: and being"
I,II,CASCA,"offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand,"
I,II,CASCA,"thus; and then the people fell a-shouting."
I,II,BRUTUS,"What was the second noise for?"
I,II,CASCA,"Why, for that too."
I,II,CASSIUS,"They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for?"
I,II,CASCA,"Why, for that too."
I,II,BRUTUS,"Was the crown offered him thrice?"
I,II,CASCA,"Ay, marry, was't, and he put it by thrice, every"
I,II,CASCA,"time gentler than other, and at every putting-by"
I,II,CASCA,"mine honest neighbours shouted."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Who offered him the crown?"
I,II,CASCA,"Why, Antony."
I,II,BRUTUS,"Tell us the manner of it, gentle Casca."
I,II,CASCA,"I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it:"
I,II,CASCA,"it was mere foolery; I did not mark it. I saw Mark"
I,II,CASCA,"Antony offer him a crown;--yet 'twas not a crown"
I,II,CASCA,"neither, 'twas one of these coronets;--and, as I told"
I,II,CASCA,"you, he put it by once: but, for all that, to my"
I,II,CASCA,"thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he"
I,II,CASCA,"offered it to him again; then he put it by again:"
I,II,CASCA,"but, to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his"
I,II,CASCA,"fingers off it. And then he offered it the third"
I,II,CASCA,"time; he put it the third time by: and still as he"
I,II,CASCA,"refused it, the rabblement hooted and clapped their"
I,II,CASCA,"chapped hands and threw up their sweaty night-caps"
I,II,CASCA,"and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because"
I,II,CASCA,"Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked"
I,II,CASCA,"Caesar; for he swounded and fell down at it: and"
I,II,CASCA,"for mine own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of"
I,II,CASCA,"opening my lips and receiving the bad air."
I,II,CASSIUS,"But, soft, I pray you: what, did Caesar swound?"
I,II,CASCA,"He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at"
I,II,CASCA,"mouth, and was speechless."
I,II,BRUTUS,"'Tis very like: he hath the failing sickness."
I,II,CASSIUS,"No, Caesar hath it not; but you and I,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And honest Casca, we have the falling sickness."
I,II,CASCA,"I know not what you mean by that; but, I am sure,"
I,II,CASCA,"Caesar fell down. If the tag-rag people did not"
I,II,CASCA,"clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and"
I,II,CASCA,"displeased them, as they use to do the players in"
I,II,CASCA,"the theatre, I am no true man."
I,II,BRUTUS,"What said he when he came unto himself?"
I,II,CASCA,"Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the"
I,II,CASCA,"common herd was glad he refused the crown, he"
I,II,CASCA,"plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his"
I,II,CASCA,"throat to cut. An I had been a man of any"
I,II,CASCA,"occupation, if I would not have taken him at a word,"
I,II,CASCA,"I would I might go to hell among the rogues. And so"
I,II,CASCA,"he fell. When he came to himself again, he said,"
I,II,CASCA,"If he had done or said any thing amiss, he desired"
I,II,CASCA,"their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three"
I,II,CASCA,"or four wenches, where I stood, cried 'Alas, good"
I,II,CASCA,"soul!' and forgave him with all their hearts: but"
I,II,CASCA,"there's no heed to be taken of them; if Caesar had"
I,II,CASCA,"stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less."
I,II,BRUTUS,"And after that, he came, thus sad, away?"
I,II,CASCA,"Ay."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Did Cicero say any thing?"
I,II,CASCA,"Ay, he spoke Greek."
I,II,CASSIUS,"To what effect?"
I,II,CASCA,"Nay, an I tell you that, Ill ne'er look you i' the"
I,II,CASCA,"face again: but those that understood him smiled at"
I,II,CASCA,"one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own"
I,II,CASCA,"part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more"
I,II,CASCA,"news too: Marullus and Flavius, for pulling scarfs"
I,II,CASCA,"off Caesar's images, are put to silence. Fare you"
I,II,CASCA,"well. There was more foolery yet, if I could"
I,II,CASCA,"remember it."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Will you sup with me to-night, Casca?"
I,II,CASCA,"No, I am promised forth."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Will you dine with me to-morrow?"
I,II,CASCA,"Ay, if I be alive and your mind hold and your dinner"
I,II,CASCA,"worth the eating."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Good: I will expect you."
I,II,CASCA,"Do so. Farewell, both."
I,II,BRUTUS,"What a blunt fellow is this grown to be!"
I,II,BRUTUS,"He was quick mettle when he went to school."
I,II,CASSIUS,"So is he now in execution"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Of any bold or noble enterprise,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"However he puts on this tardy form."
I,II,CASSIUS,"This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Which gives men stomach to digest his words"
I,II,CASSIUS,"With better appetite."
I,II,BRUTUS,"And so it is. For this time I will leave you:"
I,II,BRUTUS,"To-morrow, if you please to speak with me,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"I will come home to you; or, if you will,"
I,II,BRUTUS,"Come home to me, and I will wait for you."
I,II,CASSIUS,"I will do so: till then, think of the world."
I,II,CASSIUS,"Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet, I see,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Thy honourable metal may be wrought"
I,II,CASSIUS,"From that it is disposed: therefore it is meet"
I,II,CASSIUS,"That noble minds keep ever with their likes;"
I,II,CASSIUS,"For who so firm that cannot be seduced?"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Caesar doth bear me hard; but he loves Brutus:"
I,II,CASSIUS,"If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"He should not humour me. I will this night,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"In several hands, in at his windows throw,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"As if they came from several citizens,"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Writings all tending to the great opinion"
I,II,CASSIUS,"That Rome holds of his name; wherein obscurely"
I,II,CASSIUS,"Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at:"
I,II,CASSIUS,"And after this let Caesar seat him sure;"
I,II,CASSIUS,"For we will shake him, or worse days endure."
I,III,CICERO,"Good even, Casca: brought you Caesar home?"
I,III,CICERO,"Why are you breathless? and why stare you so?"
I,III,CASCA,"Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth"
I,III,CASCA,"Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,"
I,III,CASCA,"I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds"
I,III,CASCA,"Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen"
I,III,CASCA,"The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,"
I,III,CASCA,"To be exalted with the threatening clouds:"
I,III,CASCA,"But never till to-night, never till now,"
I,III,CASCA,"Did I go through a tempest dropping fire."
I,III,CASCA,"Either there is a civil strife in heaven,"
I,III,CASCA,"Or else the world, too saucy with the gods,"
I,III,CASCA,"Incenses them to send destruction."
I,III,CICERO,"Why, saw you any thing more wonderful?"
I,III,CASCA,"A common slave--you know him well by sight--"
I,III,CASCA,"Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn"
I,III,CASCA,"Like twenty torches join'd, and yet his hand,"
I,III,CASCA,"Not sensible of fire, remain'd unscorch'd."
I,III,CASCA,"Besides--I ha' not since put up my sword--"
I,III,CASCA,"Against the Capitol I met a lion,"
I,III,CASCA,"Who glared upon me, and went surly by,"
I,III,CASCA,"Without annoying me: and there were drawn"
I,III,CASCA,"Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women,"
I,III,CASCA,"Transformed with their fear; who swore they saw"
I,III,CASCA,"Men all in fire walk up and down the streets."
I,III,CASCA,"And yesterday the bird of night did sit"
I,III,CASCA,"Even at noon-day upon the market-place,"
I,III,CASCA,"Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies"
I,III,CASCA,"Do so conjointly meet, let not men say"
I,III,CASCA,"'These are their reasons; they are natural;'"
I,III,CASCA,"For, I believe, they are portentous things"
I,III,CASCA,"Unto the climate that they point upon."
I,III,CICERO,"Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time:"
I,III,CICERO,"But men may construe things after their fashion,"
I,III,CICERO,"Clean from the purpose of the things themselves."
I,III,CICERO,"Come Caesar to the Capitol to-morrow?"
I,III,CASCA,"He doth; for he did bid Antonius"
I,III,CASCA,"Send word to you he would be there to-morrow."
I,III,CICERO,"Good night then, Casca: this disturbed sky"
I,III,CICERO,"Is not to walk in."
I,III,CASCA,"Farewell, Cicero."
I,III,CASSIUS,"Who's there?"
I,III,CASCA,"A Roman."
I,III,CASSIUS,"Casca, by your voice."
I,III,CASCA,"Your ear is good. Cassius, what night is this!"
I,III,CASSIUS,"A very pleasing night to honest men."
I,III,CASCA,"Who ever knew the heavens menace so?"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Those that have known the earth so full of faults."
I,III,CASSIUS,"For my part, I have walk'd about the streets,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Submitting me unto the perilous night,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone;"
I,III,CASSIUS,"And when the cross blue lightning seem'd to open"
I,III,CASSIUS,"The breast of heaven, I did present myself"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Even in the aim and very flash of it."
I,III,CASCA,"But wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens?"
I,III,CASCA,"It is the part of men to fear and tremble,"
I,III,CASCA,"When the most mighty gods by tokens send"
I,III,CASCA,"Such dreadful heralds to astonish us."
I,III,CASSIUS,"You are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life"
I,III,CASSIUS,"That should be in a Roman you do want,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Or else you use not. You look pale and gaze"
I,III,CASSIUS,"And put on fear and cast yourself in wonder,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"To see the strange impatience of the heavens:"
I,III,CASSIUS,"But if you would consider the true cause"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Why birds and beasts from quality and kind,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Why old men fool and children calculate,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Why all these things change from their ordinance"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Their natures and preformed faculties"
I,III,CASSIUS,"To monstrous quality,--why, you shall find"
I,III,CASSIUS,"That heaven hath infused them with these spirits,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"To make them instruments of fear and warning"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Unto some monstrous state."
I,III,CASSIUS,"Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Most like this dreadful night,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars"
I,III,CASSIUS,"As doth the lion in the Capitol,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"A man no mightier than thyself or me"
I,III,CASSIUS,"In personal action, yet prodigious grown"
I,III,CASSIUS,"And fearful, as these strange eruptions are."
I,III,CASCA,"'Tis Caesar that you mean; is it not, Cassius?"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Let it be who it is: for Romans now"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors;"
I,III,CASSIUS,"But, woe the while! our fathers' minds are dead,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"And we are govern'd with our mothers' spirits;"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish."
I,III,CASCA,"Indeed, they say the senators tomorrow"
I,III,CASCA,"Mean to establish Caesar as a king;"
I,III,CASCA,"And he shall wear his crown by sea and land,"
I,III,CASCA,"In every place, save here in Italy."
I,III,CASSIUS,"I know where I will wear this dagger then;"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius:"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong;"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat:"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;"
I,III,CASSIUS,"But life, being weary of these worldly bars,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Never lacks power to dismiss itself."
I,III,CASSIUS,"If I know this, know all the world besides,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"That part of tyranny that I do bear"
I,III,CASSIUS,"I can shake off at pleasure."
I,III,CASCA,"So can I:"
I,III,CASCA,"So every bondman in his own hand bears"
I,III,CASCA,"The power to cancel his captivity."
I,III,CASSIUS,"And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:"
I,III,CASSIUS,"He were no lion, were not Romans hinds."
I,III,CASSIUS,"Those that with haste will make a mighty fire"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Begin it with weak straws: what trash is Rome,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"What rubbish and what offal, when it serves"
I,III,CASSIUS,"For the base matter to illuminate"
I,III,CASSIUS,"So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Where hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Before a willing bondman; then I know"
I,III,CASSIUS,"My answer must be made. But I am arm'd,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"And dangers are to me indifferent."
I,III,CASCA,"You speak to Casca, and to such a man"
I,III,CASCA,"That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold, my hand:"
I,III,CASCA,"Be factious for redress of all these griefs,"
I,III,CASCA,"And I will set this foot of mine as far"
I,III,CASCA,"As who goes farthest."
I,III,CASSIUS,"There's a bargain made."
I,III,CASSIUS,"Now know you, Casca, I have moved already"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans"
I,III,CASSIUS,"To undergo with me an enterprise"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Of honourable-dangerous consequence;"
I,III,CASSIUS,"And I do know, by this, they stay for me"
I,III,CASSIUS,"In Pompey's porch: for now, this fearful night,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"There is no stir or walking in the streets;"
I,III,CASSIUS,"And the complexion of the element"
I,III,CASSIUS,"In favour's like the work we have in hand,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible."
I,III,CASCA,"Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste."
I,III,CASSIUS,"'Tis Cinna; I do know him by his gait;"
I,III,CASSIUS,"He is a friend."
I,III,CASSIUS,"Cinna, where haste you so?"
I,III,CINNA,"To find out you. Who's that? Metellus Cimber?"
I,III,CASSIUS,"No, it is Casca; one incorporate"
I,III,CASSIUS,"To our attempts. Am I not stay'd for, Cinna?"
I,III,CINNA,"I am glad on 't. What a fearful night is this!"
I,III,CINNA,"There's two or three of us have seen strange sights."
I,III,CASSIUS,"Am I not stay'd for? tell me."
I,III,CINNA,"Yes, you are."
I,III,CINNA,"O Cassius, if you could"
I,III,CINNA,"But win the noble Brutus to our party--"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Be you content: good Cinna, take this paper,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"And look you lay it in the praetor's chair,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this"
I,III,CASSIUS,"In at his window; set this up with wax"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Upon old Brutus' statue: all this done,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find us."
I,III,CASSIUS,"Is Decius Brutus and Trebonius there?"
I,III,CINNA,"All but Metellus Cimber; and he's gone"
I,III,CINNA,"To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie,"
I,III,CINNA,"And so bestow these papers as you bade me."
I,III,CASSIUS,"That done, repair to Pompey's theatre."
I,III,CASSIUS,"Come, Casca, you and I will yet ere day"
I,III,CASSIUS,"See Brutus at his house: three parts of him"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Is ours already, and the man entire"
I,III,CASSIUS,"Upon the next encounter yields him ours."
I,III,CASCA,"O, he sits high in all the people's hearts:"
I,III,CASCA,"And that which would appear offence in us,"
I,III,CASCA,"His countenance, like richest alchemy,"
I,III,CASCA,"Will change to virtue and to worthiness."
I,III,CASSIUS,"Him and his worth and our great need of him"
I,III,CASSIUS,"You have right well conceited. Let us go,"
I,III,CASSIUS,"For it is after midnight; and ere day"
I,III,CASSIUS,"We will awake him and be sure of him."
II,I,BRUTUS,"What, Lucius, ho!"
II,I,BRUTUS,"I cannot, by the progress of the stars,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Give guess how near to day. Lucius, I say!"
II,I,BRUTUS,"I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly."
II,I,BRUTUS,"When, Lucius, when? awake, I say! what, Lucius!"
II,I,LUCIUS,"Call'd you, my lord?"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Get me a taper in my study, Lucius:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"When it is lighted, come and call me here."
II,I,LUCIUS,"I will, my lord."
II,I,BRUTUS,"It must be by his death: and for my part,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"I know no personal cause to spurn at him,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"But for the general. He would be crown'd:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"How that might change his nature, there's the question."
II,I,BRUTUS,"It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And that craves wary walking. Crown him?--that;--"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"That at his will he may do danger with."
II,I,BRUTUS,"The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Remorse from power: and, to speak truth of Caesar,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"I have not known when his affections sway'd"
II,I,BRUTUS,"More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"But when he once attains the upmost round."
II,I,BRUTUS,"He then unto the ladder turns his back,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees"
II,I,BRUTUS,"By which he did ascend. So Caesar may."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Will bear no colour for the thing he is,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Would run to these and these extremities:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And therefore think him as a serpent's egg"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And kill him in the shell."
II,I,LUCIUS,"The taper burneth in your closet, sir."
II,I,LUCIUS,"Searching the window for a flint, I found"
II,I,LUCIUS,"This paper, thus seal'd up; and, I am sure,"
II,I,LUCIUS,"It did not lie there when I went to bed."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Get you to bed again; it is not day."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Is not to-morrow, boy, the ides of March?"
II,I,LUCIUS,"I know not, sir."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Look in the calendar, and bring me word."
II,I,LUCIUS,"I will, sir."
II,I,BRUTUS,"The exhalations whizzing in the air"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Give so much light that I may read by them."
II,I,BRUTUS,"'Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake, and see thyself."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Shall Rome, &c. Speak, strike, redress!"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake!'"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Such instigations have been often dropp'd"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Where I have took them up."
II,I,BRUTUS,"'Shall Rome, &c.' Thus must I piece it out:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Shall Rome stand under one man's awe? What, Rome?"
II,I,BRUTUS,"My ancestors did from the streets of Rome"
II,I,BRUTUS,"The Tarquin drive, when he was call'd a king."
II,I,BRUTUS,"'Speak, strike, redress!' Am I entreated"
II,I,BRUTUS,"To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"If the redress will follow, thou receivest"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!"
II,I,LUCIUS,"Sir, March is wasted fourteen days."
II,I,BRUTUS,"'Tis good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"I have not slept."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Between the acting of a dreadful thing"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And the first motion, all the interim is"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"The Genius and the mortal instruments"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Are then in council; and the state of man,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Like to a little kingdom, suffers then"
II,I,BRUTUS,"The nature of an insurrection."
II,I,LUCIUS,"Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door,"
II,I,LUCIUS,"Who doth desire to see you."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Is he alone?"
II,I,LUCIUS,"No, sir, there are moe with him."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Do you know them?"
II,I,LUCIUS,"No, sir; their hats are pluck'd about their ears,"
II,I,LUCIUS,"And half their faces buried in their cloaks,"
II,I,LUCIUS,"That by no means I may discover them"
II,I,LUCIUS,"By any mark of favour."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Let 'em enter."
II,I,BRUTUS,"They are the faction. O conspiracy,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"When evils are most free? O, then by day"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough"
II,I,BRUTUS,"To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Hide it in smiles and affability:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"For if thou path, thy native semblance on,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Not Erebus itself were dim enough"
II,I,BRUTUS,"To hide thee from prevention."
II,I,CASSIUS,"I think we are too bold upon your rest:"
II,I,CASSIUS,"Good morrow, Brutus; do we trouble you?"
II,I,BRUTUS,"I have been up this hour, awake all night."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Know I these men that come along with you?"
II,I,CASSIUS,"Yes, every man of them, and no man here"
II,I,CASSIUS,"But honours you; and every one doth wish"
II,I,CASSIUS,"You had but that opinion of yourself"
II,I,CASSIUS,"Which every noble Roman bears of you."
II,I,CASSIUS,"This is Trebonius."
II,I,BRUTUS,"He is welcome hither."
II,I,CASSIUS,"This, Decius Brutus."
II,I,BRUTUS,"He is welcome too."
II,I,CASSIUS,"This, Casca; this, Cinna; and this, Metellus Cimber."
II,I,BRUTUS,"They are all welcome."
II,I,BRUTUS,"What watchful cares do interpose themselves"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Betwixt your eyes and night?"
II,I,CASSIUS,"Shall I entreat a word?"
II,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Here lies the east: doth not the day break here?"
II,I,CASCA,"No."
II,I,CINNA,"O, pardon, sir, it doth; and yon gray lines"
II,I,CINNA,"That fret the clouds are messengers of day."
II,I,CASCA,"You shall confess that you are both deceived."
II,I,CASCA,"Here, as I point my sword, the sun arises,"
II,I,CASCA,"Which is a great way growing on the south,"
II,I,CASCA,"Weighing the youthful season of the year."
II,I,CASCA,"Some two months hence up higher toward the north"
II,I,CASCA,"He first presents his fire; and the high east"
II,I,CASCA,"Stands, as the Capitol, directly here."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Give me your hands all over, one by one."
II,I,CASSIUS,"And let us swear our resolution."
II,I,BRUTUS,"No, not an oath: if not the face of men,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"The sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse,--"
II,I,BRUTUS,"If these be motives weak, break off betimes,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And every man hence to his idle bed;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"So let high-sighted tyranny range on,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Till each man drop by lottery. But if these,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"As I am sure they do, bear fire enough"
II,I,BRUTUS,"To kindle cowards and to steel with valour"
II,I,BRUTUS,"The melting spirits of women, then, countrymen,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"What need we any spur but our own cause,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"To prick us to redress? what other bond"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And will not palter? and what other oath"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Than honesty to honesty engaged,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"That this shall be, or we will fall for it?"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Old feeble carrions and such suffering souls"
II,I,BRUTUS,"That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain"
II,I,BRUTUS,"The even virtue of our enterprise,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Nor the insuppressive mettle of our spirits,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"To think that or our cause or our performance"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Did need an oath; when every drop of blood"
II,I,BRUTUS,"That every Roman bears, and nobly bears,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Is guilty of a several bastardy,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"If he do break the smallest particle"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Of any promise that hath pass'd from him."
II,I,CASSIUS,"But what of Cicero? shall we sound him?"
II,I,CASSIUS,"I think he will stand very strong with us."
II,I,CASCA,"Let us not leave him out."
II,I,CINNA,"No, by no means."
II,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"O, let us have him, for his silver hairs"
II,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"Will purchase us a good opinion"
II,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"And buy men's voices to commend our deeds:"
II,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"It shall be said, his judgment ruled our hands;"
II,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear,"
II,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"But all be buried in his gravity."
II,I,BRUTUS,"O, name him not: let us not break with him;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"For he will never follow any thing"
II,I,BRUTUS,"That other men begin."
II,I,CASSIUS,"Then leave him out."
II,I,CASCA,"Indeed he is not fit."
II,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Shall no man else be touch'd but only Caesar?"
II,I,CASSIUS,"Decius, well urged: I think it is not meet,"
II,I,CASSIUS,"Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar,"
II,I,CASSIUS,"Should outlive Caesar: we shall find of him"
II,I,CASSIUS,"A shrewd contriver; and, you know, his means,"
II,I,CASSIUS,"If he improve them, may well stretch so far"
II,I,CASSIUS,"As to annoy us all: which to prevent,"
II,I,CASSIUS,"Let Antony and Caesar fall together."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius."
II,I,BRUTUS,"We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And in the spirit of men there is no blood:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And not dismember Caesar! But, alas,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And let our hearts, as subtle masters do,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Stir up their servants to an act of rage,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Our purpose necessary and not envious:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Which so appearing to the common eyes,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers."
II,I,BRUTUS,"And for Mark Antony, think not of him;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"For he can do no more than Caesar's arm"
II,I,BRUTUS,"When Caesar's head is off."
II,I,CASSIUS,"Yet I fear him;"
II,I,CASSIUS,"For in the ingrafted love he bears to Caesar--"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Alas, good Cassius, do not think of him:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"If he love Caesar, all that he can do"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Is to himself, take thought and die for Caesar:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And that were much he should; for he is given"
II,I,BRUTUS,"To sports, to wildness and much company."
II,I,TREBONIUS,"There is no fear in him; let him not die;"
II,I,TREBONIUS,"For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Peace! count the clock."
II,I,CASSIUS,"The clock hath stricken three."
II,I,TREBONIUS,"'Tis time to part."
II,I,CASSIUS,"But it is doubtful yet,"
II,I,CASSIUS,"Whether Caesar will come forth to-day, or no;"
II,I,CASSIUS,"For he is superstitious grown of late,"
II,I,CASSIUS,"Quite from the main opinion he held once"
II,I,CASSIUS,"Of fantasy, of dreams and ceremonies:"
II,I,CASSIUS,"It may be, these apparent prodigies,"
II,I,CASSIUS,"The unaccustom'd terror of this night,"
II,I,CASSIUS,"And the persuasion of his augurers,"
II,I,CASSIUS,"May hold him from the Capitol to-day."
II,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Never fear that: if he be so resolved,"
II,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear"
II,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"That unicorns may be betray'd with trees,"
II,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,"
II,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Lions with toils and men with flatterers;"
II,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"But when I tell him he hates flatterers,"
II,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"He says he does, being then most flattered."
II,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Let me work;"
II,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"For I can give his humour the true bent,"
II,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"And I will bring him to the Capitol."
II,I,CASSIUS,"Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him."
II,I,BRUTUS,"By the eighth hour: is that the uttermost?"
II,I,CINNA,"Be that the uttermost, and fail not then."
II,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard,"
II,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey:"
II,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"I wonder none of you have thought of him."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Now, good Metellus, go along by him:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"He loves me well, and I have given him reasons;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Send him but hither, and I'll fashion him."
II,I,CASSIUS,"The morning comes upon 's: we'll leave you, Brutus."
II,I,CASSIUS,"And, friends, disperse yourselves; but all remember"
II,I,CASSIUS,"What you have said, and show yourselves true Romans."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Let not our looks put on our purposes,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"But bear it as our Roman actors do,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"With untired spirits and formal constancy:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And so good morrow to you every one."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Which busy care draws in the brains of men;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Therefore thou sleep'st so sound."
II,I,PORTIA,"Brutus, my lord!"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Portia, what mean you? wherefore rise you now?"
II,I,BRUTUS,"It is not for your health thus to commit"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Your weak condition to the raw cold morning."
II,I,PORTIA,"Nor for yours neither. You've ungently, Brutus,"
II,I,PORTIA,"Stole from my bed: and yesternight, at supper,"
II,I,PORTIA,"You suddenly arose, and walk'd about,"
II,I,PORTIA,"Musing and sighing, with your arms across,"
II,I,PORTIA,"And when I ask'd you what the matter was,"
II,I,PORTIA,"You stared upon me with ungentle looks;"
II,I,PORTIA,"I urged you further; then you scratch'd your head,"
II,I,PORTIA,"And too impatiently stamp'd with your foot;"
II,I,PORTIA,"Yet I insisted, yet you answer'd not,"
II,I,PORTIA,"But, with an angry wafture of your hand,"
II,I,PORTIA,"Gave sign for me to leave you: so I did;"
II,I,PORTIA,"Fearing to strengthen that impatience"
II,I,PORTIA,"Which seem'd too much enkindled, and withal"
II,I,PORTIA,"Hoping it was but an effect of humour,"
II,I,PORTIA,"Which sometime hath his hour with every man."
II,I,PORTIA,"It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep,"
II,I,PORTIA,"And could it work so much upon your shape"
II,I,PORTIA,"As it hath much prevail'd on your condition,"
II,I,PORTIA,"I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my lord,"
II,I,PORTIA,"Make me acquainted with your cause of grief."
II,I,BRUTUS,"I am not well in health, and that is all."
II,I,PORTIA,"Brutus is wise, and, were he not in health,"
II,I,PORTIA,"He would embrace the means to come by it."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Why, so I do. Good Portia, go to bed."
II,I,PORTIA,"Is Brutus sick? and is it physical"
II,I,PORTIA,"To walk unbraced and suck up the humours"
II,I,PORTIA,"Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick,"
II,I,PORTIA,"And will he steal out of his wholesome bed,"
II,I,PORTIA,"To dare the vile contagion of the night"
II,I,PORTIA,"And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air"
II,I,PORTIA,"To add unto his sickness? No, my Brutus;"
II,I,PORTIA,"You have some sick offence within your mind,"
II,I,PORTIA,"Which, by the right and virtue of my place,"
II,I,PORTIA,"I ought to know of: and, upon my knees,"
II,I,PORTIA,"I charm you, by my once-commended beauty,"
II,I,PORTIA,"By all your vows of love and that great vow"
II,I,PORTIA,"Which did incorporate and make us one,"
II,I,PORTIA,"That you unfold to me, yourself, your half,"
II,I,PORTIA,"Why you are heavy, and what men to-night"
II,I,PORTIA,"Have had to resort to you: for here have been"
II,I,PORTIA,"Some six or seven, who did hide their faces"
II,I,PORTIA,"Even from darkness."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Kneel not, gentle Portia."
II,I,PORTIA,"I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus."
II,I,PORTIA,"Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,"
II,I,PORTIA,"Is it excepted I should know no secrets"
II,I,PORTIA,"That appertain to you? Am I yourself"
II,I,PORTIA,"But, as it were, in sort or limitation,"
II,I,PORTIA,"To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,"
II,I,PORTIA,"And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs"
II,I,PORTIA,"Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,"
II,I,PORTIA,"Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife."
II,I,BRUTUS,"You are my true and honourable wife,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"As dear to me as are the ruddy drops"
II,I,BRUTUS,"That visit my sad heart"
II,I,PORTIA,"If this were true, then should I know this secret."
II,I,PORTIA,"I grant I am a woman; but withal"
II,I,PORTIA,"A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife:"
II,I,PORTIA,"I grant I am a woman; but withal"
II,I,PORTIA,"A woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter."
II,I,PORTIA,"Think you I am no stronger than my sex,"
II,I,PORTIA,"Being so father'd and so husbanded?"
II,I,PORTIA,"Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em:"
II,I,PORTIA,"I have made strong proof of my constancy,"
II,I,PORTIA,"Giving myself a voluntary wound"
II,I,PORTIA,"Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience."
II,I,PORTIA,"And not my husband's secrets?"
II,I,BRUTUS,"O ye gods,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Render me worthy of this noble wife!"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Hark, hark! one knocks: Portia, go in awhile;"
II,I,BRUTUS,"And by and by thy bosom shall partake"
II,I,BRUTUS,"The secrets of my heart."
II,I,BRUTUS,"All my engagements I will construe to thee,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"All the charactery of my sad brows:"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Leave me with haste."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Lucius, who's that knocks?"
II,I,LUCIUS,"He is a sick man that would speak with you."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Caius Ligarius, that Metellus spake of."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Boy, stand aside. Caius Ligarius! how?"
II,I,LIGARIUS,"Vouchsafe good morrow from a feeble tongue."
II,I,BRUTUS,"O, what a time have you chose out, brave Caius,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"To wear a kerchief! Would you were not sick!"
II,I,LIGARIUS,"I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand"
II,I,LIGARIUS,"Any exploit worthy the name of honour."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"Had you a healthful ear to hear of it."
II,I,LIGARIUS,"By all the gods that Romans bow before,"
II,I,LIGARIUS,"I here discard my sickness! Soul of Rome!"
II,I,LIGARIUS,"Brave son, derived from honourable loins!"
II,I,LIGARIUS,"Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up"
II,I,LIGARIUS,"My mortified spirit. Now bid me run,"
II,I,LIGARIUS,"And I will strive with things impossible;"
II,I,LIGARIUS,"Yea, get the better of them. What's to do?"
II,I,BRUTUS,"A piece of work that will make sick men whole."
II,I,LIGARIUS,"But are not some whole that we must make sick?"
II,I,BRUTUS,"That must we also. What it is, my Caius,"
II,I,BRUTUS,"I shall unfold to thee, as we are going"
II,I,BRUTUS,"To whom it must be done."
II,I,LIGARIUS,"Set on your foot,"
II,I,LIGARIUS,"And with a heart new-fired I follow you,"
II,I,LIGARIUS,"To do I know not what: but it sufficeth"
II,I,LIGARIUS,"That Brutus leads me on."
II,I,BRUTUS,"Follow me, then."
II,II,CAESAR,"Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night:"
II,II,CAESAR,"Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out,"
II,II,CAESAR,"'Help, ho! they murder Caesar!' Who's within?"
II,II,Servant,"My lord?"
II,II,CAESAR,"Go bid the priests do present sacrifice"
II,II,CAESAR,"And bring me their opinions of success."
II,II,Servant,"I will, my lord."
II,II,CALPURNIA,"What mean you, Caesar? think you to walk forth?"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"You shall not stir out of your house to-day."
II,II,CAESAR,"Caesar shall forth: the things that threaten'd me"
II,II,CAESAR,"Ne'er look'd but on my back; when they shall see"
II,II,CAESAR,"The face of Caesar, they are vanished."
II,II,CALPURNIA,"Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"Yet now they fright me. There is one within,"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"Besides the things that we have heard and seen,"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch."
II,II,CALPURNIA,"A lioness hath whelped in the streets;"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead;"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol;"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"The noise of battle hurtled in the air,"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets."
II,II,CALPURNIA,"O Caesar! these things are beyond all use,"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"And I do fear them."
II,II,CAESAR,"What can be avoided"
II,II,CAESAR,"Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?"
II,II,CAESAR,"Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions"
II,II,CAESAR,"Are to the world in general as to Caesar."
II,II,CALPURNIA,"When beggars die, there are no comets seen;"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."
II,II,CAESAR,"Cowards die many times before their deaths;"
II,II,CAESAR,"The valiant never taste of death but once."
II,II,CAESAR,"Of all the wonders that I yet have heard."
II,II,CAESAR,"It seems to me most strange that men should fear;"
II,II,CAESAR,"Seeing that death, a necessary end,"
II,II,CAESAR,"Will come when it will come."
II,II,CAESAR,"What say the augurers?"
II,II,Servant,"They would not have you to stir forth to-day."
II,II,Servant,"Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,"
II,II,Servant,"They could not find a heart within the beast."
II,II,CAESAR,"The gods do this in shame of cowardice:"
II,II,CAESAR,"Caesar should be a beast without a heart,"
II,II,CAESAR,"If he should stay at home to-day for fear."
II,II,CAESAR,"No, Caesar shall not: danger knows full well"
II,II,CAESAR,"That Caesar is more dangerous than he:"
II,II,CAESAR,"We are two lions litter'd in one day,"
II,II,CAESAR,"And I the elder and more terrible:"
II,II,CAESAR,"And Caesar shall go forth."
II,II,CALPURNIA,"Alas, my lord,"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"Your wisdom is consumed in confidence."
II,II,CALPURNIA,"Do not go forth to-day: call it my fear"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"That keeps you in the house, and not your own."
II,II,CALPURNIA,"We'll send Mark Antony to the senate-house:"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"And he shall say you are not well to-day:"
II,II,CALPURNIA,"Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this."
II,II,CAESAR,"Mark Antony shall say I am not well,"
II,II,CAESAR,"And, for thy humour, I will stay at home."
II,II,CAESAR,"Here's Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so."
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Caesar, all hail! good morrow, worthy Caesar:"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"I come to fetch you to the senate-house."
II,II,CAESAR,"And you are come in very happy time,"
II,II,CAESAR,"To bear my greeting to the senators"
II,II,CAESAR,"And tell them that I will not come to-day:"
II,II,CAESAR,"Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser:"
II,II,CAESAR,"I will not come to-day: tell them so, Decius."
II,II,CALPURNIA,"Say he is sick."
II,II,CAESAR,"Shall Caesar send a lie?"
II,II,CAESAR,"Have I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far,"
II,II,CAESAR,"To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth?"
II,II,CAESAR,"Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come."
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Lest I be laugh'd at when I tell them so."
II,II,CAESAR,"The cause is in my will: I will not come;"
II,II,CAESAR,"That is enough to satisfy the senate."
II,II,CAESAR,"But for your private satisfaction,"
II,II,CAESAR,"Because I love you, I will let you know:"
II,II,CAESAR,"Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home:"
II,II,CAESAR,"She dreamt to-night she saw my statua,"
II,II,CAESAR,"Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,"
II,II,CAESAR,"Did run pure blood: and many lusty Romans"
II,II,CAESAR,"Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it:"
II,II,CAESAR,"And these does she apply for warnings, and portents,"
II,II,CAESAR,"And evils imminent; and on her knee"
II,II,CAESAR,"Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day."
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"This dream is all amiss interpreted;"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"It was a vision fair and fortunate:"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"In which so many smiling Romans bathed,"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Reviving blood, and that great men shall press"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"For tinctures, stains, relics and cognizance."
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"This by Calpurnia's dream is signified."
II,II,CAESAR,"And this way have you well expounded it."
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"I have, when you have heard what I can say:"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"And know it now: the senate have concluded"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar."
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"If you shall send them word you will not come,"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Apt to be render'd, for some one to say"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"'Break up the senate till another time,"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams.'"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"'Lo, Caesar is afraid'?"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Pardon me, Caesar; for my dear dear love"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"To our proceeding bids me tell you this;"
II,II,DECIUS BRUTUS,"And reason to my love is liable."
II,II,CAESAR,"How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia!"
II,II,CAESAR,"I am ashamed I did yield to them."
II,II,CAESAR,"Give me my robe, for I will go."
II,II,CAESAR,"And look where Publius is come to fetch me."
II,II,PUBLIUS,"Good morrow, Caesar."
II,II,CAESAR,"Welcome, Publius."
II,II,CAESAR,"What, Brutus, are you stirr'd so early too?"
II,II,CAESAR,"Good morrow, Casca. Caius Ligarius,"
II,II,CAESAR,"Caesar was ne'er so much your enemy"
II,II,CAESAR,"As that same ague which hath made you lean."
II,II,CAESAR,"What is 't o'clock?"
II,II,BRUTUS,"Caesar, 'tis strucken eight."
II,II,CAESAR,"I thank you for your pains and courtesy."
II,II,CAESAR,"See! Antony, that revels long o' nights,"
II,II,CAESAR,"Is notwithstanding up. Good morrow, Antony."
II,II,ANTONY,"So to most noble Caesar."
II,II,CAESAR,"Bid them prepare within:"
II,II,CAESAR,"I am to blame to be thus waited for."
II,II,CAESAR,"Now, Cinna: now, Metellus: what, Trebonius!"
II,II,CAESAR,"I have an hour's talk in store for you;"
II,II,CAESAR,"Remember that you call on me to-day:"
II,II,CAESAR,"Be near me, that I may remember you."
II,II,TREBONIUS,"Caesar, I will:"
II,II,TREBONIUS,"and so near will I be,"
II,II,TREBONIUS,"That your best friends shall wish I had been further."
II,II,CAESAR,"Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;"
II,II,CAESAR,"And we, like friends, will straightway go together."
II,II,BRUTUS,"The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon!"
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"'Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius;"
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna, trust not"
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"Trebonius: mark well Metellus Cimber: Decius Brutus"
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"loves thee not: thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius."
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"There is but one mind in all these men, and it is"
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal,"
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"look about you: security gives way to conspiracy."
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"The mighty gods defend thee! Thy lover,"
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"'ARTEMIDORUS.'"
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,"
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"And as a suitor will I give him this."
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"My heart laments that virtue cannot live"
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"Out of the teeth of emulation."
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live;"
II,III,ARTEMIDORUS,"If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive."
II,IV,PORTIA,"I prithee, boy, run to the senate-house;"
II,IV,PORTIA,"Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone:"
II,IV,PORTIA,"Why dost thou stay?"
II,IV,LUCIUS,"To know my errand, madam."
II,IV,PORTIA,"I would have had thee there, and here again,"
II,IV,PORTIA,"Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there."
II,IV,PORTIA,"O constancy, be strong upon my side,"
II,IV,PORTIA,"Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!"
II,IV,PORTIA,"I have a man's mind, but a woman's might."
II,IV,PORTIA,"How hard it is for women to keep counsel!"
II,IV,PORTIA,"Art thou here yet?"
II,IV,LUCIUS,"Madam, what should I do?"
II,IV,LUCIUS,"Run to the Capitol, and nothing else?"
II,IV,LUCIUS,"And so return to you, and nothing else?"
II,IV,PORTIA,"Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well,"
II,IV,PORTIA,"For he went sickly forth: and take good note"
II,IV,PORTIA,"What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him."
II,IV,PORTIA,"Hark, boy! what noise is that?"
II,IV,LUCIUS,"I hear none, madam."
II,IV,PORTIA,"Prithee, listen well;"
II,IV,PORTIA,"I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray,"
II,IV,PORTIA,"And the wind brings it from the Capitol."
II,IV,LUCIUS,"Sooth, madam, I hear nothing."
II,IV,PORTIA,"Come hither, fellow: which way hast thou been?"
II,IV,Soothsayer,"At mine own house, good lady."
II,IV,PORTIA,"What is't o'clock?"
II,IV,Soothsayer,"About the ninth hour, lady."
II,IV,PORTIA,"Is Caesar yet gone to the Capitol?"
II,IV,Soothsayer,"Madam, not yet: I go to take my stand,"
II,IV,Soothsayer,"To see him pass on to the Capitol."
II,IV,PORTIA,"Thou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not?"
II,IV,Soothsayer,"That I have, lady: if it will please Caesar"
II,IV,Soothsayer,"To be so good to Caesar as to hear me,"
II,IV,Soothsayer,"I shall beseech him to befriend himself."
II,IV,PORTIA,"Why, know'st thou any harm's intended towards him?"
II,IV,Soothsayer,"None that I know will be, much that I fear may chance."
II,IV,Soothsayer,"Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow:"
II,IV,Soothsayer,"The throng that follows Caesar at the heels,"
II,IV,Soothsayer,"Of senators, of praetors, common suitors,"
II,IV,Soothsayer,"Will crowd a feeble man almost to death:"
II,IV,Soothsayer,"I'll get me to a place more void, and there"
II,IV,Soothsayer,"Speak to great Caesar as he comes along."
II,IV,PORTIA,"I must go in. Ay me, how weak a thing"
II,IV,PORTIA,"The heart of woman is! O Brutus,"
II,IV,PORTIA,"The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!"
II,IV,PORTIA,"Sure, the boy heard me: Brutus hath a suit"
II,IV,PORTIA,"That Caesar will not grant. O, I grow faint."
II,IV,PORTIA,"Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord;"
II,IV,PORTIA,"Say I am merry: come to me again,"
II,IV,PORTIA,"And bring me word what he doth say to thee."
III,I,Soothsayer,"Ay, Caesar; but not gone."
III,I,ARTEMIDORUS,"Hail, Caesar! read this schedule."
III,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Trebonius doth desire you to o'erread,"
III,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"At your best leisure, this his humble suit."
III,I,ARTEMIDORUS,"O Caesar, read mine first; for mine's a suit"
III,I,ARTEMIDORUS,"That touches Caesar nearer: read it, great Caesar."
III,I,CAESAR,"What touches us ourself shall be last served."
III,I,ARTEMIDORUS,"Delay not, Caesar; read it instantly."
III,I,CAESAR,"What, is the fellow mad?"
III,I,PUBLIUS,"Sirrah, give place."
III,I,CASSIUS,"What, urge you your petitions in the street?"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Come to the Capitol."
III,I,POPILIUS,"I wish your enterprise to-day may thrive."
III,I,CASSIUS,"What enterprise, Popilius?"
III,I,POPILIUS,"Fare you well."
III,I,BRUTUS,"What said Popilius Lena?"
III,I,CASSIUS,"He wish'd to-day our enterprise might thrive."
III,I,CASSIUS,"I fear our purpose is discovered."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Look, how he makes to Caesar; mark him."
III,I,CASSIUS,"Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention."
III,I,CASSIUS,"Brutus, what shall be done? If this be known,"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Cassius or Caesar never shall turn back,"
III,I,CASSIUS,"For I will slay myself."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Cassius, be constant:"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes;"
III,I,BRUTUS,"For, look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change."
III,I,CASSIUS,"Trebonius knows his time; for, look you, Brutus."
III,I,CASSIUS,"He draws Mark Antony out of the way."
III,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Where is Metellus Cimber? Let him go,"
III,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"And presently prefer his suit to Caesar."
III,I,BRUTUS,"He is address'd: press near and second him."
III,I,CINNA,"Casca, you are the first that rears your hand."
III,I,CAESAR,"Are we all ready? What is now amiss"
III,I,CAESAR,"That Caesar and his senate must redress?"
III,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar,"
III,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat"
III,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"An humble heart,--"
III,I,CAESAR,"I must prevent thee, Cimber."
III,I,CAESAR,"These couchings and these lowly courtesies"
III,I,CAESAR,"Might fire the blood of ordinary men,"
III,I,CAESAR,"And turn pre-ordinance and first decree"
III,I,CAESAR,"Into the law of children. Be not fond,"
III,I,CAESAR,"To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood"
III,I,CAESAR,"That will be thaw'd from the true quality"
III,I,CAESAR,"With that which melteth fools; I mean, sweet words,"
III,I,CAESAR,"Low-crooked court'sies and base spaniel-fawning."
III,I,CAESAR,"Thy brother by decree is banished:"
III,I,CAESAR,"If thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him,"
III,I,CAESAR,"I spurn thee like a cur out of my way."
III,I,CAESAR,"Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause"
III,I,CAESAR,"Will he be satisfied."
III,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"Is there no voice more worthy than my own"
III,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"To sound more sweetly in great Caesar's ear"
III,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"For the repealing of my banish'd brother?"
III,I,BRUTUS,"I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar;"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Have an immediate freedom of repeal."
III,I,CAESAR,"What, Brutus!"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Pardon, Caesar; Caesar, pardon:"
III,I,CASSIUS,"As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall,"
III,I,CASSIUS,"To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber."
III,I,CASSIUS,"I could be well moved, if I were as you:"
III,I,CASSIUS,"If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:"
III,I,CASSIUS,"But I am constant as the northern star,"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality"
III,I,CASSIUS,"There is no fellow in the firmament."
III,I,CASSIUS,"The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,"
III,I,CASSIUS,"They are all fire and every one doth shine,"
III,I,CASSIUS,"But there's but one in all doth hold his place:"
III,I,CASSIUS,"So in the world; 'tis furnish'd well with men,"
III,I,CASSIUS,"And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Yet in the number I do know but one"
III,I,CASSIUS,"That unassailable holds on his rank,"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Unshaked of motion: and that I am he,"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Let me a little show it, even in this;"
III,I,CASSIUS,"That I was constant Cimber should be banish'd,"
III,I,CASSIUS,"And constant do remain to keep him so."
III,I,CINNA,"O Caesar,--"
III,I,CAESAR,"Hence! wilt thou lift up Olympus?"
III,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"Great Caesar,--"
III,I,CAESAR,"Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?"
III,I,CASCA,"Speak, hands for me!"
III,I,CAESAR,"Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar."
III,I,CINNA,"Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!"
III,I,CINNA,"Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets."
III,I,CASSIUS,"Some to the common pulpits, and cry out"
III,I,CASSIUS,"'Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!'"
III,I,BRUTUS,"People and senators, be not affrighted;"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Fly not; stand stiff: ambition's debt is paid."
III,I,CASCA,"Go to the pulpit, Brutus."
III,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"And Cassius too."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Where's Publius?"
III,I,CINNA,"Here, quite confounded with this mutiny."
III,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"Stand fast together, lest some friend of Caesar's"
III,I,METELLUS CIMBER,"Should chance--"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Talk not of standing. Publius, good cheer;"
III,I,BRUTUS,"There is no harm intended to your person,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Nor to no Roman else: so tell them, Publius."
III,I,CASSIUS,"And leave us, Publius; lest that the people,"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Rushing on us, should do your age some mischief."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Do so: and let no man abide this deed,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"But we the doers."
III,I,CASSIUS,"Where is Antony?"
III,I,TREBONIUS,"Fled to his house amazed:"
III,I,TREBONIUS,"Men, wives and children stare, cry out and run"
III,I,TREBONIUS,"As it were doomsday."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Fates, we will know your pleasures:"
III,I,BRUTUS,"That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time"
III,I,BRUTUS,"And drawing days out, that men stand upon."
III,I,CASSIUS,"Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Cuts off so many years of fearing death."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Grant that, and then is death a benefit:"
III,I,BRUTUS,"So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged"
III,I,BRUTUS,"His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords:"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Then walk we forth, even to the market-place,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"And, waving our red weapons o'er our heads,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Let's all cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!'"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Stoop, then, and wash. How many ages hence"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Shall this our lofty scene be acted over"
III,I,CASSIUS,"In states unborn and accents yet unknown!"
III,I,BRUTUS,"How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"That now on Pompey's basis lies along"
III,I,BRUTUS,"No worthier than the dust!"
III,I,CASSIUS,"So oft as that shall be,"
III,I,CASSIUS,"So often shall the knot of us be call'd"
III,I,CASSIUS,"The men that gave their country liberty."
III,I,DECIUS BRUTUS,"What, shall we forth?"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Ay, every man away:"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Brutus shall lead; and we will grace his heels"
III,I,CASSIUS,"With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Soft! who comes here? A friend of Antony's."
III,I,Servant,"Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me kneel:"
III,I,Servant,"Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down;"
III,I,Servant,"And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say:"
III,I,Servant,"Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest;"
III,I,Servant,"Caesar was mighty, bold, royal, and loving:"
III,I,Servant,"Say I love Brutus, and I honour him;"
III,I,Servant,"Say I fear'd Caesar, honour'd him and loved him."
III,I,Servant,"If Brutus will vouchsafe that Antony"
III,I,Servant,"May safely come to him, and be resolved"
III,I,Servant,"How Caesar hath deserved to lie in death,"
III,I,Servant,"Mark Antony shall not love Caesar dead"
III,I,Servant,"So well as Brutus living; but will follow"
III,I,Servant,"The fortunes and affairs of noble Brutus"
III,I,Servant,"Thorough the hazards of this untrod state"
III,I,Servant,"With all true faith. So says my master Antony."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Thy master is a wise and valiant Roman;"
III,I,BRUTUS,"I never thought him worse."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Tell him, so please him come unto this place,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"He shall be satisfied; and, by my honour,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Depart untouch'd."
III,I,Servant,"I'll fetch him presently."
III,I,BRUTUS,"I know that we shall have him well to friend."
III,I,CASSIUS,"I wish we may: but yet have I a mind"
III,I,CASSIUS,"That fears him much; and my misgiving still"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Falls shrewdly to the purpose."
III,I,BRUTUS,"But here comes Antony."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Welcome, Mark Antony."
III,I,ANTONY,"O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?"
III,I,ANTONY,"Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well."
III,I,ANTONY,"I know not, gentlemen, what you intend,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Who else must be let blood, who else is rank:"
III,I,ANTONY,"If I myself, there is no hour so fit"
III,I,ANTONY,"As Caesar's death hour, nor no instrument"
III,I,ANTONY,"Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich"
III,I,ANTONY,"With the most noble blood of all this world."
III,I,ANTONY,"I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Fulfil your pleasure. Live a thousand years,"
III,I,ANTONY,"I shall not find myself so apt to die:"
III,I,ANTONY,"No place will please me so, no mean of death,"
III,I,ANTONY,"As here by Caesar, and by you cut off,"
III,I,ANTONY,"The choice and master spirits of this age."
III,I,BRUTUS,"O Antony, beg not your death of us."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Though now we must appear bloody and cruel,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"As, by our hands and this our present act,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"You see we do, yet see you but our hands"
III,I,BRUTUS,"And this the bleeding business they have done:"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful;"
III,I,BRUTUS,"And pity to the general wrong of Rome--"
III,I,BRUTUS,"As fire drives out fire, so pity pity--"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Hath done this deed on Caesar. For your part,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"To you our swords have leaden points, Mark Antony:"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Our arms, in strength of malice, and our hearts"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Of brothers' temper, do receive you in"
III,I,BRUTUS,"With all kind love, good thoughts, and reverence."
III,I,CASSIUS,"Your voice shall be as strong as any man's"
III,I,CASSIUS,"In the disposing of new dignities."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Only be patient till we have appeased"
III,I,BRUTUS,"The multitude, beside themselves with fear,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"And then we will deliver you the cause,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Why I, that did love Caesar when I struck him,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Have thus proceeded."
III,I,ANTONY,"I doubt not of your wisdom."
III,I,ANTONY,"Let each man render me his bloody hand:"
III,I,ANTONY,"First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you;"
III,I,ANTONY,"Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand;"
III,I,ANTONY,"Now, Decius Brutus, yours: now yours, Metellus;"
III,I,ANTONY,"Yours, Cinna; and, my valiant Casca, yours;"
III,I,ANTONY,"Though last, not last in love, yours, good Trebonius."
III,I,ANTONY,"Gentlemen all,--alas, what shall I say?"
III,I,ANTONY,"My credit now stands on such slippery ground,"
III,I,ANTONY,"That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Either a coward or a flatterer."
III,I,ANTONY,"That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis true:"
III,I,ANTONY,"If then thy spirit look upon us now,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death,"
III,I,ANTONY,"To see thy thy Anthony making his peace,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Most noble! in the presence of thy corse?"
III,I,ANTONY,"Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood,"
III,I,ANTONY,"It would become me better than to close"
III,I,ANTONY,"In terms of friendship with thine enemies."
III,I,ANTONY,"Pardon me, Julius! Here wast thou bay'd, brave hart;"
III,I,ANTONY,"Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Sign'd in thy spoil, and crimson'd in thy lethe."
III,I,ANTONY,"O world, thou wast the forest to this hart;"
III,I,ANTONY,"And this, indeed, O world, the heart of thee."
III,I,ANTONY,"How like a deer, strucken by many princes,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Dost thou here lie!"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Mark Antony,--"
III,I,ANTONY,"Pardon me, Caius Cassius:"
III,I,ANTONY,"The enemies of Caesar shall say this;"
III,I,ANTONY,"Then, in a friend, it is cold modesty."
III,I,CASSIUS,"I blame you not for praising Caesar so;"
III,I,CASSIUS,"But what compact mean you to have with us?"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Will you be prick'd in number of our friends;"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Or shall we on, and not depend on you?"
III,I,ANTONY,"Therefore I took your hands, but was, indeed,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Sway'd from the point, by looking down on Caesar."
III,I,ANTONY,"Friends am I with you all and love you all,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Upon this hope, that you shall give me reasons"
III,I,ANTONY,"Why and wherein Caesar was dangerous."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Or else were this a savage spectacle:"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Our reasons are so full of good regard"
III,I,BRUTUS,"That were you, Antony, the son of Caesar,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"You should be satisfied."
III,I,ANTONY,"That's all I seek:"
III,I,ANTONY,"And am moreover suitor that I may"
III,I,ANTONY,"Produce his body to the market-place;"
III,I,ANTONY,"And in the pulpit, as becomes a friend,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Speak in the order of his funeral."
III,I,BRUTUS,"You shall, Mark Antony."
III,I,CASSIUS,"Brutus, a word with you."
III,I,CASSIUS,"You know not what you do: do not consent"
III,I,CASSIUS,"That Antony speak in his funeral:"
III,I,CASSIUS,"Know you how much the people may be moved"
III,I,CASSIUS,"By that which he will utter?"
III,I,BRUTUS,"By your pardon;"
III,I,BRUTUS,"I will myself into the pulpit first,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"And show the reason of our Caesar's death:"
III,I,BRUTUS,"What Antony shall speak, I will protest"
III,I,BRUTUS,"He speaks by leave and by permission,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"And that we are contented Caesar shall"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Have all true rites and lawful ceremonies."
III,I,BRUTUS,"It shall advantage more than do us wrong."
III,I,CASSIUS,"I know not what may fall; I like it not."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Mark Antony, here, take you Caesar's body."
III,I,BRUTUS,"You shall not in your funeral speech blame us,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"But speak all good you can devise of Caesar,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"And say you do't by our permission;"
III,I,BRUTUS,"Else shall you not have any hand at all"
III,I,BRUTUS,"About his funeral: and you shall speak"
III,I,BRUTUS,"In the same pulpit whereto I am going,"
III,I,BRUTUS,"After my speech is ended."
III,I,ANTONY,"Be it so."
III,I,ANTONY,"I do desire no more."
III,I,BRUTUS,"Prepare the body then, and follow us."
III,I,ANTONY,"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,"
III,I,ANTONY,"That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!"
III,I,ANTONY,"Thou art the ruins of the noblest man"
III,I,ANTONY,"That ever lived in the tide of times."
III,I,ANTONY,"Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!"
III,I,ANTONY,"Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,--"
III,I,ANTONY,"Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips,"
III,I,ANTONY,"To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue--"
III,I,ANTONY,"A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;"
III,I,ANTONY,"Domestic fury and fierce civil strife"
III,I,ANTONY,"Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;"
III,I,ANTONY,"Blood and destruction shall be so in use"
III,I,ANTONY,"And dreadful objects so familiar"
III,I,ANTONY,"That mothers shall but smile when they behold"
III,I,ANTONY,"Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;"
III,I,ANTONY,"All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:"
III,I,ANTONY,"And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,"
III,I,ANTONY,"With Ate by his side come hot from hell,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice"
III,I,ANTONY,"Cry  'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;"
III,I,ANTONY,"That this foul deed shall smell above the earth"
III,I,ANTONY,"With carrion men, groaning for burial."
III,I,ANTONY,"You serve Octavius Caesar, do you not?"
III,I,Servant,"I do, Mark Antony."
III,I,ANTONY,"Caesar did write for him to come to Rome."
III,I,Servant,"He did receive his letters, and is coming;"
III,I,Servant,"And bid me say to you by word of mouth--"
III,I,Servant,"O Caesar!--"
III,I,ANTONY,"Thy heart is big, get thee apart and weep."
III,I,ANTONY,"Passion, I see, is catching; for mine eyes,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine,"
III,I,ANTONY,"Began to water. Is thy master coming?"
III,I,Servant,"He lies to-night within seven leagues of Rome."
III,I,ANTONY,"Post back with speed, and tell him what hath chanced:"
III,I,ANTONY,"Here is a mourning Rome, a dangerous Rome,"
III,I,ANTONY,"No Rome of safety for Octavius yet;"
III,I,ANTONY,"Hie hence, and tell him so. Yet, stay awhile;"
III,I,ANTONY,"Thou shalt not back till I have borne this corse"
III,I,ANTONY,"Into the market-place: there shall I try"
III,I,ANTONY,"In my oration, how the people take"
III,I,ANTONY,"The cruel issue of these bloody men;"
III,I,ANTONY,"According to the which, thou shalt discourse"
III,I,ANTONY,"To young Octavius of the state of things."
III,I,ANTONY,"Lend me your hand."
III,II,Citizens,"We will be satisfied; let us be satisfied."
III,II,BRUTUS,"Then follow me, and give me audience, friends."
III,II,BRUTUS,"Cassius, go you into the other street,"
III,II,BRUTUS,"And part the numbers."
III,II,BRUTUS,"Those that will hear me speak, let 'em stay here;"
III,II,BRUTUS,"Those that will follow Cassius, go with him;"
III,II,BRUTUS,"And public reasons shall be rendered"
III,II,BRUTUS,"Of Caesar's death."
III,II,First Citizen,"I will hear Brutus speak."
III,II,Second Citizen,"I will hear Cassius; and compare their reasons,"
III,II,Second Citizen,"When severally we hear them rendered."
III,II,Third Citizen,"The noble Brutus is ascended: silence!"
III,II,BRUTUS,"Be patient till the last."
III,II,BRUTUS,"Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my"
III,II,BRUTUS,"cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me"
III,II,BRUTUS,"for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that"
III,II,BRUTUS,"you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and"
III,II,BRUTUS,"awake your senses, that you may the better judge."
III,II,BRUTUS,"If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of"
III,II,BRUTUS,"Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar"
III,II,BRUTUS,"was no less than his. If then that friend demand"
III,II,BRUTUS,"why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer:"
III,II,BRUTUS,"--Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved"
III,II,BRUTUS,"Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and"
III,II,BRUTUS,"die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live"
III,II,BRUTUS,"all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him;"
III,II,BRUTUS,"as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was"
III,II,BRUTUS,"valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I"
III,II,BRUTUS,"slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his"
III,II,BRUTUS,"fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his"
III,II,BRUTUS,"ambition. Who is here so base that would be a"
III,II,BRUTUS,"bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended."
III,II,BRUTUS,"Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If"
III,II,BRUTUS,"any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so"
III,II,BRUTUS,"vile that will not love his country? If any, speak;"
III,II,BRUTUS,"for him have I offended. I pause for a reply."
III,II,All,"None, Brutus, none."
III,II,BRUTUS,"Then none have I offended. I have done no more to"
III,II,BRUTUS,"Caesar than you shall do to Brutus. The question of"
III,II,BRUTUS,"his death is enrolled in the Capitol; his glory not"
III,II,BRUTUS,"extenuated, wherein he was worthy, nor his offences"
III,II,BRUTUS,"enforced, for which he suffered death."
III,II,BRUTUS,"Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who,"
III,II,BRUTUS,"though he had no hand in his death, shall receive"
III,II,BRUTUS,"the benefit of his dying, a place in the"
III,II,BRUTUS,"commonwealth; as which of you shall not? With this"
III,II,BRUTUS,"I depart,--that, as I slew my best lover for the"
III,II,BRUTUS,"good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself,"
III,II,BRUTUS,"when it shall please my country to need my death."
III,II,All,"Live, Brutus! live, live!"
III,II,First Citizen,"Bring him with triumph home unto his house."
III,II,Second Citizen,"Give him a statue with his ancestors."
III,II,Third Citizen,"Let him be Caesar."
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"Caesar's better parts"
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"Shall be crown'd in Brutus."
III,II,First Citizen,"We'll bring him to his house"
III,II,First Citizen,"With shouts and clamours."
III,II,BRUTUS,"My countrymen,--"
III,II,Second Citizen,"Peace, silence! Brutus speaks."
III,II,First Citizen,"Peace, ho!"
III,II,BRUTUS,"Good countrymen, let me depart alone,"
III,II,BRUTUS,"And, for my sake, stay here with Antony:"
III,II,BRUTUS,"Do grace to Caesar's corpse, and grace his speech"
III,II,BRUTUS,"Tending to Caesar's glories; which Mark Antony,"
III,II,BRUTUS,"By our permission, is allow'd to make."
III,II,BRUTUS,"I do entreat you, not a man depart,"
III,II,BRUTUS,"Save I alone, till Antony have spoke."
III,II,First Citizen,"Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony."
III,II,Third Citizen,"Let him go up into the public chair;"
III,II,Third Citizen,"We'll hear him. Noble Antony, go up."
III,II,ANTONY,"For Brutus' sake, I am beholding to you."
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"What does he say of Brutus?"
III,II,Third Citizen,"He says, for Brutus' sake,"
III,II,Third Citizen,"He finds himself beholding to us all."
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"'Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here."
III,II,First Citizen,"This Caesar was a tyrant."
III,II,Third Citizen,"Nay, that's certain:"
III,II,Third Citizen,"We are blest that Rome is rid of him."
III,II,Second Citizen,"Peace! let us hear what Antony can say."
III,II,ANTONY,"You gentle Romans,--"
III,II,Citizens,"Peace, ho! let us hear him."
III,II,ANTONY,"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;"
III,II,ANTONY,"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
III,II,ANTONY,"The evil that men do lives after them;"
III,II,ANTONY,"The good is oft interred with their bones;"
III,II,ANTONY,"So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus"
III,II,ANTONY,"Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:"
III,II,ANTONY,"If it were so, it was a grievous fault,"
III,II,ANTONY,"And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it."
III,II,ANTONY,"Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--"
III,II,ANTONY,"For Brutus is an honourable man;"
III,II,ANTONY,"So are they all, all honourable men--"
III,II,ANTONY,"Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral."
III,II,ANTONY,"He was my friend, faithful and just to me:"
III,II,ANTONY,"But Brutus says he was ambitious;"
III,II,ANTONY,"And Brutus is an honourable man."
III,II,ANTONY,"He hath brought many captives home to Rome"
III,II,ANTONY,"Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:"
III,II,ANTONY,"Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?"
III,II,ANTONY,"When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:"
III,II,ANTONY,"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:"
III,II,ANTONY,"Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;"
III,II,ANTONY,"And Brutus is an honourable man."
III,II,ANTONY,"You all did see that on the Lupercal"
III,II,ANTONY,"I thrice presented him a kingly crown,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?"
III,II,ANTONY,"Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;"
III,II,ANTONY,"And, sure, he is an honourable man."
III,II,ANTONY,"I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,"
III,II,ANTONY,"But here I am to speak what I do know."
III,II,ANTONY,"You all did love him once, not without cause:"
III,II,ANTONY,"What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?"
III,II,ANTONY,"O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,"
III,II,ANTONY,"And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;"
III,II,ANTONY,"My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,"
III,II,ANTONY,"And I must pause till it come back to me."
III,II,First Citizen,"Methinks there is much reason in his sayings."
III,II,Second Citizen,"If thou consider rightly of the matter,"
III,II,Second Citizen,"Caesar has had great wrong."
III,II,Third Citizen,"Has he, masters?"
III,II,Third Citizen,"I fear there will a worse come in his place."
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"Mark'd ye his words? He would not take the crown;"
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious."
III,II,First Citizen,"If it be found so, some will dear abide it."
III,II,Second Citizen,"Poor soul! his eyes are red as fire with weeping."
III,II,Third Citizen,"There's not a nobler man in Rome than Antony."
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"Now mark him, he begins again to speak."
III,II,ANTONY,"But yesterday the word of Caesar might"
III,II,ANTONY,"Have stood against the world; now lies he there."
III,II,ANTONY,"And none so poor to do him reverence."
III,II,ANTONY,"O masters, if I were disposed to stir"
III,II,ANTONY,"Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,"
III,II,ANTONY,"I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Who, you all know, are honourable men:"
III,II,ANTONY,"I will not do them wrong; I rather choose"
III,II,ANTONY,"To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Than I will wrong such honourable men."
III,II,ANTONY,"But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar;"
III,II,ANTONY,"I found it in his closet, 'tis his will:"
III,II,ANTONY,"Let but the commons hear this testament--"
III,II,ANTONY,"Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read--"
III,II,ANTONY,"And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds"
III,II,ANTONY,"And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,"
III,II,ANTONY,"And, dying, mention it within their wills,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Bequeathing it as a rich legacy"
III,II,ANTONY,"Unto their issue."
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"We'll hear the will: read it, Mark Antony."
III,II,All,"The will, the will! we will hear Caesar's will."
III,II,ANTONY,"Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it;"
III,II,ANTONY,"It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you."
III,II,ANTONY,"You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;"
III,II,ANTONY,"And, being men, bearing the will of Caesar,"
III,II,ANTONY,"It will inflame you, it will make you mad:"
III,II,ANTONY,"'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs;"
III,II,ANTONY,"For, if you should, O, what would come of it!"
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"Read the will; we'll hear it, Antony;"
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"You shall read us the will, Caesar's will."
III,II,ANTONY,"Will you be patient? will you stay awhile?"
III,II,ANTONY,"I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it:"
III,II,ANTONY,"I fear I wrong the honourable men"
III,II,ANTONY,"Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar; I do fear it."
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"They were traitors: honourable men!"
III,II,All,"The will! the testament!"
III,II,Second Citizen,"They were villains, murderers: the will! read the will."
III,II,ANTONY,"You will compel me, then, to read the will?"
III,II,ANTONY,"Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar,"
III,II,ANTONY,"And let me show you him that made the will."
III,II,ANTONY,"Shall I descend? and will you give me leave?"
III,II,Several Citizens,"Come down."
III,II,Second Citizen,"Descend."
III,II,Third Citizen,"You shall have leave."
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"A ring; stand round."
III,II,First Citizen,"Stand from the hearse, stand from the body."
III,II,Second Citizen,"Room for Antony, most noble Antony."
III,II,ANTONY,"Nay, press not so upon me; stand far off."
III,II,Several Citizens,"Stand back; room; bear back."
III,II,ANTONY,"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
III,II,ANTONY,"You all do know this mantle: I remember"
III,II,ANTONY,"The first time ever Caesar put it on;"
III,II,ANTONY,"'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent,"
III,II,ANTONY,"That day he overcame the Nervii:"
III,II,ANTONY,"Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through:"
III,II,ANTONY,"See what a rent the envious Casca made:"
III,II,ANTONY,"Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd;"
III,II,ANTONY,"And as he pluck'd his cursed steel away,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Mark how the blood of Caesar follow'd it,"
III,II,ANTONY,"As rushing out of doors, to be resolved"
III,II,ANTONY,"If Brutus so unkindly knock'd, or no;"
III,II,ANTONY,"For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:"
III,II,ANTONY,"Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!"
III,II,ANTONY,"This was the most unkindest cut of all;"
III,II,ANTONY,"For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart;"
III,II,ANTONY,"And, in his mantle muffling up his face,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Even at the base of Pompey's statua,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell."
III,II,ANTONY,"O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!"
III,II,ANTONY,"Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us."
III,II,ANTONY,"O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel"
III,II,ANTONY,"The dint of pity: these are gracious drops."
III,II,ANTONY,"Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold"
III,II,ANTONY,"Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors."
III,II,First Citizen,"O piteous spectacle!"
III,II,Second Citizen,"O noble Caesar!"
III,II,Third Citizen,"O woful day!"
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"O traitors, villains!"
III,II,First Citizen,"O most bloody sight!"
III,II,Second Citizen,"We will be revenged."
III,II,All,"Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay!"
III,II,All,"Let not a traitor live!"
III,II,ANTONY,"Stay, countrymen."
III,II,First Citizen,"Peace there! hear the noble Antony."
III,II,Second Citizen,"We'll hear him, we'll follow him, we'll die with him."
III,II,ANTONY,"Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up"
III,II,ANTONY,"To such a sudden flood of mutiny."
III,II,ANTONY,"They that have done this deed are honourable:"
III,II,ANTONY,"What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,"
III,II,ANTONY,"That made them do it: they are wise and honourable,"
III,II,ANTONY,"And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you."
III,II,ANTONY,"I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:"
III,II,ANTONY,"I am no orator, as Brutus is;"
III,II,ANTONY,"But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man,"
III,II,ANTONY,"That love my friend; and that they know full well"
III,II,ANTONY,"That gave me public leave to speak of him:"
III,II,ANTONY,"For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,"
III,II,ANTONY,"To stir men's blood: I only speak right on;"
III,II,ANTONY,"I tell you that which you yourselves do know;"
III,II,ANTONY,"Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,"
III,II,ANTONY,"And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus,"
III,II,ANTONY,"And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony"
III,II,ANTONY,"Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue"
III,II,ANTONY,"In every wound of Caesar that should move"
III,II,ANTONY,"The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny."
III,II,All,"We'll mutiny."
III,II,First Citizen,"We'll burn the house of Brutus."
III,II,Third Citizen,"Away, then! come, seek the conspirators."
III,II,ANTONY,"Yet hear me, countrymen; yet hear me speak."
III,II,All,"Peace, ho! Hear Antony. Most noble Antony!"
III,II,ANTONY,"Why, friends, you go to do you know not what:"
III,II,ANTONY,"Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves?"
III,II,ANTONY,"Alas, you know not: I must tell you then:"
III,II,ANTONY,"You have forgot the will I told you of."
III,II,All,"Most true. The will! Let's stay and hear the will."
III,II,ANTONY,"Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal."
III,II,ANTONY,"To every Roman citizen he gives,"
III,II,ANTONY,"To every several man, seventy-five drachmas."
III,II,Second Citizen,"Most noble Caesar! We'll revenge his death."
III,II,Third Citizen,"O royal Caesar!"
III,II,ANTONY,"Hear me with patience."
III,II,All,"Peace, ho!"
III,II,ANTONY,"Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,"
III,II,ANTONY,"His private arbours and new-planted orchards,"
III,II,ANTONY,"On this side Tiber; he hath left them you,"
III,II,ANTONY,"And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures,"
III,II,ANTONY,"To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves."
III,II,ANTONY,"Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?"
III,II,First Citizen,"Never, never. Come, away, away!"
III,II,First Citizen,"We'll burn his body in the holy place,"
III,II,First Citizen,"And with the brands fire the traitors' houses."
III,II,First Citizen,"Take up the body."
III,II,Second Citizen,"Go fetch fire."
III,II,Third Citizen,"Pluck down benches."
III,II,Fourth Citizen,"Pluck down forms, windows, any thing."
III,II,ANTONY,"Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot,"
III,II,ANTONY,"Take thou what course thou wilt!"
III,II,ANTONY,"How now, fellow!"
III,II,Servant,"Sir, Octavius is already come to Rome."
III,II,ANTONY,"Where is he?"
III,II,Servant,"He and Lepidus are at Caesar's house."
III,II,ANTONY,"And thither will I straight to visit him:"
III,II,ANTONY,"He comes upon a wish. Fortune is merry,"
III,II,ANTONY,"And in this mood will give us any thing."
III,II,Servant,"I heard him say, Brutus and Cassius"
III,II,Servant,"Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome."
III,II,ANTONY,"Belike they had some notice of the people,"
III,II,ANTONY,"How I had moved them. Bring me to Octavius."
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"I dreamt to-night that I did feast with Caesar,"
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"And things unlucky charge my fantasy:"
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"I have no will to wander forth of doors,"
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"Yet something leads me forth."
III,III,First Citizen,"What is your name?"
III,III,Second Citizen,"Whither are you going?"
III,III,Third Citizen,"Where do you dwell?"
III,III,Fourth Citizen,"Are you a married man or a bachelor?"
III,III,Second Citizen,"Answer every man directly."
III,III,First Citizen,"Ay, and briefly."
III,III,Fourth Citizen,"Ay, and wisely."
III,III,Third Citizen,"Ay, and truly, you were best."
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"What is my name? Whither am I going? Where do I"
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then, to"
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"answer every man directly and briefly, wisely and"
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"truly: wisely I say, I am a bachelor."
III,III,Second Citizen,"That's as much as to say, they are fools that marry:"
III,III,Second Citizen,"you'll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed; directly."
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"Directly, I am going to Caesar's funeral."
III,III,First Citizen,"As a friend or an enemy?"
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"As a friend."
III,III,Second Citizen,"That matter is answered directly."
III,III,Fourth Citizen,"For your dwelling,--briefly."
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol."
III,III,Third Citizen,"Your name, sir, truly."
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"Truly, my name is Cinna."
III,III,First Citizen,"Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator."
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet."
III,III,Fourth Citizen,"Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses."
III,III,CINNA THE POET,"I am not Cinna the conspirator."
III,III,Fourth Citizen,"It is no matter, his name's Cinna; pluck but his"
III,III,Fourth Citizen,"name out of his heart, and turn him going."
III,III,Third Citizen,"Tear him, tear him! Come, brands ho! fire-brands:"
III,III,Third Citizen,"to Brutus', to Cassius'; burn all: some to Decius'"
III,III,Third Citizen,"house, and some to Casca's; some to Ligarius': away, go!"
IV,I,ANTONY,"These many, then, shall die; their names are prick'd."
IV,I,OCTAVIUS,"Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?"
IV,I,LEPIDUS,"I do consent--"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS,"Prick him down, Antony."
IV,I,LEPIDUS,"Upon condition Publius shall not live,"
IV,I,LEPIDUS,"Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony."
IV,I,ANTONY,"He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him."
IV,I,ANTONY,"But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar's house;"
IV,I,ANTONY,"Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine"
IV,I,ANTONY,"How to cut off some charge in legacies."
IV,I,LEPIDUS,"What, shall I find you here?"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS,"Or here, or at the Capitol."
IV,I,ANTONY,"This is a slight unmeritable man,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"Meet to be sent on errands: is it fit,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"The three-fold world divided, he should stand"
IV,I,ANTONY,"One of the three to share it?"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS,"So you thought him;"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS,"And took his voice who should be prick'd to die,"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS,"In our black sentence and proscription."
IV,I,ANTONY,"Octavius, I have seen more days than you:"
IV,I,ANTONY,"And though we lay these honours on this man,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"To groan and sweat under the business,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"Either led or driven, as we point the way;"
IV,I,ANTONY,"And having brought our treasure where we will,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"Then take we down his load, and turn him off,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"And graze in commons."
IV,I,OCTAVIUS,"You may do your will;"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS,"But he's a tried and valiant soldier."
IV,I,ANTONY,"So is my horse, Octavius; and for that"
IV,I,ANTONY,"I do appoint him store of provender:"
IV,I,ANTONY,"It is a creature that I teach to fight,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"To wind, to stop, to run directly on,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit."
IV,I,ANTONY,"And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so;"
IV,I,ANTONY,"He must be taught and train'd and bid go forth;"
IV,I,ANTONY,"A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds"
IV,I,ANTONY,"On abjects, orts and imitations,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"Which, out of use and staled by other men,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"Begin his fashion: do not talk of him,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"But as a property. And now, Octavius,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"Listen great things:--Brutus and Cassius"
IV,I,ANTONY,"Are levying powers: we must straight make head:"
IV,I,ANTONY,"Therefore let our alliance be combined,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"Our best friends made, our means stretch'd"
IV,I,ANTONY,"And let us presently go sit in council,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"How covert matters may be best disclosed,"
IV,I,ANTONY,"And open perils surest answered."
IV,I,OCTAVIUS,"Let us do so: for we are at the stake,"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS,"And bay'd about with many enemies;"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS,"And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,"
IV,I,OCTAVIUS,"Millions of mischiefs."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Stand, ho!"
IV,II,LUCILIUS,"Give the word, ho! and stand."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"What now, Lucilius! is Cassius near?"
IV,II,LUCILIUS,"He is at hand; and Pindarus is come"
IV,II,LUCILIUS,"To do you salutation from his master."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus,"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"In his own change, or by ill officers,"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Hath given me some worthy cause to wish"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Things done, undone: but, if he be at hand,"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"I shall be satisfied."
IV,II,PINDARUS,"I do not doubt"
IV,II,PINDARUS,"But that my noble master will appear"
IV,II,PINDARUS,"Such as he is, full of regard and honour."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"He is not doubted. A word, Lucilius;"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"How he received you, let me be resolved."
IV,II,LUCILIUS,"With courtesy and with respect enough;"
IV,II,LUCILIUS,"But not with such familiar instances,"
IV,II,LUCILIUS,"Nor with such free and friendly conference,"
IV,II,LUCILIUS,"As he hath used of old."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Thou hast described"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"A hot friend cooling: ever note, Lucilius,"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"When love begins to sicken and decay,"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"It useth an enforced ceremony."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"But when they should endure the bloody spur,"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades,"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Sink in the trial. Comes his army on?"
IV,II,LUCILIUS,"They mean this night in Sardis to be quarter'd;"
IV,II,LUCILIUS,"The greater part, the horse in general,"
IV,II,LUCILIUS,"Are come with Cassius."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Hark! he is arrived."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"March gently on to meet him."
IV,II,CASSIUS,"Stand, ho!"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Stand, ho! Speak the word along."
IV,II,First Soldier,"Stand!"
IV,II,Second Soldier,"Stand!"
IV,II,Third Soldier,"Stand!"
IV,II,CASSIUS,"Most noble brother, you have done me wrong."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Judge me, you gods! wrong I mine enemies?"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"And, if not so, how should I wrong a brother?"
IV,II,CASSIUS,"Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs;"
IV,II,CASSIUS,"And when you do them--"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Cassius, be content."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Speak your griefs softly: I do know you well."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Before the eyes of both our armies here,"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Which should perceive nothing but love from us,"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Let us not wrangle: bid them move away;"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs,"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"And I will give you audience."
IV,II,CASSIUS,"Pindarus,"
IV,II,CASSIUS,"Bid our commanders lead their charges off"
IV,II,CASSIUS,"A little from this ground."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Lucilius, do you the like; and let no man"
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Come to our tent till we have done our conference."
IV,II,BRUTUS,"Let Lucius and Titinius guard our door."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this:"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"For taking bribes here of the Sardians;"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Wherein my letters, praying on his side,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Because I knew the man, were slighted off."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"You wronged yourself to write in such a case."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"In such a time as this it is not meet"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"That every nice offence should bear his comment."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"To sell and mart your offices for gold"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"To undeservers."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"I an itching palm!"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"You know that you are Brutus that speak this,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"The name of Cassius honours this corruption,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And chastisement doth therefore hide his head."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Chastisement!"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Remember March, the ides of March remember:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"What villain touch'd his body, that did stab,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And not for justice? What, shall one of us"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"That struck the foremost man of all this world"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"But for supporting robbers, shall we now"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And sell the mighty space of our large honours"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"For so much trash as may be grasped thus?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Than such a Roman."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Brutus, bay not me;"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"I'll not endure it: you forget yourself,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"To hedge me in; I am a soldier, I,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Older in practise, abler than yourself"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"To make conditions."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Go to; you are not, Cassius."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"I am."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I say you are not."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Urge me no more, I shall forget myself;"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Have mind upon your health, tempt me no further."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Away, slight man!"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Is't possible?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Hear me, for I will speak."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Must I give way and room to your rash choler?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"O ye gods, ye gods! must I endure all this?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"All this! ay, more: fret till your proud heart break;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Go show your slaves how choleric you are,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Under your testy humour? By the gods"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"You shall digest the venom of your spleen,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Though it do split you; for, from this day forth,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"When you are waspish."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Is it come to this?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"You say you are a better soldier:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Let it appear so; make your vaunting true,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And it shall please me well: for mine own part,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I shall be glad to learn of noble men."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"You wrong me every way; you wrong me, Brutus;"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"I said, an elder soldier, not a better:"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Did I say 'better'?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"If you did, I care not."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"When Caesar lived, he durst not thus have moved me."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Peace, peace! you durst not so have tempted him."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"I durst not!"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"No."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"What, durst not tempt him!"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"For your life you durst not!"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Do not presume too much upon my love;"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"I may do that I shall be sorry for."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"You have done that you should be sorry for."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"For I am arm'd so strong in honesty"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"That they pass by me as the idle wind,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Which I respect not. I did send to you"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"For certain sums of gold, which you denied me:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"For I can raise no money by vile means:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"By heaven, I had rather coin my heart,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"By any indirection: I did send"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"To you for gold to pay my legions,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"To lock such rascal counters from his friends,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Dash him to pieces!"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"I denied you not."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"You did."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"I did not: he was but a fool that brought"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"My answer back. Brutus hath rived my heart:"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"But Brutus makes mine greater than they are."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I do not, till you practise them on me."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"You love me not."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I do not like your faults."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"A friendly eye could never see such faults."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"A flatterer's would not, though they do appear"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"As huge as high Olympus."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"For Cassius is aweary of the world;"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Cheque'd like a bondman; all his faults observed,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"To cast into my teeth. O, I could weep"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"My spirit from mine eyes! There is my dagger,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"And here my naked breast; within, a heart"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Dearer than Plutus' mine, richer than gold:"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth;"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart:"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Strike, as thou didst at Caesar; for, I know,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Than ever thou lovedst Cassius."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Sheathe your dagger:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Be angry when you will, it shall have scope;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Do what you will, dishonour shall be humour."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"That carries anger as the flint bears fire;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And straight is cold again."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Hath Cassius lived"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"When grief, and blood ill-temper'd, vexeth him?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"When I spoke that, I was ill-temper'd too."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Do you confess so much? Give me your hand."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And my heart too."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"O Brutus!"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"What's the matter?"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Have not you love enough to bear with me,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"When that rash humour which my mother gave me"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Makes me forgetful?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Yes, Cassius; and, from henceforth,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"When you are over-earnest with your Brutus,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so."
IV,III,Poet,"There is some grudge between 'em, 'tis not meet"
IV,III,Poet,"They be alone."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"How now! what's the matter?"
IV,III,Poet,"For shame, you generals! what do you mean?"
IV,III,Poet,"Love, and be friends, as two such men should be;"
IV,III,Poet,"For I have seen more years, I'm sure, than ye."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Ha, ha! how vilely doth this cynic rhyme!"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Get you hence, sirrah; saucy fellow, hence!"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Bear with him, Brutus; 'tis his fashion."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I'll know his humour, when he knows his time:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"What should the wars do with these jigging fools?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Companion, hence!"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Away, away, be gone."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Lucilius and Titinius, bid the commanders"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Prepare to lodge their companies to-night."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"And come yourselves, and bring Messala with you"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Immediately to us."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Lucius, a bowl of wine!"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"I did not think you could have been so angry."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Of your philosophy you make no use,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"If you give place to accidental evils."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Ha! Portia!"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"She is dead."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"How 'scaped I killing when I cross'd you so?"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"O insupportable and touching loss!"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Upon what sickness?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Impatient of my absence,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Have made themselves so strong:--for with her death"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"That tidings came;--with this she fell distract,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And, her attendants absent, swallow'd fire."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"And died so?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Even so."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"O ye immortal gods!"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Speak no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Fill, Lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup;"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"I cannot drink too much of Brutus' love."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Come in, Titinius!"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Welcome, good Messala."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Now sit we close about this taper here,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And call in question our necessities."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Portia, art thou gone?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"No more, I pray you."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Messala, I have here received letters,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"That young Octavius and Mark Antony"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Come down upon us with a mighty power,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Bending their expedition toward Philippi."
IV,III,MESSALA,"Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"With what addition?"
IV,III,MESSALA,"That by proscription and bills of outlawry,"
IV,III,MESSALA,"Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus,"
IV,III,MESSALA,"Have put to death an hundred senators."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Therein our letters do not well agree;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Mine speak of seventy senators that died"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"By their proscriptions, Cicero being one."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Cicero one!"
IV,III,MESSALA,"Cicero is dead,"
IV,III,MESSALA,"And by that order of proscription."
IV,III,MESSALA,"Had you your letters from your wife, my lord?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"No, Messala."
IV,III,MESSALA,"Nor nothing in your letters writ of her?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Nothing, Messala."
IV,III,MESSALA,"That, methinks, is strange."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Why ask you? hear you aught of her in yours?"
IV,III,MESSALA,"No, my lord."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Now, as you are a Roman, tell me true."
IV,III,MESSALA,"Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell:"
IV,III,MESSALA,"For certain she is dead, and by strange manner."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Why, farewell, Portia. We must die, Messala:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"With meditating that she must die once,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I have the patience to endure it now."
IV,III,MESSALA,"Even so great men great losses should endure."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"I have as much of this in art as you,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"But yet my nature could not bear it so."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Well, to our work alive. What do you think"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Of marching to Philippi presently?"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"I do not think it good."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Your reason?"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"This it is:"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"'Tis better that the enemy seek us:"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Doing himself offence; whilst we, lying still,"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Are full of rest, defense, and nimbleness."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Good reasons must, of force, give place to better."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"The people 'twixt Philippi and this ground"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Do stand but in a forced affection;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"For they have grudged us contribution:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"The enemy, marching along by them,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"By them shall make a fuller number up,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Come on refresh'd, new-added, and encouraged;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"From which advantage shall we cut him off,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"If at Philippi we do face him there,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"These people at our back."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Hear me, good brother."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Under your pardon. You must note beside,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"That we have tried the utmost of our friends,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"The enemy increaseth every day;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"We, at the height, are ready to decline."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"There is a tide in the affairs of men,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Omitted, all the voyage of their life"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Is bound in shallows and in miseries."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"On such a full sea are we now afloat;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And we must take the current when it serves,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Or lose our ventures."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Then, with your will, go on;"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"We'll along ourselves, and meet them at Philippi."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"The deep of night is crept upon our talk,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And nature must obey necessity;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Which we will niggard with a little rest."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"There is no more to say?"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"No more. Good night:"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Early to-morrow will we rise, and hence."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Lucius!"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"My gown."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Farewell, good Messala:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Good night, Titinius. Noble, noble Cassius,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Good night, and good repose."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"O my dear brother!"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"This was an ill beginning of the night:"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Never come such division 'tween our souls!"
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Let it not, Brutus."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Every thing is well."
IV,III,CASSIUS,"Good night, my lord."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Good night, good brother."
IV,III,TITINIUS,"Good night, Lord Brutus."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Farewell, every one."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Give me the gown. Where is thy instrument?"
IV,III,LUCIUS,"Here in the tent."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"What, thou speak'st drowsily?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Poor knave, I blame thee not; thou art o'er-watch'd."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Call Claudius and some other of my men:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I'll have them sleep on cushions in my tent."
IV,III,LUCIUS,"Varro and Claudius!"
IV,III,VARRO,"Calls my lord?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I pray you, sirs, lie in my tent and sleep;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"It may be I shall raise you by and by"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"On business to my brother Cassius."
IV,III,VARRO,"So please you, we will stand and watch your pleasure."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I will not have it so: lie down, good sirs;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"It may be I shall otherwise bethink me."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Look, Lucius, here's the book I sought for so;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I put it in the pocket of my gown."
IV,III,LUCIUS,"I was sure your lordship did not give it me."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Bear with me, good boy, I am much forgetful."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And touch thy instrument a strain or two?"
IV,III,LUCIUS,"Ay, my lord, an't please you."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"It does, my boy:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I trouble thee too much, but thou art willing."
IV,III,LUCIUS,"It is my duty, sir."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I should not urge thy duty past thy might;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I know young bloods look for a time of rest."
IV,III,LUCIUS,"I have slept, my lord, already."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"It was well done; and thou shalt sleep again;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I will not hold thee long: if I do live,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I will be good to thee."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"This is a sleepy tune. O murderous slumber,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"That plays thee music? Gentle knave, good night;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I will not do thee so much wrong to wake thee:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"If thou dost nod, thou break'st thy instrument;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I'll take it from thee; and, good boy, good night."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Let me see, let me see; is not the leaf turn'd down"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Where I left reading? Here it is, I think."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"I think it is the weakness of mine eyes"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"That shapes this monstrous apparition."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"It comes upon me. Art thou any thing?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"That makest my blood cold and my hair to stare?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Speak to me what thou art."
IV,III,GHOST,"Thy evil spirit, Brutus."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Why comest thou?"
IV,III,GHOST,"To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Well; then I shall see thee again?"
IV,III,GHOST,"Ay, at Philippi."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Why, I will see thee at Philippi, then."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Now I have taken heart thou vanishest:"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Ill spirit, I would hold more talk with thee."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Boy, Lucius! Varro! Claudius! Sirs, awake! Claudius!"
IV,III,LUCIUS,"The strings, my lord, are false."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"He thinks he still is at his instrument."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Lucius, awake!"
IV,III,LUCIUS,"My lord?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Didst thou dream, Lucius, that thou so criedst out?"
IV,III,LUCIUS,"My lord, I do not know that I did cry."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Yes, that thou didst: didst thou see any thing?"
IV,III,LUCIUS,"Nothing, my lord."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Sleep again, Lucius. Sirrah Claudius!"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Fellow thou, awake!"
IV,III,VARRO,"My lord?"
IV,III,CLAUDIUS,"My lord?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Why did you so cry out, sirs, in your sleep?"
IV,III,VARRO,"Did we, my lord?"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Ay: saw you any thing?"
IV,III,VARRO,"No, my lord, I saw nothing."
IV,III,CLAUDIUS,"Nor I, my lord."
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Go and commend me to my brother Cassius;"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"Bid him set on his powers betimes before,"
IV,III,BRUTUS,"And we will follow."
IV,III,VARRO,"It shall be done, my lord."
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"Now, Antony, our hopes are answered:"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"You said the enemy would not come down,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"But keep the hills and upper regions;"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"It proves not so: their battles are at hand;"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"They mean to warn us at Philippi here,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"Answering before we do demand of them."
V,I,ANTONY,"Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know"
V,I,ANTONY,"Wherefore they do it: they could be content"
V,I,ANTONY,"To visit other places; and come down"
V,I,ANTONY,"With fearful bravery, thinking by this face"
V,I,ANTONY,"To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage;"
V,I,ANTONY,"But 'tis not so."
V,I,Messenger,"Prepare you, generals:"
V,I,Messenger,"The enemy comes on in gallant show;"
V,I,Messenger,"Their bloody sign of battle is hung out,"
V,I,Messenger,"And something to be done immediately."
V,I,ANTONY,"Octavius, lead your battle softly on,"
V,I,ANTONY,"Upon the left hand of the even field."
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"Upon the right hand I; keep thou the left."
V,I,ANTONY,"Why do you cross me in this exigent?"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"I do not cross you; but I will do so."
V,I,BRUTUS,"They stand, and would have parley."
V,I,CASSIUS,"Stand fast, Titinius: we must out and talk."
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"Mark Antony, shall we give sign of battle?"
V,I,ANTONY,"No, Caesar, we will answer on their charge."
V,I,ANTONY,"Make forth; the generals would have some words."
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"Stir not until the signal."
V,I,BRUTUS,"Words before blows: is it so, countrymen?"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"Not that we love words better, as you do."
V,I,BRUTUS,"Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius."
V,I,ANTONY,"In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words:"
V,I,ANTONY,"Witness the hole you made in Caesar's heart,"
V,I,ANTONY,"Crying 'Long live! hail, Caesar!'"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Antony,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"The posture of your blows are yet unknown;"
V,I,CASSIUS,"But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"And leave them honeyless."
V,I,ANTONY,"Not stingless too."
V,I,BRUTUS,"O, yes, and soundless too;"
V,I,BRUTUS,"For you have stol'n their buzzing, Antony,"
V,I,BRUTUS,"And very wisely threat before you sting."
V,I,ANTONY,"Villains, you did not so, when your vile daggers"
V,I,ANTONY,"Hack'd one another in the sides of Caesar:"
V,I,ANTONY,"You show'd your teeth like apes, and fawn'd like hounds,"
V,I,ANTONY,"And bow'd like bondmen, kissing Caesar's feet;"
V,I,ANTONY,"Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind"
V,I,ANTONY,"Struck Caesar on the neck. O you flatterers!"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Flatterers! Now, Brutus, thank yourself:"
V,I,CASSIUS,"This tongue had not offended so to-day,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"If Cassius might have ruled."
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"Come, come, the cause: if arguing make us sweat,"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"The proof of it will turn to redder drops. Look;"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"I draw a sword against conspirators;"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"When think you that the sword goes up again?"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"Never, till Caesar's three and thirty wounds"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"Be well avenged; or till another Caesar"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors."
V,I,BRUTUS,"Caesar, thou canst not die by traitors' hands,"
V,I,BRUTUS,"Unless thou bring'st them with thee."
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"So I hope;"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"I was not born to die on Brutus' sword."
V,I,BRUTUS,"O, if thou wert the noblest of thy strain,"
V,I,BRUTUS,"Young man, thou couldst not die more honourable."
V,I,CASSIUS,"A peevish schoolboy, worthless of such honour,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Join'd with a masker and a reveller!"
V,I,ANTONY,"Old Cassius still!"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"Come, Antony, away!"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth:"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"If you dare fight to-day, come to the field;"
V,I,OCTAVIUS,"If not, when you have stomachs."
V,I,CASSIUS,"Why, now, blow wind, swell billow and swim bark!"
V,I,CASSIUS,"The storm is up, and all is on the hazard."
V,I,BRUTUS,"Ho, Lucilius! hark, a word with you."
V,I,CASSIUS,"Messala!"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Messala,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"This is my birth-day; as this very day"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Was Cassius born. Give me thy hand, Messala:"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Be thou my witness that against my will,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"As Pompey was, am I compell'd to set"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Upon one battle all our liberties."
V,I,CASSIUS,"You know that I held Epicurus strong"
V,I,CASSIUS,"And his opinion: now I change my mind,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"And partly credit things that do presage."
V,I,CASSIUS,"Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Two mighty eagles fell, and there they perch'd,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Gorging and feeding from our soldiers' hands;"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Who to Philippi here consorted us:"
V,I,CASSIUS,"This morning are they fled away and gone;"
V,I,CASSIUS,"And in their steads do ravens, crows and kites,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Fly o'er our heads and downward look on us,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"As we were sickly prey: their shadows seem"
V,I,CASSIUS,"A canopy most fatal, under which"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost."
V,I,MESSALA,"Believe not so."
V,I,CASSIUS,"I but believe it partly;"
V,I,CASSIUS,"For I am fresh of spirit and resolved"
V,I,CASSIUS,"To meet all perils very constantly."
V,I,BRUTUS,"Even so, Lucilius."
V,I,CASSIUS,"Now, most noble Brutus,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"The gods to-day stand friendly, that we may,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Lovers in peace, lead on our days to age!"
V,I,CASSIUS,"But since the affairs of men rest still incertain,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Let's reason with the worst that may befall."
V,I,CASSIUS,"If we do lose this battle, then is this"
V,I,CASSIUS,"The very last time we shall speak together:"
V,I,CASSIUS,"What are you then determined to do?"
V,I,BRUTUS,"Even by the rule of that philosophy"
V,I,BRUTUS,"By which I did blame Cato for the death"
V,I,BRUTUS,"Which he did give himself, I know not how,"
V,I,BRUTUS,"But I do find it cowardly and vile,"
V,I,BRUTUS,"For fear of what might fall, so to prevent"
V,I,BRUTUS,"The time of life: arming myself with patience"
V,I,BRUTUS,"To stay the providence of some high powers"
V,I,BRUTUS,"That govern us below."
V,I,CASSIUS,"Then, if we lose this battle,"
V,I,CASSIUS,"You are contented to be led in triumph"
V,I,CASSIUS,"Thorough the streets of Rome?"
V,I,BRUTUS,"No, Cassius, no: think not, thou noble Roman,"
V,I,BRUTUS,"That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome;"
V,I,BRUTUS,"He bears too great a mind. But this same day"
V,I,BRUTUS,"Must end that work the ides of March begun;"
V,I,BRUTUS,"And whether we shall meet again I know not."
V,I,BRUTUS,"Therefore our everlasting farewell take:"
V,I,BRUTUS,"For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius!"
V,I,BRUTUS,"If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;"
V,I,BRUTUS,"If not, why then, this parting was well made."
V,I,CASSIUS,"For ever, and for ever, farewell, Brutus!"
V,I,CASSIUS,"If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed;"
V,I,CASSIUS,"If not, 'tis true this parting was well made."
V,I,BRUTUS,"Why, then, lead on. O, that a man might know"
V,I,BRUTUS,"The end of this day's business ere it come!"
V,I,BRUTUS,"But it sufficeth that the day will end,"
V,I,BRUTUS,"And then the end is known. Come, ho! away!"
V,II,BRUTUS,"Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills"
V,II,BRUTUS,"Unto the legions on the other side."
V,II,BRUTUS,"Let them set on at once; for I perceive"
V,II,BRUTUS,"But cold demeanor in Octavius' wing,"
V,II,BRUTUS,"And sudden push gives them the overthrow."
V,II,BRUTUS,"Ride, ride, Messala: let them all come down."
V,III,CASSIUS,"O, look, Titinius, look, the villains fly!"
V,III,CASSIUS,"Myself have to mine own turn'd enemy:"
V,III,CASSIUS,"This ensign here of mine was turning back;"
V,III,CASSIUS,"I slew the coward, and did take it from him."
V,III,TITINIUS,"O Cassius, Brutus gave the word too early;"
V,III,TITINIUS,"Who, having some advantage on Octavius,"
V,III,TITINIUS,"Took it too eagerly: his soldiers fell to spoil,"
V,III,TITINIUS,"Whilst we by Antony are all enclosed."
V,III,PINDARUS,"Fly further off, my lord, fly further off;"
V,III,PINDARUS,"Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord"
V,III,PINDARUS,"Fly, therefore, noble Cassius, fly far off."
V,III,CASSIUS,"This hill is far enough. Look, look, Titinius;"
V,III,CASSIUS,"Are those my tents where I perceive the fire?"
V,III,TITINIUS,"They are, my lord."
V,III,CASSIUS,"Titinius, if thou lovest me,"
V,III,CASSIUS,"Mount thou my horse, and hide thy spurs in him,"
V,III,CASSIUS,"Till he have brought thee up to yonder troops,"
V,III,CASSIUS,"And here again; that I may rest assured"
V,III,CASSIUS,"Whether yond troops are friend or enemy."
V,III,TITINIUS,"I will be here again, even with a thought."
V,III,CASSIUS,"Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill;"
V,III,CASSIUS,"My sight was ever thick; regard Titinius,"
V,III,CASSIUS,"And tell me what thou notest about the field."
V,III,CASSIUS,"This day I breathed first: time is come round,"
V,III,CASSIUS,"And where I did begin, there shall I end;"
V,III,CASSIUS,"My life is run his compass. Sirrah, what news?"
V,III,CASSIUS,"What news?"
V,III,PINDARUS,"With horsemen, that make to him on the spur;"
V,III,PINDARUS,"Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him."
V,III,PINDARUS,"Now, Titinius! Now some light. O, he lights too."
V,III,PINDARUS,"He's ta'en."
V,III,PINDARUS,"And, hark! they shout for joy."
V,III,CASSIUS,"Come down, behold no more."
V,III,CASSIUS,"O, coward that I am, to live so long,"
V,III,CASSIUS,"To see my best friend ta'en before my face!"
V,III,CASSIUS,"Come hither, sirrah:"
V,III,CASSIUS,"In Parthia did I take thee prisoner;"
V,III,CASSIUS,"And then I swore thee, saving of thy life,"
V,III,CASSIUS,"That whatsoever I did bid thee do,"
V,III,CASSIUS,"Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath;"
V,III,CASSIUS,"Now be a freeman: and with this good sword,"
V,III,CASSIUS,"That ran through Caesar's bowels, search this bosom."
V,III,CASSIUS,"Stand not to answer: here, take thou the hilts;"
V,III,CASSIUS,"And, when my face is cover'd, as 'tis now,"
V,III,CASSIUS,"Guide thou the sword."
V,III,CASSIUS,"Caesar, thou art revenged,"
V,III,CASSIUS,"Even with the sword that kill'd thee."
V,III,PINDARUS,"So, I am free; yet would not so have been,"
V,III,PINDARUS,"Durst I have done my will. O Cassius,"
V,III,PINDARUS,"Far from this country Pindarus shall run,"
V,III,PINDARUS,"Where never Roman shall take note of him."
V,III,MESSALA,"It is but change, Titinius; for Octavius"
V,III,MESSALA,"Is overthrown by noble Brutus' power,"
V,III,MESSALA,"As Cassius' legions are by Antony."
V,III,TITINIUS,"These tidings will well comfort Cassius."
V,III,MESSALA,"Where did you leave him?"
V,III,TITINIUS,"All disconsolate,"
V,III,TITINIUS,"With Pindarus his bondman, on this hill."
V,III,MESSALA,"Is not that he that lies upon the ground?"
V,III,TITINIUS,"He lies not like the living. O my heart!"
V,III,MESSALA,"Is not that he?"
V,III,TITINIUS,"No, this was he, Messala,"
V,III,TITINIUS,"But Cassius is no more. O setting sun,"
V,III,TITINIUS,"As in thy red rays thou dost sink to-night,"
V,III,TITINIUS,"So in his red blood Cassius' day is set;"
V,III,TITINIUS,"The sun of Rome is set! Our day is gone;"
V,III,TITINIUS,"Clouds, dews, and dangers come; our deeds are done!"
V,III,TITINIUS,"Mistrust of my success hath done this deed."
V,III,MESSALA,"Mistrust of good success hath done this deed."
V,III,MESSALA,"O hateful error, melancholy's child,"
V,III,MESSALA,"Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men"
V,III,MESSALA,"The things that are not? O error, soon conceived,"
V,III,MESSALA,"Thou never comest unto a happy birth,"
V,III,MESSALA,"But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee!"
V,III,TITINIUS,"What, Pindarus! where art thou, Pindarus?"
V,III,MESSALA,"Seek him, Titinius, whilst I go to meet"
V,III,MESSALA,"The noble Brutus, thrusting this report"
V,III,MESSALA,"Into his ears; I may say, thrusting it;"
V,III,MESSALA,"For piercing steel and darts envenomed"
V,III,MESSALA,"Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus"
V,III,MESSALA,"As tidings of this sight."
V,III,TITINIUS,"Hie you, Messala,"
V,III,TITINIUS,"And I will seek for Pindarus the while."
V,III,TITINIUS,"Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius?"
V,III,TITINIUS,"Did I not meet thy friends? and did not they"
V,III,TITINIUS,"Put on my brows this wreath of victory,"
V,III,TITINIUS,"And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts?"
V,III,TITINIUS,"Alas, thou hast misconstrued every thing!"
V,III,TITINIUS,"But, hold thee, take this garland on thy brow;"
V,III,TITINIUS,"Thy Brutus bid me give it thee, and I"
V,III,TITINIUS,"Will do his bidding. Brutus, come apace,"
V,III,TITINIUS,"And see how I regarded Caius Cassius."
V,III,TITINIUS,"By your leave, gods:--this is a Roman's part"
V,III,TITINIUS,"Come, Cassius' sword, and find Titinius' heart."
V,III,BRUTUS,"Where, where, Messala, doth his body lie?"
V,III,MESSALA,"Lo, yonder, and Titinius mourning it."
V,III,BRUTUS,"Titinius' face is upward."
V,III,CATO,"He is slain."
V,III,BRUTUS,"O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!"
V,III,BRUTUS,"Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords"
V,III,BRUTUS,"In our own proper entrails."
V,III,CATO,"Brave Titinius!"
V,III,CATO,"Look, whether he have not crown'd dead Cassius!"
V,III,BRUTUS,"Are yet two Romans living such as these?"
V,III,BRUTUS,"The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!"
V,III,BRUTUS,"It is impossible that ever Rome"
V,III,BRUTUS,"Should breed thy fellow. Friends, I owe more tears"
V,III,BRUTUS,"To this dead man than you shall see me pay."
V,III,BRUTUS,"I shall find time, Cassius, I shall find time."
V,III,BRUTUS,"Come, therefore, and to Thasos send his body:"
V,III,BRUTUS,"His funerals shall not be in our camp,"
V,III,BRUTUS,"Lest it discomfort us. Lucilius, come;"
V,III,BRUTUS,"And come, young Cato; let us to the field."
V,III,BRUTUS,"Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on:"
V,III,BRUTUS,"'Tis three o'clock; and, Romans, yet ere night"
V,III,BRUTUS,"We shall try fortune in a second fight."
V,IV,BRUTUS,"Yet, countrymen, O, yet hold up your heads!"
V,IV,CATO,"What bastard doth not? Who will go with me?"
V,IV,CATO,"I will proclaim my name about the field:"
V,IV,CATO,"I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!"
V,IV,CATO,"A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend;"
V,IV,CATO,"I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!"
V,IV,BRUTUS,"And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I;"
V,IV,BRUTUS,"Brutus, my country's friend; know me for Brutus!"
V,IV,LUCILIUS,"O young and noble Cato, art thou down?"
V,IV,LUCILIUS,"Why, now thou diest as bravely as Titinius;"
V,IV,LUCILIUS,"And mayst be honour'd, being Cato's son."
V,IV,First Soldier,"Yield, or thou diest."
V,IV,LUCILIUS,"Only I yield to die:"
V,IV,LUCILIUS,"There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight;"
V,IV,LUCILIUS,"Kill Brutus, and be honour'd in his death."
V,IV,First Soldier,"We must not. A noble prisoner!"
V,IV,Second Soldier,"Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta'en."
V,IV,First Soldier,"I'll tell the news. Here comes the general."
V,IV,First Soldier,"Brutus is ta'en, Brutus is ta'en, my lord."
V,IV,ANTONY,"Where is he?"
V,IV,LUCILIUS,"Safe, Antony; Brutus is safe enough:"
V,IV,LUCILIUS,"I dare assure thee that no enemy"
V,IV,LUCILIUS,"Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus:"
V,IV,LUCILIUS,"The gods defend him from so great a shame!"
V,IV,LUCILIUS,"When you do find him, or alive or dead,"
V,IV,LUCILIUS,"He will be found like Brutus, like himself."
V,IV,ANTONY,"This is not Brutus, friend; but, I assure you,"
V,IV,ANTONY,"A prize no less in worth: keep this man safe;"
V,IV,ANTONY,"Give him all kindness: I had rather have"
V,IV,ANTONY,"Such men my friends than enemies. Go on,"
V,IV,ANTONY,"And see whether Brutus be alive or dead;"
V,IV,ANTONY,"And bring us word unto Octavius' tent"
V,IV,ANTONY,"How every thing is chanced."
V,V,BRUTUS,"Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock."
V,V,CLITUS,"Statilius show'd the torch-light, but, my lord,"
V,V,CLITUS,"He came not back: he is or ta'en or slain."
V,V,BRUTUS,"Sit thee down, Clitus: slaying is the word;"
V,V,BRUTUS,"It is a deed in fashion. Hark thee, Clitus."
V,V,CLITUS,"What, I, my lord? No, not for all the world."
V,V,BRUTUS,"Peace then! no words."
V,V,CLITUS,"I'll rather kill myself."
V,V,BRUTUS,"Hark thee, Dardanius."
V,V,DARDANIUS,"Shall I do such a deed?"
V,V,CLITUS,"O Dardanius!"
V,V,DARDANIUS,"O Clitus!"
V,V,CLITUS,"What ill request did Brutus make to thee?"
V,V,DARDANIUS,"To kill him, Clitus. Look, he meditates."
V,V,CLITUS,"Now is that noble vessel full of grief,"
V,V,CLITUS,"That it runs over even at his eyes."
V,V,BRUTUS,"Come hither, good Volumnius; list a word."
V,V,VOLUMNIUS,"What says my lord?"
V,V,BRUTUS,"Why, this, Volumnius:"
V,V,BRUTUS,"The ghost of Caesar hath appear'd to me"
V,V,BRUTUS,"Two several times by night; at Sardis once,"
V,V,BRUTUS,"And, this last night, here in Philippi fields:"
V,V,BRUTUS,"I know my hour is come."
V,V,VOLUMNIUS,"Not so, my lord."
V,V,BRUTUS,"Nay, I am sure it is, Volumnius."
V,V,BRUTUS,"Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it goes;"
V,V,BRUTUS,"Our enemies have beat us to the pit:"
V,V,BRUTUS,"It is more worthy to leap in ourselves,"
V,V,BRUTUS,"Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius,"
V,V,BRUTUS,"Thou know'st that we two went to school together:"
V,V,BRUTUS,"Even for that our love of old, I prithee,"
V,V,BRUTUS,"Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I run on it."
V,V,VOLUMNIUS,"That's not an office for a friend, my lord."
V,V,CLITUS,"Fly, fly, my lord; there is no tarrying here."
V,V,BRUTUS,"Farewell to you; and you; and you, Volumnius."
V,V,BRUTUS,"Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep;"
V,V,BRUTUS,"Farewell to thee too, Strato. Countrymen,"
V,V,BRUTUS,"My heart doth joy that yet in all my life"
V,V,BRUTUS,"I found no man but he was true to me."
V,V,BRUTUS,"I shall have glory by this losing day"
V,V,BRUTUS,"More than Octavius and Mark Antony"
V,V,BRUTUS,"By this vile conquest shall attain unto."
V,V,BRUTUS,"So fare you well at once; for Brutus' tongue"
V,V,BRUTUS,"Hath almost ended his life's history:"
V,V,BRUTUS,"Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest,"
V,V,BRUTUS,"That have but labour'd to attain this hour."
V,V,CLITUS,"Fly, my lord, fly."
V,V,BRUTUS,"Hence! I will follow."
V,V,BRUTUS,"I prithee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord:"
V,V,BRUTUS,"Thou art a fellow of a good respect;"
V,V,BRUTUS,"Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it:"
V,V,BRUTUS,"Hold then my sword, and turn away thy face,"
V,V,BRUTUS,"While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato?"
V,V,STRATO,"Give me your hand first. Fare you well, my lord."
V,V,BRUTUS,"Farewell, good Strato."
V,V,BRUTUS,"Caesar, now be still:"
V,V,BRUTUS,"I kill'd not thee with half so good a will."
V,V,OCTAVIUS,"What man is that?"
V,V,MESSALA,"My master's man. Strato, where is thy master?"
V,V,STRATO,"Free from the bondage you are in, Messala:"
V,V,STRATO,"The conquerors can but make a fire of him;"
V,V,STRATO,"For Brutus only overcame himself,"
V,V,STRATO,"And no man else hath honour by his death."
V,V,LUCILIUS,"So Brutus should be found. I thank thee, Brutus,"
V,V,LUCILIUS,"That thou hast proved Lucilius' saying true."
V,V,OCTAVIUS,"All that served Brutus, I will entertain them."
V,V,OCTAVIUS,"Fellow, wilt thou bestow thy time with me?"
V,V,STRATO,"Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you."
V,V,OCTAVIUS,"Do so, good Messala."
V,V,MESSALA,"How died my master, Strato?"
V,V,STRATO,"I held the sword, and he did run on it."
V,V,MESSALA,"Octavius, then take him to follow thee,"
V,V,MESSALA,"That did the latest service to my master."
V,V,ANTONY,"This was the noblest Roman of them all:"
V,V,ANTONY,"All the conspirators save only he"
V,V,ANTONY,"Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;"
V,V,ANTONY,"He only, in a general honest thought"
V,V,ANTONY,"And common good to all, made one of them."
V,V,ANTONY,"His life was gentle, and the elements"
V,V,ANTONY,"So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up"
V,V,ANTONY,"And say to all the world 'This was a man!'"
V,V,OCTAVIUS,"According to his virtue let us use him,"
V,V,OCTAVIUS,"With all respect and rites of burial."
V,V,OCTAVIUS,"Within my tent his bones to-night shall lie,"
V,V,OCTAVIUS,"Most like a soldier, order'd honourably."
V,V,OCTAVIUS,"So call the field to rest; and let's away,"
V,V,OCTAVIUS,"To part the glories of this happy day."
I,I,KENT,"I thought the king had more affected the Duke of"
I,I,KENT,"Albany than Cornwall."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"It did always seem so to us: but now, in the"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"division of the kingdom, it appears not which of"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"the dukes he values most; for equalities are so"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"of either's moiety."
I,I,KENT,"Is not this your son, my lord?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I have"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"brazed to it."
I,I,KENT,"I cannot conceive you."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Do you smell a fault?"
I,I,KENT,"I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it"
I,I,KENT,"being so proper."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"But I have, sir, a son by order of law, some year"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"though this knave came something saucily into the"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"world before he was sent for, yet was his mother"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"fair; there was good sport at his making, and the"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"whoreson must be acknowledged. Do you know this"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"noble gentleman, Edmund?"
I,I,EDMUND,"No, my lord."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"My lord of Kent: remember him hereafter as my"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"honourable friend."
I,I,EDMUND,"My services to your lordship."
I,I,KENT,"I must love you, and sue to know you better."
I,I,EDMUND,"Sir, I shall study deserving."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"He hath been out nine years, and away he shall"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"again. The king is coming."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"I shall, my liege."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Meantime we shall express our darker purpose."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Give me the map there. Know that we have divided"
I,I,KING LEAR,"In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent"
I,I,KING LEAR,"To shake all cares and business from our age;"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Conferring them on younger strengths, while we"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Unburthen'd crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"And you, our no less loving son of Albany,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"We have this hour a constant will to publish"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife"
I,I,KING LEAR,"May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"And here are to be answer'd. Tell me, my daughters,--"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Since now we will divest us both of rule,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Interest of territory, cares of state,--"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Which of you shall we say doth love us most?"
I,I,KING LEAR,"That we our largest bounty may extend"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Where nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Our eldest-born, speak first."
I,I,GONERIL,"Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter;"
I,I,GONERIL,"Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty;"
I,I,GONERIL,"Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare;"
I,I,GONERIL,"No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour;"
I,I,GONERIL,"As much as child e'er loved, or father found;"
I,I,GONERIL,"A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable;"
I,I,GONERIL,"Beyond all manner of so much I love you."
I,I,CORDELIA,"Love, and be silent."
I,I,LEAR,"Of all these bounds, even from this line to this,"
I,I,LEAR,"With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd,"
I,I,LEAR,"With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,"
I,I,LEAR,"We make thee lady: to thine and Albany's issue"
I,I,LEAR,"Be this perpetual. What says our second daughter,"
I,I,LEAR,"Our dearest Regan, wife to Cornwall? Speak."
I,I,REGAN,"Sir, I am made"
I,I,REGAN,"Of the self-same metal that my sister is,"
I,I,REGAN,"And prize me at her worth. In my true heart"
I,I,REGAN,"I find she names my very deed of love;"
I,I,REGAN,"Only she comes too short: that I profess"
I,I,REGAN,"Myself an enemy to all other joys,"
I,I,REGAN,"Which the most precious square of sense possesses;"
I,I,REGAN,"And find I am alone felicitate"
I,I,REGAN,"In your dear highness' love."
I,I,CORDELIA,"And yet not so; since, I am sure, my love's"
I,I,CORDELIA,"More richer than my tongue."
I,I,KING LEAR,"To thee and thine hereditary ever"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom;"
I,I,KING LEAR,"No less in space, validity, and pleasure,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Than that conferr'd on Goneril. Now, our joy,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Although the last, not least; to whose young love"
I,I,KING LEAR,"The vines of France and milk of Burgundy"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Strive to be interess'd; what can you say to draw"
I,I,KING LEAR,"A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak."
I,I,CORDELIA,"Nothing, my lord."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Nothing!"
I,I,CORDELIA,"Nothing."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Nothing will come of nothing: speak again."
I,I,CORDELIA,"Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave"
I,I,CORDELIA,"My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty"
I,I,CORDELIA,"According to my bond; nor more nor less."
I,I,KING LEAR,"How, how, Cordelia! mend your speech a little,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Lest it may mar your fortunes."
I,I,CORDELIA,"Good my lord,"
I,I,CORDELIA,"You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I"
I,I,CORDELIA,"Return those duties back as are right fit,"
I,I,CORDELIA,"Obey you, love you, and most honour you."
I,I,CORDELIA,"Why have my sisters husbands, if they say"
I,I,CORDELIA,"They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,"
I,I,CORDELIA,"That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry"
I,I,CORDELIA,"Half my love with him, half my care and duty:"
I,I,CORDELIA,"Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters,"
I,I,CORDELIA,"To love my father all."
I,I,KING LEAR,"But goes thy heart with this?"
I,I,CORDELIA,"Ay, good my lord."
I,I,KING LEAR,"So young, and so untender?"
I,I,CORDELIA,"So young, my lord, and true."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Let it be so; thy truth, then, be thy dower:"
I,I,KING LEAR,"For, by the sacred radiance of the sun,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"The mysteries of Hecate, and the night;"
I,I,KING LEAR,"By all the operation of the orbs"
I,I,KING LEAR,"From whom we do exist, and cease to be;"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Here I disclaim all my paternal care,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Propinquity and property of blood,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"And as a stranger to my heart and me"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Hold thee, from this, for ever. The barbarous Scythian,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Or he that makes his generation messes"
I,I,KING LEAR,"To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and relieved,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"As thou my sometime daughter."
I,I,KENT,"Good my liege,--"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Peace, Kent!"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Come not between the dragon and his wrath."
I,I,KING LEAR,"I loved her most, and thought to set my rest"
I,I,KING LEAR,"On her kind nursery. Hence, and avoid my sight!"
I,I,KING LEAR,"So be my grave my peace, as here I give"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Her father's heart from her! Call France; who stirs?"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Call Burgundy. Cornwall and Albany,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"With my two daughters' dowers digest this third:"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her."
I,I,KING LEAR,"I do invest you jointly with my power,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Pre-eminence, and all the large effects"
I,I,KING LEAR,"That troop with majesty. Ourself, by monthly course,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"With reservation of an hundred knights,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Make with you by due turns. Only we still retain"
I,I,KING LEAR,"The name, and all the additions to a king;"
I,I,KING LEAR,"The sway, revenue, execution of the rest,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Beloved sons, be yours: which to confirm,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"This coronet part betwixt you."
I,I,KENT,"Royal Lear,"
I,I,KENT,"Whom I have ever honour'd as my king,"
I,I,KENT,"Loved as my father, as my master follow'd,"
I,I,KENT,"As my great patron thought on in my prayers,--"
I,I,KING LEAR,"The bow is bent and drawn, make from the shaft."
I,I,KENT,"Let it fall rather, though the fork invade"
I,I,KENT,"The region of my heart: be Kent unmannerly,"
I,I,KENT,"When Lear is mad. What wilt thou do, old man?"
I,I,KENT,"Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak,"
I,I,KENT,"When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound,"
I,I,KENT,"When majesty stoops to folly. Reverse thy doom;"
I,I,KENT,"And, in thy best consideration, cheque"
I,I,KENT,"This hideous rashness: answer my life my judgment,"
I,I,KENT,"Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least;"
I,I,KENT,"Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound"
I,I,KENT,"Reverbs no hollowness."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Kent, on thy life, no more."
I,I,KENT,"My life I never held but as a pawn"
I,I,KENT,"To wage against thy enemies; nor fear to lose it,"
I,I,KENT,"Thy safety being the motive."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Out of my sight!"
I,I,KENT,"See better, Lear; and let me still remain"
I,I,KENT,"The true blank of thine eye."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Now, by Apollo,--"
I,I,KENT,"Now, by Apollo, king,"
I,I,KENT,"Thou swear'st thy gods in vain."
I,I,KING LEAR,"O, vassal! miscreant!"
I,I,ALBANY,"Dear sir, forbear."
I,I,KENT,"Do:"
I,I,KENT,"Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow"
I,I,KENT,"Upon thy foul disease. Revoke thy doom;"
I,I,KENT,"Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat,"
I,I,KENT,"I'll tell thee thou dost evil."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Hear me, recreant!"
I,I,KING LEAR,"On thine allegiance, hear me!"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Which we durst never yet, and with strain'd pride"
I,I,KING LEAR,"To come between our sentence and our power,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Our potency made good, take thy reward."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Five days we do allot thee, for provision"
I,I,KING LEAR,"To shield thee from diseases of the world;"
I,I,KING LEAR,"And on the sixth to turn thy hated back"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Upon our kingdom: if, on the tenth day following,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"The moment is thy death. Away! by Jupiter,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"This shall not be revoked."
I,I,KENT,"Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,"
I,I,KENT,"Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here."
I,I,KENT,"The gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid,"
I,I,KENT,"That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said!"
I,I,KENT,"And your large speeches may your deeds approve,"
I,I,KENT,"That good effects may spring from words of love."
I,I,KENT,"Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu;"
I,I,KENT,"He'll shape his old course in a country new."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Here's France and Burgundy, my noble lord."
I,I,KING LEAR,"My lord of Burgundy."
I,I,KING LEAR,"We first address towards you, who with this king"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Hath rivall'd for our daughter: what, in the least,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Will you require in present dower with her,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Or cease your quest of love?"
I,I,BURGUNDY,"Most royal majesty,"
I,I,BURGUNDY,"I crave no more than what your highness offer'd,"
I,I,BURGUNDY,"Nor will you tender less."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Right noble Burgundy,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"When she was dear to us, we did hold her so;"
I,I,KING LEAR,"But now her price is fall'n. Sir, there she stands:"
I,I,KING LEAR,"If aught within that little seeming substance,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Or all of it, with our displeasure pieced,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"And nothing more, may fitly like your grace,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"She's there, and she is yours."
I,I,BURGUNDY,"I know no answer."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Will you, with those infirmities she owes,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Unfriended, new-adopted to our hate,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Dower'd with our curse, and stranger'd with our oath,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Take her, or leave her?"
I,I,BURGUNDY,"Pardon me, royal sir;"
I,I,BURGUNDY,"Election makes not up on such conditions."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Then leave her, sir; for, by the power that made me,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"I tell you all her wealth."
I,I,KING LEAR,"For you, great king,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"I would not from your love make such a stray,"
I,I,KING LEAR,"To match you where I hate; therefore beseech you"
I,I,KING LEAR,"To avert your liking a more worthier way"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Almost to acknowledge hers."
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"This is most strange,"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"That she, that even but now was your best object,"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"The argument of your praise, balm of your age,"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"So many folds of favour. Sure, her offence"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Must be of such unnatural degree,"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"That monsters it, or your fore-vouch'd affection"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Fall'n into taint: which to believe of her,"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Must be a faith that reason without miracle"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Could never plant in me."
I,I,CORDELIA,"I yet beseech your majesty,--"
I,I,CORDELIA,"If for I want that glib and oily art,"
I,I,CORDELIA,"To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend,"
I,I,CORDELIA,"I'll do't before I speak,--that you make known"
I,I,CORDELIA,"It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness,"
I,I,CORDELIA,"No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step,"
I,I,CORDELIA,"That hath deprived me of your grace and favour;"
I,I,CORDELIA,"But even for want of that for which I am richer,"
I,I,CORDELIA,"A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue"
I,I,CORDELIA,"As I am glad I have not, though not to have it"
I,I,CORDELIA,"Hath lost me in your liking."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Better thou"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Hadst not been born than not to have pleased me better."
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Is it but this,--a tardiness in nature"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Which often leaves the history unspoke"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy,"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"What say you to the lady? Love's not love"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"When it is mingled with regards that stand"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Aloof from the entire point. Will you have her?"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"She is herself a dowry."
I,I,BURGUNDY,"Royal Lear,"
I,I,BURGUNDY,"Give but that portion which yourself proposed,"
I,I,BURGUNDY,"And here I take Cordelia by the hand,"
I,I,BURGUNDY,"Duchess of Burgundy."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Nothing: I have sworn; I am firm."
I,I,BURGUNDY,"I am sorry, then, you have so lost a father"
I,I,BURGUNDY,"That you must lose a husband."
I,I,CORDELIA,"Peace be with Burgundy!"
I,I,CORDELIA,"Since that respects of fortune are his love,"
I,I,CORDELIA,"I shall not be his wife."
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor;"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised!"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon:"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Be it lawful I take up what's cast away."
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"My love should kindle to inflamed respect."
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance,"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France:"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Can buy this unprized precious maid of me."
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind:"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Thou losest here, a better where to find."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Thou hast her, France: let her be thine; for we"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see"
I,I,KING LEAR,"That face of hers again. Therefore be gone"
I,I,KING LEAR,"Without our grace, our love, our benison."
I,I,KING LEAR,"Come, noble Burgundy."
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Bid farewell to your sisters."
I,I,CORDELIA,"The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes"
I,I,CORDELIA,"Cordelia leaves you: I know you what you are;"
I,I,CORDELIA,"And like a sister am most loath to call"
I,I,CORDELIA,"Your faults as they are named. Use well our father:"
I,I,CORDELIA,"To your professed bosoms I commit him"
I,I,CORDELIA,"But yet, alas, stood I within his grace,"
I,I,CORDELIA,"I would prefer him to a better place."
I,I,CORDELIA,"So, farewell to you both."
I,I,REGAN,"Prescribe not us our duties."
I,I,GONERIL,"Let your study"
I,I,GONERIL,"Be to content your lord, who hath received you"
I,I,GONERIL,"At fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted,"
I,I,GONERIL,"And well are worth the want that you have wanted."
I,I,CORDELIA,"Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides:"
I,I,CORDELIA,"Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."
I,I,CORDELIA,"Well may you prosper!"
I,I,KING OF FRANCE,"Come, my fair Cordelia."
I,I,GONERIL,"Sister, it is not a little I have to say of what"
I,I,GONERIL,"most nearly appertains to us both. I think our"
I,I,GONERIL,"father will hence to-night."
I,I,REGAN,"That's most certain, and with you; next month with us."
I,I,GONERIL,"You see how full of changes his age is; the"
I,I,GONERIL,"observation we have made of it hath not been"
I,I,GONERIL,"little: he always loved our sister most; and"
I,I,GONERIL,"with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off"
I,I,GONERIL,"appears too grossly."
I,I,REGAN,"'Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever"
I,I,REGAN,"but slenderly known himself."
I,I,GONERIL,"The best and soundest of his time hath been but"
I,I,GONERIL,"rash; then must we look to receive from his age,"
I,I,GONERIL,"not alone the imperfections of long-engraffed"
I,I,GONERIL,"condition, but therewithal the unruly waywardness"
I,I,GONERIL,"that infirm and choleric years bring with them."
I,I,REGAN,"Such unconstant starts are we like to have from"
I,I,REGAN,"him as this of Kent's banishment."
I,I,GONERIL,"There is further compliment of leavetaking"
I,I,GONERIL,"between France and him. Pray you, let's hit"
I,I,GONERIL,"together: if our father carry authority with"
I,I,GONERIL,"such dispositions as he bears, this last"
I,I,GONERIL,"surrender of his will but offend us."
I,I,REGAN,"We shall further think on't."
I,I,GONERIL,"We must do something, and i' the heat."
I,II,EDMUND,"Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law"
I,II,EDMUND,"My services are bound. Wherefore should I"
I,II,EDMUND,"Stand in the plague of custom, and permit"
I,II,EDMUND,"The curiosity of nations to deprive me,"
I,II,EDMUND,"For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines"
I,II,EDMUND,"Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?"
I,II,EDMUND,"When my dimensions are as well compact,"
I,II,EDMUND,"My mind as generous, and my shape as true,"
I,II,EDMUND,"As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us"
I,II,EDMUND,"With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?"
I,II,EDMUND,"Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take"
I,II,EDMUND,"More composition and fierce quality"
I,II,EDMUND,"Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,"
I,II,EDMUND,"Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,"
I,II,EDMUND,"Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well, then,"
I,II,EDMUND,"Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:"
I,II,EDMUND,"Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund"
I,II,EDMUND,"As to the legitimate: fine word,--legitimate!"
I,II,EDMUND,"Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,"
I,II,EDMUND,"And my invention thrive, Edmund the base"
I,II,EDMUND,"Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:"
I,II,EDMUND,"Now, gods, stand up for bastards!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Kent banish'd thus! and France in choler parted!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And the king gone to-night! subscribed his power!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Confined to exhibition! All this done"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Upon the gad! Edmund, how now! what news?"
I,II,EDMUND,"So please your lordship, none."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?"
I,II,EDMUND,"I know no news, my lord."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"What paper were you reading?"
I,II,EDMUND,"Nothing, my lord."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"No? What needed, then, that terrible dispatch of"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"it into your pocket? the quality of nothing hath"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"not such need to hide itself. Let's see: come,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles."
I,II,EDMUND,"I beseech you, sir, pardon me: it is a letter"
I,II,EDMUND,"from my brother, that I have not all o'er-read;"
I,II,EDMUND,"and for so much as I have perused, I find it not"
I,II,EDMUND,"fit for your o'er-looking."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Give me the letter, sir."
I,II,EDMUND,"I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The"
I,II,EDMUND,"contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Let's see, let's see."
I,II,EDMUND,"I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote"
I,II,EDMUND,"this but as an essay or taste of my virtue."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"them. I begin to find an idle and fond bondage"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"in the oppression of aged tyranny; who sways, not"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"as it hath power, but as it is suffered. Come to"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"me, that of this I may speak more. If our father"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"would sleep till I waked him, you should half his"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"revenue for ever, and live the beloved of your"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"brother, EDGAR.'"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Hum--conspiracy!--'Sleep till I waked him,--you"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"should enjoy half his revenue,'--My son Edgar!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Had he a hand to write this? a heart and brain"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"to breed it in?--When came this to you? who"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"brought it?"
I,II,EDMUND,"It was not brought me, my lord; there's the"
I,II,EDMUND,"cunning of it; I found it thrown in at the"
I,II,EDMUND,"casement of my closet."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"You know the character to be your brother's?"
I,II,EDMUND,"If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear"
I,II,EDMUND,"it were his; but, in respect of that, I would"
I,II,EDMUND,"fain think it were not."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"It is his."
I,II,EDMUND,"It is his hand, my lord; but I hope his heart is"
I,II,EDMUND,"not in the contents."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Hath he never heretofore sounded you in this business?"
I,II,EDMUND,"Never, my lord: but I have heard him oft"
I,II,EDMUND,"maintain it to be fit, that, sons at perfect age,"
I,II,EDMUND,"and fathers declining, the father should be as"
I,II,EDMUND,"ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"O villain, villain! His very opinion in the"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"brutish villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"seek him; I'll apprehend him: abominable villain!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Where is he?"
I,II,EDMUND,"I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please"
I,II,EDMUND,"you to suspend your indignation against my"
I,II,EDMUND,"brother till you can derive from him better"
I,II,EDMUND,"testimony of his intent, you shall run a certain"
I,II,EDMUND,"course; where, if you violently proceed against"
I,II,EDMUND,"him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great"
I,II,EDMUND,"gap in your own honour, and shake in pieces the"
I,II,EDMUND,"heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my life"
I,II,EDMUND,"for him, that he hath wrote this to feel my"
I,II,EDMUND,"affection to your honour, and to no further"
I,II,EDMUND,"pretence of danger."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Think you so?"
I,II,EDMUND,"If your honour judge it meet, I will place you"
I,II,EDMUND,"where you shall hear us confer of this, and by an"
I,II,EDMUND,"auricular assurance have your satisfaction; and"
I,II,EDMUND,"that without any further delay than this very evening."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"He cannot be such a monster--"
I,II,EDMUND,"Nor is not, sure."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"To his father, that so tenderly and entirely"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"loves him. Heaven and earth! Edmund, seek him"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"out: wind me into him, I pray you: frame the"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"business after your own wisdom. I would unstate"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"myself, to be in a due resolution."
I,II,EDMUND,"I will seek him, sir, presently: convey the"
I,II,EDMUND,"business as I shall find means and acquaint you withal."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"scourged by the sequent effects: love cools,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"friendship falls off, brothers divide: in"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"and father. This villain of mine comes under the"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"prediction; there's son against father: the king"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"falls from bias of nature; there's father against"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"child. We have seen the best of our time:"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"graves. Find out this villain, Edmund; it shall"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"lose thee nothing; do it carefully. And the"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"offence, honesty! 'Tis strange."
I,II,EDMUND,"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,"
I,II,EDMUND,"when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit"
I,II,EDMUND,"of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our"
I,II,EDMUND,"disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as"
I,II,EDMUND,"if we were villains by necessity; fools by"
I,II,EDMUND,"heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and"
I,II,EDMUND,"treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,"
I,II,EDMUND,"liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of"
I,II,EDMUND,"planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,"
I,II,EDMUND,"by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion"
I,II,EDMUND,"of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish"
I,II,EDMUND,"disposition to the charge of a star! My"
I,II,EDMUND,"father compounded with my mother under the"
I,II,EDMUND,"dragon's tail; and my nativity was under Ursa"
I,II,EDMUND,"major; so that it follows, I am rough and"
I,II,EDMUND,"lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am,"
I,II,EDMUND,"had the maidenliest star in the firmament"
I,II,EDMUND,"twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar--"
I,II,EDMUND,"And pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old"
I,II,EDMUND,"comedy: my cue is villanous melancholy, with a"
I,II,EDMUND,"sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. O, these eclipses do"
I,II,EDMUND,"portend these divisions! fa, sol, la, mi."
I,II,EDGAR,"How now, brother Edmund! what serious"
I,II,EDGAR,"contemplation are you in?"
I,II,EDMUND,"I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read"
I,II,EDMUND,"this other day, what should follow these eclipses."
I,II,EDGAR,"Do you busy yourself about that?"
I,II,EDMUND,"I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed"
I,II,EDMUND,"unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child"
I,II,EDMUND,"and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of"
I,II,EDMUND,"ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and"
I,II,EDMUND,"maledictions against king and nobles; needless"
I,II,EDMUND,"diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation"
I,II,EDMUND,"of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what."
I,II,EDGAR,"How long have you been a sectary astronomical?"
I,II,EDMUND,"Come, come; when saw you my father last?"
I,II,EDGAR,"Why, the night gone by."
I,II,EDMUND,"Spake you with him?"
I,II,EDGAR,"Ay, two hours together."
I,II,EDMUND,"Parted you in good terms? Found you no"
I,II,EDMUND,"displeasure in him by word or countenance?"
I,II,EDGAR,"None at all."
I,II,EDMUND,"Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended"
I,II,EDMUND,"him: and at my entreaty forbear his presence"
I,II,EDMUND,"till some little time hath qualified the heat of"
I,II,EDMUND,"his displeasure; which at this instant so rageth"
I,II,EDMUND,"in him, that with the mischief of your person it"
I,II,EDMUND,"would scarcely allay."
I,II,EDGAR,"Some villain hath done me wrong."
I,II,EDMUND,"That's my fear. I pray you, have a continent"
I,II,EDMUND,"forbearance till the spied of his rage goes"
I,II,EDMUND,"slower; and, as I say, retire with me to my"
I,II,EDMUND,"lodging, from whence I will fitly bring you to"
I,II,EDMUND,"hear my lord speak: pray ye, go; there's my key:"
I,II,EDMUND,"if you do stir abroad, go armed."
I,II,EDGAR,"Armed, brother!"
I,II,EDMUND,"Brother, I advise you to the best; go armed: I"
I,II,EDMUND,"am no honest man if there be any good meaning"
I,II,EDMUND,"towards you: I have told you what I have seen"
I,II,EDMUND,"and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image"
I,II,EDMUND,"and horror of it: pray you, away."
I,II,EDGAR,"Shall I hear from you anon?"
I,II,EDMUND,"I do serve you in this business."
I,II,EDMUND,"A credulous father! and a brother noble,"
I,II,EDMUND,"Whose nature is so far from doing harms,"
I,II,EDMUND,"That he suspects none: on whose foolish honesty"
I,II,EDMUND,"My practises ride easy! I see the business."
I,II,EDMUND,"Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit:"
I,II,EDMUND,"All with me's meet that I can fashion fit."
I,III,GONERIL,"Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?"
I,III,OSWALD,"Yes, madam."
I,III,GONERIL,"By day and night he wrongs me; every hour"
I,III,GONERIL,"He flashes into one gross crime or other,"
I,III,GONERIL,"That sets us all at odds: I'll not endure it:"
I,III,GONERIL,"His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us"
I,III,GONERIL,"On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,"
I,III,GONERIL,"I will not speak with him; say I am sick:"
I,III,GONERIL,"If you come slack of former services,"
I,III,GONERIL,"You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer."
I,III,OSWALD,"He's coming, madam; I hear him."
I,III,GONERIL,"Put on what weary negligence you please,"
I,III,GONERIL,"You and your fellows; I'll have it come to question:"
I,III,GONERIL,"If he dislike it, let him to our sister,"
I,III,GONERIL,"Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one,"
I,III,GONERIL,"Not to be over-ruled. Idle old man,"
I,III,GONERIL,"That still would manage those authorities"
I,III,GONERIL,"That he hath given away! Now, by my life,"
I,III,GONERIL,"Old fools are babes again; and must be used"
I,III,GONERIL,"With cheques as flatteries,--when they are seen abused."
I,III,GONERIL,"Remember what I tell you."
I,III,OSWALD,"Well, madam."
I,III,GONERIL,"And let his knights have colder looks among you;"
I,III,GONERIL,"What grows of it, no matter; advise your fellows so:"
I,III,GONERIL,"I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,"
I,III,GONERIL,"That I may speak: I'll write straight to my sister,"
I,III,GONERIL,"To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner."
I,IV,KENT,"If but as well I other accents borrow,"
I,IV,KENT,"That can my speech defuse, my good intent"
I,IV,KENT,"May carry through itself to that full issue"
I,IV,KENT,"For which I razed my likeness. Now, banish'd Kent,"
I,IV,KENT,"If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd,"
I,IV,KENT,"So may it come, thy master, whom thou lovest,"
I,IV,KENT,"Shall find thee full of labours."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go get it ready."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"How now! what art thou?"
I,IV,KENT,"A man, sir."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"What dost thou profess? what wouldst thou with us?"
I,IV,KENT,"I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve"
I,IV,KENT,"him truly that will put me in trust: to love him"
I,IV,KENT,"that is honest; to converse with him that is wise,"
I,IV,KENT,"and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I"
I,IV,KENT,"cannot choose; and to eat no fish."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"What art thou?"
I,IV,KENT,"A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the king."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"If thou be as poor for a subject as he is for a"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"king, thou art poor enough. What wouldst thou?"
I,IV,KENT,"Service."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Who wouldst thou serve?"
I,IV,KENT,"You."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Dost thou know me, fellow?"
I,IV,KENT,"No, sir; but you have that in your countenance"
I,IV,KENT,"which I would fain call master."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"What's that?"
I,IV,KENT,"Authority."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"What services canst thou do?"
I,IV,KENT,"I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious"
I,IV,KENT,"tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message"
I,IV,KENT,"bluntly: that which ordinary men are fit for, I am"
I,IV,KENT,"qualified in; and the best of me is diligence."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"How old art thou?"
I,IV,KENT,"Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor"
I,IV,KENT,"so old to dote on her for any thing: I have years"
I,IV,KENT,"on my back forty eight."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Follow me; thou shalt serve me: if I like thee no"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"worse after dinner, I will not part from thee yet."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Dinner, ho, dinner! Where's my knave? my fool?"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Go you, and call my fool hither."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?"
I,IV,OSWALD,"So please you,--"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll back."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Where's my fool, ho? I think the world's asleep."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"How now! where's that mongrel?"
I,IV,Knight,"He says, my lord, your daughter is not well."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Why came not the slave back to me when I called him."
I,IV,Knight,"Sir, he answered me in the roundest manner, he would"
I,IV,Knight,"not."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"He would not!"
I,IV,Knight,"My lord, I know not what the matter is; but, to my"
I,IV,Knight,"judgment, your highness is not entertained with that"
I,IV,Knight,"ceremonious affection as you were wont; there's a"
I,IV,Knight,"great abatement of kindness appears as well in the"
I,IV,Knight,"general dependants as in the duke himself also and"
I,IV,Knight,"your daughter."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Ha! sayest thou so?"
I,IV,Knight,"I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, if I be mistaken;"
I,IV,Knight,"for my duty cannot be silent when I think your"
I,IV,Knight,"highness wronged."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Thou but rememberest me of mine own conception: I"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"have perceived a most faint neglect of late; which I"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"than as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness:"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"I will look further into't. But where's my fool? I"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"have not seen him this two days."
I,IV,Knight,"Since my young lady's going into France, sir, the"
I,IV,Knight,"fool hath much pined away."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"No more of that; I have noted it well. Go you, and"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"tell my daughter I would speak with her."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Go you, call hither my fool."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"O, you sir, you, come you hither, sir: who am I,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"sir?"
I,IV,OSWALD,"My lady's father."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"'My lady's father'! my lord's knave: your"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"whoreson dog! you slave! you cur!"
I,IV,OSWALD,"I am none of these, my lord; I beseech your pardon."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?"
I,IV,OSWALD,"I'll not be struck, my lord."
I,IV,KENT,"Nor tripped neither, you base football player."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"I thank thee, fellow; thou servest me, and I'll"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"love thee."
I,IV,KENT,"Come, sir, arise, away! I'll teach you differences:"
I,IV,KENT,"away, away! if you will measure your lubber's"
I,IV,KENT,"length again, tarry: but away! go to; have you"
I,IV,KENT,"wisdom? so."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Now, my friendly knave, I thank thee: there's"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"earnest of thy service."
I,IV,Fool,"Let me hire him too: here's my coxcomb."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"How now, my pretty knave! how dost thou?"
I,IV,Fool,"Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb."
I,IV,KENT,"Why, fool?"
I,IV,Fool,"Why, for taking one's part that's out of favour:"
I,IV,Fool,"nay, an thou canst not smile as the wind sits,"
I,IV,Fool,"thou'lt catch cold shortly: there, take my coxcomb:"
I,IV,Fool,"why, this fellow has banished two on's daughters,"
I,IV,Fool,"and did the third a blessing against his will; if"
I,IV,Fool,"thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb."
I,IV,Fool,"How now, nuncle! Would I had two coxcombs and two daughters!"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Why, my boy?"
I,IV,Fool,"If I gave them all my living, I'ld keep my coxcombs"
I,IV,Fool,"myself. There's mine; beg another of thy daughters."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Take heed, sirrah; the whip."
I,IV,Fool,"Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped"
I,IV,Fool,"out, when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"A pestilent gall to me!"
I,IV,Fool,"Sirrah, I'll teach thee a speech."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Do."
I,IV,Fool,"Mark it, nuncle:"
I,IV,Fool,"Have more than thou showest,"
I,IV,Fool,"Speak less than thou knowest,"
I,IV,Fool,"Lend less than thou owest,"
I,IV,Fool,"Ride more than thou goest,"
I,IV,Fool,"Learn more than thou trowest,"
I,IV,Fool,"Set less than thou throwest;"
I,IV,Fool,"Leave thy drink and thy whore,"
I,IV,Fool,"And keep in-a-door,"
I,IV,Fool,"And thou shalt have more"
I,IV,Fool,"Than two tens to a score."
I,IV,KENT,"This is nothing, fool."
I,IV,Fool,"Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer; you"
I,IV,Fool,"gave me nothing for't. Can you make no use of"
I,IV,Fool,"nothing, nuncle?"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Why, no, boy; nothing can be made out of nothing."
I,IV,Fool,"his land comes to: he will not believe a fool."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"A bitter fool!"
I,IV,Fool,"Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a"
I,IV,Fool,"bitter fool and a sweet fool?"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"No, lad; teach me."
I,IV,Fool,"That lord that counsell'd thee"
I,IV,Fool,"To give away thy land,"
I,IV,Fool,"Come place him here by me,"
I,IV,Fool,"Do thou for him stand:"
I,IV,Fool,"The sweet and bitter fool"
I,IV,Fool,"Will presently appear;"
I,IV,Fool,"The one in motley here,"
I,IV,Fool,"The other found out there."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Dost thou call me fool, boy?"
I,IV,Fool,"All thy other titles thou hast given away; that"
I,IV,Fool,"thou wast born with."
I,IV,KENT,"This is not altogether fool, my lord."
I,IV,Fool,"No, faith, lords and great men will not let me; if"
I,IV,Fool,"I had a monopoly out, they would have part on't:"
I,IV,Fool,"and ladies too, they will not let me have all fool"
I,IV,Fool,"to myself; they'll be snatching. Give me an egg,"
I,IV,Fool,"nuncle, and I'll give thee two crowns."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"What two crowns shall they be?"
I,IV,Fool,"Why, after I have cut the egg i' the middle, and eat"
I,IV,Fool,"up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou"
I,IV,Fool,"clovest thy crown i' the middle, and gavest away"
I,IV,Fool,"both parts, thou borest thy ass on thy back o'er"
I,IV,Fool,"the dirt: thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown,"
I,IV,Fool,"when thou gavest thy golden one away. If I speak"
I,IV,Fool,"like myself in this, let him be whipped that first"
I,IV,Fool,"finds it so."
I,IV,Fool,"Fools had ne'er less wit in a year;"
I,IV,Fool,"For wise men are grown foppish,"
I,IV,Fool,"They know not how their wits to wear,"
I,IV,Fool,"Their manners are so apish."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah?"
I,IV,Fool,"I have used it, nuncle, ever since thou madest thy"
I,IV,Fool,"daughters thy mothers: for when thou gavest them"
I,IV,Fool,"the rod, and put'st down thine own breeches,"
I,IV,Fool,"Then they for sudden joy did weep,"
I,IV,Fool,"And I for sorrow sung,"
I,IV,Fool,"That such a king should play bo-peep,"
I,IV,Fool,"And go the fools among."
I,IV,Fool,"Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach"
I,IV,Fool,"thy fool to lie: I would fain learn to lie."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"An you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipped."
I,IV,Fool,"I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are:"
I,IV,Fool,"they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt"
I,IV,Fool,"have me whipped for lying; and sometimes I am"
I,IV,Fool,"whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any"
I,IV,Fool,"kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be"
I,IV,Fool,"thee, nuncle; thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides,"
I,IV,Fool,"and left nothing i' the middle: here comes one o'"
I,IV,Fool,"the parings."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"How now, daughter! what makes that frontlet on?"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown."
I,IV,Fool,"Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to"
I,IV,Fool,"care for her frowning; now thou art an O without a"
I,IV,Fool,"figure: I am better than thou art now; I am a fool,"
I,IV,Fool,"thou art nothing."
I,IV,Fool,"Yes, forsooth, I will hold my tongue; so your face"
I,IV,Fool,"bids me, though you say nothing. Mum, mum,"
I,IV,Fool,"He that keeps nor crust nor crum,"
I,IV,Fool,"Weary of all, shall want some."
I,IV,Fool,"That's a shealed peascod."
I,IV,GONERIL,"Not only, sir, this your all-licensed fool,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"But other of your insolent retinue"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Do hourly carp and quarrel; breaking forth"
I,IV,GONERIL,"In rank and not-to-be endured riots. Sir,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"I had thought, by making this well known unto you,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"To have found a safe redress; but now grow fearful,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"By what yourself too late have spoke and done."
I,IV,GONERIL,"That you protect this course, and put it on"
I,IV,GONERIL,"By your allowance; which if you should, the fault"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Would not 'scape censure, nor the redresses sleep,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Might in their working do you that offence,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Which else were shame, that then necessity"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Will call discreet proceeding."
I,IV,Fool,"For, you trow, nuncle,"
I,IV,Fool,"The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long,"
I,IV,Fool,"That it's had it head bit off by it young."
I,IV,Fool,"So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Are you our daughter?"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Come, sir,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"I would you would make use of that good wisdom,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Whereof I know you are fraught; and put away"
I,IV,GONERIL,"These dispositions, that of late transform you"
I,IV,GONERIL,"From what you rightly are."
I,IV,Fool,"May not an ass know when the cart"
I,IV,Fool,"draws the horse? Whoop, Jug! I love thee."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Doth any here know me? This is not Lear:"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes?"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Either his notion weakens, his discernings"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Are lethargied--Ha! waking? 'tis not so."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Who is it that can tell me who I am?"
I,IV,Fool,"Lear's shadow."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"I would learn that; for, by the"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"marks of sovereignty, knowledge, and reason,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"I should be false persuaded I had daughters."
I,IV,Fool,"Which they will make an obedient father."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Your name, fair gentlewoman?"
I,IV,GONERIL,"This admiration, sir, is much o' the savour"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you"
I,IV,GONERIL,"To understand my purposes aright:"
I,IV,GONERIL,"As you are old and reverend, you should be wise."
I,IV,GONERIL,"Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd and bold,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"That this our court, infected with their manners,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Shows like a riotous inn: epicurism and lust"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Make it more like a tavern or a brothel"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Than a graced palace. The shame itself doth speak"
I,IV,GONERIL,"For instant remedy: be then desired"
I,IV,GONERIL,"By her, that else will take the thing she begs,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"A little to disquantity your train;"
I,IV,GONERIL,"And the remainder, that shall still depend,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"To be such men as may besort your age,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"And know themselves and you."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Darkness and devils!"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Saddle my horses; call my train together:"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Degenerate bastard! I'll not trouble thee."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Yet have I left a daughter."
I,IV,GONERIL,"You strike my people; and your disorder'd rabble"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Make servants of their betters."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Woe, that too late repents,--"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"O, sir, are you come?"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Is it your will? Speak, sir. Prepare my horses."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Than the sea-monster!"
I,IV,ALBANY,"Pray, sir, be patient."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"My train are men of choice and rarest parts,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"That all particulars of duty know,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"And in the most exact regard support"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"The worships of their name. O most small fault,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show!"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"That, like an engine, wrench'd my frame of nature"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"From the fix'd place; drew from heart all love,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"And added to the gall. O Lear, Lear, Lear!"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Beat at this gate, that let thy folly in,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"And thy dear judgment out! Go, go, my people."
I,IV,ALBANY,"My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant"
I,IV,ALBANY,"Of what hath moved you."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"It may be so, my lord."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear!"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"To make this creature fruitful!"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Into her womb convey sterility!"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Dry up in her the organs of increase;"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"And from her derogate body never spring"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"A babe to honour her! If she must teem,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Create her child of spleen; that it may live,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"And be a thwart disnatured torment to her!"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth;"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Turn all her mother's pains and benefits"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"To laughter and contempt; that she may feel"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"To have a thankless child! Away, away!"
I,IV,ALBANY,"Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Never afflict yourself to know the cause;"
I,IV,GONERIL,"But let his disposition have that scope"
I,IV,GONERIL,"That dotage gives it."
I,IV,KING LEAR,"What, fifty of my followers at a clap!"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Within a fortnight!"
I,IV,ALBANY,"What's the matter, sir?"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"I'll tell thee:"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Life and death! I am ashamed"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus;"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Should make thee worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee!"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"The untented woundings of a father's curse"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Pierce every sense about thee! Old fond eyes,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"And cast you, with the waters that you lose,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"To temper clay. Yea, it is come to this?"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Let is be so: yet have I left a daughter,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"Who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable:"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"I have cast off for ever: thou shalt,"
I,IV,KING LEAR,"I warrant thee."
I,IV,GONERIL,"Do you mark that, my lord?"
I,IV,ALBANY,"I cannot be so partial, Goneril,"
I,IV,ALBANY,"To the great love I bear you,--"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Pray you, content. What, Oswald, ho!"
I,IV,GONERIL,"You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master."
I,IV,Fool,"Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry and take the fool"
I,IV,Fool,"with thee."
I,IV,Fool,"A fox, when one has caught her,"
I,IV,Fool,"And such a daughter,"
I,IV,Fool,"Should sure to the slaughter,"
I,IV,Fool,"If my cap would buy a halter:"
I,IV,Fool,"So the fool follows after."
I,IV,GONERIL,"This man hath had good counsel:--a hundred knights!"
I,IV,GONERIL,"'Tis politic and safe to let him keep"
I,IV,GONERIL,"At point a hundred knights: yes, that, on every dream,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"He may enguard his dotage with their powers,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"And hold our lives in mercy. Oswald, I say!"
I,IV,ALBANY,"Well, you may fear too far."
I,IV,GONERIL,"Safer than trust too far:"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Let me still take away the harms I fear,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Not fear still to be taken: I know his heart."
I,IV,GONERIL,"What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister"
I,IV,GONERIL,"If she sustain him and his hundred knights"
I,IV,GONERIL,"When I have show'd the unfitness,--"
I,IV,GONERIL,"How now, Oswald!"
I,IV,GONERIL,"What, have you writ that letter to my sister?"
I,IV,OSWALD,"Yes, madam."
I,IV,GONERIL,"Take you some company, and away to horse:"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Inform her full of my particular fear;"
I,IV,GONERIL,"And thereto add such reasons of your own"
I,IV,GONERIL,"As may compact it more. Get you gone;"
I,IV,GONERIL,"And hasten your return."
I,IV,GONERIL,"No, no, my lord,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"This milky gentleness and course of yours"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Though I condemn not, yet, under pardon,"
I,IV,GONERIL,"You are much more attask'd for want of wisdom"
I,IV,GONERIL,"Than praised for harmful mildness."
I,IV,ALBANY,"How far your eyes may pierce I can not tell:"
I,IV,ALBANY,"Striving to better, oft we mar what's well."
I,IV,GONERIL,"Nay, then--"
I,IV,ALBANY,"Well, well; the event."
I,V,KING LEAR,"Go you before to Gloucester with these letters."
I,V,KING LEAR,"Acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you"
I,V,KING LEAR,"know than comes from her demand out of the letter."
I,V,KING LEAR,"If your diligence be not speedy, I shall be there afore you."
I,V,KENT,"I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered"
I,V,KENT,"your letter."
I,V,Fool,"If a man's brains were in's heels, were't not in"
I,V,Fool,"danger of kibes?"
I,V,KING LEAR,"Ay, boy."
I,V,Fool,"Then, I prithee, be merry; thy wit shall ne'er go"
I,V,Fool,"slip-shod."
I,V,KING LEAR,"Ha, ha, ha!"
I,V,Fool,"Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly;"
I,V,Fool,"for though she's as like this as a crab's like an"
I,V,Fool,"apple, yet I can tell what I can tell."
I,V,KING LEAR,"Why, what canst thou tell, my boy?"
I,V,Fool,"She will taste as like this as a crab does to a"
I,V,Fool,"crab. Thou canst tell why one's nose stands i'"
I,V,Fool,"the middle on's face?"
I,V,KING LEAR,"No."
I,V,Fool,"Why, to keep one's eyes of either side's nose; that"
I,V,Fool,"what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into."
I,V,KING LEAR,"I did her wrong--"
I,V,Fool,"Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell?"
I,V,KING LEAR,"No."
I,V,Fool,"Nor I neither; but I can tell why a snail has a house."
I,V,KING LEAR,"Why?"
I,V,Fool,"Why, to put his head in; not to give it away to his"
I,V,Fool,"daughters, and leave his horns without a case."
I,V,KING LEAR,"I will forget my nature. So kind a father! Be my"
I,V,KING LEAR,"horses ready?"
I,V,Fool,"Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the"
I,V,Fool,"seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason."
I,V,KING LEAR,"Because they are not eight?"
I,V,Fool,"Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool."
I,V,KING LEAR,"To take 't again perforce! Monster ingratitude!"
I,V,Fool,"If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten"
I,V,Fool,"for being old before thy time."
I,V,KING LEAR,"How's that?"
I,V,Fool,"Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst"
I,V,Fool,"been wise."
I,V,KING LEAR,"O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven"
I,V,KING LEAR,"Keep me in temper: I would not be mad!"
I,V,KING LEAR,"How now! are the horses ready?"
I,V,Gentleman,"Ready, my lord."
I,V,KING LEAR,"Come, boy."
I,V,Fool,"She that's a maid now, and laughs at my departure,"
I,V,Fool,"Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter."
II,I,EDMUND,"Save thee, Curan."
II,I,CURAN,"And you, sir. I have been with your father, and"
II,I,CURAN,"given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan"
II,I,CURAN,"his duchess will be here with him this night."
II,I,EDMUND,"How comes that?"
II,I,CURAN,"Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news abroad;"
II,I,CURAN,"I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but"
II,I,CURAN,"ear-kissing arguments?"
II,I,EDMUND,"Not I pray you, what are they?"
II,I,CURAN,"Have you heard of no likely wars toward, 'twixt the"
II,I,CURAN,"Dukes of Cornwall and Albany?"
II,I,EDMUND,"Not a word."
II,I,CURAN,"You may do, then, in time. Fare you well, sir."
II,I,EDMUND,"The duke be here to-night? The better! best!"
II,I,EDMUND,"This weaves itself perforce into my business."
II,I,EDMUND,"My father hath set guard to take my brother;"
II,I,EDMUND,"And I have one thing, of a queasy question,"
II,I,EDMUND,"Which I must act: briefness and fortune, work!"
II,I,EDMUND,"Brother, a word; descend: brother, I say!"
II,I,EDMUND,"My father watches: O sir, fly this place;"
II,I,EDMUND,"Intelligence is given where you are hid;"
II,I,EDMUND,"You have now the good advantage of the night:"
II,I,EDMUND,"Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall?"
II,I,EDMUND,"He's coming hither: now, i' the night, i' the haste,"
II,I,EDMUND,"And Regan with him: have you nothing said"
II,I,EDMUND,"Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?"
II,I,EDMUND,"Advise yourself."
II,I,EDGAR,"I am sure on't, not a word."
II,I,EDMUND,"I hear my father coming: pardon me:"
II,I,EDMUND,"In cunning I must draw my sword upon you"
II,I,EDMUND,"Draw; seem to defend yourself; now quit you well."
II,I,EDMUND,"Yield: come before my father. Light, ho, here!"
II,I,EDMUND,"Fly, brother. Torches, torches! So, farewell."
II,I,EDMUND,"Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion."
II,I,EDMUND,"Of my more fierce endeavour: I have seen drunkards"
II,I,EDMUND,"Do more than this in sport. Father, father!"
II,I,EDMUND,"Stop, stop! No help?"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Now, Edmund, where's the villain?"
II,I,EDMUND,"Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,"
II,I,EDMUND,"Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon"
II,I,EDMUND,"To stand auspicious mistress,--"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"But where is he?"
II,I,EDMUND,"Look, sir, I bleed."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Where is the villain, Edmund?"
II,I,EDMUND,"Fled this way, sir. When by no means he could--"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Pursue him, ho! Go after."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"By no means what?"
II,I,EDMUND,"Persuade me to the murder of your lordship;"
II,I,EDMUND,"But that I told him, the revenging gods"
II,I,EDMUND,"'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend;"
II,I,EDMUND,"Spoke, with how manifold and strong a bond"
II,I,EDMUND,"The child was bound to the father; sir, in fine,"
II,I,EDMUND,"Seeing how loathly opposite I stood"
II,I,EDMUND,"To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion,"
II,I,EDMUND,"With his prepared sword, he charges home"
II,I,EDMUND,"My unprovided body, lanced mine arm:"
II,I,EDMUND,"But when he saw my best alarum'd spirits,"
II,I,EDMUND,"Bold in the quarrel's right, roused to the encounter,"
II,I,EDMUND,"Or whether gasted by the noise I made,"
II,I,EDMUND,"Full suddenly he fled."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Let him fly far:"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Not in this land shall he remain uncaught;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"And found--dispatch. The noble duke my master,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"My worthy arch and patron, comes to-night:"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"By his authority I will proclaim it,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"That he which finds him shall deserve our thanks,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Bringing the murderous coward to the stake;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"He that conceals him, death."
II,I,EDMUND,"When I dissuaded him from his intent,"
II,I,EDMUND,"And found him pight to do it, with curst speech"
II,I,EDMUND,"I threaten'd to discover him: he replied,"
II,I,EDMUND,"'Thou unpossessing bastard! dost thou think,"
II,I,EDMUND,"If I would stand against thee, would the reposal"
II,I,EDMUND,"Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee"
II,I,EDMUND,"Make thy words faith'd? No: what I should deny,--"
II,I,EDMUND,"As this I would: ay, though thou didst produce"
II,I,EDMUND,"My very character,--I'ld turn it all"
II,I,EDMUND,"To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practise:"
II,I,EDMUND,"And thou must make a dullard of the world,"
II,I,EDMUND,"If they not thought the profits of my death"
II,I,EDMUND,"Were very pregnant and potential spurs"
II,I,EDMUND,"To make thee seek it.'"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Strong and fasten'd villain"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Would he deny his letter? I never got him."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Hark, the duke's trumpets! I know not why he comes."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"All ports I'll bar; the villain shall not 'scape;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"The duke must grant me that: besides, his picture"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"I will send far and near, that all the kingdom"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"May have the due note of him; and of my land,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"To make thee capable."
II,I,CORNWALL,"How now, my noble friend! since I came hither,"
II,I,CORNWALL,"Which I can call but now, I have heard strange news."
II,I,REGAN,"If it be true, all vengeance comes too short"
II,I,REGAN,"Which can pursue the offender. How dost, my lord?"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"O, madam, my old heart is crack'd, it's crack'd!"
II,I,REGAN,"What, did my father's godson seek your life?"
II,I,REGAN,"He whom my father named? your Edgar?"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"O, lady, lady, shame would have it hid!"
II,I,REGAN,"Was he not companion with the riotous knights"
II,I,REGAN,"That tend upon my father?"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"I know not, madam: 'tis too bad, too bad."
II,I,EDMUND,"Yes, madam, he was of that consort."
II,I,REGAN,"No marvel, then, though he were ill affected:"
II,I,REGAN,"'Tis they have put him on the old man's death,"
II,I,REGAN,"To have the expense and waste of his revenues."
II,I,REGAN,"I have this present evening from my sister"
II,I,REGAN,"Been well inform'd of them; and with such cautions,"
II,I,REGAN,"That if they come to sojourn at my house,"
II,I,REGAN,"I'll not be there."
II,I,CORNWALL,"Nor I, assure thee, Regan."
II,I,CORNWALL,"Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father"
II,I,CORNWALL,"A child-like office."
II,I,EDMUND,"'Twas my duty, sir."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"He did bewray his practise; and received"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"This hurt you see, striving to apprehend him."
II,I,CORNWALL,"Is he pursued?"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Ay, my good lord."
II,I,CORNWALL,"If he be taken, he shall never more"
II,I,CORNWALL,"Be fear'd of doing harm: make your own purpose,"
II,I,CORNWALL,"How in my strength you please. For you, Edmund,"
II,I,CORNWALL,"Whose virtue and obedience doth this instant"
II,I,CORNWALL,"So much commend itself, you shall be ours:"
II,I,CORNWALL,"Natures of such deep trust we shall much need;"
II,I,CORNWALL,"You we first seize on."
II,I,EDMUND,"I shall serve you, sir,"
II,I,EDMUND,"Truly, however else."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"For him I thank your grace."
II,I,CORNWALL,"You know not why we came to visit you,--"
II,I,REGAN,"Thus out of season, threading dark-eyed night:"
II,I,REGAN,"Occasions, noble Gloucester, of some poise,"
II,I,REGAN,"Wherein we must have use of your advice:"
II,I,REGAN,"Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister,"
II,I,REGAN,"Of differences, which I least thought it fit"
II,I,REGAN,"To answer from our home; the several messengers"
II,I,REGAN,"From hence attend dispatch. Our good old friend,"
II,I,REGAN,"Lay comforts to your bosom; and bestow"
II,I,REGAN,"Your needful counsel to our business,"
II,I,REGAN,"Which craves the instant use."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"I serve you, madam:"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Your graces are right welcome."
II,II,OSWALD,"Good dawning to thee, friend: art of this house?"
II,II,KENT,"Ay."
II,II,OSWALD,"Where may we set our horses?"
II,II,KENT,"I' the mire."
II,II,OSWALD,"Prithee, if thou lovest me, tell me."
II,II,KENT,"I love thee not."
II,II,OSWALD,"Why, then, I care not for thee."
II,II,KENT,"If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee"
II,II,KENT,"care for me."
II,II,OSWALD,"Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not."
II,II,KENT,"Fellow, I know thee."
II,II,OSWALD,"What dost thou know me for?"
II,II,KENT,"A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a"
II,II,KENT,"base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,"
II,II,KENT,"hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a"
II,II,KENT,"lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,"
II,II,KENT,"glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;"
II,II,KENT,"one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a"
II,II,KENT,"bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but"
II,II,KENT,"the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,"
II,II,KENT,"and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I"
II,II,KENT,"will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest"
II,II,KENT,"the least syllable of thy addition."
II,II,OSWALD,"Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail"
II,II,OSWALD,"on one that is neither known of thee nor knows thee!"
II,II,KENT,"What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny thou"
II,II,KENT,"knowest me! Is it two days ago since I tripped up"
II,II,KENT,"thy heels, and beat thee before the king? Draw, you"
II,II,KENT,"rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon"
II,II,KENT,"shines; I'll make a sop o' the moonshine of you:"
II,II,KENT,"draw, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw."
II,II,OSWALD,"Away! I have nothing to do with thee."
II,II,KENT,"Draw, you rascal: you come with letters against the"
II,II,KENT,"king; and take vanity the puppet's part against the"
II,II,KENT,"royalty of her father: draw, you rogue, or I'll so"
II,II,KENT,"carbonado your shanks: draw, you rascal; come your ways."
II,II,OSWALD,"Help, ho! murder! help!"
II,II,KENT,"Strike, you slave; stand, rogue, stand; you neat"
II,II,KENT,"slave, strike."
II,II,OSWALD,"Help, ho! murder! murder!"
II,II,EDMUND,"How now! What's the matter?"
II,II,KENT,"With you, goodman boy, an you please: come, I'll"
II,II,KENT,"flesh ye; come on, young master."
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Weapons! arms! What 's the matter here?"
II,II,CORNWALL,"Keep peace, upon your lives:"
II,II,CORNWALL,"He dies that strikes again. What is the matter?"
II,II,REGAN,"The messengers from our sister and the king."
II,II,CORNWALL,"What is your difference? speak."
II,II,OSWALD,"I am scarce in breath, my lord."
II,II,KENT,"No marvel, you have so bestirred your valour. You"
II,II,KENT,"cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee: a"
II,II,KENT,"tailor made thee."
II,II,CORNWALL,"Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?"
II,II,KENT,"Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone-cutter or painter could"
II,II,KENT,"not have made him so ill, though he had been but two"
II,II,KENT,"hours at the trade."
II,II,CORNWALL,"Speak yet, how grew your quarrel?"
II,II,OSWALD,"This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spared"
II,II,OSWALD,"at suit of his gray beard,--"
II,II,KENT,"Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! My"
II,II,KENT,"lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this"
II,II,KENT,"unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of"
II,II,KENT,"a jakes with him. Spare my gray beard, you wagtail?"
II,II,CORNWALL,"Peace, sirrah!"
II,II,CORNWALL,"You beastly knave, know you no reverence?"
II,II,KENT,"Yes, sir; but anger hath a privilege."
II,II,CORNWALL,"Why art thou angry?"
II,II,KENT,"That such a slave as this should wear a sword,"
II,II,KENT,"Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,"
II,II,KENT,"Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain"
II,II,KENT,"Which are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passion"
II,II,KENT,"That in the natures of their lords rebel;"
II,II,KENT,"Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;"
II,II,KENT,"Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks"
II,II,KENT,"With every gale and vary of their masters,"
II,II,KENT,"Knowing nought, like dogs, but following."
II,II,KENT,"A plague upon your epileptic visage!"
II,II,KENT,"Smile you my speeches, as I were a fool?"
II,II,KENT,"Goose, if I had you upon Sarum plain,"
II,II,KENT,"I'ld drive ye cackling home to Camelot."
II,II,CORNWALL,"Why, art thou mad, old fellow?"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"How fell you out? say that."
II,II,KENT,"No contraries hold more antipathy"
II,II,KENT,"Than I and such a knave."
II,II,CORNWALL,"Why dost thou call him a knave?  What's his offence?"
II,II,KENT,"His countenance likes me not."
II,II,CORNWALL,"No more, perchance, does mine, nor his, nor hers."
II,II,KENT,"Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain:"
II,II,KENT,"I have seen better faces in my time"
II,II,KENT,"Than stands on any shoulder that I see"
II,II,KENT,"Before me at this instant."
II,II,CORNWALL,"This is some fellow,"
II,II,CORNWALL,"Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect"
II,II,CORNWALL,"A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb"
II,II,CORNWALL,"Quite from his nature: he cannot flatter, he,"
II,II,CORNWALL,"An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth!"
II,II,CORNWALL,"An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain."
II,II,CORNWALL,"These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness"
II,II,CORNWALL,"Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends"
II,II,CORNWALL,"Than twenty silly ducking observants"
II,II,CORNWALL,"That stretch their duties nicely."
II,II,KENT,"Sir, in good sooth, in sincere verity,"
II,II,KENT,"Under the allowance of your great aspect,"
II,II,KENT,"Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire"
II,II,KENT,"On flickering Phoebus' front,--"
II,II,CORNWALL,"What mean'st by this?"
II,II,KENT,"To go out of my dialect, which you"
II,II,KENT,"discommend so much. I know, sir, I am no"
II,II,KENT,"flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain"
II,II,KENT,"accent was a plain knave; which for my part"
II,II,KENT,"I will not be, though I should win your displeasure"
II,II,KENT,"to entreat me to 't."
II,II,CORNWALL,"What was the offence you gave him?"
II,II,OSWALD,"I never gave him any:"
II,II,OSWALD,"It pleased the king his master very late"
II,II,OSWALD,"To strike at me, upon his misconstruction;"
II,II,OSWALD,"When he, conjunct and flattering his displeasure,"
II,II,OSWALD,"Tripp'd me behind; being down, insulted, rail'd,"
II,II,OSWALD,"And put upon him such a deal of man,"
II,II,OSWALD,"That worthied him, got praises of the king"
II,II,OSWALD,"For him attempting who was self-subdued;"
II,II,OSWALD,"And, in the fleshment of this dread exploit,"
II,II,OSWALD,"Drew on me here again."
II,II,KENT,"None of these rogues and cowards"
II,II,KENT,"But Ajax is their fool."
II,II,CORNWALL,"Fetch forth the stocks!"
II,II,CORNWALL,"You stubborn ancient knave, you reverend braggart,"
II,II,CORNWALL,"We'll teach you--"
II,II,KENT,"Sir, I am too old to learn:"
II,II,KENT,"Call not your stocks for me: I serve the king;"
II,II,KENT,"On whose employment I was sent to you:"
II,II,KENT,"You shall do small respect, show too bold malice"
II,II,KENT,"Against the grace and person of my master,"
II,II,KENT,"Stocking his messenger."
II,II,CORNWALL,"Fetch forth the stocks! As I have life and honour,"
II,II,CORNWALL,"There shall he sit till noon."
II,II,REGAN,"Till noon! till night, my lord; and all night too."
II,II,KENT,"Why, madam, if I were your father's dog,"
II,II,KENT,"You should not use me so."
II,II,REGAN,"Sir, being his knave, I will."
II,II,CORNWALL,"This is a fellow of the self-same colour"
II,II,CORNWALL,"Our sister speaks of. Come, bring away the stocks!"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Let me beseech your grace not to do so:"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"His fault is much, and the good king his master"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Will cheque him for 't: your purposed low correction"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"For pilferings and most common trespasses"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Are punish'd with: the king must take it ill,"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"That he's so slightly valued in his messenger,"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Should have him thus restrain'd."
II,II,CORNWALL,"I'll answer that."
II,II,REGAN,"My sister may receive it much more worse,"
II,II,REGAN,"To have her gentleman abused, assaulted,"
II,II,REGAN,"For following her affairs. Put in his legs."
II,II,REGAN,"Come, my good lord, away."
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"I am sorry for thee, friend; 'tis the duke's pleasure,"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Whose disposition, all the world well knows,"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd: I'll entreat for thee."
II,II,KENT,"Pray, do not, sir: I have watched and travell'd hard;"
II,II,KENT,"Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle."
II,II,KENT,"A good man's fortune may grow out at heels:"
II,II,KENT,"Give you good morrow!"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"The duke's to blame in this; 'twill be ill taken."
II,II,KENT,"Good king, that must approve the common saw,"
II,II,KENT,"Thou out of heaven's benediction comest"
II,II,KENT,"To the warm sun!"
II,II,KENT,"Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,"
II,II,KENT,"That by thy comfortable beams I may"
II,II,KENT,"Peruse this letter! Nothing almost sees miracles"
II,II,KENT,"But misery: I know 'tis from Cordelia,"
II,II,KENT,"Who hath most fortunately been inform'd"
II,II,KENT,"Of my obscured course; and shall find time"
II,II,KENT,"From this enormous state, seeking to give"
II,II,KENT,"Losses their remedies. All weary and o'erwatch'd,"
II,II,KENT,"Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold"
II,II,KENT,"This shameful lodging."
II,II,KENT,"Fortune, good night: smile once more: turn thy wheel!"
II,III,EDGAR,"I heard myself proclaim'd;"
II,III,EDGAR,"And by the happy hollow of a tree"
II,III,EDGAR,"Escaped the hunt. No port is free; no place,"
II,III,EDGAR,"That guard, and most unusual vigilance,"
II,III,EDGAR,"Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may 'scape,"
II,III,EDGAR,"I will preserve myself: and am bethought"
II,III,EDGAR,"To take the basest and most poorest shape"
II,III,EDGAR,"That ever penury, in contempt of man,"
II,III,EDGAR,"Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth;"
II,III,EDGAR,"Blanket my loins: elf all my hair in knots;"
II,III,EDGAR,"And with presented nakedness out-face"
II,III,EDGAR,"The winds and persecutions of the sky."
II,III,EDGAR,"The country gives me proof and precedent"
II,III,EDGAR,"Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices,"
II,III,EDGAR,"Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms"
II,III,EDGAR,"Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;"
II,III,EDGAR,"And with this horrible object, from low farms,"
II,III,EDGAR,"Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes, and mills,"
II,III,EDGAR,"Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,"
II,III,EDGAR,"Enforce their charity. Poor Turlygod! poor Tom!"
II,III,EDGAR,"That's something yet: Edgar I nothing am."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"'Tis strange that they should so depart from home,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"And not send back my messenger."
II,IV,Gentleman,"As I learn'd,"
II,IV,Gentleman,"The night before there was no purpose in them"
II,IV,Gentleman,"Of this remove."
II,IV,KENT,"Hail to thee, noble master!"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Ha!"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Makest thou this shame thy pastime?"
II,IV,KENT,"No, my lord."
II,IV,Fool,"Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied"
II,IV,Fool,"by the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by"
II,IV,Fool,"the loins, and men by the legs: when a man's"
II,IV,Fool,"over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden"
II,IV,Fool,"nether-stocks."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"What's he that hath so much thy place mistook"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"To set thee here?"
II,IV,KENT,"It is both he and she;"
II,IV,KENT,"Your son and daughter."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"No."
II,IV,KENT,"Yes."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"No, I say."
II,IV,KENT,"I say, yea."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"No, no, they would not."
II,IV,KENT,"Yes, they have."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"By Jupiter, I swear, no."
II,IV,KENT,"By Juno, I swear, ay."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"They durst not do 't;"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"They could not, would not do 't; 'tis worse than murder,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"To do upon respect such violent outrage:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Resolve me, with all modest haste, which way"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Thou mightst deserve, or they impose, this usage,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Coming from us."
II,IV,KENT,"My lord, when at their home"
II,IV,KENT,"I did commend your highness' letters to them,"
II,IV,KENT,"Ere I was risen from the place that show'd"
II,IV,KENT,"My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,"
II,IV,KENT,"Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth"
II,IV,KENT,"From Goneril his mistress salutations;"
II,IV,KENT,"Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission,"
II,IV,KENT,"Which presently they read: on whose contents,"
II,IV,KENT,"They summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse;"
II,IV,KENT,"Commanded me to follow, and attend"
II,IV,KENT,"The leisure of their answer; gave me cold looks:"
II,IV,KENT,"And meeting here the other messenger,"
II,IV,KENT,"Whose welcome, I perceived, had poison'd mine,--"
II,IV,KENT,"Being the very fellow that of late"
II,IV,KENT,"Display'd so saucily against your highness,--"
II,IV,KENT,"Having more man than wit about me, drew:"
II,IV,KENT,"He raised the house with loud and coward cries."
II,IV,KENT,"Your son and daughter found this trespass worth"
II,IV,KENT,"The shame which here it suffers."
II,IV,Fool,"Winter's not gone yet, if the wild-geese fly that way."
II,IV,Fool,"Fathers that wear rags"
II,IV,Fool,"Do make their children blind;"
II,IV,Fool,"But fathers that bear bags"
II,IV,Fool,"Shall see their children kind."
II,IV,Fool,"Fortune, that arrant whore,"
II,IV,Fool,"Ne'er turns the key to the poor."
II,IV,Fool,"But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours"
II,IV,Fool,"for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Thy element's below! Where is this daughter?"
II,IV,KENT,"With the earl, sir, here within."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Follow me not;"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Stay here."
II,IV,Gentleman,"Made you no more offence but what you speak of?"
II,IV,KENT,"None."
II,IV,KENT,"How chance the king comes with so small a train?"
II,IV,Fool,"And thou hadst been set i' the stocks for that"
II,IV,Fool,"question, thou hadst well deserved it."
II,IV,KENT,"Why, fool?"
II,IV,Fool,"We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee"
II,IV,Fool,"there's no labouring i' the winter. All that follow"
II,IV,Fool,"their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and"
II,IV,Fool,"there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him"
II,IV,Fool,"that's stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel"
II,IV,Fool,"runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with"
II,IV,Fool,"following it: but the great one that goes up the"
II,IV,Fool,"hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man"
II,IV,Fool,"gives thee better counsel, give me mine again: I"
II,IV,Fool,"would have none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it."
II,IV,Fool,"That sir which serves and seeks for gain,"
II,IV,Fool,"And follows but for form,"
II,IV,Fool,"Will pack when it begins to rain,"
II,IV,Fool,"And leave thee in the storm,"
II,IV,Fool,"But I will tarry; the fool will stay,"
II,IV,Fool,"And let the wise man fly:"
II,IV,Fool,"The knave turns fool that runs away;"
II,IV,Fool,"The fool no knave, perdy."
II,IV,KENT,"Where learned you this, fool?"
II,IV,Fool,"Not i' the stocks, fool."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches;"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"The images of revolt and flying off."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Fetch me a better answer."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"My dear lord,"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"You know the fiery quality of the duke;"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"How unremoveable and fix'd he is"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"In his own course."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Vengeance! plague! death! confusion!"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Fiery? what quality? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"I'ld speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Well, my good lord, I have inform'd them so."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Inform'd them! Dost thou understand me, man?"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Ay, my good lord."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"The king would speak with Cornwall; the dear father"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Would with his daughter speak, commands her service:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood!"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Fiery? the fiery duke? Tell the hot duke that--"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"No, but not yet: may be he is not well:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Infirmity doth still neglect all office"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"To suffer with the body: I'll forbear;"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"And am fall'n out with my more headier will,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"To take the indisposed and sickly fit"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"For the sound man. Death on my state! wherefore"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Should he sit here? This act persuades me"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"That this remotion of the duke and her"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Is practise only. Give me my servant forth."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Go tell the duke and 's wife I'ld speak with them,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Now, presently: bid them come forth and hear me,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Or at their chamber-door I'll beat the drum"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Till it cry sleep to death."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"I would have all well betwixt you."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"O me, my heart, my rising heart! but, down!"
II,IV,Fool,"Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels"
II,IV,Fool,"when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em"
II,IV,Fool,"o' the coxcombs with a stick, and cried 'Down,"
II,IV,Fool,"wantons, down!' 'Twas her brother that, in pure"
II,IV,Fool,"kindness to his horse, buttered his hay."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Good morrow to you both."
II,IV,CORNWALL,"Hail to your grace!"
II,IV,REGAN,"I am glad to see your highness."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Regan, I think you are; I know what reason"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"I have to think so: if thou shouldst not be glad,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Sepulchring an adultress."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"O, are you free?"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Some other time for that. Beloved Regan,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Thy sister's naught: O Regan, she hath tied"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"I can scarce speak to thee; thou'lt not believe"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"With how depraved a quality--O Regan!"
II,IV,REGAN,"I pray you, sir, take patience: I have hope."
II,IV,REGAN,"You less know how to value her desert"
II,IV,REGAN,"Than she to scant her duty."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Say, how is that?"
II,IV,REGAN,"I cannot think my sister in the least"
II,IV,REGAN,"Would fail her obligation: if, sir, perchance"
II,IV,REGAN,"She have restrain'd the riots of your followers,"
II,IV,REGAN,"'Tis on such ground, and to such wholesome end,"
II,IV,REGAN,"As clears her from all blame."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"My curses on her!"
II,IV,REGAN,"O, sir, you are old."
II,IV,REGAN,"Nature in you stands on the very verge"
II,IV,REGAN,"Of her confine: you should be ruled and led"
II,IV,REGAN,"By some discretion, that discerns your state"
II,IV,REGAN,"Better than you yourself. Therefore, I pray you,"
II,IV,REGAN,"That to our sister you do make return;"
II,IV,REGAN,"Say you have wrong'd her, sir."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Ask her forgiveness?"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Do you but mark how this becomes the house:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"'Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.'"
II,IV,REGAN,"Good sir, no more; these are unsightly tricks:"
II,IV,REGAN,"Return you to my sister."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"She hath abated me of half my train;"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Most serpent-like, upon the very heart:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"All the stored vengeances of heaven fall"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"You taking airs, with lameness!"
II,IV,CORNWALL,"Fie, sir, fie!"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Into her scornful eyes! Infect her beauty,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"To fall and blast her pride!"
II,IV,REGAN,"O the blest gods! so will you wish on me,"
II,IV,REGAN,"When the rash mood is on."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"No, Regan, thou shalt never have my curse:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Thee o'er to harshness: her eyes are fierce; but thine"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Do comfort and not burn. 'Tis not in thee"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"And in conclusion to oppose the bolt"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Against my coming in: thou better know'st"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"The offices of nature, bond of childhood,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude;"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Thy half o' the kingdom hast thou not forgot,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Wherein I thee endow'd."
II,IV,REGAN,"Good sir, to the purpose."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Who put my man i' the stocks?"
II,IV,CORNWALL,"What trumpet's that?"
II,IV,REGAN,"I know't, my sister's: this approves her letter,"
II,IV,REGAN,"That she would soon be here."
II,IV,REGAN,"Is your lady come?"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"This is a slave, whose easy-borrow'd pride"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Out, varlet, from my sight!"
II,IV,CORNWALL,"What means your grace?"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Who stock'd my servant? Regan, I have good hope"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Thou didst not know on't. Who comes here? O heavens,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"If you do love old men, if your sweet sway"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Allow obedience, if yourselves are old,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Make it your cause; send down, and take my part!"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Art not ashamed to look upon this beard?"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?"
II,IV,GONERIL,"Why not by the hand, sir? How have I offended?"
II,IV,GONERIL,"All's not offence that indiscretion finds"
II,IV,GONERIL,"And dotage terms so."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"O sides, you are too tough;"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Will you yet hold? How came my man i' the stocks?"
II,IV,CORNWALL,"I set him there, sir: but his own disorders"
II,IV,CORNWALL,"Deserved much less advancement."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"You! did you?"
II,IV,REGAN,"I pray you, father, being weak, seem so."
II,IV,REGAN,"If, till the expiration of your month,"
II,IV,REGAN,"You will return and sojourn with my sister,"
II,IV,REGAN,"Dismissing half your train, come then to me:"
II,IV,REGAN,"I am now from home, and out of that provision"
II,IV,REGAN,"Which shall be needful for your entertainment."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd?"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"To wage against the enmity o' the air;"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,--"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her?"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Our youngest born, I could as well be brought"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"To knee his throne, and, squire-like; pension beg"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"To keep base life afoot. Return with her?"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"To this detested groom."
II,IV,GONERIL,"At your choice, sir."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"We'll no more meet, no more see one another:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter;"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee;"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Let shame come when it will, I do not call it:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"I can be patient; I can stay with Regan,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"I and my hundred knights."
II,IV,REGAN,"Not altogether so:"
II,IV,REGAN,"I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided"
II,IV,REGAN,"For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;"
II,IV,REGAN,"For those that mingle reason with your passion"
II,IV,REGAN,"Must be content to think you old, and so--"
II,IV,REGAN,"But she knows what she does."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Is this well spoken?"
II,IV,REGAN,"I dare avouch it, sir: what, fifty followers?"
II,IV,REGAN,"Is it not well? What should you need of more?"
II,IV,REGAN,"Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger"
II,IV,REGAN,"Speak 'gainst so great a number? How, in one house,"
II,IV,REGAN,"Should many people, under two commands,"
II,IV,REGAN,"Hold amity? 'Tis hard; almost impossible."
II,IV,GONERIL,"Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance"
II,IV,GONERIL,"From those that she calls servants or from mine?"
II,IV,REGAN,"Why not, my lord? If then they chanced to slack you,"
II,IV,REGAN,"We could control them. If you will come to me,--"
II,IV,REGAN,"For now I spy a danger,--I entreat you"
II,IV,REGAN,"To bring but five and twenty: to no more"
II,IV,REGAN,"Will I give place or notice."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"I gave you all--"
II,IV,REGAN,"And in good time you gave it."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Made you my guardians, my depositaries;"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"But kept a reservation to be follow'd"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"With such a number. What, must I come to you"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"With five and twenty, Regan? said you so?"
II,IV,REGAN,"And speak't again, my lord; no more with me."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"When others are more wicked: not being the worst"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Stands in some rank of praise."
II,IV,KING LEAR,"I'll go with thee:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"And thou art twice her love."
II,IV,GONERIL,"Hear me, my lord;"
II,IV,GONERIL,"What need you five and twenty, ten, or five,"
II,IV,GONERIL,"To follow in a house where twice so many"
II,IV,GONERIL,"Have a command to tend you?"
II,IV,REGAN,"What need one?"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"O, reason not the need: our basest beggars"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Are in the poorest thing superfluous:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Allow not nature more than nature needs,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady;"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"If only to go warm were gorgeous,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need,--"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"As full of grief as age; wretched in both!"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Against their father, fool me not so much"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"And let not women's weapons, water-drops,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"I will have such revenges on you both,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"That all the world shall--I will do such things,--"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"No, I'll not weep:"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"I have full cause of weeping; but this heart"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,"
II,IV,KING LEAR,"Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!"
II,IV,CORNWALL,"Let us withdraw; 'twill be a storm."
II,IV,REGAN,"This house is little: the old man and his people"
II,IV,REGAN,"Cannot be well bestow'd."
II,IV,GONERIL,"'Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest,"
II,IV,GONERIL,"And must needs taste his folly."
II,IV,REGAN,"For his particular, I'll receive him gladly,"
II,IV,REGAN,"But not one follower."
II,IV,GONERIL,"So am I purposed."
II,IV,GONERIL,"Where is my lord of Gloucester?"
II,IV,CORNWALL,"Follow'd the old man forth: he is return'd."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"The king is in high rage."
II,IV,CORNWALL,"Whither is he going?"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"He calls to horse; but will I know not whither."
II,IV,CORNWALL,"'Tis best to give him way; he leads himself."
II,IV,GONERIL,"My lord, entreat him by no means to stay."
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about"
II,IV,GLOUCESTER,"There's scarce a bush."
II,IV,REGAN,"O, sir, to wilful men,"
II,IV,REGAN,"The injuries that they themselves procure"
II,IV,REGAN,"Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors:"
II,IV,REGAN,"He is attended with a desperate train;"
II,IV,REGAN,"And what they may incense him to, being apt"
II,IV,REGAN,"To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear."
II,IV,CORNWALL,"Shut up your doors, my lord; 'tis a wild night:"
II,IV,CORNWALL,"My Regan counsels well; come out o' the storm."
III,I,KENT,"Who's there, besides foul weather?"
III,I,Gentleman,"One minded like the weather, most unquietly."
III,I,KENT,"I know you. Where's the king?"
III,I,Gentleman,"Contending with the fretful element:"
III,I,Gentleman,"Bids the winds blow the earth into the sea,"
III,I,Gentleman,"Or swell the curled water 'bove the main,"
III,I,Gentleman,"That things might change or cease; tears his white hair,"
III,I,Gentleman,"Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage,"
III,I,Gentleman,"Catch in their fury, and make nothing of;"
III,I,Gentleman,"Strives in his little world of man to out-scorn"
III,I,Gentleman,"The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain."
III,I,Gentleman,"This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,"
III,I,Gentleman,"The lion and the belly-pinched wolf"
III,I,Gentleman,"Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,"
III,I,Gentleman,"And bids what will take all."
III,I,KENT,"But who is with him?"
III,I,Gentleman,"None but the fool; who labours to out-jest"
III,I,Gentleman,"His heart-struck injuries."
III,I,KENT,"Sir, I do know you;"
III,I,KENT,"And dare, upon the warrant of my note,"
III,I,KENT,"Commend a dear thing to you. There is division,"
III,I,KENT,"Although as yet the face of it be cover'd"
III,I,KENT,"With mutual cunning, 'twixt Albany and Cornwall;"
III,I,KENT,"Who have--as who have not, that their great stars"
III,I,KENT,"Throned and set high?--servants, who seem no less,"
III,I,KENT,"Which are to France the spies and speculations"
III,I,KENT,"Intelligent of our state; what hath been seen,"
III,I,KENT,"Either in snuffs and packings of the dukes,"
III,I,KENT,"Or the hard rein which both of them have borne"
III,I,KENT,"Against the old kind king; or something deeper,"
III,I,KENT,"Whereof perchance these are but furnishings;"
III,I,KENT,"But, true it is, from France there comes a power"
III,I,KENT,"Into this scatter'd kingdom; who already,"
III,I,KENT,"Wise in our negligence, have secret feet"
III,I,KENT,"In some of our best ports, and are at point"
III,I,KENT,"To show their open banner. Now to you:"
III,I,KENT,"If on my credit you dare build so far"
III,I,KENT,"To make your speed to Dover, you shall find"
III,I,KENT,"Some that will thank you, making just report"
III,I,KENT,"Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow"
III,I,KENT,"The king hath cause to plain."
III,I,KENT,"I am a gentleman of blood and breeding;"
III,I,KENT,"And, from some knowledge and assurance, offer"
III,I,KENT,"This office to you."
III,I,Gentleman,"I will talk further with you."
III,I,KENT,"No, do not."
III,I,KENT,"For confirmation that I am much more"
III,I,KENT,"Than my out-wall, open this purse, and take"
III,I,KENT,"What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia,--"
III,I,KENT,"As fear not but you shall,--show her this ring;"
III,I,KENT,"And she will tell you who your fellow is"
III,I,KENT,"That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm!"
III,I,KENT,"I will go seek the king."
III,I,Gentleman,"Give me your hand: have you no more to say?"
III,I,KENT,"Few words, but, to effect, more than all yet;"
III,I,KENT,"That, when we have found the king,--in which your pain"
III,I,KENT,"That way, I'll this,--he that first lights on him"
III,I,KENT,"Holla the other."
III,II,KING LEAR,"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!"
III,II,KING LEAR,"You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout"
III,II,KING LEAR,"Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!"
III,II,KING LEAR,"You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!"
III,II,KING LEAR,"Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"That make ingrateful man!"
III,II,Fool,"O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry"
III,II,Fool,"house is better than this rain-water out o' door."
III,II,Fool,"Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters' blessing:"
III,II,Fool,"here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool."
III,II,KING LEAR,"Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!"
III,II,KING LEAR,"Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:"
III,II,KING LEAR,"I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;"
III,II,KING LEAR,"I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"You owe me no subscription: then let fall"
III,II,KING LEAR,"Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:"
III,II,KING LEAR,"But yet I call you servile ministers,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"That have with two pernicious daughters join'd"
III,II,KING LEAR,"Your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head"
III,II,KING LEAR,"So old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul!"
III,II,Fool,"He that has a house to put's head in has a good"
III,II,Fool,"head-piece."
III,II,Fool,"The cod-piece that will house"
III,II,Fool,"Before the head has any,"
III,II,Fool,"The head and he shall louse;"
III,II,Fool,"So beggars marry many."
III,II,Fool,"The man that makes his toe"
III,II,Fool,"What he his heart should make"
III,II,Fool,"Shall of a corn cry woe,"
III,II,Fool,"And turn his sleep to wake."
III,II,Fool,"For there was never yet fair woman but she made"
III,II,Fool,"mouths in a glass."
III,II,KING LEAR,"No, I will be the pattern of all patience;"
III,II,KING LEAR,"I will say nothing."
III,II,KENT,"Who's there?"
III,II,Fool,"Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise"
III,II,Fool,"man and a fool."
III,II,KENT,"Alas, sir, are you here? things that love night"
III,II,KENT,"Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies"
III,II,KENT,"Gallow the very wanderers of the dark,"
III,II,KENT,"And make them keep their caves: since I was man,"
III,II,KENT,"Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,"
III,II,KENT,"Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never"
III,II,KENT,"Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry"
III,II,KENT,"The affliction nor the fear."
III,II,KING LEAR,"Let the great gods,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"That hast within thee undivulged crimes,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand;"
III,II,KING LEAR,"Thou perjured, and thou simular man of virtue"
III,II,KING LEAR,"That art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"That under covert and convenient seeming"
III,II,KING LEAR,"Hast practised on man's life: close pent-up guilts,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"Rive your concealing continents, and cry"
III,II,KING LEAR,"These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man"
III,II,KING LEAR,"More sinn'd against than sinning."
III,II,KENT,"Alack, bare-headed!"
III,II,KENT,"Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel;"
III,II,KENT,"Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest:"
III,II,KENT,"Repose you there; while I to this hard house--"
III,II,KENT,"More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised;"
III,II,KENT,"Which even but now, demanding after you,"
III,II,KENT,"Denied me to come in--return, and force"
III,II,KENT,"Their scanted courtesy."
III,II,KING LEAR,"My wits begin to turn."
III,II,KING LEAR,"Come on, my boy: how dost, my boy? art cold?"
III,II,KING LEAR,"I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow?"
III,II,KING LEAR,"The art of our necessities is strange,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"That can make vile things precious. Come,"
III,II,KING LEAR,"your hovel."
III,II,KING LEAR,"Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart"
III,II,KING LEAR,"That's sorry yet for thee."
III,II,Fool,"He that has and a little tiny wit--"
III,II,Fool,"With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,--"
III,II,Fool,"Must make content with his fortunes fit,"
III,II,Fool,"For the rain it raineth every day."
III,II,KING LEAR,"True, my good boy. Come, bring us to this hovel."
III,II,Fool,"This is a brave night to cool a courtezan."
III,II,Fool,"I'll speak a prophecy ere I go:"
III,II,Fool,"When priests are more in word than matter;"
III,II,Fool,"When brewers mar their malt with water;"
III,II,Fool,"When nobles are their tailors' tutors;"
III,II,Fool,"No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors;"
III,II,Fool,"When every case in law is right;"
III,II,Fool,"No squire in debt, nor no poor knight;"
III,II,Fool,"When slanders do not live in tongues;"
III,II,Fool,"Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;"
III,II,Fool,"When usurers tell their gold i' the field;"
III,II,Fool,"And bawds and whores do churches build;"
III,II,Fool,"Then shall the realm of Albion"
III,II,Fool,"Come to great confusion:"
III,II,Fool,"Then comes the time, who lives to see't,"
III,II,Fool,"That going shall be used with feet."
III,II,Fool,"This prophecy Merlin shall make; for I live before his time."
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"dealing. When I desire their leave that I might"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"pity him, they took from me the use of mine own"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"house; charged me, on pain of their perpetual"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"displeasure, neither to speak of him, entreat for"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"him, nor any way sustain him."
III,III,EDMUND,"Most savage and unnatural!"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"Go to; say you nothing. There's a division betwixt"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"the dukes; and a worse matter than that: I have"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"received a letter this night; 'tis dangerous to be"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"spoken; I have locked the letter in my closet:"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"these injuries the king now bears will be revenged"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"home; there's part of a power already footed: we"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"must incline to the king. I will seek him, and"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"privily relieve him: go you and maintain talk with"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived:"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"if he ask for me. I am ill, and gone to bed."
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"Though I die for it, as no less is threatened me,"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"the king my old master must be relieved. There is"
III,III,GLOUCESTER,"some strange thing toward, Edmund; pray you, be careful."
III,III,EDMUND,"This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke"
III,III,EDMUND,"Instantly know; and of that letter too:"
III,III,EDMUND,"This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me"
III,III,EDMUND,"That which my father loses; no less than all:"
III,III,EDMUND,"The younger rises when the old doth fall."
III,IV,KENT,"Here is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter:"
III,IV,KENT,"The tyranny of the open night's too rough"
III,IV,KENT,"For nature to endure."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Let me alone."
III,IV,KENT,"Good my lord, enter here."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Wilt break my heart?"
III,IV,KENT,"I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Invades us to the skin: so 'tis to thee;"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"But where the greater malady is fix'd,"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'ldst shun a bear;"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea,"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Thou'ldst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"mind's free,"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Doth from my senses take all feeling else"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude!"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"For lifting food to't? But I will punish home:"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"No, I will weep no more. In such a night"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril!"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all,--"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"O, that way madness lies; let me shun that;"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"No more of that."
III,IV,KENT,"Good my lord, enter here."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Prithee, go in thyself: seek thine own ease:"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"This tempest will not give me leave to ponder"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"On things would hurt me more. But I'll go in."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"In, boy; go first. You houseless poverty,--"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"And show the heavens more just."
III,IV,Fool,"Come not in here, nuncle, here's a spirit"
III,IV,Fool,"Help me, help me!"
III,IV,KENT,"Give me thy hand. Who's there?"
III,IV,Fool,"A spirit, a spirit: he says his name's poor Tom."
III,IV,KENT,"What art thou that dost grumble there i' the straw?"
III,IV,KENT,"Come forth."
III,IV,EDGAR,"Away! the foul fiend follows me!"
III,IV,EDGAR,"Through the sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind."
III,IV,EDGAR,"Hum! go to thy cold bed, and warm thee."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Hast thou given all to thy two daughters?"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"And art thou come to this?"
III,IV,EDGAR,"Who gives any thing to poor Tom? whom the foul"
III,IV,EDGAR,"fiend hath led through fire and through flame, and"
III,IV,EDGAR,"through ford and whirlipool e'er bog and quagmire;"
III,IV,EDGAR,"that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters"
III,IV,EDGAR,"in his pew; set ratsbane by his porridge; made film"
III,IV,EDGAR,"proud of heart, to ride on a bay trotting-horse over"
III,IV,EDGAR,"four-inched bridges, to course his own shadow for a"
III,IV,EDGAR,"traitor. Bless thy five wits! Tom's a-cold,--O, do"
III,IV,EDGAR,"de, do de, do de. Bless thee from whirlwinds,"
III,IV,EDGAR,"star-blasting, and taking! Do poor Tom some"
III,IV,EDGAR,"charity, whom the foul fiend vexes: there could I"
III,IV,EDGAR,"have him now,--and there,--and there again, and there."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Couldst thou save nothing? Didst thou give them all?"
III,IV,Fool,"Nay, he reserved a blanket, else we had been all shamed."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters!"
III,IV,KENT,"He hath no daughters, sir."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Death, traitor! nothing could have subdued nature"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"To such a lowness but his unkind daughters."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Is it the fashion, that discarded fathers"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Judicious punishment! 'twas this flesh begot"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Those pelican daughters."
III,IV,EDGAR,"Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:"
III,IV,EDGAR,"Halloo, halloo, loo, loo!"
III,IV,Fool,"This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen."
III,IV,EDGAR,"Take heed o' the foul fiend: obey thy parents;"
III,IV,EDGAR,"keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with"
III,IV,EDGAR,"man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud"
III,IV,EDGAR,"array. Tom's a-cold."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"What hast thou been?"
III,IV,EDGAR,"A serving-man, proud in heart and mind; that curled"
III,IV,EDGAR,"my hair; wore gloves in my cap; served the lust of"
III,IV,EDGAR,"my mistress' heart, and did the act of darkness with"
III,IV,EDGAR,"her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and"
III,IV,EDGAR,"broke them in the sweet face of heaven: one that"
III,IV,EDGAR,"slept in the contriving of lust, and waked to do it:"
III,IV,EDGAR,"wine loved I deeply, dice dearly: and in woman"
III,IV,EDGAR,"out-paramoured the Turk: false of heart, light of"
III,IV,EDGAR,"ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth,"
III,IV,EDGAR,"wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey."
III,IV,EDGAR,"Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of"
III,IV,EDGAR,"silks betray thy poor heart to woman: keep thy foot"
III,IV,EDGAR,"out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen"
III,IV,EDGAR,"from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend."
III,IV,EDGAR,"Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind:"
III,IV,EDGAR,"Says suum, mun, ha, no, nonny."
III,IV,EDGAR,"Dolphin my boy, my boy, sessa! let him trot by."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"'s are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself:"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare,"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings!"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"come unbutton here."
III,IV,Fool,"Prithee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night"
III,IV,Fool,"to swim in. Now a little fire in a wild field were"
III,IV,Fool,"like an old lecher's heart; a small spark, all the"
III,IV,Fool,"rest on's body cold. Look, here comes a walking fire."
III,IV,EDGAR,"This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins"
III,IV,EDGAR,"at curfew, and walks till the first cock; he gives"
III,IV,EDGAR,"the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the"
III,IV,EDGAR,"hare-lip; mildews the white wheat, and hurts the"
III,IV,EDGAR,"poor creature of earth."
III,IV,EDGAR,"S. Withold footed thrice the old;"
III,IV,EDGAR,"He met the night-mare, and her nine-fold;"
III,IV,EDGAR,"Bid her alight,"
III,IV,EDGAR,"And her troth plight,"
III,IV,EDGAR,"And, aroint thee, witch, aroint thee!"
III,IV,KENT,"How fares your grace?"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"What's he?"
III,IV,KENT,"Who's there? What is't you seek?"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"What are you there? Your names?"
III,IV,EDGAR,"Poor Tom; that eats the swimming frog, the toad,"
III,IV,EDGAR,"the tadpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in"
III,IV,EDGAR,"the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages,"
III,IV,EDGAR,"eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and"
III,IV,EDGAR,"the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the"
III,IV,EDGAR,"standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to"
III,IV,EDGAR,"tithing, and stock- punished, and imprisoned; who"
III,IV,EDGAR,"hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his"
III,IV,EDGAR,"body, horse to ride, and weapon to wear;"
III,IV,EDGAR,"But mice and rats, and such small deer,"
III,IV,EDGAR,"Have been Tom's food for seven long year."
III,IV,EDGAR,"Beware my follower. Peace, Smulkin; peace, thou fiend!"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"What, hath your grace no better company?"
III,IV,EDGAR,"The prince of darkness is a gentleman:"
III,IV,EDGAR,"Modo he's call'd, and Mahu."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"That it doth hate what gets it."
III,IV,EDGAR,"Poor Tom's a-cold."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Go in with me: my duty cannot suffer"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"To obey in all your daughters' hard commands:"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Though their injunction be to bar my doors,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Yet have I ventured to come seek you out,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"And bring you where both fire and food is ready."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"First let me talk with this philosopher."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"What is the cause of thunder?"
III,IV,KENT,"Good my lord, take his offer; go into the house."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"What is your study?"
III,IV,EDGAR,"How to prevent the fiend, and to kill vermin."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Let me ask you one word in private."
III,IV,KENT,"Importune him once more to go, my lord;"
III,IV,KENT,"His wits begin to unsettle."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Canst thou blame him?"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"His daughters seek his death: ah, that good Kent!"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"He said it would be thus, poor banish'd man!"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Thou say'st the king grows mad; I'll tell thee, friend,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"I am almost mad myself: I had a son,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Now outlaw'd from my blood; he sought my life,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"But lately, very late: I loved him, friend;"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"No father his son dearer: truth to tell thee,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"The grief hath crazed my wits. What a night's this!"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"I do beseech your grace,--"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"O, cry your mercy, sir."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Noble philosopher, your company."
III,IV,EDGAR,"Tom's a-cold."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"In, fellow, there, into the hovel: keep thee warm."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Come let's in all."
III,IV,KENT,"This way, my lord."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"With him;"
III,IV,KING LEAR,"I will keep still with my philosopher."
III,IV,KENT,"Good my lord, soothe him; let him take the fellow."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Take him you on."
III,IV,KENT,"Sirrah, come on; go along with us."
III,IV,KING LEAR,"Come, good Athenian."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"No words, no words: hush."
III,IV,EDGAR,"Child Rowland to the dark tower came,"
III,IV,EDGAR,"His word was still,--Fie, foh, and fum,"
III,IV,EDGAR,"I smell the blood of a British man."
III,V,CORNWALL,"I will have my revenge ere I depart his house."
III,V,EDMUND,"How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus"
III,V,EDMUND,"gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think"
III,V,EDMUND,"of."
III,V,CORNWALL,"I now perceive, it was not altogether your"
III,V,CORNWALL,"brother's evil disposition made him seek his death;"
III,V,CORNWALL,"but a provoking merit, set a-work by a reprovable"
III,V,CORNWALL,"badness in himself."
III,V,EDMUND,"How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to"
III,V,EDMUND,"be just! This is the letter he spoke of, which"
III,V,EDMUND,"approves him an intelligent party to the advantages"
III,V,EDMUND,"of France: O heavens! that this treason were not,"
III,V,EDMUND,"or not I the detector!"
III,V,CORNWALL,"o with me to the duchess."
III,V,EDMUND,"If the matter of this paper be certain, you have"
III,V,EDMUND,"mighty business in hand."
III,V,CORNWALL,"True or false, it hath made thee earl of"
III,V,CORNWALL,"Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he"
III,V,CORNWALL,"may be ready for our apprehension."
III,V,EDMUND,"stuff his suspicion more fully.--I will persevere in"
III,V,EDMUND,"my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore"
III,V,EDMUND,"between that and my blood."
III,V,CORNWALL,"I will lay trust upon thee; and thou shalt find a"
III,V,CORNWALL,"dearer father in my love."
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Here is better than the open air; take it"
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"thankfully. I will piece out the comfort with what"
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"addition I can: I will not be long from you."
III,VI,KENT,"All the power of his wits have given way to his"
III,VI,KENT,"impatience: the gods reward your kindness!"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Frateretto calls me; and tells me"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness."
III,VI,EDGAR,"Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend."
III,VI,Fool,"Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a"
III,VI,Fool,"gentleman or a yeoman?"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"A king, a king!"
III,VI,Fool,"No, he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son;"
III,VI,Fool,"for he's a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman"
III,VI,Fool,"before him."
III,VI,KING LEAR,"To have a thousand with red burning spits"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"Come hissing in upon 'em,--"
III,VI,EDGAR,"The foul fiend bites my back."
III,VI,Fool,"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a"
III,VI,Fool,"horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath."
III,VI,KING LEAR,"It shall be done; I will arraign them straight."
III,VI,KING LEAR,"Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer;"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"Thou, sapient sir, sit here. Now, you she foxes!"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Look, where he stands and glares!"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Wantest thou eyes at trial, madam?"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me,--"
III,VI,Fool,"Her boat hath a leak,"
III,VI,Fool,"And she must not speak"
III,VI,Fool,"Why she dares not come over to thee."
III,VI,EDGAR,"The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a"
III,VI,EDGAR,"nightingale. Hopdance cries in Tom's belly for two"
III,VI,EDGAR,"white herring. Croak not, black angel; I have no"
III,VI,EDGAR,"food for thee."
III,VI,KENT,"How do you, sir? Stand you not so amazed:"
III,VI,KENT,"Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions?"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"I'll see their trial first. Bring in the evidence."
III,VI,KING LEAR,"Thou robed man of justice, take thy place;"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity,"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"Bench by his side:"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"you are o' the commission,"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"Sit you too."
III,VI,EDGAR,"Let us deal justly."
III,VI,EDGAR,"Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Thy sheep be in the corn;"
III,VI,EDGAR,"And for one blast of thy minikin mouth,"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Thy sheep shall take no harm."
III,VI,EDGAR,"Pur! the cat is gray."
III,VI,KING LEAR,"Arraign her first; 'tis Goneril. I here take my"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"oath before this honourable assembly, she kicked the"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"poor king her father."
III,VI,Fool,"Come hither, mistress. Is your name Goneril?"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"She cannot deny it."
III,VI,Fool,"Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool."
III,VI,KING LEAR,"And here's another, whose warp'd looks proclaim"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"What store her heart is made on. Stop her there!"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"Arms, arms, sword, fire! Corruption in the place!"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"False justicer, why hast thou let her 'scape?"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Bless thy five wits!"
III,VI,KENT,"O pity! Sir, where is the patience now,"
III,VI,KENT,"That thou so oft have boasted to retain?"
III,VI,EDGAR,"They'll mar my counterfeiting."
III,VI,KING LEAR,"The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me."
III,VI,EDGAR,"Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt, you curs!"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Be thy mouth or black or white,"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Tooth that poisons if it bite;"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Mastiff, grey-hound, mongrel grim,"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail,"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Tom will make them weep and wail:"
III,VI,EDGAR,"For, with throwing thus my head,"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled."
III,VI,EDGAR,"Do de, de, de. Sessa! Come, march to wakes and"
III,VI,EDGAR,"fairs and market-towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry."
III,VI,KING LEAR,"Then let them anatomize Regan; see what breeds"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"makes these hard hearts?"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"do not like the fashion of your garments: you will"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"say they are Persian attire: but let them be changed."
III,VI,KENT,"Now, good my lord, lie here and rest awhile."
III,VI,KING LEAR,"Make no noise, make no noise; draw the curtains:"
III,VI,KING LEAR,"so, so, so. We'll go to supper i' he morning. So, so, so."
III,VI,Fool,"And I'll go to bed at noon."
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Come hither, friend: where is the king my master?"
III,VI,KENT,"Here, sir; but trouble him not, his wits are gone."
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Good friend, I prithee, take him in thy arms;"
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him:"
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"There is a litter ready; lay him in 't,"
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet"
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Both welcome and protection. Take up thy master:"
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,"
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"With thine, and all that offer to defend him,"
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Stand in assured loss: take up, take up;"
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"And follow me, that will to some provision"
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Give thee quick conduct."
III,VI,KENT,"Oppressed nature sleeps:"
III,VI,KENT,"This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses,"
III,VI,KENT,"Which, if convenience will not allow,"
III,VI,KENT,"Stand in hard cure."
III,VI,KENT,"Come, help to bear thy master;"
III,VI,KENT,"Thou must not stay behind."
III,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Come, come, away."
III,VI,EDGAR,"When we our betters see bearing our woes,"
III,VI,EDGAR,"We scarcely think our miseries our foes."
III,VI,EDGAR,"Who alone suffers suffers most i' the mind,"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Leaving free things and happy shows behind:"
III,VI,EDGAR,"But then the mind much sufferance doth o'er skip,"
III,VI,EDGAR,"When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship."
III,VI,EDGAR,"How light and portable my pain seems now,"
III,VI,EDGAR,"When that which makes me bend makes the king bow,"
III,VI,EDGAR,"He childed as I father'd! Tom, away!"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Mark the high noises; and thyself bewray,"
III,VI,EDGAR,"When false opinion, whose wrong thought defiles thee,"
III,VI,EDGAR,"In thy just proof, repeals and reconciles thee."
III,VI,EDGAR,"What will hap more to-night, safe 'scape the king!"
III,VI,EDGAR,"Lurk, lurk."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Post speedily to my lord your husband; show him"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"this letter: the army of France is landed. Seek"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"out the villain Gloucester."
III,VII,REGAN,"Hang him instantly."
III,VII,GONERIL,"Pluck out his eyes."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep you our"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"sister company: the revenges we are bound to take"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"upon your traitorous father are not fit for your"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"beholding. Advise the duke, where you are going, to"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"like. Our posts shall be swift and intelligent"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"betwixt us. Farewell, dear sister: farewell, my"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"lord of Gloucester."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"How now! where's the king?"
III,VII,OSWALD,"My lord of Gloucester hath convey'd him hence:"
III,VII,OSWALD,"Some five or six and thirty of his knights,"
III,VII,OSWALD,"Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;"
III,VII,OSWALD,"Who, with some other of the lords dependants,"
III,VII,OSWALD,"Are gone with him towards Dover; where they boast"
III,VII,OSWALD,"To have well-armed friends."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Get horses for your mistress."
III,VII,GONERIL,"Farewell, sweet lord, and sister."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Edmund, farewell."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Go seek the traitor Gloucester,"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Though well we may not pass upon his life"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Without the form of justice, yet our power"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"May blame, but not control. Who's there? the traitor?"
III,VII,REGAN,"Ingrateful fox! 'tis he."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Bind fast his corky arms."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"What mean your graces? Good my friends, consider"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"You are my guests: do me no foul play, friends."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Bind him, I say."
III,VII,REGAN,"Hard, hard. O filthy traitor!"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Unmerciful lady as you are, I'm none."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"To this chair bind him. Villain, thou shalt find--"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"By the kind gods, 'tis most ignobly done"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"To pluck me by the beard."
III,VII,REGAN,"So white, and such a traitor!"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Naughty lady,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"These hairs, which thou dost ravish from my chin,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Will quicken, and accuse thee: I am your host:"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"With robbers' hands my hospitable favours"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"You should not ruffle thus. What will you do?"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Come, sir, what letters had you late from France?"
III,VII,REGAN,"Be simple answerer, for we know the truth."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"And what confederacy have you with the traitors"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Late footed in the kingdom?"
III,VII,REGAN,"To whose hands have you sent the lunatic king? Speak."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"I have a letter guessingly set down,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Which came from one that's of a neutral heart,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"And not from one opposed."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Cunning."
III,VII,REGAN,"And false."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Where hast thou sent the king?"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"To Dover."
III,VII,REGAN,"Wherefore to Dover? Wast thou not charged at peril--"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Wherefore to Dover? Let him first answer that."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course."
III,VII,REGAN,"Wherefore to Dover, sir?"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Because I would not see thy cruel nails"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"The sea, with such a storm as his bare head"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"In hell-black night endured, would have buoy'd up,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"And quench'd the stelled fires:"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Thou shouldst have said 'Good porter, turn the key,'"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"All cruels else subscribed: but I shall see"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"The winged vengeance overtake such children."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"See't shalt thou never. Fellows, hold the chair."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"He that will think to live till he be old,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Give me some help! O cruel! O you gods!"
III,VII,REGAN,"One side will mock another; the other too."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"If you see vengeance,--"
III,VII,First Servant,"Hold your hand, my lord:"
III,VII,First Servant,"I have served you ever since I was a child;"
III,VII,First Servant,"But better service have I never done you"
III,VII,First Servant,"Than now to bid you hold."
III,VII,REGAN,"How now, you dog!"
III,VII,First Servant,"If you did wear a beard upon your chin,"
III,VII,First Servant,"I'd shake it on this quarrel. What do you mean?"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"My villain!"
III,VII,First Servant,"Nay, then, come on, and take the chance of anger."
III,VII,REGAN,"Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus!"
III,VII,First Servant,"O, I am slain! My lord, you have one eye left"
III,VII,First Servant,"To see some mischief on him. O!"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly!"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Where is thy lustre now?"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"All dark and comfortless. Where's my son Edmund?"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"To quit this horrid act."
III,VII,REGAN,"Out, treacherous villain!"
III,VII,REGAN,"Thou call'st on him that hates thee: it was he"
III,VII,REGAN,"That made the overture of thy treasons to us;"
III,VII,REGAN,"Who is too good to pity thee."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"O my follies! then Edgar was abused."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him!"
III,VII,REGAN,"Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell"
III,VII,REGAN,"His way to Dover."
III,VII,REGAN,"How is't, my lord? how look you?"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"I have received a hurt: follow me, lady."
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Turn out that eyeless villain; throw this slave"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Upon the dunghill. Regan, I bleed apace:"
III,VII,CORNWALL,"Untimely comes this hurt: give me your arm."
III,VII,Second Servant,"I'll never care what wickedness I do,"
III,VII,Second Servant,"If this man come to good."
III,VII,Third Servant,"If she live long,"
III,VII,Third Servant,"And in the end meet the old course of death,"
III,VII,Third Servant,"Women will all turn monsters."
III,VII,Second Servant,"Let's follow the old earl, and get the Bedlam"
III,VII,Second Servant,"To lead him where he would: his roguish madness"
III,VII,Second Servant,"Allows itself to any thing."
III,VII,Third Servant,"Go thou: I'll fetch some flax and whites of eggs"
III,VII,Third Servant,"To apply to his bleeding face. Now, heaven help him!"
IV,I,EDGAR,"Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd,"
IV,I,EDGAR,"Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be worst,"
IV,I,EDGAR,"The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,"
IV,I,EDGAR,"Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear:"
IV,I,EDGAR,"The lamentable change is from the best;"
IV,I,EDGAR,"The worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then,"
IV,I,EDGAR,"Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace!"
IV,I,EDGAR,"The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst"
IV,I,EDGAR,"Owes nothing to thy blasts. But who comes here?"
IV,I,EDGAR,"My father, poorly led? World, world, O world!"
IV,I,EDGAR,"But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,"
IV,I,EDGAR,"Lie would not yield to age."
IV,I,Old Man,"O, my good lord, I have been your tenant, and"
IV,I,Old Man,"your father's tenant, these fourscore years."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Away, get thee away; good friend, be gone:"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Thy comforts can do me no good at all;"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Thee they may hurt."
IV,I,Old Man,"Alack, sir, you cannot see your way."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"I have no way, and therefore want no eyes;"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"I stumbled when I saw: full oft 'tis seen,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Our means secure us, and our mere defects"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Prove our commodities. O dear son Edgar,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"The food of thy abused father's wrath!"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Might I but live to see thee in my touch,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"I'ld say I had eyes again!"
IV,I,Old Man,"How now! Who's there?"
IV,I,EDGAR,"the worst'?"
IV,I,EDGAR,"I am worse than e'er I was."
IV,I,Old Man,"'Tis poor mad Tom."
IV,I,EDGAR,"So long as we can say  'This is the worst.'"
IV,I,Old Man,"Fellow, where goest?"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Is it a beggar-man?"
IV,I,Old Man,"Madman and beggar too."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"He has some reason, else he could not beg."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"I' the last night's storm I such a fellow saw;"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Which made me think a man a worm: my son"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Came then into my mind; and yet my mind"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Was then scarce friends with him: I have heard"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"more since."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"They kill us for their sport."
IV,I,EDGAR,"Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,"
IV,I,EDGAR,"Angering itself and others.--Bless thee, master!"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Is that the naked fellow?"
IV,I,Old Man,"Ay, my lord."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Then, prithee, get thee gone: if, for my sake,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Thou wilt o'ertake us, hence a mile or twain,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"I' the way toward Dover, do it for ancient love;"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"And bring some covering for this naked soul,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Who I'll entreat to lead me."
IV,I,Old Man,"Alack, sir, he is mad."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"'Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure;"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Above the rest, be gone."
IV,I,Old Man,"I'll bring him the best 'parel that I have,"
IV,I,Old Man,"Come on't what will."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Sirrah, naked fellow,--"
IV,I,EDGAR,"Poor Tom's a-cold."
IV,I,EDGAR,"I cannot daub it further."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Come hither, fellow."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Know'st thou the way to Dover?"
IV,I,EDGAR,"Both stile and gate, horse-way and foot-path. Poor"
IV,I,EDGAR,"Tom hath been scared out of his good wits: bless"
IV,I,EDGAR,"thee, good man's son, from the foul fiend! five"
IV,I,EDGAR,"fiends have been in poor Tom at once; of lust, as"
IV,I,EDGAR,"Obidicut; Hobbididence, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of"
IV,I,EDGAR,"stealing; Modo, of murder; Flibbertigibbet, of"
IV,I,EDGAR,"mopping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids"
IV,I,EDGAR,"and waiting-women. So, bless thee, master!"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Have humbled to all strokes: that I am wretched"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Makes thee the happier: heavens, deal so still!"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"That slaves your ordinance, that will not see"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly;"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"So distribution should undo excess,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"And each man have enough. Dost thou know Dover?"
IV,I,EDGAR,"Ay, master."
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"There is a cliff, whose high and bending head"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Looks fearfully in the confined deep:"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"Bring me but to the very brim of it,"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"With something rich about me: from that place"
IV,I,GLOUCESTER,"I shall no leading need."
IV,I,EDGAR,"Give me thy arm:"
IV,I,EDGAR,"Poor Tom shall lead thee."
IV,II,GONERIL,"Welcome, my lord: I marvel our mild husband"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Not met us on the way."
IV,II,GONERIL,"Now, where's your master'?"
IV,II,OSWALD,"Madam, within; but never man so changed."
IV,II,OSWALD,"I told him of the army that was landed;"
IV,II,OSWALD,"He smiled at it: I told him you were coming:"
IV,II,OSWALD,"His answer was 'The worse:' of Gloucester's treachery,"
IV,II,OSWALD,"And of the loyal service of his son,"
IV,II,OSWALD,"When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot,"
IV,II,OSWALD,"And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out:"
IV,II,OSWALD,"What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him;"
IV,II,OSWALD,"What like, offensive."
IV,II,GONERIL,"It is the cowish terror of his spirit,"
IV,II,GONERIL,"That dares not undertake: he'll not feel wrongs"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Which tie him to an answer. Our wishes on the way"
IV,II,GONERIL,"May prove effects. Back, Edmund, to my brother;"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Hasten his musters and conduct his powers:"
IV,II,GONERIL,"I must change arms at home, and give the distaff"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Into my husband's hands. This trusty servant"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Shall pass between us: ere long you are like to hear,"
IV,II,GONERIL,"If you dare venture in your own behalf,"
IV,II,GONERIL,"A mistress's command. Wear this; spare speech;"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Decline your head: this kiss, if it durst speak,"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Would stretch thy spirits up into the air:"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Conceive, and fare thee well."
IV,II,EDMUND,"Yours in the ranks of death."
IV,II,GONERIL,"My most dear Gloucester!"
IV,II,GONERIL,"O, the difference of man and man!"
IV,II,GONERIL,"To thee a woman's services are due:"
IV,II,GONERIL,"My fool usurps my body."
IV,II,OSWALD,"Madam, here comes my lord."
IV,II,GONERIL,"I have been worth the whistle."
IV,II,ALBANY,"O Goneril!"
IV,II,ALBANY,"You are not worth the dust which the rude wind"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Blows in your face. I fear your disposition:"
IV,II,ALBANY,"That nature, which contemns its origin,"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Cannot be border'd certain in itself;"
IV,II,ALBANY,"She that herself will sliver and disbranch"
IV,II,ALBANY,"From her material sap, perforce must wither"
IV,II,ALBANY,"And come to deadly use."
IV,II,GONERIL,"No more; the text is foolish."
IV,II,ALBANY,"Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile:"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Filths savour but themselves. What have you done?"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform'd?"
IV,II,ALBANY,"A father, and a gracious aged man,"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick,"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Most barbarous, most degenerate! have you madded."
IV,II,ALBANY,"Could my good brother suffer you to do it?"
IV,II,ALBANY,"A man, a prince, by him so benefited!"
IV,II,ALBANY,"If that the heavens do not their visible spirits"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Send quickly down to tame these vile offences,"
IV,II,ALBANY,"It will come,"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Humanity must perforce prey on itself,"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Like monsters of the deep."
IV,II,GONERIL,"Milk-liver'd man!"
IV,II,GONERIL,"That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Thine honour from thy suffering; that not know'st"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?"
IV,II,GONERIL,"France spreads his banners in our noiseless land;"
IV,II,GONERIL,"With plumed helm thy slayer begins threats;"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Whiles thou, a moral fool, sit'st still, and criest"
IV,II,GONERIL,"'Alack, why does he so?'"
IV,II,ALBANY,"See thyself, devil!"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Proper deformity seems not in the fiend"
IV,II,ALBANY,"So horrid as in woman."
IV,II,GONERIL,"O vain fool!"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Thou changed and self-cover'd thing, for shame,"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Be-monster not thy feature. Were't my fitness"
IV,II,ALBANY,"To let these hands obey my blood,"
IV,II,ALBANY,"They are apt enough to dislocate and tear"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Thy flesh and bones: howe'er thou art a fiend,"
IV,II,ALBANY,"A woman's shape doth shield thee."
IV,II,GONERIL,"Marry, your manhood now--"
IV,II,ALBANY,"What news?"
IV,II,Messenger,"O, my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall's dead:"
IV,II,Messenger,"Slain by his servant, going to put out"
IV,II,Messenger,"The other eye of Gloucester."
IV,II,ALBANY,"Gloucester's eye!"
IV,II,Messenger,"A servant that he bred, thrill'd with remorse,"
IV,II,Messenger,"Opposed against the act, bending his sword"
IV,II,Messenger,"To his great master; who, thereat enraged,"
IV,II,Messenger,"Flew on him, and amongst them fell'd him dead;"
IV,II,Messenger,"But not without that harmful stroke, which since"
IV,II,Messenger,"Hath pluck'd him after."
IV,II,ALBANY,"This shows you are above,"
IV,II,ALBANY,"You justicers, that these our nether crimes"
IV,II,ALBANY,"So speedily can venge! But, O poor Gloucester!"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Lost he his other eye?"
IV,II,Messenger,"Both, both, my lord."
IV,II,Messenger,"This letter, madam, craves a speedy answer;"
IV,II,Messenger,"'Tis from your sister."
IV,II,GONERIL,"But being widow, and my Gloucester with her,"
IV,II,GONERIL,"May all the building in my fancy pluck"
IV,II,GONERIL,"Upon my hateful life: another way,"
IV,II,GONERIL,"The news is not so tart.--I'll read, and answer."
IV,II,ALBANY,"Where was his son when they did take his eyes?"
IV,II,Messenger,"Come with my lady hither."
IV,II,ALBANY,"He is not here."
IV,II,Messenger,"No, my good lord; I met him back again."
IV,II,ALBANY,"Knows he the wickedness?"
IV,II,Messenger,"Ay, my good lord; 'twas he inform'd against him;"
IV,II,Messenger,"And quit the house on purpose, that their punishment"
IV,II,Messenger,"Might have the freer course."
IV,II,ALBANY,"Gloucester, I live"
IV,II,ALBANY,"To thank thee for the love thou show'dst the king,"
IV,II,ALBANY,"And to revenge thine eyes. Come hither, friend:"
IV,II,ALBANY,"Tell me what more thou know'st."
IV,III,KENT,"Why the King of France is so suddenly gone back"
IV,III,KENT,"know you the reason?"
IV,III,Gentleman,"Something he left imperfect in the"
IV,III,Gentleman,"state, which since his coming forth is thought"
IV,III,Gentleman,"of; which imports to the kingdom so much"
IV,III,Gentleman,"fear and danger, that his personal return was"
IV,III,Gentleman,"most required and necessary."
IV,III,KENT,"Who hath he left behind him general?"
IV,III,Gentleman,"The Marshal of France, Monsieur La Far."
IV,III,KENT,"Did your letters pierce the queen to any"
IV,III,KENT,"demonstration of grief?"
IV,III,Gentleman,"Ay, sir; she took them, read them in my presence;"
IV,III,Gentleman,"And now and then an ample tear trill'd down"
IV,III,Gentleman,"Her delicate cheek: it seem'd she was a queen"
IV,III,Gentleman,"Over her passion; who, most rebel-like,"
IV,III,Gentleman,"Sought to be king o'er her."
IV,III,KENT,"O, then it moved her."
IV,III,Gentleman,"Not to a rage: patience and sorrow strove"
IV,III,Gentleman,"Who should express her goodliest. You have seen"
IV,III,Gentleman,"Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears"
IV,III,Gentleman,"Were like a better way: those happy smilets,"
IV,III,Gentleman,"That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know"
IV,III,Gentleman,"What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence,"
IV,III,Gentleman,"As pearls from diamonds dropp'd. In brief,"
IV,III,Gentleman,"Sorrow would be a rarity most beloved,"
IV,III,Gentleman,"If all could so become it."
IV,III,KENT,"Made she no verbal question?"
IV,III,Gentleman,"'Faith, once or twice she heaved the name of 'father'"
IV,III,Gentleman,"Pantingly forth, as if it press'd her heart:"
IV,III,Gentleman,"Cried 'Sisters! sisters! Shame of ladies! sisters!"
IV,III,Gentleman,"Kent! father! sisters! What, i' the storm? i' the night?"
IV,III,Gentleman,"Let pity not be believed!' There she shook"
IV,III,Gentleman,"The holy water from her heavenly eyes,"
IV,III,Gentleman,"And clamour moisten'd: then away she started"
IV,III,Gentleman,"To deal with grief alone."
IV,III,KENT,"It is the stars,"
IV,III,KENT,"The stars above us, govern our conditions;"
IV,III,KENT,"Else one self mate and mate could not beget"
IV,III,KENT,"Such different issues. You spoke not with her since?"
IV,III,Gentleman,"No."
IV,III,KENT,"Was this before the king return'd?"
IV,III,Gentleman,"No, since."
IV,III,KENT,"Well, sir, the poor distressed Lear's i' the town;"
IV,III,KENT,"Who sometime, in his better tune, remembers"
IV,III,KENT,"What we are come about, and by no means"
IV,III,KENT,"Will yield to see his daughter."
IV,III,Gentleman,"Why, good sir?"
IV,III,KENT,"A sovereign shame so elbows him: his own unkindness,"
IV,III,KENT,"That stripp'd her from his benediction, turn'd her"
IV,III,KENT,"To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights"
IV,III,KENT,"To his dog-hearted daughters, these things sting"
IV,III,KENT,"His mind so venomously, that burning shame"
IV,III,KENT,"Detains him from Cordelia."
IV,III,Gentleman,"Alack, poor gentleman!"
IV,III,KENT,"Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?"
IV,III,Gentleman,"'Tis so, they are afoot."
IV,III,KENT,"Well, sir, I'll bring you to our master Lear,"
IV,III,KENT,"And leave you to attend him: some dear cause"
IV,III,KENT,"Will in concealment wrap me up awhile;"
IV,III,KENT,"When I am known aright, you shall not grieve"
IV,III,KENT,"Lending me this acquaintance. I pray you, go"
IV,III,KENT,"Along with me."
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"Alack, 'tis he: why, he was met even now"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud;"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"In our sustaining corn. A century send forth;"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"Search every acre in the high-grown field,"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"And bring him to our eye."
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"What can man's wisdom"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"In the restoring his bereaved sense?"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"He that helps him take all my outward worth."
IV,IV,Doctor,"There is means, madam:"
IV,IV,Doctor,"Our foster-nurse of nature is repose,"
IV,IV,Doctor,"The which he lacks; that to provoke in him,"
IV,IV,Doctor,"Are many simples operative, whose power"
IV,IV,Doctor,"Will close the eye of anguish."
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"All blest secrets,"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth,"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"Spring with my tears! be aidant and remediate"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him;"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"Lest his ungovern'd rage dissolve the life"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"That wants the means to lead it."
IV,IV,Messenger,"News, madam;"
IV,IV,Messenger,"The British powers are marching hitherward."
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"'Tis known before; our preparation stands"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"In expectation of them. O dear father,"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"It is thy business that I go about;"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"Therefore great France"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"My mourning and important tears hath pitied."
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"No blown ambition doth our arms incite,"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"But love, dear love, and our aged father's right:"
IV,IV,CORDELIA,"Soon may I hear and see him!"
IV,V,REGAN,"But are my brother's powers set forth?"
IV,V,OSWALD,"Ay, madam."
IV,V,REGAN,"Himself in person there?"
IV,V,OSWALD,"Madam, with much ado:"
IV,V,OSWALD,"Your sister is the better soldier."
IV,V,REGAN,"Lord Edmund spake not with your lord at home?"
IV,V,OSWALD,"No, madam."
IV,V,REGAN,"What might import my sister's letter to him?"
IV,V,OSWALD,"I know not, lady."
IV,V,REGAN,"'Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter."
IV,V,REGAN,"It was great ignorance, Gloucester's eyes being out,"
IV,V,REGAN,"To let him live: where he arrives he moves"
IV,V,REGAN,"All hearts against us: Edmund, I think, is gone,"
IV,V,REGAN,"In pity of his misery, to dispatch"
IV,V,REGAN,"His nighted life: moreover, to descry"
IV,V,REGAN,"The strength o' the enemy."
IV,V,OSWALD,"I must needs after him, madam, with my letter."
IV,V,REGAN,"Our troops set forth to-morrow: stay with us;"
IV,V,REGAN,"The ways are dangerous."
IV,V,OSWALD,"I may not, madam:"
IV,V,OSWALD,"My lady charged my duty in this business."
IV,V,REGAN,"Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you"
IV,V,REGAN,"Transport her purposes by word? Belike,"
IV,V,REGAN,"Something--I know not what: I'll love thee much,"
IV,V,REGAN,"Let me unseal the letter."
IV,V,OSWALD,"Madam, I had rather--"
IV,V,REGAN,"I know your lady does not love her husband;"
IV,V,REGAN,"I am sure of that: and at her late being here"
IV,V,REGAN,"She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks"
IV,V,REGAN,"To noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosom."
IV,V,OSWALD,"I, madam?"
IV,V,REGAN,"I speak in understanding; you are; I know't:"
IV,V,REGAN,"Therefore I do advise you, take this note:"
IV,V,REGAN,"My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talk'd;"
IV,V,REGAN,"And more convenient is he for my hand"
IV,V,REGAN,"Than for your lady's: you may gather more."
IV,V,REGAN,"If you do find him, pray you, give him this;"
IV,V,REGAN,"And when your mistress hears thus much from you,"
IV,V,REGAN,"I pray, desire her call her wisdom to her."
IV,V,REGAN,"So, fare you well."
IV,V,REGAN,"If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,"
IV,V,REGAN,"Preferment falls on him that cuts him off."
IV,V,OSWALD,"Would I could meet him, madam! I should show"
IV,V,OSWALD,"What party I do follow."
IV,V,REGAN,"Fare thee well."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"When shall we come to the top of that same hill?"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"You do climb up it now: look, how we labour."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Methinks the ground is even."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Horrible steep."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Hark, do you hear the sea?"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"No, truly."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"By your eyes' anguish."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"So may it be, indeed:"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Methinks thy voice is alter'd; and thou speak'st"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"In better phrase and matter than thou didst."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"You're much deceived: in nothing am I changed"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"But in my garments."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Methinks you're better spoken."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"The crows and choughs that wing the midway air"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Show scarce so gross as beetles: half way down"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Methinks he seems no bigger than his head:"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"The fishermen, that walk upon the beach,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring bark,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Almost too small for sight: the murmuring surge,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more;"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Topple down headlong."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Set me where you stand."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Give me your hand: you are now within a foot"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Of the extreme verge: for all beneath the moon"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Would I not leap upright."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Let go my hand."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Here, friend, 's another purse; in it a jewel"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Well worth a poor man's taking: fairies and gods"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Prosper it with thee! Go thou farther off;"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Bid me farewell, and let me hear thee going."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Now fare you well, good sir."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"With all my heart."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Why I do trifle thus with his despair"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Is done to cure it."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"This world I do renounce, and, in your sights,"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Shake patiently my great affliction off:"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"If I could bear it longer, and not fall"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"To quarrel with your great opposeless wills,"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"My snuff and loathed part of nature should"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Burn itself out. If Edgar live, O, bless him!"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Now, fellow, fare thee well."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Gone, sir: farewell."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"And yet I know not how conceit may rob"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"The treasury of life, when life itself"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Yields to the theft: had he been where he thought,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"By this, had thought been past. Alive or dead?"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Ho, you sir! friend! Hear you, sir! speak!"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Thus might he pass indeed: yet he revives."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"What are you, sir?"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Away, and let me die."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"So many fathom down precipitating,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Thou'dst shiver'd like an egg: but thou dost breathe;"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Hast heavy substance; bleed'st not; speak'st; art sound."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Ten masts at each make not the altitude"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Which thou hast perpendicularly fell:"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Thy life's a miracle. Speak yet again."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"But have I fall'n, or no?"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"From the dread summit of this chalky bourn."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Look up a-height; the shrill-gorged lark so far"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Cannot be seen or heard: do but look up."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Alack, I have no eyes."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Is wretchedness deprived that benefit,"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"To end itself by death? 'Twas yet some comfort,"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage,"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"And frustrate his proud will."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Give me your arm:"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Up: so. How is 't? Feel you your legs? You stand."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Too well, too well."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"This is above all strangeness."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Upon the crown o' the cliff, what thing was that"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Which parted from you?"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"A poor unfortunate beggar."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"As I stood here below, methought his eyes"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Horns whelk'd and waved like the enridged sea:"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"It was some fiend; therefore, thou happy father,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Of men's impossibilities, have preserved thee."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"I do remember now: henceforth I'll bear"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Affliction till it do cry out itself"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"'Enough, enough,' and die. That thing you speak of,"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"I took it for a man; often 'twould say"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"'The fiend, the fiend:' he led me to that place."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Bear free and patient thoughts. But who comes here?"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"The safer sense will ne'er accommodate"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"His master thus."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"No, they cannot touch me for coining; I am the"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"king himself."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"O thou side-piercing sight!"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Nature's above art in that respect. There's your"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"press-money. That fellow handles his bow like a"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"crow-keeper: draw me a clothier's yard. Look,"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"look, a mouse! Peace, peace; this piece of toasted"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"cheese will do 't. There's my gauntlet; I'll prove"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"it on a giant. Bring up the brown bills. O, well"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"flown, bird! i' the clout, i' the clout: hewgh!"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Give the word."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Sweet marjoram."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Pass."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"I know that voice."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Ha! Goneril, with a white beard! They flattered"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"me like a dog; and told me I had white hairs in my"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"beard ere the black ones were there. To say 'ay'"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"and 'no' to every thing that I said!--'Ay' and 'no'"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"too was no good divinity. When the rain came to"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter; when"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"the thunder would not peace at my bidding; there I"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"found 'em, there I smelt 'em out. Go to, they are"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"not men o' their words: they told me I was every"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"thing; 'tis a lie, I am not ague-proof."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"The trick of that voice I do well remember:"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Is 't not the king?"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Ay, every inch a king:"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"When I do stare, see how the subject quakes."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery?"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Thou shalt not die: die for adultery! No:"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded fly"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Does lecher in my sight."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Was kinder to his father than my daughters"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Got 'tween the lawful sheets."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"To 't, luxury, pell-mell! for I lack soldiers."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Behold yond simpering dame,"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Whose face between her forks presages snow;"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"That minces virtue, and does shake the head"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"To hear of pleasure's name;"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"With a more riotous appetite."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Down from the waist they are Centaurs,"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Though women all above:"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"But to the girdle do the gods inherit,"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Beneath is all the fiends';"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"There's hell, there's darkness, there's the"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"sulphurous pit,"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Burning, scalding, stench, consumption; fie,"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet,"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination:"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"there's money for thee."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"O, let me kiss that hand!"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Shall so wear out to nought. Dost thou know me?"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou squiny"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"at me? No, do thy worst, blind Cupid! I'll not"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"love. Read thou this challenge; mark but the"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"penning of it."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Were all the letters suns, I could not see one."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"I would not take this from report; it is,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"And my heart breaks at it."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Read."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"What, with the case of eyes?"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"O, ho, are you there with me? No eyes in your"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"head, nor no money in your purse? Your eyes are in"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"a heavy case, your purse in a light; yet you see how"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"this world goes."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"I see it feelingly."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"What, art mad? A man may see how this world goes"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Ay, sir."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"And the creature run from the cur? There thou"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"mightst behold the great image of authority: a"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"dog's obeyed in office."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back;"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks:"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"None does offend, none, I say, none; I'll able 'em:"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Take that of me, my friend, who have the power"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes;"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"And like a scurvy politician, seem"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"To see the things thou dost not. Now, now, now, now:"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Pull off my boots: harder, harder: so."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"O, matter and impertinency mix'd! Reason in madness!"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester:"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Thou must be patient; we came crying hither:"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air,"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee: mark."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Alack, alack the day!"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"When we are born, we cry that we are come"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"To this great stage of fools: this a good block;"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"It were a delicate stratagem, to shoe"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"A troop of horse with felt: I'll put 't in proof;"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"And when I have stol'n upon these sons-in-law,"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Then, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!"
IV,VI,Gentleman,"O, here he is: lay hand upon him. Sir,"
IV,VI,Gentleman,"Your most dear daughter--"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"No rescue? What, a prisoner? I am even"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"The natural fool of fortune. Use me well;"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"You shall have ransom. Let me have surgeons;"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"I am cut to the brains."
IV,VI,Gentleman,"You shall have any thing."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"No seconds? all myself?"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Why, this would make a man a man of salt,"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"To use his eyes for garden water-pots,"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Ay, and laying autumn's dust."
IV,VI,Gentleman,"Good sir,--"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"I will die bravely, like a bridegroom. What!"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"I will be jovial: come, come; I am a king,"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"My masters, know you that."
IV,VI,Gentleman,"You are a royal one, and we obey you."
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"Then there's life in't. Nay, if you get it, you"
IV,VI,KING LEAR,"shall get it with running. Sa, sa, sa, sa."
IV,VI,Gentleman,"A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch,"
IV,VI,Gentleman,"Past speaking of in a king! Thou hast one daughter,"
IV,VI,Gentleman,"Who redeems nature from the general curse"
IV,VI,Gentleman,"Which twain have brought her to."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Hail, gentle sir."
IV,VI,Gentleman,"Sir, speed you: what's your will?"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward?"
IV,VI,Gentleman,"Most sure and vulgar: every one hears that,"
IV,VI,Gentleman,"Which can distinguish sound."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"But, by your favour,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"How near's the other army?"
IV,VI,Gentleman,"Near and on speedy foot; the main descry"
IV,VI,Gentleman,"Stands on the hourly thought."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"I thank you, sir: that's all."
IV,VI,Gentleman,"Though that the queen on special cause is here,"
IV,VI,Gentleman,"Her army is moved on."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"I thank you, sir."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me:"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Let not my worser spirit tempt me again"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"To die before you please!"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Well pray you, father."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Now, good sir, what are you?"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows;"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Am pregnant to good pity. Give me your hand,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"I'll lead you to some biding."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Hearty thanks:"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"The bounty and the benison of heaven"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"To boot, and boot!"
IV,VI,OSWALD,"A proclaim'd prize! Most happy!"
IV,VI,OSWALD,"That eyeless head of thine was first framed flesh"
IV,VI,OSWALD,"To raise my fortunes. Thou old unhappy traitor,"
IV,VI,OSWALD,"Briefly thyself remember: the sword is out"
IV,VI,OSWALD,"That must destroy thee."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Now let thy friendly hand"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Put strength enough to't."
IV,VI,OSWALD,"Wherefore, bold peasant,"
IV,VI,OSWALD,"Darest thou support a publish'd traitor? Hence;"
IV,VI,OSWALD,"Lest that the infection of his fortune take"
IV,VI,OSWALD,"Like hold on thee. Let go his arm."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Ch'ill not let go, zir, without vurther 'casion."
IV,VI,OSWALD,"Let go, slave, or thou diest!"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volk"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"pass. An chud ha' bin zwaggered out of my life,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"'twould not ha' bin zo long as 'tis by a vortnight."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Nay, come not near th' old man; keep out, che vor"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"the harder: ch'ill be plain with you."
IV,VI,OSWALD,"Out, dunghill!"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Ch'ill pick your teeth, zir: come; no matter vor"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"your foins."
IV,VI,OSWALD,"Slave, thou hast slain me: villain, take my purse:"
IV,VI,OSWALD,"If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body;"
IV,VI,OSWALD,"And give the letters which thou find'st about me"
IV,VI,OSWALD,"To Edmund earl of Gloucester; seek him out"
IV,VI,OSWALD,"Upon the British party: O, untimely death!"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"I know thee well: a serviceable villain;"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"As duteous to the vices of thy mistress"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"As badness would desire."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"What, is he dead?"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Sit you down, father; rest you"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Let's see these pockets: the letters that he speaks of"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"May be my friends. He's dead; I am only sorry"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"He had no other death's-man. Let us see:"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Leave, gentle wax; and, manners, blame us not:"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"To know our enemies' minds, we'ld rip their hearts;"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Their papers, is more lawful."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"'Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. You have"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"many opportunities to cut him off: if your will"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"want not, time and place will be fruitfully offered."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"There is nothing done, if he return the conqueror:"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"then am I the prisoner, and his bed my goal; from"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"the loathed warmth whereof deliver me, and supply"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"the place for your labour."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"'Your--wife, so I would say--"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"'Affectionate servant,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"'GONERIL.'"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"O undistinguish'd space of woman's will!"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"A plot upon her virtuous husband's life;"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"And the exchange my brother! Here, in the sands,"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Thee I'll rake up, the post unsanctified"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Of murderous lechers: and in the mature time"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"With this ungracious paper strike the sight"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Of the death practised duke: for him 'tis well"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"That of thy death and business I can tell."
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"The king is mad: how stiff is my vile sense,"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract:"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs,"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"And woes by wrong imaginations lose"
IV,VI,GLOUCESTER,"The knowledge of themselves."
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Give me your hand:"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Far off, methinks, I hear the beaten drum:"
IV,VI,EDGAR,"Come, father, I'll bestow you with a friend."
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work,"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"To match thy goodness? My life will be too short,"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"And every measure fail me."
IV,VII,KENT,"To be acknowledged, madam, is o'erpaid."
IV,VII,KENT,"All my reports go with the modest truth;"
IV,VII,KENT,"Nor more nor clipp'd, but so."
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Be better suited:"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"These weeds are memories of those worser hours:"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"I prithee, put them off."
IV,VII,KENT,"Pardon me, dear madam;"
IV,VII,KENT,"Yet to be known shortens my made intent:"
IV,VII,KENT,"My boon I make it, that you know me not"
IV,VII,KENT,"Till time and I think meet."
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Then be't so, my good lord."
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"How does the king?"
IV,VII,Doctor,"Madam, sleeps still."
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"O you kind gods,"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Cure this great breach in his abused nature!"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"The untuned and jarring senses, O, wind up"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Of this child-changed father!"
IV,VII,Doctor,"So please your majesty"
IV,VII,Doctor,"That we may wake the king: he hath slept long."
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Be govern'd by your knowledge, and proceed"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"I' the sway of your own will. Is he array'd?"
IV,VII,Gentleman,"Ay, madam; in the heaviness of his sleep"
IV,VII,Gentleman,"We put fresh garments on him."
IV,VII,Doctor,"Be by, good madam, when we do awake him;"
IV,VII,Doctor,"I doubt not of his temperance."
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Very well."
IV,VII,Doctor,"Please you, draw near. Louder the music there!"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"O my dear father! Restoration hang"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Thy medicine on my lips; and let this kiss"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Repair those violent harms that my two sisters"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Have in thy reverence made!"
IV,VII,KENT,"Kind and dear princess!"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Had you not been their father, these white flakes"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Had challenged pity of them. Was this a face"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"To be opposed against the warring winds?"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"In the most terrible and nimble stroke"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Of quick, cross lightning? to watch--poor perdu!--"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog,"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Though he had bit me, should have stood that night"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father,"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn,"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"In short and musty straw? Alack, alack!"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Had not concluded all. He wakes; speak to him."
IV,VII,Doctor,"Madam, do you; 'tis fittest."
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty?"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave:"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Do scald like moulten lead."
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Sir, do you know me?"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"You are a spirit, I know: when did you die?"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Still, still, far wide!"
IV,VII,Doctor,"He's scarce awake: let him alone awhile."
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Where have I been? Where am I? Fair daylight?"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"I am mightily abused. I should e'en die with pity,"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"To see another thus. I know not what to say."
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"I will not swear these are my hands: let's see;"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"I feel this pin prick. Would I were assured"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Of my condition!"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"O, look upon me, sir,"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"And hold your hands in benediction o'er me:"
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"No, sir, you must not kneel."
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Pray, do not mock me:"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"I am a very foolish fond old man,"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"And, to deal plainly,"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"I fear I am not in my perfect mind."
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Methinks I should know you, and know this man;"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Yet I am doubtful for I am mainly ignorant"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"What place this is; and all the skill I have"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Remembers not these garments; nor I know not"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me;"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"For, as I am a man, I think this lady"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"To be my child Cordelia."
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"And so I am, I am."
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Be your tears wet? yes, 'faith. I pray, weep not:"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"If you have poison for me, I will drink it."
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"I know you do not love me; for your sisters"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Have, as I do remember, done me wrong:"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"You have some cause, they have not."
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"No cause, no cause."
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Am I in France?"
IV,VII,KENT,"In your own kingdom, sir."
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Do not abuse me."
IV,VII,Doctor,"Be comforted, good madam: the great rage,"
IV,VII,Doctor,"You see, is kill'd in him: and yet it is danger"
IV,VII,Doctor,"To make him even o'er the time he has lost."
IV,VII,Doctor,"Desire him to go in; trouble him no more"
IV,VII,Doctor,"Till further settling."
IV,VII,CORDELIA,"Will't please your highness walk?"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"You must bear with me:"
IV,VII,KING LEAR,"Pray you now, forget and forgive: I am old and foolish."
IV,VII,Gentleman,"Holds it true, sir, that the Duke of Cornwall was so slain?"
IV,VII,KENT,"Most certain, sir."
IV,VII,Gentleman,"Who is conductor of his people?"
IV,VII,KENT,"As 'tis said, the bastard son of Gloucester."
IV,VII,Gentleman,"They say Edgar, his banished son, is with the Earl"
IV,VII,Gentleman,"of Kent in Germany."
IV,VII,KENT,"Report is changeable. 'Tis time to look about; the"
IV,VII,KENT,"powers of the kingdom approach apace."
IV,VII,Gentleman,"The arbitrement is like to be bloody. Fare you"
IV,VII,Gentleman,"well, sir."
IV,VII,KENT,"My point and period will be throughly wrought,"
IV,VII,KENT,"Or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought."
V,I,REGAN,"Our sister's man is certainly miscarried."
V,I,EDMUND,"'Tis to be doubted, madam."
V,I,REGAN,"Now, sweet lord,"
V,I,REGAN,"You know the goodness I intend upon you:"
V,I,REGAN,"Tell me--but truly--but then speak the truth,"
V,I,REGAN,"Do you not love my sister?"
V,I,EDMUND,"In honour'd love."
V,I,REGAN,"But have you never found my brother's way"
V,I,REGAN,"To the forfended place?"
V,I,EDMUND,"That thought abuses you."
V,I,REGAN,"I am doubtful that you have been conjunct"
V,I,REGAN,"And bosom'd with her, as far as we call hers."
V,I,EDMUND,"No, by mine honour, madam."
V,I,REGAN,"I never shall endure her: dear my lord,"
V,I,REGAN,"Be not familiar with her."
V,I,EDMUND,"Fear me not:"
V,I,EDMUND,"She and the duke her husband!"
V,I,GONERIL,"Should loosen him and me."
V,I,ALBANY,"Our very loving sister, well be-met."
V,I,ALBANY,"Sir, this I hear; the king is come to his daughter,"
V,I,ALBANY,"With others whom the rigor of our state"
V,I,ALBANY,"Forced to cry out. Where I could not be honest,"
V,I,ALBANY,"I never yet was valiant: for this business,"
V,I,ALBANY,"It toucheth us, as France invades our land,"
V,I,ALBANY,"Not bolds the king, with others, whom, I fear,"
V,I,ALBANY,"Most just and heavy causes make oppose."
V,I,EDMUND,"Sir, you speak nobly."
V,I,REGAN,"Why is this reason'd?"
V,I,GONERIL,"Combine together 'gainst the enemy;"
V,I,GONERIL,"For these domestic and particular broils"
V,I,GONERIL,"Are not the question here."
V,I,ALBANY,"Let's then determine"
V,I,ALBANY,"With the ancient of war on our proceedings."
V,I,EDMUND,"I shall attend you presently at your tent."
V,I,REGAN,"Sister, you'll go with us?"
V,I,GONERIL,"No."
V,I,REGAN,"'Tis most convenient; pray you, go with us."
V,I,EDGAR,"If e'er your grace had speech with man so poor,"
V,I,EDGAR,"Hear me one word."
V,I,ALBANY,"I'll overtake you. Speak."
V,I,EDGAR,"Before you fight the battle, ope this letter."
V,I,EDGAR,"If you have victory, let the trumpet sound"
V,I,EDGAR,"For him that brought it: wretched though I seem,"
V,I,EDGAR,"I can produce a champion that will prove"
V,I,EDGAR,"What is avouched there. If you miscarry,"
V,I,EDGAR,"Your business of the world hath so an end,"
V,I,EDGAR,"And machination ceases. Fortune love you."
V,I,ALBANY,"Stay till I have read the letter."
V,I,EDGAR,"I was forbid it."
V,I,EDGAR,"When time shall serve, let but the herald cry,"
V,I,EDGAR,"And I'll appear again."
V,I,ALBANY,"Why, fare thee well: I will o'erlook thy paper."
V,I,EDMUND,"The enemy's in view; draw up your powers."
V,I,EDMUND,"Here is the guess of their true strength and forces"
V,I,EDMUND,"By diligent discovery; but your haste"
V,I,EDMUND,"Is now urged on you."
V,I,ALBANY,"We will greet the time."
V,I,EDMUND,"To both these sisters have I sworn my love;"
V,I,EDMUND,"Each jealous of the other, as the stung"
V,I,EDMUND,"Are of the adder. Which of them shall I take?"
V,I,EDMUND,"Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoy'd,"
V,I,EDMUND,"If both remain alive: to take the widow"
V,I,EDMUND,"Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;"
V,I,EDMUND,"And hardly shall I carry out my side,"
V,I,EDMUND,"Her husband being alive. Now then we'll use"
V,I,EDMUND,"His countenance for the battle; which being done,"
V,I,EDMUND,"Let her who would be rid of him devise"
V,I,EDMUND,"His speedy taking off. As for the mercy"
V,I,EDMUND,"Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia,"
V,I,EDMUND,"The battle done, and they within our power,"
V,I,EDMUND,"Shall never see his pardon; for my state"
V,I,EDMUND,"Stands on me to defend, not to debate."
V,II,EDGAR,"Here, father, take the shadow of this tree"
V,II,EDGAR,"For your good host; pray that the right may thrive:"
V,II,EDGAR,"If ever I return to you again,"
V,II,EDGAR,"I'll bring you comfort."
V,II,GLOUCESTER,"Grace go with you, sir!"
V,II,EDGAR,"Away, old man; give me thy hand; away!"
V,II,EDGAR,"King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta'en:"
V,II,EDGAR,"Give me thy hand; come on."
V,II,GLOUCESTER,"No farther, sir; a man may rot even here."
V,II,EDGAR,"What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure"
V,II,EDGAR,"Their going hence, even as their coming hither;"
V,II,EDGAR,"Ripeness is all: come on."
V,II,GLOUCESTER,"And that's true too."
V,III,EDMUND,"Some officers take them away: good guard,"
V,III,EDMUND,"Until their greater pleasures first be known"
V,III,EDMUND,"That are to censure them."
V,III,CORDELIA,"We are not the first"
V,III,CORDELIA,"Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the worst."
V,III,CORDELIA,"For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down;"
V,III,CORDELIA,"Myself could else out-frown false fortune's frown."
V,III,CORDELIA,"Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?"
V,III,KING LEAR,"No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:"
V,III,KING LEAR,"We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:"
V,III,KING LEAR,"When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh"
V,III,KING LEAR,"At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues"
V,III,KING LEAR,"Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;"
V,III,KING LEAR,"And take upon's the mystery of things,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"That ebb and flow by the moon."
V,III,EDMUND,"Take them away."
V,III,KING LEAR,"Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"The gods themselves throw incense. Have I caught thee?"
V,III,KING LEAR,"He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"And fire us hence like foxes. Wipe thine eyes;"
V,III,KING LEAR,"The good-years shall devour them, flesh and fell,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"Ere they shall make us weep: we'll see 'em starve"
V,III,KING LEAR,"first. Come."
V,III,EDMUND,"Come hither, captain; hark."
V,III,EDMUND,"Take thou this note;"
V,III,EDMUND,"go follow them to prison:"
V,III,EDMUND,"One step I have advanced thee; if thou dost"
V,III,EDMUND,"As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way"
V,III,EDMUND,"To noble fortunes: know thou this, that men"
V,III,EDMUND,"Are as the time is: to be tender-minded"
V,III,EDMUND,"Does not become a sword: thy great employment"
V,III,EDMUND,"Will not bear question; either say thou'lt do 't,"
V,III,EDMUND,"Or thrive by other means."
V,III,Captain,"I'll do 't, my lord."
V,III,EDMUND,"About it; and write happy when thou hast done."
V,III,EDMUND,"Mark, I say, instantly; and carry it so"
V,III,EDMUND,"As I have set it down."
V,III,Captain,"I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;"
V,III,Captain,"If it be man's work, I'll do 't."
V,III,ALBANY,"Sir, you have shown to-day your valiant strain,"
V,III,ALBANY,"And fortune led you well: you have the captives"
V,III,ALBANY,"That were the opposites of this day's strife:"
V,III,ALBANY,"We do require them of you, so to use them"
V,III,ALBANY,"As we shall find their merits and our safety"
V,III,ALBANY,"May equally determine."
V,III,EDMUND,"Sir, I thought it fit"
V,III,EDMUND,"To send the old and miserable king"
V,III,EDMUND,"To some retention and appointed guard;"
V,III,EDMUND,"Whose age has charms in it, whose title more,"
V,III,EDMUND,"To pluck the common bosom on his side,"
V,III,EDMUND,"An turn our impress'd lances in our eyes"
V,III,EDMUND,"Which do command them. With him I sent the queen;"
V,III,EDMUND,"My reason all the same; and they are ready"
V,III,EDMUND,"To-morrow, or at further space, to appear"
V,III,EDMUND,"Where you shall hold your session. At this time"
V,III,EDMUND,"We sweat and bleed: the friend hath lost his friend;"
V,III,EDMUND,"And the best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed"
V,III,EDMUND,"By those that feel their sharpness:"
V,III,EDMUND,"The question of Cordelia and her father"
V,III,EDMUND,"Requires a fitter place."
V,III,ALBANY,"Sir, by your patience,"
V,III,ALBANY,"I hold you but a subject of this war,"
V,III,ALBANY,"Not as a brother."
V,III,REGAN,"That's as we list to grace him."
V,III,REGAN,"Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded,"
V,III,REGAN,"Ere you had spoke so far. He led our powers;"
V,III,REGAN,"Bore the commission of my place and person;"
V,III,REGAN,"The which immediacy may well stand up,"
V,III,REGAN,"And call itself your brother."
V,III,GONERIL,"Not so hot:"
V,III,GONERIL,"In his own grace he doth exalt himself,"
V,III,GONERIL,"More than in your addition."
V,III,REGAN,"In my rights,"
V,III,REGAN,"By me invested, he compeers the best."
V,III,GONERIL,"That were the most, if he should husband you."
V,III,REGAN,"Jesters do oft prove prophets."
V,III,GONERIL,"Holla, holla!"
V,III,GONERIL,"That eye that told you so look'd but a-squint."
V,III,REGAN,"Lady, I am not well; else I should answer"
V,III,REGAN,"From a full-flowing stomach. General,"
V,III,REGAN,"Take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony;"
V,III,REGAN,"Dispose of them, of me; the walls are thine:"
V,III,REGAN,"Witness the world, that I create thee here"
V,III,REGAN,"My lord and master."
V,III,GONERIL,"Mean you to enjoy him?"
V,III,ALBANY,"The let-alone lies not in your good will."
V,III,EDMUND,"Nor in thine, lord."
V,III,ALBANY,"Half-blooded fellow, yes."
V,III,ALBANY,"Stay yet; hear reason. Edmund, I arrest thee"
V,III,ALBANY,"On capital treason; and, in thine attaint,"
V,III,ALBANY,"This gilded serpent"
V,III,ALBANY,"For your claim, fair sister,"
V,III,ALBANY,"I bar it in the interest of my wife:"
V,III,ALBANY,"'Tis she is sub-contracted to this lord,"
V,III,ALBANY,"And I, her husband, contradict your bans."
V,III,ALBANY,"If you will marry, make your loves to me,"
V,III,ALBANY,"My lady is bespoke."
V,III,GONERIL,"An interlude!"
V,III,ALBANY,"Thou art arm'd, Gloucester: let the trumpet sound:"
V,III,ALBANY,"If none appear to prove upon thy head"
V,III,ALBANY,"Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons,"
V,III,ALBANY,"There is my pledge;"
V,III,ALBANY,"I'll prove it on thy heart,"
V,III,ALBANY,"Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing less"
V,III,ALBANY,"Than I have here proclaim'd thee."
V,III,REGAN,"Sick, O, sick!"
V,III,EDMUND,"There's my exchange:"
V,III,EDMUND,"what in the world he is"
V,III,EDMUND,"That names me traitor, villain-like he lies:"
V,III,EDMUND,"Call by thy trumpet: he that dares approach,"
V,III,EDMUND,"On him, on you, who not? I will maintain"
V,III,EDMUND,"My truth and honour firmly."
V,III,ALBANY,"A herald, ho!"
V,III,EDMUND,"A herald, ho, a herald!"
V,III,ALBANY,"Trust to thy single virtue; for thy soldiers,"
V,III,ALBANY,"All levied in my name, have in my name"
V,III,ALBANY,"Took their discharge."
V,III,REGAN,"My sickness grows upon me."
V,III,ALBANY,"She is not well; convey her to my tent."
V,III,ALBANY,"Come hither, herald,--Let the trumpet sound,"
V,III,ALBANY,"And read out this."
V,III,Captain,"Sound, trumpet!"
V,III,Herald,"the lists of the army will maintain upon Edmund,"
V,III,Herald,"supposed Earl of Gloucester, that he is a manifold"
V,III,Herald,"traitor, let him appear by the third sound of the"
V,III,Herald,"trumpet: he is bold in his defence.'"
V,III,EDMUND,"Sound!"
V,III,Herald,"Again!"
V,III,Herald,"Again!"
V,III,ALBANY,"Ask him his purposes, why he appears"
V,III,ALBANY,"Upon this call o' the trumpet."
V,III,Herald,"What are you?"
V,III,Herald,"Your name, your quality? and why you answer"
V,III,Herald,"This present summons?"
V,III,EDGAR,"Know, my name is lost;"
V,III,EDGAR,"By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit:"
V,III,EDGAR,"Yet am I noble as the adversary"
V,III,EDGAR,"I come to cope."
V,III,ALBANY,"Which is that adversary?"
V,III,EDGAR,"What's he that speaks for Edmund Earl of Gloucester?"
V,III,EDMUND,"Himself: what say'st thou to him?"
V,III,EDGAR,"Draw thy sword,"
V,III,EDGAR,"That, if my speech offend a noble heart,"
V,III,EDGAR,"Thy arm may do thee justice: here is mine."
V,III,EDGAR,"Behold, it is the privilege of mine honours,"
V,III,EDGAR,"My oath, and my profession: I protest,"
V,III,EDGAR,"Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence,"
V,III,EDGAR,"Despite thy victor sword and fire-new fortune,"
V,III,EDGAR,"Thy valour and thy heart, thou art a traitor;"
V,III,EDGAR,"False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father;"
V,III,EDGAR,"Conspirant 'gainst this high-illustrious prince;"
V,III,EDGAR,"And, from the extremest upward of thy head"
V,III,EDGAR,"To the descent and dust below thy foot,"
V,III,EDGAR,"A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou 'No,'"
V,III,EDGAR,"This sword, this arm, and my best spirits, are bent"
V,III,EDGAR,"To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak,"
V,III,EDGAR,"Thou liest."
V,III,EDMUND,"In wisdom I should ask thy name;"
V,III,EDMUND,"But, since thy outside looks so fair and warlike,"
V,III,EDMUND,"And that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes,"
V,III,EDMUND,"What safe and nicely I might well delay"
V,III,EDMUND,"By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn:"
V,III,EDMUND,"Back do I toss these treasons to thy head;"
V,III,EDMUND,"With the hell-hated lie o'erwhelm thy heart;"
V,III,EDMUND,"Which, for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise,"
V,III,EDMUND,"This sword of mine shall give them instant way,"
V,III,EDMUND,"Where they shall rest for ever. Trumpets, speak!"
V,III,ALBANY,"Save him, save him!"
V,III,GONERIL,"This is practise, Gloucester:"
V,III,GONERIL,"By the law of arms thou wast not bound to answer"
V,III,GONERIL,"An unknown opposite; thou art not vanquish'd,"
V,III,GONERIL,"But cozen'd and beguiled."
V,III,ALBANY,"Shut your mouth, dame,"
V,III,ALBANY,"Or with this paper shall I stop it: Hold, sir:"
V,III,ALBANY,"Thou worse than any name, read thine own evil:"
V,III,ALBANY,"No tearing, lady: I perceive you know it."
V,III,GONERIL,"Say, if I do, the laws are mine, not thine:"
V,III,GONERIL,"Who can arraign me for't."
V,III,ALBANY,"Most monstrous! oh!"
V,III,ALBANY,"Know'st thou this paper?"
V,III,GONERIL,"Ask me not what I know."
V,III,ALBANY,"Go after her: she's desperate; govern her."
V,III,EDMUND,"What you have charged me with, that have I done;"
V,III,EDMUND,"And more, much more; the time will bring it out:"
V,III,EDMUND,"'Tis past, and so am I. But what art thou"
V,III,EDMUND,"That hast this fortune on me? If thou'rt noble,"
V,III,EDMUND,"I do forgive thee."
V,III,EDGAR,"Let's exchange charity."
V,III,EDGAR,"I am no less in blood than thou art, Edmund;"
V,III,EDGAR,"If more, the more thou hast wrong'd me."
V,III,EDGAR,"My name is Edgar, and thy father's son."
V,III,EDGAR,"The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices"
V,III,EDGAR,"Make instruments to plague us:"
V,III,EDGAR,"The dark and vicious place where thee he got"
V,III,EDGAR,"Cost him his eyes."
V,III,EDMUND,"Thou hast spoken right, 'tis true;"
V,III,EDMUND,"The wheel is come full circle: I am here."
V,III,ALBANY,"Methought thy very gait did prophesy"
V,III,ALBANY,"A royal nobleness: I must embrace thee:"
V,III,ALBANY,"Let sorrow split my heart, if ever I"
V,III,ALBANY,"Did hate thee or thy father!"
V,III,EDGAR,"Worthy prince, I know't."
V,III,ALBANY,"Where have you hid yourself?"
V,III,ALBANY,"How have you known the miseries of your father?"
V,III,EDGAR,"By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale;"
V,III,EDGAR,"And when 'tis told, O, that my heart would burst!"
V,III,EDGAR,"The bloody proclamation to escape,"
V,III,EDGAR,"That follow'd me so near,--O, our lives' sweetness!"
V,III,EDGAR,"That we the pain of death would hourly die"
V,III,EDGAR,"Rather than die at once!--taught me to shift"
V,III,EDGAR,"Into a madman's rags; to assume a semblance"
V,III,EDGAR,"That very dogs disdain'd: and in this habit"
V,III,EDGAR,"Met I my father with his bleeding rings,"
V,III,EDGAR,"Their precious stones new lost: became his guide,"
V,III,EDGAR,"Led him, begg'd for him, saved him from despair;"
V,III,EDGAR,"Never,--O fault!--reveal'd myself unto him,"
V,III,EDGAR,"Until some half-hour past, when I was arm'd:"
V,III,EDGAR,"Not sure, though hoping, of this good success,"
V,III,EDGAR,"I ask'd his blessing, and from first to last"
V,III,EDGAR,"Told him my pilgrimage: but his flaw'd heart,"
V,III,EDGAR,"Alack, too weak the conflict to support!"
V,III,EDGAR,"'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,"
V,III,EDGAR,"Burst smilingly."
V,III,EDMUND,"This speech of yours hath moved me,"
V,III,EDMUND,"And shall perchance do good: but speak you on;"
V,III,EDMUND,"You look as you had something more to say."
V,III,ALBANY,"If there be more, more woeful, hold it in;"
V,III,ALBANY,"For I am almost ready to dissolve,"
V,III,ALBANY,"Hearing of this."
V,III,EDGAR,"This would have seem'd a period"
V,III,EDGAR,"To such as love not sorrow; but another,"
V,III,EDGAR,"To amplify too much, would make much more,"
V,III,EDGAR,"And top extremity."
V,III,EDGAR,"Whilst I was big in clamour came there in a man,"
V,III,EDGAR,"Who, having seen me in my worst estate,"
V,III,EDGAR,"Shunn'd my abhorr'd society; but then, finding"
V,III,EDGAR,"Who 'twas that so endured, with his strong arms"
V,III,EDGAR,"He fastened on my neck, and bellow'd out"
V,III,EDGAR,"As he'ld burst heaven; threw him on my father;"
V,III,EDGAR,"Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him"
V,III,EDGAR,"That ever ear received: which in recounting"
V,III,EDGAR,"His grief grew puissant and the strings of life"
V,III,EDGAR,"Began to crack: twice then the trumpets sounded,"
V,III,EDGAR,"And there I left him tranced."
V,III,ALBANY,"But who was this?"
V,III,EDGAR,"Kent, sir, the banish'd Kent; who in disguise"
V,III,EDGAR,"Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service"
V,III,EDGAR,"Improper for a slave."
V,III,Gentleman,"Help, help, O, help!"
V,III,EDGAR,"What kind of help?"
V,III,ALBANY,"Speak, man."
V,III,EDGAR,"What means that bloody knife?"
V,III,Gentleman,"'Tis hot, it smokes;"
V,III,Gentleman,"It came even from the heart of--O, she's dead!"
V,III,ALBANY,"Who dead? speak, man."
V,III,Gentleman,"Your lady, sir, your lady: and her sister"
V,III,Gentleman,"By her is poisoned; she hath confess'd it."
V,III,EDMUND,"I was contracted to them both: all three"
V,III,EDMUND,"Now marry in an instant."
V,III,EDGAR,"Here comes Kent."
V,III,ALBANY,"Produce their bodies, be they alive or dead:"
V,III,ALBANY,"This judgment of the heavens, that makes us tremble,"
V,III,ALBANY,"Touches us not with pity."
V,III,ALBANY,"O, is this he?"
V,III,ALBANY,"The time will not allow the compliment"
V,III,ALBANY,"Which very manners urges."
V,III,KENT,"I am come"
V,III,KENT,"To bid my king and master aye good night:"
V,III,KENT,"Is he not here?"
V,III,ALBANY,"Great thing of us forgot!"
V,III,ALBANY,"Speak, Edmund, where's the king? and where's Cordelia?"
V,III,ALBANY,"See'st thou this object, Kent?"
V,III,KENT,"Alack, why thus?"
V,III,EDMUND,"Yet Edmund was beloved:"
V,III,EDMUND,"The one the other poison'd for my sake,"
V,III,EDMUND,"And after slew herself."
V,III,ALBANY,"Even so. Cover their faces."
V,III,EDMUND,"I pant for life: some good I mean to do,"
V,III,EDMUND,"Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send,"
V,III,EDMUND,"Be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ"
V,III,EDMUND,"Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia:"
V,III,EDMUND,"Nay, send in time."
V,III,ALBANY,"Run, run, O, run!"
V,III,EDGAR,"To who, my lord? Who hath the office? send"
V,III,EDGAR,"Thy token of reprieve."
V,III,EDMUND,"Well thought on: take my sword,"
V,III,EDMUND,"Give it the captain."
V,III,ALBANY,"Haste thee, for thy life."
V,III,EDMUND,"He hath commission from thy wife and me"
V,III,EDMUND,"To hang Cordelia in the prison, and"
V,III,EDMUND,"To lay the blame upon her own despair,"
V,III,EDMUND,"That she fordid herself."
V,III,ALBANY,"The gods defend her! Bear him hence awhile."
V,III,KING LEAR,"Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones:"
V,III,KING LEAR,"Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so"
V,III,KING LEAR,"That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever!"
V,III,KING LEAR,"I know when one is dead, and when one lives;"
V,III,KING LEAR,"She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass;"
V,III,KING LEAR,"If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"Why, then she lives."
V,III,KENT,"Is this the promised end"
V,III,EDGAR,"Or image of that horror?"
V,III,ALBANY,"Fall, and cease!"
V,III,KING LEAR,"This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows"
V,III,KING LEAR,"That ever I have felt."
V,III,KING LEAR,"Prithee, away."
V,III,EDGAR,"'Tis noble Kent, your friend."
V,III,KING LEAR,"A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all!"
V,III,KING LEAR,"I might have saved her; now she's gone for ever!"
V,III,KING LEAR,"Cordelia, Cordelia! stay a little. Ha!"
V,III,KING LEAR,"What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman."
V,III,KING LEAR,"I kill'd the slave that was a-hanging thee."
V,III,Captain,"'Tis true, my lords, he did."
V,III,KING LEAR,"Did I not, fellow?"
V,III,KING LEAR,"I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion"
V,III,KING LEAR,"I would have made them skip: I am old now,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"And these same crosses spoil me. Who are you?"
V,III,KING LEAR,"Mine eyes are not o' the best: I'll tell you straight."
V,III,KENT,"If fortune brag of two she loved and hated,"
V,III,KENT,"One of them we behold."
V,III,KING LEAR,"This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?"
V,III,KENT,"The same,"
V,III,KENT,"Your servant Kent: Where is your servant Caius?"
V,III,KING LEAR,"He's a good fellow, I can tell you that;"
V,III,KING LEAR,"He'll strike, and quickly too: he's dead and rotten."
V,III,KENT,"No, my good lord; I am the very man,--"
V,III,KING LEAR,"I'll see that straight."
V,III,KENT,"That, from your first of difference and decay,"
V,III,KENT,"Have follow'd your sad steps."
V,III,KING LEAR,"You are welcome hither."
V,III,KENT,"Nor no man else: all's cheerless, dark, and deadly."
V,III,KENT,"Your eldest daughters have fordone them selves,"
V,III,KENT,"And desperately are dead."
V,III,KING LEAR,"Ay, so I think."
V,III,ALBANY,"He knows not what he says: and vain it is"
V,III,ALBANY,"That we present us to him."
V,III,EDGAR,"Very bootless."
V,III,Captain,"Edmund is dead, my lord."
V,III,ALBANY,"That's but a trifle here."
V,III,ALBANY,"You lords and noble friends, know our intent."
V,III,ALBANY,"What comfort to this great decay may come"
V,III,ALBANY,"Shall be applied: for us we will resign,"
V,III,ALBANY,"During the life of this old majesty,"
V,III,ALBANY,"To him our absolute power:"
V,III,ALBANY,"you, to your rights:"
V,III,ALBANY,"With boot, and such addition as your honours"
V,III,ALBANY,"Have more than merited. All friends shall taste"
V,III,ALBANY,"The wages of their virtue, and all foes"
V,III,ALBANY,"The cup of their deservings. O, see, see!"
V,III,KING LEAR,"And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life!"
V,III,KING LEAR,"Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"Never, never, never, never, never!"
V,III,KING LEAR,"Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir."
V,III,KING LEAR,"Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips,"
V,III,KING LEAR,"Look there, look there!"
V,III,EDGAR,"He faints! My lord, my lord!"
V,III,KENT,"Break, heart; I prithee, break!"
V,III,EDGAR,"Look up, my lord."
V,III,KENT,"Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much"
V,III,KENT,"That would upon the rack of this tough world"
V,III,KENT,"Stretch him out longer."
V,III,EDGAR,"He is gone, indeed."
V,III,KENT,"The wonder is, he hath endured so long:"
V,III,KENT,"He but usurp'd his life."
V,III,ALBANY,"Bear them from hence. Our present business"
V,III,ALBANY,"Is general woe."
V,III,ALBANY,"Friends of my soul, you twain"
V,III,ALBANY,"Rule in this realm, and the gored state sustain."
V,III,KENT,"I have a journey, sir, shortly to go;"
V,III,KENT,"My master calls me, I must not say no."
V,III,ALBANY,"The weight of this sad time we must obey;"
V,III,ALBANY,"Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say."
V,III,ALBANY,"The oldest hath borne most: we that are young"
V,III,ALBANY,"Shall never see so much, nor live so long."
I,I,KING JOHN,"Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?"
I,I,CHATILLON,"Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France"
I,I,CHATILLON,"In my behavior to the majesty,"
I,I,CHATILLON,"The borrow'd majesty, of England here."
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"A strange beginning: 'borrow'd majesty!'"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Silence, good mother; hear the embassy."
I,I,CHATILLON,"Philip of France, in right and true behalf"
I,I,CHATILLON,"Of thy deceased brother Geffrey's son,"
I,I,CHATILLON,"Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim"
I,I,CHATILLON,"To this fair island and the territories,"
I,I,CHATILLON,"To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,"
I,I,CHATILLON,"Desiring thee to lay aside the sword"
I,I,CHATILLON,"Which sways usurpingly these several titles,"
I,I,CHATILLON,"And put these same into young Arthur's hand,"
I,I,CHATILLON,"Thy nephew and right royal sovereign."
I,I,KING JOHN,"What follows if we disallow of this?"
I,I,CHATILLON,"The proud control of fierce and bloody war,"
I,I,CHATILLON,"To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld."
I,I,KING JOHN,"Here have we war for war and blood for blood,"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Controlment for controlment: so answer France."
I,I,CHATILLON,"Then take my king's defiance from my mouth,"
I,I,CHATILLON,"The farthest limit of my embassy."
I,I,KING JOHN,"Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace:"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France;"
I,I,KING JOHN,"For ere thou canst report I will be there,"
I,I,KING JOHN,"The thunder of my cannon shall be heard:"
I,I,KING JOHN,"So hence! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath"
I,I,KING JOHN,"And sullen presage of your own decay."
I,I,KING JOHN,"An honourable conduct let him have:"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Pembroke, look to 't. Farewell, Chatillon."
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"What now, my son! have I not ever said"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"How that ambitious Constance would not cease"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Till she had kindled France and all the world,"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Upon the right and party of her son?"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"This might have been prevented and made whole"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"With very easy arguments of love,"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Which now the manage of two kingdoms must"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"With fearful bloody issue arbitrate."
I,I,KING JOHN,"Our strong possession and our right for us."
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Your strong possession much more than your right,"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Or else it must go wrong with you and me:"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"So much my conscience whispers in your ear,"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Which none but heaven and you and I shall hear."
I,I,ESSEX,"My liege, here is the strangest controversy"
I,I,ESSEX,"Come from country to be judged by you,"
I,I,ESSEX,"That e'er I heard: shall I produce the men?"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Let them approach."
I,I,KING JOHN,"Our abbeys and our priories shall pay"
I,I,KING JOHN,"This expedition's charge."
I,I,KING JOHN,"What men are you?"
I,I,BASTARD,"Your faithful subject I, a gentleman"
I,I,BASTARD,"Born in Northamptonshire and eldest son,"
I,I,BASTARD,"As I suppose, to Robert Faulconbridge,"
I,I,BASTARD,"A soldier, by the honour-giving hand"
I,I,BASTARD,"Of Coeur-de-lion knighted in the field."
I,I,KING JOHN,"What art thou?"
I,I,ROBERT,"The son and heir to that same Faulconbridge."
I,I,KING JOHN,"Is that the elder, and art thou the heir?"
I,I,KING JOHN,"You came not of one mother then, it seems."
I,I,BASTARD,"Most certain of one mother, mighty king;"
I,I,BASTARD,"That is well known; and, as I think, one father:"
I,I,BASTARD,"But for the certain knowledge of that truth"
I,I,BASTARD,"I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother:"
I,I,BASTARD,"Of that I doubt, as all men's children may."
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Out on thee, rude man! thou dost shame thy mother"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"And wound her honour with this diffidence."
I,I,BASTARD,"I, madam? no, I have no reason for it;"
I,I,BASTARD,"That is my brother's plea and none of mine;"
I,I,BASTARD,"The which if he can prove, a' pops me out"
I,I,BASTARD,"At least from fair five hundred pound a year:"
I,I,BASTARD,"Heaven guard my mother's honour and my land!"
I,I,KING JOHN,"A good blunt fellow. Why, being younger born,"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?"
I,I,BASTARD,"I know not why, except to get the land."
I,I,BASTARD,"But once he slander'd me with bastardy:"
I,I,BASTARD,"But whether I be as true begot or no,"
I,I,BASTARD,"That still I lay upon my mother's head,"
I,I,BASTARD,"But that I am as well begot, my liege,--"
I,I,BASTARD,"Fair fall the bones that took the pains for me!--"
I,I,BASTARD,"Compare our faces and be judge yourself."
I,I,BASTARD,"If old sir Robert did beget us both"
I,I,BASTARD,"And were our father and this son like him,"
I,I,BASTARD,"O old sir Robert, father, on my knee"
I,I,BASTARD,"I give heaven thanks I was not like to thee!"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Why, what a madcap hath heaven lent us here!"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"He hath a trick of Coeur-de-lion's face;"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"The accent of his tongue affecteth him."
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Do you not read some tokens of my son"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"In the large composition of this man?"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Mine eye hath well examined his parts"
I,I,KING JOHN,"And finds them perfect Richard. Sirrah, speak,"
I,I,KING JOHN,"What doth move you to claim your brother's land?"
I,I,BASTARD,"Because he hath a half-face, like my father."
I,I,BASTARD,"With half that face would he have all my land:"
I,I,BASTARD,"A half-faced groat five hundred pound a year!"
I,I,ROBERT,"My gracious liege, when that my father lived,"
I,I,ROBERT,"Your brother did employ my father much,--"
I,I,BASTARD,"Well, sir, by this you cannot get my land:"
I,I,BASTARD,"Your tale must be how he employ'd my mother."
I,I,ROBERT,"And once dispatch'd him in an embassy"
I,I,ROBERT,"To Germany, there with the emperor"
I,I,ROBERT,"To treat of high affairs touching that time."
I,I,ROBERT,"The advantage of his absence took the king"
I,I,ROBERT,"And in the mean time sojourn'd at my father's;"
I,I,ROBERT,"Where how he did prevail I shame to speak,"
I,I,ROBERT,"But truth is truth: large lengths of seas and shores"
I,I,ROBERT,"Between my father and my mother lay,"
I,I,ROBERT,"As I have heard my father speak himself,"
I,I,ROBERT,"When this same lusty gentleman was got."
I,I,ROBERT,"Upon his death-bed he by will bequeath'd"
I,I,ROBERT,"His lands to me, and took it on his death"
I,I,ROBERT,"That this my mother's son was none of his;"
I,I,ROBERT,"And if he were, he came into the world"
I,I,ROBERT,"Full fourteen weeks before the course of time."
I,I,ROBERT,"Then, good my liege, let me have what is mine,"
I,I,ROBERT,"My father's land, as was my father's will."
I,I,KING JOHN,"Sirrah, your brother is legitimate;"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him,"
I,I,KING JOHN,"And if she did play false, the fault was hers;"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Which fault lies on the hazards of all husbands"
I,I,KING JOHN,"That marry wives. Tell me, how if my brother,"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Who, as you say, took pains to get this son,"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Had of your father claim'd this son for his?"
I,I,KING JOHN,"In sooth, good friend, your father might have kept"
I,I,KING JOHN,"This calf bred from his cow from all the world;"
I,I,KING JOHN,"In sooth he might; then, if he were my brother's,"
I,I,KING JOHN,"My brother might not claim him; nor your father,"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Being none of his, refuse him: this concludes;"
I,I,KING JOHN,"My mother's son did get your father's heir;"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Your father's heir must have your father's land."
I,I,ROBERT,"Shall then my father's will be of no force"
I,I,ROBERT,"To dispossess that child which is not his?"
I,I,BASTARD,"Of no more force to dispossess me, sir,"
I,I,BASTARD,"Than was his will to get me, as I think."
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Whether hadst thou rather be a Faulconbridge"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"And like thy brother, to enjoy thy land,"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Or the reputed son of Coeur-de-lion,"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Lord of thy presence and no land beside?"
I,I,BASTARD,"Madam, an if my brother had my shape,"
I,I,BASTARD,"And I had his, sir Robert's his, like him;"
I,I,BASTARD,"And if my legs were two such riding-rods,"
I,I,BASTARD,"My arms such eel-skins stuff'd, my face so thin"
I,I,BASTARD,"That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose"
I,I,BASTARD,"Lest men should say 'Look, where three-farthings goes!'"
I,I,BASTARD,"And, to his shape, were heir to all this land,"
I,I,BASTARD,"Would I might never stir from off this place,"
I,I,BASTARD,"I would give it every foot to have this face;"
I,I,BASTARD,"I would not be sir Nob in any case."
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"I like thee well: wilt thou forsake thy fortune,"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Bequeath thy land to him and follow me?"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"I am a soldier and now bound to France."
I,I,BASTARD,"Brother, take you my land, I'll take my chance."
I,I,BASTARD,"Your face hath got five hundred pound a year,"
I,I,BASTARD,"Yet sell your face for five pence and 'tis dear."
I,I,BASTARD,"Madam, I'll follow you unto the death."
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Nay, I would have you go before me thither."
I,I,BASTARD,"Our country manners give our betters way."
I,I,KING JOHN,"What is thy name?"
I,I,BASTARD,"Philip, my liege, so is my name begun,"
I,I,BASTARD,"Philip, good old sir Robert's wife's eldest son."
I,I,KING JOHN,"From henceforth bear his name whose form thou bear'st:"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Kneel thou down Philip, but rise more great,"
I,I,KING JOHN,"Arise sir Richard and Plantagenet."
I,I,BASTARD,"Brother by the mother's side, give me your hand:"
I,I,BASTARD,"My father gave me honour, yours gave land."
I,I,BASTARD,"Now blessed by the hour, by night or day,"
I,I,BASTARD,"When I was got, sir Robert was away!"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"The very spirit of Plantagenet!"
I,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"I am thy grandam, Richard; call me so."
I,I,BASTARD,"Madam, by chance but not by truth; what though?"
I,I,BASTARD,"Something about, a little from the right,"
I,I,BASTARD,"In at the window, or else o'er the hatch:"
I,I,BASTARD,"Who dares not stir by day must walk by night,"
I,I,BASTARD,"And have is have, however men do catch:"
I,I,BASTARD,"Near or far off, well won is still well shot,"
I,I,BASTARD,"And I am I, howe'er I was begot."
I,I,KING JOHN,"Go, Faulconbridge: now hast thou thy desire;"
I,I,KING JOHN,"A landless knight makes thee a landed squire."
I,I,KING JOHN,"Come, madam, and come, Richard, we must speed"
I,I,KING JOHN,"For France, for France, for it is more than need."
I,I,BASTARD,"Brother, adieu: good fortune come to thee!"
I,I,BASTARD,"For thou wast got i' the way of honesty."
I,I,BASTARD,"A foot of honour better than I was;"
I,I,BASTARD,"But many a many foot of land the worse."
I,I,BASTARD,"Well, now can I make any Joan a lady."
I,I,BASTARD,"'Good den, sir Richard!'--'God-a-mercy, fellow!'--"
I,I,BASTARD,"And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter;"
I,I,BASTARD,"For new-made honour doth forget men's names;"
I,I,BASTARD,"'Tis too respective and too sociable"
I,I,BASTARD,"For your conversion. Now your traveller,"
I,I,BASTARD,"He and his toothpick at my worship's mess,"
I,I,BASTARD,"And when my knightly stomach is sufficed,"
I,I,BASTARD,"Why then I suck my teeth and catechise"
I,I,BASTARD,"My picked man of countries: 'My dear sir,'"
I,I,BASTARD,"Thus, leaning on mine elbow, I begin,"
I,I,BASTARD,"'I shall beseech you'--that is question now;"
I,I,BASTARD,"And then comes answer like an Absey book:"
I,I,BASTARD,"'O sir,' says answer, 'at your best command;"
I,I,BASTARD,"At your employment; at your service, sir;'"
I,I,BASTARD,"'No, sir,' says question, 'I, sweet sir, at yours:'"
I,I,BASTARD,"And so, ere answer knows what question would,"
I,I,BASTARD,"Saving in dialogue of compliment,"
I,I,BASTARD,"And talking of the Alps and Apennines,"
I,I,BASTARD,"The Pyrenean and the river Po,"
I,I,BASTARD,"It draws toward supper in conclusion so."
I,I,BASTARD,"But this is worshipful society"
I,I,BASTARD,"And fits the mounting spirit like myself,"
I,I,BASTARD,"For he is but a bastard to the time"
I,I,BASTARD,"That doth not smack of observation;"
I,I,BASTARD,"And so am I, whether I smack or no;"
I,I,BASTARD,"And not alone in habit and device,"
I,I,BASTARD,"Exterior form, outward accoutrement,"
I,I,BASTARD,"But from the inward motion to deliver"
I,I,BASTARD,"Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth:"
I,I,BASTARD,"Which, though I will not practise to deceive,"
I,I,BASTARD,"Yet, to avoid deceit, I mean to learn;"
I,I,BASTARD,"For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising."
I,I,BASTARD,"But who comes in such haste in riding-robes?"
I,I,BASTARD,"What woman-post is this? hath she no husband"
I,I,BASTARD,"That will take pains to blow a horn before her?"
I,I,BASTARD,"O me! it is my mother. How now, good lady!"
I,I,BASTARD,"What brings you here to court so hastily?"
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"Where is that slave, thy brother? where is he,"
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"That holds in chase mine honour up and down?"
I,I,BASTARD,"My brother Robert? old sir Robert's son?"
I,I,BASTARD,"Colbrand the giant, that same mighty man?"
I,I,BASTARD,"Is it sir Robert's son that you seek so?"
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"Sir Robert's son! Ay, thou unreverend boy,"
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"Sir Robert's son: why scorn'st thou at sir Robert?"
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"He is sir Robert's son, and so art thou."
I,I,BASTARD,"James Gurney, wilt thou give us leave awhile?"
I,I,GURNEY,"Good leave, good Philip."
I,I,BASTARD,"Philip! sparrow: James,"
I,I,BASTARD,"There's toys abroad: anon I'll tell thee more."
I,I,BASTARD,"Madam, I was not old sir Robert's son:"
I,I,BASTARD,"Sir Robert might have eat his part in me"
I,I,BASTARD,"Upon Good-Friday and ne'er broke his fast:"
I,I,BASTARD,"Sir Robert could do well: marry, to confess,"
I,I,BASTARD,"Could he get me? Sir Robert could not do it:"
I,I,BASTARD,"We know his handiwork: therefore, good mother,"
I,I,BASTARD,"To whom am I beholding for these limbs?"
I,I,BASTARD,"Sir Robert never holp to make this leg."
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"Hast thou conspired with thy brother too,"
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"That for thine own gain shouldst defend mine honour?"
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"What means this scorn, thou most untoward knave?"
I,I,BASTARD,"Knight, knight, good mother, Basilisco-like."
I,I,BASTARD,"What! I am dubb'd! I have it on my shoulder."
I,I,BASTARD,"But, mother, I am not sir Robert's son;"
I,I,BASTARD,"I have disclaim'd sir Robert and my land;"
I,I,BASTARD,"Legitimation, name and all is gone:"
I,I,BASTARD,"Then, good my mother, let me know my father;"
I,I,BASTARD,"Some proper man, I hope: who was it, mother?"
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"Hast thou denied thyself a Faulconbridge?"
I,I,BASTARD,"As faithfully as I deny the devil."
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"King Richard Coeur-de-lion was thy father:"
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"By long and vehement suit I was seduced"
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"To make room for him in my husband's bed:"
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"Heaven lay not my transgression to my charge!"
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"Thou art the issue of my dear offence,"
I,I,LADY FAULCONBRIDGE,"Which was so strongly urged past my defence."
I,I,BASTARD,"Now, by this light, were I to get again,"
I,I,BASTARD,"Madam, I would not wish a better father."
I,I,BASTARD,"Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,"
I,I,BASTARD,"And so doth yours; your fault was not your folly:"
I,I,BASTARD,"Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,"
I,I,BASTARD,"Subjected tribute to commanding love,"
I,I,BASTARD,"Against whose fury and unmatched force"
I,I,BASTARD,"The aweless lion could not wage the fight,"
I,I,BASTARD,"Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand."
I,I,BASTARD,"He that perforce robs lions of their hearts"
I,I,BASTARD,"May easily win a woman's. Ay, my mother,"
I,I,BASTARD,"With all my heart I thank thee for my father!"
I,I,BASTARD,"Who lives and dares but say thou didst not well"
I,I,BASTARD,"When I was got, I'll send his soul to hell."
I,I,BASTARD,"Come, lady, I will show thee to my kin;"
I,I,BASTARD,"And they shall say, when Richard me begot,"
I,I,BASTARD,"If thou hadst said him nay, it had been sin:"
I,I,BASTARD,"Who says it was, he lies; I say 'twas not."
II,I,LEWIS,"Before Angiers well met, brave Austria."
II,I,LEWIS,"Arthur, that great forerunner of thy blood,"
II,I,LEWIS,"Richard, that robb'd the lion of his heart"
II,I,LEWIS,"And fought the holy wars in Palestine,"
II,I,LEWIS,"By this brave duke came early to his grave:"
II,I,LEWIS,"And for amends to his posterity,"
II,I,LEWIS,"At our importance hither is he come,"
II,I,LEWIS,"To spread his colours, boy, in thy behalf,"
II,I,LEWIS,"And to rebuke the usurpation"
II,I,LEWIS,"Of thy unnatural uncle, English John:"
II,I,LEWIS,"Embrace him, love him, give him welcome hither."
II,I,ARTHUR,"God shall forgive you Coeur-de-lion's death"
II,I,ARTHUR,"The rather that you give his offspring life,"
II,I,ARTHUR,"Shadowing their right under your wings of war:"
II,I,ARTHUR,"I give you welcome with a powerless hand,"
II,I,ARTHUR,"But with a heart full of unstained love:"
II,I,ARTHUR,"Welcome before the gates of Angiers, duke."
II,I,LEWIS,"A noble boy! Who would not do thee right?"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss,"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"As seal to this indenture of my love,"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"That to my home I will no more return,"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"Till Angiers and the right thou hast in France,"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"Together with that pale, that white-faced shore,"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"And coops from other lands her islanders,"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"Even till that England, hedged in with the main,"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"That water-walled bulwark, still secure"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"And confident from foreign purposes,"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"Even till that utmost corner of the west"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"Salute thee for her king: till then, fair boy,"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"Will I not think of home, but follow arms."
II,I,CONSTANCE,"O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks,"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"To make a more requital to your love!"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"In such a just and charitable war."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Well then, to work: our cannon shall be bent"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Against the brows of this resisting town."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Call for our chiefest men of discipline,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"To cull the plots of best advantages:"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"We'll lay before this town our royal bones,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Wade to the market-place in Frenchmen's blood,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"But we will make it subject to this boy."
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Stay for an answer to your embassy,"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Lest unadvised you stain your swords with blood:"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"My Lord Chatillon may from England bring,"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"That right in peace which here we urge in war,"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"And then we shall repent each drop of blood"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"That hot rash haste so indirectly shed."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"A wonder, lady! lo, upon thy wish,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Our messenger Chatillon is arrived!"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"What England says, say briefly, gentle lord;"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"We coldly pause for thee; Chatillon, speak."
II,I,CHATILLON,"Then turn your forces from this paltry siege"
II,I,CHATILLON,"And stir them up against a mightier task."
II,I,CHATILLON,"England, impatient of your just demands,"
II,I,CHATILLON,"Hath put himself in arms: the adverse winds,"
II,I,CHATILLON,"Whose leisure I have stay'd, have given him time"
II,I,CHATILLON,"To land his legions all as soon as I;"
II,I,CHATILLON,"His marches are expedient to this town,"
II,I,CHATILLON,"His forces strong, his soldiers confident."
II,I,CHATILLON,"With him along is come the mother-queen,"
II,I,CHATILLON,"An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife;"
II,I,CHATILLON,"With her her niece, the Lady Blanch of Spain;"
II,I,CHATILLON,"With them a bastard of the king's deceased,"
II,I,CHATILLON,"And all the unsettled humours of the land,"
II,I,CHATILLON,"Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries,"
II,I,CHATILLON,"With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens,"
II,I,CHATILLON,"Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,"
II,I,CHATILLON,"Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,"
II,I,CHATILLON,"To make hazard of new fortunes here:"
II,I,CHATILLON,"In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits"
II,I,CHATILLON,"Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er"
II,I,CHATILLON,"Did nearer float upon the swelling tide,"
II,I,CHATILLON,"To do offence and scath in Christendom."
II,I,CHATILLON,"The interruption of their churlish drums"
II,I,CHATILLON,"Cuts off more circumstance: they are at hand,"
II,I,CHATILLON,"To parley or to fight; therefore prepare."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"How much unlook'd for is this expedition!"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"By how much unexpected, by so much"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"We must awake endavour for defence;"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"For courage mounteth with occasion:"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"Let them be welcome then: we are prepared."
II,I,KING JOHN,"Peace be to France, if France in peace permit"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Our just and lineal entrance to our own;"
II,I,KING JOHN,"If not, bleed France, and peace ascend to heaven,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Whiles we, God's wrathful agent, do correct"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Their proud contempt that beats His peace to heaven."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Peace be to England, if that war return"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"From France to England, there to live in peace."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"England we love; and for that England's sake"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"With burden of our armour here we sweat."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"This toil of ours should be a work of thine;"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"But thou from loving England art so far,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"That thou hast under-wrought his lawful king"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Cut off the sequence of posterity,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Out-faced infant state and done a rape"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Upon the maiden virtue of the crown."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Look here upon thy brother Geffrey's face;"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"These eyes, these brows, were moulded out of his:"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"This little abstract doth contain that large"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Which died in Geffrey, and the hand of time"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Shall draw this brief into as huge a volume."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"That Geffrey was thy elder brother born,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"And this his son; England was Geffrey's right"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"And this is Geffrey's: in the name of God"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"How comes it then that thou art call'd a king,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"When living blood doth in these temples beat,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Which owe the crown that thou o'ermasterest?"
II,I,KING JOHN,"From whom hast thou this great commission, France,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"To draw my answer from thy articles?"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"From that supernal judge, that stirs good thoughts"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"In any breast of strong authority,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"To look into the blots and stains of right:"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"That judge hath made me guardian to this boy:"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Under whose warrant I impeach thy wrong"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"And by whose help I mean to chastise it."
II,I,KING JOHN,"Alack, thou dost usurp authority."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Excuse; it is to beat usurping down."
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Who is it thou dost call usurper, France?"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Let me make answer; thy usurping son."
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Out, insolent! thy bastard shall be king,"
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"That thou mayst be a queen, and cheque the world!"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"My bed was ever to thy son as true"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"As thine was to thy husband; and this boy"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Liker in feature to his father Geffrey"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Than thou and John in manners; being as like"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"As rain to water, or devil to his dam."
II,I,CONSTANCE,"My boy a bastard! By my soul, I think"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"His father never was so true begot:"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"It cannot be, an if thou wert his mother."
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"There's a good mother, boy, that blots thy father."
II,I,CONSTANCE,"There's a good grandam, boy, that would blot thee."
II,I,AUSTRIA,"Peace!"
II,I,BASTARD,"Hear the crier."
II,I,AUSTRIA,"What the devil art thou?"
II,I,BASTARD,"One that will play the devil, sir, with you,"
II,I,BASTARD,"An a' may catch your hide and you alone:"
II,I,BASTARD,"You are the hare of whom the proverb goes,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard;"
II,I,BASTARD,"I'll smoke your skin-coat, an I catch you right;"
II,I,BASTARD,"Sirrah, look to't; i' faith, I will, i' faith."
II,I,BLANCH,"O, well did he become that lion's robe"
II,I,BLANCH,"That did disrobe the lion of that robe!"
II,I,BASTARD,"It lies as sightly on the back of him"
II,I,BASTARD,"As great Alcides' shows upon an ass:"
II,I,BASTARD,"But, ass, I'll take that burthen from your back,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack."
II,I,AUSTRIA,"What craker is this same that deafs our ears"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"With this abundance of superfluous breath?"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Lewis, determine what we shall do straight."
II,I,LEWIS,"Women and fools, break off your conference."
II,I,LEWIS,"King John, this is the very sum of all;"
II,I,LEWIS,"England and Ireland, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,"
II,I,LEWIS,"In right of Arthur do I claim of thee:"
II,I,LEWIS,"Wilt thou resign them and lay down thy arms?"
II,I,KING JOHN,"My life as soon: I do defy thee, France."
II,I,KING JOHN,"Arthur of Bretagne, yield thee to my hand;"
II,I,KING JOHN,"And out of my dear love I'll give thee more"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Than e'er the coward hand of France can win:"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Submit thee, boy."
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Come to thy grandam, child."
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Do, child, go to it grandam, child:"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig:"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"There's a good grandam."
II,I,ARTHUR,"Good my mother, peace!"
II,I,ARTHUR,"I would that I were low laid in my grave:"
II,I,ARTHUR,"I am not worth this coil that's made for me."
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"His mother shames him so, poor boy, he weeps."
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Now shame upon you, whether she does or no!"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"His grandam's wrongs, and not his mother's shames,"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Draws those heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes,"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Which heaven shall take in nature of a fee;"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Ay, with these crystal beads heaven shall be bribed"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"To do him justice and revenge on you."
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Thou monstrous slanderer of heaven and earth!"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Thou monstrous injurer of heaven and earth!"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Call not me slanderer; thou and thine usurp"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"The dominations, royalties and rights"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Of this oppressed boy: this is thy eld'st son's son,"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Infortunate in nothing but in thee:"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Thy sins are visited in this poor child;"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"The canon of the law is laid on him,"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Being but the second generation"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb."
II,I,KING JOHN,"Bedlam, have done."
II,I,CONSTANCE,"I have but this to say,"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"That he is not only plagued for her sin,"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"But God hath made her sin and her the plague"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"On this removed issue, plague for her"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"And with her plague; her sin his injury,"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Her injury the beadle to her sin,"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"All punish'd in the person of this child,"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"And all for her; a plague upon her!"
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Thou unadvised scold, I can produce"
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"A will that bars the title of thy son."
II,I,CONSTANCE,"Ay, who doubts that? a will! a wicked will:"
II,I,CONSTANCE,"A woman's will; a canker'd grandam's will!"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Peace, lady! pause, or be more temperate:"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"It ill beseems this presence to cry aim"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"To these ill-tuned repetitions."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Some trumpet summon hither to the walls"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"These men of Angiers: let us hear them speak"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Whose title they admit, Arthur's or John's."
II,I,First Citizen,"Who is it that hath warn'd us to the walls?"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"'Tis France, for England."
II,I,KING JOHN,"England, for itself."
II,I,KING JOHN,"You men of Angiers, and my loving subjects--"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"You loving men of Angiers, Arthur's subjects,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Our trumpet call'd you to this gentle parle--"
II,I,KING JOHN,"For our advantage; therefore hear us first."
II,I,KING JOHN,"These flags of France, that are advanced here"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Before the eye and prospect of your town,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Have hither march'd to your endamagement:"
II,I,KING JOHN,"The cannons have their bowels full of wrath,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"And ready mounted are they to spit forth"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Their iron indignation 'gainst your walls:"
II,I,KING JOHN,"All preparation for a bloody siege"
II,I,KING JOHN,"All merciless proceeding by these French"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Confronts your city's eyes, your winking gates;"
II,I,KING JOHN,"And but for our approach those sleeping stones,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"That as a waist doth girdle you about,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"By the compulsion of their ordinance"
II,I,KING JOHN,"By this time from their fixed beds of lime"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Had been dishabited, and wide havoc made"
II,I,KING JOHN,"For bloody power to rush upon your peace."
II,I,KING JOHN,"But on the sight of us your lawful king,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Who painfully with much expedient march"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Have brought a countercheque before your gates,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"To save unscratch'd your city's threatened cheeks,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Behold, the French amazed vouchsafe a parle;"
II,I,KING JOHN,"And now, instead of bullets wrapp'd in fire,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"To make a shaking fever in your walls,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"They shoot but calm words folded up in smoke,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"To make a faithless error in your ears:"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Which trust accordingly, kind citizens,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"And let us in, your king, whose labour'd spirits,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Forwearied in this action of swift speed,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Crave harbourage within your city walls."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"When I have said, make answer to us both."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Lo, in this right hand, whose protection"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Is most divinely vow'd upon the right"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Of him it holds, stands young Plantagenet,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Son to the elder brother of this man,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"And king o'er him and all that he enjoys:"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"For this down-trodden equity, we tread"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"In warlike march these greens before your town,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Being no further enemy to you"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Than the constraint of hospitable zeal"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"In the relief of this oppressed child"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Religiously provokes. Be pleased then"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"To pay that duty which you truly owe"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"To that owes it, namely this young prince:"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"And then our arms, like to a muzzled bear,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Save in aspect, hath all offence seal'd up;"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Our cannons' malice vainly shall be spent"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Against the invulnerable clouds of heaven;"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"And with a blessed and unvex'd retire,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"With unhack'd swords and helmets all unbruised,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"We will bear home that lusty blood again"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Which here we came to spout against your town,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"And leave your children, wives and you in peace."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"But if you fondly pass our proffer'd offer,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"'Tis not the roundure of your old-faced walls"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Can hide you from our messengers of war,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Though all these English and their discipline"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Were harbour'd in their rude circumference."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Then tell us, shall your city call us lord,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"In that behalf which we have challenged it?"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Or shall we give the signal to our rage"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"And stalk in blood to our possession?"
II,I,First Citizen,"In brief, we are the king of England's subjects:"
II,I,First Citizen,"For him, and in his right, we hold this town."
II,I,KING JOHN,"Acknowledge then the king, and let me in."
II,I,First Citizen,"That can we not; but he that proves the king,"
II,I,First Citizen,"To him will we prove loyal: till that time"
II,I,First Citizen,"Have we ramm'd up our gates against the world."
II,I,KING JOHN,"Doth not the crown of England prove the king?"
II,I,KING JOHN,"And if not that, I bring you witnesses,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed,--"
II,I,BASTARD,"Bastards, and else."
II,I,KING JOHN,"To verify our title with their lives."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"As many and as well-born bloods as those,--"
II,I,BASTARD,"Some bastards too."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Stand in his face to contradict his claim."
II,I,First Citizen,"Till you compound whose right is worthiest,"
II,I,First Citizen,"We for the worthiest hold the right from both."
II,I,KING JOHN,"Then God forgive the sin of all those souls"
II,I,KING JOHN,"That to their everlasting residence,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Before the dew of evening fall, shall fleet,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"In dreadful trial of our kingdom's king!"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Amen, amen! Mount, chevaliers! to arms!"
II,I,BASTARD,"Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since"
II,I,BASTARD,"Sits on his horseback at mine hostess' door,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Teach us some fence!"
II,I,BASTARD,"Sirrah, were I at home,"
II,I,BASTARD,"At your den, sirrah, with your lioness"
II,I,BASTARD,"I would set an ox-head to your lion's hide,"
II,I,BASTARD,"And make a monster of you."
II,I,AUSTRIA,"Peace! no more."
II,I,BASTARD,"O tremble, for you hear the lion roar."
II,I,KING JOHN,"Up higher to the plain; where we'll set forth"
II,I,KING JOHN,"In best appointment all our regiments."
II,I,BASTARD,"Speed then, to take advantage of the field."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"It shall be so; and at the other hill"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Command the rest to stand. God and our right!"
II,I,French Herald,"You men of Angiers, open wide your gates,"
II,I,French Herald,"And let young Arthur, Duke of Bretagne, in,"
II,I,French Herald,"Who by the hand of France this day hath made"
II,I,French Herald,"Much work for tears in many an English mother,"
II,I,French Herald,"Whose sons lie scattered on the bleeding ground;"
II,I,French Herald,"Many a widow's husband grovelling lies,"
II,I,French Herald,"Coldly embracing the discolour'd earth;"
II,I,French Herald,"And victory, with little loss, doth play"
II,I,French Herald,"Upon the dancing banners of the French,"
II,I,French Herald,"Who are at hand, triumphantly display'd,"
II,I,French Herald,"To enter conquerors and to proclaim"
II,I,French Herald,"Arthur of Bretagne England's king and yours."
II,I,English Herald,"Rejoice, you men of Angiers, ring your bells:"
II,I,English Herald,"King John, your king and England's doth approach,"
II,I,English Herald,"Commander of this hot malicious day:"
II,I,English Herald,"Their armours, that march'd hence so silver-bright,"
II,I,English Herald,"Hither return all gilt with Frenchmen's blood;"
II,I,English Herald,"There stuck no plume in any English crest"
II,I,English Herald,"That is removed by a staff of France;"
II,I,English Herald,"Our colours do return in those same hands"
II,I,English Herald,"That did display them when we first march'd forth;"
II,I,English Herald,"And, like a troop of jolly huntsmen, come"
II,I,English Herald,"Our lusty English, all with purpled hands,"
II,I,English Herald,"Dyed in the dying slaughter of their foes:"
II,I,English Herald,"Open your gates and gives the victors way."
II,I,First Citizen,"Heralds, from off our towers we might behold,"
II,I,First Citizen,"From first to last, the onset and retire"
II,I,First Citizen,"Of both your armies; whose equality"
II,I,First Citizen,"By our best eyes cannot be censured:"
II,I,First Citizen,"Blood hath bought blood and blows have answered blows;"
II,I,First Citizen,"Strength match'd with strength, and power confronted power:"
II,I,First Citizen,"Both are alike; and both alike we like."
II,I,First Citizen,"One must prove greatest: while they weigh so even,"
II,I,First Citizen,"We hold our town for neither, yet for both."
II,I,KING JOHN,"France, hast thou yet more blood to cast away?"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Say, shall the current of our right run on?"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Whose passage, vex'd with thy impediment,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Shall leave his native channel and o'erswell"
II,I,KING JOHN,"With course disturb'd even thy confining shores,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Unless thou let his silver water keep"
II,I,KING JOHN,"A peaceful progress to the ocean."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"England, thou hast not saved one drop of blood,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"In this hot trial, more than we of France;"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Rather, lost more. And by this hand I swear,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"That sways the earth this climate overlooks,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Before we will lay down our just-borne arms,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"We'll put thee down, 'gainst whom these arms we bear,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Or add a royal number to the dead,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Gracing the scroll that tells of this war's loss"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"With slaughter coupled to the name of kings."
II,I,BASTARD,"Ha, majesty! how high thy glory towers,"
II,I,BASTARD,"When the rich blood of kings is set on fire!"
II,I,BASTARD,"O, now doth Death line his dead chaps with steel;"
II,I,BASTARD,"The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his fangs;"
II,I,BASTARD,"And now he feasts, mousing the flesh of men,"
II,I,BASTARD,"In undetermined differences of kings."
II,I,BASTARD,"Why stand these royal fronts amazed thus?"
II,I,BASTARD,"Cry, 'havoc!' kings; back to the stained field,"
II,I,BASTARD,"You equal potents, fiery kindled spirits!"
II,I,BASTARD,"Then let confusion of one part confirm"
II,I,BASTARD,"The other's peace: till then, blows, blood and death!"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Whose party do the townsmen yet admit?"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Speak, citizens, for England; who's your king?"
II,I,First Citizen,"The king of England; when we know the king."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Know him in us, that here hold up his right."
II,I,KING JOHN,"In us, that are our own great deputy"
II,I,KING JOHN,"And bear possession of our person here,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Lord of our presence, Angiers, and of you."
II,I,First Citizen,"A greater power then we denies all this;"
II,I,First Citizen,"And till it be undoubted, we do lock"
II,I,First Citizen,"Our former scruple in our strong-barr'd gates;"
II,I,First Citizen,"King'd of our fears, until our fears, resolved,"
II,I,First Citizen,"Be by some certain king purged and deposed."
II,I,BASTARD,"By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings,"
II,I,BASTARD,"And stand securely on their battlements,"
II,I,BASTARD,"As in a theatre, whence they gape and point"
II,I,BASTARD,"At your industrious scenes and acts of death."
II,I,BASTARD,"Your royal presences be ruled by me:"
II,I,BASTARD,"Do like the mutines of Jerusalem,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Be friends awhile and both conjointly bend"
II,I,BASTARD,"Your sharpest deeds of malice on this town:"
II,I,BASTARD,"By east and west let France and England mount"
II,I,BASTARD,"Their battering cannon charged to the mouths,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Till their soul-fearing clamours have brawl'd down"
II,I,BASTARD,"The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city:"
II,I,BASTARD,"I'ld play incessantly upon these jades,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Even till unfenced desolation"
II,I,BASTARD,"Leave them as naked as the vulgar air."
II,I,BASTARD,"That done, dissever your united strengths,"
II,I,BASTARD,"And part your mingled colours once again;"
II,I,BASTARD,"Turn face to face and bloody point to point;"
II,I,BASTARD,"Then, in a moment, Fortune shall cull forth"
II,I,BASTARD,"Out of one side her happy minion,"
II,I,BASTARD,"To whom in favour she shall give the day,"
II,I,BASTARD,"And kiss him with a glorious victory."
II,I,BASTARD,"How like you this wild counsel, mighty states?"
II,I,BASTARD,"Smacks it not something of the policy?"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Now, by the sky that hangs above our heads,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"I like it well. France, shall we knit our powers"
II,I,KING JOHN,"And lay this Angiers even to the ground;"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Then after fight who shall be king of it?"
II,I,BASTARD,"An if thou hast the mettle of a king,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Being wronged as we are by this peevish town,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Turn thou the mouth of thy artillery,"
II,I,BASTARD,"As we will ours, against these saucy walls;"
II,I,BASTARD,"And when that we have dash'd them to the ground,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Why then defy each other and pell-mell"
II,I,BASTARD,"Make work upon ourselves, for heaven or hell."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Let it be so. Say, where will you assault?"
II,I,KING JOHN,"We from the west will send destruction"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Into this city's bosom."
II,I,AUSTRIA,"I from the north."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Our thunder from the south"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Shall rain their drift of bullets on this town."
II,I,BASTARD,"O prudent discipline! From north to south:"
II,I,BASTARD,"Austria and France shoot in each other's mouth:"
II,I,BASTARD,"I'll stir them to it. Come, away, away!"
II,I,First Citizen,"Hear us, great kings: vouchsafe awhile to stay,"
II,I,First Citizen,"And I shall show you peace and fair-faced league;"
II,I,First Citizen,"Win you this city without stroke or wound;"
II,I,First Citizen,"Rescue those breathing lives to die in beds,"
II,I,First Citizen,"That here come sacrifices for the field:"
II,I,First Citizen,"Persever not, but hear me, mighty kings."
II,I,KING JOHN,"Speak on with favour; we are bent to hear."
II,I,First Citizen,"That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanch,"
II,I,First Citizen,"Is niece to England: look upon the years"
II,I,First Citizen,"Of Lewis the Dauphin and that lovely maid:"
II,I,First Citizen,"If lusty love should go in quest of beauty,"
II,I,First Citizen,"Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch?"
II,I,First Citizen,"If zealous love should go in search of virtue,"
II,I,First Citizen,"Where should he find it purer than in Blanch?"
II,I,First Citizen,"If love ambitious sought a match of birth,"
II,I,First Citizen,"Whose veins bound richer blood than Lady Blanch?"
II,I,First Citizen,"Such as she is, in beauty, virtue, birth,"
II,I,First Citizen,"Is the young Dauphin every way complete:"
II,I,First Citizen,"If not complete of, say he is not she;"
II,I,First Citizen,"And she again wants nothing, to name want,"
II,I,First Citizen,"If want it be not that she is not he:"
II,I,First Citizen,"He is the half part of a blessed man,"
II,I,First Citizen,"Left to be finished by such as she;"
II,I,First Citizen,"And she a fair divided excellence,"
II,I,First Citizen,"Whose fulness of perfection lies in him."
II,I,First Citizen,"O, two such silver currents, when they join,"
II,I,First Citizen,"Do glorify the banks that bound them in;"
II,I,First Citizen,"And two such shores to two such streams made one,"
II,I,First Citizen,"Two such controlling bounds shall you be, kings,"
II,I,First Citizen,"To these two princes, if you marry them."
II,I,First Citizen,"This union shall do more than battery can"
II,I,First Citizen,"To our fast-closed gates; for at this match,"
II,I,First Citizen,"With swifter spleen than powder can enforce,"
II,I,First Citizen,"The mouth of passage shall we fling wide ope,"
II,I,First Citizen,"And give you entrance: but without this match,"
II,I,First Citizen,"The sea enraged is not half so deaf,"
II,I,First Citizen,"Lions more confident, mountains and rocks"
II,I,First Citizen,"More free from motion, no, not Death himself"
II,I,First Citizen,"In moral fury half so peremptory,"
II,I,First Citizen,"As we to keep this city."
II,I,BASTARD,"Here's a stay"
II,I,BASTARD,"That shakes the rotten carcass of old Death"
II,I,BASTARD,"Out of his rags! Here's a large mouth, indeed,"
II,I,BASTARD,"That spits forth death and mountains, rocks and seas,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Talks as familiarly of roaring lions"
II,I,BASTARD,"As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!"
II,I,BASTARD,"What cannoneer begot this lusty blood?"
II,I,BASTARD,"He speaks plain cannon fire, and smoke and bounce;"
II,I,BASTARD,"He gives the bastinado with his tongue:"
II,I,BASTARD,"Our ears are cudgell'd; not a word of his"
II,I,BASTARD,"But buffets better than a fist of France:"
II,I,BASTARD,"Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words"
II,I,BASTARD,"Since I first call'd my brother's father dad."
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Son, list to this conjunction, make this match;"
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Give with our niece a dowry large enough:"
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"For by this knot thou shalt so surely tie"
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Thy now unsured assurance to the crown,"
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"That yon green boy shall have no sun to ripe"
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"The bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit."
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"I see a yielding in the looks of France;"
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Mark, how they whisper: urge them while their souls"
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Are capable of this ambition,"
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath"
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Of soft petitions, pity and remorse,"
II,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Cool and congeal again to what it was."
II,I,First Citizen,"Why answer not the double majesties"
II,I,First Citizen,"This friendly treaty of our threaten'd town?"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Speak England first, that hath been forward first"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"To speak unto this city: what say you?"
II,I,KING JOHN,"If that the Dauphin there, thy princely son,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Can in this book of beauty read 'I love,'"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Her dowry shall weigh equal with a queen:"
II,I,KING JOHN,"For Anjou and fair Touraine, Maine, Poictiers,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"And all that we upon this side the sea,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Except this city now by us besieged,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Find liable to our crown and dignity,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Shall gild her bridal bed and make her rich"
II,I,KING JOHN,"In titles, honours and promotions,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"As she in beauty, education, blood,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Holds hand with any princess of the world."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"What say'st thou, boy? look in the lady's face."
II,I,LEWIS,"I do, my lord; and in her eye I find"
II,I,LEWIS,"A wonder, or a wondrous miracle,"
II,I,LEWIS,"The shadow of myself form'd in her eye:"
II,I,LEWIS,"Which being but the shadow of your son,"
II,I,LEWIS,"Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow:"
II,I,LEWIS,"I do protest I never loved myself"
II,I,LEWIS,"Till now infixed I beheld myself"
II,I,LEWIS,"Drawn in the flattering table of her eye."
II,I,BASTARD,"Drawn in the flattering table of her eye!"
II,I,BASTARD,"Hang'd in the frowning wrinkle of her brow!"
II,I,BASTARD,"And quarter'd in her heart! he doth espy"
II,I,BASTARD,"Himself love's traitor: this is pity now,"
II,I,BASTARD,"That hang'd and drawn and quartered, there should be"
II,I,BASTARD,"In such a love so vile a lout as he."
II,I,BLANCH,"My uncle's will in this respect is mine:"
II,I,BLANCH,"If he see aught in you that makes him like,"
II,I,BLANCH,"That any thing he sees, which moves his liking,"
II,I,BLANCH,"I can with ease translate it to my will;"
II,I,BLANCH,"Or if you will, to speak more properly,"
II,I,BLANCH,"I will enforce it easily to my love."
II,I,BLANCH,"Further I will not flatter you, my lord,"
II,I,BLANCH,"That all I see in you is worthy love,"
II,I,BLANCH,"Than this; that nothing do I see in you,"
II,I,BLANCH,"Though churlish thoughts themselves should be your judge,"
II,I,BLANCH,"That I can find should merit any hate."
II,I,KING JOHN,"What say these young ones? What say you my niece?"
II,I,BLANCH,"That she is bound in honour still to do"
II,I,BLANCH,"What you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say."
II,I,KING JOHN,"Speak then, prince Dauphin; can you love this lady?"
II,I,LEWIS,"Nay, ask me if I can refrain from love;"
II,I,LEWIS,"For I do love her most unfeignedly."
II,I,KING JOHN,"Then do I give Volquessen, Touraine, Maine,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Poictiers and Anjou, these five provinces,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"With her to thee; and this addition more,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Full thirty thousand marks of English coin."
II,I,KING JOHN,"Philip of France, if thou be pleased withal,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Command thy son and daughter to join hands."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"It likes us well; young princes, close your hands."
II,I,AUSTRIA,"And your lips too; for I am well assured"
II,I,AUSTRIA,"That I did so when I was first assured."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Now, citizens of Angiers, ope your gates,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Let in that amity which you have made;"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"For at Saint Mary's chapel presently"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"The rites of marriage shall be solemnized."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Is not the Lady Constance in this troop?"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"I know she is not, for this match made up"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Her presence would have interrupted much:"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Where is she and her son? tell me, who knows."
II,I,LEWIS,"She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"And, by my faith, this league that we have made"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Will give her sadness very little cure."
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Brother of England, how may we content"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"This widow lady? In her right we came;"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"Which we, God knows, have turn'd another way,"
II,I,KING PHILIP,"To our own vantage."
II,I,KING JOHN,"We will heal up all;"
II,I,KING JOHN,"For we'll create young Arthur Duke of Bretagne"
II,I,KING JOHN,"And Earl of Richmond; and this rich fair town"
II,I,KING JOHN,"We make him lord of. Call the Lady Constance;"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Some speedy messenger bid her repair"
II,I,KING JOHN,"To our solemnity: I trust we shall,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"If not fill up the measure of her will,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"Yet in some measure satisfy her so"
II,I,KING JOHN,"That we shall stop her exclamation."
II,I,KING JOHN,"Go we, as well as haste will suffer us,"
II,I,KING JOHN,"To this unlook'd for, unprepared pomp."
II,I,BASTARD,"Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!"
II,I,BASTARD,"John, to stop Arthur's title in the whole,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Hath willingly departed with a part,"
II,I,BASTARD,"And France, whose armour conscience buckled on,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Whom zeal and charity brought to the field"
II,I,BASTARD,"As God's own soldier, rounded in the ear"
II,I,BASTARD,"With that same purpose-changer, that sly devil,"
II,I,BASTARD,"That broker, that still breaks the pate of faith,"
II,I,BASTARD,"That daily break-vow, he that wins of all,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Of kings, of beggars, old men, young men, maids,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Who, having no external thing to lose"
II,I,BASTARD,"But the word 'maid,' cheats the poor maid of that,"
II,I,BASTARD,"That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling Commodity,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Commodity, the bias of the world,"
II,I,BASTARD,"The world, who of itself is peised well,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Made to run even upon even ground,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Till this advantage, this vile-drawing bias,"
II,I,BASTARD,"This sway of motion, this Commodity,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Makes it take head from all indifferency,"
II,I,BASTARD,"From all direction, purpose, course, intent:"
II,I,BASTARD,"And this same bias, this Commodity,"
II,I,BASTARD,"This bawd, this broker, this all-changing word,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Clapp'd on the outward eye of fickle France,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Hath drawn him from his own determined aid,"
II,I,BASTARD,"From a resolved and honourable war,"
II,I,BASTARD,"To a most base and vile-concluded peace."
II,I,BASTARD,"And why rail I on this Commodity?"
II,I,BASTARD,"But for because he hath not woo'd me yet:"
II,I,BASTARD,"Not that I have the power to clutch my hand,"
II,I,BASTARD,"When his fair angels would salute my palm;"
II,I,BASTARD,"But for my hand, as unattempted yet,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich."
II,I,BASTARD,"Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail"
II,I,BASTARD,"And say there is no sin but to be rich;"
II,I,BASTARD,"And being rich, my virtue then shall be"
II,I,BASTARD,"To say there is no vice but beggary."
II,I,BASTARD,"Since kings break faith upon commodity,"
II,I,BASTARD,"Gain, be my lord, for I will worship thee."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Gone to be married! gone to swear a peace!"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"False blood to false blood join'd! gone to be friends!"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Shall Lewis have Blanch, and Blanch those provinces?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"It is not so; thou hast misspoke, misheard:"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Be well advised, tell o'er thy tale again:"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"It cannot be; thou dost but say 'tis so:"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"I trust I may not trust thee; for thy word"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Is but the vain breath of a common man:"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Believe me, I do not believe thee, man;"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"I have a king's oath to the contrary."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Thou shalt be punish'd for thus frighting me,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"For I am sick and capable of fears,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Oppress'd with wrongs and therefore full of fears,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"A widow, husbandless, subject to fears,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"A woman, naturally born to fears;"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"And though thou now confess thou didst but jest,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"With my vex'd spirits I cannot take a truce,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"But they will quake and tremble all this day."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"What dost thou mean by shaking of thy head?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Why dost thou look so sadly on my son?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"What means that hand upon that breast of thine?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Like a proud river peering o'er his bounds?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Be these sad signs confirmers of thy words?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Then speak again; not all thy former tale,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"But this one word, whether thy tale be true."
III,I,SALISBURY,"As true as I believe you think them false"
III,I,SALISBURY,"That give you cause to prove my saying true."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"O, if thou teach me to believe this sorrow,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Teach thou this sorrow how to make me die,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"And let belief and life encounter so"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"As doth the fury of two desperate men"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Which in the very meeting fall and die."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Lewis marry Blanch! O boy, then where art thou?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"France friend with England, what becomes of me?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Fellow, be gone: I cannot brook thy sight:"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"This news hath made thee a most ugly man."
III,I,SALISBURY,"What other harm have I, good lady, done,"
III,I,SALISBURY,"But spoke the harm that is by others done?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Which harm within itself so heinous is"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"As it makes harmful all that speak of it."
III,I,ARTHUR,"I do beseech you, madam, be content."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"If thou, that bid'st me be content, wert grim,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Ugly and slanderous to thy mother's womb,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Patch'd with foul moles and eye-offending marks,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"I would not care, I then would be content,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"For then I should not love thee, no, nor thou"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Become thy great birth nor deserve a crown."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"And with the half-blown rose. But Fortune, O,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"She is corrupted, changed and won from thee;"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"She adulterates hourly with thine uncle John,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"And with her golden hand hath pluck'd on France"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"To tread down fair respect of sovereignty,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"And made his majesty the bawd to theirs."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"France is a bawd to Fortune and King John,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"That strumpet Fortune, that usurping John!"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Tell me, thou fellow, is not France forsworn?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Envenom him with words, or get thee gone"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"And leave those woes alone which I alone"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Am bound to under-bear."
III,I,SALISBURY,"Pardon me, madam,"
III,I,SALISBURY,"I may not go without you to the kings."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Thou mayst, thou shalt; I will not go with thee:"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"To me and to the state of my great grief"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Let kings assemble; for my grief's so great"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"That no supporter but the huge firm earth"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit;"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it."
III,I,KING PHILIP,"'Tis true, fair daughter; and this blessed day"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Ever in France shall be kept festival:"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"To solemnize this day the glorious sun"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Turning with splendor of his precious eye"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold:"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"The yearly course that brings this day about"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Shall never see it but a holiday."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"A wicked day, and not a holy day!"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"What hath this day deserved? what hath it done,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"That it in golden letters should be set"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Among the high tides in the calendar?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Nay, rather turn this day out of the week,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"This day of shame, oppression, perjury."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Or, if it must stand still, let wives with child"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Pray that their burthens may not fall this day,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Lest that their hopes prodigiously be cross'd:"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"But on this day let seamen fear no wreck;"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"No bargains break that are not this day made:"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"This day, all things begun come to ill end,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Yea, faith itself to hollow falsehood change!"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"By heaven, lady, you shall have no cause"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"To curse the fair proceedings of this day:"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Have I not pawn'd to you my majesty?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"You have beguiled me with a counterfeit"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Resembling majesty, which, being touch'd and tried,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Proves valueless: you are forsworn, forsworn;"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"You came in arms to spill mine enemies' blood,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"But now in arms you strengthen it with yours:"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"The grappling vigour and rough frown of war"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Is cold in amity and painted peace,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"And our oppression hath made up this league."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Arm, arm, you heavens, against these perjured kings!"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"A widow cries; be husband to me, heavens!"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Let not the hours of this ungodly day"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Wear out the day in peace; but, ere sunset,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Set armed discord 'twixt these perjured kings!"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Hear me, O, hear me!"
III,I,AUSTRIA,"Lady Constance, peace!"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"War! war! no peace! peace is to me a war"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"O Lymoges! O Austria! thou dost shame"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"That bloody spoil: thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Thou little valiant, great in villany!"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"But when her humorous ladyship is by"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"To teach thee safety! thou art perjured too,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"And soothest up greatness. What a fool art thou,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"A ramping fool, to brag and stamp and swear"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Upon thy stars, thy fortune and thy strength,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"And dost thou now fall over to my fores?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs."
III,I,AUSTRIA,"O, that a man should speak those words to me!"
III,I,BASTARD,"And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs."
III,I,AUSTRIA,"Thou darest not say so, villain, for thy life."
III,I,BASTARD,"And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs."
III,I,KING JOHN,"We like not this; thou dost forget thyself."
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Here comes the holy legate of the pope."
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Hail, you anointed deputies of heaven!"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"To thee, King John, my holy errand is."
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"I Pandulph, of fair Milan cardinal,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And from Pope Innocent the legate here,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Do in his name religiously demand"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Why thou against the church, our holy mother,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"So wilfully dost spurn; and force perforce"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Keep Stephen Langton, chosen archbishop"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Of Canterbury, from that holy see?"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"This, in our foresaid holy father's name,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee."
III,I,KING JOHN,"What earthy name to interrogatories"
III,I,KING JOHN,"Can task the free breath of a sacred king?"
III,I,KING JOHN,"Thou canst not, cardinal, devise a name"
III,I,KING JOHN,"So slight, unworthy and ridiculous,"
III,I,KING JOHN,"To charge me to an answer, as the pope."
III,I,KING JOHN,"Tell him this tale; and from the mouth of England"
III,I,KING JOHN,"Add thus much more, that no Italian priest"
III,I,KING JOHN,"Shall tithe or toll in our dominions;"
III,I,KING JOHN,"But as we, under heaven, are supreme head,"
III,I,KING JOHN,"So under Him that great supremacy,"
III,I,KING JOHN,"Where we do reign, we will alone uphold,"
III,I,KING JOHN,"Without the assistance of a mortal hand:"
III,I,KING JOHN,"So tell the pope, all reverence set apart"
III,I,KING JOHN,"To him and his usurp'd authority."
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Brother of England, you blaspheme in this."
III,I,KING JOHN,"Though you and all the kings of Christendom"
III,I,KING JOHN,"Are led so grossly by this meddling priest,"
III,I,KING JOHN,"Dreading the curse that money may buy out;"
III,I,KING JOHN,"And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust,"
III,I,KING JOHN,"Purchase corrupted pardon of a man,"
III,I,KING JOHN,"Who in that sale sells pardon from himself,"
III,I,KING JOHN,"Though you and all the rest so grossly led"
III,I,KING JOHN,"This juggling witchcraft with revenue cherish,"
III,I,KING JOHN,"Yet I alone, alone do me oppose"
III,I,KING JOHN,"Against the pope and count his friends my foes."
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Then, by the lawful power that I have,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate."
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And blessed shall he be that doth revolt"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"From his allegiance to an heretic;"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And meritorious shall that hand be call'd,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Canonized and worshipped as a saint,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"That takes away by any secret course"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Thy hateful life."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"O, lawful let it be"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"That I have room with Rome to curse awhile!"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Good father cardinal, cry thou amen"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"To my keen curses; for without my wrong"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"There is no tongue hath power to curse him right."
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"There's law and warrant, lady, for my curse."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"And for mine too: when law can do no right,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong:"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Law cannot give my child his kingdom here,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"For he that holds his kingdom holds the law;"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Therefore, since law itself is perfect wrong,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"How can the law forbid my tongue to curse?"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Philip of France, on peril of a curse,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Let go the hand of that arch-heretic;"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And raise the power of France upon his head,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Unless he do submit himself to Rome."
III,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"Look'st thou pale, France? do not let go thy hand."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Look to that, devil; lest that France repent,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"And by disjoining hands, hell lose a soul."
III,I,AUSTRIA,"King Philip, listen to the cardinal."
III,I,BASTARD,"And hang a calf's-skin on his recreant limbs."
III,I,AUSTRIA,"Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs, Because--"
III,I,BASTARD,"Your breeches best may carry them."
III,I,KING JOHN,"Philip, what say'st thou to the cardinal?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"What should he say, but as the cardinal?"
III,I,LEWIS,"Bethink you, father; for the difference"
III,I,LEWIS,"Is purchase of a heavy curse from Rome,"
III,I,LEWIS,"Or the light loss of England for a friend:"
III,I,LEWIS,"Forego the easier."
III,I,BLANCH,"That's the curse of Rome."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"O Lewis, stand fast! the devil tempts thee here"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"In likeness of a new untrimmed bride."
III,I,BLANCH,"The Lady Constance speaks not from her faith,"
III,I,BLANCH,"But from her need."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"O, if thou grant my need,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Which only lives but by the death of faith,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"That need must needs infer this principle,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"That faith would live again by death of need."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"O then, tread down my need, and faith mounts up;"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down!"
III,I,KING JOHN,"The king is moved, and answers not to this."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"O, be removed from him, and answer well!"
III,I,AUSTRIA,"Do so, King Philip; hang no more in doubt."
III,I,BASTARD,"Hang nothing but a calf's-skin, most sweet lout."
III,I,KING PHILIP,"I am perplex'd, and know not what to say."
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"What canst thou say but will perplex thee more,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"If thou stand excommunicate and cursed?"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Good reverend father, make my person yours,"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"And tell me how you would bestow yourself."
III,I,KING PHILIP,"This royal hand and mine are newly knit,"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"And the conjunction of our inward souls"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Married in league, coupled and linked together"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"With all religious strength of sacred vows;"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"The latest breath that gave the sound of words"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Was deep-sworn faith, peace, amity, true love"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Between our kingdoms and our royal selves,"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"And even before this truce, but new before,"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"No longer than we well could wash our hands"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"To clap this royal bargain up of peace,"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Heaven knows, they were besmear'd and over-stain'd"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"With slaughter's pencil, where revenge did paint"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"The fearful difference of incensed kings:"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"And shall these hands, so lately purged of blood,"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"So newly join'd in love, so strong in both,"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Unyoke this seizure and this kind regreet?"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Play fast and loose with faith? so jest with heaven,"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Make such unconstant children of ourselves,"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"As now again to snatch our palm from palm,"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Unswear faith sworn, and on the marriage-bed"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Of smiling peace to march a bloody host,"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"And make a riot on the gentle brow"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Of true sincerity? O, holy sir,"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"My reverend father, let it not be so!"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Out of your grace, devise, ordain, impose"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Some gentle order; and then we shall be blest"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"To do your pleasure and continue friends."
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"All form is formless, order orderless,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Save what is opposite to England's love."
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Therefore to arms! be champion of our church,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"A mother's curse, on her revolting son."
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"A chafed lion by the mortal paw,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold."
III,I,KING PHILIP,"I may disjoin my hand, but not my faith."
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"So makest thou faith an enemy to faith;"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And like a civil war set'st oath to oath,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Thy tongue against thy tongue. O, let thy vow"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"First made to heaven, first be to heaven perform'd,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"That is, to be the champion of our church!"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"What since thou sworest is sworn against thyself"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And may not be performed by thyself,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"For that which thou hast sworn to do amiss"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Is not amiss when it is truly done,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And being not done, where doing tends to ill,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"The truth is then most done not doing it:"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"The better act of purposes mistook"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Is to mistake again; though indirect,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Yet indirection thereby grows direct,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And falsehood falsehood cures, as fire cools fire"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Within the scorched veins of one new-burn'd."
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"It is religion that doth make vows kept;"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"But thou hast sworn against religion,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"By what thou swear'st against the thing thou swear'st,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And makest an oath the surety for thy truth"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Against an oath: the truth thou art unsure"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"To swear, swears only not to be forsworn;"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Else what a mockery should it be to swear!"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"But thou dost swear only to be forsworn;"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And most forsworn, to keep what thou dost swear."
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Therefore thy later vows against thy first"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Is in thyself rebellion to thyself;"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And better conquest never canst thou make"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Against these giddy loose suggestions:"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Upon which better part our prayers come in,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"If thou vouchsafe them. But if not, then know"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"The peril of our curses light on thee"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"So heavy as thou shalt not shake them off,"
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"But in despair die under their black weight."
III,I,AUSTRIA,"Rebellion, flat rebellion!"
III,I,BASTARD,"Will't not be?"
III,I,BASTARD,"Will not a calfs-skin stop that mouth of thine?"
III,I,LEWIS,"Father, to arms!"
III,I,BLANCH,"Upon thy wedding-day?"
III,I,BLANCH,"Against the blood that thou hast married?"
III,I,BLANCH,"What, shall our feast be kept with slaughter'd men?"
III,I,BLANCH,"Shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums,"
III,I,BLANCH,"Clamours of hell, be measures to our pomp?"
III,I,BLANCH,"O husband, hear me! ay, alack, how new"
III,I,BLANCH,"Is husband in my mouth! even for that name,"
III,I,BLANCH,"Which till this time my tongue did ne'er pronounce,"
III,I,BLANCH,"Upon my knee I beg, go not to arms"
III,I,BLANCH,"Against mine uncle."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"O, upon my knee,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Made hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Thou virtuous Dauphin, alter not the doom"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"Forethought by heaven!"
III,I,BLANCH,"Now shall I see thy love: what motive may"
III,I,BLANCH,"Be stronger with thee than the name of wife?"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"That which upholdeth him that thee upholds,"
III,I,CONSTANCE,"His honour: O, thine honour, Lewis, thine honour!"
III,I,LEWIS,"I muse your majesty doth seem so cold,"
III,I,LEWIS,"When such profound respects do pull you on."
III,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"I will denounce a curse upon his head."
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall from thee."
III,I,CONSTANCE,"O fair return of banish'd majesty!"
III,I,QUEEN ELINOR,"O foul revolt of French inconstancy!"
III,I,KING JOHN,"France, thou shalt rue this hour within this hour."
III,I,BASTARD,"Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time,"
III,I,BASTARD,"Is it as he will? well then, France shall rue."
III,I,BLANCH,"The sun's o'ercast with blood: fair day, adieu!"
III,I,BLANCH,"Which is the side that I must go withal?"
III,I,BLANCH,"I am with both: each army hath a hand;"
III,I,BLANCH,"And in their rage, I having hold of both,"
III,I,BLANCH,"They swirl asunder and dismember me."
III,I,BLANCH,"Husband, I cannot pray that thou mayst win;"
III,I,BLANCH,"Uncle, I needs must pray that thou mayst lose;"
III,I,BLANCH,"Father, I may not wish the fortune thine;"
III,I,BLANCH,"Grandam, I will not wish thy fortunes thrive:"
III,I,BLANCH,"Whoever wins, on that side shall I lose"
III,I,BLANCH,"Assured loss before the match be play'd."
III,I,LEWIS,"Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies."
III,I,BLANCH,"There where my fortune lives, there my life dies."
III,I,KING JOHN,"Cousin, go draw our puissance together."
III,I,KING JOHN,"France, I am burn'd up with inflaming wrath;"
III,I,KING JOHN,"A rage whose heat hath this condition,"
III,I,KING JOHN,"That nothing can allay, nothing but blood,"
III,I,KING JOHN,"The blood, and dearest-valued blood, of France."
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Thy rage sham burn thee up, and thou shalt turn"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"To ashes, ere our blood shall quench that fire:"
III,I,KING PHILIP,"Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy."
III,I,KING JOHN,"No more than he that threats. To arms let's hie!"
III,II,BASTARD,"Now, by my life, this day grows wondrous hot;"
III,II,BASTARD,"Some airy devil hovers in the sky"
III,II,BASTARD,"And pours down mischief. Austria's head lie there,"
III,II,BASTARD,"While Philip breathes."
III,II,KING JOHN,"Hubert, keep this boy. Philip, make up:"
III,II,KING JOHN,"My mother is assailed in our tent,"
III,II,KING JOHN,"And ta'en, I fear."
III,II,BASTARD,"My lord, I rescued her;"
III,II,BASTARD,"Her highness is in safety, fear you not:"
III,II,BASTARD,"But on, my liege; for very little pains"
III,II,BASTARD,"Will bring this labour to an happy end."
III,III,KING JOHN,"stay behind"
III,III,KING JOHN,"So strongly guarded."
III,III,KING JOHN,"Cousin, look not sad:"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Thy grandam loves thee; and thy uncle will"
III,III,KING JOHN,"As dear be to thee as thy father was."
III,III,ARTHUR,"O, this will make my mother die with grief!"
III,III,KING JOHN,"haste before:"
III,III,KING JOHN,"And, ere our coming, see thou shake the bags"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Of hoarding abbots; imprisoned angels"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Set at liberty: the fat ribs of peace"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Must by the hungry now be fed upon:"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Use our commission in his utmost force."
III,III,BASTARD,"Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back,"
III,III,BASTARD,"When gold and silver becks me to come on."
III,III,BASTARD,"I leave your highness. Grandam, I will pray,"
III,III,BASTARD,"If ever I remember to be holy,"
III,III,BASTARD,"For your fair safety; so, I kiss your hand."
III,III,ELINOR,"Farewell, gentle cousin."
III,III,KING JOHN,"Coz, farewell."
III,III,QUEEN ELINOR,"Come hither, little kinsman; hark, a word."
III,III,KING JOHN,"Come hither, Hubert. O my gentle Hubert,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"We owe thee much! within this wall of flesh"
III,III,KING JOHN,"There is a soul counts thee her creditor"
III,III,KING JOHN,"And with advantage means to pay thy love:"
III,III,KING JOHN,"And my good friend, thy voluntary oath"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Lives in this bosom, dearly cherished."
III,III,KING JOHN,"Give me thy hand. I had a thing to say,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"But I will fit it with some better time."
III,III,KING JOHN,"By heaven, Hubert, I am almost ashamed"
III,III,KING JOHN,"To say what good respect I have of thee."
III,III,HUBERT,"I am much bounden to your majesty."
III,III,KING JOHN,"Good friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"But thou shalt have; and creep time ne'er so slow,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Yet it shall come from me to do thee good."
III,III,KING JOHN,"I had a thing to say, but let it go:"
III,III,KING JOHN,"The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Attended with the pleasures of the world,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Is all too wanton and too full of gawds"
III,III,KING JOHN,"To give me audience: if the midnight bell"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Sound on into the drowsy race of night;"
III,III,KING JOHN,"If this same were a churchyard where we stand,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"And thou possessed with a thousand wrongs,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Or if that surly spirit, melancholy,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Had baked thy blood and made it heavy-thick,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Which else runs tickling up and down the veins,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Making that idiot, laughter, keep men's eyes"
III,III,KING JOHN,"And strain their cheeks to idle merriment,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"A passion hateful to my purposes,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Or if that thou couldst see me without eyes,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Hear me without thine ears, and make reply"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Without a tongue, using conceit alone,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Without eyes, ears and harmful sound of words;"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Then, in despite of brooded watchful day,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"I would into thy bosom pour my thoughts:"
III,III,KING JOHN,"But, ah, I will not! yet I love thee well;"
III,III,KING JOHN,"And, by my troth, I think thou lovest me well."
III,III,HUBERT,"So well, that what you bid me undertake,"
III,III,HUBERT,"Though that my death were adjunct to my act,"
III,III,HUBERT,"By heaven, I would do it."
III,III,KING JOHN,"Do not I know thou wouldst?"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Good Hubert, Hubert, Hubert, throw thine eye"
III,III,KING JOHN,"On yon young boy: I'll tell thee what, my friend,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"He is a very serpent in my way;"
III,III,KING JOHN,"And whereso'er this foot of mine doth tread,"
III,III,KING JOHN,"He lies before me: dost thou understand me?"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Thou art his keeper."
III,III,HUBERT,"And I'll keep him so,"
III,III,HUBERT,"That he shall not offend your majesty."
III,III,KING JOHN,"Death."
III,III,HUBERT,"My lord?"
III,III,KING JOHN,"A grave."
III,III,HUBERT,"He shall not live."
III,III,KING JOHN,"Enough."
III,III,KING JOHN,"I could be merry now. Hubert, I love thee;"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Well, I'll not say what I intend for thee:"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Remember. Madam, fare you well:"
III,III,KING JOHN,"I'll send those powers o'er to your majesty."
III,III,ELINOR,"My blessing go with thee!"
III,III,KING JOHN,"For England, cousin, go:"
III,III,KING JOHN,"Hubert shall be your man, attend on you"
III,III,KING JOHN,"With all true duty. On toward Calais, ho!"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"So, by a roaring tempest on the flood,"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"A whole armado of convicted sail"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Is scatter'd and disjoin'd from fellowship."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Courage and comfort! all shall yet go well."
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"What can go well, when we have run so ill?"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Are we not beaten? Is not Angiers lost?"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Arthur ta'en prisoner? divers dear friends slain?"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"And bloody England into England gone,"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"O'erbearing interruption, spite of France?"
III,IV,LEWIS,"What he hath won, that hath he fortified:"
III,IV,LEWIS,"So hot a speed with such advice disposed,"
III,IV,LEWIS,"Such temperate order in so fierce a cause,"
III,IV,LEWIS,"Doth want example: who hath read or heard"
III,IV,LEWIS,"Of any kindred action like to this?"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Well could I bear that England had this praise,"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"So we could find some pattern of our shame."
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Look, who comes here! a grave unto a soul;"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Holding the eternal spirit against her will,"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"In the vile prison of afflicted breath."
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"I prithee, lady, go away with me."
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Lo, now I now see the issue of your peace."
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Patience, good lady! comfort, gentle Constance!"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"No, I defy all counsel, all redress,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"But that which ends all counsel, true redress,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Death, death; O amiable lovely death!"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Thou odouriferous stench! sound rottenness!"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Arise forth from the couch of lasting night,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Thou hate and terror to prosperity,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And I will kiss thy detestable bones"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And put my eyeballs in thy vaulty brows"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And ring these fingers with thy household worms"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And be a carrion monster like thyself:"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Come, grin on me, and I will think thou smilest"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And buss thee as thy wife. Misery's love,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"O, come to me!"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"O fair affliction, peace!"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"No, no, I will not, having breath to cry:"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Then with a passion would I shake the world;"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Which scorns a modern invocation."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Lady, you utter madness, and not sorrow."
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Thou art not holy to belie me so;"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"I am not mad: this hair I tear is mine;"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"My name is Constance; I was Geffrey's wife;"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Young Arthur is my son, and he is lost:"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"I am not mad: I would to heaven I were!"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"For then, 'tis like I should forget myself:"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"O, if I could, what grief should I forget!"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Preach some philosophy to make me mad,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And thou shalt be canonized, cardinal;"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"For being not mad but sensible of grief,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"My reasonable part produces reason"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"How I may be deliver'd of these woes,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And teaches me to kill or hang myself:"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"If I were mad, I should forget my son,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Or madly think a babe of clouts were he:"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"I am not mad; too well, too well I feel"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"The different plague of each calamity."
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Bind up those tresses. O, what love I note"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"In the fair multitude of those her hairs!"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Where but by chance a silver drop hath fallen,"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Do glue themselves in sociable grief,"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Like true, inseparable, faithful loves,"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Sticking together in calamity."
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"To England, if you will."
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"Bind up your hairs."
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Yes, that I will; and wherefore will I do it?"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"I tore them from their bonds and cried aloud"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"'O that these hands could so redeem my son,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"As they have given these hairs their liberty!'"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"But now I envy at their liberty,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And will again commit them to their bonds,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Because my poor child is a prisoner."
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And, father cardinal, I have heard you say"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"That we shall see and know our friends in heaven:"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"If that be true, I shall see my boy again;"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"For since the birth of Cain, the first male child,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"To him that did but yesterday suspire,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"There was not such a gracious creature born."
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"But now will canker-sorrow eat my bud"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And chase the native beauty from his cheek"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And he will look as hollow as a ghost,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"As dim and meagre as an ague's fit,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"And so he'll die; and, rising so again,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"When I shall meet him in the court of heaven"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"I shall not know him: therefore never, never"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Must I behold my pretty Arthur more."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"You hold too heinous a respect of grief."
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"He talks to me that never had a son."
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"You are as fond of grief as of your child."
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Grief fills the room up of my absent child,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Remembers me of all his gracious parts,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Then, have I reason to be fond of grief?"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"Fare you well: had you such a loss as I,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"I could give better comfort than you do."
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"I will not keep this form upon my head,"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"When there is such disorder in my wit."
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"O Lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son!"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"My life, my joy, my food, my all the world!"
III,IV,CONSTANCE,"My widow-comfort, and my sorrows' cure!"
III,IV,KING PHILIP,"I fear some outrage, and I'll follow her."
III,IV,LEWIS,"There's nothing in this world can make me joy:"
III,IV,LEWIS,"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale"
III,IV,LEWIS,"Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;"
III,IV,LEWIS,"And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste"
III,IV,LEWIS,"That it yields nought but shame and bitterness."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Before the curing of a strong disease,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Even in the instant of repair and health,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"The fit is strongest; evils that take leave,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"On their departure most of all show evil:"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"What have you lost by losing of this day?"
III,IV,LEWIS,"All days of glory, joy and happiness."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"If you had won it, certainly you had."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"No, no; when Fortune means to men most good,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"She looks upon them with a threatening eye."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"'Tis strange to think how much King John hath lost"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"In this which he accounts so clearly won:"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Are not you grieved that Arthur is his prisoner?"
III,IV,LEWIS,"As heartily as he is glad he hath him."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Your mind is all as youthful as your blood."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Now hear me speak with a prophetic spirit;"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"For even the breath of what I mean to speak"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Out of the path which shall directly lead"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Thy foot to England's throne; and therefore mark."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"John hath seized Arthur; and it cannot be"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"That, whiles warm life plays in that infant's veins,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"The misplaced John should entertain an hour,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"One minute, nay, one quiet breath of rest."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"A sceptre snatch'd with an unruly hand"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd;"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And he that stands upon a slippery place"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up:"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"That John may stand, then Arthur needs must fall;"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"So be it, for it cannot be but so."
III,IV,LEWIS,"But what shall I gain by young Arthur's fall?"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"You, in the right of Lady Blanch your wife,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"May then make all the claim that Arthur did."
III,IV,LEWIS,"And lose it, life and all, as Arthur did."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"How green you are and fresh in this old world!"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"John lays you plots; the times conspire with you;"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"For he that steeps his safety in true blood"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Shall find but bloody safety and untrue."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"This act so evilly born shall cool the hearts"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Of all his people and freeze up their zeal,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"That none so small advantage shall step forth"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"To cheque his reign, but they will cherish it;"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"No natural exhalation in the sky,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"No scope of nature, no distemper'd day,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"No common wind, no customed event,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"But they will pluck away his natural cause"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And call them meteors, prodigies and signs,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Abortives, presages and tongues of heaven,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John."
III,IV,LEWIS,"May be he will not touch young Arthur's life,"
III,IV,LEWIS,"But hold himself safe in his prisonment."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"O, sir, when he shall hear of your approach,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"If that young Arthur be not gone already,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Even at that news he dies; and then the hearts"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Of all his people shall revolt from him"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And kiss the lips of unacquainted change"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And pick strong matter of revolt and wrath"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Out of the bloody fingers' ends of John."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Methinks I see this hurly all on foot:"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And, O, what better matter breeds for you"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Than I have named! The bastard Faulconbridge"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Is now in England, ransacking the church,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Offending charity: if but a dozen French"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Were there in arms, they would be as a call"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"To train ten thousand English to their side,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Or as a little snow, tumbled about,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Anon becomes a mountain. O noble Dauphin,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Go with me to the king: 'tis wonderful"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"What may be wrought out of their discontent,"
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Now that their souls are topful of offence."
III,IV,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"For England go: I will whet on the king."
III,IV,LEWIS,"Strong reasons make strong actions: let us go:"
III,IV,LEWIS,"If you say ay, the king will not say no."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Heat me these irons hot; and look thou stand"
IV,I,HUBERT,"Within the arras: when I strike my foot"
IV,I,HUBERT,"Upon the bosom of the ground, rush forth,"
IV,I,HUBERT,"And bind the boy which you shall find with me"
IV,I,HUBERT,"Fast to the chair: be heedful: hence, and watch."
IV,I,First Executioner,"I hope your warrant will bear out the deed."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Uncleanly scruples! fear not you: look to't."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Young lad, come forth; I have to say with you."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Good morrow, Hubert."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Good morrow, little prince."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"As little prince, having so great a title"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"To be more prince, as may be. You are sad."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Indeed, I have been merrier."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Mercy on me!"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Methinks no body should be sad but I:"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Yet, I remember, when I was in France,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Young gentlemen would be as sad as night,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Only for wantonness. By my christendom,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"So I were out of prison and kept sheep,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"I should be as merry as the day is long;"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And so I would be here, but that I doubt"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"My uncle practises more harm to me:"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"He is afraid of me and I of him:"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Is it my fault that I was Geffrey's son?"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"No, indeed, is't not; and I would to heaven"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"I were your son, so you would love me, Hubert."
IV,I,HUBERT,"He will awake my mercy which lies dead:"
IV,I,HUBERT,"Therefore I will be sudden and dispatch."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Are you sick, Hubert? you look pale to-day:"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"In sooth, I would you were a little sick,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"That I might sit all night and watch with you:"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"I warrant I love you more than you do me."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Read here, young Arthur."
IV,I,HUBERT,"How now, foolish rheum!"
IV,I,HUBERT,"Turning dispiteous torture out of door!"
IV,I,HUBERT,"I must be brief, lest resolution drop"
IV,I,HUBERT,"Out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Can you not read it? Is it not fair writ?"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Too fairly, Hubert, for so foul effect:"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Must you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes?"
IV,I,HUBERT,"Young boy, I must."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And will you?"
IV,I,HUBERT,"And I will."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"I knit my handercher about your brows,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"The best I had, a princess wrought it me,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And I did never ask it you again;"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And with my hand at midnight held your head,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And like the watchful minutes to the hour,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?'"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Or 'What good love may I perform for you?'"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Many a poor man's son would have lien still"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And ne'er have spoke a loving word to you;"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"But you at your sick service had a prince."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Nay, you may think my love was crafty love"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And call it cunning: do, an if you will:"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"If heaven be pleased that you must use me ill,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Why then you must. Will you put out mine eyes?"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"These eyes that never did nor never shall"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"So much as frown on you."
IV,I,HUBERT,"I have sworn to do it;"
IV,I,HUBERT,"And with hot irons must I burn them out."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Ah, none but in this iron age would do it!"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"The iron of itself, though heat red-hot,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Approaching near these eyes, would drink my tears"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And quench his fiery indignation"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Even in the matter of mine innocence;"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Nay, after that, consume away in rust"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"But for containing fire to harm mine eye."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Are you more stubborn-hard than hammer'd iron?"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"An if an angel should have come to me"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And told me Hubert should put out mine eyes,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"I would not have believed him,--no tongue but Hubert's."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Come forth."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Do as I bid you do."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"O, save me, Hubert, save me! my eyes are out"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Give me the iron, I say, and bind him here."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Alas, what need you be so boisterous-rough?"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"I will not struggle, I will stand stone-still."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"For heaven sake, Hubert, let me not be bound!"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Nay, hear me, Hubert, drive these men away,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And I will sit as quiet as a lamb;"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Nor look upon the iron angerly:"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Whatever torment you do put me to."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Go, stand within; let me alone with him."
IV,I,First Executioner,"I am best pleased to be from such a deed."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Alas, I then have chid away my friend!"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart:"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Let him come back, that his compassion may"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Give life to yours."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Come, boy, prepare yourself."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Is there no remedy?"
IV,I,HUBERT,"None, but to lose your eyes."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"O heaven, that there were but a mote in yours,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Any annoyance in that precious sense!"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Then feeling what small things are boisterous there,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Your vile intent must needs seem horrible."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Is this your promise? go to, hold your tongue."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Hubert, the utterance of a brace of tongues"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes:"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Let me not hold my tongue, let me not, Hubert;"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Or, Hubert, if you will, cut out my tongue,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"So I may keep mine eyes: O, spare mine eyes."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Though to no use but still to look on you!"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Lo, by my truth, the instrument is cold"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And would not harm me."
IV,I,HUBERT,"I can heat it, boy."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"No, in good sooth: the fire is dead with grief,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Being create for comfort, to be used"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"In undeserved extremes: see else yourself;"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"There is no malice in this burning coal;"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"The breath of heaven has blown his spirit out"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And strew'd repentent ashes on his head."
IV,I,HUBERT,"But with my breath I can revive it, boy."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"An if you do, you will but make it blush"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And glow with shame of your proceedings, Hubert:"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Nay, it perchance will sparkle in your eyes;"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"And like a dog that is compell'd to fight,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Snatch at his master that doth tarre him on."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"All things that you should use to do me wrong"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Deny their office: only you do lack"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends,"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"Creatures of note for mercy-lacking uses."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Well, see to live; I will not touch thine eye"
IV,I,HUBERT,"For all the treasure that thine uncle owes:"
IV,I,HUBERT,"Yet am I sworn and I did purpose, boy,"
IV,I,HUBERT,"With this same very iron to burn them out."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"O, now you look like Hubert! all this while"
IV,I,ARTHUR,"You were disguised."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Peace; no more. Adieu."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Your uncle must not know but you are dead;"
IV,I,HUBERT,"I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports:"
IV,I,HUBERT,"And, pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure,"
IV,I,HUBERT,"That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world,"
IV,I,HUBERT,"Will not offend thee."
IV,I,ARTHUR,"O heaven! I thank you, Hubert."
IV,I,HUBERT,"Silence; no more: go closely in with me:"
IV,I,HUBERT,"Much danger do I undergo for thee."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Here once again we sit, once again crown'd,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And looked upon, I hope, with cheerful eyes."
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"This 'once again,' but that your highness pleased,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Was once superfluous: you were crown'd before,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"And that high royalty was ne'er pluck'd off,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt;"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Fresh expectation troubled not the land"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"With any long'd-for change or better state."
IV,II,SALISBURY,"Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp,"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"To guard a title that was rich before,"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"To throw a perfume on the violet,"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"To smooth the ice, or add another hue"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"Is wasteful and ridiculous excess."
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"But that your royal pleasure must be done,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"This act is as an ancient tale new told,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"And in the last repeating troublesome,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Being urged at a time unseasonable."
IV,II,SALISBURY,"In this the antique and well noted face"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"Of plain old form is much disfigured;"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"And, like a shifted wind unto a sail,"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about,"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"Startles and frights consideration,"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"Makes sound opinion sick and truth suspected,"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"For putting on so new a fashion'd robe."
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"When workmen strive to do better than well,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"They do confound their skill in covetousness;"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"And oftentimes excusing of a fault"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"As patches set upon a little breach"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Discredit more in hiding of the fault"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Than did the fault before it was so patch'd."
IV,II,SALISBURY,"To this effect, before you were new crown'd,"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"We breathed our counsel: but it pleased your highness"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"To overbear it, and we are all well pleased,"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"Since all and every part of what we would"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"Doth make a stand at what your highness will."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Some reasons of this double coronation"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"I have possess'd you with and think them strong;"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And more, more strong, then lesser is my fear,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"I shall indue you with: meantime but ask"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"What you would have reform'd that is not well,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And well shall you perceive how willingly"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"I will both hear and grant you your requests."
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Then I, as one that am the tongue of these,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"To sound the purpose of all their hearts,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Both for myself and them, but, chief of all,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Your safety, for the which myself and them"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Bend their best studies, heartily request"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"The enfranchisement of Arthur; whose restraint"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Doth move the murmuring lips of discontent"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"To break into this dangerous argument,--"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"If what in rest you have in right you hold,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Why then your fears, which, as they say, attend"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"The steps of wrong, should move you to mew up"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Your tender kinsman and to choke his days"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"With barbarous ignorance and deny his youth"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"The rich advantage of good exercise?"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"That the time's enemies may not have this"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"To grace occasions, let it be our suit"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"That you have bid us ask his liberty;"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Which for our goods we do no further ask"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Than whereupon our weal, on you depending,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Counts it your weal he have his liberty."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Let it be so: I do commit his youth"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"To your direction. Hubert, what news with you?"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"This is the man should do the bloody deed;"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"He show'd his warrant to a friend of mine:"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"The image of a wicked heinous fault"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Lives in his eye; that close aspect of his"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Does show the mood of a much troubled breast;"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"And I do fearfully believe 'tis done,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"What we so fear'd he had a charge to do."
IV,II,SALISBURY,"The colour of the king doth come and go"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"Between his purpose and his conscience,"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set:"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"His passion is so ripe, it needs must break."
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"And when it breaks, I fear will issue thence"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"The foul corruption of a sweet child's death."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"We cannot hold mortality's strong hand:"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Good lords, although my will to give is living,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"The suit which you demand is gone and dead:"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"He tells us Arthur is deceased to-night."
IV,II,SALISBURY,"Indeed we fear'd his sickness was past cure."
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Indeed we heard how near his death he was"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Before the child himself felt he was sick:"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"This must be answer'd either here or hence."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Why do you bend such solemn brows on me?"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Think you I bear the shears of destiny?"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Have I commandment on the pulse of life?"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"It is apparent foul play; and 'tis shame"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"That greatness should so grossly offer it:"
IV,II,SALISBURY,"So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell."
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Stay yet, Lord Salisbury; I'll go with thee,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"And find the inheritance of this poor child,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"His little kingdom of a forced grave."
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"That blood which owed the breadth of all this isle,"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"Three foot of it doth hold: bad world the while!"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"This must not be thus borne: this will break out"
IV,II,PEMBROKE,"To all our sorrows, and ere long I doubt."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"They burn in indignation. I repent:"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"There is no sure foundation set on blood,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"No certain life achieved by others' death."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"A fearful eye thou hast: where is that blood"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"That I have seen inhabit in those cheeks?"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"So foul a sky clears not without a storm:"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Pour down thy weather: how goes all in France?"
IV,II,Messenger,"From France to England. Never such a power"
IV,II,Messenger,"For any foreign preparation"
IV,II,Messenger,"Was levied in the body of a land."
IV,II,Messenger,"The copy of your speed is learn'd by them;"
IV,II,Messenger,"For when you should be told they do prepare,"
IV,II,Messenger,"The tidings come that they are all arrived."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"O, where hath our intelligence been drunk?"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Where hath it slept? Where is my mother's care,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"That such an army could be drawn in France,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And she not hear of it?"
IV,II,Messenger,"My liege, her ear"
IV,II,Messenger,"Is stopp'd with dust; the first of April died"
IV,II,Messenger,"Your noble mother: and, as I hear, my lord,"
IV,II,Messenger,"The Lady Constance in a frenzy died"
IV,II,Messenger,"Three days before: but this from rumour's tongue"
IV,II,Messenger,"I idly heard; if true or false I know not."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Withhold thy speed, dreadful occasion!"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"O, make a league with me, till I have pleased"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"My discontented peers! What! mother dead!"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"How wildly then walks my estate in France!"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Under whose conduct came those powers of France"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"That thou for truth givest out are landed here?"
IV,II,Messenger,"Under the Dauphin."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Thou hast made me giddy"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"With these ill tidings."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Now, what says the world"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"To your proceedings? do not seek to stuff"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"My head with more ill news, for it is full."
IV,II,BASTARD,"But if you be afeard to hear the worst,"
IV,II,BASTARD,"Then let the worst unheard fall on your bead."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Bear with me cousin, for I was amazed"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Under the tide: but now I breathe again"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Aloft the flood, and can give audience"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"To any tongue, speak it of what it will."
IV,II,BASTARD,"How I have sped among the clergymen,"
IV,II,BASTARD,"The sums I have collected shall express."
IV,II,BASTARD,"But as I travell'd hither through the land,"
IV,II,BASTARD,"I find the people strangely fantasied;"
IV,II,BASTARD,"Possess'd with rumours, full of idle dreams,"
IV,II,BASTARD,"Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear:"
IV,II,BASTARD,"And here a prophet, that I brought with me"
IV,II,BASTARD,"From forth the streets of Pomfret, whom I found"
IV,II,BASTARD,"With many hundreds treading on his heels;"
IV,II,BASTARD,"To whom he sung, in rude harsh-sounding rhymes,"
IV,II,BASTARD,"That, ere the next Ascension-day at noon,"
IV,II,BASTARD,"Your highness should deliver up your crown."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Thou idle dreamer, wherefore didst thou so?"
IV,II,PETER,"Foreknowing that the truth will fall out so."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Hubert, away with him; imprison him;"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And on that day at noon whereon he says"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"I shall yield up my crown, let him be hang'd."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Deliver him to safety; and return,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"For I must use thee."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"O my gentle cousin,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Hear'st thou the news abroad, who are arrived?"
IV,II,BASTARD,"The French, my lord; men's mouths are full of it:"
IV,II,BASTARD,"Besides, I met Lord Bigot and Lord Salisbury,"
IV,II,BASTARD,"With eyes as red as new-enkindled fire,"
IV,II,BASTARD,"And others more, going to seek the grave"
IV,II,BASTARD,"Of Arthur, who they say is kill'd to-night"
IV,II,BASTARD,"On your suggestion."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Gentle kinsman, go,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And thrust thyself into their companies:"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"I have a way to win their loves again;"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Bring them before me."
IV,II,BASTARD,"I will seek them out."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Nay, but make haste; the better foot before."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"O, let me have no subject enemies,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"When adverse foreigners affright my towns"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"With dreadful pomp of stout invasion!"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And fly like thought from them to me again."
IV,II,BASTARD,"The spirit of the time shall teach me speed."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Go after him; for he perhaps shall need"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Some messenger betwixt me and the peers;"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And be thou he."
IV,II,Messenger,"With all my heart, my liege."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"My mother dead!"
IV,II,HUBERT,"My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night;"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about"
IV,II,HUBERT,"The other four in wondrous motion."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Five moons!"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Old men and beldams in the streets"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Do prophesy upon it dangerously:"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths:"
IV,II,HUBERT,"And when they talk of him, they shake their heads"
IV,II,HUBERT,"And whisper one another in the ear;"
IV,II,HUBERT,"And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist,"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Whilst he that hears makes fearful action,"
IV,II,HUBERT,"With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes."
IV,II,HUBERT,"I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,"
IV,II,HUBERT,"The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool,"
IV,II,HUBERT,"With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news;"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Who, with his shears and measure in his hand,"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet,"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Told of a many thousand warlike French"
IV,II,HUBERT,"That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent:"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Another lean unwash'd artificer"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Why seek'st thou to possess me with these fears?"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Why urgest thou so oft young Arthur's death?"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Thy hand hath murder'd him: I had a mighty cause"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"To wish him dead, but thou hadst none to kill him."
IV,II,HUBERT,"No had, my lord! why, did you not provoke me?"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"It is the curse of kings to be attended"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"By slaves that take their humours for a warrant"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"To break within the bloody house of life,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And on the winking of authority"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"To understand a law, to know the meaning"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Of dangerous majesty, when perchance it frowns"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"More upon humour than advised respect."
IV,II,HUBERT,"Here is your hand and seal for what I did."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"O, when the last account 'twixt heaven and earth"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Witness against us to damnation!"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Make deeds ill done! Hadst not thou been by,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Quoted and sign'd to do a deed of shame,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"This murder had not come into my mind:"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"But taking note of thy abhorr'd aspect,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Finding thee fit for bloody villany,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Apt, liable to be employ'd in danger,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"I faintly broke with thee of Arthur's death;"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And thou, to be endeared to a king,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Made it no conscience to destroy a prince."
IV,II,HUBERT,"My lord--"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Hadst thou but shook thy head or made a pause"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"When I spake darkly what I purposed,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Or turn'd an eye of doubt upon my face,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"As bid me tell my tale in express words,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Deep shame had struck me dumb, made me break off,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And those thy fears might have wrought fears in me:"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"But thou didst understand me by my signs"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And didst in signs again parley with sin;"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart consent,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And consequently thy rude hand to act"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"The deed, which both our tongues held vile to name."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Out of my sight, and never see me more!"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"My nobles leave me; and my state is braved,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Even at my gates, with ranks of foreign powers:"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Nay, in the body of this fleshly land,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Hostility and civil tumult reigns"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Between my conscience and my cousin's death."
IV,II,HUBERT,"Arm you against your other enemies,"
IV,II,HUBERT,"I'll make a peace between your soul and you."
IV,II,HUBERT,"Young Arthur is alive: this hand of mine"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Is yet a maiden and an innocent hand,"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Not painted with the crimson spots of blood."
IV,II,HUBERT,"Within this bosom never enter'd yet"
IV,II,HUBERT,"The dreadful motion of a murderous thought;"
IV,II,HUBERT,"And you have slander'd nature in my form,"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Which, howsoever rude exteriorly,"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Is yet the cover of a fairer mind"
IV,II,HUBERT,"Than to be butcher of an innocent child."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Doth Arthur live? O, haste thee to the peers,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Throw this report on their incensed rage,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And make them tame to their obedience!"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Forgive the comment that my passion made"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Upon thy feature; for my rage was blind,"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"And foul imaginary eyes of blood"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"Presented thee more hideous than thou art."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"O, answer not, but to my closet bring"
IV,II,KING JOHN,"The angry lords with all expedient haste."
IV,II,KING JOHN,"I conjure thee but slowly; run more fast."
IV,III,ARTHUR,"The wall is high, and yet will I leap down:"
IV,III,ARTHUR,"Good ground, be pitiful and hurt me not!"
IV,III,ARTHUR,"There's few or none do know me: if they did,"
IV,III,ARTHUR,"This ship-boy's semblance hath disguised me quite."
IV,III,ARTHUR,"I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it."
IV,III,ARTHUR,"If I get down, and do not break my limbs,"
IV,III,ARTHUR,"I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:"
IV,III,ARTHUR,"As good to die and go, as die and stay."
IV,III,ARTHUR,"O me! my uncle's spirit is in these stones:"
IV,III,ARTHUR,"Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Lords, I will meet him at Saint Edmundsbury:"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"It is our safety, and we must embrace"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"This gentle offer of the perilous time."
IV,III,PEMBROKE,"Who brought that letter from the cardinal?"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"The Count Melun, a noble lord of France,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Whose private with me of the Dauphin's love"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Is much more general than these lines import."
IV,III,BIGOT,"To-morrow morning let us meet him then."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Or rather then set forward; for 'twill be"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Two long days' journey, lords, or ere we meet."
IV,III,BASTARD,"Once more to-day well met, distemper'd lords!"
IV,III,BASTARD,"The king by me requests your presence straight."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"The king hath dispossess'd himself of us:"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"We will not line his thin bestained cloak"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"With our pure honours, nor attend the foot"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Return and tell him so: we know the worst."
IV,III,BASTARD,"Whate'er you think, good words, I think, were best."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Our griefs, and not our manners, reason now."
IV,III,BASTARD,"But there is little reason in your grief;"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Therefore 'twere reason you had manners now."
IV,III,PEMBROKE,"Sir, sir, impatience hath his privilege."
IV,III,BASTARD,"'Tis true, to hurt his master, no man else."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"This is the prison. What is he lies here?"
IV,III,PEMBROKE,"O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!"
IV,III,PEMBROKE,"The earth had not a hole to hide this deed."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Murder, as hating what himself hath done,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Doth lay it open to urge on revenge."
IV,III,BIGOT,"Or, when he doom'd this beauty to a grave,"
IV,III,BIGOT,"Found it too precious-princely for a grave."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Sir Richard, what think you? have you beheld,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Or have you read or heard? or could you think?"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Or do you almost think, although you see,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"That you do see? could thought, without this object,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Form such another? This is the very top,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"The height, the crest, or crest unto the crest,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Of murder's arms: this is the bloodiest shame,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Presented to the tears of soft remorse."
IV,III,PEMBROKE,"All murders past do stand excused in this:"
IV,III,PEMBROKE,"And this, so sole and so unmatchable,"
IV,III,PEMBROKE,"Shall give a holiness, a purity,"
IV,III,PEMBROKE,"To the yet unbegotten sin of times;"
IV,III,PEMBROKE,"And prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest,"
IV,III,PEMBROKE,"Exampled by this heinous spectacle."
IV,III,BASTARD,"It is a damned and a bloody work;"
IV,III,BASTARD,"The graceless action of a heavy hand,"
IV,III,BASTARD,"If that it be the work of any hand."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"If that it be the work of any hand!"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"We had a kind of light what would ensue:"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"It is the shameful work of Hubert's hand;"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"The practise and the purpose of the king:"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"From whose obedience I forbid my soul,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Kneeling before this ruin of sweet life,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"And breathing to his breathless excellence"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"The incense of a vow, a holy vow,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Never to taste the pleasures of the world,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Never to be infected with delight,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Nor conversant with ease and idleness,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Till I have set a glory to this hand,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"By giving it the worship of revenge."
IV,III,PEMBROKE,"Our souls religiously confirm thy words."
IV,III,HUBERT,"Lords, I am hot with haste in seeking you:"
IV,III,HUBERT,"Arthur doth live; the king hath sent for you."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"O, he is old and blushes not at death."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Avaunt, thou hateful villain, get thee gone!"
IV,III,HUBERT,"I am no villain."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Must I rob the law?"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Your sword is bright, sir; put it up again."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Not till I sheathe it in a murderer's skin."
IV,III,HUBERT,"Stand back, Lord Salisbury, stand back, I say;"
IV,III,HUBERT,"By heaven, I think my sword's as sharp as yours:"
IV,III,HUBERT,"I would not have you, lord, forget yourself,"
IV,III,HUBERT,"Nor tempt the danger of my true defence;"
IV,III,HUBERT,"Lest I, by marking of your rage, forget"
IV,III,HUBERT,"Your worth, your greatness and nobility."
IV,III,BIGOT,"Out, dunghill! darest thou brave a nobleman?"
IV,III,HUBERT,"Not for my life: but yet I dare defend"
IV,III,HUBERT,"My innocent life against an emperor."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Thou art a murderer."
IV,III,HUBERT,"Do not prove me so;"
IV,III,HUBERT,"Yet I am none: whose tongue soe'er speaks false,"
IV,III,HUBERT,"Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies."
IV,III,PEMBROKE,"Cut him to pieces."
IV,III,BASTARD,"Keep the peace, I say."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Stand by, or I shall gall you, Faulconbridge."
IV,III,BASTARD,"Thou wert better gall the devil, Salisbury:"
IV,III,BASTARD,"If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot,"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame,"
IV,III,BASTARD,"I'll strike thee dead. Put up thy sword betime;"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Or I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron,"
IV,III,BASTARD,"That you shall think the devil is come from hell."
IV,III,BIGOT,"What wilt thou do, renowned Faulconbridge?"
IV,III,BIGOT,"Second a villain and a murderer?"
IV,III,HUBERT,"Lord Bigot, I am none."
IV,III,BIGOT,"Who kill'd this prince?"
IV,III,HUBERT,"'Tis not an hour since I left him well:"
IV,III,HUBERT,"I honour'd him, I loved him, and will weep"
IV,III,HUBERT,"My date of life out for his sweet life's loss."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"For villany is not without such rheum;"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"And he, long traded in it, makes it seem"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Like rivers of remorse and innocency."
IV,III,SALISBURY,"Away with me, all you whose souls abhor"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"The uncleanly savours of a slaughter-house;"
IV,III,SALISBURY,"For I am stifled with this smell of sin."
IV,III,BIGOT,"Away toward Bury, to the Dauphin there!"
IV,III,PEMBROKE,"There tell the king he may inquire us out."
IV,III,BASTARD,"Here's a good world! Knew you of this fair work?"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Beyond the infinite and boundless reach"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death,"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Art thou damn'd, Hubert."
IV,III,HUBERT,"Do but hear me, sir."
IV,III,BASTARD,"Ha! I'll tell thee what;"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Thou'rt damn'd as black--nay, nothing is so black;"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Thou art more deep damn'd than Prince Lucifer:"
IV,III,BASTARD,"There is not yet so ugly a fiend of hell"
IV,III,BASTARD,"As thou shalt be, if thou didst kill this child."
IV,III,HUBERT,"Upon my soul--"
IV,III,BASTARD,"If thou didst but consent"
IV,III,BASTARD,"To this most cruel act, do but despair;"
IV,III,BASTARD,"And if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread"
IV,III,BASTARD,"That ever spider twisted from her womb"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Will serve to strangle thee, a rush will be a beam"
IV,III,BASTARD,"To hang thee on; or wouldst thou drown thyself,"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Put but a little water in a spoon,"
IV,III,BASTARD,"And it shall be as all the ocean,"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Enough to stifle such a villain up."
IV,III,BASTARD,"I do suspect thee very grievously."
IV,III,HUBERT,"If I in act, consent, or sin of thought,"
IV,III,HUBERT,"Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath"
IV,III,HUBERT,"Which was embounded in this beauteous clay,"
IV,III,HUBERT,"Let hell want pains enough to torture me."
IV,III,HUBERT,"I left him well."
IV,III,BASTARD,"Go, bear him in thine arms."
IV,III,BASTARD,"I am amazed, methinks, and lose my way"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Among the thorns and dangers of this world."
IV,III,BASTARD,"How easy dost thou take all England up!"
IV,III,BASTARD,"From forth this morsel of dead royalty,"
IV,III,BASTARD,"The life, the right and truth of all this realm"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Is fled to heaven; and England now is left"
IV,III,BASTARD,"To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth"
IV,III,BASTARD,"The unowed interest of proud-swelling state."
IV,III,BASTARD,"Now for the bare-pick'd bone of majesty"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest"
IV,III,BASTARD,"And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace:"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Now powers from home and discontents at home"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Meet in one line; and vast confusion waits,"
IV,III,BASTARD,"As doth a raven on a sick-fall'n beast,"
IV,III,BASTARD,"The imminent decay of wrested pomp."
IV,III,BASTARD,"Now happy he whose cloak and cincture can"
IV,III,BASTARD,"Hold out this tempest. Bear away that child"
IV,III,BASTARD,"And follow me with speed: I'll to the king:"
IV,III,BASTARD,"A thousand businesses are brief in hand,"
IV,III,BASTARD,"And heaven itself doth frown upon the land."
V,I,KING JOHN,"Thus have I yielded up into your hand"
V,I,KING JOHN,"The circle of my glory."
V,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Take again"
V,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"From this my hand, as holding of the pope"
V,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Your sovereign greatness and authority."
V,I,KING JOHN,"Now keep your holy word: go meet the French,"
V,I,KING JOHN,"And from his holiness use all your power"
V,I,KING JOHN,"To stop their marches 'fore we are inflamed."
V,I,KING JOHN,"Our discontented counties do revolt;"
V,I,KING JOHN,"Our people quarrel with obedience,"
V,I,KING JOHN,"Swearing allegiance and the love of soul"
V,I,KING JOHN,"To stranger blood, to foreign royalty."
V,I,KING JOHN,"This inundation of mistemper'd humour"
V,I,KING JOHN,"Rests by you only to be qualified:"
V,I,KING JOHN,"Then pause not; for the present time's so sick,"
V,I,KING JOHN,"That present medicine must be minister'd,"
V,I,KING JOHN,"Or overthrow incurable ensues."
V,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"It was my breath that blew this tempest up,"
V,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Upon your stubborn usage of the pope;"
V,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"But since you are a gentle convertite,"
V,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"My tongue shall hush again this storm of war"
V,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And make fair weather in your blustering land."
V,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"On this Ascension-day, remember well,"
V,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Upon your oath of service to the pope,"
V,I,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Go I to make the French lay down their arms."
V,I,KING JOHN,"Is this Ascension-day? Did not the prophet"
V,I,KING JOHN,"Say that before Ascension-day at noon"
V,I,KING JOHN,"My crown I should give off? Even so I have:"
V,I,KING JOHN,"I did suppose it should be on constraint:"
V,I,KING JOHN,"But, heaven be thank'd, it is but voluntary."
V,I,BASTARD,"All Kent hath yielded; nothing there holds out"
V,I,BASTARD,"But Dover castle: London hath received,"
V,I,BASTARD,"Like a kind host, the Dauphin and his powers:"
V,I,BASTARD,"Your nobles will not hear you, but are gone"
V,I,BASTARD,"To offer service to your enemy,"
V,I,BASTARD,"And wild amazement hurries up and down"
V,I,BASTARD,"The little number of your doubtful friends."
V,I,KING JOHN,"Would not my lords return to me again,"
V,I,KING JOHN,"After they heard young Arthur was alive?"
V,I,BASTARD,"They found him dead and cast into the streets,"
V,I,BASTARD,"An empty casket, where the jewel of life"
V,I,BASTARD,"By some damn'd hand was robb'd and ta'en away."
V,I,KING JOHN,"That villain Hubert told me he did live."
V,I,BASTARD,"So, on my soul, he did, for aught he knew."
V,I,BASTARD,"But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?"
V,I,BASTARD,"Be great in act, as you have been in thought;"
V,I,BASTARD,"Let not the world see fear and sad distrust"
V,I,BASTARD,"Govern the motion of a kingly eye:"
V,I,BASTARD,"Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;"
V,I,BASTARD,"Threaten the threatener and outface the brow"
V,I,BASTARD,"Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes,"
V,I,BASTARD,"That borrow their behaviors from the great,"
V,I,BASTARD,"Grow great by your example and put on"
V,I,BASTARD,"The dauntless spirit of resolution."
V,I,BASTARD,"Away, and glister like the god of war,"
V,I,BASTARD,"When he intendeth to become the field:"
V,I,BASTARD,"Show boldness and aspiring confidence."
V,I,BASTARD,"What, shall they seek the lion in his den,"
V,I,BASTARD,"And fright him there? and make him tremble there?"
V,I,BASTARD,"O, let it not be said: forage, and run"
V,I,BASTARD,"To meet displeasure farther from the doors,"
V,I,BASTARD,"And grapple with him ere he comes so nigh."
V,I,KING JOHN,"The legate of the pope hath been with me,"
V,I,KING JOHN,"And I have made a happy peace with him;"
V,I,KING JOHN,"And he hath promised to dismiss the powers"
V,I,KING JOHN,"Led by the Dauphin."
V,I,BASTARD,"O inglorious league!"
V,I,BASTARD,"Shall we, upon the footing of our land,"
V,I,BASTARD,"Send fair-play orders and make compromise,"
V,I,BASTARD,"Insinuation, parley and base truce"
V,I,BASTARD,"To arms invasive? shall a beardless boy,"
V,I,BASTARD,"A cocker'd silken wanton, brave our fields,"
V,I,BASTARD,"And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,"
V,I,BASTARD,"Mocking the air with colours idly spread,"
V,I,BASTARD,"And find no cheque? Let us, my liege, to arms:"
V,I,BASTARD,"Perchance the cardinal cannot make your peace;"
V,I,BASTARD,"Or if he do, let it at least be said"
V,I,BASTARD,"They saw we had a purpose of defence."
V,I,KING JOHN,"Have thou the ordering of this present time."
V,I,BASTARD,"Away, then, with good courage! yet, I know,"
V,I,BASTARD,"Our party may well meet a prouder foe."
V,II,LEWIS,"My Lord Melun, let this be copied out,"
V,II,LEWIS,"And keep it safe for our remembrance:"
V,II,LEWIS,"Return the precedent to these lords again;"
V,II,LEWIS,"That, having our fair order written down,"
V,II,LEWIS,"Both they and we, perusing o'er these notes,"
V,II,LEWIS,"May know wherefore we took the sacrament"
V,II,LEWIS,"And keep our faiths firm and inviolable."
V,II,SALISBURY,"Upon our sides it never shall be broken."
V,II,SALISBURY,"And, noble Dauphin, albeit we swear"
V,II,SALISBURY,"A voluntary zeal and an unurged faith"
V,II,SALISBURY,"To your proceedings; yet believe me, prince,"
V,II,SALISBURY,"I am not glad that such a sore of time"
V,II,SALISBURY,"Should seek a plaster by contemn'd revolt,"
V,II,SALISBURY,"And heal the inveterate canker of one wound"
V,II,SALISBURY,"By making many. O, it grieves my soul,"
V,II,SALISBURY,"That I must draw this metal from my side"
V,II,SALISBURY,"To be a widow-maker! O, and there"
V,II,SALISBURY,"Where honourable rescue and defence"
V,II,SALISBURY,"Cries out upon the name of Salisbury!"
V,II,SALISBURY,"But such is the infection of the time,"
V,II,SALISBURY,"That, for the health and physic of our right,"
V,II,SALISBURY,"We cannot deal but with the very hand"
V,II,SALISBURY,"Of stern injustice and confused wrong."
V,II,SALISBURY,"And is't not pity, O my grieved friends,"
V,II,SALISBURY,"That we, the sons and children of this isle,"
V,II,SALISBURY,"Were born to see so sad an hour as this;"
V,II,SALISBURY,"Wherein we step after a stranger march"
V,II,SALISBURY,"Upon her gentle bosom, and fill up"
V,II,SALISBURY,"Her enemies' ranks,--I must withdraw and weep"
V,II,SALISBURY,"Upon the spot of this enforced cause,--"
V,II,SALISBURY,"To grace the gentry of a land remote,"
V,II,SALISBURY,"And follow unacquainted colours here?"
V,II,SALISBURY,"What, here? O nation, that thou couldst remove!"
V,II,SALISBURY,"That Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about,"
V,II,SALISBURY,"Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself,"
V,II,SALISBURY,"And grapple thee unto a pagan shore;"
V,II,SALISBURY,"Where these two Christian armies might combine"
V,II,SALISBURY,"The blood of malice in a vein of league,"
V,II,SALISBURY,"And not to spend it so unneighbourly!"
V,II,LEWIS,"A noble temper dost thou show in this;"
V,II,LEWIS,"And great affections wrestling in thy bosom"
V,II,LEWIS,"Doth make an earthquake of nobility."
V,II,LEWIS,"O, what a noble combat hast thou fought"
V,II,LEWIS,"Between compulsion and a brave respect!"
V,II,LEWIS,"Let me wipe off this honourable dew,"
V,II,LEWIS,"That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks:"
V,II,LEWIS,"My heart hath melted at a lady's tears,"
V,II,LEWIS,"Being an ordinary inundation;"
V,II,LEWIS,"But this effusion of such manly drops,"
V,II,LEWIS,"This shower, blown up by tempest of the soul,"
V,II,LEWIS,"Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amazed"
V,II,LEWIS,"Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven"
V,II,LEWIS,"Figured quite o'er with burning meteors."
V,II,LEWIS,"Lift up thy brow, renowned Salisbury,"
V,II,LEWIS,"And with a great heart heave away the storm:"
V,II,LEWIS,"Commend these waters to those baby eyes"
V,II,LEWIS,"That never saw the giant world enraged;"
V,II,LEWIS,"Nor met with fortune other than at feasts,"
V,II,LEWIS,"Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping."
V,II,LEWIS,"Come, come; for thou shalt thrust thy hand as deep"
V,II,LEWIS,"Into the purse of rich prosperity"
V,II,LEWIS,"As Lewis himself: so, nobles, shall you all,"
V,II,LEWIS,"That knit your sinews to the strength of mine."
V,II,LEWIS,"And even there, methinks, an angel spake:"
V,II,LEWIS,"Look, where the holy legate comes apace,"
V,II,LEWIS,"To give us warrant from the hand of heaven"
V,II,LEWIS,"And on our actions set the name of right"
V,II,LEWIS,"With holy breath."
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Hail, noble prince of France!"
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"The next is this, King John hath reconciled"
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Himself to Rome; his spirit is come in,"
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"That so stood out against the holy church,"
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"The great metropolis and see of Rome:"
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Therefore thy threatening colours now wind up;"
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And tame the savage spirit of wild war,"
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"That like a lion foster'd up at hand,"
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"It may lie gently at the foot of peace,"
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And be no further harmful than in show."
V,II,LEWIS,"Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back:"
V,II,LEWIS,"I am too high-born to be propertied,"
V,II,LEWIS,"To be a secondary at control,"
V,II,LEWIS,"Or useful serving-man and instrument,"
V,II,LEWIS,"To any sovereign state throughout the world."
V,II,LEWIS,"Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars"
V,II,LEWIS,"Between this chastised kingdom and myself,"
V,II,LEWIS,"And brought in matter that should feed this fire;"
V,II,LEWIS,"And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out"
V,II,LEWIS,"With that same weak wind which enkindled it."
V,II,LEWIS,"You taught me how to know the face of right,"
V,II,LEWIS,"Acquainted me with interest to this land,"
V,II,LEWIS,"Yea, thrust this enterprise into my heart;"
V,II,LEWIS,"And come ye now to tell me John hath made"
V,II,LEWIS,"His peace with Rome? What is that peace to me?"
V,II,LEWIS,"I, by the honour of my marriage-bed,"
V,II,LEWIS,"After young Arthur, claim this land for mine;"
V,II,LEWIS,"And, now it is half-conquer'd, must I back"
V,II,LEWIS,"Because that John hath made his peace with Rome?"
V,II,LEWIS,"Am I Rome's slave? What penny hath Rome borne,"
V,II,LEWIS,"What men provided, what munition sent,"
V,II,LEWIS,"To underprop this action? Is't not I"
V,II,LEWIS,"That undergo this charge? who else but I,"
V,II,LEWIS,"And such as to my claim are liable,"
V,II,LEWIS,"Sweat in this business and maintain this war?"
V,II,LEWIS,"Have I not heard these islanders shout out"
V,II,LEWIS,"'Vive le roi!' as I have bank'd their towns?"
V,II,LEWIS,"Have I not here the best cards for the game,"
V,II,LEWIS,"To win this easy match play'd for a crown?"
V,II,LEWIS,"And shall I now give o'er the yielded set?"
V,II,LEWIS,"No, no, on my soul, it never shall be said."
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"You look but on the outside of this work."
V,II,LEWIS,"Outside or inside, I will not return"
V,II,LEWIS,"Till my attempt so much be glorified"
V,II,LEWIS,"As to my ample hope was promised"
V,II,LEWIS,"Before I drew this gallant head of war,"
V,II,LEWIS,"And cull'd these fiery spirits from the world,"
V,II,LEWIS,"To outlook conquest and to win renown"
V,II,LEWIS,"Even in the jaws of danger and of death."
V,II,LEWIS,"What lusty trumpet thus doth summon us?"
V,II,BASTARD,"According to the fair play of the world,"
V,II,BASTARD,"Let me have audience; I am sent to speak:"
V,II,BASTARD,"My holy lord of Milan, from the king"
V,II,BASTARD,"I come, to learn how you have dealt for him;"
V,II,BASTARD,"And, as you answer, I do know the scope"
V,II,BASTARD,"And warrant limited unto my tongue."
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite,"
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"And will not temporize with my entreaties;"
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"He flatly says he'll not lay down his arms."
V,II,BASTARD,"By all the blood that ever fury breathed,"
V,II,BASTARD,"The youth says well. Now hear our English king;"
V,II,BASTARD,"For thus his royalty doth speak in me."
V,II,BASTARD,"He is prepared, and reason too he should:"
V,II,BASTARD,"This apish and unmannerly approach,"
V,II,BASTARD,"This harness'd masque and unadvised revel,"
V,II,BASTARD,"This unhair'd sauciness and boyish troops,"
V,II,BASTARD,"The king doth smile at; and is well prepared"
V,II,BASTARD,"To whip this dwarfish war, these pigmy arms,"
V,II,BASTARD,"From out the circle of his territories."
V,II,BASTARD,"That hand which had the strength, even at your door,"
V,II,BASTARD,"To cudgel you and make you take the hatch,"
V,II,BASTARD,"To dive like buckets in concealed wells,"
V,II,BASTARD,"To crouch in litter of your stable planks,"
V,II,BASTARD,"To lie like pawns lock'd up in chests and trunks,"
V,II,BASTARD,"To hug with swine, to seek sweet safety out"
V,II,BASTARD,"In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake"
V,II,BASTARD,"Even at the crying of your nation's crow,"
V,II,BASTARD,"Thinking his voice an armed Englishman;"
V,II,BASTARD,"Shall that victorious hand be feebled here,"
V,II,BASTARD,"That in your chambers gave you chastisement?"
V,II,BASTARD,"No: know the gallant monarch is in arms"
V,II,BASTARD,"And like an eagle o'er his aery towers,"
V,II,BASTARD,"To souse annoyance that comes near his nest."
V,II,BASTARD,"And you degenerate, you ingrate revolts,"
V,II,BASTARD,"You bloody Neroes, ripping up the womb"
V,II,BASTARD,"Of your dear mother England, blush for shame;"
V,II,BASTARD,"For your own ladies and pale-visaged maids"
V,II,BASTARD,"Like Amazons come tripping after drums,"
V,II,BASTARD,"Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change,"
V,II,BASTARD,"Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts"
V,II,BASTARD,"To fierce and bloody inclination."
V,II,LEWIS,"There end thy brave, and turn thy face in peace;"
V,II,LEWIS,"We grant thou canst outscold us: fare thee well;"
V,II,LEWIS,"We hold our time too precious to be spent"
V,II,LEWIS,"With such a brabbler."
V,II,CARDINAL PANDULPH,"Give me leave to speak."
V,II,BASTARD,"No, I will speak."
V,II,LEWIS,"We will attend to neither."
V,II,LEWIS,"Strike up the drums; and let the tongue of war"
V,II,LEWIS,"Plead for our interest and our being here."
V,II,BASTARD,"Indeed your drums, being beaten, will cry out;"
V,II,BASTARD,"And so shall you, being beaten: do but start"
V,II,BASTARD,"An echo with the clamour of thy drum,"
V,II,BASTARD,"And even at hand a drum is ready braced"
V,II,BASTARD,"That shall reverberate all as loud as thine;"
V,II,BASTARD,"Sound but another, and another shall"
V,II,BASTARD,"As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear"
V,II,BASTARD,"And mock the deep-mouth'd thunder: for at hand,"
V,II,BASTARD,"Not trusting to this halting legate here,"
V,II,BASTARD,"Whom he hath used rather for sport than need"
V,II,BASTARD,"Is warlike John; and in his forehead sits"
V,II,BASTARD,"A bare-ribb'd death, whose office is this day"
V,II,BASTARD,"To feast upon whole thousands of the French."
V,II,LEWIS,"Strike up our drums, to find this danger out."
V,II,BASTARD,"And thou shalt find it, Dauphin, do not doubt."
V,III,KING JOHN,"How goes the day with us? O, tell me, Hubert."
V,III,HUBERT,"Badly, I fear. How fares your majesty?"
V,III,KING JOHN,"This fever, that hath troubled me so long,"
V,III,KING JOHN,"Lies heavy on me; O, my heart is sick!"
V,III,Messenger,"My lord, your valiant kinsman, Faulconbridge,"
V,III,Messenger,"Desires your majesty to leave the field"
V,III,Messenger,"And send him word by me which way you go."
V,III,KING JOHN,"Tell him, toward Swinstead, to the abbey there."
V,III,Messenger,"Be of good comfort; for the great supply"
V,III,Messenger,"That was expected by the Dauphin here,"
V,III,Messenger,"Are wreck'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands."
V,III,Messenger,"This news was brought to Richard but even now:"
V,III,Messenger,"The French fight coldly, and retire themselves."
V,III,KING JOHN,"Ay me! this tyrant fever burns me up,"
V,III,KING JOHN,"And will not let me welcome this good news."
V,III,KING JOHN,"Set on toward Swinstead: to my litter straight;"
V,III,KING JOHN,"Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint."
V,IV,SALISBURY,"I did not think the king so stored with friends."
V,IV,PEMBROKE,"Up once again; put spirit in the French:"
V,IV,PEMBROKE,"If they miscarry, we miscarry too."
V,IV,SALISBURY,"That misbegotten devil, Faulconbridge,"
V,IV,SALISBURY,"In spite of spite, alone upholds the day."
V,IV,PEMBROKE,"They say King John sore sick hath left the field."
V,IV,MELUN,"Lead me to the revolts of England here."
V,IV,SALISBURY,"When we were happy we had other names."
V,IV,PEMBROKE,"It is the Count Melun."
V,IV,SALISBURY,"Wounded to death."
V,IV,MELUN,"Fly, noble English, you are bought and sold;"
V,IV,MELUN,"Unthread the rude eye of rebellion"
V,IV,MELUN,"And welcome home again discarded faith."
V,IV,MELUN,"Seek out King John and fall before his feet;"
V,IV,MELUN,"For if the French be lords of this loud day,"
V,IV,MELUN,"He means to recompense the pains you take"
V,IV,MELUN,"By cutting off your heads: thus hath he sworn"
V,IV,MELUN,"And I with him, and many moe with me,"
V,IV,MELUN,"Upon the altar at Saint Edmundsbury;"
V,IV,MELUN,"Even on that altar where we swore to you"
V,IV,MELUN,"Dear amity and everlasting love."
V,IV,SALISBURY,"May this be possible? may this be true?"
V,IV,MELUN,"Have I not hideous death within my view,"
V,IV,MELUN,"Retaining but a quantity of life,"
V,IV,MELUN,"Which bleeds away, even as a form of wax"
V,IV,MELUN,"Resolveth from his figure 'gainst the fire?"
V,IV,MELUN,"What in the world should make me now deceive,"
V,IV,MELUN,"Since I must lose the use of all deceit?"
V,IV,MELUN,"Why should I then be false, since it is true"
V,IV,MELUN,"That I must die here and live hence by truth?"
V,IV,MELUN,"I say again, if Lewis do win the day,"
V,IV,MELUN,"He is forsworn, if e'er those eyes of yours"
V,IV,MELUN,"Behold another day break in the east:"
V,IV,MELUN,"But even this night, whose black contagious breath"
V,IV,MELUN,"Already smokes about the burning crest"
V,IV,MELUN,"Of the old, feeble and day-wearied sun,"
V,IV,MELUN,"Even this ill night, your breathing shall expire,"
V,IV,MELUN,"Paying the fine of rated treachery"
V,IV,MELUN,"Even with a treacherous fine of all your lives,"
V,IV,MELUN,"If Lewis by your assistance win the day."
V,IV,MELUN,"Commend me to one Hubert with your king:"
V,IV,MELUN,"The love of him, and this respect besides,"
V,IV,MELUN,"For that my grandsire was an Englishman,"
V,IV,MELUN,"Awakes my conscience to confess all this."
V,IV,MELUN,"In lieu whereof, I pray you, bear me hence"
V,IV,MELUN,"From forth the noise and rumour of the field,"
V,IV,MELUN,"Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts"
V,IV,MELUN,"In peace, and part this body and my soul"
V,IV,MELUN,"With contemplation and devout desires."
V,IV,SALISBURY,"We do believe thee: and beshrew my soul"
V,IV,SALISBURY,"But I do love the favour and the form"
V,IV,SALISBURY,"Of this most fair occasion, by the which"
V,IV,SALISBURY,"We will untread the steps of damned flight,"
V,IV,SALISBURY,"And like a bated and retired flood,"
V,IV,SALISBURY,"Leaving our rankness and irregular course,"
V,IV,SALISBURY,"Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlook'd"
V,IV,SALISBURY,"And cabby run on in obedience"
V,IV,SALISBURY,"Even to our ocean, to our great King John."
V,IV,SALISBURY,"My arm shall give thee help to bear thee hence;"
V,IV,SALISBURY,"For I do see the cruel pangs of death"
V,IV,SALISBURY,"Right in thine eye. Away, my friends! New flight;"
V,IV,SALISBURY,"And happy newness, that intends old right."
V,V,LEWIS,"The sun of heaven methought was loath to set,"
V,V,LEWIS,"But stay'd and made the western welkin blush,"
V,V,LEWIS,"When English measure backward their own ground"
V,V,LEWIS,"In faint retire. O, bravely came we off,"
V,V,LEWIS,"When with a volley of our needless shot,"
V,V,LEWIS,"After such bloody toil, we bid good night;"
V,V,LEWIS,"And wound our tattering colours clearly up,"
V,V,LEWIS,"Last in the field, and almost lords of it!"
V,V,Messenger,"Where is my prince, the Dauphin?"
V,V,LEWIS,"Here: what news?"
V,V,Messenger,"The Count Melun is slain; the English lords"
V,V,Messenger,"By his persuasion are again fall'n off,"
V,V,Messenger,"And your supply, which you have wish'd so long,"
V,V,Messenger,"Are cast away and sunk on Goodwin Sands."
V,V,LEWIS,"Ah, foul shrewd news! beshrew thy very heart!"
V,V,LEWIS,"I did not think to be so sad to-night"
V,V,LEWIS,"As this hath made me. Who was he that said"
V,V,LEWIS,"King John did fly an hour or two before"
V,V,LEWIS,"The stumbling night did part our weary powers?"
V,V,Messenger,"Whoever spoke it, it is true, my lord."
V,V,LEWIS,"Well; keep good quarter and good care to-night:"
V,V,LEWIS,"The day shall not be up so soon as I,"
V,V,LEWIS,"To try the fair adventure of to-morrow."
V,VI,HUBERT,"Who's there? speak, ho! speak quickly, or I shoot."
V,VI,BASTARD,"A friend. What art thou?"
V,VI,HUBERT,"Of the part of England."
V,VI,BASTARD,"Whither dost thou go?"
V,VI,HUBERT,"What's that to thee? why may not I demand"
V,VI,HUBERT,"Of thine affairs, as well as thou of mine?"
V,VI,BASTARD,"Hubert, I think?"
V,VI,HUBERT,"Thou hast a perfect thought:"
V,VI,HUBERT,"I will upon all hazards well believe"
V,VI,HUBERT,"Thou art my friend, that know'st my tongue so well."
V,VI,HUBERT,"Who art thou?"
V,VI,BASTARD,"Who thou wilt: and if thou please,"
V,VI,BASTARD,"Thou mayst befriend me so much as to think"
V,VI,BASTARD,"I come one way of the Plantagenets."
V,VI,HUBERT,"Unkind remembrance! thou and eyeless night"
V,VI,HUBERT,"Have done me shame: brave soldier, pardon me,"
V,VI,HUBERT,"That any accent breaking from thy tongue"
V,VI,HUBERT,"Should 'scape the true acquaintance of mine ear."
V,VI,BASTARD,"Come, come; sans compliment, what news abroad?"
V,VI,HUBERT,"Why, here walk I in the black brow of night,"
V,VI,HUBERT,"To find you out."
V,VI,BASTARD,"Brief, then; and what's the news?"
V,VI,HUBERT,"O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,"
V,VI,HUBERT,"Black, fearful, comfortless and horrible."
V,VI,BASTARD,"Show me the very wound of this ill news:"
V,VI,BASTARD,"I am no woman, I'll not swoon at it."
V,VI,HUBERT,"The king, I fear, is poison'd by a monk:"
V,VI,HUBERT,"I left him almost speechless; and broke out"
V,VI,HUBERT,"To acquaint you with this evil, that you might"
V,VI,HUBERT,"The better arm you to the sudden time,"
V,VI,HUBERT,"Than if you had at leisure known of this."
V,VI,BASTARD,"How did he take it? who did taste to him?"
V,VI,HUBERT,"A monk, I tell you; a resolved villain,"
V,VI,HUBERT,"Whose bowels suddenly burst out: the king"
V,VI,HUBERT,"Yet speaks and peradventure may recover."
V,VI,BASTARD,"Who didst thou leave to tend his majesty?"
V,VI,HUBERT,"Why, know you not? the lords are all come back,"
V,VI,HUBERT,"And brought Prince Henry in their company;"
V,VI,HUBERT,"At whose request the king hath pardon'd them,"
V,VI,HUBERT,"And they are all about his majesty."
V,VI,BASTARD,"Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven,"
V,VI,BASTARD,"And tempt us not to bear above our power!"
V,VI,BASTARD,"I'll tell tree, Hubert, half my power this night,"
V,VI,BASTARD,"Passing these flats, are taken by the tide;"
V,VI,BASTARD,"These Lincoln Washes have devoured them;"
V,VI,BASTARD,"Myself, well mounted, hardly have escaped."
V,VI,BASTARD,"Away before: conduct me to the king;"
V,VI,BASTARD,"I doubt he will be dead or ere I come."
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"It is too late: the life of all his blood"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"Is touch'd corruptibly, and his pure brain,"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house,"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"Doth by the idle comments that it makes"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"Foretell the ending of mortality."
V,VII,PEMBROKE,"His highness yet doth speak, and holds belief"
V,VII,PEMBROKE,"That, being brought into the open air,"
V,VII,PEMBROKE,"It would allay the burning quality"
V,VII,PEMBROKE,"Of that fell poison which assaileth him."
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"Let him be brought into the orchard here."
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"Doth he still rage?"
V,VII,PEMBROKE,"He is more patient"
V,VII,PEMBROKE,"Than when you left him; even now he sung."
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"O vanity of sickness! fierce extremes"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"In their continuance will not feel themselves."
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"Death, having prey'd upon the outward parts,"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"Leaves them invisible, and his siege is now"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"Against the mind, the which he pricks and wounds"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"With many legions of strange fantasies,"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"Which, in their throng and press to that last hold,"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"Confound themselves. 'Tis strange that death"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"should sing."
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"His soul and body to their lasting rest."
V,VII,SALISBURY,"Be of good comfort, prince; for you are born"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"To set a form upon that indigest"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude."
V,VII,KING JOHN,"Ay, marry, now my soul hath elbow-room;"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"It would not out at windows nor at doors."
V,VII,KING JOHN,"There is so hot a summer in my bosom,"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"That all my bowels crumble up to dust:"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"Upon a parchment, and against this fire"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"Do I shrink up."
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"How fares your majesty?"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"Poison'd,--ill fare--dead, forsook, cast off:"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"And none of you will bid the winter come"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"To thrust his icy fingers in my maw,"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"Nor let my kingdom's rivers take their course"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"Through my burn'd bosom, nor entreat the north"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"To make his bleak winds kiss my parched lips"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"And comfort me with cold. I do not ask you much,"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"And so ingrateful, you deny me that."
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"O that there were some virtue in my tears,"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"That might relieve you!"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"The salt in them is hot."
V,VII,KING JOHN,"Within me is a hell; and there the poison"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"Is as a fiend confined to tyrannize"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"On unreprievable condemned blood."
V,VII,BASTARD,"O, I am scalded with my violent motion,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"And spleen of speed to see your majesty!"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"O cousin, thou art come to set mine eye:"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"The tackle of my heart is crack'd and burn'd,"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"Are turned to one thread, one little hair:"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"Which holds but till thy news be uttered;"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"And then all this thou seest is but a clod"
V,VII,KING JOHN,"And module of confounded royalty."
V,VII,BASTARD,"The Dauphin is preparing hitherward,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"Where heaven He knows how we shall answer him;"
V,VII,BASTARD,"For in a night the best part of my power,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"As I upon advantage did remove,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"Were in the Washes all unwarily"
V,VII,BASTARD,"Devoured by the unexpected flood."
V,VII,SALISBURY,"You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear."
V,VII,SALISBURY,"My liege! my lord! but now a king, now thus."
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"Even so must I run on, and even so stop."
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"What surety of the world, what hope, what stay,"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"When this was now a king, and now is clay?"
V,VII,BASTARD,"Art thou gone so? I do but stay behind"
V,VII,BASTARD,"To do the office for thee of revenge,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"And then my soul shall wait on thee to heaven,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"As it on earth hath been thy servant still."
V,VII,BASTARD,"Now, now, you stars that move in your right spheres,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"Where be your powers? show now your mended faiths,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"And instantly return with me again,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"To push destruction and perpetual shame"
V,VII,BASTARD,"Out of the weak door of our fainting land."
V,VII,BASTARD,"Straight let us seek, or straight we shall be sought;"
V,VII,BASTARD,"The Dauphin rages at our very heels."
V,VII,SALISBURY,"It seems you know not, then, so much as we:"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"The Cardinal Pandulph is within at rest,"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"Who half an hour since came from the Dauphin,"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"And brings from him such offers of our peace"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"As we with honour and respect may take,"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"With purpose presently to leave this war."
V,VII,BASTARD,"He will the rather do it when he sees"
V,VII,BASTARD,"Ourselves well sinewed to our defence."
V,VII,SALISBURY,"Nay, it is in a manner done already;"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"For many carriages he hath dispatch'd"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"To the sea-side, and put his cause and quarrel"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"To the disposing of the cardinal:"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"With whom yourself, myself and other lords,"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"If you think meet, this afternoon will post"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"To consummate this business happily."
V,VII,BASTARD,"Let it be so: and you, my noble prince,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"With other princes that may best be spared,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"Shall wait upon your father's funeral."
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"At Worcester must his body be interr'd;"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"For so he will'd it."
V,VII,BASTARD,"Thither shall it then:"
V,VII,BASTARD,"And happily may your sweet self put on"
V,VII,BASTARD,"The lineal state and glory of the land!"
V,VII,BASTARD,"To whom with all submission, on my knee"
V,VII,BASTARD,"I do bequeath my faithful services"
V,VII,BASTARD,"And true subjection everlastingly."
V,VII,SALISBURY,"And the like tender of our love we make,"
V,VII,SALISBURY,"To rest without a spot for evermore."
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"I have a kind soul that would give you thanks"
V,VII,PRINCE HENRY,"And knows not how to do it but with tears."
V,VII,BASTARD,"O, let us pay the time but needful woe,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs."
V,VII,BASTARD,"This England never did, nor never shall,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"But when it first did help to wound itself."
V,VII,BASTARD,"Now these her princes are come home again,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"Come the three corners of the world in arms,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,"
V,VII,BASTARD,"If England to itself do rest but true."
I,I,FERDINAND,"Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Live register'd upon our brazen tombs"
I,I,FERDINAND,"And then grace us in the disgrace of death;"
I,I,FERDINAND,"When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"The endeavor of this present breath may buy"
I,I,FERDINAND,"That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge"
I,I,FERDINAND,"And make us heirs of all eternity."
I,I,FERDINAND,"Therefore, brave conquerors,--for so you are,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"That war against your own affections"
I,I,FERDINAND,"And the huge army of the world's desires,--"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Our late edict shall strongly stand in force:"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Navarre shall be the wonder of the world;"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Our court shall be a little Academe,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Still and contemplative in living art."
I,I,FERDINAND,"You three, Biron, Dumain, and Longaville,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Have sworn for three years' term to live with me"
I,I,FERDINAND,"My fellow-scholars, and to keep those statutes"
I,I,FERDINAND,"That are recorded in this schedule here:"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Your oaths are pass'd; and now subscribe your names,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"That his own hand may strike his honour down"
I,I,FERDINAND,"That violates the smallest branch herein:"
I,I,FERDINAND,"If you are arm'd to do as sworn to do,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too."
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast:"
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"The mind shall banquet, though the body pine:"
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits"
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits."
I,I,DUMAIN,"My loving lord, Dumain is mortified:"
I,I,DUMAIN,"The grosser manner of these world's delights"
I,I,DUMAIN,"He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves:"
I,I,DUMAIN,"To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die;"
I,I,DUMAIN,"With all these living in philosophy."
I,I,BIRON,"I can but say their protestation over;"
I,I,BIRON,"So much, dear liege, I have already sworn,"
I,I,BIRON,"That is, to live and study here three years."
I,I,BIRON,"But there are other strict observances;"
I,I,BIRON,"As, not to see a woman in that term,"
I,I,BIRON,"Which I hope well is not enrolled there;"
I,I,BIRON,"And one day in a week to touch no food"
I,I,BIRON,"And but one meal on every day beside,"
I,I,BIRON,"The which I hope is not enrolled there;"
I,I,BIRON,"And then, to sleep but three hours in the night,"
I,I,BIRON,"And not be seen to wink of all the day--"
I,I,BIRON,"When I was wont to think no harm all night"
I,I,BIRON,"And make a dark night too of half the day--"
I,I,BIRON,"Which I hope well is not enrolled there:"
I,I,BIRON,"O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep,"
I,I,BIRON,"Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep!"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Your oath is pass'd to pass away from these."
I,I,BIRON,"Let me say no, my liege, an if you please:"
I,I,BIRON,"I only swore to study with your grace"
I,I,BIRON,"And stay here in your court for three years' space."
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"You swore to that, Biron, and to the rest."
I,I,BIRON,"By yea and nay, sir, then I swore in jest."
I,I,BIRON,"What is the end of study? let me know."
I,I,FERDINAND,"Why, that to know, which else we should not know."
I,I,BIRON,"Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense?"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Ay, that is study's godlike recompense."
I,I,BIRON,"Come on, then; I will swear to study so,"
I,I,BIRON,"To know the thing I am forbid to know:"
I,I,BIRON,"As thus,--to study where I well may dine,"
I,I,BIRON,"When I to feast expressly am forbid;"
I,I,BIRON,"Or study where to meet some mistress fine,"
I,I,BIRON,"When mistresses from common sense are hid;"
I,I,BIRON,"Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath,"
I,I,BIRON,"Study to break it and not break my troth."
I,I,BIRON,"If study's gain be thus and this be so,"
I,I,BIRON,"Study knows that which yet it doth not know:"
I,I,BIRON,"Swear me to this, and I will ne'er say no."
I,I,FERDINAND,"These be the stops that hinder study quite"
I,I,FERDINAND,"And train our intellects to vain delight."
I,I,BIRON,"Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain,"
I,I,BIRON,"Which with pain purchased doth inherit pain:"
I,I,BIRON,"As, painfully to pore upon a book"
I,I,BIRON,"To seek the light of truth; while truth the while"
I,I,BIRON,"Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look:"
I,I,BIRON,"Light seeking light doth light of light beguile:"
I,I,BIRON,"So, ere you find where light in darkness lies,"
I,I,BIRON,"Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes."
I,I,BIRON,"Study me how to please the eye indeed"
I,I,BIRON,"By fixing it upon a fairer eye,"
I,I,BIRON,"Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed"
I,I,BIRON,"And give him light that it was blinded by."
I,I,BIRON,"Study is like the heaven's glorious sun"
I,I,BIRON,"That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks:"
I,I,BIRON,"Small have continual plodders ever won"
I,I,BIRON,"Save base authority from others' books"
I,I,BIRON,"These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights"
I,I,BIRON,"That give a name to every fixed star"
I,I,BIRON,"Have no more profit of their shining nights"
I,I,BIRON,"Than those that walk and wot not what they are."
I,I,BIRON,"Too much to know is to know nought but fame;"
I,I,BIRON,"And every godfather can give a name."
I,I,FERDINAND,"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"
I,I,DUMAIN,"Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding!"
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"He weeds the corn and still lets grow the weeding."
I,I,BIRON,"The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding."
I,I,DUMAIN,"How follows that?"
I,I,BIRON,"Fit in his place and time."
I,I,DUMAIN,"In reason nothing."
I,I,BIRON,"Something then in rhyme."
I,I,FERDINAND,"Biron is like an envious sneaping frost,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"That bites the first-born infants of the spring."
I,I,BIRON,"Well, say I am; why should proud summer boast"
I,I,BIRON,"Before the birds have any cause to sing?"
I,I,BIRON,"Why should I joy in any abortive birth?"
I,I,BIRON,"At Christmas I no more desire a rose"
I,I,BIRON,"Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;"
I,I,BIRON,"But like of each thing that in season grows."
I,I,BIRON,"So you, to study now it is too late,"
I,I,BIRON,"Climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate."
I,I,FERDINAND,"Well, sit you out: go home, Biron: adieu."
I,I,BIRON,"No, my good lord; I have sworn to stay with you:"
I,I,BIRON,"And though I have for barbarism spoke more"
I,I,BIRON,"Than for that angel knowledge you can say,"
I,I,BIRON,"Yet confident I'll keep what I have swore"
I,I,BIRON,"And bide the penance of each three years' day."
I,I,BIRON,"Give me the paper; let me read the same;"
I,I,BIRON,"And to the strict'st decrees I'll write my name."
I,I,FERDINAND,"How well this yielding rescues thee from shame!"
I,I,BIRON,"mile of my court:' Hath this been proclaimed?"
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"Four days ago."
I,I,BIRON,"Let's see the penalty."
I,I,BIRON,"'On pain of losing her tongue.' Who devised this penalty?"
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"Marry, that did I."
I,I,BIRON,"Sweet lord, and why?"
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"To fright them hence with that dread penalty."
I,I,BIRON,"A dangerous law against gentility!"
I,I,BIRON,"'Item, If any man be seen to talk with a woman"
I,I,BIRON,"within the term of three years, he shall endure such"
I,I,BIRON,"public shame as the rest of the court can possibly devise.'"
I,I,BIRON,"This article, my liege, yourself must break;"
I,I,BIRON,"For well you know here comes in embassy"
I,I,BIRON,"The French king's daughter with yourself to speak--"
I,I,BIRON,"A maid of grace and complete majesty--"
I,I,BIRON,"About surrender up of Aquitaine"
I,I,BIRON,"To her decrepit, sick and bedrid father:"
I,I,BIRON,"Therefore this article is made in vain,"
I,I,BIRON,"Or vainly comes the admired princess hither."
I,I,FERDINAND,"What say you, lords? Why, this was quite forgot."
I,I,BIRON,"So study evermore is overshot:"
I,I,BIRON,"While it doth study to have what it would"
I,I,BIRON,"It doth forget to do the thing it should,"
I,I,BIRON,"And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,"
I,I,BIRON,"'Tis won as towns with fire, so won, so lost."
I,I,FERDINAND,"We must of force dispense with this decree;"
I,I,FERDINAND,"She must lie here on mere necessity."
I,I,BIRON,"Necessity will make us all forsworn"
I,I,BIRON,"Three thousand times within this three years' space;"
I,I,BIRON,"For every man with his affects is born,"
I,I,BIRON,"Not by might master'd but by special grace:"
I,I,BIRON,"If I break faith, this word shall speak for me;"
I,I,BIRON,"I am forsworn on 'mere necessity.'"
I,I,BIRON,"So to the laws at large I write my name:"
I,I,BIRON,"And he that breaks them in the least degree"
I,I,BIRON,"Stands in attainder of eternal shame:"
I,I,BIRON,"Suggestions are to other as to me;"
I,I,BIRON,"But I believe, although I seem so loath,"
I,I,BIRON,"I am the last that will last keep his oath."
I,I,BIRON,"But is there no quick recreation granted?"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Ay, that there is. Our court, you know, is haunted"
I,I,FERDINAND,"With a refined traveller of Spain;"
I,I,FERDINAND,"A man in all the world's new fashion planted,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"That hath a mint of phrases in his brain;"
I,I,FERDINAND,"One whom the music of his own vain tongue"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Doth ravish like enchanting harmony;"
I,I,FERDINAND,"A man of complements, whom right and wrong"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Have chose as umpire of their mutiny:"
I,I,FERDINAND,"This child of fancy, that Armado hight,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"For interim to our studies shall relate"
I,I,FERDINAND,"In high-born words the worth of many a knight"
I,I,FERDINAND,"From tawny Spain lost in the world's debate."
I,I,FERDINAND,"How you delight, my lords, I know not, I;"
I,I,FERDINAND,"But, I protest, I love to hear him lie"
I,I,FERDINAND,"And I will use him for my minstrelsy."
I,I,BIRON,"Armado is a most illustrious wight,"
I,I,BIRON,"A man of fire-new words, fashion's own knight."
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"Costard the swain and he shall be our sport;"
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"And so to study, three years is but short."
I,I,DULL,"Which is the duke's own person?"
I,I,BIRON,"This, fellow: what wouldst?"
I,I,DULL,"I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his"
I,I,DULL,"grace's tharborough: but I would see his own person"
I,I,DULL,"in flesh and blood."
I,I,BIRON,"This is he."
I,I,DULL,"Signior Arme--Arme--commends you. There's villany"
I,I,DULL,"abroad: this letter will tell you more."
I,I,COSTARD,"Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me."
I,I,FERDINAND,"A letter from the magnificent Armado."
I,I,BIRON,"How low soever the matter, I hope in God for high words."
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!"
I,I,BIRON,"To hear? or forbear laughing?"
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"To hear meekly, sir, and to laugh moderately; or to"
I,I,LONGAVILLE,"forbear both."
I,I,BIRON,"Well, sir, be it as the style shall give us cause to"
I,I,BIRON,"climb in the merriness."
I,I,COSTARD,"The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta."
I,I,COSTARD,"The manner of it is, I was taken with the manner."
I,I,BIRON,"In what manner?"
I,I,COSTARD,"In manner and form following, sir; all those three:"
I,I,COSTARD,"I was seen with her in the manor-house, sitting with"
I,I,COSTARD,"her upon the form, and taken following her into the"
I,I,COSTARD,"park; which, put together, is in manner and form"
I,I,COSTARD,"following. Now, sir, for the manner,--it is the"
I,I,COSTARD,"manner of a man to speak to a woman: for the form,--"
I,I,COSTARD,"in some form."
I,I,BIRON,"For the following, sir?"
I,I,COSTARD,"As it shall follow in my correction: and God defend"
I,I,COSTARD,"the right!"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Will you hear this letter with attention?"
I,I,BIRON,"As we would hear an oracle."
I,I,COSTARD,"Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh."
I,I,FERDINAND,"sole dominator of Navarre, my soul's earth's god,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"and body's fostering patron.'"
I,I,COSTARD,"Not a word of Costard yet."
I,I,COSTARD,"It may be so: but if he say it is so, he is, in"
I,I,COSTARD,"telling true, but so."
I,I,FERDINAND,"Peace!"
I,I,COSTARD,"Be to me and every man that dares not fight!"
I,I,FERDINAND,"No words!"
I,I,COSTARD,"Of other men's secrets, I beseech you."
I,I,FERDINAND,"melancholy, I did commend the black-oppressing humour"
I,I,FERDINAND,"to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving"
I,I,FERDINAND,"air; and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to"
I,I,FERDINAND,"walk. The time when. About the sixth hour; when"
I,I,FERDINAND,"beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down"
I,I,FERDINAND,"to that nourishment which is called supper: so much"
I,I,FERDINAND,"for the time when. Now for the ground which; which,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"I mean, I walked upon: it is y-cleped thy park. Then"
I,I,FERDINAND,"for the place where; where, I mean, I did encounter"
I,I,FERDINAND,"that obscene and preposterous event, that draweth"
I,I,FERDINAND,"from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink, which"
I,I,FERDINAND,"here thou viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest;"
I,I,FERDINAND,"but to the place where; it standeth north-north-east"
I,I,FERDINAND,"and by east from the west corner of thy curious-"
I,I,FERDINAND,"knotted garden: there did I see that low-spirited"
I,I,FERDINAND,"swain, that base minnow of thy mirth,'--"
I,I,COSTARD,"Me?"
I,I,COSTARD,"Me?"
I,I,COSTARD,"Still me?"
I,I,COSTARD,"O, me!"
I,I,FERDINAND,"established proclaimed edict and continent canon,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"which with,--O, with--but with this I passion to say"
I,I,FERDINAND,"wherewith,--"
I,I,COSTARD,"With a wench."
I,I,FERDINAND,"female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a"
I,I,FERDINAND,"woman. Him I, as my ever-esteemed duty pricks me on,"
I,I,FERDINAND,"have sent to thee, to receive the meed of"
I,I,FERDINAND,"punishment, by thy sweet grace's officer, Anthony"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Dull; a man of good repute, carriage, bearing, and"
I,I,FERDINAND,"estimation.'"
I,I,DULL,"'Me, an't shall please you; I am Anthony Dull."
I,I,FERDINAND,"called which I apprehended with the aforesaid"
I,I,FERDINAND,"swain,--I keep her as a vessel of the law's fury;"
I,I,FERDINAND,"and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring"
I,I,FERDINAND,"her to trial. Thine, in all compliments of devoted"
I,I,FERDINAND,"and heart-burning heat of duty."
I,I,FERDINAND,"DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.'"
I,I,BIRON,"This is not so well as I looked for, but the best"
I,I,BIRON,"that ever I heard."
I,I,FERDINAND,"Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say"
I,I,FERDINAND,"you to this?"
I,I,COSTARD,"Sir, I confess the wench."
I,I,FERDINAND,"Did you hear the proclamation?"
I,I,COSTARD,"I do confess much of the hearing it but little of"
I,I,COSTARD,"the marking of it."
I,I,FERDINAND,"It was proclaimed a year's imprisonment, to be taken"
I,I,FERDINAND,"with a wench."
I,I,COSTARD,"I was taken with none, sir: I was taken with a damsel."
I,I,FERDINAND,"Well, it was proclaimed 'damsel.'"
I,I,COSTARD,"This was no damsel, neither, sir; she was a virgin."
I,I,FERDINAND,"It is so varied, too; for it was proclaimed 'virgin.'"
I,I,COSTARD,"If it were, I deny her virginity: I was taken with a maid."
I,I,FERDINAND,"This maid will not serve your turn, sir."
I,I,COSTARD,"This maid will serve my turn, sir."
I,I,FERDINAND,"Sir, I will pronounce your sentence: you shall fast"
I,I,FERDINAND,"a week with bran and water."
I,I,COSTARD,"I had rather pray a month with mutton and porridge."
I,I,FERDINAND,"And Don Armado shall be your keeper."
I,I,FERDINAND,"My Lord Biron, see him deliver'd o'er:"
I,I,FERDINAND,"And go we, lords, to put in practise that"
I,I,FERDINAND,"Which each to other hath so strongly sworn."
I,I,BIRON,"I'll lay my head to any good man's hat,"
I,I,BIRON,"These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn."
I,I,BIRON,"Sirrah, come on."
I,I,COSTARD,"I suffer for the truth, sir; for true it is, I was"
I,I,COSTARD,"taken with Jaquenetta, and Jaquenetta is a true"
I,I,COSTARD,"girl; and therefore welcome the sour cup of"
I,I,COSTARD,"prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again; and"
I,I,COSTARD,"till then, sit thee down, sorrow!"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"grows melancholy?"
I,II,MOTH,"A great sign, sir, that he will look sad."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Why, sadness is one and the self-same thing, dear imp."
I,II,MOTH,"No, no; O Lord, sir, no."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"tender juvenal?"
I,II,MOTH,"By a familiar demonstration of the working, my tough senior."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Why tough senior? why tough senior?"
I,II,MOTH,"Why tender juvenal? why tender juvenal?"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"appertaining to thy young days, which we may"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"nominate tender."
I,II,MOTH,"And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your"
I,II,MOTH,"old time, which we may name tough."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Pretty and apt."
I,II,MOTH,"How mean you, sir? I pretty, and my saying apt? or"
I,II,MOTH,"I apt, and my saying pretty?"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Thou pretty, because little."
I,II,MOTH,"Little pretty, because little. Wherefore apt?"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"And therefore apt, because quick."
I,II,MOTH,"Speak you this in my praise, master?"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"In thy condign praise."
I,II,MOTH,"I will praise an eel with the same praise."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"What, that an eel is ingenious?"
I,II,MOTH,"That an eel is quick."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I do say thou art quick in answers: thou heatest my blood."
I,II,MOTH,"I am answered, sir."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I love not to be crossed."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I have promised to study three years with the duke."
I,II,MOTH,"You may do it in an hour, sir."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Impossible."
I,II,MOTH,"How many is one thrice told?"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I am ill at reckoning; it fitteth the spirit of a tapster."
I,II,MOTH,"You are a gentleman and a gamester, sir."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I confess both: they are both the varnish of a"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"complete man."
I,II,MOTH,"Then, I am sure, you know how much the gross sum of"
I,II,MOTH,"deuce-ace amounts to."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"It doth amount to one more than two."
I,II,MOTH,"Which the base vulgar do call three."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"True."
I,II,MOTH,"Why, sir, is this such a piece of study? Now here"
I,II,MOTH,"is three studied, ere ye'll thrice wink: and how"
I,II,MOTH,"easy it is to put 'years' to the word 'three,' and"
I,II,MOTH,"study three years in two words, the dancing horse"
I,II,MOTH,"will tell you."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"A most fine figure!"
I,II,MOTH,"To prove you a cipher."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I will hereupon confess I am in love: and as it is"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"base wench. If drawing my sword against the humour"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"of affection would deliver me from the reprobate"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"thought of it, I would take Desire prisoner, and"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"ransom him to any French courtier for a new-devised"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"courtesy. I think scorn to sigh: methinks I should"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"outswear Cupid. Comfort, me, boy: what great men"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"have been in love?"
I,II,MOTH,"Hercules, master."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Most sweet Hercules! More authority, dear boy, name"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"more; and, sweet my child, let them be men of good"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"repute and carriage."
I,II,MOTH,"Samson, master: he was a man of good carriage, great"
I,II,MOTH,"carriage, for he carried the town-gates on his back"
I,II,MOTH,"like a porter: and he was in love."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"O well-knit Samson! strong-jointed Samson! I do"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"excel thee in my rapier as much as thou didst me in"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"carrying gates. I am in love too. Who was Samson's"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"love, my dear Moth?"
I,II,MOTH,"A woman, master."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Of what complexion?"
I,II,MOTH,"Of all the four, or the three, or the two, or one of the four."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Tell me precisely of what complexion."
I,II,MOTH,"Of the sea-water green, sir."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Is that one of the four complexions?"
I,II,MOTH,"As I have read, sir; and the best of them too."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Green indeed is the colour of lovers; but to have a"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"love of that colour, methinks Samson had small reason"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"for it. He surely affected her for her wit."
I,II,MOTH,"It was so, sir; for she had a green wit."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"My love is most immaculate white and red."
I,II,MOTH,"Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under"
I,II,MOTH,"such colours."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Define, define, well-educated infant."
I,II,MOTH,"My father's wit and my mother's tongue, assist me!"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Sweet invocation of a child; most pretty and"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"pathetical!"
I,II,MOTH,"If she be made of white and red,"
I,II,MOTH,"Her faults will ne'er be known,"
I,II,MOTH,"For blushing cheeks by faults are bred"
I,II,MOTH,"And fears by pale white shown:"
I,II,MOTH,"Then if she fear, or be to blame,"
I,II,MOTH,"By this you shall not know,"
I,II,MOTH,"For still her cheeks possess the same"
I,II,MOTH,"Which native she doth owe."
I,II,MOTH,"A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason of"
I,II,MOTH,"white and red."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar?"
I,II,MOTH,"The world was very guilty of such a ballad some"
I,II,MOTH,"three ages since: but I think now 'tis not to be"
I,II,MOTH,"found; or, if it were, it would neither serve for"
I,II,MOTH,"the writing nor the tune."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I will have that subject newly writ o'er, that I may"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"example my digression by some mighty precedent."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Boy, I do love that country girl that I took in the"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"park with the rational hind Costard: she deserves well."
I,II,MOTH,"my master."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Sing, boy; my spirit grows heavy in love."
I,II,MOTH,"And that's great marvel, loving a light wench."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I say, sing."
I,II,MOTH,"Forbear till this company be past."
I,II,DULL,"Sir, the duke's pleasure is, that you keep Costard"
I,II,DULL,"safe: and you must suffer him to take no delight"
I,II,DULL,"nor no penance; but a' must fast three days a week."
I,II,DULL,"For this damsel, I must keep her at the park: she"
I,II,DULL,"is allowed for the day-woman. Fare you well."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I do betray myself with blushing. Maid!"
I,II,JAQUENETTA,"Man?"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I will visit thee at the lodge."
I,II,JAQUENETTA,"That's hereby."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I know where it is situate."
I,II,JAQUENETTA,"Lord, how wise you are!"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I will tell thee wonders."
I,II,JAQUENETTA,"With that face?"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I love thee."
I,II,JAQUENETTA,"So I heard you say."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"And so, farewell."
I,II,JAQUENETTA,"Fair weather after you!"
I,II,DULL,"Come, Jaquenetta, away!"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Villain, thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"be pardoned."
I,II,COSTARD,"Well, sir, I hope, when I do it, I shall do it on a"
I,II,COSTARD,"full stomach."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Thou shalt be heavily punished."
I,II,COSTARD,"I am more bound to you than your fellows, for they"
I,II,COSTARD,"are but lightly rewarded."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Take away this villain; shut him up."
I,II,MOTH,"Come, you transgressing slave; away!"
I,II,COSTARD,"Let me not be pent up, sir: I will fast, being loose."
I,II,MOTH,"No, sir; that were fast and loose: thou shalt to prison."
I,II,COSTARD,"Well, if ever I do see the merry days of desolation"
I,II,COSTARD,"that I have seen, some shall see."
I,II,MOTH,"What shall some see?"
I,II,COSTARD,"Nay, nothing, Master Moth, but what they look upon."
I,II,COSTARD,"It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their"
I,II,COSTARD,"words; and therefore I will say nothing: I thank"
I,II,COSTARD,"God I have as little patience as another man; and"
I,II,COSTARD,"therefore I can be quiet."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I do affect the very ground, which is base, where"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"her shoe, which is baser, guided by her foot, which"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"is basest, doth tread. I shall be forsworn, which"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"is a great argument of falsehood, if I love. And"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"how can that be true love which is falsely"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"attempted? Love is a familiar; Love is a devil:"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"there is no evil angel but Love. Yet was Samson so"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club;"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"and therefore too much odds for a Spaniard's rapier."
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"The first and second cause will not serve my turn;"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"the passado he respects not, the duello he regards"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"not: his disgrace is to be called boy; but his"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"glory is to subdue men. Adieu, valour! rust rapier!"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"be still, drum! for your manager is in love; yea,"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"he loveth. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme,"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit;"
I,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio."
II,I,BOYET,"Now, madam, summon up your dearest spirits:"
II,I,BOYET,"Consider who the king your father sends,"
II,I,BOYET,"To whom he sends, and what's his embassy:"
II,I,BOYET,"Yourself, held precious in the world's esteem,"
II,I,BOYET,"To parley with the sole inheritor"
II,I,BOYET,"Of all perfections that a man may owe,"
II,I,BOYET,"Matchless Navarre; the plea of no less weight"
II,I,BOYET,"Than Aquitaine, a dowry for a queen."
II,I,BOYET,"Be now as prodigal of all dear grace"
II,I,BOYET,"As Nature was in making graces dear"
II,I,BOYET,"When she did starve the general world beside"
II,I,BOYET,"And prodigally gave them all to you."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues:"
II,I,PRINCESS,"I am less proud to hear you tell my worth"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Than you much willing to be counted wise"
II,I,PRINCESS,"In spending your wit in the praise of mine."
II,I,PRINCESS,"But now to task the tasker: good Boyet,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"You are not ignorant, all-telling fame"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Doth noise abroad, Navarre hath made a vow,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Till painful study shall outwear three years,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"No woman may approach his silent court:"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Therefore to's seemeth it a needful course,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Before we enter his forbidden gates,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"To know his pleasure; and in that behalf,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Bold of your worthiness, we single you"
II,I,PRINCESS,"As our best-moving fair solicitor."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Tell him, the daughter of the King of France,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"On serious business, craving quick dispatch,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Importunes personal conference with his grace:"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Haste, signify so much; while we attend,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Like humble-visaged suitors, his high will."
II,I,BOYET,"Proud of employment, willingly I go."
II,I,PRINCESS,"All pride is willing pride, and yours is so."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Who are the votaries, my loving lords,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"That are vow-fellows with this virtuous duke?"
II,I,First Lord,"Lord Longaville is one."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Know you the man?"
II,I,MARIA,"I know him, madam: at a marriage-feast,"
II,I,MARIA,"Between Lord Perigort and the beauteous heir"
II,I,MARIA,"Of Jaques Falconbridge, solemnized"
II,I,MARIA,"In Normandy, saw I this Longaville:"
II,I,MARIA,"A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd;"
II,I,MARIA,"Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms:"
II,I,MARIA,"Nothing becomes him ill that he would well."
II,I,MARIA,"The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss,"
II,I,MARIA,"If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil,"
II,I,MARIA,"Is a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will;"
II,I,MARIA,"Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still wills"
II,I,MARIA,"It should none spare that come within his power."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Some merry mocking lord, belike; is't so?"
II,I,MARIA,"They say so most that most his humours know."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Such short-lived wits do wither as they grow."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Who are the rest?"
II,I,KATHARINE,"The young Dumain, a well-accomplished youth,"
II,I,KATHARINE,"Of all that virtue love for virtue loved:"
II,I,KATHARINE,"Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill;"
II,I,KATHARINE,"For he hath wit to make an ill shape good,"
II,I,KATHARINE,"And shape to win grace though he had no wit."
II,I,KATHARINE,"I saw him at the Duke Alencon's once;"
II,I,KATHARINE,"And much too little of that good I saw"
II,I,KATHARINE,"Is my report to his great worthiness."
II,I,ROSALINE,"Another of these students at that time"
II,I,ROSALINE,"Was there with him, if I have heard a truth."
II,I,ROSALINE,"Biron they call him; but a merrier man,"
II,I,ROSALINE,"Within the limit of becoming mirth,"
II,I,ROSALINE,"I never spent an hour's talk withal:"
II,I,ROSALINE,"His eye begets occasion for his wit;"
II,I,ROSALINE,"For every object that the one doth catch"
II,I,ROSALINE,"The other turns to a mirth-moving jest,"
II,I,ROSALINE,"Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor,"
II,I,ROSALINE,"Delivers in such apt and gracious words"
II,I,ROSALINE,"That aged ears play truant at his tales"
II,I,ROSALINE,"And younger hearings are quite ravished;"
II,I,ROSALINE,"So sweet and voluble is his discourse."
II,I,PRINCESS,"God bless my ladies! are they all in love,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"That every one her own hath garnished"
II,I,PRINCESS,"With such bedecking ornaments of praise?"
II,I,First Lord,"Here comes Boyet."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Now, what admittance, lord?"
II,I,BOYET,"Navarre had notice of your fair approach;"
II,I,BOYET,"And he and his competitors in oath"
II,I,BOYET,"Were all address'd to meet you, gentle lady,"
II,I,BOYET,"Before I came. Marry, thus much I have learnt:"
II,I,BOYET,"He rather means to lodge you in the field,"
II,I,BOYET,"Like one that comes here to besiege his court,"
II,I,BOYET,"Than seek a dispensation for his oath,"
II,I,BOYET,"To let you enter his unpeopled house."
II,I,BOYET,"Here comes Navarre."
II,I,FERDINAND,"Fair princess, welcome to the court of Navarre."
II,I,PRINCESS,"'Fair' I give you back again; and 'welcome' I have"
II,I,PRINCESS,"not yet: the roof of this court is too high to be"
II,I,PRINCESS,"yours; and welcome to the wide fields too base to be mine."
II,I,FERDINAND,"You shall be welcome, madam, to my court."
II,I,PRINCESS,"I will be welcome, then: conduct me thither."
II,I,FERDINAND,"Hear me, dear lady; I have sworn an oath."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Our Lady help my lord! he'll be forsworn."
II,I,FERDINAND,"Not for the world, fair madam, by my will."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Why, will shall break it; will and nothing else."
II,I,FERDINAND,"Your ladyship is ignorant what it is."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Were my lord so, his ignorance were wise,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance."
II,I,PRINCESS,"I hear your grace hath sworn out house-keeping:"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"And sin to break it."
II,I,PRINCESS,"But pardon me. I am too sudden-bold:"
II,I,PRINCESS,"To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"And suddenly resolve me in my suit."
II,I,FERDINAND,"Madam, I will, if suddenly I may."
II,I,PRINCESS,"You will the sooner, that I were away;"
II,I,PRINCESS,"For you'll prove perjured if you make me stay."
II,I,BIRON,"Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?"
II,I,ROSALINE,"Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?"
II,I,BIRON,"I know you did."
II,I,ROSALINE,"How needless was it then to ask the question!"
II,I,BIRON,"You must not be so quick."
II,I,ROSALINE,"'Tis 'long of you that spur me with such questions."
II,I,BIRON,"Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire."
II,I,ROSALINE,"Not till it leave the rider in the mire."
II,I,BIRON,"What time o' day?"
II,I,ROSALINE,"The hour that fools should ask."
II,I,BIRON,"Now fair befall your mask!"
II,I,ROSALINE,"Fair fall the face it covers!"
II,I,BIRON,"And send you many lovers!"
II,I,ROSALINE,"Amen, so you be none."
II,I,BIRON,"Nay, then will I be gone."
II,I,FERDINAND,"Madam, your father here doth intimate"
II,I,FERDINAND,"The payment of a hundred thousand crowns;"
II,I,FERDINAND,"Being but the one half of an entire sum"
II,I,FERDINAND,"Disbursed by my father in his wars."
II,I,FERDINAND,"But say that he or we, as neither have,"
II,I,FERDINAND,"Received that sum, yet there remains unpaid"
II,I,FERDINAND,"A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which,"
II,I,FERDINAND,"One part of Aquitaine is bound to us,"
II,I,FERDINAND,"Although not valued to the money's worth."
II,I,FERDINAND,"If then the king your father will restore"
II,I,FERDINAND,"But that one half which is unsatisfied,"
II,I,FERDINAND,"We will give up our right in Aquitaine,"
II,I,FERDINAND,"And hold fair friendship with his majesty."
II,I,FERDINAND,"But that, it seems, he little purposeth,"
II,I,FERDINAND,"For here he doth demand to have repaid"
II,I,FERDINAND,"A hundred thousand crowns; and not demands,"
II,I,FERDINAND,"On payment of a hundred thousand crowns,"
II,I,FERDINAND,"To have his title live in Aquitaine;"
II,I,FERDINAND,"Which we much rather had depart withal"
II,I,FERDINAND,"And have the money by our father lent"
II,I,FERDINAND,"Than Aquitaine so gelded as it is."
II,I,FERDINAND,"Dear Princess, were not his requests so far"
II,I,FERDINAND,"From reason's yielding, your fair self should make"
II,I,FERDINAND,"A yielding 'gainst some reason in my breast"
II,I,FERDINAND,"And go well satisfied to France again."
II,I,PRINCESS,"You do the king my father too much wrong"
II,I,PRINCESS,"And wrong the reputation of your name,"
II,I,PRINCESS,"In so unseeming to confess receipt"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Of that which hath so faithfully been paid."
II,I,FERDINAND,"I do protest I never heard of it;"
II,I,FERDINAND,"And if you prove it, I'll repay it back"
II,I,FERDINAND,"Or yield up Aquitaine."
II,I,PRINCESS,"We arrest your word."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Boyet, you can produce acquittances"
II,I,PRINCESS,"For such a sum from special officers"
II,I,PRINCESS,"Of Charles his father."
II,I,FERDINAND,"Satisfy me so."
II,I,BOYET,"So please your grace, the packet is not come"
II,I,BOYET,"Where that and other specialties are bound:"
II,I,BOYET,"To-morrow you shall have a sight of them."
II,I,FERDINAND,"It shall suffice me: at which interview"
II,I,FERDINAND,"All liberal reason I will yield unto."
II,I,FERDINAND,"Meantime receive such welcome at my hand"
II,I,FERDINAND,"As honour without breach of honour may"
II,I,FERDINAND,"Make tender of to thy true worthiness:"
II,I,FERDINAND,"You may not come, fair princess, in my gates;"
II,I,FERDINAND,"But here without you shall be so received"
II,I,FERDINAND,"As you shall deem yourself lodged in my heart,"
II,I,FERDINAND,"Though so denied fair harbour in my house."
II,I,FERDINAND,"Your own good thoughts excuse me, and farewell:"
II,I,FERDINAND,"To-morrow shall we visit you again."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Sweet health and fair desires consort your grace!"
II,I,FERDINAND,"Thy own wish wish I thee in every place!"
II,I,BIRON,"Lady, I will commend you to mine own heart."
II,I,ROSALINE,"Pray you, do my commendations; I would be glad to see it."
II,I,BIRON,"I would you heard it groan."
II,I,ROSALINE,"Is the fool sick?"
II,I,BIRON,"Sick at the heart."
II,I,ROSALINE,"Alack, let it blood."
II,I,BIRON,"Would that do it good?"
II,I,ROSALINE,"My physic says 'ay.'"
II,I,BIRON,"Will you prick't with your eye?"
II,I,ROSALINE,"No point, with my knife."
II,I,BIRON,"Now, God save thy life!"
II,I,ROSALINE,"And yours from long living!"
II,I,BIRON,"I cannot stay thanksgiving."
II,I,DUMAIN,"Sir, I pray you, a word: what lady is that same?"
II,I,BOYET,"The heir of Alencon, Katharine her name."
II,I,DUMAIN,"A gallant lady. Monsieur, fare you well."
II,I,LONGAVILLE,"I beseech you a word: what is she in the white?"
II,I,BOYET,"A woman sometimes, an you saw her in the light."
II,I,LONGAVILLE,"Perchance light in the light. I desire her name."
II,I,BOYET,"She hath but one for herself; to desire that were a shame."
II,I,LONGAVILLE,"Pray you, sir, whose daughter?"
II,I,BOYET,"Her mother's, I have heard."
II,I,LONGAVILLE,"God's blessing on your beard!"
II,I,BOYET,"Good sir, be not offended."
II,I,BOYET,"She is an heir of Falconbridge."
II,I,LONGAVILLE,"Nay, my choler is ended."
II,I,LONGAVILLE,"She is a most sweet lady."
II,I,BOYET,"Not unlike, sir, that may be."
II,I,BIRON,"What's her name in the cap?"
II,I,BOYET,"Rosaline, by good hap."
II,I,BIRON,"Is she wedded or no?"
II,I,BOYET,"To her will, sir, or so."
II,I,BIRON,"You are welcome, sir: adieu."
II,I,BOYET,"Farewell to me, sir, and welcome to you."
II,I,MARIA,"That last is Biron, the merry madcap lord:"
II,I,MARIA,"Not a word with him but a jest."
II,I,BOYET,"And every jest but a word."
II,I,PRINCESS,"It was well done of you to take him at his word."
II,I,BOYET,"I was as willing to grapple as he was to board."
II,I,MARIA,"Two hot sheeps, marry."
II,I,BOYET,"And wherefore not ships?"
II,I,BOYET,"No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips."
II,I,MARIA,"You sheep, and I pasture: shall that finish the jest?"
II,I,BOYET,"So you grant pasture for me."
II,I,MARIA,"Not so, gentle beast:"
II,I,MARIA,"My lips are no common, though several they be."
II,I,BOYET,"Belonging to whom?"
II,I,MARIA,"To my fortunes and me."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree:"
II,I,PRINCESS,"This civil war of wits were much better used"
II,I,PRINCESS,"On Navarre and his book-men; for here 'tis abused."
II,I,BOYET,"If my observation, which very seldom lies,"
II,I,BOYET,"By the heart's still rhetoric disclosed with eyes,"
II,I,BOYET,"Deceive me not now, Navarre is infected."
II,I,PRINCESS,"With what?"
II,I,BOYET,"With that which we lovers entitle affected."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Your reason?"
II,I,BOYET,"Why, all his behaviors did make their retire"
II,I,BOYET,"To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire:"
II,I,BOYET,"His heart, like an agate, with your print impress'd,"
II,I,BOYET,"Proud with his form, in his eye pride express'd:"
II,I,BOYET,"His tongue, all impatient to speak and not see,"
II,I,BOYET,"Did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be;"
II,I,BOYET,"All senses to that sense did make their repair,"
II,I,BOYET,"To feel only looking on fairest of fair:"
II,I,BOYET,"Methought all his senses were lock'd in his eye,"
II,I,BOYET,"As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy;"
II,I,BOYET,"Who, tendering their own worth from where they were glass'd,"
II,I,BOYET,"Did point you to buy them, along as you pass'd:"
II,I,BOYET,"His face's own margent did quote such amazes"
II,I,BOYET,"That all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes."
II,I,BOYET,"I'll give you Aquitaine and all that is his,"
II,I,BOYET,"An you give him for my sake but one loving kiss."
II,I,PRINCESS,"Come to our pavilion: Boyet is disposed."
II,I,BOYET,"But to speak that in words which his eye hath"
II,I,BOYET,"disclosed."
II,I,BOYET,"I only have made a mouth of his eye,"
II,I,BOYET,"By adding a tongue which I know will not lie."
II,I,ROSALINE,"Thou art an old love-monger and speakest skilfully."
II,I,MARIA,"He is Cupid's grandfather and learns news of him."
II,I,ROSALINE,"Then was Venus like her mother, for her father is but grim."
II,I,BOYET,"Do you hear, my mad wenches?"
II,I,MARIA,"No."
II,I,BOYET,"What then, do you see?"
II,I,ROSALINE,"Ay, our way to be gone."
II,I,BOYET,"You are too hard for me."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing."
III,I,MOTH,"Concolinel."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years; take this key,"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"hither: I must employ him in a letter to my love."
III,I,MOTH,"Master, will you win your love with a French brawl?"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"How meanest thou? brawling in French?"
III,I,MOTH,"No, my complete master: but to jig off a tune at"
III,I,MOTH,"the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet, humour"
III,I,MOTH,"it with turning up your eyelids, sigh a note and"
III,I,MOTH,"sing a note, sometime through the throat, as if you"
III,I,MOTH,"swallowed love with singing love, sometime through"
III,I,MOTH,"the nose, as if you snuffed up love by smelling"
III,I,MOTH,"love; with your hat penthouse-like o'er the shop of"
III,I,MOTH,"your eyes; with your arms crossed on your thin-belly"
III,I,MOTH,"doublet like a rabbit on a spit; or your hands in"
III,I,MOTH,"your pocket like a man after the old painting; and"
III,I,MOTH,"keep not too long in one tune, but a snip and away."
III,I,MOTH,"These are complements, these are humours; these"
III,I,MOTH,"betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed without"
III,I,MOTH,"these; and make them men of note--do you note"
III,I,MOTH,"me?--that most are affected to these."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"How hast thou purchased this experience?"
III,I,MOTH,"By my penny of observation."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"But O,--but O,--"
III,I,MOTH,"'The hobby-horse is forgot.'"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Callest thou my love 'hobby-horse'?"
III,I,MOTH,"No, master; the hobby-horse is but a colt, and your"
III,I,MOTH,"love perhaps a hackney. But have you forgot your love?"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Almost I had."
III,I,MOTH,"Negligent student! learn her by heart."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"By heart and in heart, boy."
III,I,MOTH,"And out of heart, master: all those three I will prove."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"What wilt thou prove?"
III,I,MOTH,"A man, if I live; and this, by, in, and without, upon"
III,I,MOTH,"the instant: by heart you love her, because your"
III,I,MOTH,"heart cannot come by her; in heart you love her,"
III,I,MOTH,"because your heart is in love with her; and out of"
III,I,MOTH,"heart you love her, being out of heart that you"
III,I,MOTH,"cannot enjoy her."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I am all these three."
III,I,MOTH,"And three times as much more, and yet nothing at"
III,I,MOTH,"all."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Fetch hither the swain: he must carry me a letter."
III,I,MOTH,"A message well sympathized; a horse to be ambassador"
III,I,MOTH,"for an ass."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Ha, ha! what sayest thou?"
III,I,MOTH,"Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse,"
III,I,MOTH,"for he is very slow-gaited. But I go."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"The way is but short: away!"
III,I,MOTH,"As swift as lead, sir."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"The meaning, pretty ingenious?"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow?"
III,I,MOTH,"Minime, honest master; or rather, master, no."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I say lead is slow."
III,I,MOTH,"You are too swift, sir, to say so:"
III,I,MOTH,"Is that lead slow which is fired from a gun?"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Sweet smoke of rhetoric!"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he:"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I shoot thee at the swain."
III,I,MOTH,"Thump then and I flee."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"A most acute juvenal; voluble and free of grace!"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"By thy favour, sweet welkin, I must sigh in thy face:"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"My herald is return'd."
III,I,MOTH,"A wonder, master! here's a costard broken in a shin."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Some enigma, some riddle: come, thy l'envoy; begin."
III,I,COSTARD,"No enigma, no riddle, no l'envoy; no salve in the"
III,I,COSTARD,"mail, sir: O, sir, plantain, a plain plantain! no"
III,I,COSTARD,"l'envoy, no l'envoy; no salve, sir, but a plantain!"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"By virtue, thou enforcest laughter; thy silly"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"thought my spleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"me to ridiculous smiling. O, pardon me, my stars!"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Doth the inconsiderate take salve for l'envoy, and"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"the word l'envoy for a salve?"
III,I,MOTH,"Do the wise think them other? is not l'envoy a salve?"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"No, page: it is an epilogue or discourse, to make plain"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I will example it:"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Were still at odds, being but three."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"There's the moral. Now the l'envoy."
III,I,MOTH,"I will add the l'envoy. Say the moral again."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Were still at odds, being but three."
III,I,MOTH,"Until the goose came out of door,"
III,I,MOTH,"And stay'd the odds by adding four."
III,I,MOTH,"Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow with"
III,I,MOTH,"my l'envoy."
III,I,MOTH,"The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,"
III,I,MOTH,"Were still at odds, being but three."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Until the goose came out of door,"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Staying the odds by adding four."
III,I,MOTH,"A good l'envoy, ending in the goose: would you"
III,I,MOTH,"desire more?"
III,I,COSTARD,"The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat."
III,I,COSTARD,"Sir, your pennyworth is good, an your goose be fat."
III,I,COSTARD,"To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose:"
III,I,COSTARD,"Let me see; a fat l'envoy; ay, that's a fat goose."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Come hither, come hither. How did this argument begin?"
III,I,MOTH,"By saying that a costard was broken in a shin."
III,I,MOTH,"Then call'd you for the l'envoy."
III,I,COSTARD,"True, and I for a plantain: thus came your"
III,I,COSTARD,"argument in;"
III,I,COSTARD,"Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goose that you bought;"
III,I,COSTARD,"And he ended the market."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"But tell me; how was there a costard broken in a shin?"
III,I,MOTH,"I will tell you sensibly."
III,I,COSTARD,"Thou hast no feeling of it, Moth: I will speak that l'envoy:"
III,I,COSTARD,"I Costard, running out, that was safely within,"
III,I,COSTARD,"Fell over the threshold and broke my shin."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"We will talk no more of this matter."
III,I,COSTARD,"Till there be more matter in the shin."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee."
III,I,COSTARD,"O, marry me to one Frances: I smell some l'envoy,"
III,I,COSTARD,"some goose, in this."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"By my sweet soul, I mean setting thee at liberty,"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"enfreedoming thy person; thou wert immured,"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"restrained, captivated, bound."
III,I,COSTARD,"True, true; and now you will be my purgation and let me loose."
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance; and,"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this:"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"bear this significant"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"to the country maid Jaquenetta:"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"there is remuneration; for the best ward of mine"
III,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"honour is rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow."
III,I,MOTH,"Like the sequel, I. Signior Costard, adieu."
III,I,COSTARD,"My sweet ounce of man's flesh! my incony Jew!"
III,I,COSTARD,"Now will I look to his remuneration. Remuneration!"
III,I,COSTARD,"O, that's the Latin word for three farthings: three"
III,I,COSTARD,"farthings--remuneration.--'What's the price of this"
III,I,COSTARD,"inkle?'--'One penny.'--'No, I'll give you a"
III,I,COSTARD,"remuneration:' why, it carries it. Remuneration!"
III,I,COSTARD,"why, it is a fairer name than French crown. I will"
III,I,COSTARD,"never buy and sell out of this word."
III,I,BIRON,"O, my good knave Costard! exceedingly well met."
III,I,COSTARD,"Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon may a man"
III,I,COSTARD,"buy for a remuneration?"
III,I,BIRON,"What is a remuneration?"
III,I,COSTARD,"Marry, sir, halfpenny farthing."
III,I,BIRON,"Why, then, three-farthing worth of silk."
III,I,COSTARD,"I thank your worship: God be wi' you!"
III,I,BIRON,"Stay, slave; I must employ thee:"
III,I,BIRON,"As thou wilt win my favour, good my knave,"
III,I,BIRON,"Do one thing for me that I shall entreat."
III,I,COSTARD,"When would you have it done, sir?"
III,I,BIRON,"This afternoon."
III,I,COSTARD,"Well, I will do it, sir: fare you well."
III,I,BIRON,"Thou knowest not what it is."
III,I,COSTARD,"I shall know, sir, when I have done it."
III,I,BIRON,"Why, villain, thou must know first."
III,I,COSTARD,"I will come to your worship to-morrow morning."
III,I,BIRON,"It must be done this afternoon."
III,I,BIRON,"Hark, slave, it is but this:"
III,I,BIRON,"The princess comes to hunt here in the park,"
III,I,BIRON,"And in her train there is a gentle lady;"
III,I,BIRON,"When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name,"
III,I,BIRON,"And Rosaline they call her: ask for her;"
III,I,BIRON,"And to her white hand see thou do commend"
III,I,BIRON,"This seal'd-up counsel. There's thy guerdon; go."
III,I,COSTARD,"Gardon, O sweet gardon! better than remuneration,"
III,I,COSTARD,"a'leven-pence farthing better: most sweet gardon! I"
III,I,COSTARD,"will do it sir, in print. Gardon! Remuneration!"
III,I,BIRON,"And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip;"
III,I,BIRON,"A very beadle to a humorous sigh;"
III,I,BIRON,"A critic, nay, a night-watch constable;"
III,I,BIRON,"A domineering pedant o'er the boy;"
III,I,BIRON,"Than whom no mortal so magnificent!"
III,I,BIRON,"This whimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy;"
III,I,BIRON,"This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;"
III,I,BIRON,"Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,"
III,I,BIRON,"The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,"
III,I,BIRON,"Liege of all loiterers and malcontents,"
III,I,BIRON,"Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces,"
III,I,BIRON,"Sole imperator and great general"
III,I,BIRON,"Of trotting 'paritors:--O my little heart:--"
III,I,BIRON,"And I to be a corporal of his field,"
III,I,BIRON,"And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop!"
III,I,BIRON,"What, I! I love! I sue! I seek a wife!"
III,I,BIRON,"A woman, that is like a German clock,"
III,I,BIRON,"Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,"
III,I,BIRON,"And never going aright, being a watch,"
III,I,BIRON,"But being watch'd that it may still go right!"
III,I,BIRON,"Nay, to be perjured, which is worst of all;"
III,I,BIRON,"And, among three, to love the worst of all;"
III,I,BIRON,"A wightly wanton with a velvet brow,"
III,I,BIRON,"With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes;"
III,I,BIRON,"Ay, and by heaven, one that will do the deed"
III,I,BIRON,"Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard:"
III,I,BIRON,"And I to sigh for her! to watch for her!"
III,I,BIRON,"To pray for her! Go to; it is a plague"
III,I,BIRON,"That Cupid will impose for my neglect"
III,I,BIRON,"Of his almighty dreadful little might."
III,I,BIRON,"Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue and groan:"
III,I,BIRON,"Some men must love my lady and some Joan."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Was that the king, that spurred his horse so hard"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Against the steep uprising of the hill?"
IV,I,BOYET,"I know not; but I think it was not he."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Whoe'er a' was, a' show'd a mounting mind."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Well, lords, to-day we shall have our dispatch:"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"On Saturday we will return to France."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Then, forester, my friend, where is the bush"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"That we must stand and play the murderer in?"
IV,I,Forester,"Hereby, upon the edge of yonder coppice;"
IV,I,Forester,"A stand where you may make the fairest shoot."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"I thank my beauty, I am fair that shoot,"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"And thereupon thou speak'st the fairest shoot."
IV,I,Forester,"Pardon me, madam, for I meant not so."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"What, what? first praise me and again say no?"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"O short-lived pride! Not fair? alack for woe!"
IV,I,Forester,"Yes, madam, fair."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Nay, never paint me now:"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Here, good my glass, take this for telling true:"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Fair payment for foul words is more than due."
IV,I,Forester,"Nothing but fair is that which you inherit."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"See see, my beauty will be saved by merit!"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"O heresy in fair, fit for these days!"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"But come, the bow: now mercy goes to kill,"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"And shooting well is then accounted ill."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Thus will I save my credit in the shoot:"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Not wounding, pity would not let me do't;"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"If wounding, then it was to show my skill,"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"That more for praise than purpose meant to kill."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"And out of question so it is sometimes,"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Glory grows guilty of detested crimes,"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"When, for fame's sake, for praise, an outward part,"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"We bend to that the working of the heart;"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"As I for praise alone now seek to spill"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"The poor deer's blood, that my heart means no ill."
IV,I,BOYET,"Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty"
IV,I,BOYET,"Only for praise sake, when they strive to be"
IV,I,BOYET,"Lords o'er their lords?"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Only for praise: and praise we may afford"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"To any lady that subdues a lord."
IV,I,BOYET,"Here comes a member of the commonwealth."
IV,I,COSTARD,"God dig-you-den all! Pray you, which is the head lady?"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Thou shalt know her, fellow, by the rest that have no heads."
IV,I,COSTARD,"Which is the greatest lady, the highest?"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"The thickest and the tallest."
IV,I,COSTARD,"The thickest and the tallest! it is so; truth is truth."
IV,I,COSTARD,"An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit,"
IV,I,COSTARD,"One o' these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit."
IV,I,COSTARD,"Are not you the chief woman? you are the thickest here."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"What's your will, sir? what's your will?"
IV,I,COSTARD,"I have a letter from Monsieur Biron to one Lady Rosaline."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"O, thy letter, thy letter! he's a good friend of mine:"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Stand aside, good bearer. Boyet, you can carve;"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Break up this capon."
IV,I,BOYET,"I am bound to serve."
IV,I,BOYET,"This letter is mistook, it importeth none here;"
IV,I,BOYET,"It is writ to Jaquenetta."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"We will read it, I swear."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Break the neck of the wax, and every one give ear."
IV,I,BOYET,"'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible;"
IV,I,BOYET,"true, that thou art beauteous; truth itself, that"
IV,I,BOYET,"thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful"
IV,I,BOYET,"than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have"
IV,I,BOYET,"commiseration on thy heroical vassal! The"
IV,I,BOYET,"magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua set"
IV,I,BOYET,"eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar"
IV,I,BOYET,"Zenelophon; and he it was that might rightly say,"
IV,I,BOYET,"Veni, vidi, vici; which to annothanize in the"
IV,I,BOYET,"vulgar,--O base and obscure vulgar!--videlicet, He"
IV,I,BOYET,"came, saw, and overcame: he came, one; saw two;"
IV,I,BOYET,"overcame, three. Who came? the king: why did he"
IV,I,BOYET,"come? to see: why did he see? to overcome: to"
IV,I,BOYET,"whom came he? to the beggar: what saw he? the"
IV,I,BOYET,"beggar: who overcame he? the beggar. The"
IV,I,BOYET,"conclusion is victory: on whose side? the king's."
IV,I,BOYET,"The captive is enriched: on whose side? the"
IV,I,BOYET,"beggar's. The catastrophe is a nuptial: on whose"
IV,I,BOYET,"side? the king's: no, on both in one, or one in"
IV,I,BOYET,"both. I am the king; for so stands the comparison:"
IV,I,BOYET,"thou the beggar; for so witnesseth thy lowliness."
IV,I,BOYET,"Shall I command thy love? I may: shall I enforce"
IV,I,BOYET,"thy love? I could: shall I entreat thy love? I"
IV,I,BOYET,"will. What shalt thou exchange for rags? robes;"
IV,I,BOYET,"for tittles? titles; for thyself? me. Thus,"
IV,I,BOYET,"expecting thy reply, I profane my lips on thy foot,"
IV,I,BOYET,"my eyes on thy picture. and my heart on thy every"
IV,I,BOYET,"part. Thine, in the dearest design of industry,"
IV,I,BOYET,"DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.'"
IV,I,BOYET,"Thus dost thou hear the Nemean lion roar"
IV,I,BOYET,"'Gainst thee, thou lamb, that standest as his prey."
IV,I,BOYET,"Submissive fall his princely feet before,"
IV,I,BOYET,"And he from forage will incline to play:"
IV,I,BOYET,"But if thou strive, poor soul, what art thou then?"
IV,I,BOYET,"Food for his rage, repasture for his den."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"What plume of feathers is he that indited this letter?"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"What vane? what weathercock? did you ever hear better?"
IV,I,BOYET,"I am much deceived but I remember the style."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Else your memory is bad, going o'er it erewhile."
IV,I,BOYET,"This Armado is a Spaniard, that keeps here in court;"
IV,I,BOYET,"A phantasime, a Monarcho, and one that makes sport"
IV,I,BOYET,"To the prince and his bookmates."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Thou fellow, a word:"
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Who gave thee this letter?"
IV,I,COSTARD,"I told you; my lord."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"To whom shouldst thou give it?"
IV,I,COSTARD,"From my lord to my lady."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"From which lord to which lady?"
IV,I,COSTARD,"From my lord Biron, a good master of mine,"
IV,I,COSTARD,"To a lady of France that he call'd Rosaline."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Thou hast mistaken his letter. Come, lords, away."
IV,I,PRINCESS,"Here, sweet, put up this: 'twill be thine another day."
IV,I,BOYET,"Who is the suitor? who is the suitor?"
IV,I,ROSALINE,"Shall I teach you to know?"
IV,I,BOYET,"Ay, my continent of beauty."
IV,I,ROSALINE,"Why, she that bears the bow."
IV,I,ROSALINE,"Finely put off!"
IV,I,BOYET,"My lady goes to kill horns; but, if thou marry,"
IV,I,BOYET,"Hang me by the neck, if horns that year miscarry."
IV,I,BOYET,"Finely put on!"
IV,I,ROSALINE,"Well, then, I am the shooter."
IV,I,BOYET,"And who is your deer?"
IV,I,ROSALINE,"If we choose by the horns, yourself come not near."
IV,I,ROSALINE,"Finely put on, indeed!"
IV,I,MARIA,"You still wrangle with her, Boyet, and she strikes"
IV,I,MARIA,"at the brow."
IV,I,BOYET,"But she herself is hit lower: have I hit her now?"
IV,I,ROSALINE,"Shall I come upon thee with an old saying, that was"
IV,I,ROSALINE,"a man when King Pepin of France was a little boy, as"
IV,I,ROSALINE,"touching the hit it?"
IV,I,BOYET,"So I may answer thee with one as old, that was a"
IV,I,BOYET,"woman when Queen Guinover of Britain was a little"
IV,I,BOYET,"wench, as touching the hit it."
IV,I,ROSALINE,"Thou canst not hit it, hit it, hit it,"
IV,I,ROSALINE,"Thou canst not hit it, my good man."
IV,I,BOYET,"An I cannot, cannot, cannot,"
IV,I,BOYET,"An I cannot, another can."
IV,I,COSTARD,"By my troth, most pleasant: how both did fit it!"
IV,I,MARIA,"A mark marvellous well shot, for they both did hit it."
IV,I,BOYET,"A mark! O, mark but that mark! A mark, says my lady!"
IV,I,BOYET,"Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at, if it may be."
IV,I,MARIA,"Wide o' the bow hand! i' faith, your hand is out."
IV,I,COSTARD,"Indeed, a' must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout."
IV,I,BOYET,"An if my hand be out, then belike your hand is in."
IV,I,COSTARD,"Then will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin."
IV,I,MARIA,"Come, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul."
IV,I,COSTARD,"She's too hard for you at pricks, sir: challenge her to bowl."
IV,I,BOYET,"I fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl."
IV,I,COSTARD,"By my soul, a swain! a most simple clown!"
IV,I,COSTARD,"Lord, Lord, how the ladies and I have put him down!"
IV,I,COSTARD,"O' my troth, most sweet jests! most incony"
IV,I,COSTARD,"vulgar wit!"
IV,I,COSTARD,"When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it"
IV,I,COSTARD,"were, so fit."
IV,I,COSTARD,"Armado o' th' one side,--O, a most dainty man!"
IV,I,COSTARD,"To see him walk before a lady and to bear her fan!"
IV,I,COSTARD,"To see him kiss his hand! and how most sweetly a'"
IV,I,COSTARD,"will swear!"
IV,I,COSTARD,"And his page o' t' other side, that handful of wit!"
IV,I,COSTARD,"Ah, heavens, it is a most pathetical nit!"
IV,I,COSTARD,"Sola, sola!"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Very reverend sport, truly; and done in the testimony"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"of a good conscience."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"The deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood; ripe"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"as the pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven;"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"and anon falleth like a crab on the face of terra,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"the soil, the land, the earth."
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"varied, like a scholar at the least: but, sir, I"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"assure ye, it was a buck of the first head."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Sir Nathaniel, haud credo."
IV,II,DULL,"'Twas not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind of"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"explication; facere, as it were, replication, or"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"rather, ostentare, to show, as it were, his"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"inclination, after his undressed, unpolished,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"unlettered, or ratherest, unconfirmed fashion, to"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"insert again my haud credo for a deer."
IV,II,DULL,"I said the deer was not a haud credo; twas a pricket."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Twice-sod simplicity, his coctus!"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"O thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"the duller parts:"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"And such barren plants are set before us, that we"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"thankful should be,"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Which we of taste and feeling are, for those parts that"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"do fructify in us more than he."
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"For as it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet, or a fool,"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"So were there a patch set on learning, to see him in a school:"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"But omne bene, say I; being of an old father's mind,"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Many can brook the weather that love not the wind."
IV,II,DULL,"You two are book-men: can you tell me by your wit"
IV,II,DULL,"What was a month old at Cain's birth, that's not five"
IV,II,DULL,"weeks old as yet?"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Dictynna, goodman Dull; Dictynna, goodman Dull."
IV,II,DULL,"What is Dictynna?"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"A title to Phoebe, to Luna, to the moon."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"The moon was a month old when Adam was no more,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"And raught not to five weeks when he came to"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"five-score."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"The allusion holds in the exchange."
IV,II,DULL,"'Tis true indeed; the collusion holds in the exchange."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"God comfort thy capacity! I say, the allusion holds"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"in the exchange."
IV,II,DULL,"And I say, the pollusion holds in the exchange; for"
IV,II,DULL,"the moon is never but a month old: and I say beside"
IV,II,DULL,"that, 'twas a pricket that the princess killed."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"on the death of the deer? And, to humour the"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket."
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Perge, good Master Holofernes, perge; so it shall"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"please you to abrogate scurrility."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"I will something affect the letter, for it argues facility."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"The preyful princess pierced and prick'd a pretty"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"pleasing pricket;"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Some say a sore; but not a sore, till now made"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"sore with shooting."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"The dogs did yell: put L to sore, then sorel jumps"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"from thicket;"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"If sore be sore, then L to sore makes fifty sores"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"one sorel."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L."
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"A rare talent!"
IV,II,DULL,"him with a talent."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. But the"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"thankful for it."
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Sir, I praise the Lord for you; and so may my"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"parishioners; for their sons are well tutored by"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"you, and their daughters profit very greatly under"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"you: you are a good member of the commonwealth."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Mehercle, if their sons be ingenuous, they shall"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"want no instruction; if their daughters be capable,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"I will put it to them: but vir sapit qui pauca"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"loquitur; a soul feminine saluteth us."
IV,II,JAQUENETTA,"God give you good morrow, master Parson."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Master Parson, quasi pers-on. An if one should be"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"pierced, which is the one?"
IV,II,COSTARD,"Marry, master schoolmaster, he that is likest to a hogshead."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Piercing a hogshead! a good lustre of conceit in a"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"tuft of earth; fire enough for a flint, pearl enough"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"for a swine: 'tis pretty; it is well."
IV,II,JAQUENETTA,"Good master Parson, be so good as read me this"
IV,II,JAQUENETTA,"letter: it was given me by Costard, and sent me"
IV,II,JAQUENETTA,"from Don Armado: I beseech you, read it."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Fauste, precor gelida quando pecus omne sub umbra"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Ruminat,--and so forth. Ah, good old Mantuan! I"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"may speak of thee as the traveller doth of Venice;"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Venetia, Venetia,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Chi non ti vede non ti pretia."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Old Mantuan, old Mantuan! who understandeth thee"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"not, loves thee not. Ut, re, sol, la, mi, fa."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Under pardon, sir, what are the contents? or rather,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"as Horace says in his--What, my soul, verses?"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Ay, sir, and very learned."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Let me hear a staff, a stanze, a verse; lege, domine."
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Ah, never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd!"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove:"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"osiers bow'd."
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes,"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Where all those pleasures live that art would"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"comprehend:"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice;"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend,"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder;"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Which is to me some praise that I thy parts admire:"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Thy eye Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder,"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Which not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire."
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Celestial as thou art, O, pardon, love, this wrong,"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"That sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"You find not the apostraphas, and so miss the"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"accent: let me supervise the canzonet. Here are"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"only numbers ratified; but, for the elegancy,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Ovidius Naso was the man: and why, indeed, Naso,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"but for smelling out the odouriferous flowers of"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"fancy, the jerks of invention? Imitari is nothing:"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"so doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"the tired horse his rider. But, damosella virgin,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"was this directed to you?"
IV,II,JAQUENETTA,"Ay, sir, from one Monsieur Biron, one of the strange"
IV,II,JAQUENETTA,"queen's lords."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"I will overglance the superscript: 'To the"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Rosaline.' I will look again on the intellect of"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"the letter, for the nomination of the party writing"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"to the person written unto: 'Your ladyship's in all"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"desired employment, BIRON.' Sir Nathaniel, this"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Biron is one of the votaries with the king; and here"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"queen's, which accidentally, or by the way of"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"progression, hath miscarried. Trip and go, my"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"sweet; deliver this paper into the royal hand of the"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"king: it may concern much. Stay not thy"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"compliment; I forgive thy duty; adieu."
IV,II,JAQUENETTA,"Good Costard, go with me. Sir, God save your life!"
IV,II,COSTARD,"Have with thee, my girl."
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Sir, you have done this in the fear of God, very"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"religiously; and, as a certain father saith,--"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Sir tell me not of the father; I do fear colourable"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"colours. But to return to the verses: did they"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"please you, Sir Nathaniel?"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"Marvellous well for the pen."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"I do dine to-day at the father's of a certain pupil"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"of mine; where, if, before repast, it shall please"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"you to gratify the table with a grace, I will, on my"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"privilege I have with the parents of the foresaid"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"child or pupil, undertake your ben venuto; where I"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"will prove those verses to be very unlearned,"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"neither savouring of poetry, wit, nor invention: I"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"beseech your society."
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"And thank you too; for society, saith the text, is"
IV,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"the happiness of life."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"And, certes, the text most infallibly concludes it."
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"Sir, I do invite you too; you shall not"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"say me nay: pauca verba. Away! the gentles are at"
IV,II,HOLOFERNES,"their game, and we will to our recreation."
IV,III,BIRON,"The king he is hunting the deer; I am coursing"
IV,III,BIRON,"myself: they have pitched a toil; I am toiling in"
IV,III,BIRON,"a pitch,--pitch that defiles: defile! a foul"
IV,III,BIRON,"word. Well, set thee down, sorrow! for so they say"
IV,III,BIRON,"the fool said, and so say I, and I the fool: well"
IV,III,BIRON,"proved, wit! By the Lord, this love is as mad as"
IV,III,BIRON,"Ajax: it kills sheep; it kills me, I a sheep:"
IV,III,BIRON,"well proved again o' my side! I will not love: if"
IV,III,BIRON,"I do, hang me; i' faith, I will not. O, but her"
IV,III,BIRON,"eye,--by this light, but for her eye, I would not"
IV,III,BIRON,"love her; yes, for her two eyes. Well, I do nothing"
IV,III,BIRON,"in the world but lie, and lie in my throat. By"
IV,III,BIRON,"heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme"
IV,III,BIRON,"and to be melancholy; and here is part of my rhyme,"
IV,III,BIRON,"and here my melancholy. Well, she hath one o' my"
IV,III,BIRON,"sonnets already: the clown bore it, the fool sent"
IV,III,BIRON,"it, and the lady hath it: sweet clown, sweeter"
IV,III,BIRON,"fool, sweetest lady! By the world, I would not care"
IV,III,BIRON,"a pin, if the other three were in. Here comes one"
IV,III,BIRON,"with a paper: God give him grace to groan!"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Ay me!"
IV,III,BIRON,"thou hast thumped him with thy bird-bolt under the"
IV,III,BIRON,"left pap. In faith, secrets!"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"To those fresh morning drops upon the rose,"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"As thy eye-beams, when their fresh rays have smote"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"The night of dew that on my cheeks down flows:"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Through the transparent bosom of the deep,"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"As doth thy face through tears of mine give light;"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Thou shinest in every tear that I do weep:"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"No drop but as a coach doth carry thee;"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"So ridest thou triumphing in my woe."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Do but behold the tears that swell in me,"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"And they thy glory through my grief will show:"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"But do not love thyself; then thou wilt keep"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"My tears for glasses, and still make me weep."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"O queen of queens! how far dost thou excel,"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"No thought can think, nor tongue of mortal tell."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"How shall she know my griefs? I'll drop the paper:"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Sweet leaves, shade folly. Who is he comes here?"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"What, Longaville! and reading! listen, ear."
IV,III,BIRON,"Now, in thy likeness, one more fool appear!"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Ay me, I am forsworn!"
IV,III,BIRON,"Why, he comes in like a perjure, wearing papers."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"In love, I hope: sweet fellowship in shame!"
IV,III,BIRON,"One drunkard loves another of the name."
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Am I the first that have been perjured so?"
IV,III,BIRON,"I could put thee in comfort. Not by two that I know:"
IV,III,BIRON,"Thou makest the triumviry, the corner-cap of society,"
IV,III,BIRON,"The shape of Love's Tyburn that hangs up simplicity."
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move:"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"O sweet Maria, empress of my love!"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"These numbers will I tear, and write in prose."
IV,III,BIRON,"O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose:"
IV,III,BIRON,"Disfigure not his slop."
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"This same shall go."
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument,"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Persuade my heart to this false perjury?"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment."
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"A woman I forswore; but I will prove,"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love;"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me."
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is:"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine,"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Exhalest this vapour-vow; in thee it is:"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"If broken then, it is no fault of mine:"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"If by me broke, what fool is not so wise"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"To lose an oath to win a paradise?"
IV,III,BIRON,"This is the liver-vein, which makes flesh a deity,"
IV,III,BIRON,"A green goose a goddess: pure, pure idolatry."
IV,III,BIRON,"God amend us, God amend! we are much out o' the way."
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"By whom shall I send this?--Company! stay."
IV,III,BIRON,"All hid, all hid; an old infant play."
IV,III,BIRON,"Like a demigod here sit I in the sky."
IV,III,BIRON,"And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'ereye."
IV,III,BIRON,"More sacks to the mill! O heavens, I have my wish!"
IV,III,BIRON,"Dumain transform'd! four woodcocks in a dish!"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"O most divine Kate!"
IV,III,BIRON,"O most profane coxcomb!"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"By heaven, the wonder in a mortal eye!"
IV,III,BIRON,"By earth, she is not, corporal, there you lie."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Her amber hair for foul hath amber quoted."
IV,III,BIRON,"An amber-colour'd raven was well noted."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"As upright as the cedar."
IV,III,BIRON,"Stoop, I say;"
IV,III,BIRON,"Her shoulder is with child."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"As fair as day."
IV,III,BIRON,"Ay, as some days; but then no sun must shine."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"O that I had my wish!"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"And I had mine!"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"And I mine too, good Lord!"
IV,III,BIRON,"Amen, so I had mine: is not that a good word?"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"I would forget her; but a fever she"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Reigns in my blood and will remember'd be."
IV,III,BIRON,"A fever in your blood! why, then incision"
IV,III,BIRON,"Would let her out in saucers: sweet misprision!"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Once more I'll read the ode that I have writ."
IV,III,BIRON,"Once more I'll mark how love can vary wit."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"On a day--alack the day!--"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Love, whose month is ever May,"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Spied a blossom passing fair"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Playing in the wanton air:"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Through the velvet leaves the wind,"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"All unseen, can passage find;"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"That the lover, sick to death,"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Wish himself the heaven's breath."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow;"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Air, would I might triumph so!"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"But, alack, my hand is sworn"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn;"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Vow, alack, for youth unmeet,"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Youth so apt to pluck a sweet!"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Do not call it sin in me,"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"That I am forsworn for thee;"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Thou for whom Jove would swear"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Juno but an Ethiope were;"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"And deny himself for Jove,"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Turning mortal for thy love."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"This will I send, and something else more plain,"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"That shall express my true love's fasting pain."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"O, would the king, Biron, and Longaville,"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Were lovers too! Ill, to example ill,"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Would from my forehead wipe a perjured note;"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"For none offend where all alike do dote."
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"You may look pale, but I should blush, I know,"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"To be o'erheard and taken napping so."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"You chide at him, offending twice as much;"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"You do not love Maria; Longaville"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Did never sonnet for her sake compile,"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"His loving bosom to keep down his heart."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"I have been closely shrouded in this bush"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"And mark'd you both and for you both did blush:"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"I heard your guilty rhymes, observed your fashion,"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Saw sighs reek from you, noted well your passion:"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Ay me! says one; O Jove! the other cries;"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"One, her hairs were gold, crystal the other's eyes:"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"You would for paradise break faith, and troth;"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"And Jove, for your love, would infringe an oath."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"What will Biron say when that he shall hear"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Faith so infringed, which such zeal did swear?"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"How will he scorn! how will he spend his wit!"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"How will he triumph, leap and laugh at it!"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"For all the wealth that ever I did see,"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"I would not have him know so much by me."
IV,III,BIRON,"Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy."
IV,III,BIRON,"Ah, good my liege, I pray thee, pardon me!"
IV,III,BIRON,"Good heart, what grace hast thou, thus to reprove"
IV,III,BIRON,"These worms for loving, that art most in love?"
IV,III,BIRON,"Your eyes do make no coaches; in your tears"
IV,III,BIRON,"There is no certain princess that appears;"
IV,III,BIRON,"You'll not be perjured, 'tis a hateful thing;"
IV,III,BIRON,"Tush, none but minstrels like of sonneting!"
IV,III,BIRON,"But are you not ashamed? nay, are you not,"
IV,III,BIRON,"All three of you, to be thus much o'ershot?"
IV,III,BIRON,"You found his mote; the king your mote did see;"
IV,III,BIRON,"But I a beam do find in each of three."
IV,III,BIRON,"O, what a scene of foolery have I seen,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow and of teen!"
IV,III,BIRON,"O me, with what strict patience have I sat,"
IV,III,BIRON,"To see a king transformed to a gnat!"
IV,III,BIRON,"To see great Hercules whipping a gig,"
IV,III,BIRON,"And profound Solomon to tune a jig,"
IV,III,BIRON,"And Nestor play at push-pin with the boys,"
IV,III,BIRON,"And critic Timon laugh at idle toys!"
IV,III,BIRON,"Where lies thy grief, O, tell me, good Dumain?"
IV,III,BIRON,"And gentle Longaville, where lies thy pain?"
IV,III,BIRON,"And where my liege's? all about the breast:"
IV,III,BIRON,"A caudle, ho!"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Too bitter is thy jest."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Are we betray'd thus to thy over-view?"
IV,III,BIRON,"Not you to me, but I betray'd by you:"
IV,III,BIRON,"I, that am honest; I, that hold it sin"
IV,III,BIRON,"To break the vow I am engaged in;"
IV,III,BIRON,"I am betray'd, by keeping company"
IV,III,BIRON,"With men like men of inconstancy."
IV,III,BIRON,"When shall you see me write a thing in rhyme?"
IV,III,BIRON,"Or groan for love? or spend a minute's time"
IV,III,BIRON,"In pruning me? When shall you hear that I"
IV,III,BIRON,"Will praise a hand, a foot, a face, an eye,"
IV,III,BIRON,"A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist,"
IV,III,BIRON,"A leg, a limb?"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Soft! whither away so fast?"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"A true man or a thief that gallops so?"
IV,III,BIRON,"I post from love: good lover, let me go."
IV,III,JAQUENETTA,"God bless the king!"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"What present hast thou there?"
IV,III,COSTARD,"Some certain treason."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"What makes treason here?"
IV,III,COSTARD,"Nay, it makes nothing, sir."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"If it mar nothing neither,"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"The treason and you go in peace away together."
IV,III,JAQUENETTA,"I beseech your grace, let this letter be read:"
IV,III,JAQUENETTA,"Our parson misdoubts it; 'twas treason, he said."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Biron, read it over."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Where hadst thou it?"
IV,III,JAQUENETTA,"Of Costard."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Where hadst thou it?"
IV,III,COSTARD,"Of Dun Adramadio, Dun Adramadio."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"How now! what is in you? why dost thou tear it?"
IV,III,BIRON,"A toy, my liege, a toy: your grace needs not fear it."
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"It did move him to passion, and therefore let's hear it."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"It is Biron's writing, and here is his name."
IV,III,BIRON,"born to do me shame."
IV,III,BIRON,"Guilty, my lord, guilty! I confess, I confess."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"What?"
IV,III,BIRON,"That you three fools lack'd me fool to make up the mess:"
IV,III,BIRON,"He, he, and you, and you, my liege, and I,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Are pick-purses in love, and we deserve to die."
IV,III,BIRON,"O, dismiss this audience, and I shall tell you more."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Now the number is even."
IV,III,BIRON,"True, true; we are four."
IV,III,BIRON,"Will these turtles be gone?"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Hence, sirs; away!"
IV,III,COSTARD,"Walk aside the true folk, and let the traitors stay."
IV,III,BIRON,"Sweet lords, sweet lovers, O, let us embrace!"
IV,III,BIRON,"As true we are as flesh and blood can be:"
IV,III,BIRON,"The sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face;"
IV,III,BIRON,"Young blood doth not obey an old decree:"
IV,III,BIRON,"We cannot cross the cause why we were born;"
IV,III,BIRON,"Therefore of all hands must we be forsworn."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"What, did these rent lines show some love of thine?"
IV,III,BIRON,"Did they, quoth you? Who sees the heavenly Rosaline,"
IV,III,BIRON,"That, like a rude and savage man of Inde,"
IV,III,BIRON,"At the first opening of the gorgeous east,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Bows not his vassal head and strucken blind"
IV,III,BIRON,"Kisses the base ground with obedient breast?"
IV,III,BIRON,"What peremptory eagle-sighted eye"
IV,III,BIRON,"Dares look upon the heaven of her brow,"
IV,III,BIRON,"That is not blinded by her majesty?"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"What zeal, what fury hath inspired thee now?"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"My love, her mistress, is a gracious moon;"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"She an attending star, scarce seen a light."
IV,III,BIRON,"My eyes are then no eyes, nor I Biron:"
IV,III,BIRON,"O, but for my love, day would turn to night!"
IV,III,BIRON,"Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty"
IV,III,BIRON,"Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Where several worthies make one dignity,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek."
IV,III,BIRON,"Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues,--"
IV,III,BIRON,"Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not:"
IV,III,BIRON,"To things of sale a seller's praise belongs,"
IV,III,BIRON,"She passes praise; then praise too short doth blot."
IV,III,BIRON,"A wither'd hermit, five-score winters worn,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Might shake off fifty, looking in her eye:"
IV,III,BIRON,"Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born,"
IV,III,BIRON,"And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy:"
IV,III,BIRON,"O, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"By heaven, thy love is black as ebony."
IV,III,BIRON,"Is ebony like her? O wood divine!"
IV,III,BIRON,"A wife of such wood were felicity."
IV,III,BIRON,"O, who can give an oath? where is a book?"
IV,III,BIRON,"That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack,"
IV,III,BIRON,"If that she learn not of her eye to look:"
IV,III,BIRON,"No face is fair that is not full so black."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"O paradox! Black is the badge of hell,"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"The hue of dungeons and the suit of night;"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"And beauty's crest becomes the heavens well."
IV,III,BIRON,"Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light."
IV,III,BIRON,"O, if in black my lady's brows be deck'd,"
IV,III,BIRON,"It mourns that painting and usurping hair"
IV,III,BIRON,"Should ravish doters with a false aspect;"
IV,III,BIRON,"And therefore is she born to make black fair."
IV,III,BIRON,"Her favour turns the fashion of the days,"
IV,III,BIRON,"For native blood is counted painting now;"
IV,III,BIRON,"And therefore red, that would avoid dispraise,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Paints itself black, to imitate her brow."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"To look like her are chimney-sweepers black."
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"And since her time are colliers counted bright."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"And Ethiopes of their sweet complexion crack."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light."
IV,III,BIRON,"Your mistresses dare never come in rain,"
IV,III,BIRON,"For fear their colours should be wash'd away."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"'Twere good, yours did; for, sir, to tell you plain,"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"I'll find a fairer face not wash'd to-day."
IV,III,BIRON,"I'll prove her fair, or talk till doomsday here."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"No devil will fright thee then so much as she."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"I never knew man hold vile stuff so dear."
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Look, here's thy love: my foot and her face see."
IV,III,BIRON,"O, if the streets were paved with thine eyes,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Her feet were much too dainty for such tread!"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"O, vile! then, as she goes, what upward lies"
IV,III,DUMAIN,"The street should see as she walk'd overhead."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"But what of this? are we not all in love?"
IV,III,BIRON,"Nothing so sure; and thereby all forsworn."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Then leave this chat; and, good Biron, now prove"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Our loving lawful, and our faith not torn."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Ay, marry, there; some flattery for this evil."
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"O, some authority how to proceed;"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil."
IV,III,DUMAIN,"Some salve for perjury."
IV,III,BIRON,"'Tis more than need."
IV,III,BIRON,"Have at you, then, affection's men at arms."
IV,III,BIRON,"Consider what you first did swear unto,"
IV,III,BIRON,"To fast, to study, and to see no woman;"
IV,III,BIRON,"Flat treason 'gainst the kingly state of youth."
IV,III,BIRON,"Say, can you fast? your stomachs are too young;"
IV,III,BIRON,"And abstinence engenders maladies."
IV,III,BIRON,"And where that you have vow'd to study, lords,"
IV,III,BIRON,"In that each of you have forsworn his book,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Can you still dream and pore and thereon look?"
IV,III,BIRON,"For when would you, my lord, or you, or you,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Have found the ground of study's excellence"
IV,III,BIRON,"Without the beauty of a woman's face?"
IV,III,BIRON,"Why, universal plodding poisons up"
IV,III,BIRON,"The nimble spirits in the arteries,"
IV,III,BIRON,"As motion and long-during action tires"
IV,III,BIRON,"The sinewy vigour of the traveller."
IV,III,BIRON,"Now, for not looking on a woman's face,"
IV,III,BIRON,"You have in that forsworn the use of eyes"
IV,III,BIRON,"And study too, the causer of your vow;"
IV,III,BIRON,"For where is any author in the world"
IV,III,BIRON,"Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?"
IV,III,BIRON,"Learning is but an adjunct to ourself"
IV,III,BIRON,"And where we are our learning likewise is:"
IV,III,BIRON,"Then when ourselves we see in ladies' eyes,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Do we not likewise see our learning there?"
IV,III,BIRON,"O, we have made a vow to study, lords,"
IV,III,BIRON,"And in that vow we have forsworn our books."
IV,III,BIRON,"For when would you, my liege, or you, or you,"
IV,III,BIRON,"In leaden contemplation have found out"
IV,III,BIRON,"Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes"
IV,III,BIRON,"Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with?"
IV,III,BIRON,"Other slow arts entirely keep the brain;"
IV,III,BIRON,"And therefore, finding barren practisers,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil:"
IV,III,BIRON,"But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Lives not alone immured in the brain;"
IV,III,BIRON,"But, with the motion of all elements,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Courses as swift as thought in every power,"
IV,III,BIRON,"And gives to every power a double power,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Above their functions and their offices."
IV,III,BIRON,"It adds a precious seeing to the eye;"
IV,III,BIRON,"A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind;"
IV,III,BIRON,"A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound,"
IV,III,BIRON,"When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd:"
IV,III,BIRON,"Love's feeling is more soft and sensible"
IV,III,BIRON,"Than are the tender horns of cockl'd snails;"
IV,III,BIRON,"Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste:"
IV,III,BIRON,"For valour, is not Love a Hercules,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?"
IV,III,BIRON,"Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical"
IV,III,BIRON,"As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair:"
IV,III,BIRON,"And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods"
IV,III,BIRON,"Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony."
IV,III,BIRON,"Never durst poet touch a pen to write"
IV,III,BIRON,"Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs;"
IV,III,BIRON,"O, then his lines would ravish savage ears"
IV,III,BIRON,"And plant in tyrants mild humility."
IV,III,BIRON,"From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:"
IV,III,BIRON,"They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;"
IV,III,BIRON,"They are the books, the arts, the academes,"
IV,III,BIRON,"That show, contain and nourish all the world:"
IV,III,BIRON,"Else none at all in ought proves excellent."
IV,III,BIRON,"Then fools you were these women to forswear,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools."
IV,III,BIRON,"For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Or for love's sake, a word that loves all men,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Or for men's sake, the authors of these women,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Or women's sake, by whom we men are men,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths."
IV,III,BIRON,"It is religion to be thus forsworn,"
IV,III,BIRON,"For charity itself fulfills the law,"
IV,III,BIRON,"And who can sever love from charity?"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Saint Cupid, then! and, soldiers, to the field!"
IV,III,BIRON,"Advance your standards, and upon them, lords;"
IV,III,BIRON,"Pell-mell, down with them! but be first advised,"
IV,III,BIRON,"In conflict that you get the sun of them."
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Now to plain-dealing; lay these glozes by:"
IV,III,LONGAVILLE,"Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"And win them too: therefore let us devise"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Some entertainment for them in their tents."
IV,III,BIRON,"First, from the park let us conduct them thither;"
IV,III,BIRON,"Then homeward every man attach the hand"
IV,III,BIRON,"Of his fair mistress: in the afternoon"
IV,III,BIRON,"We will with some strange pastime solace them,"
IV,III,BIRON,"Such as the shortness of the time can shape;"
IV,III,BIRON,"For revels, dances, masks and merry hours"
IV,III,BIRON,"Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers."
IV,III,FERDINAND,"Away, away! no time shall be omitted"
IV,III,FERDINAND,"That will betime, and may by us be fitted."
IV,III,BIRON,"Allons! allons! Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn;"
IV,III,BIRON,"And justice always whirls in equal measure:"
IV,III,BIRON,"Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn;"
IV,III,BIRON,"If so, our copper buys no better treasure."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Satis quod sufficit."
V,I,SIR NATHANIEL,"I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner"
V,I,SIR NATHANIEL,"have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without"
V,I,SIR NATHANIEL,"scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without"
V,I,SIR NATHANIEL,"impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-"
V,I,SIR NATHANIEL,"out heresy. I did converse this quondam day with"
V,I,SIR NATHANIEL,"a companion of the king's, who is intituled, nomi-"
V,I,SIR NATHANIEL,"nated, or called, Don Adriano de Armado."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"were, too peregrinate, as I may call it."
V,I,SIR NATHANIEL,"A most singular and choice epithet."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"than the staple of his argument. I abhor such"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"point-devise companions; such rackers of"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"say doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt,--d,"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"e, b, t, not d, e, t: he clepeth a calf, cauf;"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"half, hauf; neighbour vocatur nebor; neigh"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"abbreviated ne. This is abhominable,--which he"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"would call abbominable: it insinuateth me of"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"insanie: anne intelligis, domine? to make frantic, lunatic."
V,I,SIR NATHANIEL,"Laus Deo, bene intelligo."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Bon, bon, fort bon, Priscian! a little scratch'd,"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"'twill serve."
V,I,SIR NATHANIEL,"Videsne quis venit?"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Video, et gaudeo."
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Chirrah!"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Quare chirrah, not sirrah?"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Men of peace, well encountered."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Most military sir, salutation."
V,I,MOTH,"of languages, and stolen the scraps."
V,I,COSTARD,"O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words."
V,I,COSTARD,"I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;"
V,I,COSTARD,"for thou art not so long by the head as"
V,I,COSTARD,"honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier"
V,I,COSTARD,"swallowed than a flap-dragon."
V,I,MOTH,"Peace! the peal begins."
V,I,MOTH,"Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a,"
V,I,MOTH,"b, spelt backward, with the horn on his head?"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Ba, pueritia, with a horn added."
V,I,MOTH,"Ba, most silly sheep with a horn. You hear his learning."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Quis, quis, thou consonant?"
V,I,MOTH,"The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them; or"
V,I,MOTH,"the fifth, if I."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"I will repeat them,--a, e, i,--"
V,I,MOTH,"The sheep: the other two concludes it,--o, u."
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Now, by the salt wave of the Mediterraneum, a sweet"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"touch, a quick venue of wit! snip, snap, quick and"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"home! it rejoiceth my intellect: true wit!"
V,I,MOTH,"Offered by a child to an old man; which is wit-old."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"What is the figure? what is the figure?"
V,I,MOTH,"Horns."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Thou disputest like an infant: go, whip thy gig."
V,I,MOTH,"Lend me your horn to make one, and I will whip about"
V,I,MOTH,"your infamy circum circa,--a gig of a cuckold's horn."
V,I,COSTARD,"An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst"
V,I,COSTARD,"have it to buy gingerbread: hold, there is the very"
V,I,COSTARD,"remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny"
V,I,COSTARD,"purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. O, an"
V,I,COSTARD,"the heavens were so pleased that thou wert but my"
V,I,COSTARD,"bastard, what a joyful father wouldst thou make me!"
V,I,COSTARD,"Go to; thou hast it ad dunghill, at the fingers'"
V,I,COSTARD,"ends, as they say."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"O, I smell false Latin; dunghill for unguem."
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Arts-man, preambulate, we will be singled from the"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"charge-house on the top of the mountain?"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Or mons, the hill."
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"At your sweet pleasure, for the mountain."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"I do, sans question."
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Sir, it is the king's most sweet pleasure and"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"affection to congratulate the princess at her"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"pavilion in the posteriors of this day, which the"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"rude multitude call the afternoon."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"liable, congruent and measurable for the afternoon:"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"the word is well culled, chose, sweet and apt, I do"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"assure you, sir, I do assure."
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Sir, the king is a noble gentleman, and my familiar,"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I do assure ye, very good friend: for what is"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"inward between us, let it pass. I do beseech thee,"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"remember thy courtesy; I beseech thee, apparel thy"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"head: and among other important and most serious"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"designs, and of great import indeed, too, but let"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"that pass: for I must tell thee, it will please his"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"grace, by the world, sometime to lean upon my poor"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"shoulder, and with his royal finger, thus, dally"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"with my excrement, with my mustachio; but, sweet"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"heart, let that pass. By the world, I recount no"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"fable: some certain special honours it pleaseth his"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"greatness to impart to Armado, a soldier, a man of"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"travel, that hath seen the world; but let that pass."
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"The very all of all is,--but, sweet heart, I do"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"implore secrecy,--that the king would have me"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"present the princess, sweet chuck, with some"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"antique, or firework. Now, understanding that the"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"curate and your sweet self are good at such"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"eruptions and sudden breaking out of mirth, as it"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"were, I have acquainted you withal, to the end to"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"crave your assistance."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Sir, you shall present before her the Nine Worthies."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Sir, as concerning some entertainment of time, some"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"show in the posterior of this day, to be rendered by"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"our assistants, at the king's command, and this most"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman, before"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"the princess; I say none so fit as to present the"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Nine Worthies."
V,I,SIR NATHANIEL,"Where will you find men worthy enough to present them?"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Joshua, yourself; myself and this gallant gentleman,"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Judas Maccabaeus; this swain, because of his great"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"limb or joint, shall pass Pompey the Great; the"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"page, Hercules,--"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Pardon, sir; error: he is not quantity enough for"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"that Worthy's thumb: he is not so big as the end of his club."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Shall I have audience? he shall present Hercules in"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"minority: his enter and exit shall be strangling a"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"snake; and I will have an apology for that purpose."
V,I,MOTH,"An excellent device! so, if any of the audience"
V,I,MOTH,"hiss, you may cry 'Well done, Hercules! now thou"
V,I,MOTH,"crushest the snake!' that is the way to make an"
V,I,MOTH,"offence gracious, though few have the grace to do it."
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"For the rest of the Worthies?--"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"I will play three myself."
V,I,MOTH,"Thrice-worthy gentleman!"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Shall I tell you a thing?"
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"We attend."
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"We will have, if this fadge not, an antique. I"
V,I,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"beseech you, follow."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Via, goodman Dull! thou hast spoken no word all this while."
V,I,DULL,"Nor understood none neither, sir."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Allons! we will employ thee."
V,I,DULL,"I'll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play"
V,I,DULL,"On the tabour to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay."
V,I,HOLOFERNES,"Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, away!"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"If fairings come thus plentifully in:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"A lady wall'd about with diamonds!"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Look you what I have from the loving king."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Madame, came nothing else along with that?"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Nothing but this! yes, as much love in rhyme"
V,II,PRINCESS,"As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name."
V,II,ROSALINE,"That was the way to make his godhead wax,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"For he hath been five thousand years a boy."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too."
V,II,ROSALINE,"You'll ne'er be friends with him; a' kill'd your sister."
V,II,KATHARINE,"He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy;"
V,II,KATHARINE,"And so she died: had she been light, like you,"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,"
V,II,KATHARINE,"She might ha' been a grandam ere she died:"
V,II,KATHARINE,"And so may you; for a light heart lives long."
V,II,ROSALINE,"What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?"
V,II,KATHARINE,"A light condition in a beauty dark."
V,II,ROSALINE,"We need more light to find your meaning out."
V,II,KATHARINE,"You'll mar the light by taking it in snuff;"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Therefore I'll darkly end the argument."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Look what you do, you do it still i' the dark."
V,II,KATHARINE,"So do not you, for you are a light wench."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Indeed I weigh not you, and therefore light."
V,II,KATHARINE,"You weigh me not? O, that's you care not for me."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Great reason; for 'past cure is still past care.'"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Well bandied both; a set of wit well play'd."
V,II,PRINCESS,"But Rosaline, you have a favour too:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Who sent it? and what is it?"
V,II,ROSALINE,"I would you knew:"
V,II,ROSALINE,"An if my face were but as fair as yours,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"My favour were as great; be witness this."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Nay, I have verses too, I thank Biron:"
V,II,ROSALINE,"The numbers true; and, were the numbering too,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"I were the fairest goddess on the ground:"
V,II,ROSALINE,"I am compared to twenty thousand fairs."
V,II,ROSALINE,"O, he hath drawn my picture in his letter!"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Any thing like?"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Much in the letters; nothing in the praise."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Beauteous as ink; a good conclusion."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Fair as a text B in a copy-book."
V,II,ROSALINE,"'Ware pencils, ho! let me not die your debtor,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"My red dominical, my golden letter:"
V,II,ROSALINE,"O, that your face were not so full of O's!"
V,II,KATHARINE,"A pox of that jest! and I beshrew all shrows."
V,II,PRINCESS,"But, Katharine, what was sent to you from fair Dumain?"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Madam, this glove."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Did he not send you twain?"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Yes, madam, and moreover"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Some thousand verses of a faithful lover,"
V,II,KATHARINE,"A huge translation of hypocrisy,"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Vilely compiled, profound simplicity."
V,II,MARIA,"This and these pearls to me sent Longaville:"
V,II,MARIA,"The letter is too long by half a mile."
V,II,PRINCESS,"I think no less. Dost thou not wish in heart"
V,II,PRINCESS,"The chain were longer and the letter short?"
V,II,MARIA,"Ay, or I would these hands might never part."
V,II,PRINCESS,"We are wise girls to mock our lovers so."
V,II,ROSALINE,"They are worse fools to purchase mocking so."
V,II,ROSALINE,"That same Biron I'll torture ere I go:"
V,II,ROSALINE,"O that I knew he were but in by the week!"
V,II,ROSALINE,"How I would make him fawn and beg and seek"
V,II,ROSALINE,"And wait the season and observe the times"
V,II,ROSALINE,"And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes"
V,II,ROSALINE,"And shape his service wholly to my hests"
V,II,ROSALINE,"And make him proud to make me proud that jests!"
V,II,ROSALINE,"So perttaunt-like would I o'ersway his state"
V,II,ROSALINE,"That he should be my fool and I his fate."
V,II,PRINCESS,"None are so surely caught, when they are catch'd,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"As wit turn'd fool: folly, in wisdom hatch'd,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Hath wisdom's warrant and the help of school"
V,II,PRINCESS,"And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool."
V,II,ROSALINE,"The blood of youth burns not with such excess"
V,II,ROSALINE,"As gravity's revolt to wantonness."
V,II,MARIA,"Folly in fools bears not so strong a note"
V,II,MARIA,"As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote;"
V,II,MARIA,"Since all the power thereof it doth apply"
V,II,MARIA,"To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Here comes Boyet, and mirth is in his face."
V,II,BOYET,"O, I am stabb'd with laughter! Where's her grace?"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Thy news Boyet?"
V,II,BOYET,"Prepare, madam, prepare!"
V,II,BOYET,"Arm, wenches, arm! encounters mounted are"
V,II,BOYET,"Against your peace: Love doth approach disguised,"
V,II,BOYET,"Armed in arguments; you'll be surprised:"
V,II,BOYET,"Muster your wits; stand in your own defence;"
V,II,BOYET,"Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Saint Denis to Saint Cupid! What are they"
V,II,PRINCESS,"That charge their breath against us? say, scout, say."
V,II,BOYET,"Under the cool shade of a sycamore"
V,II,BOYET,"I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour;"
V,II,BOYET,"When, lo! to interrupt my purposed rest,"
V,II,BOYET,"Toward that shade I might behold addrest"
V,II,BOYET,"The king and his companions: warily"
V,II,BOYET,"I stole into a neighbour thicket by,"
V,II,BOYET,"And overheard what you shall overhear,"
V,II,BOYET,"That, by and by, disguised they will be here."
V,II,BOYET,"Their herald is a pretty knavish page,"
V,II,BOYET,"That well by heart hath conn'd his embassage:"
V,II,BOYET,"Action and accent did they teach him there;"
V,II,BOYET,"'Thus must thou speak,' and 'thus thy body bear:'"
V,II,BOYET,"And ever and anon they made a doubt"
V,II,BOYET,"Presence majestical would put him out,"
V,II,BOYET,"'For,' quoth the king, 'an angel shalt thou see;"
V,II,BOYET,"Yet fear not thou, but speak audaciously.'"
V,II,BOYET,"The boy replied, 'An angel is not evil;"
V,II,BOYET,"I should have fear'd her had she been a devil.'"
V,II,BOYET,"With that, all laugh'd and clapp'd him on the shoulder,"
V,II,BOYET,"Making the bold wag by their praises bolder:"
V,II,BOYET,"One rubb'd his elbow thus, and fleer'd and swore"
V,II,BOYET,"A better speech was never spoke before;"
V,II,BOYET,"Another, with his finger and his thumb,"
V,II,BOYET,"Cried, 'Via! we will do't, come what will come;'"
V,II,BOYET,"The third he caper'd, and cried, 'All goes well;'"
V,II,BOYET,"The fourth turn'd on the toe, and down he fell."
V,II,BOYET,"With that, they all did tumble on the ground,"
V,II,BOYET,"With such a zealous laughter, so profound,"
V,II,BOYET,"That in this spleen ridiculous appears,"
V,II,BOYET,"To cheque their folly, passion's solemn tears."
V,II,PRINCESS,"But what, but what, come they to visit us?"
V,II,BOYET,"They do, they do: and are apparell'd thus."
V,II,BOYET,"Like Muscovites or Russians, as I guess."
V,II,BOYET,"Their purpose is to parle, to court and dance;"
V,II,BOYET,"And every one his love-feat will advance"
V,II,BOYET,"Unto his several mistress, which they'll know"
V,II,BOYET,"By favours several which they did bestow."
V,II,PRINCESS,"And will they so? the gallants shall be task'd;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"For, ladies, we shall every one be mask'd;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"And not a man of them shall have the grace,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Despite of suit, to see a lady's face."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Hold, Rosaline, this favour thou shalt wear,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"And then the king will court thee for his dear;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Hold, take thou this, my sweet, and give me thine,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"So shall Biron take me for Rosaline."
V,II,PRINCESS,"And change your favours too; so shall your loves"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Woo contrary, deceived by these removes."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Come on, then; wear the favours most in sight."
V,II,KATHARINE,"But in this changing what is your intent?"
V,II,PRINCESS,"The effect of my intent is to cross theirs:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"They do it but in mocking merriment;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"And mock for mock is only my intent."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Their several counsels they unbosom shall"
V,II,PRINCESS,"To loves mistook, and so be mock'd withal"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Upon the next occasion that we meet,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"With visages displayed, to talk and greet."
V,II,ROSALINE,"But shall we dance, if they desire to't?"
V,II,PRINCESS,"No, to the death, we will not move a foot;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Nor to their penn'd speech render we no grace,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"But while 'tis spoke each turn away her face."
V,II,BOYET,"Why, that contempt will kill the speaker's heart,"
V,II,BOYET,"And quite divorce his memory from his part."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Therefore I do it; and I make no doubt"
V,II,PRINCESS,"The rest will ne'er come in, if he be out"
V,II,PRINCESS,"There's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"To make theirs ours and ours none but our own:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"So shall we stay, mocking intended game,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"And they, well mock'd, depart away with shame."
V,II,BOYET,"The trumpet sounds: be mask'd; the maskers come."
V,II,MOTH,"All hail, the richest beauties on the earth!--"
V,II,BOYET,"Beauties no richer than rich taffeta."
V,II,MOTH,"A holy parcel of the fairest dames."
V,II,MOTH,"That ever turn'd their--backs--to mortal views!"
V,II,MOTH,"That ever turn'd their eyes to mortal views!--Out--"
V,II,BOYET,"True; out indeed."
V,II,MOTH,"Out of your favours, heavenly spirits, vouchsafe"
V,II,MOTH,"Not to behold--"
V,II,MOTH,"Once to behold with your sun-beamed eyes,"
V,II,MOTH,"--with your sun-beamed eyes--"
V,II,BOYET,"They will not answer to that epithet;"
V,II,BOYET,"You were best call it 'daughter-beamed eyes.'"
V,II,MOTH,"They do not mark me, and that brings me out."
V,II,BIRON,"Is this your perfectness? be gone, you rogue!"
V,II,ROSALINE,"What would these strangers? know their minds, Boyet:"
V,II,ROSALINE,"If they do speak our language, 'tis our will:"
V,II,ROSALINE,"That some plain man recount their purposes"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Know what they would."
V,II,BOYET,"What would you with the princess?"
V,II,BIRON,"Nothing but peace and gentle visitation."
V,II,ROSALINE,"What would they, say they?"
V,II,BOYET,"Nothing but peace and gentle visitation."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Why, that they have; and bid them so be gone."
V,II,BOYET,"She says, you have it, and you may be gone."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Say to her, we have measured many miles"
V,II,FERDINAND,"To tread a measure with her on this grass."
V,II,BOYET,"They say, that they have measured many a mile"
V,II,BOYET,"To tread a measure with you on this grass."
V,II,ROSALINE,"It is not so. Ask them how many inches"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Is in one mile: if they have measured many,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"The measure then of one is easily told."
V,II,BOYET,"If to come hither you have measured miles,"
V,II,BOYET,"And many miles, the princess bids you tell"
V,II,BOYET,"How many inches doth fill up one mile."
V,II,BIRON,"Tell her, we measure them by weary steps."
V,II,BOYET,"She hears herself."
V,II,ROSALINE,"How many weary steps,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Of many weary miles you have o'ergone,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Are number'd in the travel of one mile?"
V,II,BIRON,"We number nothing that we spend for you:"
V,II,BIRON,"Our duty is so rich, so infinite,"
V,II,BIRON,"That we may do it still without accompt."
V,II,BIRON,"Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face,"
V,II,BIRON,"That we, like savages, may worship it."
V,II,ROSALINE,"My face is but a moon, and clouded too."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Blessed are clouds, to do as such clouds do!"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Vouchsafe, bright moon, and these thy stars, to shine,"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Those clouds removed, upon our watery eyne."
V,II,ROSALINE,"O vain petitioner! beg a greater matter;"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Thou now request'st but moonshine in the water."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Then, in our measure do but vouchsafe one change."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Thou bid'st me beg: this begging is not strange."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Play, music, then! Nay, you must do it soon."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Not yet! no dance! Thus change I like the moon."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Will you not dance? How come you thus estranged?"
V,II,ROSALINE,"You took the moon at full, but now she's changed."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Yet still she is the moon, and I the man."
V,II,FERDINAND,"The music plays; vouchsafe some motion to it."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Our ears vouchsafe it."
V,II,FERDINAND,"But your legs should do it."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Since you are strangers and come here by chance,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"We'll not be nice: take hands. We will not dance."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Why take we hands, then?"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Only to part friends:"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Curtsy, sweet hearts; and so the measure ends."
V,II,FERDINAND,"More measure of this measure; be not nice."
V,II,ROSALINE,"We can afford no more at such a price."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Prize you yourselves: what buys your company?"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Your absence only."
V,II,FERDINAND,"That can never be."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Then cannot we be bought: and so, adieu;"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Twice to your visor, and half once to you."
V,II,FERDINAND,"If you deny to dance, let's hold more chat."
V,II,ROSALINE,"In private, then."
V,II,FERDINAND,"I am best pleased with that."
V,II,BIRON,"White-handed mistress, one sweet word with thee."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Honey, and milk, and sugar; there is three."
V,II,BIRON,"Nay then, two treys, and if you grow so nice,"
V,II,BIRON,"Metheglin, wort, and malmsey: well run, dice!"
V,II,BIRON,"There's half-a-dozen sweets."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Seventh sweet, adieu:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Since you can cog, I'll play no more with you."
V,II,BIRON,"One word in secret."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Let it not be sweet."
V,II,BIRON,"Thou grievest my gall."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Gall! bitter."
V,II,BIRON,"Therefore meet."
V,II,DUMAIN,"Will you vouchsafe with me to change a word?"
V,II,MARIA,"Name it."
V,II,DUMAIN,"Fair lady,--"
V,II,MARIA,"Say you so? Fair lord,--"
V,II,MARIA,"Take that for your fair lady."
V,II,DUMAIN,"Please it you,"
V,II,DUMAIN,"As much in private, and I'll bid adieu."
V,II,KATHARINE,"What, was your vizard made without a tongue?"
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"I know the reason, lady, why you ask."
V,II,KATHARINE,"O for your reason! quickly, sir; I long."
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"You have a double tongue within your mask,"
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"And would afford my speechless vizard half."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Veal, quoth the Dutchman. Is not 'veal' a calf?"
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"A calf, fair lady!"
V,II,KATHARINE,"No, a fair lord calf."
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"Let's part the word."
V,II,KATHARINE,"No, I'll not be your half"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Take all, and wean it; it may prove an ox."
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"Look, how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks!"
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"Will you give horns, chaste lady? do not so."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Then die a calf, before your horns do grow."
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"One word in private with you, ere I die."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Bleat softly then; the butcher hears you cry."
V,II,BOYET,"The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen"
V,II,BOYET,"As is the razor's edge invisible,"
V,II,BOYET,"Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen,"
V,II,BOYET,"Above the sense of sense; so sensible"
V,II,BOYET,"Seemeth their conference; their conceits have wings"
V,II,BOYET,"Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Not one word more, my maids; break off, break off."
V,II,BIRON,"By heaven, all dry-beaten with pure scoff!"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Farewell, mad wenches; you have simple wits."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Twenty adieus, my frozen Muscovits."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Are these the breed of wits so wonder'd at?"
V,II,BOYET,"Tapers they are, with your sweet breaths puff'd out."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Well-liking wits they have; gross, gross; fat, fat."
V,II,PRINCESS,"O poverty in wit, kingly-poor flout!"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Will they not, think you, hang themselves tonight?"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Or ever, but in vizards, show their faces?"
V,II,PRINCESS,"This pert Biron was out of countenance quite."
V,II,ROSALINE,"O, they were all in lamentable cases!"
V,II,ROSALINE,"The king was weeping-ripe for a good word."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Biron did swear himself out of all suit."
V,II,MARIA,"Dumain was at my service, and his sword:"
V,II,MARIA,"No point, quoth I; my servant straight was mute."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Lord Longaville said, I came o'er his heart;"
V,II,KATHARINE,"And trow you what he called me?"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Qualm, perhaps."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Yes, in good faith."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Go, sickness as thou art!"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Well, better wits have worn plain statute-caps."
V,II,ROSALINE,"But will you hear? the king is my love sworn."
V,II,PRINCESS,"And quick Biron hath plighted faith to me."
V,II,KATHARINE,"And Longaville was for my service born."
V,II,MARIA,"Dumain is mine, as sure as bark on tree."
V,II,BOYET,"Madam, and pretty mistresses, give ear:"
V,II,BOYET,"Immediately they will again be here"
V,II,BOYET,"In their own shapes; for it can never be"
V,II,BOYET,"They will digest this harsh indignity."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Will they return?"
V,II,BOYET,"They will, they will, God knows,"
V,II,BOYET,"And leap for joy, though they are lame with blows:"
V,II,BOYET,"Therefore change favours; and, when they repair,"
V,II,BOYET,"Blow like sweet roses in this summer air."
V,II,PRINCESS,"How blow? how blow? speak to be understood."
V,II,BOYET,"Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud;"
V,II,BOYET,"Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shown,"
V,II,BOYET,"Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Avaunt, perplexity! What shall we do,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"If they return in their own shapes to woo?"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Good madam, if by me you'll be advised,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Let's, mock them still, as well known as disguised:"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Let us complain to them what fools were here,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Disguised like Muscovites, in shapeless gear;"
V,II,ROSALINE,"And wonder what they were and to what end"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Their shallow shows and prologue vilely penn'd"
V,II,ROSALINE,"And their rough carriage so ridiculous,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Should be presented at our tent to us."
V,II,BOYET,"Ladies, withdraw: the gallants are at hand."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Whip to our tents, as roes run o'er land."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Fair sir, God save you! Where's the princess?"
V,II,BOYET,"Gone to her tent. Please it your majesty"
V,II,BOYET,"Command me any service to her thither?"
V,II,FERDINAND,"That she vouchsafe me audience for one word."
V,II,BOYET,"I will; and so will she, I know, my lord."
V,II,BIRON,"This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons pease,"
V,II,BIRON,"And utters it again when God doth please:"
V,II,BIRON,"He is wit's pedler, and retails his wares"
V,II,BIRON,"At wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs;"
V,II,BIRON,"And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know,"
V,II,BIRON,"Have not the grace to grace it with such show."
V,II,BIRON,"This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve;"
V,II,BIRON,"Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve;"
V,II,BIRON,"A' can carve too, and lisp: why, this is he"
V,II,BIRON,"That kiss'd his hand away in courtesy;"
V,II,BIRON,"This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice,"
V,II,BIRON,"That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice"
V,II,BIRON,"In honourable terms: nay, he can sing"
V,II,BIRON,"A mean most meanly; and in ushering"
V,II,BIRON,"Mend him who can: the ladies call him sweet;"
V,II,BIRON,"The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet:"
V,II,BIRON,"This is the flower that smiles on every one,"
V,II,BIRON,"To show his teeth as white as whale's bone;"
V,II,BIRON,"And consciences, that will not die in debt,"
V,II,BIRON,"Pay him the due of honey-tongued Boyet."
V,II,FERDINAND,"A blister on his sweet tongue, with my heart,"
V,II,FERDINAND,"That put Armado's page out of his part!"
V,II,BIRON,"See where it comes! Behavior, what wert thou"
V,II,BIRON,"Till this madman show'd thee? and what art thou now?"
V,II,FERDINAND,"All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day!"
V,II,PRINCESS,"'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Construe my speeches better, if you may."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Then wish me better; I will give you leave."
V,II,FERDINAND,"We came to visit you, and purpose now"
V,II,FERDINAND,"To lead you to our court; vouchsafe it then."
V,II,PRINCESS,"This field shall hold me; and so hold your vow:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Nor God, nor I, delights in perjured men."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Rebuke me not for that which you provoke:"
V,II,FERDINAND,"The virtue of your eye must break my oath."
V,II,PRINCESS,"You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"For virtue's office never breaks men's troth."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Now by my maiden honour, yet as pure"
V,II,PRINCESS,"As the unsullied lily, I protest,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"A world of torments though I should endure,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"I would not yield to be your house's guest;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"So much I hate a breaking cause to be"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Of heavenly oaths, vow'd with integrity."
V,II,FERDINAND,"O, you have lived in desolation here,"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Unseen, unvisited, much to our shame."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Not so, my lord; it is not so, I swear;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"We have had pastimes here and pleasant game:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"A mess of Russians left us but of late."
V,II,FERDINAND,"How, madam! Russians!"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Ay, in truth, my lord;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Madam, speak true. It is not so, my lord:"
V,II,ROSALINE,"My lady, to the manner of the days,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"In courtesy gives undeserving praise."
V,II,ROSALINE,"We four indeed confronted were with four"
V,II,ROSALINE,"In Russian habit: here they stay'd an hour,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"And talk'd apace; and in that hour, my lord,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"They did not bless us with one happy word."
V,II,ROSALINE,"I dare not call them fools; but this I think,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink."
V,II,BIRON,"This jest is dry to me. Fair gentle sweet,"
V,II,BIRON,"Your wit makes wise things foolish: when we greet,"
V,II,BIRON,"With eyes best seeing, heaven's fiery eye,"
V,II,BIRON,"By light we lose light: your capacity"
V,II,BIRON,"Is of that nature that to your huge store"
V,II,BIRON,"Wise things seem foolish and rich things but poor."
V,II,ROSALINE,"This proves you wise and rich, for in my eye,--"
V,II,BIRON,"I am a fool, and full of poverty."
V,II,ROSALINE,"But that you take what doth to you belong,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"It were a fault to snatch words from my tongue."
V,II,BIRON,"O, I am yours, and all that I possess!"
V,II,ROSALINE,"All the fool mine?"
V,II,BIRON,"I cannot give you less."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Which of the vizards was it that you wore?"
V,II,BIRON,"Where? when? what vizard? why demand you this?"
V,II,ROSALINE,"There, then, that vizard; that superfluous case"
V,II,ROSALINE,"That hid the worse and show'd the better face."
V,II,FERDINAND,"We are descried; they'll mock us now downright."
V,II,DUMAIN,"Let us confess and turn it to a jest."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Amazed, my lord? why looks your highness sad?"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Help, hold his brows! he'll swoon! Why look you pale?"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Sea-sick, I think, coming from Muscovy."
V,II,BIRON,"Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury."
V,II,BIRON,"Can any face of brass hold longer out?"
V,II,BIRON,"Here stand I lady, dart thy skill at me;"
V,II,BIRON,"Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout;"
V,II,BIRON,"Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance;"
V,II,BIRON,"Cut me to pieces with thy keen conceit;"
V,II,BIRON,"And I will wish thee never more to dance,"
V,II,BIRON,"Nor never more in Russian habit wait."
V,II,BIRON,"O, never will I trust to speeches penn'd,"
V,II,BIRON,"Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue,"
V,II,BIRON,"Nor never come in vizard to my friend,"
V,II,BIRON,"Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song!"
V,II,BIRON,"Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,"
V,II,BIRON,"Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,"
V,II,BIRON,"Figures pedantical; these summer-flies"
V,II,BIRON,"Have blown me full of maggot ostentation:"
V,II,BIRON,"I do forswear them; and I here protest,"
V,II,BIRON,"By this white glove;--how white the hand, God knows!--"
V,II,BIRON,"Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd"
V,II,BIRON,"In russet yeas and honest kersey noes:"
V,II,BIRON,"And, to begin, wench,--so God help me, la!--"
V,II,BIRON,"My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Sans sans, I pray you."
V,II,BIRON,"Yet I have a trick"
V,II,BIRON,"Of the old rage: bear with me, I am sick;"
V,II,BIRON,"I'll leave it by degrees. Soft, let us see:"
V,II,BIRON,"Write, 'Lord have mercy on us' on those three;"
V,II,BIRON,"They are infected; in their hearts it lies;"
V,II,BIRON,"They have the plague, and caught it of your eyes;"
V,II,BIRON,"These lords are visited; you are not free,"
V,II,BIRON,"For the Lord's tokens on you do I see."
V,II,PRINCESS,"No, they are free that gave these tokens to us."
V,II,BIRON,"Our states are forfeit: seek not to undo us."
V,II,ROSALINE,"It is not so; for how can this be true,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"That you stand forfeit, being those that sue?"
V,II,BIRON,"Peace! for I will not have to do with you."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Nor shall not, if I do as I intend."
V,II,BIRON,"Speak for yourselves; my wit is at an end."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Teach us, sweet madam, for our rude transgression"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Some fair excuse."
V,II,PRINCESS,"The fairest is confession."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Were not you here but even now disguised?"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Madam, I was."
V,II,PRINCESS,"And were you well advised?"
V,II,FERDINAND,"I was, fair madam."
V,II,PRINCESS,"When you then were here,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"What did you whisper in your lady's ear?"
V,II,FERDINAND,"That more than all the world I did respect her."
V,II,PRINCESS,"When she shall challenge this, you will reject her."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Upon mine honour, no."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Peace, peace! forbear:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Despise me, when I break this oath of mine."
V,II,PRINCESS,"I will: and therefore keep it. Rosaline,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"What did the Russian whisper in your ear?"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Madam, he swore that he did hold me dear"
V,II,ROSALINE,"As precious eyesight, and did value me"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Above this world; adding thereto moreover"
V,II,ROSALINE,"That he would wed me, or else die my lover."
V,II,PRINCESS,"God give thee joy of him! the noble lord"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Most honourably doth unhold his word."
V,II,FERDINAND,"What mean you, madam? by my life, my troth,"
V,II,FERDINAND,"I never swore this lady such an oath."
V,II,ROSALINE,"By heaven, you did; and to confirm it plain,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"You gave me this: but take it, sir, again."
V,II,FERDINAND,"My faith and this the princess I did give:"
V,II,FERDINAND,"I knew her by this jewel on her sleeve."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Pardon me, sir, this jewel did she wear;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"And Lord Biron, I thank him, is my dear."
V,II,PRINCESS,"What, will you have me, or your pearl again?"
V,II,BIRON,"Neither of either; I remit both twain."
V,II,BIRON,"I see the trick on't: here was a consent,"
V,II,BIRON,"Knowing aforehand of our merriment,"
V,II,BIRON,"To dash it like a Christmas comedy:"
V,II,BIRON,"Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany,"
V,II,BIRON,"Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick,"
V,II,BIRON,"That smiles his cheek in years and knows the trick"
V,II,BIRON,"To make my lady laugh when she's disposed,"
V,II,BIRON,"Told our intents before; which once disclosed,"
V,II,BIRON,"The ladies did change favours: and then we,"
V,II,BIRON,"Following the signs, woo'd but the sign of she."
V,II,BIRON,"Now, to our perjury to add more terror,"
V,II,BIRON,"We are again forsworn, in will and error."
V,II,BIRON,"Much upon this it is: and might not you"
V,II,BIRON,"Forestall our sport, to make us thus untrue?"
V,II,BIRON,"Do not you know my lady's foot by the squier,"
V,II,BIRON,"And laugh upon the apple of her eye?"
V,II,BIRON,"And stand between her back, sir, and the fire,"
V,II,BIRON,"Holding a trencher, jesting merrily?"
V,II,BIRON,"You put our page out: go, you are allow'd;"
V,II,BIRON,"Die when you will, a smock shall be your shroud."
V,II,BIRON,"You leer upon me, do you? there's an eye"
V,II,BIRON,"Wounds like a leaden sword."
V,II,BOYET,"Full merrily"
V,II,BOYET,"Hath this brave manage, this career, been run."
V,II,BIRON,"Lo, he is tilting straight! Peace! I have done."
V,II,BIRON,"Welcome, pure wit! thou partest a fair fray."
V,II,COSTARD,"O Lord, sir, they would know"
V,II,COSTARD,"Whether the three Worthies shall come in or no."
V,II,BIRON,"What, are there but three?"
V,II,COSTARD,"No, sir; but it is vara fine,"
V,II,COSTARD,"For every one pursents three."
V,II,BIRON,"And three times thrice is nine."
V,II,COSTARD,"Not so, sir; under correction, sir; I hope it is not so."
V,II,COSTARD,"You cannot beg us, sir, I can assure you, sir we know"
V,II,COSTARD,"what we know:"
V,II,COSTARD,"I hope, sir, three times thrice, sir,--"
V,II,BIRON,"Is not nine."
V,II,COSTARD,"Under correction, sir, we know whereuntil it doth amount."
V,II,BIRON,"By Jove, I always took three threes for nine."
V,II,COSTARD,"O Lord, sir, it were pity you should get your living"
V,II,COSTARD,"by reckoning, sir."
V,II,BIRON,"How much is it?"
V,II,COSTARD,"O Lord, sir, the parties themselves, the actors,"
V,II,COSTARD,"sir, will show whereuntil it doth amount: for mine"
V,II,COSTARD,"own part, I am, as they say, but to parfect one man"
V,II,COSTARD,"in one poor man, Pompion the Great, sir."
V,II,BIRON,"Art thou one of the Worthies?"
V,II,COSTARD,"It pleased them to think me worthy of Pompion the"
V,II,COSTARD,"Great: for mine own part, I know not the degree of"
V,II,COSTARD,"the Worthy, but I am to stand for him."
V,II,BIRON,"Go, bid them prepare."
V,II,COSTARD,"We will turn it finely off, sir; we will take"
V,II,COSTARD,"some care."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Biron, they will shame us: let them not approach."
V,II,BIRON,"We are shame-proof, my lord: and tis some policy"
V,II,BIRON,"To have one show worse than the king's and his company."
V,II,FERDINAND,"I say they shall not come."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Nay, my good lord, let me o'errule you now:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"That sport best pleases that doth least know how:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Where zeal strives to content, and the contents"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Dies in the zeal of that which it presents:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Their form confounded makes most form in mirth,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"When great things labouring perish in their birth."
V,II,BIRON,"A right description of our sport, my lord."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy royal"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"sweet breath as will utter a brace of words."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Doth this man serve God?"
V,II,BIRON,"Why ask you?"
V,II,PRINCESS,"He speaks not like a man of God's making."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"That is all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch; for,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I protest, the schoolmaster is exceeding"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"fantastical; too, too vain, too too vain: but we"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"will put it, as they say, to fortuna de la guerra."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I wish you the peace of mind, most royal couplement!"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Here is like to be a good presence of Worthies. He"
V,II,FERDINAND,"presents Hector of Troy; the swain, Pompey the"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Great; the parish curate, Alexander; Armado's page,"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Hercules; the pedant, Judas Maccabaeus: And if"
V,II,FERDINAND,"these four Worthies in their first show thrive,"
V,II,FERDINAND,"These four will change habits, and present the other five."
V,II,BIRON,"There is five in the first show."
V,II,FERDINAND,"You are deceived; 'tis not so."
V,II,BIRON,"The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool"
V,II,BIRON,"and the boy:--"
V,II,BIRON,"Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again"
V,II,BIRON,"Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein."
V,II,FERDINAND,"The ship is under sail, and here she comes amain."
V,II,COSTARD,"I Pompey am,--"
V,II,BOYET,"You lie, you are not he."
V,II,COSTARD,"I Pompey am,--"
V,II,BOYET,"With libbard's head on knee."
V,II,BIRON,"Well said, old mocker: I must needs be friends"
V,II,BIRON,"with thee."
V,II,COSTARD,"I Pompey am, Pompey surnamed the Big--"
V,II,DUMAIN,"The Great."
V,II,COSTARD,"It is, 'Great,' sir:--"
V,II,COSTARD,"Pompey surnamed the Great;"
V,II,COSTARD,"That oft in field, with targe and shield, did make"
V,II,COSTARD,"my foe to sweat:"
V,II,COSTARD,"And travelling along this coast, I here am come by chance,"
V,II,COSTARD,"And lay my arms before the legs of this sweet lass of France,"
V,II,COSTARD,"If your ladyship would say, 'Thanks, Pompey,' I had done."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Great thanks, great Pompey."
V,II,COSTARD,"'Tis not so much worth; but I hope I was perfect: I"
V,II,COSTARD,"made a little fault in 'Great.'"
V,II,BIRON,"My hat to a halfpenny, Pompey proves the best Worthy."
V,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"When in the world I lived, I was the world's"
V,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"commander;"
V,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"By east, west, north, and south, I spread my"
V,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"conquering might:"
V,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"My scutcheon plain declares that I am Alisander,--"
V,II,BOYET,"Your nose says, no, you are not for it stands too right."
V,II,BIRON,"Your nose smells 'no' in this, most tender-smelling knight."
V,II,PRINCESS,"The conqueror is dismay'd. Proceed, good Alexander."
V,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"When in the world I lived, I was the world's"
V,II,SIR NATHANIEL,"commander,--"
V,II,BOYET,"Most true, 'tis right; you were so, Alisander."
V,II,BIRON,"Pompey the Great,--"
V,II,COSTARD,"Your servant, and Costard."
V,II,BIRON,"Take away the conqueror, take away Alisander."
V,II,COSTARD,"Alisander the conqueror! You will be scraped out of"
V,II,COSTARD,"the painted cloth for this: your lion, that holds"
V,II,COSTARD,"his poll-axe sitting on a close-stool, will be given"
V,II,COSTARD,"to Ajax: he will be the ninth Worthy. A conqueror,"
V,II,COSTARD,"and afeard to speak! run away for shame, Alisander."
V,II,COSTARD,"There, an't shall please you; a foolish mild man; an"
V,II,COSTARD,"honest man, look you, and soon dashed. He is a"
V,II,COSTARD,"marvellous good neighbour, faith, and a very good"
V,II,COSTARD,"bowler: but, for Alisander,--alas, you see how"
V,II,COSTARD,"'tis,--a little o'erparted. But there are Worthies"
V,II,COSTARD,"a-coming will speak their mind in some other sort."
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"Great Hercules is presented by this imp,"
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"Whose club kill'd Cerberus, that three-headed canis;"
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"And when he was a babe, a child, a shrimp,"
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus."
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"Quoniam he seemeth in minority,"
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"Ergo I come with this apology."
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"Keep some state in thy exit, and vanish."
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"Judas I am,--"
V,II,DUMAIN,"A Judas!"
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"Not Iscariot, sir."
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"Judas I am, ycliped Maccabaeus."
V,II,DUMAIN,"Judas Maccabaeus clipt is plain Judas."
V,II,BIRON,"A kissing traitor. How art thou proved Judas?"
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"Judas I am,--"
V,II,DUMAIN,"The more shame for you, Judas."
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"What mean you, sir?"
V,II,BOYET,"To make Judas hang himself."
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"Begin, sir; you are my elder."
V,II,BIRON,"Well followed: Judas was hanged on an elder."
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"I will not be put out of countenance."
V,II,BIRON,"Because thou hast no face."
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"What is this?"
V,II,BOYET,"A cittern-head."
V,II,DUMAIN,"The head of a bodkin."
V,II,BIRON,"A Death's face in a ring."
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"The face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen."
V,II,BOYET,"The pommel of Caesar's falchion."
V,II,DUMAIN,"The carved-bone face on a flask."
V,II,BIRON,"Saint George's half-cheek in a brooch."
V,II,DUMAIN,"Ay, and in a brooch of lead."
V,II,BIRON,"Ay, and worn in the cap of a tooth-drawer."
V,II,BIRON,"And now forward; for we have put thee in countenance."
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"You have put me out of countenance."
V,II,BIRON,"False; we have given thee faces."
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"But you have out-faced them all."
V,II,BIRON,"An thou wert a lion, we would do so."
V,II,BOYET,"Therefore, as he is an ass, let him go."
V,II,BOYET,"And so adieu, sweet Jude! nay, why dost thou stay?"
V,II,DUMAIN,"For the latter end of his name."
V,II,BIRON,"For the ass to the Jude; give it him:--Jud-as, away!"
V,II,HOLOFERNES,"This is not generous, not gentle, not humble."
V,II,BOYET,"A light for Monsieur Judas! it grows dark, he may stumble."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Alas, poor Maccabaeus, how hath he been baited!"
V,II,BIRON,"Hide thy head, Achilles: here comes Hector in arms."
V,II,DUMAIN,"Though my mocks come home by me, I will now be merry."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Hector was but a Troyan in respect of this."
V,II,BOYET,"But is this Hector?"
V,II,FERDINAND,"I think Hector was not so clean-timbered."
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"His leg is too big for Hector's."
V,II,DUMAIN,"More calf, certain."
V,II,BOYET,"No; he is best endued in the small."
V,II,BIRON,"This cannot be Hector."
V,II,DUMAIN,"He's a god or a painter; for he makes faces."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Gave Hector a gift,--"
V,II,DUMAIN,"A gilt nutmeg."
V,II,BIRON,"A lemon."
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"Stuck with cloves."
V,II,DUMAIN,"No, cloven."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Peace!--"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Gave Hector a gift, the heir of Ilion;"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"A man so breathed, that certain he would fight; yea"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"From morn till night, out of his pavilion."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I am that flower,--"
V,II,DUMAIN,"That mint."
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"That columbine."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Sweet Lord Longaville, rein thy tongue."
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"I must rather give it the rein, for it runs against Hector."
V,II,DUMAIN,"Ay, and Hector's a greyhound."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"The sweet war-man is dead and rotten; sweet chucks,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"beat not the bones of the buried: when he breathed,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"he was a man. But I will forward with my device."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Sweet royalty, bestow on me the sense of hearing."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Speak, brave Hector: we are much delighted."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I do adore thy sweet grace's slipper."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"This Hector far surmounted Hannibal,--"
V,II,COSTARD,"The party is gone, fellow Hector, she is gone; she"
V,II,COSTARD,"is two months on her way."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"What meanest thou?"
V,II,COSTARD,"Faith, unless you play the honest Troyan, the poor"
V,II,COSTARD,"wench is cast away: she's quick; the child brags in"
V,II,COSTARD,"her belly already: tis yours."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Dost thou infamonize me among potentates? thou shalt"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"die."
V,II,COSTARD,"Then shall Hector be whipped for Jaquenetta that is"
V,II,COSTARD,"quick by him and hanged for Pompey that is dead by"
V,II,COSTARD,"him."
V,II,DUMAIN,"Most rare Pompey!"
V,II,BOYET,"Renowned Pompey!"
V,II,BIRON,"Greater than great, great, great, great Pompey!"
V,II,BIRON,"Pompey the Huge!"
V,II,DUMAIN,"Hector trembles."
V,II,BIRON,"Pompey is moved. More Ates, more Ates! stir them"
V,II,BIRON,"on! stir them on!"
V,II,DUMAIN,"Hector will challenge him."
V,II,BIRON,"Ay, if a' have no man's blood in's belly than will"
V,II,BIRON,"sup a flea."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"By the north pole, I do challenge thee."
V,II,COSTARD,"I will not fight with a pole, like a northern man:"
V,II,COSTARD,"I'll slash; I'll do it by the sword. I bepray you,"
V,II,COSTARD,"let me borrow my arms again."
V,II,DUMAIN,"Room for the incensed Worthies!"
V,II,COSTARD,"I'll do it in my shirt."
V,II,DUMAIN,"Most resolute Pompey!"
V,II,MOTH,"Master, let me take you a buttonhole lower. Do you"
V,II,MOTH,"not see Pompey is uncasing for the combat? What mean"
V,II,MOTH,"you? You will lose your reputation."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Gentlemen and soldiers, pardon me; I will not combat"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"in my shirt."
V,II,DUMAIN,"You may not deny it: Pompey hath made the challenge."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Sweet bloods, I both may and will."
V,II,BIRON,"What reason have you for't?"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt; I go"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"woolward for penance."
V,II,BOYET,"True, and it was enjoined him in Rome for want of"
V,II,BOYET,"linen: since when, I'll be sworn, he wore none but"
V,II,BOYET,"a dishclout of Jaquenetta's, and that a' wears next"
V,II,BOYET,"his heart for a favour."
V,II,MERCADE,"God save you, madam!"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Welcome, Mercade;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"But that thou interrupt'st our merriment."
V,II,MERCADE,"I am sorry, madam; for the news I bring"
V,II,MERCADE,"Is heavy in my tongue. The king your father--"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Dead, for my life!"
V,II,MERCADE,"Even so; my tale is told."
V,II,BIRON,"Worthies, away! the scene begins to cloud."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"For mine own part, I breathe free breath. I have"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"seen the day of wrong through the little hole of"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier."
V,II,FERDINAND,"How fares your majesty?"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Boyet, prepare; I will away tonight."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Madam, not so; I do beseech you, stay."
V,II,PRINCESS,"Prepare, I say. I thank you, gracious lords,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"For all your fair endeavors; and entreat,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Out of a new-sad soul, that you vouchsafe"
V,II,PRINCESS,"In your rich wisdom to excuse or hide"
V,II,PRINCESS,"The liberal opposition of our spirits,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"If over-boldly we have borne ourselves"
V,II,PRINCESS,"In the converse of breath: your gentleness"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Was guilty of it. Farewell worthy lord!"
V,II,PRINCESS,"A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Excuse me so, coming too short of thanks"
V,II,PRINCESS,"For my great suit so easily obtain'd."
V,II,FERDINAND,"The extreme parts of time extremely forms"
V,II,FERDINAND,"All causes to the purpose of his speed,"
V,II,FERDINAND,"And often at his very loose decides"
V,II,FERDINAND,"That which long process could not arbitrate:"
V,II,FERDINAND,"And though the mourning brow of progeny"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Forbid the smiling courtesy of love"
V,II,FERDINAND,"The holy suit which fain it would convince,"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Yet, since love's argument was first on foot,"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Let not the cloud of sorrow justle it"
V,II,FERDINAND,"From what it purposed; since, to wail friends lost"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Is not by much so wholesome-profitable"
V,II,FERDINAND,"As to rejoice at friends but newly found."
V,II,PRINCESS,"I understand you not: my griefs are double."
V,II,BIRON,"Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief;"
V,II,BIRON,"And by these badges understand the king."
V,II,BIRON,"For your fair sakes have we neglected time,"
V,II,BIRON,"Play'd foul play with our oaths: your beauty, ladies,"
V,II,BIRON,"Hath much deform'd us, fashioning our humours"
V,II,BIRON,"Even to the opposed end of our intents:"
V,II,BIRON,"And what in us hath seem'd ridiculous,--"
V,II,BIRON,"As love is full of unbefitting strains,"
V,II,BIRON,"All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,"
V,II,BIRON,"Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,"
V,II,BIRON,"Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,"
V,II,BIRON,"Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll"
V,II,BIRON,"To every varied object in his glance:"
V,II,BIRON,"Which parti-coated presence of loose love"
V,II,BIRON,"Put on by us, if, in your heavenly eyes,"
V,II,BIRON,"Have misbecomed our oaths and gravities,"
V,II,BIRON,"Those heavenly eyes, that look into these faults,"
V,II,BIRON,"Suggested us to make. Therefore, ladies,"
V,II,BIRON,"Our love being yours, the error that love makes"
V,II,BIRON,"Is likewise yours: we to ourselves prove false,"
V,II,BIRON,"By being once false for ever to be true"
V,II,BIRON,"To those that make us both,--fair ladies, you:"
V,II,BIRON,"And even that falsehood, in itself a sin,"
V,II,BIRON,"Thus purifies itself and turns to grace."
V,II,PRINCESS,"We have received your letters full of love;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Your favours, the ambassadors of love;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"And, in our maiden council, rated them"
V,II,PRINCESS,"At courtship, pleasant jest and courtesy,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"As bombast and as lining to the time:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"But more devout than this in our respects"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Have we not been; and therefore met your loves"
V,II,PRINCESS,"In their own fashion, like a merriment."
V,II,DUMAIN,"Our letters, madam, show'd much more than jest."
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"So did our looks."
V,II,ROSALINE,"We did not quote them so."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Now, at the latest minute of the hour,"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Grant us your loves."
V,II,PRINCESS,"A time, methinks, too short"
V,II,PRINCESS,"To make a world-without-end bargain in."
V,II,PRINCESS,"No, no, my lord, your grace is perjured much,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Full of dear guiltiness; and therefore this:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"If for my love, as there is no such cause,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"You will do aught, this shall you do for me:"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Your oath I will not trust; but go with speed"
V,II,PRINCESS,"To some forlorn and naked hermitage,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Remote from all the pleasures of the world;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"There stay until the twelve celestial signs"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Have brought about the annual reckoning."
V,II,PRINCESS,"If this austere insociable life"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Change not your offer made in heat of blood;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weeds"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"But that it bear this trial and last love;"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Then, at the expiration of the year,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Come challenge me, challenge me by these deserts,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"And, by this virgin palm now kissing thine"
V,II,PRINCESS,"I will be thine; and till that instant shut"
V,II,PRINCESS,"My woeful self up in a mourning house,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Raining the tears of lamentation"
V,II,PRINCESS,"For the remembrance of my father's death."
V,II,PRINCESS,"If this thou do deny, let our hands part,"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Neither entitled in the other's heart."
V,II,FERDINAND,"If this, or more than this, I would deny,"
V,II,FERDINAND,"To flatter up these powers of mine with rest,"
V,II,FERDINAND,"The sudden hand of death close up mine eye!"
V,II,FERDINAND,"Hence ever then my heart is in thy breast."
V,II,BIRON,"[And what to me, my love? and what to me?"
V,II,ROSALINE,"You must be purged too, your sins are rack'd,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"You are attaint with faults and perjury:"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Therefore if you my favour mean to get,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"A twelvemonth shall you spend, and never rest,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"But seek the weary beds of people sick.]"
V,II,DUMAIN,"But what to me, my love? but what to me? A wife?"
V,II,KATHARINE,"A beard, fair health, and honesty;"
V,II,KATHARINE,"With three-fold love I wish you all these three."
V,II,DUMAIN,"O, shall I say, I thank you, gentle wife?"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Not so, my lord; a twelvemonth and a day"
V,II,KATHARINE,"I'll mark no words that smooth-faced wooers say:"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Come when the king doth to my lady come;"
V,II,KATHARINE,"Then, if I have much love, I'll give you some."
V,II,DUMAIN,"I'll serve thee true and faithfully till then."
V,II,KATHARINE,"Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again."
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"What says Maria?"
V,II,MARIA,"At the twelvemonth's end"
V,II,MARIA,"I'll change my black gown for a faithful friend."
V,II,LONGAVILLE,"I'll stay with patience; but the time is long."
V,II,MARIA,"The liker you; few taller are so young."
V,II,BIRON,"Studies my lady? mistress, look on me;"
V,II,BIRON,"Behold the window of my heart, mine eye,"
V,II,BIRON,"What humble suit attends thy answer there:"
V,II,BIRON,"Impose some service on me for thy love."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Oft have I heard of you, my Lord Biron,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Before I saw you; and the world's large tongue"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Full of comparisons and wounding flouts,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Which you on all estates will execute"
V,II,ROSALINE,"That lie within the mercy of your wit."
V,II,ROSALINE,"To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"And therewithal to win me, if you please,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Without the which I am not to be won,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"You shall this twelvemonth term from day to day"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Visit the speechless sick and still converse"
V,II,ROSALINE,"With groaning wretches; and your task shall be,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"With all the fierce endeavor of your wit"
V,II,ROSALINE,"To enforce the pained impotent to smile."
V,II,BIRON,"To move wild laughter in the throat of death?"
V,II,BIRON,"It cannot be; it is impossible:"
V,II,BIRON,"Mirth cannot move a soul in agony."
V,II,ROSALINE,"Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Whose influence is begot of that loose grace"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools:"
V,II,ROSALINE,"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Of him that hears it, never in the tongue"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Deaf'd with the clamours of their own dear groans,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Will hear your idle scorns, continue then,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"And I will have you and that fault withal;"
V,II,ROSALINE,"But if they will not, throw away that spirit,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"And I shall find you empty of that fault,"
V,II,ROSALINE,"Right joyful of your reformation."
V,II,BIRON,"A twelvemonth! well; befall what will befall,"
V,II,BIRON,"I'll jest a twelvemonth in an hospital."
V,II,FERDINAND,"No, madam; we will bring you on your way."
V,II,BIRON,"Our wooing doth not end like an old play;"
V,II,BIRON,"Jack hath not Jill: these ladies' courtesy"
V,II,BIRON,"Might well have made our sport a comedy."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day,"
V,II,FERDINAND,"And then 'twill end."
V,II,BIRON,"That's too long for a play."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Sweet majesty, vouchsafe me,--"
V,II,PRINCESS,"Was not that Hector?"
V,II,DUMAIN,"The worthy knight of Troy."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"I will kiss thy royal finger, and take leave. I am"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"a votary; I have vowed to Jaquenetta to hold the"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"plough for her sweet love three years. But, most"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"esteemed greatness, will you hear the dialogue that"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"the two learned men have compiled in praise of the"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"owl and the cuckoo? It should have followed in the"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"end of our show."
V,II,FERDINAND,"Call them forth quickly; we will do so."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Holla! approach."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"This side is Hiems, Winter, this Ver, the Spring;"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"the one maintained by the owl, the other by the"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"cuckoo. Ver, begin."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"When daisies pied and violets blue"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"And lady-smocks all silver-white"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Do paint the meadows with delight,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"The cuckoo then, on every tree,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Mocks married men; for thus sings he,  Cuckoo;"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Unpleasing to a married ear!"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"When shepherds pipe on oaten straws"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"And maidens bleach their summer smocks"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"The cuckoo then, on every tree,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Mocks married men; for thus sings he,  Cuckoo;"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Unpleasing to a married ear!"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"When icicles hang by the wall"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"And Dick the shepherd blows his nail"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"And Tom bears logs into the hall"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"And milk comes frozen home in pail,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Then nightly sings the staring owl,  Tu-whit;"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Tu-who, a merry note,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"While greasy Joan doth keel the pot."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"When all aloud the wind doth blow"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"And coughing drowns the parson's saw"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"And birds sit brooding in the snow"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"And Marian's nose looks red and raw,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Then nightly sings the staring owl,  Tu-whit;"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Tu-who, a merry note,"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"While greasy Joan doth keel the pot."
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of"
V,II,DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO,"Apollo. You that way: we this way."
I,I,First Witch,"When shall we three meet again"
I,I,First Witch,"In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"
I,I,Second Witch,"When the hurlyburly's done,"
I,I,Second Witch,"When the battle's lost and won."
I,I,Third Witch,"That will be ere the set of sun."
I,I,First Witch,"Where the place?"
I,I,Second Witch,"Upon the heath."
I,I,Third Witch,"There to meet with Macbeth."
I,I,First Witch,"I come, Graymalkin!"
I,I,Second Witch,"Paddock calls."
I,I,Third Witch,"Anon."
I,I,ALL,"Fair is foul, and foul is fair:"
I,I,ALL,"Hover through the fog and filthy air."
I,II,DUNCAN,"What bloody man is that? He can report,"
I,II,DUNCAN,"As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt"
I,II,DUNCAN,"The newest state."
I,II,MALCOLM,"This is the sergeant"
I,II,MALCOLM,"Who like a good and hardy soldier fought"
I,II,MALCOLM,"'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!"
I,II,MALCOLM,"Say to the king the knowledge of the broil"
I,II,MALCOLM,"As thou didst leave it."
I,II,Sergeant,"Doubtful it stood;"
I,II,Sergeant,"As two spent swimmers, that do cling together"
I,II,Sergeant,"And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald--"
I,II,Sergeant,"Worthy to be a rebel, for to that"
I,II,Sergeant,"The multiplying villanies of nature"
I,II,Sergeant,"Do swarm upon him--from the western isles"
I,II,Sergeant,"Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;"
I,II,Sergeant,"And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,"
I,II,Sergeant,"Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:"
I,II,Sergeant,"For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--"
I,II,Sergeant,"Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,"
I,II,Sergeant,"Which smoked with bloody execution,"
I,II,Sergeant,"Like valour's minion carved out his passage"
I,II,Sergeant,"Till he faced the slave;"
I,II,Sergeant,"Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,"
I,II,Sergeant,"Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,"
I,II,Sergeant,"And fix'd his head upon our battlements."
I,II,DUNCAN,"O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!"
I,II,Sergeant,"As whence the sun 'gins his reflection"
I,II,Sergeant,"Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,"
I,II,Sergeant,"So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come"
I,II,Sergeant,"Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:"
I,II,Sergeant,"No sooner justice had with valour arm'd"
I,II,Sergeant,"Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,"
I,II,Sergeant,"But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,"
I,II,Sergeant,"With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men"
I,II,Sergeant,"Began a fresh assault."
I,II,DUNCAN,"Dismay'd not this"
I,II,DUNCAN,"Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?"
I,II,Sergeant,"Yes;"
I,II,Sergeant,"As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion."
I,II,Sergeant,"If I say sooth, I must report they were"
I,II,Sergeant,"As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they"
I,II,Sergeant,"Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:"
I,II,Sergeant,"Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,"
I,II,Sergeant,"Or memorise another Golgotha,"
I,II,Sergeant,"I cannot tell."
I,II,Sergeant,"But I am faint, my gashes cry for help."
I,II,DUNCAN,"So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;"
I,II,DUNCAN,"They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons."
I,II,DUNCAN,"Who comes here?"
I,II,MALCOLM,"The worthy thane of Ross."
I,II,LENNOX,"What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look"
I,II,LENNOX,"That seems to speak things strange."
I,II,ROSS,"God save the king!"
I,II,DUNCAN,"Whence camest thou, worthy thane?"
I,II,ROSS,"From Fife, great king;"
I,II,ROSS,"Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky"
I,II,ROSS,"And fan our people cold. Norway himself,"
I,II,ROSS,"With terrible numbers,"
I,II,ROSS,"Assisted by that most disloyal traitor"
I,II,ROSS,"The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;"
I,II,ROSS,"Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,"
I,II,ROSS,"Confronted him with self-comparisons,"
I,II,ROSS,"Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm."
I,II,ROSS,"Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,"
I,II,ROSS,"The victory fell on us."
I,II,DUNCAN,"Great happiness!"
I,II,ROSS,"That now"
I,II,ROSS,"Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition:"
I,II,ROSS,"Nor would we deign him burial of his men"
I,II,ROSS,"Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch"
I,II,ROSS,"Ten thousand dollars to our general use."
I,II,DUNCAN,"No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive"
I,II,DUNCAN,"Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,"
I,II,DUNCAN,"And with his former title greet Macbeth."
I,II,ROSS,"I'll see it done."
I,II,DUNCAN,"What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won."
I,III,First Witch,"Where hast thou been, sister?"
I,III,Second Witch,"Killing swine."
I,III,Third Witch,"Sister, where thou?"
I,III,First Witch,"A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,"
I,III,First Witch,"And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:--"
I,III,First Witch,"'Give me,' quoth I:"
I,III,First Witch,"'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries."
I,III,First Witch,"Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:"
I,III,First Witch,"But in a sieve I'll thither sail,"
I,III,First Witch,"And, like a rat without a tail,"
I,III,First Witch,"I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do."
I,III,Second Witch,"I'll give thee a wind."
I,III,First Witch,"Thou'rt kind."
I,III,Third Witch,"And I another."
I,III,First Witch,"I myself have all the other,"
I,III,First Witch,"And the very ports they blow,"
I,III,First Witch,"All the quarters that they know"
I,III,First Witch,"I' the shipman's card."
I,III,First Witch,"I will drain him dry as hay:"
I,III,First Witch,"Sleep shall neither night nor day"
I,III,First Witch,"Hang upon his pent-house lid;"
I,III,First Witch,"He shall live a man forbid:"
I,III,First Witch,"Weary se'nnights nine times nine"
I,III,First Witch,"Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:"
I,III,First Witch,"Though his bark cannot be lost,"
I,III,First Witch,"Yet it shall be tempest-tost."
I,III,First Witch,"Look what I have."
I,III,Second Witch,"Show me, show me."
I,III,First Witch,"Here I have a pilot's thumb,"
I,III,First Witch,"Wreck'd as homeward he did come."
I,III,Third Witch,"A drum, a drum!"
I,III,Third Witch,"Macbeth doth come."
I,III,ALL,"The weird sisters, hand in hand,"
I,III,ALL,"Posters of the sea and land,"
I,III,ALL,"Thus do go about, about:"
I,III,ALL,"Thrice to thine and thrice to mine"
I,III,ALL,"And thrice again, to make up nine."
I,III,ALL,"Peace! the charm's wound up."
I,III,MACBETH,"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
I,III,BANQUO,"How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these"
I,III,BANQUO,"So wither'd and so wild in their attire,"
I,III,BANQUO,"That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,"
I,III,BANQUO,"And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught"
I,III,BANQUO,"That man may question? You seem to understand me,"
I,III,BANQUO,"By each at once her chappy finger laying"
I,III,BANQUO,"Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,"
I,III,BANQUO,"And yet your beards forbid me to interpret"
I,III,BANQUO,"That you are so."
I,III,MACBETH,"Speak, if you can: what are you?"
I,III,First Witch,"All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!"
I,III,Second Witch,"All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!"
I,III,Third Witch,"All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!"
I,III,BANQUO,"Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear"
I,III,BANQUO,"Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,"
I,III,BANQUO,"Are ye fantastical, or that indeed"
I,III,BANQUO,"Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner"
I,III,BANQUO,"You greet with present grace and great prediction"
I,III,BANQUO,"Of noble having and of royal hope,"
I,III,BANQUO,"That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not."
I,III,BANQUO,"If you can look into the seeds of time,"
I,III,BANQUO,"And say which grain will grow and which will not,"
I,III,BANQUO,"Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear"
I,III,BANQUO,"Your favours nor your hate."
I,III,First Witch,"Hail!"
I,III,Second Witch,"Hail!"
I,III,Third Witch,"Hail!"
I,III,First Witch,"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater."
I,III,Second Witch,"Not so happy, yet much happier."
I,III,Third Witch,"Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:"
I,III,Third Witch,"So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!"
I,III,First Witch,"Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!"
I,III,MACBETH,"Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:"
I,III,MACBETH,"By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis;"
I,III,MACBETH,"But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives,"
I,III,MACBETH,"A prosperous gentleman; and to be king"
I,III,MACBETH,"Stands not within the prospect of belief,"
I,III,MACBETH,"No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence"
I,III,MACBETH,"You owe this strange intelligence? or why"
I,III,MACBETH,"Upon this blasted heath you stop our way"
I,III,MACBETH,"With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you."
I,III,BANQUO,"The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,"
I,III,BANQUO,"And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd?"
I,III,MACBETH,"Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted"
I,III,MACBETH,"As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!"
I,III,BANQUO,"Were such things here as we do speak about?"
I,III,BANQUO,"Or have we eaten on the insane root"
I,III,BANQUO,"That takes the reason prisoner?"
I,III,MACBETH,"Your children shall be kings."
I,III,BANQUO,"You shall be king."
I,III,MACBETH,"And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?"
I,III,BANQUO,"To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?"
I,III,ROSS,"The king hath happily received, Macbeth,"
I,III,ROSS,"The news of thy success; and when he reads"
I,III,ROSS,"Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,"
I,III,ROSS,"His wonders and his praises do contend"
I,III,ROSS,"Which should be thine or his: silenced with that,"
I,III,ROSS,"In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,"
I,III,ROSS,"He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks,"
I,III,ROSS,"Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,"
I,III,ROSS,"Strange images of death. As thick as hail"
I,III,ROSS,"Came post with post; and every one did bear"
I,III,ROSS,"Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,"
I,III,ROSS,"And pour'd them down before him."
I,III,ANGUS,"We are sent"
I,III,ANGUS,"To give thee from our royal master thanks;"
I,III,ANGUS,"Only to herald thee into his sight,"
I,III,ANGUS,"Not pay thee."
I,III,ROSS,"And, for an earnest of a greater honour,"
I,III,ROSS,"He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor:"
I,III,ROSS,"In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!"
I,III,ROSS,"For it is thine."
I,III,BANQUO,"What, can the devil speak true?"
I,III,MACBETH,"The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me"
I,III,MACBETH,"In borrow'd robes?"
I,III,ANGUS,"Who was the thane lives yet;"
I,III,ANGUS,"But under heavy judgment bears that life"
I,III,ANGUS,"Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined"
I,III,ANGUS,"With those of Norway, or did line the rebel"
I,III,ANGUS,"With hidden help and vantage, or that with both"
I,III,ANGUS,"He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not;"
I,III,ANGUS,"But treasons capital, confess'd and proved,"
I,III,ANGUS,"Have overthrown him."
I,III,MACBETH,"The greatest is behind."
I,III,MACBETH,"Thanks for your pains."
I,III,MACBETH,"Do you not hope your children shall be kings,"
I,III,MACBETH,"When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me"
I,III,MACBETH,"Promised no less to them?"
I,III,BANQUO,"That trusted home"
I,III,BANQUO,"Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,"
I,III,BANQUO,"Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange:"
I,III,BANQUO,"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,"
I,III,BANQUO,"The instruments of darkness tell us truths,"
I,III,BANQUO,"Win us with honest trifles, to betray's"
I,III,BANQUO,"In deepest consequence."
I,III,BANQUO,"Cousins, a word, I pray you."
I,III,MACBETH,"As happy prologues to the swelling act"
I,III,MACBETH,"Of the imperial theme.--I thank you, gentlemen."
I,III,MACBETH,"Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,"
I,III,MACBETH,"Why hath it given me earnest of success,"
I,III,MACBETH,"Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:"
I,III,MACBETH,"If good, why do I yield to that suggestion"
I,III,MACBETH,"Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair"
I,III,MACBETH,"And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,"
I,III,MACBETH,"Against the use of nature? Present fears"
I,III,MACBETH,"Are less than horrible imaginings:"
I,III,MACBETH,"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,"
I,III,MACBETH,"Shakes so my single state of man that function"
I,III,MACBETH,"Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is"
I,III,MACBETH,"But what is not."
I,III,BANQUO,"Look, how our partner's rapt."
I,III,MACBETH,"Without my stir."
I,III,BANQUO,"New horrors come upon him,"
I,III,BANQUO,"Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould"
I,III,BANQUO,"But with the aid of use."
I,III,MACBETH,"Time and the hour runs through the roughest day."
I,III,BANQUO,"Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure."
I,III,MACBETH,"Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought"
I,III,MACBETH,"With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains"
I,III,MACBETH,"Are register'd where every day I turn"
I,III,MACBETH,"The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king."
I,III,MACBETH,"Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time,"
I,III,MACBETH,"The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak"
I,III,MACBETH,"Our free hearts each to other."
I,III,BANQUO,"Very gladly."
I,III,MACBETH,"Till then, enough. Come, friends."
I,IV,DUNCAN,"Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"Those in commission yet return'd?"
I,IV,MALCOLM,"My liege,"
I,IV,MALCOLM,"They are not yet come back. But I have spoke"
I,IV,MALCOLM,"With one that saw him die: who did report"
I,IV,MALCOLM,"That very frankly he confess'd his treasons,"
I,IV,MALCOLM,"Implored your highness' pardon and set forth"
I,IV,MALCOLM,"A deep repentance: nothing in his life"
I,IV,MALCOLM,"Became him like the leaving it; he died"
I,IV,MALCOLM,"As one that had been studied in his death"
I,IV,MALCOLM,"To throw away the dearest thing he owed,"
I,IV,MALCOLM,"As 'twere a careless trifle."
I,IV,DUNCAN,"There's no art"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"To find the mind's construction in the face:"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"He was a gentleman on whom I built"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"An absolute trust."
I,IV,DUNCAN,"O worthiest cousin!"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"The sin of my ingratitude even now"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"Was heavy on me: thou art so far before"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"That swiftest wing of recompense is slow"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved,"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"That the proportion both of thanks and payment"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"Might have been mine! only I have left to say,"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"More is thy due than more than all can pay."
I,IV,MACBETH,"The service and the loyalty I owe,"
I,IV,MACBETH,"In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part"
I,IV,MACBETH,"Is to receive our duties; and our duties"
I,IV,MACBETH,"Are to your throne and state children and servants,"
I,IV,MACBETH,"Which do but what they should, by doing every thing"
I,IV,MACBETH,"Safe toward your love and honour."
I,IV,DUNCAN,"Welcome hither:"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"I have begun to plant thee, and will labour"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"That hast no less deserved, nor must be known"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"No less to have done so, let me enfold thee"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"And hold thee to my heart."
I,IV,BANQUO,"There if I grow,"
I,IV,BANQUO,"The harvest is your own."
I,IV,DUNCAN,"My plenteous joys,"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"And you whose places are the nearest, know"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"We will establish our estate upon"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"Not unaccompanied invest him only,"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"On all deservers. From hence to Inverness,"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"And bind us further to you."
I,IV,MACBETH,"The rest is labour, which is not used for you:"
I,IV,MACBETH,"I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful"
I,IV,MACBETH,"The hearing of my wife with your approach;"
I,IV,MACBETH,"So humbly take my leave."
I,IV,DUNCAN,"My worthy Cawdor!"
I,IV,MACBETH,"On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,"
I,IV,MACBETH,"For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;"
I,IV,MACBETH,"Let not light see my black and deep desires:"
I,IV,MACBETH,"The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,"
I,IV,MACBETH,"Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see."
I,IV,DUNCAN,"True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant,"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"And in his commendations I am fed;"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"It is a banquet to me. Let's after him,"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome:"
I,IV,DUNCAN,"It is a peerless kinsman."
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"'They met me in the day of success: and I have"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"learned by the perfectest report, they have more in"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"to question them further, they made themselves air,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"all-hailed me 'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"to thy heart, and farewell.'"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"It is too full o' the milk of human kindness"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Art not without ambition, but without"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it;"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"And that which rather thou dost fear to do"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"That I may pour my spirits in thine ear;"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"And chastise with the valour of my tongue"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"All that impedes thee from the golden round,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"To have thee crown'd withal."
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"What is your tidings?"
I,V,Messenger,"The king comes here to-night."
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Thou'rt mad to say it:"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Is not thy master with him? who, were't so,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Would have inform'd for preparation."
I,V,Messenger,"So please you, it is true: our thane is coming:"
I,V,Messenger,"One of my fellows had the speed of him,"
I,V,Messenger,"Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more"
I,V,Messenger,"Than would make up his message."
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Give him tending;"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"He brings great news."
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"The raven himself is hoarse"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Under my battlements. Come, you spirits"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Stop up the access and passage to remorse,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"That no compunctious visitings of nature"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Wherever in your sightless substances"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"To cry 'Hold, hold!'"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Thy letters have transported me beyond"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"This ignorant present, and I feel now"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"The future in the instant."
I,V,MACBETH,"My dearest love,"
I,V,MACBETH,"Duncan comes here to-night."
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"And when goes hence?"
I,V,MACBETH,"To-morrow, as he purposes."
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"O, never"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Shall sun that morrow see!"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Your face, my thane, is as a book where men"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"May read strange matters. To beguile the time,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"But be the serpent under't. He that's coming"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Must be provided for: and you shall put"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"This night's great business into my dispatch;"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Which shall to all our nights and days to come"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom."
I,V,MACBETH,"We will speak further."
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Only look up clear;"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"To alter favour ever is to fear:"
I,V,LADY MACBETH,"Leave all the rest to me."
I,VI,DUNCAN,"This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air"
I,VI,DUNCAN,"Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself"
I,VI,DUNCAN,"Unto our gentle senses."
I,VI,BANQUO,"This guest of summer,"
I,VI,BANQUO,"The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,"
I,VI,BANQUO,"By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath"
I,VI,BANQUO,"Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,"
I,VI,BANQUO,"Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird"
I,VI,BANQUO,"Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle:"
I,VI,BANQUO,"Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed,"
I,VI,BANQUO,"The air is delicate."
I,VI,DUNCAN,"See, see, our honour'd hostess!"
I,VI,DUNCAN,"The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,"
I,VI,DUNCAN,"Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you"
I,VI,DUNCAN,"How you shall bid God 'ild us for your pains,"
I,VI,DUNCAN,"And thank us for your trouble."
I,VI,LADY MACBETH,"All our service"
I,VI,LADY MACBETH,"In every point twice done and then done double"
I,VI,LADY MACBETH,"Were poor and single business to contend"
I,VI,LADY MACBETH,"Against those honours deep and broad wherewith"
I,VI,LADY MACBETH,"Your majesty loads our house: for those of old,"
I,VI,LADY MACBETH,"And the late dignities heap'd up to them,"
I,VI,LADY MACBETH,"We rest your hermits."
I,VI,DUNCAN,"Where's the thane of Cawdor?"
I,VI,DUNCAN,"We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose"
I,VI,DUNCAN,"To be his purveyor: but he rides well;"
I,VI,DUNCAN,"And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him"
I,VI,DUNCAN,"To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,"
I,VI,DUNCAN,"We are your guest to-night."
I,VI,LADY MACBETH,"Your servants ever"
I,VI,LADY MACBETH,"Have theirs, themselves and what is theirs, in compt,"
I,VI,LADY MACBETH,"To make their audit at your highness' pleasure,"
I,VI,LADY MACBETH,"Still to return your own."
I,VI,DUNCAN,"Give me your hand;"
I,VI,DUNCAN,"Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly,"
I,VI,DUNCAN,"And shall continue our graces towards him."
I,VI,DUNCAN,"By your leave, hostess."
I,VII,MACBETH,"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well"
I,VII,MACBETH,"It were done quickly: if the assassination"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Could trammel up the consequence, and catch"
I,VII,MACBETH,"With his surcease success; that but this blow"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Might be the be-all and the end-all here,"
I,VII,MACBETH,"But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,"
I,VII,MACBETH,"We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases"
I,VII,MACBETH,"We still have judgment here; that we but teach"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return"
I,VII,MACBETH,"To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice"
I,VII,MACBETH,"To our own lips. He's here in double trust;"
I,VII,MACBETH,"First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Who should against his murderer shut the door,"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been"
I,VII,MACBETH,"So clear in his great office, that his virtues"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against"
I,VII,MACBETH,"The deep damnation of his taking-off;"
I,VII,MACBETH,"And pity, like a naked new-born babe,"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Upon the sightless couriers of the air,"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,"
I,VII,MACBETH,"That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur"
I,VII,MACBETH,"To prick the sides of my intent, but only"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself"
I,VII,MACBETH,"And falls on the other."
I,VII,MACBETH,"How now! what news?"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Hath he ask'd for me?"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Know you not he has?"
I,VII,MACBETH,"We will proceed no further in this business:"
I,VII,MACBETH,"He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Golden opinions from all sorts of people,"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Not cast aside so soon."
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Was the hope drunk"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"And wakes it now, to look so green and pale"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"At what it did so freely? From this time"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"To be the same in thine own act and valour"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"And live a coward in thine own esteem,"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Like the poor cat i' the adage?"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Prithee, peace:"
I,VII,MACBETH,"I dare do all that may become a man;"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Who dares do more is none."
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"What beast was't, then,"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"That made you break this enterprise to me?"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"When you durst do it, then you were a man;"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"And, to be more than what you were, you would"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"They have made themselves, and that their fitness now"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"I would, while it was smiling in my face,"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Have done to this."
I,VII,MACBETH,"If we should fail?"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"We fail!"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"But screw your courage to the sticking-place,"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep--"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Soundly invite him--his two chamberlains"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Will I with wine and wassail so convince"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"That memory, the warder of the brain,"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Their drenched natures lie as in a death,"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"What cannot you and I perform upon"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Of our great quell?"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Bring forth men-children only;"
I,VII,MACBETH,"For thy undaunted mettle should compose"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Nothing but males. Will it not be received,"
I,VII,MACBETH,"When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Of his own chamber and used their very daggers,"
I,VII,MACBETH,"That they have done't?"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Who dares receive it other,"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar"
I,VII,LADY MACBETH,"Upon his death?"
I,VII,MACBETH,"I am settled, and bend up"
I,VII,MACBETH,"Each corporal agent to this terrible feat."
I,VII,MACBETH,"Away, and mock the time with fairest show:"
I,VII,MACBETH,"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
II,I,BANQUO,"How goes the night, boy?"
II,I,FLEANCE,"The moon is down; I have not heard the clock."
II,I,BANQUO,"And she goes down at twelve."
II,I,FLEANCE,"I take't, 'tis later, sir."
II,I,BANQUO,"Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven;"
II,I,BANQUO,"Their candles are all out. Take thee that too."
II,I,BANQUO,"A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,"
II,I,BANQUO,"And yet I would not sleep: merciful powers,"
II,I,BANQUO,"Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature"
II,I,BANQUO,"Gives way to in repose!"
II,I,BANQUO,"Give me my sword."
II,I,BANQUO,"Who's there?"
II,I,MACBETH,"A friend."
II,I,BANQUO,"What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed:"
II,I,BANQUO,"He hath been in unusual pleasure, and"
II,I,BANQUO,"Sent forth great largess to your offices."
II,I,BANQUO,"This diamond he greets your wife withal,"
II,I,BANQUO,"By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up"
II,I,BANQUO,"In measureless content."
II,I,MACBETH,"Being unprepared,"
II,I,MACBETH,"Our will became the servant to defect;"
II,I,MACBETH,"Which else should free have wrought."
II,I,BANQUO,"All's well."
II,I,BANQUO,"I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:"
II,I,BANQUO,"To you they have show'd some truth."
II,I,MACBETH,"I think not of them:"
II,I,MACBETH,"Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,"
II,I,MACBETH,"We would spend it in some words upon that business,"
II,I,MACBETH,"If you would grant the time."
II,I,BANQUO,"At your kind'st leisure."
II,I,MACBETH,"If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis,"
II,I,MACBETH,"It shall make honour for you."
II,I,BANQUO,"So I lose none"
II,I,BANQUO,"In seeking to augment it, but still keep"
II,I,BANQUO,"My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,"
II,I,BANQUO,"I shall be counsell'd."
II,I,MACBETH,"Good repose the while!"
II,I,BANQUO,"Thanks, sir: the like to you!"
II,I,MACBETH,"Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,"
II,I,MACBETH,"She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed."
II,I,MACBETH,"Is this a dagger which I see before me,"
II,I,MACBETH,"The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee."
II,I,MACBETH,"I have thee not, and yet I see thee still."
II,I,MACBETH,"Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible"
II,I,MACBETH,"To feeling as to sight? or art thou but"
II,I,MACBETH,"A dagger of the mind, a false creation,"
II,I,MACBETH,"Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
II,I,MACBETH,"I see thee yet, in form as palpable"
II,I,MACBETH,"As this which now I draw."
II,I,MACBETH,"Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;"
II,I,MACBETH,"And such an instrument I was to use."
II,I,MACBETH,"Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,"
II,I,MACBETH,"Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,"
II,I,MACBETH,"And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,"
II,I,MACBETH,"Which was not so before. There's no such thing:"
II,I,MACBETH,"It is the bloody business which informs"
II,I,MACBETH,"Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld"
II,I,MACBETH,"Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse"
II,I,MACBETH,"The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates"
II,I,MACBETH,"Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,"
II,I,MACBETH,"Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,"
II,I,MACBETH,"Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace."
II,I,MACBETH,"With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design"
II,I,MACBETH,"Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,"
II,I,MACBETH,"Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear"
II,I,MACBETH,"Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,"
II,I,MACBETH,"And take the present horror from the time,"
II,I,MACBETH,"Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:"
II,I,MACBETH,"Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives."
II,I,MACBETH,"I go, and it is done; the bell invites me."
II,I,MACBETH,"Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell"
II,I,MACBETH,"That summons thee to heaven or to hell."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"What hath quench'd them hath given me fire."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Hark! Peace!"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"their possets,"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"That death and nature do contend about them,"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Whether they live or die."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Alack, I am afraid they have awaked,"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"And 'tis not done. The attempt and not the deed"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready;"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"My father as he slept, I had done't."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"My husband!"
II,II,MACBETH,"I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Did not you speak?"
II,II,MACBETH,"When?"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Now."
II,II,MACBETH,"As I descended?"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Ay."
II,II,MACBETH,"Hark!"
II,II,MACBETH,"Who lies i' the second chamber?"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Donalbain."
II,II,MACBETH,"This is a sorry sight."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight."
II,II,MACBETH,"There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried"
II,II,MACBETH,"'Murder!'"
II,II,MACBETH,"That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them:"
II,II,MACBETH,"But they did say their prayers, and address'd them"
II,II,MACBETH,"Again to sleep."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"There are two lodged together."
II,II,MACBETH,"One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other;"
II,II,MACBETH,"As they had seen me with these hangman's hands."
II,II,MACBETH,"Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,'"
II,II,MACBETH,"When they did say 'God bless us!'"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Consider it not so deeply."
II,II,MACBETH,"But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'?"
II,II,MACBETH,"I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen'"
II,II,MACBETH,"Stuck in my throat."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"These deeds must not be thought"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"After these ways; so, it will make us mad."
II,II,MACBETH,"Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!"
II,II,MACBETH,"Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,"
II,II,MACBETH,"Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,"
II,II,MACBETH,"The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,"
II,II,MACBETH,"Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,"
II,II,MACBETH,"Chief nourisher in life's feast,--"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"What do you mean?"
II,II,MACBETH,"Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house:"
II,II,MACBETH,"'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor"
II,II,MACBETH,"Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.'"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"You do unbend your noble strength, to think"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"And wash this filthy witness from your hand."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Why did you bring these daggers from the place?"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"They must lie there: go carry them; and smear"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"The sleepy grooms with blood."
II,II,MACBETH,"I'll go no more:"
II,II,MACBETH,"I am afraid to think what I have done;"
II,II,MACBETH,"Look on't again I dare not."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Infirm of purpose!"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal;"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"For it must seem their guilt."
II,II,MACBETH,"Whence is that knocking?"
II,II,MACBETH,"How is't with me, when every noise appals me?"
II,II,MACBETH,"What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes."
II,II,MACBETH,"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood"
II,II,MACBETH,"Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather"
II,II,MACBETH,"The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,"
II,II,MACBETH,"Making the green one red."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"My hands are of your colour; but I shame"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"To wear a heart so white."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"I hear a knocking"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"At the south entry: retire we to our chamber;"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"A little water clears us of this deed:"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"How easy is it, then! Your constancy"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Hath left you unattended."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Hark! more knocking."
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us,"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"And show us to be watchers. Be not lost"
II,II,LADY MACBETH,"So poorly in your thoughts."
II,II,MACBETH,"To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself."
II,II,MACBETH,"Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!"
II,III,Porter,"Here's a knocking indeed! If a"
II,III,Porter,"man were porter of hell-gate, he should have"
II,III,Porter,"old turning the key."
II,III,Porter,"Knock,"
II,III,Porter,"knock, knock! Who's there, i' the name of"
II,III,Porter,"Beelzebub? Here's a farmer, that hanged"
II,III,Porter,"himself on the expectation of plenty: come in"
II,III,Porter,"time; have napkins enow about you; here"
II,III,Porter,"you'll sweat for't."
II,III,Porter,"Knock,"
II,III,Porter,"knock! Who's there, in the other devil's"
II,III,Porter,"name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could"
II,III,Porter,"swear in both the scales against either scale;"
II,III,Porter,"who committed treason enough for God's sake,"
II,III,Porter,"yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come"
II,III,Porter,"in, equivocator."
II,III,Porter,"Knock,"
II,III,Porter,"knock, knock! Who's there? Faith, here's an"
II,III,Porter,"English tailor come hither, for stealing out of"
II,III,Porter,"a French hose: come in, tailor; here you may"
II,III,Porter,"roast your goose."
II,III,Porter,"Knock,"
II,III,Porter,"knock; never at quiet! What are you? But"
II,III,Porter,"this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter"
II,III,Porter,"it no further: I had thought to have let in"
II,III,Porter,"some of all professions that go the primrose"
II,III,Porter,"way to the everlasting bonfire."
II,III,Porter,"Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter."
II,III,MACDUFF,"Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,"
II,III,MACDUFF,"That you do lie so late?"
II,III,Porter,"'Faith sir, we were carousing till the"
II,III,Porter,"second cock: and drink, sir, is a great"
II,III,Porter,"provoker of three things."
II,III,MACDUFF,"What three things does drink especially provoke?"
II,III,Porter,"Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and"
II,III,Porter,"urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;"
II,III,Porter,"it provokes the desire, but it takes"
II,III,Porter,"away the performance: therefore, much drink"
II,III,Porter,"may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:"
II,III,Porter,"it makes him, and it mars him; it sets"
II,III,Porter,"him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him,"
II,III,Porter,"and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and"
II,III,Porter,"not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him"
II,III,Porter,"in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him."
II,III,MACDUFF,"I believe drink gave thee the lie last night."
II,III,Porter,"That it did, sir, i' the very throat on"
II,III,Porter,"me: but I requited him for his lie; and, I"
II,III,Porter,"think, being too strong for him, though he took"
II,III,Porter,"up my legs sometime, yet I made a shift to cast"
II,III,Porter,"him."
II,III,MACDUFF,"Is thy master stirring?"
II,III,MACDUFF,"Our knocking has awaked him; here he comes."
II,III,LENNOX,"Good morrow, noble sir."
II,III,MACBETH,"Good morrow, both."
II,III,MACDUFF,"Is the king stirring, worthy thane?"
II,III,MACBETH,"Not yet."
II,III,MACDUFF,"He did command me to call timely on him:"
II,III,MACDUFF,"I have almost slipp'd the hour."
II,III,MACBETH,"I'll bring you to him."
II,III,MACDUFF,"I know this is a joyful trouble to you;"
II,III,MACDUFF,"But yet 'tis one."
II,III,MACBETH,"The labour we delight in physics pain."
II,III,MACBETH,"This is the door."
II,III,MACDUFF,"I'll make so bold to call,"
II,III,MACDUFF,"For 'tis my limited service."
II,III,LENNOX,"Goes the king hence to-day?"
II,III,MACBETH,"He does: he did appoint so."
II,III,LENNOX,"The night has been unruly: where we lay,"
II,III,LENNOX,"Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,"
II,III,LENNOX,"Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,"
II,III,LENNOX,"And prophesying with accents terrible"
II,III,LENNOX,"Of dire combustion and confused events"
II,III,LENNOX,"New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird"
II,III,LENNOX,"Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth"
II,III,LENNOX,"Was feverous and did shake."
II,III,MACBETH,"'Twas a rough night."
II,III,LENNOX,"My young remembrance cannot parallel"
II,III,LENNOX,"A fellow to it."
II,III,MACDUFF,"O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart"
II,III,MACDUFF,"Cannot conceive nor name thee!"
II,III,MACBETH,"What's the matter."
II,III,MACDUFF,"Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!"
II,III,MACDUFF,"Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope"
II,III,MACDUFF,"The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence"
II,III,MACDUFF,"The life o' the building!"
II,III,MACBETH,"What is 't you say? the life?"
II,III,LENNOX,"Mean you his majesty?"
II,III,MACDUFF,"Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight"
II,III,MACDUFF,"With a new Gorgon: do not bid me speak;"
II,III,MACDUFF,"See, and then speak yourselves."
II,III,MACDUFF,"Awake, awake!"
II,III,MACDUFF,"Ring the alarum-bell. Murder and treason!"
II,III,MACDUFF,"Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake!"
II,III,MACDUFF,"Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,"
II,III,MACDUFF,"And look on death itself! up, up, and see"
II,III,MACDUFF,"The great doom's image! Malcolm! Banquo!"
II,III,MACDUFF,"As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites,"
II,III,MACDUFF,"To countenance this horror! Ring the bell."
II,III,LADY MACBETH,"What's the business,"
II,III,LADY MACBETH,"That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley"
II,III,LADY MACBETH,"The sleepers of the house? speak, speak!"
II,III,MACDUFF,"O gentle lady,"
II,III,MACDUFF,"'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak:"
II,III,MACDUFF,"The repetition, in a woman's ear,"
II,III,MACDUFF,"Would murder as it fell."
II,III,MACDUFF,"O Banquo, Banquo,"
II,III,MACDUFF,"Our royal master 's murder'd!"
II,III,LADY MACBETH,"Woe, alas!"
II,III,LADY MACBETH,"What, in our house?"
II,III,BANQUO,"Too cruel any where."
II,III,BANQUO,"Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,"
II,III,BANQUO,"And say it is not so."
II,III,MACBETH,"Had I but died an hour before this chance,"
II,III,MACBETH,"I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,"
II,III,MACBETH,"There 's nothing serious in mortality:"
II,III,MACBETH,"All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;"
II,III,MACBETH,"The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees"
II,III,MACBETH,"Is left this vault to brag of."
II,III,DONALBAIN,"What is amiss?"
II,III,MACBETH,"You are, and do not know't:"
II,III,MACBETH,"The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood"
II,III,MACBETH,"Is stopp'd; the very source of it is stopp'd."
II,III,MACDUFF,"Your royal father 's murder'd."
II,III,MALCOLM,"O, by whom?"
II,III,LENNOX,"Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done 't:"
II,III,LENNOX,"Their hands and faces were an badged with blood;"
II,III,LENNOX,"So were their daggers, which unwiped we found"
II,III,LENNOX,"Upon their pillows:"
II,III,LENNOX,"They stared, and were distracted; no man's life"
II,III,LENNOX,"Was to be trusted with them."
II,III,MACBETH,"O, yet I do repent me of my fury,"
II,III,MACBETH,"That I did kill them."
II,III,MACDUFF,"Wherefore did you so?"
II,III,MACBETH,"Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,"
II,III,MACBETH,"Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man:"
II,III,MACBETH,"The expedition my violent love"
II,III,MACBETH,"Outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan,"
II,III,MACBETH,"His silver skin laced with his golden blood;"
II,III,MACBETH,"And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature"
II,III,MACBETH,"For ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,"
II,III,MACBETH,"Steep'd in the colours of their trade, their daggers"
II,III,MACBETH,"Unmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refrain,"
II,III,MACBETH,"That had a heart to love, and in that heart"
II,III,MACBETH,"Courage to make 's love known?"
II,III,LADY MACBETH,"Help me hence, ho!"
II,III,MACDUFF,"Look to the lady."
II,III,MALCOLM,"That most may claim this argument for ours?"
II,III,DONALBAIN,"where our fate,"
II,III,DONALBAIN,"Hid in an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us?"
II,III,DONALBAIN,"Let 's away;"
II,III,DONALBAIN,"Our tears are not yet brew'd."
II,III,MALCOLM,"Upon the foot of motion."
II,III,BANQUO,"Look to the lady:"
II,III,BANQUO,"And when we have our naked frailties hid,"
II,III,BANQUO,"That suffer in exposure, let us meet,"
II,III,BANQUO,"And question this most bloody piece of work,"
II,III,BANQUO,"To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us:"
II,III,BANQUO,"In the great hand of God I stand; and thence"
II,III,BANQUO,"Against the undivulged pretence I fight"
II,III,BANQUO,"Of treasonous malice."
II,III,MACDUFF,"And so do I."
II,III,ALL,"So all."
II,III,MACBETH,"Let's briefly put on manly readiness,"
II,III,MACBETH,"And meet i' the hall together."
II,III,ALL,"Well contented."
II,III,MALCOLM,"What will you do? Let's not consort with them:"
II,III,MALCOLM,"To show an unfelt sorrow is an office"
II,III,MALCOLM,"Which the false man does easy. I'll to England."
II,III,DONALBAIN,"To Ireland, I; our separated fortune"
II,III,DONALBAIN,"Shall keep us both the safer: where we are,"
II,III,DONALBAIN,"There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,"
II,III,DONALBAIN,"The nearer bloody."
II,III,MALCOLM,"This murderous shaft that's shot"
II,III,MALCOLM,"Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way"
II,III,MALCOLM,"Is to avoid the aim. Therefore, to horse;"
II,III,MALCOLM,"And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,"
II,III,MALCOLM,"But shift away: there's warrant in that theft"
II,III,MALCOLM,"Which steals itself, when there's no mercy left."
II,IV,Old Man,"Threescore and ten I can remember well:"
II,IV,Old Man,"Within the volume of which time I have seen"
II,IV,Old Man,"Hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night"
II,IV,Old Man,"Hath trifled former knowings."
II,IV,ROSS,"Ah, good father,"
II,IV,ROSS,"Thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man's act,"
II,IV,ROSS,"Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock, 'tis day,"
II,IV,ROSS,"And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp:"
II,IV,ROSS,"Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame,"
II,IV,ROSS,"That darkness does the face of earth entomb,"
II,IV,ROSS,"When living light should kiss it?"
II,IV,Old Man,"'Tis unnatural,"
II,IV,Old Man,"Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last,"
II,IV,Old Man,"A falcon, towering in her pride of place,"
II,IV,Old Man,"Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd."
II,IV,ROSS,"And Duncan's horses--a thing most strange and certain--"
II,IV,ROSS,"Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,"
II,IV,ROSS,"Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,"
II,IV,ROSS,"Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make"
II,IV,ROSS,"War with mankind."
II,IV,Old Man,"'Tis said they eat each other."
II,IV,ROSS,"They did so, to the amazement of mine eyes"
II,IV,ROSS,"That look'd upon't. Here comes the good Macduff."
II,IV,ROSS,"How goes the world, sir, now?"
II,IV,MACDUFF,"Why, see you not?"
II,IV,ROSS,"Is't known who did this more than bloody deed?"
II,IV,MACDUFF,"Those that Macbeth hath slain."
II,IV,ROSS,"Alas, the day!"
II,IV,ROSS,"What good could they pretend?"
II,IV,MACDUFF,"They were suborn'd:"
II,IV,MACDUFF,"Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons,"
II,IV,MACDUFF,"Are stol'n away and fled; which puts upon them"
II,IV,MACDUFF,"Suspicion of the deed."
II,IV,ROSS,"'Gainst nature still!"
II,IV,ROSS,"Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up"
II,IV,ROSS,"Thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like"
II,IV,ROSS,"The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth."
II,IV,MACDUFF,"He is already named, and gone to Scone"
II,IV,MACDUFF,"To be invested."
II,IV,ROSS,"Where is Duncan's body?"
II,IV,MACDUFF,"Carried to Colmekill,"
II,IV,MACDUFF,"The sacred storehouse of his predecessors,"
II,IV,MACDUFF,"And guardian of their bones."
II,IV,ROSS,"Will you to Scone?"
II,IV,MACDUFF,"No, cousin, I'll to Fife."
II,IV,ROSS,"Well, I will thither."
II,IV,MACDUFF,"Well, may you see things well done there: adieu!"
II,IV,MACDUFF,"Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!"
II,IV,ROSS,"Farewell, father."
II,IV,Old Man,"God's benison go with you; and with those"
II,IV,Old Man,"That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!"
III,I,BANQUO,"Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,"
III,I,BANQUO,"As the weird women promised, and, I fear,"
III,I,BANQUO,"Thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said"
III,I,BANQUO,"It should not stand in thy posterity,"
III,I,BANQUO,"But that myself should be the root and father"
III,I,BANQUO,"Of many kings. If there come truth from them--"
III,I,BANQUO,"As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine--"
III,I,BANQUO,"Why, by the verities on thee made good,"
III,I,BANQUO,"May they not be my oracles as well,"
III,I,BANQUO,"And set me up in hope? But hush! no more."
III,I,MACBETH,"Here's our chief guest."
III,I,LADY MACBETH,"If he had been forgotten,"
III,I,LADY MACBETH,"It had been as a gap in our great feast,"
III,I,LADY MACBETH,"And all-thing unbecoming."
III,I,MACBETH,"To-night we hold a solemn supper sir,"
III,I,MACBETH,"And I'll request your presence."
III,I,BANQUO,"Let your highness"
III,I,BANQUO,"Command upon me; to the which my duties"
III,I,BANQUO,"Are with a most indissoluble tie"
III,I,BANQUO,"For ever knit."
III,I,MACBETH,"Ride you this afternoon?"
III,I,BANQUO,"Ay, my good lord."
III,I,MACBETH,"We should have else desired your good advice,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Which still hath been both grave and prosperous,"
III,I,MACBETH,"In this day's council; but we'll take to-morrow."
III,I,MACBETH,"Is't far you ride?"
III,I,BANQUO,"As far, my lord, as will fill up the time"
III,I,BANQUO,"'Twixt this and supper: go not my horse the better,"
III,I,BANQUO,"I must become a borrower of the night"
III,I,BANQUO,"For a dark hour or twain."
III,I,MACBETH,"Fail not our feast."
III,I,BANQUO,"My lord, I will not."
III,I,MACBETH,"We hear, our bloody cousins are bestow'd"
III,I,MACBETH,"In England and in Ireland, not confessing"
III,I,MACBETH,"Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers"
III,I,MACBETH,"With strange invention: but of that to-morrow,"
III,I,MACBETH,"When therewithal we shall have cause of state"
III,I,MACBETH,"Craving us jointly. Hie you to horse: adieu,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with you?"
III,I,BANQUO,"Ay, my good lord: our time does call upon 's."
III,I,MACBETH,"I wish your horses swift and sure of foot;"
III,I,MACBETH,"And so I do commend you to their backs. Farewell."
III,I,MACBETH,"Let every man be master of his time"
III,I,MACBETH,"Till seven at night: to make society"
III,I,MACBETH,"The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself"
III,I,MACBETH,"Till supper-time alone: while then, God be with you!"
III,I,MACBETH,"Sirrah, a word with you: attend those men"
III,I,MACBETH,"Our pleasure?"
III,I,ATTENDANT,"They are, my lord, without the palace gate."
III,I,MACBETH,"Bring them before us."
III,I,MACBETH,"To be thus is nothing;"
III,I,MACBETH,"But to be safely thus.--Our fears in Banquo"
III,I,MACBETH,"Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature"
III,I,MACBETH,"Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;"
III,I,MACBETH,"And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,"
III,I,MACBETH,"He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour"
III,I,MACBETH,"To act in safety. There is none but he"
III,I,MACBETH,"Whose being I do fear: and, under him,"
III,I,MACBETH,"My Genius is rebuked; as, it is said,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sisters"
III,I,MACBETH,"When first they put the name of king upon me,"
III,I,MACBETH,"And bade them speak to him: then prophet-like"
III,I,MACBETH,"They hail'd him father to a line of kings:"
III,I,MACBETH,"Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,"
III,I,MACBETH,"And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,"
III,I,MACBETH,"No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so,"
III,I,MACBETH,"For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind;"
III,I,MACBETH,"For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd;"
III,I,MACBETH,"Put rancours in the vessel of my peace"
III,I,MACBETH,"Only for them; and mine eternal jewel"
III,I,MACBETH,"Given to the common enemy of man,"
III,I,MACBETH,"To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!"
III,I,MACBETH,"Rather than so, come fate into the list."
III,I,MACBETH,"And champion me to the utterance! Who's there!"
III,I,MACBETH,"Now go to the door, and stay there till we call."
III,I,MACBETH,"Was it not yesterday we spoke together?"
III,I,First Murderer,"It was, so please your highness."
III,I,MACBETH,"Well then, now"
III,I,MACBETH,"Have you consider'd of my speeches? Know"
III,I,MACBETH,"That it was he in the times past which held you"
III,I,MACBETH,"So under fortune, which you thought had been"
III,I,MACBETH,"Our innocent self: this I made good to you"
III,I,MACBETH,"In our last conference, pass'd in probation with you,"
III,I,MACBETH,"How you were borne in hand, how cross'd,"
III,I,MACBETH,"the instruments,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Who wrought with them, and all things else that might"
III,I,MACBETH,"To half a soul and to a notion crazed"
III,I,MACBETH,"Say 'Thus did Banquo.'"
III,I,First Murderer,"You made it known to us."
III,I,MACBETH,"I did so, and went further, which is now"
III,I,MACBETH,"Our point of second meeting. Do you find"
III,I,MACBETH,"Your patience so predominant in your nature"
III,I,MACBETH,"That you can let this go? Are you so gospell'd"
III,I,MACBETH,"To pray for this good man and for his issue,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave"
III,I,MACBETH,"And beggar'd yours for ever?"
III,I,First Murderer,"We are men, my liege."
III,I,MACBETH,"Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;"
III,I,MACBETH,"As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept"
III,I,MACBETH,"All by the name of dogs: the valued file"
III,I,MACBETH,"Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,"
III,I,MACBETH,"The housekeeper, the hunter, every one"
III,I,MACBETH,"According to the gift which bounteous nature"
III,I,MACBETH,"Hath in him closed; whereby he does receive"
III,I,MACBETH,"Particular addition. from the bill"
III,I,MACBETH,"That writes them all alike: and so of men."
III,I,MACBETH,"Now, if you have a station in the file,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Not i' the worst rank of manhood, say 't;"
III,I,MACBETH,"And I will put that business in your bosoms,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Whose execution takes your enemy off,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Grapples you to the heart and love of us,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Who wear our health but sickly in his life,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Which in his death were perfect."
III,I,Second Murderer,"I am one, my liege,"
III,I,Second Murderer,"Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world"
III,I,Second Murderer,"Have so incensed that I am reckless what"
III,I,Second Murderer,"I do to spite the world."
III,I,First Murderer,"And I another"
III,I,First Murderer,"So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,"
III,I,First Murderer,"That I would set my lie on any chance,"
III,I,First Murderer,"To mend it, or be rid on't."
III,I,MACBETH,"Both of you"
III,I,MACBETH,"Know Banquo was your enemy."
III,I,Both Murderers,"True, my lord."
III,I,MACBETH,"So is he mine; and in such bloody distance,"
III,I,MACBETH,"That every minute of his being thrusts"
III,I,MACBETH,"Against my near'st of life: and though I could"
III,I,MACBETH,"With barefaced power sweep him from my sight"
III,I,MACBETH,"And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not,"
III,I,MACBETH,"For certain friends that are both his and mine,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall"
III,I,MACBETH,"Who I myself struck down; and thence it is,"
III,I,MACBETH,"That I to your assistance do make love,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Masking the business from the common eye"
III,I,MACBETH,"For sundry weighty reasons."
III,I,Second Murderer,"We shall, my lord,"
III,I,Second Murderer,"Perform what you command us."
III,I,First Murderer,"Though our lives--"
III,I,MACBETH,"Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most"
III,I,MACBETH,"I will advise you where to plant yourselves;"
III,I,MACBETH,"Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' the time,"
III,I,MACBETH,"The moment on't; for't must be done to-night,"
III,I,MACBETH,"And something from the palace; always thought"
III,I,MACBETH,"That I require a clearness: and with him--"
III,I,MACBETH,"To leave no rubs nor botches in the work--"
III,I,MACBETH,"Fleance his son, that keeps him company,"
III,I,MACBETH,"Whose absence is no less material to me"
III,I,MACBETH,"Than is his father's, must embrace the fate"
III,I,MACBETH,"Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart:"
III,I,MACBETH,"I'll come to you anon."
III,I,Both Murderers,"We are resolved, my lord."
III,I,MACBETH,"I'll call upon you straight: abide within."
III,I,MACBETH,"It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul's flight,"
III,I,MACBETH,"If it find heaven, must find it out to-night."
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"Is Banquo gone from court?"
III,II,Servant,"Ay, madam, but returns again to-night."
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"Say to the king, I would attend his leisure"
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"For a few words."
III,II,Servant,"Madam, I will."
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"Nought's had, all's spent,"
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"Where our desire is got without content:"
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"'Tis safer to be that which we destroy"
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"How now, my lord! why do you keep alone,"
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"Of sorriest fancies your companions making,"
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"Using those thoughts which should indeed have died"
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"With them they think on? Things without all remedy"
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"Should be without regard: what's done is done."
III,II,MACBETH,"We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it:"
III,II,MACBETH,"She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice"
III,II,MACBETH,"Remains in danger of her former tooth."
III,II,MACBETH,"But let the frame of things disjoint, both the"
III,II,MACBETH,"worlds suffer,"
III,II,MACBETH,"Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep"
III,II,MACBETH,"In the affliction of these terrible dreams"
III,II,MACBETH,"That shake us nightly: better be with the dead,"
III,II,MACBETH,"Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,"
III,II,MACBETH,"Than on the torture of the mind to lie"
III,II,MACBETH,"In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave;"
III,II,MACBETH,"After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;"
III,II,MACBETH,"Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,"
III,II,MACBETH,"Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,"
III,II,MACBETH,"Can touch him further."
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"Come on;"
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks;"
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night."
III,II,MACBETH,"So shall I, love; and so, I pray, be you:"
III,II,MACBETH,"Let your remembrance apply to Banquo;"
III,II,MACBETH,"Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue:"
III,II,MACBETH,"Unsafe the while, that we"
III,II,MACBETH,"Must lave our honours in these flattering streams,"
III,II,MACBETH,"And make our faces vizards to our hearts,"
III,II,MACBETH,"Disguising what they are."
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"You must leave this."
III,II,MACBETH,"O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!"
III,II,MACBETH,"Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives."
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"But in them nature's copy's not eterne."
III,II,MACBETH,"There's comfort yet; they are assailable;"
III,II,MACBETH,"Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown"
III,II,MACBETH,"His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons"
III,II,MACBETH,"The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums"
III,II,MACBETH,"Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done"
III,II,MACBETH,"A deed of dreadful note."
III,II,LADY MACBETH,"What's to be done?"
III,II,MACBETH,"Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,"
III,II,MACBETH,"Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,"
III,II,MACBETH,"Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day;"
III,II,MACBETH,"And with thy bloody and invisible hand"
III,II,MACBETH,"Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond"
III,II,MACBETH,"Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow"
III,II,MACBETH,"Makes wing to the rooky wood:"
III,II,MACBETH,"Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;"
III,II,MACBETH,"While night's black agents to their preys do rouse."
III,II,MACBETH,"Thou marvell'st at my words: but hold thee still;"
III,II,MACBETH,"Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill."
III,II,MACBETH,"So, prithee, go with me."
III,III,First Murderer,"But who did bid thee join with us?"
III,III,Third Murderer,"Macbeth."
III,III,Second Murderer,"He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers"
III,III,Second Murderer,"Our offices and what we have to do"
III,III,Second Murderer,"To the direction just."
III,III,First Murderer,"Then stand with us."
III,III,First Murderer,"The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:"
III,III,First Murderer,"Now spurs the lated traveller apace"
III,III,First Murderer,"To gain the timely inn; and near approaches"
III,III,First Murderer,"The subject of our watch."
III,III,Third Murderer,"Hark! I hear horses."
III,III,Second Murderer,"Then 'tis he: the rest"
III,III,Second Murderer,"That are within the note of expectation"
III,III,Second Murderer,"Already are i' the court."
III,III,First Murderer,"His horses go about."
III,III,Third Murderer,"Almost a mile: but he does usually,"
III,III,Third Murderer,"So all men do, from hence to the palace gate"
III,III,Third Murderer,"Make it their walk."
III,III,Second Murderer,"A light, a light!"
III,III,Third Murderer,"'Tis he."
III,III,First Murderer,"Stand to't."
III,III,BANQUO,"It will be rain to-night."
III,III,First Murderer,"Let it come down."
III,III,BANQUO,"O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!"
III,III,BANQUO,"Thou mayst revenge. O slave!"
III,III,Third Murderer,"Who did strike out the light?"
III,III,First Murderer,"Wast not the way?"
III,III,Third Murderer,"There's but one down; the son is fled."
III,III,Second Murderer,"We have lost"
III,III,Second Murderer,"Best half of our affair."
III,III,First Murderer,"Well, let's away, and say how much is done."
III,IV,MACBETH,"You know your own degrees; sit down: at first"
III,IV,MACBETH,"And last the hearty welcome."
III,IV,Lords,"Thanks to your majesty."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Ourself will mingle with society,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"And play the humble host."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Our hostess keeps her state, but in best time"
III,IV,MACBETH,"We will require her welcome."
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends;"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"For my heart speaks they are welcome."
III,IV,MACBETH,"See, they encounter thee with their hearts' thanks."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Both sides are even: here I'll sit i' the midst:"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure"
III,IV,MACBETH,"The table round."
III,IV,MACBETH,"There's blood on thy face."
III,IV,First Murderer,"'Tis Banquo's then."
III,IV,MACBETH,"'Tis better thee without than he within."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Is he dispatch'd?"
III,IV,First Murderer,"My lord, his throat is cut; that I did for him."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Thou art the best o' the cut-throats: yet he's good"
III,IV,MACBETH,"That did the like for Fleance: if thou didst it,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Thou art the nonpareil."
III,IV,First Murderer,"Most royal sir,"
III,IV,First Murderer,"Fleance is 'scaped."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"As broad and general as the casing air:"
III,IV,MACBETH,"But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in"
III,IV,MACBETH,"To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo's safe?"
III,IV,First Murderer,"Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides,"
III,IV,First Murderer,"With twenty trenched gashes on his head;"
III,IV,First Murderer,"The least a death to nature."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Thanks for that:"
III,IV,MACBETH,"There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Hath nature that in time will venom breed,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"No teeth for the present. Get thee gone: to-morrow"
III,IV,MACBETH,"We'll hear, ourselves, again."
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"My royal lord,"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"You do not give the cheer: the feast is sold"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a-making,"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"'Tis given with welcome: to feed were best at home;"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Meeting were bare without it."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Sweet remembrancer!"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Now, good digestion wait on appetite,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"And health on both!"
III,IV,LENNOX,"May't please your highness sit."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Here had we now our country's honour roof'd,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Were the graced person of our Banquo present;"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Who may I rather challenge for unkindness"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Than pity for mischance!"
III,IV,ROSS,"His absence, sir,"
III,IV,ROSS,"Lays blame upon his promise. Please't your highness"
III,IV,ROSS,"To grace us with your royal company."
III,IV,MACBETH,"The table's full."
III,IV,LENNOX,"Here is a place reserved, sir."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Where?"
III,IV,LENNOX,"Here, my good lord. What is't that moves your highness?"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Which of you have done this?"
III,IV,Lords,"What, my good lord?"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Thou canst not say I did it: never shake"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Thy gory locks at me."
III,IV,ROSS,"Gentlemen, rise: his highness is not well."
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus,"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat;"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"The fit is momentary; upon a thought"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"He will again be well: if much you note him,"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"You shall offend him and extend his passion:"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Feed, and regard him not. Are you a man?"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Which might appal the devil."
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"O proper stuff!"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"This is the very painting of your fear:"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts,"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Impostors to true fear, would well become"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"A woman's story at a winter's fire,"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Why do you make such faces? When all's done,"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"You look but on a stool."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo!"
III,IV,MACBETH,"how say you?"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too."
III,IV,MACBETH,"If charnel-houses and our graves must send"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Those that we bury back, our monuments"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Shall be the maws of kites."
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"What, quite unmann'd in folly?"
III,IV,MACBETH,"If I stand here, I saw him."
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Fie, for shame!"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Ere human statute purged the gentle weal;"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Too terrible for the ear: the times have been,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"That, when the brains were out, the man would die,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"And there an end; but now they rise again,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"And push us from our stools: this is more strange"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Than such a murder is."
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"My worthy lord,"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Your noble friends do lack you."
III,IV,MACBETH,"I do forget."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing"
III,IV,MACBETH,"To those that know me. Come, love and health to all;"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine; fill full."
III,IV,MACBETH,"I drink to the general joy o' the whole table,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss;"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"And all to all."
III,IV,Lords,"Our duties, and the pledge."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Thou hast no speculation in those eyes"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Which thou dost glare with!"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Think of this, good peers,"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other;"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Only it spoils the pleasure of the time."
III,IV,MACBETH,"What man dare, I dare:"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Shall never tremble: or be alive again,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"And dare me to the desert with thy sword;"
III,IV,MACBETH,"If trembling I inhabit then, protest me"
III,IV,MACBETH,"The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Unreal mockery, hence!"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Why, so: being gone,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"I am a man again. Pray you, sit still."
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"With most admired disorder."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Can such things be,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"And overcome us like a summer's cloud,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Without our special wonder? You make me strange"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Even to the disposition that I owe,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"When now I think you can behold such sights,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"When mine is blanched with fear."
III,IV,ROSS,"What sights, my lord?"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse;"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Question enrages him. At once, good night:"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Stand not upon the order of your going,"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"But go at once."
III,IV,LENNOX,"Good night; and better health"
III,IV,LENNOX,"Attend his majesty!"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"A kind good night to all!"
III,IV,MACBETH,"It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Augurs and understood relations have"
III,IV,MACBETH,"By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth"
III,IV,MACBETH,"The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Almost at odds with morning, which is which."
III,IV,MACBETH,"How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person"
III,IV,MACBETH,"At our great bidding?"
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"Did you send to him, sir?"
III,IV,MACBETH,"I hear it by the way; but I will send:"
III,IV,MACBETH,"There's not a one of them but in his house"
III,IV,MACBETH,"I keep a servant fee'd. I will to-morrow,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"And betimes I will, to the weird sisters:"
III,IV,MACBETH,"More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"All causes shall give way: I am in blood"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Returning were as tedious as go o'er:"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Strange things I have in head, that will to hand;"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd."
III,IV,LADY MACBETH,"You lack the season of all natures, sleep."
III,IV,MACBETH,"Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse"
III,IV,MACBETH,"Is the initiate fear that wants hard use:"
III,IV,MACBETH,"We are yet but young in deed."
III,V,First Witch,"Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly."
III,V,HECATE,"Have I not reason, beldams as you are,"
III,V,HECATE,"Saucy and overbold? How did you dare"
III,V,HECATE,"To trade and traffic with Macbeth"
III,V,HECATE,"In riddles and affairs of death;"
III,V,HECATE,"And I, the mistress of your charms,"
III,V,HECATE,"The close contriver of all harms,"
III,V,HECATE,"Was never call'd to bear my part,"
III,V,HECATE,"Or show the glory of our art?"
III,V,HECATE,"And, which is worse, all you have done"
III,V,HECATE,"Hath been but for a wayward son,"
III,V,HECATE,"Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do,"
III,V,HECATE,"Loves for his own ends, not for you."
III,V,HECATE,"But make amends now: get you gone,"
III,V,HECATE,"And at the pit of Acheron"
III,V,HECATE,"Meet me i' the morning: thither he"
III,V,HECATE,"Will come to know his destiny:"
III,V,HECATE,"Your vessels and your spells provide,"
III,V,HECATE,"Your charms and every thing beside."
III,V,HECATE,"I am for the air; this night I'll spend"
III,V,HECATE,"Unto a dismal and a fatal end:"
III,V,HECATE,"Great business must be wrought ere noon:"
III,V,HECATE,"Upon the corner of the moon"
III,V,HECATE,"There hangs a vaporous drop profound;"
III,V,HECATE,"I'll catch it ere it come to ground:"
III,V,HECATE,"And that distill'd by magic sleights"
III,V,HECATE,"Shall raise such artificial sprites"
III,V,HECATE,"As by the strength of their illusion"
III,V,HECATE,"Shall draw him on to his confusion:"
III,V,HECATE,"He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear"
III,V,HECATE,"He hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:"
III,V,HECATE,"And you all know, security"
III,V,HECATE,"Is mortals' chiefest enemy."
III,V,HECATE,"Hark! I am call'd; my little spirit, see,"
III,V,HECATE,"Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me."
III,V,First Witch,"Come, let's make haste; she'll soon be back again."
III,VI,LENNOX,"My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,"
III,VI,LENNOX,"Which can interpret further: only, I say,"
III,VI,LENNOX,"Things have been strangely borne. The"
III,VI,LENNOX,"gracious Duncan"
III,VI,LENNOX,"Was pitied of Macbeth: marry, he was dead:"
III,VI,LENNOX,"And the right-valiant Banquo walk'd too late;"
III,VI,LENNOX,"Whom, you may say, if't please you, Fleance kill'd,"
III,VI,LENNOX,"For Fleance fled: men must not walk too late."
III,VI,LENNOX,"Who cannot want the thought how monstrous"
III,VI,LENNOX,"It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain"
III,VI,LENNOX,"To kill their gracious father? damned fact!"
III,VI,LENNOX,"How it did grieve Macbeth! did he not straight"
III,VI,LENNOX,"In pious rage the two delinquents tear,"
III,VI,LENNOX,"That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep?"
III,VI,LENNOX,"Was not that nobly done? Ay, and wisely too;"
III,VI,LENNOX,"For 'twould have anger'd any heart alive"
III,VI,LENNOX,"To hear the men deny't. So that, I say,"
III,VI,LENNOX,"He has borne all things well: and I do think"
III,VI,LENNOX,"That had he Duncan's sons under his key--"
III,VI,LENNOX,"As, an't please heaven, he shall not--they"
III,VI,LENNOX,"should find"
III,VI,LENNOX,"What 'twere to kill a father; so should Fleance."
III,VI,LENNOX,"But, peace! for from broad words and 'cause he fail'd"
III,VI,LENNOX,"His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear"
III,VI,LENNOX,"Macduff lives in disgrace: sir, can you tell"
III,VI,LENNOX,"Where he bestows himself?"
III,VI,Lord,"The son of Duncan,"
III,VI,Lord,"From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth"
III,VI,Lord,"Lives in the English court, and is received"
III,VI,Lord,"Of the most pious Edward with such grace"
III,VI,Lord,"That the malevolence of fortune nothing"
III,VI,Lord,"Takes from his high respect: thither Macduff"
III,VI,Lord,"Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid"
III,VI,Lord,"To wake Northumberland and warlike Siward:"
III,VI,Lord,"That, by the help of these--with Him above"
III,VI,Lord,"To ratify the work--we may again"
III,VI,Lord,"Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights,"
III,VI,Lord,"Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives,"
III,VI,Lord,"Do faithful homage and receive free honours:"
III,VI,Lord,"All which we pine for now: and this report"
III,VI,Lord,"Hath so exasperate the king that he"
III,VI,Lord,"Prepares for some attempt of war."
III,VI,LENNOX,"Sent he to Macduff?"
III,VI,Lord,"He did: and with an absolute 'Sir, not I,'"
III,VI,Lord,"The cloudy messenger turns me his back,"
III,VI,Lord,"And hums, as who should say 'You'll rue the time"
III,VI,Lord,"That clogs me with this answer.'"
III,VI,LENNOX,"And that well might"
III,VI,LENNOX,"Advise him to a caution, to hold what distance"
III,VI,LENNOX,"His wisdom can provide. Some holy angel"
III,VI,LENNOX,"Fly to the court of England and unfold"
III,VI,LENNOX,"His message ere he come, that a swift blessing"
III,VI,LENNOX,"May soon return to this our suffering country"
III,VI,LENNOX,"Under a hand accursed!"
III,VI,Lord,"I'll send my prayers with him."
IV,I,First Witch,"Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd."
IV,I,Second Witch,"Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined."
IV,I,Third Witch,"Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time."
IV,I,First Witch,"Round about the cauldron go;"
IV,I,First Witch,"In the poison'd entrails throw."
IV,I,First Witch,"Toad, that under cold stone"
IV,I,First Witch,"Days and nights has thirty-one"
IV,I,First Witch,"Swelter'd venom sleeping got,"
IV,I,First Witch,"Boil thou first i' the charmed pot."
IV,I,ALL,"Double, double toil and trouble;"
IV,I,ALL,"Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
IV,I,Second Witch,"Fillet of a fenny snake,"
IV,I,Second Witch,"In the cauldron boil and bake;"
IV,I,Second Witch,"Eye of newt and toe of frog,"
IV,I,Second Witch,"Wool of bat and tongue of dog,"
IV,I,Second Witch,"Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,"
IV,I,Second Witch,"Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,"
IV,I,Second Witch,"For a charm of powerful trouble,"
IV,I,Second Witch,"Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."
IV,I,ALL,"Double, double toil and trouble;"
IV,I,ALL,"Fire burn and cauldron bubble."
IV,I,Third Witch,"Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,"
IV,I,Third Witch,"Witches' mummy, maw and gulf"
IV,I,Third Witch,"Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,"
IV,I,Third Witch,"Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,"
IV,I,Third Witch,"Liver of blaspheming Jew,"
IV,I,Third Witch,"Gall of goat, and slips of yew"
IV,I,Third Witch,"Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,"
IV,I,Third Witch,"Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,"
IV,I,Third Witch,"Finger of birth-strangled babe"
IV,I,Third Witch,"Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,"
IV,I,Third Witch,"Make the gruel thick and slab:"
IV,I,Third Witch,"Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,"
IV,I,Third Witch,"For the ingredients of our cauldron."
IV,I,ALL,"Double, double toil and trouble;"
IV,I,ALL,"Fire burn and cauldron bubble."
IV,I,Second Witch,"Cool it with a baboon's blood,"
IV,I,Second Witch,"Then the charm is firm and good."
IV,I,HECATE,"O well done! I commend your pains;"
IV,I,HECATE,"And every one shall share i' the gains;"
IV,I,HECATE,"And now about the cauldron sing,"
IV,I,HECATE,"Live elves and fairies in a ring,"
IV,I,HECATE,"Enchanting all that you put in."
IV,I,Second Witch,"By the pricking of my thumbs,"
IV,I,Second Witch,"Something wicked this way comes."
IV,I,Second Witch,"Open, locks,"
IV,I,Second Witch,"Whoever knocks!"
IV,I,MACBETH,"How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!"
IV,I,MACBETH,"What is't you do?"
IV,I,ALL,"A deed without a name."
IV,I,MACBETH,"I conjure you, by that which you profess,"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Howe'er you come to know it, answer me:"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Though you untie the winds and let them fight"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Against the churches; though the yesty waves"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Confound and swallow navigation up;"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down;"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Though castles topple on their warders' heads;"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Though palaces and pyramids do slope"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Of nature's germens tumble all together,"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Even till destruction sicken; answer me"
IV,I,MACBETH,"To what I ask you."
IV,I,First Witch,"Speak."
IV,I,Second Witch,"Demand."
IV,I,Third Witch,"We'll answer."
IV,I,First Witch,"Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths,"
IV,I,First Witch,"Or from our masters?"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Call 'em; let me see 'em."
IV,I,First Witch,"Pour in sow's blood, that hath eaten"
IV,I,First Witch,"Her nine farrow; grease that's sweaten"
IV,I,First Witch,"From the murderer's gibbet throw"
IV,I,First Witch,"Into the flame."
IV,I,ALL,"Come, high or low;"
IV,I,ALL,"Thyself and office deftly show!"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Tell me, thou unknown power,--"
IV,I,First Witch,"He knows thy thought:"
IV,I,First Witch,"Hear his speech, but say thou nought."
IV,I,First Apparition,"Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff;"
IV,I,First Apparition,"Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough."
IV,I,MACBETH,"Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks;"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Thou hast harp'd my fear aright: but one"
IV,I,MACBETH,"word more,--"
IV,I,First Witch,"He will not be commanded: here's another,"
IV,I,First Witch,"More potent than the first."
IV,I,Second Apparition,"Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Had I three ears, I'ld hear thee."
IV,I,Second Apparition,"Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn"
IV,I,Second Apparition,"The power of man, for none of woman born"
IV,I,Second Apparition,"Shall harm Macbeth."
IV,I,MACBETH,"Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?"
IV,I,MACBETH,"But yet I'll make assurance double sure,"
IV,I,MACBETH,"And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live;"
IV,I,MACBETH,"That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,"
IV,I,MACBETH,"And sleep in spite of thunder."
IV,I,MACBETH,"What is this"
IV,I,MACBETH,"That rises like the issue of a king,"
IV,I,MACBETH,"And wears upon his baby-brow the round"
IV,I,MACBETH,"And top of sovereignty?"
IV,I,ALL,"Listen, but speak not to't."
IV,I,Third Apparition,"Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care"
IV,I,Third Apparition,"Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are:"
IV,I,Third Apparition,"Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until"
IV,I,Third Apparition,"Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill"
IV,I,Third Apparition,"Shall come against him."
IV,I,MACBETH,"That will never be"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Who can impress the forest, bid the tree"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! good!"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Rebellion's head, rise never till the wood"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath"
IV,I,MACBETH,"To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Throbs to know one thing: tell me, if your art"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Can tell so much: shall Banquo's issue ever"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Reign in this kingdom?"
IV,I,ALL,"Seek to know no more."
IV,I,MACBETH,"I will be satisfied: deny me this,"
IV,I,MACBETH,"And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know."
IV,I,MACBETH,"Why sinks that cauldron? and what noise is this?"
IV,I,First Witch,"Show!"
IV,I,Second Witch,"Show!"
IV,I,Third Witch,"Show!"
IV,I,ALL,"Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;"
IV,I,ALL,"Come like shadows, so depart!"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo: down!"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls. And thy hair,"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first."
IV,I,MACBETH,"A third is like the former. Filthy hags!"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes!"
IV,I,MACBETH,"What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more:"
IV,I,MACBETH,"And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Which shows me many more; and some I see"
IV,I,MACBETH,"That two-fold balls and treble scepters carry:"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Horrible sight! Now, I see, 'tis true;"
IV,I,MACBETH,"For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me,"
IV,I,MACBETH,"And points at them for his."
IV,I,MACBETH,"What, is this so?"
IV,I,First Witch,"Ay, sir, all this is so: but why"
IV,I,First Witch,"Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?"
IV,I,First Witch,"Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites,"
IV,I,First Witch,"And show the best of our delights:"
IV,I,First Witch,"I'll charm the air to give a sound,"
IV,I,First Witch,"While you perform your antic round:"
IV,I,First Witch,"That this great king may kindly say,"
IV,I,First Witch,"Our duties did his welcome pay."
IV,I,MACBETH,"Where are they? Gone? Let this pernicious hour"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Stand aye accursed in the calendar!"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Come in, without there!"
IV,I,LENNOX,"What's your grace's will?"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Saw you the weird sisters?"
IV,I,LENNOX,"No, my lord."
IV,I,MACBETH,"Came they not by you?"
IV,I,LENNOX,"No, indeed, my lord."
IV,I,MACBETH,"Infected be the air whereon they ride;"
IV,I,MACBETH,"And damn'd all those that trust them! I did hear"
IV,I,MACBETH,"The galloping of horse: who was't came by?"
IV,I,LENNOX,"'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word"
IV,I,LENNOX,"Macduff is fled to England."
IV,I,MACBETH,"Fled to England!"
IV,I,LENNOX,"Ay, my good lord."
IV,I,MACBETH,"Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits:"
IV,I,MACBETH,"The flighty purpose never is o'ertook"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Unless the deed go with it; from this moment"
IV,I,MACBETH,"The very firstlings of my heart shall be"
IV,I,MACBETH,"The firstlings of my hand. And even now,"
IV,I,MACBETH,"To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done:"
IV,I,MACBETH,"The castle of Macduff I will surprise;"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o' the sword"
IV,I,MACBETH,"His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls"
IV,I,MACBETH,"That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool;"
IV,I,MACBETH,"This deed I'll do before this purpose cool."
IV,I,MACBETH,"But no more sights!--Where are these gentlemen?"
IV,I,MACBETH,"Come, bring me where they are."
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"What had he done, to make him fly the land?"
IV,II,ROSS,"You must have patience, madam."
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"He had none:"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"His flight was madness: when our actions do not,"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Our fears do make us traitors."
IV,II,ROSS,"You know not"
IV,II,ROSS,"Whether it was his wisdom or his fear."
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Wisdom! to leave his wife, to leave his babes,"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"His mansion and his titles in a place"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"From whence himself does fly? He loves us not;"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"He wants the natural touch: for the poor wren,"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"The most diminutive of birds, will fight,"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Her young ones in her nest, against the owl."
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"All is the fear and nothing is the love;"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"As little is the wisdom, where the flight"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"So runs against all reason."
IV,II,ROSS,"My dearest coz,"
IV,II,ROSS,"I pray you, school yourself: but for your husband,"
IV,II,ROSS,"He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows"
IV,II,ROSS,"The fits o' the season. I dare not speak"
IV,II,ROSS,"much further;"
IV,II,ROSS,"But cruel are the times, when we are traitors"
IV,II,ROSS,"And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumour"
IV,II,ROSS,"From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,"
IV,II,ROSS,"But float upon a wild and violent sea"
IV,II,ROSS,"Each way and move. I take my leave of you:"
IV,II,ROSS,"Shall not be long but I'll be here again:"
IV,II,ROSS,"Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward"
IV,II,ROSS,"To what they were before. My pretty cousin,"
IV,II,ROSS,"Blessing upon you!"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Father'd he is, and yet he's fatherless."
IV,II,ROSS,"I am so much a fool, should I stay longer,"
IV,II,ROSS,"It would be my disgrace and your discomfort:"
IV,II,ROSS,"I take my leave at once."
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Sirrah, your father's dead;"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"And what will you do now? How will you live?"
IV,II,Son,"As birds do, mother."
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"What, with worms and flies?"
IV,II,Son,"With what I get, I mean; and so do they."
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Poor bird! thou'ldst never fear the net nor lime,"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"The pitfall nor the gin."
IV,II,Son,"Why should I, mother? Poor birds they are not set for."
IV,II,Son,"My father is not dead, for all your saying."
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Yes, he is dead; how wilt thou do for a father?"
IV,II,Son,"Nay, how will you do for a husband?"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Why, I can buy me twenty at any market."
IV,II,Son,"Then you'll buy 'em to sell again."
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Thou speak'st with all thy wit: and yet, i' faith,"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"With wit enough for thee."
IV,II,Son,"Was my father a traitor, mother?"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Ay, that he was."
IV,II,Son,"What is a traitor?"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Why, one that swears and lies."
IV,II,Son,"And be all traitors that do so?"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Every one that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged."
IV,II,Son,"And must they all be hanged that swear and lie?"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Every one."
IV,II,Son,"Who must hang them?"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Why, the honest men."
IV,II,Son,"Then the liars and swearers are fools,"
IV,II,Son,"for there are liars and swearers enow to beat"
IV,II,Son,"the honest men and hang up them."
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Now, God help thee, poor monkey!"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"But how wilt thou do for a father?"
IV,II,Son,"If he were dead, you'ld weep for"
IV,II,Son,"him: if you would not, it were a good sign"
IV,II,Son,"that I should quickly have a new father."
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Poor prattler, how thou talk'st!"
IV,II,Messenger,"Bless you, fair dame! I am not to you known,"
IV,II,Messenger,"Though in your state of honour I am perfect."
IV,II,Messenger,"I doubt some danger does approach you nearly:"
IV,II,Messenger,"If you will take a homely man's advice,"
IV,II,Messenger,"Be not found here; hence, with your little ones."
IV,II,Messenger,"To fright you thus, methinks, I am too savage;"
IV,II,Messenger,"To do worse to you were fell cruelty,"
IV,II,Messenger,"Which is too nigh your person. Heaven preserve you!"
IV,II,Messenger,"I dare abide no longer."
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Whither should I fly?"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"I have done no harm. But I remember now"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"I am in this earthly world; where to do harm"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Is often laudable, to do good sometime"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Accounted dangerous folly: why then, alas,"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Do I put up that womanly defence,"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"To say I have done no harm?"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"What are these faces?"
IV,II,First Murderer,"Where is your husband?"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"I hope, in no place so unsanctified"
IV,II,LADY MACDUFF,"Where such as thou mayst find him."
IV,II,First Murderer,"He's a traitor."
IV,II,Son,"Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain!"
IV,II,First Murderer,"What, you egg!"
IV,II,First Murderer,"Young fry of treachery!"
IV,II,Son,"He has kill'd me, mother:"
IV,II,Son,"Run away, I pray you!"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Weep our sad bosoms empty."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Let us rather"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Hold fast the mortal sword, and like good men"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Bestride our down-fall'n birthdom: each new morn"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"As if it felt with Scotland and yell'd out"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Like syllable of dolour."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"What I believe I'll wail,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"What know believe, and what I can redress,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"As I shall find the time to friend, I will."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"What you have spoke, it may be so perchance."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Was once thought honest: you have loved him well."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"He hath not touch'd you yet. I am young;"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"but something"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"You may deserve of him through me, and wisdom"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"To offer up a weak poor innocent lamb"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"To appease an angry god."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"I am not treacherous."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"But Macbeth is."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"A good and virtuous nature may recoil"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"In an imperial charge. But I shall crave"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"your pardon;"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"That which you are my thoughts cannot transpose:"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell;"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Yet grace must still look so."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"I have lost my hopes."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Perchance even there where I did find my doubts."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Why in that rawness left you wife and child,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Those precious motives, those strong knots of love,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Without leave-taking? I pray you,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Let not my jealousies be your dishonours,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"But mine own safeties. You may be rightly just,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Whatever I shall think."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Bleed, bleed, poor country!"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Great tyranny! lay thou thy basis sure,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"For goodness dare not cheque thee: wear thou"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"thy wrongs;"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"The title is affeer'd! Fare thee well, lord:"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"I would not be the villain that thou think'st"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"For the whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"And the rich East to boot."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Be not offended:"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"I speak not as in absolute fear of you."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Is added to her wounds: I think withal"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"There would be hands uplifted in my right;"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"And here from gracious England have I offer"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Of goodly thousands: but, for all this,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Shall have more vices than it had before,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"More suffer and more sundry ways than ever,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"By him that shall succeed."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"What should he be?"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"It is myself I mean: in whom I know"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"All the particulars of vice so grafted"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"That, when they shall be open'd, black Macbeth"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Esteem him as a lamb, being compared"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"With my confineless harms."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Not in the legions"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"In evils to top Macbeth."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"I grant him bloody,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"That has a name: but there's no bottom, none,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"In my voluptuousness: your wives, your daughters,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Your matrons and your maids, could not fill up"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"The cistern of my lust, and my desire"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"All continent impediments would o'erbear"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"That did oppose my will: better Macbeth"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Than such an one to reign."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Boundless intemperance"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"In nature is a tyranny; it hath been"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"The untimely emptying of the happy throne"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"And fall of many kings. But fear not yet"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"To take upon you what is yours: you may"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"And yet seem cold, the time you may so hoodwink."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"We have willing dames enough: there cannot be"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"That vulture in you, to devour so many"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"As will to greatness dedicate themselves,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Finding it so inclined."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"With this there grows"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"In my most ill-composed affection such"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"A stanchless avarice that, were I king,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"I should cut off the nobles for their lands,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Desire his jewels and this other's house:"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"And my more-having would be as a sauce"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"To make me hunger more; that I should forge"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Destroying them for wealth."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"This avarice"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Than summer-seeming lust, and it hath been"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"The sword of our slain kings: yet do not fear;"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Scotland hath foisons to fill up your will."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Of your mere own: all these are portable,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"With other graces weigh'd."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"But I have none: the king-becoming graces,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"As justice, verity, temperance, stableness,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"I have no relish of them, but abound"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"In the division of each several crime,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Acting it many ways. Nay, had I power, I should"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Uproar the universal peace, confound"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"All unity on earth."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"O Scotland, Scotland!"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"If such a one be fit to govern, speak:"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"I am as I have spoken."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Fit to govern!"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"No, not to live. O nation miserable,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Since that the truest issue of thy throne"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"By his own interdiction stands accursed,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"And does blaspheme his breed? Thy royal father"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Was a most sainted king: the queen that bore thee,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Oftener upon her knees than on her feet,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Died every day she lived. Fare thee well!"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"These evils thou repeat'st upon thyself"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Have banish'd me from Scotland. O my breast,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Thy hope ends here!"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Macduff, this noble passion,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Child of integrity, hath from my soul"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"To thy good truth and honour. Devilish Macbeth"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"By many of these trains hath sought to win me"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Into his power, and modest wisdom plucks me"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"From over-credulous haste: but God above"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Deal between thee and me! for even now"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"I put myself to thy direction, and"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Unspeak mine own detraction, here abjure"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"The taints and blames I laid upon myself,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"For strangers to my nature. I am yet"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Unknown to woman, never was forsworn,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Scarcely have coveted what was mine own,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"At no time broke my faith, would not betray"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"The devil to his fellow and delight"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"No less in truth than life: my first false speaking"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Was this upon myself: what I am truly,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Is thine and my poor country's to command:"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Whither indeed, before thy here-approach,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Already at a point, was setting forth."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Now we'll together; and the chance of goodness"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Be like our warranted quarrel! Why are you silent?"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Such welcome and unwelcome things at once"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"'Tis hard to reconcile."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Well; more anon.--Comes the king forth, I pray you?"
IV,III,Doctor,"Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls"
IV,III,Doctor,"That stay his cure: their malady convinces"
IV,III,Doctor,"The great assay of art; but at his touch--"
IV,III,Doctor,"Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand--"
IV,III,Doctor,"They presently amend."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"I thank you, doctor."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"What's the disease he means?"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"'Tis call'd the evil:"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"A most miraculous work in this good king;"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Which often, since my here-remain in England,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Himself best knows: but strangely-visited people,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"The mere despair of surgery, he cures,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Hanging a golden stamp about their necks,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Put on with holy prayers: and 'tis spoken,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"To the succeeding royalty he leaves"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"The healing benediction. With this strange virtue,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"And sundry blessings hang about his throne,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"That speak him full of grace."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"See, who comes here?"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"My countryman; but yet I know him not."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"My ever-gentle cousin, welcome hither."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"I know him now. Good God, betimes remove"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"The means that makes us strangers!"
IV,III,ROSS,"Sir, amen."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Stands Scotland where it did?"
IV,III,ROSS,"Alas, poor country!"
IV,III,ROSS,"Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot"
IV,III,ROSS,"Be call'd our mother, but our grave; where nothing,"
IV,III,ROSS,"But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile;"
IV,III,ROSS,"Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air"
IV,III,ROSS,"Are made, not mark'd; where violent sorrow seems"
IV,III,ROSS,"A modern ecstasy; the dead man's knell"
IV,III,ROSS,"Is there scarce ask'd for who; and good men's lives"
IV,III,ROSS,"Expire before the flowers in their caps,"
IV,III,ROSS,"Dying or ere they sicken."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"O, relation"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Too nice, and yet too true!"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"What's the newest grief?"
IV,III,ROSS,"That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker:"
IV,III,ROSS,"Each minute teems a new one."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"How does my wife?"
IV,III,ROSS,"Why, well."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"And all my children?"
IV,III,ROSS,"Well too."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"The tyrant has not batter'd at their peace?"
IV,III,ROSS,"No; they were well at peace when I did leave 'em."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"But not a niggard of your speech: how goes't?"
IV,III,ROSS,"When I came hither to transport the tidings,"
IV,III,ROSS,"Which I have heavily borne, there ran a rumour"
IV,III,ROSS,"Of many worthy fellows that were out;"
IV,III,ROSS,"Which was to my belief witness'd the rather,"
IV,III,ROSS,"For that I saw the tyrant's power a-foot:"
IV,III,ROSS,"Now is the time of help; your eye in Scotland"
IV,III,ROSS,"Would create soldiers, make our women fight,"
IV,III,ROSS,"To doff their dire distresses."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Be't their comfort"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"We are coming thither: gracious England hath"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men;"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"An older and a better soldier none"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"That Christendom gives out."
IV,III,ROSS,"Would I could answer"
IV,III,ROSS,"This comfort with the like! But I have words"
IV,III,ROSS,"That would be howl'd out in the desert air,"
IV,III,ROSS,"Where hearing should not latch them."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"What concern they?"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"The general cause? or is it a fee-grief"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Due to some single breast?"
IV,III,ROSS,"No mind that's honest"
IV,III,ROSS,"But in it shares some woe; though the main part"
IV,III,ROSS,"Pertains to you alone."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"If it be mine,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Keep it not from me, quickly let me have it."
IV,III,ROSS,"Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever,"
IV,III,ROSS,"Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound"
IV,III,ROSS,"That ever yet they heard."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Hum! I guess at it."
IV,III,ROSS,"Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes"
IV,III,ROSS,"Savagely slaughter'd: to relate the manner,"
IV,III,ROSS,"Were, on the quarry of these murder'd deer,"
IV,III,ROSS,"To add the death of you."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Merciful heaven!"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows;"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"My children too?"
IV,III,ROSS,"Wife, children, servants, all"
IV,III,ROSS,"That could be found."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"And I must be from thence!"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"My wife kill'd too?"
IV,III,ROSS,"I have said."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Be comforted:"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Let's make us medicines of our great revenge,"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"To cure this deadly grief."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"He has no children. All my pretty ones?"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"What, all my pretty chickens and their dam"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"At one fell swoop?"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Dispute it like a man."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"I shall do so;"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"But I must also feel it as a man:"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"I cannot but remember such things were,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"They were all struck for thee! naught that I am,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Not for their own demerits, but for mine,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now!"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it."
IV,III,MACDUFF,"O, I could play the woman with mine eyes"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"And braggart with my tongue! But, gentle heavens,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Cut short all intermission; front to front"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself;"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Within my sword's length set him; if he 'scape,"
IV,III,MACDUFF,"Heaven forgive him too!"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"This tune goes manly."
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may:"
IV,III,MALCOLM,"The night is long that never finds the day."
V,I,Doctor,"I have two nights watched with you, but can perceive"
V,I,Doctor,"no truth in your report. When was it she last walked?"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"her rise from her bed, throw her night-gown upon"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it,"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep."
V,I,Doctor,"A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once"
V,I,Doctor,"the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of"
V,I,Doctor,"watching! In this slumbery agitation, besides her"
V,I,Doctor,"walking and other actual performances, what, at any"
V,I,Doctor,"time, have you heard her say?"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"That, sir, which I will not report after her."
V,I,Doctor,"You may to me: and 'tis most meet you should."
V,I,Gentlewoman,"Neither to you nor any one; having no witness to"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"confirm my speech."
V,I,Gentlewoman,"Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise;"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her; stand close."
V,I,Doctor,"How came she by that light?"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"Why, it stood by her: she has light by her"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"continually; 'tis her command."
V,I,Doctor,"You see, her eyes are open."
V,I,Gentlewoman,"Ay, but their sense is shut."
V,I,Doctor,"What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands."
V,I,Gentlewoman,"It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"washing her hands: I have known her continue in"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"this a quarter of an hour."
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"Yet here's a spot."
V,I,Doctor,"Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from"
V,I,Doctor,"her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly."
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"fear who knows it, when none can call our power to"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"account?--Yet who would have thought the old man"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"to have had so much blood in him."
V,I,Doctor,"Do you mark that?"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?--"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o'"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"this starting."
V,I,Doctor,"Go to, go to; you have known what you should not."
V,I,Gentlewoman,"She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"that: heaven knows what she has known."
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"Here's the smell of the blood still: all the"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"hand. Oh, oh, oh!"
V,I,Doctor,"What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged."
V,I,Gentlewoman,"I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"dignity of the whole body."
V,I,Doctor,"Well, well, well,--"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"Pray God it be, sir."
V,I,Doctor,"This disease is beyond my practise: yet I have known"
V,I,Doctor,"those which have walked in their sleep who have died"
V,I,Doctor,"holily in their beds."
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"pale.--I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"cannot come out on's grave."
V,I,Doctor,"Even so?"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"To bed, to bed! there's knocking at the gate:"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's"
V,I,LADY MACBETH,"done cannot be undone.--To bed, to bed, to bed!"
V,I,Doctor,"Will she go now to bed?"
V,I,Gentlewoman,"Directly."
V,I,Doctor,"Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds"
V,I,Doctor,"Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds"
V,I,Doctor,"To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:"
V,I,Doctor,"More needs she the divine than the physician."
V,I,Doctor,"God, God forgive us all! Look after her;"
V,I,Doctor,"Remove from her the means of all annoyance,"
V,I,Doctor,"And still keep eyes upon her. So, good night:"
V,I,Doctor,"My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight."
V,I,Doctor,"I think, but dare not speak."
V,I,Gentlewoman,"Good night, good doctor."
V,II,MENTEITH,"The English power is near, led on by Malcolm,"
V,II,MENTEITH,"His uncle Siward and the good Macduff:"
V,II,MENTEITH,"Revenges burn in them; for their dear causes"
V,II,MENTEITH,"Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm"
V,II,MENTEITH,"Excite the mortified man."
V,II,ANGUS,"Near Birnam wood"
V,II,ANGUS,"Shall we well meet them; that way are they coming."
V,II,CAITHNESS,"Who knows if Donalbain be with his brother?"
V,II,LENNOX,"For certain, sir, he is not: I have a file"
V,II,LENNOX,"Of all the gentry: there is Siward's son,"
V,II,LENNOX,"And many unrough youths that even now"
V,II,LENNOX,"Protest their first of manhood."
V,II,MENTEITH,"What does the tyrant?"
V,II,CAITHNESS,"Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies:"
V,II,CAITHNESS,"Some say he's mad; others that lesser hate him"
V,II,CAITHNESS,"Do call it valiant fury: but, for certain,"
V,II,CAITHNESS,"He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause"
V,II,CAITHNESS,"Within the belt of rule."
V,II,ANGUS,"Now does he feel"
V,II,ANGUS,"His secret murders sticking on his hands;"
V,II,ANGUS,"Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach;"
V,II,ANGUS,"Those he commands move only in command,"
V,II,ANGUS,"Nothing in love: now does he feel his title"
V,II,ANGUS,"Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe"
V,II,ANGUS,"Upon a dwarfish thief."
V,II,MENTEITH,"Who then shall blame"
V,II,MENTEITH,"His pester'd senses to recoil and start,"
V,II,MENTEITH,"When all that is within him does condemn"
V,II,MENTEITH,"Itself for being there?"
V,II,CAITHNESS,"Well, march we on,"
V,II,CAITHNESS,"To give obedience where 'tis truly owed:"
V,II,CAITHNESS,"Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal,"
V,II,CAITHNESS,"And with him pour we in our country's purge"
V,II,CAITHNESS,"Each drop of us."
V,II,LENNOX,"Or so much as it needs,"
V,II,LENNOX,"To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds."
V,II,LENNOX,"Make we our march towards Birnam."
V,III,MACBETH,"Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:"
V,III,MACBETH,"Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,"
V,III,MACBETH,"I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?"
V,III,MACBETH,"Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know"
V,III,MACBETH,"All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:"
V,III,MACBETH,"'Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman"
V,III,MACBETH,"Shall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly,"
V,III,MACBETH,"false thanes,"
V,III,MACBETH,"And mingle with the English epicures:"
V,III,MACBETH,"The mind I sway by and the heart I bear"
V,III,MACBETH,"Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear."
V,III,MACBETH,"The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!"
V,III,MACBETH,"Where got'st thou that goose look?"
V,III,Servant,"There is ten thousand--"
V,III,MACBETH,"Geese, villain!"
V,III,Servant,"Soldiers, sir."
V,III,MACBETH,"Go prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,"
V,III,MACBETH,"Thou lily-liver'd boy. What soldiers, patch?"
V,III,MACBETH,"Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine"
V,III,MACBETH,"Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?"
V,III,Servant,"The English force, so please you."
V,III,MACBETH,"Take thy face hence."
V,III,MACBETH,"Seyton!--I am sick at heart,"
V,III,MACBETH,"When I behold--Seyton, I say!--This push"
V,III,MACBETH,"Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now."
V,III,MACBETH,"I have lived long enough: my way of life"
V,III,MACBETH,"Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf;"
V,III,MACBETH,"And that which should accompany old age,"
V,III,MACBETH,"As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,"
V,III,MACBETH,"I must not look to have; but, in their stead,"
V,III,MACBETH,"Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,"
V,III,MACBETH,"Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton!"
V,III,SEYTON,"What is your gracious pleasure?"
V,III,MACBETH,"What news more?"
V,III,SEYTON,"All is confirm'd, my lord, which was reported."
V,III,MACBETH,"I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd."
V,III,MACBETH,"Give me my armour."
V,III,SEYTON,"'Tis not needed yet."
V,III,MACBETH,"I'll put it on."
V,III,MACBETH,"Send out more horses; skirr the country round;"
V,III,MACBETH,"Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armour."
V,III,MACBETH,"How does your patient, doctor?"
V,III,Doctor,"Not so sick, my lord,"
V,III,Doctor,"As she is troubled with thick coming fancies,"
V,III,Doctor,"That keep her from her rest."
V,III,MACBETH,"Cure her of that."
V,III,MACBETH,"Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,"
V,III,MACBETH,"Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,"
V,III,MACBETH,"Raze out the written troubles of the brain"
V,III,MACBETH,"And with some sweet oblivious antidote"
V,III,MACBETH,"Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff"
V,III,MACBETH,"Which weighs upon the heart?"
V,III,Doctor,"Therein the patient"
V,III,Doctor,"Must minister to himself."
V,III,MACBETH,"Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it."
V,III,MACBETH,"Come, put mine armour on; give me my staff."
V,III,MACBETH,"Seyton, send out. Doctor, the thanes fly from me."
V,III,MACBETH,"Come, sir, dispatch. If thou couldst, doctor, cast"
V,III,MACBETH,"The water of my land, find her disease,"
V,III,MACBETH,"And purge it to a sound and pristine health,"
V,III,MACBETH,"I would applaud thee to the very echo,"
V,III,MACBETH,"That should applaud again.--Pull't off, I say.--"
V,III,MACBETH,"What rhubarb, cyme, or what purgative drug,"
V,III,MACBETH,"Would scour these English hence? Hear'st thou of them?"
V,III,Doctor,"Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation"
V,III,Doctor,"Makes us hear something."
V,III,MACBETH,"Bring it after me."
V,III,MACBETH,"I will not be afraid of death and bane,"
V,III,MACBETH,"Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane."
V,III,Doctor,"Profit again should hardly draw me here."
V,IV,MALCOLM,"Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand"
V,IV,MALCOLM,"That chambers will be safe."
V,IV,MENTEITH,"We doubt it nothing."
V,IV,SIWARD,"What wood is this before us?"
V,IV,MENTEITH,"The wood of Birnam."
V,IV,MALCOLM,"Let every soldier hew him down a bough"
V,IV,MALCOLM,"And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow"
V,IV,MALCOLM,"The numbers of our host and make discovery"
V,IV,MALCOLM,"Err in report of us."
V,IV,Soldiers,"It shall be done."
V,IV,SIWARD,"We learn no other but the confident tyrant"
V,IV,SIWARD,"Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure"
V,IV,SIWARD,"Our setting down before 't."
V,IV,MALCOLM,"'Tis his main hope:"
V,IV,MALCOLM,"For where there is advantage to be given,"
V,IV,MALCOLM,"Both more and less have given him the revolt,"
V,IV,MALCOLM,"And none serve with him but constrained things"
V,IV,MALCOLM,"Whose hearts are absent too."
V,IV,MACDUFF,"Let our just censures"
V,IV,MACDUFF,"Attend the true event, and put we on"
V,IV,MACDUFF,"Industrious soldiership."
V,IV,SIWARD,"The time approaches"
V,IV,SIWARD,"That will with due decision make us know"
V,IV,SIWARD,"What we shall say we have and what we owe."
V,IV,SIWARD,"Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,"
V,IV,SIWARD,"But certain issue strokes must arbitrate:"
V,IV,SIWARD,"Towards which advance the war."
V,V,MACBETH,"Hang out our banners on the outward walls;"
V,V,MACBETH,"The cry is still 'They come:' our castle's strength"
V,V,MACBETH,"Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie"
V,V,MACBETH,"Till famine and the ague eat them up:"
V,V,MACBETH,"Were they not forced with those that should be ours,"
V,V,MACBETH,"We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,"
V,V,MACBETH,"And beat them backward home."
V,V,MACBETH,"What is that noise?"
V,V,SEYTON,"It is the cry of women, my good lord."
V,V,MACBETH,"I have almost forgot the taste of fears;"
V,V,MACBETH,"The time has been, my senses would have cool'd"
V,V,MACBETH,"To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair"
V,V,MACBETH,"Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir"
V,V,MACBETH,"As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors;"
V,V,MACBETH,"Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts"
V,V,MACBETH,"Cannot once start me."
V,V,MACBETH,"Wherefore was that cry?"
V,V,SEYTON,"The queen, my lord, is dead."
V,V,MACBETH,"She should have died hereafter;"
V,V,MACBETH,"There would have been a time for such a word."
V,V,MACBETH,"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,"
V,V,MACBETH,"Creeps in this petty pace from day to day"
V,V,MACBETH,"To the last syllable of recorded time,"
V,V,MACBETH,"And all our yesterdays have lighted fools"
V,V,MACBETH,"The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!"
V,V,MACBETH,"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player"
V,V,MACBETH,"That struts and frets his hour upon the stage"
V,V,MACBETH,"And then is heard no more: it is a tale"
V,V,MACBETH,"Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,"
V,V,MACBETH,"Signifying nothing."
V,V,MACBETH,"Thou comest to use thy tongue; thy story quickly."
V,V,Messenger,"Gracious my lord,"
V,V,Messenger,"I should report that which I say I saw,"
V,V,Messenger,"But know not how to do it."
V,V,MACBETH,"Well, say, sir."
V,V,Messenger,"As I did stand my watch upon the hill,"
V,V,Messenger,"I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought,"
V,V,Messenger,"The wood began to move."
V,V,MACBETH,"Liar and slave!"
V,V,Messenger,"Let me endure your wrath, if't be not so:"
V,V,Messenger,"Within this three mile may you see it coming;"
V,V,Messenger,"I say, a moving grove."
V,V,MACBETH,"If thou speak'st false,"
V,V,MACBETH,"Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,"
V,V,MACBETH,"Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,"
V,V,MACBETH,"I care not if thou dost for me as much."
V,V,MACBETH,"I pull in resolution, and begin"
V,V,MACBETH,"To doubt the equivocation of the fiend"
V,V,MACBETH,"That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood"
V,V,MACBETH,"Do come to Dunsinane:'  and now a wood"
V,V,MACBETH,"Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!"
V,V,MACBETH,"If this which he avouches does appear,"
V,V,MACBETH,"There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here."
V,V,MACBETH,"I gin to be aweary of the sun,"
V,V,MACBETH,"And wish the estate o' the world were now undone."
V,V,MACBETH,"Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!"
V,V,MACBETH,"At least we'll die with harness on our back."
V,VI,MALCOLM,"Now near enough: your leafy screens throw down."
V,VI,MALCOLM,"And show like those you are. You, worthy uncle,"
V,VI,MALCOLM,"Shall, with my cousin, your right-noble son,"
V,VI,MALCOLM,"Lead our first battle: worthy Macduff and we"
V,VI,MALCOLM,"Shall take upon 's what else remains to do,"
V,VI,MALCOLM,"According to our order."
V,VI,SIWARD,"Fare you well."
V,VI,SIWARD,"Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night,"
V,VI,SIWARD,"Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight."
V,VI,MACDUFF,"Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,"
V,VI,MACDUFF,"Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death."
V,VII,MACBETH,"They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,"
V,VII,MACBETH,"But, bear-like, I must fight the course. What's he"
V,VII,MACBETH,"That was not born of woman? Such a one"
V,VII,MACBETH,"Am I to fear, or none."
V,VII,YOUNG SIWARD,"What is thy name?"
V,VII,MACBETH,"Thou'lt be afraid to hear it."
V,VII,YOUNG SIWARD,"No; though thou call'st thyself a hotter name"
V,VII,YOUNG SIWARD,"Than any is in hell."
V,VII,MACBETH,"My name's Macbeth."
V,VII,YOUNG SIWARD,"The devil himself could not pronounce a title"
V,VII,YOUNG SIWARD,"More hateful to mine ear."
V,VII,MACBETH,"No, nor more fearful."
V,VII,YOUNG SIWARD,"Thou liest, abhorred tyrant; with my sword"
V,VII,YOUNG SIWARD,"I'll prove the lie thou speak'st."
V,VII,MACBETH,"Thou wast born of woman"
V,VII,MACBETH,"But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn,"
V,VII,MACBETH,"Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born."
V,VII,MACDUFF,"That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face!"
V,VII,MACDUFF,"If thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine,"
V,VII,MACDUFF,"My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still."
V,VII,MACDUFF,"I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms"
V,VII,MACDUFF,"Are hired to bear their staves: either thou, Macbeth,"
V,VII,MACDUFF,"Or else my sword with an unbatter'd edge"
V,VII,MACDUFF,"I sheathe again undeeded. There thou shouldst be;"
V,VII,MACDUFF,"By this great clatter, one of greatest note"
V,VII,MACDUFF,"Seems bruited. Let me find him, fortune!"
V,VII,MACDUFF,"And more I beg not."
V,VII,SIWARD,"This way, my lord; the castle's gently render'd:"
V,VII,SIWARD,"The tyrant's people on both sides do fight;"
V,VII,SIWARD,"The noble thanes do bravely in the war;"
V,VII,SIWARD,"The day almost itself professes yours,"
V,VII,SIWARD,"And little is to do."
V,VII,MALCOLM,"We have met with foes"
V,VII,MALCOLM,"That strike beside us."
V,VII,SIWARD,"Enter, sir, the castle."
V,VIII,MACBETH,"Why should I play the Roman fool, and die"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"On mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"Do better upon them."
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"Turn, hell-hound, turn!"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"Of all men else I have avoided thee:"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"But get thee back; my soul is too much charged"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"With blood of thine already."
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"I have no words:"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"My voice is in my sword: thou bloodier villain"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"Than terms can give thee out!"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"Thou losest labour:"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed:"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"To one of woman born."
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"Despair thy charm;"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"And let the angel whom thou still hast served"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"Untimely ripp'd."
V,VIII,MACBETH,"Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"For it hath cow'd my better part of man!"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"And be these juggling fiends no more believed,"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"That palter with us in a double sense;"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"That keep the word of promise to our ear,"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee."
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"Then yield thee, coward,"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"Painted on a pole, and underwrit,"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"'Here may you see the tyrant.'"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"I will not yield,"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"And to be baited with the rabble's curse."
V,VIII,MACBETH,"Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"And thou opposed, being of no woman born,"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"Yet I will try the last. Before my body"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,"
V,VIII,MACBETH,"And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"I would the friends we miss were safe arrived."
V,VIII,SIWARD,"Some must go off: and yet, by these I see,"
V,VIII,SIWARD,"So great a day as this is cheaply bought."
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"Macduff is missing, and your noble son."
V,VIII,ROSS,"Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt:"
V,VIII,ROSS,"He only lived but till he was a man;"
V,VIII,ROSS,"The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd"
V,VIII,ROSS,"In the unshrinking station where he fought,"
V,VIII,ROSS,"But like a man he died."
V,VIII,SIWARD,"Then he is dead?"
V,VIII,ROSS,"Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow"
V,VIII,ROSS,"Must not be measured by his worth, for then"
V,VIII,ROSS,"It hath no end."
V,VIII,SIWARD,"Had he his hurts before?"
V,VIII,ROSS,"Ay, on the front."
V,VIII,SIWARD,"Why then, God's soldier be he!"
V,VIII,SIWARD,"Had I as many sons as I have hairs,"
V,VIII,SIWARD,"I would not wish them to a fairer death:"
V,VIII,SIWARD,"And so, his knell is knoll'd."
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"He's worth more sorrow,"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"And that I'll spend for him."
V,VIII,SIWARD,"He's worth no more"
V,VIII,SIWARD,"They say he parted well, and paid his score:"
V,VIII,SIWARD,"And so, God be with him! Here comes newer comfort."
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"The usurper's cursed head: the time is free:"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl,"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"That speak my salutation in their minds;"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:"
V,VIII,MACDUFF,"Hail, King of Scotland!"
V,VIII,ALL,"Hail, King of Scotland!"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"We shall not spend a large expense of time"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"Before we reckon with your several loves,"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"In such an honour named. What's more to do,"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"Which would be planted newly with the time,"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"As calling home our exiled friends abroad"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"Producing forth the cruel ministers"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"Took off her life; this, and what needful else"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"We will perform in measure, time and place:"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"So, thanks to all at once and to each one,"
V,VIII,MALCOLM,"Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone."
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Escalus."
I,I,ESCALUS,"My lord."
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Of government the properties to unfold,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse;"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Since I am put to know that your own science"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"My strength can give you: then no more remains,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But that to your sufficiency, as your Worth is able,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And let them work. The nature of our people,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Our city's institutions, and the terms"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For common justice, you're as pregnant in"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"As art and practise hath enriched any"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That we remember. There is our commission,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"From which we would not have you warp. Call hither,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I say, bid come before us Angelo."
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"What figure of us think you he will bear?"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For you must know, we have with special soul"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Elected him our absence to supply,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our love,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And given his deputation all the organs"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Of our own power: what think you of it?"
I,I,ESCALUS,"If any in Vienna be of worth"
I,I,ESCALUS,"To undergo such ample grace and honour,"
I,I,ESCALUS,"It is Lord Angelo."
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Look where he comes."
I,I,ANGELO,"Always obedient to your grace's will,"
I,I,ANGELO,"I come to know your pleasure."
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Angelo,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"There is a kind of character in thy life,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That to the observer doth thy history"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Are not thine own so proper as to waste"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee."
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The smallest scruple of her excellence"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Herself the glory of a creditor,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Both thanks and use. But I do bend my speech"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To one that can my part in him advertise;"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Hold therefore, Angelo:--"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"In our remove be thou at full ourself;"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Mortality and mercy in Vienna"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Live in thy tongue and heart: old Escalus,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Though first in question, is thy secondary."
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Take thy commission."
I,I,ANGELO,"Now, good my lord,"
I,I,ANGELO,"Let there be some more test made of my metal,"
I,I,ANGELO,"Before so noble and so great a figure"
I,I,ANGELO,"Be stamp'd upon it."
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"No more evasion:"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Proceeded to you; therefore take your honours."
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Our haste from hence is of so quick condition"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That it prefers itself and leaves unquestion'd"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Matters of needful value. We shall write to you,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"As time and our concernings shall importune,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"How it goes with us, and do look to know"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"What doth befall you here. So, fare you well;"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To the hopeful execution do I leave you"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Of your commissions."
I,I,ANGELO,"Yet give leave, my lord,"
I,I,ANGELO,"That we may bring you something on the way."
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"My haste may not admit it;"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"With any scruple; your scope is as mine own"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"So to enforce or qualify the laws"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"As to your soul seems good. Give me your hand:"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I'll privily away. I love the people,"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But do not like to stage me to their eyes:"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Through it do well, I do not relish well"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Their loud applause and Aves vehement;"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Nor do I think the man of safe discretion"
I,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That does affect it. Once more, fare you well."
I,I,ANGELO,"The heavens give safety to your purposes!"
I,I,ESCALUS,"Lead forth and bring you back in happiness!"
I,I,DUKE,"I thank you. Fare you well."
I,I,ESCALUS,"I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave"
I,I,ESCALUS,"To have free speech with you; and it concerns me"
I,I,ESCALUS,"To look into the bottom of my place:"
I,I,ESCALUS,"A power I have, but of what strength and nature"
I,I,ESCALUS,"I am not yet instructed."
I,I,ANGELO,"'Tis so with me. Let us withdraw together,"
I,I,ANGELO,"And we may soon our satisfaction have"
I,I,ANGELO,"Touching that point."
I,I,ESCALUS,"I'll wait upon your honour."
I,II,LUCIO,"If the duke with the other dukes come not to"
I,II,LUCIO,"composition with the King of Hungary, why then all"
I,II,LUCIO,"the dukes fall upon the king."
I,II,First Gentleman,"Heaven grant us its peace, but not the King of"
I,II,First Gentleman,"Hungary's!"
I,II,Second Gentleman,"Amen."
I,II,LUCIO,"Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that"
I,II,LUCIO,"went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped"
I,II,LUCIO,"one out of the table."
I,II,Second Gentleman,"'Thou shalt not steal'?"
I,II,LUCIO,"Ay, that he razed."
I,II,First Gentleman,"Why, 'twas a commandment to command the captain and"
I,II,First Gentleman,"all the rest from their functions: they put forth"
I,II,First Gentleman,"to steal. There's not a soldier of us all, that, in"
I,II,First Gentleman,"the thanksgiving before meat, do relish the petition"
I,II,First Gentleman,"well that prays for peace."
I,II,Second Gentleman,"I never heard any soldier dislike it."
I,II,LUCIO,"I believe thee; for I think thou never wast where"
I,II,LUCIO,"grace was said."
I,II,Second Gentleman,"No? a dozen times at least."
I,II,First Gentleman,"What, in metre?"
I,II,LUCIO,"In any proportion or in any language."
I,II,First Gentleman,"I think, or in any religion."
I,II,LUCIO,"Ay, why not? Grace is grace, despite of all"
I,II,LUCIO,"controversy: as, for example, thou thyself art a"
I,II,LUCIO,"wicked villain, despite of all grace."
I,II,First Gentleman,"Well, there went but a pair of shears between us."
I,II,LUCIO,"I grant; as there may between the lists and the"
I,II,LUCIO,"velvet. Thou art the list."
I,II,First Gentleman,"And thou the velvet: thou art good velvet; thou'rt"
I,II,First Gentleman,"a three-piled piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief"
I,II,First Gentleman,"be a list of an English kersey as be piled, as thou"
I,II,First Gentleman,"art piled, for a French velvet. Do I speak"
I,II,First Gentleman,"feelingly now?"
I,II,LUCIO,"I think thou dost; and, indeed, with most painful"
I,II,LUCIO,"feeling of thy speech: I will, out of thine own"
I,II,LUCIO,"confession, learn to begin thy health; but, whilst I"
I,II,LUCIO,"live, forget to drink after thee."
I,II,First Gentleman,"I think I have done myself wrong, have I not?"
I,II,Second Gentleman,"Yes, that thou hast, whether thou art tainted or free."
I,II,LUCIO,"Behold, behold. where Madam Mitigation comes! I"
I,II,LUCIO,"have purchased as many diseases under her roof as come to--"
I,II,Second Gentleman,"To what, I pray?"
I,II,LUCIO,"Judge."
I,II,Second Gentleman,"To three thousand dolours a year."
I,II,First Gentleman,"Ay, and more."
I,II,LUCIO,"A French crown more."
I,II,First Gentleman,"Thou art always figuring diseases in me; but thou"
I,II,First Gentleman,"art full of error; I am sound."
I,II,LUCIO,"Nay, not as one would say, healthy; but so sound as"
I,II,LUCIO,"things that are hollow: thy bones are hollow;"
I,II,LUCIO,"impiety has made a feast of thee."
I,II,First Gentleman,"How now! which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?"
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"Well, well; there's one yonder arrested and carried"
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"to prison was worth five thousand of you all."
I,II,Second Gentleman,"Who's that, I pray thee?"
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"Marry, sir, that's Claudio, Signior Claudio."
I,II,First Gentleman,"Claudio to prison? 'tis not so."
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"Nay, but I know 'tis so: I saw him arrested, saw"
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"him carried away; and, which is more, within these"
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"three days his head to be chopped off."
I,II,LUCIO,"But, after all this fooling, I would not have it so."
I,II,LUCIO,"Art thou sure of this?"
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"I am too sure of it: and it is for getting Madam"
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"Julietta with child."
I,II,LUCIO,"Believe me, this may be: he promised to meet me two"
I,II,LUCIO,"hours since, and he was ever precise in"
I,II,LUCIO,"promise-keeping."
I,II,Second Gentleman,"Besides, you know, it draws something near to the"
I,II,Second Gentleman,"speech we had to such a purpose."
I,II,First Gentleman,"But, most of all, agreeing with the proclamation."
I,II,LUCIO,"Away! let's go learn the truth of it."
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what"
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"with the gallows and what with poverty, I am"
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"custom-shrunk."
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"How now! what's the news with you?"
I,II,POMPEY,"Yonder man is carried to prison."
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"Well; what has he done?"
I,II,POMPEY,"A woman."
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"But what's his offence?"
I,II,POMPEY,"Groping for trouts in a peculiar river."
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"What, is there a maid with child by him?"
I,II,POMPEY,"No, but there's a woman with maid by him. You have"
I,II,POMPEY,"not heard of the proclamation, have you?"
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"What proclamation, man?"
I,II,POMPEY,"All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down."
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"And what shall become of those in the city?"
I,II,POMPEY,"They shall stand for seed: they had gone down too,"
I,II,POMPEY,"but that a wise burgher put in for them."
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"But shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be"
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"pulled down?"
I,II,POMPEY,"To the ground, mistress."
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth!"
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"What shall become of me?"
I,II,POMPEY,"Come; fear you not: good counsellors lack no"
I,II,POMPEY,"clients: though you change your place, you need not"
I,II,POMPEY,"change your trade; I'll be your tapster still."
I,II,POMPEY,"Courage! there will be pity taken on you: you that"
I,II,POMPEY,"have worn your eyes almost out in the service, you"
I,II,POMPEY,"will be considered."
I,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"What's to do here, Thomas tapster? let's withdraw."
I,II,POMPEY,"Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the provost to"
I,II,POMPEY,"prison; and there's Madam Juliet."
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to the world?"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Bear me to prison, where I am committed."
I,II,Provost,"I do it not in evil disposition,"
I,II,Provost,"But from Lord Angelo by special charge."
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Thus can the demigod Authority"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Make us pay down for our offence by weight"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will;"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"On whom it will not, so; yet still 'tis just."
I,II,LUCIO,"Why, how now, Claudio! whence comes this restraint?"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty:"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"As surfeit is the father of much fast,"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"So every scope by the immoderate use"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue,"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die."
I,II,LUCIO,"If could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would"
I,II,LUCIO,"send for certain of my creditors: and yet, to say"
I,II,LUCIO,"the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom"
I,II,LUCIO,"as the morality of imprisonment. What's thy"
I,II,LUCIO,"offence, Claudio?"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"What but to speak of would offend again."
I,II,LUCIO,"What, is't murder?"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"No."
I,II,LUCIO,"Lechery?"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Call it so."
I,II,Provost,"Away, sir! you must go."
I,II,CLAUDIO,"One word, good friend. Lucio, a word with you."
I,II,LUCIO,"A hundred, if they'll do you any good."
I,II,LUCIO,"Is lechery so look'd after?"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Thus stands it with me: upon a true contract"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"I got possession of Julietta's bed:"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"You know the lady; she is fast my wife,"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Save that we do the denunciation lack"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Of outward order: this we came not to,"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Only for propagation of a dower"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Remaining in the coffer of her friends,"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"From whom we thought it meet to hide our love"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Till time had made them for us. But it chances"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"The stealth of our most mutual entertainment"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"With character too gross is writ on Juliet."
I,II,LUCIO,"With child, perhaps?"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Unhappily, even so."
I,II,CLAUDIO,"And the new deputy now for the duke--"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness,"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Or whether that the body public be"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"A horse whereon the governor doth ride,"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Who, newly in the seat, that it may know"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"He can command, lets it straight feel the spur;"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Whether the tyranny be in his place,"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Or in his emmence that fills it up,"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"I stagger in:--but this new governor"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Awakes me all the enrolled penalties"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"So long that nineteen zodiacs have gone round"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"And none of them been worn; and, for a name,"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Now puts the drowsy and neglected act"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Freshly on me: 'tis surely for a name."
I,II,LUCIO,"I warrant it is: and thy head stands so tickle on"
I,II,LUCIO,"thy shoulders that a milkmaid, if she be in love,"
I,II,LUCIO,"may sigh it off. Send after the duke and appeal to"
I,II,LUCIO,"him."
I,II,CLAUDIO,"I have done so, but he's not to be found."
I,II,CLAUDIO,"I prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service:"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"This day my sister should the cloister enter"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"And there receive her approbation:"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Acquaint her with the danger of my state:"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"To the strict deputy; bid herself assay him:"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"I have great hope in that; for in her youth"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"There is a prone and speechless dialect,"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"When she will play with reason and discourse,"
I,II,CLAUDIO,"And well she can persuade."
I,II,LUCIO,"I pray she may; as well for the encouragement of the"
I,II,LUCIO,"like, which else would stand under grievous"
I,II,LUCIO,"imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life, who I"
I,II,LUCIO,"would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a"
I,II,LUCIO,"game of tick-tack. I'll to her."
I,II,CLAUDIO,"I thank you, good friend Lucio."
I,II,LUCIO,"Within two hours."
I,II,CLAUDIO,"Come, officer, away!"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"No, holy father; throw away that thought;"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Believe not that the dribbling dart of love"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To give me secret harbour, hath a purpose"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Of burning youth."
I,III,FRIAR THOMAS,"May your grace speak of it?"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"My holy sir, none better knows than you"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"How I have ever loved the life removed"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And held in idle price to haunt assemblies"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery keeps."
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I have deliver'd to Lord Angelo,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"A man of stricture and firm abstinence,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"My absolute power and place here in Vienna,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And he supposes me travell'd to Poland;"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For so I have strew'd it in the common ear,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And so it is received. Now, pious sir,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"You will demand of me why I do this?"
I,III,FRIAR THOMAS,"Gladly, my lord."
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"We have strict statutes and most biting laws."
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Which for this nineteen years we have let slip;"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That goes not out to prey. Now, as fond fathers,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Only to stick it in their children's sight"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For terror, not to use, in time the rod"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Becomes more mock'd than fear'd; so our decrees,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead;"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And liberty plucks justice by the nose;"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Goes all decorum."
I,III,FRIAR THOMAS,"It rested in your grace"
I,III,FRIAR THOMAS,"To unloose this tied-up justice when you pleased:"
I,III,FRIAR THOMAS,"And it in you more dreadful would have seem'd"
I,III,FRIAR THOMAS,"Than in Lord Angelo."
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I do fear, too dreadful:"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"'Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For what I bid them do: for we bid this be done,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"When evil deeds have their permissive pass"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And not the punishment. Therefore indeed, my father,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I have on Angelo imposed the office;"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And yet my nature never in the fight"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To do in slander. And to behold his sway,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I will, as 'twere a brother of your order,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Visit both prince and people: therefore, I prithee,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Supply me with the habit and instruct me"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"How I may formally in person bear me"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Like a true friar. More reasons for this action"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"At our more leisure shall I render you;"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Only, this one: Lord Angelo is precise;"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Stands at a guard with envy; scarce confesses"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That his blood flows, or that his appetite"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Is more to bread than stone: hence shall we see,"
I,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"If power change purpose, what our seemers be."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"And have you nuns no farther privileges?"
I,IV,FRANCISCA,"Are not these large enough?"
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Yes, truly; I speak not as desiring more;"
I,IV,ISABELLA,"But rather wishing a more strict restraint"
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Who's that which calls?"
I,IV,FRANCISCA,"It is a man's voice. Gentle Isabella,"
I,IV,FRANCISCA,"Turn you the key, and know his business of him;"
I,IV,FRANCISCA,"You may, I may not; you are yet unsworn."
I,IV,FRANCISCA,"When you have vow'd, you must not speak with men"
I,IV,FRANCISCA,"But in the presence of the prioress:"
I,IV,FRANCISCA,"Then, if you speak, you must not show your face,"
I,IV,FRANCISCA,"Or, if you show your face, you must not speak."
I,IV,FRANCISCA,"He calls again; I pray you, answer him."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Peace and prosperity! Who is't that calls"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Hail, virgin, if you be, as those cheek-roses"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Proclaim you are no less! Can you so stead me"
I,IV,LUCIO,"As bring me to the sight of Isabella,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"A novice of this place and the fair sister"
I,IV,LUCIO,"To her unhappy brother Claudio?"
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Why 'her unhappy brother'? let me ask,"
I,IV,ISABELLA,"The rather for I now must make you know"
I,IV,ISABELLA,"I am that Isabella and his sister."
I,IV,LUCIO,"Gentle and fair, your brother kindly greets you:"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Not to be weary with you, he's in prison."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Woe me! for what?"
I,IV,LUCIO,"For that which, if myself might be his judge,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"He should receive his punishment in thanks:"
I,IV,LUCIO,"He hath got his friend with child."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Sir, make me not your story."
I,IV,LUCIO,"It is true."
I,IV,LUCIO,"I would not--though 'tis my familiar sin"
I,IV,LUCIO,"With maids to seem the lapwing and to jest,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Tongue far from heart--play with all virgins so:"
I,IV,LUCIO,"I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted."
I,IV,LUCIO,"By your renouncement an immortal spirit,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"And to be talk'd with in sincerity,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"As with a saint."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"You do blaspheme the good in mocking me."
I,IV,LUCIO,"Do not believe it. Fewness and truth, 'tis thus:"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Your brother and his lover have embraced:"
I,IV,LUCIO,"As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time"
I,IV,LUCIO,"That from the seedness the bare fallow brings"
I,IV,LUCIO,"To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Some one with child by him? My cousin Juliet?"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Is she your cousin?"
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Adoptedly; as school-maids change their names"
I,IV,ISABELLA,"By vain though apt affection."
I,IV,LUCIO,"She it is."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"O, let him marry her."
I,IV,LUCIO,"This is the point."
I,IV,LUCIO,"The duke is very strangely gone from hence;"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Bore many gentlemen, myself being one,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"In hand and hope of action: but we do learn"
I,IV,LUCIO,"By those that know the very nerves of state,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"His givings-out were of an infinite distance"
I,IV,LUCIO,"From his true-meant design. Upon his place,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"And with full line of his authority,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Governs Lord Angelo; a man whose blood"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Is very snow-broth; one who never feels"
I,IV,LUCIO,"The wanton stings and motions of the sense,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge"
I,IV,LUCIO,"With profits of the mind, study and fast."
I,IV,LUCIO,"He--to give fear to use and liberty,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Which have for long run by the hideous law,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"As mice by lions--hath pick'd out an act,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Under whose heavy sense your brother's life"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Falls into forfeit: he arrests him on it;"
I,IV,LUCIO,"And follows close the rigour of the statute,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"To make him an example. All hope is gone,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Unless you have the grace by your fair prayer"
I,IV,LUCIO,"To soften Angelo: and that's my pith of business"
I,IV,LUCIO,"'Twixt you and your poor brother."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Doth he so seek his life?"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Has censured him"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Already; and, as I hear, the provost hath"
I,IV,LUCIO,"A warrant for his execution."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Alas! what poor ability's in me"
I,IV,ISABELLA,"To do him good?"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Assay the power you have."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"My power? Alas, I doubt--"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Our doubts are traitors"
I,IV,LUCIO,"And make us lose the good we oft might win"
I,IV,LUCIO,"By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"And let him learn to know, when maidens sue,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"Men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel,"
I,IV,LUCIO,"All their petitions are as freely theirs"
I,IV,LUCIO,"As they themselves would owe them."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"I'll see what I can do."
I,IV,LUCIO,"But speedily."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"I will about it straight;"
I,IV,ISABELLA,"No longer staying but to give the mother"
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you:"
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Commend me to my brother: soon at night"
I,IV,ISABELLA,"I'll send him certain word of my success."
I,IV,LUCIO,"I take my leave of you."
I,IV,ISABELLA,"Good sir, adieu."
II,I,ANGELO,"We must not make a scarecrow of the law,"
II,I,ANGELO,"Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,"
II,I,ANGELO,"And let it keep one shape, till custom make it"
II,I,ANGELO,"Their perch and not their terror."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Ay, but yet"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Let us be keen, and rather cut a little,"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Than fall, and bruise to death. Alas, this gentleman"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Whom I would save, had a most noble father!"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Let but your honour know,"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue,"
II,I,ESCALUS,"That, in the working of your own affections,"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Had time cohered with place or place with wishing,"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Or that the resolute acting of your blood"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose,"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Whether you had not sometime in your life"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Err'd in this point which now you censure him,"
II,I,ESCALUS,"And pull'd the law upon you."
II,I,ANGELO,"'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,"
II,I,ANGELO,"Another thing to fall. I not deny,"
II,I,ANGELO,"The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,"
II,I,ANGELO,"May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two"
II,I,ANGELO,"Guiltier than him they try. What's open made to justice,"
II,I,ANGELO,"That justice seizes: what know the laws"
II,I,ANGELO,"That thieves do pass on thieves? 'Tis very pregnant,"
II,I,ANGELO,"The jewel that we find, we stoop and take't"
II,I,ANGELO,"Because we see it; but what we do not see"
II,I,ANGELO,"We tread upon, and never think of it."
II,I,ANGELO,"You may not so extenuate his offence"
II,I,ANGELO,"For I have had such faults; but rather tell me,"
II,I,ANGELO,"When I, that censure him, do so offend,"
II,I,ANGELO,"Let mine own judgment pattern out my death,"
II,I,ANGELO,"And nothing come in partial. Sir, he must die."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Be it as your wisdom will."
II,I,ANGELO,"Where is the provost?"
II,I,Provost,"Here, if it like your honour."
II,I,ANGELO,"See that Claudio"
II,I,ANGELO,"Be executed by nine to-morrow morning:"
II,I,ANGELO,"Bring him his confessor, let him be prepared;"
II,I,ANGELO,"For that's the utmost of his pilgrimage."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:"
II,I,ESCALUS,"And some condemned for a fault alone."
II,I,ELBOW,"Come, bring them away: if these be good people in"
II,I,ELBOW,"a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in"
II,I,ELBOW,"common houses, I know no law: bring them away."
II,I,ANGELO,"How now, sir! What's your name? and what's the matter?"
II,I,ELBOW,"If it Please your honour, I am the poor duke's"
II,I,ELBOW,"constable, and my name is Elbow: I do lean upon"
II,I,ELBOW,"justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good"
II,I,ELBOW,"honour two notorious benefactors."
II,I,ANGELO,"Benefactors? Well; what benefactors are they? are"
II,I,ANGELO,"they not malefactors?"
II,I,ELBOW,"If it? please your honour, I know not well what they"
II,I,ELBOW,"are: but precise villains they are, that I am sure"
II,I,ELBOW,"of; and void of all profanation in the world that"
II,I,ELBOW,"good Christians ought to have."
II,I,ESCALUS,"This comes off well; here's a wise officer."
II,I,ANGELO,"Go to: what quality are they of? Elbow is your"
II,I,ANGELO,"name? why dost thou not speak, Elbow?"
II,I,POMPEY,"He cannot, sir; he's out at elbow."
II,I,ANGELO,"What are you, sir?"
II,I,ELBOW,"He, sir! a tapster, sir; parcel-bawd; one that"
II,I,ELBOW,"serves a bad woman; whose house, sir, was, as they"
II,I,ELBOW,"say, plucked down in the suburbs; and now she"
II,I,ELBOW,"professes a hot-house, which, I think, is a very ill house too."
II,I,ESCALUS,"How know you that?"
II,I,ELBOW,"My wife, sir, whom I detest before heaven and your honour,--"
II,I,ESCALUS,"How? thy wife?"
II,I,ELBOW,"Ay, sir; whom, I thank heaven, is an honest woman,--"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Dost thou detest her therefore?"
II,I,ELBOW,"I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as well as"
II,I,ELBOW,"she, that this house, if it be not a bawd's house,"
II,I,ELBOW,"it is pity of her life, for it is a naughty house."
II,I,ESCALUS,"How dost thou know that, constable?"
II,I,ELBOW,"Marry, sir, by my wife; who, if she had been a woman"
II,I,ELBOW,"cardinally given, might have been accused in"
II,I,ELBOW,"fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness there."
II,I,ESCALUS,"By the woman's means?"
II,I,ELBOW,"Ay, sir, by Mistress Overdone's means: but as she"
II,I,ELBOW,"spit in his face, so she defied him."
II,I,POMPEY,"Sir, if it please your honour, this is not so."
II,I,ELBOW,"Prove it before these varlets here, thou honourable"
II,I,ELBOW,"man; prove it."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Do you hear how he misplaces?"
II,I,POMPEY,"Sir, she came in great with child; and longing,"
II,I,POMPEY,"saving your honour's reverence, for stewed prunes;"
II,I,POMPEY,"sir, we had but two in the house, which at that very"
II,I,POMPEY,"distant time stood, as it were, in a fruit-dish, a"
II,I,POMPEY,"dish of some three-pence; your honours have seen"
II,I,POMPEY,"such dishes; they are not China dishes, but very"
II,I,POMPEY,"good dishes,--"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Go to, go to: no matter for the dish, sir."
II,I,POMPEY,"No, indeed, sir, not of a pin; you are therein in"
II,I,POMPEY,"the right: but to the point. As I say, this"
II,I,POMPEY,"Mistress Elbow, being, as I say, with child, and"
II,I,POMPEY,"being great-bellied, and longing, as I said, for"
II,I,POMPEY,"prunes; and having but two in the dish, as I said,"
II,I,POMPEY,"Master Froth here, this very man, having eaten the"
II,I,POMPEY,"rest, as I said, and, as I say, paying for them very"
II,I,POMPEY,"honestly; for, as you know, Master Froth, I could"
II,I,POMPEY,"not give you three-pence again."
II,I,FROTH,"No, indeed."
II,I,POMPEY,"Very well: you being then, if you be remembered,"
II,I,POMPEY,"cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes,--"
II,I,FROTH,"Ay, so I did indeed."
II,I,POMPEY,"Why, very well; I telling you then, if you be"
II,I,POMPEY,"remembered, that such a one and such a one were past"
II,I,POMPEY,"cure of the thing you wot of, unless they kept very"
II,I,POMPEY,"good diet, as I told you,--"
II,I,FROTH,"All this is true."
II,I,POMPEY,"Why, very well, then,--"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Come, you are a tedious fool: to the purpose. What"
II,I,ESCALUS,"was done to Elbow's wife, that he hath cause to"
II,I,ESCALUS,"complain of? Come me to what was done to her."
II,I,POMPEY,"Sir, your honour cannot come to that yet."
II,I,ESCALUS,"No, sir, nor I mean it not."
II,I,POMPEY,"Sir, but you shall come to it, by your honour's"
II,I,POMPEY,"leave. And, I beseech you, look into Master Froth"
II,I,POMPEY,"here, sir; a man of four-score pound a year; whose"
II,I,POMPEY,"father died at Hallowmas: was't not at Hallowmas,"
II,I,POMPEY,"Master Froth?"
II,I,FROTH,"All-hallond eve."
II,I,POMPEY,"Why, very well; I hope here be truths. He, sir,"
II,I,POMPEY,"sitting, as I say, in a lower chair, sir; 'twas in"
II,I,POMPEY,"the Bunch of Grapes, where indeed you have a delight"
II,I,POMPEY,"to sit, have you not?"
II,I,FROTH,"I have so; because it is an open room and good for winter."
II,I,POMPEY,"Why, very well, then; I hope here be truths."
II,I,ANGELO,"This will last out a night in Russia,"
II,I,ANGELO,"When nights are longest there: I'll take my leave."
II,I,ANGELO,"And leave you to the hearing of the cause;"
II,I,ANGELO,"Hoping you'll find good cause to whip them all."
II,I,ESCALUS,"I think no less. Good morrow to your lordship."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Now, sir, come on: what was done to Elbow's wife, once more?"
II,I,POMPEY,"Once, sir? there was nothing done to her once."
II,I,ELBOW,"I beseech you, sir, ask him what this man did to my wife."
II,I,POMPEY,"I beseech your honour, ask me."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Well, sir; what did this gentleman to her?"
II,I,POMPEY,"I beseech you, sir, look in this gentleman's face."
II,I,POMPEY,"Good Master Froth, look upon his honour; 'tis for a"
II,I,POMPEY,"good purpose. Doth your honour mark his face?"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Ay, sir, very well."
II,I,POMPEY,"Nay; I beseech you, mark it well."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Well, I do so."
II,I,POMPEY,"Doth your honour see any harm in his face?"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Why, no."
II,I,POMPEY,"I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst"
II,I,POMPEY,"thing about him. Good, then; if his face be the"
II,I,POMPEY,"worst thing about him, how could Master Froth do the"
II,I,POMPEY,"constable's wife any harm? I would know that of"
II,I,POMPEY,"your honour."
II,I,ESCALUS,"He's in the right. Constable, what say you to it?"
II,I,ELBOW,"First, an it like you, the house is a respected"
II,I,ELBOW,"house; next, this is a respected fellow; and his"
II,I,ELBOW,"mistress is a respected woman."
II,I,POMPEY,"By this hand, sir, his wife is a more respected"
II,I,POMPEY,"person than any of us all."
II,I,ELBOW,"Varlet, thou liest; thou liest, wicked varlet! the"
II,I,ELBOW,"time has yet to come that she was ever respected"
II,I,ELBOW,"with man, woman, or child."
II,I,POMPEY,"Sir, she was respected with him before he married with her."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Which is the wiser here? Justice or Iniquity? Is"
II,I,ESCALUS,"this true?"
II,I,ELBOW,"O thou caitiff! O thou varlet! O thou wicked"
II,I,ELBOW,"Hannibal! I respected with her before I was married"
II,I,ELBOW,"to her! If ever I was respected with her, or she"
II,I,ELBOW,"with me, let not your worship think me the poor"
II,I,ELBOW,"duke's officer. Prove this, thou wicked Hannibal, or"
II,I,ELBOW,"I'll have mine action of battery on thee."
II,I,ESCALUS,"If he took you a box o' the ear, you might have your"
II,I,ESCALUS,"action of slander too."
II,I,ELBOW,"Marry, I thank your good worship for it. What is't"
II,I,ELBOW,"your worship's pleasure I shall do with this wicked caitiff?"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Truly, officer, because he hath some offences in him"
II,I,ESCALUS,"that thou wouldst discover if thou couldst, let him"
II,I,ESCALUS,"continue in his courses till thou knowest what they"
II,I,ESCALUS,"are."
II,I,ELBOW,"Marry, I thank your worship for it. Thou seest, thou"
II,I,ELBOW,"wicked varlet, now, what's come upon thee: thou art"
II,I,ELBOW,"to continue now, thou varlet; thou art to continue."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Where were you born, friend?"
II,I,FROTH,"Here in Vienna, sir."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Are you of fourscore pounds a year?"
II,I,FROTH,"Yes, an't please you, sir."
II,I,ESCALUS,"So. What trade are you of, sir?"
II,I,POMPHEY,"Tapster; a poor widow's tapster."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Your mistress' name?"
II,I,POMPHEY,"Mistress Overdone."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Hath she had any more than one husband?"
II,I,POMPEY,"Nine, sir; Overdone by the last."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Nine! Come hither to me, Master Froth. Master"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Froth, I would not have you acquainted with"
II,I,ESCALUS,"tapsters: they will draw you, Master Froth, and you"
II,I,ESCALUS,"will hang them. Get you gone, and let me hear no"
II,I,ESCALUS,"more of you."
II,I,FROTH,"I thank your worship. For mine own part, I never"
II,I,FROTH,"come into any room in a tap-house, but I am drawn"
II,I,FROTH,"in."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Well, no more of it, Master Froth: farewell."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Come you hither to me, Master tapster. What's your"
II,I,ESCALUS,"name, Master tapster?"
II,I,POMPEY,"Pompey."
II,I,ESCALUS,"What else?"
II,I,POMPEY,"Bum, sir."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about you;"
II,I,ESCALUS,"so that in the beastliest sense you are Pompey the"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Great. Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey,"
II,I,ESCALUS,"howsoever you colour it in being a tapster, are you"
II,I,ESCALUS,"not? come, tell me true: it shall be the better for you."
II,I,POMPEY,"Truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that would live."
II,I,ESCALUS,"How would you live, Pompey? by being a bawd? What"
II,I,ESCALUS,"do you think of the trade, Pompey? is it a lawful trade?"
II,I,POMPEY,"If the law would allow it, sir."
II,I,ESCALUS,"But the law will not allow it, Pompey; nor it shall"
II,I,ESCALUS,"not be allowed in Vienna."
II,I,POMPEY,"Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the"
II,I,POMPEY,"youth of the city?"
II,I,ESCALUS,"No, Pompey."
II,I,POMPEY,"Truly, sir, in my poor opinion, they will to't then."
II,I,POMPEY,"If your worship will take order for the drabs and"
II,I,POMPEY,"the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds."
II,I,ESCALUS,"There are pretty orders beginning, I can tell you:"
II,I,ESCALUS,"it is but heading and hanging."
II,I,POMPEY,"If you head and hang all that offend that way but"
II,I,POMPEY,"for ten year together, you'll be glad to give out a"
II,I,POMPEY,"commission for more heads: if this law hold in"
II,I,POMPEY,"Vienna ten year, I'll rent the fairest house in it"
II,I,POMPEY,"after three-pence a bay: if you live to see this"
II,I,POMPEY,"come to pass, say Pompey told you so."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Thank you, good Pompey; and, in requital of your"
II,I,ESCALUS,"prophecy, hark you: I advise you, let me not find"
II,I,ESCALUS,"you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever;"
II,I,ESCALUS,"no, not for dwelling where you do: if I do, Pompey,"
II,I,ESCALUS,"I shall beat you to your tent, and prove a shrewd"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Caesar to you; in plain dealing, Pompey, I shall"
II,I,ESCALUS,"have you whipt: so, for this time, Pompey, fare you well."
II,I,POMPEY,"I thank your worship for your good counsel:"
II,I,POMPEY,"but I shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall"
II,I,POMPEY,"better determine."
II,I,POMPEY,"Whip me? No, no; let carman whip his jade:"
II,I,POMPEY,"The valiant heart is not whipt out of his trade."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Come hither to me, Master Elbow; come hither, Master"
II,I,ESCALUS,"constable. How long have you been in this place of constable?"
II,I,ELBOW,"Seven year and a half, sir."
II,I,ESCALUS,"I thought, by your readiness in the office, you had"
II,I,ESCALUS,"continued in it some time. You say, seven years together?"
II,I,ELBOW,"And a half, sir."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Alas, it hath been great pains to you. They do you"
II,I,ESCALUS,"wrong to put you so oft upon 't: are there not men"
II,I,ESCALUS,"in your ward sufficient to serve it?"
II,I,ELBOW,"Faith, sir, few of any wit in such matters: as they"
II,I,ELBOW,"are chosen, they are glad to choose me for them; I"
II,I,ELBOW,"do it for some piece of money, and go through with"
II,I,ELBOW,"all."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Look you bring me in the names of some six or seven,"
II,I,ESCALUS,"the most sufficient of your parish."
II,I,ELBOW,"To your worship's house, sir?"
II,I,ESCALUS,"To my house. Fare you well."
II,I,ESCALUS,"What's o'clock, think you?"
II,I,Justice,"Eleven, sir."
II,I,ESCALUS,"I pray you home to dinner with me."
II,I,Justice,"I humbly thank you."
II,I,ESCALUS,"It grieves me for the death of Claudio;"
II,I,ESCALUS,"But there's no remedy."
II,I,Justice,"Lord Angelo is severe."
II,I,ESCALUS,"It is but needful:"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so;"
II,I,ESCALUS,"Pardon is still the nurse of second woe:"
II,I,ESCALUS,"But yet,--poor Claudio! There is no remedy."
II,I,ESCALUS,"Come, sir."
II,II,Servant,"He's hearing of a cause; he will come straight"
II,II,Servant,"I'll tell him of you."
II,II,Provost,"Pray you, do."
II,II,Provost,"I'll know"
II,II,Provost,"His pleasure; may be he will relent. Alas,"
II,II,Provost,"He hath but as offended in a dream!"
II,II,Provost,"All sects, all ages smack of this vice; and he"
II,II,Provost,"To die for't!"
II,II,ANGELO,"Now, what's the matter. Provost?"
II,II,Provost,"Is it your will Claudio shall die tomorrow?"
II,II,ANGELO,"Did not I tell thee yea? hadst thou not order?"
II,II,ANGELO,"Why dost thou ask again?"
II,II,Provost,"Lest I might be too rash:"
II,II,Provost,"Under your good correction, I have seen,"
II,II,Provost,"When, after execution, judgment hath"
II,II,Provost,"Repented o'er his doom."
II,II,ANGELO,"Go to; let that be mine:"
II,II,ANGELO,"Do you your office, or give up your place,"
II,II,ANGELO,"And you shall well be spared."
II,II,Provost,"I crave your honour's pardon."
II,II,Provost,"What shall be done, sir, with the groaning Juliet?"
II,II,Provost,"She's very near her hour."
II,II,ANGELO,"Dispose of her"
II,II,ANGELO,"To some more fitter place, and that with speed."
II,II,Servant,"Here is the sister of the man condemn'd"
II,II,Servant,"Desires access to you."
II,II,ANGELO,"Hath he a sister?"
II,II,Provost,"Ay, my good lord; a very virtuous maid,"
II,II,Provost,"And to be shortly of a sisterhood,"
II,II,Provost,"If not already."
II,II,ANGELO,"Well, let her be admitted."
II,II,ANGELO,"See you the fornicatress be removed:"
II,II,ANGELO,"Let have needful, but not lavish, means;"
II,II,ANGELO,"There shall be order for't."
II,II,Provost,"God save your honour!"
II,II,ANGELO,"Stay a little while."
II,II,ANGELO,"You're welcome: what's your will?"
II,II,ISABELLA,"I am a woeful suitor to your honour,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Please but your honour hear me."
II,II,ANGELO,"Well; what's your suit?"
II,II,ISABELLA,"There is a vice that most I do abhor,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"And most desire should meet the blow of justice;"
II,II,ISABELLA,"For which I would not plead, but that I must;"
II,II,ISABELLA,"For which I must not plead, but that I am"
II,II,ISABELLA,"At war 'twixt will and will not."
II,II,ANGELO,"Well; the matter?"
II,II,ISABELLA,"I have a brother is condemn'd to die:"
II,II,ISABELLA,"I do beseech you, let it be his fault,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"And not my brother."
II,II,ANGELO,"Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?"
II,II,ANGELO,"Why, every fault's condemn'd ere it be done:"
II,II,ANGELO,"Mine were the very cipher of a function,"
II,II,ANGELO,"To fine the faults whose fine stands in record,"
II,II,ANGELO,"And let go by the actor."
II,II,ISABELLA,"O just but severe law!"
II,II,ISABELLA,"I had a brother, then. Heaven keep your honour!"
II,II,LUCIO,"again, entreat him;"
II,II,LUCIO,"Kneel down before him, hang upon his gown:"
II,II,LUCIO,"You are too cold; if you should need a pin,"
II,II,LUCIO,"You could not with more tame a tongue desire it:"
II,II,LUCIO,"To him, I say!"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Must he needs die?"
II,II,ANGELO,"Maiden, no remedy."
II,II,ISABELLA,"Yes; I do think that you might pardon him,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy."
II,II,ANGELO,"I will not do't."
II,II,ISABELLA,"But can you, if you would?"
II,II,ANGELO,"Look, what I will not, that I cannot do."
II,II,ISABELLA,"But might you do't, and do the world no wrong,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"If so your heart were touch'd with that remorse"
II,II,ISABELLA,"As mine is to him?"
II,II,ANGELO,"He's sentenced; 'tis too late."
II,II,ISABELLA,"Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word."
II,II,ISABELLA,"May call it back again. Well, believe this,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Become them with one half so good a grace"
II,II,ISABELLA,"As mercy does."
II,II,ISABELLA,"If he had been as you and you as he,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"You would have slipt like him; but he, like you,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Would not have been so stern."
II,II,ANGELO,"Pray you, be gone."
II,II,ISABELLA,"I would to heaven I had your potency,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"And you were Isabel! should it then be thus?"
II,II,ISABELLA,"No; I would tell what 'twere to be a judge,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"And what a prisoner."
II,II,LUCIO,"Ay, touch him; there's the vein."
II,II,ANGELO,"Your brother is a forfeit of the law,"
II,II,ANGELO,"And you but waste your words."
II,II,ISABELLA,"Alas, alas!"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once;"
II,II,ISABELLA,"And He that might the vantage best have took"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Found out the remedy. How would you be,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"If He, which is the top of judgment, should"
II,II,ISABELLA,"But judge you as you are? O, think on that;"
II,II,ISABELLA,"And mercy then will breathe within your lips,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Like man new made."
II,II,ANGELO,"Be you content, fair maid;"
II,II,ANGELO,"It is the law, not I condemn your brother:"
II,II,ANGELO,"Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son,"
II,II,ANGELO,"It should be thus with him: he must die tomorrow."
II,II,ISABELLA,"To-morrow! O, that's sudden! Spare him, spare him!"
II,II,ISABELLA,"He's not prepared for death. Even for our kitchens"
II,II,ISABELLA,"We kill the fowl of season: shall we serve heaven"
II,II,ISABELLA,"With less respect than we do minister"
II,II,ISABELLA,"To our gross selves? Good, good my lord, bethink you;"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Who is it that hath died for this offence?"
II,II,ISABELLA,"There's many have committed it."
II,II,ANGELO,"The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept:"
II,II,ANGELO,"Those many had not dared to do that evil,"
II,II,ANGELO,"If the first that did the edict infringe"
II,II,ANGELO,"Had answer'd for his deed: now 'tis awake"
II,II,ANGELO,"Takes note of what is done; and, like a prophet,"
II,II,ANGELO,"Looks in a glass, that shows what future evils,"
II,II,ANGELO,"Either new, or by remissness new-conceived,"
II,II,ANGELO,"And so in progress to be hatch'd and born,"
II,II,ANGELO,"Are now to have no successive degrees,"
II,II,ANGELO,"But, ere they live, to end."
II,II,ISABELLA,"Yet show some pity."
II,II,ANGELO,"I show it most of all when I show justice;"
II,II,ANGELO,"For then I pity those I do not know,"
II,II,ANGELO,"Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall;"
II,II,ANGELO,"And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,"
II,II,ANGELO,"Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;"
II,II,ANGELO,"Your brother dies to-morrow; be content."
II,II,ISABELLA,"So you must be the first that gives this sentence,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"And he, that suffer's. O, it is excellent"
II,II,ISABELLA,"To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous"
II,II,ISABELLA,"To use it like a giant."
II,II,ISABELLA,"Could great men thunder"
II,II,ISABELLA,"As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"For every pelting, petty officer"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Would use his heaven for thunder;"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Nothing but thunder! Merciful Heaven,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Drest in a little brief authority,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Most ignorant of what he's most assured,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"His glassy essence, like an angry ape,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven"
II,II,ISABELLA,"As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Would all themselves laugh mortal."
II,II,LUCIO,"will relent;"
II,II,LUCIO,"He's coming; I perceive 't."
II,II,ISABELLA,"We cannot weigh our brother with ourself:"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"But in the less foul profanation."
II,II,LUCIO,"Thou'rt i' the right, girl; more o, that."
II,II,ISABELLA,"That in the captain's but a choleric word,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."
II,II,ANGELO,"Why do you put these sayings upon me?"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Because authority, though it err like others,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom;"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know"
II,II,ISABELLA,"That's like my brother's fault: if it confess"
II,II,ISABELLA,"A natural guiltiness such as is his,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Against my brother's life."
II,II,ANGELO,"Such sense, that my sense breeds with it. Fare you well."
II,II,ISABELLA,"Gentle my lord, turn back."
II,II,ANGELO,"I will bethink me: come again tomorrow."
II,II,ISABELLA,"Hark how I'll bribe you: good my lord, turn back."
II,II,ANGELO,"How! bribe me?"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Ay, with such gifts that heaven shall share with you."
II,II,ISABELLA,"Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor"
II,II,ISABELLA,"As fancy values them; but with true prayers"
II,II,ISABELLA,"That shall be up at heaven and enter there"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Ere sun-rise, prayers from preserved souls,"
II,II,ISABELLA,"From fasting maids whose minds are dedicate"
II,II,ISABELLA,"To nothing temporal."
II,II,ANGELO,"Well; come to me to-morrow."
II,II,ISABELLA,"Heaven keep your honour safe!"
II,II,ANGELO,"For I am that way going to temptation,"
II,II,ANGELO,"Where prayers cross."
II,II,ISABELLA,"At what hour to-morrow"
II,II,ISABELLA,"Shall I attend your lordship?"
II,II,ANGELO,"At any time 'fore noon."
II,II,ISABELLA,"'Save your honour!"
II,II,ANGELO,"From thee, even from thy virtue!"
II,II,ANGELO,"What's this, what's this? Is this her fault or mine?"
II,II,ANGELO,"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"
II,II,ANGELO,"Ha!"
II,II,ANGELO,"Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I"
II,II,ANGELO,"That, lying by the violet in the sun,"
II,II,ANGELO,"Do as the carrion does, not as the flower,"
II,II,ANGELO,"Corrupt with virtuous season. Can it be"
II,II,ANGELO,"That modesty may more betray our sense"
II,II,ANGELO,"Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,"
II,II,ANGELO,"Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary"
II,II,ANGELO,"And pitch our evils there? O, fie, fie, fie!"
II,II,ANGELO,"What dost thou, or what art thou, Angelo?"
II,II,ANGELO,"Dost thou desire her foully for those things"
II,II,ANGELO,"That make her good? O, let her brother live!"
II,II,ANGELO,"Thieves for their robbery have authority"
II,II,ANGELO,"When judges steal themselves. What, do I love her,"
II,II,ANGELO,"That I desire to hear her speak again,"
II,II,ANGELO,"And feast upon her eyes? What is't I dream on?"
II,II,ANGELO,"O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,"
II,II,ANGELO,"With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous"
II,II,ANGELO,"Is that temptation that doth goad us on"
II,II,ANGELO,"To sin in loving virtue: never could the strumpet,"
II,II,ANGELO,"With all her double vigour, art and nature,"
II,II,ANGELO,"Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid"
II,II,ANGELO,"Subdues me quite. Even till now,"
II,II,ANGELO,"When men were fond, I smiled and wonder'd how."
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Hail to you, provost! so I think you are."
II,III,Provost,"I am the provost. What's your will, good friar?"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Bound by my charity and my blest order,"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I come to visit the afflicted spirits"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Here in the prison. Do me the common right"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To let me see them and to make me know"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The nature of their crimes, that I may minister"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To them accordingly."
II,III,Provost,"I would do more than that, if more were needful."
II,III,Provost,"Look, here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine,"
II,III,Provost,"Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,"
II,III,Provost,"Hath blister'd her report: she is with child;"
II,III,Provost,"And he that got it, sentenced; a young man"
II,III,Provost,"More fit to do another such offence"
II,III,Provost,"Than die for this."
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"When must he die?"
II,III,Provost,"As I do think, to-morrow."
II,III,Provost,"I have provided for you: stay awhile,"
II,III,Provost,"And you shall be conducted."
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?"
II,III,JULIET,"I do; and bear the shame most patiently."
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And try your penitence, if it be sound,"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Or hollowly put on."
II,III,JULIET,"I'll gladly learn."
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Love you the man that wrong'd you?"
II,III,JULIET,"Yes, as I love the woman that wrong'd him."
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"So then it seems your most offenceful act"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Was mutually committed?"
II,III,JULIET,"Mutually."
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Then was your sin of heavier kind than his."
II,III,JULIET,"I do confess it, and repent it, father."
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"'Tis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent,"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Which sorrow is always towards ourselves, not heaven,"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it,"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But as we stand in fear,--"
II,III,JULIET,"I do repent me, as it is an evil,"
II,III,JULIET,"And take the shame with joy."
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"There rest."
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Your partner, as I hear, must die to-morrow,"
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And I am going with instruction to him."
II,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Grace go with you, Benedicite!"
II,III,JULIET,"Must die to-morrow! O injurious love,"
II,III,JULIET,"That respites me a life, whose very comfort"
II,III,JULIET,"Is still a dying horror!"
II,III,Provost,"'Tis pity of him."
II,IV,ANGELO,"When I would pray and think, I think and pray"
II,IV,ANGELO,"To several subjects. Heaven hath my empty words;"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Anchors on Isabel: Heaven in my mouth,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"As if I did but only chew his name;"
II,IV,ANGELO,"And in my heart the strong and swelling evil"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Of my conception. The state, whereon I studied"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Is like a good thing, being often read,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Grown fear'd and tedious; yea, my gravity,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Wherein--let no man hear me--I take pride,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Could I with boot change for an idle plume,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Which the air beats for vain. O place, O form,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Wrench awe from fools and tie the wiser souls"
II,IV,ANGELO,"To thy false seeming! Blood, thou art blood:"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Let's write good angel on the devil's horn:"
II,IV,ANGELO,"'Tis not the devil's crest."
II,IV,ANGELO,"How now! who's there?"
II,IV,Servant,"One Isabel, a sister, desires access to you."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Teach her the way."
II,IV,ANGELO,"O heavens!"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Why does my blood thus muster to my heart,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Making both it unable for itself,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"And dispossessing all my other parts"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Of necessary fitness?"
II,IV,ANGELO,"So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons;"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Come all to help him, and so stop the air"
II,IV,ANGELO,"By which he should revive: and even so"
II,IV,ANGELO,"The general, subject to a well-wish'd king,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Must needs appear offence."
II,IV,ANGELO,"How now, fair maid?"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"I am come to know your pleasure."
II,IV,ANGELO,"That you might know it, would much better please me"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Than to demand what 'tis. Your brother cannot live."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Even so. Heaven keep your honour!"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Yet may he live awhile; and, it may be,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"As long as you or I yet he must die."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Under your sentence?"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Yea."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"When, I beseech you? that in his reprieve,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Longer or shorter, he may be so fitted"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"That his soul sicken not."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Ha! fie, these filthy vices! It were as good"
II,IV,ANGELO,"To pardon him that hath from nature stolen"
II,IV,ANGELO,"A man already made, as to remit"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven's image"
II,IV,ANGELO,"In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easy"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Falsely to take away a life true made"
II,IV,ANGELO,"As to put metal in restrained means"
II,IV,ANGELO,"To make a false one."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"'Tis set down so in heaven, but not in earth."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Say you so? then I shall pose you quickly."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Which had you rather, that the most just law"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Now took your brother's life; or, to redeem him,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness"
II,IV,ANGELO,"As she that he hath stain'd?"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Sir, believe this,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"I had rather give my body than my soul."
II,IV,ANGELO,"I talk not of your soul: our compell'd sins"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Stand more for number than for accompt."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"How say you?"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Nay, I'll not warrant that; for I can speak"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Against the thing I say. Answer to this:"
II,IV,ANGELO,"I, now the voice of the recorded law,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life:"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Might there not be a charity in sin"
II,IV,ANGELO,"To save this brother's life?"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Please you to do't,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"I'll take it as a peril to my soul,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"It is no sin at all, but charity."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Pleased you to do't at peril of your soul,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Were equal poise of sin and charity."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"That I do beg his life, if it be sin,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Heaven let me bear it! you granting of my suit,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"If that be sin, I'll make it my morn prayer"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"To have it added to the faults of mine,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"And nothing of your answer."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Nay, but hear me."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Your sense pursues not mine: either you are ignorant,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Or seem so craftily; and that's not good."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"But graciously to know I am no better."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright"
II,IV,ANGELO,"When it doth tax itself; as these black masks"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Than beauty could, display'd. But mark me;"
II,IV,ANGELO,"To be received plain, I'll speak more gross:"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Your brother is to die."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"So."
II,IV,ANGELO,"And his offence is so, as it appears,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Accountant to the law upon that pain."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"True."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Admit no other way to save his life,--"
II,IV,ANGELO,"As I subscribe not that, nor any other,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"But in the loss of question,--that you, his sister,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Finding yourself desired of such a person,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Whose credit with the judge, or own great place,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Could fetch your brother from the manacles"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Of the all-building law; and that there were"
II,IV,ANGELO,"No earthly mean to save him, but that either"
II,IV,ANGELO,"You must lay down the treasures of your body"
II,IV,ANGELO,"To this supposed, or else to let him suffer;"
II,IV,ANGELO,"What would you do?"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"As much for my poor brother as myself:"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"That is, were I under the terms of death,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"The impression of keen whips I'ld wear as rubies,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"And strip myself to death, as to a bed"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"That longing have been sick for, ere I'ld yield"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"My body up to shame."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Then must your brother die."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"And 'twere the cheaper way:"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Better it were a brother died at once,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Than that a sister, by redeeming him,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Should die for ever."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Were not you then as cruel as the sentence"
II,IV,ANGELO,"That you have slander'd so?"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Ignomy in ransom and free pardon"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Are of two houses: lawful mercy"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Is nothing kin to foul redemption."
II,IV,ANGELO,"You seem'd of late to make the law a tyrant;"
II,IV,ANGELO,"And rather proved the sliding of your brother"
II,IV,ANGELO,"A merriment than a vice."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"O, pardon me, my lord; it oft falls out,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean:"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"I something do excuse the thing I hate,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"For his advantage that I dearly love."
II,IV,ANGELO,"We are all frail."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Else let my brother die,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"If not a feodary, but only he"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Owe and succeed thy weakness."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Nay, women are frail too."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves;"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Which are as easy broke as they make forms."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Women! Help Heaven! men their creation mar"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail;"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"For we are soft as our complexions are,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"And credulous to false prints."
II,IV,ANGELO,"I think it well:"
II,IV,ANGELO,"And from this testimony of your own sex,--"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Since I suppose we are made to be no stronger"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Than faults may shake our frames,--let me be bold;"
II,IV,ANGELO,"I do arrest your words. Be that you are,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"That is, a woman; if you be more, you're none;"
II,IV,ANGELO,"If you be one, as you are well express'd"
II,IV,ANGELO,"By all external warrants, show it now,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"By putting on the destined livery."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"I have no tongue but one: gentle my lord,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Let me entreat you speak the former language."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Plainly conceive, I love you."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"My brother did love Juliet,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"And you tell me that he shall die for it."
II,IV,ANGELO,"He shall not, Isabel, if you give me love."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"I know your virtue hath a licence in't,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Which seems a little fouler than it is,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"To pluck on others."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Believe me, on mine honour,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"My words express my purpose."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Ha! little honour to be much believed,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"And most pernicious purpose! Seeming, seeming!"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"I will proclaim thee, Angelo; look for't:"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Sign me a present pardon for my brother,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Or with an outstretch'd throat I'll tell the world aloud"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"What man thou art."
II,IV,ANGELO,"Who will believe thee, Isabel?"
II,IV,ANGELO,"My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"My vouch against you, and my place i' the state,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Will so your accusation overweigh,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"That you shall stifle in your own report"
II,IV,ANGELO,"And smell of calumny. I have begun,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"And now I give my sensual race the rein:"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite;"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"That banish what they sue for; redeem thy brother"
II,IV,ANGELO,"By yielding up thy body to my will;"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Or else he must not only die the death,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"But thy unkindness shall his death draw out"
II,IV,ANGELO,"To lingering sufferance. Answer me to-morrow,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Or, by the affection that now guides me most,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"I'll prove a tyrant to him. As for you,"
II,IV,ANGELO,"Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Who would believe me? O perilous mouths,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"That bear in them one and the self-same tongue,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Either of condemnation or approof;"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Bidding the law make court'sy to their will:"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"To follow as it draws! I'll to my brother:"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"That, had he twenty heads to tender down"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"On twenty bloody blocks, he'ld yield them up,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Before his sister should her body stoop"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"To such abhorr'd pollution."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die:"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"More than our brother is our chastity."
II,IV,ISABELLA,"I'll tell him yet of Angelo's request,"
II,IV,ISABELLA,"And fit his mind to death, for his soul's rest."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"So then you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo?"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"The miserable have no other medicine"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"But only hope:"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"I've hope to live, and am prepared to die."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Be absolute for death; either death or life"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life:"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Servile to all the skyey influences,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Hourly afflict: merely, thou art death's fool;"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And yet runn'st toward him still. Thou art not noble;"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For all the accommodations that thou bear'st"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Are nursed by baseness. Thou'rt by no means valiant;"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Of a poor worm. Thy best of rest is sleep,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And that thou oft provokest; yet grossly fear'st"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself;"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That issue out of dust. Happy thou art not;"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And what thou hast, forget'st. Thou art not certain;"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For thy complexion shifts to strange effects,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"After the moon. If thou art rich, thou'rt poor;"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Thou bear's thy heavy riches but a journey,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And death unloads thee. Friend hast thou none;"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The mere effusion of thy proper loins,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For ending thee no sooner. Thou hast nor youth nor age,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That bears the name of life? Yet in this life"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Lie hid moe thousand deaths: yet death we fear,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That makes these odds all even."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"I humbly thank you."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"To sue to live, I find I seek to die;"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"And, seeking death, find life: let it come on."
III,I,Provost,"Who's there? come in: the wish deserves a welcome."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Dear sir, ere long I'll visit you again."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Most holy sir, I thank you."
III,I,ISABELLA,"My business is a word or two with Claudio."
III,I,Provost,"And very welcome. Look, signior, here's your sister."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Provost, a word with you."
III,I,Provost,"As many as you please."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Bring me to hear them speak, where I may be concealed."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Now, sister, what's the comfort?"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Why,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"As all comforts are; most good, most good indeed."
III,I,ISABELLA,"Lord Angelo, having affairs to heaven,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Intends you for his swift ambassador,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Where you shall be an everlasting leiger:"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Therefore your best appointment make with speed;"
III,I,ISABELLA,"To-morrow you set on."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Is there no remedy?"
III,I,ISABELLA,"None, but such remedy as, to save a head,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"To cleave a heart in twain."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"But is there any?"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Yes, brother, you may live:"
III,I,ISABELLA,"There is a devilish mercy in the judge,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"If you'll implore it, that will free your life,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"But fetter you till death."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Perpetual durance?"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Ay, just; perpetual durance, a restraint,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Though all the world's vastidity you had,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"To a determined scope."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"But in what nature?"
III,I,ISABELLA,"In such a one as, you consenting to't,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Would bark your honour from that trunk you bear,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"And leave you naked."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Let me know the point."
III,I,ISABELLA,"O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"And six or seven winters more respect"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Than a perpetual honour. Darest thou die?"
III,I,ISABELLA,"The sense of death is most in apprehension;"
III,I,ISABELLA,"And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great"
III,I,ISABELLA,"As when a giant dies."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Why give you me this shame?"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Think you I can a resolution fetch"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"From flowery tenderness? If I must die,"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"I will encounter darkness as a bride,"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"And hug it in mine arms."
III,I,ISABELLA,"There spake my brother; there my father's grave"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Did utter forth a voice. Yes, thou must die:"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Thou art too noble to conserve a life"
III,I,ISABELLA,"In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Whose settled visage and deliberate word"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Nips youth i' the head and follies doth emmew"
III,I,ISABELLA,"As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil"
III,I,ISABELLA,"His filth within being cast, he would appear"
III,I,ISABELLA,"A pond as deep as hell."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"The prenzie Angelo!"
III,I,ISABELLA,"O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"The damned'st body to invest and cover"
III,I,ISABELLA,"In prenzie guards! Dost thou think, Claudio?"
III,I,ISABELLA,"If I would yield him my virginity,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Thou mightst be freed."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"O heavens! it cannot be."
III,I,ISABELLA,"Yes, he would give't thee, from this rank offence,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"So to offend him still. This night's the time"
III,I,ISABELLA,"That I should do what I abhor to name,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Or else thou diest to-morrow."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Thou shalt not do't."
III,I,ISABELLA,"O, were it but my life,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"I'ld throw it down for your deliverance"
III,I,ISABELLA,"As frankly as a pin."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Thanks, dear Isabel."
III,I,ISABELLA,"Be ready, Claudio, for your death tomorrow."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Yes. Has he affections in him,"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"That thus can make him bite the law by the nose,"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"When he would force it? Sure, it is no sin,"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Or of the deadly seven, it is the least."
III,I,ISABELLA,"Which is the least?"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"If it were damnable, he being so wise,"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Why would he for the momentary trick"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Be perdurably fined? O Isabel!"
III,I,ISABELLA,"What says my brother?"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Death is a fearful thing."
III,I,ISABELLA,"And shamed life a hateful."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"This sensible warm motion to become"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"And blown with restless violence round about"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"The pendent world; or to be worse than worst"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Of those that lawless and incertain thought"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"The weariest and most loathed worldly life"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"That age, ache, penury and imprisonment"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Can lay on nature is a paradise"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"To what we fear of death."
III,I,ISABELLA,"Alas, alas!"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Sweet sister, let me live:"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"What sin you do to save a brother's life,"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Nature dispenses with the deed so far"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"That it becomes a virtue."
III,I,ISABELLA,"O you beast!"
III,I,ISABELLA,"O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Is't not a kind of incest, to take life"
III,I,ISABELLA,"From thine own sister's shame? What should I think?"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Heaven shield my mother play'd my father fair!"
III,I,ISABELLA,"For such a warped slip of wilderness"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Ne'er issued from his blood. Take my defiance!"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Die, perish! Might but my bending down"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed:"
III,I,ISABELLA,"I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death,"
III,I,ISABELLA,"No word to save thee."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Nay, hear me, Isabel."
III,I,ISABELLA,"O, fie, fie, fie!"
III,I,ISABELLA,"Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade."
III,I,ISABELLA,"Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd:"
III,I,ISABELLA,"'Tis best thou diest quickly."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"O hear me, Isabella!"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Vouchsafe a word, young sister, but one word."
III,I,ISABELLA,"What is your will?"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Might you dispense with your leisure, I would by and"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"by have some speech with you: the satisfaction I"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"would require is likewise your own benefit."
III,I,ISABELLA,"I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be"
III,I,ISABELLA,"stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Son, I have overheard what hath passed between you"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"and your sister. Angelo had never the purpose to"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"corrupt her; only he hath made an essay of her"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"virtue to practise his judgment with the disposition"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"of natures: she, having the truth of honour in her,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"hath made him that gracious denial which he is most"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"glad to receive. I am confessor to Angelo, and I"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"know this to be true; therefore prepare yourself to"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"death: do not satisfy your resolution with hopes"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"that are fallible: tomorrow you must die; go to"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"your knees and make ready."
III,I,CLAUDIO,"Let me ask my sister pardon. I am so out of love"
III,I,CLAUDIO,"with life that I will sue to be rid of it."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Hold you there: farewell."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Provost, a word with you!"
III,I,Provost,"What's your will, father"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That now you are come, you will be gone. Leave me"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"awhile with the maid: my mind promises with my"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"habit no loss shall touch her by my company."
III,I,Provost,"In good time."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good:"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"your complexion, shall keep the body of it ever"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"fair. The assault that Angelo hath made to you,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"fortune hath conveyed to my understanding; and, but"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"that frailty hath examples for his falling, I should"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"wonder at Angelo. How will you do to content this"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"substitute, and to save your brother?"
III,I,ISABELLA,"I am now going to resolve him: I had rather my"
III,I,ISABELLA,"brother die by the law than my son should be"
III,I,ISABELLA,"unlawfully born. But, O, how much is the good duke"
III,I,ISABELLA,"deceived in Angelo! If ever he return and I can"
III,I,ISABELLA,"speak to him, I will open my lips in vain, or"
III,I,ISABELLA,"discover his government."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That shall not be much amiss: Yet, as the matter"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"now stands, he will avoid your accusation; he made"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"trial of you only. Therefore fasten your ear on my"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"advisings: to the love I have in doing good a"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"remedy presents itself. I do make myself believe"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"lady a merited benefit; redeem your brother from"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"the angry law; do no stain to your own gracious"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"person; and much please the absent duke, if"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"this business."
III,I,ISABELLA,"Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do"
III,I,ISABELLA,"anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Have"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"you not heard speak of Mariana, the sister of"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Frederick the great soldier who miscarried at sea?"
III,I,ISABELLA,"I have heard of the lady, and good words went with her name."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"She should this Angelo have married; was affianced"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"to her by oath, and the nuptial appointed: between"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"which time of the contract and limit of the"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"solemnity, her brother Frederick was wrecked at sea,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"having in that perished vessel the dowry of his"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"sister. But mark how heavily this befell to the"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"poor gentlewoman: there she lost a noble and"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"renowned brother, in his love toward her ever most"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"kind and natural; with him, the portion and sinew of"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"her fortune, her marriage-dowry; with both, her"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"combinate husband, this well-seeming Angelo."
III,I,ISABELLA,"Can this be so? did Angelo so leave her?"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"with his comfort; swallowed his vows whole,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"pretending in her discoveries of dishonour: in few,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"bestowed her on her own lamentation, which she yet"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"wears for his sake; and he, a marble to her tears,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"is washed with them, but relents not."
III,I,ISABELLA,"What a merit were it in death to take this poor maid"
III,I,ISABELLA,"from the world! What corruption in this life, that"
III,I,ISABELLA,"it will let this man live! But how out of this can she avail?"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"It is a rupture that you may easily heal: and the"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"cure of it not only saves your brother, but keeps"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"you from dishonour in doing it."
III,I,ISABELLA,"Show me how, good father."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"This forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"of her first affection: his unjust unkindness, that"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"in all reason should have quenched her love, hath,"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"like an impediment in the current, made it more"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"violent and unruly. Go you to Angelo; answer his"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"requiring with a plausible obedience; agree with"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"his demands to the point; only refer yourself to"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"this advantage, first, that your stay with him may"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"not be long; that the time may have all shadow and"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"silence in it; and the place answer to convenience."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"This being granted in course,--and now follows"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"all,--we shall advise this wronged maid to stead up"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"your appointment, go in your place; if the encounter"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"acknowledge itself hereafter, it may compel him to"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"her recompense: and here, by this, is your brother"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"saved, your honour untainted, the poor Mariana"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"advantaged, and the corrupt deputy scaled. The maid"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"will I frame and make fit for his attempt. If you"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"What think you of it?"
III,I,ISABELLA,"The image of it gives me content already; and I"
III,I,ISABELLA,"trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection."
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"It lies much in your holding up. Haste you speedily"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"to Angelo: if for this night he entreat you to his"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"bed, give him promise of satisfaction. I will"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"presently to Saint Luke's: there, at the moated"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"grange, resides this dejected Mariana. At that"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"place call upon me; and dispatch with Angelo, that"
III,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"it may be quickly."
III,I,ISABELLA,"I thank you for this comfort. Fare you well, good father."
III,II,ELBOW,"Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will"
III,II,ELBOW,"needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we"
III,II,ELBOW,"shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"O heavens! what stuff is here"
III,II,POMPEY,"'Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, the"
III,II,POMPEY,"merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by"
III,II,POMPEY,"order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and"
III,II,POMPEY,"furred with fox and lamb-skins too, to signify, that"
III,II,POMPEY,"craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing."
III,II,ELBOW,"Come your way, sir. 'Bless you, good father friar."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And you, good brother father. What offence hath"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"this man made you, sir?"
III,II,ELBOW,"Marry, sir, he hath offended the law: and, sir, we"
III,II,ELBOW,"take him to be a thief too, sir; for we have found"
III,II,ELBOW,"upon him, sir, a strange picklock, which we have"
III,II,ELBOW,"sent to the deputy."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Fie, sirrah! a bawd, a wicked bawd!"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The evil that thou causest to be done,"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That is thy means to live. Do thou but think"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"From such a filthy vice: say to thyself,"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"From their abominable and beastly touches"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I drink, I eat, array myself, and live."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Canst thou believe thy living is a life,"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"So stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend."
III,II,POMPEY,"Indeed, it does stink in some sort, sir; but yet,"
III,II,POMPEY,"sir, I would prove--"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Nay, if the devil have given thee proofs for sin,"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Thou wilt prove his. Take him to prison, officer:"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Correction and instruction must both work"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Ere this rude beast will profit."
III,II,ELBOW,"He must before the deputy, sir; he has given him"
III,II,ELBOW,"warning: the deputy cannot abide a whoremaster: if"
III,II,ELBOW,"he be a whoremonger, and comes before him, he were"
III,II,ELBOW,"as good go a mile on his errand."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That we were all, as some would seem to be,"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"From our faults, as faults from seeming, free!"
III,II,ELBOW,"His neck will come to your waist,--a cord, sir."
III,II,POMPEY,"I spy comfort; I cry bail. Here's a gentleman and a"
III,II,POMPEY,"friend of mine."
III,II,LUCIO,"How now, noble Pompey! What, at the wheels of"
III,II,LUCIO,"Caesar? art thou led in triumph? What, is there"
III,II,LUCIO,"none of Pygmalion's images, newly made woman, to be"
III,II,LUCIO,"had now, for putting the hand in the pocket and"
III,II,LUCIO,"extracting it clutch'd? What reply, ha? What"
III,II,LUCIO,"sayest thou to this tune, matter and method? Is't"
III,II,LUCIO,"not drowned i' the last rain, ha? What sayest"
III,II,LUCIO,"thou, Trot? Is the world as it was, man? Which is"
III,II,LUCIO,"the way? Is it sad, and few words? or how? The"
III,II,LUCIO,"trick of it?"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Still thus, and thus; still worse!"
III,II,LUCIO,"How doth my dear morsel, thy mistress? Procures she"
III,II,LUCIO,"still, ha?"
III,II,POMPEY,"Troth, sir, she hath eaten up all her beef, and she"
III,II,POMPEY,"is herself in the tub."
III,II,LUCIO,"Why, 'tis good; it is the right of it; it must be"
III,II,LUCIO,"so: ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd:"
III,II,LUCIO,"an unshunned consequence; it must be so. Art going"
III,II,LUCIO,"to prison, Pompey?"
III,II,POMPEY,"Yes, faith, sir."
III,II,LUCIO,"Why, 'tis not amiss, Pompey. Farewell: go, say I"
III,II,LUCIO,"sent thee thither. For debt, Pompey? or how?"
III,II,ELBOW,"For being a bawd, for being a bawd."
III,II,LUCIO,"Well, then, imprison him: if imprisonment be the"
III,II,LUCIO,"due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right: bawd is he"
III,II,LUCIO,"doubtless, and of antiquity too; bawd-born."
III,II,LUCIO,"Farewell, good Pompey. Commend me to the prison,"
III,II,LUCIO,"Pompey: you will turn good husband now, Pompey; you"
III,II,LUCIO,"will keep the house."
III,II,POMPEY,"I hope, sir, your good worship will be my bail."
III,II,LUCIO,"No, indeed, will I not, Pompey; it is not the wear."
III,II,LUCIO,"I will pray, Pompey, to increase your bondage: If"
III,II,LUCIO,"you take it not patiently, why, your mettle is the"
III,II,LUCIO,"more. Adieu, trusty Pompey. 'Bless you, friar."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And you."
III,II,LUCIO,"Does Bridget paint still, Pompey, ha?"
III,II,ELBOW,"Come your ways, sir; come."
III,II,POMPEY,"You will not bail me, then, sir?"
III,II,LUCIO,"Then, Pompey, nor now. What news abroad, friar?"
III,II,LUCIO,"what news?"
III,II,ELBOW,"Come your ways, sir; come."
III,II,LUCIO,"Go to kennel, Pompey; go."
III,II,LUCIO,"What news, friar, of the duke?"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I know none. Can you tell me of any?"
III,II,LUCIO,"Some say he is with the Emperor of Russia; other"
III,II,LUCIO,"some, he is in Rome: but where is he, think you?"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I know not where; but wheresoever, I wish him well."
III,II,LUCIO,"It was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from"
III,II,LUCIO,"the state, and usurp the beggary he was never born"
III,II,LUCIO,"to. Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence; he"
III,II,LUCIO,"puts transgression to 't."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"He does well in 't."
III,II,LUCIO,"A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in"
III,II,LUCIO,"him: something too crabbed that way, friar."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it."
III,II,LUCIO,"Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred;"
III,II,LUCIO,"it is well allied: but it is impossible to extirp"
III,II,LUCIO,"it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put"
III,II,LUCIO,"down. They say this Angelo was not made by man and"
III,II,LUCIO,"woman after this downright way of creation: is it"
III,II,LUCIO,"true, think you?"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"How should he be made, then?"
III,II,LUCIO,"Some report a sea-maid spawned him; some, that he"
III,II,LUCIO,"was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is"
III,II,LUCIO,"certain that when he makes water his urine is"
III,II,LUCIO,"congealed ice; that I know to be true: and he is a"
III,II,LUCIO,"motion generative; that's infallible."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"You are pleasant, sir, and speak apace."
III,II,LUCIO,"Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the"
III,II,LUCIO,"rebellion of a codpiece to take away the life of a"
III,II,LUCIO,"man! Would the duke that is absent have done this?"
III,II,LUCIO,"Ere he would have hanged a man for the getting a"
III,II,LUCIO,"hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing"
III,II,LUCIO,"a thousand: he had some feeling of the sport: he"
III,II,LUCIO,"knew the service, and that instructed him to mercy."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I never heard the absent duke much detected for"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"women; he was not inclined that way."
III,II,LUCIO,"O, sir, you are deceived."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"'Tis not possible."
III,II,LUCIO,"Who, not the duke? yes, your beggar of fifty; and"
III,II,LUCIO,"his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish: the"
III,II,LUCIO,"duke had crotchets in him. He would be drunk too;"
III,II,LUCIO,"that let me inform you."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"You do him wrong, surely."
III,II,LUCIO,"Sir, I was an inward of his. A shy fellow was the"
III,II,LUCIO,"duke: and I believe I know the cause of his"
III,II,LUCIO,"withdrawing."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"What, I prithee, might be the cause?"
III,II,LUCIO,"No, pardon; 'tis a secret must be locked within the"
III,II,LUCIO,"teeth and the lips: but this I can let you"
III,II,LUCIO,"understand, the greater file of the subject held the"
III,II,LUCIO,"duke to be wise."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Wise! why, no question but he was."
III,II,LUCIO,"A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Either this is the envy in you, folly, or mistaking:"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"the very stream of his life and the business he hath"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"helmed must upon a warranted need give him a better"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"proclamation. Let him be but testimonied in his own"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"bringings-forth, and he shall appear to the"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"envious a scholar, a statesman and a soldier."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Therefore you speak unskilfully: or if your"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"knowledge be more it is much darkened in your malice."
III,II,LUCIO,"Sir, I know him, and I love him."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Love talks with better knowledge, and knowledge with"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"dearer love."
III,II,LUCIO,"Come, sir, I know what I know."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I can hardly believe that, since you know not what"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"you speak. But, if ever the duke return, as our"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"prayers are he may, let me desire you to make your"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"answer before him. If it be honest you have spoke,"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"you have courage to maintain it: I am bound to call"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"upon you; and, I pray you, your name?"
III,II,LUCIO,"Sir, my name is Lucio; well known to the duke."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"He shall know you better, sir, if I may live to"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"report you."
III,II,LUCIO,"I fear you not."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"O, you hope the duke will return no more; or you"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. But indeed I"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"can do you little harm; you'll forswear this again."
III,II,LUCIO,"I'll be hanged first: thou art deceived in me,"
III,II,LUCIO,"friar. But no more of this. Canst thou tell if"
III,II,LUCIO,"Claudio die to-morrow or no?"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Why should he die, sir?"
III,II,LUCIO,"Why? For filling a bottle with a tundish. I would"
III,II,LUCIO,"the duke we talk of were returned again: the"
III,II,LUCIO,"ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with"
III,II,LUCIO,"continency; sparrows must not build in his"
III,II,LUCIO,"house-eaves, because they are lecherous. The duke"
III,II,LUCIO,"yet would have dark deeds darkly answered; he would"
III,II,LUCIO,"never bring them to light: would he were returned!"
III,II,LUCIO,"Marry, this Claudio is condemned for untrussing."
III,II,LUCIO,"Farewell, good friar: I prithee, pray for me. The"
III,II,LUCIO,"duke, I say to thee again, would eat mutton on"
III,II,LUCIO,"Fridays. He's not past it yet, and I say to thee,"
III,II,LUCIO,"he would mouth with a beggar, though she smelt brown"
III,II,LUCIO,"bread and garlic: say that I said so. Farewell."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"No might nor greatness in mortality"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But who comes here?"
III,II,ESCALUS,"Go; away with her to prison!"
III,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"Good my lord, be good to me; your honour is accounted"
III,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"a merciful man; good my lord."
III,II,ESCALUS,"Double and treble admonition, and still forfeit in"
III,II,ESCALUS,"the same kind! This would make mercy swear and play"
III,II,ESCALUS,"the tyrant."
III,II,Provost,"A bawd of eleven years' continuance, may it please"
III,II,Provost,"your honour."
III,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"My lord, this is one Lucio's information against me."
III,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"Mistress Kate Keepdown was with child by him in the"
III,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"duke's time; he promised her marriage: his child"
III,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"is a year and a quarter old, come Philip and Jacob:"
III,II,MISTRESS OVERDONE,"I have kept it myself; and see how he goes about to abuse me!"
III,II,ESCALUS,"That fellow is a fellow of much licence: let him be"
III,II,ESCALUS,"called before us. Away with her to prison! Go to;"
III,II,ESCALUS,"no more words."
III,II,ESCALUS,"Provost, my brother Angelo will not be altered;"
III,II,ESCALUS,"Claudio must die to-morrow: let him be furnished"
III,II,ESCALUS,"with divines, and have all charitable preparation."
III,II,ESCALUS,"if my brother wrought by my pity, it should not be"
III,II,ESCALUS,"so with him."
III,II,Provost,"So please you, this friar hath been with him, and"
III,II,Provost,"advised him for the entertainment of death."
III,II,ESCALUS,"Good even, good father."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Bliss and goodness on you!"
III,II,ESCALUS,"Of whence are you?"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Not of this country, though my chance is now"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To use it for my time: I am a brother"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Of gracious order, late come from the See"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"In special business from his holiness."
III,II,ESCALUS,"What news abroad i' the world?"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"None, but that there is so great a fever on"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"goodness, that the dissolution of it must cure it:"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"novelty is only in request; and it is as dangerous"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"to be constant in any undertaking. There is scarce"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"truth enough alive to make societies secure; but"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"security enough to make fellowships accurst: much"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. This"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"news is old enough, yet it is every day's news. I"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"pray you, sir, of what disposition was the duke?"
III,II,ESCALUS,"One that, above all other strifes, contended"
III,II,ESCALUS,"especially to know himself."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"What pleasure was he given to?"
III,II,ESCALUS,"Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry at"
III,II,ESCALUS,"any thing which professed to make him rejoice: a"
III,II,ESCALUS,"gentleman of all temperance. But leave we him to"
III,II,ESCALUS,"his events, with a prayer they may prove prosperous;"
III,II,ESCALUS,"and let me desire to know how you find Claudio"
III,II,ESCALUS,"prepared. I am made to understand that you have"
III,II,ESCALUS,"lent him visitation."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"He professes to have received no sinister measure"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"from his judge, but most willingly humbles himself"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"to the determination of justice: yet had he framed"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"to himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"deceiving promises of life; which I by my good"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"leisure have discredited to him, and now is he"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"resolved to die."
III,II,ESCALUS,"You have paid the heavens your function, and the"
III,II,ESCALUS,"prisoner the very debt of your calling. I have"
III,II,ESCALUS,"laboured for the poor gentleman to the extremest"
III,II,ESCALUS,"shore of my modesty: but my brother justice have I"
III,II,ESCALUS,"found so severe, that he hath forced me to tell him"
III,II,ESCALUS,"he is indeed Justice."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"If his own life answer the straitness of his"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"proceeding, it shall become him well; wherein if he"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"chance to fail, he hath sentenced himself."
III,II,ESCALUS,"I am going to visit the prisoner. Fare you well."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Peace be with you!"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"He who the sword of heaven will bear"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Should be as holy as severe;"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Pattern in himself to know,"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Grace to stand, and virtue go;"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"More nor less to others paying"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Than by self-offences weighing."
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Shame to him whose cruel striking"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Kills for faults of his own liking!"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Twice treble shame on Angelo,"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To weed my vice and let his grow!"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"O, what may man within him hide,"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Though angel on the outward side!"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"How may likeness made in crimes,"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Making practise on the times,"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To draw with idle spiders' strings"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Most ponderous and substantial things!"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Craft against vice I must apply:"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"With Angelo to-night shall lie"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"His old betrothed but despised;"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"So disguise shall, by the disguised,"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Pay with falsehood false exacting,"
III,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And perform an old contracting."
IV,I,,"Take, O, take those lips away,"
IV,I,,"That so sweetly were forsworn;"
IV,I,,"And those eyes, the break of day,"
IV,I,,"Lights that do mislead the morn:"
IV,I,,"But my kisses bring again, bring again;"
IV,I,,"Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain."
IV,I,MARIANA,"Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away:"
IV,I,MARIANA,"Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice"
IV,I,MARIANA,"Hath often still'd my brawling discontent."
IV,I,MARIANA,"I cry you mercy, sir; and well could wish"
IV,I,MARIANA,"You had not found me here so musical:"
IV,I,MARIANA,"Let me excuse me, and believe me so,"
IV,I,MARIANA,"My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To make bad good, and good provoke to harm."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I pray, you, tell me, hath any body inquired"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"for me here to-day? much upon this time have"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I promised here to meet."
IV,I,MARIANA,"You have not been inquired after:"
IV,I,MARIANA,"I have sat here all day."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I do constantly believe you. The time is come even"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"now. I shall crave your forbearance a little: may"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"be I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself."
IV,I,MARIANA,"I am always bound to you."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Very well met, and well come."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"What is the news from this good deputy?"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"He hath a garden circummured with brick,"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"Whose western side is with a vineyard back'd;"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"And to that vineyard is a planched gate,"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"That makes his opening with this bigger key:"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"This other doth command a little door"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"Which from the vineyard to the garden leads;"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"There have I made my promise"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"Upon the heavy middle of the night"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"To call upon him."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But shall you on your knowledge find this way?"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"I have ta'en a due and wary note upon't:"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"With whispering and most guilty diligence,"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"In action all of precept, he did show me"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"The way twice o'er."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Are there no other tokens"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Between you 'greed concerning her observance?"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"No, none, but only a repair i' the dark;"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"And that I have possess'd him my most stay"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"Can be but brief; for I have made him know"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"I have a servant comes with me along,"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"That stays upon me, whose persuasion is"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"I come about my brother."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"'Tis well borne up."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I have not yet made known to Mariana"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"A word of this. What, ho! within! come forth!"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I pray you, be acquainted with this maid;"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"She comes to do you good."
IV,I,ISABELLA,"I do desire the like."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?"
IV,I,MARIANA,"Good friar, I know you do, and have found it."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Take, then, this your companion by the hand,"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Who hath a story ready for your ear."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I shall attend your leisure: but make haste;"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The vaporous night approaches."
IV,I,MARIANA,"Will't please you walk aside?"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"O place and greatness! millions of false eyes"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Run with these false and most contrarious quests"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Make thee the father of their idle dreams"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And rack thee in their fancies."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Welcome, how agreed?"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"She'll take the enterprise upon her, father,"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"If you advise it."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"It is not my consent,"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But my entreaty too."
IV,I,ISABELLA,"Little have you to say"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"When you depart from him, but, soft and low,"
IV,I,ISABELLA,"'Remember now my brother.'"
IV,I,MARIANA,"Fear me not."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all."
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"He is your husband on a pre-contract:"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin,"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Sith that the justice of your title to him"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go:"
IV,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Our corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow."
IV,II,Provost,"Come hither, sirrah. Can you cut off a man's head?"
IV,II,POMPEY,"If the man be a bachelor, sir, I can; but if he be a"
IV,II,POMPEY,"married man, he's his wife's head, and I can never"
IV,II,POMPEY,"cut off a woman's head."
IV,II,Provost,"Come, sir, leave me your snatches, and yield me a"
IV,II,Provost,"direct answer. To-morrow morning are to die Claudio"
IV,II,Provost,"and Barnardine. Here is in our prison a common"
IV,II,Provost,"executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if"
IV,II,Provost,"you will take it on you to assist him, it shall"
IV,II,Provost,"redeem you from your gyves; if not, you shall have"
IV,II,Provost,"your full time of imprisonment and your deliverance"
IV,II,Provost,"with an unpitied whipping, for you have been a"
IV,II,Provost,"notorious bawd."
IV,II,POMPEY,"Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind;"
IV,II,POMPEY,"but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman. I"
IV,II,POMPEY,"would be glad to receive some instruction from my"
IV,II,POMPEY,"fellow partner."
IV,II,Provost,"What, ho! Abhorson! Where's Abhorson, there?"
IV,II,ABHORSON,"Do you call, sir?"
IV,II,Provost,"Sirrah, here's a fellow will help you to-morrow in"
IV,II,Provost,"your execution. If you think it meet, compound with"
IV,II,Provost,"him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if"
IV,II,Provost,"not, use him for the present and dismiss him. He"
IV,II,Provost,"cannot plead his estimation with you; he hath been a bawd."
IV,II,ABHORSON,"A bawd, sir? fie upon him! he will discredit our mystery."
IV,II,Provost,"Go to, sir; you weigh equally; a feather will turn"
IV,II,Provost,"the scale."
IV,II,POMPEY,"Pray, sir, by your good favour,--for surely, sir, a"
IV,II,POMPEY,"good favour you have, but that you have a hanging"
IV,II,POMPEY,"look,--do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery?"
IV,II,ABHORSON,"Ay, sir; a mystery"
IV,II,POMPEY,"Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and"
IV,II,POMPEY,"your whores, sir, being members of my occupation,"
IV,II,POMPEY,"using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery:"
IV,II,POMPEY,"but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I"
IV,II,POMPEY,"should be hanged, I cannot imagine."
IV,II,ABHORSON,"Sir, it is a mystery."
IV,II,POMPEY,"Proof?"
IV,II,ABHORSON,"Every true man's apparel fits your thief: if it be"
IV,II,ABHORSON,"too little for your thief, your true man thinks it"
IV,II,ABHORSON,"big enough; if it be too big for your thief, your"
IV,II,ABHORSON,"thief thinks it little enough: so every true man's"
IV,II,ABHORSON,"apparel fits your thief."
IV,II,Provost,"Are you agreed?"
IV,II,POMPEY,"Sir, I will serve him; for I do find your hangman is"
IV,II,POMPEY,"a more penitent trade than your bawd; he doth"
IV,II,POMPEY,"oftener ask forgiveness."
IV,II,Provost,"You, sirrah, provide your block and your axe"
IV,II,Provost,"to-morrow four o'clock."
IV,II,ABHORSON,"Come on, bawd; I will instruct thee in my trade; follow."
IV,II,POMPEY,"I do desire to learn, sir: and I hope, if you have"
IV,II,POMPEY,"occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find"
IV,II,POMPEY,"me yare; for truly, sir, for your kindness I owe you"
IV,II,POMPEY,"a good turn."
IV,II,Provost,"Call hither Barnardine and Claudio:"
IV,II,Provost,"The one has my pity; not a jot the other,"
IV,II,Provost,"Being a murderer, though he were my brother."
IV,II,Provost,"Look, here's the warrant, Claudio, for thy death:"
IV,II,Provost,"'Tis now dead midnight, and by eight to-morrow"
IV,II,Provost,"Thou must be made immortal. Where's Barnardine?"
IV,II,CLAUDIO,"As fast lock'd up in sleep as guiltless labour"
IV,II,CLAUDIO,"When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones:"
IV,II,CLAUDIO,"He will not wake."
IV,II,Provost,"Who can do good on him?"
IV,II,Provost,"Well, go, prepare yourself."
IV,II,Provost,"But, hark, what noise?"
IV,II,Provost,"Heaven give your spirits comfort!"
IV,II,Provost,"By and by."
IV,II,Provost,"I hope it is some pardon or reprieve"
IV,II,Provost,"For the most gentle Claudio."
IV,II,Provost,"Welcome father."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The best and wholesomest spirts of the night"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Envelope you, good Provost! Who call'd here of late?"
IV,II,Provost,"None, since the curfew rung."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Not Isabel?"
IV,II,Provost,"No."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"They will, then, ere't be long."
IV,II,Provost,"What comfort is for Claudio?"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"There's some in hope."
IV,II,Provost,"It is a bitter deputy."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Not so, not so; his life is parallel'd"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Even with the stroke and line of his great justice:"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"He doth with holy abstinence subdue"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That in himself which he spurs on his power"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To qualify in others: were he meal'd with that"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Which he corrects, then were he tyrannous;"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But this being so, he's just."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Now are they come."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"This is a gentle provost: seldom when"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The steeled gaoler is the friend of men."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"How now! what noise? That spirit's possessed with haste"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That wounds the unsisting postern with these strokes."
IV,II,Provost,"There he must stay until the officer"
IV,II,Provost,"Arise to let him in: he is call'd up."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Have you no countermand for Claudio yet,"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But he must die to-morrow?"
IV,II,Provost,"None, sir, none."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"As near the dawning, provost, as it is,"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"You shall hear more ere morning."
IV,II,Provost,"Happily"
IV,II,Provost,"You something know; yet I believe there comes"
IV,II,Provost,"No countermand; no such example have we:"
IV,II,Provost,"Besides, upon the very siege of justice"
IV,II,Provost,"Lord Angelo hath to the public ear"
IV,II,Provost,"Profess'd the contrary."
IV,II,Provost,"This is his lordship's man."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And here comes Claudio's pardon."
IV,II,Messenger,"My lord hath sent you this note; and by me this"
IV,II,Messenger,"further charge, that you swerve not from the"
IV,II,Messenger,"smallest article of it, neither in time, matter, or"
IV,II,Messenger,"other circumstance. Good morrow; for, as I take it,"
IV,II,Messenger,"it is almost day."
IV,II,Provost,"I shall obey him."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For which the pardoner himself is in."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Hence hath offence his quick celerity,"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"When it is born in high authority:"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended,"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That for the fault's love is the offender friended."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Now, sir, what news?"
IV,II,Provost,"I told you. Lord Angelo, belike thinking me remiss"
IV,II,Provost,"in mine office, awakens me with this unwonted"
IV,II,Provost,"putting-on; methinks strangely, for he hath not used it before."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Pray you, let's hear."
IV,II,Provost,"'Whatsoever you may hear to the contrary, let"
IV,II,Provost,"Claudio be executed by four of the clock; and in the"
IV,II,Provost,"afternoon Barnardine: for my better satisfaction,"
IV,II,Provost,"let me have Claudio's head sent me by five. Let"
IV,II,Provost,"this be duly performed; with a thought that more"
IV,II,Provost,"depends on it than we must yet deliver. Thus fail"
IV,II,Provost,"not to do your office, as you will answer it at your peril.'"
IV,II,Provost,"What say you to this, sir?"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"What is that Barnardine who is to be executed in the"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"afternoon?"
IV,II,Provost,"A Bohemian born, but here nursed un and bred; one"
IV,II,Provost,"that is a prisoner nine years old."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"How came it that the absent duke had not either"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"delivered him to his liberty or executed him? I"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"have heard it was ever his manner to do so."
IV,II,Provost,"His friends still wrought reprieves for him: and,"
IV,II,Provost,"indeed, his fact, till now in the government of Lord"
IV,II,Provost,"Angelo, came not to an undoubtful proof."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"It is now apparent?"
IV,II,Provost,"Most manifest, and not denied by himself."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Hath he born himself penitently in prison? how"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"seems he to be touched?"
IV,II,Provost,"A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but"
IV,II,Provost,"as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and fearless"
IV,II,Provost,"of what's past, present, or to come; insensible of"
IV,II,Provost,"mortality, and desperately mortal."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"He wants advice."
IV,II,Provost,"He will hear none: he hath evermore had the liberty"
IV,II,Provost,"of the prison; give him leave to escape hence, he"
IV,II,Provost,"would not: drunk many times a day, if not many days"
IV,II,Provost,"entirely drunk. We have very oft awaked him, as if"
IV,II,Provost,"to carry him to execution, and showed him a seeming"
IV,II,Provost,"warrant for it: it hath not moved him at all."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"More of him anon. There is written in your brow,"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"provost, honesty and constancy: if I read it not"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"truly, my ancient skill beguiles me; but, in the"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"boldness of my cunning, I will lay myself in hazard."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Claudio, whom here you have warrant to execute, is"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"no greater forfeit to the law than Angelo who hath"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"sentenced him. To make you understand this in a"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"manifested effect, I crave but four days' respite;"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"for the which you are to do me both a present and a"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"dangerous courtesy."
IV,II,Provost,"Pray, sir, in what?"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"In the delaying death."
IV,II,Provost,"A lack, how may I do it, having the hour limited,"
IV,II,Provost,"and an express command, under penalty, to deliver"
IV,II,Provost,"his head in the view of Angelo? I may make my case"
IV,II,Provost,"as Claudio's, to cross this in the smallest."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"By the vow of mine order I warrant you, if my"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"instructions may be your guide. Let this Barnardine"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"be this morning executed, and his head born to Angelo."
IV,II,Provost,"Angelo hath seen them both, and will discover the favour."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"O, death's a great disguiser; and you may add to it."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Shave the head, and tie the beard; and say it was"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"death: you know the course is common. If any thing"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"fall to you upon this, more than thanks and good"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"fortune, by the saint whom I profess, I will plead"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"against it with my life."
IV,II,Provost,"Pardon me, good father; it is against my oath."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Were you sworn to the duke, or to the deputy?"
IV,II,Provost,"To him, and to his substitutes."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"You will think you have made no offence, if the duke"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"avouch the justice of your dealing?"
IV,II,Provost,"But what likelihood is in that?"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Not a resemblance, but a certainty. Yet since I see"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"you fearful, that neither my coat, integrity, nor"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"further than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Look you, sir, here is the hand and seal of the"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"signet is not strange to you."
IV,II,Provost,"I know them both."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The contents of this is the return of the duke: you"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"shall anon over-read it at your pleasure; where you"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"shall find, within these two days he will be here."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"This is a thing that Angelo knows not; for he this"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"very day receives letters of strange tenor;"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"perchance of the duke's death; perchance entering"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"into some monastery; but, by chance, nothing of what"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"is writ. Look, the unfolding star calls up the"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"shepherd. Put not yourself into amazement how these"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"things should be: all difficulties are but easy"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"when they are known. Call your executioner, and off"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"with Barnardine's head: I will give him a present"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"shrift and advise him for a better place. Yet you"
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"are amazed; but this shall absolutely resolve you."
IV,II,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Come away; it is almost clear dawn."
IV,III,POMPEY,"I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house"
IV,III,POMPEY,"of profession: one would think it were Mistress"
IV,III,POMPEY,"Overdone's own house, for here be many of her old"
IV,III,POMPEY,"customers. First, here's young Master Rash; he's in"
IV,III,POMPEY,"for a commodity of brown paper and old ginger,"
IV,III,POMPEY,"ninescore and seventeen pounds; of which he made"
IV,III,POMPEY,"five marks, ready money: marry, then ginger was not"
IV,III,POMPEY,"much in request, for the old women were all dead."
IV,III,POMPEY,"Then is there here one Master Caper, at the suit of"
IV,III,POMPEY,"Master Three-pile the mercer, for some four suits of"
IV,III,POMPEY,"peach-coloured satin, which now peaches him a"
IV,III,POMPEY,"beggar. Then have we here young Dizy, and young"
IV,III,POMPEY,"Master Deep-vow, and Master Copperspur, and Master"
IV,III,POMPEY,"Starve-lackey the rapier and dagger man, and young"
IV,III,POMPEY,"Drop-heir that killed lusty Pudding, and Master"
IV,III,POMPEY,"Forthlight the tilter, and brave Master Shooty the"
IV,III,POMPEY,"great traveller, and wild Half-can that stabbed"
IV,III,POMPEY,"Pots, and, I think, forty more; all great doers in"
IV,III,POMPEY,"our trade, and are now 'for the Lord's sake.'"
IV,III,ABHORSON,"Sirrah, bring Barnardine hither."
IV,III,POMPEY,"Master Barnardine! you must rise and be hanged."
IV,III,POMPEY,"Master Barnardine!"
IV,III,ABHORSON,"What, ho, Barnardine!"
IV,III,BARNARDINE,"noise there? What are you?"
IV,III,POMPEY,"Your friends, sir; the hangman. You must be so"
IV,III,POMPEY,"good, sir, to rise and be put to death."
IV,III,ABHORSON,"Tell him he must awake, and that quickly too."
IV,III,POMPEY,"Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are"
IV,III,POMPEY,"executed, and sleep afterwards."
IV,III,ABHORSON,"Go in to him, and fetch him out."
IV,III,POMPEY,"He is coming, sir, he is coming; I hear his straw rustle."
IV,III,ABHORSON,"Is the axe upon the block, sirrah?"
IV,III,POMPEY,"Very ready, sir."
IV,III,BARNARDINE,"How now, Abhorson? what's the news with you?"
IV,III,ABHORSON,"Truly, sir, I would desire you to clap into your"
IV,III,ABHORSON,"prayers; for, look you, the warrant's come."
IV,III,BARNARDINE,"You rogue, I have been drinking all night; I am not"
IV,III,BARNARDINE,"fitted for 't."
IV,III,POMPEY,"O, the better, sir; for he that drinks all night,"
IV,III,POMPEY,"and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the"
IV,III,POMPEY,"sounder all the next day."
IV,III,ABHORSON,"Look you, sir; here comes your ghostly father: do"
IV,III,ABHORSON,"we jest now, think you?"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Sir, induced by my charity, and hearing how hastily"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"you are to depart, I am come to advise you, comfort"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"you and pray with you."
IV,III,BARNARDINE,"Friar, not I I have been drinking hard all night,"
IV,III,BARNARDINE,"and I will have more time to prepare me, or they"
IV,III,BARNARDINE,"shall beat out my brains with billets: I will not"
IV,III,BARNARDINE,"consent to die this day, that's certain."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"O, sir, you must: and therefore I beseech you"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Look forward on the journey you shall go."
IV,III,BARNARDINE,"I swear I will not die to-day for any man's"
IV,III,BARNARDINE,"persuasion."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But hear you."
IV,III,BARNARDINE,"Not a word: if you have any thing to say to me,"
IV,III,BARNARDINE,"come to my ward; for thence will not I to-day."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Unfit to live or die: O gravel heart!"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"After him, fellows; bring him to the block."
IV,III,Provost,"Now, sir, how do you find the prisoner?"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"A creature unprepared, unmeet for death;"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And to transport him in the mind he is"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Were damnable."
IV,III,Provost,"Here in the prison, father,"
IV,III,Provost,"There died this morning of a cruel fever"
IV,III,Provost,"One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate,"
IV,III,Provost,"A man of Claudio's years; his beard and head"
IV,III,Provost,"Just of his colour. What if we do omit"
IV,III,Provost,"This reprobate till he were well inclined;"
IV,III,Provost,"And satisfy the deputy with the visage"
IV,III,Provost,"Of Ragozine, more like to Claudio?"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"O, 'tis an accident that heaven provides!"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Dispatch it presently; the hour draws on"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Prefix'd by Angelo: see this be done,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And sent according to command; whiles I"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die."
IV,III,Provost,"This shall be done, good father, presently."
IV,III,Provost,"But Barnardine must die this afternoon:"
IV,III,Provost,"And how shall we continue Claudio,"
IV,III,Provost,"To save me from the danger that might come"
IV,III,Provost,"If he were known alive?"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Let this be done."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Put them in secret holds, both Barnardine and Claudio:"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To the under generation, you shall find"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Your safety manifested."
IV,III,Provost,"I am your free dependant."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Quick, dispatch, and send the head to Angelo."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Now will I write letters to Angelo,--"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The provost, he shall bear them, whose contents"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Shall witness to him I am near at home,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And that, by great injunctions, I am bound"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To enter publicly: him I'll desire"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To meet me at the consecrated fount"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"A league below the city; and from thence,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"By cold gradation and well-balanced form,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"We shall proceed with Angelo."
IV,III,Provost,"Here is the head; I'll carry it myself."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Convenient is it. Make a swift return;"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For I would commune with you of such things"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That want no ear but yours."
IV,III,Provost,"I'll make all speed."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The tongue of Isabel. She's come to know"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"If yet her brother's pardon be come hither:"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But I will keep her ignorant of her good,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To make her heavenly comforts of despair,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"When it is least expected."
IV,III,ISABELLA,"Ho, by your leave!"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter."
IV,III,ISABELLA,"The better, given me by so holy a man."
IV,III,ISABELLA,"Hath yet the deputy sent my brother's pardon?"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"He hath released him, Isabel, from the world:"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"His head is off and sent to Angelo."
IV,III,ISABELLA,"Nay, but it is not so."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"It is no other: show your wisdom, daughter,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"In your close patience."
IV,III,ISABELLA,"O, I will to him and pluck out his eyes!"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"You shall not be admitted to his sight."
IV,III,ISABELLA,"Unhappy Claudio! wretched Isabel!"
IV,III,ISABELLA,"Injurious world! most damned Angelo!"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"This nor hurts him nor profits you a jot;"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Forbear it therefore; give your cause to heaven."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Mark what I say, which you shall find"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"By every syllable a faithful verity:"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The duke comes home to-morrow; nay, dry your eyes;"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"One of our convent, and his confessor,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Gives me this instance: already he hath carried"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Notice to Escalus and Angelo,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Who do prepare to meet him at the gates,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"There to give up their power. If you can, pace your wisdom"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"In that good path that I would wish it go,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And you shall have your bosom on this wretch,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Grace of the duke, revenges to your heart,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And general honour."
IV,III,ISABELLA,"I am directed by you."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"This letter, then, to Friar Peter give;"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"'Tis that he sent me of the duke's return:"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Say, by this token, I desire his company"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"At Mariana's house to-night. Her cause and yours"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I'll perfect him withal, and he shall bring you"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Before the duke, and to the head of Angelo"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Accuse him home and home. For my poor self,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I am combined by a sacred vow"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And shall be absent. Wend you with this letter:"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Command these fretting waters from your eyes"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"With a light heart; trust not my holy order,"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"If I pervert your course. Who's here?"
IV,III,LUCIO,"Good even. Friar, where's the provost?"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Not within, sir."
IV,III,LUCIO,"O pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine heart to see"
IV,III,LUCIO,"thine eyes so red: thou must be patient. I am fain"
IV,III,LUCIO,"to dine and sup with water and bran; I dare not for"
IV,III,LUCIO,"my head fill my belly; one fruitful meal would set"
IV,III,LUCIO,"me to 't. But they say the duke will be here"
IV,III,LUCIO,"to-morrow. By my troth, Isabel, I loved thy brother:"
IV,III,LUCIO,"if the old fantastical duke of dark corners had been"
IV,III,LUCIO,"at home, he had lived."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Sir, the duke is marvellous little beholding to your"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"reports; but the best is, he lives not in them."
IV,III,LUCIO,"Friar, thou knowest not the duke so well as I do:"
IV,III,LUCIO,"he's a better woodman than thou takest him for."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Well, you'll answer this one day. Fare ye well."
IV,III,LUCIO,"Nay, tarry; I'll go along with thee"
IV,III,LUCIO,"I can tell thee pretty tales of the duke."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"You have told me too many of him already, sir, if"
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"they be true; if not true, none were enough."
IV,III,LUCIO,"I was once before him for getting a wench with child."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Did you such a thing?"
IV,III,LUCIO,"Yes, marry, did I but I was fain to forswear it;"
IV,III,LUCIO,"they would else have married me to the rotten medlar."
IV,III,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Sir, your company is fairer than honest. Rest you well."
IV,III,LUCIO,"By my troth, I'll go with thee to the lane's end:"
IV,III,LUCIO,"if bawdy talk offend you, we'll have very little of"
IV,III,LUCIO,"it. Nay, friar, I am a kind of burr; I shall stick."
IV,IV,ESCALUS,"Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other."
IV,IV,ANGELO,"In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"not tainted! And why meet him at the gates, and"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"redeliver our authorities there"
IV,IV,ESCALUS,"I guess not."
IV,IV,ANGELO,"And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"entering, that if any crave redress of injustice,"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"they should exhibit their petitions in the street?"
IV,IV,ESCALUS,"He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of"
IV,IV,ESCALUS,"complaints, and to deliver us from devices"
IV,IV,ESCALUS,"hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand"
IV,IV,ESCALUS,"against us."
IV,IV,ANGELO,"Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed betimes"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"i' the morn; I'll call you at your house: give"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"him."
IV,IV,ESCALUS,"I shall, sir. Fare you well."
IV,IV,ANGELO,"Good night."
IV,IV,ANGELO,"This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"And dull to all proceedings. A deflower'd maid!"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"And by an eminent body that enforced"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"The law against it! But that her tender shame"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"Will not proclaim against her maiden loss,"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no;"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"For my authority bears of a credent bulk,"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"That no particular scandal once can touch"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"But it confounds the breather. He should have lived,"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense,"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge,"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"By so receiving a dishonour'd life"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived!"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"A lack, when once our grace we have forgot,"
IV,IV,ANGELO,"Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not."
IV,V,DUKE VINCENTIO,"These letters at fit time deliver me"
IV,V,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The provost knows our purpose and our plot."
IV,V,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The matter being afoot, keep your instruction,"
IV,V,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And hold you ever to our special drift;"
IV,V,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Though sometimes you do blench from this to that,"
IV,V,DUKE VINCENTIO,"As cause doth minister. Go call at Flavius' house,"
IV,V,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And tell him where I stay: give the like notice"
IV,V,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To Valentinus, Rowland, and to Crassus,"
IV,V,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate;"
IV,V,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But send me Flavius first."
IV,V,FRIAR PETER,"It shall be speeded well."
IV,V,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I thank thee, Varrius; thou hast made good haste:"
IV,V,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Come, we will walk. There's other of our friends"
IV,V,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Will greet us here anon, my gentle Varrius."
IV,VI,ISABELLA,"To speak so indirectly I am loath:"
IV,VI,ISABELLA,"I would say the truth; but to accuse him so,"
IV,VI,ISABELLA,"That is your part: yet I am advised to do it;"
IV,VI,ISABELLA,"He says, to veil full purpose."
IV,VI,MARIANA,"Be ruled by him."
IV,VI,ISABELLA,"Besides, he tells me that, if peradventure"
IV,VI,ISABELLA,"He speak against me on the adverse side,"
IV,VI,ISABELLA,"I should not think it strange; for 'tis a physic"
IV,VI,ISABELLA,"That's bitter to sweet end."
IV,VI,MARIANA,"I would Friar Peter--"
IV,VI,ISABELLA,"O, peace! the friar is come."
IV,VI,FRIAR PETER,"Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,"
IV,VI,FRIAR PETER,"Where you may have such vantage on the duke,"
IV,VI,FRIAR PETER,"He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets sounded;"
IV,VI,FRIAR PETER,"The generous and gravest citizens"
IV,VI,FRIAR PETER,"Have hent the gates, and very near upon"
IV,VI,FRIAR PETER,"The duke is entering: therefore, hence, away!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"My very worthy cousin, fairly met!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Our old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you."
V,I,ANGELO,"Happy return be to your royal grace!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Many and hearty thankings to you both."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"We have made inquiry of you; and we hear"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Such goodness of your justice, that our soul"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Forerunning more requital."
V,I,ANGELO,"You make my bonds still greater."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"When it deserves, with characters of brass,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And razure of oblivion. Give me your hand,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And let the subject see, to make them know"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That outward courtesies would fain proclaim"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Favours that keep within. Come, Escalus,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"You must walk by us on our other hand;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And good supporters are you."
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Now is your time: speak loud and kneel before him."
V,I,ISABELLA,"Justice, O royal duke! Vail your regard"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Upon a wrong'd, I would fain have said, a maid!"
V,I,ISABELLA,"O worthy prince, dishonour not your eye"
V,I,ISABELLA,"By throwing it on any other object"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Till you have heard me in my true complaint"
V,I,ISABELLA,"And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Relate your wrongs; in what? by whom? be brief."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Here is Lord Angelo shall give you justice:"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Reveal yourself to him."
V,I,ISABELLA,"O worthy duke,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"You bid me seek redemption of the devil:"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Hear me yourself; for that which I must speak"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Must either punish me, not being believed,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Or wring redress from you. Hear me, O hear me, here!"
V,I,ANGELO,"My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm:"
V,I,ANGELO,"She hath been a suitor to me for her brother"
V,I,ANGELO,"Cut off by course of justice,--"
V,I,ISABELLA,"By course of justice!"
V,I,ANGELO,"And she will speak most bitterly and strange."
V,I,ISABELLA,"Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak:"
V,I,ISABELLA,"That Angelo's forsworn; is it not strange?"
V,I,ISABELLA,"That Angelo's a murderer; is 't not strange?"
V,I,ISABELLA,"That Angelo is an adulterous thief,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"An hypocrite, a virgin-violator;"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Is it not strange and strange?"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Nay, it is ten times strange."
V,I,ISABELLA,"It is not truer he is Angelo"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Than this is all as true as it is strange:"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Nay, it is ten times true; for truth is truth"
V,I,ISABELLA,"To the end of reckoning."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Away with her! Poor soul,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"She speaks this in the infirmity of sense."
V,I,ISABELLA,"O prince, I conjure thee, as thou believest"
V,I,ISABELLA,"There is another comfort than this world,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"That thou neglect me not, with that opinion"
V,I,ISABELLA,"That I am touch'd with madness! Make not impossible"
V,I,ISABELLA,"That which but seems unlike: 'tis not impossible"
V,I,ISABELLA,"But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute"
V,I,ISABELLA,"As Angelo; even so may Angelo,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Be an arch-villain; believe it, royal prince:"
V,I,ISABELLA,"If he be less, he's nothing; but he's more,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Had I more name for badness."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"By mine honesty,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"If she be mad,--as I believe no other,--"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Such a dependency of thing on thing,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"As e'er I heard in madness."
V,I,ISABELLA,"O gracious duke,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Harp not on that, nor do not banish reason"
V,I,ISABELLA,"For inequality; but let your reason serve"
V,I,ISABELLA,"To make the truth appear where it seems hid,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"And hide the false seems true."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Many that are not mad"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Have, sure, more lack of reason. What would you say?"
V,I,ISABELLA,"I am the sister of one Claudio,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Condemn'd upon the act of fornication"
V,I,ISABELLA,"To lose his head; condemn'd by Angelo:"
V,I,ISABELLA,"I, in probation of a sisterhood,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Was sent to by my brother; one Lucio"
V,I,ISABELLA,"As then the messenger,--"
V,I,LUCIO,"That's I, an't like your grace:"
V,I,LUCIO,"I came to her from Claudio, and desired her"
V,I,LUCIO,"To try her gracious fortune with Lord Angelo"
V,I,LUCIO,"For her poor brother's pardon."
V,I,ISABELLA,"That's he indeed."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"You were not bid to speak."
V,I,LUCIO,"No, my good lord;"
V,I,LUCIO,"Nor wish'd to hold my peace."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I wish you now, then;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Pray you, take note of it: and when you have"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"A business for yourself, pray heaven you then"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Be perfect."
V,I,LUCIO,"I warrant your honour."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The warrants for yourself; take heed to't."
V,I,ISABELLA,"This gentleman told somewhat of my tale,--"
V,I,LUCIO,"Right."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"It may be right; but you are i' the wrong"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To speak before your time. Proceed."
V,I,ISABELLA,"I went"
V,I,ISABELLA,"To this pernicious caitiff deputy,--"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That's somewhat madly spoken."
V,I,ISABELLA,"Pardon it;"
V,I,ISABELLA,"The phrase is to the matter."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Mended again. The matter; proceed."
V,I,ISABELLA,"In brief, to set the needless process by,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"How he refell'd me, and how I replied,--"
V,I,ISABELLA,"For this was of much length,--the vile conclusion"
V,I,ISABELLA,"I now begin with grief and shame to utter:"
V,I,ISABELLA,"He would not, but by gift of my chaste body"
V,I,ISABELLA,"To his concupiscible intemperate lust,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Release my brother; and, after much debatement,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"And I did yield to him: but the next morn betimes,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"His purpose surfeiting, he sends a warrant"
V,I,ISABELLA,"For my poor brother's head."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"This is most likely!"
V,I,ISABELLA,"O, that it were as like as it is true!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"By heaven, fond wretch, thou knowist not what thou speak'st,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Or else thou art suborn'd against his honour"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"In hateful practise. First, his integrity"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Stands without blemish. Next, it imports no reason"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That with such vehemency he should pursue"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Faults proper to himself: if he had so offended,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"He would have weigh'd thy brother by himself"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And not have cut him off. Some one hath set you on:"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Confess the truth, and say by whose advice"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Thou camest here to complain."
V,I,ISABELLA,"And is this all?"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Then, O you blessed ministers above,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Keep me in patience, and with ripen'd time"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up"
V,I,ISABELLA,"In countenance! Heaven shield your grace from woe,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"As I, thus wrong'd, hence unbelieved go!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I know you'ld fain be gone. An officer!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To prison with her! Shall we thus permit"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"A blasting and a scandalous breath to fall"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"On him so near us? This needs must be a practise."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Who knew of Your intent and coming hither?"
V,I,ISABELLA,"One that I would were here, Friar Lodowick."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick?"
V,I,LUCIO,"My lord, I know him; 'tis a meddling friar;"
V,I,LUCIO,"I do not like the man: had he been lay, my lord"
V,I,LUCIO,"For certain words he spake against your grace"
V,I,LUCIO,"In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Words against me? this is a good friar, belike!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And to set on this wretched woman here"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Against our substitute! Let this friar be found."
V,I,LUCIO,"But yesternight, my lord, she and that friar,"
V,I,LUCIO,"I saw them at the prison: a saucy friar,"
V,I,LUCIO,"A very scurvy fellow."
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Blessed be your royal grace!"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"I have stood by, my lord, and I have heard"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Your royal ear abused. First, hath this woman"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Most wrongfully accused your substitute,"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Who is as free from touch or soil with her"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"As she from one ungot."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"We did believe no less."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of?"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"I know him for a man divine and holy;"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Not scurvy, nor a temporary meddler,"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"As he's reported by this gentleman;"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"And, on my trust, a man that never yet"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Did, as he vouches, misreport your grace."
V,I,LUCIO,"My lord, most villanously; believe it."
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Well, he in time may come to clear himself;"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"But at this instant he is sick my lord,"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Of a strange fever. Upon his mere request,"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Being come to knowledge that there was complaint"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Intended 'gainst Lord Angelo, came I hither,"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"To speak, as from his mouth, what he doth know"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Is true and false; and what he with his oath"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"And all probation will make up full clear,"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Whensoever he's convented. First, for this woman."
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"To justify this worthy nobleman,"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"So vulgarly and personally accused,"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Her shall you hear disproved to her eyes,"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Till she herself confess it."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Good friar, let's hear it."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Do you not smile at this, Lord Angelo?"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"In this I'll be impartial; be you judge"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Of your own cause. Is this the witness, friar?"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"First, let her show her face, and after speak."
V,I,MARIANA,"Pardon, my lord; I will not show my face"
V,I,MARIANA,"Until my husband bid me."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"What, are you married?"
V,I,MARIANA,"No, my lord."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Are you a maid?"
V,I,MARIANA,"No, my lord."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"A widow, then?"
V,I,MARIANA,"Neither, my lord."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife?"
V,I,LUCIO,"My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are"
V,I,LUCIO,"neither maid, widow, nor wife."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Silence that fellow: I would he had some cause"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To prattle for himself."
V,I,LUCIO,"Well, my lord."
V,I,MARIANA,"My lord; I do confess I ne'er was married;"
V,I,MARIANA,"And I confess besides I am no maid:"
V,I,MARIANA,"I have known my husband; yet my husband"
V,I,MARIANA,"Knows not that ever he knew me."
V,I,LUCIO,"He was drunk then, my lord: it can be no better."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For the benefit of silence, would thou wert so too!"
V,I,LUCIO,"Well, my lord."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"This is no witness for Lord Angelo."
V,I,MARIANA,"Now I come to't my lord"
V,I,MARIANA,"She that accuses him of fornication,"
V,I,MARIANA,"In self-same manner doth accuse my husband,"
V,I,MARIANA,"And charges him my lord, with such a time"
V,I,MARIANA,"When I'll depose I had him in mine arms"
V,I,MARIANA,"With all the effect of love."
V,I,ANGELO,"Charges she more than me?"
V,I,MARIANA,"Not that I know."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"No? you say your husband."
V,I,MARIANA,"Why, just, my lord, and that is Angelo,"
V,I,MARIANA,"Who thinks he knows that he ne'er knew my body,"
V,I,MARIANA,"But knows he thinks that he knows Isabel's."
V,I,ANGELO,"This is a strange abuse. Let's see thy face."
V,I,MARIANA,"My husband bids me; now I will unmask."
V,I,MARIANA,"This is that face, thou cruel Angelo,"
V,I,MARIANA,"Which once thou sworest was worth the looking on;"
V,I,MARIANA,"This is the hand which, with a vow'd contract,"
V,I,MARIANA,"Was fast belock'd in thine; this is the body"
V,I,MARIANA,"That took away the match from Isabel,"
V,I,MARIANA,"And did supply thee at thy garden-house"
V,I,MARIANA,"In her imagined person."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Know you this woman?"
V,I,LUCIO,"Carnally, she says."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Sirrah, no more!"
V,I,LUCIO,"Enough, my lord."
V,I,ANGELO,"My lord, I must confess I know this woman:"
V,I,ANGELO,"And five years since there was some speech of marriage"
V,I,ANGELO,"Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off,"
V,I,ANGELO,"Partly for that her promised proportions"
V,I,ANGELO,"Came short of composition, but in chief"
V,I,ANGELO,"For that her reputation was disvalued"
V,I,ANGELO,"In levity: since which time of five years"
V,I,ANGELO,"I never spake with her, saw her, nor heard from her,"
V,I,ANGELO,"Upon my faith and honour."
V,I,MARIANA,"Noble prince,"
V,I,MARIANA,"As there comes light from heaven and words from breath,"
V,I,MARIANA,"As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue,"
V,I,MARIANA,"I am affianced this man's wife as strongly"
V,I,MARIANA,"As words could make up vows: and, my good lord,"
V,I,MARIANA,"But Tuesday night last gone in's garden-house"
V,I,MARIANA,"He knew me as a wife. As this is true,"
V,I,MARIANA,"Let me in safety raise me from my knees"
V,I,MARIANA,"Or else for ever be confixed here,"
V,I,MARIANA,"A marble monument!"
V,I,ANGELO,"I did but smile till now:"
V,I,ANGELO,"Now, good my lord, give me the scope of justice"
V,I,ANGELO,"My patience here is touch'd. I do perceive"
V,I,ANGELO,"These poor informal women are no more"
V,I,ANGELO,"But instruments of some more mightier member"
V,I,ANGELO,"That sets them on: let me have way, my lord,"
V,I,ANGELO,"To find this practise out."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Ay, with my heart"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And punish them to your height of pleasure."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Thou foolish friar, and thou pernicious woman,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Compact with her that's gone, think'st thou thy oaths,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Though they would swear down each particular saint,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Were testimonies against his worth and credit"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That's seal'd in approbation? You, Lord Escalus,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Sit with my cousin; lend him your kind pains"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To find out this abuse, whence 'tis derived."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"There is another friar that set them on;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Let him be sent for."
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Would he were here, my lord! for he indeed"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Hath set the women on to this complaint:"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"Your provost knows the place where he abides"
V,I,FRIAR PETER,"And he may fetch him."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Go do it instantly."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And you, my noble and well-warranted cousin,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Do with your injuries as seems you best,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"In any chastisement: I for a while will leave you;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But stir not you till you have well determined"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Upon these slanderers."
V,I,ESCALUS,"My lord, we'll do it throughly."
V,I,ESCALUS,"Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that"
V,I,ESCALUS,"Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person?"
V,I,LUCIO,"'Cucullus non facit monachum:' honest in nothing"
V,I,LUCIO,"but in his clothes; and one that hath spoke most"
V,I,LUCIO,"villanous speeches of the duke."
V,I,ESCALUS,"We shall entreat you to abide here till he come and"
V,I,ESCALUS,"enforce them against him: we shall find this friar a"
V,I,ESCALUS,"notable fellow."
V,I,LUCIO,"As any in Vienna, on my word."
V,I,ESCALUS,"Call that same Isabel here once again; I would speak with her."
V,I,ESCALUS,"Pray you, my lord, give me leave to question; you"
V,I,ESCALUS,"shall see how I'll handle her."
V,I,LUCIO,"Not better than he, by her own report."
V,I,ESCALUS,"Say you?"
V,I,LUCIO,"Marry, sir, I think, if you handled her privately,"
V,I,LUCIO,"she would sooner confess: perchance, publicly,"
V,I,LUCIO,"she'll be ashamed."
V,I,ESCALUS,"I will go darkly to work with her."
V,I,LUCIO,"That's the way; for women are light at midnight."
V,I,ESCALUS,"Come on, mistress: here's a gentlewoman denies all"
V,I,ESCALUS,"that you have said."
V,I,LUCIO,"My lord, here comes the rascal I spoke of; here with"
V,I,LUCIO,"the provost."
V,I,ESCALUS,"In very good time: speak not you to him till we"
V,I,ESCALUS,"call upon you."
V,I,LUCIO,"Mum."
V,I,ESCALUS,"Come, sir: did you set these women on to slander"
V,I,ESCALUS,"Lord Angelo? they have confessed you did."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"'Tis false."
V,I,ESCALUS,"How! know you where you are?"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Respect to your great place! and let the devil"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Where is the duke? 'tis he should hear me speak."
V,I,ESCALUS,"The duke's in us; and we will hear you speak:"
V,I,ESCALUS,"Look you speak justly."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Boldly, at least. But, O, poor souls,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox?"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Good night to your redress! Is the duke gone?"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Then is your cause gone too. The duke's unjust,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Thus to retort your manifest appeal,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And put your trial in the villain's mouth"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Which here you come to accuse."
V,I,LUCIO,"This is the rascal; this is he I spoke of."
V,I,ESCALUS,"Why, thou unreverend and unhallow'd friar,"
V,I,ESCALUS,"Is't not enough thou hast suborn'd these women"
V,I,ESCALUS,"To accuse this worthy man, but, in foul mouth"
V,I,ESCALUS,"And in the witness of his proper ear,"
V,I,ESCALUS,"To call him villain? and then to glance from him"
V,I,ESCALUS,"To the duke himself, to tax him with injustice?"
V,I,ESCALUS,"Take him hence; to the rack with him! We'll touse you"
V,I,ESCALUS,"Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose."
V,I,ESCALUS,"What 'unjust'!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Be not so hot; the duke"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Dare rack his own: his subject am I not,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Nor here provincial. My business in this state"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Made me a looker on here in Vienna,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Till it o'er-run the stew; laws for all faults,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"As much in mock as mark."
V,I,ESCALUS,"Slander to the state! Away with him to prison!"
V,I,ANGELO,"What can you vouch against him, Signior Lucio?"
V,I,ANGELO,"Is this the man that you did tell us of?"
V,I,LUCIO,"'Tis he, my lord. Come hither, goodman baldpate:"
V,I,LUCIO,"do you know me?"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I remember you, sir, by the sound of your voice: I"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"met you at the prison, in the absence of the duke."
V,I,LUCIO,"O, did you so? And do you remember what you said of the duke?"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Most notedly, sir."
V,I,LUCIO,"Do you so, sir? And was the duke a fleshmonger, a"
V,I,LUCIO,"fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be?"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"You must, sir, change persons with me, ere you make"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"that my report: you, indeed, spoke so of him; and"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"much more, much worse."
V,I,LUCIO,"O thou damnable fellow! Did not I pluck thee by the"
V,I,LUCIO,"nose for thy speeches?"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I protest I love the duke as I love myself."
V,I,ANGELO,"Hark, how the villain would close now, after his"
V,I,ANGELO,"treasonable abuses!"
V,I,ESCALUS,"Such a fellow is not to be talked withal. Away with"
V,I,ESCALUS,"him to prison! Where is the provost? Away with him"
V,I,ESCALUS,"to prison! lay bolts enough upon him: let him"
V,I,ESCALUS,"speak no more. Away with those giglots too, and"
V,I,ESCALUS,"with the other confederate companion!"
V,I,ANGELO,"What, resists he? Help him, Lucio."
V,I,LUCIO,"Come, sir; come, sir; come, sir; foh, sir! Why, you"
V,I,LUCIO,"bald-pated, lying rascal, you must be hooded, must"
V,I,LUCIO,"you? Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you!"
V,I,LUCIO,"show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour!"
V,I,LUCIO,"Will't not off?"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Thou art the first knave that e'er madest a duke."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"First, provost, let me bail these gentle three."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Sneak not away, sir; for the friar and you"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Must have a word anon. Lay hold on him."
V,I,LUCIO,"This may prove worse than hanging."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"We'll borrow place of him."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Sir, by your leave."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Hast thou or word, or wit, or impudence,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That yet can do thee office? If thou hast,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Rely upon it till my tale be heard,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And hold no longer out."
V,I,ANGELO,"O my dread lord,"
V,I,ANGELO,"I should be guiltier than my guiltiness,"
V,I,ANGELO,"To think I can be undiscernible,"
V,I,ANGELO,"When I perceive your grace, like power divine,"
V,I,ANGELO,"Hath look'd upon my passes. Then, good prince,"
V,I,ANGELO,"No longer session hold upon my shame,"
V,I,ANGELO,"But let my trial be mine own confession:"
V,I,ANGELO,"Immediate sentence then and sequent death"
V,I,ANGELO,"Is all the grace I beg."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Come hither, Mariana."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Say, wast thou e'er contracted to this woman?"
V,I,ANGELO,"I was, my lord."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Go take her hence, and marry her instantly."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Do you the office, friar; which consummate,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Return him here again. Go with him, provost."
V,I,ESCALUS,"My lord, I am more amazed at his dishonour"
V,I,ESCALUS,"Than at the strangeness of it."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Come hither, Isabel."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Your friar is now your prince: as I was then"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Advertising and holy to your business,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Not changing heart with habit, I am still"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Attorney'd at your service."
V,I,ISABELLA,"O, give me pardon,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"That I, your vassal, have employ'd and pain'd"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Your unknown sovereignty!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"You are pardon'd, Isabel:"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And now, dear maid, be you as free to us."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Your brother's death, I know, sits at your heart;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And you may marvel why I obscured myself,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Labouring to save his life, and would not rather"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Than let him so be lost. O most kind maid,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"It was the swift celerity of his death,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Which I did think with slower foot came on,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That brain'd my purpose. But, peace be with him!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That life is better life, past fearing death,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Than that which lives to fear: make it your comfort,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"So happy is your brother."
V,I,ISABELLA,"I do, my lord."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For this new-married man approaching here,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Your well defended honour, you must pardon"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For Mariana's sake: but as he adjudged your brother,--"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Being criminal, in double violation"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Of sacred chastity and of promise-breach"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Thereon dependent, for your brother's life,--"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The very mercy of the law cries out"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Most audible, even from his proper tongue,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"'An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!'"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Like doth quit like, and MEASURE still FOR MEASURE."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Then, Angelo, thy fault's thus manifested;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Which, though thou wouldst deny, denies thee vantage."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"We do condemn thee to the very block"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Where Claudio stoop'd to death, and with like haste."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Away with him!"
V,I,MARIANA,"O my most gracious lord,"
V,I,MARIANA,"I hope you will not mock me with a husband."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"It is your husband mock'd you with a husband."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Consenting to the safeguard of your honour,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I thought your marriage fit; else imputation,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For that he knew you, might reproach your life"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And choke your good to come; for his possessions,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Although by confiscation they are ours,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"We do instate and widow you withal,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"To buy you a better husband."
V,I,MARIANA,"O my dear lord,"
V,I,MARIANA,"I crave no other, nor no better man."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Never crave him; we are definitive."
V,I,MARIANA,"Gentle my liege,--"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"You do but lose your labour."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Away with him to death!"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Now, sir, to you."
V,I,MARIANA,"O my good lord! Sweet Isabel, take my part;"
V,I,MARIANA,"Lend me your knees, and all my life to come"
V,I,MARIANA,"I'll lend you all my life to do you service."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Against all sense you do importune her:"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Should she kneel down in mercy of this fact,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Her brother's ghost his paved bed would break,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And take her hence in horror."
V,I,MARIANA,"Isabel,"
V,I,MARIANA,"Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me;"
V,I,MARIANA,"Hold up your hands, say nothing; I'll speak all."
V,I,MARIANA,"They say, best men are moulded out of faults;"
V,I,MARIANA,"And, for the most, become much more the better"
V,I,MARIANA,"For being a little bad: so may my husband."
V,I,MARIANA,"O Isabel, will you not lend a knee?"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"He dies for Claudio's death."
V,I,ISABELLA,"Most bounteous sir,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Look, if it please you, on this man condemn'd,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"As if my brother lived: I partly think"
V,I,ISABELLA,"A due sincerity govern'd his deeds,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Till he did look on me: since it is so,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Let him not die. My brother had but justice,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"In that he did the thing for which he died:"
V,I,ISABELLA,"For Angelo,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"His act did not o'ertake his bad intent,"
V,I,ISABELLA,"And must be buried but as an intent"
V,I,ISABELLA,"That perish'd by the way: thoughts are no subjects;"
V,I,ISABELLA,"Intents but merely thoughts."
V,I,MARIANA,"Merely, my lord."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Your suit's unprofitable; stand up, I say."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I have bethought me of another fault."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Provost, how came it Claudio was beheaded"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"At an unusual hour?"
V,I,Provost,"It was commanded so."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Had you a special warrant for the deed?"
V,I,Provost,"No, my good lord; it was by private message."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For which I do discharge you of your office:"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Give up your keys."
V,I,Provost,"Pardon me, noble lord:"
V,I,Provost,"I thought it was a fault, but knew it not;"
V,I,Provost,"Yet did repent me, after more advice;"
V,I,Provost,"For testimony whereof, one in the prison,"
V,I,Provost,"That should by private order else have died,"
V,I,Provost,"I have reserved alive."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"What's he?"
V,I,Provost,"His name is Barnardine."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I would thou hadst done so by Claudio."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Go fetch him hither; let me look upon him."
V,I,ESCALUS,"I am sorry, one so learned and so wise"
V,I,ESCALUS,"As you, Lord Angelo, have still appear'd,"
V,I,ESCALUS,"Should slip so grossly, both in the heat of blood."
V,I,ESCALUS,"And lack of temper'd judgment afterward."
V,I,ANGELO,"I am sorry that such sorrow I procure:"
V,I,ANGELO,"And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart"
V,I,ANGELO,"That I crave death more willingly than mercy;"
V,I,ANGELO,"'Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Which is that Barnardine?"
V,I,Provost,"This, my lord."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"There was a friar told me of this man."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Sirrah, thou art said to have a stubborn soul."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That apprehends no further than this world,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And squarest thy life according. Thou'rt condemn'd:"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"But, for those earthly faults, I quit them all;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And pray thee take this mercy to provide"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"For better times to come. Friar, advise him;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I leave him to your hand. What muffled fellow's that?"
V,I,Provost,"This is another prisoner that I saved."
V,I,Provost,"Who should have died when Claudio lost his head;"
V,I,Provost,"As like almost to Claudio as himself."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Is he pardon'd; and, for your lovely sake,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Give me your hand and say you will be mine."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"He is my brother too: but fitter time for that."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"By this Lord Angelo perceives he's safe;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Methinks I see a quickening in his eye."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well:"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Look that you love your wife; her worth worth yours."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I find an apt remission in myself;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And yet here's one in place I cannot pardon."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"One all of luxury, an ass, a madman;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Wherein have I so deserved of you,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"That you extol me thus?"
V,I,LUCIO,"'Faith, my lord. I spoke it but according to the"
V,I,LUCIO,"trick. If you will hang me for it, you may; but I"
V,I,LUCIO,"had rather it would please you I might be whipt."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Whipt first, sir, and hanged after."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Proclaim it, provost, round about the city."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Is any woman wrong'd by this lewd fellow,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"As I have heard him swear himself there's one"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Whom he begot with child, let her appear,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And he shall marry her: the nuptial finish'd,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Let him be whipt and hang'd."
V,I,LUCIO,"I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a whore."
V,I,LUCIO,"Your highness said even now, I made you a duke:"
V,I,LUCIO,"good my lord, do not recompense me in making me a cuckold."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Upon mine honour, thou shalt marry her."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Remit thy other forfeits. Take him to prison;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"And see our pleasure herein executed."
V,I,LUCIO,"Marrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death,"
V,I,LUCIO,"whipping, and hanging."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Slandering a prince deserves it."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"She, Claudio, that you wrong'd, look you restore."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Joy to you, Mariana! Love her, Angelo:"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I have confess'd her and I know her virtue."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Thanks, good friend Escalus, for thy much goodness:"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"There's more behind that is more gratulate."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Thanks, provost, for thy care and secrecy:"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"We shill employ thee in a worthier place."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Forgive him, Angelo, that brought you home"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The head of Ragozine for Claudio's:"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"The offence pardons itself. Dear Isabel,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"I have a motion much imports your good;"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"Whereto if you'll a willing ear incline,"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine."
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"So, bring us to our palace; where we'll show"
V,I,DUKE VINCENTIO,"What's yet behind, that's meet you all should know."
I,I,ANTONIO,"In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:"
I,I,ANTONIO,"It wearies me; you say it wearies you;"
I,I,ANTONIO,"But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,"
I,I,ANTONIO,"What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,"
I,I,ANTONIO,"I am to learn;"
I,I,ANTONIO,"And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,"
I,I,ANTONIO,"That I have much ado to know myself."
I,I,SALARINO,"Your mind is tossing on the ocean;"
I,I,SALARINO,"There, where your argosies with portly sail,"
I,I,SALARINO,"Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,"
I,I,SALARINO,"Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,"
I,I,SALARINO,"Do overpeer the petty traffickers,"
I,I,SALARINO,"That curtsy to them, do them reverence,"
I,I,SALARINO,"As they fly by them with their woven wings."
I,I,SALANIO,"Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth,"
I,I,SALANIO,"The better part of my affections would"
I,I,SALANIO,"Be with my hopes abroad. I should be still"
I,I,SALANIO,"Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind,"
I,I,SALANIO,"Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads;"
I,I,SALANIO,"And every object that might make me fear"
I,I,SALANIO,"Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt"
I,I,SALANIO,"Would make me sad."
I,I,SALARINO,"My wind cooling my broth"
I,I,SALARINO,"Would blow me to an ague, when I thought"
I,I,SALARINO,"What harm a wind too great at sea might do."
I,I,SALARINO,"I should not see the sandy hour-glass run,"
I,I,SALARINO,"But I should think of shallows and of flats,"
I,I,SALARINO,"And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand,"
I,I,SALARINO,"Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs"
I,I,SALARINO,"To kiss her burial. Should I go to church"
I,I,SALARINO,"And see the holy edifice of stone,"
I,I,SALARINO,"And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks,"
I,I,SALARINO,"Which touching but my gentle vessel's side,"
I,I,SALARINO,"Would scatter all her spices on the stream,"
I,I,SALARINO,"Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks,"
I,I,SALARINO,"And, in a word, but even now worth this,"
I,I,SALARINO,"And now worth nothing? Shall I have the thought"
I,I,SALARINO,"To think on this, and shall I lack the thought"
I,I,SALARINO,"That such a thing bechanced would make me sad?"
I,I,SALARINO,"But tell not me; I know, Antonio"
I,I,SALARINO,"Is sad to think upon his merchandise."
I,I,ANTONIO,"Believe me, no: I thank my fortune for it,"
I,I,ANTONIO,"My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,"
I,I,ANTONIO,"Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate"
I,I,ANTONIO,"Upon the fortune of this present year:"
I,I,ANTONIO,"Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad."
I,I,SALARINO,"Why, then you are in love."
I,I,ANTONIO,"Fie, fie!"
I,I,SALARINO,"Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad,"
I,I,SALARINO,"Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy"
I,I,SALARINO,"For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry,"
I,I,SALARINO,"Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus,"
I,I,SALARINO,"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time:"
I,I,SALARINO,"Some that will evermore peep through their eyes"
I,I,SALARINO,"And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper,"
I,I,SALARINO,"And other of such vinegar aspect"
I,I,SALARINO,"That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile,"
I,I,SALARINO,"Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable."
I,I,SALANIO,"Here comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman,"
I,I,SALANIO,"Gratiano and Lorenzo. Fare ye well:"
I,I,SALANIO,"We leave you now with better company."
I,I,SALARINO,"I would have stay'd till I had made you merry,"
I,I,SALARINO,"If worthier friends had not prevented me."
I,I,ANTONIO,"Your worth is very dear in my regard."
I,I,ANTONIO,"I take it, your own business calls on you"
I,I,ANTONIO,"And you embrace the occasion to depart."
I,I,SALARINO,"Good morrow, my good lords."
I,I,BASSANIO,"Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when?"
I,I,BASSANIO,"You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?"
I,I,SALARINO,"We'll make our leisures to attend on yours."
I,I,LORENZO,"My Lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio,"
I,I,LORENZO,"We two will leave you: but at dinner-time,"
I,I,LORENZO,"I pray you, have in mind where we must meet."
I,I,BASSANIO,"I will not fail you."
I,I,GRATIANO,"You look not well, Signior Antonio;"
I,I,GRATIANO,"You have too much respect upon the world:"
I,I,GRATIANO,"They lose it that do buy it with much care:"
I,I,GRATIANO,"Believe me, you are marvellously changed."
I,I,ANTONIO,"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;"
I,I,ANTONIO,"A stage where every man must play a part,"
I,I,ANTONIO,"And mine a sad one."
I,I,GRATIANO,"Let me play the fool:"
I,I,GRATIANO,"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,"
I,I,GRATIANO,"And let my liver rather heat with wine"
I,I,GRATIANO,"Than my heart cool with mortifying groans."
I,I,GRATIANO,"Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,"
I,I,GRATIANO,"Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?"
I,I,GRATIANO,"Sleep when he wakes and creep into the jaundice"
I,I,GRATIANO,"By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio--"
I,I,GRATIANO,"I love thee, and it is my love that speaks--"
I,I,GRATIANO,"There are a sort of men whose visages"
I,I,GRATIANO,"Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,"
I,I,GRATIANO,"And do a wilful stillness entertain,"
I,I,GRATIANO,"With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion"
I,I,GRATIANO,"Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,"
I,I,GRATIANO,"As who should say 'I am Sir Oracle,"
I,I,GRATIANO,"And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!'"
I,I,GRATIANO,"O my Antonio, I do know of these"
I,I,GRATIANO,"That therefore only are reputed wise"
I,I,GRATIANO,"For saying nothing; when, I am very sure,"
I,I,GRATIANO,"If they should speak, would almost damn those ears,"
I,I,GRATIANO,"Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools."
I,I,GRATIANO,"I'll tell thee more of this another time:"
I,I,GRATIANO,"But fish not, with this melancholy bait,"
I,I,GRATIANO,"For this fool gudgeon, this opinion."
I,I,GRATIANO,"Come, good Lorenzo. Fare ye well awhile:"
I,I,GRATIANO,"I'll end my exhortation after dinner."
I,I,LORENZO,"Well, we will leave you then till dinner-time:"
I,I,LORENZO,"I must be one of these same dumb wise men,"
I,I,LORENZO,"For Gratiano never lets me speak."
I,I,GRATIANO,"Well, keep me company but two years moe,"
I,I,GRATIANO,"Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue."
I,I,ANTONIO,"Farewell: I'll grow a talker for this gear."
I,I,GRATIANO,"Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable"
I,I,GRATIANO,"In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible."
I,I,ANTONIO,"Is that any thing now?"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more"
I,I,BASSANIO,"than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two"
I,I,BASSANIO,"grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you"
I,I,BASSANIO,"shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you"
I,I,BASSANIO,"have them, they are not worth the search."
I,I,ANTONIO,"Well, tell me now what lady is the same"
I,I,ANTONIO,"To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage,"
I,I,ANTONIO,"That you to-day promised to tell me of?"
I,I,BASSANIO,"'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"How much I have disabled mine estate,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"By something showing a more swelling port"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Than my faint means would grant continuance:"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Nor do I now make moan to be abridged"
I,I,BASSANIO,"From such a noble rate; but my chief care"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Is to come fairly off from the great debts"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Wherein my time something too prodigal"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Hath left me gaged. To you, Antonio,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"I owe the most, in money and in love,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"And from your love I have a warranty"
I,I,BASSANIO,"To unburden all my plots and purposes"
I,I,BASSANIO,"How to get clear of all the debts I owe."
I,I,ANTONIO,"I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it;"
I,I,ANTONIO,"And if it stand, as you yourself still do,"
I,I,ANTONIO,"Within the eye of honour, be assured,"
I,I,ANTONIO,"My purse, my person, my extremest means,"
I,I,ANTONIO,"Lie all unlock'd to your occasions."
I,I,BASSANIO,"In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"I shot his fellow of the self-same flight"
I,I,BASSANIO,"The self-same way with more advised watch,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"To find the other forth, and by adventuring both"
I,I,BASSANIO,"I oft found both: I urge this childhood proof,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Because what follows is pure innocence."
I,I,BASSANIO,"I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"That which I owe is lost; but if you please"
I,I,BASSANIO,"To shoot another arrow that self way"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"As I will watch the aim, or to find both"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Or bring your latter hazard back again"
I,I,BASSANIO,"And thankfully rest debtor for the first."
I,I,ANTONIO,"You know me well, and herein spend but time"
I,I,ANTONIO,"To wind about my love with circumstance;"
I,I,ANTONIO,"And out of doubt you do me now more wrong"
I,I,ANTONIO,"In making question of my uttermost"
I,I,ANTONIO,"Than if you had made waste of all I have:"
I,I,ANTONIO,"Then do but say to me what I should do"
I,I,ANTONIO,"That in your knowledge may by me be done,"
I,I,ANTONIO,"And I am prest unto it: therefore, speak."
I,I,BASSANIO,"In Belmont is a lady richly left;"
I,I,BASSANIO,"And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Of wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyes"
I,I,BASSANIO,"I did receive fair speechless messages:"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued"
I,I,BASSANIO,"To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia:"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"For the four winds blow in from every coast"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Renowned suitors, and her sunny locks"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Hang on her temples like a golden fleece;"
I,I,BASSANIO,"Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchos' strand,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"And many Jasons come in quest of her."
I,I,BASSANIO,"O my Antonio, had I but the means"
I,I,BASSANIO,"To hold a rival place with one of them,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"I have a mind presages me such thrift,"
I,I,BASSANIO,"That I should questionless be fortunate!"
I,I,ANTONIO,"Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea;"
I,I,ANTONIO,"Neither have I money nor commodity"
I,I,ANTONIO,"To raise a present sum: therefore go forth;"
I,I,ANTONIO,"Try what my credit can in Venice do:"
I,I,ANTONIO,"That shall be rack'd, even to the uttermost,"
I,I,ANTONIO,"To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia."
I,I,ANTONIO,"Go, presently inquire, and so will I,"
I,I,ANTONIO,"Where money is, and I no question make"
I,I,ANTONIO,"To have it of my trust or for my sake."
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"this great world."
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"the same abundance as your good fortunes are: and"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"with too much as they that starve with nothing. It"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"is no mean happiness therefore, to be seated in the"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"competency lives longer."
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"Good sentences and well pronounced."
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"They would be better, if well followed."
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"do, chapels had been churches and poor men's"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"follows his own instructions: I can easier teach"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"choose me a husband. O me, the word 'choose!' I may"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard,"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"Your father was ever virtuous; and holy men at their"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"death have good inspirations: therefore the lottery,"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"that he hath devised in these three chests of gold,"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"silver and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen by any"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"rightly but one who shall rightly love. But what"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"warmth is there in your affection towards any of"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"these princely suitors that are already come?"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"I pray thee, over-name them; and as thou namest"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"them, I will describe them; and, according to my"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"description, level at my affection."
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"First, there is the Neapolitan prince."
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"talk of his horse; and he makes it a great"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"appropriation to his own good parts, that he can"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"shoe him himself. I am much afeard my lady his"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"mother played false with a smith."
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"Then there is the County Palatine."
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"He doth nothing but frown, as who should say 'If you"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"will not have me, choose:' he hears merry tales and"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"philosopher when he grows old, being so full of"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"than to either of these. God defend me from these"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"two!"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le Bon?"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man."
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker: but,"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"he! why, he hath a horse better than the"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"Neapolitan's, a better bad habit of frowning than"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"the Count Palatine; he is every man in no man; if a"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"throstle sing, he falls straight a capering: he will"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"fence with his own shadow: if I should marry him, I"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"I would forgive him, for if he love me to madness, I"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"shall never requite him."
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"What say you, then, to Falconbridge, the young baron"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"of England?"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"You know I say nothing to him, for he understands"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"not me, nor I him: he hath neither Latin, French,"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"nor Italian, and you will come into the court and"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English."
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"He is a proper man's picture, but, alas, who can"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"converse with a dumb-show? How oddly he is suited!"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"hose in France, his bonnet in Germany and his"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"behavior every where."
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"What think you of the Scottish lord, his neighbour?"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"That he hath a neighbourly charity in him, for he"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"borrowed a box of the ear of the Englishman and"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"swore he would pay him again when he was able: I"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"think the Frenchman became his surety and sealed"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"under for another."
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony's nephew?"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober, and"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"most vilely in the afternoon, when he is drunk: when"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"when he is worst, he is little better than a beast:"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"and the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"make shift to go without him."
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"If he should offer to choose, and choose the right"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"casket, you should refuse to perform your father's"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"will, if you should refuse to accept him."
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee, set a"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"deep glass of rhenish wine on the contrary casket,"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"for if the devil be within and that temptation"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"without, I know he will choose it. I will do any"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"thing, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge."
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"You need not fear, lady, the having any of these"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"lords: they have acquainted me with their"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"determinations; which is, indeed, to return to their"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"home and to trouble you with no more suit, unless"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"you may be won by some other sort than your father's"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"imposition depending on the caskets."
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"chaste as Diana, unless I be obtained by the manner"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"of my father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooers"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"are so reasonable, for there is not one among them"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"but I dote on his very absence, and I pray God grant"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"them a fair departure."
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"Do you not remember, lady, in your father's time, a"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"Venetian, a scholar and a soldier, that came hither"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"in company of the Marquis of Montferrat?"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"Yes, yes, it was Bassanio; as I think, he was so called."
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"True, madam: he, of all the men that ever my foolish"
I,II: Belmont,NERISSA,"eyes looked upon, was the best deserving a fair lady."
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"thy praise."
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"How now! what news?"
I,II: Belmont,Servant,"The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take"
I,II: Belmont,Servant,"their leave: and there is a forerunner come from a"
I,II: Belmont,Servant,"fifth, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the"
I,II: Belmont,Servant,"prince his master will be here to-night."
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good a"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"heart as I can bid the other four farewell, I should"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"be glad of his approach: if he have the condition"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"rather he should shrive me than wive me. Come,"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"Nerissa. Sirrah, go before."
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"Whiles we shut the gates"
I,II: Belmont,PORTIA,"upon one wooer, another knocks at the door."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Three thousand ducats; well."
I,III,BASSANIO,"Ay, sir, for three months."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"For three months; well."
I,III,BASSANIO,"For the which, as I told you, Antonio shall be bound."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Antonio shall become bound; well."
I,III,BASSANIO,"May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I"
I,III,BASSANIO,"know your answer?"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Three thousand ducats for three months and Antonio bound."
I,III,BASSANIO,"Your answer to that."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Antonio is a good man."
I,III,BASSANIO,"Have you heard any imputation to the contrary?"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Oh, no, no, no, no: my meaning in saying he is a"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"good man is to have you understand me that he is"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"sufficient. Yet his means are in supposition: he"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Indies; I understand moreover, upon the Rialto, he"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"other ventures he hath, squandered abroad. But ships"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"mean pirates, and then there is the peril of waters,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"winds and rocks. The man is, notwithstanding,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"sufficient. Three thousand ducats; I think I may"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"take his bond."
I,III,BASSANIO,"Be assured you may."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"I will be assured I may; and, that I may be assured,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"I will bethink me. May I speak with Antonio?"
I,III,BASSANIO,"If it please you to dine with us."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"news on the Rialto? Who is he comes here?"
I,III,BASSANIO,"This is Signior Antonio."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"I hate him for he is a Christian,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"But more for that in low simplicity"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"He lends out money gratis and brings down"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"The rate of usance here with us in Venice."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"If I can catch him once upon the hip,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Even there where merchants most do congregate,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"On me, my bargains and my well-won thrift,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"If I forgive him!"
I,III,BASSANIO,"Shylock, do you hear?"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"I am debating of my present store,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"And, by the near guess of my memory,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"I cannot instantly raise up the gross"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Of full three thousand ducats. What of that?"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Tubal, a wealthy Hebrew of my tribe,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Will furnish me. But soft! how many months"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Do you desire?"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Rest you fair, good signior;"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Your worship was the last man in our mouths."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Shylock, although I neither lend nor borrow"
I,III,ANTONIO,"By taking nor by giving of excess,"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Yet, to supply the ripe wants of my friend,"
I,III,ANTONIO,"I'll break a custom. Is he yet possess'd"
I,III,ANTONIO,"How much ye would?"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Ay, ay, three thousand ducats."
I,III,ANTONIO,"And for three months."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"I had forgot; three months; you told me so."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Well then, your bond; and let me see; but hear you;"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Methought you said you neither lend nor borrow"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Upon advantage."
I,III,ANTONIO,"I do never use it."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep--"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"This Jacob from our holy Abram was,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"As his wise mother wrought in his behalf,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"The third possessor; ay, he was the third--"
I,III,ANTONIO,"And what of him? did he take interest?"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"No, not take interest, not, as you would say,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Directly interest: mark what Jacob did."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"When Laban and himself were compromised"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes, being rank,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"In the end of autumn turned to the rams,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"And, when the work of generation was"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Between these woolly breeders in the act,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"The skilful shepherd peel'd me certain wands,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"And, in the doing of the deed of kind,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Who then conceiving did in eaning time"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Fall parti-colour'd lambs, and those were Jacob's."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"This was a way to thrive, and he was blest:"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not."
I,III,ANTONIO,"This was a venture, sir, that Jacob served for;"
I,III,ANTONIO,"A thing not in his power to bring to pass,"
I,III,ANTONIO,"But sway'd and fashion'd by the hand of heaven."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Was this inserted to make interest good?"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Or is your gold and silver ewes and rams?"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"I cannot tell; I make it breed as fast:"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"But note me, signior."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Mark you this, Bassanio,"
I,III,ANTONIO,"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
I,III,ANTONIO,"An evil soul producing holy witness"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,"
I,III,ANTONIO,"A goodly apple rotten at the heart:"
I,III,ANTONIO,"O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Three thousand ducats; 'tis a good round sum."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Three months from twelve; then, let me see; the rate--"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Well, Shylock, shall we be beholding to you?"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Signior Antonio, many a time and oft"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"In the Rialto you have rated me"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"About my moneys and my usances:"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"And all for use of that which is mine own."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Well then, it now appears you need my help:"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Go to, then; you come to me, and you say"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"'Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so;"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"You, that did void your rheum upon my beard"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Over your threshold: moneys is your suit"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"What should I say to you? Should I not say"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"'Hath a dog money? is it possible"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"A cur can lend three thousand ducats?' Or"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this;"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"'Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last;"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"You spurn'd me such a day; another time"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"You call'd me dog; and for these courtesies"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"I'll lend you thus much moneys'?"
I,III,ANTONIO,"I am as like to call thee so again,"
I,III,ANTONIO,"To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too."
I,III,ANTONIO,"If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not"
I,III,ANTONIO,"As to thy friends; for when did friendship take"
I,III,ANTONIO,"A breed for barren metal of his friend?"
I,III,ANTONIO,"But lend it rather to thine enemy,"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Exact the penalty."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Why, look you, how you storm!"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"I would be friends with you and have your love,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Forget the shames that you have stain'd me with,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Supply your present wants and take no doit"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Of usance for my moneys, and you'll not hear me:"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"This is kind I offer."
I,III,BASSANIO,"This were kindness."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"This kindness will I show."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Go with me to a notary, seal me there"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Your single bond; and, in a merry sport,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"If you repay me not on such a day,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"In such a place, such sum or sums as are"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Express'd in the condition, let the forfeit"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Be nominated for an equal pound"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"In what part of your body pleaseth me."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Content, i' faith: I'll seal to such a bond"
I,III,ANTONIO,"And say there is much kindness in the Jew."
I,III,BASSANIO,"You shall not seal to such a bond for me:"
I,III,BASSANIO,"I'll rather dwell in my necessity."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Why, fear not, man; I will not forfeit it:"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Within these two months, that's a month before"
I,III,ANTONIO,"This bond expires, I do expect return"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Of thrice three times the value of this bond."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"O father Abram, what these Christians are,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"The thoughts of others! Pray you, tell me this;"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"If he should break his day, what should I gain"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"By the exaction of the forfeiture?"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"A pound of man's flesh taken from a man"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Is not so estimable, profitable neither,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. I say,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"To buy his favour, I extend this friendship:"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"If he will take it, so; if not, adieu;"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Yes Shylock, I will seal unto this bond."
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Then meet me forthwith at the notary's;"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Give him direction for this merry bond,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"And I will go and purse the ducats straight,"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"See to my house, left in the fearful guard"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"Of an unthrifty knave, and presently"
I,III,SHYLOCK,"I will be with you."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Hie thee, gentle Jew."
I,III,ANTONIO,"The Hebrew will turn Christian: he grows kind."
I,III,BASSANIO,"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Come on: in this there can be no dismay;"
I,III,ANTONIO,"My ships come home a month before the day."
II,I,MOROCCO,"Mislike me not for my complexion,"
II,I,MOROCCO,"The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun,"
II,I,MOROCCO,"To whom I am a neighbour and near bred."
II,I,MOROCCO,"Bring me the fairest creature northward born,"
II,I,MOROCCO,"Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,"
II,I,MOROCCO,"And let us make incision for your love,"
II,I,MOROCCO,"To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine."
II,I,MOROCCO,"I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine"
II,I,MOROCCO,"Hath fear'd the valiant: by my love I swear"
II,I,MOROCCO,"The best-regarded virgins of our clime"
II,I,MOROCCO,"Have loved it too: I would not change this hue,"
II,I,MOROCCO,"Except to steal your thoughts, my gentle queen."
II,I,PORTIA,"In terms of choice I am not solely led"
II,I,PORTIA,"By nice direction of a maiden's eyes;"
II,I,PORTIA,"Besides, the lottery of my destiny"
II,I,PORTIA,"Bars me the right of voluntary choosing:"
II,I,PORTIA,"But if my father had not scanted me"
II,I,PORTIA,"And hedged me by his wit, to yield myself"
II,I,PORTIA,"His wife who wins me by that means I told you,"
II,I,PORTIA,"Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair"
II,I,PORTIA,"As any comer I have look'd on yet"
II,I,PORTIA,"For my affection."
II,I,MOROCCO,"Even for that I thank you:"
II,I,MOROCCO,"Therefore, I pray you, lead me to the caskets"
II,I,MOROCCO,"To try my fortune. By this scimitar"
II,I,MOROCCO,"That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince"
II,I,MOROCCO,"That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,"
II,I,MOROCCO,"I would outstare the sternest eyes that look,"
II,I,MOROCCO,"Outbrave the heart most daring on the earth,"
II,I,MOROCCO,"Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,"
II,I,MOROCCO,"Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,"
II,I,MOROCCO,"To win thee, lady. But, alas the while!"
II,I,MOROCCO,"If Hercules and Lichas play at dice"
II,I,MOROCCO,"Which is the better man, the greater throw"
II,I,MOROCCO,"May turn by fortune from the weaker hand:"
II,I,MOROCCO,"So is Alcides beaten by his page;"
II,I,MOROCCO,"And so may I, blind fortune leading me,"
II,I,MOROCCO,"Miss that which one unworthier may attain,"
II,I,MOROCCO,"And die with grieving."
II,I,PORTIA,"You must take your chance,"
II,I,PORTIA,"And either not attempt to choose at all"
II,I,PORTIA,"Or swear before you choose, if you choose wrong"
II,I,PORTIA,"Never to speak to lady afterward"
II,I,PORTIA,"In way of marriage: therefore be advised."
II,I,MOROCCO,"Nor will not. Come, bring me unto my chance."
II,I,PORTIA,"First, forward to the temple: after dinner"
II,I,PORTIA,"Your hazard shall be made."
II,I,MOROCCO,"Good fortune then!"
II,I,MOROCCO,"To make me blest or cursed'st among men."
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"tempts me saying to me 'Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Launcelot,' or 'good Gobbo,' or good Launcelot"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Gobbo, use your legs, take the start, run away. My"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"conscience says 'No; take heed,' honest Launcelot;"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"take heed, honest Gobbo, or, as aforesaid, 'honest"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Launcelot Gobbo; do not run; scorn running with thy"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"heels.' Well, the most courageous fiend bids me"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"pack: 'Via!' says the fiend; 'away!' says the"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"fiend; 'for the heavens, rouse up a brave mind,'"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"says the fiend, 'and run.' Well, my conscience,"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"hanging about the neck of my heart, says very wisely"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"to me 'My honest friend Launcelot, being an honest"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"man's son,' or rather an honest woman's son; for,"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"indeed, my father did something smack, something"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"grow to, he had a kind of taste; well, my conscience"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"says 'Launcelot, budge not.' 'Budge,' says the"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"fiend. 'Budge not,' says my conscience."
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"'Conscience,' say I, 'you counsel well;' ' Fiend,'"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"say I, 'you counsel well:' to be ruled by my"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"conscience, I should stay with the Jew my master,"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"who, God bless the mark, is a kind of devil; and, to"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"run away from the Jew, I should be ruled by the"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"himself. Certainly the Jew is the very devil"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"incarnal; and, in my conscience, my conscience is"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"but a kind of hard conscience, to offer to counsel"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"me to stay with the Jew. The fiend gives the more"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"friendly counsel: I will run, fiend; my heels are"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"at your command; I will run."
II,II,GOBBO,"Master young man, you, I pray you, which is the way"
II,II,GOBBO,"to master Jew's?"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"who, being more than sand-blind, high-gravel blind,"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"knows me not: I will try confusions with him."
II,II,GOBBO,"Master young gentleman, I pray you, which is the way"
II,II,GOBBO,"to master Jew's?"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Turn up on your right hand at the next turning, but,"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"at the next turning of all, on your left; marry, at"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"the very next turning, turn of no hand, but turn"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"down indirectly to the Jew's house."
II,II,GOBBO,"By God's sonties, 'twill be a hard way to hit. Can"
II,II,GOBBO,"you tell me whether one Launcelot,"
II,II,GOBBO,"that dwells with him, dwell with him or no?"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Talk you of young Master Launcelot?"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Mark me now; now will I raise the waters. Talk you"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"of young Master Launcelot?"
II,II,GOBBO,"No master, sir, but a poor man's son: his father,"
II,II,GOBBO,"though I say it, is an honest exceeding poor man"
II,II,GOBBO,"and, God be thanked, well to live."
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Well, let his father be what a' will, we talk of"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"young Master Launcelot."
II,II,GOBBO,"Your worship's friend and Launcelot, sir."
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"But I pray you, ergo, old man, ergo, I beseech you,"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"talk you of young Master Launcelot?"
II,II,GOBBO,"Of Launcelot, an't please your mastership."
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Ergo, Master Launcelot. Talk not of Master"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Launcelot, father; for the young gentleman,"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"according to Fates and Destinies and such odd"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"learning, is indeed deceased, or, as you would say"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"in plain terms, gone to heaven."
II,II,GOBBO,"Marry, God forbid! the boy was the very staff of my"
II,II,GOBBO,"age, my very prop."
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Do I look like a cudgel or a hovel-post, a staff or"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"a prop? Do you know me, father?"
II,II,GOBBO,"Alack the day, I know you not, young gentleman:"
II,II,GOBBO,"but, I pray you, tell me, is my boy, God rest his"
II,II,GOBBO,"soul, alive or dead?"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Do you not know me, father?"
II,II,GOBBO,"Alack, sir, I am sand-blind; I know you not."
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"own child. Well, old man, I will tell you news of"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"your son: give me your blessing: truth will come"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"to light; murder cannot be hid long; a man's son"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"may, but at the length truth will out."
II,II,GOBBO,"Pray you, sir, stand up: I am sure you are not"
II,II,GOBBO,"Launcelot, my boy."
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Pray you, let's have no more fooling about it, but"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"give me your blessing: I am Launcelot, your boy"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"that was, your son that is, your child that shall"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"be."
II,II,GOBBO,"I cannot think you are my son."
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"I know not what I shall think of that: but I am"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Launcelot, the Jew's man, and I am sure Margery your"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"wife is my mother."
II,II,GOBBO,"Her name is Margery, indeed: I'll be sworn, if thou"
II,II,GOBBO,"be Launcelot, thou art mine own flesh and blood."
II,II,GOBBO,"Lord worshipped might he be! what a beard hast thou"
II,II,GOBBO,"got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than"
II,II,GOBBO,"Dobbin my fill-horse has on his tail."
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"It should seem, then, that Dobbin's tail grows"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"backward: I am sure he had more hair of his tail"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"than I have of my face when I last saw him."
II,II,GOBBO,"Lord, how art thou changed! How dost thou and thy"
II,II,GOBBO,"master agree? I have brought him a present. How"
II,II,GOBBO,"'gree you now?"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Well, well: but, for mine own part, as I have set"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"up my rest to run away, so I will not rest till I"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"have run some ground. My master's a very Jew: give"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"him a present! give him a halter: I am famished in"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"his service; you may tell every finger I have with"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"my ribs. Father, I am glad you are come: give me"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"your present to one Master Bassanio, who, indeed,"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"gives rare new liveries: if I serve not him, I"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"will run as far as God has any ground. O rare"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"fortune! here comes the man: to him, father; for I"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"am a Jew, if I serve the Jew any longer."
II,II,BASSANIO,"You may do so; but let it be so hasted that supper"
II,II,BASSANIO,"be ready at the farthest by five of the clock. See"
II,II,BASSANIO,"these letters delivered; put the liveries to making,"
II,II,BASSANIO,"and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging."
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"To him, father."
II,II,GOBBO,"God bless your worship!"
II,II,BASSANIO,"Gramercy! wouldst thou aught with me?"
II,II,GOBBO,"Here's my son, sir, a poor boy,--"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Not a poor boy, sir, but the rich Jew's man; that"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"would, sir, as my father shall specify--"
II,II,GOBBO,"He hath a great infection, sir, as one would say, to serve--"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Indeed, the short and the long is, I serve the Jew,"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"and have a desire, as my father shall specify--"
II,II,GOBBO,"His master and he, saving your worship's reverence,"
II,II,GOBBO,"are scarce cater-cousins--"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"To be brief, the very truth is that the Jew, having"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"done me wrong, doth cause me, as my father, being, I"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"hope, an old man, shall frutify unto you--"
II,II,GOBBO,"I have here a dish of doves that I would bestow upon"
II,II,GOBBO,"your worship, and my suit is--"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"In very brief, the suit is impertinent to myself, as"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"your worship shall know by this honest old man; and,"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"though I say it, though old man, yet poor man, my father."
II,II,BASSANIO,"One speak for both. What would you?"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Serve you, sir."
II,II,GOBBO,"That is the very defect of the matter, sir."
II,II,BASSANIO,"I know thee well; thou hast obtain'd thy suit:"
II,II,BASSANIO,"Shylock thy master spoke with me this day,"
II,II,BASSANIO,"And hath preferr'd thee, if it be preferment"
II,II,BASSANIO,"To leave a rich Jew's service, to become"
II,II,BASSANIO,"The follower of so poor a gentleman."
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"The old proverb is very well parted between my"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"master Shylock and you, sir: you have the grace of"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"God, sir, and he hath enough."
II,II,BASSANIO,"Thou speak'st it well. Go, father, with thy son."
II,II,BASSANIO,"Take leave of thy old master and inquire"
II,II,BASSANIO,"My lodging out. Give him a livery"
II,II,BASSANIO,"More guarded than his fellows': see it done."
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Father, in. I cannot get a service, no; I have"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"ne'er a tongue in my head. Well, if any man in"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"Italy have a fairer table which doth offer to swear"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"upon a book, I shall have good fortune. Go to,"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"here's a simple line of life: here's a small trifle"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"of wives: alas, fifteen wives is nothing! eleven"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"widows and nine maids is a simple coming-in for one"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"man: and then to 'scape drowning thrice, and to be"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"in peril of my life with the edge of a feather-bed;"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"here are simple scapes. Well, if Fortune be a"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"woman, she's a good wench for this gear. Father,"
II,II,LAUNCELOT,"come; I'll take my leave of the Jew in the twinkling of an eye."
II,II,BASSANIO,"I pray thee, good Leonardo, think on this:"
II,II,BASSANIO,"These things being bought and orderly bestow'd,"
II,II,BASSANIO,"Return in haste, for I do feast to-night"
II,II,BASSANIO,"My best-esteem'd acquaintance: hie thee, go."
II,II,LEONARDO,"My best endeavours shall be done herein."
II,II,GRATIANO,"Where is your master?"
II,II,LEONARDO,"Yonder, sir, he walks."
II,II,GRATIANO,"Signior Bassanio!"
II,II,BASSANIO,"Gratiano!"
II,II,GRATIANO,"I have a suit to you."
II,II,BASSANIO,"You have obtain'd it."
II,II,GRATIANO,"You must not deny me: I must go with you to Belmont."
II,II,BASSANIO,"Why then you must. But hear thee, Gratiano;"
II,II,BASSANIO,"Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice;"
II,II,BASSANIO,"Parts that become thee happily enough"
II,II,BASSANIO,"And in such eyes as ours appear not faults;"
II,II,BASSANIO,"But where thou art not known, why, there they show"
II,II,BASSANIO,"Something too liberal. Pray thee, take pain"
II,II,BASSANIO,"To allay with some cold drops of modesty"
II,II,BASSANIO,"Thy skipping spirit, lest through thy wild behavior"
II,II,BASSANIO,"I be misconstrued in the place I go to,"
II,II,BASSANIO,"And lose my hopes."
II,II,GRATIANO,"Signior Bassanio, hear me:"
II,II,GRATIANO,"If I do not put on a sober habit,"
II,II,GRATIANO,"Talk with respect and swear but now and then,"
II,II,GRATIANO,"Wear prayer-books in my pocket, look demurely,"
II,II,GRATIANO,"Nay more, while grace is saying, hood mine eyes"
II,II,GRATIANO,"Thus with my hat, and sigh and say 'amen,'"
II,II,GRATIANO,"Use all the observance of civility,"
II,II,GRATIANO,"Like one well studied in a sad ostent"
II,II,GRATIANO,"To please his grandam, never trust me more."
II,II,BASSANIO,"Well, we shall see your bearing."
II,II,GRATIANO,"Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me"
II,II,GRATIANO,"By what we do to-night."
II,II,BASSANIO,"No, that were pity:"
II,II,BASSANIO,"I would entreat you rather to put on"
II,II,BASSANIO,"Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends"
II,II,BASSANIO,"That purpose merriment. But fare you well:"
II,II,BASSANIO,"I have some business."
II,II,GRATIANO,"And I must to Lorenzo and the rest:"
II,II,GRATIANO,"But we will visit you at supper-time."
II,III,JESSICA,"I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so:"
II,III,JESSICA,"Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil,"
II,III,JESSICA,"Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness."
II,III,JESSICA,"But fare thee well, there is a ducat for thee:"
II,III,JESSICA,"And, Launcelot, soon at supper shalt thou see"
II,III,JESSICA,"Lorenzo, who is thy new master's guest:"
II,III,JESSICA,"Give him this letter; do it secretly;"
II,III,JESSICA,"And so farewell: I would not have my father"
II,III,JESSICA,"See me in talk with thee."
II,III,LAUNCELOT,"Adieu! tears exhibit my tongue. Most beautiful"
II,III,LAUNCELOT,"pagan, most sweet Jew! if a Christian did not play"
II,III,LAUNCELOT,"the knave and get thee, I am much deceived. But,"
II,III,LAUNCELOT,"adieu: these foolish drops do something drown my"
II,III,LAUNCELOT,"manly spirit: adieu."
II,III,JESSICA,"Farewell, good Launcelot."
II,III,JESSICA,"Alack, what heinous sin is it in me"
II,III,JESSICA,"To be ashamed to be my father's child!"
II,III,JESSICA,"But though I am a daughter to his blood,"
II,III,JESSICA,"I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,"
II,III,JESSICA,"If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,"
II,III,JESSICA,"Become a Christian and thy loving wife."
II,IV,LORENZO,"Nay, we will slink away in supper-time,"
II,IV,LORENZO,"Disguise us at my lodging and return,"
II,IV,LORENZO,"All in an hour."
II,IV,GRATIANO,"We have not made good preparation."
II,IV,SALARINO,"We have not spoke us yet of torchbearers."
II,IV,SALANIO,"'Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly order'd,"
II,IV,SALANIO,"And better in my mind not undertook."
II,IV,LORENZO,"'Tis now but four o'clock: we have two hours"
II,IV,LORENZO,"To furnish us."
II,IV,LORENZO,"Friend Launcelot, what's the news?"
II,IV,LAUNCELOT,"An it shall please you to break up"
II,IV,LAUNCELOT,"this, it shall seem to signify."
II,IV,LORENZO,"I know the hand: in faith, 'tis a fair hand;"
II,IV,LORENZO,"And whiter than the paper it writ on"
II,IV,LORENZO,"Is the fair hand that writ."
II,IV,GRATIANO,"Love-news, in faith."
II,IV,LAUNCELOT,"By your leave, sir."
II,IV,LORENZO,"Whither goest thou?"
II,IV,LAUNCELOT,"Marry, sir, to bid my old master the"
II,IV,LAUNCELOT,"Jew to sup to-night with my new master the Christian."
II,IV,LORENZO,"Hold here, take this: tell gentle Jessica"
II,IV,LORENZO,"I will not fail her; speak it privately."
II,IV,LORENZO,"Go, gentlemen,"
II,IV,LORENZO,"Will you prepare you for this masque tonight?"
II,IV,LORENZO,"I am provided of a torch-bearer."
II,IV,SALANIO,"Ay, marry, I'll be gone about it straight."
II,IV,SALANIO,"And so will I."
II,IV,LORENZO,"Meet me and Gratiano"
II,IV,LORENZO,"At Gratiano's lodging some hour hence."
II,IV,SALARINO,"'Tis good we do so."
II,IV,GRATIANO,"Was not that letter from fair Jessica?"
II,IV,LORENZO,"I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed"
II,IV,LORENZO,"How I shall take her from her father's house,"
II,IV,LORENZO,"What gold and jewels she is furnish'd with,"
II,IV,LORENZO,"What page's suit she hath in readiness."
II,IV,LORENZO,"If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven,"
II,IV,LORENZO,"It will be for his gentle daughter's sake:"
II,IV,LORENZO,"And never dare misfortune cross her foot,"
II,IV,LORENZO,"Unless she do it under this excuse,"
II,IV,LORENZO,"That she is issue to a faithless Jew."
II,IV,LORENZO,"Come, go with me; peruse this as thou goest:"
II,IV,LORENZO,"Fair Jessica shall be my torch-bearer."
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Well, thou shalt see, thy eyes shall be thy judge,"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio:--"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"What, Jessica!--thou shalt not gormandise,"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"As thou hast done with me:--What, Jessica!--"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out;--"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Why, Jessica, I say!"
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"Why, Jessica!"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call."
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"Your worship was wont to tell me that"
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"I could do nothing without bidding."
II,V,JESSICA,"Call you? what is your will?"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"I am bid forth to supper, Jessica:"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"There are my keys. But wherefore should I go?"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"I am not bid for love; they flatter me:"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"But yet I'll go in hate, to feed upon"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"The prodigal Christian. Jessica, my girl,"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Look to my house. I am right loath to go:"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"For I did dream of money-bags to-night."
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"I beseech you, sir, go: my young master doth expect"
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"your reproach."
II,V,SHYLOCK,"So do I his."
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"An they have conspired together, I will not say you"
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"shall see a masque; but if you do, then it was not"
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"for nothing that my nose fell a-bleeding on"
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"Black-Monday last at six o'clock i' the morning,"
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"falling out that year on Ash-Wednesday was four"
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"year, in the afternoon."
II,V,SHYLOCK,"What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica:"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife,"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Clamber not you up to the casements then,"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Nor thrust your head into the public street"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces,"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"My sober house. By Jacob's staff, I swear,"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"I have no mind of feasting forth to-night:"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah;"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Say I will come."
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"I will go before, sir. Mistress, look out at"
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"window, for all this, There will come a Christian"
II,V,LAUNCELOT,"boy, will be worth a Jewess' eye."
II,V,SHYLOCK,"What says that fool of Hagar's offspring, ha?"
II,V,JESSICA,"His words were 'Farewell mistress;' nothing else."
II,V,SHYLOCK,"The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder;"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"More than the wild-cat: drones hive not with me;"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Therefore I part with him, and part with him"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"To one that would have him help to waste"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"His borrow'd purse. Well, Jessica, go in;"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Perhaps I will return immediately:"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Do as I bid you; shut doors after you:"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"Fast bind, fast find;"
II,V,SHYLOCK,"A proverb never stale in thrifty mind."
II,V,JESSICA,"Farewell; and if my fortune be not crost,"
II,V,JESSICA,"I have a father, you a daughter, lost."
II,VI,GRATIANO,"This is the pent-house under which Lorenzo"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"Desired us to make stand."
II,VI,SALARINO,"His hour is almost past."
II,VI,GRATIANO,"And it is marvel he out-dwells his hour,"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"For lovers ever run before the clock."
II,VI,SALARINO,"O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly"
II,VI,SALARINO,"To seal love's bonds new-made, than they are wont"
II,VI,SALARINO,"To keep obliged faith unforfeited!"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"That ever holds: who riseth from a feast"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"With that keen appetite that he sits down?"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"Where is the horse that doth untread again"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"His tedious measures with the unbated fire"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"That he did pace them first? All things that are,"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd."
II,VI,GRATIANO,"How like a younker or a prodigal"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind!"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"How like the prodigal doth she return,"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails,"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"Lean, rent and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!"
II,VI,SALARINO,"Here comes Lorenzo: more of this hereafter."
II,VI,LORENZO,"Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode;"
II,VI,LORENZO,"Not I, but my affairs, have made you wait:"
II,VI,LORENZO,"When you shall please to play the thieves for wives,"
II,VI,LORENZO,"I'll watch as long for you then. Approach;"
II,VI,LORENZO,"Here dwells my father Jew. Ho! who's within?"
II,VI,JESSICA,"Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty,"
II,VI,JESSICA,"Albeit I'll swear that I do know your tongue."
II,VI,LORENZO,"Lorenzo, and thy love."
II,VI,JESSICA,"Lorenzo, certain, and my love indeed,"
II,VI,JESSICA,"For who love I so much? And now who knows"
II,VI,JESSICA,"But you, Lorenzo, whether I am yours?"
II,VI,LORENZO,"Heaven and thy thoughts are witness that thou art."
II,VI,JESSICA,"Here, catch this casket; it is worth the pains."
II,VI,JESSICA,"I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me,"
II,VI,JESSICA,"For I am much ashamed of my exchange:"
II,VI,JESSICA,"But love is blind and lovers cannot see"
II,VI,JESSICA,"The pretty follies that themselves commit;"
II,VI,JESSICA,"For if they could, Cupid himself would blush"
II,VI,JESSICA,"To see me thus transformed to a boy."
II,VI,LORENZO,"Descend, for you must be my torchbearer."
II,VI,JESSICA,"What, must I hold a candle to my shames?"
II,VI,JESSICA,"They in themselves, good-sooth, are too too light."
II,VI,JESSICA,"Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love;"
II,VI,JESSICA,"And I should be obscured."
II,VI,LORENZO,"So are you, sweet,"
II,VI,LORENZO,"Even in the lovely garnish of a boy."
II,VI,LORENZO,"But come at once;"
II,VI,LORENZO,"For the close night doth play the runaway,"
II,VI,LORENZO,"And we are stay'd for at Bassanio's feast."
II,VI,JESSICA,"I will make fast the doors, and gild myself"
II,VI,JESSICA,"With some more ducats, and be with you straight."
II,VI,GRATIANO,"Now, by my hood, a Gentile and no Jew."
II,VI,LORENZO,"Beshrew me but I love her heartily;"
II,VI,LORENZO,"For she is wise, if I can judge of her,"
II,VI,LORENZO,"And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true,"
II,VI,LORENZO,"And true she is, as she hath proved herself,"
II,VI,LORENZO,"And therefore, like herself, wise, fair and true,"
II,VI,LORENZO,"Shall she be placed in my constant soul."
II,VI,LORENZO,"What, art thou come? On, gentlemen; away!"
II,VI,LORENZO,"Our masquing mates by this time for us stay."
II,VI,ANTONIO,"Who's there?"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"Signior Antonio!"
II,VI,ANTONIO,"Fie, fie, Gratiano! where are all the rest?"
II,VI,ANTONIO,"'Tis nine o'clock: our friends all stay for you."
II,VI,ANTONIO,"No masque to-night: the wind is come about;"
II,VI,ANTONIO,"Bassanio presently will go aboard:"
II,VI,ANTONIO,"I have sent twenty out to seek for you."
II,VI,GRATIANO,"I am glad on't: I desire no more delight"
II,VI,GRATIANO,"Than to be under sail and gone to-night."
II,VII,PORTIA,"Go draw aside the curtains and discover"
II,VII,PORTIA,"The several caskets to this noble prince."
II,VII,PORTIA,"Now make your choice."
II,VII,MOROCCO,"The first, of gold, who this inscription bears,"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire;'"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"The second, silver, which this promise carries,"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves;'"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt,"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"How shall I know if I do choose the right?"
II,VII,PORTIA,"The one of them contains my picture, prince:"
II,VII,PORTIA,"If you choose that, then I am yours withal."
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Some god direct my judgment! Let me see;"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"I will survey the inscriptions back again."
II,VII,MOROCCO,"What says this leaden casket?"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Must give: for what? for lead? hazard for lead?"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"This casket threatens. Men that hazard all"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Do it in hope of fair advantages:"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead."
II,VII,MOROCCO,"What says the silver with her virgin hue?"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"As much as he deserves! Pause there, Morocco,"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"And weigh thy value with an even hand:"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"If thou be'st rated by thy estimation,"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Thou dost deserve enough; and yet enough"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"May not extend so far as to the lady:"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"And yet to be afeard of my deserving"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Were but a weak disabling of myself."
II,VII,MOROCCO,"As much as I deserve! Why, that's the lady:"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes,"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"In graces and in qualities of breeding;"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"But more than these, in love I do deserve."
II,VII,MOROCCO,"What if I stray'd no further, but chose here?"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Let's see once more this saying graved in gold"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Why, that's the lady; all the world desires her;"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"From the four corners of the earth they come,"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint:"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Of wide Arabia are as thoroughfares now"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"For princes to come view fair Portia:"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Spits in the face of heaven, is no bar"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"To stop the foreign spirits, but they come,"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"As o'er a brook, to see fair Portia."
II,VII,MOROCCO,"One of these three contains her heavenly picture."
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Is't like that lead contains her? 'Twere damnation"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"To think so base a thought: it were too gross"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave."
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Or shall I think in silver she's immured,"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"O sinful thought! Never so rich a gem"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Was set in worse than gold. They have in England"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"A coin that bears the figure of an angel"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Stamped in gold, but that's insculp'd upon;"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"But here an angel in a golden bed"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Lies all within. Deliver me the key:"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may!"
II,VII,PORTIA,"There, take it, prince; and if my form lie there,"
II,VII,PORTIA,"Then I am yours."
II,VII,MOROCCO,"O hell! what have we here?"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"A carrion Death, within whose empty eye"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"There is a written scroll! I'll read the writing."
II,VII,MOROCCO,"All that glitters is not gold;"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Often have you heard that told:"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Many a man his life hath sold"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"But my outside to behold:"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Gilded tombs do worms enfold."
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Had you been as wise as bold,"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Young in limbs, in judgment old,"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Your answer had not been inscroll'd:"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Fare you well; your suit is cold."
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Cold, indeed; and labour lost:"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost!"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"Portia, adieu. I have too grieved a heart"
II,VII,MOROCCO,"To take a tedious leave: thus losers part."
II,VII,PORTIA,"A gentle riddance. Draw the curtains, go."
II,VII,PORTIA,"Let all of his complexion choose me so."
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Why, man, I saw Bassanio under sail:"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"With him is Gratiano gone along;"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not."
II,VIII,SALANIO,"The villain Jew with outcries raised the duke,"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"Who went with him to search Bassanio's ship."
II,VIII,SALARINO,"He came too late, the ship was under sail:"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"But there the duke was given to understand"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"That in a gondola were seen together"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica:"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Besides, Antonio certified the duke"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"They were not with Bassanio in his ship."
II,VIII,SALANIO,"I never heard a passion so confused,"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"So strange, outrageous, and so variable,"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter!"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl;"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.'"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Why, all the boys in Venice follow him,"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Crying, his stones, his daughter, and his ducats."
II,VIII,SALANIO,"Let good Antonio look he keep his day,"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"Or he shall pay for this."
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Marry, well remember'd."
II,VIII,SALARINO,"I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Who told me, in the narrow seas that part"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"The French and English, there miscarried"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"A vessel of our country richly fraught:"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"I thought upon Antonio when he told me;"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"And wish'd in silence that it were not his."
II,VIII,SALANIO,"You were best to tell Antonio what you hear;"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him."
II,VIII,SALARINO,"A kinder gentleman treads not the earth."
II,VIII,SALARINO,"I saw Bassanio and Antonio part:"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Bassanio told him he would make some speed"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Of his return: he answer'd, 'Do not so;"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"But stay the very riping of the time;"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me,"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Let it not enter in your mind of love:"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"To courtship and such fair ostents of love"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"As shall conveniently become you there:'"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"And even there, his eye being big with tears,"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Turning his face, he put his hand behind him,"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"And with affection wondrous sensible"
II,VIII,SALARINO,"He wrung Bassanio's hand; and so they parted."
II,VIII,SALANIO,"I think he only loves the world for him."
II,VIII,SALANIO,"I pray thee, let us go and find him out"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"And quicken his embraced heaviness"
II,VIII,SALANIO,"With some delight or other."
II,VIII,SALARINO,"Do we so."
II,IX,NERISSA,"Quick, quick, I pray thee; draw the curtain straight:"
II,IX,NERISSA,"The Prince of Arragon hath ta'en his oath,"
II,IX,NERISSA,"And comes to his election presently."
II,IX,PORTIA,"Behold, there stand the caskets, noble prince:"
II,IX,PORTIA,"If you choose that wherein I am contain'd,"
II,IX,PORTIA,"Straight shall our nuptial rites be solemnized:"
II,IX,PORTIA,"But if you fail, without more speech, my lord,"
II,IX,PORTIA,"You must be gone from hence immediately."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"I am enjoin'd by oath to observe three things:"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"First, never to unfold to any one"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Which casket 'twas I chose; next, if I fail"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Of the right casket, never in my life"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"To woo a maid in way of marriage: Lastly,"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"If I do fail in fortune of my choice,"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Immediately to leave you and be gone."
II,IX,PORTIA,"To these injunctions every one doth swear"
II,IX,PORTIA,"That comes to hazard for my worthless self."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"And so have I address'd me. Fortune now"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"To my heart's hope! Gold; silver; and base lead."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"You shall look fairer, ere I give or hazard."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"What says the golden chest? ha! let me see:"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"What many men desire! that 'many' may be meant"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"By the fool multitude, that choose by show,"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach;"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Which pries not to the interior, but, like the martlet,"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Builds in the weather on the outward wall,"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Even in the force and road of casualty."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"I will not choose what many men desire,"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Because I will not jump with common spirits"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"And rank me with the barbarous multitudes."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Why, then to thee, thou silver treasure-house;"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Tell me once more what title thou dost bear:"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves:'"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"And well said too; for who shall go about"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"To cozen fortune and be honourable"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Without the stamp of merit? Let none presume"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"To wear an undeserved dignity."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"O, that estates, degrees and offices"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"How many then should cover that stand bare!"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"How many be commanded that command!"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"How much low peasantry would then be glean'd"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"From the true seed of honour! and how much honour"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"To be new-varnish'd! Well, but to my choice:"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"I will assume desert. Give me a key for this,"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"And instantly unlock my fortunes here."
II,IX,PORTIA,"Too long a pause for that which you find there."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"What's here? the portrait of a blinking idiot,"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Presenting me a schedule! I will read it."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"How much unlike art thou to Portia!"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"How much unlike my hopes and my deservings!"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"'Who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves.'"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Did I deserve no more than a fool's head?"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Is that my prize? are my deserts no better?"
II,IX,PORTIA,"To offend, and judge, are distinct offices"
II,IX,PORTIA,"And of opposed natures."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"What is here?"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"The fire seven times tried this:"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Seven times tried that judgment is,"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"That did never choose amiss."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Some there be that shadows kiss;"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Such have but a shadow's bliss:"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"There be fools alive, I wis,"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Silver'd o'er; and so was this."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Take what wife you will to bed,"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"I will ever be your head:"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"So be gone: you are sped."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Still more fool I shall appear"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"By the time I linger here"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"With one fool's head I came to woo,"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"But I go away with two."
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Sweet, adieu. I'll keep my oath,"
II,IX,ARRAGON,"Patiently to bear my wroth."
II,IX,PORTIA,"Thus hath the candle singed the moth."
II,IX,PORTIA,"O, these deliberate fools! when they do choose,"
II,IX,PORTIA,"They have the wisdom by their wit to lose."
II,IX,NERISSA,"The ancient saying is no heresy,"
II,IX,NERISSA,"Hanging and wiving goes by destiny."
II,IX,PORTIA,"Come, draw the curtain, Nerissa."
II,IX,Servant,"Where is my lady?"
II,IX,PORTIA,"Here: what would my lord?"
II,IX,Servant,"Madam, there is alighted at your gate"
II,IX,Servant,"A young Venetian, one that comes before"
II,IX,Servant,"To signify the approaching of his lord;"
II,IX,Servant,"From whom he bringeth sensible regreets,"
II,IX,Servant,"To wit, besides commends and courteous breath,"
II,IX,Servant,"Gifts of rich value. Yet I have not seen"
II,IX,Servant,"So likely an ambassador of love:"
II,IX,Servant,"A day in April never came so sweet,"
II,IX,Servant,"To show how costly summer was at hand,"
II,IX,Servant,"As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord."
II,IX,PORTIA,"No more, I pray thee: I am half afeard"
II,IX,PORTIA,"Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee,"
II,IX,PORTIA,"Thou spend'st such high-day wit in praising him."
II,IX,PORTIA,"Come, come, Nerissa; for I long to see"
II,IX,PORTIA,"Quick Cupid's post that comes so mannerly."
II,IX,NERISSA,"Bassanio, lord Love, if thy will it be!"
III,I,SALANIO,"Now, what news on the Rialto?"
III,I,SALARINO,"Why, yet it lives there uncheck'd that Antonio hath"
III,I,SALARINO,"a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas;"
III,I,SALARINO,"the Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very"
III,I,SALARINO,"dangerous flat and fatal, where the carcasses of many"
III,I,SALARINO,"a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip"
III,I,SALARINO,"Report be an honest woman of her word."
III,I,SALANIO,"I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever"
III,I,SALANIO,"knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe she"
III,I,SALANIO,"wept for the death of a third husband. But it is"
III,I,SALANIO,"true, without any slips of prolixity or crossing the"
III,I,SALANIO,"plain highway of talk, that the good Antonio, the"
III,I,SALANIO,"honest Antonio,--O that I had a title good enough"
III,I,SALANIO,"to keep his name company!--"
III,I,SALARINO,"Come, the full stop."
III,I,SALANIO,"Ha! what sayest thou? Why, the end is, he hath"
III,I,SALANIO,"lost a ship."
III,I,SALARINO,"I would it might prove the end of his losses."
III,I,SALANIO,"Let me say 'amen' betimes, lest the devil cross my"
III,I,SALANIO,"prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew."
III,I,SALANIO,"How now, Shylock! what news among the merchants?"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"You know, none so well, none so well as you, of my"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"daughter's flight."
III,I,SALARINO,"That's certain: I, for my part, knew the tailor"
III,I,SALARINO,"that made the wings she flew withal."
III,I,SALANIO,"And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was"
III,I,SALANIO,"fledged; and then it is the complexion of them all"
III,I,SALANIO,"to leave the dam."
III,I,SHYLOCK,"She is damned for it."
III,I,SALANIO,"That's certain, if the devil may be her judge."
III,I,SHYLOCK,"My own flesh and blood to rebel!"
III,I,SALANIO,"Out upon it, old carrion! rebels it at these years?"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"I say, my daughter is my flesh and blood."
III,I,SALARINO,"There is more difference between thy flesh and hers"
III,I,SALARINO,"than between jet and ivory; more between your bloods"
III,I,SALARINO,"than there is between red wine and rhenish. But"
III,I,SALARINO,"tell us, do you hear whether Antonio have had any"
III,I,SALARINO,"loss at sea or no?"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"There I have another bad match: a bankrupt, a"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"Rialto; a beggar, that was used to come so smug upon"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"the mart; let him look to his bond: he was wont to"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"call me usurer; let him look to his bond: he was"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy; let him"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"look to his bond."
III,I,SALARINO,"Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take"
III,I,SALARINO,"his flesh: what's that good for?"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else,"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"to the same diseases, healed by the same means,"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"will better the instruction."
III,I,Servant,"Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house and"
III,I,Servant,"desires to speak with you both."
III,I,SALARINO,"We have been up and down to seek him."
III,I,SALANIO,"Here comes another of the tribe: a third cannot be"
III,I,SALANIO,"matched, unless the devil himself turn Jew."
III,I,SHYLOCK,"How now, Tubal! what news from Genoa? hast thou"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"found my daughter?"
III,I,TUBAL,"I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her."
III,I,SHYLOCK,"Why, there, there, there, there! a diamond gone,"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! The curse"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"till now: two thousand ducats in that; and other"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"her coffin! No news of them? Why, so: and I know"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"not what's spent in the search: why, thou loss upon"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"loss! the thief gone with so much, and so much to"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"find the thief; and no satisfaction, no revenge:"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"nor no in luck stirring but what lights on my"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"shoulders; no sighs but of my breathing; no tears"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"but of my shedding."
III,I,TUBAL,"Yes, other men have ill luck too: Antonio, as I"
III,I,TUBAL,"heard in Genoa,--"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"What, what, what? ill luck, ill luck?"
III,I,TUBAL,"Hath an argosy cast away, coming from Tripolis."
III,I,SHYLOCK,"I thank God, I thank God. Is't true, is't true?"
III,I,TUBAL,"I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck."
III,I,SHYLOCK,"I thank thee, good Tubal: good news, good news!"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"ha, ha! where? in Genoa?"
III,I,TUBAL,"Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, in one"
III,I,TUBAL,"night fourscore ducats."
III,I,SHYLOCK,"Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"fourscore ducats!"
III,I,TUBAL,"There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my"
III,I,TUBAL,"company to Venice, that swear he cannot choose but break."
III,I,SHYLOCK,"I am very glad of it: I'll plague him; I'll torture"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"him: I am glad of it."
III,I,TUBAL,"One of them showed me a ring that he had of your"
III,I,TUBAL,"daughter for a monkey."
III,I,SHYLOCK,"Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor:"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys."
III,I,TUBAL,"But Antonio is certainly undone."
III,I,SHYLOCK,"Nay, that's true, that's very true. Go, Tubal, fee"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"me an officer; bespeak him a fortnight before. I"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"will have the heart of him, if he forfeit; for, were"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"he out of Venice, I can make what merchandise I"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"will. Go, go, Tubal, and meet me at our synagogue;"
III,I,SHYLOCK,"go, good Tubal; at our synagogue, Tubal."
III,II,PORTIA,"I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two"
III,II,PORTIA,"Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong,"
III,II,PORTIA,"I lose your company: therefore forbear awhile."
III,II,PORTIA,"There's something tells me, but it is not love,"
III,II,PORTIA,"I would not lose you; and you know yourself,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Hate counsels not in such a quality."
III,II,PORTIA,"But lest you should not understand me well,--"
III,II,PORTIA,"And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,--"
III,II,PORTIA,"I would detain you here some month or two"
III,II,PORTIA,"Before you venture for me. I could teach you"
III,II,PORTIA,"How to choose right, but I am then forsworn;"
III,II,PORTIA,"So will I never be: so may you miss me;"
III,II,PORTIA,"But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,"
III,II,PORTIA,"That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,"
III,II,PORTIA,"They have o'erlook'd me and divided me;"
III,II,PORTIA,"One half of me is yours, the other half yours,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,"
III,II,PORTIA,"And so all yours. O, these naughty times"
III,II,PORTIA,"Put bars between the owners and their rights!"
III,II,PORTIA,"And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Let fortune go to hell for it, not I."
III,II,PORTIA,"I speak too long; but 'tis to peize the time,"
III,II,PORTIA,"To eke it and to draw it out in length,"
III,II,PORTIA,"To stay you from election."
III,II,BASSANIO,"Let me choose"
III,II,BASSANIO,"For as I am, I live upon the rack."
III,II,PORTIA,"Upon the rack, Bassanio! then confess"
III,II,PORTIA,"What treason there is mingled with your love."
III,II,BASSANIO,"None but that ugly treason of mistrust,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Which makes me fear the enjoying of my love:"
III,II,BASSANIO,"There may as well be amity and life"
III,II,BASSANIO,"'Tween snow and fire, as treason and my love."
III,II,PORTIA,"Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Where men enforced do speak anything."
III,II,BASSANIO,"Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth."
III,II,PORTIA,"Well then, confess and live."
III,II,BASSANIO,"'Confess' and 'love'"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Had been the very sum of my confession:"
III,II,BASSANIO,"O happy torment, when my torturer"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Doth teach me answers for deliverance!"
III,II,BASSANIO,"But let me to my fortune and the caskets."
III,II,PORTIA,"Away, then! I am lock'd in one of them:"
III,II,PORTIA,"If you do love me, you will find me out."
III,II,PORTIA,"Nerissa and the rest, stand all aloof."
III,II,PORTIA,"Let music sound while he doth make his choice;"
III,II,PORTIA,"Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Fading in music: that the comparison"
III,II,PORTIA,"May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream"
III,II,PORTIA,"And watery death-bed for him. He may win;"
III,II,PORTIA,"And what is music then? Then music is"
III,II,PORTIA,"Even as the flourish when true subjects bow"
III,II,PORTIA,"To a new-crowned monarch: such it is"
III,II,PORTIA,"As are those dulcet sounds in break of day"
III,II,PORTIA,"That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear,"
III,II,PORTIA,"And summon him to marriage. Now he goes,"
III,II,PORTIA,"With no less presence, but with much more love,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Than young Alcides, when he did redeem"
III,II,PORTIA,"The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy"
III,II,PORTIA,"To the sea-monster: I stand for sacrifice"
III,II,PORTIA,"The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives,"
III,II,PORTIA,"With bleared visages, come forth to view"
III,II,PORTIA,"The issue of the exploit. Go, Hercules!"
III,II,PORTIA,"Live thou, I live: with much, much more dismay"
III,II,PORTIA,"I view the fight than thou that makest the fray."
III,II,PORTIA,"Tell me where is fancy bred,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Or in the heart, or in the head?"
III,II,PORTIA,"How begot, how nourished?"
III,II,PORTIA,"Reply, reply."
III,II,PORTIA,"It is engender'd in the eyes,"
III,II,PORTIA,"With gazing fed; and fancy dies"
III,II,PORTIA,"In the cradle where it lies."
III,II,PORTIA,"Let us all ring fancy's knell"
III,II,PORTIA,"I'll begin it,--Ding, dong, bell."
III,II,ALL,"Ding, dong, bell."
III,II,BASSANIO,"So may the outward shows be least themselves:"
III,II,BASSANIO,"The world is still deceived with ornament."
III,II,BASSANIO,"In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Obscures the show of evil? In religion,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"What damned error, but some sober brow"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Will bless it and approve it with a text,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?"
III,II,BASSANIO,"There is no vice so simple but assumes"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Some mark of virtue on his outward parts:"
III,II,BASSANIO,"How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false"
III,II,BASSANIO,"As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins"
III,II,BASSANIO,"The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars;"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk;"
III,II,BASSANIO,"And these assume but valour's excrement"
III,II,BASSANIO,"To render them redoubted! Look on beauty,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Which therein works a miracle in nature,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Making them lightest that wear most of it:"
III,II,BASSANIO,"So are those crisped snaky golden locks"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Upon supposed fairness, often known"
III,II,BASSANIO,"To be the dowry of a second head,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"The skull that bred them in the sepulchre."
III,II,BASSANIO,"Thus ornament is but the guiled shore"
III,II,BASSANIO,"To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"The seeming truth which cunning times put on"
III,II,BASSANIO,"To entrap the wisest. Therefore, thou gaudy gold,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee;"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge"
III,II,BASSANIO,"'Tween man and man: but thou, thou meagre lead,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Which rather threatenest than dost promise aught,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence;"
III,II,BASSANIO,"And here choose I; joy be the consequence!"
III,II,PORTIA,"As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,"
III,II,PORTIA,"And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O love,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Be moderate; allay thy ecstasy,"
III,II,PORTIA,"In measure rein thy joy; scant this excess."
III,II,PORTIA,"I feel too much thy blessing: make it less,"
III,II,PORTIA,"For fear I surfeit."
III,II,BASSANIO,"What find I here?"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Fair Portia's counterfeit! What demi-god"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Hath come so near creation? Move these eyes?"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Or whether, riding on the balls of mine,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Seem they in motion? Here are sever'd lips,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Parted with sugar breath: so sweet a bar"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Should sunder such sweet friends. Here in her hairs"
III,II,BASSANIO,"The painter plays the spider and hath woven"
III,II,BASSANIO,"A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Faster than gnats in cobwebs; but her eyes,--"
III,II,BASSANIO,"How could he see to do them? having made one,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Methinks it should have power to steal both his"
III,II,BASSANIO,"And leave itself unfurnish'd. Yet look, how far"
III,II,BASSANIO,"The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow"
III,II,BASSANIO,"In underprizing it, so far this shadow"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Doth limp behind the substance. Here's the scroll,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"The continent and summary of my fortune."
III,II,BASSANIO,"You that choose not by the view,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Chance as fair and choose as true!"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Since this fortune falls to you,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Be content and seek no new,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"If you be well pleased with this"
III,II,BASSANIO,"And hold your fortune for your bliss,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Turn you where your lady is"
III,II,BASSANIO,"And claim her with a loving kiss."
III,II,BASSANIO,"A gentle scroll. Fair lady, by your leave;"
III,II,BASSANIO,"I come by note, to give and to receive."
III,II,BASSANIO,"Like one of two contending in a prize,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Hearing applause and universal shout,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Whether these pearls of praise be his or no;"
III,II,BASSANIO,"So, thrice fair lady, stand I, even so;"
III,II,BASSANIO,"As doubtful whether what I see be true,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Until confirm'd, sign'd, ratified by you."
III,II,PORTIA,"You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Such as I am: though for myself alone"
III,II,PORTIA,"I would not be ambitious in my wish,"
III,II,PORTIA,"To wish myself much better; yet, for you"
III,II,PORTIA,"I would be trebled twenty times myself;"
III,II,PORTIA,"A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich;"
III,II,PORTIA,"That only to stand high in your account,"
III,II,PORTIA,"I might in virtue, beauties, livings, friends,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Exceed account; but the full sum of me"
III,II,PORTIA,"Is sum of something, which, to term in gross,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised;"
III,II,PORTIA,"Happy in this, she is not yet so old"
III,II,PORTIA,"But she may learn; happier than this,"
III,II,PORTIA,"She is not bred so dull but she can learn;"
III,II,PORTIA,"Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit"
III,II,PORTIA,"Commits itself to yours to be directed,"
III,II,PORTIA,"As from her lord, her governor, her king."
III,II,PORTIA,"Myself and what is mine to you and yours"
III,II,PORTIA,"Is now converted: but now I was the lord"
III,II,PORTIA,"Of this fair mansion, master of my servants,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Queen o'er myself: and even now, but now,"
III,II,PORTIA,"This house, these servants and this same myself"
III,II,PORTIA,"Are yours, my lord: I give them with this ring;"
III,II,PORTIA,"Which when you part from, lose, or give away,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Let it presage the ruin of your love"
III,II,PORTIA,"And be my vantage to exclaim on you."
III,II,BASSANIO,"Madam, you have bereft me of all words,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Only my blood speaks to you in my veins;"
III,II,BASSANIO,"And there is such confusion in my powers,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"As after some oration fairly spoke"
III,II,BASSANIO,"By a beloved prince, there doth appear"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Among the buzzing pleased multitude;"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Where every something, being blent together,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Express'd and not express'd. But when this ring"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence:"
III,II,BASSANIO,"O, then be bold to say Bassanio's dead!"
III,II,NERISSA,"My lord and lady, it is now our time,"
III,II,NERISSA,"That have stood by and seen our wishes prosper,"
III,II,NERISSA,"To cry, good joy: good joy, my lord and lady!"
III,II,GRATIANO,"My lord Bassanio and my gentle lady,"
III,II,GRATIANO,"I wish you all the joy that you can wish;"
III,II,GRATIANO,"For I am sure you can wish none from me:"
III,II,GRATIANO,"And when your honours mean to solemnize"
III,II,GRATIANO,"The bargain of your faith, I do beseech you,"
III,II,GRATIANO,"Even at that time I may be married too."
III,II,BASSANIO,"With all my heart, so thou canst get a wife."
III,II,GRATIANO,"I thank your lordship, you have got me one."
III,II,GRATIANO,"My eyes, my lord, can look as swift as yours:"
III,II,GRATIANO,"You saw the mistress, I beheld the maid;"
III,II,GRATIANO,"You loved, I loved for intermission."
III,II,GRATIANO,"No more pertains to me, my lord, than you."
III,II,GRATIANO,"Your fortune stood upon the casket there,"
III,II,GRATIANO,"And so did mine too, as the matter falls;"
III,II,GRATIANO,"For wooing here until I sweat again,"
III,II,GRATIANO,"And sweating until my very roof was dry"
III,II,GRATIANO,"With oaths of love, at last, if promise last,"
III,II,GRATIANO,"I got a promise of this fair one here"
III,II,GRATIANO,"To have her love, provided that your fortune"
III,II,GRATIANO,"Achieved her mistress."
III,II,PORTIA,"Is this true, Nerissa?"
III,II,NERISSA,"Madam, it is, so you stand pleased withal."
III,II,BASSANIO,"And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith?"
III,II,GRATIANO,"Yes, faith, my lord."
III,II,BASSANIO,"Our feast shall be much honour'd in your marriage."
III,II,GRATIANO,"We'll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats."
III,II,NERISSA,"What, and stake down?"
III,II,GRATIANO,"No; we shall ne'er win at that sport, and stake down."
III,II,GRATIANO,"But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel? What,"
III,II,GRATIANO,"and my old Venetian friend Salerio?"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Lorenzo and Salerio, welcome hither;"
III,II,BASSANIO,"If that the youth of my new interest here"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Have power to bid you welcome. By your leave,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"I bid my very friends and countrymen,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Sweet Portia, welcome."
III,II,PORTIA,"So do I, my lord:"
III,II,PORTIA,"They are entirely welcome."
III,II,LORENZO,"I thank your honour. For my part, my lord,"
III,II,LORENZO,"My purpose was not to have seen you here;"
III,II,LORENZO,"But meeting with Salerio by the way,"
III,II,LORENZO,"He did entreat me, past all saying nay,"
III,II,LORENZO,"To come with him along."
III,II,SALERIO,"I did, my lord;"
III,II,SALERIO,"And I have reason for it. Signior Antonio"
III,II,SALERIO,"Commends him to you."
III,II,BASSANIO,"Ere I ope his letter,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"I pray you, tell me how my good friend doth."
III,II,SALERIO,"Not sick, my lord, unless it be in mind;"
III,II,SALERIO,"Nor well, unless in mind: his letter there"
III,II,SALERIO,"Will show you his estate."
III,II,GRATIANO,"Nerissa, cheer yon stranger; bid her welcome."
III,II,GRATIANO,"Your hand, Salerio: what's the news from Venice?"
III,II,GRATIANO,"How doth that royal merchant, good Antonio?"
III,II,GRATIANO,"I know he will be glad of our success;"
III,II,GRATIANO,"We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece."
III,II,SALERIO,"I would you had won the fleece that he hath lost."
III,II,PORTIA,"There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper,"
III,II,PORTIA,"That steals the colour from Bassanio's cheek:"
III,II,PORTIA,"Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world"
III,II,PORTIA,"Could turn so much the constitution"
III,II,PORTIA,"Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!"
III,II,PORTIA,"With leave, Bassanio: I am half yourself,"
III,II,PORTIA,"And I must freely have the half of anything"
III,II,PORTIA,"That this same paper brings you."
III,II,BASSANIO,"O sweet Portia,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words"
III,II,BASSANIO,"That ever blotted paper! Gentle lady,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"When I did first impart my love to you,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"I freely told you, all the wealth I had"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman;"
III,II,BASSANIO,"And then I told you true: and yet, dear lady,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Rating myself at nothing, you shall see"
III,II,BASSANIO,"How much I was a braggart. When I told you"
III,II,BASSANIO,"My state was nothing, I should then have told you"
III,II,BASSANIO,"That I was worse than nothing; for, indeed,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"I have engaged myself to a dear friend,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Engaged my friend to his mere enemy,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"To feed my means. Here is a letter, lady;"
III,II,BASSANIO,"The paper as the body of my friend,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"And every word in it a gaping wound,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Issuing life-blood. But is it true, Salerio?"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Have all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit?"
III,II,BASSANIO,"From Tripolis, from Mexico and England,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"From Lisbon, Barbary and India?"
III,II,BASSANIO,"And not one vessel 'scape the dreadful touch"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Of merchant-marring rocks?"
III,II,SALERIO,"Not one, my lord."
III,II,SALERIO,"Besides, it should appear, that if he had"
III,II,SALERIO,"The present money to discharge the Jew,"
III,II,SALERIO,"He would not take it. Never did I know"
III,II,SALERIO,"A creature, that did bear the shape of man,"
III,II,SALERIO,"So keen and greedy to confound a man:"
III,II,SALERIO,"He plies the duke at morning and at night,"
III,II,SALERIO,"And doth impeach the freedom of the state,"
III,II,SALERIO,"If they deny him justice: twenty merchants,"
III,II,SALERIO,"The duke himself, and the magnificoes"
III,II,SALERIO,"Of greatest port, have all persuaded with him;"
III,II,SALERIO,"But none can drive him from the envious plea"
III,II,SALERIO,"Of forfeiture, of justice and his bond."
III,II,JESSICA,"When I was with him I have heard him swear"
III,II,JESSICA,"To Tubal and to Chus, his countrymen,"
III,II,JESSICA,"That he would rather have Antonio's flesh"
III,II,JESSICA,"Than twenty times the value of the sum"
III,II,JESSICA,"That he did owe him: and I know, my lord,"
III,II,JESSICA,"If law, authority and power deny not,"
III,II,JESSICA,"It will go hard with poor Antonio."
III,II,PORTIA,"Is it your dear friend that is thus in trouble?"
III,II,BASSANIO,"The dearest friend to me, the kindest man,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit"
III,II,BASSANIO,"In doing courtesies, and one in whom"
III,II,BASSANIO,"The ancient Roman honour more appears"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Than any that draws breath in Italy."
III,II,PORTIA,"What sum owes he the Jew?"
III,II,BASSANIO,"For me three thousand ducats."
III,II,PORTIA,"What, no more?"
III,II,PORTIA,"Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond;"
III,II,PORTIA,"Double six thousand, and then treble that,"
III,II,PORTIA,"Before a friend of this description"
III,II,PORTIA,"Shall lose a hair through Bassanio's fault."
III,II,PORTIA,"First go with me to church and call me wife,"
III,II,PORTIA,"And then away to Venice to your friend;"
III,II,PORTIA,"For never shall you lie by Portia's side"
III,II,PORTIA,"With an unquiet soul. You shall have gold"
III,II,PORTIA,"To pay the petty debt twenty times over:"
III,II,PORTIA,"When it is paid, bring your true friend along."
III,II,PORTIA,"My maid Nerissa and myself meantime"
III,II,PORTIA,"Will live as maids and widows. Come, away!"
III,II,PORTIA,"For you shall hence upon your wedding-day:"
III,II,PORTIA,"Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheer:"
III,II,PORTIA,"Since you are dear bought, I will love you dear."
III,II,PORTIA,"But let me hear the letter of your friend."
III,II,BASSANIO,"miscarried, my creditors grow cruel, my estate is"
III,II,BASSANIO,"very low, my bond to the Jew is forfeit; and since"
III,II,BASSANIO,"in paying it, it is impossible I should live, all"
III,II,BASSANIO,"debts are cleared between you and I, if I might but"
III,II,BASSANIO,"see you at my death. Notwithstanding, use your"
III,II,BASSANIO,"pleasure: if your love do not persuade you to come,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"let not my letter."
III,II,PORTIA,"O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!"
III,II,BASSANIO,"Since I have your good leave to go away,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"I will make haste: but, till I come again,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay,"
III,II,BASSANIO,"No rest be interposer 'twixt us twain."
III,III,SHYLOCK,"Gaoler, look to him: tell not me of mercy;"
III,III,SHYLOCK,"This is the fool that lent out money gratis:"
III,III,SHYLOCK,"Gaoler, look to him."
III,III,ANTONIO,"Hear me yet, good Shylock."
III,III,SHYLOCK,"I'll have my bond; speak not against my bond:"
III,III,SHYLOCK,"I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond."
III,III,SHYLOCK,"Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause;"
III,III,SHYLOCK,"But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs:"
III,III,SHYLOCK,"The duke shall grant me justice. I do wonder,"
III,III,SHYLOCK,"Thou naughty gaoler, that thou art so fond"
III,III,SHYLOCK,"To come abroad with him at his request."
III,III,ANTONIO,"I pray thee, hear me speak."
III,III,SHYLOCK,"I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak:"
III,III,SHYLOCK,"I'll have my bond; and therefore speak no more."
III,III,SHYLOCK,"I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool,"
III,III,SHYLOCK,"To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield"
III,III,SHYLOCK,"To Christian intercessors. Follow not;"
III,III,SHYLOCK,"I'll have no speaking: I will have my bond."
III,III,SALARINO,"It is the most impenetrable cur"
III,III,SALARINO,"That ever kept with men."
III,III,ANTONIO,"Let him alone:"
III,III,ANTONIO,"I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers."
III,III,ANTONIO,"He seeks my life; his reason well I know:"
III,III,ANTONIO,"I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Many that have at times made moan to me;"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Therefore he hates me."
III,III,SALARINO,"I am sure the duke"
III,III,SALARINO,"Will never grant this forfeiture to hold."
III,III,ANTONIO,"The duke cannot deny the course of law:"
III,III,ANTONIO,"For the commodity that strangers have"
III,III,ANTONIO,"With us in Venice, if it be denied,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Will much impeach the justice of his state;"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Since that the trade and profit of the city"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Consisteth of all nations. Therefore, go:"
III,III,ANTONIO,"These griefs and losses have so bated me,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh"
III,III,ANTONIO,"To-morrow to my bloody creditor."
III,III,ANTONIO,"Well, gaoler, on. Pray God, Bassanio come"
III,III,ANTONIO,"To see me pay his debt, and then I care not!"
III,IV,LORENZO,"Madam, although I speak it in your presence,"
III,IV,LORENZO,"You have a noble and a true conceit"
III,IV,LORENZO,"Of godlike amity; which appears most strongly"
III,IV,LORENZO,"In bearing thus the absence of your lord."
III,IV,LORENZO,"But if you knew to whom you show this honour,"
III,IV,LORENZO,"How true a gentleman you send relief,"
III,IV,LORENZO,"How dear a lover of my lord your husband,"
III,IV,LORENZO,"I know you would be prouder of the work"
III,IV,LORENZO,"Than customary bounty can enforce you."
III,IV,PORTIA,"I never did repent for doing good,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Nor shall not now: for in companions"
III,IV,PORTIA,"That do converse and waste the time together,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Whose souls do bear an equal yoke Of love,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"There must be needs a like proportion"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Of lineaments, of manners and of spirit;"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Which makes me think that this Antonio,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Being the bosom lover of my lord,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Must needs be like my lord. If it be so,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"How little is the cost I have bestow'd"
III,IV,PORTIA,"In purchasing the semblance of my soul"
III,IV,PORTIA,"From out the state of hellish misery!"
III,IV,PORTIA,"This comes too near the praising of myself;"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Therefore no more of it: hear other things."
III,IV,PORTIA,"Lorenzo, I commit into your hands"
III,IV,PORTIA,"The husbandry and manage of my house"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Until my lord's return: for mine own part,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow"
III,IV,PORTIA,"To live in prayer and contemplation,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Only attended by Nerissa here,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Until her husband and my lord's return:"
III,IV,PORTIA,"There is a monastery two miles off;"
III,IV,PORTIA,"And there will we abide. I do desire you"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Not to deny this imposition;"
III,IV,PORTIA,"The which my love and some necessity"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Now lays upon you."
III,IV,LORENZO,"Madam, with all my heart;"
III,IV,LORENZO,"I shall obey you in all fair commands."
III,IV,PORTIA,"My people do already know my mind,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"And will acknowledge you and Jessica"
III,IV,PORTIA,"In place of Lord Bassanio and myself."
III,IV,PORTIA,"And so farewell, till we shall meet again."
III,IV,LORENZO,"Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!"
III,IV,JESSICA,"I wish your ladyship all heart's content."
III,IV,PORTIA,"I thank you for your wish, and am well pleased"
III,IV,PORTIA,"To wish it back on you: fare you well Jessica."
III,IV,PORTIA,"Now, Balthasar,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"As I have ever found thee honest-true,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"So let me find thee still. Take this same letter,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"And use thou all the endeavour of a man"
III,IV,PORTIA,"In speed to Padua: see thou render this"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Into my cousin's hand, Doctor Bellario;"
III,IV,PORTIA,"And, look, what notes and garments he doth give thee,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Bring them, I pray thee, with imagined speed"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Unto the tranect, to the common ferry"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"But get thee gone: I shall be there before thee."
III,IV,BALTHASAR,"Madam, I go with all convenient speed."
III,IV,PORTIA,"Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand"
III,IV,PORTIA,"That you yet know not of: we'll see our husbands"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Before they think of us."
III,IV,NERISSA,"Shall they see us?"
III,IV,PORTIA,"They shall, Nerissa; but in such a habit,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"That they shall think we are accomplished"
III,IV,PORTIA,"With that we lack. I'll hold thee any wager,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"When we are both accoutred like young men,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"And wear my dagger with the braver grace,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"And speak between the change of man and boy"
III,IV,PORTIA,"With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Into a manly stride, and speak of frays"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"How honourable ladies sought my love,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Which I denying, they fell sick and died;"
III,IV,PORTIA,"I could not do withal; then I'll repent,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"And wish for all that, that I had not killed them;"
III,IV,PORTIA,"And twenty of these puny lies I'll tell,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"That men shall swear I have discontinued school"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Above a twelvemonth. I have within my mind"
III,IV,PORTIA,"A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Which I will practise."
III,IV,NERISSA,"Why, shall we turn to men?"
III,IV,PORTIA,"Fie, what a question's that,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!"
III,IV,PORTIA,"But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device"
III,IV,PORTIA,"When I am in my coach, which stays for us"
III,IV,PORTIA,"At the park gate; and therefore haste away,"
III,IV,PORTIA,"For we must measure twenty miles to-day."
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"Yes, truly; for, look you, the sins of the father"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"are to be laid upon the children: therefore, I"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"promise ye, I fear you. I was always plain with"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter:"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"therefore be of good cheer, for truly I think you"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"you any good; and that is but a kind of bastard"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"hope neither."
III,V,JESSICA,"And what hope is that, I pray thee?"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"Marry, you may partly hope that your father got you"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"not, that you are not the Jew's daughter."
III,V,JESSICA,"That were a kind of bastard hope, indeed: so the"
III,V,JESSICA,"sins of my mother should be visited upon me."
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"Truly then I fear you are damned both by father and"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"mother: thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"fall into Charybdis, your mother: well, you are"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"gone both ways."
III,V,JESSICA,"I shall be saved by my husband; he hath made me a"
III,V,JESSICA,"Christian."
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"Truly, the more to blame he: we were Christians"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"enow before; e'en as many as could well live, one by"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"another. This making Christians will raise the"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"price of hogs: if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money."
III,V,JESSICA,"I'll tell my husband, Launcelot, what you say: here he comes."
III,V,LORENZO,"I shall grow jealous of you shortly, Launcelot, if"
III,V,LORENZO,"you thus get my wife into corners."
III,V,JESSICA,"Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo: Launcelot and I"
III,V,JESSICA,"are out. He tells me flatly, there is no mercy for"
III,V,JESSICA,"me in heaven, because I am a Jew's daughter: and he"
III,V,JESSICA,"says, you are no good member of the commonwealth,"
III,V,JESSICA,"for in converting Jews to Christians, you raise the"
III,V,JESSICA,"price of pork."
III,V,LORENZO,"I shall answer that better to the commonwealth than"
III,V,LORENZO,"you can the getting up of the negro's belly: the"
III,V,LORENZO,"Moor is with child by you, Launcelot."
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"It is much that the Moor should be more than reason:"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"but if she be less than an honest woman, she is"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"indeed more than I took her for."
III,V,LORENZO,"How every fool can play upon the word! I think the"
III,V,LORENZO,"best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence,"
III,V,LORENZO,"and discourse grow commendable in none only but"
III,V,LORENZO,"parrots. Go in, sirrah; bid them prepare for dinner."
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"That is done, sir; they have all stomachs."
III,V,LORENZO,"Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! then bid"
III,V,LORENZO,"them prepare dinner."
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"That is done too, sir; only 'cover' is the word."
III,V,LORENZO,"Will you cover then, sir?"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"Not so, sir, neither; I know my duty."
III,V,LORENZO,"Yet more quarrelling with occasion! Wilt thou show"
III,V,LORENZO,"the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray"
III,V,LORENZO,"tree, understand a plain man in his plain meaning:"
III,V,LORENZO,"go to thy fellows; bid them cover the table, serve"
III,V,LORENZO,"in the meat, and we will come in to dinner."
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"For the table, sir, it shall be served in; for the"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"meat, sir, it shall be covered; for your coming in"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"to dinner, sir, why, let it be as humours and"
III,V,LAUNCELOT,"conceits shall govern."
III,V,LORENZO,"O dear discretion, how his words are suited!"
III,V,LORENZO,"The fool hath planted in his memory"
III,V,LORENZO,"An army of good words; and I do know"
III,V,LORENZO,"A many fools, that stand in better place,"
III,V,LORENZO,"Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy word"
III,V,LORENZO,"Defy the matter. How cheerest thou, Jessica?"
III,V,LORENZO,"And now, good sweet, say thy opinion,"
III,V,LORENZO,"How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio's wife?"
III,V,JESSICA,"Past all expressing. It is very meet"
III,V,JESSICA,"The Lord Bassanio live an upright life;"
III,V,JESSICA,"For, having such a blessing in his lady,"
III,V,JESSICA,"He finds the joys of heaven here on earth;"
III,V,JESSICA,"And if on earth he do not mean it, then"
III,V,JESSICA,"In reason he should never come to heaven"
III,V,JESSICA,"Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match"
III,V,JESSICA,"And on the wager lay two earthly women,"
III,V,JESSICA,"And Portia one, there must be something else"
III,V,JESSICA,"Pawn'd with the other, for the poor rude world"
III,V,JESSICA,"Hath not her fellow."
III,V,LORENZO,"Even such a husband"
III,V,LORENZO,"Hast thou of me as she is for a wife."
III,V,JESSICA,"Nay, but ask my opinion too of that."
III,V,LORENZO,"I will anon: first, let us go to dinner."
III,V,JESSICA,"Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach."
III,V,LORENZO,"No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk;"
III,V,LORENZO,"' Then, howso'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things"
III,V,LORENZO,"I shall digest it."
III,V,JESSICA,"Well, I'll set you forth."
IV,I,DUKE,"What, is Antonio here?"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Ready, so please your grace."
IV,I,DUKE,"I am sorry for thee: thou art come to answer"
IV,I,DUKE,"A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch"
IV,I,DUKE,"uncapable of pity, void and empty"
IV,I,DUKE,"From any dram of mercy."
IV,I,ANTONIO,"I have heard"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Your grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"His rigorous course; but since he stands obdurate"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"And that no lawful means can carry me"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Out of his envy's reach, I do oppose"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"My patience to his fury, and am arm'd"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"The very tyranny and rage of his."
IV,I,DUKE,"Go one, and call the Jew into the court."
IV,I,SALERIO,"He is ready at the door: he comes, my lord."
IV,I,DUKE,"Make room, and let him stand before our face."
IV,I,DUKE,"Shylock, the world thinks, and I think so too,"
IV,I,DUKE,"That thou but lead'st this fashion of thy malice"
IV,I,DUKE,"To the last hour of act; and then 'tis thought"
IV,I,DUKE,"Thou'lt show thy mercy and remorse more strange"
IV,I,DUKE,"Than is thy strange apparent cruelty;"
IV,I,DUKE,"And where thou now exact'st the penalty,"
IV,I,DUKE,"Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh,"
IV,I,DUKE,"Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture,"
IV,I,DUKE,"But, touch'd with human gentleness and love,"
IV,I,DUKE,"Forgive a moiety of the principal;"
IV,I,DUKE,"Glancing an eye of pity on his losses,"
IV,I,DUKE,"That have of late so huddled on his back,"
IV,I,DUKE,"Enow to press a royal merchant down"
IV,I,DUKE,"And pluck commiseration of his state"
IV,I,DUKE,"From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint,"
IV,I,DUKE,"From stubborn Turks and Tartars, never train'd"
IV,I,DUKE,"To offices of tender courtesy."
IV,I,DUKE,"We all expect a gentle answer, Jew."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"I have possess'd your grace of what I purpose;"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"To have the due and forfeit of my bond:"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"If you deny it, let the danger light"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Upon your charter and your city's freedom."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"A weight of carrion flesh than to receive"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Three thousand ducats: I'll not answer that:"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"But, say, it is my humour: is it answer'd?"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"What if my house be troubled with a rat"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"And I be pleased to give ten thousand ducats"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"To have it baned? What, are you answer'd yet?"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Some men there are love not a gaping pig;"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Some, that are mad if they behold a cat;"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"And others, when the bagpipe sings i' the nose,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Cannot contain their urine: for affection,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Of what it likes or loathes. Now, for your answer:"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"As there is no firm reason to be render'd,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Why he cannot abide a gaping pig;"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Why he, a harmless necessary cat;"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Why he, a woollen bagpipe; but of force"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Must yield to such inevitable shame"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"As to offend, himself being offended;"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"So can I give no reason, nor I will not,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"I bear Antonio, that I follow thus"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"A losing suit against him. Are you answer'd?"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"This is no answer, thou unfeeling man,"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"To excuse the current of thy cruelty."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"I am not bound to please thee with my answers."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Do all men kill the things they do not love?"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Hates any man the thing he would not kill?"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Every offence is not a hate at first."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"I pray you, think you question with the Jew:"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"You may as well go stand upon the beach"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"And bid the main flood bate his usual height;"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"You may as well use question with the wolf"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"You may as well forbid the mountain pines"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"To wag their high tops and to make no noise,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven;"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"You may as well do anything most hard,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"As seek to soften that--than which what's harder?--"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"His Jewish heart: therefore, I do beseech you,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Make no more offers, use no farther means,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"But with all brief and plain conveniency"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Let me have judgment and the Jew his will."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"For thy three thousand ducats here is six."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"What judgment shall I dread, doing"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Were in six parts and every part a ducat,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"I would not draw them; I would have my bond."
IV,I,DUKE,"How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong?"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"You have among you many a purchased slave,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"You use in abject and in slavish parts,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Because you bought them: shall I say to you,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Let them be free, marry them to your heirs?"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Why sweat they under burthens? let their beds"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Be made as soft as yours and let their palates"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Be season'd with such viands? You will answer"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"'The slaves are ours:' so do I answer you:"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"The pound of flesh, which I demand of him,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Is dearly bought; 'tis mine and I will have it."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"If you deny me, fie upon your law!"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"There is no force in the decrees of Venice."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"I stand for judgment: answer; shall I have it?"
IV,I,DUKE,"Upon my power I may dismiss this court,"
IV,I,DUKE,"Unless Bellario, a learned doctor,"
IV,I,DUKE,"Whom I have sent for to determine this,"
IV,I,DUKE,"Come here to-day."
IV,I,SALERIO,"My lord, here stays without"
IV,I,SALERIO,"A messenger with letters from the doctor,"
IV,I,SALERIO,"New come from Padua."
IV,I,DUKE,"Bring us the letter; call the messenger."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Good cheer, Antonio! What, man, courage yet!"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"The Jew shall have my flesh, blood, bones and all,"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Ere thou shalt lose for me one drop of blood."
IV,I,ANTONIO,"I am a tainted wether of the flock,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Drops earliest to the ground; and so let me"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"You cannot better be employ'd, Bassanio,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Than to live still and write mine epitaph."
IV,I,DUKE,"Came you from Padua, from Bellario?"
IV,I,NERISSA,"From both, my lord. Bellario greets your grace."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"To cut the forfeiture from that bankrupt there."
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Thou makest thy knife keen; but no metal can,"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the keenness"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce thee?"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"No, none that thou hast wit enough to make."
IV,I,GRATIANO,"O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"And for thy life let justice be accused."
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Thou almost makest me waver in my faith"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"To hold opinion with Pythagoras,"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"That souls of animals infuse themselves"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Infused itself in thee; for thy desires"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Are wolvish, bloody, starved and ravenous."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud:"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"To cureless ruin. I stand here for law."
IV,I,DUKE,"This letter from Bellario doth commend"
IV,I,DUKE,"A young and learned doctor to our court."
IV,I,DUKE,"Where is he?"
IV,I,NERISSA,"He attendeth here hard by,"
IV,I,NERISSA,"To know your answer, whether you'll admit him."
IV,I,DUKE,"With all my heart. Some three or four of you"
IV,I,DUKE,"Go give him courteous conduct to this place."
IV,I,DUKE,"Meantime the court shall hear Bellario's letter."
IV,I,Clerk,"Your grace shall understand that at the receipt of"
IV,I,Clerk,"your letter I am very sick: but in the instant that"
IV,I,Clerk,"your messenger came, in loving visitation was with"
IV,I,Clerk,"me a young doctor of Rome; his name is Balthasar. I"
IV,I,Clerk,"acquainted him with the cause in controversy between"
IV,I,Clerk,"the Jew and Antonio the merchant: we turned o'er"
IV,I,Clerk,"many books together: he is furnished with my"
IV,I,Clerk,"opinion; which, bettered with his own learning, the"
IV,I,Clerk,"greatness whereof I cannot enough commend, comes"
IV,I,Clerk,"with him, at my importunity, to fill up your grace's"
IV,I,Clerk,"request in my stead. I beseech you, let his lack of"
IV,I,Clerk,"years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend"
IV,I,Clerk,"estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so"
IV,I,Clerk,"old a head. I leave him to your gracious"
IV,I,Clerk,"acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his"
IV,I,Clerk,"commendation."
IV,I,DUKE,"You hear the learn'd Bellario, what he writes:"
IV,I,DUKE,"And here, I take it, is the doctor come."
IV,I,DUKE,"Give me your hand. Come you from old Bellario?"
IV,I,PORTIA,"I did, my lord."
IV,I,DUKE,"You are welcome: take your place."
IV,I,DUKE,"Are you acquainted with the difference"
IV,I,DUKE,"That holds this present question in the court?"
IV,I,PORTIA,"I am informed thoroughly of the cause."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Which is the merchant here, and which the Jew?"
IV,I,DUKE,"Antonio and old Shylock, both stand forth."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Is your name Shylock?"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Shylock is my name."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Of a strange nature is the suit you follow;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Yet in such rule that the Venetian law"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Cannot impugn you as you do proceed."
IV,I,PORTIA,"You stand within his danger, do you not?"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Ay, so he says."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Do you confess the bond?"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"I do."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Then must the Jew be merciful."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"On what compulsion must I? tell me that."
IV,I,PORTIA,"The quality of mercy is not strain'd,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes"
IV,I,PORTIA,"The throned monarch better than his crown;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"The attribute to awe and majesty,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"But mercy is above this sceptred sway;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"It is an attribute to God himself;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"And earthly power doth then show likest God's"
IV,I,PORTIA,"When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Though justice be thy plea, consider this,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"That, in the course of justice, none of us"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"And that same prayer doth teach us all to render"
IV,I,PORTIA,"The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much"
IV,I,PORTIA,"To mitigate the justice of thy plea;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"My deeds upon my head! I crave the law,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"The penalty and forfeit of my bond."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Is he not able to discharge the money?"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Yes, here I tender it for him in the court;"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Yea, twice the sum: if that will not suffice,"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er,"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart:"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"If this will not suffice, it must appear"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you,"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Wrest once the law to your authority:"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"To do a great right, do a little wrong,"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"And curb this cruel devil of his will."
IV,I,PORTIA,"It must not be; there is no power in Venice"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Can alter a decree established:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"'Twill be recorded for a precedent,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"And many an error by the same example"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Will rush into the state: it cannot be."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!"
IV,I,PORTIA,"I pray you, let me look upon the bond."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Here 'tis, most reverend doctor, here it is."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Shylock, there's thrice thy money offer'd thee."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven:"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"No, not for Venice."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Why, this bond is forfeit;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"And lawfully by this the Jew may claim"
IV,I,PORTIA,"A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Nearest the merchant's heart. Be merciful:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Take thrice thy money; bid me tear the bond."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"When it is paid according to the tenor."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"It doth appear you are a worthy judge;"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"You know the law, your exposition"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Hath been most sound: I charge you by the law,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Proceed to judgment: by my soul I swear"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"There is no power in the tongue of man"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"To alter me: I stay here on my bond."
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Most heartily I do beseech the court"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"To give the judgment."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Why then, thus it is:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"You must prepare your bosom for his knife."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"O noble judge! O excellent young man!"
IV,I,PORTIA,"For the intent and purpose of the law"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Hath full relation to the penalty,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Which here appeareth due upon the bond."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"'Tis very true: O wise and upright judge!"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"How much more elder art thou than thy looks!"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Therefore lay bare your bosom."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Ay, his breast:"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"So says the bond: doth it not, noble judge?"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"'Nearest his heart:' those are the very words."
IV,I,PORTIA,"It is so. Are there balance here to weigh"
IV,I,PORTIA,"The flesh?"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"I have them ready."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Have by some surgeon, Shylock, on your charge,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"To stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Is it so nominated in the bond?"
IV,I,PORTIA,"It is not so express'd: but what of that?"
IV,I,PORTIA,"'Twere good you do so much for charity."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"I cannot find it; 'tis not in the bond."
IV,I,PORTIA,"You, merchant, have you any thing to say?"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"But little: I am arm'd and well prepared."
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Give me your hand, Bassanio: fare you well!"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you;"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"For herein Fortune shows herself more kind"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Than is her custom: it is still her use"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"An age of poverty; from which lingering penance"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Of such misery doth she cut me off."
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Commend me to your honourable wife:"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Tell her the process of Antonio's end;"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Say how I loved you, speak me fair in death;"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"And, when the tale is told, bid her be judge"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Whether Bassanio had not once a love."
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Repent but you that you shall lose your friend,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"And he repents not that he pays your debt;"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"For if the Jew do cut but deep enough,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"I'll pay it presently with all my heart."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Antonio, I am married to a wife"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Which is as dear to me as life itself;"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"But life itself, my wife, and all the world,"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Are not with me esteem'd above thy life:"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Here to this devil, to deliver you."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Your wife would give you little thanks for that,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"If she were by, to hear you make the offer."
IV,I,GRATIANO,"I have a wife, whom, I protest, I love:"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"I would she were in heaven, so she could"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Entreat some power to change this currish Jew."
IV,I,NERISSA,"'Tis well you offer it behind her back;"
IV,I,NERISSA,"The wish would make else an unquiet house."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"These be the Christian husbands. I have a daughter;"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Would any of the stock of Barrabas"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Had been her husband rather than a Christian!"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence."
IV,I,PORTIA,"A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"The court awards it, and the law doth give it."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Most rightful judge!"
IV,I,PORTIA,"And you must cut this flesh from off his breast:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"The law allows it, and the court awards it."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Most learned judge! A sentence! Come, prepare!"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Tarry a little; there is something else."
IV,I,PORTIA,"This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh:'"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed"
IV,I,PORTIA,"One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Unto the state of Venice."
IV,I,GRATIANO,"O upright judge! Mark, Jew: O learned judge!"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Is that the law?"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Thyself shalt see the act:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"For, as thou urgest justice, be assured"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirest."
IV,I,GRATIANO,"O learned judge! Mark, Jew: a learned judge!"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"I take this offer, then; pay the bond thrice"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"And let the Christian go."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Here is the money."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Soft!"
IV,I,PORTIA,"The Jew shall have all justice; soft! no haste:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"He shall have nothing but the penalty."
IV,I,GRATIANO,"O Jew! an upright judge, a learned judge!"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more"
IV,I,PORTIA,"But just a pound of flesh: if thou cut'st more"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Or less than a just pound, be it but so much"
IV,I,PORTIA,"As makes it light or heavy in the substance,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Or the division of the twentieth part"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn"
IV,I,PORTIA,"But in the estimation of a hair,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate."
IV,I,GRATIANO,"A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Now, infidel, I have you on the hip."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Why doth the Jew pause? take thy forfeiture."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Give me my principal, and let me go."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"I have it ready for thee; here it is."
IV,I,PORTIA,"He hath refused it in the open court:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"He shall have merely justice and his bond."
IV,I,GRATIANO,"A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Shall I not have barely my principal?"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"To be so taken at thy peril, Jew."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Why, then the devil give him good of it!"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"I'll stay no longer question."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Tarry, Jew:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"The law hath yet another hold on you."
IV,I,PORTIA,"It is enacted in the laws of Venice,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"If it be proved against an alien"
IV,I,PORTIA,"That by direct or indirect attempts"
IV,I,PORTIA,"He seek the life of any citizen,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"The party 'gainst the which he doth contrive"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Shall seize one half his goods; the other half"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Comes to the privy coffer of the state;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"And the offender's life lies in the mercy"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Of the duke only, 'gainst all other voice."
IV,I,PORTIA,"In which predicament, I say, thou stand'st;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"For it appears, by manifest proceeding,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"That indirectly and directly too"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Thou hast contrived against the very life"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Of the defendant; and thou hast incurr'd"
IV,I,PORTIA,"The danger formerly by me rehearsed."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Down therefore and beg mercy of the duke."
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Beg that thou mayst have leave to hang thyself:"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"And yet, thy wealth being forfeit to the state,"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Thou hast not left the value of a cord;"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Therefore thou must be hang'd at the state's charge."
IV,I,DUKE,"That thou shalt see the difference of our spirits,"
IV,I,DUKE,"I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it:"
IV,I,DUKE,"For half thy wealth, it is Antonio's;"
IV,I,DUKE,"The other half comes to the general state,"
IV,I,DUKE,"Which humbleness may drive unto a fine."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Ay, for the state, not for Antonio."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that:"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"You take my house when you do take the prop"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"That doth sustain my house; you take my life"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"When you do take the means whereby I live."
IV,I,PORTIA,"What mercy can you render him, Antonio?"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"A halter gratis; nothing else, for God's sake."
IV,I,ANTONIO,"So please my lord the duke and all the court"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"To quit the fine for one half of his goods,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"I am content; so he will let me have"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"The other half in use, to render it,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Upon his death, unto the gentleman"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"That lately stole his daughter:"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Two things provided more, that, for this favour,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"He presently become a Christian;"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"The other, that he do record a gift,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Here in the court, of all he dies possess'd,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Unto his son Lorenzo and his daughter."
IV,I,DUKE,"He shall do this, or else I do recant"
IV,I,DUKE,"The pardon that I late pronounced here."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Art thou contented, Jew? what dost thou say?"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"I am content."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Clerk, draw a deed of gift."
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"I pray you, give me leave to go from hence;"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"I am not well: send the deed after me,"
IV,I,SHYLOCK,"And I will sign it."
IV,I,DUKE,"Get thee gone, but do it."
IV,I,GRATIANO,"In christening shalt thou have two god-fathers:"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten more,"
IV,I,GRATIANO,"To bring thee to the gallows, not the font."
IV,I,DUKE,"Sir, I entreat you home with me to dinner."
IV,I,PORTIA,"I humbly do desire your grace of pardon:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"I must away this night toward Padua,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"And it is meet I presently set forth."
IV,I,DUKE,"I am sorry that your leisure serves you not."
IV,I,DUKE,"Antonio, gratify this gentleman,"
IV,I,DUKE,"For, in my mind, you are much bound to him."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Most worthy gentleman, I and my friend"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Of grievous penalties; in lieu whereof,"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Three thousand ducats, due unto the Jew,"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"We freely cope your courteous pains withal."
IV,I,ANTONIO,"And stand indebted, over and above,"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"In love and service to you evermore."
IV,I,PORTIA,"He is well paid that is well satisfied;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"And I, delivering you, am satisfied"
IV,I,PORTIA,"And therein do account myself well paid:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"My mind was never yet more mercenary."
IV,I,PORTIA,"I pray you, know me when we meet again:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"I wish you well, and so I take my leave."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further:"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute,"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Not as a fee: grant me two things, I pray you,"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Not to deny me, and to pardon me."
IV,I,PORTIA,"You press me far, and therefore I will yield."
IV,I,PORTIA,"Give me your gloves, I'll wear them for your sake;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"And, for your love, I'll take this ring from you:"
IV,I,PORTIA,"Do not draw back your hand; I'll take no more;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"And you in love shall not deny me this."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"This ring, good sir, alas, it is a trifle!"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"I will not shame myself to give you this."
IV,I,PORTIA,"I will have nothing else but only this;"
IV,I,PORTIA,"And now methinks I have a mind to it."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"There's more depends on this than on the value."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"The dearest ring in Venice will I give you,"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"And find it out by proclamation:"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Only for this, I pray you, pardon me."
IV,I,PORTIA,"I see, sir, you are liberal in offers"
IV,I,PORTIA,"You taught me first to beg; and now methinks"
IV,I,PORTIA,"You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Good sir, this ring was given me by my wife;"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"And when she put it on, she made me vow"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"That I should neither sell nor give nor lose it."
IV,I,PORTIA,"That 'scuse serves many men to save their gifts."
IV,I,PORTIA,"An if your wife be not a mad-woman,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"And know how well I have deserved the ring,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"She would not hold out enemy for ever,"
IV,I,PORTIA,"For giving it to me. Well, peace be with you!"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"My Lord Bassanio, let him have the ring:"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Let his deservings and my love withal"
IV,I,ANTONIO,"Be valued against your wife's commandment."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Go, Gratiano, run and overtake him;"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Give him the ring, and bring him, if thou canst,"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Unto Antonio's house: away! make haste."
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Come, you and I will thither presently;"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"And in the morning early will we both"
IV,I,BASSANIO,"Fly toward Belmont: come, Antonio."
IV,II,PORTIA,"Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed"
IV,II,PORTIA,"And let him sign it: we'll away to-night"
IV,II,PORTIA,"And be a day before our husbands home:"
IV,II,PORTIA,"This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo."
IV,II,GRATIANO,"Fair sir, you are well o'erta'en"
IV,II,GRATIANO,"My Lord Bassanio upon more advice"
IV,II,GRATIANO,"Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat"
IV,II,GRATIANO,"Your company at dinner."
IV,II,PORTIA,"That cannot be:"
IV,II,PORTIA,"His ring I do accept most thankfully:"
IV,II,PORTIA,"And so, I pray you, tell him: furthermore,"
IV,II,PORTIA,"I pray you, show my youth old Shylock's house."
IV,II,GRATIANO,"That will I do."
IV,II,NERISSA,"Sir, I would speak with you."
IV,II,NERISSA,"I'll see if I can get my husband's ring,"
IV,II,NERISSA,"Which I did make him swear to keep for ever."
IV,II,PORTIA,"We shall have old swearing"
IV,II,PORTIA,"That they did give the rings away to men;"
IV,II,PORTIA,"But we'll outface them, and outswear them too."
IV,II,PORTIA,"Away! make haste: thou knowist where I will tarry."
IV,II,NERISSA,"Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?"
V,I,LORENZO,"The moon shines bright: in such a night as this,"
V,I,LORENZO,"When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees"
V,I,LORENZO,"And they did make no noise, in such a night"
V,I,LORENZO,"Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls"
V,I,LORENZO,"And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents,"
V,I,LORENZO,"Where Cressid lay that night."
V,I,JESSICA,"In such a night"
V,I,JESSICA,"Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew"
V,I,JESSICA,"And saw the lion's shadow ere himself"
V,I,JESSICA,"And ran dismay'd away."
V,I,LORENZO,"In such a night"
V,I,LORENZO,"Stood Dido with a willow in her hand"
V,I,LORENZO,"Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love"
V,I,LORENZO,"To come again to Carthage."
V,I,JESSICA,"In such a night"
V,I,JESSICA,"Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs"
V,I,JESSICA,"That did renew old AEson."
V,I,LORENZO,"In such a night"
V,I,LORENZO,"Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew"
V,I,LORENZO,"And with an unthrift love did run from Venice"
V,I,LORENZO,"As far as Belmont."
V,I,JESSICA,"In such a night"
V,I,JESSICA,"Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well,"
V,I,JESSICA,"Stealing her soul with many vows of faith"
V,I,JESSICA,"And ne'er a true one."
V,I,LORENZO,"In such a night"
V,I,LORENZO,"Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew,"
V,I,LORENZO,"Slander her love, and he forgave it her."
V,I,JESSICA,"I would out-night you, did no body come;"
V,I,JESSICA,"But, hark, I hear the footing of a man."
V,I,LORENZO,"Who comes so fast in silence of the night?"
V,I,STEPHANO,"A friend."
V,I,LORENZO,"A friend! what friend? your name, I pray you, friend?"
V,I,STEPHANO,"Stephano is my name; and I bring word"
V,I,STEPHANO,"My mistress will before the break of day"
V,I,STEPHANO,"Be here at Belmont; she doth stray about"
V,I,STEPHANO,"By holy crosses, where she kneels and prays"
V,I,STEPHANO,"For happy wedlock hours."
V,I,LORENZO,"Who comes with her?"
V,I,STEPHANO,"None but a holy hermit and her maid."
V,I,STEPHANO,"I pray you, is my master yet return'd?"
V,I,LORENZO,"He is not, nor we have not heard from him."
V,I,LORENZO,"But go we in, I pray thee, Jessica,"
V,I,LORENZO,"And ceremoniously let us prepare"
V,I,LORENZO,"Some welcome for the mistress of the house."
V,I,LAUNCELOT,"Sola, sola! wo ha, ho! sola, sola!"
V,I,LORENZO,"Who calls?"
V,I,LAUNCELOT,"Sola! did you see Master Lorenzo?"
V,I,LAUNCELOT,"Master Lorenzo, sola, sola!"
V,I,LORENZO,"Leave hollaing, man: here."
V,I,LAUNCELOT,"Sola! where? where?"
V,I,LORENZO,"Here."
V,I,LAUNCELOT,"Tell him there's a post come from my master, with"
V,I,LAUNCELOT,"his horn full of good news: my master will be here"
V,I,LAUNCELOT,"ere morning."
V,I,LORENZO,"Sweet soul, let's in, and there expect their coming."
V,I,LORENZO,"And yet no matter: why should we go in?"
V,I,LORENZO,"My friend Stephano, signify, I pray you,"
V,I,LORENZO,"Within the house, your mistress is at hand;"
V,I,LORENZO,"And bring your music forth into the air."
V,I,LORENZO,"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!"
V,I,LORENZO,"Here will we sit and let the sounds of music"
V,I,LORENZO,"Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night"
V,I,LORENZO,"Become the touches of sweet harmony."
V,I,LORENZO,"Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven"
V,I,LORENZO,"Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:"
V,I,LORENZO,"There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st"
V,I,LORENZO,"But in his motion like an angel sings,"
V,I,LORENZO,"Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;"
V,I,LORENZO,"Such harmony is in immortal souls;"
V,I,LORENZO,"But whilst this muddy vesture of decay"
V,I,LORENZO,"Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."
V,I,LORENZO,"Come, ho! and wake Diana with a hymn!"
V,I,LORENZO,"With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear,"
V,I,LORENZO,"And draw her home with music."
V,I,JESSICA,"I am never merry when I hear sweet music."
V,I,LORENZO,"The reason is, your spirits are attentive:"
V,I,LORENZO,"For do but note a wild and wanton herd,"
V,I,LORENZO,"Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,"
V,I,LORENZO,"Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,"
V,I,LORENZO,"Which is the hot condition of their blood;"
V,I,LORENZO,"If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound,"
V,I,LORENZO,"Or any air of music touch their ears,"
V,I,LORENZO,"You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,"
V,I,LORENZO,"Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze"
V,I,LORENZO,"By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet"
V,I,LORENZO,"Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods;"
V,I,LORENZO,"Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,"
V,I,LORENZO,"But music for the time doth change his nature."
V,I,LORENZO,"The man that hath no music in himself,"
V,I,LORENZO,"Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,"
V,I,LORENZO,"Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;"
V,I,LORENZO,"The motions of his spirit are dull as night"
V,I,LORENZO,"And his affections dark as Erebus:"
V,I,LORENZO,"Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music."
V,I,PORTIA,"That light we see is burning in my hall."
V,I,PORTIA,"How far that little candle throws his beams!"
V,I,PORTIA,"So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
V,I,NERISSA,"When the moon shone, we did not see the candle."
V,I,PORTIA,"So doth the greater glory dim the less:"
V,I,PORTIA,"A substitute shines brightly as a king"
V,I,PORTIA,"Unto the king be by, and then his state"
V,I,PORTIA,"Empties itself, as doth an inland brook"
V,I,PORTIA,"Into the main of waters. Music! hark!"
V,I,NERISSA,"It is your music, madam, of the house."
V,I,PORTIA,"Nothing is good, I see, without respect:"
V,I,PORTIA,"Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day."
V,I,NERISSA,"Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam."
V,I,PORTIA,"The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark,"
V,I,PORTIA,"When neither is attended, and I think"
V,I,PORTIA,"The nightingale, if she should sing by day,"
V,I,PORTIA,"When every goose is cackling, would be thought"
V,I,PORTIA,"No better a musician than the wren."
V,I,PORTIA,"How many things by season season'd are"
V,I,PORTIA,"To their right praise and true perfection!"
V,I,PORTIA,"Peace, ho! the moon sleeps with Endymion"
V,I,PORTIA,"And would not be awaked."
V,I,LORENZO,"That is the voice,"
V,I,LORENZO,"Or I am much deceived, of Portia."
V,I,PORTIA,"He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo,"
V,I,PORTIA,"By the bad voice."
V,I,LORENZO,"Dear lady, welcome home."
V,I,PORTIA,"We have been praying for our husbands' healths,"
V,I,PORTIA,"Which speed, we hope, the better for our words."
V,I,PORTIA,"Are they return'd?"
V,I,LORENZO,"Madam, they are not yet;"
V,I,LORENZO,"But there is come a messenger before,"
V,I,LORENZO,"To signify their coming."
V,I,PORTIA,"Go in, Nerissa;"
V,I,PORTIA,"Give order to my servants that they take"
V,I,PORTIA,"No note at all of our being absent hence;"
V,I,PORTIA,"Nor you, Lorenzo; Jessica, nor you."
V,I,LORENZO,"Your husband is at hand; I hear his trumpet:"
V,I,LORENZO,"We are no tell-tales, madam; fear you not."
V,I,PORTIA,"This night methinks is but the daylight sick;"
V,I,PORTIA,"It looks a little paler: 'tis a day,"
V,I,PORTIA,"Such as the day is when the sun is hid."
V,I,BASSANIO,"We should hold day with the Antipodes,"
V,I,BASSANIO,"If you would walk in absence of the sun."
V,I,PORTIA,"Let me give light, but let me not be light;"
V,I,PORTIA,"For a light wife doth make a heavy husband,"
V,I,PORTIA,"And never be Bassanio so for me:"
V,I,PORTIA,"But God sort all! You are welcome home, my lord."
V,I,BASSANIO,"I thank you, madam. Give welcome to my friend."
V,I,BASSANIO,"This is the man, this is Antonio,"
V,I,BASSANIO,"To whom I am so infinitely bound."
V,I,PORTIA,"You should in all sense be much bound to him."
V,I,PORTIA,"For, as I hear, he was much bound for you."
V,I,ANTONIO,"No more than I am well acquitted of."
V,I,PORTIA,"Sir, you are very welcome to our house:"
V,I,PORTIA,"It must appear in other ways than words,"
V,I,PORTIA,"Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy."
V,I,GRATIANO,"In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk:"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Would he were gelt that had it, for my part,"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Since you do take it, love, so much at heart."
V,I,PORTIA,"A quarrel, ho, already! what's the matter?"
V,I,GRATIANO,"About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring"
V,I,GRATIANO,"That she did give me, whose posy was"
V,I,GRATIANO,"For all the world like cutler's poetry"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Upon a knife, 'Love me, and leave me not.'"
V,I,NERISSA,"What talk you of the posy or the value?"
V,I,NERISSA,"You swore to me, when I did give it you,"
V,I,NERISSA,"That you would wear it till your hour of death"
V,I,NERISSA,"And that it should lie with you in your grave:"
V,I,NERISSA,"Though not for me, yet for your vehement oaths,"
V,I,NERISSA,"You should have been respective and have kept it."
V,I,NERISSA,"Gave it a judge's clerk! no, God's my judge,"
V,I,NERISSA,"The clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that had it."
V,I,GRATIANO,"He will, an if he live to be a man."
V,I,NERISSA,"Ay, if a woman live to be a man."
V,I,GRATIANO,"Now, by this hand, I gave it to a youth,"
V,I,GRATIANO,"A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,"
V,I,GRATIANO,"No higher than thyself; the judge's clerk,"
V,I,GRATIANO,"A prating boy, that begg'd it as a fee:"
V,I,GRATIANO,"I could not for my heart deny it him."
V,I,PORTIA,"You were to blame, I must be plain with you,"
V,I,PORTIA,"To part so slightly with your wife's first gift:"
V,I,PORTIA,"A thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger"
V,I,PORTIA,"And so riveted with faith unto your flesh."
V,I,PORTIA,"I gave my love a ring and made him swear"
V,I,PORTIA,"Never to part with it; and here he stands;"
V,I,PORTIA,"I dare be sworn for him he would not leave it"
V,I,PORTIA,"Nor pluck it from his finger, for the wealth"
V,I,PORTIA,"That the world masters. Now, in faith, Gratiano,"
V,I,PORTIA,"You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief:"
V,I,PORTIA,"An 'twere to me, I should be mad at it."
V,I,BASSANIO,"And swear I lost the ring defending it."
V,I,GRATIANO,"My Lord Bassanio gave his ring away"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Unto the judge that begg'd it and indeed"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Deserved it too; and then the boy, his clerk,"
V,I,GRATIANO,"That took some pains in writing, he begg'd mine;"
V,I,GRATIANO,"And neither man nor master would take aught"
V,I,GRATIANO,"But the two rings."
V,I,PORTIA,"What ring gave you my lord?"
V,I,PORTIA,"Not that, I hope, which you received of me."
V,I,BASSANIO,"If I could add a lie unto a fault,"
V,I,BASSANIO,"I would deny it; but you see my finger"
V,I,BASSANIO,"Hath not the ring upon it; it is gone."
V,I,PORTIA,"Even so void is your false heart of truth."
V,I,PORTIA,"By heaven, I will ne'er come in your bed"
V,I,PORTIA,"Until I see the ring."
V,I,NERISSA,"Nor I in yours"
V,I,NERISSA,"Till I again see mine."
V,I,BASSANIO,"Sweet Portia,"
V,I,BASSANIO,"If you did know to whom I gave the ring,"
V,I,BASSANIO,"If you did know for whom I gave the ring"
V,I,BASSANIO,"And would conceive for what I gave the ring"
V,I,BASSANIO,"And how unwillingly I left the ring,"
V,I,BASSANIO,"When nought would be accepted but the ring,"
V,I,BASSANIO,"You would abate the strength of your displeasure."
V,I,PORTIA,"If you had known the virtue of the ring,"
V,I,PORTIA,"Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,"
V,I,PORTIA,"Or your own honour to contain the ring,"
V,I,PORTIA,"You would not then have parted with the ring."
V,I,PORTIA,"What man is there so much unreasonable,"
V,I,PORTIA,"If you had pleased to have defended it"
V,I,PORTIA,"With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty"
V,I,PORTIA,"To urge the thing held as a ceremony?"
V,I,PORTIA,"Nerissa teaches me what to believe:"
V,I,PORTIA,"I'll die for't but some woman had the ring."
V,I,BASSANIO,"No, by my honour, madam, by my soul,"
V,I,BASSANIO,"No woman had it, but a civil doctor,"
V,I,BASSANIO,"Which did refuse three thousand ducats of me"
V,I,BASSANIO,"And begg'd the ring; the which I did deny him"
V,I,BASSANIO,"And suffer'd him to go displeased away;"
V,I,BASSANIO,"Even he that did uphold the very life"
V,I,BASSANIO,"Of my dear friend. What should I say, sweet lady?"
V,I,BASSANIO,"I was enforced to send it after him;"
V,I,BASSANIO,"I was beset with shame and courtesy;"
V,I,BASSANIO,"My honour would not let ingratitude"
V,I,BASSANIO,"So much besmear it. Pardon me, good lady;"
V,I,BASSANIO,"For, by these blessed candles of the night,"
V,I,BASSANIO,"Had you been there, I think you would have begg'd"
V,I,BASSANIO,"The ring of me to give the worthy doctor."
V,I,PORTIA,"Let not that doctor e'er come near my house:"
V,I,PORTIA,"Since he hath got the jewel that I loved,"
V,I,PORTIA,"And that which you did swear to keep for me,"
V,I,PORTIA,"I will become as liberal as you;"
V,I,PORTIA,"I'll not deny him any thing I have,"
V,I,PORTIA,"No, not my body nor my husband's bed:"
V,I,PORTIA,"Know him I shall, I am well sure of it:"
V,I,PORTIA,"Lie not a night from home; watch me like Argus:"
V,I,PORTIA,"If you do not, if I be left alone,"
V,I,PORTIA,"Now, by mine honour, which is yet mine own,"
V,I,PORTIA,"I'll have that doctor for my bedfellow."
V,I,NERISSA,"And I his clerk; therefore be well advised"
V,I,NERISSA,"How you do leave me to mine own protection."
V,I,GRATIANO,"Well, do you so; let not me take him, then;"
V,I,GRATIANO,"For if I do, I'll mar the young clerk's pen."
V,I,ANTONIO,"I am the unhappy subject of these quarrels."
V,I,PORTIA,"Sir, grieve not you; you are welcome notwithstanding."
V,I,BASSANIO,"Portia, forgive me this enforced wrong;"
V,I,BASSANIO,"And, in the hearing of these many friends,"
V,I,BASSANIO,"I swear to thee, even by thine own fair eyes,"
V,I,BASSANIO,"Wherein I see myself--"
V,I,PORTIA,"Mark you but that!"
V,I,PORTIA,"In both my eyes he doubly sees himself;"
V,I,PORTIA,"In each eye, one: swear by your double self,"
V,I,PORTIA,"And there's an oath of credit."
V,I,BASSANIO,"Nay, but hear me:"
V,I,BASSANIO,"Pardon this fault, and by my soul I swear"
V,I,BASSANIO,"I never more will break an oath with thee."
V,I,ANTONIO,"I once did lend my body for his wealth;"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Which, but for him that had your husband's ring,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Had quite miscarried: I dare be bound again,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"My soul upon the forfeit, that your lord"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Will never more break faith advisedly."
V,I,PORTIA,"Then you shall be his surety. Give him this"
V,I,PORTIA,"And bid him keep it better than the other."
V,I,ANTONIO,"Here, Lord Bassanio; swear to keep this ring."
V,I,BASSANIO,"By heaven, it is the same I gave the doctor!"
V,I,PORTIA,"I had it of him: pardon me, Bassanio;"
V,I,PORTIA,"For, by this ring, the doctor lay with me."
V,I,NERISSA,"And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano;"
V,I,NERISSA,"For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk,"
V,I,NERISSA,"In lieu of this last night did lie with me."
V,I,GRATIANO,"Why, this is like the mending of highways"
V,I,GRATIANO,"In summer, where the ways are fair enough:"
V,I,GRATIANO,"What, are we cuckolds ere we have deserved it?"
V,I,PORTIA,"Speak not so grossly. You are all amazed:"
V,I,PORTIA,"Here is a letter; read it at your leisure;"
V,I,PORTIA,"It comes from Padua, from Bellario:"
V,I,PORTIA,"There you shall find that Portia was the doctor,"
V,I,PORTIA,"Nerissa there her clerk: Lorenzo here"
V,I,PORTIA,"Shall witness I set forth as soon as you"
V,I,PORTIA,"And even but now return'd; I have not yet"
V,I,PORTIA,"Enter'd my house. Antonio, you are welcome;"
V,I,PORTIA,"And I have better news in store for you"
V,I,PORTIA,"Than you expect: unseal this letter soon;"
V,I,PORTIA,"There you shall find three of your argosies"
V,I,PORTIA,"Are richly come to harbour suddenly:"
V,I,PORTIA,"You shall not know by what strange accident"
V,I,PORTIA,"I chanced on this letter."
V,I,ANTONIO,"I am dumb."
V,I,BASSANIO,"Were you the doctor and I knew you not?"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold?"
V,I,NERISSA,"Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it,"
V,I,NERISSA,"Unless he live until he be a man."
V,I,BASSANIO,"Sweet doctor, you shall be my bed-fellow:"
V,I,BASSANIO,"When I am absent, then lie with my wife."
V,I,ANTONIO,"Sweet lady, you have given me life and living;"
V,I,ANTONIO,"For here I read for certain that my ships"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Are safely come to road."
V,I,PORTIA,"How now, Lorenzo!"
V,I,PORTIA,"My clerk hath some good comforts too for you."
V,I,NERISSA,"Ay, and I'll give them him without a fee."
V,I,NERISSA,"There do I give to you and Jessica,"
V,I,NERISSA,"From the rich Jew, a special deed of gift,"
V,I,NERISSA,"After his death, of all he dies possess'd of."
V,I,LORENZO,"Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way"
V,I,LORENZO,"Of starved people."
V,I,PORTIA,"It is almost morning,"
V,I,PORTIA,"And yet I am sure you are not satisfied"
V,I,PORTIA,"Of these events at full. Let us go in;"
V,I,PORTIA,"And charge us there upon inter'gatories,"
V,I,PORTIA,"And we will answer all things faithfully."
V,I,GRATIANO,"Let it be so: the first inter'gatory"
V,I,GRATIANO,"That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is,"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Whether till the next night she had rather stay,"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Or go to bed now, being two hours to day:"
V,I,GRATIANO,"But were the day come, I should wish it dark,"
V,I,GRATIANO,"That I were couching with the doctor's clerk."
V,I,GRATIANO,"Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing"
V,I,GRATIANO,"So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring."
I,I,SHALLOW,"Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-"
I,I,SHALLOW,"chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John"
I,I,SHALLOW,"Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire."
I,I,SLENDER,"In the county of Gloucester, justice of peace and"
I,I,SLENDER,"'Coram.'"
I,I,SHALLOW,"Ay, cousin Slender, and 'Custalourum."
I,I,SLENDER,"Ay, and 'Rato-lorum' too; and a gentleman born,"
I,I,SLENDER,"master parson; who writes himself 'Armigero,' in any"
I,I,SLENDER,"bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, 'Armigero.'"
I,I,SHALLOW,"Ay, that I do; and have done any time these three"
I,I,SHALLOW,"hundred years."
I,I,SLENDER,"All his successors gone before him hath done't; and"
I,I,SLENDER,"all his ancestors that come after him may: they may"
I,I,SLENDER,"give the dozen white luces in their coat."
I,I,SHALLOW,"It is an old coat."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"The dozen white louses do become an old coat well;"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"it agrees well, passant; it is a familiar beast to"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"man, and signifies love."
I,I,SHALLOW,"The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat."
I,I,SLENDER,"I may quarter, coz."
I,I,SHALLOW,"You may, by marrying."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"It is marring indeed, if he quarter it."
I,I,SHALLOW,"Not a whit."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Yes, py'r lady; if he has a quarter of your coat,"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"there is but three skirts for yourself, in my"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"simple conjectures: but that is all one. If Sir"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"you, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"benevolence to make atonements and compremises"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"between you."
I,I,SHALLOW,"The council shall bear it; it is a riot."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"It is not meet the council hear a riot; there is no"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"fear of Got in a riot: the council, look you, shall"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"desire to hear the fear of Got, and not to hear a"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"riot; take your vizaments in that."
I,I,SHALLOW,"Ha! o' my life, if I were young again, the sword"
I,I,SHALLOW,"should end it."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"It is petter that friends is the sword, and end it:"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"and there is also another device in my prain, which"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"peradventure prings goot discretions with it: there"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"is Anne Page, which is daughter to Master Thomas"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Page, which is pretty virginity."
I,I,SLENDER,"Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and speaks"
I,I,SLENDER,"small like a woman."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys,"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"and gold and silver, is her grandsire upon his"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"death's-bed--Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"--give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"old: it were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Abraham and Mistress Anne Page."
I,I,SLENDER,"Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound?"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Ay, and her father is make her a petter penny."
I,I,SLENDER,"I know the young gentlewoman; she has good gifts."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is goot gifts."
I,I,SHALLOW,"Well, let us see honest Master Page. Is Falstaff there?"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I do"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"despise one that is false, or as I despise one that"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"is not true. The knight, Sir John, is there; and, I"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers. I will"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"peat the door for Master Page."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"What, hoa! Got pless your house here!"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Here is Got's plessing, and your friend, and Justice"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Shallow; and here young Master Slender, that"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"peradventures shall tell you another tale, if"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"matters grow to your likings."
I,I,PAGE,"I am glad to see your worships well."
I,I,PAGE,"I thank you for my venison, Master Shallow."
I,I,SHALLOW,"Master Page, I am glad to see you: much good do it"
I,I,SHALLOW,"your good heart! I wished your venison better; it"
I,I,SHALLOW,"was ill killed. How doth good Mistress Page?--and I"
I,I,SHALLOW,"thank you always with my heart, la! with my heart."
I,I,PAGE,"Sir, I thank you."
I,I,SHALLOW,"Sir, I thank you; by yea and no, I do."
I,I,PAGE,"I am glad to see you, good Master Slender."
I,I,SLENDER,"How does your fallow greyhound, sir? I heard say he"
I,I,SLENDER,"was outrun on Cotsall."
I,I,PAGE,"It could not be judged, sir."
I,I,SLENDER,"You'll not confess, you'll not confess."
I,I,SHALLOW,"That he will not. 'Tis your fault, 'tis your fault;"
I,I,SHALLOW,"'tis a good dog."
I,I,PAGE,"A cur, sir."
I,I,SHALLOW,"Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog: can there be"
I,I,SHALLOW,"more said? he is good and fair. Is Sir John"
I,I,SHALLOW,"Falstaff here?"
I,I,PAGE,"Sir, he is within; and I would I could do a good"
I,I,PAGE,"office between you."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak."
I,I,SHALLOW,"He hath wronged me, Master Page."
I,I,PAGE,"Sir, he doth in some sort confess it."
I,I,SHALLOW,"If it be confessed, it is not redress'd: is not that"
I,I,SHALLOW,"so, Master Page? He hath wronged me; indeed he"
I,I,SHALLOW,"hath, at a word, he hath, believe me: Robert"
I,I,SHALLOW,"Shallow, esquire, saith, he is wronged."
I,I,PAGE,"Here comes Sir John."
I,I,FALSTAFF,"Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?"
I,I,SHALLOW,"Knight, you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and"
I,I,SHALLOW,"broke open my lodge."
I,I,FALSTAFF,"But not kissed your keeper's daughter?"
I,I,SHALLOW,"Tut, a pin! this shall be answered."
I,I,FALSTAFF,"I will answer it straight; I have done all this."
I,I,FALSTAFF,"That is now answered."
I,I,SHALLOW,"The council shall know this."
I,I,FALSTAFF,"'Twere better for you if it were known in counsel:"
I,I,FALSTAFF,"you'll be laughed at."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Pauca verba, Sir John; goot worts."
I,I,FALSTAFF,"Good worts! good cabbage. Slender, I broke your"
I,I,FALSTAFF,"head: what matter have you against me?"
I,I,SLENDER,"Marry, sir, I have matter in my head against you;"
I,I,SLENDER,"and against your cony-catching rascals, Bardolph,"
I,I,SLENDER,"Nym, and Pistol."
I,I,BARDOLPH,"You Banbury cheese!"
I,I,SLENDER,"Ay, it is no matter."
I,I,PISTOL,"How now, Mephostophilus!"
I,I,SLENDER,"Ay, it is no matter."
I,I,NYM,"Slice, I say! pauca, pauca: slice! that's my humour."
I,I,SLENDER,"Where's Simple, my man? Can you tell, cousin?"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Peace, I pray you. Now let us understand. There is"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"three umpires in this matter, as I understand; that"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"is, Master Page, fidelicet Master Page; and there is"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"myself, fidelicet myself; and the three party is,"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"lastly and finally, mine host of the Garter."
I,I,PAGE,"We three, to hear it and end it between them."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my note-"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"book; and we will afterwards ork upon the cause with"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"as great discreetly as we can."
I,I,FALSTAFF,"Pistol!"
I,I,PISTOL,"He hears with ears."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"The tevil and his tam! what phrase is this, 'He"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"hears with ear'? why, it is affectations."
I,I,FALSTAFF,"Pistol, did you pick Master Slender's purse?"
I,I,SLENDER,"Ay, by these gloves, did he, or I would I might"
I,I,SLENDER,"never come in mine own great chamber again else, of"
I,I,SLENDER,"seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two Edward"
I,I,SLENDER,"shovel-boards, that cost me two shilling and two"
I,I,SLENDER,"pence apiece of Yead Miller, by these gloves."
I,I,FALSTAFF,"Is this true, Pistol?"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"No; it is false, if it is a pick-purse."
I,I,PISTOL,"Ha, thou mountain-foreigner! Sir John and Master mine,"
I,I,PISTOL,"I combat challenge of this latten bilbo."
I,I,PISTOL,"Word of denial in thy labras here!"
I,I,PISTOL,"Word of denial: froth and scum, thou liest!"
I,I,SLENDER,"By these gloves, then, 'twas he."
I,I,NYM,"Be avised, sir, and pass good humours: I will say"
I,I,NYM,"'marry trap' with you, if you run the nuthook's"
I,I,NYM,"humour on me; that is the very note of it."
I,I,SLENDER,"By this hat, then, he in the red face had it; for"
I,I,SLENDER,"though I cannot remember what I did when you made me"
I,I,SLENDER,"drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass."
I,I,FALSTAFF,"What say you, Scarlet and John?"
I,I,BARDOLPH,"Why, sir, for my part I say the gentleman had drunk"
I,I,BARDOLPH,"himself out of his five sentences."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"It is his five senses: fie, what the ignorance is!"
I,I,BARDOLPH,"And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered; and"
I,I,BARDOLPH,"so conclusions passed the careires."
I,I,SLENDER,"Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but 'tis no"
I,I,SLENDER,"matter: I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again,"
I,I,SLENDER,"but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick:"
I,I,SLENDER,"if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have"
I,I,SLENDER,"the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"So Got udge me, that is a virtuous mind."
I,I,FALSTAFF,"You hear all these matters denied, gentlemen; you hear it."
I,I,PAGE,"Nay, daughter, carry the wine in; we'll drink within."
I,I,SLENDER,"O heaven! this is Mistress Anne Page."
I,I,PAGE,"How now, Mistress Ford!"
I,I,FALSTAFF,"Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well met:"
I,I,FALSTAFF,"by your leave, good mistress."
I,I,PAGE,"Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have a"
I,I,PAGE,"hot venison pasty to dinner: come, gentlemen, I hope"
I,I,PAGE,"we shall drink down all unkindness."
I,I,SLENDER,"I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of"
I,I,SLENDER,"Songs and Sonnets here."
I,I,SLENDER,"How now, Simple! where have you been? I must wait"
I,I,SLENDER,"on myself, must I? You have not the Book of Riddles"
I,I,SLENDER,"about you, have you?"
I,I,SIMPLE,"Book of Riddles! why, did you not lend it to Alice"
I,I,SIMPLE,"Shortcake upon All-hallowmas last, a fortnight"
I,I,SIMPLE,"afore Michaelmas?"
I,I,SHALLOW,"Come, coz; come, coz; we stay for you. A word with"
I,I,SHALLOW,"you, coz; marry, this, coz: there is, as 'twere, a"
I,I,SHALLOW,"tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh"
I,I,SHALLOW,"here. Do you understand me?"
I,I,SLENDER,"Ay, sir, you shall find me reasonable; if it be so,"
I,I,SLENDER,"I shall do that that is reason."
I,I,SHALLOW,"Nay, but understand me."
I,I,SLENDER,"So I do, sir."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Give ear to his motions, Master Slender: I will"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it."
I,I,SLENDER,"Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says: I pray"
I,I,SLENDER,"you, pardon me; he's a justice of peace in his"
I,I,SLENDER,"country, simple though I stand here."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"But that is not the question: the question is"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"concerning your marriage."
I,I,SHALLOW,"Ay, there's the point, sir."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Marry, is it; the very point of it; to Mistress Anne Page."
I,I,SLENDER,"Why, if it be so, I will marry her upon any"
I,I,SLENDER,"reasonable demands."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"But can you affection the 'oman? Let us command to"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"know that of your mouth or of your lips; for divers"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"mouth. Therefore, precisely, can you carry your"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"good will to the maid?"
I,I,SHALLOW,"Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?"
I,I,SLENDER,"I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become one that"
I,I,SLENDER,"would do reason."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Nay, Got's lords and his ladies! you must speak"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"possitable, if you can carry her your desires"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"towards her."
I,I,SHALLOW,"That you must. Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?"
I,I,SLENDER,"I will do a greater thing than that, upon your"
I,I,SLENDER,"request, cousin, in any reason."
I,I,SHALLOW,"Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz: what I do"
I,I,SHALLOW,"is to pleasure you, coz. Can you love the maid?"
I,I,SLENDER,"I will marry her, sir, at your request: but if there"
I,I,SLENDER,"be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may"
I,I,SLENDER,"decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are"
I,I,SLENDER,"married and have more occasion to know one another;"
I,I,SLENDER,"I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt:"
I,I,SLENDER,"but if you say, 'Marry her,' I will marry her; that"
I,I,SLENDER,"I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"It is a fery discretion answer; save the fall is in"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"the ort 'dissolutely:' the ort is, according to our"
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"meaning, 'resolutely:' his meaning is good."
I,I,SHALLOW,"Ay, I think my cousin meant well."
I,I,SLENDER,"Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la!"
I,I,SHALLOW,"Here comes fair Mistress Anne."
I,I,SHALLOW,"Would I were young for your sake, Mistress Anne!"
I,I,ANNE PAGE,"The dinner is on the table; my father desires your"
I,I,ANNE PAGE,"worships' company."
I,I,SHALLOW,"I will wait on him, fair Mistress Anne."
I,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Od's plessed will! I will not be absence at the grace."
I,I,ANNE PAGE,"Will't please your worship to come in, sir?"
I,I,SLENDER,"No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well."
I,I,ANNE PAGE,"The dinner attends you, sir."
I,I,SLENDER,"I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go,"
I,I,SLENDER,"sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my"
I,I,SLENDER,"cousin Shallow."
I,I,SLENDER,"A justice of peace sometimes may be beholding to his"
I,I,SLENDER,"friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy"
I,I,SLENDER,"yet, till my mother be dead: but what though? Yet I"
I,I,SLENDER,"live like a poor gentleman born."
I,I,ANNE PAGE,"I may not go in without your worship: they will not"
I,I,ANNE PAGE,"sit till you come."
I,I,SLENDER,"I' faith, I'll eat nothing; I thank you as much as"
I,I,SLENDER,"though I did."
I,I,ANNE PAGE,"I pray you, sir, walk in."
I,I,SLENDER,"I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised"
I,I,SLENDER,"my shin th' other day with playing at sword and"
I,I,SLENDER,"dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a"
I,I,SLENDER,"dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot"
I,I,SLENDER,"abide the smell of hot meat since. Why do your"
I,I,SLENDER,"dogs bark so? be there bears i' the town?"
I,I,ANNE PAGE,"I think there are, sir; I heard them talked of."
I,I,SLENDER,"I love the sport well but I shall as soon quarrel at"
I,I,SLENDER,"it as any man in England. You are afraid, if you see"
I,I,SLENDER,"the bear loose, are you not?"
I,I,ANNE PAGE,"Ay, indeed, sir."
I,I,SLENDER,"That's meat and drink to me, now. I have seen"
I,I,SLENDER,"Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by"
I,I,SLENDER,"the chain; but, I warrant you, the women have so"
I,I,SLENDER,"cried and shrieked at it, that it passed: but women,"
I,I,SLENDER,"indeed, cannot abide 'em; they are very ill-favored"
I,I,SLENDER,"rough things."
I,I,PAGE,"Come, gentle Master Slender, come; we stay for you."
I,I,SLENDER,"I'll eat nothing, I thank you, sir."
I,I,PAGE,"By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! come, come."
I,I,SLENDER,"Nay, pray you, lead the way."
I,I,PAGE,"Come on, sir."
I,I,SLENDER,"Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first."
I,I,ANNE PAGE,"Not I, sir; pray you, keep on."
I,I,SLENDER,"I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome."
I,I,SLENDER,"You do yourself wrong, indeed, la!"
I,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius' house which"
I,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"is the way: and there dwells one Mistress Quickly,"
I,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry"
I,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and"
I,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"his wringer."
I,II,SIMPLE,"Well, sir."
I,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it"
I,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"is a 'oman that altogether's acquaintance with"
I,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire"
I,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"and require her to solicit your master's desires to"
I,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Mistress Anne Page. I pray you, be gone: I will"
I,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come."
I,III,FALSTAFF,"Mine host of the Garter!"
I,III,Host,"What says my bully-rook? speak scholarly and wisely."
I,III,FALSTAFF,"Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"followers."
I,III,Host,"Discard, bully Hercules; cashier: let them wag; trot, trot."
I,III,FALSTAFF,"I sit at ten pounds a week."
I,III,Host,"Thou'rt an emperor, Caesar, Keisar, and Pheezar. I"
I,III,Host,"will entertain Bardolph; he shall draw, he shall"
I,III,Host,"tap: said I well, bully Hector?"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"Do so, good mine host."
I,III,Host,"I have spoke; let him follow."
I,III,Host,"Let me see thee froth and lime: I am at a word; follow."
I,III,FALSTAFF,"Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a good trade:"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"an old cloak makes a new jerkin; a withered"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"serving-man a fresh tapster. Go; adieu."
I,III,BARDOLPH,"It is a life that I have desired: I will thrive."
I,III,PISTOL,"O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?"
I,III,NYM,"He was gotten in drink: is not the humour conceited?"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"I am glad I am so acquit of this tinderbox: his"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"thefts were too open; his filching was like an"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"unskilful singer; he kept not time."
I,III,NYM,"The good humour is to steal at a minute's rest."
I,III,PISTOL,"'Convey,' the wise it call. 'Steal!' foh! a fico"
I,III,PISTOL,"for the phrase!"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"Well, sirs, I am almost out at heels."
I,III,PISTOL,"Why, then, let kibes ensue."
I,III,FALSTAFF,"There is no remedy; I must cony-catch; I must shift."
I,III,PISTOL,"Young ravens must have food."
I,III,FALSTAFF,"Which of you know Ford of this town?"
I,III,PISTOL,"I ken the wight: he is of substance good."
I,III,FALSTAFF,"My honest lads, I will tell you what I am about."
I,III,PISTOL,"Two yards, and more."
I,III,FALSTAFF,"No quips now, Pistol! Indeed, I am in the waist two"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"yards about; but I am now about no waste; I am about"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford's"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"wife: I spy entertainment in her; she discourses,"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"she carves, she gives the leer of invitation: I"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"can construe the action of her familiar style; and"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"the hardest voice of her behavior, to be Englished"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"rightly, is, 'I am Sir John Falstaff's.'"
I,III,PISTOL,"He hath studied her will, and translated her will,"
I,III,PISTOL,"out of honesty into English."
I,III,NYM,"The anchor is deep: will that humour pass?"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"Now, the report goes she has all the rule of her"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"husband's purse: he hath a legion of angels."
I,III,PISTOL,"As many devils entertain; and 'To her, boy,' say I."
I,III,NYM,"The humour rises; it is good: humour me the angels."
I,III,FALSTAFF,"I have writ me here a letter to her: and here"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"another to Page's wife, who even now gave me good"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"eyes too, examined my parts with most judicious"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"oeillades; sometimes the beam of her view gilded my"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"foot, sometimes my portly belly."
I,III,PISTOL,"Then did the sun on dunghill shine."
I,III,NYM,"I thank thee for that humour."
I,III,FALSTAFF,"O, she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye did"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass! Here's"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"another letter to her: she bears the purse too; she"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"is a region in Guiana, all gold and bounty. I will"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"be cheater to them both, and they shall be"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"exchequers to me; they shall be my East and West"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"Indies, and I will trade to them both. Go bear thou"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"this letter to Mistress Page; and thou this to"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"Mistress Ford: we will thrive, lads, we will thrive."
I,III,PISTOL,"Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become,"
I,III,PISTOL,"And by my side wear steel? then, Lucifer take all!"
I,III,NYM,"I will run no base humour: here, take the"
I,III,NYM,"humour-letter: I will keep the havior of reputation."
I,III,FALSTAFF,"Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores."
I,III,FALSTAFF,"Rogues, hence, avaunt! vanish like hailstones, go;"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"Trudge, plod away o' the hoof; seek shelter, pack!"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"Falstaff will learn the humour of the age,"
I,III,FALSTAFF,"French thrift, you rogues; myself and skirted page."
I,III,PISTOL,"Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd and fullam holds,"
I,III,PISTOL,"And high and low beguiles the rich and poor:"
I,III,PISTOL,"Tester I'll have in pouch when thou shalt lack,"
I,III,PISTOL,"Base Phrygian Turk!"
I,III,NYM,"I have operations which be humours of revenge."
I,III,PISTOL,"Wilt thou revenge?"
I,III,NYM,"By welkin and her star!"
I,III,PISTOL,"With wit or steel?"
I,III,NYM,"With both the humours, I:"
I,III,NYM,"I will discuss the humour of this love to Page."
I,III,PISTOL,"And I to Ford shall eke unfold"
I,III,PISTOL,"How Falstaff, varlet vile,"
I,III,PISTOL,"His dove will prove, his gold will hold,"
I,III,PISTOL,"And his soft couch defile."
I,III,NYM,"My humour shall not cool: I will incense Page to"
I,III,NYM,"deal with poison; I will possess him with"
I,III,NYM,"yellowness, for the revolt of mine is dangerous:"
I,III,NYM,"that is my true humour."
I,III,PISTOL,"Thou art the Mars of malecontents: I second thee; troop on."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"What, John Rugby! I pray thee, go to the casement,"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"and see if you can see my master, Master Doctor"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Caius, coming. If he do, i' faith, and find any"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"body in the house, here will be an old abusing of"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"God's patience and the king's English."
I,IV,RUGBY,"I'll go watch."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Go; and we'll have a posset for't soon at night, in"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"faith, at the latter end of a sea-coal fire."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"An honest, willing, kind fellow, as ever servant"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"shall come in house withal, and, I warrant you, no"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"tell-tale nor no breed-bate: his worst fault is,"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"that he is given to prayer; he is something peevish"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"that way: but nobody but has his fault; but let"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"that pass. Peter Simple, you say your name is?"
I,IV,SIMPLE,"Ay, for fault of a better."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"And Master Slender's your master?"
I,IV,SIMPLE,"Ay, forsooth."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Does he not wear a great round beard, like a"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"glover's paring-knife?"
I,IV,SIMPLE,"No, forsooth: he hath but a little wee face, with a"
I,IV,SIMPLE,"little yellow beard, a Cain-coloured beard."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"A softly-sprighted man, is he not?"
I,IV,SIMPLE,"Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands"
I,IV,SIMPLE,"as any is between this and his head; he hath fought"
I,IV,SIMPLE,"with a warrener."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"How say you? O, I should remember him: does he not"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"hold up his head, as it were, and strut in his gait?"
I,IV,SIMPLE,"Yes, indeed, does he."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Well, heaven send Anne Page no worse fortune! Tell"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Master Parson Evans I will do what I can for your"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"master: Anne is a good girl, and I wish--"
I,IV,RUGBY,"Out, alas! here comes my master."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"We shall all be shent. Run in here, good young man;"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"go into this closet: he will not stay long."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"What, John Rugby! John! what, John, I say!"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Go, John, go inquire for my master; I doubt"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"he be not well, that he comes not home."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"And down, down, adown-a, &c."
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Vat is you sing? I do not like des toys. Pray you,"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"go and vetch me in my closet un boitier vert, a box,"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"a green-a box: do intend vat I speak? a green-a box."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Ay, forsooth; I'll fetch it you."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"I am glad he went not in himself: if he had found"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"the young man, he would have been horn-mad."
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Fe, fe, fe, fe! ma foi, il fait fort chaud. Je"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"m'en vais a la cour--la grande affaire."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Is it this, sir?"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Oui; mette le au mon pocket: depeche, quickly. Vere"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"is dat knave Rugby?"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"What, John Rugby! John!"
I,IV,RUGBY,"Here, sir!"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. Come,"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"take-a your rapier, and come after my heel to the court."
I,IV,RUGBY,"'Tis ready, sir, here in the porch."
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By my trot, I tarry too long. Od's me!"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Qu'ai-j'oublie! dere is some simples in my closet,"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Ay me, he'll find the young man here, and be mad!"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"O diable, diable! vat is in my closet? Villain! larron!"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Rugby, my rapier!"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Good master, be content."
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Wherefore shall I be content-a?"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"The young man is an honest man."
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"What shall de honest man do in my closet? dere is"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"no honest man dat shall come in my closet."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"I beseech you, be not so phlegmatic. Hear the truth"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"of it: he came of an errand to me from Parson Hugh."
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Vell."
I,IV,SIMPLE,"Ay, forsooth; to desire her to--"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Peace, I pray you."
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Peace-a your tongue. Speak-a your tale."
I,IV,SIMPLE,"To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to"
I,IV,SIMPLE,"speak a good word to Mistress Anne Page for my"
I,IV,SIMPLE,"master in the way of marriage."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"This is all, indeed, la! but I'll ne'er put my"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"finger in the fire, and need not."
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Sir Hugh send-a you? Rugby, baille me some paper."
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Tarry you a little-a while."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"had been thoroughly moved, you should have heard him"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding,"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"man, I'll do you your master what good I can: and"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"the very yea and the no is, the French doctor, my"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"master,--I may call him my master, look you, for I"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"keep his house; and I wash, wring, brew, bake,"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds and do"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"all myself,--"
I,IV,SIMPLE,"come under one body's hand."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"shall find it a great charge: and to be up early"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"and down late; but notwithstanding,--to tell you in"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"your ear; I would have no words of it,--my master"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"himself is in love with Mistress Anne Page: but"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"notwithstanding that, I know Anne's mind,--that's"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"neither here nor there."
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"You jack'nape, give-a this letter to Sir Hugh; by"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"gar, it is a shallenge: I will cut his troat in dee"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"park; and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"to meddle or make. You may be gone; it is not good"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"you tarry here. By gar, I will cut all his two"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"stones; by gar, he shall not have a stone to throw"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"at his dog:"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Alas, he speaks but for his friend."
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"It is no matter-a ver dat: do not you tell-a me"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"dat I shall have Anne Page for myself? By gar, I"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"vill kill de Jack priest; and I have appointed mine"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"host of de Jarteer to measure our weapon. By gar, I"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"will myself have Anne Page."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Sir, the maid loves you, and all shall be well. We"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"must give folks leave to prate: what, the good-jer!"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Rugby, come to the court with me. By gar, if I have"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"not Anne Page, I shall turn your head out of my"
I,IV,DOCTOR CAIUS,"door. Follow my heels, Rugby."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"You shall have An fool's-head of your own. No, I"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"know Anne's mind for that: never a woman in Windsor"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"knows more of Anne's mind than I do; nor can do more"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"than I do with her, I thank heaven."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Who's there, I trow! Come near the house, I pray you."
I,IV,FENTON,"How now, good woman? how dost thou?"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"The better that it pleases your good worship to ask."
I,IV,FENTON,"What news? how does pretty Mistress Anne?"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"In truth, sir, and she is pretty, and honest, and"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"gentle; and one that is your friend, I can tell you"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"that by the way; I praise heaven for it."
I,IV,FENTON,"Shall I do any good, thinkest thou? shall I not lose my suit?"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Troth, sir, all is in his hands above: but"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"notwithstanding, Master Fenton, I'll be sworn on a"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"book, she loves you. Have not your worship a wart"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"above your eye?"
I,IV,FENTON,"Yes, marry, have I; what of that?"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Well, thereby hangs a tale: good faith, it is such"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"another Nan; but, I detest, an honest maid as ever"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"broke bread: we had an hour's talk of that wart. I"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"shall never laugh but in that maid's company! But"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"indeed she is given too much to allicholy and"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"musing: but for you--well, go to."
I,IV,FENTON,"Well, I shall see her to-day. Hold, there's money"
I,IV,FENTON,"for thee; let me have thy voice in my behalf: if"
I,IV,FENTON,"thou seest her before me, commend me."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Will I? i'faith, that we will; and I will tell your"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"worship more of the wart the next time we have"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"confidence; and of other wooers."
I,IV,FENTON,"Well, farewell; I am in great haste now."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Farewell to your worship."
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Truly, an honest gentleman: but Anne loves him not;"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"for I know Anne's mind as well as another does. Out"
I,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"upon't! what have I forgot?"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Let me see."
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"'Ask me no reason why I love you; for though"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"not for his counsellor. You are not young, no more"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"am I; go to then, there's sympathy: you are merry,"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"so am I; ha, ha! then there's more sympathy: you"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"love sack, and so do I; would you desire better"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"sympathy? Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page,--at"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"the least, if the love of soldier can suffice,--"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"that I love thee. I will not say, pity me; 'tis"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"not a soldier-like phrase: but I say, love me. By me,"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Thine own true knight,"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"By day or night,"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Or any kind of light,"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"With all his might"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"For thee to fight,    JOHN FALSTAFF'"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"What a Herod of Jewry is this! O wicked"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"world! One that is well-nigh worn to pieces with"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"age to show himself a young gallant! What an"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"unweighed behavior hath this Flemish drunkard"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"picked--with the devil's name!--out of my"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me?"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Why, he hath not been thrice in my company! What"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"should I say to him? I was then frugal of my"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"mirth: Heaven forgive me! Why, I'll exhibit a bill"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"in the parliament for the putting down of men. How"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"shall I be revenged on him? for revenged I will be,"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"as sure as his guts are made of puddings."
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"Mistress Page! trust me, I was going to your house."
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"And, trust me, I was coming to you. You look very"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"ill."
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"Nay, I'll ne'er believe that; I have to show to the contrary."
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Faith, but you do, in my mind."
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"Well, I do then; yet I say I could show you to the"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"contrary. O Mistress Page, give me some counsel!"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"What's the matter, woman?"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"O woman, if it were not for one trifling respect, I"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"could come to such honour!"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Hang the trifle, woman! take the honour. What is"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"it? dispense with trifles; what is it?"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"If I would but go to hell for an eternal moment or so,"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"I could be knighted."
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"What? thou liest! Sir Alice Ford! These knights"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"will hack; and so thou shouldst not alter the"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"article of thy gentry."
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"We burn daylight: here, read, read; perceive how I"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"might be knighted. I shall think the worse of fat"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"men's liking: and yet he would not swear; praised"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"women's modesty; and gave such orderly and"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness, that I"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"would have sworn his disposition would have gone to"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"the truth of his words; but they do no more adhere"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"and keep place together than the Hundredth Psalm to"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"the tune of 'Green Sleeves.' What tempest, I trow,"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil in his"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"belly, ashore at Windsor? How shall I be revenged"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"on him? I think the best way were to entertain him"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"with hope, till the wicked fire of lust have melted"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"him in his own grease. Did you ever hear the like?"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Letter for letter, but that the name of Page and"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Ford differs! To thy great comfort in this mystery"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"of ill opinions, here's the twin-brother of thy"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"letter: but let thine inherit first; for, I"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"protest, mine never shall. I warrant he hath a"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"thousand of these letters, writ with blank space for"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"different names--sure, more,--and these are of the"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"second edition: he will print them, out of doubt;"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"for he cares not what he puts into the press, when"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"he would put us two. I had rather be a giantess,"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"and lie under Mount Pelion. Well, I will find you"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man."
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"Why, this is the very same; the very hand, the very"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"words. What doth he think of us?"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Nay, I know not: it makes me almost ready to"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"wrangle with mine own honesty. I'll entertain"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"myself like one that I am not acquainted withal;"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"for, sure, unless he know some strain in me, that I"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"know not myself, he would never have boarded me in this fury."
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"'Boarding,' call you it? I'll be sure to keep him"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"above deck."
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"So will I if he come under my hatches, I'll never"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"to sea again. Let's be revenged on him: let's"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"appoint him a meeting; give him a show of comfort in"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"his suit and lead him on with a fine-baited delay,"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"till he hath pawned his horses to mine host of the Garter."
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"Nay, I will consent to act any villany against him,"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"that may not sully the chariness of our honesty. O,"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"that my husband saw this letter! it would give"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"eternal food to his jealousy."
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Why, look where he comes; and my good man too: he's"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"as far from jealousy as I am from giving him cause;"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"and that I hope is an unmeasurable distance."
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"You are the happier woman."
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Let's consult together against this greasy knight."
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Come hither."
II,I,FORD,"Well, I hope it be not so."
II,I,PISTOL,"Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs:"
II,I,PISTOL,"Sir John affects thy wife."
II,I,FORD,"Why, sir, my wife is not young."
II,I,PISTOL,"He wooes both high and low, both rich and poor,"
II,I,PISTOL,"Both young and old, one with another, Ford;"
II,I,PISTOL,"He loves the gallimaufry: Ford, perpend."
II,I,FORD,"Love my wife!"
II,I,PISTOL,"With liver burning hot. Prevent, or go thou,"
II,I,PISTOL,"Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels:"
II,I,PISTOL,"O, odious is the name!"
II,I,FORD,"What name, sir?"
II,I,PISTOL,"The horn, I say. Farewell."
II,I,PISTOL,"Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night:"
II,I,PISTOL,"Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing."
II,I,PISTOL,"Away, Sir Corporal Nym!"
II,I,PISTOL,"Believe it, Page; he speaks sense."
II,I,NYM,"of lying. He hath wronged me in some humours: I"
II,I,NYM,"should have borne the humoured letter to her; but I"
II,I,NYM,"have a sword and it shall bite upon my necessity."
II,I,NYM,"He loves your wife; there's the short and the long."
II,I,NYM,"My name is Corporal Nym; I speak and I avouch; 'tis"
II,I,NYM,"true: my name is Nym and Falstaff loves your wife."
II,I,NYM,"Adieu. I love not the humour of bread and cheese,"
II,I,NYM,"and there's the humour of it. Adieu."
II,I,PAGE,"'The humour of it,' quoth a'! here's a fellow"
II,I,PAGE,"frights English out of his wits."
II,I,FORD,"I will seek out Falstaff."
II,I,PAGE,"I never heard such a drawling, affecting rogue."
II,I,FORD,"If I do find it: well."
II,I,PAGE,"I will not believe such a Cataian, though the priest"
II,I,PAGE,"o' the town commended him for a true man."
II,I,FORD,"'Twas a good sensible fellow: well."
II,I,PAGE,"How now, Meg!"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Whither go you, George? Hark you."
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy?"
II,I,FORD,"I melancholy! I am not melancholy. Get you home, go."
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head. Now,"
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"will you go, Mistress Page?"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Have with you. You'll come to dinner, George."
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Look who comes yonder: she shall be our messenger"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"to this paltry knight."
II,I,MISTRESS FORD,"she'll fit it."
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"You are come to see my daughter Anne?"
II,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Ay, forsooth; and, I pray, how does good Mistress Anne?"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Go in with us and see: we have an hour's talk with"
II,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"you."
II,I,PAGE,"How now, Master Ford!"
II,I,FORD,"You heard what this knave told me, did you not?"
II,I,PAGE,"Yes: and you heard what the other told me?"
II,I,FORD,"Do you think there is truth in them?"
II,I,PAGE,"Hang 'em, slaves! I do not think the knight would"
II,I,PAGE,"offer it: but these that accuse him in his intent"
II,I,PAGE,"towards our wives are a yoke of his discarded men;"
II,I,PAGE,"very rogues, now they be out of service."
II,I,FORD,"Were they his men?"
II,I,PAGE,"Marry, were they."
II,I,FORD,"I like it never the better for that. Does he lie at"
II,I,FORD,"the Garter?"
II,I,PAGE,"Ay, marry, does he. If he should intend this voyage"
II,I,PAGE,"towards my wife, I would turn her loose to him; and"
II,I,PAGE,"what he gets more of her than sharp words, let it"
II,I,PAGE,"lie on my head."
II,I,FORD,"I do not misdoubt my wife; but I would be loath to"
II,I,FORD,"turn them together. A man may be too confident: I"
II,I,FORD,"would have nothing lie on my head: I cannot be thus satisfied."
II,I,PAGE,"Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes:"
II,I,PAGE,"there is either liquor in his pate or money in his"
II,I,PAGE,"purse when he looks so merrily."
II,I,PAGE,"How now, mine host!"
II,I,Host,"How now, bully-rook! thou'rt a gentleman."
II,I,Host,"Cavaleiro-justice, I say!"
II,I,SHALLOW,"I follow, mine host, I follow. Good even and"
II,I,SHALLOW,"twenty, good Master Page! Master Page, will you go"
II,I,SHALLOW,"with us? we have sport in hand."
II,I,Host,"Tell him, cavaleiro-justice; tell him, bully-rook."
II,I,SHALLOW,"Sir, there is a fray to be fought between Sir Hugh"
II,I,SHALLOW,"the Welsh priest and Caius the French doctor."
II,I,FORD,"Good mine host o' the Garter, a word with you."
II,I,Host,"What sayest thou, my bully-rook?"
II,I,SHALLOW,"merry host hath had the measuring of their weapons;"
II,I,SHALLOW,"and, I think, hath appointed them contrary places;"
II,I,SHALLOW,"for, believe me, I hear the parson is no jester."
II,I,SHALLOW,"Hark, I will tell you what our sport shall be."
II,I,Host,"Hast thou no suit against my knight, my"
II,I,Host,"guest-cavaleire?"
II,I,FORD,"None, I protest: but I'll give you a pottle of"
II,I,FORD,"burnt sack to give me recourse to him and tell him"
II,I,FORD,"my name is Brook; only for a jest."
II,I,Host,"My hand, bully; thou shalt have egress and regress;"
II,I,Host,"--said I well?--and thy name shall be Brook. It is"
II,I,Host,"a merry knight. Will you go, An-heires?"
II,I,SHALLOW,"Have with you, mine host."
II,I,PAGE,"I have heard the Frenchman hath good skill in"
II,I,PAGE,"his rapier."
II,I,SHALLOW,"Tut, sir, I could have told you more. In these times"
II,I,SHALLOW,"you stand on distance, your passes, stoccadoes, and"
II,I,SHALLOW,"I know not what: 'tis the heart, Master Page; 'tis"
II,I,SHALLOW,"here, 'tis here. I have seen the time, with my long"
II,I,SHALLOW,"sword I would have made you four tall fellows skip like rats."
II,I,Host,"Here, boys, here, here! shall we wag?"
II,I,PAGE,"Have with you. I would rather hear them scold than fight."
II,I,FORD,"Though Page be a secure fool, an stands so firmly"
II,I,FORD,"on his wife's frailty, yet I cannot put off my"
II,I,FORD,"opinion so easily: she was in his company at Page's"
II,I,FORD,"house; and what they made there, I know not. Well,"
II,I,FORD,"I will look further into't: and I have a disguise"
II,I,FORD,"to sound Falstaff. If I find her honest, I lose not"
II,I,FORD,"my labour; if she be otherwise, 'tis labour well bestowed."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"I will not lend thee a penny."
II,II,PISTOL,"Why, then the world's mine oyster."
II,II,PISTOL,"Which I with sword will open."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"lay my countenance to pawn; I have grated upon my"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"good friends for three reprieves for you and your"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"coach-fellow Nym; or else you had looked through"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"the grate, like a geminy of baboons. I am damned in"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"hell for swearing to gentlemen my friends, you were"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"good soldiers and tall fellows; and when Mistress"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Bridget lost the handle of her fan, I took't upon"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"mine honour thou hadst it not."
II,II,PISTOL,"Didst not thou share? hadst thou not fifteen pence?"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Reason, you rogue, reason: thinkest thou I'll"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"endanger my soul gratis? At a word, hang no more"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"about me, I am no gibbet for you. Go. A short knife"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"and a throng! To your manor of Pickt-hatch! Go."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"You'll not bear a letter for me, you rogue! you"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"stand upon your honour! Why, thou unconfinable"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"baseness, it is as much as I can do to keep the"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"terms of my honour precise: I, I, I myself"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"shuffle, to hedge and to lurch; and yet you, rogue,"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"honour! You will not do it, you!"
II,II,PISTOL,"I do relent: what would thou more of man?"
II,II,ROBIN,"Sir, here's a woman would speak with you."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Let her approach."
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Give your worship good morrow."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Good morrow, good wife."
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Not so, an't please your worship."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Good maid, then."
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"I'll be sworn,"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"As my mother was, the first hour I was born."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"I do believe the swearer. What with me?"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Two thousand, fair woman: and I'll vouchsafe thee"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"the hearing."
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"There is one Mistress Ford, sir:--I pray, come a"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"little nearer this ways:--I myself dwell with master"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Doctor Caius,--"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Well, on: Mistress Ford, you say,--"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Your worship says very true: I pray your worship,"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"come a little nearer this ways."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"I warrant thee, nobody hears; mine own people, mine"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"own people."
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Are they so? God bless them and make them his servants!"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Well, Mistress Ford; what of her?"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Why, sir, she's a good creature. Lord Lord! your"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"worship's a wanton! Well, heaven forgive you and all"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"of us, I pray!"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Mistress Ford; come, Mistress Ford,--"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Marry, this is the short and the long of it; you"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"have brought her into such a canaries as 'tis"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"wonderful. The best courtier of them all, when the"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"court lay at Windsor, could never have brought her"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"to such a canary. Yet there has been knights, and"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches, I warrant"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"you, coach after coach, letter after letter, gift"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"after gift; smelling so sweetly, all musk, and so"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"rushling, I warrant you, in silk and gold; and in"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"such alligant terms; and in such wine and sugar of"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"the best and the fairest, that would have won any"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"woman's heart; and, I warrant you, they could never"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"get an eye-wink of her: I had myself twenty angels"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"given me this morning; but I defy all angels, in"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"any such sort, as they say, but in the way of"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"honesty: and, I warrant you, they could never get"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"her so much as sip on a cup with the proudest of"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"them all: and yet there has been earls, nay, which"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"is more, pensioners; but, I warrant you, all is one with her."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"But what says she to me? be brief, my good"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"she-Mercury."
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Marry, she hath received your letter, for the which"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"she thanks you a thousand times; and she gives you"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"to notify that her husband will be absence from his"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"house between ten and eleven."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Ten and eleven?"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Ay, forsooth; and then you may come and see the"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"picture, she says, that you wot of: Master Ford,"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"her husband, will be from home. Alas! the sweet"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"woman leads an ill life with him: he's a very"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"jealousy man: she leads a very frampold life with"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"him, good heart."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Ten and eleven. Woman, commend me to her; I will"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"not fail her."
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Why, you say well. But I have another messenger to"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"your worship. Mistress Page hath her hearty"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"commendations to you too: and let me tell you in"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"your ear, she's as fartuous a civil modest wife, and"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"one, I tell you, that will not miss you morning nor"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"evening prayer, as any is in Windsor, whoe'er be the"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"other: and she bade me tell your worship that her"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"husband is seldom from home; but she hopes there"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"will come a time. I never knew a woman so dote upon"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"a man: surely I think you have charms, la; yes, in truth."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Not I, I assure thee: setting the attractions of my"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"good parts aside I have no other charms."
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Blessing on your heart for't!"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"But, I pray thee, tell me this: has Ford's wife and"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Page's wife acquainted each other how they love me?"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"That were a jest indeed! they have not so little"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"grace, I hope: that were a trick indeed! but"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Mistress Page would desire you to send her your"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"little page, of all loves: her husband has a"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"marvellous infection to the little page; and truly"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Master Page is an honest man. Never a wife in"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Windsor leads a better life than she does: do what"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"she will, say what she will, take all, pay all, go"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"to bed when she list, rise when she list, all is as"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"she will: and truly she deserves it; for if there"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"be a kind woman in Windsor, she is one. You must"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"send her your page; no remedy."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Why, I will."
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Nay, but do so, then: and, look you, he may come and"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"go between you both; and in any case have a"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"the boy never need to understand any thing; for"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"'tis not good that children should know any"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"wickedness: old folks, you know, have discretion,"
II,II,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"as they say, and know the world."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Fare thee well: commend me to them both: there's"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"my purse; I am yet thy debtor. Boy, go along with"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"this woman."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"This news distracts me!"
II,II,PISTOL,"This punk is one of Cupid's carriers:"
II,II,PISTOL,"Clap on more sails; pursue; up with your fights:"
II,II,PISTOL,"Give fire: she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Sayest thou so, old Jack? go thy ways; I'll make"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"more of thy old body than I have done. Will they"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"yet look after thee? Wilt thou, after the expense"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"of so much money, be now a gainer? Good body, I"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"thank thee. Let them say 'tis grossly done; so it be"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"fairly done, no matter."
II,II,BARDOLPH,"Sir John, there's one Master Brook below would fain"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"speak with you, and be acquainted with you; and hath"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"sent your worship a morning's draught of sack."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Brook is his name?"
II,II,BARDOLPH,"Ay, sir."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Call him in."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Such Brooks are welcome to me, that o'erflow such"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"liquor. Ah, ha! Mistress Ford and Mistress Page"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"have I encompassed you? go to; via!"
II,II,FORD,"Bless you, sir!"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"And you, sir! Would you speak with me?"
II,II,FORD,"I make bold to press with so little preparation upon"
II,II,FORD,"you."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"You're welcome. What's your will? Give us leave, drawer."
II,II,FORD,"Sir, I am a gentleman that have spent much; my name is Brook."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Good Master Brook, I desire more acquaintance of you."
II,II,FORD,"Good Sir John, I sue for yours: not to charge you;"
II,II,FORD,"for I must let you understand I think myself in"
II,II,FORD,"better plight for a lender than you are: the which"
II,II,FORD,"hath something embolden'd me to this unseasoned"
II,II,FORD,"intrusion; for they say, if money go before, all"
II,II,FORD,"ways do lie open."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on."
II,II,FORD,"Troth, and I have a bag of money here troubles me:"
II,II,FORD,"if you will help to bear it, Sir John, take all, or"
II,II,FORD,"half, for easing me of the carriage."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Sir, I know not how I may deserve to be your porter."
II,II,FORD,"I will tell you, sir, if you will give me the hearing."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Speak, good Master Brook: I shall be glad to be"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"your servant."
II,II,FORD,"Sir, I hear you are a scholar,--I will be brief"
II,II,FORD,"with you,--and you have been a man long known to me,"
II,II,FORD,"though I had never so good means, as desire, to make"
II,II,FORD,"myself acquainted with you. I shall discover a"
II,II,FORD,"thing to you, wherein I must very much lay open mine"
II,II,FORD,"own imperfection: but, good Sir John, as you have"
II,II,FORD,"one eye upon my follies, as you hear them unfolded,"
II,II,FORD,"turn another into the register of your own; that I"
II,II,FORD,"may pass with a reproof the easier, sith you"
II,II,FORD,"yourself know how easy it is to be such an offender."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Very well, sir; proceed."
II,II,FORD,"There is a gentlewoman in this town; her husband's"
II,II,FORD,"name is Ford."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Well, sir."
II,II,FORD,"I have long loved her, and, I protest to you,"
II,II,FORD,"bestowed much on her; followed her with a doting"
II,II,FORD,"observance; engrossed opportunities to meet her;"
II,II,FORD,"fee'd every slight occasion that could but niggardly"
II,II,FORD,"give me sight of her; not only bought many presents"
II,II,FORD,"to give her, but have given largely to many to know"
II,II,FORD,"what she would have given; briefly, I have pursued"
II,II,FORD,"her as love hath pursued me; which hath been on the"
II,II,FORD,"wing of all occasions. But whatsoever I have"
II,II,FORD,"merited, either in my mind or, in my means, meed,"
II,II,FORD,"I am sure, I have received none; unless experience"
II,II,FORD,"be a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite"
II,II,FORD,"rate, and that hath taught me to say this:"
II,II,FORD,"'Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;"
II,II,FORD,"Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.'"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Have you received no promise of satisfaction at her hands?"
II,II,FORD,"Never."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Have you importuned her to such a purpose?"
II,II,FORD,"Never."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Of what quality was your love, then?"
II,II,FORD,"Like a fair house built on another man's ground; so"
II,II,FORD,"that I have lost my edifice by mistaking the place"
II,II,FORD,"where I erected it."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"To what purpose have you unfolded this to me?"
II,II,FORD,"When I have told you that, I have told you all."
II,II,FORD,"Some say, that though she appear honest to me, yet in"
II,II,FORD,"other places she enlargeth her mirth so far that"
II,II,FORD,"there is shrewd construction made of her. Now, Sir"
II,II,FORD,"John, here is the heart of my purpose: you are a"
II,II,FORD,"gentleman of excellent breeding, admirable"
II,II,FORD,"discourse, of great admittance, authentic in your"
II,II,FORD,"place and person, generally allowed for your many"
II,II,FORD,"war-like, court-like, and learned preparations."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"O, sir!"
II,II,FORD,"Believe it, for you know it. There is money; spend"
II,II,FORD,"it, spend it; spend more; spend all I have; only"
II,II,FORD,"give me so much of your time in exchange of it, as"
II,II,FORD,"to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this"
II,II,FORD,"Ford's wife: use your art of wooing; win her to"
II,II,FORD,"consent to you: if any man may, you may as soon as"
II,II,FORD,"any."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Would it apply well to the vehemency of your"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"affection, that I should win what you would enjoy?"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Methinks you prescribe to yourself very preposterously."
II,II,FORD,"O, understand my drift. She dwells so securely on"
II,II,FORD,"the excellency of her honour, that the folly of my"
II,II,FORD,"soul dares not present itself: she is too bright to"
II,II,FORD,"be looked against. Now, could I could come to her"
II,II,FORD,"with any detection in my hand, my desires had"
II,II,FORD,"instance and argument to commend themselves: I"
II,II,FORD,"could drive her then from the ward of her purity,"
II,II,FORD,"her reputation, her marriage-vow, and a thousand"
II,II,FORD,"other her defences, which now are too too strongly"
II,II,FORD,"embattled against me. What say you to't, Sir John?"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Master Brook, I will first make bold with your"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"money; next, give me your hand; and last, as I am a"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"gentleman, you shall, if you will, enjoy Ford's wife."
II,II,FORD,"O good sir!"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"I say you shall."
II,II,FORD,"Want no money, Sir John; you shall want none."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Want no Mistress Ford, Master Brook; you shall want"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"none. I shall be with her, I may tell you, by her"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"own appointment; even as you came in to me, her"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"assistant or go-between parted from me: I say I"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"shall be with her between ten and eleven; for at"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"that time the jealous rascally knave her husband"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"will be forth. Come you to me at night; you shall"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"know how I speed."
II,II,FORD,"I am blest in your acquaintance. Do you know Ford,"
II,II,FORD,"sir?"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Hang him, poor cuckoldly knave! I know him not:"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"yet I wrong him to call him poor; they say the"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"jealous wittolly knave hath masses of money; for the"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"which his wife seems to me well-favored. I will"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"use her as the key of the cuckoldly rogue's coffer;"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"and there's my harvest-home."
II,II,FORD,"I would you knew Ford, sir, that you might avoid him"
II,II,FORD,"if you saw him."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"stare him out of his wits; I will awe him with my"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"cudgel: it shall hang like a meteor o'er the"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"cuckold's horns. Master Brook, thou shalt know I"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"will predominate over the peasant, and thou shalt"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"lie with his wife. Come to me soon at night."
II,II,FALSTAFF,"Ford's a knave, and I will aggravate his style;"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"thou, Master Brook, shalt know him for knave and"
II,II,FALSTAFF,"cuckold. Come to me soon at night."
II,II,FORD,"What a damned Epicurean rascal is this! My heart is"
II,II,FORD,"ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is"
II,II,FORD,"improvident jealousy? my wife hath sent to him; the"
II,II,FORD,"hour is fixed; the match is made. Would any man"
II,II,FORD,"have thought this? See the hell of having a false"
II,II,FORD,"woman! My bed shall be abused, my coffers"
II,II,FORD,"ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not"
II,II,FORD,"only receive this villanous wrong, but stand under"
II,II,FORD,"the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that"
II,II,FORD,"does me this wrong. Terms! names! Amaimon sounds"
II,II,FORD,"well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are"
II,II,FORD,"devils' additions, the names of fiends: but"
II,II,FORD,"Cuckold! Wittol!--Cuckold! the devil himself hath"
II,II,FORD,"not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass: he"
II,II,FORD,"will trust his wife; he will not be jealous. I will"
II,II,FORD,"rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh"
II,II,FORD,"the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my"
II,II,FORD,"aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling"
II,II,FORD,"gelding, than my wife with herself; then she plots,"
II,II,FORD,"then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they"
II,II,FORD,"think in their hearts they may effect, they will"
II,II,FORD,"break their hearts but they will effect. God be"
II,II,FORD,"praised for my jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour."
II,II,FORD,"I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on"
II,II,FORD,"Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will about it;"
II,II,FORD,"better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
II,II,FORD,"Fie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold!"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Jack Rugby!"
II,III,RUGBY,"Sir?"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Vat is de clock, Jack?"
II,III,RUGBY,"'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to meet."
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come; he"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"has pray his Pible well, dat he is no come: by gar,"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Jack Rugby, he is dead already, if he be come."
II,III,RUGBY,"He is wise, sir; he knew your worship would kill"
II,III,RUGBY,"him, if he came."
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him."
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Take your rapier, Jack; I vill tell you how I vill kill him."
II,III,RUGBY,"Alas, sir, I cannot fence."
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Villany, take your rapier."
II,III,RUGBY,"Forbear; here's company."
II,III,Host,"Bless thee, bully doctor!"
II,III,SHALLOW,"Save you, Master Doctor Caius!"
II,III,PAGE,"Now, good master doctor!"
II,III,SLENDER,"Give you good morrow, sir."
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for?"
II,III,Host,"To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee"
II,III,Host,"traverse; to see thee here, to see thee there; to"
II,III,Host,"see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy"
II,III,Host,"distance, thy montant. Is he dead, my Ethiopian? is"
II,III,Host,"he dead, my Francisco? ha, bully! What says my"
II,III,Host,"AEsculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder? ha! is"
II,III,Host,"he dead, bully stale? is he dead?"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By gar, he is de coward Jack priest of de vorld; he"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"is not show his face."
II,III,Host,"Thou art a Castalion-King-Urinal. Hector of Greece, my boy!"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"I pray you, bear vitness that me have stay six or"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"seven, two, tree hours for him, and he is no come."
II,III,SHALLOW,"He is the wiser man, master doctor: he is a curer of"
II,III,SHALLOW,"souls, and you a curer of bodies; if you should"
II,III,SHALLOW,"fight, you go against the hair of your professions."
II,III,SHALLOW,"Is it not true, Master Page?"
II,III,PAGE,"Master Shallow, you have yourself been a great"
II,III,PAGE,"fighter, though now a man of peace."
II,III,SHALLOW,"Bodykins, Master Page, though I now be old and of"
II,III,SHALLOW,"the peace, if I see a sword out, my finger itches to"
II,III,SHALLOW,"make one. Though we are justices and doctors and"
II,III,SHALLOW,"churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our"
II,III,SHALLOW,"youth in us; we are the sons of women, Master Page."
II,III,PAGE,"'Tis true, Master Shallow."
II,III,SHALLOW,"It will be found so, Master Page. Master Doctor"
II,III,SHALLOW,"Caius, I am come to fetch you home. I am sworn of"
II,III,SHALLOW,"the peace: you have showed yourself a wise"
II,III,SHALLOW,"physician, and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise"
II,III,SHALLOW,"and patient churchman. You must go with me, master doctor."
II,III,Host,"Pardon, guest-justice. A word, Mounseur Mockwater."
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Mock-vater! vat is dat?"
II,III,Host,"Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valour, bully."
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By gar, den, I have as mush mock-vater as de"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Englishman. Scurvy jack-dog priest! by gar, me"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"vill cut his ears."
II,III,Host,"He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully."
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Clapper-de-claw! vat is dat?"
II,III,Host,"That is, he will make thee amends."
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me;"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"for, by gar, me vill have it."
II,III,Host,"And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag."
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Me tank you for dat."
II,III,Host,"And, moreover, bully,--but first, master guest, and"
II,III,Host,"Master Page, and eke Cavaleiro Slender, go you"
II,III,Host,"through the town to Frogmore."
II,III,PAGE,"Sir Hugh is there, is he?"
II,III,Host,"He is there: see what humour he is in; and I will"
II,III,Host,"bring the doctor about by the fields. Will it do well?"
II,III,SHALLOW,"We will do it."
II,III,PAGE,"Adieu, good master doctor."
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By gar, me vill kill de priest; for he speak for a"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"jack-an-ape to Anne Page."
II,III,Host,"Let him die: sheathe thy impatience, throw cold"
II,III,Host,"water on thy choler: go about the fields with me"
II,III,Host,"through Frogmore: I will bring thee where Mistress"
II,III,Host,"Anne Page is, at a farm-house a-feasting; and thou"
II,III,Host,"shalt woo her. Cried I aim? said I well?"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By gar, me dank you for dat: by gar, I love you;"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"and I shall procure-a you de good guest, de earl,"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"de knight, de lords, de gentlemen, my patients."
II,III,Host,"For the which I will be thy adversary toward Anne"
II,III,Host,"Page. Said I well?"
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By gar, 'tis good; vell said."
II,III,Host,"Let us wag, then."
II,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Come at my heels, Jack Rugby."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"I pray you now, good master Slender's serving-man,"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"and friend Simple by your name, which way have you"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"looked for Master Caius, that calls himself doctor of physic?"
III,I,SIMPLE,"Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, every"
III,I,SIMPLE,"way; old Windsor way, and every way but the town"
III,I,SIMPLE,"way."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"I most fehemently desire you you will also look that"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"way."
III,I,SIMPLE,"I will, sir."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"'Pless my soul, how full of chollors I am, and"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"trempling of mind! I shall be glad if he have"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"deceived me. How melancholies I am! I will knog"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"his urinals about his knave's costard when I have"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"good opportunities for the ork. 'Pless my soul!"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"To shallow rivers, to whose falls"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Melodious birds sings madrigals;"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"There will we make our peds of roses,"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"And a thousand fragrant posies."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"To shallow--"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Mercy on me! I have a great dispositions to cry."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Melodious birds sing madrigals--"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"When as I sat in Pabylon--"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"And a thousand vagram posies."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"To shallow &c."
III,I,SIMPLE,"Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"He's welcome."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"To shallow rivers, to whose falls-"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Heaven prosper the right! What weapons is he?"
III,I,SIMPLE,"No weapons, sir. There comes my master, Master"
III,I,SIMPLE,"Shallow, and another gentleman, from Frogmore, over"
III,I,SIMPLE,"the stile, this way."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Pray you, give me my gown; or else keep it in your arms."
III,I,SHALLOW,"How now, master Parson! Good morrow, good Sir Hugh."
III,I,SHALLOW,"Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student"
III,I,SHALLOW,"from his book, and it is wonderful."
III,I,PAGE,"'Save you, good Sir Hugh!"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"'Pless you from his mercy sake, all of you!"
III,I,SHALLOW,"What, the sword and the word! do you study them"
III,I,SHALLOW,"both, master parson?"
III,I,PAGE,"And youthful still! in your doublet and hose this"
III,I,PAGE,"raw rheumatic day!"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"There is reasons and causes for it."
III,I,PAGE,"We are come to you to do a good office, master parson."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Fery well: what is it?"
III,I,PAGE,"Yonder is a most reverend gentleman, who, belike"
III,I,PAGE,"having received wrong by some person, is at most"
III,I,PAGE,"odds with his own gravity and patience that ever you"
III,I,PAGE,"saw."
III,I,SHALLOW,"I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never"
III,I,SHALLOW,"heard a man of his place, gravity and learning, so"
III,I,SHALLOW,"wide of his own respect."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"What is he?"
III,I,PAGE,"I think you know him; Master Doctor Caius, the"
III,I,PAGE,"renowned French physician."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Got's will, and his passion of my heart! I had as"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge."
III,I,PAGE,"Why?"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"He has no more knowledge in Hibocrates and Galen,"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"--and he is a knave besides; a cowardly knave as you"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"would desires to be acquainted withal."
III,I,PAGE,"I warrant you, he's the man should fight with him."
III,I,SHALLOW,"It appears so by his weapons. Keep them asunder:"
III,I,SHALLOW,"here comes Doctor Caius."
III,I,PAGE,"Nay, good master parson, keep in your weapon."
III,I,SHALLOW,"So do you, good master doctor."
III,I,Host,"Disarm them, and let them question: let them keep"
III,I,Host,"their limbs whole and hack our English."
III,I,DOCTOR CAIUS,"I pray you, let-a me speak a word with your ear."
III,I,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Vherefore vill you not meet-a me?"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"in good time."
III,I,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By gar, you are de coward, de Jack dog, John ape."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"laughing-stocks to other men's humours; I desire you"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"I will knog your urinals about your knave's cockscomb"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"for missing your meetings and appointments."
III,I,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Diable! Jack Rugby,--mine host de Jarteer,--have I"
III,I,DOCTOR CAIUS,"not stay for him to kill him? have I not, at de place"
III,I,DOCTOR CAIUS,"I did appoint?"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"As I am a Christians soul now, look you, this is the"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"place appointed: I'll be judgement by mine host of"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"the Garter."
III,I,Host,"Peace, I say, Gallia and Gaul, French and Welsh,"
III,I,Host,"soul-curer and body-curer!"
III,I,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Ay, dat is very good; excellent."
III,I,Host,"Peace, I say! hear mine host of the Garter. Am I"
III,I,Host,"politic? am I subtle? am I a Machiavel? Shall I"
III,I,Host,"lose my doctor? no; he gives me the potions and the"
III,I,Host,"motions. Shall I lose my parson, my priest, my Sir"
III,I,Host,"Hugh? no; he gives me the proverbs and the"
III,I,Host,"no-verbs. Give me thy hand, terrestrial; so. Give me"
III,I,Host,"thy hand, celestial; so. Boys of art, I have"
III,I,Host,"deceived you both; I have directed you to wrong"
III,I,Host,"places: your hearts are mighty, your skins are"
III,I,Host,"whole, and let burnt sack be the issue. Come, lay"
III,I,Host,"their swords to pawn. Follow me, lads of peace;"
III,I,Host,"follow, follow, follow."
III,I,SHALLOW,"Trust me, a mad host. Follow, gentlemen, follow."
III,I,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Ha, do I perceive dat? have you make-a de sot of"
III,I,DOCTOR CAIUS,"us, ha, ha?"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"This is well; he has made us his vlouting-stog. I"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"desire you that we may be friends; and let us knog"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"our prains together to be revenge on this same"
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"scall, scurvy cogging companion, the host of the Garter."
III,I,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By gar, with all my heart. He promise to bring me"
III,I,DOCTOR CAIUS,"where is Anne Page; by gar, he deceive me too."
III,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Well, I will smite his noddles. Pray you, follow."
III,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Nay, keep your way, little gallant; you were wont to"
III,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"be a follower, but now you are a leader. Whether"
III,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"had you rather lead mine eyes, or eye your master's heels?"
III,II,ROBIN,"I had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man"
III,II,ROBIN,"than follow him like a dwarf."
III,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"O, you are a flattering boy: now I see you'll be a courtier."
III,II,FORD,"Well met, Mistress Page. Whither go you?"
III,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Truly, sir, to see your wife. Is she at home?"
III,II,FORD,"Ay; and as idle as she may hang together, for want"
III,II,FORD,"of company. I think, if your husbands were dead,"
III,II,FORD,"you two would marry."
III,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Be sure of that,--two other husbands."
III,II,FORD,"Where had you this pretty weather-cock?"
III,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my"
III,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"husband had him of. What do you call your knight's"
III,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"name, sirrah?"
III,II,ROBIN,"Sir John Falstaff."
III,II,FORD,"Sir John Falstaff!"
III,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"He, he; I can never hit on's name. There is such a"
III,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"league between my good man and he! Is your wife at"
III,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"home indeed?"
III,II,FORD,"Indeed she is."
III,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"By your leave, sir: I am sick till I see her."
III,II,FORD,"Has Page any brains? hath he any eyes? hath he any"
III,II,FORD,"thinking? Sure, they sleep; he hath no use of them."
III,II,FORD,"Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty mile, as"
III,II,FORD,"easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve"
III,II,FORD,"score. He pieces out his wife's inclination; he"
III,II,FORD,"gives her folly motion and advantage: and now she's"
III,II,FORD,"going to my wife, and Falstaff's boy with her. A"
III,II,FORD,"man may hear this shower sing in the wind. And"
III,II,FORD,"Falstaff's boy with her! Good plots, they are laid;"
III,II,FORD,"and our revolted wives share damnation together."
III,II,FORD,"Well; I will take him, then torture my wife, pluck"
III,II,FORD,"the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming"
III,II,FORD,"Mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a secure and"
III,II,FORD,"wilful Actaeon; and to these violent proceedings all"
III,II,FORD,"my neighbours shall cry aim."
III,II,FORD,"The clock gives me my cue, and my assurance bids me"
III,II,FORD,"search: there I shall find Falstaff: I shall be"
III,II,FORD,"rather praised for this than mocked; for it is as"
III,II,FORD,"positive as the earth is firm that Falstaff is"
III,II,FORD,"there: I will go."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Well met, Master Ford."
III,II,SHALLOW,"&c."
III,II,FORD,"Trust me, a good knot: I have good cheer at home;"
III,II,FORD,"and I pray you all go with me."
III,II,SHALLOW,"I must excuse myself, Master Ford."
III,II,SLENDER,"And so must I, sir: we have appointed to dine with"
III,II,SLENDER,"Mistress Anne, and I would not break with her for"
III,II,SLENDER,"more money than I'll speak of."
III,II,SHALLOW,"We have lingered about a match between Anne Page and"
III,II,SHALLOW,"my cousin Slender, and this day we shall have our answer."
III,II,SLENDER,"I hope I have your good will, father Page."
III,II,PAGE,"You have, Master Slender; I stand wholly for you:"
III,II,PAGE,"but my wife, master doctor, is for you altogether."
III,II,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Ay, be-gar; and de maid is love-a me: my nursh-a"
III,II,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Quickly tell me so mush."
III,II,Host,"What say you to young Master Fenton? he capers, he"
III,II,Host,"dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he"
III,II,Host,"speaks holiday, he smells April and May: he will"
III,II,Host,"carry't, he will carry't; 'tis in his buttons; he"
III,II,Host,"will carry't."
III,II,PAGE,"Not by my consent, I promise you. The gentleman is"
III,II,PAGE,"of no having: he kept company with the wild prince"
III,II,PAGE,"and Poins; he is of too high a region; he knows too"
III,II,PAGE,"much. No, he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes"
III,II,PAGE,"with the finger of my substance: if he take her,"
III,II,PAGE,"let him take her simply; the wealth I have waits on"
III,II,PAGE,"my consent, and my consent goes not that way."
III,II,FORD,"I beseech you heartily, some of you go home with me"
III,II,FORD,"to dinner: besides your cheer, you shall have"
III,II,FORD,"sport; I will show you a monster. Master doctor,"
III,II,FORD,"you shall go; so shall you, Master Page; and you, Sir Hugh."
III,II,SHALLOW,"Well, fare you well: we shall have the freer wooing"
III,II,SHALLOW,"at Master Page's."
III,II,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Go home, John Rugby; I come anon."
III,II,Host,"Farewell, my hearts: I will to my honest knight"
III,II,Host,"Falstaff, and drink canary with him."
III,II,FORD,"with him; I'll make him dance. Will you go, gentles?"
III,II,All,"Have with you to see this monster."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"What, John! What, Robert!"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Quickly, quickly! is the buck-basket--"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"I warrant. What, Robin, I say!"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Come, come, come."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Here, set it down."
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Give your men the charge; we must be brief."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"ready here hard by in the brew-house: and when I"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"suddenly call you, come forth, and without any pause"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"or staggering take this basket on your shoulders:"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"it among the whitsters in Datchet-mead, and there"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side."
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"You will do it?"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"I ha' told them over and over; they lack no"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"direction. Be gone, and come when you are called."
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Here comes little Robin."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"How now, my eyas-musket! what news with you?"
III,III,ROBIN,"My master, Sir John, is come in at your back-door,"
III,III,ROBIN,"Mistress Ford, and requests your company."
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"You little Jack-a-Lent, have you been true to us?"
III,III,ROBIN,"Ay, I'll be sworn. My master knows not of your"
III,III,ROBIN,"being here and hath threatened to put me into"
III,III,ROBIN,"everlasting liberty if I tell you of it; for he"
III,III,ROBIN,"swears he'll turn me away."
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Thou'rt a good boy: this secrecy of thine shall be"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"a tailor to thee and shall make thee a new doublet"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"and hose. I'll go hide me."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Do so. Go tell thy master I am alone."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Mistress Page, remember you your cue."
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"I warrant thee; if I do not act it, hiss me."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Go to, then: we'll use this unwholesome humidity,"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"turtles from jays."
III,III,FALSTAFF,"Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"me die, for I have lived long enough: this is the"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"period of my ambition: O this blessed hour!"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"O sweet Sir John!"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"Mistress Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate,"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"Mistress Ford. Now shall I sin in my wish: I would"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"thy husband were dead: I'll speak it before the"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"best lord; I would make thee my lady."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"I your lady, Sir John! alas, I should be a pitiful lady!"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"Let the court of France show me such another. I see"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"how thine eye would emulate the diamond: thou hast"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes the"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"ship-tire, the tire-valiant, or any tire of"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"Venetian admittance."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"A plain kerchief, Sir John: my brows become nothing"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"else; nor that well neither."
III,III,FALSTAFF,"By the Lord, thou art a traitor to say so: thou"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"wouldst make an absolute courtier; and the firm"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"fixture of thy foot would give an excellent motion"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"to thy gait in a semi-circled farthingale. I see"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"what thou wert, if Fortune thy foe were not, Nature"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"thy friend. Come, thou canst not hide it."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Believe me, there is no such thing in me."
III,III,FALSTAFF,"What made me love thee? let that persuade thee"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"there's something extraordinary in thee. Come, I"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"cannot cog and say thou art this and that, like a"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"many of these lisping hawthorn-buds, that come like"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"women in men's apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"in simple time; I cannot: but I love thee; none"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"but thee; and thou deservest it."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Do not betray me, sir. I fear you love Mistress Page."
III,III,FALSTAFF,"Thou mightst as well say I love to walk by the"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"of a lime-kiln."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Well, heaven knows how I love you; and you shall one"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"day find it."
III,III,FALSTAFF,"Keep in that mind; I'll deserve it."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Nay, I must tell you, so you do; or else I could not"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"be in that mind."
III,III,ROBIN,"Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing and"
III,III,ROBIN,"looking wildly, and would needs speak with you presently."
III,III,FALSTAFF,"She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Pray you, do so: she's a very tattling woman."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"What's the matter? how now!"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"O Mistress Ford, what have you done? You're shamed,"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"you're overthrown, you're undone for ever!"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"What's the matter, good Mistress Page?"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"O well-a-day, Mistress Ford! having an honest man"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"to your husband, to give him such cause of suspicion!"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"What cause of suspicion?"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"What cause of suspicion! Out pon you! how am I"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"mistook in you!"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Why, alas, what's the matter?"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Your husband's coming hither, woman, with all the"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"officers in Windsor, to search for a gentleman that"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"he says is here now in the house by your consent, to"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"take an ill advantage of his assence: you are undone."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"'Tis not so, I hope."
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Pray heaven it be not so, that you have such a man"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"here! but 'tis most certain your husband's coming,"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"with half Windsor at his heels, to search for such a"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"one. I come before to tell you. If you know"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"yourself clear, why, I am glad of it; but if you"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"have a friend here convey, convey him out. Be not"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"amazed; call all your senses to you; defend your"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"What shall I do? There is a gentleman my dear"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"friend; and I fear not mine own shame so much as his"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"peril: I had rather than a thousand pound he were"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"out of the house."
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"For shame! never stand 'you had rather' and 'you"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"had rather:' your husband's here at hand, bethink"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"you of some conveyance: in the house you cannot"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"hide him. O, how have you deceived me! Look, here"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"is a basket: if he be of any reasonable stature, he"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"may creep in here; and throw foul linen upon him, as"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"if it were going to bucking: or--it is whiting-time"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"--send him by your two men to Datchet-mead."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"He's too big to go in there. What shall I do?"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"me see't! I'll in, I'll in. Follow your friend's"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"counsel. I'll in."
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"What, Sir John Falstaff! Are these your letters, knight?"
III,III,FALSTAFF,"I love thee. Help me away. Let me creep in here."
III,III,FALSTAFF,"I'll never--"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Help to cover your master, boy. Call your men,"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Mistress Ford. You dissembling knight!"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"What, John! Robert! John!"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Go take up these clothes here quickly. Where's the"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"cowl-staff? look, how you drumble! Carry them to"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"the laundress in Datchet-meat; quickly, come."
III,III,FORD,"Pray you, come near: if I suspect without cause,"
III,III,FORD,"why then make sport at me; then let me be your jest;"
III,III,FORD,"I deserve it. How now! whither bear you this?"
III,III,Servant,"To the laundress, forsooth."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Why, what have you to do whither they bear it? You"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"were best meddle with buck-washing."
III,III,FORD,"Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck!"
III,III,FORD,"Buck, buck, buck! Ay, buck; I warrant you, buck;"
III,III,FORD,"and of the season too, it shall appear."
III,III,FORD,"Gentlemen, I have dreamed to-night; I'll tell you my"
III,III,FORD,"dream. Here, here, here be my keys: ascend my"
III,III,FORD,"chambers; search, seek, find out: I'll warrant"
III,III,FORD,"we'll unkennel the fox. Let me stop this way first."
III,III,FORD,"So, now uncape."
III,III,PAGE,"Good Master Ford, be contented: you wrong yourself too much."
III,III,FORD,"True, Master Page. Up, gentlemen: you shall see"
III,III,FORD,"sport anon: follow me, gentlemen."
III,III,SIR HUGH EVANS,"This is fery fantastical humours and jealousies."
III,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By gar, 'tis no the fashion of France; it is not"
III,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"jealous in France."
III,III,PAGE,"Nay, follow him, gentlemen; see the issue of his search."
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Is there not a double excellency in this?"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"I know not which pleases me better, that my husband"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"is deceived, or Sir John."
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"What a taking was he in when your husband asked who"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"was in the basket!"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"I am half afraid he will have need of washing; so"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"throwing him into the water will do him a benefit."
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Hang him, dishonest rascal! I would all of the same"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"strain were in the same distress."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"I think my husband hath some special suspicion of"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Falstaff's being here; for I never saw him so gross"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"in his jealousy till now."
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"I will lay a plot to try that; and we will yet have"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"more tricks with Falstaff: his dissolute disease will"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"scarce obey this medicine."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Shall we send that foolish carrion, Mistress"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Quickly, to him, and excuse his throwing into the"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"water; and give him another hope, to betray him to"
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"another punishment?"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"We will do it: let him be sent for to-morrow,"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"eight o'clock, to have amends."
III,III,FORD,"I cannot find him: may be the knave bragged of that"
III,III,FORD,"he could not compass."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"You use me well, Master Ford, do you?"
III,III,FORD,"Ay, I do so."
III,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Heaven make you better than your thoughts!"
III,III,FORD,"Amen!"
III,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"You do yourself mighty wrong, Master Ford."
III,III,FORD,"Ay, ay; I must bear it."
III,III,SIR HUGH EVANS,"If there be any pody in the house, and in the"
III,III,SIR HUGH EVANS,"chambers, and in the coffers, and in the presses,"
III,III,SIR HUGH EVANS,"heaven forgive my sins at the day of judgment!"
III,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By gar, nor I too: there is no bodies."
III,III,PAGE,"Fie, fie, Master Ford! are you not ashamed? What"
III,III,PAGE,"spirit, what devil suggests this imagination? I"
III,III,PAGE,"would not ha' your distemper in this kind for the"
III,III,PAGE,"wealth of Windsor Castle."
III,III,FORD,"'Tis my fault, Master Page: I suffer for it."
III,III,SIR HUGH EVANS,"You suffer for a pad conscience: your wife is as"
III,III,SIR HUGH EVANS,"honest a 'omans as I will desires among five"
III,III,SIR HUGH EVANS,"thousand, and five hundred too."
III,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"By gar, I see 'tis an honest woman."
III,III,FORD,"Well, I promised you a dinner. Come, come, walk in"
III,III,FORD,"the Park: I pray you, pardon me; I will hereafter"
III,III,FORD,"make known to you why I have done this. Come,"
III,III,FORD,"wife; come, Mistress Page. I pray you, pardon me;"
III,III,FORD,"pray heartily, pardon me."
III,III,PAGE,"Let's go in, gentlemen; but, trust me, we'll mock"
III,III,PAGE,"him. I do invite you to-morrow morning to my house"
III,III,PAGE,"to breakfast: after, we'll a-birding together; I"
III,III,PAGE,"have a fine hawk for the bush. Shall it be so?"
III,III,FORD,"Any thing."
III,III,SIR HUGH EVANS,"If there is one, I shall make two in the company."
III,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"If dere be one or two, I shall make-a the turd."
III,III,FORD,"Pray you, go, Master Page."
III,III,SIR HUGH EVANS,"I pray you now, remembrance tomorrow on the lousy"
III,III,SIR HUGH EVANS,"knave, mine host."
III,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Dat is good; by gar, with all my heart!"
III,III,SIR HUGH EVANS,"A lousy knave, to have his gibes and his mockeries!"
III,IV,FENTON,"I see I cannot get thy father's love;"
III,IV,FENTON,"Therefore no more turn me to him, sweet Nan."
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"Alas, how then?"
III,IV,FENTON,"Why, thou must be thyself."
III,IV,FENTON,"He doth object I am too great of birth--,"
III,IV,FENTON,"And that, my state being gall'd with my expense,"
III,IV,FENTON,"I seek to heal it only by his wealth:"
III,IV,FENTON,"Besides these, other bars he lays before me,"
III,IV,FENTON,"My riots past, my wild societies;"
III,IV,FENTON,"And tells me 'tis a thing impossible"
III,IV,FENTON,"I should love thee but as a property."
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"May be he tells you true."
III,IV,FENTON,"No, heaven so speed me in my time to come!"
III,IV,FENTON,"Albeit I will confess thy father's wealth"
III,IV,FENTON,"Was the first motive that I woo'd thee, Anne:"
III,IV,FENTON,"Yet, wooing thee, I found thee of more value"
III,IV,FENTON,"Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;"
III,IV,FENTON,"And 'tis the very riches of thyself"
III,IV,FENTON,"That now I aim at."
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"Gentle Master Fenton,"
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"Yet seek my father's love; still seek it, sir:"
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"If opportunity and humblest suit"
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"Cannot attain it, why, then,--hark you hither!"
III,IV,SHALLOW,"Break their talk, Mistress Quickly: my kinsman shall"
III,IV,SHALLOW,"speak for himself."
III,IV,SLENDER,"I'll make a shaft or a bolt on't: 'slid, 'tis but"
III,IV,SLENDER,"venturing."
III,IV,SHALLOW,"Be not dismayed."
III,IV,SLENDER,"No, she shall not dismay me: I care not for that,"
III,IV,SLENDER,"but that I am afeard."
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Hark ye; Master Slender would speak a word with you."
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"I come to him."
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"This is my father's choice."
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"O, what a world of vile ill-favor'd faults"
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!"
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"And how does good Master Fenton? Pray you, a word with you."
III,IV,SHALLOW,"She's coming; to her, coz. O boy, thou hadst a father!"
III,IV,SLENDER,"I had a father, Mistress Anne; my uncle can tell you"
III,IV,SLENDER,"good jests of him. Pray you, uncle, tell Mistress"
III,IV,SLENDER,"Anne the jest, how my father stole two geese out of"
III,IV,SLENDER,"a pen, good uncle."
III,IV,SHALLOW,"Mistress Anne, my cousin loves you."
III,IV,SLENDER,"Ay, that I do; as well as I love any woman in"
III,IV,SLENDER,"Gloucestershire."
III,IV,SHALLOW,"He will maintain you like a gentlewoman."
III,IV,SLENDER,"Ay, that I will, come cut and long-tail, under the"
III,IV,SLENDER,"degree of a squire."
III,IV,SHALLOW,"He will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure."
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"Good Master Shallow, let him woo for himself."
III,IV,SHALLOW,"Marry, I thank you for it; I thank you for that good"
III,IV,SHALLOW,"comfort. She calls you, coz: I'll leave you."
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"Now, Master Slender,--"
III,IV,SLENDER,"Now, good Mistress Anne,--"
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"What is your will?"
III,IV,SLENDER,"My will! 'od's heartlings, that's a pretty jest"
III,IV,SLENDER,"indeed! I ne'er made my will yet, I thank heaven; I"
III,IV,SLENDER,"am not such a sickly creature, I give heaven praise."
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"I mean, Master Slender, what would you with me?"
III,IV,SLENDER,"Truly, for mine own part, I would little or nothing"
III,IV,SLENDER,"with you. Your father and my uncle hath made"
III,IV,SLENDER,"motions: if it be my luck, so; if not, happy man be"
III,IV,SLENDER,"his dole! They can tell you how things go better"
III,IV,SLENDER,"than I can: you may ask your father; here he comes."
III,IV,PAGE,"Now, Master Slender: love him, daughter Anne."
III,IV,PAGE,"Why, how now! what does Master Fenton here?"
III,IV,PAGE,"You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house:"
III,IV,PAGE,"I told you, sir, my daughter is disposed of."
III,IV,FENTON,"Nay, Master Page, be not impatient."
III,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Good Master Fenton, come not to my child."
III,IV,PAGE,"She is no match for you."
III,IV,FENTON,"Sir, will you hear me?"
III,IV,PAGE,"No, good Master Fenton."
III,IV,PAGE,"Come, Master Shallow; come, son Slender, in."
III,IV,PAGE,"Knowing my mind, you wrong me, Master Fenton."
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Speak to Mistress Page."
III,IV,FENTON,"Good Mistress Page, for that I love your daughter"
III,IV,FENTON,"In such a righteous fashion as I do,"
III,IV,FENTON,"Perforce, against all cheques, rebukes and manners,"
III,IV,FENTON,"I must advance the colours of my love"
III,IV,FENTON,"And not retire: let me have your good will."
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"Good mother, do not marry me to yond fool."
III,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"I mean it not; I seek you a better husband."
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"That's my master, master doctor."
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth"
III,IV,ANNE PAGE,"And bowl'd to death with turnips!"
III,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Come, trouble not yourself. Good Master Fenton,"
III,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"I will not be your friend nor enemy:"
III,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"My daughter will I question how she loves you,"
III,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"And as I find her, so am I affected."
III,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Till then farewell, sir: she must needs go in;"
III,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Her father will be angry."
III,IV,FENTON,"Farewell, gentle mistress: farewell, Nan."
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"This is my doing, now: 'Nay,' said I, 'will you cast"
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"away your child on a fool, and a physician? Look on"
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Master Fenton:' this is my doing."
III,IV,FENTON,"I thank thee; and I pray thee, once to-night"
III,IV,FENTON,"Give my sweet Nan this ring: there's for thy pains."
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Now heaven send thee good fortune!"
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"A kind heart he hath: a woman would run through"
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"fire and water for such a kind heart. But yet I"
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"would my master had Mistress Anne; or I would"
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Master Slender had her; or, in sooth, I would Master"
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Fenton had her; I will do what I can for them all"
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"three; for so I have promised, and I'll be as good"
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"as my word; but speciously for Master Fenton. Well,"
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"I must of another errand to Sir John Falstaff from"
III,IV,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"my two mistresses: what a beast am I to slack it!"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Bardolph, I say,--"
III,V,BARDOLPH,"Here, sir."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in't."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Have I lived to be carried in a basket, like a"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"barrow of butcher's offal, and to be thrown in the"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Thames? Well, if I be served such another trick,"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"I'll have my brains ta'en out and buttered, and give"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"them to a dog for a new-year's gift. The rogues"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"slighted me into the river with as little remorse as"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"they would have drowned a blind bitch's puppies,"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"fifteen i' the litter: and you may know by my size"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; if the"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"bottom were as deep as hell, I should down. I had"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"been drowned, but that the shore was shelvy and"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"shallow,--a death that I abhor; for the water swells"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"a man; and what a thing should I have been when I"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"had been swelled! I should have been a mountain of mummy."
III,V,BARDOLPH,"Here's Mistress Quickly, sir, to speak with you."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Let me pour in some sack to the Thames water; for my"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"belly's as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"pills to cool the reins. Call her in."
III,V,BARDOLPH,"Come in, woman!"
III,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"By your leave; I cry you mercy: give your worship"
III,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"good morrow."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Take away these chalices. Go brew me a pottle of"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"sack finely."
III,V,BARDOLPH,"With eggs, sir?"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Simple of itself; I'll no pullet-sperm in my brewage."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"How now!"
III,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Marry, sir, I come to your worship from Mistress Ford."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Mistress Ford! I have had ford enough; I was thrown"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"into the ford; I have my belly full of ford."
III,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Alas the day! good heart, that was not her fault:"
III,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"she does so take on with her men; they mistook their erection."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman's promise."
III,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn"
III,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"your heart to see it. Her husband goes this morning"
III,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"a-birding; she desires you once more to come to her"
III,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"between eight and nine: I must carry her word"
III,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"quickly: she'll make you amends, I warrant you."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Well, I will visit her: tell her so; and bid her"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"think what a man is: let her consider his frailty,"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"and then judge of my merit."
III,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"I will tell her."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Do so. Between nine and ten, sayest thou?"
III,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Eight and nine, sir."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Well, be gone: I will not miss her."
III,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Peace be with you, sir."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"I marvel I hear not of Master Brook; he sent me word"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"to stay within: I like his money well. O, here he comes."
III,V,FORD,"Bless you, sir!"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Now, master Brook, you come to know what hath passed"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"between me and Ford's wife?"
III,V,FORD,"That, indeed, Sir John, is my business."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Master Brook, I will not lie to you: I was at her"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"house the hour she appointed me."
III,V,FORD,"And sped you, sir?"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Very ill-favoredly, Master Brook."
III,V,FORD,"How so, sir? Did she change her determination?"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"No, Master Brook; but the peaking Cornuto her"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested,"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy;"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"and at his heels a rabble of his companions, thither"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"provoked and instigated by his distemper, and,"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"forsooth, to search his house for his wife's love."
III,V,FORD,"What, while you were there?"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"While I was there."
III,V,FORD,"And did he search for you, and could not find you?"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"You shall hear. As good luck would have it, comes"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Ford's"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"approach; and, in her invention and Ford's wife's"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket."
III,V,FORD,"A buck-basket!"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"napkins; that, Master Brook, there was the rankest"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril."
III,V,FORD,"And how long lay you there?"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Nay, you shall hear, Master Brook, what I have"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"suffered to bring this woman to evil for your good."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Being thus crammed in the basket, a couple of Ford's"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"knaves, his hinds, were called forth by their"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"mistress to carry me in the name of foul clothes to"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Datchet-lane: they took me on their shoulders; met"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"the jealous knave their master in the door, who"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"asked them once or twice what they had in their"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"basket: I quaked for fear, lest the lunatic knave"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"would have searched it; but fate, ordaining he"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"should be a cuckold, held his hand. Well: on went he"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"for a search, and away went I for foul clothes. But"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"mark the sequel, Master Brook: I suffered the pangs"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"of three several deaths; first, an intolerable"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"fright, to be detected with a jealous rotten"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"bell-wether; next, to be compassed, like a good"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"bilbo, in the circumference of a peck, hilt to"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"point, heel to head; and then, to be stopped in,"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"like a strong distillation, with stinking clothes"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"that fretted in their own grease: think of that,--a"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"man of my kidney,--think of that,--that am as subject"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"to heat as butter; a man of continual dissolution"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"and thaw: it was a miracle to scape suffocation."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"And in the height of this bath, when I was more than"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot,"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"that,--hissing hot,--think of that, Master Brook."
III,V,FORD,"In good sadness, I am sorry that for my sake you"
III,V,FORD,"have sufferd all this. My suit then is desperate;"
III,V,FORD,"you'll undertake her no more?"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Master Brook, I will be thrown into Etna, as I have"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"been into Thames, ere I will leave her thus. Her"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"husband is this morning gone a-birding: I have"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"received from her another embassy of meeting; 'twixt"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"eight and nine is the hour, Master Brook."
III,V,FORD,"'Tis past eight already, sir."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Is it? I will then address me to my appointment."
III,V,FALSTAFF,"Come to me at your convenient leisure, and you shall"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"know how I speed; and the conclusion shall be"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"crowned with your enjoying her. Adieu. You shall"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"have her, Master Brook; Master Brook, you shall"
III,V,FALSTAFF,"cuckold Ford."
III,V,FORD,"Hum! ha! is this a vision? is this a dream? do I"
III,V,FORD,"sleep? Master Ford awake! awake, Master Ford!"
III,V,FORD,"there's a hole made in your best coat, Master Ford."
III,V,FORD,"This 'tis to be married! this 'tis to have linen"
III,V,FORD,"and buck-baskets! Well, I will proclaim myself"
III,V,FORD,"what I am: I will now take the lecher; he is at my"
III,V,FORD,"house; he cannot 'scape me; 'tis impossible he"
III,V,FORD,"should; he cannot creep into a halfpenny purse,"
III,V,FORD,"nor into a pepper-box: but, lest the devil that"
III,V,FORD,"guides him should aid him, I will search"
III,V,FORD,"impossible places. Though what I am I cannot avoid,"
III,V,FORD,"yet to be what I would not shall not make me tame:"
III,V,FORD,"if I have horns to make one mad, let the proverb go"
III,V,FORD,"with me: I'll be horn-mad."
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Is he at Master Ford's already, think'st thou?"
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Sure he is by this, or will be presently: but,"
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"truly, he is very courageous mad about his throwing"
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"into the water. Mistress Ford desires you to come suddenly."
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"I'll be with her by and by; I'll but bring my young"
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"man here to school. Look, where his master comes;"
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"'tis a playing-day, I see."
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"How now, Sir Hugh! no school to-day?"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"No; Master Slender is let the boys leave to play."
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Blessing of his heart!"
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in"
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"the world at his book. I pray you, ask him some"
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"questions in his accidence."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Come hither, William; hold up your head; come."
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Come on, sirrah; hold up your head; answer your"
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"master, be not afraid."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"William, how many numbers is in nouns?"
IV,I,WILLIAM PAGE,"Two."
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Truly, I thought there had been one number more,"
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"because they say, ''Od's nouns.'"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Peace your tattlings! What is 'fair,' William?"
IV,I,WILLIAM PAGE,"Pulcher."
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Polecats! there are fairer things than polecats, sure."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"You are a very simplicity 'oman: I pray you peace."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"What is 'lapis,' William?"
IV,I,WILLIAM PAGE,"A stone."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"And what is 'a stone,' William?"
IV,I,WILLIAM PAGE,"A pebble."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"No, it is 'lapis:' I pray you, remember in your prain."
IV,I,WILLIAM PAGE,"Lapis."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"That is a good William. What is he, William, that"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"does lend articles?"
IV,I,WILLIAM PAGE,"Articles are borrowed of the pronoun, and be thus"
IV,I,WILLIAM PAGE,"declined, Singulariter, nominativo, hic, haec, hoc."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Nominativo, hig, hag, hog; pray you, mark:"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"genitivo, hujus. Well, what is your accusative case?"
IV,I,WILLIAM PAGE,"Accusativo, hinc."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"I pray you, have your remembrance, child,"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"accusative, hung, hang, hog."
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"'Hang-hog' is Latin for bacon, I warrant you."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the focative"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"case, William?"
IV,I,WILLIAM PAGE,"O,--vocativo, O."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Remember, William; focative is caret."
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"And that's a good root."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"'Oman, forbear."
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Peace!"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"What is your genitive case plural, William?"
IV,I,WILLIAM PAGE,"Genitive case!"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Ay."
IV,I,WILLIAM PAGE,"Genitive,--horum, harum, horum."
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Vengeance of Jenny's case! fie on her! never name"
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"her, child, if she be a whore."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"For shame, 'oman."
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"You do ill to teach the child such words: he"
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"teaches him to hick and to hack, which they'll do"
IV,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"fast enough of themselves, and to call 'horum:' fie upon you!"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"'Oman, art thou lunatics? hast thou no"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"understandings for thy cases and the numbers of the"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"I would desires."
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Prithee, hold thy peace."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Show me now, William, some declensions of your pronouns."
IV,I,WILLIAM PAGE,"Forsooth, I have forgot."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"It is qui, quae, quod: if you forget your 'quies,'"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"your 'quaes,' and your 'quods,' you must be"
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"preeches. Go your ways, and play; go."
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"He is a better scholar than I thought he was."
IV,I,SIR HUGH EVANS,"He is a good sprag memory. Farewell, Mistress Page."
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Adieu, good Sir Hugh."
IV,I,MISTRESS PAGE,"Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long."
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"Mistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten up my"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"sufferance. I see you are obsequious in your love,"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"and I profess requital to a hair's breadth; not"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"only, Mistress Ford, in the simple"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"office of love, but in all the accoutrement,"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"complement and ceremony of it. But are you"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"sure of your husband now?"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"He's a-birding, sweet Sir John."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Step into the chamber, Sir John."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"How now, sweetheart! who's at home besides yourself?"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Why, none but mine own people."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Indeed!"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"No, certainly."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Speak louder."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Truly, I am so glad you have nobody here."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Why?"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Why, woman, your husband is in his old lunes again:"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"he so takes on yonder with my husband; so rails"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"against all married mankind; so curses all Eve's"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"daughters, of what complexion soever; and so buffets"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"himself on the forehead, crying, 'Peer out, peer"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"out!' that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"tameness, civility and patience, to this his"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"distemper he is in now: I am glad the fat knight is not here."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Why, does he talk of him?"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Of none but him; and swears he was carried out, the"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"last time he searched for him, in a basket; protests"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"to my husband he is now here, and hath drawn him and"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"the rest of their company from their sport, to make"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"another experiment of his suspicion: but I am glad"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"the knight is not here; now he shall see his own foolery."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"How near is he, Mistress Page?"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Hard by; at street end; he will be here anon."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"I am undone! The knight is here."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Why then you are utterly shamed, and he's but a dead"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"man. What a woman are you!--Away with him, away"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"with him! better shame than murder."
IV,II,FORD,"Which way should be go? how should I bestow him?"
IV,II,FORD,"Shall I put him into the basket again?"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"No, I'll come no more i' the basket. May I not go"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"out ere he come?"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Alas, three of Master Ford's brothers watch the door"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"with pistols, that none shall issue out; otherwise"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"you might slip away ere he came. But what make you here?"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"What shall I do? I'll creep up into the chimney."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"There they always use to discharge their"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"birding-pieces. Creep into the kiln-hole."
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"Where is it?"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"He will seek there, on my word. Neither press,"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"coffer, chest, trunk, well, vault, but he hath an"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"abstract for the remembrance of such places, and"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"goes to them by his note: there is no hiding you in the house."
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"I'll go out then."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"If you go out in your own semblance, you die, Sir"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"John. Unless you go out disguised--"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"How might we disguise him?"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Alas the day, I know not! There is no woman's gown"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"big enough for him otherwise he might put on a hat,"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"a muffler and a kerchief, and so escape."
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"Good hearts, devise something: any extremity rather"
IV,II,FALSTAFF,"than a mischief."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"My maid's aunt, the fat woman of Brentford, has a"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"gown above."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"On my word, it will serve him; she's as big as he"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"is: and there's her thrummed hat and her muffler"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"too. Run up, Sir John."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Go, go, sweet Sir John: Mistress Page and I will"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"look some linen for your head."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Quick, quick! we'll come dress you straight: put"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"on the gown the while."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"I would my husband would meet him in this shape: he"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"cannot abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"she's a witch; forbade her my house and hath"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"threatened to beat her."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Heaven guide him to thy husband's cudgel, and the"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"devil guide his cudgel afterwards!"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"But is my husband coming?"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Ah, in good sadness, is he; and talks of the basket"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"too, howsoever he hath had intelligence."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"We'll try that; for I'll appoint my men to carry the"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"basket again, to meet him at the door with it, as"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"they did last time."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Nay, but he'll be here presently: let's go dress him"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"like the witch of Brentford."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"I'll first direct my men what they shall do with the"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"basket. Go up; I'll bring linen for him straight."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Hang him, dishonest varlet! we cannot misuse him enough."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do,"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Wives may be merry, and yet honest too:"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"We do not act that often jest and laugh;"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"'Tis old, but true, Still swine eat all the draff."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Go, sirs, take the basket again on your shoulders:"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"your master is hard at door; if he bid you set it"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"down, obey him: quickly, dispatch."
IV,II,First Servant,"Come, come, take it up."
IV,II,Second Servant,"Pray heaven it be not full of knight again."
IV,II,First Servant,"I hope not; I had as lief bear so much lead."
IV,II,FORD,"Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any"
IV,II,FORD,"way then to unfool me again? Set down the basket,"
IV,II,FORD,"villain! Somebody call my wife. Youth in a basket!"
IV,II,FORD,"O you panderly rascals! there's a knot, a ging, a"
IV,II,FORD,"pack, a conspiracy against me: now shall the devil"
IV,II,FORD,"be shamed. What, wife, I say! Come, come forth!"
IV,II,FORD,"Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!"
IV,II,PAGE,"Why, this passes, Master Ford; you are not to go"
IV,II,PAGE,"loose any longer; you must be pinioned."
IV,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Why, this is lunatics! this is mad as a mad dog!"
IV,II,SHALLOW,"Indeed, Master Ford, this is not well, indeed."
IV,II,FORD,"So say I too, sir."
IV,II,FORD,"Come hither, Mistress Ford; Mistress Ford the honest"
IV,II,FORD,"woman, the modest wife, the virtuous creature, that"
IV,II,FORD,"hath the jealous fool to her husband! I suspect"
IV,II,FORD,"without cause, mistress, do I?"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Heaven be my witness you do, if you suspect me in"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"any dishonesty."
IV,II,FORD,"Well said, brazen-face! hold it out. Come forth, sirrah!"
IV,II,PAGE,"This passes!"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Are you not ashamed? let the clothes alone."
IV,II,FORD,"I shall find you anon."
IV,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"'Tis unreasonable! Will you take up your wife's"
IV,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"clothes? Come away."
IV,II,FORD,"Empty the basket, I say!"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Why, man, why?"
IV,II,FORD,"Master Page, as I am a man, there was one conveyed"
IV,II,FORD,"out of my house yesterday in this basket: why may"
IV,II,FORD,"not he be there again? In my house I am sure he is:"
IV,II,FORD,"my intelligence is true; my jealousy is reasonable."
IV,II,FORD,"Pluck me out all the linen."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"If you find a man there, he shall die a flea's death."
IV,II,PAGE,"Here's no man."
IV,II,SHALLOW,"By my fidelity, this is not well, Master Ford; this"
IV,II,SHALLOW,"wrongs you."
IV,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Master Ford, you must pray, and not follow the"
IV,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"imaginations of your own heart: this is jealousies."
IV,II,FORD,"Well, he's not here I seek for."
IV,II,PAGE,"No, nor nowhere else but in your brain."
IV,II,FORD,"Help to search my house this one time. If I find"
IV,II,FORD,"not what I seek, show no colour for my extremity; let"
IV,II,FORD,"me for ever be your table-sport; let them say of"
IV,II,FORD,"me, 'As jealous as Ford, Chat searched a hollow"
IV,II,FORD,"walnut for his wife's leman.' Satisfy me once more;"
IV,II,FORD,"once more search with me."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"What, ho, Mistress Page! come you and the old woman"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"down; my husband will come into the chamber."
IV,II,FORD,"Old woman! what old woman's that?"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Nay, it is my maid's aunt of Brentford."
IV,II,FORD,"A witch, a quean, an old cozening quean! Have I not"
IV,II,FORD,"forbid her my house? She comes of errands, does"
IV,II,FORD,"she? We are simple men; we do not know what's"
IV,II,FORD,"brought to pass under the profession of"
IV,II,FORD,"fortune-telling. She works by charms, by spells,"
IV,II,FORD,"by the figure, and such daubery as this is, beyond"
IV,II,FORD,"our element we know nothing. Come down, you witch,"
IV,II,FORD,"you hag, you; come down, I say!"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Nay, good, sweet husband! Good gentlemen, let him"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"not strike the old woman."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Come, Mother Prat; come, give me your hand."
IV,II,FORD,"I'll prat her."
IV,II,FORD,"Out of my door, you witch, you hag, you baggage, you"
IV,II,FORD,"polecat, you runyon! out, out! I'll conjure you,"
IV,II,FORD,"I'll fortune-tell you."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Are you not ashamed? I think you have killed the"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"poor woman."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Nay, he will do it. 'Tis a goodly credit for you."
IV,II,FORD,"Hang her, witch!"
IV,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"By the yea and no, I think the 'oman is a witch"
IV,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"indeed: I like not when a 'oman has a great peard;"
IV,II,SIR HUGH EVANS,"I spy a great peard under his muffler."
IV,II,FORD,"Will you follow, gentlemen? I beseech you, follow;"
IV,II,FORD,"see but the issue of my jealousy: if I cry out thus"
IV,II,FORD,"upon no trail, never trust me when I open again."
IV,II,PAGE,"Let's obey his humour a little further: come,"
IV,II,PAGE,"gentlemen."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Trust me, he beat him most pitifully."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Nay, by the mass, that he did not; he beat him most"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"unpitifully, methought."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"I'll have the cudgel hallowed and hung o'er the"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"altar; it hath done meritorious service."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"What think you? may we, with the warrant of"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"womanhood and the witness of a good conscience,"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"pursue him with any further revenge?"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scared out of"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"him: if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"way of waste, attempt us again."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"Shall we tell our husbands how we have served him?"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Yes, by all means; if it be but to scrape the"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"figures out of your husband's brains. If they can"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"find in their hearts the poor unvirtuous fat knight"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"shall be any further afflicted, we two will still be"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"the ministers."
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"I'll warrant they'll have him publicly shamed: and"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"methinks there would be no period to the jest,"
IV,II,MISTRESS FORD,"should he not be publicly shamed."
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"Come, to the forge with it then; shape it: I would"
IV,II,MISTRESS PAGE,"not have things cool."
IV,III,BARDOLPH,"Sir, the Germans desire to have three of your"
IV,III,BARDOLPH,"horses: the duke himself will be to-morrow at"
IV,III,BARDOLPH,"court, and they are going to meet him."
IV,III,Host,"What duke should that be comes so secretly? I hear"
IV,III,Host,"not of him in the court. Let me speak with the"
IV,III,Host,"gentlemen: they speak English?"
IV,III,BARDOLPH,"Ay, sir; I'll call them to you."
IV,III,Host,"They shall have my horses; but I'll make them pay;"
IV,III,Host,"I'll sauce them: they have had my house a week at"
IV,III,Host,"command; I have turned away my other guests: they"
IV,III,Host,"must come off; I'll sauce them. Come."
IV,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"'Tis one of the best discretions of a 'oman as ever"
IV,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"I did look upon."
IV,IV,PAGE,"And did he send you both these letters at an instant?"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Within a quarter of an hour."
IV,IV,FORD,"Pardon me, wife. Henceforth do what thou wilt;"
IV,IV,FORD,"I rather will suspect the sun with cold"
IV,IV,FORD,"Than thee with wantonness: now doth thy honour stand"
IV,IV,FORD,"In him that was of late an heretic,"
IV,IV,FORD,"As firm as faith."
IV,IV,PAGE,"'Tis well, 'tis well; no more:"
IV,IV,PAGE,"Be not as extreme in submission"
IV,IV,PAGE,"As in offence."
IV,IV,PAGE,"But let our plot go forward: let our wives"
IV,IV,PAGE,"Yet once again, to make us public sport,"
IV,IV,PAGE,"Appoint a meeting with this old fat fellow,"
IV,IV,PAGE,"Where we may take him and disgrace him for it."
IV,IV,FORD,"There is no better way than that they spoke of."
IV,IV,PAGE,"How? to send him word they'll meet him in the park"
IV,IV,PAGE,"at midnight? Fie, fie! he'll never come."
IV,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"You say he has been thrown in the rivers and has"
IV,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"been grievously peaten as an old 'oman: methinks"
IV,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"there should be terrors in him that he should not"
IV,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"come; methinks his flesh is punished, he shall have"
IV,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"no desires."
IV,IV,PAGE,"So think I too."
IV,IV,MISTRESS FORD,"Devise but how you'll use him when he comes,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS FORD,"And let us two devise to bring him thither."
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns;"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"And there he blasts the tree and takes the cattle"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"And makes milch-kine yield blood and shakes a chain"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"In a most hideous and dreadful manner:"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"You have heard of such a spirit, and well you know"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"The superstitious idle-headed eld"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Received and did deliver to our age"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth."
IV,IV,PAGE,"Why, yet there want not many that do fear"
IV,IV,PAGE,"In deep of night to walk by this Herne's oak:"
IV,IV,PAGE,"But what of this?"
IV,IV,MISTRESS FORD,"Marry, this is our device;"
IV,IV,MISTRESS FORD,"That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."
IV,IV,PAGE,"Well, let it not be doubted but he'll come:"
IV,IV,PAGE,"And in this shape when you have brought him thither,"
IV,IV,PAGE,"What shall be done with him? what is your plot?"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"That likewise have we thought upon, and thus:"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Nan Page my daughter and my little son"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"And three or four more of their growth we'll dress"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Like urchins, ouphes and fairies, green and white,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"And rattles in their hands: upon a sudden,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"As Falstaff, she and I, are newly met,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"With some diffused song: upon their sight,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"We two in great amazedness will fly:"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Then let them all encircle him about"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"And ask him why, that hour of fairy revel,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"In their so sacred paths he dares to tread"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"In shape profane."
IV,IV,MISTRESS FORD,"And till he tell the truth,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS FORD,"Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound"
IV,IV,MISTRESS FORD,"And burn him with their tapers."
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"The truth being known,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"We'll all present ourselves, dis-horn the spirit,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"And mock him home to Windsor."
IV,IV,FORD,"The children must"
IV,IV,FORD,"Be practised well to this, or they'll ne'er do't."
IV,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"I will teach the children their behaviors; and I"
IV,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the"
IV,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"knight with my taber."
IV,IV,FORD,"That will be excellent. I'll go and buy them vizards."
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"My Nan shall be the queen of all the fairies,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Finely attired in a robe of white."
IV,IV,PAGE,"That silk will I go buy."
IV,IV,PAGE,"And in that time"
IV,IV,PAGE,"Shall Master Slender steal my Nan away"
IV,IV,PAGE,"And marry her at Eton. Go send to Falstaff straight."
IV,IV,FORD,"Nay I'll to him again in name of Brook"
IV,IV,FORD,"He'll tell me all his purpose: sure, he'll come."
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Fear not you that. Go get us properties"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"And tricking for our fairies."
IV,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Let us about it: it is admirable pleasures and fery"
IV,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"honest knaveries."
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Go, Mistress Ford,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Send quickly to Sir John, to know his mind."
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"I'll to the doctor: he hath my good will,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"And none but he, to marry with Nan Page."
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"That Slender, though well landed, is an idiot;"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"And he my husband best of all affects."
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"The doctor is well money'd, and his friends"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Potent at court: he, none but he, shall have her,"
IV,IV,MISTRESS PAGE,"Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her."
IV,V,Host,"What wouldst thou have, boor? what: thick-skin?"
IV,V,Host,"speak, breathe, discuss; brief, short, quick, snap."
IV,V,SIMPLE,"Marry, sir, I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff"
IV,V,SIMPLE,"from Master Slender."
IV,V,Host,"There's his chamber, his house, his castle, his"
IV,V,Host,"standing-bed and truckle-bed; 'tis painted about"
IV,V,Host,"with the story of the Prodigal, fresh and new. Go"
IV,V,Host,"knock and call; hell speak like an Anthropophaginian"
IV,V,Host,"unto thee: knock, I say."
IV,V,SIMPLE,"There's an old woman, a fat woman, gone up into his"
IV,V,SIMPLE,"chamber: I'll be so bold as stay, sir, till she come"
IV,V,SIMPLE,"down; I come to speak with her, indeed."
IV,V,Host,"Ha! a fat woman! the knight may be robbed: I'll"
IV,V,Host,"call. Bully knight! bully Sir John! speak from"
IV,V,Host,"thy lungs military: art thou there? it is thine"
IV,V,Host,"host, thine Ephesian, calls."
IV,V,Host,"Here's a Bohemian-Tartar tarries the coming down of"
IV,V,Host,"thy fat woman. Let her descend, bully, let her"
IV,V,Host,"descend; my chambers are honourable: fie! privacy?"
IV,V,Host,"fie!"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now with"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"me; but she's gone."
IV,V,SIMPLE,"Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of"
IV,V,SIMPLE,"Brentford?"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"Ay, marry, was it, mussel-shell: what would you with her?"
IV,V,SIMPLE,"My master, sir, Master Slender, sent to her, seeing"
IV,V,SIMPLE,"her go through the streets, to know, sir, whether"
IV,V,SIMPLE,"one Nym, sir, that beguiled him of a chain, had the"
IV,V,SIMPLE,"chain or no."
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"I spake with the old woman about it."
IV,V,SIMPLE,"And what says she, I pray, sir?"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"Marry, she says that the very same man that"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"beguiled Master Slender of his chain cozened him of"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"it."
IV,V,SIMPLE,"I would I could have spoken with the woman herself;"
IV,V,SIMPLE,"I had other things to have spoken with her too from"
IV,V,SIMPLE,"him."
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"What are they? let us know."
IV,V,Host,"Ay, come; quick."
IV,V,SIMPLE,"I may not conceal them, sir."
IV,V,Host,"Conceal them, or thou diest."
IV,V,SIMPLE,"Why, sir, they were nothing but about Mistress Anne"
IV,V,SIMPLE,"Page; to know if it were my master's fortune to"
IV,V,SIMPLE,"have her or no."
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"'Tis, 'tis his fortune."
IV,V,SIMPLE,"What, sir?"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"To have her, or no. Go; say the woman told me so."
IV,V,SIMPLE,"May I be bold to say so, sir?"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"Ay, sir; like who more bold."
IV,V,SIMPLE,"I thank your worship: I shall make my master glad"
IV,V,SIMPLE,"with these tidings."
IV,V,Host,"Thou art clerkly, thou art clerkly, Sir John. Was"
IV,V,Host,"there a wise woman with thee?"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"Ay, that there was, mine host; one that hath taught"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"me more wit than ever I learned before in my life;"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"and I paid nothing for it neither, but was paid for"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"my learning."
IV,V,BARDOLPH,"Out, alas, sir! cozenage, mere cozenage!"
IV,V,Host,"Where be my horses? speak well of them, varletto."
IV,V,BARDOLPH,"Run away with the cozeners; for so soon as I came"
IV,V,BARDOLPH,"beyond Eton, they threw me off from behind one of"
IV,V,BARDOLPH,"them, in a slough of mire; and set spurs and away,"
IV,V,BARDOLPH,"like three German devils, three Doctor Faustuses."
IV,V,Host,"They are gone but to meet the duke, villain: do not"
IV,V,Host,"say they be fled; Germans are honest men."
IV,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Where is mine host?"
IV,V,Host,"What is the matter, sir?"
IV,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Have a care of your entertainments: there is a"
IV,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"friend of mine come to town tells me there is three"
IV,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"cozen-germans that has cozened all the hosts of"
IV,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Readins, of Maidenhead, of Colebrook, of horses and"
IV,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"money. I tell you for good will, look you: you"
IV,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"are wise and full of gibes and vlouting-stocks, and"
IV,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"'tis not convenient you should be cozened. Fare you well."
IV,V,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Vere is mine host de Jarteer?"
IV,V,Host,"Here, master doctor, in perplexity and doubtful dilemma."
IV,V,DOCTOR CAIUS,"I cannot tell vat is dat: but it is tell-a me dat"
IV,V,DOCTOR CAIUS,"you make grand preparation for a duke de Jamany: by"
IV,V,DOCTOR CAIUS,"my trot, dere is no duke dat the court is know to"
IV,V,DOCTOR CAIUS,"come. I tell you for good vill: adieu."
IV,V,Host,"Hue and cry, villain, go! Assist me, knight. I am"
IV,V,Host,"undone! Fly, run, hue and cry, villain! I am undone!"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"I would all the world might be cozened; for I have"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"been cozened and beaten too. If it should come to"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"the ear of the court, how I have been transformed"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"and how my transformation hath been washed and"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"cudgelled, they would melt me out of my fat drop by"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"drop and liquor fishermen's boots with me; I warrant"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"they would whip me with their fine wits till I were"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"as crest-fallen as a dried pear. I never prospered"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"since I forswore myself at primero. Well, if my"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent."
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"Now, whence come you?"
IV,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"From the two parties, forsooth."
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"The devil take one party and his dam the other! and"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"so they shall be both bestowed. I have suffered more"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"for their sakes, more than the villanous inconstancy"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"of man's disposition is able to bear."
IV,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"And have not they suffered? Yes, I warrant;"
IV,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"speciously one of them; Mistress Ford, good heart,"
IV,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see a"
IV,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"white spot about her."
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"What tellest thou me of black and blue? I was"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"beaten myself into all the colours of the rainbow;"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"and I was like to be apprehended for the witch of"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"Brentford: but that my admirable dexterity of wit,"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"my counterfeiting the action of an old woman,"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"delivered me, the knave constable had set me i' the"
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"stocks, i' the common stocks, for a witch."
IV,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Sir, let me speak with you in your chamber: you"
IV,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"shall hear how things go; and, I warrant, to your"
IV,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"content. Here is a letter will say somewhat. Good"
IV,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"hearts, what ado here is to bring you together!"
IV,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Sure, one of you does not serve heaven well, that"
IV,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"you are so crossed."
IV,V,FALSTAFF,"Come up into my chamber."
IV,VI,Host,"Master Fenton, talk not to me; my mind is heavy: I"
IV,VI,Host,"will give over all."
IV,VI,FENTON,"Yet hear me speak. Assist me in my purpose,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"And, as I am a gentleman, I'll give thee"
IV,VI,FENTON,"A hundred pound in gold more than your loss."
IV,VI,Host,"I will hear you, Master Fenton; and I will at the"
IV,VI,Host,"least keep your counsel."
IV,VI,FENTON,"From time to time I have acquainted you"
IV,VI,FENTON,"With the dear love I bear to fair Anne Page;"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Who mutually hath answer'd my affection,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"So far forth as herself might be her chooser,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Even to my wish: I have a letter from her"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Of such contents as you will wonder at;"
IV,VI,FENTON,"The mirth whereof so larded with my matter,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"That neither singly can be manifested,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Without the show of both; fat Falstaff"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Hath a great scene: the image of the jest"
IV,VI,FENTON,"I'll show you here at large. Hark, good mine host."
IV,VI,FENTON,"To-night at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Must my sweet Nan present the Fairy Queen;"
IV,VI,FENTON,"The purpose why, is here: in which disguise,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"While other jests are something rank on foot,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Her father hath commanded her to slip"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Away with Slender and with him at Eton"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Immediately to marry: she hath consented: Now, sir,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Her mother, ever strong against that match"
IV,VI,FENTON,"And firm for Doctor Caius, hath appointed"
IV,VI,FENTON,"That he shall likewise shuffle her away,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"While other sports are tasking of their minds,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"And at the deanery, where a priest attends,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Straight marry her: to this her mother's plot"
IV,VI,FENTON,"She seemingly obedient likewise hath"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Made promise to the doctor. Now, thus it rests:"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Her father means she shall be all in white,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"And in that habit, when Slender sees his time"
IV,VI,FENTON,"To take her by the hand and bid her go,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"She shall go with him: her mother hath intended,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"The better to denote her to the doctor,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"For they must all be mask'd and vizarded,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"That quaint in green she shall be loose enrobed,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"With ribands pendent, flaring 'bout her head;"
IV,VI,FENTON,"And when the doctor spies his vantage ripe,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"To pinch her by the hand, and, on that token,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"The maid hath given consent to go with him."
IV,VI,Host,"Which means she to deceive, father or mother?"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Both, my good host, to go along with me:"
IV,VI,FENTON,"And here it rests, that you'll procure the vicar"
IV,VI,FENTON,"To stay for me at church 'twixt twelve and one,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"And, in the lawful name of marrying,"
IV,VI,FENTON,"To give our hearts united ceremony."
IV,VI,Host,"Well, husband your device; I'll to the vicar:"
IV,VI,Host,"Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a priest."
IV,VI,FENTON,"So shall I evermore be bound to thee;"
IV,VI,FENTON,"Besides, I'll make a present recompense."
V,I,FALSTAFF,"Prithee, no more prattling; go. I'll hold. This is"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"numbers. Away I go. They say there is divinity in"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Away!"
V,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"I'll provide you a chain; and I'll do what I can to"
V,I,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"get you a pair of horns."
V,I,FALSTAFF,"Away, I say; time wears: hold up your head, and mince."
V,I,FALSTAFF,"How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"will be known to-night, or never. Be you in the"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"Park about midnight, at Herne's oak, and you shall"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"see wonders."
V,I,FORD,"Went you not to her yesterday, sir, as you told me"
V,I,FORD,"you had appointed?"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"old man: but I came from her, Master Brook, like a"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"poor old woman. That same knave Ford, her husband,"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him,"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"you: he beat me grievously, in the shape of a"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"woman; for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"not Goliath with a weaver's beam; because I know"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"also life is a shuttle. I am in haste; go along"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"with me: I'll tell you all, Master Brook. Since I"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"plucked geese, played truant and whipped top, I knew"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"not what 'twas to be beaten till lately. Follow"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"me: I'll tell you strange things of this knave"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"Ford, on whom to-night I will be revenged, and I"
V,I,FALSTAFF,"will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow."
V,I,FALSTAFF,"Strange things in hand, Master Brook! Follow."
V,II,PAGE,"Come, come; we'll couch i' the castle-ditch till we"
V,II,PAGE,"see the light of our fairies. Remember, son Slender,"
V,II,PAGE,"my daughter."
V,II,SLENDER,"Ay, forsooth; I have spoke with her and we have a"
V,II,SLENDER,"nay-word how to know one another: I come to her in"
V,II,SLENDER,"white, and cry 'mum;' she cries 'budget;' and by"
V,II,SLENDER,"that we know one another."
V,II,SHALLOW,"That's good too: but what needs either your 'mum'"
V,II,SHALLOW,"or her 'budget?' the white will decipher her well"
V,II,SHALLOW,"enough. It hath struck ten o'clock."
V,II,PAGE,"The night is dark; light and spirits will become it"
V,II,PAGE,"well. Heaven prosper our sport! No man means evil"
V,II,PAGE,"but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns."
V,II,PAGE,"Let's away; follow me."
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Master doctor, my daughter is in green: when you"
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"see your time, take her by the band, away with her"
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. Go before"
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"into the Park: we two must go together."
V,III,DOCTOR CAIUS,"I know vat I have to do. Adieu."
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Fare you well, sir."
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of"
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor's marrying"
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"my daughter: but 'tis no matter; better a little"
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"chiding than a great deal of heart-break."
V,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies, and the"
V,III,MISTRESS FORD,"Welsh devil Hugh?"
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak,"
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"with obscured lights; which, at the very instant of"
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Falstaff's and our meeting, they will at once"
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"display to the night."
V,III,MISTRESS FORD,"That cannot choose but amaze him."
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"If he be not amazed, he will be mocked; if he be"
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"amazed, he will every way be mocked."
V,III,MISTRESS FORD,"We'll betray him finely."
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Against such lewdsters and their lechery"
V,III,MISTRESS PAGE,"Those that betray them do no treachery."
V,III,MISTRESS FORD,"The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!"
V,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Trib, trib, fairies; come; and remember your parts:"
V,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"be pold, I pray you; follow me into the pit; and"
V,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"when I give the watch-'ords, do as I pid you:"
V,IV,SIR HUGH EVANS,"come, come; trib, trib."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"The Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the minute"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"draws on. Now, the hot-blooded gods assist me!"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Remember, Jove, thou wast a bull for thy Europa; love"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"set on thy horns. O powerful love! that, in some"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"respects, makes a beast a man, in some other, a man"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"a beast. You were also, Jupiter, a swan for the love"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"of Leda. O omnipotent Love! how near the god drew"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"to the complexion of a goose! A fault done first in"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"the form of a beast. O Jove, a beastly fault! And"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"then another fault in the semblance of a fowl; think"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"on 't, Jove; a foul fault! When gods have hot"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, i' the"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"doe?"
V,V,MISTRESS FORD,"Sir John! art thou there, my deer? my male deer?"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"My doe with the black scut! Let the sky rain"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of Green"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here."
V,V,MISTRESS FORD,"Mistress Page is come with me, sweetheart."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Divide me like a bribe buck, each a haunch: I will"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"keep my sides to myself, my shoulders for the fellow"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"of this walk, and my horns I bequeath your husbands."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like Herne the hunter?"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"restitution. As I am a true spirit, welcome!"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"Alas, what noise?"
V,V,MISTRESS FORD,"Heaven forgive our sins"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"What should this be?"
V,V,MISTRESS FORD,"Away, away!"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"oil that's in me should set hell on fire; he would"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"never else cross me thus."
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"You moonshine revellers and shades of night,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Attend your office and your quality."
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Crier Hobgoblin, make the fairy oyes."
V,V,PISTOL,"Elves, list your names; silence, you airy toys."
V,V,PISTOL,"Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap:"
V,V,PISTOL,"Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept,"
V,V,PISTOL,"There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry:"
V,V,PISTOL,"Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die:"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"I'll wink and couch: no man their works must eye."
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Where's Bede? Go you, and where you find a maid"
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers said,"
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Raise up the organs of her fantasy;"
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Sleep she as sound as careless infancy:"
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"But those as sleep and think not on their sins,"
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides and shins."
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"About, about;"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out:"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Strew good luck, ouphes, on every sacred room:"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"That it may stand till the perpetual doom,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"In state as wholesome as in state 'tis fit,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Worthy the owner, and the owner it."
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"The several chairs of order look you scour"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"With juice of balm and every precious flower:"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Each fair instalment, coat, and several crest,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"With loyal blazon, evermore be blest!"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring:"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"The expressure that it bears, green let it be,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"More fertile-fresh than all the field to see;"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"And 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' write"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white;"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Let sapphire, pearl and rich embroidery,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee:"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Fairies use flowers for their charactery."
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Away; disperse: but till 'tis one o'clock,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Our dance of custom round about the oak"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Of Herne the hunter, let us not forget."
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Pray you, lock hand in hand; yourselves in order set"
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be,"
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"To guide our measure round about the tree."
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"But, stay; I smell a man of middle-earth."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, lest he"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"transform me to a piece of cheese!"
V,V,PISTOL,"Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth."
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"With trial-fire touch me his finger-end:"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"If he be chaste, the flame will back descend"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"And turn him to no pain; but if he start,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"It is the flesh of a corrupted heart."
V,V,PISTOL,"A trial, come."
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Come, will this wood take fire?"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Oh, Oh, Oh!"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire!"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"About him, fairies; sing a scornful rhyme;"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time."
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Fie on sinful fantasy!"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Fie on lust and luxury!"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Lust is but a bloody fire,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Kindled with unchaste desire,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Fed in heart, whose flames aspire"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher."
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Pinch him, fairies, mutually;"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Pinch him for his villany;"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about,"
V,V,MISTRESS QUICKLY,"Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out."
V,V,PAGE,"Nay, do not fly; I think we have watch'd you now"
V,V,PAGE,"Will none but Herne the hunter serve your turn?"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"I pray you, come, hold up the jest no higher"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"Now, good Sir John, how like you Windsor wives?"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"See you these, husband? do not these fair yokes"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"Become the forest better than the town?"
V,V,FORD,"Now, sir, who's a cuckold now? Master Brook,"
V,V,FORD,"Falstaff's a knave, a cuckoldly knave; here are his"
V,V,FORD,"horns, Master Brook: and, Master Brook, he hath"
V,V,FORD,"enjoyed nothing of Ford's but his buck-basket, his"
V,V,FORD,"cudgel, and twenty pounds of money, which must be"
V,V,FORD,"paid to Master Brook; his horses are arrested for"
V,V,FORD,"it, Master Brook."
V,V,MISTRESS FORD,"Sir John, we have had ill luck; we could never meet."
V,V,MISTRESS FORD,"I will never take you for my love again; but I will"
V,V,MISTRESS FORD,"always count you my deer."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass."
V,V,FORD,"Ay, and an ox too: both the proofs are extant."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"And these are not fairies? I was three or four"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"times in the thought they were not fairies: and yet"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"the guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"powers, drove the grossness of the foppery into a"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"received belief, in despite of the teeth of all"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"rhyme and reason, that they were fairies. See now"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"how wit may be made a Jack-a-Lent, when 'tis upon"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"ill employment!"
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Sir John Falstaff, serve Got, and leave your"
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"desires, and fairies will not pinse you."
V,V,FORD,"Well said, fairy Hugh."
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"And leave your jealousies too, I pray you."
V,V,FORD,"I will never mistrust my wife again till thou art"
V,V,FORD,"able to woo her in good English."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Have I laid my brain in the sun and dried it, that"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"this? Am I ridden with a Welsh goat too? shall I"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"have a coxcomb of frize? 'Tis time I were choked"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"with a piece of toasted cheese."
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"Seese is not good to give putter; your belly is all putter."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"'Seese' and 'putter'! have I lived to stand at the"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"taunt of one that makes fritters of English? This"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"is enough to be the decay of lust and late-walking"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"through the realm."
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"Why Sir John, do you think, though we would have the"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"virtue out of our hearts by the head and shoulders"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"and have given ourselves without scruple to hell,"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"that ever the devil could have made you our delight?"
V,V,FORD,"What, a hodge-pudding? a bag of flax?"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"A puffed man?"
V,V,PAGE,"Old, cold, withered and of intolerable entrails?"
V,V,FORD,"And one that is as slanderous as Satan?"
V,V,PAGE,"And as poor as Job?"
V,V,FORD,"And as wicked as his wife?"
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"And given to fornications, and to taverns and sack"
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"and wine and metheglins, and to drinkings and"
V,V,SIR HUGH EVANS,"swearings and starings, pribbles and prabbles?"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"Well, I am your theme: you have the start of me; I"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"am dejected; I am not able to answer the Welsh"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"flannel; ignorance itself is a plummet o'er me: use"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"me as you will."
V,V,FORD,"Marry, sir, we'll bring you to Windsor, to one"
V,V,FORD,"Master Brook, that you have cozened of money, to"
V,V,FORD,"whom you should have been a pander: over and above"
V,V,FORD,"that you have suffered, I think to repay that money"
V,V,FORD,"will be a biting affliction."
V,V,PAGE,"Yet be cheerful, knight: thou shalt eat a posset"
V,V,PAGE,"to-night at my house; where I will desire thee to"
V,V,PAGE,"laugh at my wife, that now laughs at thee: tell her"
V,V,PAGE,"Master Slender hath married her daughter."
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"daughter, she is, by this, Doctor Caius' wife."
V,V,SLENDER,"Whoa ho! ho, father Page!"
V,V,PAGE,"Son, how now! how now, son! have you dispatched?"
V,V,SLENDER,"Dispatched! I'll make the best in Gloucestershire"
V,V,SLENDER,"know on't; would I were hanged, la, else."
V,V,PAGE,"Of what, son?"
V,V,SLENDER,"I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page,"
V,V,SLENDER,"and she's a great lubberly boy. If it had not been"
V,V,SLENDER,"i' the church, I would have swinged him, or he"
V,V,SLENDER,"should have swinged me. If I did not think it had"
V,V,SLENDER,"been Anne Page, would I might never stir!--and 'tis"
V,V,SLENDER,"a postmaster's boy."
V,V,PAGE,"Upon my life, then, you took the wrong."
V,V,SLENDER,"What need you tell me that? I think so, when I took"
V,V,SLENDER,"a boy for a girl. If I had been married to him, for"
V,V,SLENDER,"all he was in woman's apparel, I would not have had"
V,V,SLENDER,"him."
V,V,PAGE,"Why, this is your own folly. Did not I tell you how"
V,V,PAGE,"you should know my daughter by her garments?"
V,V,SLENDER,"I went to her in white, and cried 'mum,' and she"
V,V,SLENDER,"cried 'budget,' as Anne and I had appointed; and yet"
V,V,SLENDER,"it was not Anne, but a postmaster's boy."
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"Good George, be not angry: I knew of your purpose;"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"turned my daughter into green; and, indeed, she is"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"now with the doctor at the deanery, and there married."
V,V,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Vere is Mistress Page? By gar, I am cozened: I ha'"
V,V,DOCTOR CAIUS,"married un garcon, a boy; un paysan, by gar, a boy;"
V,V,DOCTOR CAIUS,"it is not Anne Page: by gar, I am cozened."
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"Why, did you take her in green?"
V,V,DOCTOR CAIUS,"Ay, by gar, and 'tis a boy: by gar, I'll raise all Windsor."
V,V,FORD,"This is strange. Who hath got the right Anne?"
V,V,PAGE,"My heart misgives me: here comes Master Fenton."
V,V,PAGE,"How now, Master Fenton!"
V,V,ANNE PAGE,"Pardon, good father! good my mother, pardon!"
V,V,PAGE,"Now, mistress, how chance you went not with Master Slender?"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"Why went you not with master doctor, maid?"
V,V,FENTON,"You do amaze her: hear the truth of it."
V,V,FENTON,"You would have married her most shamefully,"
V,V,FENTON,"Where there was no proportion held in love."
V,V,FENTON,"The truth is, she and I, long since contracted,"
V,V,FENTON,"Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us."
V,V,FENTON,"The offence is holy that she hath committed;"
V,V,FENTON,"And this deceit loses the name of craft,"
V,V,FENTON,"Of disobedience, or unduteous title,"
V,V,FENTON,"Since therein she doth evitate and shun"
V,V,FENTON,"A thousand irreligious cursed hours,"
V,V,FENTON,"Which forced marriage would have brought upon her."
V,V,FORD,"Stand not amazed; here is no remedy:"
V,V,FORD,"In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;"
V,V,FORD,"Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"I am glad, though you have ta'en a special stand to"
V,V,FALSTAFF,"strike at me, that your arrow hath glanced."
V,V,PAGE,"Well, what remedy? Fenton, heaven give thee joy!"
V,V,PAGE,"What cannot be eschew'd must be embraced."
V,V,FALSTAFF,"When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased."
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"Well, I will muse no further. Master Fenton,"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"Heaven give you many, many merry days!"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"Good husband, let us every one go home,"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"And laugh this sport o'er by a country fire;"
V,V,MISTRESS PAGE,"Sir John and all."
V,V,FORD,"Let it be so. Sir John,"
V,V,FORD,"To Master Brook you yet shall hold your word"
V,V,FORD,"For he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford."
I,I,THESEUS,"Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour"
I,I,THESEUS,"Draws on apace; four happy days bring in"
I,I,THESEUS,"Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow"
I,I,THESEUS,"This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,"
I,I,THESEUS,"Like to a step-dame or a dowager"
I,I,THESEUS,"Long withering out a young man revenue."
I,I,HIPPOLYTA,"Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;"
I,I,HIPPOLYTA,"Four nights will quickly dream away the time;"
I,I,HIPPOLYTA,"And then the moon, like to a silver bow"
I,I,HIPPOLYTA,"New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night"
I,I,HIPPOLYTA,"Of our solemnities."
I,I,THESEUS,"Go, Philostrate,"
I,I,THESEUS,"Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments;"
I,I,THESEUS,"Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;"
I,I,THESEUS,"Turn melancholy forth to funerals;"
I,I,THESEUS,"The pale companion is not for our pomp."
I,I,THESEUS,"Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword,"
I,I,THESEUS,"And won thy love, doing thee injuries;"
I,I,THESEUS,"But I will wed thee in another key,"
I,I,THESEUS,"With pomp, with triumph and with revelling."
I,I,EGEUS,"Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke!"
I,I,THESEUS,"Thanks, good Egeus: what's the news with thee?"
I,I,EGEUS,"Full of vexation come I, with complaint"
I,I,EGEUS,"Against my child, my daughter Hermia."
I,I,EGEUS,"Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord,"
I,I,EGEUS,"This man hath my consent to marry her."
I,I,EGEUS,"Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke,"
I,I,EGEUS,"This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child;"
I,I,EGEUS,"Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,"
I,I,EGEUS,"And interchanged love-tokens with my child:"
I,I,EGEUS,"Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung,"
I,I,EGEUS,"With feigning voice verses of feigning love,"
I,I,EGEUS,"And stolen the impression of her fantasy"
I,I,EGEUS,"With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits,"
I,I,EGEUS,"Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, messengers"
I,I,EGEUS,"Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth:"
I,I,EGEUS,"With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart,"
I,I,EGEUS,"Turn'd her obedience, which is due to me,"
I,I,EGEUS,"To stubborn harshness: and, my gracious duke,"
I,I,EGEUS,"Be it so she; will not here before your grace"
I,I,EGEUS,"Consent to marry with Demetrius,"
I,I,EGEUS,"I beg the ancient privilege of Athens,"
I,I,EGEUS,"As she is mine, I may dispose of her:"
I,I,EGEUS,"Which shall be either to this gentleman"
I,I,EGEUS,"Or to her death, according to our law"
I,I,EGEUS,"Immediately provided in that case."
I,I,THESEUS,"What say you, Hermia? be advised fair maid:"
I,I,THESEUS,"To you your father should be as a god;"
I,I,THESEUS,"One that composed your beauties, yea, and one"
I,I,THESEUS,"To whom you are but as a form in wax"
I,I,THESEUS,"By him imprinted and within his power"
I,I,THESEUS,"To leave the figure or disfigure it."
I,I,THESEUS,"Demetrius is a worthy gentleman."
I,I,HERMIA,"So is Lysander."
I,I,THESEUS,"In himself he is;"
I,I,THESEUS,"But in this kind, wanting your father's voice,"
I,I,THESEUS,"The other must be held the worthier."
I,I,HERMIA,"I would my father look'd but with my eyes."
I,I,THESEUS,"Rather your eyes must with his judgment look."
I,I,HERMIA,"I do entreat your grace to pardon me."
I,I,HERMIA,"I know not by what power I am made bold,"
I,I,HERMIA,"Nor how it may concern my modesty,"
I,I,HERMIA,"In such a presence here to plead my thoughts;"
I,I,HERMIA,"But I beseech your grace that I may know"
I,I,HERMIA,"The worst that may befall me in this case,"
I,I,HERMIA,"If I refuse to wed Demetrius."
I,I,THESEUS,"Either to die the death or to abjure"
I,I,THESEUS,"For ever the society of men."
I,I,THESEUS,"Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;"
I,I,THESEUS,"Know of your youth, examine well your blood,"
I,I,THESEUS,"Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice,"
I,I,THESEUS,"You can endure the livery of a nun,"
I,I,THESEUS,"For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd,"
I,I,THESEUS,"To live a barren sister all your life,"
I,I,THESEUS,"Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon."
I,I,THESEUS,"Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood,"
I,I,THESEUS,"To undergo such maiden pilgrimage;"
I,I,THESEUS,"But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,"
I,I,THESEUS,"Than that which withering on the virgin thorn"
I,I,THESEUS,"Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness."
I,I,HERMIA,"So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,"
I,I,HERMIA,"Ere I will my virgin patent up"
I,I,HERMIA,"Unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke"
I,I,HERMIA,"My soul consents not to give sovereignty."
I,I,THESEUS,"Take time to pause; and, by the nest new moon--"
I,I,THESEUS,"The sealing-day betwixt my love and me,"
I,I,THESEUS,"For everlasting bond of fellowship--"
I,I,THESEUS,"Upon that day either prepare to die"
I,I,THESEUS,"For disobedience to your father's will,"
I,I,THESEUS,"Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would;"
I,I,THESEUS,"Or on Diana's altar to protest"
I,I,THESEUS,"For aye austerity and single life."
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield"
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"Thy crazed title to my certain right."
I,I,LYSANDER,"You have her father's love, Demetrius;"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him."
I,I,EGEUS,"Scornful Lysander! true, he hath my love,"
I,I,EGEUS,"And what is mine my love shall render him."
I,I,EGEUS,"And she is mine, and all my right of her"
I,I,EGEUS,"I do estate unto Demetrius."
I,I,LYSANDER,"I am, my lord, as well derived as he,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"As well possess'd; my love is more than his;"
I,I,LYSANDER,"My fortunes every way as fairly rank'd,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"If not with vantage, as Demetrius';"
I,I,LYSANDER,"And, which is more than all these boasts can be,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"I am beloved of beauteous Hermia:"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Why should not I then prosecute my right?"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Upon this spotted and inconstant man."
I,I,THESEUS,"I must confess that I have heard so much,"
I,I,THESEUS,"And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof;"
I,I,THESEUS,"But, being over-full of self-affairs,"
I,I,THESEUS,"My mind did lose it. But, Demetrius, come;"
I,I,THESEUS,"And come, Egeus; you shall go with me,"
I,I,THESEUS,"I have some private schooling for you both."
I,I,THESEUS,"For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself"
I,I,THESEUS,"To fit your fancies to your father's will;"
I,I,THESEUS,"Or else the law of Athens yields you up--"
I,I,THESEUS,"Which by no means we may extenuate--"
I,I,THESEUS,"To death, or to a vow of single life."
I,I,THESEUS,"Come, my Hippolyta: what cheer, my love?"
I,I,THESEUS,"Demetrius and Egeus, go along:"
I,I,THESEUS,"I must employ you in some business"
I,I,THESEUS,"Against our nuptial and confer with you"
I,I,THESEUS,"Of something nearly that concerns yourselves."
I,I,EGEUS,"With duty and desire we follow you."
I,I,LYSANDER,"How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?"
I,I,LYSANDER,"How chance the roses there do fade so fast?"
I,I,HERMIA,"Belike for want of rain, which I could well"
I,I,HERMIA,"Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes."
I,I,LYSANDER,"Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Could ever hear by tale or history,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"The course of true love never did run smooth;"
I,I,LYSANDER,"But, either it was different in blood,--"
I,I,HERMIA,"O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low."
I,I,LYSANDER,"Or else misgraffed in respect of years,--"
I,I,HERMIA,"O spite! too old to be engaged to young."
I,I,LYSANDER,"Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,--"
I,I,HERMIA,"O hell! to choose love by another's eyes."
I,I,LYSANDER,"Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Making it momentany as a sound,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Brief as the lightning in the collied night,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'"
I,I,LYSANDER,"The jaws of darkness do devour it up:"
I,I,LYSANDER,"So quick bright things come to confusion."
I,I,HERMIA,"If then true lovers have been ever cross'd,"
I,I,HERMIA,"It stands as an edict in destiny:"
I,I,HERMIA,"Then let us teach our trial patience,"
I,I,HERMIA,"Because it is a customary cross,"
I,I,HERMIA,"As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,"
I,I,HERMIA,"Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers."
I,I,LYSANDER,"A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia."
I,I,LYSANDER,"I have a widow aunt, a dowager"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Of great revenue, and she hath no child:"
I,I,LYSANDER,"From Athens is her house remote seven leagues;"
I,I,LYSANDER,"And she respects me as her only son."
I,I,LYSANDER,"There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee;"
I,I,LYSANDER,"And to that place the sharp Athenian law"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night;"
I,I,LYSANDER,"And in the wood, a league without the town,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Where I did meet thee once with Helena,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"To do observance to a morn of May,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"There will I stay for thee."
I,I,HERMIA,"My good Lysander!"
I,I,HERMIA,"I swear to thee, by Cupid's strongest bow,"
I,I,HERMIA,"By his best arrow with the golden head,"
I,I,HERMIA,"By the simplicity of Venus' doves,"
I,I,HERMIA,"By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,"
I,I,HERMIA,"And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen,"
I,I,HERMIA,"When the false Troyan under sail was seen,"
I,I,HERMIA,"By all the vows that ever men have broke,"
I,I,HERMIA,"In number more than ever women spoke,"
I,I,HERMIA,"In that same place thou hast appointed me,"
I,I,HERMIA,"To-morrow truly will I meet with thee."
I,I,LYSANDER,"Keep promise, love. Look, here comes Helena."
I,I,HERMIA,"God speed fair Helena! whither away?"
I,I,HELENA,"Call you me fair? that fair again unsay."
I,I,HELENA,"Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!"
I,I,HELENA,"Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet air"
I,I,HELENA,"More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,"
I,I,HELENA,"When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear."
I,I,HELENA,"Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,"
I,I,HELENA,"Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;"
I,I,HELENA,"My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,"
I,I,HELENA,"My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody."
I,I,HELENA,"Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,"
I,I,HELENA,"The rest I'd give to be to you translated."
I,I,HELENA,"O, teach me how you look, and with what art"
I,I,HELENA,"You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."
I,I,HERMIA,"I frown upon him, yet he loves me still."
I,I,HELENA,"O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!"
I,I,HERMIA,"I give him curses, yet he gives me love."
I,I,HELENA,"O that my prayers could such affection move!"
I,I,HERMIA,"The more I hate, the more he follows me."
I,I,HELENA,"The more I love, the more he hateth me."
I,I,HERMIA,"His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine."
I,I,HELENA,"None, but your beauty: would that fault were mine!"
I,I,HERMIA,"Take comfort: he no more shall see my face;"
I,I,HERMIA,"Lysander and myself will fly this place."
I,I,HERMIA,"Before the time I did Lysander see,"
I,I,HERMIA,"Seem'd Athens as a paradise to me:"
I,I,HERMIA,"O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,"
I,I,HERMIA,"That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Helen, to you our minds we will unfold:"
I,I,LYSANDER,"To-morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Her silver visage in the watery glass,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal,"
I,I,LYSANDER,"Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal."
I,I,HERMIA,"And in the wood, where often you and I"
I,I,HERMIA,"Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie,"
I,I,HERMIA,"Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,"
I,I,HERMIA,"There my Lysander and myself shall meet;"
I,I,HERMIA,"And thence from Athens turn away our eyes,"
I,I,HERMIA,"To seek new friends and stranger companies."
I,I,HERMIA,"Farewell, sweet playfellow: pray thou for us;"
I,I,HERMIA,"And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius!"
I,I,HERMIA,"Keep word, Lysander: we must starve our sight"
I,I,HERMIA,"From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight."
I,I,LYSANDER,"I will, my Hermia."
I,I,LYSANDER,"Helena, adieu:"
I,I,LYSANDER,"As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!"
I,I,HELENA,"How happy some o'er other some can be!"
I,I,HELENA,"Through Athens I am thought as fair as she."
I,I,HELENA,"But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so;"
I,I,HELENA,"He will not know what all but he do know:"
I,I,HELENA,"And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,"
I,I,HELENA,"So I, admiring of his qualities:"
I,I,HELENA,"Things base and vile, folding no quantity,"
I,I,HELENA,"Love can transpose to form and dignity:"
I,I,HELENA,"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;"
I,I,HELENA,"And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:"
I,I,HELENA,"Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;"
I,I,HELENA,"Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:"
I,I,HELENA,"And therefore is Love said to be a child,"
I,I,HELENA,"Because in choice he is so oft beguiled."
I,I,HELENA,"As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,"
I,I,HELENA,"So the boy Love is perjured every where:"
I,I,HELENA,"For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne,"
I,I,HELENA,"He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine;"
I,I,HELENA,"And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,"
I,I,HELENA,"So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt."
I,I,HELENA,"I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:"
I,I,HELENA,"Then to the wood will he to-morrow night"
I,I,HELENA,"Pursue her; and for this intelligence"
I,I,HELENA,"If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:"
I,I,HELENA,"But herein mean I to enrich my pain,"
I,I,HELENA,"To have his sight thither and back again."
I,II,QUINCE,"Is all our company here?"
I,II,BOTTOM,"You were best to call them generally, man by man,"
I,II,BOTTOM,"according to the scrip."
I,II,QUINCE,"Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is"
I,II,QUINCE,"thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our"
I,II,QUINCE,"interlude before the duke and the duchess, on his"
I,II,QUINCE,"wedding-day at night."
I,II,BOTTOM,"First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats"
I,II,BOTTOM,"on, then read the names of the actors, and so grow"
I,II,BOTTOM,"to a point."
I,II,QUINCE,"Marry, our play is, The most lamentable comedy, and"
I,II,QUINCE,"most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby."
I,II,BOTTOM,"A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a"
I,II,BOTTOM,"merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your"
I,II,BOTTOM,"actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves."
I,II,QUINCE,"Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver."
I,II,BOTTOM,"Ready. Name what part I am for, and proceed."
I,II,QUINCE,"You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus."
I,II,BOTTOM,"What is Pyramus? a lover, or a tyrant?"
I,II,QUINCE,"A lover, that kills himself most gallant for love."
I,II,BOTTOM,"That will ask some tears in the true performing of"
I,II,BOTTOM,"it: if I do it, let the audience look to their"
I,II,BOTTOM,"eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some"
I,II,BOTTOM,"measure. To the rest: yet my chief humour is for a"
I,II,BOTTOM,"tyrant: I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to"
I,II,BOTTOM,"tear a cat in, to make all split."
I,II,BOTTOM,"The raging rocks"
I,II,BOTTOM,"And shivering shocks"
I,II,BOTTOM,"Shall break the locks"
I,II,BOTTOM,"Of prison gates;"
I,II,BOTTOM,"And Phibbus' car"
I,II,BOTTOM,"Shall shine from far"
I,II,BOTTOM,"And make and mar"
I,II,BOTTOM,"The foolish Fates."
I,II,BOTTOM,"This was lofty! Now name the rest of the players."
I,II,BOTTOM,"This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein; a lover is"
I,II,BOTTOM,"more condoling."
I,II,QUINCE,"Francis Flute, the bellows-mender."
I,II,FLUTE,"Here, Peter Quince."
I,II,QUINCE,"Flute, you must take Thisby on you."
I,II,FLUTE,"What is Thisby? a wandering knight?"
I,II,QUINCE,"It is the lady that Pyramus must love."
I,II,FLUTE,"Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming."
I,II,QUINCE,"That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and"
I,II,QUINCE,"you may speak as small as you will."
I,II,BOTTOM,"An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too, I'll"
I,II,BOTTOM,"speak in a monstrous little voice. 'Thisne,"
I,II,BOTTOM,"Thisne;' 'Ah, Pyramus, lover dear! thy Thisby dear,"
I,II,BOTTOM,"and lady dear!'"
I,II,QUINCE,"No, no; you must play Pyramus: and, Flute, you Thisby."
I,II,BOTTOM,"Well, proceed."
I,II,QUINCE,"Robin Starveling, the tailor."
I,II,STARVELING,"Here, Peter Quince."
I,II,QUINCE,"Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby's mother."
I,II,QUINCE,"Tom Snout, the tinker."
I,II,SNOUT,"Here, Peter Quince."
I,II,QUINCE,"You, Pyramus' father: myself, Thisby's father:"
I,II,QUINCE,"Snug, the joiner; you, the lion's part: and, I"
I,II,QUINCE,"hope, here is a play fitted."
I,II,SNUG,"Have you the lion's part written? pray you, if it"
I,II,SNUG,"be, give it me, for I am slow of study."
I,II,QUINCE,"You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring."
I,II,BOTTOM,"Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will"
I,II,BOTTOM,"do any man's heart good to hear me; I will roar,"
I,II,BOTTOM,"that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again,"
I,II,BOTTOM,"let him roar again.'"
I,II,QUINCE,"An you should do it too terribly, you would fright"
I,II,QUINCE,"the duchess and the ladies, that they would shriek;"
I,II,QUINCE,"and that were enough to hang us all."
I,II,ALL,"That would hang us, every mother's son."
I,II,BOTTOM,"I grant you, friends, if that you should fright the"
I,II,BOTTOM,"ladies out of their wits, they would have no more"
I,II,BOTTOM,"discretion but to hang us: but I will aggravate my"
I,II,BOTTOM,"voice so that I will roar you as gently as any"
I,II,BOTTOM,"sucking dove; I will roar you an 'twere any"
I,II,BOTTOM,"nightingale."
I,II,QUINCE,"You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a"
I,II,QUINCE,"sweet-faced man; a proper man, as one shall see in a"
I,II,QUINCE,"summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man:"
I,II,QUINCE,"therefore you must needs play Pyramus."
I,II,BOTTOM,"Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best"
I,II,BOTTOM,"to play it in?"
I,II,QUINCE,"Why, what you will."
I,II,BOTTOM,"I will discharge it in either your straw-colour"
I,II,BOTTOM,"beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain"
I,II,BOTTOM,"beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your"
I,II,BOTTOM,"perfect yellow."
I,II,QUINCE,"Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and"
I,II,QUINCE,"then you will play bare-faced. But, masters, here"
I,II,QUINCE,"are your parts: and I am to entreat you, request"
I,II,QUINCE,"you and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night;"
I,II,QUINCE,"and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the"
I,II,QUINCE,"town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse, for if"
I,II,QUINCE,"we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with"
I,II,QUINCE,"company, and our devices known. In the meantime I"
I,II,QUINCE,"will draw a bill of properties, such as our play"
I,II,QUINCE,"wants. I pray you, fail me not."
I,II,BOTTOM,"We will meet; and there we may rehearse most"
I,II,BOTTOM,"obscenely and courageously. Take pains; be perfect: adieu."
I,II,QUINCE,"At the duke's oak we meet."
I,II,BOTTOM,"Enough; hold or cut bow-strings."
II,I,PUCK,"How now, spirit! whither wander you?"
II,I,Fairy,"Over hill, over dale,"
II,I,Fairy,"Thorough bush, thorough brier,"
II,I,Fairy,"Over park, over pale,"
II,I,Fairy,"Thorough flood, thorough fire,"
II,I,Fairy,"I do wander everywhere,"
II,I,Fairy,"Swifter than the moon's sphere;"
II,I,Fairy,"And I serve the fairy queen,"
II,I,Fairy,"To dew her orbs upon the green."
II,I,Fairy,"The cowslips tall her pensioners be:"
II,I,Fairy,"In their gold coats spots you see;"
II,I,Fairy,"Those be rubies, fairy favours,"
II,I,Fairy,"In those freckles live their savours:"
II,I,Fairy,"I must go seek some dewdrops here"
II,I,Fairy,"And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear."
II,I,Fairy,"Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone:"
II,I,Fairy,"Our queen and all our elves come here anon."
II,I,PUCK,"The king doth keep his revels here to-night:"
II,I,PUCK,"Take heed the queen come not within his sight;"
II,I,PUCK,"For Oberon is passing fell and wrath,"
II,I,PUCK,"Because that she as her attendant hath"
II,I,PUCK,"A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king;"
II,I,PUCK,"She never had so sweet a changeling;"
II,I,PUCK,"And jealous Oberon would have the child"
II,I,PUCK,"Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild;"
II,I,PUCK,"But she perforce withholds the loved boy,"
II,I,PUCK,"Crowns him with flowers and makes him all her joy:"
II,I,PUCK,"And now they never meet in grove or green,"
II,I,PUCK,"By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen,"
II,I,PUCK,"But, they do square, that all their elves for fear"
II,I,PUCK,"Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there."
II,I,Fairy,"Either I mistake your shape and making quite,"
II,I,Fairy,"Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite"
II,I,Fairy,"Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he"
II,I,Fairy,"That frights the maidens of the villagery;"
II,I,Fairy,"Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern"
II,I,Fairy,"And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;"
II,I,Fairy,"And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;"
II,I,Fairy,"Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?"
II,I,Fairy,"Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,"
II,I,Fairy,"You do their work, and they shall have good luck:"
II,I,Fairy,"Are not you he?"
II,I,PUCK,"Thou speak'st aright;"
II,I,PUCK,"I am that merry wanderer of the night."
II,I,PUCK,"I jest to Oberon and make him smile"
II,I,PUCK,"When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,"
II,I,PUCK,"Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:"
II,I,PUCK,"And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,"
II,I,PUCK,"In very likeness of a roasted crab,"
II,I,PUCK,"And when she drinks, against her lips I bob"
II,I,PUCK,"And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale."
II,I,PUCK,"The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,"
II,I,PUCK,"Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;"
II,I,PUCK,"Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,"
II,I,PUCK,"And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough;"
II,I,PUCK,"And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,"
II,I,PUCK,"And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear"
II,I,PUCK,"A merrier hour was never wasted there."
II,I,PUCK,"But, room, fairy! here comes Oberon."
II,I,Fairy,"And here my mistress. Would that he were gone!"
II,I,OBERON,"Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania."
II,I,TITANIA,"What, jealous Oberon! Fairies, skip hence:"
II,I,TITANIA,"I have forsworn his bed and company."
II,I,OBERON,"Tarry, rash wanton: am not I thy lord?"
II,I,TITANIA,"Then I must be thy lady: but I know"
II,I,TITANIA,"When thou hast stolen away from fairy land,"
II,I,TITANIA,"And in the shape of Corin sat all day,"
II,I,TITANIA,"Playing on pipes of corn and versing love"
II,I,TITANIA,"To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here,"
II,I,TITANIA,"Come from the farthest Steppe of India?"
II,I,TITANIA,"But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,"
II,I,TITANIA,"Your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love,"
II,I,TITANIA,"To Theseus must be wedded, and you come"
II,I,TITANIA,"To give their bed joy and prosperity."
II,I,OBERON,"How canst thou thus for shame, Titania,"
II,I,OBERON,"Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,"
II,I,OBERON,"Knowing I know thy love to Theseus?"
II,I,OBERON,"Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night"
II,I,OBERON,"From Perigenia, whom he ravished?"
II,I,OBERON,"And make him with fair AEgle break his faith,"
II,I,OBERON,"With Ariadne and Antiopa?"
II,I,TITANIA,"These are the forgeries of jealousy:"
II,I,TITANIA,"And never, since the middle summer's spring,"
II,I,TITANIA,"Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead,"
II,I,TITANIA,"By paved fountain or by rushy brook,"
II,I,TITANIA,"Or in the beached margent of the sea,"
II,I,TITANIA,"To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,"
II,I,TITANIA,"But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport."
II,I,TITANIA,"Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,"
II,I,TITANIA,"As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea"
II,I,TITANIA,"Contagious fogs; which falling in the land"
II,I,TITANIA,"Have every pelting river made so proud"
II,I,TITANIA,"That they have overborne their continents:"
II,I,TITANIA,"The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain,"
II,I,TITANIA,"The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn"
II,I,TITANIA,"Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard;"
II,I,TITANIA,"The fold stands empty in the drowned field,"
II,I,TITANIA,"And crows are fatted with the murrion flock;"
II,I,TITANIA,"The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud,"
II,I,TITANIA,"And the quaint mazes in the wanton green"
II,I,TITANIA,"For lack of tread are undistinguishable:"
II,I,TITANIA,"The human mortals want their winter here;"
II,I,TITANIA,"No night is now with hymn or carol blest:"
II,I,TITANIA,"Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,"
II,I,TITANIA,"Pale in her anger, washes all the air,"
II,I,TITANIA,"That rheumatic diseases do abound:"
II,I,TITANIA,"And thorough this distemperature we see"
II,I,TITANIA,"The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts"
II,I,TITANIA,"Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,"
II,I,TITANIA,"And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown"
II,I,TITANIA,"An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds"
II,I,TITANIA,"Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer,"
II,I,TITANIA,"The childing autumn, angry winter, change"
II,I,TITANIA,"Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,"
II,I,TITANIA,"By their increase, now knows not which is which:"
II,I,TITANIA,"And this same progeny of evils comes"
II,I,TITANIA,"From our debate, from our dissension;"
II,I,TITANIA,"We are their parents and original."
II,I,OBERON,"Do you amend it then; it lies in you:"
II,I,OBERON,"Why should Titania cross her Oberon?"
II,I,OBERON,"I do but beg a little changeling boy,"
II,I,OBERON,"To be my henchman."
II,I,TITANIA,"Set your heart at rest:"
II,I,TITANIA,"The fairy land buys not the child of me."
II,I,TITANIA,"His mother was a votaress of my order:"
II,I,TITANIA,"And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,"
II,I,TITANIA,"Full often hath she gossip'd by my side,"
II,I,TITANIA,"And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands,"
II,I,TITANIA,"Marking the embarked traders on the flood,"
II,I,TITANIA,"When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive"
II,I,TITANIA,"And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;"
II,I,TITANIA,"Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait"
II,I,TITANIA,"Following,--her womb then rich with my young squire,--"
II,I,TITANIA,"Would imitate, and sail upon the land,"
II,I,TITANIA,"To fetch me trifles, and return again,"
II,I,TITANIA,"As from a voyage, rich with merchandise."
II,I,TITANIA,"But she, being mortal, of that boy did die;"
II,I,TITANIA,"And for her sake do I rear up her boy,"
II,I,TITANIA,"And for her sake I will not part with him."
II,I,OBERON,"How long within this wood intend you stay?"
II,I,TITANIA,"Perchance till after Theseus' wedding-day."
II,I,TITANIA,"If you will patiently dance in our round"
II,I,TITANIA,"And see our moonlight revels, go with us;"
II,I,TITANIA,"If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts."
II,I,OBERON,"Give me that boy, and I will go with thee."
II,I,TITANIA,"Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away!"
II,I,TITANIA,"We shall chide downright, if I longer stay."
II,I,OBERON,"Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove"
II,I,OBERON,"Till I torment thee for this injury."
II,I,OBERON,"My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest"
II,I,OBERON,"Since once I sat upon a promontory,"
II,I,OBERON,"And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back"
II,I,OBERON,"Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath"
II,I,OBERON,"That the rude sea grew civil at her song"
II,I,OBERON,"And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,"
II,I,OBERON,"To hear the sea-maid's music."
II,I,PUCK,"I remember."
II,I,OBERON,"That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,"
II,I,OBERON,"Flying between the cold moon and the earth,"
II,I,OBERON,"Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took"
II,I,OBERON,"At a fair vestal throned by the west,"
II,I,OBERON,"And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,"
II,I,OBERON,"As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts;"
II,I,OBERON,"But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft"
II,I,OBERON,"Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon,"
II,I,OBERON,"And the imperial votaress passed on,"
II,I,OBERON,"In maiden meditation, fancy-free."
II,I,OBERON,"Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:"
II,I,OBERON,"It fell upon a little western flower,"
II,I,OBERON,"Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,"
II,I,OBERON,"And maidens call it love-in-idleness."
II,I,OBERON,"Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once:"
II,I,OBERON,"The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid"
II,I,OBERON,"Will make or man or woman madly dote"
II,I,OBERON,"Upon the next live creature that it sees."
II,I,OBERON,"Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again"
II,I,OBERON,"Ere the leviathan can swim a league."
II,I,PUCK,"I'll put a girdle round about the earth"
II,I,PUCK,"In forty minutes."
II,I,OBERON,"Having once this juice,"
II,I,OBERON,"I'll watch Titania when she is asleep,"
II,I,OBERON,"And drop the liquor of it in her eyes."
II,I,OBERON,"The next thing then she waking looks upon,"
II,I,OBERON,"Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,"
II,I,OBERON,"On meddling monkey, or on busy ape,"
II,I,OBERON,"She shall pursue it with the soul of love:"
II,I,OBERON,"And ere I take this charm from off her sight,"
II,I,OBERON,"As I can take it with another herb,"
II,I,OBERON,"I'll make her render up her page to me."
II,I,OBERON,"But who comes here? I am invisible;"
II,I,OBERON,"And I will overhear their conference."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"I love thee not, therefore pursue me not."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood;"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"And here am I, and wode within this wood,"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Because I cannot meet my Hermia."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more."
II,I,HELENA,"You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;"
II,I,HELENA,"But yet you draw not iron, for my heart"
II,I,HELENA,"Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,"
II,I,HELENA,"And I shall have no power to follow you."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Do I entice you? do I speak you fair?"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?"
II,I,HELENA,"And even for that do I love you the more."
II,I,HELENA,"I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,"
II,I,HELENA,"The more you beat me, I will fawn on you:"
II,I,HELENA,"Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,"
II,I,HELENA,"Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,"
II,I,HELENA,"Unworthy as I am, to follow you."
II,I,HELENA,"What worser place can I beg in your love,--"
II,I,HELENA,"And yet a place of high respect with me,--"
II,I,HELENA,"Than to be used as you use your dog?"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit;"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"For I am sick when I do look on thee."
II,I,HELENA,"And I am sick when I look not on you."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"You do impeach your modesty too much,"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"To leave the city and commit yourself"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Into the hands of one that loves you not;"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"To trust the opportunity of night"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"And the ill counsel of a desert place"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"With the rich worth of your virginity."
II,I,HELENA,"Your virtue is my privilege: for that"
II,I,HELENA,"It is not night when I do see your face,"
II,I,HELENA,"Therefore I think I am not in the night;"
II,I,HELENA,"Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,"
II,I,HELENA,"For you in my respect are all the world:"
II,I,HELENA,"Then how can it be said I am alone,"
II,I,HELENA,"When all the world is here to look on me?"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts."
II,I,HELENA,"The wildest hath not such a heart as you."
II,I,HELENA,"Run when you will, the story shall be changed:"
II,I,HELENA,"Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;"
II,I,HELENA,"The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind"
II,I,HELENA,"Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,"
II,I,HELENA,"When cowardice pursues and valour flies."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"I will not stay thy questions; let me go:"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Or, if thou follow me, do not believe"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"But I shall do thee mischief in the wood."
II,I,HELENA,"Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,"
II,I,HELENA,"You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius!"
II,I,HELENA,"Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex:"
II,I,HELENA,"We cannot fight for love, as men may do;"
II,I,HELENA,"We should be wood and were not made to woo."
II,I,HELENA,"I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,"
II,I,HELENA,"To die upon the hand I love so well."
II,I,OBERON,"Fare thee well, nymph: ere he do leave this grove,"
II,I,OBERON,"Thou shalt fly him and he shall seek thy love."
II,I,OBERON,"Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer."
II,I,PUCK,"Ay, there it is."
II,I,OBERON,"I pray thee, give it me."
II,I,OBERON,"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,"
II,I,OBERON,"Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,"
II,I,OBERON,"Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,"
II,I,OBERON,"With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:"
II,I,OBERON,"There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,"
II,I,OBERON,"Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;"
II,I,OBERON,"And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,"
II,I,OBERON,"Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:"
II,I,OBERON,"And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes,"
II,I,OBERON,"And make her full of hateful fantasies."
II,I,OBERON,"Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:"
II,I,OBERON,"A sweet Athenian lady is in love"
II,I,OBERON,"With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes;"
II,I,OBERON,"But do it when the next thing he espies"
II,I,OBERON,"May be the lady: thou shalt know the man"
II,I,OBERON,"By the Athenian garments he hath on."
II,I,OBERON,"Effect it with some care, that he may prove"
II,I,OBERON,"More fond on her than she upon her love:"
II,I,OBERON,"And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow."
II,I,PUCK,"Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so."
II,II,TITANIA,"Come, now a roundel and a fairy song;"
II,II,TITANIA,"Then, for the third part of a minute, hence;"
II,II,TITANIA,"Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,"
II,II,TITANIA,"Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings,"
II,II,TITANIA,"To make my small elves coats, and some keep back"
II,II,TITANIA,"The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders"
II,II,TITANIA,"At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep;"
II,II,TITANIA,"Then to your offices and let me rest."
II,II,TITANIA,"You spotted snakes with double tongue,"
II,II,TITANIA,"Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;"
II,II,TITANIA,"Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,"
II,II,TITANIA,"Come not near our fairy queen."
II,II,TITANIA,"Philomel, with melody"
II,II,TITANIA,"Sing in our sweet lullaby;"
II,II,TITANIA,"Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:"
II,II,TITANIA,"Never harm,"
II,II,TITANIA,"Nor spell nor charm,"
II,II,TITANIA,"Come our lovely lady nigh;"
II,II,TITANIA,"So, good night, with lullaby."
II,II,TITANIA,"Weaving spiders, come not here;"
II,II,TITANIA,"Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence!"
II,II,TITANIA,"Beetles black, approach not near;"
II,II,TITANIA,"Worm nor snail, do no offence."
II,II,TITANIA,"Philomel, with melody, &c."
II,II,Fairy,"Hence, away! now all is well:"
II,II,Fairy,"One aloof stand sentinel."
II,II,OBERON,"What thou seest when thou dost wake,"
II,II,OBERON,"Do it for thy true-love take,"
II,II,OBERON,"Love and languish for his sake:"
II,II,OBERON,"Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,"
II,II,OBERON,"Pard, or boar with bristled hair,"
II,II,OBERON,"In thy eye that shall appear"
II,II,OBERON,"When thou wakest, it is thy dear:"
II,II,OBERON,"Wake when some vile thing is near."
II,II,LYSANDER,"Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood;"
II,II,LYSANDER,"And to speak troth, I have forgot our way:"
II,II,LYSANDER,"We'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good,"
II,II,LYSANDER,"And tarry for the comfort of the day."
II,II,HERMIA,"Be it so, Lysander: find you out a bed;"
II,II,HERMIA,"For I upon this bank will rest my head."
II,II,LYSANDER,"One turf shall serve as pillow for us both;"
II,II,LYSANDER,"One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth."
II,II,HERMIA,"Nay, good Lysander; for my sake, my dear,"
II,II,HERMIA,"Lie further off yet, do not lie so near."
II,II,LYSANDER,"O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!"
II,II,LYSANDER,"Love takes the meaning in love's conference."
II,II,LYSANDER,"I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit"
II,II,LYSANDER,"So that but one heart we can make of it;"
II,II,LYSANDER,"Two bosoms interchained with an oath;"
II,II,LYSANDER,"So then two bosoms and a single troth."
II,II,LYSANDER,"Then by your side no bed-room me deny;"
II,II,LYSANDER,"For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie."
II,II,HERMIA,"Lysander riddles very prettily:"
II,II,HERMIA,"Now much beshrew my manners and my pride,"
II,II,HERMIA,"If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied."
II,II,HERMIA,"But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy"
II,II,HERMIA,"Lie further off; in human modesty,"
II,II,HERMIA,"Such separation as may well be said"
II,II,HERMIA,"Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,"
II,II,HERMIA,"So far be distant; and, good night, sweet friend:"
II,II,HERMIA,"Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end!"
II,II,LYSANDER,"Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I;"
II,II,LYSANDER,"And then end life when I end loyalty!"
II,II,LYSANDER,"Here is my bed: sleep give thee all his rest!"
II,II,HERMIA,"With half that wish the wisher's eyes be press'd!"
II,II,PUCK,"Through the forest have I gone."
II,II,PUCK,"But Athenian found I none,"
II,II,PUCK,"On whose eyes I might approve"
II,II,PUCK,"This flower's force in stirring love."
II,II,PUCK,"Night and silence.--Who is here?"
II,II,PUCK,"Weeds of Athens he doth wear:"
II,II,PUCK,"This is he, my master said,"
II,II,PUCK,"Despised the Athenian maid;"
II,II,PUCK,"And here the maiden, sleeping sound,"
II,II,PUCK,"On the dank and dirty ground."
II,II,PUCK,"Pretty soul! she durst not lie"
II,II,PUCK,"Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy."
II,II,PUCK,"Churl, upon thy eyes I throw"
II,II,PUCK,"All the power this charm doth owe."
II,II,PUCK,"When thou wakest, let love forbid"
II,II,PUCK,"Sleep his seat on thy eyelid:"
II,II,PUCK,"So awake when I am gone;"
II,II,PUCK,"For I must now to Oberon."
II,II,HELENA,"Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius."
II,II,DEMETRIUS,"I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus."
II,II,HELENA,"O, wilt thou darkling leave me? do not so."
II,II,DEMETRIUS,"Stay, on thy peril: I alone will go."
II,II,HELENA,"O, I am out of breath in this fond chase!"
II,II,HELENA,"The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace."
II,II,HELENA,"Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies;"
II,II,HELENA,"For she hath blessed and attractive eyes."
II,II,HELENA,"How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears:"
II,II,HELENA,"If so, my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers."
II,II,HELENA,"No, no, I am as ugly as a bear;"
II,II,HELENA,"For beasts that meet me run away for fear:"
II,II,HELENA,"Therefore no marvel though Demetrius"
II,II,HELENA,"Do, as a monster fly my presence thus."
II,II,HELENA,"What wicked and dissembling glass of mine"
II,II,HELENA,"Made me compare with Hermia's sphery eyne?"
II,II,HELENA,"But who is here? Lysander! on the ground!"
II,II,HELENA,"Dead? or asleep? I see no blood, no wound."
II,II,HELENA,"Lysander if you live, good sir, awake."
II,II,LYSANDER,"Transparent Helena! Nature shows art,"
II,II,LYSANDER,"That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart."
II,II,LYSANDER,"Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word"
II,II,LYSANDER,"Is that vile name to perish on my sword!"
II,II,HELENA,"Do not say so, Lysander; say not so"
II,II,HELENA,"What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though?"
II,II,HELENA,"Yet Hermia still loves you: then be content."
II,II,LYSANDER,"Content with Hermia! No; I do repent"
II,II,LYSANDER,"The tedious minutes I with her have spent."
II,II,LYSANDER,"Not Hermia but Helena I love:"
II,II,LYSANDER,"Who will not change a raven for a dove?"
II,II,LYSANDER,"The will of man is by his reason sway'd;"
II,II,LYSANDER,"And reason says you are the worthier maid."
II,II,LYSANDER,"Things growing are not ripe until their season"
II,II,LYSANDER,"So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason;"
II,II,LYSANDER,"And touching now the point of human skill,"
II,II,LYSANDER,"Reason becomes the marshal to my will"
II,II,LYSANDER,"And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook"
II,II,LYSANDER,"Love's stories written in love's richest book."
II,II,HELENA,"Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?"
II,II,HELENA,"When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?"
II,II,HELENA,"Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man,"
II,II,HELENA,"That I did never, no, nor never can,"
II,II,HELENA,"Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,"
II,II,HELENA,"But you must flout my insufficiency?"
II,II,HELENA,"Good troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do,"
II,II,HELENA,"In such disdainful manner me to woo."
II,II,HELENA,"But fare you well: perforce I must confess"
II,II,HELENA,"I thought you lord of more true gentleness."
II,II,HELENA,"O, that a lady, of one man refused."
II,II,HELENA,"Should of another therefore be abused!"
II,II,LYSANDER,"She sees not Hermia. Hermia, sleep thou there:"
II,II,LYSANDER,"And never mayst thou come Lysander near!"
II,II,LYSANDER,"For as a surfeit of the sweetest things"
II,II,LYSANDER,"The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,"
II,II,LYSANDER,"Or as tie heresies that men do leave"
II,II,LYSANDER,"Are hated most of those they did deceive,"
II,II,LYSANDER,"So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,"
II,II,LYSANDER,"Of all be hated, but the most of me!"
II,II,LYSANDER,"And, all my powers, address your love and might"
II,II,LYSANDER,"To honour Helen and to be her knight!"
II,II,HERMIA,"To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!"
II,II,HERMIA,"Ay me, for pity! what a dream was here!"
II,II,HERMIA,"Lysander, look how I do quake with fear:"
II,II,HERMIA,"Methought a serpent eat my heart away,"
II,II,HERMIA,"And you sat smiling at his cruel pray."
II,II,HERMIA,"Lysander! what, removed? Lysander! lord!"
II,II,HERMIA,"What, out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word?"
II,II,HERMIA,"Alack, where are you speak, an if you hear;"
II,II,HERMIA,"Speak, of all loves! I swoon almost with fear."
II,II,HERMIA,"No? then I well perceive you all not nigh"
II,II,HERMIA,"Either death or you I'll find immediately."
III,I,BOTTOM,"Are we all met?"
III,I,QUINCE,"Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place"
III,I,QUINCE,"for our rehearsal. This green plot shall be our"
III,I,QUINCE,"stage, this hawthorn-brake our tiring-house; and we"
III,I,QUINCE,"will do it in action as we will do it before the duke."
III,I,BOTTOM,"Peter Quince,--"
III,I,QUINCE,"What sayest thou, bully Bottom?"
III,I,BOTTOM,"There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and"
III,I,BOTTOM,"Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must"
III,I,BOTTOM,"draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies"
III,I,BOTTOM,"cannot abide. How answer you that?"
III,I,SNOUT,"By'r lakin, a parlous fear."
III,I,STARVELING,"I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done."
III,I,BOTTOM,"Not a whit: I have a device to make all well."
III,I,BOTTOM,"Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem to"
III,I,BOTTOM,"say, we will do no harm with our swords, and that"
III,I,BOTTOM,"Pyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the more"
III,I,BOTTOM,"better assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am not"
III,I,BOTTOM,"Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put them"
III,I,BOTTOM,"out of fear."
III,I,QUINCE,"Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall be"
III,I,QUINCE,"written in eight and six."
III,I,BOTTOM,"No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight."
III,I,SNOUT,"Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?"
III,I,STARVELING,"I fear it, I promise you."
III,I,BOTTOM,"Masters, you ought to consider with yourselves: to"
III,I,BOTTOM,"bring in--God shield us!--a lion among ladies, is a"
III,I,BOTTOM,"most dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful"
III,I,BOTTOM,"wild-fowl than your lion living; and we ought to"
III,I,BOTTOM,"look to 't."
III,I,SNOUT,"Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion."
III,I,BOTTOM,"Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must"
III,I,BOTTOM,"be seen through the lion's neck: and he himself"
III,I,BOTTOM,"must speak through, saying thus, or to the same"
III,I,BOTTOM,"defect,--'Ladies,'--or 'Fair-ladies--I would wish"
III,I,BOTTOM,"You,'--or 'I would request you,'--or 'I would"
III,I,BOTTOM,"entreat you,--not to fear, not to tremble: my life"
III,I,BOTTOM,"for yours. If you think I come hither as a lion, it"
III,I,BOTTOM,"were pity of my life: no I am no such thing; I am a"
III,I,BOTTOM,"man as other men are;' and there indeed let him name"
III,I,BOTTOM,"his name, and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner."
III,I,QUINCE,"Well it shall be so. But there is two hard things;"
III,I,QUINCE,"that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber; for,"
III,I,QUINCE,"you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight."
III,I,SNOUT,"Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?"
III,I,BOTTOM,"A calendar, a calendar! look in the almanac; find"
III,I,BOTTOM,"out moonshine, find out moonshine."
III,I,QUINCE,"Yes, it doth shine that night."
III,I,BOTTOM,"Why, then may you leave a casement of the great"
III,I,BOTTOM,"chamber window, where we play, open, and the moon"
III,I,BOTTOM,"may shine in at the casement."
III,I,QUINCE,"Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns"
III,I,QUINCE,"and a lanthorn, and say he comes to disfigure, or to"
III,I,QUINCE,"present, the person of Moonshine. Then, there is"
III,I,QUINCE,"another thing: we must have a wall in the great"
III,I,QUINCE,"chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby says the story, did"
III,I,QUINCE,"talk through the chink of a wall."
III,I,SNOUT,"You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom?"
III,I,BOTTOM,"Some man or other must present Wall: and let him"
III,I,BOTTOM,"have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-cast"
III,I,BOTTOM,"about him, to signify wall; and let him hold his"
III,I,BOTTOM,"fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus"
III,I,BOTTOM,"and Thisby whisper."
III,I,QUINCE,"If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit down,"
III,I,QUINCE,"every mother's son, and rehearse your parts."
III,I,QUINCE,"Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your"
III,I,QUINCE,"speech, enter into that brake: and so every one"
III,I,QUINCE,"according to his cue."
III,I,PUCK,"What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,"
III,I,PUCK,"So near the cradle of the fairy queen?"
III,I,PUCK,"What, a play toward! I'll be an auditor;"
III,I,PUCK,"An actor too, perhaps, if I see cause."
III,I,QUINCE,"Speak, Pyramus. Thisby, stand forth."
III,I,BOTTOM,"Thisby, the flowers of odious savours sweet,--"
III,I,QUINCE,"Odours, odours."
III,I,BOTTOM,"--odours savours sweet:"
III,I,BOTTOM,"So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisby dear."
III,I,BOTTOM,"But hark, a voice! stay thou but here awhile,"
III,I,BOTTOM,"And by and by I will to thee appear."
III,I,PUCK,"A stranger Pyramus than e'er played here."
III,I,FLUTE,"Must I speak now?"
III,I,QUINCE,"Ay, marry, must you; for you must understand he goes"
III,I,QUINCE,"but to see a noise that he heard, and is to come again."
III,I,FLUTE,"Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue,"
III,I,FLUTE,"Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier,"
III,I,FLUTE,"Most brisky juvenal and eke most lovely Jew,"
III,I,FLUTE,"As true as truest horse that yet would never tire,"
III,I,FLUTE,"I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb."
III,I,QUINCE,"'Ninus' tomb,' man: why, you must not speak that"
III,I,QUINCE,"yet; that you answer to Pyramus: you speak all your"
III,I,QUINCE,"part at once, cues and all Pyramus enter: your cue"
III,I,QUINCE,"is past; it is, 'never tire.'"
III,I,FLUTE,"O,--As true as truest horse, that yet would"
III,I,FLUTE,"never tire."
III,I,BOTTOM,"If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine."
III,I,QUINCE,"O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted. Pray,"
III,I,QUINCE,"masters! fly, masters! Help!"
III,I,PUCK,"I'll follow you, I'll lead you about a round,"
III,I,PUCK,"Through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier:"
III,I,PUCK,"Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound,"
III,I,PUCK,"A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire;"
III,I,PUCK,"And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,"
III,I,PUCK,"Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn."
III,I,BOTTOM,"Why do they run away? this is a knavery of them to"
III,I,BOTTOM,"make me afeard."
III,I,SNOUT,"O Bottom, thou art changed! what do I see on thee?"
III,I,BOTTOM,"What do you see? you see an asshead of your own, do"
III,I,BOTTOM,"you?"
III,I,QUINCE,"Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art"
III,I,QUINCE,"translated."
III,I,BOTTOM,"I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me;"
III,I,BOTTOM,"to fright me, if they could. But I will not stir"
III,I,BOTTOM,"from this place, do what they can: I will walk up"
III,I,BOTTOM,"and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear"
III,I,BOTTOM,"I am not afraid."
III,I,BOTTOM,"The ousel cock so black of hue,"
III,I,BOTTOM,"With orange-tawny bill,"
III,I,BOTTOM,"The throstle with his note so true,"
III,I,BOTTOM,"The wren with little quill,--"
III,I,BOTTOM,"The finch, the sparrow and the lark,"
III,I,BOTTOM,"The plain-song cuckoo gray,"
III,I,BOTTOM,"Whose note full many a man doth mark,"
III,I,BOTTOM,"And dares not answer nay;--"
III,I,BOTTOM,"for, indeed, who would set his wit to so foolish"
III,I,BOTTOM,"a bird? who would give a bird the lie, though he cry"
III,I,BOTTOM,"'cuckoo' never so?"
III,I,TITANIA,"I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:"
III,I,TITANIA,"Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note;"
III,I,TITANIA,"So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;"
III,I,TITANIA,"And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me"
III,I,TITANIA,"On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee."
III,I,BOTTOM,"Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason"
III,I,BOTTOM,"for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and"
III,I,BOTTOM,"love keep little company together now-a-days; the"
III,I,BOTTOM,"more the pity that some honest neighbours will not"
III,I,BOTTOM,"make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion."
III,I,TITANIA,"Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful."
III,I,BOTTOM,"Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough to get out"
III,I,BOTTOM,"of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn."
III,I,TITANIA,"Out of this wood do not desire to go:"
III,I,TITANIA,"Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no."
III,I,TITANIA,"I am a spirit of no common rate;"
III,I,TITANIA,"The summer still doth tend upon my state;"
III,I,TITANIA,"And I do love thee: therefore, go with me;"
III,I,TITANIA,"I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee,"
III,I,TITANIA,"And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep,"
III,I,TITANIA,"And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep;"
III,I,TITANIA,"And I will purge thy mortal grossness so"
III,I,TITANIA,"That thou shalt like an airy spirit go."
III,I,TITANIA,"Peaseblossom! Cobweb! Moth! and Mustardseed!"
III,I,PEASEBLOSSOM,"Ready."
III,I,COBWEB,"And I."
III,I,MOTH,"And I."
III,I,MUSTARDSEED,"And I."
III,I,ALL,"Where shall we go?"
III,I,TITANIA,"Be kind and courteous to this gentleman;"
III,I,TITANIA,"Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes;"
III,I,TITANIA,"Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,"
III,I,TITANIA,"With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;"
III,I,TITANIA,"The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees,"
III,I,TITANIA,"And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs"
III,I,TITANIA,"And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes,"
III,I,TITANIA,"To have my love to bed and to arise;"
III,I,TITANIA,"And pluck the wings from Painted butterflies"
III,I,TITANIA,"To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes:"
III,I,TITANIA,"Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies."
III,I,PEASEBLOSSOM,"Hail, mortal!"
III,I,COBWEB,"Hail!"
III,I,MOTH,"Hail!"
III,I,MUSTARDSEED,"Hail!"
III,I,BOTTOM,"I cry your worship's mercy, heartily: I beseech your"
III,I,BOTTOM,"worship's name."
III,I,COBWEB,"Cobweb."
III,I,BOTTOM,"I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good Master"
III,I,BOTTOM,"Cobweb: if I cut my finger, I shall make bold with"
III,I,BOTTOM,"you. Your name, honest gentleman?"
III,I,PEASEBLOSSOM,"Peaseblossom."
III,I,BOTTOM,"I pray you, commend me to Mistress Squash, your"
III,I,BOTTOM,"mother, and to Master Peascod, your father. Good"
III,I,BOTTOM,"Master Peaseblossom, I shall desire you of more"
III,I,BOTTOM,"acquaintance too. Your name, I beseech you, sir?"
III,I,MUSTARDSEED,"Mustardseed."
III,I,BOTTOM,"Good Master Mustardseed, I know your patience well:"
III,I,BOTTOM,"that same cowardly, giant-like ox-beef hath"
III,I,BOTTOM,"devoured many a gentleman of your house: I promise"
III,I,BOTTOM,"you your kindred had made my eyes water ere now. I"
III,I,BOTTOM,"desire your more acquaintance, good Master"
III,I,BOTTOM,"Mustardseed."
III,I,TITANIA,"Come, wait upon him; lead him to my bower."
III,I,TITANIA,"The moon methinks looks with a watery eye;"
III,I,TITANIA,"And when she weeps, weeps every little flower,"
III,I,TITANIA,"Lamenting some enforced chastity."
III,I,TITANIA,"Tie up my love's tongue bring him silently."
III,II,OBERON,"I wonder if Titania be awaked;"
III,II,OBERON,"Then, what it was that next came in her eye,"
III,II,OBERON,"Which she must dote on in extremity."
III,II,OBERON,"Here comes my messenger."
III,II,OBERON,"How now, mad spirit!"
III,II,OBERON,"What night-rule now about this haunted grove?"
III,II,PUCK,"My mistress with a monster is in love."
III,II,PUCK,"Near to her close and consecrated bower,"
III,II,PUCK,"While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,"
III,II,PUCK,"A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,"
III,II,PUCK,"That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,"
III,II,PUCK,"Were met together to rehearse a play"
III,II,PUCK,"Intended for great Theseus' nuptial-day."
III,II,PUCK,"The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,"
III,II,PUCK,"Who Pyramus presented, in their sport"
III,II,PUCK,"Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake"
III,II,PUCK,"When I did him at this advantage take,"
III,II,PUCK,"An ass's nole I fixed on his head:"
III,II,PUCK,"Anon his Thisbe must be answered,"
III,II,PUCK,"And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,"
III,II,PUCK,"As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,"
III,II,PUCK,"Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,"
III,II,PUCK,"Rising and cawing at the gun's report,"
III,II,PUCK,"Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,"
III,II,PUCK,"So, at his sight, away his fellows fly;"
III,II,PUCK,"And, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls;"
III,II,PUCK,"He murder cries and help from Athens calls."
III,II,PUCK,"Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears"
III,II,PUCK,"thus strong,"
III,II,PUCK,"Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;"
III,II,PUCK,"For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;"
III,II,PUCK,"Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all"
III,II,PUCK,"things catch."
III,II,PUCK,"I led them on in this distracted fear,"
III,II,PUCK,"And left sweet Pyramus translated there:"
III,II,PUCK,"When in that moment, so it came to pass,"
III,II,PUCK,"Titania waked and straightway loved an ass."
III,II,OBERON,"This falls out better than I could devise."
III,II,OBERON,"But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes"
III,II,OBERON,"With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do?"
III,II,PUCK,"I took him sleeping,--that is finish'd too,--"
III,II,PUCK,"And the Athenian woman by his side:"
III,II,PUCK,"That, when he waked, of force she must be eyed."
III,II,OBERON,"Stand close: this is the same Athenian."
III,II,PUCK,"This is the woman, but not this the man."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"O, why rebuke you him that loves you so?"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe."
III,II,HERMIA,"Now I but chide; but I should use thee worse,"
III,II,HERMIA,"For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse,"
III,II,HERMIA,"If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep,"
III,II,HERMIA,"Being o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep,"
III,II,HERMIA,"And kill me too."
III,II,HERMIA,"The sun was not so true unto the day"
III,II,HERMIA,"As he to me: would he have stolen away"
III,II,HERMIA,"From sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon"
III,II,HERMIA,"This whole earth may be bored and that the moon"
III,II,HERMIA,"May through the centre creep and so displease"
III,II,HERMIA,"Her brother's noontide with Antipodes."
III,II,HERMIA,"It cannot be but thou hast murder'd him;"
III,II,HERMIA,"So should a murderer look, so dead, so grim."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"So should the murder'd look, and so should I,"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty:"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear,"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere."
III,II,HERMIA,"What's this to my Lysander? where is he?"
III,II,HERMIA,"Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"I had rather give his carcass to my hounds."
III,II,HERMIA,"Out, dog! out, cur! thou drivest me past the bounds"
III,II,HERMIA,"Of maiden's patience. Hast thou slain him, then?"
III,II,HERMIA,"Henceforth be never number'd among men!"
III,II,HERMIA,"O, once tell true, tell true, even for my sake!"
III,II,HERMIA,"Durst thou have look'd upon him being awake,"
III,II,HERMIA,"And hast thou kill'd him sleeping? O brave touch!"
III,II,HERMIA,"Could not a worm, an adder, do so much?"
III,II,HERMIA,"An adder did it; for with doubler tongue"
III,II,HERMIA,"Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"You spend your passion on a misprised mood:"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"I am not guilty of Lysander's blood;"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell."
III,II,HERMIA,"I pray thee, tell me then that he is well."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"An if I could, what should I get therefore?"
III,II,HERMIA,"A privilege never to see me more."
III,II,HERMIA,"And from thy hated presence part I so:"
III,II,HERMIA,"See me no more, whether he be dead or no."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"There is no following her in this fierce vein:"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Here therefore for a while I will remain."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe:"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Which now in some slight measure it will pay,"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"If for his tender here I make some stay."
III,II,OBERON,"What hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite"
III,II,OBERON,"And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight:"
III,II,OBERON,"Of thy misprision must perforce ensue"
III,II,OBERON,"Some true love turn'd and not a false turn'd true."
III,II,PUCK,"Then fate o'er-rules, that, one man holding troth,"
III,II,PUCK,"A million fail, confounding oath on oath."
III,II,OBERON,"About the wood go swifter than the wind,"
III,II,OBERON,"And Helena of Athens look thou find:"
III,II,OBERON,"All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer,"
III,II,OBERON,"With sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear:"
III,II,OBERON,"By some illusion see thou bring her here:"
III,II,OBERON,"I'll charm his eyes against she do appear."
III,II,PUCK,"I go, I go; look how I go,"
III,II,PUCK,"Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow."
III,II,OBERON,"Flower of this purple dye,"
III,II,OBERON,"Hit with Cupid's archery,"
III,II,OBERON,"Sink in apple of his eye."
III,II,OBERON,"When his love he doth espy,"
III,II,OBERON,"Let her shine as gloriously"
III,II,OBERON,"As the Venus of the sky."
III,II,OBERON,"When thou wakest, if she be by,"
III,II,OBERON,"Beg of her for remedy."
III,II,PUCK,"Captain of our fairy band,"
III,II,PUCK,"Helena is here at hand;"
III,II,PUCK,"And the youth, mistook by me,"
III,II,PUCK,"Pleading for a lover's fee."
III,II,PUCK,"Shall we their fond pageant see?"
III,II,PUCK,"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
III,II,OBERON,"Stand aside: the noise they make"
III,II,OBERON,"Will cause Demetrius to awake."
III,II,PUCK,"Then will two at once woo one;"
III,II,PUCK,"That must needs be sport alone;"
III,II,PUCK,"And those things do best please me"
III,II,PUCK,"That befal preposterously."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Scorn and derision never come in tears:"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born,"
III,II,LYSANDER,"In their nativity all truth appears."
III,II,LYSANDER,"How can these things in me seem scorn to you,"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?"
III,II,HELENA,"You do advance your cunning more and more."
III,II,HELENA,"When truth kills truth, O devilish-holy fray!"
III,II,HELENA,"These vows are Hermia's: will you give her o'er?"
III,II,HELENA,"Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh:"
III,II,HELENA,"Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,"
III,II,HELENA,"Will even weigh, and both as light as tales."
III,II,LYSANDER,"I had no judgment when to her I swore."
III,II,HELENA,"Nor none, in my mind, now you give her o'er."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"That pure congealed white, high Taurus snow,"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"When thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!"
III,II,HELENA,"O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent"
III,II,HELENA,"To set against me for your merriment:"
III,II,HELENA,"If you we re civil and knew courtesy,"
III,II,HELENA,"You would not do me thus much injury."
III,II,HELENA,"Can you not hate me, as I know you do,"
III,II,HELENA,"But you must join in souls to mock me too?"
III,II,HELENA,"If you were men, as men you are in show,"
III,II,HELENA,"You would not use a gentle lady so;"
III,II,HELENA,"To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts,"
III,II,HELENA,"When I am sure you hate me with your hearts."
III,II,HELENA,"You both are rivals, and love Hermia;"
III,II,HELENA,"And now both rivals, to mock Helena:"
III,II,HELENA,"A trim exploit, a manly enterprise,"
III,II,HELENA,"To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes"
III,II,HELENA,"With your derision! none of noble sort"
III,II,HELENA,"Would so offend a virgin, and extort"
III,II,HELENA,"A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport."
III,II,LYSANDER,"You are unkind, Demetrius; be not so;"
III,II,LYSANDER,"For you love Hermia; this you know I know:"
III,II,LYSANDER,"And here, with all good will, with all my heart,"
III,II,LYSANDER,"In Hermia's love I yield you up my part;"
III,II,LYSANDER,"And yours of Helena to me bequeath,"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Whom I do love and will do till my death."
III,II,HELENA,"Never did mockers waste more idle breath."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Lysander, keep thy Hermia; I will none:"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"If e'er I loved her, all that love is gone."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"My heart to her but as guest-wise sojourn'd,"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"And now to Helen is it home return'd,"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"There to remain."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Helen, it is not so."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Disparage not the faith thou dost not know,"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Lest, to thy peril, thou aby it dear."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Look, where thy love comes; yonder is thy dear."
III,II,HERMIA,"Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,"
III,II,HERMIA,"The ear more quick of apprehension makes;"
III,II,HERMIA,"Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense,"
III,II,HERMIA,"It pays the hearing double recompense."
III,II,HERMIA,"Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found;"
III,II,HERMIA,"Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound"
III,II,HERMIA,"But why unkindly didst thou leave me so?"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Why should he stay, whom love doth press to go?"
III,II,HERMIA,"What love could press Lysander from my side?"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Lysander's love, that would not let him bide,"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Fair Helena, who more engilds the night"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Than all you fiery oes and eyes of light."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Why seek'st thou me? could not this make thee know,"
III,II,LYSANDER,"The hate I bear thee made me leave thee so?"
III,II,HERMIA,"You speak not as you think: it cannot be."
III,II,HELENA,"Lo, she is one of this confederacy!"
III,II,HELENA,"Now I perceive they have conjoin'd all three"
III,II,HELENA,"To fashion this false sport, in spite of me."
III,II,HELENA,"Injurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid!"
III,II,HELENA,"Have you conspired, have you with these contrived"
III,II,HELENA,"To bait me with this foul derision?"
III,II,HELENA,"Is all the counsel that we two have shared,"
III,II,HELENA,"The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,"
III,II,HELENA,"When we have chid the hasty-footed time"
III,II,HELENA,"For parting us,--O, is it all forgot?"
III,II,HELENA,"All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?"
III,II,HELENA,"We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,"
III,II,HELENA,"Have with our needles created both one flower,"
III,II,HELENA,"Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,"
III,II,HELENA,"Both warbling of one song, both in one key,"
III,II,HELENA,"As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds,"
III,II,HELENA,"Had been incorporate. So we grow together,"
III,II,HELENA,"Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,"
III,II,HELENA,"But yet an union in partition;"
III,II,HELENA,"Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;"
III,II,HELENA,"So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;"
III,II,HELENA,"Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,"
III,II,HELENA,"Due but to one and crowned with one crest."
III,II,HELENA,"And will you rent our ancient love asunder,"
III,II,HELENA,"To join with men in scorning your poor friend?"
III,II,HELENA,"It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly:"
III,II,HELENA,"Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it,"
III,II,HELENA,"Though I alone do feel the injury."
III,II,HERMIA,"I am amazed at your passionate words."
III,II,HERMIA,"I scorn you not: it seems that you scorn me."
III,II,HELENA,"Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn,"
III,II,HELENA,"To follow me and praise my eyes and face?"
III,II,HELENA,"And made your other love, Demetrius,"
III,II,HELENA,"Who even but now did spurn me with his foot,"
III,II,HELENA,"To call me goddess, nymph, divine and rare,"
III,II,HELENA,"Precious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this"
III,II,HELENA,"To her he hates? and wherefore doth Lysander"
III,II,HELENA,"Deny your love, so rich within his soul,"
III,II,HELENA,"And tender me, forsooth, affection,"
III,II,HELENA,"But by your setting on, by your consent?"
III,II,HELENA,"What thought I be not so in grace as you,"
III,II,HELENA,"So hung upon with love, so fortunate,"
III,II,HELENA,"But miserable most, to love unloved?"
III,II,HELENA,"This you should pity rather than despise."
III,II,HERNIA,"I understand not what you mean by this."
III,II,HELENA,"Ay, do, persever, counterfeit sad looks,"
III,II,HELENA,"Make mouths upon me when I turn my back;"
III,II,HELENA,"Wink each at other; hold the sweet jest up:"
III,II,HELENA,"This sport, well carried, shall be chronicled."
III,II,HELENA,"If you have any pity, grace, or manners,"
III,II,HELENA,"You would not make me such an argument."
III,II,HELENA,"But fare ye well: 'tis partly my own fault;"
III,II,HELENA,"Which death or absence soon shall remedy."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Stay, gentle Helena; hear my excuse:"
III,II,LYSANDER,"My love, my life my soul, fair Helena!"
III,II,HELENA,"O excellent!"
III,II,HERMIA,"Sweet, do not scorn her so."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"If she cannot entreat, I can compel."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Thou canst compel no more than she entreat:"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Helen, I love thee; by my life, I do:"
III,II,LYSANDER,"I swear by that which I will lose for thee,"
III,II,LYSANDER,"To prove him false that says I love thee not."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"I say I love thee more than he can do."
III,II,LYSANDER,"If thou say so, withdraw, and prove it too."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Quick, come!"
III,II,HERMIA,"Lysander, whereto tends all this?"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Away, you Ethiope!"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"No, no; he'll"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Seem to break loose; take on as you would follow,"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"But yet come not: you are a tame man, go!"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose,"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!"
III,II,HERMIA,"Why are you grown so rude? what change is this?"
III,II,HERMIA,"Sweet love,--"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Thy love! out, tawny Tartar, out!"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Out, loathed medicine! hated potion, hence!"
III,II,HERMIA,"Do you not jest?"
III,II,HELENA,"Yes, sooth; and so do you."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Demetrius, I will keep my word with thee."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"I would I had your bond, for I perceive"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"A weak bond holds you: I'll not trust your word."
III,II,LYSANDER,"What, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead?"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Although I hate her, I'll not harm her so."
III,II,HERMIA,"What, can you do me greater harm than hate?"
III,II,HERMIA,"Hate me! wherefore? O me! what news, my love!"
III,II,HERMIA,"Am not I Hermia? are not you Lysander?"
III,II,HERMIA,"I am as fair now as I was erewhile."
III,II,HERMIA,"Since night you loved me; yet since night you left"
III,II,HERMIA,"me:"
III,II,HERMIA,"Why, then you left me--O, the gods forbid!--"
III,II,HERMIA,"In earnest, shall I say?"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Ay, by my life;"
III,II,LYSANDER,"And never did desire to see thee more."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Therefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt;"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Be certain, nothing truer; 'tis no jest"
III,II,LYSANDER,"That I do hate thee and love Helena."
III,II,HERMIA,"O me! you juggler! you canker-blossom!"
III,II,HERMIA,"You thief of love! what, have you come by night"
III,II,HERMIA,"And stolen my love's heart from him?"
III,II,HELENA,"Fine, i'faith!"
III,II,HELENA,"Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,"
III,II,HELENA,"No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear"
III,II,HELENA,"Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?"
III,II,HELENA,"Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!"
III,II,HERMIA,"Puppet? why so? ay, that way goes the game."
III,II,HERMIA,"Now I perceive that she hath made compare"
III,II,HERMIA,"Between our statures; she hath urged her height;"
III,II,HERMIA,"And with her personage, her tall personage,"
III,II,HERMIA,"Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him."
III,II,HERMIA,"And are you grown so high in his esteem;"
III,II,HERMIA,"Because I am so dwarfish and so low?"
III,II,HERMIA,"How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak;"
III,II,HERMIA,"How low am I? I am not yet so low"
III,II,HERMIA,"But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes."
III,II,HELENA,"I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen,"
III,II,HELENA,"Let her not hurt me: I was never curst;"
III,II,HELENA,"I have no gift at all in shrewishness;"
III,II,HELENA,"I am a right maid for my cowardice:"
III,II,HELENA,"Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think,"
III,II,HELENA,"Because she is something lower than myself,"
III,II,HELENA,"That I can match her."
III,II,HERMIA,"Lower! hark, again."
III,II,HELENA,"Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me."
III,II,HELENA,"I evermore did love you, Hermia,"
III,II,HELENA,"Did ever keep your counsels, never wrong'd you;"
III,II,HELENA,"Save that, in love unto Demetrius,"
III,II,HELENA,"I told him of your stealth unto this wood."
III,II,HELENA,"He follow'd you; for love I follow'd him;"
III,II,HELENA,"But he hath chid me hence and threaten'd me"
III,II,HELENA,"To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too:"
III,II,HELENA,"And now, so you will let me quiet go,"
III,II,HELENA,"To Athens will I bear my folly back"
III,II,HELENA,"And follow you no further: let me go:"
III,II,HELENA,"You see how simple and how fond I am."
III,II,HERMIA,"Why, get you gone: who is't that hinders you?"
III,II,HELENA,"A foolish heart, that I leave here behind."
III,II,HERMIA,"What, with Lysander?"
III,II,HELENA,"With Demetrius."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Be not afraid; she shall not harm thee, Helena."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part."
III,II,HELENA,"O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd!"
III,II,HELENA,"She was a vixen when she went to school;"
III,II,HELENA,"And though she be but little, she is fierce."
III,II,HERMIA,"'Little' again! nothing but 'low' and 'little'!"
III,II,HERMIA,"Why will you suffer her to flout me thus?"
III,II,HERMIA,"Let me come to her."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Get you gone, you dwarf;"
III,II,LYSANDER,"You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;"
III,II,LYSANDER,"You bead, you acorn."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"You are too officious"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"In her behalf that scorns your services."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Let her alone: speak not of Helena;"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Take not her part; for, if thou dost intend"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Never so little show of love to her,"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Thou shalt aby it."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Now she holds me not;"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Now follow, if thou darest, to try whose right,"
III,II,LYSANDER,"Of thine or mine, is most in Helena."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Follow! nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jole."
III,II,HERMIA,"You, mistress, all this coil is 'long of you:"
III,II,HERMIA,"Nay, go not back."
III,II,HELENA,"I will not trust you, I,"
III,II,HELENA,"Nor longer stay in your curst company."
III,II,HELENA,"Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray,"
III,II,HELENA,"My legs are longer though, to run away."
III,II,HERMIA,"I am amazed, and know not what to say."
III,II,OBERON,"This is thy negligence: still thou mistakest,"
III,II,OBERON,"Or else committ'st thy knaveries wilfully."
III,II,PUCK,"Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook."
III,II,PUCK,"Did not you tell me I should know the man"
III,II,PUCK,"By the Athenian garment be had on?"
III,II,PUCK,"And so far blameless proves my enterprise,"
III,II,PUCK,"That I have 'nointed an Athenian's eyes;"
III,II,PUCK,"And so far am I glad it so did sort"
III,II,PUCK,"As this their jangling I esteem a sport."
III,II,OBERON,"Thou see'st these lovers seek a place to fight:"
III,II,OBERON,"Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night;"
III,II,OBERON,"The starry welkin cover thou anon"
III,II,OBERON,"With drooping fog as black as Acheron,"
III,II,OBERON,"And lead these testy rivals so astray"
III,II,OBERON,"As one come not within another's way."
III,II,OBERON,"Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue,"
III,II,OBERON,"Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong;"
III,II,OBERON,"And sometime rail thou like Demetrius;"
III,II,OBERON,"And from each other look thou lead them thus,"
III,II,OBERON,"Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep"
III,II,OBERON,"With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep:"
III,II,OBERON,"Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye;"
III,II,OBERON,"Whose liquor hath this virtuous property,"
III,II,OBERON,"To take from thence all error with his might,"
III,II,OBERON,"And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight."
III,II,OBERON,"When they next wake, all this derision"
III,II,OBERON,"Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision,"
III,II,OBERON,"And back to Athens shall the lovers wend,"
III,II,OBERON,"With league whose date till death shall never end."
III,II,OBERON,"Whiles I in this affair do thee employ,"
III,II,OBERON,"I'll to my queen and beg her Indian boy;"
III,II,OBERON,"And then I will her charmed eye release"
III,II,OBERON,"From monster's view, and all things shall be peace."
III,II,PUCK,"My fairy lord, this must be done with haste,"
III,II,PUCK,"For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,"
III,II,PUCK,"And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;"
III,II,PUCK,"At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,"
III,II,PUCK,"Troop home to churchyards: damned spirits all,"
III,II,PUCK,"That in crossways and floods have burial,"
III,II,PUCK,"Already to their wormy beds are gone;"
III,II,PUCK,"For fear lest day should look their shames upon,"
III,II,PUCK,"They willfully themselves exile from light"
III,II,PUCK,"And must for aye consort with black-brow'd night."
III,II,OBERON,"But we are spirits of another sort:"
III,II,OBERON,"I with the morning's love have oft made sport,"
III,II,OBERON,"And, like a forester, the groves may tread,"
III,II,OBERON,"Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red,"
III,II,OBERON,"Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams,"
III,II,OBERON,"Turns into yellow gold his salt green streams."
III,II,OBERON,"But, notwithstanding, haste; make no delay:"
III,II,OBERON,"We may effect this business yet ere day."
III,II,PUCK,"Up and down, up and down,"
III,II,PUCK,"I will lead them up and down:"
III,II,PUCK,"I am fear'd in field and town:"
III,II,PUCK,"Goblin, lead them up and down."
III,II,PUCK,"Here comes one."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Where art thou, proud Demetrius? speak thou now."
III,II,PUCK,"Here, villain; drawn and ready. Where art thou?"
III,II,LYSANDER,"I will be with thee straight."
III,II,PUCK,"Follow me, then,"
III,II,PUCK,"To plainer ground."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Lysander! speak again:"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?"
III,II,PUCK,"Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,"
III,II,PUCK,"Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,"
III,II,PUCK,"And wilt not come? Come, recreant; come, thou child;"
III,II,PUCK,"I'll whip thee with a rod: he is defiled"
III,II,PUCK,"That draws a sword on thee."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Yea, art thou there?"
III,II,PUCK,"Follow my voice: we'll try no manhood here."
III,II,LYSANDER,"He goes before me and still dares me on:"
III,II,LYSANDER,"When I come where he calls, then he is gone."
III,II,LYSANDER,"The villain is much lighter-heel'd than I:"
III,II,LYSANDER,"I follow'd fast, but faster he did fly;"
III,II,LYSANDER,"That fallen am I in dark uneven way,"
III,II,LYSANDER,"And here will rest me."
III,II,LYSANDER,"Come, thou gentle day!"
III,II,LYSANDER,"For if but once thou show me thy grey light,"
III,II,LYSANDER,"I'll find Demetrius and revenge this spite."
III,II,PUCK,"Ho, ho, ho! Coward, why comest thou not?"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Abide me, if thou darest; for well I wot"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Thou runn'st before me, shifting every place,"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"And darest not stand, nor look me in the face."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Where art thou now?"
III,II,PUCK,"Come hither: I am here."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Nay, then, thou mock'st me. Thou shalt buy this dear,"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"If ever I thy face by daylight see:"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"Now, go thy way. Faintness constraineth me"
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"To measure out my length on this cold bed."
III,II,DEMETRIUS,"By day's approach look to be visited."
III,II,HELENA,"O weary night, O long and tedious night,"
III,II,HELENA,"Abate thy hour! Shine comforts from the east,"
III,II,HELENA,"That I may back to Athens by daylight,"
III,II,HELENA,"From these that my poor company detest:"
III,II,HELENA,"And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye,"
III,II,HELENA,"Steal me awhile from mine own company."
III,II,PUCK,"Yet but three? Come one more;"
III,II,PUCK,"Two of both kinds make up four."
III,II,PUCK,"Here she comes, curst and sad:"
III,II,PUCK,"Cupid is a knavish lad,"
III,II,PUCK,"Thus to make poor females mad."
III,II,HERMIA,"Never so weary, never so in woe,"
III,II,HERMIA,"Bedabbled with the dew and torn with briers,"
III,II,HERMIA,"I can no further crawl, no further go;"
III,II,HERMIA,"My legs can keep no pace with my desires."
III,II,HERMIA,"Here will I rest me till the break of day."
III,II,HERMIA,"Heavens shield Lysander, if they mean a fray!"
III,II,PUCK,"On the ground"
III,II,PUCK,"Sleep sound:"
III,II,PUCK,"I'll apply"
III,II,PUCK,"To your eye,"
III,II,PUCK,"Gentle lover, remedy."
III,II,PUCK,"When thou wakest,"
III,II,PUCK,"Thou takest"
III,II,PUCK,"True delight"
III,II,PUCK,"In the sight"
III,II,PUCK,"Of thy former lady's eye:"
III,II,PUCK,"And the country proverb known,"
III,II,PUCK,"That every man should take his own,"
III,II,PUCK,"In your waking shall be shown:"
III,II,PUCK,"Jack shall have Jill;"
III,II,PUCK,"Nought shall go ill;"
III,II,PUCK,"The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well."
IV,I,TITANIA,"Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed,"
IV,I,TITANIA,"While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,"
IV,I,TITANIA,"And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,"
IV,I,TITANIA,"And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy."
IV,I,BOTTOM,"Where's Peaseblossom?"
IV,I,PEASEBLOSSOM,"Ready."
IV,I,BOTTOM,"Scratch my head Peaseblossom. Where's Mounsieur Cobweb?"
IV,I,COBWEB,"Ready."
IV,I,BOTTOM,"Mounsieur Cobweb, good mounsieur, get you your"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipped"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"mounsieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"yourself too much in the action, mounsieur; and,"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"good mounsieur, have a care the honey-bag break not;"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"I would be loath to have you overflown with a"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"honey-bag, signior. Where's Mounsieur Mustardseed?"
IV,I,MUSTARDSEED,"Ready."
IV,I,BOTTOM,"Give me your neaf, Mounsieur Mustardseed. Pray you,"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"leave your courtesy, good mounsieur."
IV,I,MUSTARDSEED,"What's your Will?"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"Nothing, good mounsieur, but to help Cavalery Cobweb"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"to scratch. I must to the barber's, monsieur; for"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me,"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"I must scratch."
IV,I,TITANIA,"What, wilt thou hear some music,"
IV,I,TITANIA,"my sweet love?"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"I have a reasonable good ear in music. Let's have"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"the tongs and the bones."
IV,I,TITANIA,"Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat."
IV,I,BOTTOM,"Truly, a peck of provender: I could munch your good"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow."
IV,I,TITANIA,"I have a venturous fairy that shall seek"
IV,I,TITANIA,"The squirrel's hoard, and fetch thee new nuts."
IV,I,BOTTOM,"I had rather have a handful or two of dried peas."
IV,I,BOTTOM,"But, I pray you, let none of your people stir me: I"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"have an exposition of sleep come upon me."
IV,I,TITANIA,"Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms."
IV,I,TITANIA,"Fairies, begone, and be all ways away."
IV,I,TITANIA,"So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle"
IV,I,TITANIA,"Gently entwist; the female ivy so"
IV,I,TITANIA,"Enrings the barky fingers of the elm."
IV,I,TITANIA,"O, how I love thee! how I dote on thee!"
IV,I,OBERON,"See'st thou this sweet sight?"
IV,I,OBERON,"Her dotage now I do begin to pity:"
IV,I,OBERON,"For, meeting her of late behind the wood,"
IV,I,OBERON,"Seeking sweet favours from this hateful fool,"
IV,I,OBERON,"I did upbraid her and fall out with her;"
IV,I,OBERON,"For she his hairy temples then had rounded"
IV,I,OBERON,"With a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers;"
IV,I,OBERON,"And that same dew, which sometime on the buds"
IV,I,OBERON,"Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,"
IV,I,OBERON,"Stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes"
IV,I,OBERON,"Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail."
IV,I,OBERON,"When I had at my pleasure taunted her"
IV,I,OBERON,"And she in mild terms begg'd my patience,"
IV,I,OBERON,"I then did ask of her her changeling child;"
IV,I,OBERON,"Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent"
IV,I,OBERON,"To bear him to my bower in fairy land."
IV,I,OBERON,"And now I have the boy, I will undo"
IV,I,OBERON,"This hateful imperfection of her eyes:"
IV,I,OBERON,"And, gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp"
IV,I,OBERON,"From off the head of this Athenian swain;"
IV,I,OBERON,"That, he awaking when the other do,"
IV,I,OBERON,"May all to Athens back again repair"
IV,I,OBERON,"And think no more of this night's accidents"
IV,I,OBERON,"But as the fierce vexation of a dream."
IV,I,OBERON,"But first I will release the fairy queen."
IV,I,OBERON,"Be as thou wast wont to be;"
IV,I,OBERON,"See as thou wast wont to see:"
IV,I,OBERON,"Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower"
IV,I,OBERON,"Hath such force and blessed power."
IV,I,OBERON,"Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen."
IV,I,TITANIA,"My Oberon! what visions have I seen!"
IV,I,TITANIA,"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."
IV,I,OBERON,"There lies your love."
IV,I,TITANIA,"How came these things to pass?"
IV,I,TITANIA,"O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!"
IV,I,OBERON,"Silence awhile. Robin, take off this head."
IV,I,OBERON,"Titania, music call; and strike more dead"
IV,I,OBERON,"Than common sleep of all these five the sense."
IV,I,TITANIA,"Music, ho! music, such as charmeth sleep!"
IV,I,PUCK,"Now, when thou wakest, with thine"
IV,I,PUCK,"own fool's eyes peep."
IV,I,OBERON,"Sound, music! Come, my queen, take hands with me,"
IV,I,OBERON,"And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be."
IV,I,OBERON,"Now thou and I are new in amity,"
IV,I,OBERON,"And will to-morrow midnight solemnly"
IV,I,OBERON,"Dance in Duke Theseus' house triumphantly,"
IV,I,OBERON,"And bless it to all fair prosperity:"
IV,I,OBERON,"There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be"
IV,I,OBERON,"Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity."
IV,I,PUCK,"Fairy king, attend, and mark:"
IV,I,PUCK,"I do hear the morning lark."
IV,I,OBERON,"Then, my queen, in silence sad,"
IV,I,OBERON,"Trip we after the night's shade:"
IV,I,OBERON,"We the globe can compass soon,"
IV,I,OBERON,"Swifter than the wandering moon."
IV,I,TITANIA,"Come, my lord, and in our flight"
IV,I,TITANIA,"Tell me how it came this night"
IV,I,TITANIA,"That I sleeping here was found"
IV,I,TITANIA,"With these mortals on the ground."
IV,I,THESEUS,"Go, one of you, find out the forester;"
IV,I,THESEUS,"For now our observation is perform'd;"
IV,I,THESEUS,"And since we have the vaward of the day,"
IV,I,THESEUS,"My love shall hear the music of my hounds."
IV,I,THESEUS,"Uncouple in the western valley; let them go:"
IV,I,THESEUS,"Dispatch, I say, and find the forester."
IV,I,THESEUS,"We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top,"
IV,I,THESEUS,"And mark the musical confusion"
IV,I,THESEUS,"Of hounds and echo in conjunction."
IV,I,HIPPOLYTA,"I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,"
IV,I,HIPPOLYTA,"When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear"
IV,I,HIPPOLYTA,"With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear"
IV,I,HIPPOLYTA,"Such gallant chiding: for, besides the groves,"
IV,I,HIPPOLYTA,"The skies, the fountains, every region near"
IV,I,HIPPOLYTA,"Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard"
IV,I,HIPPOLYTA,"So musical a discord, such sweet thunder."
IV,I,THESEUS,"My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,"
IV,I,THESEUS,"So flew'd, so sanded, and their heads are hung"
IV,I,THESEUS,"With ears that sweep away the morning dew;"
IV,I,THESEUS,"Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls;"
IV,I,THESEUS,"Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells,"
IV,I,THESEUS,"Each under each. A cry more tuneable"
IV,I,THESEUS,"Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn,"
IV,I,THESEUS,"In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly:"
IV,I,THESEUS,"Judge when you hear. But, soft! what nymphs are these?"
IV,I,EGEUS,"My lord, this is my daughter here asleep;"
IV,I,EGEUS,"And this, Lysander; this Demetrius is;"
IV,I,EGEUS,"This Helena, old Nedar's Helena:"
IV,I,EGEUS,"I wonder of their being here together."
IV,I,THESEUS,"No doubt they rose up early to observe"
IV,I,THESEUS,"The rite of May, and hearing our intent,"
IV,I,THESEUS,"Came here in grace our solemnity."
IV,I,THESEUS,"But speak, Egeus; is not this the day"
IV,I,THESEUS,"That Hermia should give answer of her choice?"
IV,I,EGEUS,"It is, my lord."
IV,I,THESEUS,"Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns."
IV,I,THESEUS,"Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past:"
IV,I,THESEUS,"Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?"
IV,I,LYSANDER,"Pardon, my lord."
IV,I,THESEUS,"I pray you all, stand up."
IV,I,THESEUS,"I know you two are rival enemies:"
IV,I,THESEUS,"How comes this gentle concord in the world,"
IV,I,THESEUS,"That hatred is so far from jealousy,"
IV,I,THESEUS,"To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity?"
IV,I,LYSANDER,"My lord, I shall reply amazedly,"
IV,I,LYSANDER,"Half sleep, half waking: but as yet, I swear,"
IV,I,LYSANDER,"I cannot truly say how I came here;"
IV,I,LYSANDER,"But, as I think,--for truly would I speak,"
IV,I,LYSANDER,"And now do I bethink me, so it is,--"
IV,I,LYSANDER,"I came with Hermia hither: our intent"
IV,I,LYSANDER,"Was to be gone from Athens, where we might,"
IV,I,LYSANDER,"Without the peril of the Athenian law."
IV,I,EGEUS,"Enough, enough, my lord; you have enough:"
IV,I,EGEUS,"I beg the law, the law, upon his head."
IV,I,EGEUS,"They would have stolen away; they would, Demetrius,"
IV,I,EGEUS,"Thereby to have defeated you and me,"
IV,I,EGEUS,"You of your wife and me of my consent,"
IV,I,EGEUS,"Of my consent that she should be your wife."
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth,"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"Of this their purpose hither to this wood;"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"And I in fury hither follow'd them,"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"Fair Helena in fancy following me."
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"But, my good lord, I wot not by what power,--"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"But by some power it is,--my love to Hermia,"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"Melted as the snow, seems to me now"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"As the remembrance of an idle gaud"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"Which in my childhood I did dote upon;"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"And all the faith, the virtue of my heart,"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"The object and the pleasure of mine eye,"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"Is only Helena. To her, my lord,"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"Was I betroth'd ere I saw Hermia:"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"But, like in sickness, did I loathe this food;"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"But, as in health, come to my natural taste,"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"Now I do wish it, love it, long for it,"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"And will for evermore be true to it."
IV,I,THESEUS,"Fair lovers, you are fortunately met:"
IV,I,THESEUS,"Of this discourse we more will hear anon."
IV,I,THESEUS,"Egeus, I will overbear your will;"
IV,I,THESEUS,"For in the temple by and by with us"
IV,I,THESEUS,"These couples shall eternally be knit:"
IV,I,THESEUS,"And, for the morning now is something worn,"
IV,I,THESEUS,"Our purposed hunting shall be set aside."
IV,I,THESEUS,"Away with us to Athens; three and three,"
IV,I,THESEUS,"We'll hold a feast in great solemnity."
IV,I,THESEUS,"Come, Hippolyta."
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"These things seem small and undistinguishable,"
IV,I,HERMIA,"Methinks I see these things with parted eye,"
IV,I,HERMIA,"When every thing seems double."
IV,I,HELENA,"So methinks:"
IV,I,HELENA,"And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,"
IV,I,HELENA,"Mine own, and not mine own."
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"Are you sure"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"That we are awake? It seems to me"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"The duke was here, and bid us follow him?"
IV,I,HERMIA,"Yea; and my father."
IV,I,HELENA,"And Hippolyta."
IV,I,LYSANDER,"And he did bid us follow to the temple."
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"Why, then, we are awake: let's follow him"
IV,I,DEMETRIUS,"And by the way let us recount our dreams."
IV,I,BOTTOM,"answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho!"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout,"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"is no man can tell what. Methought I was,--and"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"methought I had,--but man is but a patched fool, if"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream,"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"latter end of a play, before the duke:"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall"
IV,I,BOTTOM,"sing it at her death."
IV,II,QUINCE,"Have you sent to Bottom's house? is he come home yet?"
IV,II,STARVELING,"He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is"
IV,II,STARVELING,"transported."
IV,II,FLUTE,"If he come not, then the play is marred: it goes"
IV,II,FLUTE,"not forward, doth it?"
IV,II,QUINCE,"It is not possible: you have not a man in all"
IV,II,QUINCE,"Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he."
IV,II,FLUTE,"No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft"
IV,II,FLUTE,"man in Athens."
IV,II,QUINCE,"Yea and the best person too; and he is a very"
IV,II,QUINCE,"paramour for a sweet voice."
IV,II,FLUTE,"You must say 'paragon:' a paramour is, God bless us,"
IV,II,FLUTE,"a thing of naught."
IV,II,SNUG,"Masters, the duke is coming from the temple, and"
IV,II,SNUG,"there is two or three lords and ladies more married:"
IV,II,SNUG,"if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made"
IV,II,SNUG,"men."
IV,II,FLUTE,"O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a"
IV,II,FLUTE,"day during his life; he could not have 'scaped"
IV,II,FLUTE,"sixpence a day: an the duke had not given him"
IV,II,FLUTE,"sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged;"
IV,II,FLUTE,"he would have deserved it: sixpence a day in"
IV,II,FLUTE,"Pyramus, or nothing."
IV,II,BOTTOM,"Where are these lads? where are these hearts?"
IV,II,QUINCE,"Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"will tell you every thing, right as it fell out."
IV,II,QUINCE,"Let us hear, sweet Bottom."
IV,II,BOTTOM,"Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"o'er his part; for the short and the long is, our"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"play is preferred. In any case, let Thisby have"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"pair his nails, for they shall hang out for the"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"lion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet"
IV,II,BOTTOM,"comedy. No more words: away! go, away!"
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"'Tis strange my Theseus, that these"
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"lovers speak of."
V,I,THESEUS,"More strange than true: I never may believe"
V,I,THESEUS,"These antique fables, nor these fairy toys."
V,I,THESEUS,"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,"
V,I,THESEUS,"Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend"
V,I,THESEUS,"More than cool reason ever comprehends."
V,I,THESEUS,"The lunatic, the lover and the poet"
V,I,THESEUS,"Are of imagination all compact:"
V,I,THESEUS,"One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,"
V,I,THESEUS,"That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,"
V,I,THESEUS,"Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:"
V,I,THESEUS,"The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,"
V,I,THESEUS,"Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;"
V,I,THESEUS,"And as imagination bodies forth"
V,I,THESEUS,"The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen"
V,I,THESEUS,"Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing"
V,I,THESEUS,"A local habitation and a name."
V,I,THESEUS,"Such tricks hath strong imagination,"
V,I,THESEUS,"That if it would but apprehend some joy,"
V,I,THESEUS,"It comprehends some bringer of that joy;"
V,I,THESEUS,"Or in the night, imagining some fear,"
V,I,THESEUS,"How easy is a bush supposed a bear!"
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"But all the story of the night told over,"
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"And all their minds transfigured so together,"
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"More witnesseth than fancy's images"
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"And grows to something of great constancy;"
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"But, howsoever, strange and admirable."
V,I,THESEUS,"Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth."
V,I,THESEUS,"Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love"
V,I,THESEUS,"Accompany your hearts!"
V,I,LYSANDER,"More than to us"
V,I,LYSANDER,"Wait in your royal walks, your board, your bed!"
V,I,THESEUS,"Come now; what masques, what dances shall we have,"
V,I,THESEUS,"To wear away this long age of three hours"
V,I,THESEUS,"Between our after-supper and bed-time?"
V,I,THESEUS,"Where is our usual manager of mirth?"
V,I,THESEUS,"What revels are in hand? Is there no play,"
V,I,THESEUS,"To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?"
V,I,THESEUS,"Call Philostrate."
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"Here, mighty Theseus."
V,I,THESEUS,"Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?"
V,I,THESEUS,"What masque? what music? How shall we beguile"
V,I,THESEUS,"The lazy time, if not with some delight?"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"There is a brief how many sports are ripe:"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"Make choice of which your highness will see first."
V,I,THESEUS,"By an Athenian eunuch to the harp.'"
V,I,THESEUS,"We'll none of that: that have I told my love,"
V,I,THESEUS,"In glory of my kinsman Hercules."
V,I,THESEUS,"'The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals,"
V,I,THESEUS,"Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage.'"
V,I,THESEUS,"That is an old device; and it was play'd"
V,I,THESEUS,"When I from Thebes came last a conqueror."
V,I,THESEUS,"'The thrice three Muses mourning for the death"
V,I,THESEUS,"Of Learning, late deceased in beggary.'"
V,I,THESEUS,"That is some satire, keen and critical,"
V,I,THESEUS,"Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony."
V,I,THESEUS,"'A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus"
V,I,THESEUS,"And his love Thisbe; very tragical mirth.'"
V,I,THESEUS,"Merry and tragical! tedious and brief!"
V,I,THESEUS,"That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow."
V,I,THESEUS,"How shall we find the concord of this discord?"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"Which is as brief as I have known a play;"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"Which makes it tedious; for in all the play"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"There is not one word apt, one player fitted:"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"And tragical, my noble lord, it is;"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"For Pyramus therein doth kill himself."
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"Which, when I saw rehearsed, I must confess,"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"Made mine eyes water; but more merry tears"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"The passion of loud laughter never shed."
V,I,THESEUS,"What are they that do play it?"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"Hard-handed men that work in Athens here,"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"Which never labour'd in their minds till now,"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"And now have toil'd their unbreathed memories"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"With this same play, against your nuptial."
V,I,THESEUS,"And we will hear it."
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"No, my noble lord;"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"It is not for you: I have heard it over,"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"And it is nothing, nothing in the world;"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"Unless you can find sport in their intents,"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"Extremely stretch'd and conn'd with cruel pain,"
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"To do you service."
V,I,THESEUS,"I will hear that play;"
V,I,THESEUS,"For never anything can be amiss,"
V,I,THESEUS,"When simpleness and duty tender it."
V,I,THESEUS,"Go, bring them in: and take your places, ladies."
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"I love not to see wretchedness o'er charged"
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"And duty in his service perishing."
V,I,THESEUS,"Why, gentle sweet, you shall see no such thing."
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"He says they can do nothing in this kind."
V,I,THESEUS,"The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing."
V,I,THESEUS,"Our sport shall be to take what they mistake:"
V,I,THESEUS,"And what poor duty cannot do, noble respect"
V,I,THESEUS,"Takes it in might, not merit."
V,I,THESEUS,"Where I have come, great clerks have purposed"
V,I,THESEUS,"To greet me with premeditated welcomes;"
V,I,THESEUS,"Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,"
V,I,THESEUS,"Make periods in the midst of sentences,"
V,I,THESEUS,"Throttle their practised accent in their fears"
V,I,THESEUS,"And in conclusion dumbly have broke off,"
V,I,THESEUS,"Not paying me a welcome. Trust me, sweet,"
V,I,THESEUS,"Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome;"
V,I,THESEUS,"And in the modesty of fearful duty"
V,I,THESEUS,"I read as much as from the rattling tongue"
V,I,THESEUS,"Of saucy and audacious eloquence."
V,I,THESEUS,"Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity"
V,I,THESEUS,"In least speak most, to my capacity."
V,I,PHILOSTRATE,"So please your grace, the Prologue is address'd."
V,I,THESEUS,"Let him approach."
V,I,Prologue,"If we offend, it is with our good will."
V,I,Prologue,"That you should think, we come not to offend,"
V,I,Prologue,"But with good will. To show our simple skill,"
V,I,Prologue,"That is the true beginning of our end."
V,I,Prologue,"Consider then we come but in despite."
V,I,Prologue,"We do not come as minding to contest you,"
V,I,Prologue,"Our true intent is. All for your delight"
V,I,Prologue,"We are not here. That you should here repent you,"
V,I,Prologue,"The actors are at hand and by their show"
V,I,Prologue,"You shall know all that you are like to know."
V,I,THESEUS,"This fellow doth not stand upon points."
V,I,LYSANDER,"He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he knows"
V,I,LYSANDER,"not the stop. A good moral, my lord: it is not"
V,I,LYSANDER,"enough to speak, but to speak true."
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child"
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"on a recorder; a sound, but not in government."
V,I,THESEUS,"His speech, was like a tangled chain; nothing"
V,I,THESEUS,"impaired, but all disordered. Who is next?"
V,I,Prologue,"Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show;"
V,I,Prologue,"But wonder on, till truth make all things plain."
V,I,Prologue,"This man is Pyramus, if you would know;"
V,I,Prologue,"This beauteous lady Thisby is certain."
V,I,Prologue,"This man, with lime and rough-cast, doth present"
V,I,Prologue,"Wall, that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder;"
V,I,Prologue,"And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content"
V,I,Prologue,"To whisper. At the which let no man wonder."
V,I,Prologue,"This man, with lanthorn, dog, and bush of thorn,"
V,I,Prologue,"Presenteth Moonshine; for, if you will know,"
V,I,Prologue,"By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn"
V,I,Prologue,"To meet at Ninus' tomb, there, there to woo."
V,I,Prologue,"This grisly beast, which Lion hight by name,"
V,I,Prologue,"The trusty Thisby, coming first by night,"
V,I,Prologue,"Did scare away, or rather did affright;"
V,I,Prologue,"And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall,"
V,I,Prologue,"Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain."
V,I,Prologue,"Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and tall,"
V,I,Prologue,"And finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain:"
V,I,Prologue,"Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,"
V,I,Prologue,"He bravely broach'd is boiling bloody breast;"
V,I,Prologue,"And Thisby, tarrying in mulberry shade,"
V,I,Prologue,"His dagger drew, and died. For all the rest,"
V,I,Prologue,"Let Lion, Moonshine, Wall, and lovers twain"
V,I,Prologue,"At large discourse, while here they do remain."
V,I,THESEUS,"I wonder if the lion be to speak."
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"No wonder, my lord: one lion may, when many asses do."
V,I,Wall,"In this same interlude it doth befall"
V,I,Wall,"That I, one Snout by name, present a wall;"
V,I,Wall,"And such a wall, as I would have you think,"
V,I,Wall,"That had in it a crannied hole or chink,"
V,I,Wall,"Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisby,"
V,I,Wall,"Did whisper often very secretly."
V,I,Wall,"This loam, this rough-cast and this stone doth show"
V,I,Wall,"That I am that same wall; the truth is so:"
V,I,Wall,"And this the cranny is, right and sinister,"
V,I,Wall,"Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper."
V,I,THESEUS,"Would you desire lime and hair to speak better?"
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard"
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"discourse, my lord."
V,I,THESEUS,"Pyramus draws near the wall: silence!"
V,I,Pyramus,"O grim-look'd night! O night with hue so black!"
V,I,Pyramus,"O night, which ever art when day is not!"
V,I,Pyramus,"O night, O night! alack, alack, alack,"
V,I,Pyramus,"I fear my Thisby's promise is forgot!"
V,I,Pyramus,"And thou, O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall,"
V,I,Pyramus,"That stand'st between her father's ground and mine!"
V,I,Pyramus,"Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,"
V,I,Pyramus,"Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne!"
V,I,Pyramus,"Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!"
V,I,Pyramus,"But what see I? No Thisby do I see."
V,I,Pyramus,"O wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss!"
V,I,Pyramus,"Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me!"
V,I,THESEUS,"The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again."
V,I,Pyramus,"No, in truth, sir, he should not. 'Deceiving me'"
V,I,Pyramus,"is Thisby's cue: she is to enter now, and I am to"
V,I,Pyramus,"spy her through the wall. You shall see, it will"
V,I,Pyramus,"fall pat as I told you. Yonder she comes."
V,I,Thisbe,"O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans,"
V,I,Thisbe,"For parting my fair Pyramus and me!"
V,I,Thisbe,"My cherry lips have often kiss'd thy stones,"
V,I,Thisbe,"Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee."
V,I,Pyramus,"I see a voice: now will I to the chink,"
V,I,Pyramus,"To spy an I can hear my Thisby's face. Thisby!"
V,I,Thisbe,"My love thou art, my love I think."
V,I,Pyramus,"Think what thou wilt, I am thy lover's grace;"
V,I,Pyramus,"And, like Limander, am I trusty still."
V,I,Thisbe,"And I like Helen, till the Fates me kill."
V,I,Pyramus,"Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true."
V,I,Thisbe,"As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you."
V,I,Pyramus,"O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall!"
V,I,Thisbe,"I kiss the wall's hole, not your lips at all."
V,I,Pyramus,"Wilt thou at Ninny's tomb meet me straightway?"
V,I,Thisbe,"'Tide life, 'tide death, I come without delay."
V,I,Wall,"Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;"
V,I,Wall,"And, being done, thus Wall away doth go."
V,I,THESEUS,"Now is the mural down between the two neighbours."
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"No remedy, my lord, when walls are so wilful to hear"
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"without warning."
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard."
V,I,THESEUS,"The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst"
V,I,THESEUS,"are no worse, if imagination amend them."
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"It must be your imagination then, and not theirs."
V,I,THESEUS,"If we imagine no worse of them than they of"
V,I,THESEUS,"themselves, they may pass for excellent men. Here"
V,I,THESEUS,"come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion."
V,I,Lion,"You, ladies, you, whose gentle hearts do fear"
V,I,Lion,"The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,"
V,I,Lion,"May now perchance both quake and tremble here,"
V,I,Lion,"When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar."
V,I,Lion,"Then know that I, one Snug the joiner, am"
V,I,Lion,"A lion-fell, nor else no lion's dam;"
V,I,Lion,"For, if I should as lion come in strife"
V,I,Lion,"Into this place, 'twere pity on my life."
V,I,THESEUS,"A very gentle beast, of a good conscience."
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw."
V,I,LYSANDER,"This lion is a very fox for his valour."
V,I,THESEUS,"True; and a goose for his discretion."
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"Not so, my lord; for his valour cannot carry his"
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"discretion; and the fox carries the goose."
V,I,THESEUS,"His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valour;"
V,I,THESEUS,"for the goose carries not the fox. It is well:"
V,I,THESEUS,"leave it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon."
V,I,Moonshine,"This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;--"
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"He should have worn the horns on his head."
V,I,THESEUS,"He is no crescent, and his horns are"
V,I,THESEUS,"invisible within the circumference."
V,I,Moonshine,"This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;"
V,I,Moonshine,"Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be."
V,I,THESEUS,"This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man"
V,I,THESEUS,"should be put into the lanthorn. How is it else the"
V,I,THESEUS,"man i' the moon?"
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"He dares not come there for the candle; for, you"
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"see, it is already in snuff."
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"I am aweary of this moon: would he would change!"
V,I,THESEUS,"It appears, by his small light of discretion, that"
V,I,THESEUS,"he is in the wane; but yet, in courtesy, in all"
V,I,THESEUS,"reason, we must stay the time."
V,I,LYSANDER,"Proceed, Moon."
V,I,Moonshine,"All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the"
V,I,Moonshine,"lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this"
V,I,Moonshine,"thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog."
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"Why, all these should be in the lanthorn; for all"
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"these are in the moon. But, silence! here comes Thisbe."
V,I,Thisbe,"This is old Ninny's tomb. Where is my love?"
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"Well roared, Lion."
V,I,THESEUS,"Well run, Thisbe."
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a"
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"good grace."
V,I,THESEUS,"Well moused, Lion."
V,I,LYSANDER,"And so the lion vanished."
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"And then came Pyramus."
V,I,Pyramus,"Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams;"
V,I,Pyramus,"I thank thee, Moon, for shining now so bright;"
V,I,Pyramus,"For, by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams,"
V,I,Pyramus,"I trust to take of truest Thisby sight."
V,I,Pyramus,"But stay, O spite!"
V,I,Pyramus,"But mark, poor knight,"
V,I,Pyramus,"What dreadful dole is here!"
V,I,Pyramus,"Eyes, do you see?"
V,I,Pyramus,"How can it be?"
V,I,Pyramus,"O dainty duck! O dear!"
V,I,Pyramus,"Thy mantle good,"
V,I,Pyramus,"What, stain'd with blood!"
V,I,Pyramus,"Approach, ye Furies fell!"
V,I,Pyramus,"O Fates, come, come,"
V,I,Pyramus,"Cut thread and thrum;"
V,I,Pyramus,"Quail, crush, conclude, and quell!"
V,I,THESEUS,"This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would"
V,I,THESEUS,"go near to make a man look sad."
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man."
V,I,Pyramus,"O wherefore, Nature, didst thou lions frame?"
V,I,Pyramus,"Since lion vile hath here deflower'd my dear:"
V,I,Pyramus,"Which is--no, no--which was the fairest dame"
V,I,Pyramus,"That lived, that loved, that liked, that look'd"
V,I,Pyramus,"with cheer."
V,I,Pyramus,"Come, tears, confound;"
V,I,Pyramus,"Out, sword, and wound"
V,I,Pyramus,"The pap of Pyramus;"
V,I,Pyramus,"Ay, that left pap,"
V,I,Pyramus,"Where heart doth hop:"
V,I,Pyramus,"Thus die I, thus, thus, thus."
V,I,Pyramus,"Now am I dead,"
V,I,Pyramus,"Now am I fled;"
V,I,Pyramus,"My soul is in the sky:"
V,I,Pyramus,"Tongue, lose thy light;"
V,I,Pyramus,"Moon take thy flight:"
V,I,Pyramus,"Now die, die, die, die, die."
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"No die, but an ace, for him; for he is but one."
V,I,LYSANDER,"Less than an ace, man; for he is dead; he is nothing."
V,I,THESEUS,"With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover, and"
V,I,THESEUS,"prove an ass."
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe comes"
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"back and finds her lover?"
V,I,THESEUS,"She will find him by starlight. Here she comes; and"
V,I,THESEUS,"her passion ends the play."
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"Methinks she should not use a long one for such a"
V,I,HIPPOLYTA,"Pyramus: I hope she will be brief."
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"A mote will turn the balance, which Pyramus, which"
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"Thisbe, is the better; he for a man, God warrant us;"
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"she for a woman, God bless us."
V,I,LYSANDER,"She hath spied him already with those sweet eyes."
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"And thus she means, videlicet:--"
V,I,Thisbe,"Asleep, my love?"
V,I,Thisbe,"What, dead, my dove?"
V,I,Thisbe,"O Pyramus, arise!"
V,I,Thisbe,"Speak, speak. Quite dumb?"
V,I,Thisbe,"Dead, dead? A tomb"
V,I,Thisbe,"Must cover thy sweet eyes."
V,I,Thisbe,"These My lips,"
V,I,Thisbe,"This cherry nose,"
V,I,Thisbe,"These yellow cowslip cheeks,"
V,I,Thisbe,"Are gone, are gone:"
V,I,Thisbe,"Lovers, make moan:"
V,I,Thisbe,"His eyes were green as leeks."
V,I,Thisbe,"O Sisters Three,"
V,I,Thisbe,"Come, come to me,"
V,I,Thisbe,"With hands as pale as milk;"
V,I,Thisbe,"Lay them in gore,"
V,I,Thisbe,"Since you have shore"
V,I,Thisbe,"With shears his thread of silk."
V,I,Thisbe,"Tongue, not a word:"
V,I,Thisbe,"Come, trusty sword;"
V,I,Thisbe,"Come, blade, my breast imbrue:"
V,I,Thisbe,"And, farewell, friends;"
V,I,Thisbe,"Thus Thisby ends:"
V,I,Thisbe,"Adieu, adieu, adieu."
V,I,THESEUS,"Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead."
V,I,DEMETRIUS,"Ay, and Wall too."
V,I,BOTTOM,"parted their fathers. Will it please you to see the"
V,I,BOTTOM,"epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two"
V,I,BOTTOM,"of our company?"
V,I,THESEUS,"No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no"
V,I,THESEUS,"excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all"
V,I,THESEUS,"dead, there needs none to be blamed. Marry, if he"
V,I,THESEUS,"that writ it had played Pyramus and hanged himself"
V,I,THESEUS,"in Thisbe's garter, it would have been a fine"
V,I,THESEUS,"tragedy: and so it is, truly; and very notably"
V,I,THESEUS,"discharged. But come, your Bergomask: let your"
V,I,THESEUS,"epilogue alone."
V,I,THESEUS,"The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:"
V,I,THESEUS,"Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time."
V,I,THESEUS,"I fear we shall out-sleep the coming morn"
V,I,THESEUS,"As much as we this night have overwatch'd."
V,I,THESEUS,"This palpable-gross play hath well beguiled"
V,I,THESEUS,"The heavy gait of night. Sweet friends, to bed."
V,I,THESEUS,"A fortnight hold we this solemnity,"
V,I,THESEUS,"In nightly revels and new jollity."
V,I,PUCK,"Now the hungry lion roars,"
V,I,PUCK,"And the wolf behowls the moon;"
V,I,PUCK,"Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,"
V,I,PUCK,"All with weary task fordone."
V,I,PUCK,"Now the wasted brands do glow,"
V,I,PUCK,"Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud,"
V,I,PUCK,"Puts the wretch that lies in woe"
V,I,PUCK,"In remembrance of a shroud."
V,I,PUCK,"Now it is the time of night"
V,I,PUCK,"That the graves all gaping wide,"
V,I,PUCK,"Every one lets forth his sprite,"
V,I,PUCK,"In the church-way paths to glide:"
V,I,PUCK,"And we fairies, that do run"
V,I,PUCK,"By the triple Hecate's team,"
V,I,PUCK,"From the presence of the sun,"
V,I,PUCK,"Following darkness like a dream,"
V,I,PUCK,"Now are frolic: not a mouse"
V,I,PUCK,"Shall disturb this hallow'd house:"
V,I,PUCK,"I am sent with broom before,"
V,I,PUCK,"To sweep the dust behind the door."
V,I,OBERON,"Through the house give gathering light,"
V,I,OBERON,"By the dead and drowsy fire:"
V,I,OBERON,"Every elf and fairy sprite"
V,I,OBERON,"Hop as light as bird from brier;"
V,I,OBERON,"And this ditty, after me,"
V,I,OBERON,"Sing, and dance it trippingly."
V,I,TITANIA,"First, rehearse your song by rote"
V,I,TITANIA,"To each word a warbling note:"
V,I,TITANIA,"Hand in hand, with fairy grace,"
V,I,TITANIA,"Will we sing, and bless this place."
V,I,OBERON,"Now, until the break of day,"
V,I,OBERON,"Through this house each fairy stray."
V,I,OBERON,"To the best bride-bed will we,"
V,I,OBERON,"Which by us shall blessed be;"
V,I,OBERON,"And the issue there create"
V,I,OBERON,"Ever shall be fortunate."
V,I,OBERON,"So shall all the couples three"
V,I,OBERON,"Ever true in loving be;"
V,I,OBERON,"And the blots of Nature's hand"
V,I,OBERON,"Shall not in their issue stand;"
V,I,OBERON,"Never mole, hare lip, nor scar,"
V,I,OBERON,"Nor mark prodigious, such as are"
V,I,OBERON,"Despised in nativity,"
V,I,OBERON,"Shall upon their children be."
V,I,OBERON,"With this field-dew consecrate,"
V,I,OBERON,"Every fairy take his gait;"
V,I,OBERON,"And each several chamber bless,"
V,I,OBERON,"Through this palace, with sweet peace;"
V,I,OBERON,"And the owner of it blest"
V,I,OBERON,"Ever shall in safety rest."
V,I,OBERON,"Trip away; make no stay;"
V,I,OBERON,"Meet me all by break of day."
V,I,PUCK,"If we shadows have offended,"
V,I,PUCK,"Think but this, and all is mended,"
V,I,PUCK,"That you have but slumber'd here"
V,I,PUCK,"While these visions did appear."
V,I,PUCK,"And this weak and idle theme,"
V,I,PUCK,"No more yielding but a dream,"
V,I,PUCK,"Gentles, do not reprehend:"
V,I,PUCK,"if you pardon, we will mend:"
V,I,PUCK,"And, as I am an honest Puck,"
V,I,PUCK,"If we have unearned luck"
V,I,PUCK,"Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,"
V,I,PUCK,"We will make amends ere long;"
V,I,PUCK,"Else the Puck a liar call;"
V,I,PUCK,"So, good night unto you all."
V,I,PUCK,"Give me your hands, if we be friends,"
V,I,PUCK,"And Robin shall restore amends."
I,I,LEONATO,"I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon"
I,I,LEONATO,"comes this night to Messina."
I,I,Messenger,"He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off"
I,I,Messenger,"when I left him."
I,I,LEONATO,"How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?"
I,I,Messenger,"But few of any sort, and none of name."
I,I,LEONATO,"A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings"
I,I,LEONATO,"home full numbers. I find here that Don Peter hath"
I,I,LEONATO,"bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called Claudio."
I,I,Messenger,"Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by"
I,I,Messenger,"Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the"
I,I,Messenger,"promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb,"
I,I,Messenger,"the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better"
I,I,Messenger,"bettered expectation than you must expect of me to"
I,I,Messenger,"tell you how."
I,I,LEONATO,"He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much"
I,I,LEONATO,"glad of it."
I,I,Messenger,"I have already delivered him letters, and there"
I,I,Messenger,"appears much joy in him; even so much that joy could"
I,I,Messenger,"not show itself modest enough without a badge of"
I,I,Messenger,"bitterness."
I,I,LEONATO,"Did he break out into tears?"
I,I,Messenger,"In great measure."
I,I,LEONATO,"A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces"
I,I,LEONATO,"truer than those that are so washed. How much"
I,I,LEONATO,"better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!"
I,I,BEATRICE,"I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the"
I,I,BEATRICE,"wars or no?"
I,I,Messenger,"I know none of that name, lady: there was none such"
I,I,Messenger,"in the army of any sort."
I,I,LEONATO,"What is he that you ask for, niece?"
I,I,HERO,"My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua."
I,I,Messenger,"O, he's returned; and as pleasant as ever he was."
I,I,BEATRICE,"He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged"
I,I,BEATRICE,"Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading"
I,I,BEATRICE,"the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged"
I,I,BEATRICE,"him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he"
I,I,BEATRICE,"killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath"
I,I,BEATRICE,"he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing."
I,I,LEONATO,"Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much;"
I,I,LEONATO,"but he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not."
I,I,Messenger,"He hath done good service, lady, in these wars."
I,I,BEATRICE,"You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it:"
I,I,BEATRICE,"he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an"
I,I,BEATRICE,"excellent stomach."
I,I,Messenger,"And a good soldier too, lady."
I,I,BEATRICE,"And a good soldier to a lady: but what is he to a lord?"
I,I,Messenger,"A lord to a lord, a man to a man; stuffed with all"
I,I,Messenger,"honourable virtues."
I,I,BEATRICE,"It is so, indeed; he is no less than a stuffed man:"
I,I,BEATRICE,"but for the stuffing,--well, we are all mortal."
I,I,LEONATO,"You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a"
I,I,LEONATO,"kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:"
I,I,LEONATO,"they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit"
I,I,LEONATO,"between them."
I,I,BEATRICE,"Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last"
I,I,BEATRICE,"conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and"
I,I,BEATRICE,"now is the whole man governed with one: so that if"
I,I,BEATRICE,"he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him"
I,I,BEATRICE,"bear it for a difference between himself and his"
I,I,BEATRICE,"horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left,"
I,I,BEATRICE,"to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his"
I,I,BEATRICE,"companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother."
I,I,Messenger,"Is't possible?"
I,I,BEATRICE,"Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as"
I,I,BEATRICE,"the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the"
I,I,BEATRICE,"next block."
I,I,Messenger,"I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books."
I,I,BEATRICE,"No; an he were, I would burn my study. But, I pray"
I,I,BEATRICE,"you, who is his companion? Is there no young"
I,I,BEATRICE,"squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil?"
I,I,Messenger,"He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio."
I,I,BEATRICE,"O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease: he"
I,I,BEATRICE,"is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker"
I,I,BEATRICE,"runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio! if"
I,I,BEATRICE,"he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a"
I,I,BEATRICE,"thousand pound ere a' be cured."
I,I,Messenger,"I will hold friends with you, lady."
I,I,BEATRICE,"Do, good friend."
I,I,LEONATO,"You will never run mad, niece."
I,I,BEATRICE,"No, not till a hot January."
I,I,Messenger,"Don Pedro is approached."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"cost, and you encounter it."
I,I,LEONATO,"Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of"
I,I,LEONATO,"your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should"
I,I,LEONATO,"remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides"
I,I,LEONATO,"and happiness takes his leave."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"is your daughter."
I,I,LEONATO,"Her mother hath many times told me so."
I,I,BENEDICK,"Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?"
I,I,LEONATO,"Signior Benedick, no; for then were you a child."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"You have it full, Benedick: we may guess by this"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"herself. Be happy, lady; for you are like an"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"honourable father."
I,I,BENEDICK,"If Signior Leonato be her father, she would not"
I,I,BENEDICK,"have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, as"
I,I,BENEDICK,"like him as she is."
I,I,BEATRICE,"I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior"
I,I,BEATRICE,"Benedick: nobody marks you."
I,I,BENEDICK,"What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?"
I,I,BEATRICE,"Is it possible disdain should die while she hath"
I,I,BEATRICE,"such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?"
I,I,BEATRICE,"Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come"
I,I,BEATRICE,"in her presence."
I,I,BENEDICK,"Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I"
I,I,BENEDICK,"am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I"
I,I,BENEDICK,"would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard"
I,I,BENEDICK,"heart; for, truly, I love none."
I,I,BEATRICE,"A dear happiness to women: they would else have"
I,I,BEATRICE,"been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God"
I,I,BEATRICE,"and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I"
I,I,BEATRICE,"had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man"
I,I,BEATRICE,"swear he loves me."
I,I,BENEDICK,"God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some"
I,I,BENEDICK,"gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate"
I,I,BENEDICK,"scratched face."
I,I,BEATRICE,"Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such"
I,I,BEATRICE,"a face as yours were."
I,I,BENEDICK,"Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher."
I,I,BEATRICE,"A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours."
I,I,BENEDICK,"I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and"
I,I,BENEDICK,"so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's"
I,I,BENEDICK,"name; I have done."
I,I,BEATRICE,"You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"That is the sum of all, Leonato. Signior Claudio"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"and Signior Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"the least a month; and he heartily prays some"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"occasion may detain us longer. I dare swear he is no"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"hypocrite, but prays from his heart."
I,I,LEONATO,"If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn."
I,I,LEONATO,"Let me bid you welcome, my lord: being reconciled to"
I,I,LEONATO,"the prince your brother, I owe you all duty."
I,I,DON JOHN,"I thank you: I am not of many words, but I thank"
I,I,DON JOHN,"you."
I,I,LEONATO,"Please it your grace lead on?"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Your hand, Leonato; we will go together."
I,I,CLAUDIO,"Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato?"
I,I,BENEDICK,"I noted her not; but I looked on her."
I,I,CLAUDIO,"Is she not a modest young lady?"
I,I,BENEDICK,"Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for"
I,I,BENEDICK,"my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak"
I,I,BENEDICK,"after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"No; I pray thee speak in sober judgment."
I,I,BENEDICK,"Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high"
I,I,BENEDICK,"praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little"
I,I,BENEDICK,"for a great praise: only this commendation I can"
I,I,BENEDICK,"afford her, that were she other than she is, she"
I,I,BENEDICK,"were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I"
I,I,BENEDICK,"do not like her."
I,I,CLAUDIO,"Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tell me"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"truly how thou likest her."
I,I,BENEDICK,"Would you buy her, that you inquire after her?"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"Can the world buy such a jewel?"
I,I,BENEDICK,"Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you this"
I,I,BENEDICK,"with a sad brow? or do you play the flouting Jack,"
I,I,BENEDICK,"to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a"
I,I,BENEDICK,"rare carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take"
I,I,BENEDICK,"you, to go in the song?"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"looked on."
I,I,BENEDICK,"I can see yet without spectacles and I see no such"
I,I,BENEDICK,"matter: there's her cousin, an she were not"
I,I,BENEDICK,"possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty"
I,I,BENEDICK,"as the first of May doth the last of December. But I"
I,I,BENEDICK,"hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you?"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"contrary, if Hero would be my wife."
I,I,BENEDICK,"Is't come to this? In faith, hath not the world"
I,I,BENEDICK,"one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion?"
I,I,BENEDICK,"Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?"
I,I,BENEDICK,"Go to, i' faith; an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck"
I,I,BENEDICK,"into a yoke, wear the print of it and sigh away"
I,I,BENEDICK,"Sundays. Look Don Pedro is returned to seek you."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"What secret hath held you here, that you followed"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"not to Leonato's?"
I,I,BENEDICK,"I would your grace would constrain me to tell."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"I charge thee on thy allegiance."
I,I,BENEDICK,"You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as a dumb"
I,I,BENEDICK,"man; I would have you think so; but, on my"
I,I,BENEDICK,"allegiance, mark you this, on my allegiance. He is"
I,I,BENEDICK,"in love. With who? now that is your grace's part."
I,I,BENEDICK,"Mark how short his answer is;--With Hero, Leonato's"
I,I,BENEDICK,"short daughter."
I,I,CLAUDIO,"If this were so, so were it uttered."
I,I,BENEDICK,"Like the old tale, my lord: 'it is not so, nor"
I,I,BENEDICK,"'twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be"
I,I,BENEDICK,"so.'"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"should be otherwise."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Amen, if you love her; for the lady is very well worthy."
I,I,CLAUDIO,"You speak this to fetch me in, my lord."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"By my troth, I speak my thought."
I,I,CLAUDIO,"And, in faith, my lord, I spoke mine."
I,I,BENEDICK,"And, by my two faiths and troths, my lord, I spoke mine."
I,I,CLAUDIO,"That I love her, I feel."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"That she is worthy, I know."
I,I,BENEDICK,"That I neither feel how she should be loved nor"
I,I,BENEDICK,"know how she should be worthy, is the opinion that"
I,I,BENEDICK,"fire cannot melt out of me: I will die in it at the stake."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"of beauty."
I,I,CLAUDIO,"And never could maintain his part but in the force"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"of his will."
I,I,BENEDICK,"That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she"
I,I,BENEDICK,"brought me up, I likewise give her most humble"
I,I,BENEDICK,"thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my"
I,I,BENEDICK,"forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick,"
I,I,BENEDICK,"all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do"
I,I,BENEDICK,"them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the"
I,I,BENEDICK,"right to trust none; and the fine is, for the which"
I,I,BENEDICK,"I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love."
I,I,BENEDICK,"With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord,"
I,I,BENEDICK,"not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood"
I,I,BENEDICK,"with love than I will get again with drinking, pick"
I,I,BENEDICK,"out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me"
I,I,BENEDICK,"up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of"
I,I,BENEDICK,"blind Cupid."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"wilt prove a notable argument."
I,I,BENEDICK,"If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot"
I,I,BENEDICK,"at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on"
I,I,BENEDICK,"the shoulder, and called Adam."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Well, as time shall try: 'In time the savage bull"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"doth bear the yoke.'"
I,I,BENEDICK,"The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible"
I,I,BENEDICK,"Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set"
I,I,BENEDICK,"them in my forehead: and let me be vilely painted,"
I,I,BENEDICK,"and in such great letters as they write 'Here is"
I,I,BENEDICK,"good horse to hire,' let them signify under my sign"
I,I,BENEDICK,"'Here you may see Benedick the married man.'"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn-mad."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly."
I,I,BENEDICK,"I look for an earthquake too, then."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Well, you temporize with the hours. In the"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Leonato's: commend me to him and tell him I will"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"not fail him at supper; for indeed he hath made"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"great preparation."
I,I,BENEDICK,"I have almost matter enough in me for such an"
I,I,BENEDICK,"embassage; and so I commit you--"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"To the tuition of God: From my house, if I had it,--"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"The sixth of July: Your loving friend, Benedick."
I,I,BENEDICK,"Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your"
I,I,BENEDICK,"discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and"
I,I,BENEDICK,"the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere"
I,I,BENEDICK,"you flout old ends any further, examine your"
I,I,BENEDICK,"conscience: and so I leave you."
I,I,CLAUDIO,"My liege, your highness now may do me good."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"My love is thine to teach: teach it but how,"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Any hard lesson that may do thee good."
I,I,CLAUDIO,"Hath Leonato any son, my lord?"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"No child but Hero; she's his only heir."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Dost thou affect her, Claudio?"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"O, my lord,"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"When you went onward on this ended action,"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye,"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"That liked, but had a rougher task in hand"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"Than to drive liking to the name of love:"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"But now I am return'd and that war-thoughts"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"Have left their places vacant, in their rooms"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"Come thronging soft and delicate desires,"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"All prompting me how fair young Hero is,"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"Saying, I liked her ere I went to wars."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Thou wilt be like a lover presently"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"And tire the hearer with a book of words."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"And I will break with her and with her father,"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"And thou shalt have her. Was't not to this end"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"How sweetly you do minister to love,"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"That know love's grief by his complexion!"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"But lest my liking might too sudden seem,"
I,I,CLAUDIO,"I would have salved it with a longer treatise."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"What need the bridge much broader than the flood?"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"The fairest grant is the necessity."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Look, what will serve is fit: 'tis once, thou lovest,"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"And I will fit thee with the remedy."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"I know we shall have revelling to-night:"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"I will assume thy part in some disguise"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"And tell fair Hero I am Claudio,"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"And take her hearing prisoner with the force"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"And strong encounter of my amorous tale:"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"Then after to her father will I break;"
I,I,DON PEDRO,"And the conclusion is, she shall be thine."
I,I,DON PEDRO,"In practise let us put it presently."
I,II,LEONATO,"How now, brother! Where is my cousin, your son?"
I,II,LEONATO,"hath he provided this music?"
I,II,ANTONIO,"He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell"
I,II,ANTONIO,"you strange news that you yet dreamt not of."
I,II,LEONATO,"Are they good?"
I,II,ANTONIO,"As the event stamps them: but they have a good"
I,II,ANTONIO,"cover; they show well outward. The prince and Count"
I,II,ANTONIO,"Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine"
I,II,ANTONIO,"orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine:"
I,II,ANTONIO,"the prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my"
I,II,ANTONIO,"niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it"
I,II,ANTONIO,"this night in a dance: and if he found her"
I,II,ANTONIO,"accordant, he meant to take the present time by the"
I,II,ANTONIO,"top and instantly break with you of it."
I,II,LEONATO,"Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?"
I,II,ANTONIO,"A good sharp fellow: I will send for him; and"
I,II,ANTONIO,"question him yourself."
I,II,LEONATO,"No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear"
I,II,LEONATO,"itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal,"
I,II,LEONATO,"that she may be the better prepared for an answer,"
I,II,LEONATO,"if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it."
I,II,LEONATO,"Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you"
I,II,LEONATO,"mercy, friend; go you with me, and I will use your"
I,II,LEONATO,"skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time."
I,III,CONRADE,"What the good-year, my lord! why are you thus out"
I,III,CONRADE,"of measure sad?"
I,III,DON JOHN,"There is no measure in the occasion that breeds;"
I,III,DON JOHN,"therefore the sadness is without limit."
I,III,CONRADE,"You should hear reason."
I,III,DON JOHN,"And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it?"
I,III,CONRADE,"If not a present remedy, at least a patient"
I,III,CONRADE,"sufferance."
I,III,DON JOHN,"I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayest thou art,"
I,III,DON JOHN,"born under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral"
I,III,DON JOHN,"medicine to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide"
I,III,DON JOHN,"what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile"
I,III,DON JOHN,"at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait"
I,III,DON JOHN,"for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and"
I,III,DON JOHN,"tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and"
I,III,DON JOHN,"claw no man in his humour."
I,III,CONRADE,"Yea, but you must not make the full show of this"
I,III,CONRADE,"till you may do it without controlment. You have of"
I,III,CONRADE,"late stood out against your brother, and he hath"
I,III,CONRADE,"ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is"
I,III,CONRADE,"impossible you should take true root but by the"
I,III,CONRADE,"fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful"
I,III,CONRADE,"that you frame the season for your own harvest."
I,III,DON JOHN,"I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in"
I,III,DON JOHN,"his grace, and it better fits my blood to be"
I,III,DON JOHN,"disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob"
I,III,DON JOHN,"love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to"
I,III,DON JOHN,"be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied"
I,III,DON JOHN,"but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with"
I,III,DON JOHN,"a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I"
I,III,DON JOHN,"have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my"
I,III,DON JOHN,"mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do"
I,III,DON JOHN,"my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and"
I,III,DON JOHN,"seek not to alter me."
I,III,CONRADE,"Can you make no use of your discontent?"
I,III,DON JOHN,"I make all use of it, for I use it only."
I,III,DON JOHN,"Who comes here?"
I,III,DON JOHN,"What news, Borachio?"
I,III,BORACHIO,"I came yonder from a great supper: the prince your"
I,III,BORACHIO,"brother is royally entertained by Leonato: and I"
I,III,BORACHIO,"can give you intelligence of an intended marriage."
I,III,DON JOHN,"Will it serve for any model to build mischief on?"
I,III,DON JOHN,"What is he for a fool that betroths himself to"
I,III,DON JOHN,"unquietness?"
I,III,BORACHIO,"Marry, it is your brother's right hand."
I,III,DON JOHN,"Who? the most exquisite Claudio?"
I,III,BORACHIO,"Even he."
I,III,DON JOHN,"A proper squire! And who, and who? which way looks"
I,III,DON JOHN,"he?"
I,III,BORACHIO,"Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato."
I,III,DON JOHN,"A very forward March-chick! How came you to this?"
I,III,BORACHIO,"Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a"
I,III,BORACHIO,"musty room, comes me the prince and Claudio, hand"
I,III,BORACHIO,"in hand in sad conference: I whipt me behind the"
I,III,BORACHIO,"arras; and there heard it agreed upon that the"
I,III,BORACHIO,"prince should woo Hero for himself, and having"
I,III,BORACHIO,"obtained her, give her to Count Claudio."
I,III,DON JOHN,"Come, come, let us thither: this may prove food to"
I,III,DON JOHN,"my displeasure. That young start-up hath all the"
I,III,DON JOHN,"glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I"
I,III,DON JOHN,"bless myself every way. You are both sure, and will assist me?"
I,III,CONRADE,"To the death, my lord."
I,III,DON JOHN,"Let us to the great supper: their cheer is the"
I,III,DON JOHN,"greater that I am subdued. Would the cook were of"
I,III,DON JOHN,"my mind! Shall we go prove what's to be done?"
I,III,BORACHIO,"We'll wait upon your lordship."
II,I,LEONATO,"Was not Count John here at supper?"
II,I,ANTONIO,"I saw him not."
II,I,BEATRICE,"How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see"
II,I,BEATRICE,"him but I am heart-burned an hour after."
II,I,HERO,"He is of a very melancholy disposition."
II,I,BEATRICE,"He were an excellent man that were made just in the"
II,I,BEATRICE,"midway between him and Benedick: the one is too"
II,I,BEATRICE,"like an image and says nothing, and the other too"
II,I,BEATRICE,"like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling."
II,I,LEONATO,"Then half Signior Benedick's tongue in Count John's"
II,I,LEONATO,"mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signior"
II,I,LEONATO,"Benedick's face,--"
II,I,BEATRICE,"With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money"
II,I,BEATRICE,"enough in his purse, such a man would win any woman"
II,I,BEATRICE,"in the world, if a' could get her good-will."
II,I,LEONATO,"By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a"
II,I,LEONATO,"husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue."
II,I,ANTONIO,"In faith, she's too curst."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessen God's"
II,I,BEATRICE,"sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a curst"
II,I,BEATRICE,"cow short horns;' but to a cow too curst he sends none."
II,I,LEONATO,"So, by being too curst, God will send you no horns."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Just, if he send me no husband; for the which"
II,I,BEATRICE,"blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and"
II,I,BEATRICE,"evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a"
II,I,BEATRICE,"beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen."
II,I,LEONATO,"You may light on a husband that hath no beard."
II,I,BEATRICE,"What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel"
II,I,BEATRICE,"and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a"
II,I,BEATRICE,"beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no"
II,I,BEATRICE,"beard is less than a man: and he that is more than"
II,I,BEATRICE,"a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a"
II,I,BEATRICE,"man, I am not for him: therefore, I will even take"
II,I,BEATRICE,"sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his"
II,I,BEATRICE,"apes into hell."
II,I,LEONATO,"Well, then, go you into hell?"
II,I,BEATRICE,"No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet"
II,I,BEATRICE,"me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and"
II,I,BEATRICE,"say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to"
II,I,BEATRICE,"heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver"
II,I,BEATRICE,"I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the"
II,I,BEATRICE,"heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and"
II,I,BEATRICE,"there live we as merry as the day is long."
II,I,ANTONIO,"by your father."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy"
II,I,BEATRICE,"and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all"
II,I,BEATRICE,"that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else"
II,I,BEATRICE,"make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please"
II,I,BEATRICE,"me.'"
II,I,LEONATO,"Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Not till God make men of some other metal than"
II,I,BEATRICE,"earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be"
II,I,BEATRICE,"overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make"
II,I,BEATRICE,"an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?"
II,I,BEATRICE,"No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren;"
II,I,BEATRICE,"and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred."
II,I,LEONATO,"Daughter, remember what I told you: if the prince"
II,I,LEONATO,"do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer."
II,I,BEATRICE,"The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be"
II,I,BEATRICE,"not wooed in good time: if the prince be too"
II,I,BEATRICE,"important, tell him there is measure in every thing"
II,I,BEATRICE,"and so dance out the answer. For, hear me, Hero:"
II,I,BEATRICE,"wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig,"
II,I,BEATRICE,"a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot"
II,I,BEATRICE,"and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as"
II,I,BEATRICE,"fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a"
II,I,BEATRICE,"measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes"
II,I,BEATRICE,"repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the"
II,I,BEATRICE,"cinque pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave."
II,I,LEONATO,"Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly."
II,I,BEATRICE,"I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight."
II,I,LEONATO,"The revellers are entering, brother: make good room."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Lady, will you walk about with your friend?"
II,I,HERO,"So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing,"
II,I,HERO,"I am yours for the walk; and especially when I walk away."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"With me in your company?"
II,I,HERO,"I may say so, when I please."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"And when please you to say so?"
II,I,HERO,"When I like your favour; for God defend the lute"
II,I,HERO,"should be like the case!"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"My visor is Philemon's roof; within the house is Jove."
II,I,HERO,"Why, then, your visor should be thatched."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Speak low, if you speak love."
II,I,BALTHASAR,"Well, I would you did like me."
II,I,MARGARET,"So would not I, for your own sake; for I have many"
II,I,MARGARET,"ill-qualities."
II,I,BALTHASAR,"Which is one?"
II,I,MARGARET,"I say my prayers aloud."
II,I,BALTHASAR,"I love you the better: the hearers may cry, Amen."
II,I,MARGARET,"God match me with a good dancer!"
II,I,BALTHASAR,"Amen."
II,I,MARGARET,"And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is"
II,I,MARGARET,"done! Answer, clerk."
II,I,BALTHASAR,"No more words: the clerk is answered."
II,I,URSULA,"I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio."
II,I,ANTONIO,"At a word, I am not."
II,I,URSULA,"I know you by the waggling of your head."
II,I,ANTONIO,"To tell you true, I counterfeit him."
II,I,URSULA,"You could never do him so ill-well, unless you were"
II,I,URSULA,"the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down: you"
II,I,URSULA,"are he, you are he."
II,I,ANTONIO,"At a word, I am not."
II,I,URSULA,"Come, come, do you think I do not know you by your"
II,I,URSULA,"excellent wit? can virtue hide itself? Go to,"
II,I,URSULA,"mum, you are he: graces will appear, and there's an"
II,I,URSULA,"end."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Will you not tell me who told you so?"
II,I,BENEDICK,"No, you shall pardon me."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Nor will you not tell me who you are?"
II,I,BENEDICK,"Not now."
II,I,BEATRICE,"That I was disdainful, and that I had my good wit"
II,I,BEATRICE,"out of the 'Hundred Merry Tales:'--well this was"
II,I,BEATRICE,"Signior Benedick that said so."
II,I,BENEDICK,"What's he?"
II,I,BEATRICE,"I am sure you know him well enough."
II,I,BENEDICK,"Not I, believe me."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Did he never make you laugh?"
II,I,BENEDICK,"I pray you, what is he?"
II,I,BEATRICE,"Why, he is the prince's jester: a very dull fool;"
II,I,BEATRICE,"only his gift is in devising impossible slanders:"
II,I,BEATRICE,"none but libertines delight in him; and the"
II,I,BEATRICE,"commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany;"
II,I,BEATRICE,"for he both pleases men and angers them, and then"
II,I,BEATRICE,"they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in"
II,I,BEATRICE,"the fleet: I would he had boarded me."
II,I,BENEDICK,"When I know the gentleman, I'll tell him what you say."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Do, do: he'll but break a comparison or two on me;"
II,I,BEATRICE,"which, peradventure not marked or not laughed at,"
II,I,BEATRICE,"strikes him into melancholy; and then there's a"
II,I,BEATRICE,"partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no"
II,I,BEATRICE,"supper that night."
II,I,BEATRICE,"We must follow the leaders."
II,I,BENEDICK,"In every good thing."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at"
II,I,BEATRICE,"the next turning."
II,I,DON JOHN,"Sure my brother is amorous on Hero and hath"
II,I,DON JOHN,"withdrawn her father to break with him about it."
II,I,DON JOHN,"The ladies follow her and but one visor remains."
II,I,BORACHIO,"And that is Claudio: I know him by his bearing."
II,I,DON JOHN,"Are not you Signior Benedick?"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"You know me well; I am he."
II,I,DON JOHN,"Signior, you are very near my brother in his love:"
II,I,DON JOHN,"he is enamoured on Hero; I pray you, dissuade him"
II,I,DON JOHN,"from her: she is no equal for his birth: you may"
II,I,DON JOHN,"do the part of an honest man in it."
II,I,CLAUDIO,"How know you he loves her?"
II,I,DON JOHN,"I heard him swear his affection."
II,I,BORACHIO,"So did I too; and he swore he would marry her to-night."
II,I,DON JOHN,"Come, let us to the banquet."
II,I,CLAUDIO,"Thus answer I in the name of Benedick,"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio."
II,I,CLAUDIO,"'Tis certain so; the prince wooes for himself."
II,I,CLAUDIO,"Friendship is constant in all other things"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"Save in the office and affairs of love:"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"Let every eye negotiate for itself"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"Against whose charms faith melteth into blood."
II,I,CLAUDIO,"This is an accident of hourly proof,"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!"
II,I,BENEDICK,"Count Claudio?"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"Yea, the same."
II,I,BENEDICK,"Come, will you go with me?"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"Whither?"
II,I,BENEDICK,"Even to the next willow, about your own business,"
II,I,BENEDICK,"county. What fashion will you wear the garland of?"
II,I,BENEDICK,"about your neck, like an usurer's chain? or under"
II,I,BENEDICK,"your arm, like a lieutenant's scarf? You must wear"
II,I,BENEDICK,"it one way, for the prince hath got your Hero."
II,I,CLAUDIO,"I wish him joy of her."
II,I,BENEDICK,"Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they"
II,I,BENEDICK,"sell bullocks. But did you think the prince would"
II,I,BENEDICK,"have served you thus?"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"I pray you, leave me."
II,I,BENEDICK,"Ho! now you strike like the blind man: 'twas the"
II,I,BENEDICK,"boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post."
II,I,CLAUDIO,"If it will not be, I'll leave you."
II,I,BENEDICK,"Alas, poor hurt fowl! now will he creep into sedges."
II,I,BENEDICK,"But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not"
II,I,BENEDICK,"know me! The prince's fool! Ha? It may be I go"
II,I,BENEDICK,"under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I"
II,I,BENEDICK,"am apt to do myself wrong; I am not so reputed: it"
II,I,BENEDICK,"is the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice"
II,I,BENEDICK,"that puts the world into her person and so gives me"
II,I,BENEDICK,"out. Well, I'll be revenged as I may."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Now, signior, where's the count? did you see him?"
II,I,BENEDICK,"Troth, my lord, I have played the part of Lady Fame."
II,I,BENEDICK,"I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a"
II,I,BENEDICK,"warren: I told him, and I think I told him true,"
II,I,BENEDICK,"that your grace had got the good will of this young"
II,I,BENEDICK,"lady; and I offered him my company to a willow-tree,"
II,I,BENEDICK,"either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or"
II,I,BENEDICK,"to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"To be whipped! What's his fault?"
II,I,BENEDICK,"The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who, being"
II,I,BENEDICK,"overjoyed with finding a birds' nest, shows it his"
II,I,BENEDICK,"companion, and he steals it."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Wilt thou make a trust a transgression? The"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"transgression is in the stealer."
II,I,BENEDICK,"Yet it had not been amiss the rod had been made,"
II,I,BENEDICK,"and the garland too; for the garland he might have"
II,I,BENEDICK,"worn himself, and the rod he might have bestowed on"
II,I,BENEDICK,"you, who, as I take it, have stolen his birds' nest."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"I will but teach them to sing, and restore them to"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"the owner."
II,I,BENEDICK,"If their singing answer your saying, by my faith,"
II,I,BENEDICK,"you say honestly."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you: the"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"gentleman that danced with her told her she is much"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"wronged by you."
II,I,BENEDICK,"O, she misused me past the endurance of a block!"
II,I,BENEDICK,"an oak but with one green leaf on it would have"
II,I,BENEDICK,"answered her; my very visor began to assume life and"
II,I,BENEDICK,"scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been"
II,I,BENEDICK,"myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was"
II,I,BENEDICK,"duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest"
II,I,BENEDICK,"with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood"
II,I,BENEDICK,"like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at"
II,I,BENEDICK,"me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs:"
II,I,BENEDICK,"if her breath were as terrible as her terminations,"
II,I,BENEDICK,"there were no living near her; she would infect to"
II,I,BENEDICK,"the north star. I would not marry her, though she"
II,I,BENEDICK,"were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before"
II,I,BENEDICK,"he transgressed: she would have made Hercules have"
II,I,BENEDICK,"turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make"
II,I,BENEDICK,"the fire too. Come, talk not of her: you shall find"
II,I,BENEDICK,"her the infernal Ate in good apparel. I would to God"
II,I,BENEDICK,"some scholar would conjure her; for certainly, while"
II,I,BENEDICK,"she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a"
II,I,BENEDICK,"sanctuary; and people sin upon purpose, because they"
II,I,BENEDICK,"would go thither; so, indeed, all disquiet, horror"
II,I,BENEDICK,"and perturbation follows her."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Look, here she comes."
II,I,BENEDICK,"Will your grace command me any service to the"
II,I,BENEDICK,"world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now"
II,I,BENEDICK,"to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on;"
II,I,BENEDICK,"I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the"
II,I,BENEDICK,"furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of"
II,I,BENEDICK,"Prester John's foot, fetch you a hair off the great"
II,I,BENEDICK,"Cham's beard, do you any embassage to the Pigmies,"
II,I,BENEDICK,"rather than hold three words' conference with this"
II,I,BENEDICK,"harpy. You have no employment for me?"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"None, but to desire your good company."
II,I,BENEDICK,"O God, sir, here's a dish I love not: I cannot"
II,I,BENEDICK,"endure my Lady Tongue."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Signior Benedick."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave"
II,I,BEATRICE,"him use for it, a double heart for his single one:"
II,I,BEATRICE,"marry, once before he won it of me with false dice,"
II,I,BEATRICE,"therefore your grace may well say I have lost it."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"You have put him down, lady, you have put him down."
II,I,BEATRICE,"So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I"
II,I,BEATRICE,"should prove the mother of fools. I have brought"
II,I,BEATRICE,"Count Claudio, whom you sent me to seek."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Why, how now, count! wherefore are you sad?"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"Not sad, my lord."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"How then? sick?"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"Neither, my lord."
II,I,BEATRICE,"The count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor"
II,I,BEATRICE,"well; but civil count, civil as an orange, and"
II,I,BEATRICE,"something of that jealous complexion."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"I' faith, lady, I think your blazon to be true;"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"though, I'll be sworn, if he be so, his conceit is"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"false. Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"fair Hero is won: I have broke with her father,"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"and his good will obtained: name the day of"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"marriage, and God give thee joy!"
II,I,LEONATO,"Count, take of me my daughter, and with her my"
II,I,LEONATO,"fortunes: his grace hath made the match, and an"
II,I,LEONATO,"grace say Amen to it."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Speak, count, 'tis your cue."
II,I,CLAUDIO,"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"you and dote upon the exchange."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Speak, cousin; or, if you cannot, stop his mouth"
II,I,BEATRICE,"with a kiss, and let not him speak neither."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"In faith, lady, you have a merry heart."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on"
II,I,BEATRICE,"the windy side of care. My cousin tells him in his"
II,I,BEATRICE,"ear that he is in her heart."
II,I,CLAUDIO,"And so she doth, cousin."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the"
II,I,BEATRICE,"world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a"
II,I,BEATRICE,"corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Lady Beatrice, I will get you one."
II,I,BEATRICE,"I would rather have one of your father's getting."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Hath your grace ne'er a brother like you? Your"
II,I,BEATRICE,"father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by them."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Will you have me, lady?"
II,I,BEATRICE,"No, my lord, unless I might have another for"
II,I,BEATRICE,"working-days: your grace is too costly to wear"
II,I,BEATRICE,"every day. But, I beseech your grace, pardon me: I"
II,I,BEATRICE,"was born to speak all mirth and no matter."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"a merry hour."
II,I,BEATRICE,"No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there"
II,I,BEATRICE,"was a star danced, and under that was I born."
II,I,BEATRICE,"Cousins, God give you joy!"
II,I,LEONATO,"Niece, will you look to those things I told you of?"
II,I,BEATRICE,"I cry you mercy, uncle. By your grace's pardon."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady."
II,I,LEONATO,"There's little of the melancholy element in her, my"
II,I,LEONATO,"lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps, and"
II,I,LEONATO,"not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say,"
II,I,LEONATO,"she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked"
II,I,LEONATO,"herself with laughing."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband."
II,I,LEONATO,"O, by no means: she mocks all her wooers out of suit."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"She were an excellent wife for Benedict."
II,I,LEONATO,"O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married,"
II,I,LEONATO,"they would talk themselves mad."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"County Claudio, when mean you to go to church?"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"To-morrow, my lord: time goes on crutches till love"
II,I,CLAUDIO,"have all his rites."
II,I,LEONATO,"Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just"
II,I,LEONATO,"seven-night; and a time too brief, too, to have all"
II,I,LEONATO,"things answer my mind."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing:"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"dully by us. I will in the interim undertake one of"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Hercules' labours; which is, to bring Signior"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"affection the one with the other. I would fain have"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"it a match, and I doubt not but to fashion it, if"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"you three will but minister such assistance as I"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"shall give you direction."
II,I,LEONATO,"My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten"
II,I,LEONATO,"nights' watchings."
II,I,CLAUDIO,"And I, my lord."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"And you too, gentle Hero?"
II,I,HERO,"I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my"
II,I,HERO,"cousin to a good husband."
II,I,DON PEDRO,"And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband that"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"I know. Thus far can I praise him; he is of a noble"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. I"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"will teach you how to humour your cousin, that she"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"shall fall in love with Benedick; and I, with your"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this,"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"Cupid is no longer an archer: his glory shall be"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"ours, for we are the only love-gods. Go in with me,"
II,I,DON PEDRO,"and I will tell you my drift."
II,II,DON JOHN,"It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the"
II,II,DON JOHN,"daughter of Leonato."
II,II,BORACHIO,"Yea, my lord; but I can cross it."
II,II,DON JOHN,"Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be"
II,II,DON JOHN,"medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him,"
II,II,DON JOHN,"and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges"
II,II,DON JOHN,"evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?"
II,II,BORACHIO,"Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no"
II,II,BORACHIO,"dishonesty shall appear in me."
II,II,DON JOHN,"Show me briefly how."
II,II,BORACHIO,"I think I told your lordship a year since, how much"
II,II,BORACHIO,"I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting"
II,II,BORACHIO,"gentlewoman to Hero."
II,II,DON JOHN,"I remember."
II,II,BORACHIO,"I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,"
II,II,BORACHIO,"appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window."
II,II,DON JOHN,"What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage?"
II,II,BORACHIO,"The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to"
II,II,BORACHIO,"the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that"
II,II,BORACHIO,"he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned"
II,II,BORACHIO,"Claudio--whose estimation do you mightily hold"
II,II,BORACHIO,"up--to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero."
II,II,DON JOHN,"What proof shall I make of that?"
II,II,BORACHIO,"Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio,"
II,II,BORACHIO,"to undo Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for any"
II,II,BORACHIO,"other issue?"
II,II,DON JOHN,"Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing."
II,II,BORACHIO,"Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and"
II,II,BORACHIO,"the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know"
II,II,BORACHIO,"that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the"
II,II,BORACHIO,"prince and Claudio, as,--in love of your brother's"
II,II,BORACHIO,"honour, who hath made this match, and his friend's"
II,II,BORACHIO,"reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the"
II,II,BORACHIO,"semblance of a maid,--that you have discovered"
II,II,BORACHIO,"thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial:"
II,II,BORACHIO,"offer them instances; which shall bear no less"
II,II,BORACHIO,"likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window,"
II,II,BORACHIO,"hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me"
II,II,BORACHIO,"Claudio; and bring them to see this the very night"
II,II,BORACHIO,"before the intended wedding,--for in the meantime I"
II,II,BORACHIO,"will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be"
II,II,BORACHIO,"absent,--and there shall appear such seeming truth"
II,II,BORACHIO,"of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called"
II,II,BORACHIO,"assurance and all the preparation overthrown."
II,II,DON JOHN,"Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put"
II,II,DON JOHN,"it in practise. Be cunning in the working this, and"
II,II,DON JOHN,"thy fee is a thousand ducats."
II,II,BORACHIO,"Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning"
II,II,BORACHIO,"shall not shame me."
II,II,DON JOHN,"I will presently go learn their day of marriage."
II,III,BENEDICK,"Boy!"
II,III,Boy,"Signior?"
II,III,BENEDICK,"In my chamber-window lies a book: bring it hither"
II,III,BENEDICK,"to me in the orchard."
II,III,Boy,"I am here already, sir."
II,III,BENEDICK,"I know that; but I would have thee hence, and here again."
II,III,BENEDICK,"I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much"
II,III,BENEDICK,"another man is a fool when he dedicates his"
II,III,BENEDICK,"behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at"
II,III,BENEDICK,"such shallow follies in others, become the argument"
II,III,BENEDICK,"of his own scorn by failing in love: and such a man"
II,III,BENEDICK,"is Claudio. I have known when there was no music"
II,III,BENEDICK,"with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he"
II,III,BENEDICK,"rather hear the tabour and the pipe: I have known"
II,III,BENEDICK,"when he would have walked ten mile a-foot to see a"
II,III,BENEDICK,"good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake,"
II,III,BENEDICK,"carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to"
II,III,BENEDICK,"speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man"
II,III,BENEDICK,"and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his"
II,III,BENEDICK,"words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many"
II,III,BENEDICK,"strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with"
II,III,BENEDICK,"these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not: I will not"
II,III,BENEDICK,"be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster; but"
II,III,BENEDICK,"I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster"
II,III,BENEDICK,"of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman"
II,III,BENEDICK,"is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am"
II,III,BENEDICK,"well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all"
II,III,BENEDICK,"graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in"
II,III,BENEDICK,"my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise,"
II,III,BENEDICK,"or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her;"
II,III,BENEDICK,"fair, or I'll   never look on her; mild, or come not"
II,III,BENEDICK,"near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good"
II,III,BENEDICK,"discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall"
II,III,BENEDICK,"be of what colour it please God. Ha! the prince and"
II,III,BENEDICK,"Monsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbour."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Come, shall we hear this music?"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is,"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"As hush'd on purpose to grace harmony!"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"See you where Benedick hath hid himself?"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"O, very well, my lord: the music ended,"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"We'll fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Come, Balthasar, we'll hear that song again."
II,III,BALTHASAR,"O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voice"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"To slander music any more than once."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"It is the witness still of excellency"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"To put a strange face on his own perfection."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more."
II,III,BALTHASAR,"Because you talk of wooing, I will sing;"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"Since many a wooer doth commence his suit"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"To her he thinks not worthy, yet he wooes,"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"Yet will he swear he loves."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Now, pray thee, come;"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Or, if thou wilt hold longer argument,"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Do it in notes."
II,III,BALTHASAR,"Note this before my notes;"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks;"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing."
II,III,BENEDICK,"Now, divine air! now is his soul ravished! Is it"
II,III,BENEDICK,"not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out"
II,III,BENEDICK,"of men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when"
II,III,BENEDICK,"all's done."
II,III,BALTHASAR,"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"Men were deceivers ever,"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"One foot in sea and one on shore,"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"To one thing constant never:"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"Then sigh not so, but let them go,"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"And be you blithe and bonny,"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"Converting all your sounds of woe"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"Into Hey nonny, nonny."
II,III,BALTHASAR,"Sing no more ditties, sing no moe,"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"Of dumps so dull and heavy;"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"The fraud of men was ever so,"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"Since summer first was leafy:"
II,III,BALTHASAR,"Then sigh not so, &c."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"By my troth, a good song."
II,III,BALTHASAR,"And an ill singer, my lord."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Ha, no, no, faith; thou singest well enough for a shift."
II,III,BENEDICK,"An he had been a dog that should have howled thus,"
II,III,BENEDICK,"they would have hanged him: and I pray God his bad"
II,III,BENEDICK,"voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the"
II,III,BENEDICK,"night-raven, come what plague could have come after"
II,III,BENEDICK,"it."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray thee,"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"get us some excellent music; for to-morrow night we"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"would have it at the Lady Hero's chamber-window."
II,III,BALTHASAR,"The best I can, my lord."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Do so: farewell."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Come hither, Leonato. What was it you told me of"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"to-day, that your niece Beatrice was in love with"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Signior Benedick?"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"O, ay: stalk on. stalk on; the fowl sits. I did"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"never think that lady would have loved any man."
II,III,LEONATO,"No, nor I neither; but most wonderful that she"
II,III,LEONATO,"should so dote on Signior Benedick, whom she hath in"
II,III,LEONATO,"all outward behaviors seemed ever to abhor."
II,III,BENEDICK,"Is't possible? Sits the wind in that corner?"
II,III,LEONATO,"By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to think"
II,III,LEONATO,"of it but that she loves him with an enraged"
II,III,LEONATO,"affection: it is past the infinite of thought."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"May be she doth but counterfeit."
II,III,CLAUDIO,"Faith, like enough."
II,III,LEONATO,"O God, counterfeit! There was never counterfeit of"
II,III,LEONATO,"passion came so near the life of passion as she"
II,III,LEONATO,"discovers it."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Why, what effects of passion shows she?"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"Bait the hook well; this fish will bite."
II,III,LEONATO,"What effects, my lord? She will sit you, you heard"
II,III,LEONATO,"my daughter tell you how."
II,III,CLAUDIO,"She did, indeed."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"How, how, pray you? You amaze me: I would have I"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"thought her spirit had been invincible against all"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"assaults of affection."
II,III,LEONATO,"I would have sworn it had, my lord; especially"
II,III,LEONATO,"against Benedick."
II,III,BENEDICK,"I should think this a gull, but that the"
II,III,BENEDICK,"white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot,"
II,III,BENEDICK,"sure, hide himself in such reverence."
II,III,CLAUDIO,"He hath ta'en the infection: hold it up."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Hath she made her affection known to Benedick?"
II,III,LEONATO,"No; and swears she never will: that's her torment."
II,III,CLAUDIO,"'Tis true, indeed; so your daughter says: 'Shall"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"with scorn, write to him that I love him?'"
II,III,LEONATO,"This says she now when she is beginning to write to"
II,III,LEONATO,"him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and"
II,III,LEONATO,"there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a"
II,III,LEONATO,"sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all."
II,III,CLAUDIO,"Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"pretty jest your daughter told us of."
II,III,LEONATO,"O, when she had writ it and was reading it over, she"
II,III,LEONATO,"found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet?"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"That."
II,III,LEONATO,"O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence;"
II,III,LEONATO,"railed at herself, that she should be so immodest"
II,III,LEONATO,"to write to one that she knew would flout her; 'I"
II,III,LEONATO,"measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I"
II,III,LEONATO,"should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I"
II,III,LEONATO,"love him, I should.'"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs,"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses; 'O"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"sweet Benedick! God give me patience!'"
II,III,LEONATO,"She doth indeed; my daughter says so: and the"
II,III,LEONATO,"ecstasy hath so much overborne her that my daughter"
II,III,LEONATO,"is sometime afeared she will do a desperate outrage"
II,III,LEONATO,"to herself: it is very true."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"It were good that Benedick knew of it by some"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"other, if she will not discover it."
II,III,CLAUDIO,"To what end? He would make but a sport of it and"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"torment the poor lady worse."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"An he should, it were an alms to hang him. She's an"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"excellent sweet lady; and, out of all suspicion,"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"she is virtuous."
II,III,CLAUDIO,"And she is exceeding wise."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"In every thing but in loving Benedick."
II,III,LEONATO,"O, my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so tender"
II,III,LEONATO,"a body, we have ten proofs to one that blood hath"
II,III,LEONATO,"the victory. I am sorry for her, as I have just"
II,III,LEONATO,"cause, being her uncle and her guardian."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"I would she had bestowed this dotage on me: I would"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"have daffed all other respects and made her half"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"myself. I pray you, tell Benedick of it, and hear"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"what a' will say."
II,III,LEONATO,"Were it good, think you?"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"Hero thinks surely she will die; for she says she"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"will die, if he love her not, and she will die, ere"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"she make her love known, and she will die, if he woo"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"her, rather than she will bate one breath of her"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"accustomed crossness."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"She doth well: if she should make tender of her"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it; for the"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"man, as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit."
II,III,CLAUDIO,"He is a very proper man."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"He hath indeed a good outward happiness."
II,III,CLAUDIO,"Before God! and, in my mind, very wise."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"He doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit."
II,III,CLAUDIO,"And I take him to be valiant."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"As Hector, I assure you: and in the managing of"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"quarrels you may say he is wise; for either he"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"avoids them with great discretion, or undertakes"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"them with a most Christian-like fear."
II,III,LEONATO,"If he do fear God, a' must necessarily keep peace:"
II,III,LEONATO,"if he break the peace, he ought to enter into a"
II,III,LEONATO,"quarrel with fear and trembling."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"And so will he do; for the man doth fear God,"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"he will make. Well I am sorry for your niece. Shall"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"we go seek Benedick, and tell him of her love?"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"Never tell him, my lord: let her wear it out with"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"good counsel."
II,III,LEONATO,"Nay, that's impossible: she may wear her heart out first."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Well, we will hear further of it by your daughter:"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"let it cool the while. I love Benedick well; and I"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"could wish he would modestly examine himself, to see"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"how much he is unworthy so good a lady."
II,III,LEONATO,"My lord, will you walk? dinner is ready."
II,III,CLAUDIO,"If he do not dote on her upon this, I will never"
II,III,CLAUDIO,"trust my expectation."
II,III,DON PEDRO,"Let there be the same net spread for her; and that"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"must your daughter and her gentlewomen carry. The"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"sport will be, when they hold one an opinion of"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"another's dotage, and no such matter: that's the"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"scene that I would see, which will be merely a"
II,III,DON PEDRO,"dumb-show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner."
II,III,BENEDICK,"conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of"
II,III,BENEDICK,"this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady: it"
II,III,BENEDICK,"seems her affections have their full bent. Love me!"
II,III,BENEDICK,"why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured:"
II,III,BENEDICK,"they say I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive"
II,III,BENEDICK,"the love come from her; they say too that she will"
II,III,BENEDICK,"rather die than give any sign of affection. I did"
II,III,BENEDICK,"never think to marry: I must not seem proud: happy"
II,III,BENEDICK,"are they that hear their detractions and can put"
II,III,BENEDICK,"them to mending. They say the lady is fair; 'tis a"
II,III,BENEDICK,"truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; 'tis"
II,III,BENEDICK,"so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving"
II,III,BENEDICK,"me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor"
II,III,BENEDICK,"no great argument of her folly, for I will be"
II,III,BENEDICK,"horribly in love with her. I may chance have some"
II,III,BENEDICK,"odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me,"
II,III,BENEDICK,"because I have railed so long against marriage: but"
II,III,BENEDICK,"doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat"
II,III,BENEDICK,"in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."
II,III,BENEDICK,"Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of"
II,III,BENEDICK,"the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?"
II,III,BENEDICK,"No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would"
II,III,BENEDICK,"die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I"
II,III,BENEDICK,"were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day!"
II,III,BENEDICK,"she's a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in"
II,III,BENEDICK,"her."
II,III,BEATRICE,"Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner."
II,III,BENEDICK,"Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains."
II,III,BEATRICE,"I took no more pains for those thanks than you take"
II,III,BEATRICE,"pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would"
II,III,BEATRICE,"not have come."
II,III,BENEDICK,"You take pleasure then in the message?"
II,III,BEATRICE,"Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's"
II,III,BEATRICE,"point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach,"
II,III,BEATRICE,"signior: fare you well."
II,III,BENEDICK,"Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in"
II,III,BENEDICK,"to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that 'I took"
II,III,BENEDICK,"no more pains for those thanks than you took pains"
II,III,BENEDICK,"to thank me.' that's as much as to say, Any pains"
II,III,BENEDICK,"that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do"
II,III,BENEDICK,"not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not"
II,III,BENEDICK,"love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture."
III,I,HERO,"Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor;"
III,I,HERO,"There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice"
III,I,HERO,"Proposing with the prince and Claudio:"
III,I,HERO,"Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursula"
III,I,HERO,"Walk in the orchard and our whole discourse"
III,I,HERO,"Is all of her; say that thou overheard'st us;"
III,I,HERO,"And bid her steal into the pleached bower,"
III,I,HERO,"Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun,"
III,I,HERO,"Forbid the sun to enter, like favourites,"
III,I,HERO,"Made proud by princes, that advance their pride"
III,I,HERO,"Against that power that bred it: there will she hide her,"
III,I,HERO,"To listen our purpose.  This is thy office;"
III,I,HERO,"Bear thee well in it and leave us alone."
III,I,MARGARET,"I'll make her come, I warrant you, presently."
III,I,HERO,"Now, Ursula, when Beatrice doth come,"
III,I,HERO,"As we do trace this alley up and down,"
III,I,HERO,"Our talk must only be of Benedick."
III,I,HERO,"When I do name him, let it be thy part"
III,I,HERO,"To praise him more than ever man did merit:"
III,I,HERO,"My talk to thee must be how Benedick"
III,I,HERO,"Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter"
III,I,HERO,"Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made,"
III,I,HERO,"That only wounds by hearsay."
III,I,HERO,"Now begin;"
III,I,HERO,"For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs"
III,I,HERO,"Close by the ground, to hear our conference."
III,I,URSULA,"The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish"
III,I,URSULA,"Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,"
III,I,URSULA,"And greedily devour the treacherous bait:"
III,I,URSULA,"So angle we for Beatrice; who even now"
III,I,URSULA,"Is couched in the woodbine coverture."
III,I,URSULA,"Fear you not my part of the dialogue."
III,I,HERO,"Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing"
III,I,HERO,"Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it."
III,I,HERO,"No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;"
III,I,HERO,"I know her spirits are as coy and wild"
III,I,HERO,"As haggerds of the rock."
III,I,URSULA,"But are you sure"
III,I,URSULA,"That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely?"
III,I,HERO,"So says the prince and my new-trothed lord."
III,I,URSULA,"And did they bid you tell her of it, madam?"
III,I,HERO,"They did entreat me to acquaint her of it;"
III,I,HERO,"But I persuaded them, if they loved Benedick,"
III,I,HERO,"To wish him wrestle with affection,"
III,I,HERO,"And never to let Beatrice know of it."
III,I,URSULA,"Why did you so? Doth not the gentleman"
III,I,URSULA,"Deserve as full as fortunate a bed"
III,I,URSULA,"As ever Beatrice shall couch upon?"
III,I,HERO,"O god of love! I know he doth deserve"
III,I,HERO,"As much as may be yielded to a man:"
III,I,HERO,"But Nature never framed a woman's heart"
III,I,HERO,"Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice;"
III,I,HERO,"Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,"
III,I,HERO,"Misprising what they look on, and her wit"
III,I,HERO,"Values itself so highly that to her"
III,I,HERO,"All matter else seems weak: she cannot love,"
III,I,HERO,"Nor take no shape nor project of affection,"
III,I,HERO,"She is so self-endeared."
III,I,URSULA,"Sure, I think so;"
III,I,URSULA,"And therefore certainly it were not good"
III,I,URSULA,"She knew his love, lest she make sport at it."
III,I,HERO,"Why, you speak truth. I never yet saw man,"
III,I,HERO,"How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured,"
III,I,HERO,"But she would spell him backward: if fair-faced,"
III,I,HERO,"She would swear the gentleman should be her sister;"
III,I,HERO,"If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antique,"
III,I,HERO,"Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed;"
III,I,HERO,"If low, an agate very vilely cut;"
III,I,HERO,"If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds;"
III,I,HERO,"If silent, why, a block moved with none."
III,I,HERO,"So turns she every man the wrong side out"
III,I,HERO,"And never gives to truth and virtue that"
III,I,HERO,"Which simpleness and merit purchaseth."
III,I,URSULA,"Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable."
III,I,HERO,"No, not to be so odd and from all fashions"
III,I,HERO,"As Beatrice is, cannot be commendable:"
III,I,HERO,"But who dare tell her so? If I should speak,"
III,I,HERO,"She would mock me into air; O, she would laugh me"
III,I,HERO,"Out of myself, press me to death with wit."
III,I,HERO,"Therefore let Benedick, like cover'd fire,"
III,I,HERO,"Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly:"
III,I,HERO,"It were a better death than die with mocks,"
III,I,HERO,"Which is as bad as die with tickling."
III,I,URSULA,"Yet tell her of it: hear what she will say."
III,I,HERO,"No; rather I will go to Benedick"
III,I,HERO,"And counsel him to fight against his passion."
III,I,HERO,"And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders"
III,I,HERO,"To stain my cousin with: one doth not know"
III,I,HERO,"How much an ill word may empoison liking."
III,I,URSULA,"O, do not do your cousin such a wrong."
III,I,URSULA,"She cannot be so much without true judgment--"
III,I,URSULA,"Having so swift and excellent a wit"
III,I,URSULA,"As she is prized to have--as to refuse"
III,I,URSULA,"So rare a gentleman as Signior Benedick."
III,I,HERO,"He is the only man of Italy."
III,I,HERO,"Always excepted my dear Claudio."
III,I,URSULA,"I pray you, be not angry with me, madam,"
III,I,URSULA,"Speaking my fancy: Signior Benedick,"
III,I,URSULA,"For shape, for bearing, argument and valour,"
III,I,URSULA,"Goes foremost in report through Italy."
III,I,HERO,"Indeed, he hath an excellent good name."
III,I,URSULA,"His excellence did earn it, ere he had it."
III,I,URSULA,"When are you married, madam?"
III,I,HERO,"Why, every day, to-morrow. Come, go in:"
III,I,HERO,"I'll show thee some attires, and have thy counsel"
III,I,HERO,"Which is the best to furnish me to-morrow."
III,I,URSULA,"She's limed, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam."
III,I,HERO,"If it proves so, then loving goes by haps:"
III,I,HERO,"Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."
III,I,BEATRICE,"What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?"
III,I,BEATRICE,"Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much?"
III,I,BEATRICE,"Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu!"
III,I,BEATRICE,"No glory lives behind the back of such."
III,I,BEATRICE,"And, Benedick, love on; I will requite thee,"
III,I,BEATRICE,"Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand:"
III,I,BEATRICE,"If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee"
III,I,BEATRICE,"To bind our loves up in a holy band;"
III,I,BEATRICE,"For others say thou dost deserve, and I"
III,I,BEATRICE,"Believe it better than reportingly."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"I do but stay till your marriage be consummate, and"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"then go I toward Arragon."
III,II,CLAUDIO,"I'll bring you thither, my lord, if you'll"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"vouchsafe me."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"Nay, that would be as great a soil in the new gloss"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"of your marriage as to show a child his new coat"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"and forbid him to wear it. I will only be bold"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"with Benedick for his company; for, from the crown"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"mirth: he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"bow-string and the little hangman dare not shoot at"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"him; he hath a heart as sound as a bell and his"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks his"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"tongue speaks."
III,II,BENEDICK,"Gallants, I am not as I have been."
III,II,LEONATO,"So say I methinks you are sadder."
III,II,CLAUDIO,"I hope he be in love."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"Hang him, truant! there's no true drop of blood in"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"him, to be truly touched with love: if he be sad,"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"he wants money."
III,II,BENEDICK,"I have the toothache."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"Draw it."
III,II,BENEDICK,"Hang it!"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"What! sigh for the toothache?"
III,II,LEONATO,"Where is but a humour or a worm."
III,II,BENEDICK,"Well, every one can master a grief but he that has"
III,II,BENEDICK,"it."
III,II,CLAUDIO,"Yet say I, he is in love."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"a fancy that he hath to strange disguises; as, to be"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"a Dutchman today, a Frenchman to-morrow, or in the"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"shape of two countries at once, as, a German from"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"the waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"the hip upward, no doublet. Unless he have a fancy"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"to this foolery, as it appears he hath, he is no"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"fool for fancy, as you would have it appear he is."
III,II,CLAUDIO,"If he be not in love with some woman, there is no"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"believing old signs: a' brushes his hat o'"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"mornings; what should that bode?"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"Hath any man seen him at the barber's?"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"No, but the barber's man hath been seen with him,"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"and the old ornament of his cheek hath already"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"stuffed tennis-balls."
III,II,LEONATO,"Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"Nay, a' rubs himself with civet: can you smell him"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"out by that?"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"That's as much as to say, the sweet youth's in love."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"The greatest note of it is his melancholy."
III,II,CLAUDIO,"And when was he wont to wash his face?"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"Yea, or to paint himself? for the which, I hear"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"what they say of him."
III,II,CLAUDIO,"Nay, but his jesting spirit; which is now crept into"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"a lute-string and now governed by stops."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him: conclude,"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"conclude he is in love."
III,II,CLAUDIO,"Nay, but I know who loves him."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"That would I know too: I warrant, one that knows him not."
III,II,CLAUDIO,"Yes, and his ill conditions; and, in despite of"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"all, dies for him."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"She shall be buried with her face upwards."
III,II,BENEDICK,"Yet is this no charm for the toothache. Old"
III,II,BENEDICK,"signior, walk aside with me: I have studied eight"
III,II,BENEDICK,"or nine wise words to speak to you, which these"
III,II,BENEDICK,"hobby-horses must not hear."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"For my life, to break with him about Beatrice."
III,II,CLAUDIO,"'Tis even so. Hero and Margaret have by this"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"played their parts with Beatrice; and then the two"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"bears will not bite one another when they meet."
III,II,DON JOHN,"My lord and brother, God save you!"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"Good den, brother."
III,II,DON JOHN,"If your leisure served, I would speak with you."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"In private?"
III,II,DON JOHN,"If it please you: yet Count Claudio may hear; for"
III,II,DON JOHN,"what I would speak of concerns him."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"What's the matter?"
III,II,DON JOHN,"to-morrow?"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"You know he does."
III,II,DON JOHN,"I know not that, when he knows what I know."
III,II,CLAUDIO,"If there be any impediment, I pray you discover it."
III,II,DON JOHN,"You may think I love you not: let that appear"
III,II,DON JOHN,"hereafter, and aim better at me by that I now will"
III,II,DON JOHN,"manifest. For my brother, I think he holds you"
III,II,DON JOHN,"well, and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect"
III,II,DON JOHN,"your ensuing marriage;--surely suit ill spent and"
III,II,DON JOHN,"labour ill bestowed."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"Why, what's the matter?"
III,II,DON JOHN,"I came hither to tell you; and, circumstances"
III,II,DON JOHN,"shortened, for she has been too long a talking of,"
III,II,DON JOHN,"the lady is disloyal."
III,II,CLAUDIO,"Who, Hero?"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"Even she; Leonato's Hero, your Hero, every man's Hero:"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"Disloyal?"
III,II,DON JOHN,"The word is too good to paint out her wickedness; I"
III,II,DON JOHN,"could say she were worse: think you of a worse"
III,II,DON JOHN,"title, and I will fit her to it. Wonder not till"
III,II,DON JOHN,"further warrant: go but with me to-night, you shall"
III,II,DON JOHN,"see her chamber-window entered, even the night"
III,II,DON JOHN,"before her wedding-day: if you love her then,"
III,II,DON JOHN,"to-morrow wed her; but it would better fit your honour"
III,II,DON JOHN,"to change your mind."
III,II,CLAUDIO,"May this be so?"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"I will not think it."
III,II,DON JOHN,"If you dare not trust that you see, confess not"
III,II,DON JOHN,"that you know: if you will follow me, I will show"
III,II,DON JOHN,"you enough; and when you have seen more and heard"
III,II,DON JOHN,"more, proceed accordingly."
III,II,CLAUDIO,"If I see any thing to-night why I should not marry"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"her to-morrow in the congregation, where I should"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"wed, there will I shame her."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"And, as I wooed for thee to obtain her, I will join"
III,II,DON PEDRO,"with thee to disgrace her."
III,II,DON JOHN,"I will disparage her no farther till you are my"
III,II,DON JOHN,"witnesses: bear it coldly but till midnight, and"
III,II,DON JOHN,"let the issue show itself."
III,II,DON PEDRO,"O day untowardly turned!"
III,II,CLAUDIO,"O mischief strangely thwarting!"
III,II,DON JOHN,"O plague right well prevented! so will you say when"
III,II,DON JOHN,"you have seen the sequel."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"Are you good men and true?"
III,III,VERGES,"Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer"
III,III,VERGES,"salvation, body and soul."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"Nay, that were a punishment too good for them, if"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"they should have any allegiance in them, being"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"chosen for the prince's watch."
III,III,VERGES,"Well, give them their charge, neighbour Dogberry."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"First, who think you the most desertless man to be"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"constable?"
III,III,First Watchman,"Hugh Otecake, sir, or George Seacole; for they can"
III,III,First Watchman,"write and read."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"Come hither, neighbour Seacole. God hath blessed"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"you with a good name: to be a well-favoured man is"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature."
III,III,Second Watchman,"Both which, master constable,--"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"You have: I knew it would be your answer. Well,"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and make"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"no boast of it; and for your writing and reading,"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"let that appear when there is no need of such"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"vanity. You are thought here to be the most"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"senseless and fit man for the constable of the"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"watch; therefore bear you the lantern. This is your"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"to bid any man stand, in the prince's name."
III,III,Second Watchman,"How if a' will not stand?"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"presently call the rest of the watch together and"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"thank God you are rid of a knave."
III,III,VERGES,"If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none"
III,III,VERGES,"of the prince's subjects."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"True, and they are to meddle with none but the"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"prince's subjects. You shall also make no noise in"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"the streets; for, for the watch to babble and to"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"talk is most tolerable and not to be endured."
III,III,Watchman,"We will rather sleep than talk: we know what"
III,III,Watchman,"belongs to a watch."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"watchman; for I cannot see how sleeping should"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"offend: only, have a care that your bills be not"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"stolen. Well, you are to call at all the"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"ale-houses, and bid those that are drunk get them to bed."
III,III,Watchman,"How if they will not?"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"Why, then, let them alone till they are sober: if"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"they make you not then the better answer, you may"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"say they are not the men you took them for."
III,III,Watchman,"Well, sir."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by virtue"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"of your office, to be no true man; and, for such"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them,"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"why the more is for your honesty."
III,III,Watchman,"If we know him to be a thief, shall we not lay"
III,III,Watchman,"hands on him?"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"Truly, by your office, you may; but I think they"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"that touch pitch will be defiled: the most peaceable"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"show himself what he is and steal out of your company."
III,III,VERGES,"You have been always called a merciful man, partner."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"a man who hath any honesty in him."
III,III,VERGES,"If you hear a child cry in the night, you must call"
III,III,VERGES,"to the nurse and bid her still it."
III,III,Watchman,"How if the nurse be asleep and will not hear us?"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"Why, then, depart in peace, and let the child wake"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"her with crying; for the ewe that will not hear her"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats."
III,III,VERGES,"'Tis very true."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"This is the end of the charge:--you, constable, are"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"to present the prince's own person: if you meet the"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"prince in the night, you may stay him."
III,III,VERGES,"Nay, by'r our lady, that I think a' cannot."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"Five shillings to one on't, with any man that knows"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"the statutes, he may stay him: marry, not without"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"the prince be willing; for, indeed, the watch ought"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"to offend no man; and it is an offence to stay a"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"man against his will."
III,III,VERGES,"By'r lady, I think it be so."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"Ha, ha, ha! Well, masters, good night: an there be"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"any matter of weight chances, call up me: keep your"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"fellows' counsels and your own; and good night."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"Come, neighbour."
III,III,Watchman,"Well, masters, we hear our charge: let us go sit here"
III,III,Watchman,"upon the church-bench till two, and then all to bed."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"One word more, honest neighbours. I pray you watch"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"about Signior Leonato's door; for the wedding being"
III,III,DOGBERRY,"there to-morrow, there is a great coil to-night."
III,III,DOGBERRY,"Adieu: be vigitant, I beseech you."
III,III,BORACHIO,"What Conrade!"
III,III,BORACHIO,"Conrade, I say!"
III,III,CONRADE,"Here, man; I am at thy elbow."
III,III,BORACHIO,"Mass, and my elbow itched; I thought there would a"
III,III,BORACHIO,"scab follow."
III,III,CONRADE,"I will owe thee an answer for that: and now forward"
III,III,CONRADE,"with thy tale."
III,III,BORACHIO,"Stand thee close, then, under this pent-house, for"
III,III,BORACHIO,"it drizzles rain; and I will, like a true drunkard,"
III,III,BORACHIO,"utter all to thee."
III,III,BORACHIO,"Therefore know I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats."
III,III,CONRADE,"Is it possible that any villany should be so dear?"
III,III,BORACHIO,"Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any"
III,III,BORACHIO,"villany should be so rich; for when rich villains"
III,III,BORACHIO,"have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what"
III,III,BORACHIO,"price they will."
III,III,CONRADE,"I wonder at it."
III,III,BORACHIO,"That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou knowest that"
III,III,BORACHIO,"the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a cloak, is"
III,III,BORACHIO,"nothing to a man."
III,III,CONRADE,"Yes, it is apparel."
III,III,BORACHIO,"I mean, the fashion."
III,III,CONRADE,"Yes, the fashion is the fashion."
III,III,BORACHIO,"Tush! I may as well say the fool's the fool. But"
III,III,BORACHIO,"seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion"
III,III,BORACHIO,"is?"
III,III,Watchman,"thief this seven year; a' goes up and down like a"
III,III,Watchman,"gentleman: I remember his name."
III,III,BORACHIO,"Didst thou not hear somebody?"
III,III,CONRADE,"No; 'twas the vane on the house."
III,III,BORACHIO,"Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this"
III,III,BORACHIO,"fashion is? how giddily a' turns about all the hot"
III,III,BORACHIO,"bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty?"
III,III,BORACHIO,"sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers"
III,III,BORACHIO,"in the reeky painting, sometime like god Bel's"
III,III,BORACHIO,"priests in the old church-window, sometime like the"
III,III,BORACHIO,"shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry,"
III,III,BORACHIO,"where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?"
III,III,CONRADE,"All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears"
III,III,CONRADE,"out more apparel than the man. But art not thou"
III,III,CONRADE,"thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast"
III,III,CONRADE,"shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?"
III,III,BORACHIO,"Not so, neither: but know that I have to-night"
III,III,BORACHIO,"wooed Margaret, the Lady Hero's gentlewoman, by the"
III,III,BORACHIO,"name of Hero: she leans me out at her mistress'"
III,III,BORACHIO,"chamber-window, bids me a thousand times good"
III,III,BORACHIO,"night,--I tell this tale vilely:--I should first"
III,III,BORACHIO,"tell thee how the prince, Claudio and my master,"
III,III,BORACHIO,"planted and placed and possessed by my master Don"
III,III,BORACHIO,"John, saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter."
III,III,CONRADE,"And thought they Margaret was Hero?"
III,III,BORACHIO,"Two of them did, the prince and Claudio; but the"
III,III,BORACHIO,"devil my master knew she was Margaret; and partly"
III,III,BORACHIO,"by his oaths, which first possessed them, partly by"
III,III,BORACHIO,"the dark night, which did deceive them, but chiefly"
III,III,BORACHIO,"by my villany, which did confirm any slander that"
III,III,BORACHIO,"Don John had made, away went Claudio enraged; swore"
III,III,BORACHIO,"he would meet her, as he was appointed, next morning"
III,III,BORACHIO,"at the temple, and there, before the whole"
III,III,BORACHIO,"congregation, shame her with what he saw o'er night"
III,III,BORACHIO,"and send her home again without a husband."
III,III,First Watchman,"We charge you, in the prince's name, stand!"
III,III,Second Watchman,"Call up the right master constable. We have here"
III,III,Second Watchman,"recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that"
III,III,Second Watchman,"ever was known in the commonwealth."
III,III,First Watchman,"And one Deformed is one of them: I know him; a'"
III,III,First Watchman,"wears a lock."
III,III,CONRADE,"Masters, masters,--"
III,III,Second Watchman,"You'll be made bring Deformed forth, I warrant you."
III,III,CONRADE,"Masters,--"
III,III,First Watchman,"Never speak: we charge you let us obey you to go with us."
III,III,BORACHIO,"We are like to prove a goodly commodity, being taken"
III,III,BORACHIO,"up of these men's bills."
III,III,CONRADE,"A commodity in question, I warrant you. Come, we'll obey you."
III,IV,HERO,"Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire"
III,IV,HERO,"her to rise."
III,IV,URSULA,"I will, lady."
III,IV,HERO,"And bid her come hither."
III,IV,URSULA,"Well."
III,IV,MARGARET,"Troth, I think your other rabato were better."
III,IV,HERO,"No, pray thee, good Meg, I'll wear this."
III,IV,MARGARET,"By my troth, 's not so good; and I warrant your"
III,IV,MARGARET,"cousin will say so."
III,IV,HERO,"My cousin's a fool, and thou art another: I'll wear"
III,IV,HERO,"none but this."
III,IV,MARGARET,"I like the new tire within excellently, if the hair"
III,IV,MARGARET,"were a thought browner; and your gown's a most rare"
III,IV,MARGARET,"fashion, i' faith. I saw the Duchess of Milan's"
III,IV,MARGARET,"gown that they praise so."
III,IV,HERO,"O, that exceeds, they say."
III,IV,MARGARET,"By my troth, 's but a night-gown in respect of"
III,IV,MARGARET,"yours: cloth o' gold, and cuts, and laced with"
III,IV,MARGARET,"silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves,"
III,IV,MARGARET,"and skirts, round underborne with a bluish tinsel:"
III,IV,MARGARET,"but for a fine, quaint, graceful and excellent"
III,IV,MARGARET,"fashion, yours is worth ten on 't."
III,IV,HERO,"God give me joy to wear it! for my heart is"
III,IV,HERO,"exceeding heavy."
III,IV,MARGARET,"'Twill be heavier soon by the weight of a man."
III,IV,HERO,"Fie upon thee! art not ashamed?"
III,IV,MARGARET,"Of what, lady? of speaking honourably? Is not"
III,IV,MARGARET,"marriage honourable in a beggar? Is not your lord"
III,IV,MARGARET,"honourable without marriage? I think you would have"
III,IV,MARGARET,"me say, 'saving your reverence, a husband:' and bad"
III,IV,MARGARET,"thinking do not wrest true speaking, I'll offend"
III,IV,MARGARET,"nobody: is there any harm in 'the heavier for a"
III,IV,MARGARET,"husband'? None, I think, and it be the right husband"
III,IV,MARGARET,"and the right wife; otherwise 'tis light, and not"
III,IV,MARGARET,"heavy: ask my Lady Beatrice else; here she comes."
III,IV,HERO,"Good morrow, coz."
III,IV,BEATRICE,"Good morrow, sweet Hero."
III,IV,HERO,"Why how now? do you speak in the sick tune?"
III,IV,BEATRICE,"I am out of all other tune, methinks."
III,IV,MARGARET,"Clap's into 'Light o' love;' that goes without a"
III,IV,MARGARET,"burden: do you sing it, and I'll dance it."
III,IV,BEATRICE,"Ye light o' love, with your heels! then, if your"
III,IV,BEATRICE,"husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall"
III,IV,BEATRICE,"lack no barns."
III,IV,MARGARET,"O illegitimate construction! I scorn that with my heels."
III,IV,BEATRICE,"'Tis almost five o'clock, cousin; tis time you were"
III,IV,BEATRICE,"ready. By my troth, I am exceeding ill: heigh-ho!"
III,IV,MARGARET,"For a hawk, a horse, or a husband?"
III,IV,BEATRICE,"For the letter that begins them all, H."
III,IV,MARGARET,"Well, and you be not turned Turk, there's no more"
III,IV,MARGARET,"sailing by the star."
III,IV,BEATRICE,"What means the fool, trow?"
III,IV,MARGARET,"Nothing I; but God send every one their heart's desire!"
III,IV,HERO,"These gloves the count sent me; they are an"
III,IV,HERO,"excellent perfume."
III,IV,BEATRICE,"I am stuffed, cousin; I cannot smell."
III,IV,MARGARET,"A maid, and stuffed! there's goodly catching of cold."
III,IV,BEATRICE,"O, God help me! God help me! how long have you"
III,IV,BEATRICE,"professed apprehension?"
III,IV,MARGARET,"Even since you left it. Doth not my wit become me rarely?"
III,IV,BEATRICE,"It is not seen enough, you should wear it in your"
III,IV,BEATRICE,"cap. By my troth, I am sick."
III,IV,MARGARET,"Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus,"
III,IV,MARGARET,"and lay it to your heart: it is the only thing for a qualm."
III,IV,HERO,"There thou prickest her with a thistle."
III,IV,BEATRICE,"Benedictus! why Benedictus? you have some moral in"
III,IV,BEATRICE,"this Benedictus."
III,IV,MARGARET,"Moral! no, by my troth, I have no moral meaning; I"
III,IV,MARGARET,"meant, plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance"
III,IV,MARGARET,"that I think you are in love: nay, by'r lady, I am"
III,IV,MARGARET,"not such a fool to think what I list, nor I list"
III,IV,MARGARET,"not to think what I can, nor indeed I cannot think,"
III,IV,MARGARET,"if I would think my heart out of thinking, that you"
III,IV,MARGARET,"are in love or that you will be in love or that you"
III,IV,MARGARET,"can be in love. Yet Benedick was such another, and"
III,IV,MARGARET,"now is he become a man: he swore he would never"
III,IV,MARGARET,"marry, and yet now, in despite of his heart, he eats"
III,IV,MARGARET,"his meat without grudging: and how you may be"
III,IV,MARGARET,"converted I know not, but methinks you look with"
III,IV,MARGARET,"your eyes as other women do."
III,IV,BEATRICE,"What pace is this that thy tongue keeps?"
III,IV,MARGARET,"Not a false gallop."
III,IV,URSULA,"Madam, withdraw: the prince, the count, Signior"
III,IV,URSULA,"Benedick, Don John, and all the gallants of the"
III,IV,URSULA,"town, are come to fetch you to church."
III,IV,HERO,"Help to dress me, good coz, good Meg, good Ursula."
III,V,LEONATO,"What would you with me, honest neighbour?"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"Marry, sir, I would have some confidence with you"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"that decerns you nearly."
III,V,LEONATO,"Brief, I pray you; for you see it is a busy time with me."
III,V,DOGBERRY,"Marry, this it is, sir."
III,V,VERGES,"Yes, in truth it is, sir."
III,V,LEONATO,"What is it, my good friends?"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"matter: an old man, sir, and his wits are not so"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"blunt as, God help, I would desire they were; but,"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"in faith, honest as the skin between his brows."
III,V,VERGES,"Yes, I thank God I am as honest as any man living"
III,V,VERGES,"that is an old man and no honester than I."
III,V,DOGBERRY,"Comparisons are odorous: palabras, neighbour Verges."
III,V,LEONATO,"Neighbours, you are tedious."
III,V,DOGBERRY,"It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part,"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"my heart to bestow it all of your worship."
III,V,LEONATO,"All thy tediousness on me, ah?"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"Yea, an 'twere a thousand pound more than 'tis; for"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"I hear as good exclamation on your worship as of any"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"man in the city; and though I be but a poor man, I"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"am glad to hear it."
III,V,VERGES,"And so am I."
III,V,LEONATO,"I would fain know what you have to say."
III,V,VERGES,"Marry, sir, our watch to-night, excepting your"
III,V,VERGES,"worship's presence, ha' ta'en a couple of as arrant"
III,V,VERGES,"knaves as any in Messina."
III,V,DOGBERRY,"A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"say, when the age is in, the wit is out: God help"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"us! it is a world to see. Well said, i' faith,"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"neighbour Verges: well, God's a good man; an two men"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"ride of a horse, one must ride behind. An honest"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"soul, i' faith, sir; by my troth he is, as ever"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"broke bread; but God is to be worshipped; all men"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"are not alike; alas, good neighbour!"
III,V,LEONATO,"Indeed, neighbour, he comes too short of you."
III,V,DOGBERRY,"Gifts that God gives."
III,V,LEONATO,"I must leave you."
III,V,DOGBERRY,"One word, sir: our watch, sir, have indeed"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"comprehended two aspicious persons, and we would"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"have them this morning examined before your worship."
III,V,LEONATO,"Take their examination yourself and bring it me: I"
III,V,LEONATO,"am now in great haste, as it may appear unto you."
III,V,DOGBERRY,"It shall be suffigance."
III,V,LEONATO,"Drink some wine ere you go: fare you well."
III,V,Messenger,"My lord, they stay for you to give your daughter to"
III,V,Messenger,"her husband."
III,V,LEONATO,"I'll wait upon them: I am ready."
III,V,DOGBERRY,"Go, good partner, go, get you to Francis Seacole;"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the gaol: we"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"are now to examination these men."
III,V,VERGES,"And we must do it wisely."
III,V,DOGBERRY,"We will spare for no wit, I warrant you; here's"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"that shall drive some of them to a non-come: only"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"get the learned writer to set down our"
III,V,DOGBERRY,"excommunication and meet me at the gaol."
IV,I,LEONATO,"Come, Friar Francis, be brief; only to the plain"
IV,I,LEONATO,"form of marriage, and you shall recount their"
IV,I,LEONATO,"particular duties afterwards."
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady."
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"No."
IV,I,LEONATO,"To be married to her: friar, you come to marry her."
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Lady, you come hither to be married to this count."
IV,I,HERO,"I do."
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"If either of you know any inward impediment why you"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"should not be conjoined, charge you, on your souls,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"to utter it."
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Know you any, Hero?"
IV,I,HERO,"None, my lord."
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Know you any, count?"
IV,I,LEONATO,"I dare make his answer, none."
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"do, not knowing what they do!"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"How now! interjections? Why, then, some be of"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"laughing, as, ah, ha, he!"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Stand thee by, friar. Father, by your leave:"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Will you with free and unconstrained soul"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Give me this maid, your daughter?"
IV,I,LEONATO,"As freely, son, as God did give her me."
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"And what have I to give you back, whose worth"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"May counterpoise this rich and precious gift?"
IV,I,DON PEDRO,"Nothing, unless you render her again."
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness."
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"There, Leonato, take her back again:"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Give not this rotten orange to your friend;"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"She's but the sign and semblance of her honour."
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Behold how like a maid she blushes here!"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"O, what authority and show of truth"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Can cunning sin cover itself withal!"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Comes not that blood as modest evidence"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear,"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"All you that see her, that she were a maid,"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"By these exterior shows? But she is none:"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"She knows the heat of a luxurious bed;"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty."
IV,I,LEONATO,"What do you mean, my lord?"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Not to be married,"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton."
IV,I,LEONATO,"Dear my lord, if you, in your own proof,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Have vanquish'd the resistance of her youth,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"And made defeat of her virginity,--"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"I know what you would say: if I have known her,"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"You will say she did embrace me as a husband,"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"And so extenuate the 'forehand sin:"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"No, Leonato,"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"I never tempted her with word too large;"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"But, as a brother to his sister, show'd"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Bashful sincerity and comely love."
IV,I,HERO,"And seem'd I ever otherwise to you?"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Out on thee! Seeming! I will write against it:"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"You seem to me as Dian in her orb,"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown;"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"But you are more intemperate in your blood"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Than Venus, or those pamper'd animals"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"That rage in savage sensuality."
IV,I,HERO,"Is my lord well, that he doth speak so wide?"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Sweet prince, why speak not you?"
IV,I,DON PEDRO,"What should I speak?"
IV,I,DON PEDRO,"I stand dishonour'd, that have gone about"
IV,I,DON PEDRO,"To link my dear friend to a common stale."
IV,I,LEONATO,"Are these things spoken, or do I but dream?"
IV,I,DON JOHN,"Sir, they are spoken, and these things are true."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"This looks not like a nuptial."
IV,I,HERO,"True! O God!"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Leonato, stand I here?"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Is this the prince? is this the prince's brother?"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Is this face Hero's? are our eyes our own?"
IV,I,LEONATO,"All this is so: but what of this, my lord?"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Let me but move one question to your daughter;"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"And, by that fatherly and kindly power"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"That you have in her, bid her answer truly."
IV,I,LEONATO,"I charge thee do so, as thou art my child."
IV,I,HERO,"O, God defend me! how am I beset!"
IV,I,HERO,"What kind of catechising call you this?"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"To make you answer truly to your name."
IV,I,HERO,"Is it not Hero? Who can blot that name"
IV,I,HERO,"With any just reproach?"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Marry, that can Hero;"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue."
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"What man was he talk'd with you yesternight"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Out at your window betwixt twelve and one?"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Now, if you are a maid, answer to this."
IV,I,HERO,"I talk'd with no man at that hour, my lord."
IV,I,DON PEDRO,"Why, then are you no maiden. Leonato,"
IV,I,DON PEDRO,"I am sorry you must hear: upon mine honour,"
IV,I,DON PEDRO,"Myself, my brother and this grieved count"
IV,I,DON PEDRO,"Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night"
IV,I,DON PEDRO,"Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window"
IV,I,DON PEDRO,"Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain,"
IV,I,DON PEDRO,"Confess'd the vile encounters they have had"
IV,I,DON PEDRO,"A thousand times in secret."
IV,I,DON JOHN,"Fie, fie! they are not to be named, my lord,"
IV,I,DON JOHN,"Not to be spoke of;"
IV,I,DON JOHN,"There is not chastity enough in language"
IV,I,DON JOHN,"Without offence to utter them. Thus, pretty lady,"
IV,I,DON JOHN,"I am sorry for thy much misgovernment."
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been,"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"If half thy outward graces had been placed"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart!"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"But fare thee well, most foul, most fair! farewell,"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"Thou pure impiety and impious purity!"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love,"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang,"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm,"
IV,I,CLAUDIO,"And never shall it more be gracious."
IV,I,LEONATO,"Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Why, how now, cousin! wherefore sink you down?"
IV,I,DON JOHN,"Come, let us go. These things, come thus to light,"
IV,I,DON JOHN,"Smother her spirits up."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"How doth the lady?"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Dead, I think. Help, uncle!"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Hero! why, Hero! Uncle! Signior Benedick! Friar!"
IV,I,LEONATO,"O Fate! take not away thy heavy hand."
IV,I,LEONATO,"Death is the fairest cover for her shame"
IV,I,LEONATO,"That may be wish'd for."
IV,I,BEATRICE,"How now, cousin Hero!"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Have comfort, lady."
IV,I,LEONATO,"Dost thou look up?"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Yea, wherefore should she not?"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Wherefore! Why, doth not every earthly thing"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny"
IV,I,LEONATO,"The story that is printed in her blood?"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Do not live, Hero; do not ope thine eyes:"
IV,I,LEONATO,"For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Myself would, on the rearward of reproaches,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Strike at thy life. Grieved I, I had but one?"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame?"
IV,I,LEONATO,"O, one too much by thee! Why had I one?"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes?"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Why had I not with charitable hand"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Took up a beggar's issue at my gates,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Who smirch'd thus and mired with infamy,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"I might have said 'No part of it is mine;"
IV,I,LEONATO,"This shame derives itself from unknown loins'?"
IV,I,LEONATO,"But mine and mine I loved and mine I praised"
IV,I,LEONATO,"And mine that I was proud on, mine so much"
IV,I,LEONATO,"That I myself was to myself not mine,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Valuing of her,--why, she, O, she is fallen"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Hath drops too few to wash her clean again"
IV,I,LEONATO,"And salt too little which may season give"
IV,I,LEONATO,"To her foul-tainted flesh!"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Sir, sir, be patient."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"For my part, I am so attired in wonder,"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"I know not what to say."
IV,I,BEATRICE,"O, on my soul, my cousin is belied!"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Lady, were you her bedfellow last night?"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"No, truly not; although, until last night,"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow."
IV,I,LEONATO,"Confirm'd, confirm'd! O, that is stronger made"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Which was before barr'd up with ribs of iron!"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Would the two princes lie, and Claudio lie,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Who loved her so, that, speaking of her foulness,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Wash'd it with tears? Hence from her! let her die."
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Hear me a little; for I have only been"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Silent so long and given way unto"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"This course of fortune"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"By noting of the lady. I have mark'd"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"A thousand blushing apparitions"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"In angel whiteness beat away those blushes;"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"And in her eye there hath appear'd a fire,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"To burn the errors that these princes hold"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool;"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Trust not my reading nor my observations,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Which with experimental seal doth warrant"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"The tenor of my book; trust not my age,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"My reverence, calling, nor divinity,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Under some biting error."
IV,I,LEONATO,"Friar, it cannot be."
IV,I,LEONATO,"Thou seest that all the grace that she hath left"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Is that she will not add to her damnation"
IV,I,LEONATO,"A sin of perjury; she not denies it:"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Why seek'st thou then to cover with excuse"
IV,I,LEONATO,"That which appears in proper nakedness?"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Lady, what man is he you are accused of?"
IV,I,HERO,"They know that do accuse me; I know none:"
IV,I,HERO,"If I know more of any man alive"
IV,I,HERO,"Than that which maiden modesty doth warrant,"
IV,I,HERO,"Let all my sins lack mercy! O my father,"
IV,I,HERO,"Prove you that any man with me conversed"
IV,I,HERO,"At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight"
IV,I,HERO,"Maintain'd the change of words with any creature,"
IV,I,HERO,"Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death!"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"There is some strange misprision in the princes."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Two of them have the very bent of honour;"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"And if their wisdoms be misled in this,"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"The practise of it lives in John the bastard,"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Whose spirits toil in frame of villanies."
IV,I,LEONATO,"I know not. If they speak but truth of her,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"These hands shall tear her; if they wrong her honour,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"The proudest of them shall well hear of it."
IV,I,LEONATO,"Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Nor age so eat up my invention,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"But they shall find, awaked in such a kind,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Both strength of limb and policy of mind,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"Ability in means and choice of friends,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"To quit me of them throughly."
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Pause awhile,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"And let my counsel sway you in this case."
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Your daughter here the princes left for dead:"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Let her awhile be secretly kept in,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"And publish it that she is dead indeed;"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Maintain a mourning ostentation"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"And on your family's old monument"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"That appertain unto a burial."
IV,I,LEONATO,"What shall become of this? what will this do?"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Marry, this well carried shall on her behalf"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Change slander to remorse; that is some good:"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"But not for that dream I on this strange course,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"But on this travail look for greater birth."
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"She dying, as it must so be maintain'd,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Upon the instant that she was accused,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Shall be lamented, pitied and excused"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Of every hearer: for it so falls out"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"That what we have we prize not to the worth"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Why, then we rack the value, then we find"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"The virtue that possession would not show us"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Whiles it was ours. So will it fare with Claudio:"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"When he shall hear she died upon his words,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"The idea of her life shall sweetly creep"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Into his study of imagination,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"And every lovely organ of her life"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"More moving-delicate and full of life,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Into the eye and prospect of his soul,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Than when she lived indeed; then shall he mourn,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"If ever love had interest in his liver,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"And wish he had not so accused her,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"No, though he thought his accusation true."
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Let this be so, and doubt not but success"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Will fashion the event in better shape"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Than I can lay it down in likelihood."
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"But if all aim but this be levell'd false,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"The supposition of the lady's death"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Will quench the wonder of her infamy:"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"As best befits her wounded reputation,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"In some reclusive and religious life,"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Out of all eyes, tongues, minds and injuries."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Signior Leonato, let the friar advise you:"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"And though you know my inwardness and love"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Is very much unto the prince and Claudio,"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Yet, by mine honour, I will deal in this"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"As secretly and justly as your soul"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Should with your body."
IV,I,LEONATO,"Being that I flow in grief,"
IV,I,LEONATO,"The smallest twine may lead me."
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"'Tis well consented: presently away;"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"For to strange sores strangely they strain the cure."
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Come, lady, die to live: this wedding-day"
IV,I,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Perhaps is but prolong'd: have patience and endure."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Yea, and I will weep a while longer."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"I will not desire that."
IV,I,BEATRICE,"You have no reason; I do it freely."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged."
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Ah, how much might the man deserve of me that would right her!"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Is there any way to show such friendship?"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"A very even way, but no such friend."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"May a man do it?"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"It is a man's office, but not yours."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"not that strange?"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"As strange as the thing I know not. It were as"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"you: but believe me not; and yet I lie not; I"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me."
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Do not swear, and eat it."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"I will swear by it that you love me; and I will make"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"him eat it that says I love not you."
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Will you not eat your word?"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"With no sauce that can be devised to it. I protest"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"I love thee."
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Why, then, God forgive me!"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"What offence, sweet Beatrice?"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about to"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"protest I loved you."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"And do it with all thy heart."
IV,I,BEATRICE,"I love you with so much of my heart that none is"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"left to protest."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Come, bid me do any thing for thee."
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Kill Claudio."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Ha! not for the wide world."
IV,I,BEATRICE,"You kill me to deny it. Farewell."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Tarry, sweet Beatrice."
IV,I,BEATRICE,"I am gone, though I am here: there is no love in"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"you: nay, I pray you, let me go."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Beatrice,--"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"In faith, I will go."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"We'll be friends first."
IV,I,BEATRICE,"You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Is Claudio thine enemy?"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Is he not approved in the height a villain, that"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"come to take hands; and then, with public"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour,"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"--O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"in the market-place."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Hear me, Beatrice,--"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Talk with a man out at a window! A proper saying!"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Nay, but, Beatrice,--"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Sweet Hero! She is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Beat--"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Princes and counties! Surely, a princely testimony,"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"a goodly count, Count Comfect; a sweet gallant,"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"surely! O that I were a man for his sake! or that I"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"had any friend would be a man for my sake! But"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee."
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath wronged Hero?"
IV,I,BEATRICE,"Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul."
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Enough, I am engaged; I will challenge him. I will"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand,"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"hear of me, so think of me. Go, comfort your"
IV,I,BENEDICK,"cousin: I must say she is dead: and so, farewell."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Is our whole dissembly appeared?"
IV,II,VERGES,"O, a stool and a cushion for the sexton."
IV,II,Sexton,"Which be the malefactors?"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Marry, that am I and my partner."
IV,II,VERGES,"Nay, that's certain; we have the exhibition to examine."
IV,II,Sexton,"But which are the offenders that are to be"
IV,II,Sexton,"examined? let them come before master constable."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Yea, marry, let them come before me. What is your"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"name, friend?"
IV,II,BORACHIO,"Borachio."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Pray, write down, Borachio. Yours, sirrah?"
IV,II,CONRADE,"I am a gentleman, sir, and my name is Conrade."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Write down, master gentleman Conrade. Masters, do"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"you serve God?"
IV,II,CONRADE,"Yea, sir, we hope."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Write down, that they hope they serve God: and"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"write God first; for God defend but God should go"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"before such villains! Masters, it is proved already"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"that you are little better than false knaves; and it"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"will go near to be thought so shortly. How answer"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"you for yourselves?"
IV,II,CONRADE,"Marry, sir, we say we are none."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you: but I"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"will go about with him. Come you hither, sirrah; a"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"word in your ear: sir, I say to you, it is thought"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"you are false knaves."
IV,II,BORACHIO,"Sir, I say to you we are none."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Well, stand aside. 'Fore God, they are both in a"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"tale. Have you writ down, that they are none?"
IV,II,Sexton,"Master constable, you go not the way to examine:"
IV,II,Sexton,"you must call forth the watch that are their accusers."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Yea, marry, that's the eftest way. Let the watch"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"come forth. Masters, I charge you, in the prince's"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"name, accuse these men."
IV,II,First Watchman,"This man said, sir, that Don John, the prince's"
IV,II,First Watchman,"brother, was a villain."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is flat"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"perjury, to call a prince's brother villain."
IV,II,BORACHIO,"Master constable,--"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Pray thee, fellow, peace: I do not like thy look,"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"I promise thee."
IV,II,Sexton,"What heard you him say else?"
IV,II,Second Watchman,"Marry, that he had received a thousand ducats of"
IV,II,Second Watchman,"Don John for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Flat burglary as ever was committed."
IV,II,VERGES,"Yea, by mass, that it is."
IV,II,Sexton,"What else, fellow?"
IV,II,First Watchman,"And that Count Claudio did mean, upon his words, to"
IV,II,First Watchman,"disgrace Hero before the whole assembly. and not marry her."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"O villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"redemption for this."
IV,II,Sexton,"What else?"
IV,II,Watchman,"This is all."
IV,II,Sexton,"And this is more, masters, than you can deny."
IV,II,Sexton,"Prince John is this morning secretly stolen away;"
IV,II,Sexton,"Hero was in this manner accused, in this very manner"
IV,II,Sexton,"refused, and upon the grief of this suddenly died."
IV,II,Sexton,"Master constable, let these men be bound, and"
IV,II,Sexton,"brought to Leonato's: I will go before and show"
IV,II,Sexton,"him their examination."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Come, let them be opinioned."
IV,II,VERGES,"Let them be in the hands--"
IV,II,CONRADE,"Off, coxcomb!"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"God's my life, where's the sexton? let him write"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"down the prince's officer coxcomb. Come, bind them."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Thou naughty varlet!"
IV,II,CONRADE,"Away! you are an ass, you are an ass."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Dost thou not suspect my place? dost thou not"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"suspect my years? O that he were here to write me"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"that I am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness."
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer,"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"and, which is more, a householder, and, which is"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"Messina, and one that knows the law, go to; and a"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"rich fellow enough, go to; and a fellow that hath"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"thing handsome about him. Bring him away. O that"
IV,II,DOGBERRY,"I had been writ down an ass!"
V,I,ANTONIO,"If you go on thus, you will kill yourself:"
V,I,ANTONIO,"And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Against yourself."
V,I,LEONATO,"I pray thee, cease thy counsel,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Which falls into mine ears as profitless"
V,I,LEONATO,"As water in a sieve: give not me counsel;"
V,I,LEONATO,"Nor let no comforter delight mine ear"
V,I,LEONATO,"But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine."
V,I,LEONATO,"Bring me a father that so loved his child,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine,"
V,I,LEONATO,"And bid him speak of patience;"
V,I,LEONATO,"Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine"
V,I,LEONATO,"And let it answer every strain for strain,"
V,I,LEONATO,"As thus for thus and such a grief for such,"
V,I,LEONATO,"In every lineament, branch, shape, and form:"
V,I,LEONATO,"If such a one will smile and stroke his beard,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Bid sorrow wag, cry 'hem!' when he should groan,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk"
V,I,LEONATO,"With candle-wasters; bring him yet to me,"
V,I,LEONATO,"And I of him will gather patience."
V,I,LEONATO,"But there is no such man: for, brother, men"
V,I,LEONATO,"Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief"
V,I,LEONATO,"Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Their counsel turns to passion, which before"
V,I,LEONATO,"Would give preceptial medicine to rage,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Charm ache with air and agony with words:"
V,I,LEONATO,"No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience"
V,I,LEONATO,"To those that wring under the load of sorrow,"
V,I,LEONATO,"But no man's virtue nor sufficiency"
V,I,LEONATO,"To be so moral when he shall endure"
V,I,LEONATO,"The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel:"
V,I,LEONATO,"My griefs cry louder than advertisement."
V,I,ANTONIO,"Therein do men from children nothing differ."
V,I,LEONATO,"I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood;"
V,I,LEONATO,"For there was never yet philosopher"
V,I,LEONATO,"That could endure the toothache patiently,"
V,I,LEONATO,"However they have writ the style of gods"
V,I,LEONATO,"And made a push at chance and sufferance."
V,I,ANTONIO,"Yet bend not all the harm upon yourself;"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Make those that do offend you suffer too."
V,I,LEONATO,"There thou speak'st reason: nay, I will do so."
V,I,LEONATO,"My soul doth tell me Hero is belied;"
V,I,LEONATO,"And that shall Claudio know; so shall the prince"
V,I,LEONATO,"And all of them that thus dishonour her."
V,I,ANTONIO,"Here comes the prince and Claudio hastily."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"Good den, good den."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Good day to both of you."
V,I,LEONATO,"Hear you. my lords,--"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"We have some haste, Leonato."
V,I,LEONATO,"Some haste, my lord! well, fare you well, my lord:"
V,I,LEONATO,"Are you so hasty now? well, all is one."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"Nay, do not quarrel with us, good old man."
V,I,ANTONIO,"If he could right himself with quarreling,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Some of us would lie low."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Who wrongs him?"
V,I,LEONATO,"Marry, thou dost wrong me; thou dissembler, thou:--"
V,I,LEONATO,"Nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword;"
V,I,LEONATO,"I fear thee not."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Marry, beshrew my hand,"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"If it should give your age such cause of fear:"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"In faith, my hand meant nothing to my sword."
V,I,LEONATO,"Tush, tush, man; never fleer and jest at me:"
V,I,LEONATO,"I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,"
V,I,LEONATO,"As under privilege of age to brag"
V,I,LEONATO,"What I have done being young, or what would do"
V,I,LEONATO,"Were I not old. Know, Claudio, to thy head,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me"
V,I,LEONATO,"That I am forced to lay my reverence by"
V,I,LEONATO,"And, with grey hairs and bruise of many days,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Do challenge thee to trial of a man."
V,I,LEONATO,"I say thou hast belied mine innocent child;"
V,I,LEONATO,"Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,"
V,I,LEONATO,"And she lies buried with her ancestors;"
V,I,LEONATO,"O, in a tomb where never scandal slept,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Save this of hers, framed by thy villany!"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"My villany?"
V,I,LEONATO,"Thine, Claudio; thine, I say."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"You say not right, old man."
V,I,LEONATO,"My lord, my lord,"
V,I,LEONATO,"I'll prove it on his body, if he dare,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Despite his nice fence and his active practise,"
V,I,LEONATO,"His May of youth and bloom of lustihood."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Away! I will not have to do with you."
V,I,LEONATO,"Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast kill'd my child:"
V,I,LEONATO,"If thou kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man."
V,I,ANTONIO,"He shall kill two of us, and men indeed:"
V,I,ANTONIO,"But that's no matter; let him kill one first;"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Win me and wear me; let him answer me."
V,I,ANTONIO,"Come, follow me, boy; come, sir boy, come, follow me:"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Sir boy, I'll whip you from your foining fence;"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will."
V,I,LEONATO,"Brother,--"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Content yourself. God knows I loved my niece;"
V,I,ANTONIO,"And she is dead, slander'd to death by villains,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"That dare as well answer a man indeed"
V,I,ANTONIO,"As I dare take a serpent by the tongue:"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!"
V,I,LEONATO,"Brother Antony,--"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple,--"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Go anticly, show outward hideousness,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;"
V,I,ANTONIO,"And this is all."
V,I,LEONATO,"But, brother Antony,--"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Come, 'tis no matter:"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Do not you meddle; let me deal in this."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"My heart is sorry for your daughter's death:"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"But, on my honour, she was charged with nothing"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"But what was true and very full of proof."
V,I,LEONATO,"My lord, my lord,--"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"I will not hear you."
V,I,LEONATO,"No? Come, brother; away! I will be heard."
V,I,ANTONIO,"And shall, or some of us will smart for it."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"See, see; here comes the man we went to seek."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Now, signior, what news?"
V,I,BENEDICK,"Good day, my lord."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"Welcome, signior: you are almost come to part"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"almost a fray."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"We had like to have had our two noses snapped off"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"with two old men without teeth."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"Leonato and his brother. What thinkest thou? Had"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"we fought, I doubt we should have been too young for them."
V,I,BENEDICK,"In a false quarrel there is no true valour. I came"
V,I,BENEDICK,"to seek you both."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"We have been up and down to seek thee; for we are"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"high-proof melancholy and would fain have it beaten"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"away. Wilt thou use thy wit?"
V,I,BENEDICK,"It is in my scabbard: shall I draw it?"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side?"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Never any did so, though very many have been beside"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"their wit. I will bid thee draw, as we do the"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"minstrels; draw, to pleasure us."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"As I am an honest man, he looks pale. Art thou"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"sick, or angry?"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"What, courage, man! What though care killed a cat,"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care."
V,I,BENEDICK,"Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career, and you"
V,I,BENEDICK,"charge it against me. I pray you choose another subject."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Nay, then, give him another staff: this last was"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"broke cross."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"By this light, he changes more and more: I think"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"he be angry indeed."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"If he be, he knows how to turn his girdle."
V,I,BENEDICK,"Shall I speak a word in your ear?"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"God bless me from a challenge!"
V,I,BENEDICK,"I will make it good how you dare, with what you"
V,I,BENEDICK,"dare, and when you dare. Do me right, or I will"
V,I,BENEDICK,"protest your cowardice. You have killed a sweet"
V,I,BENEDICK,"lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you. Let me"
V,I,BENEDICK,"hear from you."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Well, I will meet you, so I may have good cheer."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"What, a feast, a feast?"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"I' faith, I thank him; he hath bid me to a calf's"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"head and a capon; the which if I do not carve most"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"curiously, say my knife's naught. Shall I not find"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"a woodcock too?"
V,I,BENEDICK,"Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"I'll tell thee how Beatrice praised thy wit the"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"other day. I said, thou hadst a fine wit: 'True,'"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"said she, 'a fine little one.' 'No,' said I, 'a"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"great wit:' 'Right,' says she, 'a great gross one.'"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"'Nay,' said I, 'a good wit:' 'Just,' said she, 'it"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"hurts nobody.' 'Nay,' said I, 'the gentleman"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"is wise:' 'Certain,' said she, 'a wise gentleman.'"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"'Nay,' said I, 'he hath the tongues:' 'That I"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"believe,' said she, 'for he swore a thing to me on"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"Monday night, which he forswore on Tuesday morning;"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"there's a double tongue; there's two tongues.' Thus"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"did she, an hour together, transshape thy particular"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"virtues: yet at last she concluded with a sigh, thou"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"wast the properest man in Italy."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"For the which she wept heartily and said she cared"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"not."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"Yea, that she did: but yet, for all that, an if she"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"did not hate him deadly, she would love him dearly:"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"the old man's daughter told us all."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"All, all; and, moreover, God saw him when he was"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"hid in the garden."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"But when shall we set the savage bull's horns on"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"the sensible Benedick's head?"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Yea, and text underneath, 'Here dwells Benedick the"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"married man'?"
V,I,BENEDICK,"Fare you well, boy: you know my mind. I will leave"
V,I,BENEDICK,"you now to your gossip-like humour: you break jests"
V,I,BENEDICK,"as braggarts do their blades, which God be thanked,"
V,I,BENEDICK,"hurt not. My lord, for your many courtesies I thank"
V,I,BENEDICK,"you: I must discontinue your company: your brother"
V,I,BENEDICK,"the bastard is fled from Messina: you have among"
V,I,BENEDICK,"you killed a sweet and innocent lady. For my Lord"
V,I,BENEDICK,"Lackbeard there, he and I shall meet: and, till"
V,I,BENEDICK,"then, peace be with him."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"He is in earnest."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"In most profound earnest; and, I'll warrant you, for"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"the love of Beatrice."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"And hath challenged thee."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Most sincerely."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"He is then a giant to an ape; but then is an ape a"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"doctor to such a man."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"But, soft you, let me be: pluck up, my heart, and"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"be sad. Did he not say, my brother was fled?"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"Come you, sir: if justice cannot tame you, she"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance: nay,"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"an you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be looked to."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"How now? two of my brother's men bound! Borachio"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"one!"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Hearken after their offence, my lord."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"Officers, what offence have these men done?"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"Marry, sir, they have committed false report;"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily,"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"First, I ask thee what they have done; thirdly, I"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"ask thee what's their offence; sixth and lastly, why"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"they are committed; and, to conclude, what you lay"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"to their charge."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Rightly reasoned, and in his own division: and, by"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"my troth, there's one meaning well suited."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"Who have you offended, masters, that you are thus"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"bound to your answer? this learned constable is"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"too cunning to be understood: what's your offence?"
V,I,BORACHIO,"Sweet prince, let me go no farther to mine answer:"
V,I,BORACHIO,"do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have"
V,I,BORACHIO,"deceived even your very eyes: what your wisdoms"
V,I,BORACHIO,"could not discover, these shallow fools have brought"
V,I,BORACHIO,"to light: who in the night overheard me confessing"
V,I,BORACHIO,"to this man how Don John your brother incensed me"
V,I,BORACHIO,"to slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into"
V,I,BORACHIO,"the orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero's"
V,I,BORACHIO,"garments, how you disgraced her, when you should"
V,I,BORACHIO,"marry her: my villany they have upon record; which"
V,I,BORACHIO,"I had rather seal with my death than repeat over"
V,I,BORACHIO,"to my shame. The lady is dead upon mine and my"
V,I,BORACHIO,"master's false accusation; and, briefly, I desire"
V,I,BORACHIO,"nothing but the reward of a villain."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"Runs not this speech like iron through your blood?"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"I have drunk poison whiles he utter'd it."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"But did my brother set thee on to this?"
V,I,BORACHIO,"Yea, and paid me richly for the practise of it."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"He is composed and framed of treachery:"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"And fled he is upon this villany."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Sweet Hero! now thy image doth appear"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"In the rare semblance that I loved it first."
V,I,DOGBERRY,"Come, bring away the plaintiffs: by this time our"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter:"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"and, masters, do not forget to specify, when time"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"and place shall serve, that I am an ass."
V,I,VERGES,"Here, here comes master Signior Leonato, and the"
V,I,VERGES,"Sexton too."
V,I,LEONATO,"Which is the villain? let me see his eyes,"
V,I,LEONATO,"That, when I note another man like him,"
V,I,LEONATO,"I may avoid him: which of these is he?"
V,I,BORACHIO,"If you would know your wronger, look on me."
V,I,LEONATO,"Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd"
V,I,LEONATO,"Mine innocent child?"
V,I,BORACHIO,"Yea, even I alone."
V,I,LEONATO,"No, not so, villain; thou beliest thyself:"
V,I,LEONATO,"Here stand a pair of honourable men;"
V,I,LEONATO,"A third is fled, that had a hand in it."
V,I,LEONATO,"I thank you, princes, for my daughter's death:"
V,I,LEONATO,"Record it with your high and worthy deeds:"
V,I,LEONATO,"'Twas bravely done, if you bethink you of it."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"I know not how to pray your patience;"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Yet I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself;"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Impose me to what penance your invention"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Can lay upon my sin: yet sinn'd I not"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"But in mistaking."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"By my soul, nor I:"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"And yet, to satisfy this good old man,"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"I would bend under any heavy weight"
V,I,DON PEDRO,"That he'll enjoin me to."
V,I,LEONATO,"I cannot bid you bid my daughter live;"
V,I,LEONATO,"That were impossible: but, I pray you both,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Possess the people in Messina here"
V,I,LEONATO,"How innocent she died; and if your love"
V,I,LEONATO,"Can labour ought in sad invention,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb"
V,I,LEONATO,"And sing it to her bones, sing it to-night:"
V,I,LEONATO,"To-morrow morning come you to my house,"
V,I,LEONATO,"And since you could not be my son-in-law,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Be yet my nephew: my brother hath a daughter,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Almost the copy of my child that's dead,"
V,I,LEONATO,"And she alone is heir to both of us:"
V,I,LEONATO,"Give her the right you should have given her cousin,"
V,I,LEONATO,"And so dies my revenge."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"O noble sir,"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me!"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"I do embrace your offer; and dispose"
V,I,CLAUDIO,"For henceforth of poor Claudio."
V,I,LEONATO,"To-morrow then I will expect your coming;"
V,I,LEONATO,"To-night I take my leave. This naughty man"
V,I,LEONATO,"Shall face to face be brought to Margaret,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Who I believe was pack'd in all this wrong,"
V,I,LEONATO,"Hired to it by your brother."
V,I,BORACHIO,"No, by my soul, she was not,"
V,I,BORACHIO,"Nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me,"
V,I,BORACHIO,"But always hath been just and virtuous"
V,I,BORACHIO,"In any thing that I do know by her."
V,I,DOGBERRY,"Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"me ass: I beseech you, let it be remembered in his"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"punishment. And also, the watch heard them talk of"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"one Deformed: they say be wears a key in his ear and"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"a lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God's"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"name, the which he hath used so long and never paid"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"that now men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"for God's sake: pray you, examine him upon that point."
V,I,LEONATO,"I thank thee for thy care and honest pains."
V,I,DOGBERRY,"Your worship speaks like a most thankful and"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"reverend youth; and I praise God for you."
V,I,LEONATO,"There's for thy pains."
V,I,DOGBERRY,"God save the foundation!"
V,I,LEONATO,"Go, I discharge thee of thy prisoner, and I thank thee."
V,I,DOGBERRY,"I leave an arrant knave with your worship; which I"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"beseech your worship to correct yourself, for the"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"example of others. God keep your worship! I wish"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"your worship well; God restore you to health! I"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"humbly give you leave to depart; and if a merry"
V,I,DOGBERRY,"meeting may be wished, God prohibit it! Come, neighbour."
V,I,LEONATO,"Until to-morrow morning, lords, farewell."
V,I,ANTONIO,"Farewell, my lords: we look for you to-morrow."
V,I,DON PEDRO,"We will not fail."
V,I,CLAUDIO,"To-night I'll mourn with Hero."
V,I,LEONATO,"talk with Margaret,"
V,I,LEONATO,"How her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow."
V,II,BENEDICK,"Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well at"
V,II,BENEDICK,"my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice."
V,II,MARGARET,"Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?"
V,II,BENEDICK,"In so high a style, Margaret, that no man living"
V,II,BENEDICK,"shall come over it; for, in most comely truth, thou"
V,II,BENEDICK,"deservest it."
V,II,MARGARET,"To have no man come over me! why, shall I always"
V,II,MARGARET,"keep below stairs?"
V,II,BENEDICK,"Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth; it catches."
V,II,MARGARET,"And yours as blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit,"
V,II,MARGARET,"but hurt not."
V,II,BENEDICK,"A most manly wit, Margaret; it will not hurt a"
V,II,BENEDICK,"woman: and so, I pray thee, call Beatrice: I give"
V,II,BENEDICK,"thee the bucklers."
V,II,MARGARET,"Give us the swords; we have bucklers of our own."
V,II,BENEDICK,"If you use them, Margaret, you must put in the"
V,II,BENEDICK,"pikes with a vice; and they are dangerous weapons for maids."
V,II,MARGARET,"Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I think hath legs."
V,II,BENEDICK,"And therefore will come."
V,II,BENEDICK,"The god of love,"
V,II,BENEDICK,"That sits above,"
V,II,BENEDICK,"And knows me, and knows me,"
V,II,BENEDICK,"How pitiful I deserve,--"
V,II,BENEDICK,"I mean in singing; but in loving, Leander the good"
V,II,BENEDICK,"swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and"
V,II,BENEDICK,"a whole bookful of these quondam carpet-mangers,"
V,II,BENEDICK,"whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a"
V,II,BENEDICK,"blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned"
V,II,BENEDICK,"over and over as my poor self in love. Marry, I"
V,II,BENEDICK,"cannot show it in rhyme; I have tried: I can find"
V,II,BENEDICK,"out no rhyme to 'lady' but 'baby,' an innocent"
V,II,BENEDICK,"rhyme; for 'scorn,' 'horn,' a hard rhyme; for,"
V,II,BENEDICK,"'school,' 'fool,' a babbling rhyme; very ominous"
V,II,BENEDICK,"endings: no, I was not born under a rhyming planet,"
V,II,BENEDICK,"nor I cannot woo in festival terms."
V,II,BENEDICK,"Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee?"
V,II,BEATRICE,"Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me."
V,II,BENEDICK,"O, stay but till then!"
V,II,BEATRICE,"'Then' is spoken; fare you well now: and yet, ere"
V,II,BEATRICE,"I go, let me go with that I came; which is, with"
V,II,BEATRICE,"knowing what hath passed between you and Claudio."
V,II,BENEDICK,"Only foul words; and thereupon I will kiss thee."
V,II,BEATRICE,"Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but"
V,II,BEATRICE,"foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I"
V,II,BEATRICE,"will depart unkissed."
V,II,BENEDICK,"Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense,"
V,II,BENEDICK,"so forcible is thy wit. But I must tell thee"
V,II,BENEDICK,"plainly, Claudio undergoes my challenge; and either"
V,II,BENEDICK,"I must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe"
V,II,BENEDICK,"him a coward. And, I pray thee now, tell me for"
V,II,BENEDICK,"which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?"
V,II,BEATRICE,"For them all together; which maintained so politic"
V,II,BEATRICE,"a state of evil that they will not admit any good"
V,II,BEATRICE,"part to intermingle with them. But for which of my"
V,II,BEATRICE,"good parts did you first suffer love for me?"
V,II,BENEDICK,"Suffer love! a good epithet! I do suffer love"
V,II,BENEDICK,"indeed, for I love thee against my will."
V,II,BEATRICE,"In spite of your heart, I think; alas, poor heart!"
V,II,BEATRICE,"If you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for"
V,II,BEATRICE,"yours; for I will never love that which my friend hates."
V,II,BENEDICK,"Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably."
V,II,BEATRICE,"It appears not in this confession: there's not one"
V,II,BEATRICE,"wise man among twenty that will praise himself."
V,II,BENEDICK,"An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in"
V,II,BENEDICK,"the lime of good neighbours. If a man do not erect"
V,II,BENEDICK,"in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live"
V,II,BENEDICK,"no longer in monument than the bell rings and the"
V,II,BENEDICK,"widow weeps."
V,II,BEATRICE,"And how long is that, think you?"
V,II,BENEDICK,"Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in"
V,II,BENEDICK,"rheum: therefore is it most expedient for the"
V,II,BENEDICK,"wise, if Don Worm, his conscience, find no"
V,II,BENEDICK,"impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his"
V,II,BENEDICK,"own virtues, as I am to myself. So much for"
V,II,BENEDICK,"praising myself, who, I myself will bear witness, is"
V,II,BENEDICK,"praiseworthy: and now tell me, how doth your cousin?"
V,II,BEATRICE,"Very ill."
V,II,BENEDICK,"And how do you?"
V,II,BEATRICE,"Very ill too."
V,II,BENEDICK,"Serve God, love me and mend. There will I leave"
V,II,BENEDICK,"you too, for here comes one in haste."
V,II,URSULA,"Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old"
V,II,URSULA,"coil at home: it is proved my Lady Hero hath been"
V,II,URSULA,"falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily"
V,II,URSULA,"abused; and Don John is the author of all, who is"
V,II,URSULA,"fed and gone. Will you come presently?"
V,II,BEATRICE,"Will you go hear this news, signior?"
V,II,BENEDICK,"I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be"
V,II,BENEDICK,"buried in thy eyes; and moreover I will go with"
V,II,BENEDICK,"thee to thy uncle's."
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Is this the monument of Leonato?"
V,III,Lord,"It is, my lord."
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Done to death by slanderous tongues"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Was the Hero that here lies:"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Gives her fame which never dies."
V,III,CLAUDIO,"So the life that died with shame"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Lives in death with glorious fame."
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Hang thou there upon the tomb,"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Praising her when I am dumb."
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn."
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Pardon, goddess of the night,"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Those that slew thy virgin knight;"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"For the which, with songs of woe,"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Round about her tomb they go."
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Midnight, assist our moan;"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Help us to sigh and groan,"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Heavily, heavily:"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Graves, yawn and yield your dead,"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Till death be uttered,"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Heavily, heavily."
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Now, unto thy bones good night!"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Yearly will I do this rite."
V,III,DON PEDRO,"Good morrow, masters; put your torches out:"
V,III,DON PEDRO,"The wolves have prey'd; and look, the gentle day,"
V,III,DON PEDRO,"Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about"
V,III,DON PEDRO,"Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey."
V,III,DON PEDRO,"Thanks to you all, and leave us: fare you well."
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Good morrow, masters: each his several way."
V,III,DON PEDRO,"Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;"
V,III,DON PEDRO,"And then to Leonato's we will go."
V,III,CLAUDIO,"And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's"
V,III,CLAUDIO,"Than this for whom we render'd up this woe."
V,IV,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Did I not tell you she was innocent?"
V,IV,LEONATO,"So are the prince and Claudio, who accused her"
V,IV,LEONATO,"Upon the error that you heard debated:"
V,IV,LEONATO,"But Margaret was in some fault for this,"
V,IV,LEONATO,"Although against her will, as it appears"
V,IV,LEONATO,"In the true course of all the question."
V,IV,ANTONIO,"Well, I am glad that all things sort so well."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"And so am I, being else by faith enforced"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it."
V,IV,LEONATO,"Well, daughter, and you gentle-women all,"
V,IV,LEONATO,"Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,"
V,IV,LEONATO,"And when I send for you, come hither mask'd."
V,IV,LEONATO,"The prince and Claudio promised by this hour"
V,IV,LEONATO,"To visit me. You know your office, brother:"
V,IV,LEONATO,"You must be father to your brother's daughter"
V,IV,LEONATO,"And give her to young Claudio."
V,IV,ANTONIO,"Which I will do with confirm'd countenance."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think."
V,IV,FRIAR FRANCIS,"To do what, signior?"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"To bind me, or undo me; one of them."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Signior Leonato, truth it is, good signior,"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Your niece regards me with an eye of favour."
V,IV,LEONATO,"That eye my daughter lent her: 'tis most true."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"And I do with an eye of love requite her."
V,IV,LEONATO,"The sight whereof I think you had from me,"
V,IV,LEONATO,"From Claudio and the prince: but what's your will?"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Your answer, sir, is enigmatical:"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"But, for my will, my will is your good will"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"May stand with ours, this day to be conjoin'd"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"In the state of honourable marriage:"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"In which, good friar, I shall desire your help."
V,IV,LEONATO,"My heart is with your liking."
V,IV,FRIAR FRANCIS,"And my help."
V,IV,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Here comes the prince and Claudio."
V,IV,DON PEDRO,"Good morrow to this fair assembly."
V,IV,LEONATO,"Good morrow, prince; good morrow, Claudio:"
V,IV,LEONATO,"We here attend you. Are you yet determined"
V,IV,LEONATO,"To-day to marry with my brother's daughter?"
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope."
V,IV,LEONATO,"Call her forth, brother; here's the friar ready."
V,IV,DON PEDRO,"Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what's the matter,"
V,IV,DON PEDRO,"That you have such a February face,"
V,IV,DON PEDRO,"So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?"
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"I think he thinks upon the savage bull."
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"Tush, fear not, man; we'll tip thy horns with gold"
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"And all Europa shall rejoice at thee,"
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"As once Europa did at lusty Jove,"
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"When he would play the noble beast in love."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low;"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"And some such strange bull leap'd your father's cow,"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"And got a calf in that same noble feat"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Much like to you, for you have just his bleat."
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"For this I owe you: here comes other reckonings."
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"Which is the lady I must seize upon?"
V,IV,ANTONIO,"This same is she, and I do give you her."
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"Why, then she's mine. Sweet, let me see your face."
V,IV,LEONATO,"No, that you shall not, till you take her hand"
V,IV,LEONATO,"Before this friar and swear to marry her."
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"Give me your hand: before this holy friar,"
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"I am your husband, if you like of me."
V,IV,HERO,"And when I lived, I was your other wife:"
V,IV,HERO,"And when you loved, you were my other husband."
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"Another Hero!"
V,IV,HERO,"Nothing certainer:"
V,IV,HERO,"One Hero died defiled, but I do live,"
V,IV,HERO,"And surely as I live, I am a maid."
V,IV,DON PEDRO,"The former Hero! Hero that is dead!"
V,IV,LEONATO,"She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived."
V,IV,FRIAR FRANCIS,"All this amazement can I qualify:"
V,IV,FRIAR FRANCIS,"When after that the holy rites are ended,"
V,IV,FRIAR FRANCIS,"I'll tell you largely of fair Hero's death:"
V,IV,FRIAR FRANCIS,"Meantime let wonder seem familiar,"
V,IV,FRIAR FRANCIS,"And to the chapel let us presently."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Soft and fair, friar. Which is Beatrice?"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Do not you love me?"
V,IV,BEATRICE,"Why, no; no more than reason."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Why, then your uncle and the prince and Claudio"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Have been deceived; they swore you did."
V,IV,BEATRICE,"Do not you love me?"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Troth, no; no more than reason."
V,IV,BEATRICE,"Why, then my cousin Margaret and Ursula"
V,IV,BEATRICE,"Are much deceived; for they did swear you did."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"They swore that you were almost sick for me."
V,IV,BEATRICE,"They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?"
V,IV,BEATRICE,"No, truly, but in friendly recompense."
V,IV,LEONATO,"Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman."
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"And I'll be sworn upon't that he loves her;"
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"For here's a paper written in his hand,"
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,"
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"Fashion'd to Beatrice."
V,IV,HERO,"And here's another"
V,IV,HERO,"Writ in my cousin's hand, stolen from her pocket,"
V,IV,HERO,"Containing her affection unto Benedick."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"A miracle! here's our own hands against our hearts."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"thee for pity."
V,IV,BEATRICE,"I would not deny you; but, by this good day, I yield"
V,IV,BEATRICE,"upon great persuasion; and partly to save your life,"
V,IV,BEATRICE,"for I was told you were in a consumption."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Peace! I will stop your mouth."
V,IV,DON PEDRO,"How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"I'll tell thee what, prince; a college of"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour. Dost"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"thou think I  care for a satire or an epigram? No:"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"if a man will be beaten with brains, a' shall wear"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I do"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"purpose that the world can say against it; and"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"therefore never flout at me for what I have said"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did think to"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"have beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be my"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"kinsman, live unbruised and love my cousin."
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice,"
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy single"
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"life, to make thee a double-dealer; which, out of"
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"question, thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look"
V,IV,CLAUDIO,"exceedingly narrowly to thee."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Come, come, we are friends: let's have a dance ere"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"we are married, that we may lighten our own hearts"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"and our wives' heels."
V,IV,LEONATO,"We'll have dancing afterward."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"First, of my word; therefore play, music. Prince,"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife:"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"there is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn."
V,IV,Messenger,"My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight,"
V,IV,Messenger,"And brought with armed men back to Messina."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Think not on him till to-morrow:"
V,IV,BENEDICK,"I'll devise thee brave punishments for him."
V,IV,BENEDICK,"Strike up, pipers."
I,I,RODERIGO,"Tush! never tell me; I take it much unkindly"
I,I,RODERIGO,"That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse"
I,I,RODERIGO,"As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this."
I,I,IAGO,"'Sblood, but you will not hear me:"
I,I,IAGO,"If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me."
I,I,RODERIGO,"Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate."
I,I,IAGO,"Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city,"
I,I,IAGO,"In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,"
I,I,IAGO,"Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man,"
I,I,IAGO,"I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:"
I,I,IAGO,"But he; as loving his own pride and purposes,"
I,I,IAGO,"Evades them, with a bombast circumstance"
I,I,IAGO,"Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war;"
I,I,IAGO,"And, in conclusion,"
I,I,IAGO,"Nonsuits my mediators; for, 'Certes,' says he,"
I,I,IAGO,"'I have already chose my officer.'"
I,I,IAGO,"And what was he?"
I,I,IAGO,"Forsooth, a great arithmetician,"
I,I,IAGO,"One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,"
I,I,IAGO,"A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife;"
I,I,IAGO,"That never set a squadron in the field,"
I,I,IAGO,"Nor the division of a battle knows"
I,I,IAGO,"More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric,"
I,I,IAGO,"Wherein the toged consuls can propose"
I,I,IAGO,"As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise,"
I,I,IAGO,"Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election:"
I,I,IAGO,"And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof"
I,I,IAGO,"At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds"
I,I,IAGO,"Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'd"
I,I,IAGO,"By debitor and creditor: this counter-caster,"
I,I,IAGO,"He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,"
I,I,IAGO,"And I--God bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient."
I,I,RODERIGO,"By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman."
I,I,IAGO,"Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service,"
I,I,IAGO,"Preferment goes by letter and affection,"
I,I,IAGO,"And not by old gradation, where each second"
I,I,IAGO,"Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself,"
I,I,IAGO,"Whether I in any just term am affined"
I,I,IAGO,"To love the Moor."
I,I,RODERIGO,"I would not follow him then."
I,I,IAGO,"O, sir, content you;"
I,I,IAGO,"I follow him to serve my turn upon him:"
I,I,IAGO,"We cannot all be masters, nor all masters"
I,I,IAGO,"Cannot be truly follow'd. You shall mark"
I,I,IAGO,"Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,"
I,I,IAGO,"That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,"
I,I,IAGO,"Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,"
I,I,IAGO,"For nought but provender, and when he's old, cashier'd:"
I,I,IAGO,"Whip me such honest knaves. Others there are"
I,I,IAGO,"Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty,"
I,I,IAGO,"Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,"
I,I,IAGO,"And, throwing but shows of service on their lords,"
I,I,IAGO,"Do well thrive by them and when they have lined"
I,I,IAGO,"their coats"
I,I,IAGO,"Do themselves homage: these fellows have some soul;"
I,I,IAGO,"And such a one do I profess myself. For, sir,"
I,I,IAGO,"It is as sure as you are Roderigo,"
I,I,IAGO,"Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:"
I,I,IAGO,"In following him, I follow but myself;"
I,I,IAGO,"Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,"
I,I,IAGO,"But seeming so, for my peculiar end:"
I,I,IAGO,"For when my outward action doth demonstrate"
I,I,IAGO,"The native act and figure of my heart"
I,I,IAGO,"In compliment extern, 'tis not long after"
I,I,IAGO,"But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve"
I,I,IAGO,"For daws to peck at: I am not what I am."
I,I,RODERIGO,"What a full fortune does the thicklips owe"
I,I,RODERIGO,"If he can carry't thus!"
I,I,IAGO,"Call up her father,"
I,I,IAGO,"Rouse him: make after him, poison his delight,"
I,I,IAGO,"Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen,"
I,I,IAGO,"And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,"
I,I,IAGO,"Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy,"
I,I,IAGO,"Yet throw such changes of vexation on't,"
I,I,IAGO,"As it may lose some colour."
I,I,RODERIGO,"Here is her father's house; I'll call aloud."
I,I,IAGO,"Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell"
I,I,IAGO,"As when, by night and negligence, the fire"
I,I,IAGO,"Is spied in populous cities."
I,I,RODERIGO,"What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!"
I,I,IAGO,"Awake! what, ho, Brabantio! thieves! thieves! thieves!"
I,I,IAGO,"Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!"
I,I,IAGO,"Thieves! thieves!"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"What is the reason of this terrible summons?"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"What is the matter there?"
I,I,RODERIGO,"Signior, is all your family within?"
I,I,IAGO,"Are your doors lock'd?"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Why, wherefore ask you this?"
I,I,IAGO,"'Zounds, sir, you're robb'd; for shame, put on"
I,I,IAGO,"your gown;"
I,I,IAGO,"Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul;"
I,I,IAGO,"Even now, now, very now, an old black ram"
I,I,IAGO,"Is topping your white ewe. Arise, arise;"
I,I,IAGO,"Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,"
I,I,IAGO,"Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:"
I,I,IAGO,"Arise, I say."
I,I,BRABANTIO,"What, have you lost your wits?"
I,I,RODERIGO,"Most reverend signior, do you know my voice?"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Not I what are you?"
I,I,RODERIGO,"My name is Roderigo."
I,I,BRABANTIO,"The worser welcome:"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors:"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"In honest plainness thou hast heard me say"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Being full of supper and distempering draughts,"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Upon malicious bravery, dost thou come"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"To start my quiet."
I,I,RODERIGO,"Sir, sir, sir,--"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"But thou must needs be sure"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"My spirit and my place have in them power"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"To make this bitter to thee."
I,I,RODERIGO,"Patience, good sir."
I,I,BRABANTIO,"What tell'st thou me of robbing? this is Venice;"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"My house is not a grange."
I,I,RODERIGO,"Most grave Brabantio,"
I,I,RODERIGO,"In simple and pure soul I come to you."
I,I,IAGO,"'Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not"
I,I,IAGO,"serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to"
I,I,IAGO,"do you service and you think we are ruffians, you'll"
I,I,IAGO,"have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse;"
I,I,IAGO,"you'll have your nephews neigh to you; you'll have"
I,I,IAGO,"coursers for cousins and gennets for germans."
I,I,BRABANTIO,"What profane wretch art thou?"
I,I,IAGO,"I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter"
I,I,IAGO,"and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs."
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Thou art a villain."
I,I,IAGO,"You are--a senator."
I,I,BRABANTIO,"This thou shalt answer; I know thee, Roderigo."
I,I,RODERIGO,"Sir, I will answer any thing. But, I beseech you,"
I,I,RODERIGO,"If't be your pleasure and most wise consent,"
I,I,RODERIGO,"As partly I find it is, that your fair daughter,"
I,I,RODERIGO,"At this odd-even and dull watch o' the night,"
I,I,RODERIGO,"Transported, with no worse nor better guard"
I,I,RODERIGO,"But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,"
I,I,RODERIGO,"To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor--"
I,I,RODERIGO,"If this be known to you and your allowance,"
I,I,RODERIGO,"We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs;"
I,I,RODERIGO,"But if you know not this, my manners tell me"
I,I,RODERIGO,"We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe"
I,I,RODERIGO,"That, from the sense of all civility,"
I,I,RODERIGO,"I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:"
I,I,RODERIGO,"Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,"
I,I,RODERIGO,"I say again, hath made a gross revolt;"
I,I,RODERIGO,"Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes"
I,I,RODERIGO,"In an extravagant and wheeling stranger"
I,I,RODERIGO,"Of here and every where. Straight satisfy yourself:"
I,I,RODERIGO,"If she be in her chamber or your house,"
I,I,RODERIGO,"Let loose on me the justice of the state"
I,I,RODERIGO,"For thus deluding you."
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Strike on the tinder, ho!"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Give me a taper! call up all my people!"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"This accident is not unlike my dream:"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Belief of it oppresses me already."
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Light, I say! light!"
I,I,IAGO,"Farewell; for I must leave you:"
I,I,IAGO,"It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,"
I,I,IAGO,"To be produced--as, if I stay, I shall--"
I,I,IAGO,"Against the Moor: for, I do know, the state,"
I,I,IAGO,"However this may gall him with some cheque,"
I,I,IAGO,"Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embark'd"
I,I,IAGO,"With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,"
I,I,IAGO,"Which even now stand in act, that, for their souls,"
I,I,IAGO,"Another of his fathom they have none,"
I,I,IAGO,"To lead their business: in which regard,"
I,I,IAGO,"Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains."
I,I,IAGO,"Yet, for necessity of present life,"
I,I,IAGO,"I must show out a flag and sign of love,"
I,I,IAGO,"Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him,"
I,I,IAGO,"Lead to the Sagittary the raised search;"
I,I,IAGO,"And there will I be with him. So, farewell."
I,I,BRABANTIO,"It is too true an evil: gone she is;"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"And what's to come of my despised time"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo,"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Where didst thou see her? O unhappy girl!"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"With the Moor, say'st thou? Who would be a father!"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"How didst thou know 'twas she? O she deceives me"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Past thought! What said she to you? Get more tapers:"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you?"
I,I,RODERIGO,"Truly, I think they are."
I,I,BRABANTIO,"O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"By what you see them act. Is there not charms"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"By which the property of youth and maidhood"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Of some such thing?"
I,I,RODERIGO,"Yes, sir, I have indeed."
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Call up my brother. O, would you had had her!"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Some one way, some another. Do you know"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?"
I,I,RODERIGO,"I think I can discover him, if you please,"
I,I,RODERIGO,"To get good guard and go along with me."
I,I,BRABANTIO,"Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call;"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"I may command at most. Get weapons, ho!"
I,I,BRABANTIO,"And raise some special officers of night."
I,I,BRABANTIO,"On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains."
I,II,IAGO,"Though in the trade of war I have slain men,"
I,II,IAGO,"Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience"
I,II,IAGO,"To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity"
I,II,IAGO,"Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times"
I,II,IAGO,"I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs."
I,II,OTHELLO,"'Tis better as it is."
I,II,IAGO,"Nay, but he prated,"
I,II,IAGO,"And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms"
I,II,IAGO,"Against your honour"
I,II,IAGO,"That, with the little godliness I have,"
I,II,IAGO,"I did full hard forbear him. But, I pray you, sir,"
I,II,IAGO,"Are you fast married? Be assured of this,"
I,II,IAGO,"That the magnifico is much beloved,"
I,II,IAGO,"And hath in his effect a voice potential"
I,II,IAGO,"As double as the duke's: he will divorce you;"
I,II,IAGO,"Or put upon you what restraint and grievance"
I,II,IAGO,"The law, with all his might to enforce it on,"
I,II,IAGO,"Will give him cable."
I,II,OTHELLO,"Let him do his spite:"
I,II,OTHELLO,"My services which I have done the signiory"
I,II,OTHELLO,"Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know,--"
I,II,OTHELLO,"Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,"
I,II,OTHELLO,"I shall promulgate--I fetch my life and being"
I,II,OTHELLO,"From men of royal siege, and my demerits"
I,II,OTHELLO,"May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune"
I,II,OTHELLO,"As this that I have reach'd: for know, Iago,"
I,II,OTHELLO,"But that I love the gentle Desdemona,"
I,II,OTHELLO,"I would not my unhoused free condition"
I,II,OTHELLO,"Put into circumscription and confine"
I,II,OTHELLO,"For the sea's worth. But, look! what lights come yond?"
I,II,IAGO,"Those are the raised father and his friends:"
I,II,IAGO,"You were best go in."
I,II,OTHELLO,"Not I I must be found:"
I,II,OTHELLO,"My parts, my title and my perfect soul"
I,II,OTHELLO,"Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?"
I,II,IAGO,"By Janus, I think no."
I,II,OTHELLO,"The servants of the duke, and my lieutenant."
I,II,OTHELLO,"The goodness of the night upon you, friends!"
I,II,OTHELLO,"What is the news?"
I,II,CASSIO,"The duke does greet you, general,"
I,II,CASSIO,"And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance,"
I,II,CASSIO,"Even on the instant."
I,II,OTHELLO,"What is the matter, think you?"
I,II,CASSIO,"Something from Cyprus as I may divine:"
I,II,CASSIO,"It is a business of some heat: the galleys"
I,II,CASSIO,"Have sent a dozen sequent messengers"
I,II,CASSIO,"This very night at one another's heels,"
I,II,CASSIO,"And many of the consuls, raised and met,"
I,II,CASSIO,"Are at the duke's already: you have been"
I,II,CASSIO,"hotly call'd for;"
I,II,CASSIO,"When, being not at your lodging to be found,"
I,II,CASSIO,"The senate hath sent about three several guests"
I,II,CASSIO,"To search you out."
I,II,OTHELLO,"'Tis well I am found by you."
I,II,OTHELLO,"I will but spend a word here in the house,"
I,II,OTHELLO,"And go with you."
I,II,CASSIO,"Ancient, what makes he here?"
I,II,IAGO,"'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack:"
I,II,IAGO,"If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever."
I,II,CASSIO,"I do not understand."
I,II,IAGO,"He's married."
I,II,CASSIO,"To who?"
I,II,IAGO,"Marry, to--Come, captain, will you go?"
I,II,OTHELLO,"Have with you."
I,II,CASSIO,"Here comes another troop to seek for you."
I,II,IAGO,"It is Brabantio. General, be advised;"
I,II,IAGO,"He comes to bad intent."
I,II,OTHELLO,"Holla! stand there!"
I,II,RODERIGO,"Signior, it is the Moor."
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Down with him, thief!"
I,II,IAGO,"You, Roderigo! come, sir, I am for you."
I,II,OTHELLO,"Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them."
I,II,OTHELLO,"Good signior, you shall more command with years"
I,II,OTHELLO,"Than with your weapons."
I,II,BRABANTIO,"O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter?"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her;"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"For I'll refer me to all things of sense,"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"If she in chains of magic were not bound,"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Whether a maid so tender, fair and happy,"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"So opposite to marriage that she shunned"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Would ever have, to incur a general mock,"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Of such a thing as thou, to fear, not to delight."
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"That thou hast practised on her with foul charms,"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"That weaken motion: I'll have't disputed on;"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"'Tis probable and palpable to thinking."
I,II,BRABANTIO,"I therefore apprehend and do attach thee"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"For an abuser of the world, a practiser"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Of arts inhibited and out of warrant."
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Lay hold upon him: if he do resist,"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Subdue him at his peril."
I,II,OTHELLO,"Hold your hands,"
I,II,OTHELLO,"Both you of my inclining, and the rest:"
I,II,OTHELLO,"Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it"
I,II,OTHELLO,"Without a prompter. Where will you that I go"
I,II,OTHELLO,"To answer this your charge?"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"To prison, till fit time"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Of law and course of direct session"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Call thee to answer."
I,II,OTHELLO,"What if I do obey?"
I,II,OTHELLO,"How may the duke be therewith satisfied,"
I,II,OTHELLO,"Whose messengers are here about my side,"
I,II,OTHELLO,"Upon some present business of the state"
I,II,OTHELLO,"To bring me to him?"
I,II,First Officer,"'Tis true, most worthy signior;"
I,II,First Officer,"The duke's in council and your noble self,"
I,II,First Officer,"I am sure, is sent for."
I,II,BRABANTIO,"How! the duke in council!"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"In this time of the night! Bring him away:"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Mine's not an idle cause: the duke himself,"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Or any of my brothers of the state,"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own;"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"For if such actions may have passage free,"
I,II,BRABANTIO,"Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"There is no composition in these news"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"That gives them credit."
I,III,First Senator,"Indeed, they are disproportion'd;"
I,III,First Senator,"My letters say a hundred and seven galleys."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"And mine, a hundred and forty."
I,III,Second Senator,"And mine, two hundred:"
I,III,Second Senator,"But though they jump not on a just account,--"
I,III,Second Senator,"As in these cases, where the aim reports,"
I,III,Second Senator,"'Tis oft with difference--yet do they all confirm"
I,III,Second Senator,"A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Nay, it is possible enough to judgment:"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"I do not so secure me in the error,"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"But the main article I do approve"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"In fearful sense."
I,III,First Officer,"A messenger from the galleys."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Now, what's the business?"
I,III,Sailor,"The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes;"
I,III,Sailor,"So was I bid report here to the state"
I,III,Sailor,"By Signior Angelo."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"How say you by this change?"
I,III,First Senator,"This cannot be,"
I,III,First Senator,"By no assay of reason: 'tis a pageant,"
I,III,First Senator,"To keep us in false gaze. When we consider"
I,III,First Senator,"The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk,"
I,III,First Senator,"And let ourselves again but understand,"
I,III,First Senator,"That as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes,"
I,III,First Senator,"So may he with more facile question bear it,"
I,III,First Senator,"For that it stands not in such warlike brace,"
I,III,First Senator,"But altogether lacks the abilities"
I,III,First Senator,"That Rhodes is dress'd in: if we make thought of this,"
I,III,First Senator,"We must not think the Turk is so unskilful"
I,III,First Senator,"To leave that latest which concerns him first,"
I,III,First Senator,"Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain,"
I,III,First Senator,"To wake and wage a danger profitless."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Nay, in all confidence, he's not for Rhodes."
I,III,First Officer,"Here is more news."
I,III,Messenger,"The Ottomites, reverend and gracious,"
I,III,Messenger,"Steering with due course towards the isle of Rhodes,"
I,III,Messenger,"Have there injointed them with an after fleet."
I,III,First Senator,"Ay, so I thought. How many, as you guess?"
I,III,Messenger,"Of thirty sail: and now they do restem"
I,III,Messenger,"Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance"
I,III,Messenger,"Their purposes toward Cyprus. Signior Montano,"
I,III,Messenger,"Your trusty and most valiant servitor,"
I,III,Messenger,"With his free duty recommends you thus,"
I,III,Messenger,"And prays you to believe him."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"'Tis certain, then, for Cyprus."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Marcus Luccicos, is not he in town?"
I,III,First Senator,"He's now in Florence."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Write from us to him; post-post-haste dispatch."
I,III,First Senator,"Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Against the general enemy Ottoman."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"I did not see you; welcome, gentle signior;"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"We lack'd your counsel and your help tonight."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"So did I yours. Good your grace, pardon me;"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Neither my place nor aught I heard of business"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Hath raised me from my bed, nor doth the general care"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Take hold on me, for my particular grief"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"That it engluts and swallows other sorrows"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"And it is still itself."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Why, what's the matter?"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"My daughter! O, my daughter!"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Dead?"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Ay, to me;"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks;"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"For nature so preposterously to err,"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Sans witchcraft could not."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Hath thus beguiled your daughter of herself"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"And you of her, the bloody book of law"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"You shall yourself read in the bitter letter"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"After your own sense, yea, though our proper son"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Stood in your action."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Humbly I thank your grace."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Here is the man, this Moor, whom now, it seems,"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Your special mandate for the state-affairs"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Hath hither brought."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"We are very sorry for't."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Nothing, but this is so."
I,III,OTHELLO,"Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"My very noble and approved good masters,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"It is most true; true, I have married her:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"The very head and front of my offending"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Their dearest action in the tented field,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And little of this great world can I speak,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"More than pertains to feats of broil and battle,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And therefore little shall I grace my cause"
I,III,OTHELLO,"In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"What conjuration and what mighty magic,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"For such proceeding I am charged withal,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"I won his daughter."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"A maiden never bold;"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Blush'd at herself; and she, in spite of nature,"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Of years, of country, credit, every thing,"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"To fall in love with what she fear'd to look on!"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"It is a judgment maim'd and most imperfect"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"That will confess perfection so could err"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Against all rules of nature, and must be driven"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"To find out practises of cunning hell,"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Why this should be. I therefore vouch again"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"That with some mixtures powerful o'er the blood,"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Or with some dram conjured to this effect,"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"He wrought upon her."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"To vouch this, is no proof,"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Without more wider and more overt test"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Of modern seeming do prefer against him."
I,III,First Senator,"But, Othello, speak:"
I,III,First Senator,"Did you by indirect and forced courses"
I,III,First Senator,"Subdue and poison this young maid's affections?"
I,III,First Senator,"Or came it by request and such fair question"
I,III,First Senator,"As soul to soul affordeth?"
I,III,OTHELLO,"I do beseech you,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Send for the lady to the Sagittary,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And let her speak of me before her father:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"If you do find me foul in her report,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"The trust, the office I do hold of you,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Not only take away, but let your sentence"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Even fall upon my life."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Fetch Desdemona hither."
I,III,OTHELLO,"Ancient, conduct them: you best know the place."
I,III,OTHELLO,"And, till she come, as truly as to heaven"
I,III,OTHELLO,"I do confess the vices of my blood,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"So justly to your grave ears I'll present"
I,III,OTHELLO,"How I did thrive in this fair lady's love,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And she in mine."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Say it, Othello."
I,III,OTHELLO,"Her father loved me; oft invited me;"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Still question'd me the story of my life,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"That I have passed."
I,III,OTHELLO,"I ran it through, even from my boyish days,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"To the very moment that he bade me tell it;"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Of moving accidents by flood and field"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Of being taken by the insolent foe"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And portance in my travels' history:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven"
I,III,OTHELLO,"It was my hint to speak,--such was the process;"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And of the Cannibals that each other eat,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"The Anthropophagi and men whose heads"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Would Desdemona seriously incline:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"But still the house-affairs would draw her thence:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"She'ld come again, and with a greedy ear"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Devour up my discourse: which I observing,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Took once a pliant hour, and found good means"
I,III,OTHELLO,"To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart"
I,III,OTHELLO,"That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Whereof by parcels she had something heard,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"But not intentively: I did consent,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And often did beguile her of her tears,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"When I did speak of some distressful stroke"
I,III,OTHELLO,"That my youth suffer'd. My story being done,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd"
I,III,OTHELLO,"That heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"I should but teach him how to tell my story."
I,III,OTHELLO,"And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And I loved her that she did pity them."
I,III,OTHELLO,"This only is the witchcraft I have used:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Here comes the lady; let her witness it."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"I think this tale would win my daughter too."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Good Brabantio,"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Take up this mangled matter at the best:"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Men do their broken weapons rather use"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Than their bare hands."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"I pray you, hear her speak:"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"If she confess that she was half the wooer,"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Destruction on my head, if my bad blame"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Light on the man! Come hither, gentle mistress:"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Do you perceive in all this noble company"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Where most you owe obedience?"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"My noble father,"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"I do perceive here a divided duty:"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"To you I am bound for life and education;"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"My life and education both do learn me"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"How to respect you; you are the lord of duty;"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my husband,"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"And so much duty as my mother show'd"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"To you, preferring you before her father,"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"So much I challenge that I may profess"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"Due to the Moor my lord."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"God be wi' you! I have done."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Please it your grace, on to the state-affairs:"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"I had rather to adopt a child than get it."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Come hither, Moor:"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"I here do give thee that with all my heart"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"I would keep from thee. For your sake, jewel,"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"I am glad at soul I have no other child:"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"For thy escape would teach me tyranny,"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"To hang clogs on them. I have done, my lord."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Let me speak like yourself, and lay a sentence,"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Into your favour."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"When remedies are past, the griefs are ended"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"To mourn a mischief that is past and gone"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Is the next way to draw new mischief on."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"What cannot be preserved when fortune takes"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Patience her injury a mockery makes."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief;"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"He robs himself that spends a bootless grief."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile;"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"We lose it not, so long as we can smile."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"He bears the sentence well that nothing bears"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"But the free comfort which from thence he hears,"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"These sentences, to sugar, or to gall,"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Being strong on both sides, are equivocal:"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"But words are words; I never yet did hear"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"I humbly beseech you, proceed to the affairs of state."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Cyprus. Othello, the fortitude of the place is best"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"known to you; and though we have there a substitute"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"voice on you: you must therefore be content to"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"more stubborn and boisterous expedition."
I,III,OTHELLO,"The tyrant custom, most grave senators,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war"
I,III,OTHELLO,"My thrice-driven bed of down: I do agnise"
I,III,OTHELLO,"A natural and prompt alacrity"
I,III,OTHELLO,"I find in hardness, and do undertake"
I,III,OTHELLO,"These present wars against the Ottomites."
I,III,OTHELLO,"Most humbly therefore bending to your state,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"I crave fit disposition for my wife."
I,III,OTHELLO,"Due reference of place and exhibition,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"With such accommodation and besort"
I,III,OTHELLO,"As levels with her breeding."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"If you please,"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Be't at her father's."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"I'll not have it so."
I,III,OTHELLO,"Nor I."
I,III,DESDEMONA,"Nor I; I would not there reside,"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"To put my father in impatient thoughts"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"By being in his eye. Most gracious duke,"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear;"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"And let me find a charter in your voice,"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"To assist my simpleness."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"What would You, Desdemona?"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"That I did love the Moor to live with him,"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"My downright violence and storm of fortunes"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"May trumpet to the world: my heart's subdued"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"Even to the very quality of my lord:"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"I saw Othello's visage in his mind,"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"And to his honour and his valiant parts"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate."
I,III,DESDEMONA,"So that, dear lords, if I be left behind,"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"A moth of peace, and he go to the war,"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"The rites for which I love him are bereft me,"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"And I a heavy interim shall support"
I,III,DESDEMONA,"By his dear absence. Let me go with him."
I,III,OTHELLO,"Let her have your voices."
I,III,OTHELLO,"Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"To please the palate of my appetite,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Nor to comply with heat--the young affects"
I,III,OTHELLO,"In me defunct--and proper satisfaction."
I,III,OTHELLO,"But to be free and bounteous to her mind:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And heaven defend your good souls, that you think"
I,III,OTHELLO,"I will your serious and great business scant"
I,III,OTHELLO,"For she is with me: no, when light-wing'd toys"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Of feather'd Cupid seal with wanton dullness"
I,III,OTHELLO,"My speculative and officed instruments,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"That my disports corrupt and taint my business,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Let housewives make a skillet of my helm,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And all indign and base adversities"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Make head against my estimation!"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Be it as you shall privately determine,"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Either for her stay or going: the affair cries haste,"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"And speed must answer it."
I,III,First Senator,"You must away to-night."
I,III,OTHELLO,"With all my heart."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"At nine i' the morning here we'll meet again."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Othello, leave some officer behind,"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"And he shall our commission bring to you;"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"With such things else of quality and respect"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"As doth import you."
I,III,OTHELLO,"So please your grace, my ancient;"
I,III,OTHELLO,"A man he is of honest and trust:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"To his conveyance I assign my wife,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"With what else needful your good grace shall think"
I,III,OTHELLO,"To be sent after me."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Let it be so."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Good night to every one."
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"And, noble signior,"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"If virtue no delighted beauty lack,"
I,III,DUKE OF VENICE,"Your son-in-law is far more fair than black."
I,III,First Senator,"Adieu, brave Moor, use Desdemona well."
I,III,BRABANTIO,"Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:"
I,III,BRABANTIO,"She has deceived her father, and may thee."
I,III,OTHELLO,"My life upon her faith! Honest Iago,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"My Desdemona must I leave to thee:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"I prithee, let thy wife attend on her:"
I,III,OTHELLO,"And bring them after in the best advantage."
I,III,OTHELLO,"Come, Desdemona: I have but an hour"
I,III,OTHELLO,"Of love, of worldly matters and direction,"
I,III,OTHELLO,"To spend with thee: we must obey the time."
I,III,RODERIGO,"Iago,--"
I,III,IAGO,"What say'st thou, noble heart?"
I,III,RODERIGO,"What will I do, thinkest thou?"
I,III,IAGO,"Why, go to bed, and sleep."
I,III,RODERIGO,"I will incontinently drown myself."
I,III,IAGO,"If thou dost, I shall never love thee after. Why,"
I,III,IAGO,"thou silly gentleman!"
I,III,RODERIGO,"It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and"
I,III,RODERIGO,"then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician."
I,III,IAGO,"O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four"
I,III,IAGO,"times seven years; and since I could distinguish"
I,III,IAGO,"betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man"
I,III,IAGO,"that knew how to love himself. Ere I would say, I"
I,III,IAGO,"would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I"
I,III,IAGO,"would change my humanity with a baboon."
I,III,RODERIGO,"What should I do? I confess it is my shame to be so"
I,III,RODERIGO,"fond; but it is not in my virtue to amend it."
I,III,IAGO,"Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus"
I,III,IAGO,"or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which"
I,III,IAGO,"our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant"
I,III,IAGO,"nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up"
I,III,IAGO,"thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or"
I,III,IAGO,"distract it with many, either to have it sterile"
I,III,IAGO,"with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the"
I,III,IAGO,"power and corrigible authority of this lies in our"
I,III,IAGO,"wills. If the balance of our lives had not one"
I,III,IAGO,"scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the"
I,III,IAGO,"blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us"
I,III,IAGO,"to most preposterous conclusions: but we have"
I,III,IAGO,"reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal"
I,III,IAGO,"stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that"
I,III,IAGO,"you call love to be a sect or scion."
I,III,RODERIGO,"It cannot be."
I,III,IAGO,"It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of"
I,III,IAGO,"the will. Come, be a man. Drown thyself! drown"
I,III,IAGO,"cats and blind puppies. I have professed me thy"
I,III,IAGO,"friend and I confess me knit to thy deserving with"
I,III,IAGO,"cables of perdurable toughness; I could never"
I,III,IAGO,"better stead thee than now. Put money in thy"
I,III,IAGO,"purse; follow thou the wars; defeat thy favour with"
I,III,IAGO,"an usurped beard; I say, put money in thy purse. It"
I,III,IAGO,"cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her"
I,III,IAGO,"love to the Moor,-- put money in thy purse,--nor he"
I,III,IAGO,"his to her: it was a violent commencement, and thou"
I,III,IAGO,"shalt see an answerable sequestration:--put but"
I,III,IAGO,"money in thy purse. These Moors are changeable in"
I,III,IAGO,"their wills: fill thy purse with money:--the food"
I,III,IAGO,"that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be"
I,III,IAGO,"to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. She must"
I,III,IAGO,"change for youth: when she is sated with his body,"
I,III,IAGO,"she will find the error of her choice: she must"
I,III,IAGO,"have change, she must: therefore put money in thy"
I,III,IAGO,"purse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a"
I,III,IAGO,"more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money"
I,III,IAGO,"thou canst: if sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt"
I,III,IAGO,"an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian not"
I,III,IAGO,"too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thou"
I,III,IAGO,"shalt enjoy her; therefore make money. A pox of"
I,III,IAGO,"drowning thyself! it is clean out of the way: seek"
I,III,IAGO,"thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than"
I,III,IAGO,"to be drowned and go without her."
I,III,RODERIGO,"Wilt thou be fast to my hopes, if I depend on"
I,III,RODERIGO,"the issue?"
I,III,IAGO,"Thou art sure of me:--go, make money:--I have told"
I,III,IAGO,"thee often, and I re-tell thee again and again, I"
I,III,IAGO,"hate the Moor: my cause is hearted; thine hath no"
I,III,IAGO,"less reason. Let us be conjunctive in our revenge"
I,III,IAGO,"against him: if thou canst cuckold him, thou dost"
I,III,IAGO,"thyself a pleasure, me a sport. There are many"
I,III,IAGO,"events in the womb of time which will be delivered."
I,III,IAGO,"Traverse! go, provide thy money. We will have more"
I,III,IAGO,"of this to-morrow. Adieu."
I,III,RODERIGO,"Where shall we meet i' the morning?"
I,III,IAGO,"At my lodging."
I,III,RODERIGO,"I'll be with thee betimes."
I,III,IAGO,"Go to; farewell. Do you hear, Roderigo?"
I,III,RODERIGO,"What say you?"
I,III,IAGO,"No more of drowning, do you hear?"
I,III,RODERIGO,"I am changed: I'll go sell all my land."
I,III,IAGO,"Thus do I ever make my fool my purse:"
I,III,IAGO,"For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane,"
I,III,IAGO,"If I would time expend with such a snipe."
I,III,IAGO,"But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor:"
I,III,IAGO,"And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets"
I,III,IAGO,"He has done my office: I know not if't be true;"
I,III,IAGO,"But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,"
I,III,IAGO,"Will do as if for surety. He holds me well;"
I,III,IAGO,"The better shall my purpose work on him."
I,III,IAGO,"Cassio's a proper man: let me see now:"
I,III,IAGO,"To get his place and to plume up my will"
I,III,IAGO,"In double knavery--How, how? Let's see:--"
I,III,IAGO,"After some time, to abuse Othello's ear"
I,III,IAGO,"That he is too familiar with his wife."
I,III,IAGO,"He hath a person and a smooth dispose"
I,III,IAGO,"To be suspected, framed to make women false."
I,III,IAGO,"The Moor is of a free and open nature,"
I,III,IAGO,"That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,"
I,III,IAGO,"And will as tenderly be led by the nose"
I,III,IAGO,"As asses are."
I,III,IAGO,"I have't. It is engender'd. Hell and night"
I,III,IAGO,"Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light."
II,I,MONTANO,"What from the cape can you discern at sea?"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Nothing at all: it is a highwrought flood;"
II,I,First Gentleman,"I cannot, 'twixt the heaven and the main,"
II,I,First Gentleman,"Descry a sail."
II,I,MONTANO,"Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land;"
II,I,MONTANO,"A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements:"
II,I,MONTANO,"If it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea,"
II,I,MONTANO,"What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,"
II,I,MONTANO,"Can hold the mortise? What shall we hear of this?"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"A segregation of the Turkish fleet:"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"For do but stand upon the foaming shore,"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds;"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous mane,"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"seems to cast water on the burning bear,"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole:"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"I never did like molestation view"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"On the enchafed flood."
II,I,MONTANO,"If that the Turkish fleet"
II,I,MONTANO,"Be not enshelter'd and embay'd, they are drown'd:"
II,I,MONTANO,"It is impossible they bear it out."
II,I,Third Gentleman,"News, lads! our wars are done."
II,I,Third Gentleman,"The desperate tempest hath so bang'd the Turks,"
II,I,Third Gentleman,"That their designment halts: a noble ship of Venice"
II,I,Third Gentleman,"Hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance"
II,I,Third Gentleman,"On most part of their fleet."
II,I,MONTANO,"How! is this true?"
II,I,Third Gentleman,"The ship is here put in,"
II,I,Third Gentleman,"A Veronesa; Michael Cassio,"
II,I,Third Gentleman,"Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,"
II,I,Third Gentleman,"Is come on shore: the Moor himself at sea,"
II,I,Third Gentleman,"And is in full commission here for Cyprus."
II,I,MONTANO,"I am glad on't; 'tis a worthy governor."
II,I,Third Gentleman,"But this same Cassio, though he speak of comfort"
II,I,Third Gentleman,"Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks sadly,"
II,I,Third Gentleman,"And prays the Moor be safe; for they were parted"
II,I,Third Gentleman,"With foul and violent tempest."
II,I,MONTANO,"Pray heavens he be;"
II,I,MONTANO,"For I have served him, and the man commands"
II,I,MONTANO,"Like a full soldier. Let's to the seaside, ho!"
II,I,MONTANO,"As well to see the vessel that's come in"
II,I,MONTANO,"As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello,"
II,I,MONTANO,"Even till we make the main and the aerial blue"
II,I,MONTANO,"An indistinct regard."
II,I,Third Gentleman,"Come, let's do so:"
II,I,Third Gentleman,"For every minute is expectancy"
II,I,Third Gentleman,"Of more arrivance."
II,I,CASSIO,"Thanks, you the valiant of this warlike isle,"
II,I,CASSIO,"That so approve the Moor! O, let the heavens"
II,I,CASSIO,"Give him defence against the elements,"
II,I,CASSIO,"For I have lost us him on a dangerous sea."
II,I,MONTANO,"Is he well shipp'd?"
II,I,CASSIO,"His bark is stoutly timber'd, his pilot"
II,I,CASSIO,"Of very expert and approved allowance;"
II,I,CASSIO,"Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death,"
II,I,CASSIO,"Stand in bold cure."
II,I,CASSIO,"What noise?"
II,I,Fourth Gentleman,"The town is empty; on the brow o' the sea"
II,I,Fourth Gentleman,"Stand ranks of people, and they cry 'A sail!'"
II,I,CASSIO,"My hopes do shape him for the governor."
II,I,Second Gentlemen,"They do discharge their shot of courtesy:"
II,I,Second Gentlemen,"Our friends at least."
II,I,CASSIO,"I pray you, sir, go forth,"
II,I,CASSIO,"And give us truth who 'tis that is arrived."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"I shall."
II,I,MONTANO,"But, good lieutenant, is your general wived?"
II,I,CASSIO,"Most fortunately: he hath achieved a maid"
II,I,CASSIO,"That paragons description and wild fame;"
II,I,CASSIO,"One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,"
II,I,CASSIO,"And in the essential vesture of creation"
II,I,CASSIO,"Does tire the ingener."
II,I,CASSIO,"How now! who has put in?"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"'Tis one Iago, ancient to the general."
II,I,CASSIO,"Has had most favourable and happy speed:"
II,I,CASSIO,"Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds,"
II,I,CASSIO,"The gutter'd rocks and congregated sands--"
II,I,CASSIO,"Traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel,--"
II,I,CASSIO,"As having sense of beauty, do omit"
II,I,CASSIO,"Their mortal natures, letting go safely by"
II,I,CASSIO,"The divine Desdemona."
II,I,MONTANO,"What is she?"
II,I,CASSIO,"She that I spake of, our great captain's captain,"
II,I,CASSIO,"Left in the conduct of the bold Iago,"
II,I,CASSIO,"Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts"
II,I,CASSIO,"A se'nnight's speed. Great Jove, Othello guard,"
II,I,CASSIO,"And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath,"
II,I,CASSIO,"That he may bless this bay with his tall ship,"
II,I,CASSIO,"Make love's quick pants in Desdemona's arms,"
II,I,CASSIO,"Give renew'd fire to our extincted spirits"
II,I,CASSIO,"And bring all Cyprus comfort!"
II,I,CASSIO,"O, behold,"
II,I,CASSIO,"The riches of the ship is come on shore!"
II,I,CASSIO,"Ye men of Cyprus, let her have your knees."
II,I,CASSIO,"Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven,"
II,I,CASSIO,"Before, behind thee, and on every hand,"
II,I,CASSIO,"Enwheel thee round!"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"I thank you, valiant Cassio."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"What tidings can you tell me of my lord?"
II,I,CASSIO,"He is not yet arrived: nor know I aught"
II,I,CASSIO,"But that he's well and will be shortly here."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"O, but I fear--How lost you company?"
II,I,CASSIO,"The great contention of the sea and skies"
II,I,CASSIO,"Parted our fellowship--But, hark! a sail."
II,I,Second Gentleman,"They give their greeting to the citadel;"
II,I,Second Gentleman,"This likewise is a friend."
II,I,CASSIO,"See for the news."
II,I,CASSIO,"Good ancient, you are welcome."
II,I,CASSIO,"Welcome, mistress."
II,I,CASSIO,"Let it not gall your patience, good Iago,"
II,I,CASSIO,"That I extend my manners; 'tis my breeding"
II,I,CASSIO,"That gives me this bold show of courtesy."
II,I,IAGO,"Sir, would she give you so much of her lips"
II,I,IAGO,"As of her tongue she oft bestows on me,"
II,I,IAGO,"You'll have enough."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"Alas, she has no speech."
II,I,IAGO,"In faith, too much;"
II,I,IAGO,"I find it still, when I have list to sleep:"
II,I,IAGO,"Marry, before your ladyship, I grant,"
II,I,IAGO,"She puts her tongue a little in her heart,"
II,I,IAGO,"And chides with thinking."
II,I,EMILIA,"You have little cause to say so."
II,I,IAGO,"Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,"
II,I,IAGO,"Bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens,"
II,I,IAGO,"Saints m your injuries, devils being offended,"
II,I,IAGO,"Players in your housewifery, and housewives' in your beds."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"O, fie upon thee, slanderer!"
II,I,IAGO,"Nay, it is true, or else I am a Turk:"
II,I,IAGO,"You rise to play and go to bed to work."
II,I,EMILIA,"You shall not write my praise."
II,I,IAGO,"No, let me not."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"What wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"praise me?"
II,I,IAGO,"O gentle lady, do not put me to't;"
II,I,IAGO,"For I am nothing, if not critical."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"Come on assay. There's one gone to the harbour?"
II,I,IAGO,"Ay, madam."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"I am not merry; but I do beguile"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"The thing I am, by seeming otherwise."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"Come, how wouldst thou praise me?"
II,I,IAGO,"I am about it; but indeed my invention"
II,I,IAGO,"Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize;"
II,I,IAGO,"It plucks out brains and all: but my Muse labours,"
II,I,IAGO,"And thus she is deliver'd."
II,I,IAGO,"If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,"
II,I,IAGO,"The one's for use, the other useth it."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"Well praised! How if she be black and witty?"
II,I,IAGO,"If she be black, and thereto have a wit,"
II,I,IAGO,"She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"Worse and worse."
II,I,EMILIA,"How if fair and foolish?"
II,I,IAGO,"She never yet was foolish that was fair;"
II,I,IAGO,"For even her folly help'd her to an heir."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i'"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"the alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"her that's foul and foolish?"
II,I,IAGO,"There's none so foul and foolish thereunto,"
II,I,IAGO,"But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"O heavy ignorance! thou praisest the worst best."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"But what praise couldst thou bestow on a deserving"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"woman indeed, one that, in the authority of her"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"merit, did justly put on the vouch of very malice itself?"
II,I,IAGO,"She that was ever fair and never proud,"
II,I,IAGO,"Had tongue at will and yet was never loud,"
II,I,IAGO,"Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay,"
II,I,IAGO,"Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,'"
II,I,IAGO,"She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh,"
II,I,IAGO,"Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly,"
II,I,IAGO,"She that in wisdom never was so frail"
II,I,IAGO,"To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail;"
II,I,IAGO,"She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind,"
II,I,IAGO,"See suitors following and not look behind,"
II,I,IAGO,"She was a wight, if ever such wight were,--"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"To do what?"
II,I,IAGO,"To suckle fools and chronicle small beer."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"O most lame and impotent conclusion! Do not learn"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband. How say"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"you, Cassio? is he not a most profane and liberal"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"counsellor?"
II,I,CASSIO,"He speaks home, madam: You may relish him more in"
II,I,CASSIO,"the soldier than in the scholar."
II,I,IAGO,"whisper: with as little a web as this will I"
II,I,IAGO,"ensnare as great a fly as Cassio. Ay, smile upon"
II,I,IAGO,"her, do; I will gyve thee in thine own courtship."
II,I,IAGO,"You say true; 'tis so, indeed: if such tricks as"
II,I,IAGO,"these strip you out of your lieutenantry, it had"
II,I,IAGO,"been better you had not kissed your three fingers so"
II,I,IAGO,"oft, which now again you are most apt to play the"
II,I,IAGO,"sir in. Very good; well kissed! an excellent"
II,I,IAGO,"courtesy! 'tis so, indeed. Yet again your fingers"
II,I,IAGO,"to your lips? would they were clyster-pipes for your sake!"
II,I,IAGO,"The Moor! I know his trumpet."
II,I,CASSIO,"'Tis truly so."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"Let's meet him and receive him."
II,I,CASSIO,"Lo, where he comes!"
II,I,OTHELLO,"O my fair warrior!"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"My dear Othello!"
II,I,OTHELLO,"It gives me wonder great as my content"
II,I,OTHELLO,"To see you here before me. O my soul's joy!"
II,I,OTHELLO,"If after every tempest come such calms,"
II,I,OTHELLO,"May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!"
II,I,OTHELLO,"And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas"
II,I,OTHELLO,"Olympus-high and duck again as low"
II,I,OTHELLO,"As hell's from heaven! If it were now to die,"
II,I,OTHELLO,"'Twere now to be most happy; for, I fear,"
II,I,OTHELLO,"My soul hath her content so absolute"
II,I,OTHELLO,"That not another comfort like to this"
II,I,OTHELLO,"Succeeds in unknown fate."
II,I,DESDEMONA,"The heavens forbid"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"But that our loves and comforts should increase,"
II,I,DESDEMONA,"Even as our days do grow!"
II,I,OTHELLO,"Amen to that, sweet powers!"
II,I,OTHELLO,"I cannot speak enough of this content;"
II,I,OTHELLO,"It stops me here; it is too much of joy:"
II,I,OTHELLO,"And this, and this, the greatest discords be"
II,I,OTHELLO,"That e'er our hearts shall make!"
II,I,IAGO,"But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,"
II,I,IAGO,"As honest as I am."
II,I,OTHELLO,"Come, let us to the castle."
II,I,OTHELLO,"News, friends; our wars are done, the Turks"
II,I,OTHELLO,"are drown'd."
II,I,OTHELLO,"How does my old acquaintance of this isle?"
II,I,OTHELLO,"Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus;"
II,I,OTHELLO,"I have found great love amongst them. O my sweet,"
II,I,OTHELLO,"I prattle out of fashion, and I dote"
II,I,OTHELLO,"In mine own comforts. I prithee, good Iago,"
II,I,OTHELLO,"Go to the bay and disembark my coffers:"
II,I,OTHELLO,"Bring thou the master to the citadel;"
II,I,OTHELLO,"He is a good one, and his worthiness"
II,I,OTHELLO,"Does challenge much respect. Come, Desdemona,"
II,I,OTHELLO,"Once more, well met at Cyprus."
II,I,IAGO,"Do thou meet me presently at the harbour. Come"
II,I,IAGO,"hither. If thou be'st valiant,-- as, they say, base"
II,I,IAGO,"men being in love have then a nobility in their"
II,I,IAGO,"natures more than is native to them--list me. The"
II,I,IAGO,"lieutenant tonight watches on the court of"
II,I,IAGO,"guard:--first, I must tell thee this--Desdemona is"
II,I,IAGO,"directly in love with him."
II,I,RODERIGO,"With him! why, 'tis not possible."
II,I,IAGO,"Lay thy finger thus, and let thy soul be instructed."
II,I,IAGO,"Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor,"
II,I,IAGO,"but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies:"
II,I,IAGO,"and will she love him still for prating? let not"
II,I,IAGO,"thy discreet heart think it. Her eye must be fed;"
II,I,IAGO,"and what delight shall she have to look on the"
II,I,IAGO,"devil? When the blood is made dull with the act of"
II,I,IAGO,"sport, there should be, again to inflame it and to"
II,I,IAGO,"give satiety a fresh appetite, loveliness in favour,"
II,I,IAGO,"sympathy in years, manners and beauties; all which"
II,I,IAGO,"the Moor is defective in: now, for want of these"
II,I,IAGO,"required conveniences, her delicate tenderness will"
II,I,IAGO,"find itself abused, begin to heave the gorge,"
II,I,IAGO,"disrelish and abhor the Moor; very nature will"
II,I,IAGO,"instruct her in it and compel her to some second"
II,I,IAGO,"choice. Now, sir, this granted,--as it is a most"
II,I,IAGO,"pregnant and unforced position--who stands so"
II,I,IAGO,"eminent in the degree of this fortune as Cassio"
II,I,IAGO,"does? a knave very voluble; no further"
II,I,IAGO,"conscionable than in putting on the mere form of"
II,I,IAGO,"civil and humane seeming, for the better compassing"
II,I,IAGO,"of his salt and most hidden loose affection? why,"
II,I,IAGO,"none; why, none: a slipper and subtle knave, a"
II,I,IAGO,"finder of occasions, that has an eye can stamp and"
II,I,IAGO,"counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never"
II,I,IAGO,"present itself; a devilish knave. Besides, the"
II,I,IAGO,"knave is handsome, young, and hath all those"
II,I,IAGO,"requisites in him that folly and green minds look"
II,I,IAGO,"after: a pestilent complete knave; and the woman"
II,I,IAGO,"hath found him already."
II,I,RODERIGO,"I cannot believe that in her; she's full of"
II,I,RODERIGO,"most blessed condition."
II,I,IAGO,"Blessed fig's-end! the wine she drinks is made of"
II,I,IAGO,"grapes: if she had been blessed, she would never"
II,I,IAGO,"have loved the Moor. Blessed pudding! Didst thou"
II,I,IAGO,"not see her paddle with the palm of his hand? didst"
II,I,IAGO,"not mark that?"
II,I,RODERIGO,"Yes, that I did; but that was but courtesy."
II,I,IAGO,"Lechery, by this hand; an index and obscure prologue"
II,I,IAGO,"to the history of lust and foul thoughts. They met"
II,I,IAGO,"so near with their lips that their breaths embraced"
II,I,IAGO,"together. Villanous thoughts, Roderigo! when these"
II,I,IAGO,"mutualities so marshal the way, hard at hand comes"
II,I,IAGO,"the master and main exercise, the incorporate"
II,I,IAGO,"conclusion, Pish! But, sir, be you ruled by me: I"
II,I,IAGO,"have brought you from Venice. Watch you to-night;"
II,I,IAGO,"for the command, I'll lay't upon you. Cassio knows"
II,I,IAGO,"you not. I'll not be far from you: do you find"
II,I,IAGO,"some occasion to anger Cassio, either by speaking"
II,I,IAGO,"too loud, or tainting his discipline; or from what"
II,I,IAGO,"other course you please, which the time shall more"
II,I,IAGO,"favourably minister."
II,I,RODERIGO,"Well."
II,I,IAGO,"Sir, he is rash and very sudden in choler, and haply"
II,I,IAGO,"may strike at you: provoke him, that he may; for"
II,I,IAGO,"even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to"
II,I,IAGO,"mutiny; whose qualification shall come into no true"
II,I,IAGO,"taste again but by the displanting of Cassio. So"
II,I,IAGO,"shall you have a shorter journey to your desires by"
II,I,IAGO,"the means I shall then have to prefer them; and the"
II,I,IAGO,"impediment most profitably removed, without the"
II,I,IAGO,"which there were no expectation of our prosperity."
II,I,RODERIGO,"I will do this, if I can bring it to any"
II,I,RODERIGO,"opportunity."
II,I,IAGO,"I warrant thee. Meet me by and by at the citadel:"
II,I,IAGO,"I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Farewell."
II,I,RODERIGO,"Adieu."
II,I,IAGO,"That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it;"
II,I,IAGO,"That she loves him, 'tis apt and of great credit:"
II,I,IAGO,"The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not,"
II,I,IAGO,"Is of a constant, loving, noble nature,"
II,I,IAGO,"And I dare think he'll prove to Desdemona"
II,I,IAGO,"A most dear husband. Now, I do love her too;"
II,I,IAGO,"Not out of absolute lust, though peradventure"
II,I,IAGO,"I stand accountant for as great a sin,"
II,I,IAGO,"But partly led to diet my revenge,"
II,I,IAGO,"For that I do suspect the lusty Moor"
II,I,IAGO,"Hath leap'd into my seat; the thought whereof"
II,I,IAGO,"Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards;"
II,I,IAGO,"And nothing can or shall content my soul"
II,I,IAGO,"Till I am even'd with him, wife for wife,"
II,I,IAGO,"Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor"
II,I,IAGO,"At least into a jealousy so strong"
II,I,IAGO,"That judgment cannot cure. Which thing to do,"
II,I,IAGO,"If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trash"
II,I,IAGO,"For his quick hunting, stand the putting on,"
II,I,IAGO,"I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip,"
II,I,IAGO,"Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb--"
II,I,IAGO,"For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too--"
II,I,IAGO,"Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me."
II,I,IAGO,"For making him egregiously an ass"
II,I,IAGO,"And practising upon his peace and quiet"
II,I,IAGO,"Even to madness. 'Tis here, but yet confused:"
II,I,IAGO,"Knavery's plain face is never seen tin used."
II,II,Herald,"It is Othello's pleasure, our noble and valiant"
II,II,Herald,"general, that, upon certain tidings now arrived,"
II,II,Herald,"importing the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet,"
II,II,Herald,"every man put himself into triumph; some to dance,"
II,II,Herald,"some to make bonfires, each man to what sport and"
II,II,Herald,"revels his addiction leads him: for, besides these"
II,II,Herald,"beneficial news, it is the celebration of his"
II,II,Herald,"nuptial. So much was his pleasure should be"
II,II,Herald,"proclaimed. All offices are open, and there is full"
II,II,Herald,"liberty of feasting from this present hour of five"
II,II,Herald,"till the bell have told eleven. Heaven bless the"
II,II,Herald,"isle of Cyprus and our noble general Othello!"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Good Michael, look you to the guard to-night:"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Not to outsport discretion."
II,III,CASSIO,"Iago hath direction what to do;"
II,III,CASSIO,"But, notwithstanding, with my personal eye"
II,III,CASSIO,"Will I look to't."
II,III,OTHELLO,"Iago is most honest."
II,III,OTHELLO,"Michael, good night: to-morrow with your earliest"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Let me have speech with you."
II,III,OTHELLO,"Come, my dear love,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue;"
II,III,OTHELLO,"That profit's yet to come 'tween me and you."
II,III,OTHELLO,"Good night."
II,III,CASSIO,"Welcome, Iago; we must to the watch."
II,III,IAGO,"Not this hour, lieutenant; 'tis not yet ten o' the"
II,III,IAGO,"clock. Our general cast us thus early for the love"
II,III,IAGO,"of his Desdemona; who let us not therefore blame:"
II,III,IAGO,"he hath not yet made wanton the night with her; and"
II,III,IAGO,"she is sport for Jove."
II,III,CASSIO,"She's a most exquisite lady."
II,III,IAGO,"And, I'll warrant her, fun of game."
II,III,CASSIO,"Indeed, she's a most fresh and delicate creature."
II,III,IAGO,"What an eye she has! methinks it sounds a parley of"
II,III,IAGO,"provocation."
II,III,CASSIO,"An inviting eye; and yet methinks right modest."
II,III,IAGO,"And when she speaks, is it not an alarum to love?"
II,III,CASSIO,"She is indeed perfection."
II,III,IAGO,"Well, happiness to their sheets! Come, lieutenant, I"
II,III,IAGO,"have a stoup of wine; and here without are a brace"
II,III,IAGO,"of Cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to"
II,III,IAGO,"the health of black Othello."
II,III,CASSIO,"Not to-night, good Iago: I have very poor and"
II,III,CASSIO,"unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish"
II,III,CASSIO,"courtesy would invent some other custom of"
II,III,CASSIO,"entertainment."
II,III,IAGO,"O, they are our friends; but one cup: I'll drink for"
II,III,IAGO,"you."
II,III,CASSIO,"I have drunk but one cup to-night, and that was"
II,III,CASSIO,"craftily qualified too, and, behold, what innovation"
II,III,CASSIO,"it makes here: I am unfortunate in the infirmity,"
II,III,CASSIO,"and dare not task my weakness with any more."
II,III,IAGO,"What, man! 'tis a night of revels: the gallants"
II,III,IAGO,"desire it."
II,III,CASSIO,"Where are they?"
II,III,IAGO,"Here at the door; I pray you, call them in."
II,III,CASSIO,"I'll do't; but it dislikes me."
II,III,IAGO,"If I can fasten but one cup upon him,"
II,III,IAGO,"With that which he hath drunk to-night already,"
II,III,IAGO,"He'll be as full of quarrel and offence"
II,III,IAGO,"As my young mistress' dog. Now, my sick fool Roderigo,"
II,III,IAGO,"Whom love hath turn'd almost the wrong side out,"
II,III,IAGO,"To Desdemona hath to-night caroused"
II,III,IAGO,"Potations pottle-deep; and he's to watch:"
II,III,IAGO,"Three lads of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits,"
II,III,IAGO,"That hold their honours in a wary distance,"
II,III,IAGO,"The very elements of this warlike isle,"
II,III,IAGO,"Have I to-night fluster'd with flowing cups,"
II,III,IAGO,"And they watch too. Now, 'mongst this flock of drunkards,"
II,III,IAGO,"Am I to put our Cassio in some action"
II,III,IAGO,"That may offend the isle.--But here they come:"
II,III,IAGO,"If consequence do but approve my dream,"
II,III,IAGO,"My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream."
II,III,CASSIO,"'Fore God, they have given me a rouse already."
II,III,MONTANO,"Good faith, a little one; not past a pint, as I am"
II,III,MONTANO,"a soldier."
II,III,IAGO,"Some wine, ho!"
II,III,IAGO,"And let me the canakin clink, clink;"
II,III,IAGO,"And let me the canakin clink"
II,III,IAGO,"A soldier's a man;"
II,III,IAGO,"A life's but a span;"
II,III,IAGO,"Why, then, let a soldier drink."
II,III,IAGO,"Some wine, boys!"
II,III,CASSIO,"'Fore God, an excellent song."
II,III,IAGO,"I learned it in England, where, indeed, they are"
II,III,IAGO,"most potent in potting: your Dane, your German, and"
II,III,IAGO,"your swag-bellied Hollander--Drink, ho!--are nothing"
II,III,IAGO,"to your English."
II,III,CASSIO,"Is your Englishman so expert in his drinking?"
II,III,IAGO,"Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead"
II,III,IAGO,"drunk; he sweats not to overthrow your Almain; he"
II,III,IAGO,"gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle"
II,III,IAGO,"can be filled."
II,III,CASSIO,"To the health of our general!"
II,III,MONTANO,"I am for it, lieutenant; and I'll do you justice."
II,III,IAGO,"O sweet England!"
II,III,IAGO,"King Stephen was a worthy peer,"
II,III,IAGO,"His breeches cost him but a crown;"
II,III,IAGO,"He held them sixpence all too dear,"
II,III,IAGO,"With that he call'd the tailor lown."
II,III,IAGO,"He was a wight of high renown,"
II,III,IAGO,"And thou art but of low degree:"
II,III,IAGO,"'Tis pride that pulls the country down;"
II,III,IAGO,"Then take thine auld cloak about thee."
II,III,IAGO,"Some wine, ho!"
II,III,CASSIO,"Why, this is a more exquisite song than the other."
II,III,IAGO,"Will you hear't again?"
II,III,CASSIO,"No; for I hold him to be unworthy of his place that"
II,III,CASSIO,"does those things. Well, God's above all; and there"
II,III,CASSIO,"be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved."
II,III,IAGO,"It's true, good lieutenant."
II,III,CASSIO,"For mine own part,--no offence to the general, nor"
II,III,CASSIO,"any man of quality,--I hope to be saved."
II,III,IAGO,"And so do I too, lieutenant."
II,III,CASSIO,"Ay, but, by your leave, not before me; the"
II,III,CASSIO,"lieutenant is to be saved before the ancient. Let's"
II,III,CASSIO,"have no more of this; let's to our affairs.--Forgive"
II,III,CASSIO,"us our sins!--Gentlemen, let's look to our business."
II,III,CASSIO,"Do not think, gentlemen. I am drunk: this is my"
II,III,CASSIO,"ancient; this is my right hand, and this is my left:"
II,III,CASSIO,"I am not drunk now; I can stand well enough, and"
II,III,CASSIO,"speak well enough."
II,III,All,"Excellent well."
II,III,CASSIO,"Why, very well then; you must not think then that I am drunk."
II,III,MONTANO,"To the platform, masters; come, let's set the watch."
II,III,IAGO,"You see this fellow that is gone before;"
II,III,IAGO,"He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar"
II,III,IAGO,"And give direction: and do but see his vice;"
II,III,IAGO,"'Tis to his virtue a just equinox,"
II,III,IAGO,"The one as long as the other: 'tis pity of him."
II,III,IAGO,"I fear the trust Othello puts him in."
II,III,IAGO,"On some odd time of his infirmity,"
II,III,IAGO,"Will shake this island."
II,III,MONTANO,"But is he often thus?"
II,III,IAGO,"'Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep:"
II,III,IAGO,"He'll watch the horologe a double set,"
II,III,IAGO,"If drink rock not his cradle."
II,III,MONTANO,"It were well"
II,III,MONTANO,"The general were put in mind of it."
II,III,MONTANO,"Perhaps he sees it not; or his good nature"
II,III,MONTANO,"Prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio,"
II,III,MONTANO,"And looks not on his evils: is not this true?"
II,III,IAGO,"I pray you, after the lieutenant; go."
II,III,MONTANO,"And 'tis great pity that the noble Moor"
II,III,MONTANO,"Should hazard such a place as his own second"
II,III,MONTANO,"With one of an ingraft infirmity:"
II,III,MONTANO,"It were an honest action to say"
II,III,MONTANO,"So to the Moor."
II,III,IAGO,"Not I, for this fair island:"
II,III,IAGO,"I do love Cassio well; and would do much"
II,III,IAGO,"To cure him of this evil--But, hark! what noise?"
II,III,CASSIO,"You rogue! you rascal!"
II,III,MONTANO,"What's the matter, lieutenant?"
II,III,CASSIO,"A knave teach me my duty!"
II,III,CASSIO,"I'll beat the knave into a twiggen bottle."
II,III,RODERIGO,"Beat me!"
II,III,CASSIO,"Dost thou prate, rogue?"
II,III,MONTANO,"Nay, good lieutenant;"
II,III,MONTANO,"I pray you, sir, hold your hand."
II,III,CASSIO,"Let me go, sir,"
II,III,CASSIO,"Or I'll knock you o'er the mazzard."
II,III,MONTANO,"Come, come,"
II,III,MONTANO,"you're drunk."
II,III,CASSIO,"Drunk!"
II,III,IAGO,"Nay, good lieutenant,--alas, gentlemen;--"
II,III,IAGO,"Help, ho!--Lieutenant,--sir,--Montano,--sir;"
II,III,IAGO,"Help, masters!--Here's a goodly watch indeed!"
II,III,IAGO,"Who's that which rings the bell?--Diablo, ho!"
II,III,IAGO,"The town will rise: God's will, lieutenant, hold!"
II,III,IAGO,"You will be shamed for ever."
II,III,OTHELLO,"What is the matter here?"
II,III,MONTANO,"'Zounds, I bleed still; I am hurt to the death."
II,III,OTHELLO,"Hold, for your lives!"
II,III,IAGO,"Hold, ho! Lieutenant,--sir--Montano,--gentlemen,--"
II,III,IAGO,"Have you forgot all sense of place and duty?"
II,III,IAGO,"Hold! the general speaks to you; hold, hold, for shame!"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Why, how now, ho! from whence ariseth this?"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Are we turn'd Turks, and to ourselves do that"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?"
II,III,OTHELLO,"For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl:"
II,III,OTHELLO,"He that stirs next to carve for his own rage"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion."
II,III,OTHELLO,"Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle"
II,III,OTHELLO,"From her propriety. What is the matter, masters?"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Honest Iago, that look'st dead with grieving,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Speak, who began this? on thy love, I charge thee."
II,III,IAGO,"I do not know: friends all but now, even now,"
II,III,IAGO,"In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom"
II,III,IAGO,"Devesting them for bed; and then, but now--"
II,III,IAGO,"As if some planet had unwitted men--"
II,III,IAGO,"Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast,"
II,III,IAGO,"In opposition bloody. I cannot speak"
II,III,IAGO,"Any beginning to this peevish odds;"
II,III,IAGO,"And would in action glorious I had lost"
II,III,IAGO,"Those legs that brought me to a part of it!"
II,III,OTHELLO,"How comes it, Michael, you are thus forgot?"
II,III,CASSIO,"I pray you, pardon me; I cannot speak."
II,III,OTHELLO,"Worthy Montano, you were wont be civil;"
II,III,OTHELLO,"The gravity and stillness of your youth"
II,III,OTHELLO,"The world hath noted, and your name is great"
II,III,OTHELLO,"In mouths of wisest censure: what's the matter,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"That you unlace your reputation thus"
II,III,OTHELLO,"And spend your rich opinion for the name"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Of a night-brawler? give me answer to it."
II,III,MONTANO,"Worthy Othello, I am hurt to danger:"
II,III,MONTANO,"Your officer, Iago, can inform you,--"
II,III,MONTANO,"While I spare speech, which something now"
II,III,MONTANO,"offends me,--"
II,III,MONTANO,"Of all that I do know: nor know I aught"
II,III,MONTANO,"By me that's said or done amiss this night;"
II,III,MONTANO,"Unless self-charity be sometimes a vice,"
II,III,MONTANO,"And to defend ourselves it be a sin"
II,III,MONTANO,"When violence assails us."
II,III,OTHELLO,"Now, by heaven,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"My blood begins my safer guides to rule;"
II,III,OTHELLO,"And passion, having my best judgment collied,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Assays to lead the way: if I once stir,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Or do but lift this arm, the best of you"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Shall sink in my rebuke. Give me to know"
II,III,OTHELLO,"How this foul rout began, who set it on;"
II,III,OTHELLO,"And he that is approved in this offence,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Though he had twinn'd with me, both at a birth,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Shall lose me. What! in a town of war,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Yet wild, the people's hearts brimful of fear,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"To manage private and domestic quarrel,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"In night, and on the court and guard of safety!"
II,III,OTHELLO,"'Tis monstrous. Iago, who began't?"
II,III,MONTANO,"If partially affined, or leagued in office,"
II,III,MONTANO,"Thou dost deliver more or less than truth,"
II,III,MONTANO,"Thou art no soldier."
II,III,IAGO,"Touch me not so near:"
II,III,IAGO,"I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth"
II,III,IAGO,"Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio;"
II,III,IAGO,"Yet, I persuade myself, to speak the truth"
II,III,IAGO,"Shall nothing wrong him. Thus it is, general."
II,III,IAGO,"Montano and myself being in speech,"
II,III,IAGO,"There comes a fellow crying out for help:"
II,III,IAGO,"And Cassio following him with determined sword,"
II,III,IAGO,"To execute upon him. Sir, this gentleman"
II,III,IAGO,"Steps in to Cassio, and entreats his pause:"
II,III,IAGO,"Myself the crying fellow did pursue,"
II,III,IAGO,"Lest by his clamour--as it so fell out--"
II,III,IAGO,"The town might fall in fright: he, swift of foot,"
II,III,IAGO,"Outran my purpose; and I return'd the rather"
II,III,IAGO,"For that I heard the clink and fall of swords,"
II,III,IAGO,"And Cassio high in oath; which till to-night"
II,III,IAGO,"I ne'er might say before. When I came back--"
II,III,IAGO,"For this was brief--I found them close together,"
II,III,IAGO,"At blow and thrust; even as again they were"
II,III,IAGO,"When you yourself did part them."
II,III,IAGO,"More of this matter cannot I report:"
II,III,IAGO,"But men are men; the best sometimes forget:"
II,III,IAGO,"Though Cassio did some little wrong to him,"
II,III,IAGO,"As men in rage strike those that wish them best,"
II,III,IAGO,"Yet surely Cassio, I believe, received"
II,III,IAGO,"From him that fled some strange indignity,"
II,III,IAGO,"Which patience could not pass."
II,III,OTHELLO,"I know, Iago,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Making it light to Cassio. Cassio, I love thee"
II,III,OTHELLO,"But never more be officer of mine."
II,III,OTHELLO,"Look, if my gentle love be not raised up!"
II,III,OTHELLO,"I'll make thee an example."
II,III,DESDEMONA,"What's the matter?"
II,III,OTHELLO,"All's well now, sweeting; come away to bed."
II,III,OTHELLO,"Sir, for your hurts, myself will be your surgeon:"
II,III,OTHELLO,"Lead him off."
II,III,OTHELLO,"Iago, look with care about the town,"
II,III,OTHELLO,"And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted."
II,III,OTHELLO,"Come, Desdemona: 'tis the soldiers' life"
II,III,OTHELLO,"To have their balmy slumbers waked with strife."
II,III,IAGO,"What, are you hurt, lieutenant?"
II,III,CASSIO,"Ay, past all surgery."
II,III,IAGO,"Marry, heaven forbid!"
II,III,CASSIO,"Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost"
II,III,CASSIO,"my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of"
II,III,CASSIO,"myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation,"
II,III,CASSIO,"Iago, my reputation!"
II,III,IAGO,"As I am an honest man, I thought you had received"
II,III,IAGO,"some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than"
II,III,IAGO,"in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false"
II,III,IAGO,"imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without"
II,III,IAGO,"deserving: you have lost no reputation at all,"
II,III,IAGO,"unless you repute yourself such a loser. What, man!"
II,III,IAGO,"there are ways to recover the general again: you"
II,III,IAGO,"are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in"
II,III,IAGO,"policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his"
II,III,IAGO,"offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue"
II,III,IAGO,"to him again, and he's yours."
II,III,CASSIO,"I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so"
II,III,CASSIO,"good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so"
II,III,CASSIO,"indiscreet an officer. Drunk? and speak parrot?"
II,III,CASSIO,"and squabble? swagger? swear? and discourse"
II,III,CASSIO,"fustian with one's own shadow? O thou invisible"
II,III,CASSIO,"spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by,"
II,III,CASSIO,"let us call thee devil!"
II,III,IAGO,"What was he that you followed with your sword? What"
II,III,IAGO,"had he done to you?"
II,III,CASSIO,"I know not."
II,III,IAGO,"Is't possible?"
II,III,CASSIO,"I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly;"
II,III,CASSIO,"a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men"
II,III,CASSIO,"should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away"
II,III,CASSIO,"their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance"
II,III,CASSIO,"revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!"
II,III,IAGO,"Why, but you are now well enough: how came you thus"
II,III,IAGO,"recovered?"
II,III,CASSIO,"It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place"
II,III,CASSIO,"to the devil wrath; one unperfectness shows me"
II,III,CASSIO,"another, to make me frankly despise myself."
II,III,IAGO,"Come, you are too severe a moraler: as the time,"
II,III,IAGO,"the place, and the condition of this country"
II,III,IAGO,"stands, I could heartily wish this had not befallen;"
II,III,IAGO,"but, since it is as it is, mend it for your own good."
II,III,CASSIO,"I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me"
II,III,CASSIO,"I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra,"
II,III,CASSIO,"such an answer would stop them all. To be now a"
II,III,CASSIO,"sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a"
II,III,CASSIO,"beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is"
II,III,CASSIO,"unblessed and the ingredient is a devil."
II,III,IAGO,"Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature,"
II,III,IAGO,"if it be well used: exclaim no more against it."
II,III,IAGO,"And, good lieutenant, I think you think I love you."
II,III,CASSIO,"I have well approved it, sir. I drunk!"
II,III,IAGO,"You or any man living may be drunk! at a time, man."
II,III,IAGO,"I'll tell you what you shall do. Our general's wife"
II,III,IAGO,"is now the general: may say so in this respect, for"
II,III,IAGO,"that he hath devoted and given up himself to the"
II,III,IAGO,"contemplation, mark, and denotement of her parts and"
II,III,IAGO,"graces: confess yourself freely to her; importune"
II,III,IAGO,"her help to put you in your place again: she is of"
II,III,IAGO,"so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition,"
II,III,IAGO,"she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more"
II,III,IAGO,"than she is requested: this broken joint between"
II,III,IAGO,"you and her husband entreat her to splinter; and, my"
II,III,IAGO,"fortunes against any lay worth naming, this"
II,III,IAGO,"crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before."
II,III,CASSIO,"You advise me well."
II,III,IAGO,"I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness."
II,III,CASSIO,"I think it freely; and betimes in the morning I will"
II,III,CASSIO,"beseech the virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me:"
II,III,CASSIO,"I am desperate of my fortunes if they cheque me here."
II,III,IAGO,"You are in the right. Good night, lieutenant; I"
II,III,IAGO,"must to the watch."
II,III,CASSIO,"Good night, honest Iago."
II,III,IAGO,"And what's he then that says I play the villain?"
II,III,IAGO,"When this advice is free I give and honest,"
II,III,IAGO,"Probal to thinking and indeed the course"
II,III,IAGO,"To win the Moor again? For 'tis most easy"
II,III,IAGO,"The inclining Desdemona to subdue"
II,III,IAGO,"In any honest suit: she's framed as fruitful"
II,III,IAGO,"As the free elements. And then for her"
II,III,IAGO,"To win the Moor--were't to renounce his baptism,"
II,III,IAGO,"All seals and symbols of redeemed sin,"
II,III,IAGO,"His soul is so enfetter'd to her love,"
II,III,IAGO,"That she may make, unmake, do what she list,"
II,III,IAGO,"Even as her appetite shall play the god"
II,III,IAGO,"With his weak function. How am I then a villain"
II,III,IAGO,"To counsel Cassio to this parallel course,"
II,III,IAGO,"Directly to his good? Divinity of hell!"
II,III,IAGO,"When devils will the blackest sins put on,"
II,III,IAGO,"They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,"
II,III,IAGO,"As I do now: for whiles this honest fool"
II,III,IAGO,"Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes"
II,III,IAGO,"And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,"
II,III,IAGO,"I'll pour this pestilence into his ear,"
II,III,IAGO,"That she repeals him for her body's lust;"
II,III,IAGO,"And by how much she strives to do him good,"
II,III,IAGO,"She shall undo her credit with the Moor."
II,III,IAGO,"So will I turn her virtue into pitch,"
II,III,IAGO,"And out of her own goodness make the net"
II,III,IAGO,"That shall enmesh them all."
II,III,IAGO,"How now, Roderigo!"
II,III,RODERIGO,"I do follow here in the chase, not like a hound that"
II,III,RODERIGO,"hunts, but one that fills up the cry. My money is"
II,III,RODERIGO,"almost spent; I have been to-night exceedingly well"
II,III,RODERIGO,"cudgelled; and I think the issue will be, I shall"
II,III,RODERIGO,"have so much experience for my pains, and so, with"
II,III,RODERIGO,"no money at all and a little more wit, return again to Venice."
II,III,IAGO,"How poor are they that have not patience!"
II,III,IAGO,"What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
II,III,IAGO,"Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft;"
II,III,IAGO,"And wit depends on dilatory time."
II,III,IAGO,"Does't not go well? Cassio hath beaten thee."
II,III,IAGO,"And thou, by that small hurt, hast cashier'd Cassio:"
II,III,IAGO,"Though other things grow fair against the sun,"
II,III,IAGO,"Yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe:"
II,III,IAGO,"Content thyself awhile. By the mass, 'tis morning;"
II,III,IAGO,"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."
II,III,IAGO,"Retire thee; go where thou art billeted:"
II,III,IAGO,"Away, I say; thou shalt know more hereafter:"
II,III,IAGO,"Nay, get thee gone."
II,III,IAGO,"Two things are to be done:"
II,III,IAGO,"My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress;"
II,III,IAGO,"I'll set her on;"
II,III,IAGO,"Myself the while to draw the Moor apart,"
II,III,IAGO,"And bring him jump when he may Cassio find"
II,III,IAGO,"Soliciting his wife: ay, that's the way"
II,III,IAGO,"Dull not device by coldness and delay."
III,I,CASSIO,"Masters, play here; I will content your pains;"
III,I,CASSIO,"Something that's brief; and bid 'Good morrow, general.'"
III,I,Clown,"Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples,"
III,I,Clown,"that they speak i' the nose thus?"
III,I,First Musician,"How, sir, how!"
III,I,Clown,"Are these, I pray you, wind-instruments?"
III,I,First Musician,"Ay, marry, are they, sir."
III,I,Clown,"O, thereby hangs a tail."
III,I,First Musician,"Whereby hangs a tale, sir?"
III,I,Clown,"Marry. sir, by many a wind-instrument that I know."
III,I,Clown,"But, masters, here's money for you: and the general"
III,I,Clown,"so likes your music, that he desires you, for love's"
III,I,Clown,"sake, to make no more noise with it."
III,I,First Musician,"Well, sir, we will not."
III,I,Clown,"If you have any music that may not be heard, to't"
III,I,Clown,"again: but, as they say to hear music the general"
III,I,Clown,"does not greatly care."
III,I,First Musician,"We have none such, sir."
III,I,Clown,"Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away:"
III,I,Clown,"go; vanish into air; away!"
III,I,CASSIO,"Dost thou hear, my honest friend?"
III,I,Clown,"No, I hear not your honest friend; I hear you."
III,I,CASSIO,"Prithee, keep up thy quillets. There's a poor piece"
III,I,CASSIO,"of gold for thee: if the gentlewoman that attends"
III,I,CASSIO,"the general's wife be stirring, tell her there's"
III,I,CASSIO,"one Cassio entreats her a little favour of speech:"
III,I,CASSIO,"wilt thou do this?"
III,I,Clown,"She is stirring, sir: if she will stir hither, I"
III,I,Clown,"shall seem to notify unto her."
III,I,CASSIO,"Do, good my friend."
III,I,CASSIO,"In happy time, Iago."
III,I,IAGO,"You have not been a-bed, then?"
III,I,CASSIO,"Why, no; the day had broke"
III,I,CASSIO,"Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago,"
III,I,CASSIO,"To send in to your wife: my suit to her"
III,I,CASSIO,"Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona"
III,I,CASSIO,"Procure me some access."
III,I,IAGO,"I'll send her to you presently;"
III,I,IAGO,"And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor"
III,I,IAGO,"Out of the way, that your converse and business"
III,I,IAGO,"May be more free."
III,I,CASSIO,"I humbly thank you for't."
III,I,CASSIO,"I never knew"
III,I,CASSIO,"A Florentine more kind and honest."
III,I,EMILIA,"Good morrow, good Lieutenant: I am sorry"
III,I,EMILIA,"For your displeasure; but all will sure be well."
III,I,EMILIA,"The general and his wife are talking of it;"
III,I,EMILIA,"And she speaks for you stoutly: the Moor replies,"
III,I,EMILIA,"That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus,"
III,I,EMILIA,"And great affinity, and that in wholesome wisdom"
III,I,EMILIA,"He might not but refuse you; but he protests he loves you"
III,I,EMILIA,"And needs no other suitor but his likings"
III,I,EMILIA,"To take the safest occasion by the front"
III,I,EMILIA,"To bring you in again."
III,I,CASSIO,"Yet, I beseech you,"
III,I,CASSIO,"If you think fit, or that it may be done,"
III,I,CASSIO,"Give me advantage of some brief discourse"
III,I,CASSIO,"With Desdemona alone."
III,I,EMILIA,"Pray you, come in;"
III,I,EMILIA,"I will bestow you where you shall have time"
III,I,EMILIA,"To speak your bosom freely."
III,I,CASSIO,"I am much bound to you."
III,II,OTHELLO,"These letters give, Iago, to the pilot;"
III,II,OTHELLO,"And by him do my duties to the senate:"
III,II,OTHELLO,"That done, I will be walking on the works;"
III,II,OTHELLO,"Repair there to me."
III,II,IAGO,"Well, my good lord, I'll do't."
III,II,OTHELLO,"This fortification, gentlemen, shall we see't?"
III,II,Gentleman,"We'll wait upon your lordship."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"All my abilities in thy behalf."
III,III,EMILIA,"Good madam, do: I warrant it grieves my husband,"
III,III,EMILIA,"As if the case were his."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"O, that's an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"But I will have my lord and you again"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"As friendly as you were."
III,III,CASSIO,"Bounteous madam,"
III,III,CASSIO,"Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,"
III,III,CASSIO,"He's never any thing but your true servant."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"I know't; I thank you. You do love my lord:"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"You have known him long; and be you well assured"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"He shall in strangeness stand no further off"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Than in a polite distance."
III,III,CASSIO,"Ay, but, lady,"
III,III,CASSIO,"That policy may either last so long,"
III,III,CASSIO,"Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet,"
III,III,CASSIO,"Or breed itself so out of circumstance,"
III,III,CASSIO,"That, I being absent and my place supplied,"
III,III,CASSIO,"My general will forget my love and service."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Do not doubt that; before Emilia here"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"I give thee warrant of thy place: assure thee,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"To the last article: my lord shall never rest;"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience;"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift;"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"I'll intermingle every thing he does"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"With Cassio's suit: therefore be merry, Cassio;"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"For thy solicitor shall rather die"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Than give thy cause away."
III,III,EMILIA,"Madam, here comes my lord."
III,III,CASSIO,"Madam, I'll take my leave."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Why, stay, and hear me speak."
III,III,CASSIO,"Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease,"
III,III,CASSIO,"Unfit for mine own purposes."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Well, do your discretion."
III,III,IAGO,"Ha! I like not that."
III,III,OTHELLO,"What dost thou say?"
III,III,IAGO,"Nothing, my lord: or if--I know not what."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?"
III,III,IAGO,"Cassio, my lord! No, sure, I cannot think it,"
III,III,IAGO,"That he would steal away so guilty-like,"
III,III,IAGO,"Seeing you coming."
III,III,OTHELLO,"I do believe 'twas he."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"How now, my lord!"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"I have been talking with a suitor here,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"A man that languishes in your displeasure."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Who is't you mean?"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"If I have any grace or power to move you,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"His present reconciliation take;"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"For if he be not one that truly loves you,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"That errs in ignorance and not in cunning,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"I have no judgment in an honest face:"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"I prithee, call him back."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Went he hence now?"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Ay, sooth; so humbled"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"That he hath left part of his grief with me,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"To suffer with him. Good love, call him back."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Not now, sweet Desdemona; some other time."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"But shall't be shortly?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"The sooner, sweet, for you."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Shall't be to-night at supper?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"No, not to-night."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"To-morrow dinner, then?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I shall not dine at home;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I meet the captains at the citadel."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Why, then, to-morrow night; or Tuesday morn;"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn:"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"I prithee, name the time, but let it not"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Exceed three days: in faith, he's penitent;"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"And yet his trespass, in our common reason--"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Save that, they say, the wars must make examples"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Out of their best--is not almost a fault"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"To incur a private cheque. When shall he come?"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"What you would ask me, that I should deny,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Or stand so mammering on. What! Michael Cassio,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"When I have spoke of you dispraisingly,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Hath ta'en your part; to have so much to do"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"To bring him in! Trust me, I could do much,--"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Prithee, no more: let him come when he will;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I will deny thee nothing."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Why, this is not a boon;"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"'Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"To your own person: nay, when I have a suit"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed,"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"It shall be full of poise and difficult weight"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"And fearful to be granted."
III,III,OTHELLO,"I will deny thee nothing:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"To leave me but a little to myself."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Shall I deny you? no: farewell, my lord."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Farewell, my Desdemona: I'll come to thee straight."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Emilia, come. Be as your fancies teach you;"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Whate'er you be, I am obedient."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Chaos is come again."
III,III,IAGO,"My noble lord--"
III,III,OTHELLO,"What dost thou say, Iago?"
III,III,IAGO,"Did Michael Cassio, when you woo'd my lady,"
III,III,IAGO,"Know of your love?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"He did, from first to last: why dost thou ask?"
III,III,IAGO,"But for a satisfaction of my thought;"
III,III,IAGO,"No further harm."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Why of thy thought, Iago?"
III,III,IAGO,"I did not think he had been acquainted with her."
III,III,OTHELLO,"O, yes; and went between us very oft."
III,III,IAGO,"Indeed!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Indeed! ay, indeed: discern'st thou aught in that?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Is he not honest?"
III,III,IAGO,"Honest, my lord!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Honest! ay, honest."
III,III,IAGO,"My lord, for aught I know."
III,III,OTHELLO,"What dost thou think?"
III,III,IAGO,"Think, my lord!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Think, my lord!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"By heaven, he echoes me,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"As if there were some monster in his thought"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I heard thee say even now, thou likedst not that,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"When Cassio left my wife: what didst not like?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"And when I told thee he was of my counsel"
III,III,OTHELLO,"In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst 'Indeed!'"
III,III,OTHELLO,"And didst contract and purse thy brow together,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Some horrible conceit: if thou dost love me,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Show me thy thought."
III,III,IAGO,"My lord, you know I love you."
III,III,OTHELLO,"I think thou dost;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"And, for I know thou'rt full of love and honesty,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"And weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"For such things in a false disloyal knave"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Are tricks of custom, but in a man that's just"
III,III,OTHELLO,"They are close delations, working from the heart"
III,III,OTHELLO,"That passion cannot rule."
III,III,IAGO,"For Michael Cassio,"
III,III,IAGO,"I dare be sworn I think that he is honest."
III,III,OTHELLO,"I think so too."
III,III,IAGO,"Men should be what they seem;"
III,III,IAGO,"Or those that be not, would they might seem none!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Certain, men should be what they seem."
III,III,IAGO,"Why, then, I think Cassio's an honest man."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Nay, yet there's more in this:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I prithee, speak to me as to thy thinkings,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts"
III,III,OTHELLO,"The worst of words."
III,III,IAGO,"Good my lord, pardon me:"
III,III,IAGO,"Though I am bound to every act of duty,"
III,III,IAGO,"I am not bound to that all slaves are free to."
III,III,IAGO,"Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false;"
III,III,IAGO,"As where's that palace whereinto foul things"
III,III,IAGO,"Sometimes intrude not? who has a breast so pure,"
III,III,IAGO,"But some uncleanly apprehensions"
III,III,IAGO,"Keep leets and law-days and in session sit"
III,III,IAGO,"With meditations lawful?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"If thou but think'st him wrong'd and makest his ear"
III,III,OTHELLO,"A stranger to thy thoughts."
III,III,IAGO,"I do beseech you--"
III,III,IAGO,"Though I perchance am vicious in my guess,"
III,III,IAGO,"As, I confess, it is my nature's plague"
III,III,IAGO,"To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy"
III,III,IAGO,"Shapes faults that are not--that your wisdom yet,"
III,III,IAGO,"From one that so imperfectly conceits,"
III,III,IAGO,"Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble"
III,III,IAGO,"Out of his scattering and unsure observance."
III,III,IAGO,"It were not for your quiet nor your good,"
III,III,IAGO,"Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom,"
III,III,IAGO,"To let you know my thoughts."
III,III,OTHELLO,"What dost thou mean?"
III,III,IAGO,"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,"
III,III,IAGO,"Is the immediate jewel of their souls:"
III,III,IAGO,"Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;"
III,III,IAGO,"'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:"
III,III,IAGO,"But he that filches from me my good name"
III,III,IAGO,"Robs me of that which not enriches him"
III,III,IAGO,"And makes me poor indeed."
III,III,OTHELLO,"By heaven, I'll know thy thoughts."
III,III,IAGO,"You cannot, if my heart were in your hand;"
III,III,IAGO,"Nor shall not, whilst 'tis in my custody."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Ha!"
III,III,IAGO,"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;"
III,III,IAGO,"It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock"
III,III,IAGO,"The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss"
III,III,IAGO,"Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;"
III,III,IAGO,"But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er"
III,III,IAGO,"Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"O misery!"
III,III,IAGO,"Poor and content is rich and rich enough,"
III,III,IAGO,"But riches fineless is as poor as winter"
III,III,IAGO,"To him that ever fears he shall be poor."
III,III,IAGO,"Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend"
III,III,IAGO,"From jealousy!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Why, why is this?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Think'st thou I'ld make a lie of jealousy,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"To follow still the changes of the moon"
III,III,OTHELLO,"With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Is once to be resolved: exchange me for a goat,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"When I shall turn the business of my soul"
III,III,OTHELLO,"To such exsufflicate and blown surmises,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous"
III,III,OTHELLO,"To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Where virtue is, these are more virtuous:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw"
III,III,OTHELLO,"The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"For she had eyes, and chose me. No, Iago;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"And on the proof, there is no more but this,--"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Away at once with love or jealousy!"
III,III,IAGO,"I am glad of it; for now I shall have reason"
III,III,IAGO,"To show the love and duty that I bear you"
III,III,IAGO,"With franker spirit: therefore, as I am bound,"
III,III,IAGO,"Receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof."
III,III,IAGO,"Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio;"
III,III,IAGO,"Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure:"
III,III,IAGO,"I would not have your free and noble nature,"
III,III,IAGO,"Out of self-bounty, be abused; look to't:"
III,III,IAGO,"I know our country disposition well;"
III,III,IAGO,"In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks"
III,III,IAGO,"They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience"
III,III,IAGO,"Is not to leave't undone, but keep't unknown."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Dost thou say so?"
III,III,IAGO,"She did deceive her father, marrying you;"
III,III,IAGO,"And when she seem'd to shake and fear your looks,"
III,III,IAGO,"She loved them most."
III,III,OTHELLO,"And so she did."
III,III,IAGO,"Why, go to then;"
III,III,IAGO,"She that, so young, could give out such a seeming,"
III,III,IAGO,"To seal her father's eyes up close as oak-"
III,III,IAGO,"He thought 'twas witchcraft--but I am much to blame;"
III,III,IAGO,"I humbly do beseech you of your pardon"
III,III,IAGO,"For too much loving you."
III,III,OTHELLO,"I am bound to thee for ever."
III,III,IAGO,"I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Not a jot, not a jot."
III,III,IAGO,"I' faith, I fear it has."
III,III,IAGO,"I hope you will consider what is spoke"
III,III,IAGO,"Comes from my love. But I do see you're moved:"
III,III,IAGO,"I am to pray you not to strain my speech"
III,III,IAGO,"To grosser issues nor to larger reach"
III,III,IAGO,"Than to suspicion."
III,III,OTHELLO,"I will not."
III,III,IAGO,"Should you do so, my lord,"
III,III,IAGO,"My speech should fall into such vile success"
III,III,IAGO,"As my thoughts aim not at. Cassio's my worthy friend--"
III,III,IAGO,"My lord, I see you're moved."
III,III,OTHELLO,"No, not much moved:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I do not think but Desdemona's honest."
III,III,IAGO,"Long live she so! and long live you to think so!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"And yet, how nature erring from itself,--"
III,III,IAGO,"Ay, there's the point: as--to be bold with you--"
III,III,IAGO,"Not to affect many proposed matches"
III,III,IAGO,"Of her own clime, complexion, and degree,"
III,III,IAGO,"Whereto we see in all things nature tends--"
III,III,IAGO,"Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank,"
III,III,IAGO,"Foul disproportion thoughts unnatural."
III,III,IAGO,"But pardon me; I do not in position"
III,III,IAGO,"Distinctly speak of her; though I may fear"
III,III,IAGO,"Her will, recoiling to her better judgment,"
III,III,IAGO,"May fall to match you with her country forms"
III,III,IAGO,"And happily repent."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Farewell, farewell:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"If more thou dost perceive, let me know more;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Set on thy wife to observe: leave me, Iago:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Why did I marry? This honest creature doubtless"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds."
III,III,IAGO,"your honour"
III,III,IAGO,"To scan this thing no further; leave it to time:"
III,III,IAGO,"Though it be fit that Cassio have his place,"
III,III,IAGO,"For sure, he fills it up with great ability,"
III,III,IAGO,"Yet, if you please to hold him off awhile,"
III,III,IAGO,"You shall by that perceive him and his means:"
III,III,IAGO,"Note, if your lady strain his entertainment"
III,III,IAGO,"With any strong or vehement importunity;"
III,III,IAGO,"Much will be seen in that. In the mean time,"
III,III,IAGO,"Let me be thought too busy in my fears--"
III,III,IAGO,"As worthy cause I have to fear I am--"
III,III,IAGO,"And hold her free, I do beseech your honour."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Fear not my government."
III,III,IAGO,"I once more take my leave."
III,III,OTHELLO,"This fellow's of exceeding honesty,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"To pray at fortune. Haply, for I am black"
III,III,OTHELLO,"And have not those soft parts of conversation"
III,III,OTHELLO,"That chamberers have, or for I am declined"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Into the vale of years,--yet that's not much--"
III,III,OTHELLO,"She's gone. I am abused; and my relief"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"That we can call these delicate creatures ours,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Than keep a corner in the thing I love"
III,III,OTHELLO,"For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Prerogatived are they less than the base;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Even then this forked plague is fated to us"
III,III,OTHELLO,"When we do quicken. Desdemona comes:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I'll not believe't."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"How now, my dear Othello!"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Your dinner, and the generous islanders"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"By you invited, do attend your presence."
III,III,OTHELLO,"I am to blame."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Why do you speak so faintly?"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Are you not well?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I have a pain upon my forehead here."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"'Faith, that's with watching; 'twill away again:"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"Let me but bind it hard, within this hour"
III,III,DESDEMONA,"It will be well."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Your napkin is too little:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Let it alone. Come, I'll go in with you."
III,III,DESDEMONA,"I am very sorry that you are not well."
III,III,EMILIA,"I am glad I have found this napkin:"
III,III,EMILIA,"This was her first remembrance from the Moor:"
III,III,EMILIA,"My wayward husband hath a hundred times"
III,III,EMILIA,"Woo'd me to steal it; but she so loves the token,"
III,III,EMILIA,"For he conjured her she should ever keep it,"
III,III,EMILIA,"That she reserves it evermore about her"
III,III,EMILIA,"To kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out,"
III,III,EMILIA,"And give't Iago: what he will do with it"
III,III,EMILIA,"Heaven knows, not I;"
III,III,EMILIA,"I nothing but to please his fantasy."
III,III,IAGO,"How now! what do you here alone?"
III,III,EMILIA,"Do not you chide; I have a thing for you."
III,III,IAGO,"A thing for me? it is a common thing--"
III,III,EMILIA,"Ha!"
III,III,IAGO,"To have a foolish wife."
III,III,EMILIA,"O, is that all? What will you give me now"
III,III,EMILIA,"For the same handkerchief?"
III,III,IAGO,"What handkerchief?"
III,III,EMILIA,"What handkerchief?"
III,III,EMILIA,"Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona;"
III,III,EMILIA,"That which so often you did bid me steal."
III,III,IAGO,"Hast stol'n it from her?"
III,III,EMILIA,"No, 'faith; she let it drop by negligence."
III,III,EMILIA,"And, to the advantage, I, being here, took't up."
III,III,EMILIA,"Look, here it is."
III,III,IAGO,"A good wench; give it me."
III,III,EMILIA,"What will you do with 't, that you have been"
III,III,EMILIA,"so earnest"
III,III,EMILIA,"To have me filch it?"
III,III,EMILIA,"If it be not for some purpose of import,"
III,III,EMILIA,"Give't me again: poor lady, she'll run mad"
III,III,EMILIA,"When she shall lack it."
III,III,IAGO,"Be not acknown on 't; I have use for it."
III,III,IAGO,"Go, leave me."
III,III,IAGO,"I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin,"
III,III,IAGO,"And let him find it. Trifles light as air"
III,III,IAGO,"Are to the jealous confirmations strong"
III,III,IAGO,"As proofs of holy writ: this may do something."
III,III,IAGO,"The Moor already changes with my poison:"
III,III,IAGO,"Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons."
III,III,IAGO,"Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,"
III,III,IAGO,"But with a little act upon the blood."
III,III,IAGO,"Burn like the mines of Sulphur. I did say so:"
III,III,IAGO,"Look, where he comes!"
III,III,IAGO,"Not poppy, nor mandragora,"
III,III,IAGO,"Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,"
III,III,IAGO,"Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep"
III,III,IAGO,"Which thou owedst yesterday."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Ha! ha! false to me?"
III,III,IAGO,"Why, how now, general! no more of that."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Avaunt! be gone! thou hast set me on the rack:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I swear 'tis better to be much abused"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Than but to know't a little."
III,III,IAGO,"How now, my lord!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I saw't not, thought it not, it harm'd not me:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I slept the next night well, was free and merry;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all."
III,III,IAGO,"I am sorry to hear this."
III,III,OTHELLO,"I had been happy, if the general camp,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"So I had nothing known. O, now, for ever"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"The royal banner, and all quality,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats"
III,III,OTHELLO,"The immortal Jove's dead clamours counterfeit,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!"
III,III,IAGO,"Is't possible, my lord?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Or by the worth of man's eternal soul,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Thou hadst been better have been born a dog"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Than answer my waked wrath!"
III,III,IAGO,"Is't come to this?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Make me to see't; or, at the least, so prove it,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"That the probation bear no hinge nor loop"
III,III,OTHELLO,"To hang a doubt on; or woe upon thy life!"
III,III,IAGO,"My noble lord,--"
III,III,OTHELLO,"If thou dost slander her and torture me,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Never pray more; abandon all remorse;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"On horror's head horrors accumulate;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"For nothing canst thou to damnation add"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Greater than that."
III,III,IAGO,"O grace! O heaven forgive me!"
III,III,IAGO,"Are you a man? have you a soul or sense?"
III,III,IAGO,"God be wi' you; take mine office. O wretched fool."
III,III,IAGO,"That livest to make thine honesty a vice!"
III,III,IAGO,"O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,"
III,III,IAGO,"To be direct and honest is not safe."
III,III,IAGO,"I thank you for this profit; and from hence"
III,III,IAGO,"I'll love no friend, sith love breeds such offence."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Nay, stay: thou shouldst be honest."
III,III,IAGO,"I should be wise, for honesty's a fool"
III,III,IAGO,"And loses that it works for."
III,III,OTHELLO,"By the world,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I think my wife be honest and think she is not;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I think that thou art just and think thou art not."
III,III,OTHELLO,"I'll have some proof. Her name, that was as fresh"
III,III,OTHELLO,"As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black"
III,III,OTHELLO,"As mine own face. If there be cords, or knives,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I'll not endure it. Would I were satisfied!"
III,III,IAGO,"I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion:"
III,III,IAGO,"I do repent me that I put it to you."
III,III,IAGO,"You would be satisfied?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Would! nay, I will."
III,III,IAGO,"And may: but, how? how satisfied, my lord?"
III,III,IAGO,"Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on--"
III,III,IAGO,"Behold her topp'd?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Death and damnation! O!"
III,III,IAGO,"It were a tedious difficulty, I think,"
III,III,IAGO,"To bring them to that prospect: damn them then,"
III,III,IAGO,"If ever mortal eyes do see them bolster"
III,III,IAGO,"More than their own! What then? how then?"
III,III,IAGO,"What shall I say? Where's satisfaction?"
III,III,IAGO,"It is impossible you should see this,"
III,III,IAGO,"Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,"
III,III,IAGO,"As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross"
III,III,IAGO,"As ignorance made drunk. But yet, I say,"
III,III,IAGO,"If imputation and strong circumstances,"
III,III,IAGO,"Which lead directly to the door of truth,"
III,III,IAGO,"Will give you satisfaction, you may have't."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Give me a living reason she's disloyal."
III,III,IAGO,"I do not like the office:"
III,III,IAGO,"But, sith I am enter'd in this cause so far,"
III,III,IAGO,"Prick'd to't by foolish honesty and love,"
III,III,IAGO,"I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately;"
III,III,IAGO,"And, being troubled with a raging tooth,"
III,III,IAGO,"I could not sleep."
III,III,IAGO,"There are a kind of men so loose of soul,"
III,III,IAGO,"That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs:"
III,III,IAGO,"One of this kind is Cassio:"
III,III,IAGO,"In sleep I heard him say 'Sweet Desdemona,"
III,III,IAGO,"Let us be wary, let us hide our loves;'"
III,III,IAGO,"And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand,"
III,III,IAGO,"Cry 'O sweet creature!' and then kiss me hard,"
III,III,IAGO,"As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots"
III,III,IAGO,"That grew upon my lips: then laid his leg"
III,III,IAGO,"Over my thigh, and sigh'd, and kiss'd; and then"
III,III,IAGO,"Cried 'Cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor!'"
III,III,OTHELLO,"O monstrous! monstrous!"
III,III,IAGO,"Nay, this was but his dream."
III,III,OTHELLO,"But this denoted a foregone conclusion:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream."
III,III,IAGO,"And this may help to thicken other proofs"
III,III,IAGO,"That do demonstrate thinly."
III,III,OTHELLO,"I'll tear her all to pieces."
III,III,IAGO,"Nay, but be wise: yet we see nothing done;"
III,III,IAGO,"She may be honest yet. Tell me but this,"
III,III,IAGO,"Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief"
III,III,IAGO,"Spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand?"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I gave her such a one; 'twas my first gift."
III,III,IAGO,"I know not that; but such a handkerchief--"
III,III,IAGO,"I am sure it was your wife's--did I to-day"
III,III,IAGO,"See Cassio wipe his beard with."
III,III,OTHELLO,"If it be that--"
III,III,IAGO,"If it be that, or any that was hers,"
III,III,IAGO,"It speaks against her with the other proofs."
III,III,OTHELLO,"O, that the slave had forty thousand lives!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"One is too poor, too weak for my revenge."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, Iago;"
III,III,OTHELLO,"All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven."
III,III,OTHELLO,"'Tis gone."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne"
III,III,OTHELLO,"To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"For 'tis of aspics' tongues!"
III,III,IAGO,"Yet be content."
III,III,OTHELLO,"O, blood, blood, blood!"
III,III,IAGO,"Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Never, Iago: Like to the Pontic sea,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Whose icy current and compulsive course"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on"
III,III,OTHELLO,"To the Propontic and the Hellespont,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Till that a capable and wide revenge"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"In the due reverence of a sacred vow"
III,III,OTHELLO,"I here engage my words."
III,III,IAGO,"Do not rise yet."
III,III,IAGO,"Witness, you ever-burning lights above,"
III,III,IAGO,"You elements that clip us round about,"
III,III,IAGO,"Witness that here Iago doth give up"
III,III,IAGO,"The execution of his wit, hands, heart,"
III,III,IAGO,"To wrong'd Othello's service! Let him command,"
III,III,IAGO,"And to obey shall be in me remorse,"
III,III,IAGO,"What bloody business ever."
III,III,OTHELLO,"I greet thy love,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"And will upon the instant put thee to't:"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Within these three days let me hear thee say"
III,III,OTHELLO,"That Cassio's not alive."
III,III,IAGO,"My friend is dead; 'tis done at your request:"
III,III,IAGO,"But let her live."
III,III,OTHELLO,"Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her!"
III,III,OTHELLO,"Come, go with me apart; I will withdraw,"
III,III,OTHELLO,"To furnish me with some swift means of death"
III,III,OTHELLO,"For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant."
III,III,IAGO,"I am your own for ever."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Do you know, sirrah, where Lieutenant Cassio lies?"
III,IV,Clown,"I dare not say he lies any where."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Why, man?"
III,IV,Clown,"He's a soldier, and for one to say a soldier lies,"
III,IV,Clown,"is stabbing."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Go to: where lodges he?"
III,IV,Clown,"To tell you where he lodges, is to tell you where I lie."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Can any thing be made of this?"
III,IV,Clown,"I know not where he lodges, and for me to devise a"
III,IV,Clown,"lodging and say he lies here or he lies there, were"
III,IV,Clown,"to lie in mine own throat."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Can you inquire him out, and be edified by report?"
III,IV,Clown,"I will catechise the world for him; that is, make"
III,IV,Clown,"questions, and by them answer."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Seek him, bid him come hither: tell him I have"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"moved my lord on his behalf, and hope all will be well."
III,IV,Clown,"To do this is within the compass of man's wit: and"
III,IV,Clown,"therefore I will attempt the doing it."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Where should I lose that handkerchief, Emilia?"
III,IV,EMILIA,"I know not, madam."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Full of crusadoes: and, but my noble Moor"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Is true of mind and made of no such baseness"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"As jealous creatures are, it were enough"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"To put him to ill thinking."
III,IV,EMILIA,"Is he not jealous?"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Who, he? I think the sun where he was born"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Drew all such humours from him."
III,IV,EMILIA,"Look, where he comes."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"I will not leave him now till Cassio"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Be call'd to him."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"How is't with you, my lord"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Well, my good lady."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"O, hardness to dissemble!--"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"How do you, Desdemona?"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Well, my good lord."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Give me your hand: this hand is moist, my lady."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"It yet hath felt no age nor known no sorrow."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart:"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Hot, hot, and moist: this hand of yours requires"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer,"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Much castigation, exercise devout;"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"For here's a young and sweating devil here,"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"That commonly rebels. 'Tis a good hand,"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"A frank one."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"You may, indeed, say so;"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"For 'twas that hand that gave away my heart."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"A liberal hand: the hearts of old gave hands;"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"I cannot speak of this. Come now, your promise."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"What promise, chuck?"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"I have sent to bid Cassio come speak with you."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me;"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Lend me thy handkerchief."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Here, my lord."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"That which I gave you."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"I have it not about me."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Not?"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"No, indeed, my lord."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"That is a fault."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"That handkerchief"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Did an Egyptian to my mother give;"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"She was a charmer, and could almost read"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"The thoughts of people: she told her, while"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"she kept it,"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Entirely to her love, but if she lost it"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Or made gift of it, my father's eye"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"After new fancies: she, dying, gave it me;"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"And bid me, when my fate would have me wive,"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"To give it her. I did so: and take heed on't;"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Make it a darling like your precious eye;"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"To lose't or give't away were such perdition"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"As nothing else could match."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Is't possible?"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"'Tis true: there's magic in the web of it:"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"A sibyl, that had number'd in the world"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"The sun to course two hundred compasses,"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"In her prophetic fury sew'd the work;"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk;"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"And it was dyed in mummy which the skilful"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Conserved of maidens' hearts."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Indeed! is't true?"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Most veritable; therefore look to't well."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Then would to God that I had never seen't!"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Ha! wherefore?"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Why do you speak so startingly and rash?"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Is't lost? is't gone? speak, is it out"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"o' the way?"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Heaven bless us!"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Say you?"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"It is not lost; but what an if it were?"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"How!"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"I say, it is not lost."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Fetch't, let me see't."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Why, so I can, sir, but I will not now."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"This is a trick to put me from my suit:"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Pray you, let Cassio be received again."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Fetch me the handkerchief: my mind misgives."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Come, come;"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"You'll never meet a more sufficient man."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"The handkerchief!"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"I pray, talk me of Cassio."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"The handkerchief!"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"A man that all his time"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Hath founded his good fortunes on your love,"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Shared dangers with you,--"
III,IV,OTHELLO,"The handkerchief!"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"In sooth, you are to blame."
III,IV,OTHELLO,"Away!"
III,IV,EMILIA,"Is not this man jealous?"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"I ne'er saw this before."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Sure, there's some wonder in this handkerchief:"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"I am most unhappy in the loss of it."
III,IV,EMILIA,"'Tis not a year or two shows us a man:"
III,IV,EMILIA,"They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;"
III,IV,EMILIA,"To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,"
III,IV,EMILIA,"They belch us. Look you, Cassio and my husband!"
III,IV,IAGO,"There is no other way; 'tis she must do't:"
III,IV,IAGO,"And, lo, the happiness! go, and importune her."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"How now, good Cassio! what's the news with you?"
III,IV,CASSIO,"Madam, my former suit: I do beseech you"
III,IV,CASSIO,"That by your virtuous means I may again"
III,IV,CASSIO,"Exist, and be a member of his love"
III,IV,CASSIO,"Whom I with all the office of my heart"
III,IV,CASSIO,"Entirely honour: I would not be delay'd."
III,IV,CASSIO,"If my offence be of such mortal kind"
III,IV,CASSIO,"That nor my service past, nor present sorrows,"
III,IV,CASSIO,"Nor purposed merit in futurity,"
III,IV,CASSIO,"Can ransom me into his love again,"
III,IV,CASSIO,"But to know so must be my benefit;"
III,IV,CASSIO,"So shall I clothe me in a forced content,"
III,IV,CASSIO,"And shut myself up in some other course,"
III,IV,CASSIO,"To fortune's alms."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Alas, thrice-gentle Cassio!"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"My advocation is not now in tune;"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him,"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Were he in favour as in humour alter'd."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"So help me every spirit sanctified,"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"As I have spoken for you all my best"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"And stood within the blank of his displeasure"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"For my free speech! you must awhile be patient:"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"What I can do I will; and more I will"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Than for myself I dare: let that suffice you."
III,IV,IAGO,"Is my lord angry?"
III,IV,EMILIA,"He went hence but now,"
III,IV,EMILIA,"And certainly in strange unquietness."
III,IV,IAGO,"Can he be angry? I have seen the cannon,"
III,IV,IAGO,"When it hath blown his ranks into the air,"
III,IV,IAGO,"And, like the devil, from his very arm"
III,IV,IAGO,"Puff'd his own brother:--and can he be angry?"
III,IV,IAGO,"Something of moment then: I will go meet him:"
III,IV,IAGO,"There's matter in't indeed, if he be angry."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"I prithee, do so."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Something, sure, of state,"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Either from Venice, or some unhatch'd practise"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him,"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Hath puddled his clear spirit: and in such cases"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Men's natures wrangle with inferior things,"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Though great ones are their object. 'Tis even so;"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"For let our finger ache, and it indues"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Our other healthful members even to that sense"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Of pain: nay, we must think men are not gods,"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Nor of them look for such observances"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"As fit the bridal. Beshrew me much, Emilia,"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"I was, unhandsome warrior as I am,"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Arraigning his unkindness with my soul;"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"But now I find I had suborn'd the witness,"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"And he's indicted falsely."
III,IV,EMILIA,"Pray heaven it be state-matters, as you think,"
III,IV,EMILIA,"And no conception nor no jealous toy"
III,IV,EMILIA,"Concerning you."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Alas the day! I never gave him cause."
III,IV,EMILIA,"But jealous souls will not be answer'd so;"
III,IV,EMILIA,"They are not ever jealous for the cause,"
III,IV,EMILIA,"But jealous for they are jealous: 'tis a monster"
III,IV,EMILIA,"Begot upon itself, born on itself."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"Heaven keep that monster from Othello's mind!"
III,IV,EMILIA,"Lady, amen."
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"I will go seek him. Cassio, walk hereabout:"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"If I do find him fit, I'll move your suit"
III,IV,DESDEMONA,"And seek to effect it to my uttermost."
III,IV,CASSIO,"I humbly thank your ladyship."
III,IV,BIANCA,"Save you, friend Cassio!"
III,IV,CASSIO,"What make you from home?"
III,IV,CASSIO,"How is it with you, my most fair Bianca?"
III,IV,CASSIO,"I' faith, sweet love, I was coming to your house."
III,IV,BIANCA,"And I was going to your lodging, Cassio."
III,IV,BIANCA,"What, keep a week away? seven days and nights?"
III,IV,BIANCA,"Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent hours,"
III,IV,BIANCA,"More tedious than the dial eight score times?"
III,IV,BIANCA,"O weary reckoning!"
III,IV,CASSIO,"Pardon me, Bianca:"
III,IV,CASSIO,"I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd:"
III,IV,CASSIO,"But I shall, in a more continuate time,"
III,IV,CASSIO,"Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca,"
III,IV,CASSIO,"Take me this work out."
III,IV,BIANCA,"O Cassio, whence came this?"
III,IV,BIANCA,"This is some token from a newer friend:"
III,IV,BIANCA,"To the felt absence now I feel a cause:"
III,IV,BIANCA,"Is't come to this? Well, well."
III,IV,CASSIO,"Go to, woman!"
III,IV,CASSIO,"Throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth,"
III,IV,CASSIO,"From whence you have them. You are jealous now"
III,IV,CASSIO,"That this is from some mistress, some remembrance:"
III,IV,CASSIO,"No, in good troth, Bianca."
III,IV,BIANCA,"Why, whose is it?"
III,IV,CASSIO,"I know not, sweet: I found it in my chamber."
III,IV,CASSIO,"I like the work well: ere it be demanded--"
III,IV,CASSIO,"As like enough it will--I'ld have it copied:"
III,IV,CASSIO,"Take it, and do't; and leave me for this time."
III,IV,BIANCA,"Leave you! wherefore?"
III,IV,CASSIO,"I do attend here on the general;"
III,IV,CASSIO,"And think it no addition, nor my wish,"
III,IV,CASSIO,"To have him see me woman'd."
III,IV,BIANCA,"Why, I pray you?"
III,IV,CASSIO,"Not that I love you not."
III,IV,BIANCA,"But that you do not love me."
III,IV,BIANCA,"I pray you, bring me on the way a little,"
III,IV,BIANCA,"And say if I shall see you soon at night."
III,IV,CASSIO,"'Tis but a little way that I can bring you;"
III,IV,CASSIO,"For I attend here: but I'll see you soon."
III,IV,BIANCA,"'Tis very good; I must be circumstanced."
IV,I,IAGO,"Will you think so?"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Think so, Iago!"
IV,I,IAGO,"What,"
IV,I,IAGO,"To kiss in private?"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"An unauthorized kiss."
IV,I,IAGO,"Or to be naked with her friend in bed"
IV,I,IAGO,"An hour or more, not meaning any harm?"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm!"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"It is hypocrisy against the devil:"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"They that mean virtuously, and yet do so,"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven."
IV,I,IAGO,"So they do nothing, 'tis a venial slip:"
IV,I,IAGO,"But if I give my wife a handkerchief,--"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"What then?"
IV,I,IAGO,"Why, then, 'tis hers, my lord; and, being hers,"
IV,I,IAGO,"She may, I think, bestow't on any man."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"She is protectress of her honour too:"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"May she give that?"
IV,I,IAGO,"Her honour is an essence that's not seen;"
IV,I,IAGO,"They have it very oft that have it not:"
IV,I,IAGO,"But, for the handkerchief,--"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Thou said'st, it comes o'er my memory,"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"As doth the raven o'er the infected house,"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Boding to all--he had my handkerchief."
IV,I,IAGO,"Ay, what of that?"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"That's not so good now."
IV,I,IAGO,"What,"
IV,I,IAGO,"If I had said I had seen him do you wrong?"
IV,I,IAGO,"Or heard him say,--as knaves be such abroad,"
IV,I,IAGO,"Who having, by their own importunate suit,"
IV,I,IAGO,"Or voluntary dotage of some mistress,"
IV,I,IAGO,"Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose"
IV,I,IAGO,"But they must blab--"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Hath he said any thing?"
IV,I,IAGO,"He hath, my lord; but be you well assured,"
IV,I,IAGO,"No more than he'll unswear."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"What hath he said?"
IV,I,IAGO,"'Faith, that he did--I know not what he did."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"What? what?"
IV,I,IAGO,"Lie--"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"With her?"
IV,I,IAGO,"With her, on her; what you will."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Lie with her! lie on her! We say lie on her, when"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"they belie her. Lie with her! that's fulsome."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"--Handkerchief--confessions--handkerchief!--To"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"confess, and be hanged for his labour;--first, to be"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"hanged, and then to confess.--I tremble at it."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"passion without some instruction. It is not words"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"that shake me thus. Pish! Noses, ears, and lips."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"--Is't possible?--Confess--handkerchief!--O devil!--"
IV,I,IAGO,"Work on,"
IV,I,IAGO,"My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught;"
IV,I,IAGO,"And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,"
IV,I,IAGO,"All guiltless, meet reproach. What, ho! my lord!"
IV,I,IAGO,"My lord, I say! Othello!"
IV,I,IAGO,"How now, Cassio!"
IV,I,CASSIO,"What's the matter?"
IV,I,IAGO,"My lord is fall'n into an epilepsy:"
IV,I,IAGO,"This is his second fit; he had one yesterday."
IV,I,CASSIO,"Rub him about the temples."
IV,I,IAGO,"No, forbear;"
IV,I,IAGO,"The lethargy must have his quiet course:"
IV,I,IAGO,"If not, he foams at mouth and by and by"
IV,I,IAGO,"Breaks out to savage madness. Look he stirs:"
IV,I,IAGO,"Do you withdraw yourself a little while,"
IV,I,IAGO,"He will recover straight: when he is gone,"
IV,I,IAGO,"I would on great occasion speak with you."
IV,I,IAGO,"How is it, general? have you not hurt your head?"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Dost thou mock me?"
IV,I,IAGO,"I mock you! no, by heaven."
IV,I,IAGO,"Would you would bear your fortune like a man!"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"A horned man's a monster and a beast."
IV,I,IAGO,"There's many a beast then in a populous city,"
IV,I,IAGO,"And many a civil monster."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Did he confess it?"
IV,I,IAGO,"Good sir, be a man;"
IV,I,IAGO,"Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked"
IV,I,IAGO,"May draw with you: there's millions now alive"
IV,I,IAGO,"That nightly lie in those unproper beds"
IV,I,IAGO,"Which they dare swear peculiar: your case is better."
IV,I,IAGO,"O, 'tis the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock,"
IV,I,IAGO,"To lip a wanton in a secure couch,"
IV,I,IAGO,"And to suppose her chaste! No, let me know;"
IV,I,IAGO,"And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"O, thou art wise; 'tis certain."
IV,I,IAGO,"Stand you awhile apart;"
IV,I,IAGO,"Confine yourself but in a patient list."
IV,I,IAGO,"Whilst you were here o'erwhelmed with your grief--"
IV,I,IAGO,"A passion most unsuiting such a man--"
IV,I,IAGO,"Cassio came hither: I shifted him away,"
IV,I,IAGO,"And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy,"
IV,I,IAGO,"Bade him anon return and here speak with me;"
IV,I,IAGO,"The which he promised. Do but encave yourself,"
IV,I,IAGO,"And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns,"
IV,I,IAGO,"That dwell in every region of his face;"
IV,I,IAGO,"For I will make him tell the tale anew,"
IV,I,IAGO,"Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when"
IV,I,IAGO,"He hath, and is again to cope your wife:"
IV,I,IAGO,"I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience;"
IV,I,IAGO,"Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen,"
IV,I,IAGO,"And nothing of a man."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Dost thou hear, Iago?"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"I will be found most cunning in my patience;"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"But--dost thou hear?--most bloody."
IV,I,IAGO,"That's not amiss;"
IV,I,IAGO,"But yet keep time in all. Will you withdraw?"
IV,I,IAGO,"Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,"
IV,I,IAGO,"A housewife that by selling her desires"
IV,I,IAGO,"Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature"
IV,I,IAGO,"That dotes on Cassio; as 'tis the strumpet's plague"
IV,I,IAGO,"To beguile many and be beguiled by one:"
IV,I,IAGO,"He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain"
IV,I,IAGO,"From the excess of laughter. Here he comes:"
IV,I,IAGO,"As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad;"
IV,I,IAGO,"And his unbookish jealousy must construe"
IV,I,IAGO,"Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures and light behavior,"
IV,I,IAGO,"Quite in the wrong. How do you now, lieutenant?"
IV,I,CASSIO,"The worser that you give me the addition"
IV,I,CASSIO,"Whose want even kills me."
IV,I,IAGO,"Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on't."
IV,I,IAGO,"Now, if this suit lay in Bianco's power,"
IV,I,IAGO,"How quickly should you speed!"
IV,I,CASSIO,"Alas, poor caitiff!"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Look, how he laughs already!"
IV,I,IAGO,"I never knew woman love man so."
IV,I,CASSIO,"Alas, poor rogue! I think, i' faith, she loves me."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Now he denies it faintly, and laughs it out."
IV,I,IAGO,"Do you hear, Cassio?"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Now he importunes him"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"To tell it o'er: go to; well said, well said."
IV,I,IAGO,"She gives it out that you shall marry hey:"
IV,I,IAGO,"Do you intend it?"
IV,I,CASSIO,"Ha, ha, ha!"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Do you triumph, Roman? do you triumph?"
IV,I,CASSIO,"I marry her! what? a customer! Prithee, bear some"
IV,I,CASSIO,"charity to my wit: do not think it so unwholesome."
IV,I,CASSIO,"Ha, ha, ha!"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"So, so, so, so: they laugh that win."
IV,I,IAGO,"'Faith, the cry goes that you shall marry her."
IV,I,CASSIO,"Prithee, say true."
IV,I,IAGO,"I am a very villain else."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Have you scored me? Well."
IV,I,CASSIO,"This is the monkey's own giving out: she is"
IV,I,CASSIO,"persuaded I will marry her, out of her own love and"
IV,I,CASSIO,"flattery, not out of my promise."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Iago beckons me; now he begins the story."
IV,I,CASSIO,"She was here even now; she haunts me in every place."
IV,I,CASSIO,"I was the other day talking on the sea-bank with"
IV,I,CASSIO,"certain Venetians; and thither comes the bauble,"
IV,I,CASSIO,"and, by this hand, she falls me thus about my neck--"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Crying 'O dear Cassio!' as it were: his gesture"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"imports it."
IV,I,CASSIO,"So hangs, and lolls, and weeps upon me; so hales,"
IV,I,CASSIO,"and pulls me: ha, ha, ha!"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Now he tells how she plucked him to my chamber. O,"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"I see that nose of yours, but not that dog I shall"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"throw it to."
IV,I,CASSIO,"Well, I must leave her company."
IV,I,IAGO,"Before me! look, where she comes."
IV,I,CASSIO,"'Tis such another fitchew! marry a perfumed one."
IV,I,CASSIO,"What do you mean by this haunting of me?"
IV,I,BIANCA,"Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you"
IV,I,BIANCA,"mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now?"
IV,I,BIANCA,"I was a fine fool to take it. I must take out the"
IV,I,BIANCA,"work?--A likely piece of work, that you should find"
IV,I,BIANCA,"it in your chamber, and not know who left it there!"
IV,I,BIANCA,"This is some minx's token, and I must take out the"
IV,I,BIANCA,"work? There; give it your hobby-horse: wheresoever"
IV,I,BIANCA,"you had it, I'll take out no work on't."
IV,I,CASSIO,"How now, my sweet Bianca! how now! how now!"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"By heaven, that should be my handkerchief!"
IV,I,BIANCA,"An you'll come to supper to-night, you may; an you"
IV,I,BIANCA,"will not, come when you are next prepared for."
IV,I,IAGO,"After her, after her."
IV,I,CASSIO,"'Faith, I must; she'll rail in the street else."
IV,I,IAGO,"Will you sup there?"
IV,I,CASSIO,"'Faith, I intend so."
IV,I,IAGO,"Well, I may chance to see you; for I would very fain"
IV,I,IAGO,"speak with you."
IV,I,CASSIO,"Prithee, come; will you?"
IV,I,IAGO,"Go to; say no more."
IV,I,IAGO,"Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"O Iago!"
IV,I,IAGO,"And did you see the handkerchief?"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Was that mine?"
IV,I,IAGO,"Yours by this hand: and to see how he prizes the"
IV,I,IAGO,"foolish woman your wife! she gave it him, and he"
IV,I,IAGO,"hath given it his whore."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"I would have him nine years a-killing."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"A fine woman! a fair woman! a sweet woman!"
IV,I,IAGO,"Nay, you must forget that."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Ay, let her rot, and perish, and be damned to-night;"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"for she shall not live: no, my heart is turned to"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand. O, the"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"world hath not a sweeter creature: she might lie by"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"an emperor's side and command him tasks."
IV,I,IAGO,"Nay, that's not your way."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Hang her! I do but say what she is: so delicate"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"with her needle: an admirable musician: O! she"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"will sing the savageness out of a bear: of so high"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"and plenteous wit and invention:--"
IV,I,IAGO,"She's the worse for all this."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"O, a thousand thousand times: and then, of so"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"gentle a condition!"
IV,I,IAGO,"Ay, too gentle."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Nay, that's certain: but yet the pity of it, Iago!"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!"
IV,I,IAGO,"If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her"
IV,I,IAGO,"patent to offend; for, if it touch not you, it comes"
IV,I,IAGO,"near nobody."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"I will chop her into messes: cuckold me!"
IV,I,IAGO,"O, 'tis foul in her."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"With mine officer!"
IV,I,IAGO,"That's fouler."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Get me some poison, Iago; this night: I'll not"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"unprovide my mind again: this night, Iago."
IV,I,IAGO,"Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed, even"
IV,I,IAGO,"the bed she hath contaminated."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Good, good: the justice of it pleases: very good."
IV,I,IAGO,"And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker: you"
IV,I,IAGO,"shall hear more by midnight."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Excellent good."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"What trumpet is that same?"
IV,I,IAGO,"Something from Venice, sure. 'Tis Lodovico"
IV,I,IAGO,"Come from the duke: and, see, your wife is with him."
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Save you, worthy general!"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"With all my heart, sir."
IV,I,LODOVICO,"The duke and senators of Venice greet you."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"I kiss the instrument of their pleasures."
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"And what's the news, good cousin Lodovico?"
IV,I,IAGO,"I am very glad to see you, signior"
IV,I,IAGO,"Welcome to Cyprus."
IV,I,LODOVICO,"I thank you. How does Lieutenant Cassio?"
IV,I,IAGO,"Lives, sir."
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"Cousin, there's fall'n between him and my lord"
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"An unkind breach: but you shall make all well."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Are you sure of that?"
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"My lord?"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"He did not call; he's busy in the paper."
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Is there division 'twixt my lord and Cassio?"
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"A most unhappy one: I would do much"
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Fire and brimstone!"
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"My lord?"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Are you wise?"
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"What, is he angry?"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"May be the letter moved him;"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"For, as I think, they do command him home,"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Deputing Cassio in his government."
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"Trust me, I am glad on't."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Indeed!"
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"My lord?"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"I am glad to see you mad."
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"Why, sweet Othello,--"
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"I have not deserved this."
IV,I,LODOVICO,"My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Though I should swear I saw't: 'tis very much:"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Make her amends; she weeps."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"O devil, devil!"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Out of my sight!"
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"I will not stay to offend you."
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Truly, an obedient lady:"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"I do beseech your lordship, call her back."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Mistress!"
IV,I,DESDEMONA,"My lord?"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"What would you with her, sir?"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Who, I, my lord?"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Ay; you did wish that I would make her turn:"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"And turn again; and she can weep, sir, weep;"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"And she's obedient, as you say, obedient,"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Very obedient. Proceed you in your tears."
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Concerning this, sir,--O  well-painted passion!--"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"I am commanded home. Get you away;"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"I'll send for you anon. Sir, I obey the mandate,"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"And will return to Venice. Hence, avaunt!"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"Cassio shall have my place. And, sir, tonight,"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"I do entreat that we may sup together:"
IV,I,OTHELLO,"You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus.--Goats and monkeys!"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"The shot of accident, nor dart of chance,"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Could neither graze nor pierce?"
IV,I,IAGO,"He is much changed."
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain?"
IV,I,IAGO,"He's that he is: I may not breathe my censure"
IV,I,IAGO,"What he might be: if what he might he is not,"
IV,I,IAGO,"I would to heaven he were!"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"What, strike his wife!"
IV,I,IAGO,"'Faith, that was not so well; yet would I knew"
IV,I,IAGO,"That stroke would prove the worst!"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Is it his use?"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"Or did the letters work upon his blood,"
IV,I,LODOVICO,"And new-create this fault?"
IV,I,IAGO,"Alas, alas!"
IV,I,IAGO,"It is not honesty in me to speak"
IV,I,IAGO,"What I have seen and known. You shall observe him,"
IV,I,IAGO,"And his own courses will denote him so"
IV,I,IAGO,"That I may save my speech: do but go after,"
IV,I,IAGO,"And mark how he continues."
IV,I,LODOVICO,"I am sorry that I am deceived in him."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"You have seen nothing then?"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Nor ever heard, nor ever did suspect."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Yes, you have seen Cassio and she together."
IV,II,EMILIA,"But then I saw no harm, and then I heard"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Each syllable that breath made up between them."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"What, did they never whisper?"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Never, my lord."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Nor send you out o' the way?"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Never."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing?"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Never, my lord."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"That's strange."
IV,II,EMILIA,"I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Lay down my soul at stake: if you think other,"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Remove your thought; it doth abuse your bosom."
IV,II,EMILIA,"If any wretch have put this in your head,"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse!"
IV,II,EMILIA,"For, if she be not honest, chaste, and true,"
IV,II,EMILIA,"There's no man happy; the purest of their wives"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Is foul as slander."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Bid her come hither: go."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"She says enough; yet she's a simple bawd"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"A closet lock and key of villanous secrets"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"And yet she'll kneel and pray; I have seen her do't."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"My lord, what is your will?"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Pray, chuck, come hither."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"What is your pleasure?"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Let me see your eyes;"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Look in my face."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"What horrible fancy's this?"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Leave procreants alone and shut the door;"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Cough, or cry 'hem,' if any body come:"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Your mystery, your mystery: nay, dispatch."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"I understand a fury in your words."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"But not the words."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Why, what art thou?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Your wife, my lord; your true"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"And loyal wife."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Come, swear it, damn thyself"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Should fear to seize thee: therefore be double damn'd:"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Swear thou art honest."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Heaven doth truly know it."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"To whom, my lord? with whom? how am I false?"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"O Desdemona! away! away! away!"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Alas the heavy day! Why do you weep?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"If haply you my father do suspect"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"An instrument of this your calling back,"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Lay not your blame on me: If you have lost him,"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Why, I have lost him too."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Had it pleased heaven"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"To try me with affliction; had they rain'd"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"I should have found in some place of my soul"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"A fixed figure for the time of scorn"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"To point his slow unmoving finger at!"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Yet could I bear that too; well, very well:"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"But there, where I have garner'd up my heart,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Where either I must live, or bear no life;"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"The fountain from the which my current runs,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Or else dries up; to be discarded thence!"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin,--"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Ay, there, look grim as hell!"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"I hope my noble lord esteems me honest."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"O, ay; as summer flies are in the shambles,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"ne'er been born!"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Made to write 'whore' upon? What committed!"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Committed! O thou public commoner!"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"I should make very forges of my cheeks,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"That would to cinders burn up modesty,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed!"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"And will not hear it. What committed!"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Impudent strumpet!"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"By heaven, you do me wrong."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Are you not a strumpet?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"No, as I am a Christian:"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"If to preserve this vessel for my lord"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"From any other foul unlawful touch"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Be not to be a strumpet, I am none."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"What, not a whore?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"No, as I shall be saved."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"Is't possible?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"O, heaven forgive us!"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"I cry you mercy, then:"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"I took you for that cunning whore of Venice"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"That married with Othello."
IV,II,OTHELLO,"You, mistress,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"And keep the gate of hell!"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"You, you, ay, you!"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"We have done our course; there's money for your pains:"
IV,II,OTHELLO,"I pray you, turn the key and keep our counsel."
IV,II,EMILIA,"Alas, what does this gentleman conceive?"
IV,II,EMILIA,"How do you, madam? how do you, my good lady?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"'Faith, half asleep."
IV,II,EMILIA,"Good madam, what's the matter with my lord?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"With who?"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Why, with my lord, madam."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Who is thy lord?"
IV,II,EMILIA,"He that is yours, sweet lady."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"I have none: do not talk to me, Emilia;"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"I cannot weep; nor answer have I none,"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"But what should go by water. Prithee, tonight"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Lay on my bed my wedding sheets: remember;"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"And call thy husband hither."
IV,II,EMILIA,"Here's a change indeed!"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"'Tis meet I should be used so, very meet."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"How have I been behaved, that he might stick"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"The small'st opinion on my least misuse?"
IV,II,IAGO,"What is your pleasure, madam?"
IV,II,IAGO,"How is't with you?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"I cannot tell. Those that do teach young babes"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Do it with gentle means and easy tasks:"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"He might have chid me so; for, in good faith,"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"I am a child to chiding."
IV,II,IAGO,"What's the matter, lady?"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhored her."
IV,II,EMILIA,"Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her,"
IV,II,EMILIA,"As true hearts cannot bear."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Am I that name, Iago?"
IV,II,IAGO,"What name, fair lady?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Such as she says my lord did say I was."
IV,II,EMILIA,"He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Could not have laid such terms upon his callat."
IV,II,IAGO,"Why did he so?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"I do not know; I am sure I am none such."
IV,II,IAGO,"Do not weep, do not weep. Alas the day!"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Hath she forsook so many noble matches,"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Her father and her country and her friends,"
IV,II,EMILIA,"To be call'd whore? would it not make one weep?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"It is my wretched fortune."
IV,II,IAGO,"Beshrew him for't!"
IV,II,IAGO,"How comes this trick upon him?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Nay, heaven doth know."
IV,II,EMILIA,"I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain,"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Some busy and insinuating rogue,"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Have not devised this slander; I'll be hang'd else."
IV,II,IAGO,"Fie, there is no such man; it is impossible."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"If any such there be, heaven pardon him!"
IV,II,EMILIA,"A halter pardon him! and hell gnaw his bones!"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Why should he call her whore? who keeps her company?"
IV,II,EMILIA,"What place? what time? what form? what likelihood?"
IV,II,EMILIA,"The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave,"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow."
IV,II,EMILIA,"O heaven, that such companions thou'ldst unfold,"
IV,II,EMILIA,"And put in every honest hand a whip"
IV,II,EMILIA,"To lash the rascals naked through the world"
IV,II,EMILIA,"Even from the east to the west!"
IV,II,IAGO,"Speak within door."
IV,II,EMILIA,"O, fie upon them! Some such squire he was"
IV,II,EMILIA,"That turn'd your wit the seamy side without,"
IV,II,EMILIA,"And made you to suspect me with the Moor."
IV,II,IAGO,"You are a fool; go to."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"O good Iago,"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"What shall I do to win my lord again?"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Good friend, go to him; for, by this light of heaven,"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"I know not how I lost him. Here I kneel:"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"If e'er my will did trespass 'gainst his love,"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense,"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Delighted them in any other form;"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Or that I do not yet, and ever did."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"And ever will--though he do shake me off"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"To beggarly divorcement--love him dearly,"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Comfort forswear me! Unkindness may do much;"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"And his unkindness may defeat my life,"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"But never taint my love. I cannot say 'whore:'"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"It does abhor me now I speak the word;"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"To do the act that might the addition earn"
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"Not the world's mass of vanity could make me."
IV,II,IAGO,"I pray you, be content; 'tis but his humour:"
IV,II,IAGO,"The business of the state does him offence,"
IV,II,IAGO,"And he does chide with you."
IV,II,DESDEMONA,"If 'twere no other--"
IV,II,IAGO,"'Tis but so, I warrant."
IV,II,IAGO,"Hark, how these instruments summon to supper!"
IV,II,IAGO,"The messengers of Venice stay the meat;"
IV,II,IAGO,"Go in, and weep not; all things shall be well."
IV,II,IAGO,"How now, Roderigo!"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"I do not find that thou dealest justly with me."
IV,II,IAGO,"What in the contrary?"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"Every day thou daffest me with some device, Iago;"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"and rather, as it seems to me now, keepest from me"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"all conveniency than suppliest me with the least"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"advantage of hope. I will indeed no longer endure"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"it, nor am I yet persuaded to put up in peace what"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"already I have foolishly suffered."
IV,II,IAGO,"Will you hear me, Roderigo?"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"'Faith, I have heard too much, for your words and"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"performances are no kin together."
IV,II,IAGO,"You charge me most unjustly."
IV,II,RODERIGO,"With nought but truth. I have wasted myself out of"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"my means. The jewels you have had from me to"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted a"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"votarist: you have told me she hath received them"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"respect and acquaintance, but I find none."
IV,II,IAGO,"Well; go to; very well."
IV,II,RODERIGO,"Very well! go to! I cannot go to, man; nor 'tis"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"not very well: nay, I think it is scurvy, and begin"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"to find myself fobbed in it."
IV,II,IAGO,"Very well."
IV,II,RODERIGO,"I tell you 'tis not very well. I will make myself"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"known to Desdemona: if she will return me my"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"jewels, I will give over my suit and repent my"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"unlawful solicitation; if not, assure yourself I"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"will seek satisfaction of you."
IV,II,IAGO,"You have said now."
IV,II,RODERIGO,"Ay, and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing."
IV,II,IAGO,"Why, now I see there's mettle in thee, and even from"
IV,II,IAGO,"this instant to build on thee a better opinion than"
IV,II,IAGO,"ever before. Give me thy hand, Roderigo: thou hast"
IV,II,IAGO,"taken against me a most just exception; but yet, I"
IV,II,IAGO,"protest, I have dealt most directly in thy affair."
IV,II,RODERIGO,"It hath not appeared."
IV,II,IAGO,"I grant indeed it hath not appeared, and your"
IV,II,IAGO,"suspicion is not without wit and judgment. But,"
IV,II,IAGO,"Roderigo, if thou hast that in thee indeed, which I"
IV,II,IAGO,"have greater reason to believe now than ever, I mean"
IV,II,IAGO,"purpose, courage and valour, this night show it: if"
IV,II,IAGO,"thou the next night following enjoy not Desdemona,"
IV,II,IAGO,"take me from this world with treachery and devise"
IV,II,IAGO,"engines for my life."
IV,II,RODERIGO,"Well, what is it? is it within reason and compass?"
IV,II,IAGO,"Sir, there is especial commission come from Venice"
IV,II,IAGO,"to depute Cassio in Othello's place."
IV,II,RODERIGO,"Is that true? why, then Othello and Desdemona"
IV,II,RODERIGO,"return again to Venice."
IV,II,IAGO,"O, no; he goes into Mauritania and takes away with"
IV,II,IAGO,"him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be"
IV,II,IAGO,"lingered here by some accident: wherein none can be"
IV,II,IAGO,"so determinate as the removing of Cassio."
IV,II,RODERIGO,"How do you mean, removing of him?"
IV,II,IAGO,"Why, by making him uncapable of Othello's place;"
IV,II,IAGO,"knocking out his brains."
IV,II,RODERIGO,"And that you would have me to do?"
IV,II,IAGO,"Ay, if you dare do yourself a profit and a right."
IV,II,IAGO,"He sups to-night with a harlotry, and thither will I"
IV,II,IAGO,"go to him: he knows not yet of his horrorable"
IV,II,IAGO,"fortune. If you will watch his going thence, which"
IV,II,IAGO,"I will fashion to fall out between twelve and one,"
IV,II,IAGO,"you may take him at your pleasure: I will be near"
IV,II,IAGO,"to second your attempt, and he shall fall between"
IV,II,IAGO,"us. Come, stand not amazed at it, but go along with"
IV,II,IAGO,"me; I will show you such a necessity in his death"
IV,II,IAGO,"that you shall think yourself bound to put it on"
IV,II,IAGO,"him. It is now high suppertime, and the night grows"
IV,II,IAGO,"to waste: about it."
IV,II,RODERIGO,"I will hear further reason for this."
IV,II,IAGO,"And you shall be satisfied."
IV,III,LODOVICO,"I do beseech you, sir, trouble yourself no further."
IV,III,OTHELLO,"O, pardon me: 'twill do me good to walk."
IV,III,LODOVICO,"Madam, good night; I humbly thank your ladyship."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Your honour is most welcome."
IV,III,OTHELLO,"Will you walk, sir?"
IV,III,OTHELLO,"O,--Desdemona,--"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"My lord?"
IV,III,OTHELLO,"Get you to bed on the instant; I will be returned"
IV,III,OTHELLO,"forthwith: dismiss your attendant there: look it be done."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"I will, my lord."
IV,III,EMILIA,"How goes it now? he looks gentler than he did."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"He says he will return incontinent:"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"He hath commanded me to go to bed,"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"And bade me to dismiss you."
IV,III,EMILIA,"Dismiss me!"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"It was his bidding: therefore, good Emilia,."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Give me my nightly wearing, and adieu:"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"We must not now displease him."
IV,III,EMILIA,"I would you had never seen him!"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"So would not I my love doth so approve him,"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"That even his stubbornness, his cheques, his frowns--"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Prithee, unpin me,--have grace and favour in them."
IV,III,EMILIA,"I have laid those sheets you bade me on the bed."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"All's one. Good faith, how foolish are our minds!"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"If I do die before thee prithee, shroud me"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"In one of those same sheets."
IV,III,EMILIA,"Come, come you talk."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"My mother had a maid call'd Barbara:"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"She was in love, and he she loved proved mad"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"And did forsake her: she had a song of 'willow;'"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune,"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"And she died singing it: that song to-night"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Will not go from my mind; I have much to do,"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"But to go hang my head all at one side,"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"And sing it like poor Barbara. Prithee, dispatch."
IV,III,EMILIA,"Shall I go fetch your night-gown?"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"No, unpin me here."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"This Lodovico is a proper man."
IV,III,EMILIA,"A very handsome man."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"He speaks well."
IV,III,EMILIA,"I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot"
IV,III,EMILIA,"to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Sing all a green willow:"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Sing willow, willow, willow:"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans;"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Sing willow, willow, willow;"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones;"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Lay by these:--"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Sing willow, willow, willow;"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Prithee, hie thee; he'll come anon:--"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Sing all a green willow must be my garland."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Let nobody blame him; his scorn I approve,-"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Nay, that's not next.--Hark! who is't that knocks?"
IV,III,EMILIA,"It's the wind."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"said he then?"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Sing willow, willow, willow:"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men!"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"So, get thee gone; good night Ate eyes do itch;"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Doth that bode weeping?"
IV,III,EMILIA,"'Tis neither here nor there."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"I have heard it said so. O, these men, these men!"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Dost thou in conscience think,--tell me, Emilia,--"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"That there be women do abuse their husbands"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"In such gross kind?"
IV,III,EMILIA,"There be some such, no question."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?"
IV,III,EMILIA,"Why, would not you?"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"No, by this heavenly light!"
IV,III,EMILIA,"Nor I neither by this heavenly light;"
IV,III,EMILIA,"I might do't as well i' the dark."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?"
IV,III,EMILIA,"The world's a huge thing: it is a great price."
IV,III,EMILIA,"For a small vice."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"In troth, I think thou wouldst not."
IV,III,EMILIA,"In troth, I think I should; and undo't when I had"
IV,III,EMILIA,"done. Marry, I would not do such a thing for a"
IV,III,EMILIA,"joint-ring, nor for measures of lawn, nor for"
IV,III,EMILIA,"gowns, petticoats, nor caps, nor any petty"
IV,III,EMILIA,"exhibition; but for the whole world,--why, who would"
IV,III,EMILIA,"not make her husband a cuckold to make him a"
IV,III,EMILIA,"monarch? I should venture purgatory for't."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"For the whole world."
IV,III,EMILIA,"Why the wrong is but a wrong i' the world: and"
IV,III,EMILIA,"having the world for your labour, tis a wrong in your"
IV,III,EMILIA,"own world, and you might quickly make it right."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"I do not think there is any such woman."
IV,III,EMILIA,"Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage as would"
IV,III,EMILIA,"store the world they played for."
IV,III,EMILIA,"But I do think it is their husbands' faults"
IV,III,EMILIA,"If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,"
IV,III,EMILIA,"And pour our treasures into foreign laps,"
IV,III,EMILIA,"Or else break out in peevish jealousies,"
IV,III,EMILIA,"Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us,"
IV,III,EMILIA,"Or scant our former having in despite;"
IV,III,EMILIA,"Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,"
IV,III,EMILIA,"Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know"
IV,III,EMILIA,"Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell"
IV,III,EMILIA,"And have their palates both for sweet and sour,"
IV,III,EMILIA,"As husbands have. What is it that they do"
IV,III,EMILIA,"When they change us for others? Is it sport?"
IV,III,EMILIA,"I think it is: and doth affection breed it?"
IV,III,EMILIA,"I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs?"
IV,III,EMILIA,"It is so too: and have not we affections,"
IV,III,EMILIA,"Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?"
IV,III,EMILIA,"Then let them use us well: else let them know,"
IV,III,EMILIA,"The ills we do, their ills instruct us so."
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Good night, good night: heaven me such uses send,"
IV,III,DESDEMONA,"Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend!"
V,I,IAGO,"Here, stand behind this bulk; straight will he come:"
V,I,IAGO,"Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home:"
V,I,IAGO,"Quick, quick; fear nothing; I'll be at thy elbow:"
V,I,IAGO,"It makes us, or it mars us; think on that,"
V,I,IAGO,"And fix most firm thy resolution."
V,I,RODERIGO,"Be near at hand; I may miscarry in't."
V,I,IAGO,"Here, at thy hand: be bold, and take thy stand."
V,I,RODERIGO,"I have no great devotion to the deed;"
V,I,RODERIGO,"And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons:"
V,I,RODERIGO,"'Tis but a man gone. Forth, my sword: he dies."
V,I,IAGO,"I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense,"
V,I,IAGO,"And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio,"
V,I,IAGO,"Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,"
V,I,IAGO,"Every way makes my gain: live Roderigo,"
V,I,IAGO,"He calls me to a restitution large"
V,I,IAGO,"Of gold and jewels that I bobb'd from him,"
V,I,IAGO,"As gifts to Desdemona;"
V,I,IAGO,"It must not be: if Cassio do remain,"
V,I,IAGO,"He hath a daily beauty in his life"
V,I,IAGO,"That makes me ugly; and, besides, the Moor"
V,I,IAGO,"May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril:"
V,I,IAGO,"No, he must die. But so: I hear him coming."
V,I,RODERIGO,"I know his gait, 'tis he.--Villain, thou diest!"
V,I,CASSIO,"That thrust had been mine enemy indeed,"
V,I,CASSIO,"But that my coat is better than thou know'st"
V,I,CASSIO,"I will make proof of thine."
V,I,RODERIGO,"O, I am slain!"
V,I,CASSIO,"I am maim'd for ever. Help, ho! murder! murder!"
V,I,OTHELLO,"The voice of Cassio: Iago keeps his word."
V,I,RODERIGO,"O, villain that I am!"
V,I,OTHELLO,"It is even so."
V,I,CASSIO,"O, help, ho! light! a surgeon!"
V,I,OTHELLO,"'Tis he:--O brave Iago, honest and just,"
V,I,OTHELLO,"That hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong!"
V,I,OTHELLO,"Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead,"
V,I,OTHELLO,"And your unblest fate hies: strumpet, I come."
V,I,OTHELLO,"Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted;"
V,I,OTHELLO,"Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be spotted."
V,I,CASSIO,"What, ho! no watch? no passage? murder! murder!"
V,I,GRATIANO,"'Tis some mischance; the cry is very direful."
V,I,CASSIO,"O, help!"
V,I,LODOVICO,"Hark!"
V,I,RODERIGO,"O wretched villain!"
V,I,LODOVICO,"Two or three groan: it is a heavy night:"
V,I,LODOVICO,"These may be counterfeits: let's think't unsafe"
V,I,LODOVICO,"To come in to the cry without more help."
V,I,RODERIGO,"Nobody come? then shall I bleed to death."
V,I,LODOVICO,"Hark!"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Here's one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons."
V,I,IAGO,"Who's there? whose noise is this that ones on murder?"
V,I,LODOVICO,"We do not know."
V,I,IAGO,"Did not you hear a cry?"
V,I,CASSIO,"Here, here! for heaven's sake, help me!"
V,I,IAGO,"What's the matter?"
V,I,GRATIANO,"This is Othello's ancient, as I take it."
V,I,LODOVICO,"The same indeed; a very valiant fellow."
V,I,IAGO,"What are you here that cry so grievously?"
V,I,CASSIO,"Iago? O, I am spoil'd, undone by villains!"
V,I,CASSIO,"Give me some help."
V,I,IAGO,"O me, lieutenant! what villains have done this?"
V,I,CASSIO,"I think that one of them is hereabout,"
V,I,CASSIO,"And cannot make away."
V,I,IAGO,"O treacherous villains!"
V,I,IAGO,"What are you there? come in, and give some help."
V,I,RODERIGO,"O, help me here!"
V,I,CASSIO,"That's one of them."
V,I,IAGO,"O murderous slave! O villain!"
V,I,RODERIGO,"O damn'd Iago! O inhuman dog!"
V,I,IAGO,"Kill men i' the dark!--Where be these bloody thieves?--"
V,I,IAGO,"How silent is this town!--Ho! murder! murder!--"
V,I,IAGO,"What may you be? are you of good or evil?"
V,I,LODOVICO,"As you shall prove us, praise us."
V,I,IAGO,"Signior Lodovico?"
V,I,LODOVICO,"He, sir."
V,I,IAGO,"I cry you mercy. Here's Cassio hurt by villains."
V,I,GRATIANO,"Cassio!"
V,I,IAGO,"How is't, brother!"
V,I,CASSIO,"My leg is cut in two."
V,I,IAGO,"Marry, heaven forbid!"
V,I,IAGO,"Light, gentlemen; I'll bind it with my shirt."
V,I,BIANCA,"What is the matter, ho? who is't that cried?"
V,I,IAGO,"Who is't that cried!"
V,I,BIANCA,"O my dear Cassio! my sweet Cassio! O Cassio,"
V,I,BIANCA,"Cassio, Cassio!"
V,I,IAGO,"O notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect"
V,I,IAGO,"Who they should be that have thus many led you?"
V,I,CASSIO,"No."
V,I,GRATIANO,"I am to find you thus: I have been to seek you."
V,I,IAGO,"Lend me a garter. So. O, for a chair,"
V,I,IAGO,"To bear him easily hence!"
V,I,BIANCA,"Alas, he faints! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!"
V,I,IAGO,"Gentlemen all, I do suspect this trash"
V,I,IAGO,"To be a party in this injury."
V,I,IAGO,"Patience awhile, good Cassio. Come, come;"
V,I,IAGO,"Lend me a light. Know we this face or no?"
V,I,IAGO,"Alas my friend and my dear countryman"
V,I,IAGO,"Roderigo! no:--yes, sure: O heaven! Roderigo."
V,I,GRATIANO,"What, of Venice?"
V,I,IAGO,"Even he, sir; did you know him?"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Know him! ay."
V,I,IAGO,"Signior Gratiano? I cry you gentle pardon;"
V,I,IAGO,"These bloody accidents must excuse my manners,"
V,I,IAGO,"That so neglected you."
V,I,GRATIANO,"I am glad to see you."
V,I,IAGO,"How do you, Cassio? O, a chair, a chair!"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Roderigo!"
V,I,IAGO,"He, he 'tis he."
V,I,IAGO,"O, that's well said; the chair!"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Some good man bear him carefully from hence;"
V,I,GRATIANO,"I'll fetch the general's surgeon."
V,I,GRATIANO,"For you, mistress,"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Save you your labour. He that lies slain"
V,I,GRATIANO,"here, Cassio,"
V,I,GRATIANO,"Was my dear friend: what malice was between you?"
V,I,CASSIO,"None in the world; nor do I know the man."
V,I,IAGO,"o' the air."
V,I,IAGO,"Stay you, good gentlemen. Look you pale, mistress?"
V,I,IAGO,"Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?"
V,I,IAGO,"Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon."
V,I,IAGO,"Behold her well; I pray you, look upon her:"
V,I,IAGO,"Do you see, gentlemen? nay, guiltiness will speak,"
V,I,IAGO,"Though tongues were out of use."
V,I,EMILIA,"'Las, what's the matter? what's the matter, husband?"
V,I,IAGO,"Cassio hath here been set on in the dark"
V,I,IAGO,"By Roderigo and fellows that are scaped:"
V,I,IAGO,"He's almost slain, and Roderigo dead."
V,I,EMILIA,"Alas, good gentleman! alas, good Cassio!"
V,I,IAGO,"This is the fruit of whoring. Prithee, Emilia,"
V,I,IAGO,"Go know of Cassio where he supp'd to-night."
V,I,IAGO,"What, do you shake at that?"
V,I,BIANCA,"He supp'd at my house; but I therefore shake not."
V,I,IAGO,"O, did he so? I charge you, go with me."
V,I,EMILIA,"Fie, fie upon thee, strumpet!"
V,I,BIANCA,"I am no strumpet; but of life as honest"
V,I,BIANCA,"As you that thus abuse me."
V,I,EMILIA,"As I! foh! fie upon thee!"
V,I,IAGO,"Kind gentlemen, let's go see poor Cassio dress'd."
V,I,IAGO,"Come, mistress, you must tell's another tale."
V,I,IAGO,"Emilia run you to the citadel,"
V,I,IAGO,"And tell my lord and lady what hath happ'd."
V,I,IAGO,"Will you go on? I pray."
V,I,IAGO,"This is the night"
V,I,IAGO,"That either makes me or fordoes me quite."
V,II,OTHELLO,"It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,--"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!--"
V,II,OTHELLO,"It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"And smooth as monumental alabaster."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Put out the light, and then put out the light:"
V,II,OTHELLO,"If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I can again thy former light restore,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I know not where is that Promethean heat"
V,II,OTHELLO,"That can thy light relume. When I have pluck'd the rose,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I cannot give it vital growth again."
V,II,OTHELLO,"It must needs wither: I'll smell it on the tree."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Ah balmy breath, that dost almost persuade"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Justice to break her sword! One more, one more."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"And love thee after. One more, and this the last:"
V,II,OTHELLO,"So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"But they are cruel tears: this sorrow's heavenly;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"It strikes where it doth love. She wakes."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Who's there? Othello?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Ay. Desdemona."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Will you come to bed, my lord?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Have you pray'd to-night, Desdemona?"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Ay, my lord."
V,II,OTHELLO,"If you bethink yourself of any crime"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Solicit for it straight."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Alas, my lord, what do you mean by that?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Well, do it, and be brief; I will walk by:"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I would not kill thy unprepared spirit;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"No; heaven forfend! I would not kill thy soul."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Talk you of killing?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Ay, I do."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Then heaven"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Have mercy on me!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Amen, with all my heart!"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"If you say so, I hope you will not kill me."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Hum!"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"And yet I fear you; for you are fatal then"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"When your eyes roll so: why I should fear I know not,"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Since guiltiness I know not; but yet I feel I fear."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Think on thy sins."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"They are loves I bear to you."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Ay, and for that thou diest."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"That death's unnatural that kills for loving."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Some bloody passion shakes your very frame:"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"They do not point on me."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Peace, and be still!"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"I will so. What's the matter?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"That handkerchief which I so loved and gave thee"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Thou gavest to Cassio."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"No, by my life and soul!"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Send for the man, and ask him."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Sweet soul, take heed,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Take heed of perjury; thou art on thy deathbed."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Ay, but not yet to die."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Yes, presently:"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"For to deny each article with oath"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception"
V,II,OTHELLO,"That I do groan withal. Thou art to die."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Then Lord have mercy on me!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I say, amen."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"And have you mercy too! I never did"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Offend you in my life; never loved Cassio"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"But with such general warranty of heaven"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"As I might love: I never gave him token."
V,II,OTHELLO,"By heaven, I saw my handkerchief in's hand."
V,II,OTHELLO,"O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"And makest me call what I intend to do"
V,II,OTHELLO,"A murder, which I thought a sacrifice:"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I saw the handkerchief."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"He found it then;"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"I never gave it him: send for him hither;"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Let him confess a truth."
V,II,OTHELLO,"He hath confess'd."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"What, my lord?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"That he hath used thee."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"How? unlawfully?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Ay."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"He will not say so."
V,II,OTHELLO,"No, his mouth is stopp'd;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Honest Iago hath ta'en order for't."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"O! my fear interprets: what, is he dead?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Had stomach for them all."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Alas! he is betray'd and I undone."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Out, strumpet! weep'st thou for him to my face?"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"O, banish me, my lord, but kill me not!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Down, strumpet!"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Kill me to-morrow: let me live to-night!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Nay, if you strive--"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"But half an hour!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Being done, there is no pause."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"But while I say one prayer!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"It is too late."
V,II,OTHELLO,"What noise is this? Not dead? not yet quite dead?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I that am cruel am yet merciful;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I would not have thee linger in thy pain: So, so."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Who's there?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Yes: 'tis Emilia. By and by. She's dead."
V,II,OTHELLO,"'Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio's death.--"
V,II,OTHELLO,"The noise was here. Ha! no more moving?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Still as the grave. Shall she come in? were't good?--"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I think she stirs again:--no. What's best to do?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"If she come in, she'll sure speak to my wife:"
V,II,OTHELLO,"My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife."
V,II,OTHELLO,"O insupportable! O heavy hour!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Should yawn at alteration."
V,II,EMILIA,"That I may speak with you, O, good my lord!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I had forgot thee: O, come in, Emilia;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Soft; by and by. Let me the curtains draw."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Where art thou?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"What's the matter with thee now?"
V,II,EMILIA,"O, my good lord, yonder's foul murders done!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"What, now?"
V,II,EMILIA,"But now, my lord."
V,II,OTHELLO,"It is the very error of the moon;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"And makes men mad."
V,II,EMILIA,"Cassio, my lord, hath kill'd a young Venetian"
V,II,EMILIA,"Call'd Roderigo."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Roderigo kill'd!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"And Cassio kill'd!"
V,II,EMILIA,"No, Cassio is not kill'd."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Not Cassio kill'd! then murder's out of tune,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"And sweet revenge grows harsh."
V,II,DESDEMONA,"O, falsely, falsely murder'd!"
V,II,EMILIA,"Alas, what cry is that?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"That! what?"
V,II,EMILIA,"Out, and alas! that was my lady's voice."
V,II,EMILIA,"Help! help, ho! help! O lady, speak again!"
V,II,EMILIA,"Sweet Desdemona! O sweet mistress, speak!"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"A guiltless death I die."
V,II,EMILIA,"O, who hath done this deed?"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Nobody; I myself. Farewell"
V,II,DESDEMONA,"Commend me to my kind lord: O, farewell!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Why, how should she be murder'd?"
V,II,EMILIA,"Alas, who knows?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"You heard her say herself, it was not I."
V,II,EMILIA,"She said so: I must needs report the truth."
V,II,OTHELLO,"She's, like a liar, gone to burning hell:"
V,II,OTHELLO,"'Twas I that kill'd her."
V,II,EMILIA,"O, the more angel she,"
V,II,EMILIA,"And you the blacker devil!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"She turn'd to folly, and she was a whore."
V,II,EMILIA,"Thou dost belie her, and thou art a devil."
V,II,OTHELLO,"She was false as water."
V,II,EMILIA,"Thou art rash as fire, to say"
V,II,EMILIA,"That she was false: O, she was heavenly true!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Cassio did top her; ask thy husband else."
V,II,OTHELLO,"O, I were damn'd beneath all depth in hell,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"But that I did proceed upon just grounds"
V,II,OTHELLO,"To this extremity. Thy husband knew it all."
V,II,EMILIA,"My husband!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Thy husband."
V,II,EMILIA,"That she was false to wedlock?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Ay, with Cassio. Nay, had she been true,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"If heaven would make me such another world"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Of one entire and Perfect chrysolite,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I'ld not have sold her for it."
V,II,EMILIA,"My husband!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Ay, 'twas he that told me first:"
V,II,OTHELLO,"An honest man he is, and hates the slime"
V,II,OTHELLO,"That sticks on filthy deeds."
V,II,EMILIA,"My husband!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"What needs this iteration, woman? I say thy husband."
V,II,EMILIA,"O mistress, villany hath made mocks with love,"
V,II,EMILIA,"My husband say that she was false!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"He, woman;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I say thy husband: dost understand the word?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"My friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago."
V,II,EMILIA,"If he say so, may his pernicious soul"
V,II,EMILIA,"Rot half a grain a day! he lies to the heart:"
V,II,EMILIA,"She was too fond of her most filthy bargain."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Ha!"
V,II,EMILIA,"Do thy worst:"
V,II,EMILIA,"This deed of thine is no more worthy heaven"
V,II,EMILIA,"Than thou wast worthy her."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Peace, you were best."
V,II,EMILIA,"Thou hast not half that power to do me harm"
V,II,EMILIA,"As I have to be hurt. O gull! O dolt!"
V,II,EMILIA,"As ignorant as dirt! thou hast done a deed--"
V,II,EMILIA,"I care not for thy sword; I'll make thee known,"
V,II,EMILIA,"Though I lost twenty lives.--Help! help, ho! help!"
V,II,EMILIA,"The Moor hath kill'd my mistress! Murder! murder!"
V,II,MONTANO,"What is the matter? How now, general!"
V,II,EMILIA,"O, are you come, Iago? you have done well,"
V,II,EMILIA,"That men must lay their murders on your neck."
V,II,GRATIANO,"What is the matter?"
V,II,EMILIA,"Disprove this villain, if thou be'st a man:"
V,II,EMILIA,"He says thou told'st him that his wife was false:"
V,II,EMILIA,"I know thou didst not, thou'rt not such a villain:"
V,II,EMILIA,"Speak, for my heart is full."
V,II,IAGO,"I told him what I thought, and told no more"
V,II,IAGO,"Than what he found himself was apt and true."
V,II,EMILIA,"But did you ever tell him she was false?"
V,II,IAGO,"I did."
V,II,EMILIA,"You told a lie, an odious, damned lie;"
V,II,EMILIA,"Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie."
V,II,EMILIA,"She false with Cassio!--did you say with Cassio?"
V,II,IAGO,"With Cassio, mistress. Go to, charm your tongue."
V,II,EMILIA,"I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak:"
V,II,EMILIA,"My mistress here lies murder'd in her bed,--"
V,II,All,"O heavens forfend!"
V,II,EMILIA,"And your reports have set the murder on."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Nay, stare not, masters: it is true, indeed."
V,II,GRATIANO,"'Tis a strange truth."
V,II,MONTANO,"O monstrous act!"
V,II,EMILIA,"Villany, villany, villany!"
V,II,EMILIA,"I think upon't, I think: I smell't: O villany!--"
V,II,EMILIA,"I thought so then:--I'll kill myself for grief:--"
V,II,EMILIA,"O villany, villany!"
V,II,IAGO,"What, are you mad? I charge you, get you home."
V,II,EMILIA,"Good gentlemen, let me have leave to speak:"
V,II,EMILIA,"'Tis proper I obey him, but not now."
V,II,EMILIA,"Perchance, Iago, I will ne'er go home."
V,II,OTHELLO,"O! O! O!"
V,II,EMILIA,"Nay, lay thee down and roar;"
V,II,EMILIA,"For thou hast kill'd the sweetest innocent"
V,II,EMILIA,"That e'er did lift up eye."
V,II,OTHELLO,"I scarce did know you, uncle: there lies your niece,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Whose breath, indeed, these hands have newly stopp'd:"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I know this act shows horrible and grim."
V,II,GRATIANO,"Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead:"
V,II,GRATIANO,"Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief"
V,II,GRATIANO,"Shore his old thread in twain: did he live now,"
V,II,GRATIANO,"This sight would make him do a desperate turn,"
V,II,GRATIANO,"Yea, curse his better angel from his side,"
V,II,GRATIANO,"And fall to reprobation."
V,II,OTHELLO,"'Tis pitiful; but yet Iago knows"
V,II,OTHELLO,"That she with Cassio hath the act of shame"
V,II,OTHELLO,"A thousand times committed; Cassio confess'd it:"
V,II,OTHELLO,"And she did gratify his amorous works"
V,II,OTHELLO,"With that recognizance and pledge of love"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Which I first gave her; I saw it in his hand:"
V,II,OTHELLO,"It was a handkerchief, an antique token"
V,II,OTHELLO,"My father gave my mother."
V,II,EMILIA,"O heaven! O heavenly powers!"
V,II,IAGO,"Come, hold your peace."
V,II,EMILIA,"'Twill out, 'twill out: I peace!"
V,II,EMILIA,"No, I will speak as liberal as the north:"
V,II,EMILIA,"Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,"
V,II,EMILIA,"All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak."
V,II,IAGO,"Be wise, and get you home."
V,II,EMILIA,"I will not."
V,II,GRATIANO,"Fie!"
V,II,GRATIANO,"Your sword upon a woman?"
V,II,EMILIA,"O thou dull Moor! that handkerchief thou speak'st of"
V,II,EMILIA,"I found by fortune and did give my husband;"
V,II,EMILIA,"For often, with a solemn earnestness,"
V,II,EMILIA,"More than indeed belong'd to such a trifle,"
V,II,EMILIA,"He begg'd of me to steal it."
V,II,IAGO,"Villanous whore!"
V,II,EMILIA,"She give it Cassio! no, alas! I found it,"
V,II,EMILIA,"And I did give't my husband."
V,II,IAGO,"Filth, thou liest!"
V,II,EMILIA,"By heaven, I do not, I do not, gentlemen."
V,II,EMILIA,"O murderous coxcomb! what should such a fool"
V,II,EMILIA,"Do with so good a woman?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Are there no stones in heaven"
V,II,OTHELLO,"But what serve for the thunder?--Precious villain!"
V,II,GRATIANO,"The woman falls; sure, he hath kill'd his wife."
V,II,EMILIA,"Ay, ay: O, lay me by my mistress' side."
V,II,GRATIANO,"He's gone, but his wife's kill'd."
V,II,MONTANO,"'Tis a notorious villain. Take you this weapon,"
V,II,MONTANO,"Which I have here recover'd from the Moor:"
V,II,MONTANO,"Come, guard the door without; let him not pass,"
V,II,MONTANO,"But kill him rather. I'll after that same villain,"
V,II,MONTANO,"For 'tis a damned slave."
V,II,OTHELLO,"I am not valiant neither,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"But ever puny whipster gets my sword:"
V,II,OTHELLO,"But why should honour outlive honesty?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Let it go all."
V,II,EMILIA,"What did thy song bode, lady?"
V,II,EMILIA,"Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan."
V,II,EMILIA,"And die in music."
V,II,EMILIA,"Willow, willow, willow,--"
V,II,EMILIA,"Moor, she was chaste; she loved thee, cruel Moor;"
V,II,EMILIA,"So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true;"
V,II,EMILIA,"So speaking as I think, I die, I die."
V,II,OTHELLO,"I have another weapon in this chamber;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper:--"
V,II,OTHELLO,"O, here it is. Uncle, I must come forth."
V,II,GRATIANO,"Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Look in upon me then and speak with me,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Or, naked as I am, I will assault thee."
V,II,GRATIANO,"What is the matter?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Behold, I have a weapon;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"A better never did itself sustain"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Upon a soldier's thigh: I have seen the day,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"That, with this little arm and this good sword,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I have made my way through more impediments"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Than twenty times your stop: but, O vain boast!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Who can control his fate? 'tis not so now."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Be not afraid, though you do see me weapon'd;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"And very sea-mark of my utmost sail."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Do you go back dismay'd? 'tis a lost fear;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Man but a rush against Othello's breast,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"And he retires. Where should Othello go?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd wench!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Even like thy chastity. O cursed slave!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Whip me, ye devils,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"From the possession of this heavenly sight!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"O Desdemona! Desdemona! dead!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Oh! Oh! Oh!"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Where is this rash and most unfortunate man?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"That's he that was Othello: here I am."
V,II,LODOVICO,"Where is that viper? bring the villain forth."
V,II,OTHELLO,"I look down towards his feet; but that's a fable."
V,II,OTHELLO,"If that thou best a devil, I cannot kill thee."
V,II,LODOVICO,"Wrench his sword from him."
V,II,IAGO,"I bleed, sir; but not kill'd."
V,II,OTHELLO,"I am not sorry neither: I'ld have thee live;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"For, in my sense, 'tis happiness to die."
V,II,LODOVICO,"O thou Othello, thou wert once so good,"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Fall'n in the practise of a damned slave,"
V,II,LODOVICO,"What shall be said to thee?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Why, any thing:"
V,II,OTHELLO,"An honourable murderer, if you will;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"For nought I did in hate, but all in honour."
V,II,LODOVICO,"This wretch hath part confess'd his villany:"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Did you and he consent in Cassio's death?"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Ay."
V,II,CASSIO,"Dear general, I never gave you cause."
V,II,OTHELLO,"I do believe it, and I ask your pardon."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body?"
V,II,IAGO,"Demand me nothing: what you know, you know:"
V,II,IAGO,"From this time forth I never will speak word."
V,II,LODOVICO,"What, not to pray?"
V,II,GRATIANO,"Torments will ope your lips."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Well, thou dost best."
V,II,LODOVICO,"Sir, you shall understand what hath befall'n,"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Which, as I think, you know not. Here is a letter"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo;"
V,II,LODOVICO,"And here another: the one of them imports"
V,II,LODOVICO,"The death of Cassio to be undertook"
V,II,LODOVICO,"By Roderigo."
V,II,OTHELLO,"O villain!"
V,II,CASSIO,"Most heathenish and most gross!"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Now here's another discontented paper,"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems,"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain;"
V,II,LODOVICO,"But that belike Iago in the interim"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Came in and satisfied him."
V,II,OTHELLO,"O the pernicious caitiff!"
V,II,OTHELLO,"How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief"
V,II,OTHELLO,"That was my wife's?"
V,II,CASSIO,"I found it in my chamber:"
V,II,CASSIO,"And he himself confess'd but even now"
V,II,CASSIO,"That there he dropp'd it for a special purpose"
V,II,CASSIO,"Which wrought to his desire."
V,II,OTHELLO,"O fool! fool! fool!"
V,II,CASSIO,"There is besides in Roderigo's letter,"
V,II,CASSIO,"How he upbraids Iago, that he made him"
V,II,CASSIO,"Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came"
V,II,CASSIO,"That I was cast: and even but now he spake,"
V,II,CASSIO,"After long seeming dead, Iago hurt him,"
V,II,CASSIO,"Iago set him on."
V,II,LODOVICO,"You must forsake this room, and go with us:"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Your power and your command is taken off,"
V,II,LODOVICO,"And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave,"
V,II,LODOVICO,"If there be any cunning cruelty"
V,II,LODOVICO,"That can torment him much and hold him long,"
V,II,LODOVICO,"It shall be his. You shall close prisoner rest,"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Till that the nature of your fault be known"
V,II,LODOVICO,"To the Venetian state. Come, bring him away."
V,II,OTHELLO,"Soft you; a word or two before you go."
V,II,OTHELLO,"I have done the state some service, and they know't."
V,II,OTHELLO,"No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Of one that loved not wisely but too well;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Albeit unused to the melting mood,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Their medicinal gum. Set you down this;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"And say besides, that in Aleppo once,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"I took by the throat the circumcised dog,"
V,II,OTHELLO,"And smote him, thus."
V,II,LODOVICO,"O bloody period!"
V,II,GRATIANO,"All that's spoke is marr'd."
V,II,OTHELLO,"I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this;"
V,II,OTHELLO,"Killing myself, to die upon a kiss."
V,II,CASSIO,"This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon;"
V,II,CASSIO,"For he was great of heart."
V,II,LODOVICO,"More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea!"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Look on the tragic loading of this bed;"
V,II,LODOVICO,"This is thy work: the object poisons sight;"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Let it be hid. Gratiano, keep the house,"
V,II,LODOVICO,"And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,"
V,II,LODOVICO,"For they succeed on you. To you, lord governor,"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Remains the censure of this hellish villain;"
V,II,LODOVICO,"The time, the place, the torture: O, enforce it!"
V,II,LODOVICO,"Myself will straight aboard: and to the state"
V,II,LODOVICO,"This heavy act with heavy heart relate."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"The danger of the task you undertake."
I,I,PERICLES,"I have, Antiochus, and, with a soul"
I,I,PERICLES,"Embolden'd with the glory of her praise,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Think death no hazard in this enterprise."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"For the embracements even of Jove himself;"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"At whose conception, till Lucina reign'd,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"The senate-house of planets all did sit,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"To knit in her their best perfections."
I,I,PERICLES,"See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king"
I,I,PERICLES,"Of every virtue gives renown to men!"
I,I,PERICLES,"Her face the book of praises, where is read"
I,I,PERICLES,"Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence"
I,I,PERICLES,"Sorrow were ever razed and testy wrath"
I,I,PERICLES,"Could never be her mild companion."
I,I,PERICLES,"You gods that made me man, and sway in love,"
I,I,PERICLES,"That have inflamed desire in my breast"
I,I,PERICLES,"To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Or die in the adventure, be my helps,"
I,I,PERICLES,"As I am son and servant to your will,"
I,I,PERICLES,"To compass such a boundless happiness!"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Prince Pericles,--"
I,I,PERICLES,"That would be son to great Antiochus."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touch'd;"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"For death-like dragons here affright thee hard:"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Her face, like heaven, enticeth thee to view"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Her countless glory, which desert must gain;"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"And which, without desert, because thine eye"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Presumes to reach, all thy whole heap must die."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Yon sometimes famous princes, like thyself,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Drawn by report, adventurous by desire,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Tell thee, with speechless tongues and semblance pale,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"That without covering, save yon field of stars,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Here they stand martyrs, slain in Cupid's wars;"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"For going on death's net, whom none resist."
I,I,PERICLES,"Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath taught"
I,I,PERICLES,"My frail mortality to know itself,"
I,I,PERICLES,"And by those fearful objects to prepare"
I,I,PERICLES,"This body, like to them, to what I must;"
I,I,PERICLES,"For death remember'd should be like a mirror,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error."
I,I,PERICLES,"I'll make my will then, and, as sick men do"
I,I,PERICLES,"Who know the world, see heaven, but, feeling woe,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did;"
I,I,PERICLES,"So I bequeath a happy peace to you"
I,I,PERICLES,"And all good men, as every prince should do;"
I,I,PERICLES,"My riches to the earth from whence they came;"
I,I,PERICLES,"But my unspotted fire of love to you."
I,I,PERICLES,"Thus ready for the way of life or death,"
I,I,PERICLES,"I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Scorning advice, read the conclusion then:"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Which read and not expounded, 'tis decreed,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"As these before thee thou thyself shalt bleed."
I,I,Daughter,"Of all say'd yet, mayst thou prove prosperous!"
I,I,Daughter,"Of all say'd yet, I wish thee happiness!"
I,I,PERICLES,"Like a bold champion, I assume the lists,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Nor ask advice of any other thought"
I,I,PERICLES,"But faithfulness and courage."
I,I,PERICLES,"I am no viper, yet I feed"
I,I,PERICLES,"On mother's flesh which did me breed."
I,I,PERICLES,"I sought a husband, in which labour"
I,I,PERICLES,"I found that kindness in a father:"
I,I,PERICLES,"He's father, son, and husband mild;"
I,I,PERICLES,"I mother, wife, and yet his child."
I,I,PERICLES,"How they may be, and yet in two,"
I,I,PERICLES,"As you will live, resolve it you."
I,I,PERICLES,"Sharp physic is the last: but, O you powers"
I,I,PERICLES,"That give heaven countless eyes to view men's acts,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Why cloud they not their sights perpetually,"
I,I,PERICLES,"If this be true, which makes me pale to read it?"
I,I,PERICLES,"Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Were not this glorious casket stored with ill:"
I,I,PERICLES,"But I must tell you, now my thoughts revolt"
I,I,PERICLES,"For he's no man on whom perfections wait"
I,I,PERICLES,"That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate."
I,I,PERICLES,"You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings;"
I,I,PERICLES,"Who, finger'd to make man his lawful music,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Would draw heaven down, and all the gods, to hearken:"
I,I,PERICLES,"But being play'd upon before your time,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime."
I,I,PERICLES,"Good sooth, I care not for you."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Prince Pericles, touch not, upon thy life."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"For that's an article within our law,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"As dangerous as the rest. Your time's expired:"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Either expound now, or receive your sentence."
I,I,PERICLES,"Great king,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Few love to hear the sins they love to act;"
I,I,PERICLES,"'Twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it."
I,I,PERICLES,"Who has a book of all that monarchs do,"
I,I,PERICLES,"He's more secure to keep it shut than shown:"
I,I,PERICLES,"For vice repeated is like the wandering wind."
I,I,PERICLES,"Blows dust in other's eyes, to spread itself;"
I,I,PERICLES,"And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,"
I,I,PERICLES,"The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear:"
I,I,PERICLES,"To stop the air would hurt them. The blind mole casts"
I,I,PERICLES,"Copp'd hills towards heaven, to tell the earth is throng'd"
I,I,PERICLES,"By man's oppression; and the poor worm doth die for't."
I,I,PERICLES,"Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's"
I,I,PERICLES,"their will;"
I,I,PERICLES,"And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill?"
I,I,PERICLES,"It is enough you know; and it is fit,"
I,I,PERICLES,"What being more known grows worse, to smother it."
I,I,PERICLES,"All love the womb that their first being bred,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Then give my tongue like leave to love my head."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"the meaning:"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"But I will gloze with him.--Young prince of Tyre,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Though by the tenor of our strict edict,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Your exposition misinterpreting,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"We might proceed to cancel of your days;"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise:"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Forty days longer we do respite you;"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"If by which time our secret be undone,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"This mercy shows we'll joy in such a son:"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"And until then your entertain shall be"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"As doth befit our honour and your worth."
I,I,PERICLES,"How courtesy would seem to cover sin,"
I,I,PERICLES,"When what is done is like an hypocrite,"
I,I,PERICLES,"The which is good in nothing but in sight!"
I,I,PERICLES,"If it be true that I interpret false,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Then were it certain you were not so bad"
I,I,PERICLES,"As with foul incest to abuse your soul;"
I,I,PERICLES,"Where now you're both a father and a son,"
I,I,PERICLES,"By your untimely claspings with your child,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Which pleasure fits an husband, not a father;"
I,I,PERICLES,"And she an eater of her mother's flesh,"
I,I,PERICLES,"By the defiling of her parent's bed;"
I,I,PERICLES,"And both like serpents are, who though they feed"
I,I,PERICLES,"On sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed."
I,I,PERICLES,"Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men"
I,I,PERICLES,"Blush not in actions blacker than the night,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Will shun no course to keep them from the light."
I,I,PERICLES,"One sin, I know, another doth provoke;"
I,I,PERICLES,"Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke:"
I,I,PERICLES,"Poison and treason are the hands of sin,"
I,I,PERICLES,"Ay, and the targets, to put off the shame:"
I,I,PERICLES,"Then, lest my lie be cropp'd to keep you clear,"
I,I,PERICLES,"By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"He hath found the meaning, for which we mean"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"To have his head."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"He must not live to trumpet forth my infamy,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"In such a loathed manner;"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"And therefore instantly this prince must die:"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"For by his fall my honour must keep high."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Who attends us there?"
I,I,THALIARD,"Doth your highness call?"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Thaliard,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"You are of our chamber, and our mind partakes"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Her private actions to your secrecy;"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"And for your faithfulness we will advance you."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Thaliard, behold, here's poison, and here's gold;"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"We hate the prince of Tyre, and thou must kill him:"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"It fits thee not to ask the reason why,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Because we bid it. Say, is it done?"
I,I,THALIARD,"My lord,"
I,I,THALIARD,"'Tis done."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Enough."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Let your breath cool yourself, telling your haste."
I,I,Messenger,"My lord, prince Pericles is fled."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"As thou"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Wilt live, fly after: and like an arrow shot"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"From a well-experienced archer hits the mark"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"His eye doth level at, so thou ne'er return"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Unless thou say 'Prince Pericles is dead.'"
I,I,THALIARD,"My lord,"
I,I,THALIARD,"If I can get him within my pistol's length,"
I,I,THALIARD,"I'll make him sure enough: so, farewell to your highness."
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Thaliard, adieu!"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"Till Pericles be dead,"
I,I,ANTIOCHUS,"My heart can lend no succor to my head."
I,II,PERICLES,"this change of thoughts,"
I,II,PERICLES,"The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Be my so used a guest as not an hour,"
I,II,PERICLES,"In the day's glorious walk, or peaceful night,"
I,II,PERICLES,"The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me quiet?"
I,II,PERICLES,"Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine eyes shun them,"
I,II,PERICLES,"And danger, which I fear'd, is at Antioch,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Whose aim seems far too short to hit me here:"
I,II,PERICLES,"Yet neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Nor yet the other's distance comfort me."
I,II,PERICLES,"Then it is thus: the passions of the mind,"
I,II,PERICLES,"That have their first conception by mis-dread,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Have after-nourishment and life by care;"
I,II,PERICLES,"And what was first but fear what might be done,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Grows elder now and cares it be not done."
I,II,PERICLES,"And so with me: the great Antiochus,"
I,II,PERICLES,"'Gainst whom I am too little to contend,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Since he's so great can make his will his act,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Will think me speaking, though I swear to silence;"
I,II,PERICLES,"Nor boots it me to say I honour him."
I,II,PERICLES,"If he suspect I may dishonour him:"
I,II,PERICLES,"And what may make him blush in being known,"
I,II,PERICLES,"He'll stop the course by which it might be known;"
I,II,PERICLES,"With hostile forces he'll o'erspread the land,"
I,II,PERICLES,"And with the ostent of war will look so huge,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Amazement shall drive courage from the state;"
I,II,PERICLES,"Our men be vanquish'd ere they do resist,"
I,II,PERICLES,"And subjects punish'd that ne'er thought offence:"
I,II,PERICLES,"Which care of them, not pity of myself,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Who am no more but as the tops of trees,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Makes both my body pine and soul to languish,"
I,II,PERICLES,"And punish that before that he would punish."
I,II,First Lord,"Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast!"
I,II,Second Lord,"And keep your mind, till you return to us,"
I,II,Second Lord,"Peaceful and comfortable!"
I,II,HELICANUS,"Peace, peace, and give experience tongue."
I,II,HELICANUS,"They do abuse the king that flatter him:"
I,II,HELICANUS,"For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;"
I,II,HELICANUS,"The thing which is flatter'd, but a spark,"
I,II,HELICANUS,"To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;"
I,II,HELICANUS,"Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,"
I,II,HELICANUS,"Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err."
I,II,HELICANUS,"When Signior Sooth here does proclaim a peace,"
I,II,HELICANUS,"He flatters you, makes war upon your life."
I,II,HELICANUS,"Prince, pardon me, or strike me, if you please;"
I,II,HELICANUS,"I cannot be much lower than my knees."
I,II,PERICLES,"All leave us else; but let your cares o'erlook"
I,II,PERICLES,"What shipping and what lading's in our haven,"
I,II,PERICLES,"And then return to us."
I,II,PERICLES,"Helicanus, thou"
I,II,PERICLES,"Hast moved us: what seest thou in our looks?"
I,II,HELICANUS,"An angry brow, dread lord."
I,II,PERICLES,"If there be such a dart in princes' frowns,"
I,II,PERICLES,"How durst thy tongue move anger to our face?"
I,II,HELICANUS,"How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence"
I,II,HELICANUS,"They have their nourishment?"
I,II,PERICLES,"Thou know'st I have power"
I,II,PERICLES,"To take thy life from thee."
I,II,HELICANUS,"I have ground the axe myself;"
I,II,HELICANUS,"Do you but strike the blow."
I,II,PERICLES,"Rise, prithee, rise."
I,II,PERICLES,"Sit down: thou art no flatterer:"
I,II,PERICLES,"I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid"
I,II,PERICLES,"That kings should let their ears hear their"
I,II,PERICLES,"faults hid!"
I,II,PERICLES,"Fit counsellor and servant for a prince,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Who by thy wisdom makest a prince thy servant,"
I,II,PERICLES,"What wouldst thou have me do?"
I,II,HELICANUS,"To bear with patience"
I,II,HELICANUS,"Such griefs as you yourself do lay upon yourself."
I,II,PERICLES,"Thou speak'st like a physician, Helicanus,"
I,II,PERICLES,"That minister'st a potion unto me"
I,II,PERICLES,"That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself."
I,II,PERICLES,"Attend me, then: I went to Antioch,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Where as thou know'st, against the face of death,"
I,II,PERICLES,"I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty."
I,II,PERICLES,"From whence an issue I might propagate,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Are arms to princes, and bring joys to subjects."
I,II,PERICLES,"Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder;"
I,II,PERICLES,"The rest--hark in thine ear--as black as incest:"
I,II,PERICLES,"Which by my knowledge found, the sinful father"
I,II,PERICLES,"Seem'd not to strike, but smooth: but thou"
I,II,PERICLES,"know'st this,"
I,II,PERICLES,"'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss."
I,II,PERICLES,"Such fear so grew in me, I hither fled,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Under the covering of a careful night,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Who seem'd my good protector; and, being here,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Bethought me what was past, what might succeed."
I,II,PERICLES,"I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears"
I,II,PERICLES,"Decrease not, but grow faster than the years:"
I,II,PERICLES,"And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth,"
I,II,PERICLES,"That I should open to the listening air"
I,II,PERICLES,"How many worthy princes' bloods were shed,"
I,II,PERICLES,"To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,"
I,II,PERICLES,"To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms,"
I,II,PERICLES,"And make pretence of wrong that I have done him:"
I,II,PERICLES,"When all, for mine, if I may call offence,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence:"
I,II,PERICLES,"Which love to all, of which thyself art one,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Who now reprovest me for it,--"
I,II,HELICANUS,"Alas, sir!"
I,II,PERICLES,"Drew sleep out of mine eyes, blood from my cheeks,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Musings into my mind, with thousand doubts"
I,II,PERICLES,"How I might stop this tempest ere it came;"
I,II,PERICLES,"And finding little comfort to relieve them,"
I,II,PERICLES,"I thought it princely charity to grieve them."
I,II,HELICANUS,"Well, my lord, since you have given me leave to speak."
I,II,HELICANUS,"Freely will I speak. Antiochus you fear,"
I,II,HELICANUS,"And justly too, I think, you fear the tyrant,"
I,II,HELICANUS,"Who either by public war or private treason"
I,II,HELICANUS,"Will take away your life."
I,II,HELICANUS,"Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while,"
I,II,HELICANUS,"Till that his rage and anger be forgot,"
I,II,HELICANUS,"Or till the Destinies do cut his thread of life."
I,II,HELICANUS,"Your rule direct to any; if to me."
I,II,HELICANUS,"Day serves not light more faithful than I'll be."
I,II,PERICLES,"I do not doubt thy faith;"
I,II,PERICLES,"But should he wrong my liberties in my absence?"
I,II,HELICANUS,"We'll mingle our bloods together in the earth,"
I,II,HELICANUS,"From whence we had our being and our birth."
I,II,PERICLES,"Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tarsus"
I,II,PERICLES,"Intend my travel, where I'll hear from thee;"
I,II,PERICLES,"And by whose letters I'll dispose myself."
I,II,PERICLES,"The care I had and have of subjects' good"
I,II,PERICLES,"On thee I lay whose wisdom's strength can bear it."
I,II,PERICLES,"I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath:"
I,II,PERICLES,"Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both:"
I,II,PERICLES,"But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe,"
I,II,PERICLES,"That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince,"
I,II,PERICLES,"Thou show'dst a subject's shine, I a true prince."
I,III,THALIARD,"So, this is Tyre, and this the court. Here must I"
I,III,THALIARD,"kill King Pericles; and if I do it not, I am sure to"
I,III,THALIARD,"be hanged at home: 'tis dangerous. Well, I perceive"
I,III,THALIARD,"he was a wise fellow, and had good discretion, that,"
I,III,THALIARD,"being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired"
I,III,THALIARD,"he might know none of his secrets: now do I see he"
I,III,THALIARD,"had some reason for't; for if a king bid a man be a"
I,III,THALIARD,"villain, he's bound by the indenture of his oath to"
I,III,THALIARD,"be one! Hush! here come the lords of Tyre."
I,III,HELICANUS,"You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre,"
I,III,HELICANUS,"Further to question me of your king's departure:"
I,III,HELICANUS,"His seal'd commission, left in trust with me,"
I,III,HELICANUS,"Doth speak sufficiently he's gone to travel."
I,III,HELICANUS,"If further yet you will be satisfied,"
I,III,HELICANUS,"Why, as it were unlicensed of your loves,"
I,III,HELICANUS,"He would depart, I'll give some light unto you."
I,III,HELICANUS,"Being at Antioch--"
I,III,HELICANUS,"Royal Antiochus--on what cause I know not--"
I,III,HELICANUS,"Took some displeasure at him; at least he judged so:"
I,III,HELICANUS,"And doubting lest that he had err'd or sinn'd,"
I,III,HELICANUS,"To show his sorrow, he'ld correct himself;"
I,III,HELICANUS,"So puts himself unto the shipman's toil,"
I,III,HELICANUS,"With whom each minute threatens life or death."
I,III,THALIARD,"I shall not be hang'd now, although I would;"
I,III,THALIARD,"But since he's gone, the king's seas must please:"
I,III,THALIARD,"He 'scaped the land, to perish at the sea."
I,III,THALIARD,"I'll present myself. Peace to the lords of Tyre!"
I,III,HELICANUS,"Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome."
I,III,THALIARD,"From him I come"
I,III,THALIARD,"With message unto princely Pericles;"
I,III,THALIARD,"But since my landing I have understood"
I,III,THALIARD,"Your lord has betook himself to unknown travels,"
I,III,THALIARD,"My message must return from whence it came."
I,III,HELICANUS,"We have no reason to desire it,"
I,III,HELICANUS,"Commended to our master, not to us:"
I,III,HELICANUS,"Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire,"
I,III,HELICANUS,"As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre."
I,IV,CLEON,"My Dionyza, shall we rest us here,"
I,IV,CLEON,"And by relating tales of others' griefs,"
I,IV,CLEON,"See if 'twill teach us to forget our own?"
I,IV,DIONYZA,"That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it;"
I,IV,DIONYZA,"For who digs hills because they do aspire"
I,IV,DIONYZA,"Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher."
I,IV,DIONYZA,"O my distressed lord, even such our griefs are;"
I,IV,DIONYZA,"Here they're but felt, and seen with mischief's eyes,"
I,IV,DIONYZA,"But like to groves, being topp'd, they higher rise."
I,IV,CLEON,"O Dionyza,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Who wanteth food, and will not say he wants it,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Or can conceal his hunger till he famish?"
I,IV,CLEON,"Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep"
I,IV,CLEON,"Our woes into the air; our eyes do weep,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Till tongues fetch breath that may proclaim them louder;"
I,IV,CLEON,"That, if heaven slumber while their creatures want,"
I,IV,CLEON,"They may awake their helps to comfort them."
I,IV,CLEON,"I'll then discourse our woes, felt several years,"
I,IV,CLEON,"And wanting breath to speak help me with tears."
I,IV,DIONYZA,"I'll do my best, sir."
I,IV,CLEON,"This Tarsus, o'er which I have the government,"
I,IV,CLEON,"A city on whom plenty held full hand,"
I,IV,CLEON,"For riches strew'd herself even in the streets;"
I,IV,CLEON,"Whose towers bore heads so high they kiss'd the clouds,"
I,IV,CLEON,"And strangers ne'er beheld but wondered at;"
I,IV,CLEON,"Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn'd,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Like one another's glass to trim them by:"
I,IV,CLEON,"Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight,"
I,IV,CLEON,"And not so much to feed on as delight;"
I,IV,CLEON,"All poverty was scorn'd, and pride so great,"
I,IV,CLEON,"The name of help grew odious to repeat."
I,IV,DIONYZA,"O, 'tis too true."
I,IV,CLEON,"But see what heaven can do! By this our change,"
I,IV,CLEON,"These mouths, who but of late, earth, sea, and air,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Were all too little to content and please,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Although they gave their creatures in abundance,"
I,IV,CLEON,"As houses are defiled for want of use,"
I,IV,CLEON,"They are now starved for want of exercise:"
I,IV,CLEON,"Those palates who, not yet two summers younger,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Must have inventions to delight the taste,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Would now be glad of bread, and beg for it:"
I,IV,CLEON,"Those mothers who, to nousle up their babes,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Thought nought too curious, are ready now"
I,IV,CLEON,"To eat those little darlings whom they loved."
I,IV,CLEON,"So sharp are hunger's teeth, that man and wife"
I,IV,CLEON,"Draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life:"
I,IV,CLEON,"Here stands a lord, and there a lady weeping;"
I,IV,CLEON,"Here many sink, yet those which see them fall"
I,IV,CLEON,"Have scarce strength left to give them burial."
I,IV,CLEON,"Is not this true?"
I,IV,DIONYZA,"Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it."
I,IV,CLEON,"O, let those cities that of plenty's cup"
I,IV,CLEON,"And her prosperities so largely taste,"
I,IV,CLEON,"With their superfluous riots, hear these tears!"
I,IV,CLEON,"The misery of Tarsus may be theirs."
I,IV,Lord,"Where's the lord governor?"
I,IV,CLEON,"Here."
I,IV,CLEON,"Speak out thy sorrows which thou bring'st in haste,"
I,IV,CLEON,"For comfort is too far for us to expect."
I,IV,Lord,"We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore,"
I,IV,Lord,"A portly sail of ships make hitherward."
I,IV,CLEON,"I thought as much."
I,IV,CLEON,"One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,"
I,IV,CLEON,"That may succeed as his inheritor;"
I,IV,CLEON,"And so in ours: some neighbouring nation,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Taking advantage of our misery,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Hath stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power,"
I,IV,CLEON,"To beat us down, the which are down already;"
I,IV,CLEON,"And make a conquest of unhappy me,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Whereas no glory's got to overcome."
I,IV,Lord,"That's the least fear; for, by the semblance"
I,IV,Lord,"Of their white flags display'd, they bring us peace,"
I,IV,Lord,"And come to us as favourers, not as foes."
I,IV,CLEON,"Thou speak'st like him's untutor'd to repeat:"
I,IV,CLEON,"Who makes the fairest show means most deceit."
I,IV,CLEON,"But bring they what they will and what they can,"
I,IV,CLEON,"What need we fear?"
I,IV,CLEON,"The ground's the lowest, and we are half way there."
I,IV,CLEON,"Go tell their general we attend him here,"
I,IV,CLEON,"To know for what he comes, and whence he comes,"
I,IV,CLEON,"And what he craves."
I,IV,Lord,"I go, my lord."
I,IV,CLEON,"Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist;"
I,IV,CLEON,"If wars, we are unable to resist."
I,IV,PERICLES,"Lord governor, for so we hear you are,"
I,IV,PERICLES,"Let not our ships and number of our men"
I,IV,PERICLES,"Be like a beacon fired to amaze your eyes."
I,IV,PERICLES,"We have heard your miseries as far as Tyre,"
I,IV,PERICLES,"And seen the desolation of your streets:"
I,IV,PERICLES,"Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears,"
I,IV,PERICLES,"But to relieve them of their heavy load;"
I,IV,PERICLES,"And these our ships, you happily may think"
I,IV,PERICLES,"Are like the Trojan horse was stuff'd within"
I,IV,PERICLES,"With bloody veins, expecting overthrow,"
I,IV,PERICLES,"Are stored with corn to make your needy bread,"
I,IV,PERICLES,"And give them life whom hunger starved half dead."
I,IV,All,"The gods of Greece protect you!"
I,IV,All,"And we'll pray for you."
I,IV,PERICLES,"Arise, I pray you, rise:"
I,IV,PERICLES,"We do not look for reverence, but to love,"
I,IV,PERICLES,"And harbourage for ourself, our ships, and men."
I,IV,CLEON,"The which when any shall not gratify,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought,"
I,IV,CLEON,"Be it our wives, our children, or ourselves,"
I,IV,CLEON,"The curse of heaven and men succeed their evils!"
I,IV,CLEON,"Till when,--the which I hope shall ne'er be seen,--"
I,IV,CLEON,"Your grace is welcome to our town and us."
I,IV,PERICLES,"Which welcome we'll accept; feast here awhile,"
I,IV,PERICLES,"Until our stars that frown lend us a smile."
II,I,PERICLES,"Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!"
II,I,PERICLES,"Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man"
II,I,PERICLES,"Is but a substance that must yield to you;"
II,I,PERICLES,"And I, as fits my nature, do obey you:"
II,I,PERICLES,"Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks,"
II,I,PERICLES,"Wash'd me from shore to shore, and left me breath"
II,I,PERICLES,"Nothing to think on but ensuing death:"
II,I,PERICLES,"Let it suffice the greatness of your powers"
II,I,PERICLES,"To have bereft a prince of all his fortunes;"
II,I,PERICLES,"And having thrown him from your watery grave,"
II,I,PERICLES,"Here to have death in peace is all he'll crave."
II,I,First Fisherman,"What, ho, Pilch!"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"Ha, come and bring away the nets!"
II,I,First Fisherman,"What, Patch-breech, I say!"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"What say you, master?"
II,I,First Fisherman,"Look how thou stirrest now! come away, or I'll"
II,I,First Fisherman,"fetch thee with a wanion."
II,I,Third Fisherman,"Faith, master, I am thinking of the poor men that"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"were cast away before us even now."
II,I,First Fisherman,"Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what"
II,I,First Fisherman,"pitiful cries they made to us to help them, when,"
II,I,First Fisherman,"well-a-day, we could scarce help ourselves."
II,I,Third Fisherman,"Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"porpus how he bounced and tumbled? they say"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"they're half fish, half flesh: a plague on them,"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"they ne'er come but I look to be washed. Master, I"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"marvel how the fishes live in the sea."
II,I,First Fisherman,"Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the"
II,I,First Fisherman,"little ones: I can compare our rich misers to"
II,I,First Fisherman,"nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and"
II,I,First Fisherman,"tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at"
II,I,First Fisherman,"last devours them all at a mouthful: such whales"
II,I,First Fisherman,"have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping"
II,I,First Fisherman,"till they've swallowed the whole parish, church,"
II,I,First Fisherman,"steeple, bells, and all."
II,I,Third Fisherman,"But, master, if I had been the sexton, I would have"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"been that day in the belfry."
II,I,Second Fisherman,"Why, man?"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"Because he should have swallowed me too: and when I"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"had been in his belly, I would have kept such a"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"jangling of the bells, that he should never have"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"left, till he cast bells, steeple, church, and"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"parish up again. But if the good King Simonides"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"were of my mind,--"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"We would purge the land of these drones, that rob"
II,I,Third Fisherman,"the bee of her honey."
II,I,PERICLES,"These fishers tell the infirmities of men;"
II,I,PERICLES,"And from their watery empire recollect"
II,I,PERICLES,"All that may men approve or men detect!"
II,I,PERICLES,"Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen."
II,I,Second Fisherman,"Honest! good fellow, what's that? If it be a day"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"fits you, search out of the calendar, and nobody"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"look after it."
II,I,PERICLES,"May see the sea hath cast upon your coast."
II,I,Second Fisherman,"What a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"way!"
II,I,PERICLES,"A man whom both the waters and the wind,"
II,I,PERICLES,"In that vast tennis-court, have made the ball"
II,I,PERICLES,"For them to play upon, entreats you pity him:"
II,I,PERICLES,"He asks of you, that never used to beg."
II,I,First Fisherman,"No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's them in our"
II,I,First Fisherman,"country Greece gets more with begging than we can do"
II,I,First Fisherman,"with working."
II,I,Second Fisherman,"Canst thou catch any fishes, then?"
II,I,PERICLES,"I never practised it."
II,I,Second Fisherman,"Nay, then thou wilt starve, sure; for here's nothing"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"to be got now-a-days, unless thou canst fish for't."
II,I,PERICLES,"What I have been I have forgot to know;"
II,I,PERICLES,"But what I am, want teaches me to think on:"
II,I,PERICLES,"A man throng'd up with cold: my veins are chill,"
II,I,PERICLES,"And have no more of life than may suffice"
II,I,PERICLES,"To give my tongue that heat to ask your help;"
II,I,PERICLES,"Which if you shall refuse, when I am dead,"
II,I,PERICLES,"For that I am a man, pray see me buried."
II,I,First Fisherman,"Die quoth-a? Now gods forbid! I have a gown here;"
II,I,First Fisherman,"come, put it on; keep thee warm. Now, afore me, a"
II,I,First Fisherman,"handsome fellow! Come, thou shalt go home, and"
II,I,First Fisherman,"we'll have flesh for holidays, fish for"
II,I,First Fisherman,"fasting-days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks,"
II,I,First Fisherman,"and thou shalt be welcome."
II,I,PERICLES,"I thank you, sir."
II,I,Second Fisherman,"Hark you, my friend; you said you could not beg."
II,I,PERICLES,"I did but crave."
II,I,Second Fisherman,"But crave! Then I'll turn craver too, and so I"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"shall 'scape whipping."
II,I,PERICLES,"Why, are all your beggars whipped, then?"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"O, not all, my friend, not all; for if all your"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"beggars were whipped, I would wish no better office"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"than to be beadle. But, master, I'll go draw up the"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"net."
II,I,First Fisherman,"Hark you, sir, do you know where ye are?"
II,I,PERICLES,"Not well."
II,I,First Fisherman,"Why, I'll tell you: this is called Pentapolis, and"
II,I,First Fisherman,"our king the good Simonides."
II,I,PERICLES,"The good King Simonides, do you call him."
II,I,First Fisherman,"Ay, sir; and he deserves so to be called for his"
II,I,First Fisherman,"peaceable reign and good government."
II,I,PERICLES,"He is a happy king, since he gains from his subjects"
II,I,PERICLES,"the name of good by his government. How far is his"
II,I,PERICLES,"court distant from this shore?"
II,I,First Fisherman,"Marry, sir, half a day's journey: and I'll tell"
II,I,First Fisherman,"you, he hath a fair daughter, and to-morrow is her"
II,I,First Fisherman,"birth-day; and there are princes and knights come"
II,I,First Fisherman,"from all parts of the world to just and tourney for her love."
II,I,PERICLES,"Were my fortunes equal to my desires, I could wish"
II,I,PERICLES,"to make one there."
II,I,First Fisherman,"O, sir, things must be as they may; and what a man"
II,I,First Fisherman,"cannot get, he may lawfully deal for--his wife's soul."
II,I,Second Fisherman,"Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net,"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"come out. Ha! bots on't, 'tis come at last, and"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"'tis turned to a rusty armour."
II,I,PERICLES,"An armour, friends! I pray you, let me see it."
II,I,PERICLES,"Thanks, fortune, yet, that, after all my crosses,"
II,I,PERICLES,"Thou givest me somewhat to repair myself;"
II,I,PERICLES,"And though it was mine own, part of my heritage,"
II,I,PERICLES,"Which my dead father did bequeath to me."
II,I,PERICLES,"With this strict charge, even as he left his life,"
II,I,PERICLES,"'Keep it, my Pericles; it hath been a shield"
II,I,PERICLES,"Twixt me and death;'--and pointed to this brace;--"
II,I,PERICLES,"'For that it saved me, keep it; in like necessity--"
II,I,PERICLES,"The which the gods protect thee from!--may"
II,I,PERICLES,"defend thee.'"
II,I,PERICLES,"It kept where I kept, I so dearly loved it;"
II,I,PERICLES,"Till the rough seas, that spare not any man,"
II,I,PERICLES,"Took it in rage, though calm'd have given't again:"
II,I,PERICLES,"I thank thee for't: my shipwreck now's no ill,"
II,I,PERICLES,"Since I have here my father's gift in's will."
II,I,First Fisherman,"What mean you, sir?"
II,I,PERICLES,"To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of worth,"
II,I,PERICLES,"For it was sometime target to a king;"
II,I,PERICLES,"I know it by this mark. He loved me dearly,"
II,I,PERICLES,"And for his sake I wish the having of it;"
II,I,PERICLES,"And that you'ld guide me to your sovereign's court,"
II,I,PERICLES,"Where with it I may appear a gentleman;"
II,I,PERICLES,"And if that ever my low fortune's better,"
II,I,PERICLES,"I'll pay your bounties; till then rest your debtor."
II,I,First Fisherman,"Why, wilt thou tourney for the lady?"
II,I,PERICLES,"I'll show the virtue I have borne in arms."
II,I,First Fisherman,"Why, do 'e take it, and the gods give thee good on't!"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"Ay, but hark you, my friend; 'twas we that made up"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"this garment through the rough seams of the waters:"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"there are certain condolements, certain vails. I"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"hope, sir, if you thrive, you'll remember from"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"whence you had it."
II,I,PERICLES,"Believe 't, I will."
II,I,PERICLES,"By your furtherance I am clothed in steel;"
II,I,PERICLES,"And, spite of all the rapture of the sea,"
II,I,PERICLES,"This jewel holds his building on my arm:"
II,I,PERICLES,"Unto thy value I will mount myself"
II,I,PERICLES,"Upon a courser, whose delightful steps"
II,I,PERICLES,"Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread."
II,I,PERICLES,"Only, my friend, I yet am unprovided"
II,I,PERICLES,"Of a pair of bases."
II,I,Second Fisherman,"We'll sure provide: thou shalt have my best gown to"
II,I,Second Fisherman,"make thee a pair; and I'll bring thee to the court myself."
II,I,PERICLES,"Then honour be but a goal to my will,"
II,I,PERICLES,"This day I'll rise, or else add ill to ill."
II,II,SIMONIDES,"Are the knights ready to begin the triumph?"
II,II,First Lord,"They are, my liege;"
II,II,First Lord,"And stay your coming to present themselves."
II,II,SIMONIDES,"Return them, we are ready; and our daughter,"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"In honour of whose birth these triumphs are,"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"Sits here, like beauty's child, whom nature gat"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"For men to see, and seeing wonder at."
II,II,THAISA,"It pleaseth you, my royal father, to express"
II,II,THAISA,"My commendations great, whose merit's less."
II,II,SIMONIDES,"It's fit it should be so; for princes are"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"A model which heaven makes like to itself:"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"As jewels lose their glory if neglected,"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"So princes their renowns if not respected."
II,II,SIMONIDES,"'Tis now your honour, daughter, to explain"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"The labour of each knight in his device."
II,II,THAISA,"Which, to preserve mine honour, I'll perform."
II,II,SIMONIDES,"Who is the first that doth prefer himself?"
II,II,THAISA,"A knight of Sparta, my renowned father;"
II,II,THAISA,"And the device he bears upon his shield"
II,II,THAISA,"Is a black Ethiope reaching at the sun"
II,II,THAISA,"The word, 'Lux tua vita mihi.'"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"He loves you well that holds his life of you."
II,II,SIMONIDES,"Who is the second that presents himself?"
II,II,THAISA,"A prince of Macedon, my royal father;"
II,II,THAISA,"And the device he bears upon his shield"
II,II,THAISA,"Is an arm'd knight that's conquer'd by a lady;"
II,II,THAISA,"The motto thus, in Spanish, 'Piu por dulzura que por fuerza.'"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"And what's the third?"
II,II,THAISA,"The third of Antioch;"
II,II,THAISA,"And his device, a wreath of chivalry;"
II,II,THAISA,"The word, 'Me pompae provexit apex.'"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"What is the fourth?"
II,II,THAISA,"A burning torch that's turned upside down;"
II,II,THAISA,"The word, 'Quod me alit, me extinguit.'"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"Which shows that beauty hath his power and will,"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"Which can as well inflame as it can kill."
II,II,THAISA,"The fifth, an hand environed with clouds,"
II,II,THAISA,"Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried;"
II,II,THAISA,"The motto thus, 'Sic spectanda fides.'"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"And what's"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"The sixth and last, the which the knight himself"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"With such a graceful courtesy deliver'd?"
II,II,THAISA,"He seems to be a stranger; but his present is"
II,II,THAISA,"A wither'd branch, that's only green at top;"
II,II,THAISA,"The motto, 'In hac spe vivo.'"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"A pretty moral;"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"From the dejected state wherein he is,"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"He hopes by you his fortunes yet may flourish."
II,II,First Lord,"He had need mean better than his outward show"
II,II,First Lord,"Can any way speak in his just commend;"
II,II,First Lord,"For by his rusty outside he appears"
II,II,First Lord,"To have practised more the whipstock than the lance."
II,II,Second Lord,"He well may be a stranger, for he comes"
II,II,Second Lord,"To an honour'd triumph strangely furnished."
II,II,Third Lord,"And on set purpose let his armour rust"
II,II,Third Lord,"Until this day, to scour it in the dust."
II,II,SIMONIDES,"Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"The outward habit by the inward man."
II,II,SIMONIDES,"But stay, the knights are coming: we will withdraw"
II,II,SIMONIDES,"Into the gallery."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Knights,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"To say you're welcome were superfluous."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"To place upon the volume of your deeds,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"As in a title-page, your worth in arms,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Were more than you expect, or more than's fit,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Since every worth in show commends itself."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast:"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"You are princes and my guests."
II,III,THAISA,"But you, my knight and guest;"
II,III,THAISA,"To whom this wreath of victory I give,"
II,III,THAISA,"And crown you king of this day's happiness."
II,III,PERICLES,"'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Call it by what you will, the day is yours;"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"And here, I hope, is none that envies it."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"To make some good, but others to exceed;"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"And you are her labour'd scholar. Come, queen o'"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"the feast,--"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"For, daughter, so you are,--here take your place:"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Marshal the rest, as they deserve their grace."
II,III,KNIGHTS,"We are honour'd much by good Simonides."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Your presence glads our days: honour we love;"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"For who hates honour hates the gods above."
II,III,Marshal,"Sir, yonder is your place."
II,III,PERICLES,"Some other is more fit."
II,III,First Knight,"Contend not, sir; for we are gentlemen"
II,III,First Knight,"That neither in our hearts nor outward eyes"
II,III,First Knight,"Envy the great nor do the low despise."
II,III,PERICLES,"You are right courteous knights."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Sit, sir, sit."
II,III,PERICLES,"By Jove, I wonder, that is king of thoughts,"
II,III,PERICLES,"These cates resist me, she but thought upon."
II,III,THAISA,"By Juno, that is queen of marriage,"
II,III,THAISA,"All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury."
II,III,THAISA,"Wishing him my meat. Sure, he's a gallant gentleman."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"He's but a country gentleman;"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Has done no more than other knights have done;"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Has broken a staff or so; so let it pass."
II,III,THAISA,"To me he seems like diamond to glass."
II,III,PERICLES,"Yon king's to me like to my father's picture,"
II,III,PERICLES,"Which tells me in that glory once he was;"
II,III,PERICLES,"Had princes sit, like stars, about his throne,"
II,III,PERICLES,"And he the sun, for them to reverence;"
II,III,PERICLES,"None that beheld him, but, like lesser lights,"
II,III,PERICLES,"Did vail their crowns to his supremacy:"
II,III,PERICLES,"Where now his son's like a glow-worm in the night,"
II,III,PERICLES,"The which hath fire in darkness, none in light:"
II,III,PERICLES,"Whereby I see that Time's the king of men,"
II,III,PERICLES,"He's both their parent, and he is their grave,"
II,III,PERICLES,"And gives them what he will, not what they crave."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"What, are you merry, knights?"
II,III,Knights,"Who can be other in this royal presence?"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Here, with a cup that's stored unto the brim,--"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"As you do love, fill to your mistress' lips,--"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"We drink this health to you."
II,III,KNIGHTS,"We thank your grace."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Yet pause awhile:"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Yon knight doth sit too melancholy,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"As if the entertainment in our court"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Had not a show might countervail his worth."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Note it not you, Thaisa?"
II,III,THAISA,"What is it"
II,III,THAISA,"To me, my father?"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"O, attend, my daughter:"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Princes in this should live like gods above,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Who freely give to every one that comes"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"To honour them:"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"And princes not doing so are like to gnats,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Which make a sound, but kill'd are wonder'd at."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Therefore to make his entrance more sweet,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Here, say we drink this standing-bowl of wine to him."
II,III,THAISA,"Alas, my father, it befits not me"
II,III,THAISA,"Unto a stranger knight to be so bold:"
II,III,THAISA,"He may my proffer take for an offence,"
II,III,THAISA,"Since men take women's gifts for impudence."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"How!"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Do as I bid you, or you'll move me else."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"And furthermore tell him, we desire to know of him,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Of whence he is, his name and parentage."
II,III,THAISA,"The king my father, sir, has drunk to you."
II,III,PERICLES,"I thank him."
II,III,THAISA,"Wishing it so much blood unto your life."
II,III,PERICLES,"I thank both him and you, and pledge him freely."
II,III,THAISA,"And further he desires to know of you,"
II,III,THAISA,"Of whence you are, your name and parentage."
II,III,PERICLES,"A gentleman of Tyre; my name, Pericles;"
II,III,PERICLES,"My education been in arts and arms;"
II,III,PERICLES,"Who, looking for adventures in the world,"
II,III,PERICLES,"Was by the rough seas reft of ships and men,"
II,III,PERICLES,"And after shipwreck driven upon this shore."
II,III,THAISA,"He thanks your grace; names himself Pericles,"
II,III,THAISA,"A gentleman of Tyre,"
II,III,THAISA,"Who only by misfortune of the seas"
II,III,THAISA,"Bereft of ships and men, cast on this shore."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Now, by the gods, I pity his misfortune,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"And will awake him from his melancholy."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"And waste the time, which looks for other revels."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Even in your armours, as you are address'd,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Will very well become a soldier's dance."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"I will not have excuse, with saying this"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Since they love men in arms as well as beds."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"So, this was well ask'd,'twas so well perform'd."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Come, sir;"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Here is a lady that wants breathing too:"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"And I have heard, you knights of Tyre"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Are excellent in making ladies trip;"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"And that their measures are as excellent."
II,III,PERICLES,"In those that practise them they are, my lord."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"O, that's as much as you would be denied"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Of your fair courtesy."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Unclasp, unclasp:"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Thanks, gentlemen, to all; all have done well."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"But you the best. Pages and lights, to conduct"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"These knights unto their several lodgings!"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Yours, sir,"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"We have given order to be next our own."
II,III,PERICLES,"I am at your grace's pleasure."
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Princes, it is too late to talk of love;"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"And that's the mark I know you level at:"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"Therefore each one betake him to his rest;"
II,III,SIMONIDES,"To-morrow all for speeding do their best."
II,IV,HELICANUS,"No, Escanes, know this of me,"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"Antiochus from incest lived not free:"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"For which, the most high gods not minding longer"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"To withhold the vengeance that they had in store,"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"Due to this heinous capital offence,"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"Even in the height and pride of all his glory,"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"When he was seated in a chariot"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"Of an inestimable value, and his daughter with him,"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"A fire from heaven came and shrivell'd up"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"Their bodies, even to loathing; for they so stunk,"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"That all those eyes adored them ere their fall"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"Scorn now their hand should give them burial."
II,IV,ESCANES,"'Twas very strange."
II,IV,HELICANUS,"And yet but justice; for though"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"This king were great, his greatness was no guard"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"To bar heaven's shaft, but sin had his reward."
II,IV,ESCANES,"'Tis very true."
II,IV,First Lord,"See, not a man in private conference"
II,IV,First Lord,"Or council has respect with him but he."
II,IV,Second Lord,"It shall no longer grieve without reproof."
II,IV,Third Lord,"And cursed be he that will not second it."
II,IV,First Lord,"Follow me, then. Lord Helicane, a word."
II,IV,HELICANUS,"With me? and welcome: happy day, my lords."
II,IV,First Lord,"Know that our griefs are risen to the top,"
II,IV,First Lord,"And now at length they overflow their banks."
II,IV,HELICANUS,"Your griefs! for what? wrong not your prince you love."
II,IV,First Lord,"Wrong not yourself, then, noble Helicane;"
II,IV,First Lord,"But if the prince do live, let us salute him,"
II,IV,First Lord,"Or know what ground's made happy by his breath."
II,IV,First Lord,"If in the world he live, we'll seek him out;"
II,IV,First Lord,"If in his grave he rest, we'll find him there;"
II,IV,First Lord,"And be resolved he lives to govern us,"
II,IV,First Lord,"Or dead, give's cause to mourn his funeral,"
II,IV,First Lord,"And leave us to our free election."
II,IV,Second Lord,"Whose death indeed's the strongest in our censure:"
II,IV,Second Lord,"And knowing this kingdom is without a head,--"
II,IV,Second Lord,"Like goodly buildings left without a roof"
II,IV,Second Lord,"Soon fall to ruin,--your noble self,"
II,IV,Second Lord,"That best know how to rule and how to reign,"
II,IV,Second Lord,"We thus submit unto,--our sovereign."
II,IV,All,"Live, noble Helicane!"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"For honour's cause, forbear your suffrages:"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"If that you love Prince Pericles, forbear."
II,IV,HELICANUS,"Take I your wish, I leap into the seas,"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"Where's hourly trouble for a minute's ease."
II,IV,HELICANUS,"A twelvemonth longer, let me entreat you to"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"Forbear the absence of your king:"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"If in which time expired, he not return,"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"I shall with aged patience bear your yoke."
II,IV,HELICANUS,"But if I cannot win you to this love,"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"Go search like nobles, like noble subjects,"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"And in your search spend your adventurous worth;"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"Whom if you find, and win unto return,"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"You shall like diamonds sit about his crown."
II,IV,First Lord,"To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield;"
II,IV,First Lord,"And since Lord Helicane enjoineth us,"
II,IV,First Lord,"We with our travels will endeavour us."
II,IV,HELICANUS,"Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands:"
II,IV,HELICANUS,"When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands."
II,V,First Knight,"Good morrow to the good Simonides."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Knights, from my daughter this I let you know,"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"That for this twelvemonth she'll not undertake"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"A married life."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Her reason to herself is only known,"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Which yet from her by no means can I get."
II,V,Second Knight,"May we not get access to her, my lord?"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"'Faith, by no means; she has so strictly tied"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Her to her chamber, that 'tis impossible."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"One twelve moons more she'll wear Diana's livery;"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vow'd"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"And on her virgin honour will not break it."
II,V,Third Knight,"Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"So,"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"They are well dispatch'd; now to my daughter's letter:"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"She tells me here, she'd wed the stranger knight,"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Or never more to view nor day nor light."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"'Tis well, mistress; your choice agrees with mine;"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"I like that well: nay, how absolute she's in't,"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Not minding whether I dislike or no!"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Well, I do commend her choice;"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"And will no longer have it be delay'd."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Soft! here he comes: I must dissemble it."
II,V,PERICLES,"All fortune to the good Simonides!"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"To you as much, sir! I am beholding to you"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"For your sweet music this last night: I do"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Protest my ears were never better fed"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"With such delightful pleasing harmony."
II,V,PERICLES,"It is your grace's pleasure to commend;"
II,V,PERICLES,"Not my desert."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Sir, you are music's master."
II,V,PERICLES,"The worst of all her scholars, my good lord."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Let me ask you one thing:"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"What do you think of my daughter, sir?"
II,V,PERICLES,"A most virtuous princess."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"And she is fair too, is she not?"
II,V,PERICLES,"As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Sir, my daughter thinks very well of you;"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Ay, so well, that you must be her master,"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"And she will be your scholar: therefore look to it."
II,V,PERICLES,"I am unworthy for her schoolmaster."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"She thinks not so; peruse this writing else."
II,V,PERICLES,"A letter, that she loves the knight of Tyre!"
II,V,PERICLES,"'Tis the king's subtlety to have my life."
II,V,PERICLES,"O, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord,"
II,V,PERICLES,"A stranger and distressed gentleman,"
II,V,PERICLES,"That never aim'd so high to love your daughter,"
II,V,PERICLES,"But bent all offices to honour her."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"A villain."
II,V,PERICLES,"By the gods, I have not:"
II,V,PERICLES,"Never did thought of mine levy offence;"
II,V,PERICLES,"Nor never did my actions yet commence"
II,V,PERICLES,"A deed might gain her love or your displeasure."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Traitor, thou liest."
II,V,PERICLES,"Traitor!"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Ay, traitor."
II,V,PERICLES,"Even in his throat--unless it be the king--"
II,V,PERICLES,"That calls me traitor, I return the lie."
II,V,PERICLES,"My actions are as noble as my thoughts,"
II,V,PERICLES,"That never relish'd of a base descent."
II,V,PERICLES,"I came unto your court for honour's cause,"
II,V,PERICLES,"And not to be a rebel to her state;"
II,V,PERICLES,"And he that otherwise accounts of me,"
II,V,PERICLES,"This sword shall prove he's honour's enemy."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"No?"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Here comes my daughter, she can witness it."
II,V,PERICLES,"Then, as you are as virtuous as fair,"
II,V,PERICLES,"Resolve your angry father, if my tongue"
II,V,PERICLES,"Did ere solicit, or my hand subscribe"
II,V,PERICLES,"To any syllable that made love to you."
II,V,THAISA,"Why, sir, say if you had,"
II,V,THAISA,"Who takes offence at that would make me glad?"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory?"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"I am glad on't with all my heart.--"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"I'll tame you; I'll bring you in subjection."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Will you, not having my consent,"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Bestow your love and your affections"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Upon a stranger?"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"who, for aught I know,"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"May be, nor can I think the contrary,"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"As great in blood as I myself.--"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Therefore hear you, mistress; either frame"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Your will to mine,--and you, sir, hear you,"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Either be ruled by me, or I will make you--"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Man and wife:"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal it too:"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"And being join'd, I'll thus your hopes destroy;"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"And for a further grief,--God give you joy!--"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"What, are you both pleased?"
II,V,THAISA,"Yes, if you love me, sir."
II,V,PERICLES,"Even as my life, or blood that fosters it."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"What, are you both agreed?"
II,V,BOTH,"Yes, if it please your majesty."
II,V,SIMONIDES,"It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed;"
II,V,SIMONIDES,"And then with what haste you can get you to bed."
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Thou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges,"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Which wash both heaven and hell; and thou, that hast"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Upon the winds command, bind them in brass,"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Having call'd them from the deep! O, still"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Thy deafening, dreadful thunders; gently quench"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida,"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"How does my queen? Thou stormest venomously;"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Wilt thou spit all thyself? The seaman's whistle"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Is as a whisper in the ears of death,"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Unheard. Lychorida!--Lucina, O"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Divinest patroness, and midwife gentle"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"To those that cry by night, convey thy deity"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Aboard our dancing boat; make swift the pangs"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Of my queen's travails!"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Now, Lychorida!"
III,SCENE I,LYCHORIDA,"Here is a thing too young for such a place,"
III,SCENE I,LYCHORIDA,"Who, if it had conceit, would die, as I"
III,SCENE I,LYCHORIDA,"Am like to do: take in your arms this piece"
III,SCENE I,LYCHORIDA,"Of your dead queen."
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"How, how, Lychorida!"
III,SCENE I,LYCHORIDA,"Patience, good sir; do not assist the storm."
III,SCENE I,LYCHORIDA,"Here's all that is left living of your queen,"
III,SCENE I,LYCHORIDA,"A little daughter: for the sake of it,"
III,SCENE I,LYCHORIDA,"Be manly, and take comfort."
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"O you gods!"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Why do you make us love your goodly gifts,"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"And snatch them straight away? We here below"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Recall not what we give, and therein may"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Use honour with you."
III,SCENE I,LYCHORIDA,"Patience, good sir,"
III,SCENE I,LYCHORIDA,"Even for this charge."
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Now, mild may be thy life!"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"For a more blustrous birth had never babe:"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"That ever was prince's child. Happy what follows!"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Thou hast as chiding a nativity"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make,"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"To herald thee from the womb: even at the first"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Thy loss is more than can thy portage quit,"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"With all thou canst find here. Now, the good gods"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Throw their best eyes upon't!"
III,SCENE I,First Sailor,"What courage, sir? God save you!"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Courage enough: I do not fear the flaw;"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"It hath done to me the worst. Yet, for the love"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Of this poor infant, this fresh-new sea-farer,"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"I would it would be quiet."
III,SCENE I,First Sailor,"Slack the bolins there! Thou wilt not, wilt thou?"
III,SCENE I,First Sailor,"Blow, and split thyself."
III,SCENE I,Second Sailor,"But sea-room, an the brine and cloudy billow kiss"
III,SCENE I,Second Sailor,"the moon, I care not."
III,SCENE I,First Sailor,"Sir, your queen must overboard: the sea works high,"
III,SCENE I,First Sailor,"the wind is loud, and will not lie till the ship be"
III,SCENE I,First Sailor,"cleared of the dead."
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"That's your superstition."
III,SCENE I,First Sailor,"Pardon us, sir; with us at sea it hath been still"
III,SCENE I,First Sailor,"observed: and we are strong in custom. Therefore"
III,SCENE I,First Sailor,"briefly yield her; for she must overboard straight."
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"As you think meet. Most wretched queen!"
III,SCENE I,LYCHORIDA,"Here she lies, sir."
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear;"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"No light, no fire: the unfriendly elements"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Forgot thee utterly: nor have I time"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"To give thee hallow'd to thy grave, but straight"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Must cast thee, scarcely coffin'd, in the ooze;"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Where, for a monument upon thy bones,"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"And e'er-remaining lamps, the belching whale"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse,"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Lying with simple shells. O Lychorida,"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper,"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"My casket and my jewels; and bid Nicander"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Bring me the satin coffer: lay the babe"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Upon the pillow: hie thee, whiles I say"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"A priestly farewell to her: suddenly, woman."
III,SCENE I,Second Sailor,"Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulked"
III,SCENE I,Second Sailor,"and bitumed ready."
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this?"
III,SCENE I,Second Sailor,"We are near Tarsus."
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Thither, gentle mariner."
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Alter thy course for Tyre. When canst thou reach it?"
III,SCENE I,Second Sailor,"By break of day, if the wind cease."
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"O, make for Tarsus!"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"There will I visit Cleon, for the babe"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"Cannot hold out to Tyrus: there I'll leave it"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner:"
III,SCENE I,PERICLES,"I'll bring the body presently."
III,II,CERIMON,"Philemon, ho!"
III,II,PHILEMON,"Doth my lord call?"
III,II,CERIMON,"Get fire and meat for these poor men:"
III,II,CERIMON,"'T has been a turbulent and stormy night."
III,II,Servant,"I have been in many; but such a night as this,"
III,II,Servant,"Till now, I ne'er endured."
III,II,CERIMON,"Your master will be dead ere you return;"
III,II,CERIMON,"There's nothing can be minister'd to nature"
III,II,CERIMON,"That can recover him."
III,II,CERIMON,"Give this to the 'pothecary,"
III,II,CERIMON,"And tell me how it works."
III,II,First Gentleman,"Good morrow."
III,II,Second Gentleman,"Good morrow to your lordship."
III,II,CERIMON,"Gentlemen,"
III,II,CERIMON,"Why do you stir so early?"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Sir,"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea,"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Shook as the earth did quake;"
III,II,First Gentleman,"The very principals did seem to rend,"
III,II,First Gentleman,"And all-to topple: pure surprise and fear"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Made me to quit the house."
III,II,Second Gentleman,"That is the cause we trouble you so early;"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"'Tis not our husbandry."
III,II,CERIMON,"O, you say well."
III,II,First Gentleman,"But I much marvel that your lordship, having"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Rich tire about you, should at these early hours"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Shake off the golden slumber of repose."
III,II,First Gentleman,"'Tis most strange,"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Nature should be so conversant with pain,"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Being thereto not compell'd."
III,II,CERIMON,"I hold it ever,"
III,II,CERIMON,"Virtue and cunning were endowments greater"
III,II,CERIMON,"Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs"
III,II,CERIMON,"May the two latter darken and expend;"
III,II,CERIMON,"But immortality attends the former."
III,II,CERIMON,"Making a man a god. 'Tis known, I ever"
III,II,CERIMON,"Have studied physic, through which secret art,"
III,II,CERIMON,"By turning o'er authorities, I have,"
III,II,CERIMON,"Together with my practise, made familiar"
III,II,CERIMON,"To me and to my aid the blest infusions"
III,II,CERIMON,"That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones;"
III,II,CERIMON,"And I can speak of the disturbances"
III,II,CERIMON,"That nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me"
III,II,CERIMON,"A more content in course of true delight"
III,II,CERIMON,"Than to be thirsty after tottering honour,"
III,II,CERIMON,"Or tie my treasure up in silken bags,"
III,II,CERIMON,"To please the fool and death."
III,II,Second Gentleman,"Your honour has through Ephesus pour'd forth"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"Your charity, and hundreds call themselves"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"Your creatures, who by you have been restored:"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"Your purse, still open, hath built Lord Cerimon"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"Such strong renown as time shall ne'er decay."
III,II,First Servant,"So; lift there."
III,II,CERIMON,"What is that?"
III,II,First Servant,"Sir, even now"
III,II,First Servant,"Did the sea toss upon our shore this chest:"
III,II,First Servant,"'Tis of some wreck."
III,II,CERIMON,"Set 't down, let's look upon't."
III,II,Second Gentleman,"'Tis like a coffin, sir."
III,II,CERIMON,"Whate'er it be,"
III,II,CERIMON,"'Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight:"
III,II,CERIMON,"If the sea's stomach be o'ercharged with gold,"
III,II,CERIMON,"'Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us."
III,II,Second Gentleman,"'Tis so, my lord."
III,II,CERIMON,"How close 'tis caulk'd and bitumed!"
III,II,CERIMON,"Did the sea cast it up?"
III,II,First Servant,"I never saw so huge a billow, sir,"
III,II,First Servant,"As toss'd it upon shore."
III,II,CERIMON,"Wrench it open;"
III,II,CERIMON,"Soft! it smells most sweetly in my sense."
III,II,Second Gentleman,"A delicate odour."
III,II,CERIMON,"As ever hit my nostril. So, up with it."
III,II,CERIMON,"O you most potent gods! what's here? a corse!"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Most strange!"
III,II,CERIMON,"Shrouded in cloth of state; balm'd and entreasured"
III,II,CERIMON,"With full bags of spices! A passport too!"
III,II,CERIMON,"Apollo, perfect me in the characters!"
III,II,CERIMON,"'Here I give to understand,"
III,II,CERIMON,"If e'er this coffin drive a-land,"
III,II,CERIMON,"I, King Pericles, have lost"
III,II,CERIMON,"This queen, worth all our mundane cost."
III,II,CERIMON,"Who finds her, give her burying;"
III,II,CERIMON,"She was the daughter of a king:"
III,II,CERIMON,"Besides this treasure for a fee,"
III,II,CERIMON,"The gods requite his charity!'"
III,II,CERIMON,"If thou livest, Pericles, thou hast a heart"
III,II,CERIMON,"That even cracks for woe! This chanced tonight."
III,II,Second Gentleman,"Most likely, sir."
III,II,CERIMON,"Nay, certainly to-night;"
III,II,CERIMON,"For look how fresh she looks! They were too rough"
III,II,CERIMON,"That threw her in the sea. Make a fire within:"
III,II,CERIMON,"Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet."
III,II,CERIMON,"Death may usurp on nature many hours,"
III,II,CERIMON,"And yet the fire of life kindle again"
III,II,CERIMON,"The o'erpress'd spirits. I heard of an Egyptian"
III,II,CERIMON,"That had nine hours lien dead,"
III,II,CERIMON,"Who was by good appliance recovered."
III,II,CERIMON,"Well said, well said; the fire and cloths."
III,II,CERIMON,"The rough and woeful music that we have,"
III,II,CERIMON,"Cause it to sound, beseech you."
III,II,CERIMON,"The viol once more: how thou stirr'st, thou block!"
III,II,CERIMON,"The music there!--I pray you, give her air."
III,II,CERIMON,"Gentlemen."
III,II,CERIMON,"This queen will live: nature awakes; a warmth"
III,II,CERIMON,"Breathes out of her: she hath not been entranced"
III,II,CERIMON,"Above five hours: see how she gins to blow"
III,II,CERIMON,"Into life's flower again!"
III,II,First Gentleman,"The heavens,"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Through you, increase our wonder and set up"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Your fame forever."
III,II,CERIMON,"She is alive; behold,"
III,II,CERIMON,"Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels"
III,II,CERIMON,"Which Pericles hath lost,"
III,II,CERIMON,"Begin to part their fringes of bright gold;"
III,II,CERIMON,"The diamonds of a most praised water"
III,II,CERIMON,"Do appear, to make the world twice rich. Live,"
III,II,CERIMON,"And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature,"
III,II,CERIMON,"Rare as you seem to be."
III,II,THAISA,"O dear Diana,"
III,II,THAISA,"Where am I? Where's my lord? What world is this?"
III,II,Second Gentleman,"Is not this strange?"
III,II,First Gentleman,"Most rare."
III,II,CERIMON,"Hush, my gentle neighbours!"
III,II,CERIMON,"Lend me your hands; to the next chamber bear her."
III,II,CERIMON,"Get linen: now this matter must be look'd to,"
III,II,CERIMON,"For her relapse is mortal. Come, come;"
III,II,CERIMON,"And AEsculapius guide us!"
III,III,PERICLES,"Most honour'd Cleon, I must needs be gone;"
III,III,PERICLES,"My twelve months are expired, and Tyrus stands"
III,III,PERICLES,"In a litigious peace. You, and your lady,"
III,III,PERICLES,"Take from my heart all thankfulness! The gods"
III,III,PERICLES,"Make up the rest upon you!"
III,III,CLEON,"Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you mortally,"
III,III,CLEON,"Yet glance full wanderingly on us."
III,III,DIONYZA,"O your sweet queen!"
III,III,DIONYZA,"That the strict fates had pleased you had brought her hither,"
III,III,DIONYZA,"To have bless'd mine eyes with her!"
III,III,PERICLES,"We cannot but obey"
III,III,PERICLES,"The powers above us. Could I rage and roar"
III,III,PERICLES,"As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end"
III,III,PERICLES,"Must be as 'tis. My gentle babe Marina, whom,"
III,III,PERICLES,"For she was born at sea, I have named so, here"
III,III,PERICLES,"I charge your charity withal, leaving her"
III,III,PERICLES,"The infant of your care; beseeching you"
III,III,PERICLES,"To give her princely training, that she may be"
III,III,PERICLES,"Manner'd as she is born."
III,III,CLEON,"Fear not, my lord, but think"
III,III,CLEON,"Your grace, that fed my country with your corn,"
III,III,CLEON,"For which the people's prayers still fall upon you,"
III,III,CLEON,"Must in your child be thought on. If neglection"
III,III,CLEON,"Should therein make me vile, the common body,"
III,III,CLEON,"By you relieved, would force me to my duty:"
III,III,CLEON,"But if to that my nature need a spur,"
III,III,CLEON,"The gods revenge it upon me and mine,"
III,III,CLEON,"To the end of generation!"
III,III,PERICLES,"I believe you;"
III,III,PERICLES,"Your honour and your goodness teach me to't,"
III,III,PERICLES,"Without your vows. Till she be married, madam,"
III,III,PERICLES,"By bright Diana, whom we honour, all"
III,III,PERICLES,"Unscissor'd shall this hair of mine remain,"
III,III,PERICLES,"Though I show ill in't. So I take my leave."
III,III,PERICLES,"Good madam, make me blessed in your care"
III,III,PERICLES,"In bringing up my child."
III,III,DIONYZA,"I have one myself,"
III,III,DIONYZA,"Who shall not be more dear to my respect"
III,III,DIONYZA,"Than yours, my lord."
III,III,PERICLES,"Madam, my thanks and prayers."
III,III,CLEON,"We'll bring your grace e'en to the edge o' the shore,"
III,III,CLEON,"Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune and"
III,III,CLEON,"The gentlest winds of heaven."
III,III,PERICLES,"I will embrace"
III,III,PERICLES,"Your offer. Come, dearest madam. O, no tears,"
III,III,PERICLES,"Lychorida, no tears:"
III,III,PERICLES,"Look to your little mistress, on whose grace"
III,III,PERICLES,"You may depend hereafter. Come, my lord."
III,IV,CERIMON,"Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels,"
III,IV,CERIMON,"Lay with you in your coffer: which are now"
III,IV,CERIMON,"At your command. Know you the character?"
III,IV,THAISA,"It is my lord's."
III,IV,THAISA,"That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember,"
III,IV,THAISA,"Even on my eaning time; but whether there"
III,IV,THAISA,"Deliver'd, by the holy gods,"
III,IV,THAISA,"I cannot rightly say. But since King Pericles,"
III,IV,THAISA,"My wedded lord, I ne'er shall see again,"
III,IV,THAISA,"A vestal livery will I take me to,"
III,IV,THAISA,"And never more have joy."
III,IV,CERIMON,"Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak,"
III,IV,CERIMON,"Diana's temple is not distant far,"
III,IV,CERIMON,"Where you may abide till your date expire."
III,IV,CERIMON,"Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine"
III,IV,CERIMON,"Shall there attend you."
III,IV,THAISA,"My recompense is thanks, that's all;"
III,IV,THAISA,"Yet my good will is great, though the gift small."
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do't:"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"'Tis but a blow, which never shall be known."
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Thou canst not do a thing in the world so soon,"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience,"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Which is but cold, inflaming love i' thy bosom,"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Inflame too nicely; nor let pity, which"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"A soldier to thy purpose."
IV,I,LEONINE,"I will do't; but yet she is a goodly creature."
IV,I,DIONYZA,"The fitter, then, the gods should have her. Here"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"she comes weeping for her only mistress' death."
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Thou art resolved?"
IV,I,LEONINE,"I am resolved."
IV,I,MARINA,"No, I will rob Tellus of her weed,"
IV,I,MARINA,"To strew thy green with flowers: the yellows, blues,"
IV,I,MARINA,"The purple violets, and marigolds,"
IV,I,MARINA,"Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave,"
IV,I,MARINA,"While summer-days do last. Ay me! poor maid,"
IV,I,MARINA,"Born in a tempest, when my mother died,"
IV,I,MARINA,"This world to me is like a lasting storm,"
IV,I,MARINA,"Whirring me from my friends."
IV,I,DIONYZA,"How now, Marina! why do you keep alone?"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"How chance my daughter is not with you? Do not"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Consume your blood with sorrowing: you have"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"A nurse of me. Lord, how your favour's changed"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"With this unprofitable woe!"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Come, give me your flowers, ere the sea mar it."
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Walk with Leonine; the air is quick there,"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. Come,"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her."
IV,I,MARINA,"No, I pray you;"
IV,I,MARINA,"I'll not bereave you of your servant."
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Come, come;"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"I love the king your father, and yourself,"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"With more than foreign heart. We every day"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Expect him here: when he shall come and find"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Our paragon to all reports thus blasted,"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"He will repent the breadth of his great voyage;"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you,"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Walk, and be cheerful once again; reserve"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"That excellent complexion, which did steal"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"The eyes of young and old. Care not for me"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"I can go home alone."
IV,I,MARINA,"Well, I will go;"
IV,I,MARINA,"But yet I have no desire to it."
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Come, come, I know 'tis good for you."
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least:"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Remember what I have said."
IV,I,LEONINE,"I warrant you, madam."
IV,I,DIONYZA,"I'll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while:"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"Pray, walk softly, do not heat your blood:"
IV,I,DIONYZA,"What! I must have a care of you."
IV,I,MARINA,"My thanks, sweet madam."
IV,I,MARINA,"Is this wind westerly that blows?"
IV,I,LEONINE,"South-west."
IV,I,MARINA,"When I was born, the wind was north."
IV,I,LEONINE,"Was't so?"
IV,I,MARINA,"My father, as nurse said, did never fear,"
IV,I,MARINA,"But cried 'Good seaman!' to the sailors, galling"
IV,I,MARINA,"His kingly hands, haling ropes;"
IV,I,MARINA,"And, clasping to the mast, endured a sea"
IV,I,MARINA,"That almost burst the deck."
IV,I,LEONINE,"When was this?"
IV,I,MARINA,"When I was born:"
IV,I,MARINA,"Never was waves nor wind more violent;"
IV,I,MARINA,"And from the ladder-tackle washes off"
IV,I,MARINA,"A canvas-climber. 'Ha!' says one, 'wilt out?'"
IV,I,MARINA,"And with a dropping industry they skip"
IV,I,MARINA,"From stem to stern: the boatswain whistles, and"
IV,I,MARINA,"The master calls, and trebles their confusion."
IV,I,LEONINE,"Come, say your prayers."
IV,I,MARINA,"What mean you?"
IV,I,LEONINE,"If you require a little space for prayer,"
IV,I,LEONINE,"I grant it: pray; but be not tedious,"
IV,I,LEONINE,"For the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn"
IV,I,LEONINE,"To do my work with haste."
IV,I,MARINA,"Why will you kill me?"
IV,I,LEONINE,"To satisfy my lady."
IV,I,MARINA,"Why would she have me kill'd?"
IV,I,MARINA,"Now, as I can remember, by my troth,"
IV,I,MARINA,"I never did her hurt in all my life:"
IV,I,MARINA,"I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn"
IV,I,MARINA,"To any living creature: believe me, la,"
IV,I,MARINA,"I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly:"
IV,I,MARINA,"I trod upon a worm against my will,"
IV,I,MARINA,"But I wept for it. How have I offended,"
IV,I,MARINA,"Wherein my death might yield her any profit,"
IV,I,MARINA,"Or my life imply her any danger?"
IV,I,LEONINE,"My commission"
IV,I,LEONINE,"Is not to reason of the deed, but do it."
IV,I,MARINA,"You will not do't for all the world, I hope."
IV,I,MARINA,"You are well favour'd, and your looks foreshow"
IV,I,MARINA,"You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately,"
IV,I,MARINA,"When you caught hurt in parting two that fought:"
IV,I,MARINA,"Good sooth, it show'd well in you: do so now:"
IV,I,MARINA,"Your lady seeks my life; come you between,"
IV,I,MARINA,"And save poor me, the weaker."
IV,I,LEONINE,"I am sworn,"
IV,I,LEONINE,"And will dispatch."
IV,I,First Pirate,"Hold, villain!"
IV,I,Second Pirate,"A prize! a prize!"
IV,I,Third Pirate,"Half-part, mates, half-part."
IV,I,Third Pirate,"Come, let's have her aboard suddenly."
IV,I,LEONINE,"These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes;"
IV,I,LEONINE,"And they have seized Marina. Let her go:"
IV,I,LEONINE,"There's no hope she will return. I'll swear"
IV,I,LEONINE,"she's dead,"
IV,I,LEONINE,"And thrown into the sea. But I'll see further:"
IV,I,LEONINE,"Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her,"
IV,I,LEONINE,"Not carry her aboard. If she remain,"
IV,I,LEONINE,"Whom they have ravish'd must by me be slain."
IV,II,Pandar,"Boult!"
IV,II,BOULT,"Sir?"
IV,II,Pandar,"Search the market narrowly; Mytilene is full of"
IV,II,Pandar,"gallants. We lost too much money this mart by being"
IV,II,Pandar,"too wenchless."
IV,II,Bawd,"We were never so much out of creatures. We have but"
IV,II,Bawd,"poor three, and they can do no more than they can"
IV,II,Bawd,"do; and they with continual action are even as good as rotten."
IV,II,Pandar,"Therefore let's have fresh ones, whate'er we pay for"
IV,II,Pandar,"them. If there be not a conscience to be used in"
IV,II,Pandar,"every trade, we shall never prosper."
IV,II,Bawd,"Thou sayest true: 'tis not our bringing up of poor"
IV,II,Bawd,"bastards,--as, I think, I have brought up some eleven--"
IV,II,BOULT,"Ay, to eleven; and brought them down again. But"
IV,II,BOULT,"shall I search the market?"
IV,II,Bawd,"What else, man? The stuff we have, a strong wind"
IV,II,Bawd,"will blow it to pieces, they are so pitifully sodden."
IV,II,Pandar,"Thou sayest true; they're too unwholesome, o'"
IV,II,Pandar,"conscience. The poor Transylvanian is dead, that"
IV,II,Pandar,"lay with the little baggage."
IV,II,BOULT,"Ay, she quickly pooped him; she made him roast-meat"
IV,II,BOULT,"for worms. But I'll go search the market."
IV,II,Pandar,"Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty a"
IV,II,Pandar,"proportion to live quietly, and so give over."
IV,II,Bawd,"Why to give over, I pray you? is it a shame to get"
IV,II,Bawd,"when we are old?"
IV,II,Pandar,"O, our credit comes not in like the commodity, nor"
IV,II,Pandar,"the commodity wages not with the danger: therefore,"
IV,II,Pandar,"if in our youths we could pick up some pretty"
IV,II,Pandar,"estate, 'twere not amiss to keep our door hatched."
IV,II,Pandar,"Besides, the sore terms we stand upon with the gods"
IV,II,Pandar,"will be strong with us for giving over."
IV,II,Bawd,"Come, other sorts offend as well as we."
IV,II,Pandar,"As well as we! ay, and better too; we offend worse."
IV,II,Pandar,"Neither is our profession any trade; it's no"
IV,II,Pandar,"calling. But here comes Boult."
IV,II,BOULT,"she's a virgin?"
IV,II,First Pirate,"O, sir, we doubt it not."
IV,II,BOULT,"Master, I have gone through for this piece, you see:"
IV,II,BOULT,"if you like her, so; if not, I have lost my earnest."
IV,II,Bawd,"Boult, has she any qualities?"
IV,II,BOULT,"She has a good face, speaks well, and has excellent"
IV,II,BOULT,"good clothes: there's no further necessity of"
IV,II,BOULT,"qualities can make her be refused."
IV,II,Bawd,"What's her price, Boult?"
IV,II,BOULT,"I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces."
IV,II,Pandar,"Well, follow me, my masters, you shall have your"
IV,II,Pandar,"money presently. Wife, take her in; instruct her"
IV,II,Pandar,"what she has to do, that she may not be raw in her"
IV,II,Pandar,"entertainment."
IV,II,Bawd,"Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her"
IV,II,Bawd,"hair, complexion, height, age, with warrant of her"
IV,II,Bawd,"virginity; and cry 'He that will give most shall"
IV,II,Bawd,"have her first.' Such a maidenhead were no cheap"
IV,II,Bawd,"thing, if men were as they have been. Get this done"
IV,II,Bawd,"as I command you."
IV,II,BOULT,"Performance shall follow."
IV,II,MARINA,"Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow!"
IV,II,MARINA,"He should have struck, not spoke; or that these pirates,"
IV,II,MARINA,"Not enough barbarous, had not o'erboard thrown me"
IV,II,MARINA,"For to seek my mother!"
IV,II,Bawd,"Why lament you, pretty one?"
IV,II,MARINA,"That I am pretty."
IV,II,Bawd,"Come, the gods have done their part in you."
IV,II,MARINA,"I accuse them not."
IV,II,Bawd,"You are light into my hands, where you are like to live."
IV,II,MARINA,"The more my fault"
IV,II,MARINA,"To scape his hands where I was like to die."
IV,II,Bawd,"Ay, and you shall live in pleasure."
IV,II,MARINA,"No."
IV,II,Bawd,"Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen of all"
IV,II,Bawd,"fashions: you shall fare well; you shall have the"
IV,II,Bawd,"difference of all complexions. What! do you stop your ears?"
IV,II,MARINA,"Are you a woman?"
IV,II,Bawd,"What would you have me be, an I be not a woman?"
IV,II,MARINA,"An honest woman, or not a woman."
IV,II,Bawd,"Marry, whip thee, gosling: I think I shall have"
IV,II,Bawd,"something to do with you. Come, you're a young"
IV,II,Bawd,"foolish sapling, and must be bowed as I would have"
IV,II,Bawd,"you."
IV,II,MARINA,"The gods defend me!"
IV,II,Bawd,"If it please the gods to defend you by men, then men"
IV,II,Bawd,"must comfort you, men must feed you, men must stir"
IV,II,Bawd,"you up. Boult's returned."
IV,II,Bawd,"Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market?"
IV,II,BOULT,"I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs;"
IV,II,BOULT,"I have drawn her picture with my voice."
IV,II,Bawd,"And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the"
IV,II,Bawd,"inclination of the people, especially of the younger sort?"
IV,II,BOULT,"'Faith, they listened to me as they would have"
IV,II,BOULT,"hearkened to their father's testament. There was a"
IV,II,BOULT,"Spaniard's mouth so watered, that he went to bed to"
IV,II,BOULT,"her very description."
IV,II,Bawd,"We shall have him here to-morrow with his best ruff on."
IV,II,BOULT,"To-night, to-night. But, mistress, do you know the"
IV,II,BOULT,"French knight that cowers i' the hams?"
IV,II,Bawd,"Who, Monsieur Veroles?"
IV,II,BOULT,"Ay, he: he offered to cut a caper at the"
IV,II,BOULT,"proclamation; but he made a groan at it, and swore"
IV,II,BOULT,"he would see her to-morrow."
IV,II,Bawd,"Well, well; as for him, he brought his disease"
IV,II,Bawd,"hither: here he does but repair it. I know he will"
IV,II,Bawd,"come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns in the"
IV,II,Bawd,"sun."
IV,II,BOULT,"Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we"
IV,II,BOULT,"should lodge them with this sign."
IV,II,Bawd,"have fortunes coming upon you. Mark me: you must"
IV,II,Bawd,"seem to do that fearfully which you commit"
IV,II,Bawd,"willingly, despise profit where you have most gain."
IV,II,Bawd,"To weep that you live as ye do makes pity in your"
IV,II,Bawd,"lovers: seldom but that pity begets you a good"
IV,II,Bawd,"opinion, and that opinion a mere profit."
IV,II,MARINA,"I understand you not."
IV,II,BOULT,"O, take her home, mistress, take her home: these"
IV,II,BOULT,"blushes of hers must be quenched with some present practise."
IV,II,Bawd,"Thou sayest true, i' faith, so they must; for your"
IV,II,Bawd,"bride goes to that with shame which is her way to go"
IV,II,Bawd,"with warrant."
IV,II,BOULT,"'Faith, some do, and some do not. But, mistress, if"
IV,II,BOULT,"I have bargained for the joint,--"
IV,II,Bawd,"Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit."
IV,II,BOULT,"I may so."
IV,II,Bawd,"Who should deny it? Come, young one, I like the"
IV,II,Bawd,"manner of your garments well."
IV,II,BOULT,"Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed yet."
IV,II,Bawd,"Boult, spend thou that in the town: report what a"
IV,II,Bawd,"sojourner we have; you'll lose nothing by custom."
IV,II,Bawd,"When nature flamed this piece, she meant thee a good"
IV,II,Bawd,"turn; therefore say what a paragon she is, and thou"
IV,II,Bawd,"hast the harvest out of thine own report."
IV,II,BOULT,"I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake"
IV,II,BOULT,"the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty stir up"
IV,II,BOULT,"the lewdly-inclined. I'll bring home some to-night."
IV,II,Bawd,"Come your ways; follow me."
IV,II,MARINA,"If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep,"
IV,II,MARINA,"Untied I still my virgin knot will keep."
IV,II,MARINA,"Diana, aid my purpose!"
IV,II,Bawd,"What have we to do with Diana? Pray you, will you go with us?"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone?"
IV,III,CLEON,"O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter"
IV,III,CLEON,"The sun and moon ne'er look'd upon!"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"I think"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"You'll turn a child again."
IV,III,CLEON,"Were I chief lord of all this spacious world,"
IV,III,CLEON,"I'ld give it to undo the deed. O lady,"
IV,III,CLEON,"Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess"
IV,III,CLEON,"To equal any single crown o' the earth"
IV,III,CLEON,"I' the justice of compare! O villain Leonine!"
IV,III,CLEON,"Whom thou hast poison'd too:"
IV,III,CLEON,"If thou hadst drunk to him, 't had been a kindness"
IV,III,CLEON,"Becoming well thy fact: what canst thou say"
IV,III,CLEON,"When noble Pericles shall demand his child?"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"That she is dead. Nurses are not the fates,"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"To foster it, nor ever to preserve."
IV,III,DIONYZA,"She died at night; I'll say so. Who can cross it?"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"Unless you play the pious innocent,"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"And for an honest attribute cry out"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"'She died by foul play.'"
IV,III,CLEON,"O, go to. Well, well,"
IV,III,CLEON,"Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods"
IV,III,CLEON,"Do like this worst."
IV,III,DIONYZA,"Be one of those that think"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence,"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"And open this to Pericles. I do shame"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"To think of what a noble strain you are,"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"And of how coward a spirit."
IV,III,CLEON,"To such proceeding"
IV,III,CLEON,"Who ever but his approbation added,"
IV,III,CLEON,"Though not his prime consent, he did not flow"
IV,III,CLEON,"From honourable sources."
IV,III,DIONYZA,"Be it so, then:"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"Yet none does know, but you, how she came dead,"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"Nor none can know, Leonine being gone."
IV,III,DIONYZA,"She did disdain my child, and stood between"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"Her and her fortunes: none would look on her,"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"But cast their gazes on Marina's face;"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through;"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"And though you call my course unnatural,"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"You not your child well loving, yet I find"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"It greets me as an enterprise of kindness"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"Perform'd to your sole daughter."
IV,III,CLEON,"Heavens forgive it!"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"And as for Pericles,"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"What should he say? We wept after her hearse,"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"And yet we mourn: her monument"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"Is almost finish'd, and her epitaphs"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"In glittering golden characters express"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"A general praise to her, and care in us"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"At whose expense 'tis done."
IV,III,CLEON,"Thou art like the harpy,"
IV,III,CLEON,"Which, to betray, dost, with thine angel's face,"
IV,III,CLEON,"Seize with thine eagle's talons."
IV,III,DIONYZA,"You are like one that superstitiously"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"Doth swear to the gods that winter kills the flies:"
IV,III,DIONYZA,"But yet I know you'll do as I advise."
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Thus time we waste, and longest leagues make short;"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Sail seas in cockles, have an wish but for't;"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Making, to take your imagination,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"From bourn to bourn, region to region."
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"By you being pardon'd, we commit no crime"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"To use one language in each several clime"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Where our scenes seem to live. I do beseech you"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"To learn of me, who stand i' the gaps to teach you,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"The stages of our story. Pericles"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Is now again thwarting the wayward seas,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Attended on by many a lord and knight."
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"To see his daughter, all his life's delight."
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Advanced in time to great and high estate,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Is left to govern. Bear you it in mind,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Old Helicanus goes along behind."
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Well-sailing ships and bounteous winds have brought"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"This king to Tarsus,--think his pilot thought;"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"So with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on,--"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"To fetch his daughter home, who first is gone."
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Like motes and shadows see them move awhile;"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Your ears unto your eyes I'll reconcile."
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"See how belief may suffer by foul show!"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"This borrow'd passion stands for true old woe;"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"And Pericles, in sorrow all devour'd,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"With sighs shot through, and biggest tears"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"o'ershower'd,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Leaves Tarsus and again embarks. He swears"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs:"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"He puts on sackcloth, and to sea. He bears"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"A tempest, which his mortal vessel tears,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"And yet he rides it out. Now please you wit."
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"The epitaph is for Marina writ"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"By wicked Dionyza."
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"'The fairest, sweet'st, and best lies here,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Who wither'd in her spring of year."
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"She was of Tyrus the king's daughter,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"On whom foul death hath made this slaughter;"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Marina was she call'd; and at her birth,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Thetis, being proud, swallow'd some part o' the earth:"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Therefore the earth, fearing to be o'erflow'd,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Hath Thetis' birth-child on the heavens bestow'd:"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Wherefore she does, and swears she'll never stint,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Make raging battery upon shores of flint.'"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"No visor does become black villany"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"So well as soft and tender flattery."
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"Let Pericles believe his daughter's dead,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"And bear his courses to be ordered"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"By Lady Fortune; while our scene must play"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"His daughter's woe and heavy well-a-day"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"In her unholy service. Patience, then,"
IV,SCENE IV,GOWER,"And think you now are all in Mytilene."
IV,V,First Gentleman,"Did you ever hear the like?"
IV,V,Second Gentleman,"No, nor never shall do in such a place as this, she"
IV,V,Second Gentleman,"being once gone."
IV,V,First Gentleman,"But to have divinity preached there! did you ever"
IV,V,First Gentleman,"dream of such a thing?"
IV,V,Second Gentleman,"No, no. Come, I am for no more bawdy-houses:"
IV,V,Second Gentleman,"shall's go hear the vestals sing?"
IV,V,First Gentleman,"I'll do any thing now that is virtuous; but I"
IV,V,First Gentleman,"am out of the road of rutting for ever."
IV,VI,Pandar,"Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her she"
IV,VI,Pandar,"had ne'er come here."
IV,VI,Bawd,"Fie, fie upon her! she's able to freeze the god"
IV,VI,Bawd,"Priapus, and undo a whole generation. We must"
IV,VI,Bawd,"either get her ravished, or be rid of her. When she"
IV,VI,Bawd,"should do for clients her fitment, and do me the"
IV,VI,Bawd,"kindness of our profession, she has me her quirks,"
IV,VI,Bawd,"her reasons, her master reasons, her prayers, her"
IV,VI,Bawd,"knees; that she would make a puritan of the devil,"
IV,VI,Bawd,"if he should cheapen a kiss of her."
IV,VI,BOULT,"'Faith, I must ravish her, or she'll disfurnish us"
IV,VI,BOULT,"of all our cavaliers, and make our swearers priests."
IV,VI,Pandar,"Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for me!"
IV,VI,Bawd,"'Faith, there's no way to be rid on't but by the"
IV,VI,Bawd,"way to the pox. Here comes the Lord Lysimachus disguised."
IV,VI,BOULT,"We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish"
IV,VI,BOULT,"baggage would but give way to customers."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"How now! How a dozen of virginities?"
IV,VI,Bawd,"Now, the gods to-bless your honour!"
IV,VI,BOULT,"I am glad to see your honour in good health."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"You may so; 'tis the better for you that your"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"resorters stand upon sound legs. How now!"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"wholesome iniquity have you that a man may deal"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"withal, and defy the surgeon?"
IV,VI,Bawd,"We have here one, sir, if she would--but there never"
IV,VI,Bawd,"came her like in Mytilene."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"If she'ld do the deed of darkness, thou wouldst say."
IV,VI,Bawd,"Your honour knows what 'tis to say well enough."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Well, call forth, call forth."
IV,VI,BOULT,"For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you shall"
IV,VI,BOULT,"see a rose; and she were a rose indeed, if she had but--"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"What, prithee?"
IV,VI,BOULT,"O, sir, I can be modest."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"That dignifies the renown of a bawd, no less than it"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"gives a good report to a number to be chaste."
IV,VI,Bawd,"Here comes that which grows to the stalk; never"
IV,VI,Bawd,"plucked yet, I can assure you."
IV,VI,Bawd,"Is she not a fair creature?"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"'Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at sea."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Well, there's for you: leave us."
IV,VI,Bawd,"I beseech your honour, give me leave: a word, and"
IV,VI,Bawd,"I'll have done presently."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"I beseech you, do."
IV,VI,Bawd,"an honourable man."
IV,VI,MARINA,"I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note him."
IV,VI,Bawd,"Next, he's the governor of this country, and a man"
IV,VI,Bawd,"whom I am bound to."
IV,VI,MARINA,"If he govern the country, you are bound to him"
IV,VI,MARINA,"indeed; but how honourable he is in that, I know not."
IV,VI,Bawd,"Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, will"
IV,VI,Bawd,"you use him kindly? He will line your apron with gold."
IV,VI,MARINA,"What he will do graciously, I will thankfully receive."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Ha' you done?"
IV,VI,Bawd,"My lord, she's not paced yet: you must take some"
IV,VI,Bawd,"pains to work her to your manage. Come, we will"
IV,VI,Bawd,"leave his honour and her together. Go thy ways."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Now, pretty one, how long have you been at this trade?"
IV,VI,MARINA,"What trade, sir?"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Why, I cannot name't but I shall offend."
IV,VI,MARINA,"I cannot be offended with my trade. Please you to name it."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"How long have you been of this profession?"
IV,VI,MARINA,"E'er since I can remember."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"five or at seven?"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Earlier too, sir, if now I be one."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Why, the house you dwell in proclaims you to be a"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"creature of sale."
IV,VI,MARINA,"Do you know this house to be a place of such resort,"
IV,VI,MARINA,"and will come into 't? I hear say you are of"
IV,VI,MARINA,"honourable parts, and are the governor of this place."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Why, hath your principal made known unto you who I am?"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Who is my principal?"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Why, your herb-woman; she that sets seeds and roots"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"of shame and iniquity. O, you have heard something"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"of my power, and so stand aloof for more serious"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"authority shall not see thee, or else look friendly"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"upon thee. Come, bring me to some private place:"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"come, come."
IV,VI,MARINA,"If you were born to honour, show it now;"
IV,VI,MARINA,"If put upon you, make the judgment good"
IV,VI,MARINA,"That thought you worthy of it."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"How's this? how's this? Some more; be sage."
IV,VI,MARINA,"For me,"
IV,VI,MARINA,"That am a maid, though most ungentle fortune"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Have placed me in this sty, where, since I came,"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Diseases have been sold dearer than physic,"
IV,VI,MARINA,"O, that the gods"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Would set me free from this unhallow'd place,"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Though they did change me to the meanest bird"
IV,VI,MARINA,"That flies i' the purer air!"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"I did not think"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Thou couldst have spoke so well; ne'er dream'd thou couldst."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Had I brought hither a corrupted mind,"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Thy speech had alter'd it. Hold, here's gold for thee:"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Persever in that clear way thou goest,"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"And the gods strengthen thee!"
IV,VI,MARINA,"The good gods preserve you!"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"For me, be you thoughten"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"That I came with no ill intent; for to me"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"The very doors and windows savour vilely."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Fare thee well. Thou art a piece of virtue, and"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"I doubt not but thy training hath been noble."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Hold, here's more gold for thee."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"A curse upon him, die he like a thief,"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"That robs thee of thy goodness! If thou dost"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Hear from me, it shall be for thy good."
IV,VI,BOULT,"I beseech your honour, one piece for me."
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper!"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Your house, but for this virgin that doth prop it,"
IV,VI,LYSIMACHUS,"Would sink and overwhelm you. Away!"
IV,VI,BOULT,"How's this? We must take another course with you."
IV,VI,BOULT,"If your peevish chastity, which is not worth a"
IV,VI,BOULT,"breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope,"
IV,VI,BOULT,"shall undo a whole household, let me be gelded like"
IV,VI,BOULT,"a spaniel. Come your ways."
IV,VI,MARINA,"Whither would you have me?"
IV,VI,BOULT,"I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common"
IV,VI,BOULT,"hangman shall execute it. Come your ways. We'll"
IV,VI,BOULT,"have no more gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I say."
IV,VI,Bawd,"How now! what's the matter?"
IV,VI,BOULT,"Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken holy"
IV,VI,BOULT,"words to the Lord Lysimachus."
IV,VI,Bawd,"O abominable!"
IV,VI,BOULT,"She makes our profession as it were to stink afore"
IV,VI,BOULT,"the face of the gods."
IV,VI,Bawd,"Marry, hang her up for ever!"
IV,VI,BOULT,"The nobleman would have dealt with her like a"
IV,VI,BOULT,"nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a"
IV,VI,BOULT,"snowball; saying his prayers too."
IV,VI,Bawd,"Boult, take her away; use her at thy pleasure:"
IV,VI,Bawd,"crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest malleable."
IV,VI,BOULT,"An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she"
IV,VI,BOULT,"is, she shall be ploughed."
IV,VI,MARINA,"Hark, hark, you gods!"
IV,VI,Bawd,"She conjures: away with her! Would she had never"
IV,VI,Bawd,"come within my doors! Marry, hang you! She's born"
IV,VI,Bawd,"to undo us. Will you not go the way of women-kind?"
IV,VI,Bawd,"Marry, come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays!"
IV,VI,BOULT,"Come, mistress; come your ways with me."
IV,VI,MARINA,"Whither wilt thou have me?"
IV,VI,BOULT,"To take from you the jewel you hold so dear."
IV,VI,MARINA,"Prithee, tell me one thing first."
IV,VI,BOULT,"Come now, your one thing."
IV,VI,MARINA,"What canst thou wish thine enemy to be?"
IV,VI,BOULT,"Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather, my mistress."
IV,VI,MARINA,"Neither of these are so bad as thou art,"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Since they do better thee in their command."
IV,VI,MARINA,"Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Of hell would not in reputation change:"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Thou art the damned doorkeeper to every"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Coistrel that comes inquiring for his Tib;"
IV,VI,MARINA,"To the choleric fisting of every rogue"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Thy ear is liable; thy food is such"
IV,VI,MARINA,"As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs."
IV,VI,BOULT,"What would you have me do? go to the wars, would"
IV,VI,BOULT,"you? where a man may serve seven years for the loss"
IV,VI,BOULT,"of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to"
IV,VI,BOULT,"buy him a wooden one?"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Old receptacles, or common shores, of filth;"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Serve by indenture to the common hangman:"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Any of these ways are yet better than this;"
IV,VI,MARINA,"For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak,"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Would own a name too dear. O, that the gods"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Would safely deliver me from this place!"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Here, here's gold for thee."
IV,VI,MARINA,"If that thy master would gain by thee,"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance,"
IV,VI,MARINA,"With other virtues, which I'll keep from boast:"
IV,VI,MARINA,"And I will undertake all these to teach."
IV,VI,MARINA,"I doubt not but this populous city will"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Yield many scholars."
IV,VI,BOULT,"But can you teach all this you speak of?"
IV,VI,MARINA,"Prove that I cannot, take me home again,"
IV,VI,MARINA,"And prostitute me to the basest groom"
IV,VI,MARINA,"That doth frequent your house."
IV,VI,BOULT,"Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I can"
IV,VI,BOULT,"place thee, I will."
IV,VI,MARINA,"But amongst honest women."
IV,VI,BOULT,"'Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them."
IV,VI,BOULT,"But since my master and mistress have bought you,"
IV,VI,BOULT,"there's no going but by their consent: therefore I"
IV,VI,BOULT,"will make them acquainted with your purpose, and I"
IV,VI,BOULT,"doubt not but I shall find them tractable enough."
IV,VI,BOULT,"Come, I'll do for thee what I can; come your ways."
V,I,Tyrian Sailor,"he can resolve you."
V,I,Tyrian Sailor,"O, here he is."
V,I,Tyrian Sailor,"Sir, there's a barge put off from Mytilene,"
V,I,Tyrian Sailor,"And in it is Lysimachus the governor,"
V,I,Tyrian Sailor,"Who craves to come aboard. What is your will?"
V,I,HELICANUS,"That he have his. Call up some gentlemen."
V,I,Tyrian Sailor,"Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls."
V,I,First Gentleman,"Doth your lordship call?"
V,I,HELICANUS,"Gentlemen, there's some of worth would come aboard;"
V,I,HELICANUS,"I pray ye, greet them fairly."
V,I,Tyrian Sailor,"Sir,"
V,I,Tyrian Sailor,"This is the man that can, in aught you would,"
V,I,Tyrian Sailor,"Resolve you."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Hail, reverend sir! the gods preserve you!"
V,I,HELICANUS,"And you, sir, to outlive the age I am,"
V,I,HELICANUS,"And die as I would do."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"You wish me well."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Being on shore, honouring of Neptune's triumphs,"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us,"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"I made to it, to know of whence you are."
V,I,HELICANUS,"First, what is your place?"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"I am the governor of this place you lie before."
V,I,HELICANUS,"Sir,"
V,I,HELICANUS,"Our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king;"
V,I,HELICANUS,"A man who for this three months hath not spoken"
V,I,HELICANUS,"To any one, nor taken sustenance"
V,I,HELICANUS,"But to prorogue his grief."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Upon what ground is his distemperature?"
V,I,HELICANUS,"'Twould be too tedious to repeat;"
V,I,HELICANUS,"But the main grief springs from the loss"
V,I,HELICANUS,"Of a beloved daughter and a wife."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"May we not see him?"
V,I,HELICANUS,"You may;"
V,I,HELICANUS,"But bootless is your sight: he will not speak To any."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Yet let me obtain my wish."
V,I,HELICANUS,"Behold him."
V,I,HELICANUS,"This was a goodly person,"
V,I,HELICANUS,"Till the disaster that, one mortal night,"
V,I,HELICANUS,"Drove him to this."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Sir king, all hail! the gods preserve you!"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Hail, royal sir!"
V,I,HELICANUS,"It is in vain; he will not speak to you."
V,I,First Lord,"Sir,"
V,I,First Lord,"We have a maid in Mytilene, I durst wager,"
V,I,First Lord,"Would win some words of him."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"'Tis well bethought."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"She questionless with her sweet harmony"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"And other chosen attractions, would allure,"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"And make a battery through his deafen'd parts,"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Which now are midway stopp'd:"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"She is all happy as the fairest of all,"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"And, with her fellow maids is now upon"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"The leafy shelter that abuts against"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"The island's side."
V,I,HELICANUS,"Sure, all's effectless; yet nothing we'll omit"
V,I,HELICANUS,"That bears recovery's name. But, since your kindness"
V,I,HELICANUS,"We have stretch'd thus far, let us beseech you"
V,I,HELICANUS,"That for our gold we may provision have,"
V,I,HELICANUS,"Wherein we are not destitute for want,"
V,I,HELICANUS,"But weary for the staleness."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"O, sir, a courtesy"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Which if we should deny, the most just gods"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"For every graff would send a caterpillar,"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"And so afflict our province. Yet once more"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Let me entreat to know at large the cause"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Of your king's sorrow."
V,I,HELICANUS,"Sit, sir, I will recount it to you:"
V,I,HELICANUS,"But, see, I am prevented."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"O, here is"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"The lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one!"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Is't not a goodly presence?"
V,I,HELICANUS,"She's a gallant lady."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"She's such a one, that, were I well assured"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Came of a gentle kind and noble stock,"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"I'ld wish no better choice, and think me rarely wed."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Fair one, all goodness that consists in bounty"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Expect even here, where is a kingly patient:"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"If that thy prosperous and artificial feat"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Can draw him but to answer thee in aught,"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"As thy desires can wish."
V,I,MARINA,"Sir, I will use"
V,I,MARINA,"My utmost skill in his recovery, Provided"
V,I,MARINA,"That none but I and my companion maid"
V,I,MARINA,"Be suffer'd to come near him."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Come, let us leave her;"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"And the gods make her prosperous!"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Mark'd he your music?"
V,I,MARINA,"No, nor look'd on us."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"See, she will speak to him."
V,I,MARINA,"Hail, sir! my lord, lend ear."
V,I,PERICLES,"Hum, ha!"
V,I,MARINA,"I am a maid,"
V,I,MARINA,"My lord, that ne'er before invited eyes,"
V,I,MARINA,"But have been gazed on like a comet: she speaks,"
V,I,MARINA,"My lord, that, may be, hath endured a grief"
V,I,MARINA,"Might equal yours, if both were justly weigh'd."
V,I,MARINA,"Though wayward fortune did malign my state,"
V,I,MARINA,"My derivation was from ancestors"
V,I,MARINA,"Who stood equivalent with mighty kings:"
V,I,MARINA,"But time hath rooted out my parentage,"
V,I,MARINA,"And to the world and awkward casualties"
V,I,MARINA,"Bound me in servitude."
V,I,MARINA,"I will desist;"
V,I,MARINA,"But there is something glows upon my cheek,"
V,I,MARINA,"And whispers in mine ear, 'Go not till he speak.'"
V,I,PERICLES,"My fortunes--parentage--good parentage--"
V,I,PERICLES,"To equal mine!--was it not thus? what say you?"
V,I,MARINA,"I said, my lord, if you did know my parentage,"
V,I,MARINA,"You would not do me violence."
V,I,PERICLES,"I do think so. Pray you, turn your eyes upon me."
V,I,PERICLES,"You are like something that--What country-woman?"
V,I,PERICLES,"Here of these shores?"
V,I,MARINA,"No, nor of any shores:"
V,I,MARINA,"Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am"
V,I,MARINA,"No other than I appear."
V,I,PERICLES,"I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping."
V,I,PERICLES,"My dearest wife was like this maid, and such a one"
V,I,PERICLES,"My daughter might have been: my queen's square brows;"
V,I,PERICLES,"Her stature to an inch; as wand-like straight;"
V,I,PERICLES,"As silver-voiced; her eyes as jewel-like"
V,I,PERICLES,"And cased as richly; in pace another Juno;"
V,I,PERICLES,"Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry,"
V,I,PERICLES,"The more she gives them speech. Where do you live?"
V,I,MARINA,"Where I am but a stranger: from the deck"
V,I,MARINA,"You may discern the place."
V,I,PERICLES,"Where were you bred?"
V,I,PERICLES,"And how achieved you these endowments, which"
V,I,PERICLES,"You make more rich to owe?"
V,I,MARINA,"If I should tell my history, it would seem"
V,I,MARINA,"Like lies disdain'd in the reporting."
V,I,PERICLES,"Prithee, speak:"
V,I,PERICLES,"Falseness cannot come from thee; for thou look'st"
V,I,PERICLES,"Modest as Justice, and thou seem'st a palace"
V,I,PERICLES,"For the crown'd Truth to dwell in: I will"
V,I,PERICLES,"believe thee,"
V,I,PERICLES,"And make my senses credit thy relation"
V,I,PERICLES,"To points that seem impossible; for thou look'st"
V,I,PERICLES,"Like one I loved indeed. What were thy friends?"
V,I,PERICLES,"Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back--"
V,I,PERICLES,"Which was when I perceived thee--that thou camest"
V,I,PERICLES,"From good descending?"
V,I,MARINA,"So indeed I did."
V,I,PERICLES,"Report thy parentage. I think thou said'st"
V,I,PERICLES,"Thou hadst been toss'd from wrong to injury,"
V,I,PERICLES,"And that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine,"
V,I,PERICLES,"If both were open'd."
V,I,MARINA,"Some such thing"
V,I,MARINA,"I said, and said no more but what my thoughts"
V,I,MARINA,"Did warrant me was likely."
V,I,PERICLES,"Tell thy story;"
V,I,PERICLES,"If thine consider'd prove the thousandth part"
V,I,PERICLES,"Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I"
V,I,PERICLES,"Have suffer'd like a girl: yet thou dost look"
V,I,PERICLES,"Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling"
V,I,PERICLES,"Extremity out of act. What were thy friends?"
V,I,PERICLES,"How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind virgin?"
V,I,PERICLES,"Recount, I do beseech thee: come, sit by me."
V,I,MARINA,"My name is Marina."
V,I,PERICLES,"O, I am mock'd,"
V,I,PERICLES,"And thou by some incensed god sent hither"
V,I,PERICLES,"To make the world to laugh at me."
V,I,MARINA,"Patience, good sir,"
V,I,MARINA,"Or here I'll cease."
V,I,PERICLES,"Nay, I'll be patient."
V,I,PERICLES,"Thou little know'st how thou dost startle me,"
V,I,PERICLES,"To call thyself Marina."
V,I,MARINA,"The name"
V,I,MARINA,"Was given me by one that had some power,"
V,I,MARINA,"My father, and a king."
V,I,PERICLES,"How! a king's daughter?"
V,I,PERICLES,"And call'd Marina?"
V,I,MARINA,"You said you would believe me;"
V,I,MARINA,"But, not to be a troubler of your peace,"
V,I,MARINA,"I will end here."
V,I,PERICLES,"But are you flesh and blood?"
V,I,PERICLES,"Have you a working pulse? and are no fairy?"
V,I,PERICLES,"Motion! Well; speak on. Where were you born?"
V,I,PERICLES,"And wherefore call'd Marina?"
V,I,MARINA,"Call'd Marina"
V,I,MARINA,"For I was born at sea."
V,I,PERICLES,"At sea! what mother?"
V,I,MARINA,"My mother was the daughter of a king;"
V,I,MARINA,"Who died the minute I was born,"
V,I,MARINA,"As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft"
V,I,MARINA,"Deliver'd weeping."
V,I,PERICLES,"O, stop there a little!"
V,I,PERICLES,"This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep"
V,I,PERICLES,"Did mock sad fools withal: this cannot be:"
V,I,PERICLES,"My daughter's buried. Well: where were you bred?"
V,I,PERICLES,"I'll hear you more, to the bottom of your story,"
V,I,PERICLES,"And never interrupt you."
V,I,MARINA,"You scorn: believe me, 'twere best I did give o'er."
V,I,PERICLES,"I will believe you by the syllable"
V,I,PERICLES,"Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave:"
V,I,PERICLES,"How came you in these parts? where were you bred?"
V,I,MARINA,"The king my father did in Tarsus leave me;"
V,I,MARINA,"Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife,"
V,I,MARINA,"Did seek to murder me: and having woo'd"
V,I,MARINA,"A villain to attempt it, who having drawn to do't,"
V,I,MARINA,"A crew of pirates came and rescued me;"
V,I,MARINA,"Brought me to Mytilene. But, good sir,"
V,I,MARINA,"Whither will you have me? Why do you weep?"
V,I,MARINA,"It may be,"
V,I,MARINA,"You think me an impostor: no, good faith;"
V,I,MARINA,"I am the daughter to King Pericles,"
V,I,MARINA,"If good King Pericles be."
V,I,PERICLES,"Ho, Helicanus!"
V,I,HELICANUS,"Calls my lord?"
V,I,PERICLES,"Thou art a grave and noble counsellor,"
V,I,PERICLES,"Most wise in general: tell me, if thou canst,"
V,I,PERICLES,"What this maid is, or what is like to be,"
V,I,PERICLES,"That thus hath made me weep?"
V,I,HELICANUS,"I know not; but"
V,I,HELICANUS,"Here is the regent, sir, of Mytilene"
V,I,HELICANUS,"Speaks nobly of her."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"She would never tell"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Her parentage; being demanded that,"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"She would sit still and weep."
V,I,PERICLES,"O Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir;"
V,I,PERICLES,"Give me a gash, put me to present pain;"
V,I,PERICLES,"Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me"
V,I,PERICLES,"O'erbear the shores of my mortality,"
V,I,PERICLES,"And drown me with their sweetness. O, come hither,"
V,I,PERICLES,"Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget;"
V,I,PERICLES,"Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tarsus,"
V,I,PERICLES,"And found at sea again! O Helicanus,"
V,I,PERICLES,"Down on thy knees, thank the holy gods as loud"
V,I,PERICLES,"As thunder threatens us: this is Marina."
V,I,PERICLES,"What was thy mother's name? tell me but that,"
V,I,PERICLES,"For truth can never be confirm'd enough,"
V,I,PERICLES,"Though doubts did ever sleep."
V,I,MARINA,"First, sir, I pray,"
V,I,MARINA,"What is your title?"
V,I,PERICLES,"I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now"
V,I,PERICLES,"My drown'd queen's name, as in the rest you said"
V,I,PERICLES,"Thou hast been godlike perfect,"
V,I,PERICLES,"The heir of kingdoms and another like"
V,I,PERICLES,"To Pericles thy father."
V,I,MARINA,"Is it no more to be your daughter than"
V,I,MARINA,"To say my mother's name was Thaisa?"
V,I,MARINA,"Thaisa was my mother, who did end"
V,I,MARINA,"The minute I began."
V,I,PERICLES,"Now, blessing on thee! rise; thou art my child."
V,I,PERICLES,"Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus;"
V,I,PERICLES,"She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been,"
V,I,PERICLES,"By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all;"
V,I,PERICLES,"When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge"
V,I,PERICLES,"She is thy very princess. Who is this?"
V,I,HELICANUS,"Sir, 'tis the governor of Mytilene,"
V,I,HELICANUS,"Who, hearing of your melancholy state,"
V,I,HELICANUS,"Did come to see you."
V,I,PERICLES,"I embrace you."
V,I,PERICLES,"Give me my robes. I am wild in my beholding."
V,I,PERICLES,"O heavens bless my girl! But, hark, what music?"
V,I,PERICLES,"Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him"
V,I,PERICLES,"O'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt,"
V,I,PERICLES,"How sure you are my daughter. But, what music?"
V,I,HELICANUS,"My lord, I hear none."
V,I,PERICLES,"None!"
V,I,PERICLES,"The music of the spheres! List, my Marina."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"It is not good to cross him; give him way."
V,I,PERICLES,"Rarest sounds! Do ye not hear?"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"My lord, I hear."
V,I,PERICLES,"Most heavenly music!"
V,I,PERICLES,"It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber"
V,I,PERICLES,"Hangs upon mine eyes: let me rest."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"A pillow for his head:"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"So, leave him all. Well, my companion friends,"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"If this but answer to my just belief,"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"I'll well remember you."
V,I,DIANA,"My temple stands in Ephesus: hie thee thither,"
V,I,DIANA,"And do upon mine altar sacrifice."
V,I,DIANA,"There, when my maiden priests are met together,"
V,I,DIANA,"Before the people all,"
V,I,DIANA,"Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife:"
V,I,DIANA,"To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call"
V,I,DIANA,"And give them repetition to the life."
V,I,DIANA,"Or perform my bidding, or thou livest in woe;"
V,I,DIANA,"Do it, and happy; by my silver bow!"
V,I,DIANA,"Awake, and tell thy dream."
V,I,PERICLES,"Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,"
V,I,PERICLES,"I will obey thee. Helicanus!"
V,I,HELICANUS,"Sir?"
V,I,PERICLES,"My purpose was for Tarsus, there to strike"
V,I,PERICLES,"The inhospitable Cleon; but I am"
V,I,PERICLES,"For other service first: toward Ephesus"
V,I,PERICLES,"Turn our blown sails; eftsoons I'll tell thee why."
V,I,PERICLES,"Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,"
V,I,PERICLES,"And give you gold for such provision"
V,I,PERICLES,"As our intents will need?"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Sir,"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"With all my heart; and, when you come ashore,"
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"I have another suit."
V,I,PERICLES,"You shall prevail,"
V,I,PERICLES,"Were it to woo my daughter; for it seems"
V,I,PERICLES,"You have been noble towards her."
V,I,LYSIMACHUS,"Sir, lend me your arm."
V,I,PERICLES,"Come, my Marina."
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"Now our sands are almost run;"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"More a little, and then dumb."
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"This, my last boon, give me,"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"For such kindness must relieve me,"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"That you aptly will suppose"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"What pageantry, what feats, what shows,"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"What minstrelsy, and pretty din,"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"The regent made in Mytilene"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"To greet the king. So he thrived,"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"That he is promised to be wived"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"To fair Marina; but in no wise"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"Till he had done his sacrifice,"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"As Dian bade: whereto being bound,"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"The interim, pray you, all confound."
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd,"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"And wishes fall out as they're will'd."
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"At Ephesus, the temple see,"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"Our king and all his company."
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"That he can hither come so soon,"
V,SCENE II,GOWER,"Is by your fancy's thankful doom."
V,III,PERICLES,"Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command,"
V,III,PERICLES,"I here confess myself the king of Tyre;"
V,III,PERICLES,"Who, frighted from my country, did wed"
V,III,PERICLES,"At Pentapolis the fair Thaisa."
V,III,PERICLES,"At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth"
V,III,PERICLES,"A maid-child call'd Marina; who, O goddess,"
V,III,PERICLES,"Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tarsus"
V,III,PERICLES,"Was nursed with Cleon; who at fourteen years"
V,III,PERICLES,"He sought to murder: but her better stars"
V,III,PERICLES,"Brought her to Mytilene; 'gainst whose shore"
V,III,PERICLES,"Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us,"
V,III,PERICLES,"Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she"
V,III,PERICLES,"Made known herself my daughter."
V,III,THAISA,"Voice and favour!"
V,III,THAISA,"You are, you are--O royal Pericles!"
V,III,PERICLES,"What means the nun? she dies! help, gentlemen!"
V,III,CERIMON,"Noble sir,"
V,III,CERIMON,"If you have told Diana's altar true,"
V,III,CERIMON,"This is your wife."
V,III,PERICLES,"Reverend appearer, no;"
V,III,PERICLES,"I threw her overboard with these very arms."
V,III,CERIMON,"Upon this coast, I warrant you."
V,III,PERICLES,"'Tis most certain."
V,III,CERIMON,"Look to the lady; O, she's but o'erjoy'd."
V,III,CERIMON,"Early in blustering morn this lady was"
V,III,CERIMON,"Thrown upon this shore. I oped the coffin,"
V,III,CERIMON,"Found there rich jewels; recover'd her, and placed her"
V,III,CERIMON,"Here in Diana's temple."
V,III,PERICLES,"May we see them?"
V,III,CERIMON,"Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house,"
V,III,CERIMON,"Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is recovered."
V,III,THAISA,"O, let me look!"
V,III,THAISA,"If he be none of mine, my sanctity"
V,III,THAISA,"Will to my sense bend no licentious ear,"
V,III,THAISA,"But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,"
V,III,THAISA,"Are you not Pericles? Like him you spake,"
V,III,THAISA,"Like him you are: did you not name a tempest,"
V,III,THAISA,"A birth, and death?"
V,III,PERICLES,"The voice of dead Thaisa!"
V,III,THAISA,"That Thaisa am I, supposed dead"
V,III,THAISA,"And drown'd."
V,III,PERICLES,"Immortal Dian!"
V,III,THAISA,"Now I know you better."
V,III,THAISA,"When we with tears parted Pentapolis,"
V,III,THAISA,"The king my father gave you such a ring."
V,III,PERICLES,"This, this: no more, you gods! your present kindness"
V,III,PERICLES,"Makes my past miseries sports: you shall do well,"
V,III,PERICLES,"That on the touching of her lips I may"
V,III,PERICLES,"Melt and no more be seen. O, come, be buried"
V,III,PERICLES,"A second time within these arms."
V,III,MARINA,"My heart"
V,III,MARINA,"Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom."
V,III,PERICLES,"Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa;"
V,III,PERICLES,"Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina"
V,III,PERICLES,"For she was yielded there."
V,III,THAISA,"Blest, and mine own!"
V,III,HELICANUS,"Hail, madam, and my queen!"
V,III,THAISA,"I know you not."
V,III,PERICLES,"You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre,"
V,III,PERICLES,"I left behind an ancient substitute:"
V,III,PERICLES,"Can you remember what I call'd the man?"
V,III,PERICLES,"I have named him oft."
V,III,THAISA,"'Twas Helicanus then."
V,III,PERICLES,"Still confirmation:"
V,III,PERICLES,"Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is he."
V,III,PERICLES,"Now do I long to hear how you were found;"
V,III,PERICLES,"How possibly preserved; and who to thank,"
V,III,PERICLES,"Besides the gods, for this great miracle."
V,III,THAISA,"Lord Cerimon, my lord; this man,"
V,III,THAISA,"Through whom the gods have shown their power; that can"
V,III,THAISA,"From first to last resolve you."
V,III,PERICLES,"Reverend sir,"
V,III,PERICLES,"The gods can have no mortal officer"
V,III,PERICLES,"More like a god than you. Will you deliver"
V,III,PERICLES,"How this dead queen re-lives?"
V,III,CERIMON,"I will, my lord."
V,III,CERIMON,"Beseech you, first go with me to my house,"
V,III,CERIMON,"Where shall be shown you all was found with her;"
V,III,CERIMON,"How she came placed here in the temple;"
V,III,CERIMON,"No needful thing omitted."
V,III,PERICLES,"Pure Dian, bless thee for thy vision! I"
V,III,PERICLES,"Will offer night-oblations to thee. Thaisa,"
V,III,PERICLES,"This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter,"
V,III,PERICLES,"Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now,"
V,III,PERICLES,"This ornament"
V,III,PERICLES,"Makes me look dismal will I clip to form;"
V,III,PERICLES,"And what this fourteen years no razor touch'd,"
V,III,PERICLES,"To grace thy marriage-day, I'll beautify."
V,III,THAISA,"Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, sir,"
V,III,THAISA,"My father's dead."
V,III,PERICLES,"Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen,"
V,III,PERICLES,"We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves"
V,III,PERICLES,"Will in that kingdom spend our following days:"
V,III,PERICLES,"Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign."
V,III,PERICLES,"Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay"
V,III,PERICLES,"To hear the rest untold: sir, lead's the way."
V,III,GOWER,"In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard"
V,III,GOWER,"Of monstrous lust the due and just reward:"
V,III,GOWER,"In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen,"
V,III,GOWER,"Although assail'd with fortune fierce and keen,"
V,III,GOWER,"Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast,"
V,III,GOWER,"Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last:"
V,III,GOWER,"In Helicanus may you well descry"
V,III,GOWER,"A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty:"
V,III,GOWER,"In reverend Cerimon there well appears"
V,III,GOWER,"The worth that learned charity aye wears:"
V,III,GOWER,"For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame"
V,III,GOWER,"Had spread their cursed deed, and honour'd name"
V,III,GOWER,"Of Pericles, to rage the city turn,"
V,III,GOWER,"That him and his they in his palace burn;"
V,III,GOWER,"The gods for murder seemed so content"
V,III,GOWER,"To punish them; although not done, but meant."
V,III,GOWER,"So, on your patience evermore attending,"
V,III,GOWER,"New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Hast thou, according to thy oath and band,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Brought hither Henry Hereford thy bold son,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Here to make good the boisterous late appeal,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Which then our leisure would not let us hear,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?"
I,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"I have, my liege."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Tell me, moreover, hast thou sounded him,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"If he appeal the duke on ancient malice;"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Or worthily, as a good subject should,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"On some known ground of treachery in him?"
I,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"As near as I could sift him on that argument,"
I,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"On some apparent danger seen in him"
I,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Aim'd at your highness, no inveterate malice."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Then call them to our presence; face to face,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"The accuser and the accused freely speak:"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"High-stomach'd are they both, and full of ire,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire."
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Many years of happy days befal"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My gracious sovereign, my most loving liege!"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Each day still better other's happiness;"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Until the heavens, envying earth's good hap,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Add an immortal title to your crown!"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"We thank you both: yet one but flatters us,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"As well appeareth by the cause you come;"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Namely to appeal each other of high treason."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Cousin of Hereford, what dost thou object"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"First, heaven be the record to my speech!"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"In the devotion of a subject's love,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Tendering the precious safety of my prince,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And free from other misbegotten hate,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Come I appellant to this princely presence."
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Now, Thomas Mowbray, do I turn to thee,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And mark my greeting well; for what I speak"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My body shall make good upon this earth,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Or my divine soul answer it in heaven."
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Thou art a traitor and a miscreant,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Too good to be so and too bad to live,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Since the more fair and crystal is the sky,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly."
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Once more, the more to aggravate the note,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"With a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat;"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And wish, so please my sovereign, ere I move,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"What my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal:"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"'Tis not the trial of a woman's war,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"The bitter clamour of two eager tongues,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain;"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"The blood is hot that must be cool'd for this:"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Yet can I not of such tame patience boast"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"As to be hush'd and nought at all to say:"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"From giving reins and spurs to my free speech;"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Which else would post until it had return'd"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"These terms of treason doubled down his throat."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Setting aside his high blood's royalty,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And let him be no kinsman to my liege,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"I do defy him, and I spit at him;"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Call him a slanderous coward and a villain:"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Which to maintain I would allow him odds,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And meet him, were I tied to run afoot"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Or any other ground inhabitable,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Where ever Englishman durst set his foot."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Mean time let this defend my loyalty,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"By all my hopes, most falsely doth he lie."
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Pale trembling coward, there I throw my gage,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Disclaiming here the kindred of the king,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And lay aside my high blood's royalty,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Which fear, not reverence, makes thee to except."
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"If guilty dread have left thee so much strength"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"As to take up mine honour's pawn, then stoop:"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"By that and all the rites of knighthood else,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Will I make good against thee, arm to arm,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"What I have spoke, or thou canst worse devise."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"I take it up; and by that sword I swear"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"I'll answer thee in any fair degree,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Or chivalrous design of knightly trial:"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And when I mount, alive may I not light,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"If I be traitor or unjustly fight!"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"What doth our cousin lay to Mowbray's charge?"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"It must be great that can inherit us"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"So much as of a thought of ill in him."
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Look, what I speak, my life shall prove it true;"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"That Mowbray hath received eight thousand nobles"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"In name of lendings for your highness' soldiers,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The which he hath detain'd for lewd employments,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Like a false traitor and injurious villain."
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Besides I say and will in battle prove,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"That ever was survey'd by English eye,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"That all the treasons for these eighteen years"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Complotted and contrived in this land"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring."
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Further I say and further will maintain"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Upon his bad life to make all this good,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Suggest his soon-believing adversaries,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And consequently, like a traitor coward,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood:"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To me for justice and rough chastisement;"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And, by the glorious worth of my descent,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"This arm shall do it, or this life be spent."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"How high a pitch his resolution soars!"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Thomas of Norfolk, what say'st thou to this?"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"O, let my sovereign turn away his face"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And bid his ears a little while be deaf,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Till I have told this slander of his blood,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"How God and good men hate so foul a liar."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Mowbray, impartial are our eyes and ears:"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"As he is but my father's brother's son,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Now, by my sceptre's awe, I make a vow,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Should nothing privilege him, nor partialize"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"The unstooping firmness of my upright soul:"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"He is our subject, Mowbray; so art thou:"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Free speech and fearless I to thee allow."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Three parts of that receipt I had for Calais"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Disbursed I duly to his highness' soldiers;"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"The other part reserved I by consent,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"For that my sovereign liege was in my debt"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Upon remainder of a dear account,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Since last I went to France to fetch his queen:"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Now swallow down that lie. For Gloucester's death,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"I slew him not; but to my own disgrace"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Neglected my sworn duty in that case."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"For you, my noble Lord of Lancaster,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"The honourable father to my foe"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Once did I lay an ambush for your life,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"But ere I last received the sacrament"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"I did confess it, and exactly begg'd"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Your grace's pardon, and I hope I had it."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"This is my fault: as for the rest appeall'd,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"It issues from the rancour of a villain,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"A recreant and most degenerate traitor"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Which in myself I boldly will defend;"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And interchangeably hurl down my gage"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Upon this overweening traitor's foot,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"To prove myself a loyal gentleman"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Even in the best blood chamber'd in his bosom."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"In haste whereof, most heartily I pray"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Your highness to assign our trial day."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me;"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Let's purge this choler without letting blood:"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"This we prescribe, though no physician;"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Deep malice makes too deep incision;"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed;"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Our doctors say this is no month to bleed."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Good uncle, let this end where it begun;"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"We'll calm the Duke of Norfolk, you your son."
I,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"To be a make-peace shall become my age:"
I,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Throw down, my son, the Duke of Norfolk's gage."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"And, Norfolk, throw down his."
I,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"When, Harry, when?"
I,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Obedience bids I should not bid again."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Norfolk, throw down, we bid; there is no boot."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Myself I throw, dread sovereign, at thy foot."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"My life thou shalt command, but not my shame:"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"The one my duty owes; but my fair name,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Despite of death that lives upon my grave,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"To dark dishonour's use thou shalt not have."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"I am disgraced, impeach'd and baffled here,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Pierced to the soul with slander's venom'd spear,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Which breathed this poison."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Rage must be withstood:"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Give me his gage: lions make leopards tame."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Yea, but not change his spots: take but my shame."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And I resign my gage. My dear dear lord,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"The purest treasure mortal times afford"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Is spotless reputation: that away,"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Men are but gilded loam or painted clay."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast."
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Mine honour is my life; both grow in one:"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Take honour from me, and my life is done:"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try;"
I,I,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"In that I live and for that will I die."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Cousin, throw up your gage; do you begin."
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"O, God defend my soul from such deep sin!"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Shall I seem crest-fall'n in my father's sight?"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Before this out-dared dastard? Ere my tongue"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Shall wound my honour with such feeble wrong,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Or sound so base a parle, my teeth shall tear"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The slavish motive of recanting fear,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And spit it bleeding in his high disgrace,"
I,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Where shame doth harbour, even in Mowbray's face."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"We were not born to sue, but to command;"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Which since we cannot do to make you friends,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Be ready, as your lives shall answer it,"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day:"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"There shall your swords and lances arbitrate"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"The swelling difference of your settled hate:"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Since we can not atone you, we shall see"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Justice design the victor's chivalry."
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Lord marshal, command our officers at arms"
I,I,KING RICHARD II,"Be ready to direct these home alarms."
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Alas, the part I had in Woodstock's blood"
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Doth more solicit me than your exclaims,"
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"To stir against the butchers of his life!"
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"But since correction lieth in those hands"
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Which made the fault that we cannot correct,"
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven;"
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Who, when they see the hours ripe on earth,"
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur?"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Hath love in thy old blood no living fire?"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Were as seven vials of his sacred blood,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Or seven fair branches springing from one root:"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Some of those seven are dried by nature's course,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Some of those branches by the Destinies cut;"
I,II,DUCHESS,"But Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my Gloucester,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"One vial full of Edward's sacred blood,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"One flourishing branch of his most royal root,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor spilt,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Is hack'd down, and his summer leaves all faded,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"By envy's hand and murder's bloody axe."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Ah, Gaunt, his blood was thine! that bed, that womb,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"That metal, that self-mould, that fashion'd thee"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Made him a man; and though thou livest and breathest,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Yet art thou slain in him: thou dost consent"
I,II,DUCHESS,"In some large measure to thy father's death,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"In that thou seest thy wretched brother die,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Who was the model of thy father's life."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:"
I,II,DUCHESS,"In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughter'd,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Thou showest the naked pathway to thy life,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee:"
I,II,DUCHESS,"That which in mean men we intitle patience"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts."
I,II,DUCHESS,"What shall I say? to safeguard thine own life,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death."
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"God's is the quarrel; for God's substitute,"
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"His deputy anointed in His sight,"
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Hath caused his death: the which if wrongfully,"
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Let heaven revenge; for I may never lift"
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"An angry arm against His minister."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Where then, alas, may I complain myself?"
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"To God, the widow's champion and defence."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Why, then, I will. Farewell, old Gaunt."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Thou goest to Coventry, there to behold"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Our cousin Hereford and fell Mowbray fight:"
I,II,DUCHESS,"O, sit my husband's wrongs on Hereford's spear,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"That it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast!"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Or, if misfortune miss the first career,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"They may break his foaming courser's back,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"And throw the rider headlong in the lists,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"A caitiff recreant to my cousin Hereford!"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Farewell, old Gaunt: thy sometimes brother's wife"
I,II,DUCHESS,"With her companion grief must end her life."
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Sister, farewell; I must to Coventry:"
I,II,JOHN OF GAUNT,"As much good stay with thee as go with me!"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Yet one word more: grief boundeth where it falls,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Not with the empty hollowness, but weight:"
I,II,DUCHESS,"I take my leave before I have begun,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Commend me to thy brother, Edmund York."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Lo, this is all:--nay, yet depart not so;"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Though this be all, do not so quickly go;"
I,II,DUCHESS,"I shall remember more. Bid him--ah, what?--"
I,II,DUCHESS,"With all good speed at Plashy visit me."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Alack, and what shall good old York there see"
I,II,DUCHESS,"But empty lodgings and unfurnish'd walls,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones?"
I,II,DUCHESS,"And what hear there for welcome but my groans?"
I,II,DUCHESS,"Therefore commend me; let him not come there,"
I,II,DUCHESS,"To seek out sorrow that dwells every where."
I,II,DUCHESS,"Desolate, desolate, will I hence and die:"
I,II,DUCHESS,"The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye."
I,III,Lord Marshal,"My Lord Aumerle, is Harry Hereford arm'd?"
I,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Yea, at all points; and longs to enter in."
I,III,Lord Marshal,"The Duke of Norfolk, sprightfully and bold,"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Stays but the summons of the appellant's trumpet."
I,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Why, then, the champions are prepared, and stay"
I,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"For nothing but his majesty's approach."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Marshal, demand of yonder champion"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"The cause of his arrival here in arms:"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Ask him his name and orderly proceed"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"To swear him in the justice of his cause."
I,III,Lord Marshal,"In God's name and the king's, say who thou art"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms,"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Against what man thou comest, and what thy quarrel:"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Speak truly, on thy knighthood and thy oath;"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"As so defend thee heaven and thy valour!"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"My name is Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk;"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Who hither come engaged by my oath--"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Which God defend a knight should violate!--"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Both to defend my loyalty and truth"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"To God, my king and my succeeding issue,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Against the Duke of Hereford that appeals me"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And, by the grace of God and this mine arm,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"To prove him, in defending of myself,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"A traitor to my God, my king, and me:"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And as I truly fight, defend me heaven!"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Marshal, ask yonder knight in arms,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Both who he is and why he cometh hither"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Thus plated in habiliments of war,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"And formally, according to our law,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Depose him in the justice of his cause."
I,III,Lord Marshal,"What is thy name? and wherefore comest thou hither,"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Before King Richard in his royal lists?"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Against whom comest thou? and what's thy quarrel?"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Speak like a true knight, so defend thee heaven!"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Am I; who ready here do stand in arms,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To prove, by God's grace and my body's valour,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"In lists, on Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"That he is a traitor, foul and dangerous,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To God of heaven, King Richard and to me;"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And as I truly fight, defend me heaven!"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"On pain of death, no person be so bold"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists,"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Except the marshal and such officers"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Appointed to direct these fair designs."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Lord marshal, let me kiss my sovereign's hand,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And bow my knee before his majesty:"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"For Mowbray and myself are like two men"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"That vow a long and weary pilgrimage;"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Then let us take a ceremonious leave"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And loving farewell of our several friends."
I,III,Lord Marshal,"The appellant in all duty greets your highness,"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"And craves to kiss your hand and take his leave."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"We will descend and fold him in our arms."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Cousin of Hereford, as thy cause is right,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"So be thy fortune in this royal fight!"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Farewell, my blood; which if to-day thou shed,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"O let no noble eye profane a tear"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"For me, if I be gored with Mowbray's spear:"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"As confident as is the falcon's flight"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My loving lord, I take my leave of you;"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Of you, my noble cousin, Lord Aumerle;"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Not sick, although I have to do with death,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"But lusty, young, and cheerly drawing breath."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Lo, as at English feasts, so I regreet"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet:"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"O thou, the earthly author of my blood,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Doth with a twofold vigour lift me up"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To reach at victory above my head,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers;"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And with thy blessings steel my lance's point,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"That it may enter Mowbray's waxen coat,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And furbish new the name of John a Gaunt,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Even in the lusty havior of his son."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"God in thy good cause make thee prosperous!"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Be swift like lightning in the execution;"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"And let thy blows, doubly redoubled,"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Fall like amazing thunder on the casque"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Of thy adverse pernicious enemy:"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant and live."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Mine innocency and Saint George to thrive!"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"However God or fortune cast my lot,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"There lives or dies, true to King Richard's throne,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"A loyal, just and upright gentleman:"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Never did captive with a freer heart"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"His golden uncontroll'd enfranchisement,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"More than my dancing soul doth celebrate"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"This feast of battle with mine adversary."
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Most mighty liege, and my companion peers,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Take from my mouth the wish of happy years:"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"As gentle and as jocund as to jest"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Go I to fight: truth hath a quiet breast."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Farewell, my lord: securely I espy"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Virtue with valour couched in thine eye."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Order the trial, marshal, and begin."
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby,"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Receive thy lance; and God defend the right!"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Strong as a tower in hope, I cry amen."
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Go bear this lance to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk."
I,III,First Herald,"Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby,"
I,III,First Herald,"Stands here for God, his sovereign and himself,"
I,III,First Herald,"On pain to be found false and recreant,"
I,III,First Herald,"To prove the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray,"
I,III,First Herald,"A traitor to his God, his king and him;"
I,III,First Herald,"And dares him to set forward to the fight."
I,III,Second Herald,"Here standeth Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,"
I,III,Second Herald,"On pain to be found false and recreant,"
I,III,Second Herald,"Both to defend himself and to approve"
I,III,Second Herald,"Henry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby,"
I,III,Second Herald,"To God, his sovereign and to him disloyal;"
I,III,Second Herald,"Courageously and with a free desire"
I,III,Second Herald,"Attending but the signal to begin."
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Sound, trumpets; and set forward, combatants."
I,III,Lord Marshal,"Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Let them lay by their helmets and their spears,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"And both return back to their chairs again:"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Withdraw with us: and let the trumpets sound"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"While we return these dukes what we decree."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Draw near,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"And list what with our council we have done."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"For that our kingdom's earth should not be soil'd"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"With that dear blood which it hath fostered;"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Of civil wounds plough'd up with neighbours' sword;"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"And for we think the eagle-winged pride"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"With rival-hating envy, set on you"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"To wake our peace, which in our country's cradle"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep;"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Which so roused up with boisterous untuned drums,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"With harsh resounding trumpets' dreadful bray,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"And grating shock of wrathful iron arms,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Might from our quiet confines fright fair peace"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"And make us wade even in our kindred's blood,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Therefore, we banish you our territories:"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of life,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Till twice five summers have enrich'd our fields"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Shall not regreet our fair dominions,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"But tread the stranger paths of banishment."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Your will be done: this must my comfort be,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Sun that warms you here shall shine on me;"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And those his golden beams to you here lent"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Shall point on me and gild my banishment."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Norfolk, for thee remains a heavier doom,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Which I with some unwillingness pronounce:"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"The sly slow hours shall not determinate"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"The dateless limit of thy dear exile;"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"The hopeless word of 'never to return'"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life."
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And all unlook'd for from your highness' mouth:"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"A dearer merit, not so deep a maim"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"As to be cast forth in the common air,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Have I deserved at your highness' hands."
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"The language I have learn'd these forty years,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"My native English, now I must forego:"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And now my tongue's use is to me no more"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Than an unstringed viol or a harp,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Or like a cunning instrument cased up,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Or, being open, put into his hands"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"That knows no touch to tune the harmony:"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Within my mouth you have engaol'd my tongue,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Doubly portcullis'd with my teeth and lips;"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And dull unfeeling barren ignorance"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Is made my gaoler to attend on me."
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Too far in years to be a pupil now:"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"What is thy sentence then but speechless death,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath?"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"It boots thee not to be compassionate:"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"After our sentence plaining comes too late."
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Then thus I turn me from my country's light,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"To dwell in solemn shades of endless night."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Return again, and take an oath with thee."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Lay on our royal sword your banish'd hands;"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Swear by the duty that you owe to God--"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Our part therein we banish with yourselves--"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"To keep the oath that we administer:"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"You never shall, so help you truth and God!"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Embrace each other's love in banishment;"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Nor never look upon each other's face;"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"This louring tempest of your home-bred hate;"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Nor never by advised purpose meet"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"To plot, contrive, or complot any ill"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I swear."
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And I, to keep all this."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Norfolk, so far as to mine enemy:--"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"By this time, had the king permitted us,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"One of our souls had wander'd in the air."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Banish'd this frail sepulchre of our flesh,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"As now our flesh is banish'd from this land:"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Confess thy treasons ere thou fly the realm;"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Since thou hast far to go, bear not along"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The clogging burthen of a guilty soul."
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"No, Bolingbroke: if ever I were traitor,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"My name be blotted from the book of life,"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And I from heaven banish'd as from hence!"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"But what thou art, God, thou, and I do know;"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"And all too soon, I fear, the king shall rue."
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray;"
I,III,THOMAS MOWBRAY,"Save back to England, all the world's my way."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"I see thy grieved heart: thy sad aspect"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Hath from the number of his banish'd years"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Pluck'd four away."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Six frozen winter spent,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Return with welcome home from banishment."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"How long a time lies in one little word!"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Four lagging winters and four wanton springs"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"End in a word: such is the breath of kings."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"I thank my liege, that in regard of me"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"He shortens four years of my son's exile:"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"But little vantage shall I reap thereby;"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"For, ere the six years that he hath to spend"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Can change their moons and bring their times about"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Shall be extinct with age and endless night;"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"My inch of taper will be burnt and done,"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"And blindfold death not let me see my son."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Why uncle, thou hast many years to live."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"But not a minute, king, that thou canst give:"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage;"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Thy word is current with him for my death,"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"But dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Thy son is banish'd upon good advice,"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Whereto thy tongue a party-verdict gave:"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Why at our justice seem'st thou then to lour?"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"You urged me as a judge; but I had rather"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"You would have bid me argue like a father."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"O, had it been a stranger, not my child,"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"To smooth his fault I should have been more mild:"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"A partial slander sought I to avoid,"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"And in the sentence my own life destroy'd."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Alas, I look'd when some of you should say,"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"I was too strict to make mine own away;"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Against my will to do myself this wrong."
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Cousin, farewell; and, uncle, bid him so:"
I,III,KING RICHARD II,"Six years we banish him, and he shall go."
I,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Cousin, farewell: what presence must not know,"
I,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"From where you do remain let paper show."
I,III,Lord Marshal,"My lord, no leave take I; for I will ride,"
I,III,Lord Marshal,"As far as land will let me, by your side."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words,"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends?"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I have too few to take my leave of you,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"When the tongue's office should be prodigal"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Thy grief is but thy absence for a time."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Joy absent, grief is present for that time."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"What is six winters? they are quickly gone."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To men in joy; but grief makes one hour ten."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Call it a travel that thou takest for pleasure."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My heart will sigh when I miscall it so,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Which finds it an inforced pilgrimage."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"The sullen passage of thy weary steps"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Esteem as foil wherein thou art to set"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"The precious jewel of thy home return."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Nay, rather, every tedious stride I make"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Will but remember me what a deal of world"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I wander from the jewels that I love."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Must I not serve a long apprenticehood"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To foreign passages, and in the end,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Having my freedom, boast of nothing else"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"But that I was a journeyman to grief?"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"All places that the eye of heaven visits"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Are to a wise man ports and happy havens."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Teach thy necessity to reason thus;"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"There is no virtue like necessity."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Think not the king did banish thee,"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"But thou the king. Woe doth the heavier sit,"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Where it perceives it is but faintly borne."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Go, say I sent thee forth to purchase honour"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"And not the king exiled thee; or suppose"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Devouring pestilence hangs in our air"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"And thou art flying to a fresher clime:"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou comest:"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Suppose the singing birds musicians,"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strew'd,"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Than a delightful measure or a dance;"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"The man that mocks at it and sets it light."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"O, who can hold a fire in his hand"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"By bare imagination of a feast?"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Or wallow naked in December snow"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"O, no! the apprehension of the good"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Gives but the greater feeling to the worse:"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore."
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Come, come, my son, I'll bring thee on thy way:"
I,III,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Had I thy youth and cause, I would not stay."
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Then, England's ground, farewell; sweet soil, adieu;"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet!"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Where'er I wander, boast of this I can,"
I,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Though banish'd, yet a trueborn Englishman."
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"We did observe. Cousin Aumerle,"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"How far brought you high Hereford on his way?"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"I brought high Hereford, if you call him so,"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"But to the next highway, and there I left him."
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"And say, what store of parting tears were shed?"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Faith, none for me; except the north-east wind,"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Which then blew bitterly against our faces,"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Awaked the sleeping rheum, and so by chance"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Did grace our hollow parting with a tear."
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"What said our cousin when you parted with him?"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"'Farewell:'"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"And, for my heart disdained that my tongue"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Should so profane the word, that taught me craft"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"To counterfeit oppression of such grief"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"That words seem'd buried in my sorrow's grave."
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Marry, would the word 'farewell' have lengthen'd hours"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"And added years to his short banishment,"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"He should have had a volume of farewells;"
I,IV,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"But since it would not, he had none of me."
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"He is our cousin, cousin; but 'tis doubt,"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"When time shall call him home from banishment,"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"Whether our kinsman come to see his friends."
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"Ourself and Bushy, Bagot here and Green"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"Observed his courtship to the common people;"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"How he did seem to dive into their hearts"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"With humble and familiar courtesy,"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"What reverence he did throw away on slaves,"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"And patient underbearing of his fortune,"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"As 'twere to banish their affects with him."
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench;"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"A brace of draymen bid God speed him well"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"And had the tribute of his supple knee,"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"With 'Thanks, my countrymen, my loving friends;'"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"As were our England in reversion his,"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"And he our subjects' next degree in hope."
I,IV,GREEN,"Well, he is gone; and with him go these thoughts."
I,IV,GREEN,"Now for the rebels which stand out in Ireland,"
I,IV,GREEN,"Expedient manage must be made, my liege,"
I,IV,GREEN,"Ere further leisure yield them further means"
I,IV,GREEN,"For their advantage and your highness' loss."
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"We will ourself in person to this war:"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"And, for our coffers, with too great a court"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"We are inforced to farm our royal realm;"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"The revenue whereof shall furnish us"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"For our affairs in hand: if that come short,"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"Our substitutes at home shall have blank charters;"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"Whereto, when they shall know what men are rich,"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"They shall subscribe them for large sums of gold"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"And send them after to supply our wants;"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"For we will make for Ireland presently."
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"Bushy, what news?"
I,IV,BUSHY,"Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick, my lord,"
I,IV,BUSHY,"Suddenly taken; and hath sent post haste"
I,IV,BUSHY,"To entreat your majesty to visit him."
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"Where lies he?"
I,IV,BUSHY,"At Ely House."
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"Now put it, God, in the physician's mind"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"To help him to his grave immediately!"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"The lining of his coffers shall make coats"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars."
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"Come, gentlemen, let's all go visit him:"
I,IV,KING RICHARD II,"Pray God we may make haste, and come too late!"
I,IV,All,"Amen."
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Will the king come, that I may breathe my last"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"In wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth?"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath;"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"For all in vain comes counsel to his ear."
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"O, but they say the tongues of dying men"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Enforce attention like deep harmony:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain."
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"He that no more must say is listen'd more"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose;"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"The setting sun, and music at the close,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Writ in remembrance more than things long past:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear."
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"No; it is stopp'd with other flattering sounds,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"As praises, of whose taste the wise are fond,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Lascivious metres, to whose venom sound"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"The open ear of youth doth always listen;"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Report of fashions in proud Italy,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Whose manners still our tardy apish nation"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Limps after in base imitation."
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity--"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"So it be new, there's no respect how vile--"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"That is not quickly buzzed into his ears?"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Then all too late comes counsel to be heard,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard."
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Direct not him whose way himself will choose:"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"'Tis breath thou lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose."
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Methinks I am a prophet new inspired"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"And thus expiring do foretell of him:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"For violent fires soon burn out themselves;"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Consuming means, soon preys upon itself."
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"This other Eden, demi-paradise,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"This fortress built by Nature for herself"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Against infection and the hand of war,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"This happy breed of men, this little world,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"This precious stone set in the silver sea,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Which serves it in the office of a wall,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Or as a moat defensive to a house,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Against the envy of less happier lands,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Renowned for their deeds as far from home,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"For Christian service and true chivalry,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Dear for her reputation through the world,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Like to a tenement or pelting farm:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"England, bound in with the triumphant sea"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"That England, that was wont to conquer others,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"How happy then were my ensuing death!"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"The king is come: deal mildly with his youth;"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"For young hot colts being raged do rage the more."
II,I,QUEEN,"How fares our noble uncle, Lancaster?"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"What comfort, man? how is't with aged Gaunt?"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"O how that name befits my composition!"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast;"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"For sleeping England long time have I watch'd;"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"The pleasure that some fathers feed upon,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Is my strict fast; I mean, my children's looks;"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"And therein fasting, hast thou made me gaunt:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Can sick men play so nicely with their names?"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"No, misery makes sport to mock itself:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Since thou dost seek to kill my name in me,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"I mock my name, great king, to flatter thee."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Should dying men flatter with those that live?"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"No, no, men living flatter those that die."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Thou, now a-dying, say'st thou flatterest me."
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"O, no! thou diest, though I the sicker be."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"I am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill."
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Now He that made me knows I see thee ill;"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Ill in myself to see, and in thee seeing ill."
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Thy death-bed is no lesser than thy land"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"And thou, too careless patient as thou art,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Commit'st thy anointed body to the cure"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Of those physicians that first wounded thee:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Whose compass is no bigger than thy head;"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"And yet, incaged in so small a verge,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"The waste is no whit lesser than thy land."
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"O, had thy grandsire with a prophet's eye"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Seen how his son's son should destroy his sons,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Deposing thee before thou wert possess'd,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Which art possess'd now to depose thyself."
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Why, cousin, wert thou regent of the world,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"It were a shame to let this land by lease;"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"But for thy world enjoying but this land,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Is it not more than shame to shame it so?"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Landlord of England art thou now, not king:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Thy state of law is bondslave to the law; And thou--"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"A lunatic lean-witted fool,"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Presuming on an ague's privilege,"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Darest with thy frozen admonition"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Make pale our cheek, chasing the royal blood"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"With fury from his native residence."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Now, by my seat's right royal majesty,"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Wert thou not brother to great Edward's son,"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"This tongue that runs so roundly in thy head"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders."
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"For that I was his father Edward's son;"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"That blood already, like the pelican,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"My brother Gloucester, plain well-meaning soul,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Whom fair befal in heaven 'mongst happy souls!"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"May be a precedent and witness good"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"That thou respect'st not spilling Edward's blood:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Join with the present sickness that I have;"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"And thy unkindness be like crooked age,"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"To crop at once a too long wither'd flower."
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"These words hereafter thy tormentors be!"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:"
II,I,JOHN OF GAUNT,"Love they to live that love and honour have."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"And let them die that age and sullens have;"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"For both hast thou, and both become the grave."
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"I do beseech your majesty, impute his words"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"To wayward sickliness and age in him:"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"He loves you, on my life, and holds you dear"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"As Harry Duke of Hereford, were he here."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Right, you say true: as Hereford's love, so his;"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"As theirs, so mine; and all be as it is."
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"My liege, old Gaunt commends him to your majesty."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"What says he?"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Nay, nothing; all is said"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"His tongue is now a stringless instrument;"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Words, life and all, old Lancaster hath spent."
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Be York the next that must be bankrupt so!"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he;"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"So much for that. Now for our Irish wars:"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns,"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Which live like venom where no venom else"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"But only they have privilege to live."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"And for these great affairs do ask some charge,"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Towards our assistance we do seize to us"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"The plate, corn, revenues and moveables,"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess'd."
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"How long shall I be patient? ah, how long"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong?"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Not Gloucester's death, nor Hereford's banishment"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Not Gaunt's rebukes, nor England's private wrongs,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"About his marriage, nor my own disgrace,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Have ever made me sour my patient cheek,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign's face."
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"I am the last of noble Edward's sons,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Of whom thy father, Prince of Wales, was first:"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"In war was never lion raged more fierce,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"In peace was never gentle lamb more mild,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Than was that young and princely gentleman."
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"His face thou hast, for even so look'd he,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Accomplish'd with the number of thy hours;"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"But when he frown'd, it was against the French"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"And not against his friends; his noble hand"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Did will what he did spend and spent not that"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Which his triumphant father's hand had won;"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"His hands were guilty of no kindred blood,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"But bloody with the enemies of his kin."
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"O Richard! York is too far gone with grief,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Or else he never would compare between."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Why, uncle, what's the matter?"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"O my liege,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Pardon me, if you please; if not, I, pleased"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Not to be pardon'd, am content withal."
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"The royalties and rights of banish'd Hereford?"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Is not Gaunt dead, and doth not Hereford live?"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Was not Gaunt just, and is not Harry true?"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Did not the one deserve to have an heir?"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Is not his heir a well-deserving son?"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Take Hereford's rights away, and take from Time"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"His charters and his customary rights;"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Let not to-morrow then ensue to-day;"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Be not thyself; for how art thou a king"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"But by fair sequence and succession?"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Now, afore God--God forbid I say true!--"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Call in the letters patent that he hath"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"By his attorneys-general to sue"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"His livery, and deny his offer'd homage,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"You pluck a thousand dangers on your head,"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"And prick my tender patience, to those thoughts"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Which honour and allegiance cannot think."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Think what you will, we seize into our hands"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"His plate, his goods, his money and his lands."
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"I'll not be by the while: my liege, farewell:"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"What will ensue hereof, there's none can tell;"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"But by bad courses may be understood"
II,I,DUKE OF YORK,"That their events can never fall out good."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Go, Bushy, to the Earl of Wiltshire straight:"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Bid him repair to us to Ely House"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"To see this business. To-morrow next"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"We will for Ireland; and 'tis time, I trow:"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"And we create, in absence of ourself,"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Our uncle York lord governor of England;"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"For he is just and always loved us well."
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Come on, our queen: to-morrow must we part;"
II,I,KING RICHARD II,"Be merry, for our time of stay is short"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Well, lords, the Duke of Lancaster is dead."
II,I,LORD ROSS,"And living too; for now his son is duke."
II,I,LORD WILLOUGHBY,"Barely in title, not in revenue."
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Richly in both, if justice had her right."
II,I,LORD ROSS,"My heart is great; but it must break with silence,"
II,I,LORD ROSS,"Ere't be disburden'd with a liberal tongue."
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Nay, speak thy mind; and let him ne'er speak more"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"That speaks thy words again to do thee harm!"
II,I,LORD WILLOUGHBY,"Tends that thou wouldst speak to the Duke of Hereford?"
II,I,LORD WILLOUGHBY,"If it be so, out with it boldly, man;"
II,I,LORD WILLOUGHBY,"Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him."
II,I,LORD ROSS,"No good at all that I can do for him;"
II,I,LORD ROSS,"Unless you call it good to pity him,"
II,I,LORD ROSS,"Bereft and gelded of his patrimony."
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Now, afore God, 'tis shame such wrongs are borne"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"In him, a royal prince, and many moe"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Of noble blood in this declining land."
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The king is not himself, but basely led"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"By flatterers; and what they will inform,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Merely in hate, 'gainst any of us all,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"That will the king severely prosecute"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"'Gainst us, our lives, our children, and our heirs."
II,I,LORD ROSS,"The commons hath he pill'd with grievous taxes,"
II,I,LORD ROSS,"And quite lost their hearts: the nobles hath he fined"
II,I,LORD ROSS,"For ancient quarrels, and quite lost their hearts."
II,I,LORD WILLOUGHBY,"And daily new exactions are devised,"
II,I,LORD WILLOUGHBY,"As blanks, benevolences, and I wot not what:"
II,I,LORD WILLOUGHBY,"But what, o' God's name, doth become of this?"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Wars have not wasted it, for warr'd he hath not,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"But basely yielded upon compromise"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows:"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"More hath he spent in peace than they in wars."
II,I,LORD ROSS,"The Earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm."
II,I,LORD WILLOUGHBY,"The king's grown bankrupt, like a broken man."
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him."
II,I,LORD ROSS,"He hath not money for these Irish wars,"
II,I,LORD ROSS,"His burthenous taxations notwithstanding,"
II,I,LORD ROSS,"But by the robbing of the banish'd duke."
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"His noble kinsman: most degenerate king!"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Yet see no shelter to avoid the storm;"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"We see the wind sit sore upon our sails,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And yet we strike not, but securely perish."
II,I,LORD ROSS,"We see the very wreck that we must suffer;"
II,I,LORD ROSS,"And unavoided is the danger now,"
II,I,LORD ROSS,"For suffering so the causes of our wreck."
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Not so; even through the hollow eyes of death"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"I spy life peering; but I dare not say"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"How near the tidings of our comfort is."
II,I,LORD WILLOUGHBY,"Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours."
II,I,LORD ROSS,"Be confident to speak, Northumberland:"
II,I,LORD ROSS,"We three are but thyself; and, speaking so,"
II,I,LORD ROSS,"Thy words are but as thoughts; therefore, be bold."
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Then thus: I have from Port le Blanc, a bay"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"In Brittany, received intelligence"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"That Harry Duke of Hereford, Rainold Lord Cobham,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"That late broke from the Duke of Exeter,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"His brother, Archbishop late of Canterbury,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Sir Thomas Erpingham, Sir John Ramston,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Sir John Norbery, Sir Robert Waterton and Francis Quoint,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"All these well furnish'd by the Duke of Bretagne"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"With eight tall ships, three thousand men of war,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Are making hither with all due expedience"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And shortly mean to touch our northern shore:"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Perhaps they had ere this, but that they stay"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The first departing of the king for Ireland."
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"If then we shall shake off our slavish yoke,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Imp out our drooping country's broken wing,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Wipe off the dust that hides our sceptre's gilt"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And make high majesty look like itself,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Away with me in post to Ravenspurgh;"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"But if you faint, as fearing to do so,"
II,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Stay and be secret, and myself will go."
II,I,LORD ROSS,"To horse, to horse! urge doubts to them that fear."
II,I,LORD WILLOUGHBY,"Hold out my horse, and I will first be there."
II,II,BUSHY,"Madam, your majesty is too much sad:"
II,II,BUSHY,"You promised, when you parted with the king,"
II,II,BUSHY,"To lay aside life-harming heaviness"
II,II,BUSHY,"And entertain a cheerful disposition."
II,II,QUEEN,"To please the king I did; to please myself"
II,II,QUEEN,"I cannot do it; yet I know no cause"
II,II,QUEEN,"Why I should welcome such a guest as grief,"
II,II,QUEEN,"Save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest"
II,II,QUEEN,"As my sweet Richard: yet again, methinks,"
II,II,QUEEN,"Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb,"
II,II,QUEEN,"Is coming towards me, and my inward soul"
II,II,QUEEN,"With nothing trembles: at some thing it grieves,"
II,II,QUEEN,"More than with parting from my lord the king."
II,II,BUSHY,"Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,"
II,II,BUSHY,"Which shows like grief itself, but is not so;"
II,II,BUSHY,"For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears,"
II,II,BUSHY,"Divides one thing entire to many objects;"
II,II,BUSHY,"Like perspectives, which rightly gazed upon"
II,II,BUSHY,"Show nothing but confusion, eyed awry"
II,II,BUSHY,"Distinguish form: so your sweet majesty,"
II,II,BUSHY,"Looking awry upon your lord's departure,"
II,II,BUSHY,"Find shapes of grief, more than himself, to wail;"
II,II,BUSHY,"Which, look'd on as it is, is nought but shadows"
II,II,BUSHY,"Of what it is not. Then, thrice-gracious queen,"
II,II,BUSHY,"More than your lord's departure weep not: more's not seen;"
II,II,BUSHY,"Or if it be, 'tis with false sorrow's eye,"
II,II,BUSHY,"Which for things true weeps things imaginary."
II,II,QUEEN,"It may be so; but yet my inward soul"
II,II,QUEEN,"Persuades me it is otherwise: howe'er it be,"
II,II,QUEEN,"I cannot but be sad; so heavy sad"
II,II,QUEEN,"As, though on thinking on no thought I think,"
II,II,QUEEN,"Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink."
II,II,BUSHY,"'Tis nothing but conceit, my gracious lady."
II,II,QUEEN,"'Tis nothing less: conceit is still derived"
II,II,QUEEN,"From some forefather grief; mine is not so,"
II,II,QUEEN,"For nothing had begot my something grief;"
II,II,QUEEN,"Or something hath the nothing that I grieve:"
II,II,QUEEN,"'Tis in reversion that I do possess;"
II,II,QUEEN,"But what it is, that is not yet known; what"
II,II,QUEEN,"I cannot name; 'tis nameless woe, I wot."
II,II,GREEN,"God save your majesty! and well met, gentlemen:"
II,II,GREEN,"I hope the king is not yet shipp'd for Ireland."
II,II,QUEEN,"Why hopest thou so? 'tis better hope he is;"
II,II,QUEEN,"For his designs crave haste, his haste good hope:"
II,II,QUEEN,"Then wherefore dost thou hope he is not shipp'd?"
II,II,GREEN,"That he, our hope, might have retired his power,"
II,II,GREEN,"And driven into despair an enemy's hope,"
II,II,GREEN,"Who strongly hath set footing in this land:"
II,II,GREEN,"The banish'd Bolingbroke repeals himself,"
II,II,GREEN,"And with uplifted arms is safe arrived"
II,II,GREEN,"At Ravenspurgh."
II,II,QUEEN,"Now God in heaven forbid!"
II,II,GREEN,"Ah, madam, 'tis too true: and that is worse,"
II,II,GREEN,"The Lord Northumberland, his son young Henry Percy,"
II,II,GREEN,"The Lords of Ross, Beaumond, and Willoughby,"
II,II,GREEN,"With all their powerful friends, are fled to him."
II,II,BUSHY,"Why have you not proclaim'd Northumberland"
II,II,BUSHY,"And all the rest revolted faction traitors?"
II,II,GREEN,"We have: whereupon the Earl of Worcester"
II,II,GREEN,"Hath broke his staff, resign'd his stewardship,"
II,II,GREEN,"And all the household servants fled with him"
II,II,GREEN,"To Bolingbroke."
II,II,QUEEN,"So, Green, thou art the midwife to my woe,"
II,II,QUEEN,"And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir:"
II,II,QUEEN,"Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy,"
II,II,QUEEN,"And I, a gasping new-deliver'd mother,"
II,II,QUEEN,"Have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow join'd."
II,II,BUSHY,"Despair not, madam."
II,II,QUEEN,"Who shall hinder me?"
II,II,QUEEN,"I will despair, and be at enmity"
II,II,QUEEN,"With cozening hope: he is a flatterer,"
II,II,QUEEN,"A parasite, a keeper back of death,"
II,II,QUEEN,"Who gently would dissolve the bands of life,"
II,II,QUEEN,"Which false hope lingers in extremity."
II,II,GREEN,"Here comes the Duke of York."
II,II,QUEEN,"With signs of war about his aged neck:"
II,II,QUEEN,"O, full of careful business are his looks!"
II,II,QUEEN,"Uncle, for God's sake, speak comfortable words."
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts:"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth,"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Where nothing lives but crosses, cares and grief."
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Your husband, he is gone to save far off,"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Whilst others come to make him lose at home:"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Here am I left to underprop his land,"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Who, weak with age, cannot support myself:"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made;"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Now shall he try his friends that flatter'd him."
II,II,Servant,"My lord, your son was gone before I came."
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"He was? Why, so! go all which way it will!"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"The nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold,"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"And will, I fear, revolt on Hereford's side."
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Sirrah, get thee to Plashy, to my sister Gloucester;"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Bid her send me presently a thousand pound:"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Hold, take my ring."
II,II,Servant,"My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship,"
II,II,Servant,"To-day, as I came by, I called there;"
II,II,Servant,"But I shall grieve you to report the rest."
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"What is't, knave?"
II,II,Servant,"An hour before I came, the duchess died."
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"God for his mercy! what a tide of woes"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Comes rushing on this woeful land at once!"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"I know not what to do: I would to God,"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"So my untruth had not provoked him to it,"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"The king had cut off my head with my brother's."
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"What, are there no posts dispatch'd for Ireland?"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"How shall we do for money for these wars?"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Come, sister,--cousin, I would say--pray, pardon me."
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Go, fellow, get thee home, provide some carts"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"And bring away the armour that is there."
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Gentlemen, will you go muster men?"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"If I know how or which way to order these affairs"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Thus thrust disorderly into my hands,"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Never believe me. Both are my kinsmen:"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"The one is my sovereign, whom both my oath"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"And duty bids defend; the other again"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Is my kinsman, whom the king hath wrong'd,"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Whom conscience and my kindred bids to right."
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Well, somewhat we must do. Come, cousin, I'll"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Dispose of you."
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Gentlemen, go, muster up your men,"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"And meet me presently at Berkeley."
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"I should to Plashy too;"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"But time will not permit: all is uneven,"
II,II,DUKE OF YORK,"And every thing is left at six and seven."
II,II,BUSHY,"The wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland,"
II,II,BUSHY,"But none returns. For us to levy power"
II,II,BUSHY,"Proportionable to the enemy"
II,II,BUSHY,"Is all unpossible."
II,II,GREEN,"Besides, our nearness to the king in love"
II,II,GREEN,"Is near the hate of those love not the king."
II,II,BAGOT,"And that's the wavering commons: for their love"
II,II,BAGOT,"Lies in their purses, and whoso empties them"
II,II,BAGOT,"By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate."
II,II,BUSHY,"Wherein the king stands generally condemn'd."
II,II,BAGOT,"If judgement lie in them, then so do we,"
II,II,BAGOT,"Because we ever have been near the king."
II,II,GREEN,"Well, I will for refuge straight to Bristol castle:"
II,II,GREEN,"The Earl of Wiltshire is already there."
II,II,BUSHY,"Thither will I with you; for little office"
II,II,BUSHY,"The hateful commons will perform for us,"
II,II,BUSHY,"Except like curs to tear us all to pieces."
II,II,BUSHY,"Will you go along with us?"
II,II,BAGOT,"No; I will to Ireland to his majesty."
II,II,BAGOT,"Farewell: if heart's presages be not vain,"
II,II,BAGOT,"We three here art that ne'er shall meet again."
II,II,BUSHY,"That's as York thrives to beat back Bolingbroke."
II,II,GREEN,"Alas, poor duke! the task he undertakes"
II,II,GREEN,"Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry:"
II,II,GREEN,"Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly."
II,II,GREEN,"Farewell at once, for once, for all, and ever."
II,II,BUSHY,"Well, we may meet again."
II,II,BAGOT,"I fear me, never."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"How far is it, my lord, to Berkeley now?"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Believe me, noble lord,"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"I am a stranger here in Gloucestershire:"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"These high wild hills and rough uneven ways"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome,"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Making the hard way sweet and delectable."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"But I bethink me what a weary way"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"From Ravenspurgh to Cotswold will be found"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"In Ross and Willoughby, wanting your company,"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Which, I protest, hath very much beguiled"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The tediousness and process of my travel:"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"But theirs is sweetened with the hope to have"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The present benefit which I possess;"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And hope to joy is little less in joy"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Than hope enjoy'd: by this the weary lords"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Shall make their way seem short, as mine hath done"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"By sight of what I have, your noble company."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Of much less value is my company"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Than your good words. But who comes here?"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"It is my son, young Harry Percy,"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Sent from my brother Worcester, whencesoever."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Harry, how fares your uncle?"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"I had thought, my lord, to have learn'd his health of you."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Why, is he not with the queen?"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"No, my good Lord; he hath forsook the court,"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"Broken his staff of office and dispersed"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"The household of the king."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"What was his reason?"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"He was not so resolved when last we spake together."
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"Because your lordship was proclaimed traitor."
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"But he, my lord, is gone to Ravenspurgh,"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"To offer service to the Duke of Hereford,"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"And sent me over by Berkeley, to discover"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"What power the Duke of York had levied there;"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"Then with directions to repair to Ravenspurgh."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Have you forgot the Duke of Hereford, boy?"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"No, my good lord, for that is not forgot"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"Which ne'er I did remember: to my knowledge,"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"I never in my life did look on him."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Then learn to know him now; this is the duke."
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"My gracious lord, I tender you my service,"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"Such as it is, being tender, raw and young:"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"Which elder days shall ripen and confirm"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"To more approved service and desert."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I count myself in nothing else so happy"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"As in a soul remembering my good friends;"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And, as my fortune ripens with thy love,"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"It shall be still thy true love's recompense:"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My heart this covenant makes, my hand thus seals it."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"How far is it to Berkeley? and what stir"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Keeps good old York there with his men of war?"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"There stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees,"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"Mann'd with three hundred men, as I have heard;"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"And in it are the Lords of York, Berkeley, and Seymour;"
II,III,HENRY PERCY,"None else of name and noble estimate."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Here come the Lords of Ross and Willoughby,"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Bloody with spurring, fiery-red with haste."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Welcome, my lords. I wot your love pursues"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"A banish'd traitor: all my treasury"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Is yet but unfelt thanks, which more enrich'd"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Shall be your love and labour's recompense."
II,III,LORD ROSS,"Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord."
II,III,LORD WILLOUGHBY,"And far surmounts our labour to attain it."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor;"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Which, till my infant fortune comes to years,"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Stands for my bounty. But who comes here?"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"It is my Lord of Berkeley, as I guess."
II,III,LORD BERKELEY,"My Lord of Hereford, my message is to you."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My lord, my answer is--to Lancaster;"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And I am come to seek that name in England;"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And I must find that title in your tongue,"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Before I make reply to aught you say."
II,III,LORD BERKELEY,"Mistake me not, my lord; 'tis not my meaning"
II,III,LORD BERKELEY,"To raze one title of your honour out:"
II,III,LORD BERKELEY,"To you, my lord, I come, what lord you will,"
II,III,LORD BERKELEY,"From the most gracious regent of this land,"
II,III,LORD BERKELEY,"The Duke of York, to know what pricks you on"
II,III,LORD BERKELEY,"To take advantage of the absent time"
II,III,LORD BERKELEY,"And fright our native peace with self-born arms."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I shall not need transport my words by you;"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Here comes his grace in person. My noble uncle!"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee,"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Whose duty is deceiveable and false."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My gracious uncle--"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Tut, tut!"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle:"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"I am no traitor's uncle; and that word 'grace.'"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"In an ungracious mouth is but profane."
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Why have those banish'd and forbidden legs"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Dared once to touch a dust of England's ground?"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"But then more 'why?' why have they dared to march"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"So many miles upon her peaceful bosom,"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Frighting her pale-faced villages with war"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"And ostentation of despised arms?"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Comest thou because the anointed king is hence?"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Why, foolish boy, the king is left behind,"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"And in my loyal bosom lies his power."
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Were I but now the lord of such hot youth"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"As when brave Gaunt, thy father, and myself"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Rescued the Black Prince, that young Mars of men,"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"From forth the ranks of many thousand French,"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"O, then how quickly should this arm of mine."
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Now prisoner to the palsy, chastise thee"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"And minister correction to thy fault!"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My gracious uncle, let me know my fault:"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"On what condition stands it and wherein?"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Even in condition of the worst degree,"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"In gross rebellion and detested treason:"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Thou art a banish'd man, and here art come"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Before the expiration of thy time,"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"In braving arms against thy sovereign."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"As I was banish'd, I was banish'd Hereford;"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"But as I come, I come for Lancaster."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And, noble uncle, I beseech your grace"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye:"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"You are my father, for methinks in you"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I see old Gaunt alive; O, then, my father,"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Will you permit that I shall stand condemn'd"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"A wandering vagabond; my rights and royalties"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Pluck'd from my arms perforce and given away"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born?"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"If that my cousin king be King of England,"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"It must be granted I am Duke of Lancaster."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"You have a son, Aumerle, my noble cousin;"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Had you first died, and he been thus trod down,"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father,"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I am denied to sue my livery here,"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And yet my letters-patents give me leave:"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My father's goods are all distrain'd and sold,"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And these and all are all amiss employ'd."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"What would you have me do? I am a subject,"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And I challenge law: attorneys are denied me;"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And therefore, personally I lay my claim"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To my inheritance of free descent."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The noble duke hath been too much abused."
II,III,LORD ROSS,"It stands your grace upon to do him right."
II,III,LORD WILLOUGHBY,"Base men by his endowments are made great."
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"My lords of England, let me tell you this:"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"I have had feeling of my cousin's wrongs"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"And laboured all I could to do him right;"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"But in this kind to come, in braving arms,"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Be his own carver and cut out his way,"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"To find out right with wrong, it may not be;"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"And you that do abet him in this kind"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Cherish rebellion and are rebels all."
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The noble duke hath sworn his coming is"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"But for his own; and for the right of that"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"We all have strongly sworn to give him aid;"
II,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And let him ne'er see joy that breaks that oath!"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Well, well, I see the issue of these arms:"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"I cannot mend it, I must needs confess,"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Because my power is weak and all ill left:"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"But if I could, by Him that gave me life,"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"I would attach you all and make you stoop"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Unto the sovereign mercy of the king;"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"But since I cannot, be it known to you"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"I do remain as neuter. So, fare you well;"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Unless you please to enter in the castle"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"And there repose you for this night."
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"An offer, uncle, that we will accept:"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"But we must win your grace to go with us"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To Bristol castle, which they say is held"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"By Bushy, Bagot and their complices,"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The caterpillars of the commonwealth,"
II,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away."
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"It may be I will go with you: but yet I'll pause;"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"For I am loath to break our country's laws."
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Nor friends nor foes, to me welcome you are:"
II,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Things past redress are now with me past care."
II,IV,Captain,"My lord of Salisbury, we have stay'd ten days,"
II,IV,Captain,"And hardly kept our countrymen together,"
II,IV,Captain,"And yet we hear no tidings from the king;"
II,IV,Captain,"Therefore we will disperse ourselves: farewell."
II,IV,EARL OF SALISBURY,"Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman:"
II,IV,EARL OF SALISBURY,"The king reposeth all his confidence in thee."
II,IV,Captain,"'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay."
II,IV,Captain,"The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd"
II,IV,Captain,"And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;"
II,IV,Captain,"The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth"
II,IV,Captain,"And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change;"
II,IV,Captain,"Rich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap,"
II,IV,Captain,"The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,"
II,IV,Captain,"The other to enjoy by rage and war:"
II,IV,Captain,"These signs forerun the death or fall of kings."
II,IV,Captain,"Farewell: our countrymen are gone and fled,"
II,IV,Captain,"As well assured Richard their king is dead."
II,IV,EARL OF SALISBURY,"Ah, Richard, with the eyes of heavy mind"
II,IV,EARL OF SALISBURY,"I see thy glory like a shooting star"
II,IV,EARL OF SALISBURY,"Fall to the base earth from the firmament."
II,IV,EARL OF SALISBURY,"Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west,"
II,IV,EARL OF SALISBURY,"Witnessing storms to come, woe and unrest:"
II,IV,EARL OF SALISBURY,"Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes,"
II,IV,EARL OF SALISBURY,"And crossly to thy good all fortune goes."
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Bring forth these men."
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls--"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Since presently your souls must part your bodies--"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"With too much urging your pernicious lives,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"For 'twere no charity; yet, to wash your blood"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"From off my hands, here in the view of men"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I will unfold some causes of your deaths."
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"You have misled a prince, a royal king,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"By you unhappied and disfigured clean:"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"You have in manner with your sinful hours"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Broke the possession of a royal bed"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And stain'd the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs."
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Near to the king in blood, and near in love"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Till you did make him misinterpret me,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Have stoop'd my neck under your injuries,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And sigh'd my English breath in foreign clouds,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Eating the bitter bread of banishment;"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Whilst you have fed upon my signories,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Dispark'd my parks and fell'd my forest woods,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"From my own windows torn my household coat,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Save men's opinions and my living blood,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To show the world I am a gentleman."
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"This and much more, much more than twice all this,"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Condemns you to the death. See them deliver'd over"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To execution and the hand of death."
III,I,BUSHY,"More welcome is the stroke of death to me"
III,I,BUSHY,"Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell."
III,I,GREEN,"My comfort is that heaven will take our souls"
III,I,GREEN,"And plague injustice with the pains of hell."
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatch'd."
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Uncle, you say the queen is at your house;"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"For God's sake, fairly let her be entreated:"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Tell her I send to her my kind commends;"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Take special care my greetings be deliver'd."
III,I,DUKE OF YORK,"A gentleman of mine I have dispatch'd"
III,I,DUKE OF YORK,"With letters of your love to her at large."
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Thank, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away."
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To fight with Glendower and his complices:"
III,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Awhile to work, and after holiday."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Barkloughly castle call they this at hand?"
III,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Yea, my lord. How brooks your grace the air,"
III,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"After your late tossing on the breaking seas?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Needs must I like it well: I weep for joy"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"To stand upon my kingdom once again."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs:"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"As a long-parted mother with her child"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"So, weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"And do thee favours with my royal hands."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle earth,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense;"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"But let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Which with usurping steps do trample thee:"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies;"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords:"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"This earth shall have a feeling and these stones"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms."
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Fear not, my lord: that Power that made you king"
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Hath power to keep you king in spite of all."
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"The means that heaven yields must be embraced,"
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"And not neglected; else, if heaven would,"
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"And we will not, heaven's offer we refuse,"
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"The proffer'd means of succor and redress."
III,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"He means, my lord, that we are too remiss;"
III,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security,"
III,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Grows strong and great in substance and in power."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Discomfortable cousin! know'st thou not"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"That when the searching eye of heaven is hid,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Behind the globe, that lights the lower world,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"In murders and in outrage, boldly here;"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"But when from under this terrestrial ball"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"And darts his light through every guilty hole,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Then murders, treasons and detested sins,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"So when this thief, this traitor, Bolingbroke,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Who all this while hath revell'd in the night"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Whilst we were wandering with the antipodes,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Shall see us rising in our throne, the east,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"His treasons will sit blushing in his face,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Not able to endure the sight of day,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"But self-affrighted tremble at his sin."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Not all the water in the rough rude sea"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Can wash the balm off from an anointed king;"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"The breath of worldly men cannot depose"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"The deputy elected by the Lord:"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"For every man that Bolingbroke hath press'd"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"A glorious angel: then, if angels fight,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Welcome, my lord how far off lies your power?"
III,II,EARL OF SALISBURY,"Nor near nor farther off, my gracious lord,"
III,II,EARL OF SALISBURY,"Than this weak arm: discomfort guides my tongue"
III,II,EARL OF SALISBURY,"And bids me speak of nothing but despair."
III,II,EARL OF SALISBURY,"One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,"
III,II,EARL OF SALISBURY,"Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth:"
III,II,EARL OF SALISBURY,"O, call back yesterday, bid time return,"
III,II,EARL OF SALISBURY,"And thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting men!"
III,II,EARL OF SALISBURY,"To-day, to-day, unhappy day, too late,"
III,II,EARL OF SALISBURY,"O'erthrows thy joys, friends, fortune and thy state:"
III,II,EARL OF SALISBURY,"For all the Welshmen, hearing thou wert dead."
III,II,EARL OF SALISBURY,"Are gone to Bolingbroke, dispersed and fled."
III,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Comfort, my liege; why looks your grace so pale?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"But now the blood of twenty thousand men"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Did triumph in my face, and they are fled;"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"And, till so much blood thither come again,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Have I not reason to look pale and dead?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"All souls that will be safe fly from my side,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"For time hath set a blot upon my pride."
III,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Comfort, my liege; remember who you are."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"I had forgot myself; am I not king?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Awake, thou coward majesty! thou sleepest."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Is not the king's name twenty thousand names?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Arm, arm, my name! a puny subject strikes"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"At thy great glory. Look not to the ground,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Ye favourites of a king: are we not high?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"High be our thoughts: I know my uncle York"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Hath power enough to serve our turn. But who comes here?"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"More health and happiness betide my liege"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Mine ear is open and my heart prepared;"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Say, is my kingdom lost? why, 'twas my care"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"And what loss is it to be rid of care?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Greater he shall not be; if he serve God,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"We'll serve Him too and be his fellow so:"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Revolt our subjects? that we cannot mend;"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"They break their faith to God as well as us:"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay:"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"The worst is death, and death will have his day."
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"To bear the tidings of calamity."
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Like an unseasonable stormy day,"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores,"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"As if the world were all dissolved to tears,"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"So high above his limits swells the rage"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel."
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"White-beards have arm'd their thin and hairless scalps"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Against thy majesty; boys, with women's voices,"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Strive to speak big and clap their female joints"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown:"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"The very beadsmen learn to bend their bows"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Of double-fatal yew against thy state;"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Against thy seat: both young and old rebel,"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"And all goes worse than I have power to tell."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Too well, too well thou tell'st a tale so ill."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Where is the Earl of Wiltshire? where is Bagot?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"What is become of Bushy? where is Green?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"That they have let the dangerous enemy"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Measure our confines with such peaceful steps?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"If we prevail, their heads shall pay for it:"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"I warrant they have made peace with Bolingbroke."
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Peace have they made with him indeed, my lord."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"O villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption!"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Snakes, in my heart-blood warm'd, that sting my heart!"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas!"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Would they make peace? terrible hell make war"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Upon their spotted souls for this offence!"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Sweet love, I see, changing his property,"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate:"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Again uncurse their souls; their peace is made"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"With heads, and not with hands; those whom you curse"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Have felt the worst of death's destroying wound"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground."
III,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Is Bushy, Green, and the Earl of Wiltshire dead?"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Ay, all of them at Bristol lost their heads."
III,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Where is the duke my father with his power?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"No matter where; of comfort no man speak:"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Let's choose executors and talk of wills:"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"And yet not so, for what can we bequeath"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Save our deposed bodies to the ground?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"And nothing can we call our own but death"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"And that small model of the barren earth"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Which serves as paste and cover to our bones."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"And tell sad stories of the death of kings;"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"How some have been deposed; some slain in war,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"All murder'd: for within the hollow crown"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"That rounds the mortal temples of a king"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Allowing him a breath, a little scene,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Infusing him with self and vain conceit,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"As if this flesh which walls about our life,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Comes at the last and with a little pin"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"With solemn reverence: throw away respect,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Tradition, form and ceremonious duty,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"For you have but mistook me all this while:"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"I live with bread like you, feel want,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"How can you say to me, I am a king?"
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes,"
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"But presently prevent the ways to wail."
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,"
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe,"
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"And so your follies fight against yourself."
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Fear and be slain; no worse can come to fight:"
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"And fight and die is death destroying death;"
III,II,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Where fearing dying pays death servile breath."
III,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"My father hath a power; inquire of him"
III,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"And learn to make a body of a limb."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Thou chidest me well: proud Bolingbroke, I come"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"To change blows with thee for our day of doom."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"This ague fit of fear is over-blown;"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"An easy task it is to win our own."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Say, Scroop, where lies our uncle with his power?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour."
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Men judge by the complexion of the sky"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"The state and inclination of the day:"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"So may you by my dull and heavy eye,"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say."
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"I play the torturer, by small and small"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken:"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Your uncle York is join'd with Bolingbroke,"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"And all your northern castles yielded up,"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"And all your southern gentlemen in arms"
III,II,SIR STEPHEN SCROOP,"Upon his party."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Thou hast said enough."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Beshrew thee, cousin, which didst lead me forth"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Of that sweet way I was in to despair!"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"What say you now? what comfort have we now?"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"By heaven, I'll hate him everlastingly"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"That bids me be of comfort any more."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Go to Flint castle: there I'll pine away;"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"That power I have, discharge; and let them go"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"For I have none: let no man speak again"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"To alter this, for counsel is but vain."
III,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"My liege, one word."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"He does me double wrong"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue."
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"Discharge my followers: let them hence away,"
III,II,KING RICHARD II,"From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"So that by this intelligence we learn"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The Welshmen are dispersed, and Salisbury"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Is gone to meet the king, who lately landed"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"With some few private friends upon this coast."
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The news is very fair and good, my lord:"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Richard not far from hence hath hid his head."
III,III,DUKE OF YORK,"It would beseem the Lord Northumberland"
III,III,DUKE OF YORK,"To say 'King Richard:' alack the heavy day"
III,III,DUKE OF YORK,"When such a sacred king should hide his head."
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Your grace mistakes; only to be brief"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Left I his title out."
III,III,DUKE OF YORK,"The time hath been,"
III,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Would you have been so brief with him, he would"
III,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Have been so brief with you, to shorten you,"
III,III,DUKE OF YORK,"For taking so the head, your whole head's length."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Mistake not, uncle, further than you should."
III,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Take not, good cousin, further than you should."
III,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Lest you mistake the heavens are o'er our heads."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I know it, uncle, and oppose not myself"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Against their will. But who comes here?"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Welcome, Harry: what, will not this castle yield?"
III,III,HENRY PERCY,"The castle royally is mann'd, my lord,"
III,III,HENRY PERCY,"Against thy entrance."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Royally!"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Why, it contains no king?"
III,III,HENRY PERCY,"Yes, my good lord,"
III,III,HENRY PERCY,"It doth contain a king; King Richard lies"
III,III,HENRY PERCY,"Within the limits of yon lime and stone:"
III,III,HENRY PERCY,"And with him are the Lord Aumerle, Lord Salisbury,"
III,III,HENRY PERCY,"Sir Stephen Scroop, besides a clergyman"
III,III,HENRY PERCY,"Of holy reverence; who, I cannot learn."
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"O, belike it is the Bishop of Carlisle."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Noble lords,"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle;"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parley"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Into his ruin'd ears, and thus deliver:"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Henry Bolingbroke"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"On both his knees doth kiss King Richard's hand"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And sends allegiance and true faith of heart"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To his most royal person, hither come"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Even at his feet to lay my arms and power,"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Provided that my banishment repeal'd"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And lands restored again be freely granted:"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"If not, I'll use the advantage of my power"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And lay the summer's dust with showers of blood"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Rain'd from the wounds of slaughter'd Englishmen:"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The which, how far off from the mind of Bolingbroke"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"It is, such crimson tempest should bedrench"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The fresh green lap of fair King Richard's land,"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My stooping duty tenderly shall show."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Go, signify as much, while here we march"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Upon the grassy carpet of this plain."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Let's march without the noise of threatening drum,"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"That from this castle's tatter'd battlements"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Our fair appointments may be well perused."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Methinks King Richard and myself should meet"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"With no less terror than the elements"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Of fire and water, when their thundering shock"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Be he the fire, I'll be the yielding water:"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The rage be his, whilst on the earth I rain"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My waters; on the earth, and not on him."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"March on, and mark King Richard how he looks."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"See, see, King Richard doth himself appear,"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"As doth the blushing discontented sun"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"From out the fiery portal of the east,"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"When he perceives the envious clouds are bent"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To dim his glory and to stain the track"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Of his bright passage to the occident."
III,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Yet looks he like a king: behold, his eye,"
III,III,DUKE OF YORK,"As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth"
III,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Controlling majesty: alack, alack, for woe,"
III,III,DUKE OF YORK,"That any harm should stain so fair a show!"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"We are amazed; and thus long have we stood"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"To watch the fearful bending of thy knee,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Because we thought ourself thy lawful king:"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"And if we be, how dare thy joints forget"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"To pay their awful duty to our presence?"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"If we be not, show us the hand of God"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"That hath dismissed us from our stewardship;"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"For well we know, no hand of blood and bone"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"And though you think that all, as you have done,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Have torn their souls by turning them from us,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"And we are barren and bereft of friends;"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Yet know, my master, God omnipotent,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Is mustering in his clouds on our behalf"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Armies of pestilence; and they shall strike"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Your children yet unborn and unbegot,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"That lift your vassal hands against my head"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"And threat the glory of my precious crown."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Tell Bolingbroke--for yond methinks he stands--"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"That every stride he makes upon my land"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Is dangerous treason: he is come to open"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"The purple testament of bleeding war;"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"But ere the crown he looks for live in peace,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' sons"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Shall ill become the flower of England's face,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"To scarlet indignation and bedew"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Her pastures' grass with faithful English blood."
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The king of heaven forbid our lord the king"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Should so with civil and uncivil arms"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Be rush'd upon! Thy thrice noble cousin"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Harry Bolingbroke doth humbly kiss thy hand;"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And by the honourable tomb he swears,"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"That stands upon your royal grandsire's bones,"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And by the royalties of both your bloods,"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Currents that spring from one most gracious head,"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And by the buried hand of warlike Gaunt,"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And by the worth and honour of himself,"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Comprising all that may be sworn or said,"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"His coming hither hath no further scope"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Than for his lineal royalties and to beg"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Enfranchisement immediate on his knees:"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Which on thy royal party granted once,"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"His glittering arms he will commend to rust,"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"His barbed steeds to stables, and his heart"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"To faithful service of your majesty."
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"This swears he, as he is a prince, is just;"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And, as I am a gentleman, I credit him."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Northumberland, say thus the king returns:"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"His noble cousin is right welcome hither;"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"And all the number of his fair demands"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Shall be accomplish'd without contradiction:"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"With all the gracious utterance thou hast"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Speak to his gentle hearing kind commends."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"We do debase ourselves, cousin, do we not,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"To look so poorly and to speak so fair?"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Shall we call back Northumberland, and send"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Defiance to the traitor, and so die?"
III,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"No, good my lord; let's fight with gentle words"
III,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Till time lend friends and friends their helpful swords."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"O God, O God! that e'er this tongue of mine,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"That laid the sentence of dread banishment"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"On yon proud man, should take it off again"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"With words of sooth! O that I were as great"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"As is my grief, or lesser than my name!"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Or that I could forget what I have been,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Or not remember what I must be now!"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Swell'st thou, proud heart? I'll give thee scope to beat,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me."
III,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Northumberland comes back from Bolingbroke."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"What must the king do now? must he submit?"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"The king shall do it: must he be deposed?"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"The king shall be contented: must he lose"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"The name of king? o' God's name, let it go:"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"My figured goblets for a dish of wood,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"My sceptre for a palmer's walking staff,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"My subjects for a pair of carved saints"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"And my large kingdom for a little grave,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"A little little grave, an obscure grave;"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Or I'll be buried in the king's highway,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"May hourly trample on their sovereign's head;"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"For on my heart they tread now whilst I live;"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"And buried once, why not upon my head?"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Aumerle, thou weep'st, my tender-hearted cousin!"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"We'll make foul weather with despised tears;"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"And make a dearth in this revolting land."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Or shall we play the wantons with our woes,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"And make some pretty match with shedding tears?"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"As thus, to drop them still upon one place,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Till they have fretted us a pair of graves"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Within the earth; and, therein laid,--there lies"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Two kinsmen digg'd their graves with weeping eyes."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Would not this ill do well? Well, well, I see"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"I talk but idly, and you laugh at me."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Most mighty prince, my Lord Northumberland,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"What says King Bolingbroke? will his majesty"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Give Richard leave to live till Richard die?"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"You make a leg, and Bolingbroke says ay."
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"My lord, in the base court he doth attend"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"To speak with you; may it please you to come down."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Down, down I come; like glistering Phaethon,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Wanting the manage of unruly jades."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"In the base court? Base court, where kings grow base,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"To come at traitors' calls and do them grace."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"In the base court? Come down? Down, court!"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"down, king!"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"For night-owls shriek where mounting larks"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"should sing."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"What says his majesty?"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Sorrow and grief of heart"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man"
III,III,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Yet he is come."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Stand all apart,"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And show fair duty to his majesty."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My gracious lord,--"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Fair cousin, you debase your princely knee"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"To make the base earth proud with kissing it:"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Me rather had my heart might feel your love"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Up, cousin, up; your heart is up, I know,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Thus high at least, although your knee be low."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My gracious lord, I come but for mine own."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Your own is yours, and I am yours, and all."
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"So far be mine, my most redoubted lord,"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"As my true service shall deserve your love."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Well you deserve: they well deserve to have,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"That know the strong'st and surest way to get."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Uncle, give me your hands: nay, dry your eyes;"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Tears show their love, but want their remedies."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Cousin, I am too young to be your father,"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Though you are old enough to be my heir."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"What you will have, I'll give, and willing too;"
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"For do we must what force will have us do."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Set on towards London, cousin, is it so?"
III,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Yea, my good lord."
III,III,KING RICHARD II,"Then I must not say no."
III,IV,QUEEN,"What sport shall we devise here in this garden,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"To drive away the heavy thought of care?"
III,IV,Lady,"Madam, we'll play at bowls."
III,IV,QUEEN,"'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"And that my fortune rubs against the bias."
III,IV,Lady,"Madam, we'll dance."
III,IV,QUEEN,"My legs can keep no measure in delight,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"When my poor heart no measure keeps in grief:"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Therefore, no dancing, girl; some other sport."
III,IV,Lady,"Madam, we'll tell tales."
III,IV,QUEEN,"Of sorrow or of joy?"
III,IV,Lady,"Of either, madam."
III,IV,QUEEN,"Of neither, girl:"
III,IV,QUEEN,"For of joy, being altogether wanting,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"It doth remember me the more of sorrow;"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Or if of grief, being altogether had,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"It adds more sorrow to my want of joy:"
III,IV,QUEEN,"For what I have I need not to repeat;"
III,IV,QUEEN,"And what I want it boots not to complain."
III,IV,Lady,"Madam, I'll sing."
III,IV,QUEEN,"'Tis well that thou hast cause"
III,IV,QUEEN,"But thou shouldst please me better, wouldst thou weep."
III,IV,Lady,"I could weep, madam, would it do you good."
III,IV,QUEEN,"And I could sing, would weeping do me good,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"And never borrow any tear of thee."
III,IV,QUEEN,"But stay, here come the gardeners:"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Let's step into the shadow of these trees."
III,IV,QUEEN,"My wretchedness unto a row of pins,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"They'll talk of state; for every one doth so"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Against a change; woe is forerun with woe."
III,IV,Gardener,"Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks,"
III,IV,Gardener,"Which, like unruly children, make their sire"
III,IV,Gardener,"Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight:"
III,IV,Gardener,"Give some supportance to the bending twigs."
III,IV,Gardener,"Go thou, and like an executioner,"
III,IV,Gardener,"Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays,"
III,IV,Gardener,"That look too lofty in our commonwealth:"
III,IV,Gardener,"All must be even in our government."
III,IV,Gardener,"You thus employ'd, I will go root away"
III,IV,Gardener,"The noisome weeds, which without profit suck"
III,IV,Gardener,"The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers."
III,IV,Servant,"Why should we in the compass of a pale"
III,IV,Servant,"Keep law and form and due proportion,"
III,IV,Servant,"Showing, as in a model, our firm estate,"
III,IV,Servant,"When our sea-walled garden, the whole land,"
III,IV,Servant,"Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,"
III,IV,Servant,"Her fruit-trees all upturned, her hedges ruin'd,"
III,IV,Servant,"Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs"
III,IV,Servant,"Swarming with caterpillars?"
III,IV,Gardener,"Hold thy peace:"
III,IV,Gardener,"He that hath suffer'd this disorder'd spring"
III,IV,Gardener,"Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf:"
III,IV,Gardener,"The weeds which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter,"
III,IV,Gardener,"That seem'd in eating him to hold him up,"
III,IV,Gardener,"Are pluck'd up root and all by Bolingbroke,"
III,IV,Gardener,"I mean the Earl of Wiltshire, Bushy, Green."
III,IV,Servant,"What, are they dead?"
III,IV,Gardener,"They are; and Bolingbroke"
III,IV,Gardener,"Hath seized the wasteful king. O, what pity is it"
III,IV,Gardener,"That he had not so trimm'd and dress'd his land"
III,IV,Gardener,"As we this garden! We at time of year"
III,IV,Gardener,"Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit-trees,"
III,IV,Gardener,"Lest, being over-proud in sap and blood,"
III,IV,Gardener,"With too much riches it confound itself:"
III,IV,Gardener,"Had he done so to great and growing men,"
III,IV,Gardener,"They might have lived to bear and he to taste"
III,IV,Gardener,"Their fruits of duty: superfluous branches"
III,IV,Gardener,"We lop away, that bearing boughs may live:"
III,IV,Gardener,"Had he done so, himself had borne the crown,"
III,IV,Gardener,"Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down."
III,IV,Servant,"What, think you then the king shall be deposed?"
III,IV,Gardener,"Depress'd he is already, and deposed"
III,IV,Gardener,"'Tis doubt he will be: letters came last night"
III,IV,Gardener,"To a dear friend of the good Duke of York's,"
III,IV,Gardener,"That tell black tidings."
III,IV,QUEEN,"O, I am press'd to death through want of speaking!"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Thou, old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news?"
III,IV,QUEEN,"What Eve, what serpent, hath suggested thee"
III,IV,QUEEN,"To make a second fall of cursed man?"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Why dost thou say King Richard is deposed?"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Darest thou, thou little better thing than earth,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Divine his downfall? Say, where, when, and how,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Camest thou by this ill tidings? speak, thou wretch."
III,IV,Gardener,"Pardon me, madam: little joy have I"
III,IV,Gardener,"To breathe this news; yet what I say is true."
III,IV,Gardener,"King Richard, he is in the mighty hold"
III,IV,Gardener,"Of Bolingbroke: their fortunes both are weigh'd:"
III,IV,Gardener,"In your lord's scale is nothing but himself,"
III,IV,Gardener,"And some few vanities that make him light;"
III,IV,Gardener,"But in the balance of great Bolingbroke,"
III,IV,Gardener,"Besides himself, are all the English peers,"
III,IV,Gardener,"And with that odds he weighs King Richard down."
III,IV,Gardener,"Post you to London, and you will find it so;"
III,IV,Gardener,"I speak no more than every one doth know."
III,IV,QUEEN,"Nimble mischance, that art so light of foot,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Doth not thy embassage belong to me,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"And am I last that knows it? O, thou think'st"
III,IV,QUEEN,"To serve me last, that I may longest keep"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Thy sorrow in my breast. Come, ladies, go,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"To meet at London London's king in woe."
III,IV,QUEEN,"What, was I born to this, that my sad look"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Should grace the triumph of great Bolingbroke?"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Gardener, for telling me these news of woe,"
III,IV,QUEEN,"Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow."
III,IV,GARDENER,"Poor queen! so that thy state might be no worse,"
III,IV,GARDENER,"I would my skill were subject to thy curse."
III,IV,GARDENER,"Here did she fall a tear; here in this place"
III,IV,GARDENER,"I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace:"
III,IV,GARDENER,"Rue, even for ruth, here shortly shall be seen,"
III,IV,GARDENER,"In the remembrance of a weeping queen."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Call forth Bagot."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Now, Bagot, freely speak thy mind;"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"What thou dost know of noble Gloucester's death,"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Who wrought it with the king, and who perform'd"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The bloody office of his timeless end."
IV,I,BAGOT,"Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Cousin, stand forth, and look upon that man."
IV,I,BAGOT,"My Lord Aumerle, I know your daring tongue"
IV,I,BAGOT,"Scorns to unsay what once it hath deliver'd."
IV,I,BAGOT,"In that dead time when Gloucester's death was plotted,"
IV,I,BAGOT,"I heard you say, 'Is not my arm of length,"
IV,I,BAGOT,"That reacheth from the restful English court"
IV,I,BAGOT,"As far as Calais, to mine uncle's head?'"
IV,I,BAGOT,"Amongst much other talk, that very time,"
IV,I,BAGOT,"I heard you say that you had rather refuse"
IV,I,BAGOT,"The offer of an hundred thousand crowns"
IV,I,BAGOT,"Than Bolingbroke's return to England;"
IV,I,BAGOT,"Adding withal how blest this land would be"
IV,I,BAGOT,"In this your cousin's death."
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Princes and noble lords,"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"What answer shall I make to this base man?"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars,"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"On equal terms to give him chastisement?"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Either I must, or have mine honour soil'd"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"With the attainder of his slanderous lips."
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"There is my gage, the manual seal of death,"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"That marks thee out for hell: I say, thou liest,"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"And will maintain what thou hast said is false"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"In thy heart-blood, though being all too base"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"To stain the temper of my knightly sword."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Bagot, forbear; thou shalt not take it up."
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Excepting one, I would he were the best"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"In all this presence that hath moved me so."
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"If that thy valour stand on sympathy,"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine:"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st,"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spakest it"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester's death."
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"If thou deny'st it twenty times, thou liest;"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart,"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"Where it was forged, with my rapier's point."
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Thou darest not, coward, live to see that day."
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"Now by my soul, I would it were this hour."
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Fitzwater, thou art damn'd to hell for this."
IV,I,HENRY PERCY,"Aumerle, thou liest; his honour is as true"
IV,I,HENRY PERCY,"In this appeal as thou art all unjust;"
IV,I,HENRY PERCY,"And that thou art so, there I throw my gage,"
IV,I,HENRY PERCY,"To prove it on thee to the extremest point"
IV,I,HENRY PERCY,"Of mortal breathing: seize it, if thou darest."
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"An if I do not, may my hands rot off"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"And never brandish more revengeful steel"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Over the glittering helmet of my foe!"
IV,I,Lord,"I task the earth to the like, forsworn Aumerle;"
IV,I,Lord,"And spur thee on with full as many lies"
IV,I,Lord,"As may be holloa'd in thy treacherous ear"
IV,I,Lord,"From sun to sun: there is my honour's pawn;"
IV,I,Lord,"Engage it to the trial, if thou darest."
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Who sets me else? by heaven, I'll throw at all:"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"I have a thousand spirits in one breast,"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"To answer twenty thousand such as you."
IV,I,DUKE OF SURREY,"My Lord Fitzwater, I do remember well"
IV,I,DUKE OF SURREY,"The very time Aumerle and you did talk."
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"'Tis very true: you were in presence then;"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"And you can witness with me this is true."
IV,I,DUKE OF SURREY,"As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true."
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"Surrey, thou liest."
IV,I,DUKE OF SURREY,"Dishonourable boy!"
IV,I,DUKE OF SURREY,"That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword,"
IV,I,DUKE OF SURREY,"That it shall render vengeance and revenge"
IV,I,DUKE OF SURREY,"Till thou the lie-giver and that lie do lie"
IV,I,DUKE OF SURREY,"In earth as quiet as thy father's skull:"
IV,I,DUKE OF SURREY,"In proof whereof, there is my honour's pawn;"
IV,I,DUKE OF SURREY,"Engage it to the trial, if thou darest."
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse!"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live,"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness,"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"And spit upon him, whilst I say he lies,"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"And lies, and lies: there is my bond of faith,"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"To tie thee to my strong correction."
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"As I intend to thrive in this new world,"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal:"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"Besides, I heard the banish'd Norfolk say"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"That thou, Aumerle, didst send two of thy men"
IV,I,LORD FITZWATER,"To execute the noble duke at Calais."
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Some honest Christian trust me with a gage"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"That Norfolk lies: here do I throw down this,"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"If he may be repeal'd, to try his honour."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"These differences shall all rest under gage"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Till Norfolk be repeal'd: repeal'd he shall be,"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And, though mine enemy, restored again"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To all his lands and signories: when he's return'd,"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Against Aumerle we will enforce his trial."
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"That honourable day shall ne'er be seen."
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens:"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"And toil'd with works of war, retired himself"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"To Italy; and there at Venice gave"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"His body to that pleasant country's earth,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Under whose colours he had fought so long."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Why, bishop, is Norfolk dead?"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"As surely as I live, my lord."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Of good old Abraham! Lords appellants,"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Your differences shall all rest under gage"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Till we assign you to your days of trial."
IV,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Great Duke of Lancaster, I come to thee"
IV,I,DUKE OF YORK,"From plume-pluck'd Richard; who with willing soul"
IV,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields"
IV,I,DUKE OF YORK,"To the possession of thy royal hand:"
IV,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Ascend his throne, descending now from him;"
IV,I,DUKE OF YORK,"And long live Henry, fourth of that name!"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"In God's name, I'll ascend the regal throne."
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Marry. God forbid!"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Worst in this royal presence may I speak,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth."
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Would God that any in this noble presence"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Were enough noble to be upright judge"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Of noble Richard! then true noblesse would"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong."
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"What subject can give sentence on his king?"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"And who sits here that is not Richard's subject?"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Although apparent guilt be seen in them;"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"And shall the figure of God's majesty,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"His captain, steward, deputy-elect,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Anointed, crowned, planted many years,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Be judged by subject and inferior breath,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"That in a Christian climate souls refined"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Stirr'd up by God, thus boldly for his king:"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"My Lord of Hereford here, whom you call king,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford's king:"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"And if you crown him, let me prophesy:"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"The blood of English shall manure the ground,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"And future ages groan for this foul act;"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound;"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Disorder, horror, fear and mutiny"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"The field of Golgotha and dead men's skulls."
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"O, if you raise this house against this house,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"It will the woefullest division prove"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"That ever fell upon this cursed earth."
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so,"
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Lest child, child's children, cry against you woe!"
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Well have you argued, sir; and, for your pains,"
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Of capital treason we arrest you here."
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"My Lord of Westminster, be it your charge"
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"To keep him safely till his day of trial."
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"May it please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Fetch hither Richard, that in common view"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"He may surrender; so we shall proceed"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Without suspicion."
IV,I,DUKE OF YORK,"I will be his conduct."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Lords, you that here are under our arrest,"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Procure your sureties for your days of answer."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Little are we beholding to your love,"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And little look'd for at your helping hands."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Alack, why am I sent for to a king,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Before I have shook off the regal thoughts"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet have learn'd"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs:"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"To this submission. Yet I well remember"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"The favours of these men: were they not mine?"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Did they not sometime cry, 'all hail!' to me?"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Found truth in all but one: I, in twelve thousand, none."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"God save the king! Will no man say amen?"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Am I both priest and clerk? well then, amen."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"God save the king! although I be not he;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And yet, amen, if heaven do think him me."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"To do what service am I sent for hither?"
IV,I,DUKE OF YORK,"To do that office of thine own good will"
IV,I,DUKE OF YORK,"Which tired majesty did make thee offer,"
IV,I,DUKE OF YORK,"The resignation of thy state and crown"
IV,I,DUKE OF YORK,"To Henry Bolingbroke."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Here cousin:"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"On this side my hand, and on that side yours."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Now is this golden crown like a deep well"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"That owes two buckets, filling one another,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"The emptier ever dancing in the air,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"The other down, unseen and full of water:"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"That bucket down and full of tears am I,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I thought you had been willing to resign."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"My crown I am; but still my griefs are mine:"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"You may my glories and my state depose,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"But not my griefs; still am I king of those."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Part of your cares you give me with your crown."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"My care is loss of care, by old care done;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Your care is gain of care, by new care won:"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"The cares I give I have, though given away;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"They tend the crown, yet still with me they stay."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Are you contented to resign the crown?"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Ay, no; no, ay; for I must nothing be;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Therefore no no, for I resign to thee."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Now mark me, how I will undo myself;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"I give this heavy weight from off my head"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"The pride of kingly sway from out my heart;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"With mine own tears I wash away my balm,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"With mine own hands I give away my crown,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"With mine own breath release all duty's rites:"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"All pomp and majesty I do forswear;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"My manors, rents, revenues I forego;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"My acts, decrees, and statutes I deny:"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"God pardon all oaths that are broke to me!"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"God keep all vows unbroke that swear to thee!"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Make me, that nothing have, with nothing grieved,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And thou with all pleased, that hast all achieved!"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Long mayst thou live in Richard's seat to sit,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And soon lie Richard in an earthly pit!"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"God save King Harry, unking'd Richard says,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And send him many years of sunshine days!"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"What more remains?"
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"No more, but that you read"
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"These accusations and these grievous crimes"
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Committed by your person and your followers"
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Against the state and profit of this land;"
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"That, by confessing them, the souls of men"
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"May deem that you are worthily deposed."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Must I do so? and must I ravel out"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"My weaved-up folly? Gentle Northumberland,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"If thy offences were upon record,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"To read a lecture of them? If thou wouldst,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"There shouldst thou find one heinous article,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Containing the deposing of a king"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And cracking the strong warrant of an oath,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the book of heaven:"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Nay, all of you that stand and look upon,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Though some of you with Pilate wash your hands"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Showing an outward pity; yet you Pilates"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Have here deliver'd me to my sour cross,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And water cannot wash away your sin."
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"My lord, dispatch; read o'er these articles."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Mine eyes are full of tears, I cannot see:"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And yet salt water blinds them not so much"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"But they can see a sort of traitors here."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Nay, if I turn mine eyes upon myself,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"I find myself a traitor with the rest;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"For I have given here my soul's consent"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"To undeck the pompous body of a king;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Made glory base and sovereignty a slave,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Proud majesty a subject, state a peasant."
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"My lord,--"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"No lord of thine, thou haught insulting man,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Nor no man's lord; I have no name, no title,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"No, not that name was given me at the font,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"But 'tis usurp'd: alack the heavy day,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"That I have worn so many winters out,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And know not now what name to call myself!"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"O that I were a mockery king of snow,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"To melt myself away in water-drops!"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Good king, great king, and yet not greatly good,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"An if my word be sterling yet in England,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Let it command a mirror hither straight,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"That it may show me what a face I have,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Since it is bankrupt of his majesty."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Go some of you and fetch a looking-glass."
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Read o'er this paper while the glass doth come."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Fiend, thou torment'st me ere I come to hell!"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Urge it no more, my Lord Northumberland."
IV,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The commons will not then be satisfied."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"They shall be satisfied: I'll read enough,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"When I do see the very book indeed"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Give me the glass, and therein will I read."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"No deeper wrinkles yet? hath sorrow struck"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"So many blows upon this face of mine,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And made no deeper wounds? O flattering glass,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Like to my followers in prosperity,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Thou dost beguile me! Was this face the face"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"That every day under his household roof"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Did keep ten thousand men? was this the face"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"That, like the sun, did make beholders wink?"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Was this the face that faced so many follies,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And was at last out-faced by Bolingbroke?"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"A brittle glory shineth in this face:"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"As brittle as the glory is the face;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"For there it is, crack'd in a hundred shivers."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Mark, silent king, the moral of this sport,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"How soon my sorrow hath destroy'd my face."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The shadow of your sorrow hath destroy'd"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The shadow or your face."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Say that again."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"The shadow of my sorrow! ha! let's see:"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"'Tis very true, my grief lies all within;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And these external manners of laments"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Are merely shadows to the unseen grief"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"That swells with silence in the tortured soul;"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"There lies the substance: and I thank thee, king,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"For thy great bounty, that not only givest"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Me cause to wail but teachest me the way"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"How to lament the cause. I'll beg one boon,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And then be gone and trouble you no more."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Shall I obtain it?"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Name it, fair cousin."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"'Fair cousin'? I am greater than a king:"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"For when I was a king, my flatterers"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Were then but subjects; being now a subject,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"I have a king here to my flatterer."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Being so great, I have no need to beg."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Yet ask."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"And shall I have?"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"You shall."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Then give me leave to go."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Whither?"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"Whither you will, so I were from your sights."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Go, some of you convey him to the Tower."
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"O, good! convey? conveyers are you all,"
IV,I,KING RICHARD II,"That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall."
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"On Wednesday next we solemnly set down"
IV,I,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Our coronation: lords, prepare yourselves."
IV,I,Abbot,"A woeful pageant have we here beheld."
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"The woe's to come; the children yet unborn."
IV,I,BISHOP OF CARLISLE,"Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn."
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"You holy clergymen, is there no plot"
IV,I,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"To rid the realm of this pernicious blot?"
IV,I,Abbot,"My lord,"
IV,I,Abbot,"Before I freely speak my mind herein,"
IV,I,Abbot,"You shall not only take the sacrament"
IV,I,Abbot,"To bury mine intents, but also to effect"
IV,I,Abbot,"Whatever I shall happen to devise."
IV,I,Abbot,"I see your brows are full of discontent,"
IV,I,Abbot,"Your hearts of sorrow and your eyes of tears:"
IV,I,Abbot,"Come home with me to supper; and I'll lay"
IV,I,Abbot,"A plot shall show us all a merry day."
V,I,QUEEN,"This way the king will come; this is the way"
V,I,QUEEN,"To Julius Caesar's ill-erected tower,"
V,I,QUEEN,"To whose flint bosom my condemned lord"
V,I,QUEEN,"Is doom'd a prisoner by proud Bolingbroke:"
V,I,QUEEN,"Here let us rest, if this rebellious earth"
V,I,QUEEN,"Have any resting for her true king's queen."
V,I,QUEEN,"But soft, but see, or rather do not see,"
V,I,QUEEN,"My fair rose wither: yet look up, behold,"
V,I,QUEEN,"That you in pity may dissolve to dew,"
V,I,QUEEN,"And wash him fresh again with true-love tears."
V,I,QUEEN,"Ah, thou, the model where old Troy did stand,"
V,I,QUEEN,"Thou map of honour, thou King Richard's tomb,"
V,I,QUEEN,"And not King Richard; thou most beauteous inn,"
V,I,QUEEN,"Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodged in thee,"
V,I,QUEEN,"When triumph is become an alehouse guest?"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"To make my end too sudden: learn, good soul,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"To think our former state a happy dream;"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"From which awaked, the truth of what we are"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Shows us but this: I am sworn brother, sweet,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"To grim Necessity, and he and I"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Will keep a league till death. Hie thee to France"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"And cloister thee in some religious house:"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Our holy lives must win a new world's crown,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Which our profane hours here have stricken down."
V,I,QUEEN,"What, is my Richard both in shape and mind"
V,I,QUEEN,"Transform'd and weaken'd? hath Bolingbroke deposed"
V,I,QUEEN,"Thine intellect? hath he been in thy heart?"
V,I,QUEEN,"The lion dying thrusteth forth his paw,"
V,I,QUEEN,"And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage"
V,I,QUEEN,"To be o'erpower'd; and wilt thou, pupil-like,"
V,I,QUEEN,"Take thy correction mildly, kiss the rod,"
V,I,QUEEN,"And fawn on rage with base humility,"
V,I,QUEEN,"Which art a lion and a king of beasts?"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"A king of beasts, indeed; if aught but beasts,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"I had been still a happy king of men."
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Good sometime queen, prepare thee hence for France:"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Think I am dead and that even here thou takest,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"As from my death-bed, thy last living leave."
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"With good old folks and let them tell thee tales"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Of woeful ages long ago betid;"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"And ere thou bid good night, to quit their griefs,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Tell thou the lamentable tale of me"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"And send the hearers weeping to their beds:"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"For why, the senseless brands will sympathize"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"The heavy accent of thy moving tongue"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"And in compassion weep the fire out;"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"And some will mourn in ashes, some coal-black,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"For the deposing of a rightful king."
V,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"My lord, the mind of Bolingbroke is changed:"
V,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower."
V,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"And, madam, there is order ta'en for you;"
V,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"With all swift speed you must away to France."
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"The time shall not be many hours of age"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"More than it is ere foul sin gathering head"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Shalt break into corruption: thou shalt think,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Though he divide the realm and give thee half,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"It is too little, helping him to all;"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"And he shall think that thou, which know'st the way"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"To plant unrightful kings, wilt know again,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Being ne'er so little urged, another way"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"To pluck him headlong from the usurped throne."
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"The love of wicked men converts to fear;"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"To worthy danger and deserved death."
V,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"My guilt be on my head, and there an end."
V,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"Take leave and part; for you must part forthwith."
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Doubly divorced! Bad men, you violate"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"A twofold marriage, 'twixt my crown and me,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"And then betwixt me and my married wife."
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Let me unkiss the oath 'twixt thee and me;"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"And yet not so, for with a kiss 'twas made."
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Part us, Northumberland; I toward the north,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime;"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"My wife to France: from whence, set forth in pomp,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"She came adorned hither like sweet May,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Sent back like Hallowmas or short'st of day."
V,I,QUEEN,"And must we be divided? must we part?"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart."
V,I,QUEEN,"Banish us both and send the king with me."
V,I,NORTHUMBERLAND,"That were some love but little policy."
V,I,QUEEN,"Then whither he goes, thither let me go."
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"So two, together weeping, make one woe."
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Weep thou for me in France, I for thee here;"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Better far off than near, be ne'er the near."
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Go, count thy way with sighs; I mine with groans."
V,I,QUEEN,"So longest way shall have the longest moans."
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Twice for one step I'll groan, the way being short,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"And piece the way out with a heavy heart."
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Come, come, in wooing sorrow let's be brief,"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief;"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part;"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Thus give I mine, and thus take I thy heart."
V,I,QUEEN,"Give me mine own again; 'twere no good part"
V,I,QUEEN,"To take on me to keep and kill thy heart."
V,I,QUEEN,"So, now I have mine own again, be gone,"
V,I,QUEEN,"That I might strive to kill it with a groan."
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"We make woe wanton with this fond delay:"
V,I,KING RICHARD II,"Once more, adieu; the rest let sorrow say."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"My lord, you told me you would tell the rest,"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"When weeping made you break the story off,"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"of our two cousins coming into London."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Where did I leave?"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"At that sad stop, my lord,"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Where rude misgovern'd hands from windows' tops"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Then, as I said, the duke, great Bolingbroke,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"With slow but stately pace kept on his course,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Whilst all tongues cried 'God save thee,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Bolingbroke!'"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"You would have thought the very windows spake,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"So many greedy looks of young and old"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Through casements darted their desiring eyes"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Upon his visage, and that all the walls"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"With painted imagery had said at once"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"'Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke!'"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Whilst he, from the one side to the other turning,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Bareheaded, lower than his proud steed's neck,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Bespake them thus: 'I thank you, countrymen:'"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Alack, poor Richard! where rode he the whilst?"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"As in a theatre, the eyes of men,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Are idly bent on him that enters next,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Thinking his prattle to be tedious;"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Did scowl on gentle Richard; no man cried 'God save him!'"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home:"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"But dust was thrown upon his sacred head:"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"His face still combating with tears and smiles,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"The badges of his grief and patience,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"And barbarism itself have pitied him."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"But heaven hath a hand in these events,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"To whose high will we bound our calm contents."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Whose state and honour I for aye allow."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Here comes my son Aumerle."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Aumerle that was;"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"But that is lost for being Richard's friend,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"And, madam, you must call him Rutland now:"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"I am in parliament pledge for his truth"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"And lasting fealty to the new-made king."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Welcome, my son: who are the violets now"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"That strew the green lap of the new come spring?"
V,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not:"
V,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"God knows I had as lief be none as one."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Well, bear you well in this new spring of time,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Lest you be cropp'd before you come to prime."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"What news from Oxford? hold those justs and triumphs?"
V,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"For aught I know, my lord, they do."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"You will be there, I know."
V,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"If God prevent not, I purpose so."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"What seal is that, that hangs without thy bosom?"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Yea, look'st thou pale? let me see the writing."
V,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"My lord, 'tis nothing."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"No matter, then, who see it;"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"I will be satisfied; let me see the writing."
V,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"I do beseech your grace to pardon me:"
V,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"It is a matter of small consequence,"
V,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Which for some reasons I would not have seen."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Which for some reasons, sir, I mean to see."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"I fear, I fear,--"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"What should you fear?"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"'Tis nothing but some bond, that he is enter'd into"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"For gay apparel 'gainst the triumph day."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Bound to himself! what doth he with a bond"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"That he is bound to? Wife, thou art a fool."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Boy, let me see the writing."
V,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"I do beseech you, pardon me; I may not show it."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"I will be satisfied; let me see it, I say."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Treason! foul treason! Villain! traitor! slave!"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"What is the matter, my lord?"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Ho! who is within there?"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Saddle my horse."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"God for his mercy, what treachery is here!"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Why, what is it, my lord?"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Give me my boots, I say; saddle my horse."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Now, by mine honour, by my life, by my troth,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"I will appeach the villain."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"What is the matter?"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Peace, foolish woman."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I will not peace. What is the matter, Aumerle."
V,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Good mother, be content; it is no more"
V,II,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Than my poor life must answer."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Thy life answer!"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Bring me my boots: I will unto the king."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Strike him, Aumerle. Poor boy, thou art amazed."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Hence, villain! never more come in my sight."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Give me my boots, I say."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Why, York, what wilt thou do?"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine own?"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Have we more sons? or are we like to have?"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Is not my teeming date drunk up with time?"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age,"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And rob me of a happy mother's name?"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Is he not like thee? is he not thine own?"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Thou fond mad woman,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy?"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"A dozen of them here have ta'en the sacrament,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"And interchangeably set down their hands,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"To kill the king at Oxford."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"He shall be none;"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"We'll keep him here: then what is that to him?"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Away, fond woman! were he twenty times my son,"
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"I would appeach him."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Hadst thou groan'd for him"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"As I have done, thou wouldst be more pitiful."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"But now I know thy mind; thou dost suspect"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"That I have been disloyal to thy bed,"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And that he is a bastard, not thy son:"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Sweet York, sweet husband, be not of that mind:"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"He is as like thee as a man may be,"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Not like to me, or any of my kin,"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And yet I love him."
V,II,DUKE OF YORK,"Make way, unruly woman!"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"After, Aumerle! mount thee upon his horse;"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Spur post, and get before him to the king,"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee."
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I'll not be long behind; though I be old,"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I doubt not but to ride as fast as York:"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And never will I rise up from the ground"
V,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Till Bolingbroke have pardon'd thee. Away, be gone!"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son?"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"'Tis full three months since I did see him last;"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"If any plague hang over us, 'tis he."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I would to God, my lords, he might be found:"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Inquire at London, 'mongst the taverns there,"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"For there, they say, he daily doth frequent,"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"With unrestrained loose companions,"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Even such, they say, as stand in narrow lanes,"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And beat our watch, and rob our passengers;"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Which he, young wanton and effeminate boy,"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Takes on the point of honour to support"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"So dissolute a crew."
V,III,HENRY PERCY,"My lord, some two days since I saw the prince,"
V,III,HENRY PERCY,"And told him of those triumphs held at Oxford."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And what said the gallant?"
V,III,HENRY PERCY,"His answer was, he would unto the stews,"
V,III,HENRY PERCY,"And from the common'st creature pluck a glove,"
V,III,HENRY PERCY,"And wear it as a favour; and with that"
V,III,HENRY PERCY,"He would unhorse the lustiest challenger."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"As dissolute as desperate; yet through both"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I see some sparks of better hope, which elder years"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"May happily bring forth. But who comes here?"
V,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Where is the king?"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"What means our cousin, that he stares and looks"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"So wildly?"
V,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"God save your grace! I do beseech your majesty,"
V,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"To have some conference with your grace alone."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Withdraw yourselves, and leave us here alone."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"What is the matter with our cousin now?"
V,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"For ever may my knees grow to the earth,"
V,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"My tongue cleave to my roof within my mouth"
V,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Unless a pardon ere I rise or speak."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Intended or committed was this fault?"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"If on the first, how heinous e'er it be,"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To win thy after-love I pardon thee."
V,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Then give me leave that I may turn the key,"
V,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"That no man enter till my tale be done."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Have thy desire."
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Thou hast a traitor in thy presence there."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Villain, I'll make thee safe."
V,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Stay thy revengeful hand; thou hast no cause to fear."
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Shall I for love speak treason to thy face?"
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Open the door, or I will break it open."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"What is the matter, uncle? speak;"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Recover breath; tell us how near is danger,"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"That we may arm us to encounter it."
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Peruse this writing here, and thou shalt know"
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"The treason that my haste forbids me show."
V,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Remember, as thou read'st, thy promise pass'd:"
V,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"I do repent me; read not my name there"
V,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"My heart is not confederate with my hand."
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"It was, villain, ere thy hand did set it down."
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"I tore it from the traitor's bosom, king;"
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Fear, and not love, begets his penitence:"
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Forget to pity him, lest thy pity prove"
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"A serpent that will sting thee to the heart."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"O heinous, strong and bold conspiracy!"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"O loyal father of a treacherous son!"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain,"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"From when this stream through muddy passages"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Hath held his current and defiled himself!"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Thy overflow of good converts to bad,"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And thy abundant goodness shall excuse"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"This deadly blot in thy digressing son."
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"So shall my virtue be his vice's bawd;"
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"And he shall spend mine honour with his shame,"
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold."
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Mine honour lives when his dishonour dies,"
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Or my shamed life in his dishonour lies:"
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Thou kill'st me in his life; giving him breath,"
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"The traitor lives, the true man's put to death."
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"let me in."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"What shrill-voiced suppliant makes this eager cry?"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"A woman, and thy aunt, great king; 'tis I."
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Speak with me, pity me, open the door."
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"A beggar begs that never begg'd before."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Our scene is alter'd from a serious thing,"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And now changed to 'The Beggar and the King.'"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"My dangerous cousin, let your mother in:"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I know she is come to pray for your foul sin."
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"If thou do pardon, whosoever pray,"
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"More sins for this forgiveness prosper may."
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"This fester'd joint cut off, the rest rest sound;"
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"This let alone will all the rest confound."
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"O king, believe not this hard-hearted man!"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Love loving not itself none other can."
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Thou frantic woman, what dost thou make here?"
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Shall thy old dugs once more a traitor rear?"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Sweet York, be patient. Hear me, gentle liege."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Rise up, good aunt."
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Not yet, I thee beseech:"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"For ever will I walk upon my knees,"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And never see day that the happy sees,"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Till thou give joy; until thou bid me joy,"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"By pardoning Rutland, my transgressing boy."
V,III,DUKE OF AUMERLE,"Unto my mother's prayers I bend my knee."
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Against them both my true joints bended be."
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Ill mayst thou thrive, if thou grant any grace!"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Pleads he in earnest? look upon his face;"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in jest;"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"His words come from his mouth, ours from our breast:"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"He prays but faintly and would be denied;"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"We pray with heart and soul and all beside:"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"His weary joints would gladly rise, I know;"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow:"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"His prayers are full of false hypocrisy;"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Ours of true zeal and deep integrity."
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Our prayers do out-pray his; then let them have"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"That mercy which true prayer ought to have."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Good aunt, stand up."
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Nay, do not say, 'stand up;'"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Say, 'pardon' first, and afterwards 'stand up.'"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And if I were thy nurse, thy tongue to teach,"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"'Pardon' should be the first word of thy speech."
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I never long'd to hear a word till now;"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Say 'pardon,' king; let pity teach thee how:"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"The word is short, but not so short as sweet;"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"No word like 'pardon' for kings' mouths so meet."
V,III,DUKE OF YORK,"Speak it in French, king; say, 'pardonne moi.'"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy?"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Ah, my sour husband, my hard-hearted lord,"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"That set'st the word itself against the word!"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Speak 'pardon' as 'tis current in our land;"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"The chopping French we do not understand."
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Thine eye begins to speak; set thy tongue there;"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear;"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce,"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Pity may move thee 'pardon' to rehearse."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Good aunt, stand up."
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I do not sue to stand;"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Pardon is all the suit I have in hand."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I pardon him, as God shall pardon me."
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Yet am I sick for fear: speak it again;"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Twice saying 'pardon' doth not pardon twain,"
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"But makes one pardon strong."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"With all my heart"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I pardon him."
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"A god on earth thou art."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"But for our trusty brother-in-law and the abbot,"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"With all the rest of that consorted crew,"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Good uncle, help to order several powers"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To Oxford, or where'er these traitors are:"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"They shall not live within this world, I swear,"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"But I will have them, if I once know where."
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Uncle, farewell: and, cousin too, adieu:"
V,III,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Your mother well hath pray'd, and prove you true."
V,III,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Come, my old son: I pray God make thee new."
V,IV,EXTON,"Didst thou not mark the king, what words he spake,"
V,IV,EXTON,"'Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?'"
V,IV,EXTON,"Was it not so?"
V,IV,Servant,"These were his very words."
V,IV,EXTON,"'Have I no friend?' quoth he: he spake it twice,"
V,IV,EXTON,"And urged it twice together, did he not?"
V,IV,Servant,"He did."
V,IV,EXTON,"And speaking it, he wistly look'd on me,"
V,IV,EXTON,"And who should say, 'I would thou wert the man'"
V,IV,EXTON,"That would divorce this terror from my heart;'"
V,IV,EXTON,"Meaning the king at Pomfret. Come, let's go:"
V,IV,EXTON,"I am the king's friend, and will rid his foe."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"I have been studying how I may compare"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"This prison where I live unto the world:"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"And for because the world is populous"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"And here is not a creature but myself,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"My brain I'll prove the female to my soul,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"My soul the father; and these two beget"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"A generation of still-breeding thoughts,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"And these same thoughts people this little world,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"In humours like the people of this world,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"For no thought is contented. The better sort,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"As thoughts of things divine, are intermix'd"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"With scruples and do set the word itself"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Against the word:"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"As thus, 'Come, little ones,' and then again,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"'It is as hard to come as for a camel"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.'"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Unlikely wonders; how these vain weak nails"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"May tear a passage through the flinty ribs"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"And, for they cannot, die in their own pride."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"That they are not the first of fortune's slaves,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Nor shall not be the last; like silly beggars"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Who sitting in the stocks refuge their shame,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"That many have and others must sit there;"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"And in this thought they find a kind of ease,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Bearing their own misfortunes on the back"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Of such as have before endured the like."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Thus play I in one person many people,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"And none contented: sometimes am I king;"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"And so I am: then crushing penury"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Persuades me I was better when a king;"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Then am I king'd again: and by and by"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Nor I nor any man that but man is"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"With being nothing. Music do I hear?"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"When time is broke and no proportion kept!"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"So is it in the music of men's lives."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"And here have I the daintiness of ear"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"To cheque time broke in a disorder'd string;"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"But for the concord of my state and time"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Had not an ear to hear my true time broke."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"For now hath time made me his numbering clock:"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Whereto my finger, like a dial's point,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Are clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Show minutes, times, and hours: but my time"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Runs posting on in Bolingbroke's proud joy,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"While I stand fooling here, his Jack o' the clock."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"This music mads me; let it sound no more;"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"For though it have holp madmen to their wits,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"In me it seems it will make wise men mad."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me!"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"For 'tis a sign of love; and love to Richard"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world."
V,V,Groom,"Hail, royal prince!"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Thanks, noble peer;"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"What art thou? and how comest thou hither,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Where no man never comes but that sad dog"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"That brings me food to make misfortune live?"
V,V,Groom,"I was a poor groom of thy stable, king,"
V,V,Groom,"When thou wert king; who, travelling towards York,"
V,V,Groom,"With much ado at length have gotten leave"
V,V,Groom,"To look upon my sometimes royal master's face."
V,V,Groom,"O, how it yearn'd my heart when I beheld"
V,V,Groom,"In London streets, that coronation-day,"
V,V,Groom,"When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary,"
V,V,Groom,"That horse that thou so often hast bestrid,"
V,V,Groom,"That horse that I so carefully have dress'd!"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Rode he on Barbary? Tell me, gentle friend,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"How went he under him?"
V,V,Groom,"So proudly as if he disdain'd the ground."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"So proud that Bolingbroke was on his back!"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand;"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"This hand hath made him proud with clapping him."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Would he not stumble? would he not fall down,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Since pride must have a fall, and break the neck"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Of that proud man that did usurp his back?"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Forgiveness, horse! why do I rail on thee,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Since thou, created to be awed by man,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Wast born to bear? I was not made a horse;"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"And yet I bear a burthen like an ass,"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Spurr'd, gall'd and tired by jouncing Bolingbroke."
V,V,Keeper,"Fellow, give place; here is no longer stay."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"If thou love me, 'tis time thou wert away."
V,V,Groom,"What my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say."
V,V,Keeper,"My lord, will't please you to fall to?"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Taste of it first, as thou art wont to do."
V,V,Keeper,"My lord, I dare not: Sir Pierce of Exton, who"
V,V,Keeper,"lately came from the king, commands the contrary."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"The devil take Henry of Lancaster and thee!"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Patience is stale, and I am weary of it."
V,V,Keeper,"Help, help, help!"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"How now! what means death in this rude assault?"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Villain, thy own hand yields thy death's instrument."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Go thou, and fill another room in hell."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Hath with the king's blood stain'd the king's own land."
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high;"
V,V,KING RICHARD II,"Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die."
V,V,EXTON,"As full of valour as of royal blood:"
V,V,EXTON,"Both have I spill'd; O would the deed were good!"
V,V,EXTON,"For now the devil, that told me I did well,"
V,V,EXTON,"Says that this deed is chronicled in hell."
V,V,EXTON,"This dead king to the living king I'll bear"
V,V,EXTON,"Take hence the rest, and give them burial here."
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Kind uncle York, the latest news we hear"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Is that the rebels have consumed with fire"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Our town of Cicester in Gloucestershire;"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"But whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not."
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Welcome, my lord what is the news?"
V,VI,NORTHUMBERLAND,"First, to thy sacred state wish I all happiness."
V,VI,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The next news is, I have to London sent"
V,VI,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The heads of Oxford, Salisbury, Blunt, and Kent:"
V,VI,NORTHUMBERLAND,"The manner of their taking may appear"
V,VI,NORTHUMBERLAND,"At large discoursed in this paper here."
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains;"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And to thy worth will add right worthy gains."
V,VI,LORD FITZWATER,"My lord, I have from Oxford sent to London"
V,VI,LORD FITZWATER,"The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely,"
V,VI,LORD FITZWATER,"Two of the dangerous consorted traitors"
V,VI,LORD FITZWATER,"That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow."
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Thy pains, Fitzwater, shall not be forgot;"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Right noble is thy merit, well I wot."
V,VI,HENRY PERCY,"The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster,"
V,VI,HENRY PERCY,"With clog of conscience and sour melancholy"
V,VI,HENRY PERCY,"Hath yielded up his body to the grave;"
V,VI,HENRY PERCY,"But here is Carlisle living, to abide"
V,VI,HENRY PERCY,"Thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride."
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Carlisle, this is your doom:"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Choose out some secret place, some reverend room,"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life;"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"So as thou livest in peace, die free from strife:"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"For though mine enemy thou hast ever been,"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"High sparks of honour in thee have I seen."
V,VI,EXTON,"Great king, within this coffin I present"
V,VI,EXTON,"Thy buried fear: herein all breathless lies"
V,VI,EXTON,"The mightiest of thy greatest enemies,"
V,VI,EXTON,"Richard of Bordeaux, by me hither brought."
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Exton, I thank thee not; for thou hast wrought"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"A deed of slander with thy fatal hand"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Upon my head and all this famous land."
V,VI,EXTON,"From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed."
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"They love not poison that do poison need,"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Nor do I thee: though I did wish him dead,"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I hate the murderer, love him murdered."
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour,"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"But neither my good word nor princely favour:"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"With Cain go wander through shades of night,"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And never show thy head by day nor light."
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Lords, I protest, my soul is full of woe,"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow:"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"Come, mourn with me for that I do lament,"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"And put on sullen black incontinent:"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land,"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"To wash this blood off from my guilty hand:"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"March sadly after; grace my mournings here;"
V,VI,HENRY BOLINGBROKE,"In weeping after this untimely bier."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Now is the winter of our discontent"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Made glorious summer by this sun of York;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"In the deep bosom of the ocean buried."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Our dreadful marches to delightful measures."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And now, instead of mounting barded steeds"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"To the lascivious pleasing of a lute."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And that so lamely and unfashionable"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Have no delight to pass away the time,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Unless to spy my shadow in the sun"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And descant on mine own deformity:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"To entertain these fair well-spoken days,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"I am determined to prove a villain"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And hate the idle pleasures of these days."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"To set my brother Clarence and the king"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"In deadly hate the one against the other:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And if King Edward be as true and just"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"As I am subtle, false and treacherous,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"About a prophecy, which says that 'G'"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Clarence comes."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Brother, good day; what means this armed guard"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"That waits upon your grace?"
I,I,CLARENCE,"His majesty"
I,I,CLARENCE,"Tendering my person's safety, hath appointed"
I,I,CLARENCE,"This conduct to convey me to the Tower."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Upon what cause?"
I,I,CLARENCE,"Because my name is George."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"He should, for that, commit your godfathers:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"O, belike his majesty hath some intent"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"That you shall be new-christen'd in the Tower."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"But what's the matter, Clarence?  may I know?"
I,I,CLARENCE,"Yea, Richard, when I know; for I protest"
I,I,CLARENCE,"As yet I do not: but, as I can learn,"
I,I,CLARENCE,"He hearkens after prophecies and dreams;"
I,I,CLARENCE,"And from the cross-row plucks the letter G."
I,I,CLARENCE,"And says a wizard told him that by G"
I,I,CLARENCE,"His issue disinherited should be;"
I,I,CLARENCE,"And, for my name of George begins with G,"
I,I,CLARENCE,"It follows in his thought that I am he."
I,I,CLARENCE,"These, as I learn, and such like toys as these"
I,I,CLARENCE,"Have moved his highness to commit me now."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Why, this it is, when men are ruled by women:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"'Tis not the king that sends you to the Tower:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"My Lady Grey his wife, Clarence, 'tis she"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"That tempers him to this extremity."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Was it not she and that good man of worship,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Anthony Woodville, her brother there,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"From whence this present day he is deliver'd?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"We are not safe, Clarence; we are not safe."
I,I,CLARENCE,"By heaven, I think there's no man is secure"
I,I,CLARENCE,"But the queen's kindred and night-walking heralds"
I,I,CLARENCE,"That trudge betwixt the king and Mistress Shore."
I,I,CLARENCE,"Heard ye not what an humble suppliant"
I,I,CLARENCE,"Lord hastings was to her for his delivery?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Humbly complaining to her deity"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Got my lord chamberlain his liberty."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"I'll tell you what; I think it is our way,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"If we will keep in favour with the king,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"To be her men and wear her livery:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"The jealous o'erworn widow and herself,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Since that our brother dubb'd them gentlewomen."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Are mighty gossips in this monarchy."
I,I,BRAKENBURY,"I beseech your graces both to pardon me;"
I,I,BRAKENBURY,"His majesty hath straitly given in charge"
I,I,BRAKENBURY,"That no man shall have private conference,"
I,I,BRAKENBURY,"Of what degree soever, with his brother."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"You may partake of any thing we say:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"We speak no treason, man: we say the king"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And that the queen's kindred are made gentle-folks:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"How say you sir? Can you deny all this?"
I,I,BRAKENBURY,"With this, my lord, myself have nought to do."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Naught to do with mistress Shore! I tell thee, fellow,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"He that doth naught with her, excepting one,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Were best he do it secretly, alone."
I,I,BRAKENBURY,"What one, my lord?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Her husband, knave: wouldst thou betray me?"
I,I,BRAKENBURY,"I beseech your grace to pardon me, and withal"
I,I,BRAKENBURY,"Forbear your conference with the noble duke."
I,I,CLARENCE,"We know thy charge, Brakenbury, and will obey."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"We are the queen's abjects, and must obey."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Brother, farewell: I will unto the king;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And whatsoever you will employ me in,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Were it to call King Edward's widow sister,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"I will perform it to enfranchise you."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Touches me deeper than you can imagine."
I,I,CLARENCE,"I know it pleaseth neither of us well."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Well, your imprisonment shall not be long;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Meantime, have patience."
I,I,CLARENCE,"I must perforce. Farewell."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Go, tread the path that thou shalt ne'er return."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"If heaven will take the present at our hands."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"But who comes here? the new-deliver'd Hastings?"
I,I,HASTINGS,"Good time of day unto my gracious lord!"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"As much unto my good lord chamberlain!"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Well are you welcome to the open air."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"How hath your lordship brook'd imprisonment?"
I,I,HASTINGS,"With patience, noble lord, as prisoners must:"
I,I,HASTINGS,"But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks"
I,I,HASTINGS,"That were the cause of my imprisonment."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"No doubt, no doubt; and so shall Clarence too;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"For they that were your enemies are his,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And have prevail'd as much on him as you."
I,I,HASTINGS,"More pity that the eagle should be mew'd,"
I,I,HASTINGS,"While kites and buzzards prey at liberty."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"What news abroad?"
I,I,HASTINGS,"No news so bad abroad as this at home;"
I,I,HASTINGS,"The King is sickly, weak and melancholy,"
I,I,HASTINGS,"And his physicians fear him mightily."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Now, by Saint Paul, this news is bad indeed."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"O, he hath kept an evil diet long,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And overmuch consumed his royal person:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"'Tis very grievous to be thought upon."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"What, is he in his bed?"
I,I,HASTINGS,"He is."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Go you before, and I will follow you."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"He cannot live, I hope; and must not die"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Till George be pack'd with post-horse up to heaven."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"I'll in, to urge his hatred more to Clarence,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"With lies well steel'd with weighty arguments;"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And, if I fall not in my deep intent,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Clarence hath not another day to live:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"And leave the world for me to bustle in!"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"For then I'll marry Warwick's youngest daughter."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"What though I kill'd her husband and her father?"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"The readiest way to make the wench amends"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Is to become her husband and her father:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"The which will I; not all so much for love"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"As for another secret close intent,"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"By marrying her which I must reach unto."
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"But yet I run before my horse to market:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"Clarence still breathes; Edward still lives and reigns:"
I,I,GLOUCESTER,"When they are gone, then must I count my gains."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Set down, set down your honourable load,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"If honour may be shrouded in a hearse,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Poor key-cold figure of a holy king!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"To hear the lamentations of Poor Anne,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughter'd son,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Stabb'd by the selfsame hand that made these wounds!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Cursed be the heart that had the heart to do it!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"More direful hap betide that hated wretch,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"That makes us wretched by the death of thee,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Or any creeping venom'd thing that lives!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"If ever he have child, abortive be it,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Prodigious, and untimely brought to light,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Whose ugly and unnatural aspect"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"May fright the hopeful mother at the view;"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"And that be heir to his unhappiness!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"If ever he have wife, let her he made"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"A miserable by the death of him"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"As I am made by my poor lord and thee!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Taken from Paul's to be interred there;"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"And still, as you are weary of the weight,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Stay, you that bear the corse, and set it down."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"What black magician conjures up this fiend,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"To stop devoted charitable deeds?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Villains, set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"I'll make a corse of him that disobeys."
I,II,Gentleman,"My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Unmanner'd dog! stand thou, when I command:"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Advance thy halbert higher than my breast,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Or, by Saint Paul, I'll strike thee to my foot,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"What, do you tremble? are you all afraid?"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Alas, I blame you not; for you are mortal,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Thou hadst but power over his mortal body,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"His soul thou canst not have; therefore be gone."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Sweet saint, for charity, be not so curst."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Foul devil, for God's sake, hence, and trouble us not;"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Fill'd it with cursing cries and deep exclaims."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Behold this pattern of thy butcheries."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"O, gentlemen, see, see! dead Henry's wounds"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Open their congeal'd mouths and bleed afresh!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Blush, Blush, thou lump of foul deformity;"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"For 'tis thy presence that exhales this blood"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"From cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells;"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Provokes this deluge most unnatural."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"O God, which this blood madest, revenge his death!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"O earth, which this blood drink'st revenge his death!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Either heaven with lightning strike the"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"murderer dead,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Or earth, gape open wide and eat him quick,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"As thou dost swallow up this good king's blood"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Which his hell-govern'd arm hath butchered!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Lady, you know no rules of charity,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man:"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"But I know none, and therefore am no beast."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"More wonderful, when angels are so angry."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Of these supposed-evils, to give me leave,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"By circumstance, but to acquit myself."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Vouchsafe, defused infection of a man,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"For these known evils, but to give me leave,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"By circumstance, to curse thy cursed self."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Some patient leisure to excuse myself."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"No excuse current, but to hang thyself."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"By such despair, I should accuse myself."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"And, by despairing, shouldst thou stand excused;"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"For doing worthy vengeance on thyself,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Say that I slew them not?"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Why, then they are not dead:"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"But dead they are, and devilish slave, by thee."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"I did not kill your husband."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Why, then he is alive."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Nay, he is dead; and slain by Edward's hand."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood;"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"The which thou once didst bend against her breast,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"But that thy brothers beat aside the point."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"I was provoked by her slanderous tongue,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"which laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Which never dreamt on aught but butcheries:"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Didst thou not kill this king?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"I grant ye."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Dost grant me, hedgehog? then, God grant me too"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed!"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"The fitter for the King of heaven, that hath him."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"He is in heaven, where thou shalt never come."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Let him thank me, that holp to send him thither;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"For he was fitter for that place than earth."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"And thou unfit for any place but hell."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Some dungeon."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Your bed-chamber."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"I'll rest betide the chamber where thou liest!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"So will it, madam till I lie with you."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"I hope so."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"I know so. But, gentle Lady Anne,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"To leave this keen encounter of our wits,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And fall somewhat into a slower method,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Is not the causer of the timeless deaths"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"As blameful as the executioner?"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Your beauty was the cause of that effect;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Your beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"To undertake the death of all the world,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"These eyes could never endure sweet beauty's wreck;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"You should not blemish it, if I stood by:"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"As all the world is cheered by the sun,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"So I by that; it is my day, my life."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Black night o'ershade thy day, and death thy life!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Curse not thyself, fair creature thou art both."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"I would I were, to be revenged on thee."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"It is a quarrel most unnatural,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"To be revenged on him that loveth you."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"It is a quarrel just and reasonable,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"To be revenged on him that slew my husband."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"He that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Did it to help thee to a better husband."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"His better doth not breathe upon the earth."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"He lives that loves thee better than he could."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Name him."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Plantagenet."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Why, that was he."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"The selfsame name, but one of better nature."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Where is he?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Here."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Why dost thou spit at me?"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Would it were mortal poison, for thy sake!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Never came poison from so sweet a place."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Never hung poison on a fouler toad."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Would they were basilisks, to strike thee dead!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"I would they were, that I might die at once;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"For now they kill me with a living death."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Shamed their aspect with store of childish drops:"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"These eyes that never shed remorseful tear,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"No, when my father York and Edward wept,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"When black-faced Clifford shook his sword at him;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Nor when thy warlike father, like a child,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Told the sad story of my father's death,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And twenty times made pause to sob and weep,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"That all the standers-by had wet their cheeks"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Like trees bedash'd with rain: in that sad time"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And what these sorrows could not thence exhale,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"I never sued to friend nor enemy;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing word;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"But now thy beauty is proposed my fee,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"My proud heart sues, and prompts my tongue to speak."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Teach not thy lips such scorn, for they were made"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"For kissing, lady, not for such contempt."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Lo, here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Which if thou please to hide in this true bosom."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And let the soul forth that adoreth thee,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"I lay it naked to the deadly stroke,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And humbly beg the death upon my knee."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Nay, do not pause; for I did kill King Henry,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"But 'twas thy beauty that provoked me."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Nay, now dispatch; 'twas I that stabb'd young Edward,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"But 'twas thy heavenly face that set me on."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Take up the sword again, or take up me."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Arise, dissembler: though I wish thy death,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"I will not be the executioner."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Then bid me kill myself, and I will do it."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"I have already."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Tush, that was in thy rage:"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Speak it again, and, even with the word,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"That hand, which, for thy love, did kill thy love,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Shall, for thy love, kill a far truer love;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"I would I knew thy heart."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"'Tis figured in my tongue."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"I fear me both are false."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Then never man was true."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Well, well, put up your sword."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Say, then, my peace is made."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"That shall you know hereafter."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"But shall I live in hope?"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"All men, I hope, live so."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Vouchsafe to wear this ring."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"To take is not to give."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Look, how this ring encompasseth finger."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Wear both of them, for both of them are thine."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And if thy poor devoted suppliant may"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"But beg one favour at thy gracious hand,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Thou dost confirm his happiness for ever."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"What is it?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"That it would please thee leave these sad designs"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"To him that hath more cause to be a mourner,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And presently repair to Crosby Place;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Where, after I have solemnly interr'd"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"At Chertsey monastery this noble king,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And wet his grave with my repentant tears,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"I will with all expedient duty see you:"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"For divers unknown reasons. I beseech you,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Grant me this boon."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"With all my heart; and much it joys me too,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"To see you are become so penitent."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Bid me farewell."
I,II,LADY ANNE,"'Tis more than you deserve;"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"But since you teach me how to flatter you,"
I,II,LADY ANNE,"Imagine I have said farewell already."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Sirs, take up the corse."
I,II,GENTLEMEN,"Towards Chertsey, noble lord?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"No, to White-Friars; there attend my coining."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Was ever woman in this humour won?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"I'll have her; but I will not keep her long."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"What! I, that kill'd her husband and his father,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"To take her in her heart's extremest hate,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"The bleeding witness of her hatred by;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Having God, her conscience, and these bars"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"against me,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And I nothing to back my suit at all,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"But the plain devil and dissembling looks,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And yet to win her, all the world to nothing!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Ha!"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Hath she forgot already that brave prince,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Edward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Stabb'd in my angry mood at Tewksbury?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Framed in the prodigality of nature,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Young, valiant, wise, and, no doubt, right royal,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"The spacious world cannot again afford"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And will she yet debase her eyes on me,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"That cropp'd the golden prime of this sweet prince,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And made her widow to a woful bed?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"On me, whose all not equals Edward's moiety?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"On me, that halt and am unshapen thus?"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"My dukedom to a beggarly denier,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"I do mistake my person all this while:"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Myself to be a marvellous proper man."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"I'll be at charges for a looking-glass,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And entertain some score or two of tailors,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"To study fashions to adorn my body:"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Since I am crept in favour with myself,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Will maintain it with some little cost."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"But first I'll turn yon fellow in his grave;"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"And then return lamenting to my love."
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,"
I,II,GLOUCESTER,"That I may see my shadow as I pass."
I,III,RIVERS,"Have patience, madam: there's no doubt his majesty"
I,III,RIVERS,"Will soon recover his accustom'd health."
I,III,GREY,"In that you brook it in, it makes him worse:"
I,III,GREY,"Therefore, for God's sake, entertain good comfort,"
I,III,GREY,"And cheer his grace with quick and merry words."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"If he were dead, what would betide of me?"
I,III,RIVERS,"No other harm but loss of such a lord."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The loss of such a lord includes all harm."
I,III,GREY,"The heavens have bless'd you with a goodly son,"
I,III,GREY,"To be your comforter when he is gone."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Oh, he is young and his minority"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Is put unto the trust of Richard Gloucester,"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"A man that loves not me, nor none of you."
I,III,RIVERS,"Is it concluded that he shall be protector?"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"It is determined, not concluded yet:"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"But so it must be, if the king miscarry."
I,III,GREY,"Here come the lords of Buckingham and Derby."
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"Good time of day unto your royal grace!"
I,III,DERBY,"God make your majesty joyful as you have been!"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The Countess Richmond, good my Lord of Derby."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To your good prayers will scarcely say amen."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Yet, Derby, notwithstanding she's your wife,"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And loves not me, be you, good lord, assured"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I hate not you for her proud arrogance."
I,III,DERBY,"I do beseech you, either not believe"
I,III,DERBY,"The envious slanders of her false accusers;"
I,III,DERBY,"Or, if she be accused in true report,"
I,III,DERBY,"Bear with her weakness, which, I think proceeds"
I,III,DERBY,"From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice."
I,III,RIVERS,"Saw you the king to-day, my Lord of Derby?"
I,III,DERBY,"But now the Duke of Buckingham and I"
I,III,DERBY,"Are come from visiting his majesty."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"What likelihood of his amendment, lords?"
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"Madam, good hope; his grace speaks cheerfully."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"God grant him health! Did you confer with him?"
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"Madam, we did: he desires to make atonement"
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers,"
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"And betwixt them and my lord chamberlain;"
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"And sent to warn them to his royal presence."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Would all were well! but that will never be"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I fear our happiness is at the highest."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"They do me wrong, and I will not endure it:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Who are they that complain unto the king,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"That I, forsooth, am stern, and love them not?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Because I cannot flatter and speak fair,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I must be held a rancorous enemy."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"But thus his simple truth must be abused"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?"
I,III,RIVERS,"To whom in all this presence speaks your grace?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"To thee, that hast nor honesty nor grace."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"When have I injured thee? when done thee wrong?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Or thee? or thee? or any of your faction?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"A plague upon you all! His royal person,--"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Whom God preserve better than you would wish!--"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing-while,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"But you must trouble him with lewd complaints."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The king, of his own royal disposition,"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And not provoked by any suitor else;"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred,"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Which in your outward actions shows itself"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Against my kindred, brothers, and myself,"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Makes him to send; that thereby he may gather"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The ground of your ill-will, and so remove it."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I cannot tell: the world is grown so bad,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Since every Jack became a gentleman"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"There's many a gentle person made a Jack."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Come, come, we know your meaning, brother"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Gloucester;"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"You envy my advancement and my friends':"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"God grant we never may have need of you!"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Meantime, God grants that we have need of you:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Your brother is imprison'd by your means,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Myself disgraced, and the nobility"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Held in contempt; whilst many fair promotions"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Are daily given to ennoble those"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"That scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"By Him that raised me to this careful height"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"From that contented hap which I enjoy'd,"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I never did incense his majesty"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Against the Duke of Clarence, but have been"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"An earnest advocate to plead for him."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"My lord, you do me shameful injury,"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"You may deny that you were not the cause"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Of my Lord Hastings' late imprisonment."
I,III,RIVERS,"She may, my lord, for--"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"She may, Lord Rivers! why, who knows not so?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"She may do more, sir, than denying that:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"She may help you to many fair preferments,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"And then deny her aiding hand therein,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"And lay those honours on your high deserts."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"What may she not? She may, yea, marry, may she--"
I,III,RIVERS,"What, marry, may she?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"What, marry, may she! marry with a king,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"A bachelor, a handsome stripling too:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I wis your grandam had a worser match."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs:"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"With those gross taunts I often have endured."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I had rather be a country servant-maid"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Than a great queen, with this condition,"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To be thus taunted, scorn'd, and baited at:"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Small joy have I in being England's queen."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And lessen'd be that small, God, I beseech thee!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thy honour, state and seat is due to me."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"What! threat you me with telling of the king?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Tell him, and spare not: look, what I have said"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I will avouch in presence of the king:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I dare adventure to be sent to the Tower."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"'Tis time to speak; my pains are quite forgot."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Out, devil! I remember them too well:"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou slewest my husband Henry in the Tower,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And Edward, my poor son, at Tewksbury."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Ere you were queen, yea, or your husband king,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I was a pack-horse in his great affairs;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"A weeder-out of his proud adversaries,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"A liberal rewarder of his friends:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"To royalize his blood I spilt mine own."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Yea, and much better blood than his or thine."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"In all which time you and your husband Grey"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Were factious for the house of Lancaster;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"And, Rivers, so were you. Was not your husband"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"In Margaret's battle at Saint Alban's slain?"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Let me put in your minds, if you forget,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"What you have been ere now, and what you are;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Withal, what I have been, and what I am."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"A murderous villain, and so still thou art."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Poor Clarence did forsake his father, Warwick;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Yea, and forswore himself,--which Jesu pardon!--"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Which God revenge!"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"To fight on Edward's party for the crown;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"And for his meed, poor lord, he is mew'd up."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I am too childish-foolish for this world."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave the world,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou cacodemon! there thy kingdom is."
I,III,RIVERS,"My Lord of Gloucester, in those busy days"
I,III,RIVERS,"Which here you urge to prove us enemies,"
I,III,RIVERS,"We follow'd then our lord, our lawful king:"
I,III,RIVERS,"So should we you, if you should be our king."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"If I should be! I had rather be a pedlar:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Far be it from my heart, the thought of it!"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"As little joy, my lord, as you suppose"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"You should enjoy, were you this country's king,"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"As little joy may you suppose in me."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"That I enjoy, being the queen thereof."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"A little joy enjoys the queen thereof;"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"For I am she, and altogether joyless."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"I can no longer hold me patient."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"In sharing that which you have pill'd from me!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Which of you trembles not that looks on me?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"If not, that, I being queen, you bow like subjects,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Yet that, by you deposed, you quake like rebels?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"O gentle villain, do not turn away!"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Foul wrinkled witch, what makest thou in my sight?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"But repetition of what thou hast marr'd;"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"That will I make before I let thee go."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Wert thou not banished on pain of death?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"I was; but I do find more pain in banishment"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Than death can yield me here by my abode."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"A husband and a son thou owest to me;"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And thou a kingdom; all of you allegiance:"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"The sorrow that I have, by right is yours,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And all the pleasures you usurp are mine."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"The curse my noble father laid on thee,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"And then, to dry them, gavest the duke a clout"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland--"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"His curses, then from bitterness of soul"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Denounced against thee, are all fall'n upon thee;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"And God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"So just is God, to right the innocent."
I,III,HASTINGS,"O, 'twas the foulest deed to slay that babe,"
I,III,HASTINGS,"And the most merciless that e'er was heard of!"
I,III,RIVERS,"Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported."
I,III,DORSET,"No man but prophesied revenge for it."
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"Northumberland, then present, wept to see it."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"What were you snarling all before I came,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ready to catch each other by the throat,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And turn you all your hatred now on me?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"That Henry's death, my lovely Edward's death,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Their kingdom's loss, my woful banishment,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Could all but answer for that peevish brat?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Why, then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"If not by war, by surfeit die your king,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"As ours by murder, to make him a king!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Edward thy son, which now is Prince of Wales,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"For Edward my son, which was Prince of Wales,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Die in his youth by like untimely violence!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thyself a queen, for me that was a queen,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Outlive thy glory, like my wretched self!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Long mayst thou live to wail thy children's loss;"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And see another, as I see thee now,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Deck'd in thy rights, as thou art stall'd in mine!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Long die thy happy days before thy death;"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And, after many lengthen'd hours of grief,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Die neither mother, wife, nor England's queen!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Rivers and Dorset, you were standers by,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Was stabb'd with bloody daggers: God, I pray him,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"That none of you may live your natural age,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"But by some unlook'd accident cut off!"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Have done thy charm, thou hateful wither'd hag!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And leave out thee? stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"If heaven have any grievous plague in store"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And then hurl down their indignation"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou livest,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Unless it be whilst some tormenting dream"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou that wast seal'd in thy nativity"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"The slave of nature and the son of hell!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou rag of honour! thou detested--"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Margaret."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Richard!"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Ha!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"I call thee not."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I cry thee mercy then, for I had thought"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"That thou hadst call'd me all these bitter names."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Why, so I did; but look'd for no reply."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"O, let me make the period to my curse!"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"'Tis done by me, and ends in 'Margaret.'"
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Thus have you breathed your curse against yourself."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Fool, fool! thou whet'st a knife to kill thyself."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"The time will come when thou shalt wish for me"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"To help thee curse that poisonous bunchback'd toad."
I,III,HASTINGS,"False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse,"
I,III,HASTINGS,"Lest to thy harm thou move our patience."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Foul shame upon you! you have all moved mine."
I,III,RIVERS,"Were you well served, you would be taught your duty."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"To serve me well, you all should do me duty,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects:"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty!"
I,III,DORSET,"Dispute not with her; she is lunatic."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Peace, master marquess, you are malapert:"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"O, that your young nobility could judge"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"What 'twere to lose it, and be miserable!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"They that stand high have many blasts to shake them;"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Good counsel, marry: learn it, learn it, marquess."
I,III,DORSET,"It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Yea, and much more: but I was born so high,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And turns the sun to shade; alas! alas!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Witness my son, now in the shade of death;"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Whose bright out-shining beams thy cloudy wrath"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Hath in eternal darkness folded up."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"O God, that seest it, do not suffer it!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"As it was won with blood, lost be it so!"
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"Have done! for shame, if not for charity."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Urge neither charity nor shame to me:"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Uncharitably with me have you dealt,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And shamefully by you my hopes are butcher'd."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"My charity is outrage, life my shame"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage."
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"Have done, have done."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"O princely Buckingham I'll kiss thy hand,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"In sign of league and amity with thee:"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Now fair befal thee and thy noble house!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thy garments are not spotted with our blood,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Nor thou within the compass of my curse."
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"Nor no one here; for curses never pass"
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"The lips of those that breathe them in the air."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"I'll not believe but they ascend the sky,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And there awake God's gentle-sleeping peace."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"O Buckingham, take heed of yonder dog!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Look, when he fawns, he bites; and when he bites,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"His venom tooth will rankle to the death:"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Have not to do with him, beware of him;"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And all their ministers attend on him."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"What doth she say, my Lord of Buckingham?"
I,III,BUCKINGHAM,"Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord."
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And soothe the devil that I warn thee from?"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"O, but remember this another day,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And say poor Margaret was a prophetess!"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"Live each of you the subjects to his hate,"
I,III,QUEEN MARGARET,"And he to yours, and all of you to God's!"
I,III,HASTINGS,"My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses."
I,III,RIVERS,"And so doth mine: I muse why she's at liberty."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I cannot blame her: by God's holy mother,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"She hath had too much wrong; and I repent"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"My part thereof that I have done to her."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I never did her any, to my knowledge."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"But you have all the vantage of her wrong."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I was too hot to do somebody good,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"That is too cold in thinking of it now."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"He is frank'd up to fatting for his pains"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"God pardon them that are the cause of it!"
I,III,RIVERS,"A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion,"
I,III,RIVERS,"To pray for them that have done scathe to us."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"So do I ever:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"being well-advised."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself."
I,III,CATESBY,"Madam, his majesty doth call for you,"
I,III,CATESBY,"And for your grace; and you, my noble lords."
I,III,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Catesby, we come. Lords, will you go with us?"
I,III,RIVERS,"Madam, we will attend your grace."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"The secret mischiefs that I set abroach"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I lay unto the grievous charge of others."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I do beweep to many simple gulls"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Namely, to Hastings, Derby, Buckingham;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"And say it is the queen and her allies"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"That stir the king against the duke my brother."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Now, they believe it; and withal whet me"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"But then I sigh; and, with a piece of scripture,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"And thus I clothe my naked villany"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"But, soft! here come my executioners."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"How now, my hardy, stout resolved mates!"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Are you now going to dispatch this deed?"
I,III,First Murderer,"We are, my lord; and come to have the warrant"
I,III,First Murderer,"That we may be admitted where he is."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Well thought upon; I have it here about me."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"When you have done, repair to Crosby Place."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"But, sirs, be sudden in the execution,"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Withal obdurate, do not hear him plead;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"For Clarence is well-spoken, and perhaps"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"May move your hearts to pity if you mark him."
I,III,First Murderer,"Tush!"
I,III,First Murderer,"Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;"
I,III,First Murderer,"Talkers are no good doers: be assured"
I,III,First Murderer,"We come to use our hands and not our tongues."
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Your eyes drop millstones, when fools' eyes drop tears:"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"I like you, lads; about your business straight;"
I,III,GLOUCESTER,"Go, go, dispatch."
I,III,First Murderer,"We will, my noble lord."
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"Why looks your grace so heavily today?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"O, I have pass'd a miserable night,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"That, as I am a Christian faithful man,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"I would not spend another such a night,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"So full of dismal terror was the time!"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"What was your dream? I long to hear you tell it."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"And was embark'd to cross to Burgundy;"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"And, in my company, my brother Gloucester;"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Who from my cabin tempted me to walk"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Upon the hatches: thence we looked toward England,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"And cited up a thousand fearful times,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"During the wars of York and Lancaster"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"That had befall'n us. As we paced along"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Upon the giddy footing of the hatches,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Methought that Gloucester stumbled; and, in falling,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Into the tumbling billows of the main."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks;"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon;"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea:"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by."
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"Had you such leisure in the time of death"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"To gaze upon the secrets of the deep?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Methought I had; and often did I strive"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"To seek the empty, vast and wandering air;"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"But smother'd it within my panting bulk,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Which almost burst to belch it in the sea."
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"Awaked you not with this sore agony?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"O, no, my dream was lengthen'd after life;"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"O, then began the tempest to my soul,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"With that grim ferryman which poets write of,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Unto the kingdom of perpetual night."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"The first that there did greet my stranger soul,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick;"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Who cried aloud, 'What scourge for perjury"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?'"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"And so he vanish'd: then came wandering by"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"A shadow like an angel, with bright hair"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Dabbled in blood; and he squeak'd out aloud,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"'Clarence is come; false, fleeting, perjured Clarence,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"That stabb'd me in the field by Tewksbury;"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!'"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"With that, methoughts, a legion of foul fiends"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Environ'd me about, and howled in mine ears"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Such hideous cries, that with the very noise"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"I trembling waked, and for a season after"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Could not believe but that I was in hell,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Such terrible impression made the dream."
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"No marvel, my lord, though it affrighted you;"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"I promise, I am afraid to hear you tell it."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"O Brakenbury, I have done those things,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Which now bear evidence against my soul,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"For Edward's sake; and see how he requites me!"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"O God! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"But thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Yet execute thy wrath in me alone,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"O, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children!"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"I pray thee, gentle keeper, stay by me;"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep."
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"I will, my lord: God give your grace good rest!"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide night."
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"Princes have but their tides for their glories,"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"An outward honour for an inward toil;"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"And, for unfelt imagination,"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"They often feel a world of restless cares:"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"So that, betwixt their tides and low names,"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"There's nothing differs but the outward fame."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Ho! who's here?"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"In God's name what are you, and how came you hither?"
I,IV,First Murderer,"I would speak with Clarence, and I came hither on my legs."
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"Yea, are you so brief?"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"O sir, it is better to be brief than tedious. Show"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"him our commission; talk no more."
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"I am, in this, commanded to deliver"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands:"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"I will not reason what is meant hereby,"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"Because I will be guiltless of the meaning."
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"Here are the keys, there sits the duke asleep:"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"I'll to the king; and signify to him"
I,IV,BRAKENBURY,"That thus I have resign'd my charge to you."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Do so, it is a point of wisdom: fare you well."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"What, shall we stab him as he sleeps?"
I,IV,First Murderer,"No; then he will say 'twas done cowardly, when he wakes."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"When he wakes! why, fool, he shall never wake till"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"the judgment-day."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Why, then he will say we stabbed him sleeping."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"The urging of that word 'judgment' hath bred a kind"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"of remorse in me."
I,IV,First Murderer,"What, art thou afraid?"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"Not to kill him, having a warrant for it; but to be"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"damned for killing him, from which no warrant can defend us."
I,IV,First Murderer,"I thought thou hadst been resolute."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"So I am, to let him live."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Back to the Duke of Gloucester, tell him so."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"I pray thee, stay a while: I hope my holy humour"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"will change; 'twas wont to hold me but while one"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"would tell twenty."
I,IV,First Murderer,"How dost thou feel thyself now?"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"'Faith, some certain dregs of conscience are yet"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"within me."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Remember our reward, when the deed is done."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"'Zounds, he dies: I had forgot the reward."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Where is thy conscience now?"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"In the Duke of Gloucester's purse."
I,IV,First Murderer,"So when he opens his purse to give us our reward,"
I,IV,First Murderer,"thy conscience flies out."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"Let it go; there's few or none will entertain it."
I,IV,First Murderer,"How if it come to thee again?"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"I'll not meddle with it: it is a dangerous thing: it"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal, but it"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"accuseth him; he cannot swear, but it cheques him;"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"he cannot lie with his neighbour's wife, but it"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"detects him: 'tis a blushing shamefast spirit that"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"obstacles: it made me once restore a purse of gold"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"that I found; it beggars any man that keeps it: it"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"is turned out of all towns and cities for a"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"dangerous thing; and every man that means to live"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"well endeavours to trust to himself and to live"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"without it."
I,IV,First Murderer,"'Zounds, it is even now at my elbow, persuading me"
I,IV,First Murderer,"not to kill the duke."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"Take the devil in thy mind, and relieve him not: he"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Tut, I am strong-framed, he cannot prevail with me,"
I,IV,First Murderer,"I warrant thee."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"Spoke like a tail fellow that respects his"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"reputation. Come, shall we to this gear?"
I,IV,First Murderer,"Take him over the costard with the hilts of thy"
I,IV,First Murderer,"sword, and then we will chop him in the malmsey-butt"
I,IV,First Murderer,"in the next room."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"O excellent devise! make a sop of him."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Hark! he stirs: shall I strike?"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"No, first let's reason with him."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Where art thou, keeper? give me a cup of wine."
I,IV,Second murderer,"You shall have wine enough, my lord, anon."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"In God's name, what art thou?"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"A man, as you are."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"But not, as I am, royal."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"Nor you, as we are, loyal."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Thy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"My voice is now the king's, my looks mine own."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak!"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Your eyes do menace me: why look you pale?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Who sent you hither? Wherefore do you come?"
I,IV,Both,"To, to, to--"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"To murder me?"
I,IV,Both,"Ay, ay."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"You scarcely have the hearts to tell me so,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"And therefore cannot have the hearts to do it."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Wherein, my friends, have I offended you?"
I,IV,First Murderer,"Offended us you have not, but the king."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"I shall be reconciled to him again."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"Never, my lord; therefore prepare to die."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Are you call'd forth from out a world of men"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"To slay the innocent? What is my offence?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Where are the evidence that do accuse me?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"What lawful quest have given their verdict up"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"The bitter sentence of poor Clarence' death?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Before I be convict by course of law,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"To threaten me with death is most unlawful."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"I charge you, as you hope to have redemption"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"That you depart and lay no hands on me"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"The deed you undertake is damnable."
I,IV,First Murderer,"What we will do, we do upon command."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"And he that hath commanded is the king."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Erroneous vassal! the great King of kings"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Hath in the tables of his law commanded"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"That thou shalt do no murder: and wilt thou, then,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Spurn at his edict and fulfil a man's?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Take heed; for he holds vengeance in his hands,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"To hurl upon their heads that break his law."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"And that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee,"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"For false forswearing and for murder too:"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"Thou didst receive the holy sacrament,"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"To fight in quarrel of the house of Lancaster."
I,IV,First Murderer,"And, like a traitor to the name of God,"
I,IV,First Murderer,"Didst break that vow; and with thy treacherous blade"
I,IV,First Murderer,"Unrip'dst the bowels of thy sovereign's son."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"Whom thou wert sworn to cherish and defend."
I,IV,First Murderer,"How canst thou urge God's dreadful law to us,"
I,IV,First Murderer,"When thou hast broke it in so dear degree?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Alas! for whose sake did I that ill deed?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"For Edward, for my brother, for his sake: Why, sirs,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"He sends ye not to murder me for this"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"For in this sin he is as deep as I."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"If God will be revenged for this deed."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"O, know you yet, he doth it publicly,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Take not the quarrel from his powerful arm;"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"He needs no indirect nor lawless course"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"To cut off those that have offended him."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Who made thee, then, a bloody minister,"
I,IV,First Murderer,"When gallant-springing brave Plantagenet,"
I,IV,First Murderer,"That princely novice, was struck dead by thee?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"My brother's love, the devil, and my rage."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Thy brother's love, our duty, and thy fault,"
I,IV,First Murderer,"Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Oh, if you love my brother, hate not me;"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"I am his brother, and I love him well."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"If you be hired for meed, go back again,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"And I will send you to my brother Gloucester,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Who shall reward you better for my life"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Than Edward will for tidings of my death."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"You are deceived, your brother Gloucester hates you."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"O, no, he loves me, and he holds me dear:"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Go you to him from me."
I,IV,Both,"Ay, so we will."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Tell him, when that our princely father York"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Bless'd his three sons with his victorious arm,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"And charged us from his soul to love each other,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"He little thought of this divided friendship:"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Bid Gloucester think of this, and he will weep."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Ay, millstones; as be lesson'd us to weep."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"O, do not slander him, for he is kind."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Right,"
I,IV,First Murderer,"As snow in harvest. Thou deceivest thyself:"
I,IV,First Murderer,"'Tis he that sent us hither now to slaughter thee."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"It cannot be; for when I parted with him,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"He hugg'd me in his arms, and swore, with sobs,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"That he would labour my delivery."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"Why, so he doth, now he delivers thee"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"From this world's thraldom to the joys of heaven."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Make peace with God, for you must die, my lord."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"To counsel me to make my peace with God,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"And art thou yet to thy own soul so blind,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"That thou wilt war with God by murdering me?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Ah, sirs, consider, he that set you on"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"To do this deed will hate you for the deed."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"What shall we do?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Relent, and save your souls."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Relent! 'tis cowardly and womanish."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish."
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Which of you, if you were a prince's son,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Being pent from liberty, as I am now,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"if two such murderers as yourselves came to you,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Would not entreat for life?"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks:"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"Come thou on my side, and entreat for me,"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"As you would beg, were you in my distress"
I,IV,CLARENCE,"A begging prince what beggar pities not?"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"Look behind you, my lord."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Take that, and that: if all this will not do,"
I,IV,First Murderer,"I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within."
I,IV,Second Murderer,"A bloody deed, and desperately dispatch'd!"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"Of this most grievous guilty murder done!"
I,IV,First Murderer,"How now! what mean'st thou, that thou help'st me not?"
I,IV,First Murderer,"By heavens, the duke shall know how slack thou art!"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"I would he knew that I had saved his brother!"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say;"
I,IV,Second Murderer,"For I repent me that the duke is slain."
I,IV,First Murderer,"So do not I: go, coward as thou art."
I,IV,First Murderer,"Now must I hide his body in some hole,"
I,IV,First Murderer,"Until the duke take order for his burial:"
I,IV,First Murderer,"And when I have my meed, I must away;"
I,IV,First Murderer,"For this will out, and here I must not stay."
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Why, so: now have I done a good day's work:"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"You peers, continue this united league:"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"I every day expect an embassage"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"From my Redeemer to redeem me hence;"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And now in peace my soul shall part to heaven,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Since I have set my friends at peace on earth."
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Rivers and Hastings, take each other's hand;"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Dissemble not your hatred, swear your love."
II,I,RIVERS,"By heaven, my heart is purged from grudging hate:"
II,I,RIVERS,"And with my hand I seal my true heart's love."
II,I,HASTINGS,"So thrive I, as I truly swear the like!"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Take heed you dally not before your king;"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Lest he that is the supreme King of kings"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Confound your hidden falsehood, and award"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Either of you to be the other's end."
II,I,HASTINGS,"So prosper I, as I swear perfect love!"
II,I,RIVERS,"And I, as I love Hastings with my heart!"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Madam, yourself are not exempt in this,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Nor your son Dorset, Buckingham, nor you;"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"You have been factious one against the other,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Wife, love Lord Hastings, let him kiss your hand;"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And what you do, do it unfeignedly."
II,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Here, Hastings; I will never more remember"
II,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Our former hatred, so thrive I and mine!"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Dorset, embrace him; Hastings, love lord marquess."
II,I,DORSET,"This interchange of love, I here protest,"
II,I,DORSET,"Upon my part shall be unviolable."
II,I,HASTINGS,"And so swear I, my lord"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Now, princely Buckingham, seal thou this league"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"With thy embracements to my wife's allies,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And make me happy in your unity."
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"On you or yours,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"but with all duteous love"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"With hate in those where I expect most love!"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"When I have most need to employ a friend,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And most assured that he is a friend"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Be he unto me! this do I beg of God,"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"When I am cold in zeal to yours."
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"is this thy vow unto my sickly heart."
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"To make the perfect period of this peace."
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And, in good time, here comes the noble duke."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Good morrow to my sovereign king and queen:"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"And, princely peers, a happy time of day!"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Happy, indeed, as we have spent the day."
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Brother, we done deeds of charity;"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Made peace enmity, fair love of hate,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"A blessed labour, my most sovereign liege:"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Amongst this princely heap, if any here,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"By false intelligence, or wrong surmise,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Hold me a foe;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"If I unwittingly, or in my rage,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Have aught committed that is hardly borne"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"By any in this presence, I desire"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"To reconcile me to his friendly peace:"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"'Tis death to me to be at enmity;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"I hate it, and desire all good men's love."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"First, madam, I entreat true peace of you,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Which I will purchase with my duteous service;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Of you, my noble cousin Buckingham,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"If ever any grudge were lodged between us;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Of you, Lord Rivers, and, Lord Grey, of you;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"That without desert have frown'd on me;"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Dukes, earls, lords, gentlemen; indeed, of all."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"I do not know that Englishman alive"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"With whom my soul is any jot at odds"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"More than the infant that is born to-night"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"I thank my God for my humility."
II,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"A holy day shall this be kept hereafter:"
II,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I would to God all strifes were well compounded."
II,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"My sovereign liege, I do beseech your majesty"
II,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To take our brother Clarence to your grace."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Why, madam, have I offer'd love for this"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"To be so bouted in this royal presence?"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Who knows not that the noble duke is dead?"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"You do him injury to scorn his corse."
II,I,RIVERS,"Who knows not he is dead! who knows he is?"
II,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"All seeing heaven, what a world is this!"
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Look I so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest?"
II,I,DORSET,"Ay, my good lord; and no one in this presence"
II,I,DORSET,"But his red colour hath forsook his cheeks."
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Is Clarence dead? the order was reversed."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"But he, poor soul, by your first order died,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"And that a winged Mercury did bear:"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Some tardy cripple bore the countermand,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"That came too lag to see him buried."
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"God grant that some, less noble and less loyal,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Nearer in bloody thoughts, but not in blood,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Deserve not worse than wretched Clarence did,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"And yet go current from suspicion!"
II,I,DORSET,"A boon, my sovereign, for my service done!"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"I pray thee, peace: my soul is full of sorrow."
II,I,DORSET,"I will not rise, unless your highness grant."
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Then speak at once what is it thou demand'st."
II,I,DORSET,"The forfeit, sovereign, of my servant's life;"
II,I,DORSET,"Who slew to-day a righteous gentleman"
II,I,DORSET,"Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk."
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Have a tongue to doom my brother's death,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And shall the same give pardon to a slave?"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"My brother slew no man; his fault was thought,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And yet his punishment was cruel death."
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Who sued to me for him? who, in my rage,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Kneel'd at my feet, and bade me be advised"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Who spake of brotherhood? who spake of love?"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Who told me how the poor soul did forsake"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"The mighty Warwick, and did fight for me?"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Who told me, in the field by Tewksbury"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"When Oxford had me down, he rescued me,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And said, 'Dear brother, live, and be a king'?"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Who told me, when we both lay in the field"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Even in his own garments, and gave himself,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"All thin and naked, to the numb cold night?"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"All this from my remembrance brutish wrath"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Sinfully pluck'd, and not a man of you"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Had so much grace to put it in my mind."
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"But when your carters or your waiting-vassals"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Have done a drunken slaughter, and defaced"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"The precious image of our dear Redeemer,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"You straight are on your knees for pardon, pardon;"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"And I unjustly too, must grant it you"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"But for my brother not a man would speak,"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Nor I, ungracious, speak unto myself"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"For him, poor soul. The proudest of you all"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Have been beholding to him in his life;"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Yet none of you would once plead for his life."
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"O God, I fear thy justice will take hold"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"On me, and you, and mine, and yours for this!"
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Come, Hastings, help me to my closet."
II,I,KING EDWARD IV,"Oh, poor Clarence!"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"This is the fruit of rashness! Mark'd you not"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"How that the guilty kindred of the queen"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"Look'd pale when they did hear of Clarence' death?"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"O, they did urge it still unto the king!"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"God will revenge it. But come, let us in,"
II,I,GLOUCESTER,"To comfort Edward with our company."
II,I,BUCKINGHAM,"We wait upon your grace."
II,II,Boy,"Tell me, good grandam, is our father dead?"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"No, boy."
II,II,Boy,"Why do you wring your hands, and beat your breast,"
II,II,Boy,"And cry 'O Clarence, my unhappy son!'"
II,II,Girl,"Why do you look on us, and shake your head,"
II,II,Girl,"And call us wretches, orphans, castaways"
II,II,Girl,"If that our noble father be alive?"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"My pretty cousins, you mistake me much;"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I do lament the sickness of the king."
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"As loath to lose him, not your father's death;"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"It were lost sorrow to wail one that's lost."
II,II,Boy,"Then, grandam, you conclude that he is dead."
II,II,Boy,"The king my uncle is to blame for this:"
II,II,Boy,"God will revenge it; whom I will importune"
II,II,Boy,"With daily prayers all to that effect."
II,II,Girl,"And so will I."
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Peace, children, peace! the king doth love you well:"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Incapable and shallow innocents,"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"You cannot guess who caused your father's death."
II,II,Boy,"Grandam, we can; for my good uncle Gloucester"
II,II,Boy,"Told me, the king, provoked by the queen,"
II,II,Boy,"Devised impeachments to imprison him :"
II,II,Boy,"And when my uncle told me so, he wept,"
II,II,Boy,"And hugg'd me in his arm, and kindly kiss'd my cheek;"
II,II,Boy,"Bade me rely on him as on my father,"
II,II,Boy,"And he would love me dearly as his child."
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile!"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"He is my son; yea, and therein my shame;"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit."
II,II,Boy,"Think you my uncle did dissemble, grandam?"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Ay, boy."
II,II,Boy,"I cannot think it. Hark! what noise is this?"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Oh, who shall hinder me to wail and weep,"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To chide my fortune, and torment myself?"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I'll join with black despair against my soul,"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And to myself become an enemy."
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"What means this scene of rude impatience?"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To make an act of tragic violence:"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Edward, my lord, your son, our king, is dead."
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Why grow the branches now the root is wither'd?"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Why wither not the leaves the sap being gone?"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"If you will live, lament; if die, be brief,"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"That our swift-winged souls may catch the king's;"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Or, like obedient subjects, follow him"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To his new kingdom of perpetual rest."
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Ah, so much interest have I in thy sorrow"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"As I had title in thy noble husband!"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I have bewept a worthy husband's death,"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And lived by looking on his images:"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"But now two mirrors of his princely semblance"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Are crack'd in pieces by malignant death,"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And I for comfort have but one false glass,"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Which grieves me when I see my shame in him."
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Thou art a widow; yet thou art a mother,"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And hast the comfort of thy children left thee:"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"But death hath snatch'd my husband from mine arms,"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And pluck'd two crutches from my feeble limbs,"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Edward and Clarence. O, what cause have I,"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Thine being but a moiety of my grief,"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!"
II,II,Boy,"Good aunt, you wept not for our father's death;"
II,II,Boy,"How can we aid you with our kindred tears?"
II,II,Girl,"Our fatherless distress was left unmoan'd;"
II,II,Girl,"Your widow-dolour likewise be unwept!"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Give me no help in lamentation;"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I am not barren to bring forth complaints"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"That I, being govern'd by the watery moon,"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world!"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Oh for my husband, for my dear lord Edward!"
II,II,Children,"Oh for our father, for our dear lord Clarence!"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Alas for both, both mine, Edward and Clarence!"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"What stay had I but Edward? and he's gone."
II,II,Children,"What stay had we but Clarence? and he's gone."
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"What stays had I but they? and they are gone."
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Was never widow had so dear a loss!"
II,II,Children,"Were never orphans had so dear a loss!"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Was never mother had so dear a loss!"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Alas, I am the mother of these moans!"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Their woes are parcell'd, mine are general."
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"She for an Edward weeps, and so do I;"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I for a Clarence weep, so doth not she:"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"These babes for Clarence weep and so do I;"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I for an Edward weep, so do not they:"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Alas, you three, on me, threefold distress'd,"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Pour all your tears! I am your sorrow's nurse,"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And I will pamper it with lamentations."
II,II,DORSET,"Comfort, dear mother: God is much displeased"
II,II,DORSET,"That you take with unthankfulness, his doing:"
II,II,DORSET,"In common worldly things, 'tis call'd ungrateful,"
II,II,DORSET,"With dull unwilligness to repay a debt"
II,II,DORSET,"Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent;"
II,II,DORSET,"Much more to be thus opposite with heaven,"
II,II,DORSET,"For it requires the royal debt it lent you."
II,II,RIVERS,"Madam, bethink you, like a careful mother,"
II,II,RIVERS,"Of the young prince your son: send straight for him"
II,II,RIVERS,"Let him be crown'd; in him your comfort lives:"
II,II,RIVERS,"Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave,"
II,II,RIVERS,"And plant your joys in living Edward's throne."
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Madam, have comfort: all of us have cause"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"To wail the dimming of our shining star;"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"But none can cure their harms by wailing them."
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy;"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"I did not see your grace: humbly on my knee"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"I crave your blessing."
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind,"
II,II,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"That is the butt-end of a mother's blessing:"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"I marvel why her grace did leave it out."
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"That bear this mutual heavy load of moan,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Now cheer each other in each other's love"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Though we have spent our harvest of this king,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"We are to reap the harvest of his son."
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"The broken rancour of your high-swoln hearts,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"But lately splinter'd, knit, and join'd together,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Must gently be preserved, cherish'd, and kept:"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Me seemeth good, that, with some little train,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Forthwith from Ludlow the young prince be fetch'd"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Hither to London, to be crown'd our king."
II,II,RIVERS,"Why with some little train, my Lord of Buckingham?"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Marry, my lord, lest, by a multitude,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"The new-heal'd wound of malice should break out,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Which would be so much the more dangerous"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"By how much the estate is green and yet ungovern'd:"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Where every horse bears his commanding rein,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"And may direct his course as please himself,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"As well the fear of harm, as harm apparent,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"In my opinion, ought to be prevented."
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"I hope the king made peace with all of us"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"And the compact is firm and true in me."
II,II,RIVERS,"And so in me; and so, I think, in all:"
II,II,RIVERS,"Yet, since it is but green, it should be put"
II,II,RIVERS,"To no apparent likelihood of breach,"
II,II,RIVERS,"Which haply by much company might be urged:"
II,II,RIVERS,"Therefore I say with noble Buckingham,"
II,II,RIVERS,"That it is meet so few should fetch the prince."
II,II,HASTINGS,"And so say I."
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Then be it so; and go we to determine"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Who they shall be that straight shall post to Ludlow."
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Madam, and you, my mother, will you go"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"To give your censures in this weighty business?"
II,II,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"With all our harts."
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"My lord, whoever journeys to the Prince,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"For God's sake, let not us two be behind;"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"For, by the way, I'll sort occasion,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"As index to the story we late talk'd of,"
II,II,BUCKINGHAM,"To part the queen's proud kindred from the king."
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"My other self, my counsel's consistory,"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"My oracle, my prophet! My dear cousin,"
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"I, like a child, will go by thy direction."
II,II,GLOUCESTER,"Towards Ludlow then, for we'll not stay behind."
II,III,First Citizen,"Neighbour, well met: whither away so fast?"
II,III,Second Citizen,"I promise you, I scarcely know myself:"
II,III,Second Citizen,"Hear you the news abroad?"
II,III,First Citizen,"Ay, that the king is dead."
II,III,Second Citizen,"Bad news, by'r lady; seldom comes the better:"
II,III,Second Citizen,"I fear, I fear 'twill prove a troublous world."
II,III,Third Citizen,"Neighbours, God speed!"
II,III,First Citizen,"Give you good morrow, sir."
II,III,Third Citizen,"Doth this news hold of good King Edward's death?"
II,III,Second Citizen,"Ay, sir, it is too true; God help the while!"
II,III,Third Citizen,"Then, masters, look to see a troublous world."
II,III,First Citizen,"No, no; by God's good grace his son shall reign."
II,III,Third Citizen,"Woe to the land that's govern'd by a child!"
II,III,Second Citizen,"In him there is a hope of government,"
II,III,Second Citizen,"That in his nonage council under him,"
II,III,Second Citizen,"And in his full and ripen'd years himself,"
II,III,Second Citizen,"No doubt, shall then and till then govern well."
II,III,First Citizen,"So stood the state when Henry the Sixth"
II,III,First Citizen,"Was crown'd in Paris but at nine months old."
II,III,Third Citizen,"Stood the state so? No, no, good friends, God wot;"
II,III,Third Citizen,"For then this land was famously enrich'd"
II,III,Third Citizen,"With politic grave counsel; then the king"
II,III,Third Citizen,"Had virtuous uncles to protect his grace."
II,III,First Citizen,"Why, so hath this, both by the father and mother."
II,III,Third Citizen,"Better it were they all came by the father,"
II,III,Third Citizen,"Or by the father there were none at all;"
II,III,Third Citizen,"For emulation now, who shall be nearest,"
II,III,Third Citizen,"Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not."
II,III,Third Citizen,"O, full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester!"
II,III,Third Citizen,"And the queen's sons and brothers haught and proud:"
II,III,Third Citizen,"And were they to be ruled, and not to rule,"
II,III,Third Citizen,"This sickly land might solace as before."
II,III,First Citizen,"Come, come, we fear the worst; all shall be well."
II,III,Third Citizen,"When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks;"
II,III,Third Citizen,"When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand;"
II,III,Third Citizen,"When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?"
II,III,Third Citizen,"Untimely storms make men expect a dearth."
II,III,Third Citizen,"All may be well; but, if God sort it so,"
II,III,Third Citizen,"'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect."
II,III,Second Citizen,"Truly, the souls of men are full of dread:"
II,III,Second Citizen,"Ye cannot reason almost with a man"
II,III,Second Citizen,"That looks not heavily and full of fear."
II,III,Third Citizen,"Before the times of change, still is it so:"
II,III,Third Citizen,"By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust"
II,III,Third Citizen,"Ensuing dangers; as by proof, we see"
II,III,Third Citizen,"The waters swell before a boisterous storm."
II,III,Third Citizen,"But leave it all to God. whither away?"
II,III,Second Citizen,"Marry, we were sent for to the justices."
II,III,Third Citizen,"And so was I: I'll bear you company."
II,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Last night, I hear, they lay at Northampton;"
II,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"At Stony-Stratford will they be to-night:"
II,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"To-morrow, or next day, they will be here."
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I long with all my heart to see the prince:"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I hope he is much grown since last I saw him."
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"But I hear, no; they say my son of York"
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Hath almost overta'en him in his growth."
II,IV,YORK,"Ay, mother; but I would not have it so."
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Why, my young cousin, it is good to grow."
II,IV,YORK,"Grandam, one night, as we did sit at supper,"
II,IV,YORK,"My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow"
II,IV,YORK,"More than my brother: 'Ay,' quoth my uncle"
II,IV,YORK,"Gloucester,"
II,IV,YORK,"'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace:'"
II,IV,YORK,"And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,"
II,IV,YORK,"Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste."
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"In him that did object the same to thee;"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"He was the wretched'st thing when he was young,"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"So long a-growing and so leisurely,"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"That, if this rule were true, he should be gracious."
II,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Why, madam, so, no doubt, he is."
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I hope he is; but yet let mothers doubt."
II,IV,YORK,"Now, by my troth, if I had been remember'd,"
II,IV,YORK,"I could have given my uncle's grace a flout,"
II,IV,YORK,"To touch his growth nearer than he touch'd mine."
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"How, my pretty York? I pray thee, let me hear it."
II,IV,YORK,"Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast"
II,IV,YORK,"That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old"
II,IV,YORK,"'Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth."
II,IV,YORK,"Grandam, this would have been a biting jest."
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I pray thee, pretty York, who told thee this?"
II,IV,YORK,"Grandam, his nurse."
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"His nurse! why, she was dead ere thou wert born."
II,IV,YORK,"If 'twere not she, I cannot tell who told me."
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"A parlous boy: go to, you are too shrewd."
II,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Good madam, be not angry with the child."
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Pitchers have ears."
II,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Here comes a messenger. What news?"
II,IV,Messenger,"Such news, my lord, as grieves me to unfold."
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"How fares the prince?"
II,IV,Messenger,"Well, madam, and in health."
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"What is thy news then?"
II,IV,Messenger,"Lord Rivers and Lord Grey are sent to Pomfret,"
II,IV,Messenger,"With them Sir Thomas Vaughan, prisoners."
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Who hath committed them?"
II,IV,Messenger,"The mighty dukes"
II,IV,Messenger,"Gloucester and Buckingham."
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"For what offence?"
II,IV,Messenger,"The sum of all I can, I have disclosed;"
II,IV,Messenger,"Why or for what these nobles were committed"
II,IV,Messenger,"Is all unknown to me, my gracious lady."
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Ay me, I see the downfall of our house!"
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind;"
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Insulting tyranny begins to jet"
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Upon the innocent and aweless throne:"
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Welcome, destruction, death, and massacre!"
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I see, as in a map, the end of all."
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Accursed and unquiet wrangling days,"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"How many of you have mine eyes beheld!"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"My husband lost his life to get the crown;"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And often up and down my sons were toss'd,"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"For me to joy and weep their gain and loss:"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And being seated, and domestic broils"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Clean over-blown, themselves, the conquerors."
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Make war upon themselves; blood against blood,"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Self against self: O, preposterous"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen;"
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Or let me die, to look on death no more!"
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Come, come, my boy; we will to sanctuary."
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Madam, farewell."
II,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I'll go along with you."
II,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"You have no cause."
II,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"My gracious lady, go;"
II,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"And thither bear your treasure and your goods."
II,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"For my part, I'll resign unto your grace"
II,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"The seal I keep: and so betide to me"
II,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"As well I tender you and all of yours!"
II,IV,ARCHBISHOP OF YORK,"Come, I'll conduct you to the sanctuary."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Welcome, sweet prince, to London, to your chamber."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Welcome, dear cousin, my thoughts' sovereign"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"The weary way hath made you melancholy."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"No, uncle; but our crosses on the way"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"I want more uncles here to welcome me."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Hath not yet dived into the world's deceit"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Nor more can you distinguish of a man"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Than of his outward show; which, God he knows,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Those uncles which you want were dangerous;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Your grace attended to their sugar'd words,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"But look'd not on the poison of their hearts :"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"God keep you from them, and from such false friends!"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"God keep me from false friends! but they were none."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you."
III,I,Lord Mayor,"God bless your grace with health and happy days!"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"I thank you, good my lord; and thank you all."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"I thought my mother, and my brother York,"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Would long ere this have met us on the way"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Fie, what a slug is Hastings, that he comes not"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"To tell us whether they will come or no!"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And, in good time, here comes the sweating lord."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Welcome, my lord: what, will our mother come?"
III,I,HASTINGS,"On what occasion, God he knows, not I,"
III,I,HASTINGS,"The queen your mother, and your brother York,"
III,I,HASTINGS,"Have taken sanctuary: the tender prince"
III,I,HASTINGS,"Would fain have come with me to meet your grace,"
III,I,HASTINGS,"But by his mother was perforce withheld."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Fie, what an indirect and peevish course"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Is this of hers! Lord cardinal, will your grace"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Persuade the queen to send the Duke of York"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Unto his princely brother presently?"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"If she deny, Lord Hastings, go with him,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce."
III,I,CARDINAL,"My Lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory"
III,I,CARDINAL,"Can from his mother win the Duke of York,"
III,I,CARDINAL,"Anon expect him here; but if she be obdurate"
III,I,CARDINAL,"To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid"
III,I,CARDINAL,"We should infringe the holy privilege"
III,I,CARDINAL,"Of blessed sanctuary! not for all this land"
III,I,CARDINAL,"Would I be guilty of so deep a sin."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"You are too senseless--obstinate, my lord,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Too ceremonious and traditional"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Weigh it but with the grossness of this age,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"You break not sanctuary in seizing him."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"The benefit thereof is always granted"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To those whose dealings have deserved the place,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And those who have the wit to claim the place:"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"This prince hath neither claim'd it nor deserved it;"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it:"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Then, taking him from thence that is not there,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"You break no privilege nor charter there."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Oft have I heard of sanctuary men;"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"But sanctuary children ne'er till now."
III,I,CARDINAL,"My lord, you shall o'er-rule my mind for once."
III,I,CARDINAL,"Come on, Lord Hastings, will you go with me?"
III,I,HASTINGS,"I go, my lord."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Say, uncle Gloucester, if our brother come,"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Where shall we sojourn till our coronation?"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Where it seems best unto your royal self."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"If I may counsel you, some day or two"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Your highness shall repose you at the Tower:"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Then where you please, and shall be thought most fit"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"For your best health and recreation."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"I do not like the Tower, of any place."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord?"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"He did, my gracious lord, begin that place;"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Is it upon record, or else reported"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Successively from age to age, he built it?"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Upon record, my gracious lord."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"But say, my lord, it were not register'd,"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Methinks the truth should live from age to age,"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Even to the general all-ending day."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"live long."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"What say you, uncle?"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"I say, without characters, fame lives long."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"I moralize two meanings in one word."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"That Julius Caesar was a famous man;"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"With what his valour did enrich his wit,"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"His wit set down to make his valour live"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Death makes no conquest of this conqueror;"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"For now he lives in fame, though not in life."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"I'll tell you what, my cousin Buckingham,--"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"What, my gracious lord?"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"An if I live until I be a man,"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"I'll win our ancient right in France again,"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Or die a soldier, as I lived a king."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Now, in good time, here comes the Duke of York."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Richard of York! how fares our loving brother?"
III,I,YORK,"Well, my dread lord; so must I call you now."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Ay, brother, to our grief, as it is yours:"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Too late he died that might have kept that title,"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Which by his death hath lost much majesty."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"How fares our cousin, noble Lord of York?"
III,I,YORK,"I thank you, gentle uncle. O, my lord,"
III,I,YORK,"You said that idle weeds are fast in growth"
III,I,YORK,"The prince my brother hath outgrown me far."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"He hath, my lord."
III,I,YORK,"And therefore is he idle?"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"O, my fair cousin, I must not say so."
III,I,YORK,"Then is he more beholding to you than I."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"He may command me as my sovereign;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"But you have power in me as in a kinsman."
III,I,YORK,"I pray you, uncle, give me this dagger."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"My dagger, little cousin? with all my heart."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"A beggar, brother?"
III,I,YORK,"Of my kind uncle, that I know will give;"
III,I,YORK,"And being but a toy, which is no grief to give."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"A greater gift than that I'll give my cousin."
III,I,YORK,"A greater gift! O, that's the sword to it."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"A gentle cousin, were it light enough."
III,I,YORK,"O, then, I see, you will part but with light gifts;"
III,I,YORK,"In weightier things you'll say a beggar nay."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"It is too heavy for your grace to wear."
III,I,YORK,"I weigh it lightly, were it heavier."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"What, would you have my weapon, little lord?"
III,I,YORK,"I would, that I might thank you as you call me."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"How?"
III,I,YORK,"Little."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"My Lord of York will still be cross in talk:"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Uncle, your grace knows how to bear with him."
III,I,YORK,"You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me:"
III,I,YORK,"Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me;"
III,I,YORK,"Because that I am little, like an ape,"
III,I,YORK,"He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"With what a sharp-provided wit he reasons!"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"He prettily and aptly taunts himself:"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"So cunning and so young is wonderful."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"My lord, will't please you pass along?"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Myself and my good cousin Buckingham"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Will to your mother, to entreat of her"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"To meet you at the Tower and welcome you."
III,I,YORK,"What, will you go unto the Tower, my lord?"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"My lord protector needs will have it so."
III,I,YORK,"I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Why, what should you fear?"
III,I,YORK,"Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost:"
III,I,YORK,"My grandam told me he was murdered there."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"I fear no uncles dead."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Nor none that live, I hope."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"An if they live, I hope I need not fear."
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"But come, my lord; and with a heavy heart,"
III,I,PRINCE EDWARD,"Thinking on them, go I unto the Tower."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Think you, my lord, this little prating York"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Was not incensed by his subtle mother"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"No doubt, no doubt; O, 'tis a parlous boy;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"He is all the mother's, from the top to toe."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Well, let them rest. Come hither, Catesby."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Thou art sworn as deeply to effect what we intend"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"As closely to conceal what we impart:"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Thou know'st our reasons urged upon the way;"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"What think'st thou? is it not an easy matter"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To make William Lord Hastings of our mind,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"For the instalment of this noble duke"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"In the seat royal of this famous isle?"
III,I,CATESBY,"He for his father's sake so loves the prince,"
III,I,CATESBY,"That he will not be won to aught against him."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"What think'st thou, then, of Stanley? what will he?"
III,I,CATESBY,"He will do all in all as Hastings doth."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Well, then, no more but this: go, gentle Catesby,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And, as it were far off sound thou Lord Hastings,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"How doth he stand affected to our purpose;"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And summon him to-morrow to the Tower,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To sit about the coronation."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"If thou dost find him tractable to us,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Encourage him, and show him all our reasons:"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"If he be leaden, icy-cold, unwilling,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Be thou so too; and so break off your talk,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And give us notice of his inclination:"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"For we to-morrow hold divided councils,"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Wherein thyself shalt highly be employ'd."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Commend me to Lord William: tell him, Catesby,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"To-morrow are let blood at Pomfret-castle;"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And bid my friend, for joy of this good news,"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Give mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Good Catesby, go, effect this business soundly."
III,I,CATESBY,"My good lords both, with all the heed I may."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Shall we hear from you, Catesby, ere we sleep?"
III,I,CATESBY,"You shall, my lord."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"At Crosby Place, there shall you find us both."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Now, my lord, what shall we do, if we perceive"
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots?"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Chop off his head, man; somewhat we will do:"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And, look, when I am king, claim thou of me"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"The earldom of Hereford, and the moveables"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Whereof the king my brother stood possess'd."
III,I,BUCKINGHAM,"I'll claim that promise at your grace's hands."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"And look to have it yielded with all willingness."
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"Come, let us sup betimes, that afterwards"
III,I,GLOUCESTER,"We may digest our complots in some form."
III,II,Messenger,"What, ho! my lord!"
III,II,Messenger,"A messenger from the Lord Stanley."
III,II,HASTINGS,"What is't o'clock?"
III,II,Messenger,"Upon the stroke of four."
III,II,HASTINGS,"Cannot thy master sleep these tedious nights?"
III,II,Messenger,"So it should seem by that I have to say."
III,II,Messenger,"First, he commends him to your noble lordship."
III,II,HASTINGS,"And then?"
III,II,Messenger,"And then he sends you word"
III,II,Messenger,"He dreamt to-night the boar had razed his helm:"
III,II,Messenger,"Besides, he says there are two councils held;"
III,II,Messenger,"And that may be determined at the one"
III,II,Messenger,"which may make you and him to rue at the other."
III,II,Messenger,"Therefore he sends to know your lordship's pleasure,"
III,II,Messenger,"If presently you will take horse with him,"
III,II,Messenger,"And with all speed post with him toward the north,"
III,II,Messenger,"To shun the danger that his soul divines."
III,II,HASTINGS,"Go, fellow, go, return unto thy lord;"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Bid him not fear the separated councils"
III,II,HASTINGS,"His honour and myself are at the one,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"And at the other is my servant Catesby"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Where nothing can proceed that toucheth us"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Whereof I shall not have intelligence."
III,II,HASTINGS,"Tell him his fears are shallow, wanting instance:"
III,II,HASTINGS,"And for his dreams, I wonder he is so fond"
III,II,HASTINGS,"To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers"
III,II,HASTINGS,"To fly the boar before the boar pursues,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Were to incense the boar to follow us"
III,II,HASTINGS,"And make pursuit where he did mean no chase."
III,II,HASTINGS,"Go, bid thy master rise and come to me"
III,II,HASTINGS,"And we will both together to the Tower,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Where, he shall see, the boar will use us kindly."
III,II,Messenger,"My gracious lord, I'll tell him what you say."
III,II,CATESBY,"Many good morrows to my noble lord!"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Good morrow, Catesby; you are early stirring"
III,II,HASTINGS,"What news, what news, in this our tottering state?"
III,II,CATESBY,"It is a reeling world, indeed, my lord;"
III,II,CATESBY,"And I believe twill never stand upright"
III,II,CATESBY,"Tim Richard wear the garland of the realm."
III,II,HASTINGS,"How! wear the garland! dost thou mean the crown?"
III,II,CATESBY,"Ay, my good lord."
III,II,HASTINGS,"I'll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Ere I will see the crown so foul misplaced."
III,II,HASTINGS,"But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it?"
III,II,CATESBY,"Ay, on my life; and hopes to find forward"
III,II,CATESBY,"Upon his party for the gain thereof:"
III,II,CATESBY,"And thereupon he sends you this good news,"
III,II,CATESBY,"That this same very day your enemies,"
III,II,CATESBY,"The kindred of the queen, must die at Pomfret."
III,II,HASTINGS,"Indeed, I am no mourner for that news,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Because they have been still mine enemies:"
III,II,HASTINGS,"But, that I'll give my voice on Richard's side,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"To bar my master's heirs in true descent,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"God knows I will not do it, to the death."
III,II,CATESBY,"God keep your lordship in that gracious mind!"
III,II,HASTINGS,"But I shall laugh at this a twelve-month hence,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"That they who brought me in my master's hate"
III,II,HASTINGS,"I live to look upon their tragedy."
III,II,HASTINGS,"I tell thee, Catesby--"
III,II,CATESBY,"What, my lord?"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Ere a fortnight make me elder,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"I'll send some packing that yet think not on it."
III,II,CATESBY,"'Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord,"
III,II,CATESBY,"When men are unprepared and look not for it."
III,II,HASTINGS,"O monstrous, monstrous! and so falls it out"
III,II,HASTINGS,"With Rivers, Vaughan, Grey: and so 'twill do"
III,II,HASTINGS,"With some men else, who think themselves as safe"
III,II,HASTINGS,"As thou and I; who, as thou know'st, are dear"
III,II,HASTINGS,"To princely Richard and to Buckingham."
III,II,CATESBY,"The princes both make high account of you;"
III,II,CATESBY,"For they account his head upon the bridge."
III,II,HASTINGS,"I know they do; and I have well deserved it."
III,II,HASTINGS,"Come on, come on; where is your boar-spear, man?"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Fear you the boar, and go so unprovided?"
III,II,STANLEY,"My lord, good morrow; good morrow, Catesby:"
III,II,STANLEY,"You may jest on, but, by the holy rood,"
III,II,STANLEY,"I do not like these several councils, I."
III,II,HASTINGS,"My lord,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"I hold my life as dear as you do yours;"
III,II,HASTINGS,"And never in my life, I do protest,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Was it more precious to me than 'tis now:"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Think you, but that I know our state secure,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"I would be so triumphant as I am?"
III,II,STANLEY,"The lords at Pomfret, when they rode from London,"
III,II,STANLEY,"Were jocund, and supposed their state was sure,"
III,II,STANLEY,"And they indeed had no cause to mistrust;"
III,II,STANLEY,"But yet, you see how soon the day o'ercast."
III,II,STANLEY,"This sudden stag of rancour I misdoubt:"
III,II,STANLEY,"Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward!"
III,II,STANLEY,"What, shall we toward the Tower? the day is spent."
III,II,HASTINGS,"Come, come, have with you. Wot you what, my lord?"
III,II,HASTINGS,"To-day the lords you talk of are beheaded."
III,II,LORD STANLEY,"They, for their truth, might better wear their heads"
III,II,LORD STANLEY,"Than some that have accused them wear their hats."
III,II,LORD STANLEY,"But come, my lord, let us away."
III,II,HASTINGS,"Go on before; I'll talk with this good fellow."
III,II,HASTINGS,"How now, sirrah! how goes the world with thee?"
III,II,Pursuivant,"The better that your lordship please to ask."
III,II,HASTINGS,"I tell thee, man, 'tis better with me now"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Than when I met thee last where now we meet:"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Then was I going prisoner to the Tower,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"By the suggestion of the queen's allies;"
III,II,HASTINGS,"But now, I tell thee--keep it to thyself--"
III,II,HASTINGS,"This day those enemies are put to death,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"And I in better state than e'er I was."
III,II,Pursuivant,"God hold it, to your honour's good content!"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Gramercy, fellow: there, drink that for me."
III,II,Pursuivant,"God save your lordship!"
III,II,Priest,"Well met, my lord; I am glad to see your honour."
III,II,HASTINGS,"I thank thee, good Sir John, with all my heart."
III,II,HASTINGS,"I am in your debt for your last exercise;"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you."
III,II,BUCKINGHAM,"What, talking with a priest, lord chamberlain?"
III,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the priest;"
III,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Your honour hath no shriving work in hand."
III,II,HASTINGS,"Good faith, and when I met this holy man,"
III,II,HASTINGS,"Those men you talk of came into my mind."
III,II,HASTINGS,"What, go you toward the Tower?"
III,II,BUCKINGHAM,"I do, my lord; but long I shall not stay"
III,II,BUCKINGHAM,"I shall return before your lordship thence."
III,II,HASTINGS,"'Tis like enough, for I stay dinner there."
III,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Come, will you go?"
III,II,HASTINGS,"I'll wait upon your lordship."
III,III,RATCLIFF,"Come, bring forth the prisoners."
III,III,RIVERS,"Sir Richard Ratcliff, let me tell thee this:"
III,III,RIVERS,"To-day shalt thou behold a subject die"
III,III,RIVERS,"For truth, for duty, and for loyalty."
III,III,GREY,"God keep the prince from all the pack of you!"
III,III,GREY,"A knot you are of damned blood-suckers!"
III,III,VAUGHAN,"You live that shall cry woe for this after."
III,III,RATCLIFF,"Dispatch; the limit of your lives is out."
III,III,RIVERS,"O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,"
III,III,RIVERS,"Fatal and ominous to noble peers!"
III,III,RIVERS,"Within the guilty closure of thy walls"
III,III,RIVERS,"Richard the second here was hack'd to death;"
III,III,RIVERS,"And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,"
III,III,RIVERS,"We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink."
III,III,GREY,"Now Margaret's curse is fall'n upon our heads,"
III,III,GREY,"For standing by when Richard stabb'd her son."
III,III,RIVERS,"Then cursed she Hastings, then cursed she Buckingham,"
III,III,RIVERS,"Then cursed she Richard. O, remember, God"
III,III,RIVERS,"To hear her prayers for them, as now for us"
III,III,RIVERS,"And for my sister and her princely sons,"
III,III,RIVERS,"Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood,"
III,III,RIVERS,"Which, as thou know'st, unjustly must be spilt."
III,III,RATCLIFF,"Make haste; the hour of death is expiate."
III,III,RIVERS,"Come, Grey, come, Vaughan, let us all embrace:"
III,III,RIVERS,"And take our leave, until we meet in heaven."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"My lords, at once: the cause why we are met"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Is, to determine of the coronation."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"In God's name, speak: when is the royal day?"
III,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Are all things fitting for that royal time?"
III,IV,DERBY,"It is, and wants but nomination."
III,IV,BISHOP OF ELY,"To-morrow, then, I judge a happy day."
III,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Who knows the lord protector's mind herein?"
III,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Who is most inward with the royal duke?"
III,IV,BISHOP OF ELY,"Your grace, we think, should soonest know his mind."
III,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Who, I, my lord I we know each other's faces,"
III,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"But for our hearts, he knows no more of mine,"
III,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Than I of yours;"
III,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Nor I no more of his, than you of mine."
III,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Lord Hastings, you and he are near in love."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"I thank his grace, I know he loves me well;"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"But, for his purpose in the coronation."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"I have not sounded him, nor he deliver'd"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"His gracious pleasure any way therein:"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"But you, my noble lords, may name the time;"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"And in the duke's behalf I'll give my voice,"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Which, I presume, he'll take in gentle part."
III,IV,BISHOP OF ELY,"Now in good time, here comes the duke himself."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"My noble lords and cousins all, good morrow."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"I have been long a sleeper; but, I hope,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"My absence doth neglect no great designs,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Which by my presence might have been concluded."
III,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Had not you come upon your cue, my lord"
III,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"William Lord Hastings had pronounced your part,--"
III,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"I mean, your voice,--for crowning of the king."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Than my Lord Hastings no man might be bolder;"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"His lordship knows me well, and loves me well."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"I thank your grace."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"My lord of Ely!"
III,IV,BISHOP OF ELY,"My lord?"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"When I was last in Holborn,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"I saw good strawberries in your garden there"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"I do beseech you send for some of them."
III,IV,BISHOP OF ELY,"Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Cousin of Buckingham, a word with you."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Catesby hath sounded Hastings in our business,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"And finds the testy gentleman so hot,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"As he will lose his head ere give consent"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"His master's son, as worshipful as he terms it,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Shall lose the royalty of England's throne."
III,IV,BUCKINGHAM,"Withdraw you hence, my lord, I'll follow you."
III,IV,DERBY,"We have not yet set down this day of triumph."
III,IV,DERBY,"To-morrow, in mine opinion, is too sudden;"
III,IV,DERBY,"For I myself am not so well provided"
III,IV,DERBY,"As else I would be, were the day prolong'd."
III,IV,BISHOP OF ELY,"Where is my lord protector? I have sent for these"
III,IV,BISHOP OF ELY,"strawberries."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"His grace looks cheerfully and smooth to-day;"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"There's some conceit or other likes him well,"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"When he doth bid good morrow with such a spirit."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"I think there's never a man in Christendom"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"That can less hide his love or hate than he;"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"For by his face straight shall you know his heart."
III,IV,DERBY,"What of his heart perceive you in his face"
III,IV,DERBY,"By any likelihood he show'd to-day?"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Marry, that with no man here he is offended;"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"For, were he, he had shown it in his looks."
III,IV,DERBY,"I pray God he be not, I say."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"I pray you all, tell me what they deserve"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"That do conspire my death with devilish plots"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Of damned witchcraft, and that have prevail'd"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Upon my body with their hellish charms?"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"The tender love I bear your grace, my lord,"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Makes me most forward in this noble presence"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"To doom the offenders, whatsoever they be"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"I say, my lord, they have deserved death."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Then be your eyes the witness of this ill:"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"See how I am bewitch'd; behold mine arm"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Is, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up:"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"And this is Edward's wife, that monstrous witch,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Consorted with that harlot strumpet Shore,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"That by their witchcraft thus have marked me."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"If they have done this thing, my gracious lord--"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"If I thou protector of this damned strumpet--"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Tellest thou me of 'ifs'?  Thou art a traitor:"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Off with his head! Now, by Saint Paul I swear,"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"I will not dine until I see the same."
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"Lovel and Ratcliff, look that it be done:"
III,IV,GLOUCESTER,"The rest, that love me, rise and follow me."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Woe, woe for England! not a whit for me;"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"For I, too fond, might have prevented this."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Stanley did dream the boar did raze his helm;"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"But I disdain'd it, and did scorn to fly:"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Three times to-day my foot-cloth horse did stumble,"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"And startled, when he look'd upon the Tower,"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"As loath to bear me to the slaughter-house."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"O, now I want the priest that spake to me:"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"I now repent I told the pursuivant"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"As 'twere triumphing at mine enemies,"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"How they at Pomfret bloodily were butcher'd,"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"And I myself secure in grace and favour."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"O Margaret, Margaret, now thy heavy curse"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Is lighted on poor Hastings' wretched head!"
III,IV,RATCLIFF,"Dispatch, my lord; the duke would be at dinner:"
III,IV,RATCLIFF,"Make a short shrift; he longs to see your head."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"O momentary grace of mortal men,"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks,"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Ready, with every nod, to tumble down"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Into the fatal bowels of the deep."
III,IV,LOVEL,"Come, come, dispatch; 'tis bootless to exclaim."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"O bloody Richard! miserable England!"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"I prophesy the fearful'st time to thee"
III,IV,HASTINGS,"That ever wretched age hath look'd upon."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"Come, lead me to the block; bear him my head."
III,IV,HASTINGS,"They smile at me that shortly shall be dead."
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Come, cousin, canst thou quake, and change thy colour,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Murder thy breath in the middle of a word,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"And then begin again, and stop again,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror?"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Tut, I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Speak and look back, and pry on every side,"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Are at my service, like enforced smiles;"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"And both are ready in their offices,"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"At any time, to grace my stratagems."
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"But what, is Catesby gone?"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"He is; and, see, he brings the mayor along."
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Lord mayor,--"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Look to the drawbridge there!"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Hark! a drum."
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Catesby, o'erlook the walls."
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Lord mayor, the reason we have sent--"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Look back, defend thee, here are enemies."
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"God and our innocency defend and guard us!"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Be patient, they are friends, Ratcliff and Lovel."
III,V,LOVEL,"Here is the head of that ignoble traitor,"
III,V,LOVEL,"The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings."
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"So dear I loved the man, that I must weep."
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"I took him for the plainest harmless creature"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"That breathed upon this earth a Christian;"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Made him my book wherein my soul recorded"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"The history of all her secret thoughts:"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"That, his apparent open guilt omitted,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"He lived from all attainder of suspect."
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Well, well, he was the covert'st shelter'd traitor"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"That ever lived."
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Would you imagine, or almost believe,"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Were't not that, by great preservation,"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"We live to tell it you, the subtle traitor"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"This day had plotted, in the council-house"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"To murder me and my good Lord of Gloucester?"
III,V,Lord Mayor,"What, had he so?"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"What, think You we are Turks or infidels?"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Or that we would, against the form of law,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Proceed thus rashly to the villain's death,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"But that the extreme peril of the case,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"The peace of England and our persons' safety,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Enforced us to this execution?"
III,V,Lord Mayor,"Now, fair befall you! he deserved his death;"
III,V,Lord Mayor,"And you my good lords, both have well proceeded,"
III,V,Lord Mayor,"To warn false traitors from the like attempts."
III,V,Lord Mayor,"I never look'd for better at his hands,"
III,V,Lord Mayor,"After he once fell in with Mistress Shore."
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Yet had not we determined he should die,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Until your lordship came to see his death;"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Which now the loving haste of these our friends,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Somewhat against our meaning, have prevented:"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Because, my lord, we would have had you heard"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"The traitor speak, and timorously confess"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"The manner and the purpose of his treason;"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"That you might well have signified the same"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Unto the citizens, who haply may"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Misconstrue us in him and wail his death."
III,V,Lord Mayor,"But, my good lord, your grace's word shall serve,"
III,V,Lord Mayor,"As well as I had seen and heard him speak"
III,V,Lord Mayor,"And doubt you not, right noble princes both,"
III,V,Lord Mayor,"But I'll acquaint our duteous citizens"
III,V,Lord Mayor,"With all your just proceedings in this cause."
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"And to that end we wish'd your lord-ship here,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"To avoid the carping censures of the world."
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"But since you come too late of our intents,"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Yet witness what you hear we did intend:"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"And so, my good lord mayor, we bid farewell."
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Go, after, after, cousin Buckingham."
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"The mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post:"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"There, at your meet'st advantage of the time,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Infer the bastardy of Edward's children:"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Only for saying he would make his son"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Heir to the crown; meaning indeed his house,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Which, by the sign thereof was termed so."
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Moreover, urge his hateful luxury"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"And bestial appetite in change of lust;"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Which stretched to their servants, daughters, wives,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Even where his lustful eye or savage heart,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Without control, listed to make his prey."
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person:"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Tell them, when that my mother went with child"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Of that unsatiate Edward, noble York"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"My princely father then had wars in France"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"And, by just computation of the time,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Found that the issue was not his begot;"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Which well appeared in his lineaments,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Being nothing like the noble duke my father:"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"But touch this sparingly, as 'twere far off,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Because you know, my lord, my mother lives."
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Fear not, my lord, I'll play the orator"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"As if the golden fee for which I plead"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Were for myself: and so, my lord, adieu."
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"If you thrive well, bring them to Baynard's Castle;"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Where you shall find me well accompanied"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"With reverend fathers and well-learned bishops."
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"I go: and towards three or four o'clock"
III,V,BUCKINGHAM,"Look for the news that the Guildhall affords."
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Go, Lovel, with all speed to Doctor Shaw;"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Go thou to Friar Penker; bid them both"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Meet me within this hour at Baynard's Castle."
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"Now will I in, to take some privy order,"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight;"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"And to give notice, that no manner of person"
III,V,GLOUCESTER,"At any time have recourse unto the princes."
III,VI,Scrivener,"This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings;"
III,VI,Scrivener,"Which in a set hand fairly is engross'd,"
III,VI,Scrivener,"That it may be this day read over in Paul's."
III,VI,Scrivener,"And mark how well the sequel hangs together:"
III,VI,Scrivener,"Eleven hours I spent to write it over,"
III,VI,Scrivener,"For yesternight by Catesby was it brought me;"
III,VI,Scrivener,"The precedent was full as long a-doing:"
III,VI,Scrivener,"And yet within these five hours lived Lord Hastings,"
III,VI,Scrivener,"Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty"
III,VI,Scrivener,"Here's a good world the while! Why who's so gross,"
III,VI,Scrivener,"That seeth not this palpable device?"
III,VI,Scrivener,"Yet who's so blind, but says he sees it not?"
III,VI,Scrivener,"Bad is the world; and all will come to nought,"
III,VI,Scrivener,"When such bad dealings must be seen in thought."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"How now, my lord, what say the citizens?"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Now, by the holy mother of our Lord,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"The citizens are mum and speak not a word."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Touch'd you the bastardy of Edward's children?"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"I did; with his contract with Lady Lucy,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And his contract by deputy in France;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"The insatiate greediness of his desires,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And his enforcement of the city wives;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"His tyranny for trifles; his own bastardy,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"As being got, your father then in France,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"His resemblance, being not like the duke;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Withal I did infer your lineaments,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Being the right idea of your father,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Both in your form and nobleness of mind;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Laid open all your victories in Scotland,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Your dicipline in war, wisdom in peace,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Your bounty, virtue, fair humility:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Indeed, left nothing fitting for the purpose"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Untouch'd, or slightly handled, in discourse"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And when mine oratory grew to an end"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"I bid them that did love their country's good"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Cry 'God save Richard, England's royal king!'"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Ah! and did they so?"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"No, so God help me, they spake not a word;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"But, like dumb statues or breathing stones,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Gazed each on other, and look'd deadly pale."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Which when I saw, I reprehended them;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And ask'd the mayor what meant this wilful silence:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"His answer was, the people were not wont"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"To be spoke to but by the recorder."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Then he was urged to tell my tale again,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"'Thus saith the duke, thus hath the duke inferr'd;'"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"But nothing spake in warrant from himself."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"When he had done, some followers of mine own,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"At the lower end of the hall, hurl'd up their caps,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And some ten voices cried 'God save King Richard!'"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And thus I took the vantage of those few,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"'Thanks, gentle citizens and friends,' quoth I;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"'This general applause and loving shout"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Argues your wisdoms and your love to Richard:'"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And even here brake off, and came away."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"What tongueless blocks were they! would not they speak?"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"No, by my troth, my lord."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Will not the mayor then and his brethren come?"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"The mayor is here at hand: intend some fear;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Be not you spoke with, but by mighty suit:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And look you get a prayer-book in your hand,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And stand betwixt two churchmen, good my lord;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"For on that ground I'll build a holy descant:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And be not easily won to our request:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Play the maid's part, still answer nay, and take it."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"I go; and if you plead as well for them"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"As I can say nay to thee for myself,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"No doubt well bring it to a happy issue."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Go, go, up to the leads; the lord mayor knocks."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Welcome my lord; I dance attendance here;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"I think the duke will not be spoke withal."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Here comes his servant: how now, Catesby,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"What says he?"
III,VII,CATESBY,"My lord: he doth entreat your grace;"
III,VII,CATESBY,"To visit him to-morrow or next day:"
III,VII,CATESBY,"He is within, with two right reverend fathers,"
III,VII,CATESBY,"Divinely bent to meditation;"
III,VII,CATESBY,"And no worldly suit would he be moved,"
III,VII,CATESBY,"To draw him from his holy exercise."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Return, good Catesby, to thy lord again;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Tell him, myself, the mayor and citizens,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"In deep designs and matters of great moment,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"No less importing than our general good,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Are come to have some conference with his grace."
III,VII,CATESBY,"I'll tell him what you say, my lord."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Ah, ha, my lord, this prince is not an Edward!"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"He is not lolling on a lewd day-bed,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"But on his knees at meditation;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Not dallying with a brace of courtezans,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"But meditating with two deep divines;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Not sleeping, to engross his idle body,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"But praying, to enrich his watchful soul:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Happy were England, would this gracious prince"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Take on himself the sovereignty thereof:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"But, sure, I fear, we shall ne'er win him to it."
III,VII,Lord Mayor,"Marry, God forbid his grace should say us nay!"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"I fear he will."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"How now, Catesby, what says your lord?"
III,VII,CATESBY,"My lord,"
III,VII,CATESBY,"He wonders to what end you have assembled"
III,VII,CATESBY,"Such troops of citizens to speak with him,"
III,VII,CATESBY,"His grace not being warn'd thereof before:"
III,VII,CATESBY,"My lord, he fears you mean no good to him."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Sorry I am my noble cousin should"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Suspect me, that I mean no good to him:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"By heaven, I come in perfect love to him;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And so once more return and tell his grace."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"When holy and devout religious men"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"So sweet is zealous contemplation."
III,VII,Lord Mayor,"See, where he stands between two clergymen!"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Two props of virtue for a Christian prince,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"To stay him from the fall of vanity:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And, see, a book of prayer in his hand,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"True ornaments to know a holy man."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Famous Plantagenet, most gracious prince,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Lend favourable ears to our request;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And pardon us the interruption"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Of thy devotion and right Christian zeal."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"My lord, there needs no such apology:"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"I rather do beseech you pardon me,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Who, earnest in the service of my God,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Neglect the visitation of my friends."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"But, leaving this, what is your grace's pleasure?"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Even that, I hope, which pleaseth God above,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And all good men of this ungovern'd isle."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"I do suspect I have done some offence"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"That seems disgracious in the city's eyes,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"And that you come to reprehend my ignorance."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"You have, my lord: would it might please your grace,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"At our entreaties, to amend that fault!"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Else wherefore breathe I in a Christian land?"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Then know, it is your fault that you resign"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"The supreme seat, the throne majestical,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"The scepter'd office of your ancestors,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Your state of fortune and your due of birth,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"The lineal glory of your royal house,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"To the corruption of a blemished stock:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Whilst, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Which here we waken to our country's good,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"This noble isle doth want her proper limbs;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Her face defaced with scars of infamy,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And almost shoulder'd in the swallowing gulf"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Of blind forgetfulness and dark oblivion."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Which to recure, we heartily solicit"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Your gracious self to take on you the charge"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And kingly government of this your land,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Not as protector, steward, substitute,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Or lowly factor for another's gain;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"But as successively from blood to blood,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Your right of birth, your empery, your own."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"For this, consorted with the citizens,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Your very worshipful and loving friends,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And by their vehement instigation,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"In this just suit come I to move your grace."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"I know not whether to depart in silence,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Or bitterly to speak in your reproof."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Best fitteth my degree or your condition"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"If not to answer, you might haply think"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Which fondly you would here impose on me;"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"If to reprove you for this suit of yours,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"So season'd with your faithful love to me."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Then, on the other side, I cheque'd my friends."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Therefore, to speak, and to avoid the first,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"And then, in speaking, not to incur the last,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Definitively thus I answer you."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Your love deserves my thanks; but my desert"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Unmeritable shuns your high request."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"First if all obstacles were cut away,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"And that my path were even to the crown,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"As my ripe revenue and due by birth"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Yet so much is my poverty of spirit,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"So mighty and so many my defects,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"As I had rather hide me from my greatness,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Being a bark to brook no mighty sea,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Than in my greatness covet to be hid,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"And in the vapour of my glory smother'd."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"But, God be thank'd, there's no need of me,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"And much I need to help you, if need were;"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"The royal tree hath left us royal fruit,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Which, mellow'd by the stealing hours of time,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Will well become the seat of majesty,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"On him I lay what you would lay on me,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"The right and fortune of his happy stars;"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Which God defend that I should wring from him!"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"My lord, this argues conscience in your grace;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"But the respects thereof are nice and trivial,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"All circumstances well considered."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"You say that Edward is your brother's son:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"So say we too, but not by Edward's wife;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"For first he was contract to Lady Lucy--"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Your mother lives a witness to that vow--"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And afterward by substitute betroth'd"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"To Bona, sister to the King of France."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"These both put by a poor petitioner,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"A care-crazed mother of a many children,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"A beauty-waning and distressed widow,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Even in the afternoon of her best days,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"To base declension and loathed bigamy"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"By her, in his unlawful bed, he got"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"This Edward, whom our manners term the prince."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"More bitterly could I expostulate,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Save that, for reverence to some alive,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"I give a sparing limit to my tongue."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Then, good my lord, take to your royal self"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"This proffer'd benefit of dignity;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"If non to bless us and the land withal,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Yet to draw forth your noble ancestry"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"From the corruption of abusing times,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Unto a lineal true-derived course."
III,VII,Lord Mayor,"Do, good my lord, your citizens entreat you."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Refuse not, mighty lord, this proffer'd love."
III,VII,CATESBY,"O, make them joyful, grant their lawful suit!"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Alas, why would you heap these cares on me?"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"I am unfit for state and majesty;"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"I do beseech you, take it not amiss;"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"I cannot nor I will not yield to you."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"If you refuse it,--as, in love and zeal,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Loath to depose the child, Your brother's son;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"As well we know your tenderness of heart"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Which we have noted in you to your kin,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And egally indeed to all estates,--"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Yet whether you accept our suit or no,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Your brother's son shall never reign our king;"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"But we will plant some other in the throne,"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"To the disgrace and downfall of your house:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And in this resolution here we leave you.--"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Come, citizens: 'zounds! I'll entreat no more."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"O, do not swear, my lord of Buckingham."
III,VII,CATESBY,"Call them again, my lord, and accept their suit."
III,VII,ANOTHER,"Do, good my lord, lest all the land do rue it."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Would you enforce me to a world of care?"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Well, call them again. I am not made of stone,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"But penetrable to your. kind entreats,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Albeit against my conscience and my soul."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Cousin of Buckingham, and you sage, grave men,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Since you will buckle fortune on my back,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"To bear her burthen, whether I will or no,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"I must have patience to endure the load:"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"But if black scandal or foul-faced reproach"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Attend the sequel of your imposition,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"From all the impure blots and stains thereof;"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"For God he knows, and you may partly see,"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"How far I am from the desire thereof."
III,VII,Lord Mayor,"God bless your grace! we see it, and will say it."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"In saying so, you shall but say the truth."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Then I salute you with this kingly title:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"Long live Richard, England's royal king!"
III,VII,Lord Mayor,"Amen."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"To-morrow will it please you to be crown'd?"
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Even when you please, since you will have it so."
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"To-morrow, then, we will attend your grace:"
III,VII,BUCKINGHAM,"And so most joyfully we take our leave."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Come, let us to our holy task again."
III,VII,GLOUCESTER,"Farewell, good cousin; farewell, gentle friends."
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Who meets us here?  my niece Plantagenet"
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Gloucester?"
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Now, for my life, she's wandering to the Tower,"
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"On pure heart's love to greet the tender princes."
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Daughter, well met."
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"God give your graces both"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"A happy and a joyful time of day!"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"As much to you, good sister! Whither away?"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"No farther than the Tower; and, as I guess,"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Upon the like devotion as yourselves,"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"To gratulate the gentle princes there."
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Kind sister, thanks: we'll enter all together."
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And, in good time, here the lieutenant comes."
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Master lieutenant, pray you, by your leave,"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"How doth the prince, and my young son of York?"
IV,I,BRAKENBURY,"Right well, dear madam. By your patience,"
IV,I,BRAKENBURY,"I may not suffer you to visit them;"
IV,I,BRAKENBURY,"The king hath straitly charged the contrary."
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The king! why, who's that?"
IV,I,BRAKENBURY,"I cry you mercy: I mean the lord protector."
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The Lord protect him from that kingly title!"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Hath he set bounds betwixt their love and me?"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I am their mother; who should keep me from them?"
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I am their fathers mother; I will see them."
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Their aunt I am in law, in love their mother:"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Then bring me to their sights; I'll bear thy blame"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"And take thy office from thee, on my peril."
IV,I,BRAKENBURY,"No, madam, no; I may not leave it so:"
IV,I,BRAKENBURY,"I am bound by oath, and therefore pardon me."
IV,I,LORD STANLEY,"Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence,"
IV,I,LORD STANLEY,"And I'll salute your grace of York as mother,"
IV,I,LORD STANLEY,"And reverend looker on, of two fair queens."
IV,I,LORD STANLEY,"Come, madam, you must straight to Westminster,"
IV,I,LORD STANLEY,"There to be crowned Richard's royal queen."
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"O, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"With this dead-killing news!"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Despiteful tidings! O unpleasing news!"
IV,I,DORSET,"Be of good cheer: mother, how fares your grace?"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"O Dorset, speak not to me, get thee hence!"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Death and destruction dog thee at the heels;"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Thy mother's name is ominous to children."
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas,"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And live with Richmond, from the reach of hell"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Go, hie thee, hie thee from this slaughter-house,"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Lest thou increase the number of the dead;"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And make me die the thrall of Margaret's curse,"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Nor mother, wife, nor England's counted queen."
IV,I,LORD STANLEY,"Full of wise care is this your counsel, madam."
IV,I,LORD STANLEY,"Take all the swift advantage of the hours;"
IV,I,LORD STANLEY,"You shall have letters from me to my son"
IV,I,LORD STANLEY,"To meet you on the way, and welcome you."
IV,I,LORD STANLEY,"Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay."
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"O ill-dispersing wind of misery!"
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"O my accursed womb, the bed of death!"
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"A cockatrice hast thou hatch'd to the world,"
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Whose unavoided eye is murderous."
IV,I,LORD STANLEY,"Come, madam, come; I in all haste was sent."
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"And I in all unwillingness will go."
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"I would to God that the inclusive verge"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Of golden metal that must round my brow"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brain!"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Anointed let me be with deadly venom,"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"And die, ere men can say, God save the queen!"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Go, go, poor soul, I envy not thy glory"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To feed my humour, wish thyself no harm."
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"No! why?  When he that is my husband now"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Came to me, as I follow'd Henry's corse,"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"When scarce the blood was well wash'd from his hands"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Which issued from my other angel husband"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"And that dead saint which then I weeping follow'd;"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"O, when, I say, I look'd on Richard's face,"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"This was my wish: 'Be thou,' quoth I, ' accursed,"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"For making me, so young, so old a widow!"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"And, when thou wed'st, let sorrow haunt thy bed;"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"And be thy wife--if any be so mad--"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"As miserable by the life of thee"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"As thou hast made me by my dear lord's death!"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Lo, ere I can repeat this curse again,"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Even in so short a space, my woman's heart"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Grossly grew captive to his honey words"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"And proved the subject of my own soul's curse,"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Which ever since hath kept my eyes from rest;"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"For never yet one hour in his bed"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Have I enjoy'd the golden dew of sleep,"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"But have been waked by his timorous dreams."
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Besides, he hates me for my father Warwick;"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me."
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Poor heart, adieu! I pity thy complaining."
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"No more than from my soul I mourn for yours."
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Farewell, thou woful welcomer of glory!"
IV,I,LADY ANNE,"Adieu, poor soul, that takest thy leave of it!"
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Go thou to Richmond, and good fortune guide thee!"
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Go thou to Richard, and good angels guard thee!"
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Go thou to sanctuary, and good thoughts possess thee!"
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I to my grave, where peace and rest lie with me!"
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen,"
IV,I,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And each hour's joy wrecked with a week of teen."
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Stay, yet look back with me unto the Tower."
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Whom envy hath immured within your walls!"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Rough cradle for such little pretty ones!"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"For tender princes, use my babies well!"
IV,I,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Stand all apart Cousin of Buckingham!"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"My gracious sovereign?"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Give me thy hand."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Thus high, by thy advice"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"And thy assistance, is King Richard seated;"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"But shall we wear these honours for a day?"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Still live they and for ever may they last!"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"O Buckingham, now do I play the touch,"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"To try if thou be current gold indeed"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Young Edward lives: think now what I would say."
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Say on, my loving lord."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Why, Buckingham, I say, I would be king,"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Why, so you are, my thrice renowned liege."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Ha! am I king? 'tis so: but Edward lives."
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"True, noble prince."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"O bitter consequence,"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"That Edward still should live! 'True, noble prince!'"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Cousin, thou wert not wont to be so dull:"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead;"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"And I would have it suddenly perform'd."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"What sayest thou? speak suddenly; be brief."
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Your grace may do your pleasure."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Tut, tut, thou art all ice, thy kindness freezeth:"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Say, have I thy consent that they shall die?"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Before I positively herein:"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"I will resolve your grace immediately."
IV,II,CATESBY,"The king is angry: see, he bites the lip."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"I will converse with iron-witted fools"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"And unrespective boys: none are for me"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"That look into me with considerate eyes:"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Boy!"
IV,II,Page,"My lord?"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Would tempt unto a close exploit of death?"
IV,II,Page,"My lord, I know a discontented gentleman,"
IV,II,Page,"Whose humble means match not his haughty mind:"
IV,II,Page,"Gold were as good as twenty orators,"
IV,II,Page,"And will, no doubt, tempt him to any thing."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"What is his name?"
IV,II,Page,"His name, my lord, is Tyrrel."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"I partly know the man: go, call him hither."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"The deep-revolving witty Buckingham"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel:"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Hath he so long held out with me untired,"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"And stops he now for breath?"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"How now! what news with you?"
IV,II,STANLEY,"My lord, I hear the Marquis Dorset's fled"
IV,II,STANLEY,"To Richmond, in those parts beyond the sea"
IV,II,STANLEY,"Where he abides."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Catesby!"
IV,II,CATESBY,"My lord?"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Rumour it abroad"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"That Anne, my wife, is sick and like to die:"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"I will take order for her keeping close."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Inquire me out some mean-born gentleman,"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Whom I will marry straight to Clarence' daughter:"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"The boy is foolish, and I fear not him."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Look, how thou dream'st! I say again, give out"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"That Anne my wife is sick and like to die:"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"About it; for it stands me much upon,"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"I must be married to my brother's daughter,"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Murder her brothers, and then marry her!"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Uncertain way of gain! But I am in"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin:"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Is thy name Tyrrel?"
IV,II,TYRREL,"James Tyrrel, and your most obedient subject."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Art thou, indeed?"
IV,II,TYRREL,"Prove me, my gracious sovereign."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Darest thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?"
IV,II,TYRREL,"Ay, my lord;"
IV,II,TYRREL,"But I had rather kill two enemies."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Why, there thou hast it: two deep enemies,"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Foes to my rest and my sweet sleep's disturbers"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Are they that I would have thee deal upon:"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Tyrrel, I mean those bastards in the Tower."
IV,II,TYRREL,"Let me have open means to come to them,"
IV,II,TYRREL,"And soon I'll rid you from the fear of them."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Thou sing'st sweet music. Hark, come hither, Tyrrel"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Go, by this token: rise, and lend thine ear:"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"There is no more but so: say it is done,"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"And I will love thee, and prefer thee too."
IV,II,TYRREL,"'Tis done, my gracious lord."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Shall we hear from thee, Tyrrel, ere we sleep?"
IV,II,TYRREL,"Ye shall, my Lord."
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"My Lord, I have consider'd in my mind"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"The late demand that you did sound me in."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Well, let that pass. Dorset is fled to Richmond."
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"I hear that news, my lord."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Stanley, he is your wife's son well, look to it."
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"My lord, I claim your gift, my due by promise,"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"For which your honour and your faith is pawn'd;"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"The earldom of Hereford and the moveables"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"The which you promised I should possess."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Stanley, look to your wife; if she convey"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it."
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"What says your highness to my just demand?"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"As I remember, Henry the Sixth"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"When Richmond was a little peevish boy."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"A king, perhaps, perhaps,--"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"My lord!"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"How chance the prophet could not at that time"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him?"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"My lord, your promise for the earldom,--"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Richmond! When last I was at Exeter,"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle,"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"And call'd it Rougemont: at which name I started,"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Because a bard of Ireland told me once"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"I should not live long after I saw Richmond."
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"My Lord!"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Ay, what's o'clock?"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"I am thus bold to put your grace in mind"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Of what you promised me."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Well, but what's o'clock?"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Upon the stroke of ten."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Well, let it strike."
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Why let it strike?"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Because that, like a Jack, thou keep'st the stroke"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Betwixt thy begging and my meditation."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"I am not in the giving vein to-day."
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Why, then resolve me whether you will or no."
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Tut, tut,"
IV,II,KING RICHARD III,"Thou troublest me; am not in the vein."
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"Is it even so? rewards he my true service"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"With such deep contempt made I him king for this?"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"O, let me think on Hastings, and be gone"
IV,II,BUCKINGHAM,"To Brecknock, while my fearful head is on!"
IV,III,TYRREL,"The tyrannous and bloody deed is done."
IV,III,TYRREL,"The most arch of piteous massacre"
IV,III,TYRREL,"That ever yet this land was guilty of."
IV,III,TYRREL,"Dighton and Forrest, whom I did suborn"
IV,III,TYRREL,"To do this ruthless piece of butchery,"
IV,III,TYRREL,"Although they were flesh'd villains, bloody dogs,"
IV,III,TYRREL,"Melting with tenderness and kind compassion"
IV,III,TYRREL,"Wept like two children in their deaths' sad stories."
IV,III,TYRREL,"'Lo, thus' quoth Dighton, 'lay those tender babes:'"
IV,III,TYRREL,"'Thus, thus,' quoth Forrest, 'girdling one another"
IV,III,TYRREL,"Within their innocent alabaster arms:"
IV,III,TYRREL,"Their lips were four red roses on a stalk,"
IV,III,TYRREL,"Which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other."
IV,III,TYRREL,"A book of prayers on their pillow lay;"
IV,III,TYRREL,"Which once,' quoth Forrest, 'almost changed my mind;"
IV,III,TYRREL,"But O! the devil'--there the villain stopp'd"
IV,III,TYRREL,"Whilst Dighton thus told on: 'We smothered"
IV,III,TYRREL,"The most replenished sweet work of nature,"
IV,III,TYRREL,"That from the prime creation e'er she framed.'"
IV,III,TYRREL,"Thus both are gone with conscience and remorse;"
IV,III,TYRREL,"They could not speak; and so I left them both,"
IV,III,TYRREL,"To bring this tidings to the bloody king."
IV,III,TYRREL,"And here he comes."
IV,III,TYRREL,"All hail, my sovereign liege!"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Kind Tyrrel, am I happy in thy news?"
IV,III,TYRREL,"If to have done the thing you gave in charge"
IV,III,TYRREL,"Beget your happiness, be happy then,"
IV,III,TYRREL,"For it is done, my lord."
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"But didst thou see them dead?"
IV,III,TYRREL,"I did, my lord."
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"And buried, gentle Tyrrel?"
IV,III,TYRREL,"The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them;"
IV,III,TYRREL,"But how or in what place I do not know."
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Come to me, Tyrrel, soon at after supper,"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"And thou shalt tell the process of their death."
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Meantime, but think how I may do thee good,"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"And be inheritor of thy desire."
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Farewell till soon."
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"The son of Clarence have I pent up close;"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"His daughter meanly have I match'd in marriage;"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom,"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"And Anne my wife hath bid the world good night."
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Now, for I know the Breton Richmond aims"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"At young Elizabeth, my brother's daughter,"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"And, by that knot, looks proudly o'er the crown,"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"To her I go, a jolly thriving wooer."
IV,III,CATESBY,"My lord!"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Good news or bad, that thou comest in so bluntly?"
IV,III,CATESBY,"Bad news, my lord: Ely is fled to Richmond;"
IV,III,CATESBY,"And Buckingham, back'd with the hardy Welshmen,"
IV,III,CATESBY,"Is in the field, and still his power increaseth."
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Ely with Richmond troubles me more near"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Than Buckingham and his rash-levied army."
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Come, I have heard that fearful commenting"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Is leaden servitor to dull delay;"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Then fiery expedition be my wing,"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king!"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"Come, muster men: my counsel is my shield;"
IV,III,KING RICHARD III,"We must be brief when traitors brave the field."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"So, now prosperity begins to mellow"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And drop into the rotten mouth of death."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Here in these confines slily have I lurk'd,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"To watch the waning of mine adversaries."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"A dire induction am I witness to,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And will to France, hoping the consequence"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Withdraw thee, wretched Margaret: who comes here?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Ah, my young princes! ah, my tender babes!"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets!"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"If yet your gentle souls fly in the air"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And be not fix'd in doom perpetual,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Hover about me with your airy wings"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And hear your mother's lamentation!"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Hover about her; say, that right for right"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Hath dimm'd your infant morn to aged night."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"So many miseries have crazed my voice,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"That my woe-wearied tongue is mute and dumb,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Edward Plantagenet, why art thou dead?"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Plantagenet doth quit Plantagenet."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Edward for Edward pays a dying debt."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Wilt thou, O God, fly from such gentle lambs,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And throw them in the entrails of the wolf?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"When didst thou sleep when such a deed was done?"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"When holy Harry died, and my sweet son."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Blind sight, dead life, poor mortal living ghost,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Woe's scene, world's shame, grave's due by life usurp'd,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Brief abstract and record of tedious days,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Rest thy unrest on England's lawful earth,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Unlawfully made drunk with innocents' blood!"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"O, that thou wouldst as well afford a grave"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"As thou canst yield a melancholy seat!"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"O, who hath any cause to mourn but I?"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"If ancient sorrow be most reverend,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Give mine the benefit of seniory,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And let my woes frown on the upper hand."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"If sorrow can admit society,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine:"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"I had an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"I had a Harry, till a Richard kill'd him:"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou hadst an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou hadst a Richard, till a Richard killed him;"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I had a Richard too, and thou didst kill him;"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I had a Rutland too, thou holp'st to kill him."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou hadst a Clarence too, and Richard kill'd him."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death:"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"That dog, that had his teeth before his eyes,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"That foul defacer of God's handiwork,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"That excellent grand tyrant of the earth,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thy womb let loose, to chase us to our graves."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"O upright, just, and true-disposing God,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"How do I thank thee, that this carnal cur"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Preys on the issue of his mother's body,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And makes her pew-fellow with others' moan!"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"O Harry's wife, triumph not in my woes!"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"God witness with me, I have wept for thine."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Bear with me; I am hungry for revenge,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And now I cloy me with beholding it."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thy Edward he is dead, that stabb'd my Edward:"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thy other Edward dead, to quit my Edward;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Young York he is but boot, because both they"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Match not the high perfection of my loss:"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thy Clarence he is dead that kill'd my Edward;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And the beholders of this tragic play,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"The adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Untimely smother'd in their dusky graves."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Richard yet lives, hell's black intelligencer,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Only reserved their factor, to buy souls"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And send them thither: but at hand, at hand,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Ensues his piteous and unpitied end:"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"To have him suddenly convey'd away."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I prey,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"That I may live to say, The dog is dead!"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"O, thou didst prophesy the time would come"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"That I should wish for thee to help me curse"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"That bottled spider, that foul bunch-back'd toad!"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"I call'd thee then vain flourish of my fortune;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"I call'd thee then poor shadow, painted queen;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"The presentation of but what I was;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"The flattering index of a direful pageant;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"One heaved a-high, to be hurl'd down below;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"A mother only mock'd with two sweet babes;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"A dream of what thou wert, a breath, a bubble,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"A sign of dignity, a garish flag,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"To be the aim of every dangerous shot,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"A queen in jest, only to fill the scene."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Where is thy husband now? where be thy brothers?"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Where are thy children? wherein dost thou, joy?"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Who sues to thee and cries 'God save the queen'?"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Where be the bending peers that flatter'd thee?"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Where be the thronging troops that follow'd thee?"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Decline all this, and see what now thou art:"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"For happy wife, a most distressed widow;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"For joyful mother, one that wails the name;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"For queen, a very caitiff crown'd with care;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"For one being sued to, one that humbly sues;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"For one that scorn'd at me, now scorn'd of me;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"For one being fear'd of all, now fearing one;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"For one commanding all, obey'd of none."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thus hath the course of justice wheel'd about,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And left thee but a very prey to time;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Having no more but thought of what thou wert,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"To torture thee the more, being what thou art."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thou didst usurp my place, and dost thou not"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Usurp the just proportion of my sorrow?"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Now thy proud neck bears half my burthen'd yoke;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"From which even here I slip my weary neck,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And leave the burthen of it all on thee."
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Farewell, York's wife, and queen of sad mischance:"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"These English woes will make me smile in France."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"O thou well skill'd in curses, stay awhile,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And teach me how to curse mine enemies!"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Compare dead happiness with living woe;"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Think that thy babes were fairer than they were,"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"And he that slew them fouler than he is:"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse:"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Revolving this will teach thee how to curse."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"My words are dull; O, quicken them with thine!"
IV,IV,QUEEN MARGARET,"Thy woes will make them sharp, and pierce like mine."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Why should calamity be full of words?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Windy attorneys to their client woes,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Airy succeeders of intestate joys,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Poor breathing orators of miseries!"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Let them have scope: though what they do impart"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Help not all, yet do they ease the heart."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"If so, then be not tongue-tied: go with me."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And in the breath of bitter words let's smother"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"My damned son, which thy two sweet sons smother'd."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I hear his drum: be copious in exclaims."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Who intercepts my expedition?"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"O, she that might have intercepted thee,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"By strangling thee in her accursed womb"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"From all the slaughters, wretch, that thou hast done!"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Hidest thou that forehead with a golden crown,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Where should be graven, if that right were right,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The slaughter of the prince that owed that crown,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And the dire death of my two sons and brothers?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Tell me, thou villain slave, where are my children?"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Thou toad, thou toad, where is thy brother Clarence?"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And little Ned Plantagenet, his son?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Where is kind Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Rail on the Lord's enointed: strike, I say!"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Either be patient, and entreat me fair,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Or with the clamorous report of war"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Thus will I drown your exclamations."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Art thou my son?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Ay, I thank God, my father, and yourself."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Then patiently hear my impatience."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Madam, I have a touch of your condition,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Which cannot brook the accent of reproof."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"O, let me speak!"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Do then: but I'll not hear."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I will be mild and gentle in my speech."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And brief, good mother; for I am in haste."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Art thou so hasty? I have stay'd for thee,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"God knows, in anguish, pain and agony."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And came I not at last to comfort you?"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"No, by the holy rood, thou know'st it well,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Thou camest on earth to make the earth my hell."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"A grievous burthen was thy birth to me;"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy;"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Thy school-days frightful, desperate, wild, and furious,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Thy age confirm'd, proud, subdued, bloody,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"treacherous,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"More mild, but yet more harmful, kind in hatred:"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"What comfortable hour canst thou name,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"That ever graced me in thy company?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Faith, none, but Humphrey Hour, that call'd"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"your grace"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"To breakfast once forth of my company."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"If I be so disgracious in your sight,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Let me march on, and not offend your grace."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Strike the drum."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"I prithee, hear me speak."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"You speak too bitterly."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Hear me a word;"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"For I shall never speak to thee again."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"So."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Either thou wilt die, by God's just ordinance,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Ere from this war thou turn a conqueror,"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Or I with grief and extreme age shall perish"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And never look upon thy face again."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Therefore take with thee my most heavy curse;"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Which, in the day of battle, tire thee more"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Than all the complete armour that thou wear'st!"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"My prayers on the adverse party fight;"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And there the little souls of Edward's children"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Whisper the spirits of thine enemies"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"And promise them success and victory."
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;"
IV,IV,DUCHESS OF YORK,"Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Though far more cause, yet much less spirit to curse"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Abides in me; I say amen to all."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Stay, madam; I must speak a word with you."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I have no more sons of the royal blood"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"For thee to murder: for my daughters, Richard,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens;"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And therefore level not to hit their lives."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"You have a daughter call'd Elizabeth,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And must she die for this? O, let her live,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And I'll corrupt her manners, stain her beauty;"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Slander myself as false to Edward's bed;"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Throw over her the veil of infamy:"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"So she may live unscarr'd of bleeding slaughter,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I will confess she was not Edward's daughter."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Wrong not her birth, she is of royal blood."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To save her life, I'll say she is not so."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Her life is only safest in her birth."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And only in that safety died her brothers."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Lo, at their births good stars were opposite."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"No, to their lives bad friends were contrary."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"All unavoided is the doom of destiny."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"True, when avoided grace makes destiny:"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"My babes were destined to a fairer death,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"If grace had bless'd thee with a fairer life."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"You speak as if that I had slain my cousins."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Cousins, indeed; and by their uncle cozen'd"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Of comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Whose hand soever lanced their tender hearts,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Thy head, all indirectly, gave direction:"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"No doubt the murderous knife was dull and blunt"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To revel in the entrails of my lambs."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"But that still use of grief makes wild grief tame,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"My tongue should to thy ears not name my boys"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Till that my nails were anchor'd in thine eyes;"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And I, in such a desperate bay of death,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Madam, so thrive I in my enterprise"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And dangerous success of bloody wars,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"As I intend more good to you and yours,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Than ever you or yours were by me wrong'd!"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"What good is cover'd with the face of heaven,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To be discover'd, that can do me good?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"The advancement of your children, gentle lady."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Up to some scaffold, there to lose their heads?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"No, to the dignity and height of honour"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"The high imperial type of this earth's glory."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Flatter my sorrows with report of it;"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Tell me what state, what dignity, what honour,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Canst thou demise to any child of mine?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Even all I have; yea, and myself and all,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Will I withal endow a child of thine;"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"So in the Lethe of thy angry soul"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Thou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Which thou supposest I have done to thee."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Be brief, lest that be process of thy kindness"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Last longer telling than thy kindness' date."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Then know, that from my soul I love thy daughter."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"My daughter's mother thinks it with her soul."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"What do you think?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"That thou dost love my daughter from thy soul:"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"So from thy soul's love didst thou love her brothers;"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And from my heart's love I do thank thee for it."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Be not so hasty to confound my meaning:"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"I mean, that with my soul I love thy daughter,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And mean to make her queen of England."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Say then, who dost thou mean shall be her king?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Even he that makes her queen who should be else?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"What, thou?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"I, even I: what think you of it, madam?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"How canst thou woo her?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"That would I learn of you,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"As one that are best acquainted with her humour."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And wilt thou learn of me?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Madam, with all my heart."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Send to her, by the man that slew her brothers,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"A pair of bleeding-hearts; thereon engrave"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Edward and York; then haply she will weep:"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Therefore present to her--as sometime Margaret"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Did to thy father, steep'd in Rutland's blood,--"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"A handkerchief; which, say to her, did drain"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The purple sap from her sweet brother's body"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And bid her dry her weeping eyes therewith."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"If this inducement force her not to love,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Send her a story of thy noble acts;"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Tell her thou madest away her uncle Clarence,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Her uncle Rivers; yea, and, for her sake,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Madest quick conveyance with her good aunt Anne."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Come, come, you mock me; this is not the way"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"To win our daughter."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"There is no other way"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Unless thou couldst put on some other shape,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And not be Richard that hath done all this."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Say that I did all this for love of her."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Nay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Having bought love with such a bloody spoil."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Look, what is done cannot be now amended:"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Which after hours give leisure to repent."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"If I did take the kingdom from your sons,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"To make amends, Ill give it to your daughter."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"If I have kill'd the issue of your womb,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"To quicken your increase, I will beget"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Mine issue of your blood upon your daughter"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"A grandam's name is little less in love"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Than is the doting title of a mother;"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"They are as children but one step below,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Even of your mettle, of your very blood;"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Of an one pain, save for a night of groans"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Endured of her, for whom you bid like sorrow."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Your children were vexation to your youth,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"But mine shall be a comfort to your age."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"The loss you have is but a son being king,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And by that loss your daughter is made queen."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"I cannot make you what amends I would,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Therefore accept such kindness as I can."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Dorset your son, that with a fearful soul"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Leads discontented steps in foreign soil,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"This fair alliance quickly shall call home"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"To high promotions and great dignity:"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"The king, that calls your beauteous daughter wife."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother;"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Again shall you be mother to a king,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And all the ruins of distressful times"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Repair'd with double riches of content."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"What! we have many goodly days to see:"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"The liquid drops of tears that you have shed"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Advantaging their loan with interest"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Of ten times double gain of happiness."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Go, then my mother, to thy daughter go"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Make bold her bashful years with your experience;"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Prepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Put in her tender heart the aspiring flame"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Of golden sovereignty; acquaint the princess"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And when this arm of mine hath chastised"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"The petty rebel, dull-brain'd Buckingham,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Bound with triumphant garlands will I come"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And lead thy daughter to a conqueror's bed;"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"To whom I will retail my conquest won,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And she shall be sole victress, Caesar's Caesar."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"What were I best to say? her father's brother"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Would be her lord? or shall I say, her uncle?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Or, he that slew her brothers and her uncles?"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Under what title shall I woo for thee,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"That God, the law, my honour and her love,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Can make seem pleasing to her tender years?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Infer fair England's peace by this alliance."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Which she shall purchase with still lasting war."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Say that the king, which may command, entreats."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"That at her hands which the king's King forbids."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Say, she shall be a high and mighty queen."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"To wail the tide, as her mother doth."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Say, I will love her everlastingly."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"But how long shall that title 'ever' last?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Sweetly in force unto her fair life's end."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"But how long fairly shall her sweet lie last?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"So long as heaven and nature lengthens it."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"So long as hell and Richard likes of it."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Say, I, her sovereign, am her subject love."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"But she, your subject, loathes such sovereignty."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Be eloquent in my behalf to her."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"An honest tale speeds best being plainly told."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Then in plain terms tell her my loving tale."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Plain and not honest is too harsh a style."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Your reasons are too shallow and too quick."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"O no, my reasons are too deep and dead;"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Too deep and dead, poor infants, in their grave."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Harp not on that string, madam; that is past."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Harp on it still shall I till heart-strings break."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Now, by my George, my garter, and my crown,--"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Profaned, dishonour'd, and the third usurp'd."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"I swear--"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"By nothing; for this is no oath:"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The George, profaned, hath lost his holy honour;"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The garter, blemish'd, pawn'd his knightly virtue;"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The crown, usurp'd, disgraced his kingly glory."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"if something thou wilt swear to be believed,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Swear then by something that thou hast not wrong'd."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Now, by the world--"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"'Tis full of thy foul wrongs."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"My father's death--"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Thy life hath that dishonour'd."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Then, by myself--"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Thyself thyself misusest."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Why then, by God--"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"God's wrong is most of all."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by Him,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The unity the king thy brother made"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Had not been broken, nor my brother slain:"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by Him,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The imperial metal, circling now thy brow,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Had graced the tender temples of my child,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And both the princes had been breathing here,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Which now, two tender playfellows to dust,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Thy broken faith hath made a prey for worms."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"What canst thou swear by now?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"The time to come."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"That thou hast wronged in the time o'erpast;"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"For I myself have many tears to wash"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Hereafter time, for time past wrong'd by thee."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The children live, whose parents thou hast"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"slaughter'd,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Ungovern'd youth, to wail it in their age;"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"The parents live, whose children thou hast butcher'd,"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Old wither'd plants, to wail it with their age."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Swear not by time to come; for that thou hast"
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Misused ere used, by time misused o'erpast."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"As I intend to prosper and repent,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"So thrive I in my dangerous attempt"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Of hostile arms! myself myself confound!"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Heaven and fortune bar me happy hours!"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Day, yield me not thy light; nor, night, thy rest!"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Be opposite all planets of good luck"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"To my proceedings, if, with pure heart's love,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Immaculate devotion, holy thoughts,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter!"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"In her consists my happiness and thine;"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Without her, follows to this land and me,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"To thee, herself, and many a Christian soul,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Death, desolation, ruin and decay:"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"It cannot be avoided but by this;"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"It will not be avoided but by this."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Therefore, good mother,--I must can you so--"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Be the attorney of my love to her:"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Plead what I will be, not what I have been;"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Not my deserts, but what I will deserve:"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Urge the necessity and state of times,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And be not peevish-fond in great designs."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Shall I be tempted of the devil thus?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Ay, if the devil tempt thee to do good."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Shall I forget myself to be myself?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Ay, if yourself's remembrance wrong yourself."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"But thou didst kill my children."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"But in your daughter's womb I bury them:"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Where in that nest of spicery they shall breed"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Selves of themselves, to your recomforture."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"Shall I go win my daughter to thy will?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And be a happy mother by the deed."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"I go. Write to me very shortly."
IV,IV,QUEEN ELIZABETH,"And you shall understand from me her mind."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Bear her my true love's kiss; and so, farewell."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman!"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"How now! what news?"
IV,IV,RATCLIFF,"My gracious sovereign, on the western coast"
IV,IV,RATCLIFF,"Rideth a puissant navy; to the shore"
IV,IV,RATCLIFF,"Throng many doubtful hollow-hearted friends,"
IV,IV,RATCLIFF,"Unarm'd, and unresolved to beat them back:"
IV,IV,RATCLIFF,"'Tis thought that Richmond is their admiral;"
IV,IV,RATCLIFF,"And there they hull, expecting but the aid"
IV,IV,RATCLIFF,"Of Buckingham to welcome them ashore."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Some light-foot friend post to the Duke of Norfolk:"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Ratcliff, thyself, or Catesby; where is he?"
IV,IV,CATESBY,"Here, my lord."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Fly to the duke:"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Post thou to Salisbury"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"When thou comest thither--"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Dull, unmindful villain,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Why stand'st thou still, and go'st not to the duke?"
IV,IV,CATESBY,"First, mighty sovereign, let me know your mind,"
IV,IV,CATESBY,"What from your grace I shall deliver to him."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"O, true, good Catesby: bid him levy straight"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"The greatest strength and power he can make,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And meet me presently at Salisbury."
IV,IV,CATESBY,"I go."
IV,IV,RATCLIFF,"What is't your highness' pleasure I shall do at"
IV,IV,RATCLIFF,"Salisbury?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Why, what wouldst thou do there before I go?"
IV,IV,RATCLIFF,"Your highness told me I should post before."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"My mind is changed, sir, my mind is changed."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"How now, what news with you?"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"None good, my lord, to please you with the hearing;"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"Nor none so bad, but it may well be told."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Hoyday, a riddle! neither good nor bad!"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Why dost thou run so many mile about,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"When thou mayst tell thy tale a nearer way?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Once more, what news?"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"Richmond is on the seas."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"There let him sink, and be the seas on him!"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"White-liver'd runagate, what doth he there?"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"I know not, mighty sovereign, but by guess."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Well, sir, as you guess, as you guess?"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"Stirr'd up by Dorset, Buckingham, and Ely,"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"He makes for England, there to claim the crown."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Is the chair empty? is the sword unsway'd?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Is the king dead? the empire unpossess'd?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"What heir of York is there alive but we?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And who is England's king but great York's heir?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Then, tell me, what doth he upon the sea?"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"Unless for that, my liege, I cannot guess."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Unless for that he comes to be your liege,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"You cannot guess wherefore the Welshman comes."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Thou wilt revolt, and fly to him, I fear."
IV,IV,STANLEY,"No, mighty liege; therefore mistrust me not."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Where is thy power, then, to beat him back?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Where are thy tenants and thy followers?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Are they not now upon the western shore."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Safe-conducting the rebels from their ships!"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"No, my good lord, my friends are in the north."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Cold friends to Richard: what do they in the north,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"When they should serve their sovereign in the west?"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"They have not been commanded, mighty sovereign:"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"Please it your majesty to give me leave,"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"I'll muster up my friends, and meet your grace"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"Where and what time your majesty shall please."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Ay, ay. thou wouldst be gone to join with Richmond:"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"I will not trust you, sir."
IV,IV,STANLEY,"Most mighty sovereign,"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful:"
IV,IV,STANLEY,"I never was nor never will be false."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Well,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Go muster men; but, hear you, leave behind"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Your son, George Stanley: look your faith be firm."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Or else his head's assurance is but frail."
IV,IV,STANLEY,"So deal with him as I prove true to you."
IV,IV,Messenger,"My gracious sovereign, now in Devonshire,"
IV,IV,Messenger,"As I by friends am well advertised,"
IV,IV,Messenger,"Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate"
IV,IV,Messenger,"Bishop of Exeter, his brother there,"
IV,IV,Messenger,"With many more confederates, are in arms."
IV,IV,Second Messenger,"My liege, in Kent the Guildfords are in arms;"
IV,IV,Second Messenger,"And every hour more competitors"
IV,IV,Second Messenger,"Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth."
IV,IV,Third Messenger,"My lord, the army of the Duke of Buckingham--"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Out on you, owls! nothing but songs of death?"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Take that, until thou bring me better news."
IV,IV,Third Messenger,"The news I have to tell your majesty"
IV,IV,Third Messenger,"Is, that by sudden floods and fall of waters,"
IV,IV,Third Messenger,"Buckingham's army is dispersed and scatter'd;"
IV,IV,Third Messenger,"And he himself wander'd away alone,"
IV,IV,Third Messenger,"No man knows whither."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"I cry thee mercy:"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"There is my purse to cure that blow of thine."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Hath any well-advised friend proclaim'd"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Reward to him that brings the traitor in?"
IV,IV,Third Messenger,"Such proclamation hath been made, my liege."
IV,IV,Fourth Messenger,"Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis Dorset,"
IV,IV,Fourth Messenger,"'Tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms."
IV,IV,Fourth Messenger,"Yet this good comfort bring I to your grace,"
IV,IV,Fourth Messenger,"The Breton navy is dispersed by tempest:"
IV,IV,Fourth Messenger,"Richmond, in Yorkshire, sent out a boat"
IV,IV,Fourth Messenger,"Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks"
IV,IV,Fourth Messenger,"If they were his assistants, yea or no;"
IV,IV,Fourth Messenger,"Who answer'd him, they came from Buckingham."
IV,IV,Fourth Messenger,"Upon his party: he, mistrusting them,"
IV,IV,Fourth Messenger,"Hoisted sail and made away for Brittany."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"March on, march on, since we are up in arms;"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"If not to fight with foreign enemies,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Yet to beat down these rebels here at home."
IV,IV,CATESBY,"My liege, the Duke of Buckingham is taken;"
IV,IV,CATESBY,"That is the best news: that the Earl of Richmond"
IV,IV,CATESBY,"Is with a mighty power landed at Milford,"
IV,IV,CATESBY,"Is colder tidings, yet they must be told."
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Away towards Salisbury! while we reason here,"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"A royal battle might be won and lost"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Some one take order Buckingham be brought"
IV,IV,KING RICHARD III,"To Salisbury; the rest march on with me."
IV,V,DERBY,"Sir Christopher, tell Richmond this from me:"
IV,V,DERBY,"That in the sty of this most bloody boar"
IV,V,DERBY,"My son George Stanley is frank'd up in hold:"
IV,V,DERBY,"If I revolt, off goes young George's head;"
IV,V,DERBY,"The fear of that withholds my present aid."
IV,V,DERBY,"But, tell me, where is princely Richmond now?"
IV,V,CHRISTOPHER,"At Pembroke, or at Harford-west, in Wales."
IV,V,DERBY,"What men of name resort to him?"
IV,V,CHRISTOPHER,"Sir Walter Herbert, a renowned soldier;"
IV,V,CHRISTOPHER,"Sir Gilbert Talbot, Sir William Stanley;"
IV,V,CHRISTOPHER,"Oxford, redoubted Pembroke, Sir James Blunt,"
IV,V,CHRISTOPHER,"And Rice ap Thomas with a valiant crew;"
IV,V,CHRISTOPHER,"And many more of noble fame and worth:"
IV,V,CHRISTOPHER,"And towards London they do bend their course,"
IV,V,CHRISTOPHER,"If by the way they be not fought withal."
IV,V,DERBY,"Return unto thy lord; commend me to him:"
IV,V,DERBY,"Tell him the queen hath heartily consented"
IV,V,DERBY,"He shall espouse Elizabeth her daughter."
IV,V,DERBY,"These letters will resolve him of my mind. Farewell."
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Will not King Richard let me speak with him?"
V,I,Sheriff,"No, my good lord; therefore be patient."
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Hastings, and Edward's children, Rivers, Grey,"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Holy King Henry, and thy fair son Edward,"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Vaughan, and all that have miscarried"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"By underhand corrupted foul injustice,"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"If that your moody discontented souls"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Do through the clouds behold this present hour,"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Even for revenge mock my destruction!"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"This is All-Souls' day, fellows, is it not?"
V,I,Sheriff,"It is, my lord."
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Why, then All-Souls' day is my body's doomsday."
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"This is the day that, in King Edward's time,"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"I wish't might fall on me, when I was found"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"False to his children or his wife's allies"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"This is the day wherein I wish'd to fall"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"By the false faith of him I trusted most;"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"This, this All-Souls' day to my fearful soul"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Is the determined respite of my wrongs:"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"That high All-Seer that I dallied with"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest."
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"To turn their own points on their masters' bosoms:"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Now Margaret's curse is fallen upon my head;"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"'When he,' quoth she, 'shall split thy heart with sorrow,"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Remember Margaret was a prophetess.'"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Come, sirs, convey me to the block of shame;"
V,I,BUCKINGHAM,"Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame."
V,II,RICHMOND,"Fellows in arms, and my most loving friends,"
V,II,RICHMOND,"Bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny,"
V,II,RICHMOND,"Thus far into the bowels of the land"
V,II,RICHMOND,"Have we march'd on without impediment;"
V,II,RICHMOND,"And here receive we from our father Stanley"
V,II,RICHMOND,"Lines of fair comfort and encouragement."
V,II,RICHMOND,"The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar,"
V,II,RICHMOND,"That spoil'd your summer fields and fruitful vines,"
V,II,RICHMOND,"Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough"
V,II,RICHMOND,"In your embowell'd bosoms, this foul swine"
V,II,RICHMOND,"Lies now even in the centre of this isle,"
V,II,RICHMOND,"Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn"
V,II,RICHMOND,"From Tamworth thither is but one day's march."
V,II,RICHMOND,"In God's name, cheerly on, courageous friends,"
V,II,RICHMOND,"To reap the harvest of perpetual peace"
V,II,RICHMOND,"By this one bloody trial of sharp war."
V,II,OXFORD,"Every man's conscience is a thousand swords,"
V,II,OXFORD,"To fight against that bloody homicide."
V,II,HERBERT,"I doubt not but his friends will fly to us."
V,II,BLUNT,"He hath no friends but who are friends for fear."
V,II,BLUNT,"Which in his greatest need will shrink from him."
V,II,RICHMOND,"All for our vantage. Then, in God's name, march:"
V,II,RICHMOND,"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings:"
V,II,RICHMOND,"Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Here pitch our tents, even here in Bosworth field."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"My Lord of Surrey, why look you so sad?"
V,III,SURREY,"My heart is ten times lighter than my looks."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"My Lord of Norfolk,--"
V,III,NORFOLK,"Here, most gracious liege."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Norfolk, we must have knocks; ha! must we not?"
V,III,NORFOLK,"We must both give and take, my gracious lord."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Up with my tent there! here will I lie tonight;"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"But where to-morrow?  Well, all's one for that."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Who hath descried the number of the foe?"
V,III,NORFOLK,"Six or seven thousand is their utmost power."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Why, our battalion trebles that account:"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Which they upon the adverse party want."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Up with my tent there! Valiant gentlemen,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Let us survey the vantage of the field"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Call for some men of sound direction"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Let's want no discipline, make no delay,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"For, lords, to-morrow is a busy day."
V,III,RICHMOND,"The weary sun hath made a golden set,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"And by the bright track of his fiery car,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Gives signal, of a goodly day to-morrow."
V,III,RICHMOND,"Sir William Brandon, you shall bear my standard."
V,III,RICHMOND,"Give me some ink and paper in my tent"
V,III,RICHMOND,"I'll draw the form and model of our battle,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Limit each leader to his several charge,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"And part in just proportion our small strength."
V,III,RICHMOND,"My Lord of Oxford, you, Sir William Brandon,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"And you, Sir Walter Herbert, stay with me."
V,III,RICHMOND,"The Earl of Pembroke keeps his regiment:"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Good Captain Blunt, bear my good night to him"
V,III,RICHMOND,"And by the second hour in the morning"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Desire the earl to see me in my tent:"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Yet one thing more, good Blunt, before thou go'st,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Where is Lord Stanley quarter'd, dost thou know?"
V,III,BLUNT,"Unless I have mista'en his colours much,"
V,III,BLUNT,"Which well I am assured I have not done,"
V,III,BLUNT,"His regiment lies half a mile at least"
V,III,BLUNT,"South from the mighty power of the king."
V,III,RICHMOND,"If without peril it be possible,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Good Captain Blunt, bear my good-night to him,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"And give him from me this most needful scroll."
V,III,BLUNT,"Upon my life, my lord, I'll under-take it;"
V,III,BLUNT,"And so, God give you quiet rest to-night!"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Good night, good Captain Blunt. Come gentlemen,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Let us consult upon to-morrow's business"
V,III,RICHMOND,"In to our tent; the air is raw and cold."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"What is't o'clock?"
V,III,CATESBY,"It's supper-time, my lord;"
V,III,CATESBY,"It's nine o'clock."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"I will not sup to-night."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Give me some ink and paper."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"What, is my beaver easier than it was?"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"And all my armour laid into my tent?"
V,III,CATESBY,"If is, my liege; and all things are in readiness."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Good Norfolk, hie thee to thy charge;"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Use careful watch, choose trusty sentinels."
V,III,NORFOLK,"I go, my lord."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Stir with the lark to-morrow, gentle Norfolk."
V,III,NORFOLK,"I warrant you, my lord."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Catesby!"
V,III,CATESBY,"My lord?"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Send out a pursuivant at arms"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"To Stanley's regiment; bid him bring his power"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Before sunrising, lest his son George fall"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Into the blind cave of eternal night."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Fill me a bowl of wine. Give me a watch."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Saddle white Surrey for the field to-morrow."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Look that my staves be sound, and not too heavy."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Ratcliff!"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"My lord?"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Saw'st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland?"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"Thomas the Earl of Surrey, and himself,"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"Much about cock-shut time, from troop to troop"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"So, I am satisfied. Give me a bowl of wine:"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"I have not that alacrity of spirit,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Set it down. Is ink and paper ready?"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"It is, my lord."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Bid my guard watch; leave me."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Ratcliff, about the mid of night come to my tent"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"And help to arm me. Leave me, I say."
V,III,DERBY,"Fortune and victory sit on thy helm!"
V,III,RICHMOND,"All comfort that the dark night can afford"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Be to thy person, noble father-in-law!"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Tell me, how fares our loving mother?"
V,III,DERBY,"I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother"
V,III,DERBY,"Who prays continually for Richmond's good:"
V,III,DERBY,"So much for that. The silent hours steal on,"
V,III,DERBY,"And flaky darkness breaks within the east."
V,III,DERBY,"In brief,--for so the season bids us be,--"
V,III,DERBY,"Prepare thy battle early in the morning,"
V,III,DERBY,"And put thy fortune to the arbitrement"
V,III,DERBY,"Of bloody strokes and mortal-staring war."
V,III,DERBY,"I, as I may--that which I would I cannot,--"
V,III,DERBY,"With best advantage will deceive the time,"
V,III,DERBY,"And aid thee in this doubtful shock of arms:"
V,III,DERBY,"But on thy side I may not be too forward"
V,III,DERBY,"Lest, being seen, thy brother, tender George,"
V,III,DERBY,"Be executed in his father's sight."
V,III,DERBY,"Farewell: the leisure and the fearful time"
V,III,DERBY,"Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love"
V,III,DERBY,"And ample interchange of sweet discourse,"
V,III,DERBY,"Which so long sunder'd friends should dwell upon:"
V,III,DERBY,"God give us leisure for these rites of love!"
V,III,DERBY,"Once more, adieu: be valiant, and speed well!"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Good lords, conduct him to his regiment:"
V,III,RICHMOND,"I'll strive, with troubled thoughts, to take a nap,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"When I should mount with wings of victory:"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Once more, good night, kind lords and gentlemen."
V,III,RICHMOND,"O Thou, whose captain I account myself,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Look on my forces with a gracious eye;"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"That they may crush down with a heavy fall"
V,III,RICHMOND,"The usurping helmets of our adversaries!"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Make us thy ministers of chastisement,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"That we may praise thee in the victory!"
V,III,RICHMOND,"To thee I do commend my watchful soul,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes:"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Sleeping and waking, O, defend me still!"
V,III,Ghost of Prince Edward,"Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!"
V,III,Ghost of Prince Edward,"Think, how thou stab'dst me in my prime of youth"
V,III,Ghost of Prince Edward,"At Tewksbury: despair, therefore, and die!"
V,III,Ghost of Prince Edward,"Be cheerful, Richmond; for the wronged souls"
V,III,Ghost of Prince Edward,"Of butcher'd princes fight in thy behalf"
V,III,Ghost of Prince Edward,"King Henry's issue, Richmond, comforts thee."
V,III,Ghost of King Henry VI,"When I was mortal, my anointed body"
V,III,Ghost of King Henry VI,"By thee was punched full of deadly holes"
V,III,Ghost of King Henry VI,"Think on the Tower and me: despair, and die!"
V,III,Ghost of King Henry VI,"Harry the Sixth bids thee despair, and die!"
V,III,Ghost of King Henry VI,"Virtuous and holy, be thou conqueror!"
V,III,Ghost of King Henry VI,"Harry, that prophesied thou shouldst be king,"
V,III,Ghost of King Henry VI,"Doth comfort thee in thy sleep: live, and flourish!"
V,III,Ghost of CLARENCE,"Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!"
V,III,Ghost of CLARENCE,"I, that was wash'd to death with fulsome wine,"
V,III,Ghost of CLARENCE,"Poor Clarence, by thy guile betrayed to death!"
V,III,Ghost of CLARENCE,"To-morrow in the battle think on me,"
V,III,Ghost of CLARENCE,"And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!--"
V,III,Ghost of CLARENCE,"Thou offspring of the house of Lancaster"
V,III,Ghost of CLARENCE,"The wronged heirs of York do pray for thee"
V,III,Ghost of CLARENCE,"Good angels guard thy battle! live, and flourish!"
V,III,Ghost of RIVERS,"Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow,"
V,III,Ghost of RIVERS,"Rivers. that died at Pomfret! despair, and die!"
V,III,Ghost of GREY,"Think upon Grey, and let thy soul despair!"
V,III,Ghost of VAUGHAN,"Think upon Vaughan, and, with guilty fear,"
V,III,Ghost of VAUGHAN,"Let fall thy lance: despair, and die!"
V,III,All,"Awake, and think our wrongs in Richard's bosom"
V,III,All,"Will conquer him! awake, and win the day!"
V,III,Ghost of HASTINGS,"Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake,"
V,III,Ghost of HASTINGS,"And in a bloody battle end thy days!"
V,III,Ghost of HASTINGS,"Think on Lord Hastings: despair, and die!"
V,III,Ghost of HASTINGS,"Quiet untroubled soul, awake, awake!"
V,III,Ghost of HASTINGS,"Arm, fight, and conquer, for fair England's sake!"
V,III,Ghosts of young Princes,"Dream on thy cousins smother'd in the Tower:"
V,III,Ghosts of young Princes,"Let us be led within thy bosom, Richard,"
V,III,Ghosts of young Princes,"And weigh thee down to ruin, shame, and death!"
V,III,Ghosts of young Princes,"Thy nephews' souls bid thee despair and die!"
V,III,Ghosts of young Princes,"Sleep, Richmond, sleep in peace, and wake in joy;"
V,III,Ghosts of young Princes,"Good angels guard thee from the boar's annoy!"
V,III,Ghosts of young Princes,"Live, and beget a happy race of kings!"
V,III,Ghosts of young Princes,"Edward's unhappy sons do bid thee flourish."
V,III,Ghost of LADY ANNE,"Richard, thy wife, that wretched Anne thy wife,"
V,III,Ghost of LADY ANNE,"That never slept a quiet hour with thee,"
V,III,Ghost of LADY ANNE,"Now fills thy sleep with perturbations"
V,III,Ghost of LADY ANNE,"To-morrow in the battle think on me,"
V,III,Ghost of LADY ANNE,"And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!"
V,III,Ghost of LADY ANNE,"Thou quiet soul, sleep thou a quiet sleep"
V,III,Ghost of LADY ANNE,"Dream of success and happy victory!"
V,III,Ghost of LADY ANNE,"Thy adversary's wife doth pray for thee."
V,III,Ghost of BUCKINGHAM,"The last was I that helped thee to the crown;"
V,III,Ghost of BUCKINGHAM,"The last was I that felt thy tyranny:"
V,III,Ghost of BUCKINGHAM,"O, in the battle think on Buckingham,"
V,III,Ghost of BUCKINGHAM,"And die in terror of thy guiltiness!"
V,III,Ghost of BUCKINGHAM,"Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death:"
V,III,Ghost of BUCKINGHAM,"Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath!"
V,III,Ghost of BUCKINGHAM,"I died for hope ere I could lend thee aid:"
V,III,Ghost of BUCKINGHAM,"But cheer thy heart, and be thou not dismay'd:"
V,III,Ghost of BUCKINGHAM,"God and good angel fight on Richmond's side;"
V,III,Ghost of BUCKINGHAM,"And Richard falls in height of all his pride."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Give me another horse: bind up my wounds."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Have mercy, Jesu!--Soft! I did but dream."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"What do I fear?  myself?  there's none else by:"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Is there a murderer here?  No. Yes, I am:"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Then fly. What, from myself?   Great reason why:"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself?"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Alack. I love myself. Wherefore?  for any good"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"That I myself have done unto myself?"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"O, no! alas, I rather hate myself"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"For hateful deeds committed by myself!"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"I am a villain: yet I lie. I am not."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Fool, of thyself speak well: fool, do not flatter."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"And every tongue brings in a several tale,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"And every tale condemns me for a villain."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Murder, stem murder, in the direst degree;"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"All several sins, all used in each degree,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Throng to the bar, crying all, Guilty! guilty!"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"And if I die, no soul shall pity me:"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Find in myself no pity to myself?"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Methought the souls of all that I had murder'd"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Came to my tent; and every one did threat"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"To-morrow's vengeance on the head of Richard."
V,III,RATCLIFF,"My lord!"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"'Zounds! who is there?"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"Ratcliff, my lord; 'tis I. The early village-cock"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"Hath twice done salutation to the morn;"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"Your friends are up, and buckle on their armour."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"O Ratcliff, I have dream'd a fearful dream!"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"What thinkest thou, will our friends prove all true?"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"No doubt, my lord."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"O Ratcliff, I fear, I fear,--"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"It is not yet near day. Come, go with me;"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Under our tents I'll play the eaves-dropper,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"To see if any mean to shrink from me."
V,III,LORDS,"Good morrow, Richmond!"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Cry mercy, lords and watchful gentlemen,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"That you have ta'en a tardy sluggard here."
V,III,LORDS,"How have you slept, my lord?"
V,III,RICHMOND,"The sweetest sleep, and fairest-boding dreams"
V,III,RICHMOND,"That ever enter'd in a drowsy head,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Have I since your departure had, my lords."
V,III,RICHMOND,"Methought their souls, whose bodies Richard murder'd,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Came to my tent, and cried on victory:"
V,III,RICHMOND,"I promise you, my soul is very jocund"
V,III,RICHMOND,"In the remembrance of so fair a dream."
V,III,RICHMOND,"How far into the morning is it, lords?"
V,III,LORDS,"Upon the stroke of four."
V,III,RICHMOND,"Why, then 'tis time to arm and give direction."
V,III,RICHMOND,"More than I have said, loving countrymen,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"The leisure and enforcement of the time"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Forbids to dwell upon: yet remember this,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"God and our good cause fight upon our side;"
V,III,RICHMOND,"The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Like high-rear'd bulwarks, stand before our faces;"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Richard except, those whom we fight against"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Had rather have us win than him they follow:"
V,III,RICHMOND,"For what is he they follow?  truly, gentlemen,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"A bloody tyrant and a homicide;"
V,III,RICHMOND,"One raised in blood, and one in blood establish'd;"
V,III,RICHMOND,"One that made means to come by what he hath,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"And slaughter'd those that were the means to help him;"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Abase foul stone, made precious by the foil"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;"
V,III,RICHMOND,"One that hath ever been God's enemy:"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Then, if you fight against God's enemy,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"God will in justice ward you as his soldiers;"
V,III,RICHMOND,"If you do sweat to put a tyrant down,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain;"
V,III,RICHMOND,"If you do fight against your country's foes,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Your country's fat shall pay your pains the hire;"
V,III,RICHMOND,"If you do fight in safeguard of your wives,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors;"
V,III,RICHMOND,"If you do free your children from the sword,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Your children's children quit it in your age."
V,III,RICHMOND,"Then, in the name of God and all these rights,"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Advance your standards, draw your willing swords."
V,III,RICHMOND,"For me, the ransom of my bold attempt"
V,III,RICHMOND,"Shall be this cold corpse on the earth's cold face;"
V,III,RICHMOND,"But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt"
V,III,RICHMOND,"The least of you shall share his part thereof."
V,III,RICHMOND,"Sound drums and trumpets boldly and cheerfully;"
V,III,RICHMOND,"God and Saint George! Richmond and victory!"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"What said Northumberland as touching Richmond?"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"That he was never trained up in arms."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"He said the truth: and what said Surrey then?"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"He smiled and said 'The better for our purpose.'"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"He was in the right; and so indeed it is."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Ten the clock there. Give me a calendar."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Who saw the sun to-day?"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"Not I, my lord."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Then he disdains to shine; for by the book"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"He should have braved the east an hour ago"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"A black day will it be to somebody. Ratcliff!"
V,III,RATCLIFF,"My lord?"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"The sun will not be seen to-day;"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"The sky doth frown and lour upon our army."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"I would these dewy tears were from the ground."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Not shine to-day! Why, what is that to me"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"More than to Richmond?  for the selfsame heaven"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"That frowns on me looks sadly upon him."
V,III,NORFOLK,"Arm, arm, my lord; the foe vaunts in the field."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Come, bustle, bustle; caparison my horse."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power:"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"And thus my battle shall be ordered:"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"My foreward shall be drawn out all in length,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Consisting equally of horse and foot;"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Our archers shall be placed in the midst"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"John Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Earl of Surrey,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Shall have the leading of this foot and horse."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"They thus directed, we will follow"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"In the main battle, whose puissance on either side"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"This, and Saint George to boot! What think'st thou, Norfolk?"
V,III,NORFOLK,"A good direction, warlike sovereign."
V,III,NORFOLK,"This found I on my tent this morning."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"'Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.'"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"A thing devised by the enemy."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Go, gentleman, every man unto his charge"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls:"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Conscience is but a word that cowards use,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"What shall I say more than I have inferr'd?"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Remember whom you are to cope withal;"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"To desperate ventures and assured destruction."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest;"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"You having lands, and blest with beauteous wives,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"They would restrain the one, distain the other."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Long kept in Bretagne at our mother's cost?"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"A milk-sop, one that never in his life"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow?"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again;"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Lash hence these overweening rags of France,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"These famish'd beggars, weary of their lives;"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Who, but for dreaming on this fond exploit,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"For want of means, poor rats, had hang'd themselves:"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"If we be conquer'd, let men conquer us,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"And not these bastard Bretons; whom our fathers"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"And in record, left them the heirs of shame."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Shall these enjoy our lands?  lie with our wives?"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Ravish our daughters?"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Hark! I hear their drum."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yoemen!"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"What says Lord Stanley? will he bring his power?"
V,III,Messenger,"My lord, he doth deny to come."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Off with his son George's head!"
V,III,NORFOLK,"My lord, the enemy is past the marsh"
V,III,NORFOLK,"After the battle let George Stanley die."
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"A thousand hearts are great within my bosom:"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Advance our standards, set upon our foes"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!"
V,III,KING RICHARD III,"Upon them! victory sits on our helms."
V,IV,CATESBY,"Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue!"
V,IV,CATESBY,"The king enacts more wonders than a man,"
V,IV,CATESBY,"Daring an opposite to every danger:"
V,IV,CATESBY,"His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,"
V,IV,CATESBY,"Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death."
V,IV,CATESBY,"Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost!"
V,IV,KING RICHARD III,"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"
V,IV,CATESBY,"Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a horse."
V,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,"
V,IV,KING RICHARD III,"And I will stand the hazard of the die:"
V,IV,KING RICHARD III,"I think there be six Richmonds in the field;"
V,IV,KING RICHARD III,"Five have I slain to-day instead of him."
V,IV,KING RICHARD III,"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"
V,V,RICHMOND,"God and your arms be praised, victorious friends,"
V,V,RICHMOND,"The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead."
V,V,DERBY,"Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee."
V,V,DERBY,"Lo, here, this long-usurped royalty"
V,V,DERBY,"From the dead temples of this bloody wretch"
V,V,DERBY,"Have I pluck'd off, to grace thy brows withal:"
V,V,DERBY,"Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it."
V,V,RICHMOND,"Great God of heaven, say Amen to all!"
V,V,RICHMOND,"But, tell me, is young George Stanley living?"
V,V,DERBY,"He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town;"
V,V,DERBY,"Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us."
V,V,RICHMOND,"What men of name are slain on either side?"
V,V,DERBY,"John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lord Ferrers,"
V,V,DERBY,"Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon."
V,V,RICHMOND,"Inter their bodies as becomes their births:"
V,V,RICHMOND,"Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled"
V,V,RICHMOND,"That in submission will return to us:"
V,V,RICHMOND,"And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,"
V,V,RICHMOND,"We will unite the white rose and the red:"
V,V,RICHMOND,"Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,"
V,V,RICHMOND,"That long have frown'd upon their enmity!"
V,V,RICHMOND,"What traitor hears me, and says not amen?"
V,V,RICHMOND,"England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself;"
V,V,RICHMOND,"The brother blindly shed the brother's blood,"
V,V,RICHMOND,"The father rashly slaughter'd his own son,"
V,V,RICHMOND,"The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire:"
V,V,RICHMOND,"All this divided York and Lancaster,"
V,V,RICHMOND,"Divided in their dire division,"
V,V,RICHMOND,"O, now, let Richmond and Elizabeth,"
V,V,RICHMOND,"The true succeeders of each royal house,"
V,V,RICHMOND,"By God's fair ordinance conjoin together!"
V,V,RICHMOND,"And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so."
V,V,RICHMOND,"Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,"
V,V,RICHMOND,"With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!"
V,V,RICHMOND,"Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,"
V,V,RICHMOND,"That would reduce these bloody days again,"
V,V,RICHMOND,"And make poor England weep in streams of blood!"
V,V,RICHMOND,"Let them not live to taste this land's increase"
V,V,RICHMOND,"That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!"
V,V,RICHMOND,"Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again:"
V,V,RICHMOND,"That she may long live here, God say amen!"
I,I,SAMPSON,"Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals."
I,I,GREGORY,"No, for then we should be colliers."
I,I,SAMPSON,"I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw."
I,I,GREGORY,"Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar."
I,I,SAMPSON,"I strike quickly, being moved."
I,I,GREGORY,"But thou art not quickly moved to strike."
I,I,SAMPSON,"A dog of the house of Montague moves me."
I,I,GREGORY,"To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand:"
I,I,GREGORY,"therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away."
I,I,SAMPSON,"A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will"
I,I,SAMPSON,"take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's."
I,I,GREGORY,"That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes"
I,I,GREGORY,"to the wall."
I,I,SAMPSON,"True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,"
I,I,SAMPSON,"are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push"
I,I,SAMPSON,"Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids"
I,I,SAMPSON,"to the wall."
I,I,GREGORY,"The quarrel is between our masters and us their men."
I,I,SAMPSON,"'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I"
I,I,SAMPSON,"have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the"
I,I,SAMPSON,"maids, and cut off their heads."
I,I,GREGORY,"The heads of the maids?"
I,I,SAMPSON,"Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;"
I,I,SAMPSON,"take it in what sense thou wilt."
I,I,GREGORY,"They must take it in sense that feel it."
I,I,SAMPSON,"Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and"
I,I,SAMPSON,"'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh."
I,I,GREGORY,"'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou"
I,I,GREGORY,"hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes"
I,I,GREGORY,"two of the house of the Montagues."
I,I,SAMPSON,"My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee."
I,I,GREGORY,"How! turn thy back and run?"
I,I,SAMPSON,"Fear me not."
I,I,GREGORY,"No, marry; I fear thee!"
I,I,SAMPSON,"Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin."
I,I,GREGORY,"I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as"
I,I,GREGORY,"they list."
I,I,SAMPSON,"Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;"
I,I,SAMPSON,"which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it."
I,I,ABRAHAM,"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"
I,I,SAMPSON,"I do bite my thumb, sir."
I,I,ABRAHAM,"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"
I,I,SAMPSON,"ay?"
I,I,GREGORY,"No."
I,I,SAMPSON,"No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I"
I,I,SAMPSON,"bite my thumb, sir."
I,I,GREGORY,"Do you quarrel, sir?"
I,I,ABRAHAM,"Quarrel sir! no, sir."
I,I,SAMPSON,"If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you."
I,I,ABRAHAM,"No better."
I,I,SAMPSON,"Well, sir."
I,I,GREGORY,"Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen."
I,I,SAMPSON,"Yes, better, sir."
I,I,ABRAHAM,"You lie."
I,I,SAMPSON,"Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Part, fools!"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Put up your swords; you know not what you do."
I,I,TYBALT,"What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?"
I,I,TYBALT,"Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Or manage it to part these men with me."
I,I,TYBALT,"What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,"
I,I,TYBALT,"As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:"
I,I,TYBALT,"Have at thee, coward!"
I,I,First Citizen,"Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!"
I,I,First Citizen,"Down with the Capulets! down with the Montagues!"
I,I,CAPULET,"What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!"
I,I,LADY CAPULET,"A crutch, a crutch! why call you for a sword?"
I,I,CAPULET,"My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,"
I,I,CAPULET,"And flourishes his blade in spite of me."
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Thou villain Capulet,--Hold me not, let me go."
I,I,LADY MONTAGUE,"Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe."
I,I,PRINCE,"Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,"
I,I,PRINCE,"Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,--"
I,I,PRINCE,"Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,"
I,I,PRINCE,"That quench the fire of your pernicious rage"
I,I,PRINCE,"With purple fountains issuing from your veins,"
I,I,PRINCE,"On pain of torture, from those bloody hands"
I,I,PRINCE,"Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,"
I,I,PRINCE,"And hear the sentence of your moved prince."
I,I,PRINCE,"Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,"
I,I,PRINCE,"By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,"
I,I,PRINCE,"Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,"
I,I,PRINCE,"And made Verona's ancient citizens"
I,I,PRINCE,"Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,"
I,I,PRINCE,"To wield old partisans, in hands as old,"
I,I,PRINCE,"Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:"
I,I,PRINCE,"If ever you disturb our streets again,"
I,I,PRINCE,"Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace."
I,I,PRINCE,"For this time, all the rest depart away:"
I,I,PRINCE,"You Capulet; shall go along with me:"
I,I,PRINCE,"And, Montague, come you this afternoon,"
I,I,PRINCE,"To know our further pleasure in this case,"
I,I,PRINCE,"To old Free-town, our common judgment-place."
I,I,PRINCE,"Once more, on pain of death, all men depart."
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach?"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Here were the servants of your adversary,"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"And yours, close fighting ere I did approach:"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"I drew to part them: in the instant came"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared,"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears,"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"He swung about his head and cut the winds,"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Who nothing hurt withal hiss'd him in scorn:"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"While we were interchanging thrusts and blows,"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Came more and more and fought on part and part,"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Till the prince came, who parted either part."
I,I,LADY MONTAGUE,"O, where is Romeo? saw you him to-day?"
I,I,LADY MONTAGUE,"Right glad I am he was not at this fray."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Peer'd forth the golden window of the east,"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad;"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Where, underneath the grove of sycamore"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"That westward rooteth from the city's side,"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"So early walking did I see your son:"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Towards him I made, but he was ware of me"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"And stole into the covert of the wood:"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"I, measuring his affections by my own,"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"That most are busied when they're most alone,"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Pursued my humour not pursuing his,"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me."
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Many a morning hath he there been seen,"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew."
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"But all so soon as the all-cheering sun"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Should in the furthest east begin to draw"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Away from the light steals home my heavy son,"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"And private in his chamber pens himself,"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"And makes himself an artificial night:"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Black and portentous must this humour prove,"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Unless good counsel may the cause remove."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"My noble uncle, do you know the cause?"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"I neither know it nor can learn of him."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Have you importuned him by any means?"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Both by myself and many other friends:"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"But he, his own affections' counsellor,"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Is to himself--I will not say how true--"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"But to himself so secret and so close,"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"So far from sounding and discovery,"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"As is the bud bit with an envious worm,"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Or dedicate his beauty to the sun."
I,I,MONTAGUE,"Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow."
I,I,MONTAGUE,"We would as willingly give cure as know."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"See, where he comes: so please you, step aside;"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"I'll know his grievance, or be much denied."
I,I,MONTAGUE,"I would thou wert so happy by thy stay,"
I,I,MONTAGUE,"To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Good-morrow, cousin."
I,I,ROMEO,"Is the day so young?"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"But new struck nine."
I,I,ROMEO,"Ay me! sad hours seem long."
I,I,ROMEO,"Was that my father that went hence so fast?"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?"
I,I,ROMEO,"Not having that, which, having, makes them short."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"In love?"
I,I,ROMEO,"Out--"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Of love?"
I,I,ROMEO,"Out of her favour, where I am in love."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!"
I,I,ROMEO,"Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,"
I,I,ROMEO,"Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!"
I,I,ROMEO,"Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?"
I,I,ROMEO,"Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all."
I,I,ROMEO,"Here's much to do with hate, but more with love."
I,I,ROMEO,"Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!"
I,I,ROMEO,"O any thing, of nothing first create!"
I,I,ROMEO,"O heavy lightness! serious vanity!"
I,I,ROMEO,"Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!"
I,I,ROMEO,"Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,"
I,I,ROMEO,"sick health!"
I,I,ROMEO,"Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!"
I,I,ROMEO,"This love feel I, that feel no love in this."
I,I,ROMEO,"Dost thou not laugh?"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"No, coz, I rather weep."
I,I,ROMEO,"Good heart, at what?"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"At thy good heart's oppression."
I,I,ROMEO,"Why, such is love's transgression."
I,I,ROMEO,"Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,"
I,I,ROMEO,"Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest"
I,I,ROMEO,"With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown"
I,I,ROMEO,"Doth add more grief to too much of mine own."
I,I,ROMEO,"Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;"
I,I,ROMEO,"Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;"
I,I,ROMEO,"Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:"
I,I,ROMEO,"What is it else? a madness most discreet,"
I,I,ROMEO,"A choking gall and a preserving sweet."
I,I,ROMEO,"Farewell, my coz."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Soft! I will go along;"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"An if you leave me so, you do me wrong."
I,I,ROMEO,"Tut, I have lost myself; I am not here;"
I,I,ROMEO,"This is not Romeo, he's some other where."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Tell me in sadness, who is that you love."
I,I,ROMEO,"What, shall I groan and tell thee?"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Groan! why, no."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"But sadly tell me who."
I,I,ROMEO,"Bid a sick man in sadness make his will:"
I,I,ROMEO,"Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill!"
I,I,ROMEO,"In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"I aim'd so near, when I supposed you loved."
I,I,ROMEO,"A right good mark-man! And she's fair I love."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit."
I,I,ROMEO,"Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit"
I,I,ROMEO,"With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit;"
I,I,ROMEO,"And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd,"
I,I,ROMEO,"From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd."
I,I,ROMEO,"She will not stay the siege of loving terms,"
I,I,ROMEO,"Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes,"
I,I,ROMEO,"Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold:"
I,I,ROMEO,"O, she is rich in beauty, only poor,"
I,I,ROMEO,"That when she dies with beauty dies her store."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?"
I,I,ROMEO,"She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste,"
I,I,ROMEO,"For beauty starved with her severity"
I,I,ROMEO,"Cuts beauty off from all posterity."
I,I,ROMEO,"She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,"
I,I,ROMEO,"To merit bliss by making me despair:"
I,I,ROMEO,"She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow"
I,I,ROMEO,"Do I live dead that live to tell it now."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Be ruled by me, forget to think of her."
I,I,ROMEO,"O, teach me how I should forget to think."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"By giving liberty unto thine eyes;"
I,I,BENVOLIO,"Examine other beauties."
I,I,ROMEO,"'Tis the way"
I,I,ROMEO,"To call hers exquisite, in question more:"
I,I,ROMEO,"These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows"
I,I,ROMEO,"Being black put us in mind they hide the fair;"
I,I,ROMEO,"He that is strucken blind cannot forget"
I,I,ROMEO,"The precious treasure of his eyesight lost:"
I,I,ROMEO,"Show me a mistress that is passing fair,"
I,I,ROMEO,"What doth her beauty serve, but as a note"
I,I,ROMEO,"Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?"
I,I,ROMEO,"Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget."
I,I,BENVOLIO,"I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt."
I,II,CAPULET,"But Montague is bound as well as I,"
I,II,CAPULET,"In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think,"
I,II,CAPULET,"For men so old as we to keep the peace."
I,II,PARIS,"Of honourable reckoning are you both;"
I,II,PARIS,"And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long."
I,II,PARIS,"But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?"
I,II,CAPULET,"But saying o'er what I have said before:"
I,II,CAPULET,"My child is yet a stranger in the world;"
I,II,CAPULET,"She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,"
I,II,CAPULET,"Let two more summers wither in their pride,"
I,II,CAPULET,"Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride."
I,II,PARIS,"Younger than she are happy mothers made."
I,II,CAPULET,"And too soon marr'd are those so early made."
I,II,CAPULET,"The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she,"
I,II,CAPULET,"She is the hopeful lady of my earth:"
I,II,CAPULET,"But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,"
I,II,CAPULET,"My will to her consent is but a part;"
I,II,CAPULET,"An she agree, within her scope of choice"
I,II,CAPULET,"Lies my consent and fair according voice."
I,II,CAPULET,"This night I hold an old accustom'd feast,"
I,II,CAPULET,"Whereto I have invited many a guest,"
I,II,CAPULET,"Such as I love; and you, among the store,"
I,II,CAPULET,"One more, most welcome, makes my number more."
I,II,CAPULET,"At my poor house look to behold this night"
I,II,CAPULET,"Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light:"
I,II,CAPULET,"Such comfort as do lusty young men feel"
I,II,CAPULET,"When well-apparell'd April on the heel"
I,II,CAPULET,"Of limping winter treads, even such delight"
I,II,CAPULET,"Among fresh female buds shall you this night"
I,II,CAPULET,"Inherit at my house; hear all, all see,"
I,II,CAPULET,"And like her most whose merit most shall be:"
I,II,CAPULET,"Which on more view, of many mine being one"
I,II,CAPULET,"May stand in number, though in reckoning none,"
I,II,CAPULET,"Come, go with me."
I,II,CAPULET,"Go, sirrah, trudge about"
I,II,CAPULET,"Through fair Verona; find those persons out"
I,II,CAPULET,"Whose names are written there, and to them say,"
I,II,CAPULET,"My house and welcome on their pleasure stay."
I,II,Servant,"Find them out whose names are written here! It is"
I,II,Servant,"written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his"
I,II,Servant,"yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with"
I,II,Servant,"his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am"
I,II,Servant,"sent to find those persons whose names are here"
I,II,Servant,"writ, and can never find what names the writing"
I,II,Servant,"person hath here writ. I must to the learned.--In good time."
I,II,BENVOLIO,"Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning,"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"One desperate grief cures with another's languish:"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"Take thou some new infection to thy eye,"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"And the rank poison of the old will die."
I,II,ROMEO,"Your plaintain-leaf is excellent for that."
I,II,BENVOLIO,"For what, I pray thee?"
I,II,ROMEO,"For your broken shin."
I,II,BENVOLIO,"Why, Romeo, art thou mad?"
I,II,ROMEO,"Not mad, but bound more than a mad-man is;"
I,II,ROMEO,"Shut up in prison, kept without my food,"
I,II,ROMEO,"Whipp'd and tormented and--God-den, good fellow."
I,II,Servant,"God gi' god-den. I pray, sir, can you read?"
I,II,ROMEO,"Ay, mine own fortune in my misery."
I,II,Servant,"Perhaps you have learned it without book: but, I"
I,II,Servant,"pray, can you read any thing you see?"
I,II,ROMEO,"Ay, if I know the letters and the language."
I,II,Servant,"Ye say honestly: rest you merry!"
I,II,ROMEO,"Stay, fellow; I can read."
I,II,ROMEO,"'Signior Martino and his wife and daughters;"
I,II,ROMEO,"County Anselme and his beauteous sisters; the lady"
I,II,ROMEO,"widow of Vitravio; Signior Placentio and his lovely"
I,II,ROMEO,"nieces; Mercutio and his brother Valentine; mine"
I,II,ROMEO,"uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters; my fair niece"
I,II,ROMEO,"Rosaline; Livia; Signior Valentio and his cousin"
I,II,ROMEO,"Tybalt, Lucio and the lively Helena.' A fair"
I,II,ROMEO,"assembly: whither should they come?"
I,II,Servant,"Up."
I,II,ROMEO,"Whither?"
I,II,Servant,"To supper; to our house."
I,II,ROMEO,"Whose house?"
I,II,Servant,"My master's."
I,II,ROMEO,"Indeed, I should have ask'd you that before."
I,II,Servant,"Now I'll tell you without asking: my master is the"
I,II,Servant,"great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house"
I,II,Servant,"of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine."
I,II,Servant,"Rest you merry!"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"At this same ancient feast of Capulet's"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest,"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"With all the admired beauties of Verona:"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"Go thither; and, with unattainted eye,"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"Compare her face with some that I shall show,"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"And I will make thee think thy swan a crow."
I,II,ROMEO,"When the devout religion of mine eye"
I,II,ROMEO,"Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires;"
I,II,ROMEO,"And these, who often drown'd could never die,"
I,II,ROMEO,"Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!"
I,II,ROMEO,"One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun"
I,II,ROMEO,"Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun."
I,II,BENVOLIO,"Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by,"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"Herself poised with herself in either eye:"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"Your lady's love against some other maid"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"That I will show you shining at this feast,"
I,II,BENVOLIO,"And she shall scant show well that now shows best."
I,II,ROMEO,"I'll go along, no such sight to be shown,"
I,II,ROMEO,"But to rejoice in splendor of mine own."
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"Nurse, where's my daughter? call her forth to me."
I,III,Nurse,"Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old,"
I,III,Nurse,"I bade her come. What, lamb! what, ladybird!"
I,III,Nurse,"God forbid! Where's this girl? What, Juliet!"
I,III,JULIET,"How now! who calls?"
I,III,Nurse,"Your mother."
I,III,JULIET,"Madam, I am here."
I,III,JULIET,"What is your will?"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"This is the matter:--Nurse, give leave awhile,"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"We must talk in secret:--nurse, come back again;"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel."
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age."
I,III,Nurse,"Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour."
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"She's not fourteen."
I,III,Nurse,"I'll lay fourteen of my teeth,--"
I,III,Nurse,"And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but four--"
I,III,Nurse,"She is not fourteen. How long is it now"
I,III,Nurse,"To Lammas-tide?"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"A fortnight and odd days."
I,III,Nurse,"Even or odd, of all days in the year,"
I,III,Nurse,"Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen."
I,III,Nurse,"Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!--"
I,III,Nurse,"Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;"
I,III,Nurse,"She was too good for me: but, as I said,"
I,III,Nurse,"On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;"
I,III,Nurse,"That shall she, marry; I remember it well."
I,III,Nurse,"'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;"
I,III,Nurse,"And she was wean'd,--I never shall forget it,--"
I,III,Nurse,"Of all the days of the year, upon that day:"
I,III,Nurse,"For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,"
I,III,Nurse,"Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;"
I,III,Nurse,"My lord and you were then at Mantua:--"
I,III,Nurse,"Nay, I do bear a brain:--but, as I said,"
I,III,Nurse,"When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple"
I,III,Nurse,"Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,"
I,III,Nurse,"To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!"
I,III,Nurse,"Shake quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,"
I,III,Nurse,"To bid me trudge:"
I,III,Nurse,"And since that time it is eleven years;"
I,III,Nurse,"For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,"
I,III,Nurse,"She could have run and waddled all about;"
I,III,Nurse,"For even the day before, she broke her brow:"
I,III,Nurse,"And then my husband--God be with his soul!"
I,III,Nurse,"A' was a merry man--took up the child:"
I,III,Nurse,"'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?"
I,III,Nurse,"Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;"
I,III,Nurse,"Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidame,"
I,III,Nurse,"The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'"
I,III,Nurse,"To see, now, how a jest shall come about!"
I,III,Nurse,"I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,"
I,III,Nurse,"I never should forget it: 'Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he;"
I,III,Nurse,"And, pretty fool, it stinted and said 'Ay.'"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace."
I,III,Nurse,"Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh,"
I,III,Nurse,"To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.'"
I,III,Nurse,"And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow"
I,III,Nurse,"A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone;"
I,III,Nurse,"A parlous knock; and it cried bitterly:"
I,III,Nurse,"'Yea,' quoth my husband,'fall'st upon thy face?"
I,III,Nurse,"Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age;"
I,III,Nurse,"Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay.'"
I,III,JULIET,"And stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I."
I,III,Nurse,"Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace!"
I,III,Nurse,"Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed:"
I,III,Nurse,"An I might live to see thee married once,"
I,III,Nurse,"I have my wish."
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"Marry, that 'marry' is the very theme"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"How stands your disposition to be married?"
I,III,JULIET,"It is an honour that I dream not of."
I,III,Nurse,"An honour! were not I thine only nurse,"
I,III,Nurse,"I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat."
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"Well, think of marriage now; younger than you,"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"Are made already mothers: by my count,"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"I was your mother much upon these years"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief:"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"The valiant Paris seeks you for his love."
I,III,Nurse,"A man, young lady! lady, such a man"
I,III,Nurse,"As all the world--why, he's a man of wax."
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"Verona's summer hath not such a flower."
I,III,Nurse,"Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower."
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"What say you? can you love the gentleman?"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"This night you shall behold him at our feast;"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"Examine every married lineament,"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"And see how one another lends content"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"And what obscured in this fair volume lies"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"Find written in the margent of his eyes."
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"This precious book of love, this unbound lover,"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"To beautify him, only lacks a cover:"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"For fair without the fair within to hide:"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"That in gold clasps locks in the golden story;"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"So shall you share all that he doth possess,"
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"By having him, making yourself no less."
I,III,Nurse,"No less! nay, bigger; women grow by men."
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?"
I,III,JULIET,"I'll look to like, if looking liking move:"
I,III,JULIET,"But no more deep will I endart mine eye"
I,III,JULIET,"Than your consent gives strength to make it fly."
I,III,Servant,"Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you"
I,III,Servant,"called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in"
I,III,Servant,"the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must"
I,III,Servant,"hence to wait; I beseech you, follow straight."
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"We follow thee."
I,III,LADY CAPULET,"Juliet, the county stays."
I,III,Nurse,"Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days."
I,IV,ROMEO,"What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse?"
I,IV,ROMEO,"Or shall we on without a apology?"
I,IV,BENVOLIO,"The date is out of such prolixity:"
I,IV,BENVOLIO,"We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf,"
I,IV,BENVOLIO,"Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath,"
I,IV,BENVOLIO,"Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper;"
I,IV,BENVOLIO,"Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke"
I,IV,BENVOLIO,"After the prompter, for our entrance:"
I,IV,BENVOLIO,"But let them measure us by what they will;"
I,IV,BENVOLIO,"We'll measure them a measure, and be gone."
I,IV,ROMEO,"Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling;"
I,IV,ROMEO,"Being but heavy, I will bear the light."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance."
I,IV,ROMEO,"Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes"
I,IV,ROMEO,"With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead"
I,IV,ROMEO,"So stakes me to the ground I cannot move."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"And soar with them above a common bound."
I,IV,ROMEO,"I am too sore enpierced with his shaft"
I,IV,ROMEO,"To soar with his light feathers, and so bound,"
I,IV,ROMEO,"I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe:"
I,IV,ROMEO,"Under love's heavy burden do I sink."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"And, to sink in it, should you burden love;"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Too great oppression for a tender thing."
I,IV,ROMEO,"Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,"
I,IV,ROMEO,"Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"If love be rough with you, be rough with love;"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Give me a case to put my visage in:"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"A visor for a visor! what care I"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"What curious eye doth quote deformities?"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me."
I,IV,BENVOLIO,"Come, knock and enter; and no sooner in,"
I,IV,BENVOLIO,"But every man betake him to his legs."
I,IV,ROMEO,"A torch for me: let wantons light of heart"
I,IV,ROMEO,"Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels,"
I,IV,ROMEO,"For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase;"
I,IV,ROMEO,"I'll be a candle-holder, and look on."
I,IV,ROMEO,"The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word:"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!"
I,IV,ROMEO,"Nay, that's not so."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"I mean, sir, in delay"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Five times in that ere once in our five wits."
I,IV,ROMEO,"And we mean well in going to this mask;"
I,IV,ROMEO,"But 'tis no wit to go."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Why, may one ask?"
I,IV,ROMEO,"I dream'd a dream to-night."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"And so did I."
I,IV,ROMEO,"Well, what was yours?"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"That dreamers often lie."
I,IV,ROMEO,"In bed asleep, while they do dream things true."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"In shape no bigger than an agate-stone"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"On the fore-finger of an alderman,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Drawn with a team of little atomies"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' legs,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"The traces of the smallest spider's web,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Not so big as a round little worm"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid;"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"And in this state she gallops night by night"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"O'er ladies ' lips, who straight on kisses dream,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Then dreams, he of another benefice:"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"And sleeps again. This is that very Mab"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"That plats the manes of horses in the night,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"That presses them and learns them first to bear,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Making them women of good carriage:"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"This is she--"
I,IV,ROMEO,"Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!"
I,IV,ROMEO,"Thou talk'st of nothing."
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"True, I talk of dreams,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Which are the children of an idle brain,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Which is as thin of substance as the air"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Even now the frozen bosom of the north,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,"
I,IV,MERCUTIO,"Turning his face to the dew-dropping south."
I,IV,BENVOLIO,"This wind, you talk of, blows us from ourselves;"
I,IV,BENVOLIO,"Supper is done, and we shall come too late."
I,IV,ROMEO,"I fear, too early: for my mind misgives"
I,IV,ROMEO,"Some consequence yet hanging in the stars"
I,IV,ROMEO,"Shall bitterly begin his fearful date"
I,IV,ROMEO,"With this night's revels and expire the term"
I,IV,ROMEO,"Of a despised life closed in my breast"
I,IV,ROMEO,"By some vile forfeit of untimely death."
I,IV,ROMEO,"But He, that hath the steerage of my course,"
I,IV,ROMEO,"Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen."
I,IV,BENVOLIO,"Strike, drum."
I,V,First Servant,"Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away? He"
I,V,First Servant,"shift a trencher? he scrape a trencher!"
I,V,Second Servant,"When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's"
I,V,Second Servant,"hands and they unwashed too, 'tis a foul thing."
I,V,First Servant,"Away with the joint-stools, remove the"
I,V,First Servant,"court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save"
I,V,First Servant,"me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let"
I,V,First Servant,"the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell."
I,V,First Servant,"Antony, and Potpan!"
I,V,Second Servant,"Ay, boy, ready."
I,V,First Servant,"You are looked for and called for, asked for and"
I,V,First Servant,"sought for, in the great chamber."
I,V,Second Servant,"We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; be"
I,V,Second Servant,"brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all."
I,V,CAPULET,"Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes"
I,V,CAPULET,"Unplagued with corns will have a bout with you."
I,V,CAPULET,"Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all"
I,V,CAPULET,"Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty,"
I,V,CAPULET,"She, I'll swear, hath corns; am I come near ye now?"
I,V,CAPULET,"Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day"
I,V,CAPULET,"That I have worn a visor and could tell"
I,V,CAPULET,"A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear,"
I,V,CAPULET,"Such as would please: 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone:"
I,V,CAPULET,"You are welcome, gentlemen! come, musicians, play."
I,V,CAPULET,"A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls."
I,V,CAPULET,"More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up,"
I,V,CAPULET,"And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot."
I,V,CAPULET,"Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well."
I,V,CAPULET,"Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet;"
I,V,CAPULET,"For you and I are past our dancing days:"
I,V,CAPULET,"How long is't now since last yourself and I"
I,V,CAPULET,"Were in a mask?"
I,V,Second Capulet,"By'r lady, thirty years."
I,V,CAPULET,"What, man! 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much:"
I,V,CAPULET,"'Tis since the nuptials of Lucentio,"
I,V,CAPULET,"Come pentecost as quickly as it will,"
I,V,CAPULET,"Some five and twenty years; and then we mask'd."
I,V,Second Capulet,"'Tis more, 'tis more, his son is elder, sir;"
I,V,Second Capulet,"His son is thirty."
I,V,CAPULET,"Will you tell me that?"
I,V,CAPULET,"His son was but a ward two years ago."
I,V,ROMEO,"enrich the hand"
I,V,ROMEO,"Of yonder knight?"
I,V,Servant,"I know not, sir."
I,V,ROMEO,"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"
I,V,ROMEO,"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night"
I,V,ROMEO,"Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;"
I,V,ROMEO,"Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!"
I,V,ROMEO,"So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,"
I,V,ROMEO,"As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows."
I,V,ROMEO,"The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,"
I,V,ROMEO,"And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand."
I,V,ROMEO,"Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!"
I,V,ROMEO,"For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
I,V,TYBALT,"This, by his voice, should be a Montague."
I,V,TYBALT,"Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave"
I,V,TYBALT,"Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,"
I,V,TYBALT,"To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?"
I,V,TYBALT,"Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,"
I,V,TYBALT,"To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin."
I,V,CAPULET,"Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?"
I,V,TYBALT,"Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,"
I,V,TYBALT,"A villain that is hither come in spite,"
I,V,TYBALT,"To scorn at our solemnity this night."
I,V,CAPULET,"Young Romeo is it?"
I,V,TYBALT,"'Tis he, that villain Romeo."
I,V,CAPULET,"Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone;"
I,V,CAPULET,"He bears him like a portly gentleman;"
I,V,CAPULET,"And, to say truth, Verona brags of him"
I,V,CAPULET,"To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:"
I,V,CAPULET,"I would not for the wealth of all the town"
I,V,CAPULET,"Here in my house do him disparagement:"
I,V,CAPULET,"Therefore be patient, take no note of him:"
I,V,CAPULET,"It is my will, the which if thou respect,"
I,V,CAPULET,"Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,"
I,V,CAPULET,"And ill-beseeming semblance for a feast."
I,V,TYBALT,"It fits, when such a villain is a guest:"
I,V,TYBALT,"I'll not endure him."
I,V,CAPULET,"He shall be endured:"
I,V,CAPULET,"What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to;"
I,V,CAPULET,"Am I the master here, or you? go to."
I,V,CAPULET,"You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul!"
I,V,CAPULET,"You'll make a mutiny among my guests!"
I,V,CAPULET,"You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man!"
I,V,TYBALT,"Why, uncle, 'tis a shame."
I,V,CAPULET,"Go to, go to;"
I,V,CAPULET,"You are a saucy boy: is't so, indeed?"
I,V,CAPULET,"This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what:"
I,V,CAPULET,"You must contrary me! marry, 'tis time."
I,V,CAPULET,"Well said, my hearts! You are a princox; go:"
I,V,CAPULET,"Be quiet, or--More light, more light! For shame!"
I,V,CAPULET,"I'll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts!"
I,V,TYBALT,"Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting"
I,V,TYBALT,"Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting."
I,V,TYBALT,"I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall"
I,V,TYBALT,"Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall."
I,V,ROMEO,"This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:"
I,V,ROMEO,"My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand"
I,V,ROMEO,"To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."
I,V,JULIET,"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,"
I,V,JULIET,"Which mannerly devotion shows in this;"
I,V,JULIET,"For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,"
I,V,JULIET,"And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss."
I,V,ROMEO,"Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?"
I,V,JULIET,"Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer."
I,V,ROMEO,"O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;"
I,V,ROMEO,"They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair."
I,V,JULIET,"Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake."
I,V,ROMEO,"Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take."
I,V,ROMEO,"Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged."
I,V,JULIET,"Then have my lips the sin that they have took."
I,V,ROMEO,"Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!"
I,V,ROMEO,"Give me my sin again."
I,V,JULIET,"You kiss by the book."
I,V,Nurse,"Madam, your mother craves a word with you."
I,V,ROMEO,"What is her mother?"
I,V,Nurse,"Marry, bachelor,"
I,V,Nurse,"Her mother is the lady of the house,"
I,V,Nurse,"And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous"
I,V,Nurse,"I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal;"
I,V,Nurse,"I tell you, he that can lay hold of her"
I,V,Nurse,"Shall have the chinks."
I,V,ROMEO,"Is she a Capulet?"
I,V,ROMEO,"O dear account! my life is my foe's debt."
I,V,BENVOLIO,"Away, begone; the sport is at the best."
I,V,ROMEO,"Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest."
I,V,CAPULET,"Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone;"
I,V,CAPULET,"We have a trifling foolish banquet towards."
I,V,CAPULET,"Is it e'en so? why, then, I thank you all"
I,V,CAPULET,"I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night."
I,V,CAPULET,"More torches here! Come on then, let's to bed."
I,V,CAPULET,"Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late:"
I,V,CAPULET,"I'll to my rest."
I,V,JULIET,"Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?"
I,V,Nurse,"The son and heir of old Tiberio."
I,V,JULIET,"What's he that now is going out of door?"
I,V,Nurse,"Marry, that, I think, be young Petrucio."
I,V,JULIET,"What's he that follows there, that would not dance?"
I,V,Nurse,"I know not."
I,V,JULIET,"Go ask his name: if he be married."
I,V,JULIET,"My grave is like to be my wedding bed."
I,V,Nurse,"His name is Romeo, and a Montague;"
I,V,Nurse,"The only son of your great enemy."
I,V,JULIET,"My only love sprung from my only hate!"
I,V,JULIET,"Too early seen unknown, and known too late!"
I,V,JULIET,"Prodigious birth of love it is to me,"
I,V,JULIET,"That I must love a loathed enemy."
I,V,Nurse,"What's this? what's this?"
I,V,JULIET,"A rhyme I learn'd even now"
I,V,JULIET,"Of one I danced withal."
I,V,Nurse,"Anon, anon!"
I,V,Nurse,"Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone."
II,I,ROMEO,"Can I go forward when my heart is here?"
II,I,ROMEO,"Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out."
II,I,BENVOLIO,"Romeo! my cousin Romeo!"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"He is wise;"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"And, on my lie, hath stol'n him home to bed."
II,I,BENVOLIO,"He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall:"
II,I,BENVOLIO,"Call, good Mercutio."
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Nay, I'll conjure too."
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover!"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh:"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied;"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove;'"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"One nick-name for her purblind son and heir,"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim,"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not;"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"The ape is dead, and I must conjure him."
II,I,MERCUTIO,"I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"That in thy likeness thou appear to us!"
II,I,BENVOLIO,"And if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him."
II,I,MERCUTIO,"This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Of some strange nature, letting it there stand"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Till she had laid it and conjured it down;"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"That were some spite: my invocation"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Is fair and honest, and in his mistress' name"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"I conjure only but to raise up him."
II,I,BENVOLIO,"Come, he hath hid himself among these trees,"
II,I,BENVOLIO,"To be consorted with the humorous night:"
II,I,BENVOLIO,"Blind is his love and best befits the dark."
II,I,MERCUTIO,"If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark."
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Now will he sit under a medlar tree,"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone."
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Romeo, that she were, O, that she were"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"An open et caetera, thou a poperin pear!"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed;"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:"
II,I,MERCUTIO,"Come, shall we go?"
II,I,BENVOLIO,"Go, then; for 'tis in vain"
II,I,BENVOLIO,"To seek him here that means not to be found."
II,II,ROMEO,"He jests at scars that never felt a wound."
II,II,ROMEO,"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?"
II,II,ROMEO,"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
II,II,ROMEO,"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,"
II,II,ROMEO,"Who is already sick and pale with grief,"
II,II,ROMEO,"That thou her maid art far more fair than she:"
II,II,ROMEO,"Be not her maid, since she is envious;"
II,II,ROMEO,"Her vestal livery is but sick and green"
II,II,ROMEO,"And none but fools do wear it; cast it off."
II,II,ROMEO,"It is my lady, O, it is my love!"
II,II,ROMEO,"O, that she knew she were!"
II,II,ROMEO,"She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?"
II,II,ROMEO,"Her eye discourses; I will answer it."
II,II,ROMEO,"I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:"
II,II,ROMEO,"Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,"
II,II,ROMEO,"Having some business, do entreat her eyes"
II,II,ROMEO,"To twinkle in their spheres till they return."
II,II,ROMEO,"What if her eyes were there, they in her head?"
II,II,ROMEO,"The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,"
II,II,ROMEO,"As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven"
II,II,ROMEO,"Would through the airy region stream so bright"
II,II,ROMEO,"That birds would sing and think it were not night."
II,II,ROMEO,"See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!"
II,II,ROMEO,"O, that I were a glove upon that hand,"
II,II,ROMEO,"That I might touch that cheek!"
II,II,JULIET,"Ay me!"
II,II,ROMEO,"She speaks:"
II,II,ROMEO,"O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art"
II,II,ROMEO,"As glorious to this night, being o'er my head"
II,II,ROMEO,"As is a winged messenger of heaven"
II,II,ROMEO,"Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes"
II,II,ROMEO,"Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him"
II,II,ROMEO,"When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds"
II,II,ROMEO,"And sails upon the bosom of the air."
II,II,JULIET,"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"
II,II,JULIET,"Deny thy father and refuse thy name;"
II,II,JULIET,"Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,"
II,II,JULIET,"And I'll no longer be a Capulet."
II,II,JULIET,"'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;"
II,II,JULIET,"Thou art thyself, though not a Montague."
II,II,JULIET,"What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,"
II,II,JULIET,"Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part"
II,II,JULIET,"Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!"
II,II,JULIET,"What's in a name? that which we call a rose"
II,II,JULIET,"By any other name would smell as sweet;"
II,II,JULIET,"So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,"
II,II,JULIET,"Retain that dear perfection which he owes"
II,II,JULIET,"Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,"
II,II,JULIET,"And for that name which is no part of thee"
II,II,JULIET,"Take all myself."
II,II,ROMEO,"I take thee at thy word:"
II,II,ROMEO,"Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;"
II,II,ROMEO,"Henceforth I never will be Romeo."
II,II,JULIET,"What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night"
II,II,JULIET,"So stumblest on my counsel?"
II,II,ROMEO,"By a name"
II,II,ROMEO,"I know not how to tell thee who I am:"
II,II,ROMEO,"My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,"
II,II,ROMEO,"Because it is an enemy to thee;"
II,II,ROMEO,"Had I it written, I would tear the word."
II,II,JULIET,"My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words"
II,II,JULIET,"Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound:"
II,II,JULIET,"Art thou not Romeo and a Montague?"
II,II,ROMEO,"Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike."
II,II,JULIET,"How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?"
II,II,JULIET,"The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,"
II,II,JULIET,"And the place death, considering who thou art,"
II,II,JULIET,"If any of my kinsmen find thee here."
II,II,ROMEO,"With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;"
II,II,ROMEO,"For stony limits cannot hold love out,"
II,II,ROMEO,"And what love can do that dares love attempt;"
II,II,ROMEO,"Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me."
II,II,JULIET,"If they do see thee, they will murder thee."
II,II,ROMEO,"Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye"
II,II,ROMEO,"Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,"
II,II,ROMEO,"And I am proof against their enmity."
II,II,JULIET,"I would not for the world they saw thee here."
II,II,ROMEO,"I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;"
II,II,ROMEO,"And but thou love me, let them find me here:"
II,II,ROMEO,"My life were better ended by their hate,"
II,II,ROMEO,"Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love."
II,II,JULIET,"By whose direction found'st thou out this place?"
II,II,ROMEO,"By love, who first did prompt me to inquire;"
II,II,ROMEO,"He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes."
II,II,ROMEO,"I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far"
II,II,ROMEO,"As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea,"
II,II,ROMEO,"I would adventure for such merchandise."
II,II,JULIET,"Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face,"
II,II,JULIET,"Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek"
II,II,JULIET,"For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night"
II,II,JULIET,"Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny"
II,II,JULIET,"What I have spoke: but farewell compliment!"
II,II,JULIET,"Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,'"
II,II,JULIET,"And I will take thy word: yet if thou swear'st,"
II,II,JULIET,"Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries"
II,II,JULIET,"Then say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,"
II,II,JULIET,"If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:"
II,II,JULIET,"Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,"
II,II,JULIET,"I'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay,"
II,II,JULIET,"So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world."
II,II,JULIET,"In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,"
II,II,JULIET,"And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light:"
II,II,JULIET,"But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true"
II,II,JULIET,"Than those that have more cunning to be strange."
II,II,JULIET,"I should have been more strange, I must confess,"
II,II,JULIET,"But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,"
II,II,JULIET,"My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,"
II,II,JULIET,"And not impute this yielding to light love,"
II,II,JULIET,"Which the dark night hath so discovered."
II,II,ROMEO,"Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear"
II,II,ROMEO,"That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops--"
II,II,JULIET,"O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,"
II,II,JULIET,"That monthly changes in her circled orb,"
II,II,JULIET,"Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."
II,II,ROMEO,"What shall I swear by?"
II,II,JULIET,"Do not swear at all;"
II,II,JULIET,"Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,"
II,II,JULIET,"Which is the god of my idolatry,"
II,II,JULIET,"And I'll believe thee."
II,II,ROMEO,"If my heart's dear love--"
II,II,JULIET,"Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,"
II,II,JULIET,"I have no joy of this contract to-night:"
II,II,JULIET,"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;"
II,II,JULIET,"Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be"
II,II,JULIET,"Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night!"
II,II,JULIET,"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,"
II,II,JULIET,"May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."
II,II,JULIET,"Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest"
II,II,JULIET,"Come to thy heart as that within my breast!"
II,II,ROMEO,"O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?"
II,II,JULIET,"What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?"
II,II,ROMEO,"The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine."
II,II,JULIET,"I gave thee mine before thou didst request it:"
II,II,JULIET,"And yet I would it were to give again."
II,II,ROMEO,"Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love?"
II,II,JULIET,"But to be frank, and give it thee again."
II,II,JULIET,"And yet I wish but for the thing I have:"
II,II,JULIET,"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,"
II,II,JULIET,"My love as deep; the more I give to thee,"
II,II,JULIET,"The more I have, for both are infinite."
II,II,JULIET,"I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu!"
II,II,JULIET,"Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true."
II,II,JULIET,"Stay but a little, I will come again."
II,II,ROMEO,"O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard."
II,II,ROMEO,"Being in night, all this is but a dream,"
II,II,ROMEO,"Too flattering-sweet to be substantial."
II,II,JULIET,"Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed."
II,II,JULIET,"If that thy bent of love be honourable,"
II,II,JULIET,"Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow,"
II,II,JULIET,"By one that I'll procure to come to thee,"
II,II,JULIET,"Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite;"
II,II,JULIET,"And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay"
II,II,JULIET,"And follow thee my lord throughout the world."
II,II,JULIET,"I come, anon.--But if thou mean'st not well,"
II,II,JULIET,"I do beseech thee--"
II,II,JULIET,"By and by, I come:--"
II,II,JULIET,"To cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief:"
II,II,JULIET,"To-morrow will I send."
II,II,ROMEO,"So thrive my soul--"
II,II,JULIET,"A thousand times good night!"
II,II,ROMEO,"A thousand times the worse, to want thy light."
II,II,ROMEO,"Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from"
II,II,ROMEO,"their books,"
II,II,ROMEO,"But love from love, toward school with heavy looks."
II,II,JULIET,"Hist! Romeo, hist! O, for a falconer's voice,"
II,II,JULIET,"To lure this tassel-gentle back again!"
II,II,JULIET,"Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud;"
II,II,JULIET,"Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies,"
II,II,JULIET,"And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine,"
II,II,JULIET,"With repetition of my Romeo's name."
II,II,ROMEO,"It is my soul that calls upon my name:"
II,II,ROMEO,"How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,"
II,II,ROMEO,"Like softest music to attending ears!"
II,II,JULIET,"Romeo!"
II,II,ROMEO,"My dear?"
II,II,JULIET,"At what o'clock to-morrow"
II,II,JULIET,"Shall I send to thee?"
II,II,ROMEO,"At the hour of nine."
II,II,JULIET,"I will not fail: 'tis twenty years till then."
II,II,JULIET,"I have forgot why I did call thee back."
II,II,ROMEO,"Let me stand here till thou remember it."
II,II,JULIET,"I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,"
II,II,JULIET,"Remembering how I love thy company."
II,II,ROMEO,"And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget,"
II,II,ROMEO,"Forgetting any other home but this."
II,II,JULIET,"'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone:"
II,II,JULIET,"And yet no further than a wanton's bird;"
II,II,JULIET,"Who lets it hop a little from her hand,"
II,II,JULIET,"Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,"
II,II,JULIET,"And with a silk thread plucks it back again,"
II,II,JULIET,"So loving-jealous of his liberty."
II,II,ROMEO,"I would I were thy bird."
II,II,JULIET,"Sweet, so would I:"
II,II,JULIET,"Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing."
II,II,JULIET,"Good night, good night! parting is such"
II,II,JULIET,"sweet sorrow,"
II,II,JULIET,"That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
II,II,ROMEO,"Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!"
II,II,ROMEO,"Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!"
II,II,ROMEO,"Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell,"
II,II,ROMEO,"His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels:"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"I must up-fill this osier cage of ours"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"What is her burying grave that is her womb,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And from her womb children of divers kind"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"We sucking on her natural bosom find,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Many for many virtues excellent,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"None but for some and yet all different."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"For nought so vile that on the earth doth live"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"But to the earth some special good doth give,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And vice sometimes by action dignified."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Within the infant rind of this small flower"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Poison hath residence and medicine power:"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Two such opposed kings encamp them still"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And where the worser is predominant,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Full soon the canker death eats up that plant."
II,III,ROMEO,"Good morrow, father."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Benedicite!"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Young son, it argues a distemper'd head"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed:"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Therefore thy earliness doth me assure"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thou art up-roused by some distemperature;"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Or if not so, then here I hit it right,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night."
II,III,ROMEO,"That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"God pardon sin! wast thou with Rosaline?"
II,III,ROMEO,"With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no;"
II,III,ROMEO,"I have forgot that name, and that name's woe."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"That's my good son: but where hast thou been, then?"
II,III,ROMEO,"I'll tell thee, ere thou ask it me again."
II,III,ROMEO,"I have been feasting with mine enemy,"
II,III,ROMEO,"Where on a sudden one hath wounded me,"
II,III,ROMEO,"That's by me wounded: both our remedies"
II,III,ROMEO,"Within thy help and holy physic lies:"
II,III,ROMEO,"I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo,"
II,III,ROMEO,"My intercession likewise steads my foe."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift;"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift."
II,III,ROMEO,"Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set"
II,III,ROMEO,"On the fair daughter of rich Capulet:"
II,III,ROMEO,"As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine;"
II,III,ROMEO,"And all combined, save what thou must combine"
II,III,ROMEO,"By holy marriage: when and where and how"
II,III,ROMEO,"We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow,"
II,III,ROMEO,"I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray,"
II,III,ROMEO,"That thou consent to marry us to-day."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"How much salt water thrown away in waste,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To season love, that of it doth not taste!"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears;"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet:"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline:"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Women may fall, when there's no strength in men."
II,III,ROMEO,"Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"For doting, not for loving, pupil mine."
II,III,ROMEO,"And bad'st me bury love."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Not in a grave,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To lay one in, another out to have."
II,III,ROMEO,"I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love now"
II,III,ROMEO,"Doth grace for grace and love for love allow;"
II,III,ROMEO,"The other did not so."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"O, she knew well"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thy love did read by rote and could not spell."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"But come, young waverer, come, go with me,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"In one respect I'll thy assistant be;"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"For this alliance may so happy prove,"
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To turn your households' rancour to pure love."
II,III,ROMEO,"O, let us hence; I stand on sudden haste."
II,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Where the devil should this Romeo be?"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Came he not home to-night?"
II,IV,BENVOLIO,"Not to his father's; I spoke with his man."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Torments him so, that he will sure run mad."
II,IV,BENVOLIO,"Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet,"
II,IV,BENVOLIO,"Hath sent a letter to his father's house."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"A challenge, on my life."
II,IV,BENVOLIO,"Romeo will answer it."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Any man that can write may answer a letter."
II,IV,BENVOLIO,"Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he"
II,IV,BENVOLIO,"dares, being dared."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"blind bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"encounter Tybalt?"
II,IV,BENVOLIO,"Why, what is Tybalt?"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"More than prince of cats, I can tell you. O, he is"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"button, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of the"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"very first house, of the first and second cause:"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"hai!"
II,IV,BENVOLIO,"The what?"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"fantasticoes; these new tuners of accents! 'By Jesu,"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"a very good blade! a very tall man! a very good"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"whore!' Why, is not this a lamentable thing,"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted with"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"perdona-mi's, who stand so much on the new form,"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"that they cannot at ease on the old bench? O, their"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"bones, their bones!"
II,IV,BENVOLIO,"Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Without his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh,"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"be-rhyme her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy;"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe a grey"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"eye or so, but not to the purpose. Signior"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Romeo, bon jour! there's a French salutation"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"fairly last night."
II,IV,ROMEO,"Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"The ship, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?"
II,IV,ROMEO,"Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great; and in"
II,IV,ROMEO,"such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"That's as much as to say, such a case as yours"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"constrains a man to bow in the hams."
II,IV,ROMEO,"Meaning, to court'sy."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Thou hast most kindly hit it."
II,IV,ROMEO,"A most courteous exposition."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy."
II,IV,ROMEO,"Pink for flower."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Right."
II,IV,ROMEO,"Why, then is my pump well flowered."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Well said: follow me this jest now till thou hast"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"worn out thy pump, that when the single sole of it"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"is worn, the jest may remain after the wearing sole singular."
II,IV,ROMEO,"O single-soled jest, solely singular for the"
II,IV,ROMEO,"singleness."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Come between us, good Benvolio; my wits faint."
II,IV,ROMEO,"Switch and spurs, switch and spurs; or I'll cry a match."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five:"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"was I with you there for the goose?"
II,IV,ROMEO,"Thou wast never with me for any thing when thou wast"
II,IV,ROMEO,"not there for the goose."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"I will bite thee by the ear for that jest."
II,IV,ROMEO,"Nay, good goose, bite not."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"sharp sauce."
II,IV,ROMEO,"And is it not well served in to a sweet goose?"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"O here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"inch narrow to an ell broad!"
II,IV,ROMEO,"I stretch it out for that word 'broad;' which added"
II,IV,ROMEO,"to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Why, is not this better now than groaning for love?"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature:"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"for this drivelling love is like a great natural,"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole."
II,IV,BENVOLIO,"Stop there, stop there."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair."
II,IV,BENVOLIO,"Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"O, thou art deceived; I would have made it short:"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"for I was come to the whole depth of my tale; and"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer."
II,IV,ROMEO,"Here's goodly gear!"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"A sail, a sail!"
II,IV,BENVOLIO,"Two, two; a shirt and a smock."
II,IV,Nurse,"Peter!"
II,IV,PETER,"Anon!"
II,IV,Nurse,"My fan, Peter."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"fairer face."
II,IV,Nurse,"God ye good morrow, gentlemen."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"God ye good den, fair gentlewoman."
II,IV,Nurse,"Is it good den?"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"'Tis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand of the"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"dial is now upon the prick of noon."
II,IV,Nurse,"Out upon you! what a man are you!"
II,IV,ROMEO,"One, gentlewoman, that God hath made for himself to"
II,IV,ROMEO,"mar."
II,IV,Nurse,"By my troth, it is well said; 'for himself to mar,'"
II,IV,Nurse,"quoth a'? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I"
II,IV,Nurse,"may find the young Romeo?"
II,IV,ROMEO,"I can tell you; but young Romeo will be older when"
II,IV,ROMEO,"you have found him than he was when you sought him:"
II,IV,ROMEO,"I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse."
II,IV,Nurse,"You say well."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Yea, is the worst well? very well took, i' faith;"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"wisely, wisely."
II,IV,Nurse,"if you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with"
II,IV,Nurse,"you."
II,IV,BENVOLIO,"She will indite him to some supper."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! so ho!"
II,IV,ROMEO,"What hast thou found?"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie,"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"An old hare hoar,"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"And an old hare hoar,"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Is very good meat in lent"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"But a hare that is hoar"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Is too much for a score,"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"When it hoars ere it be spent."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Romeo, will you come to your father's? we'll"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"to dinner, thither."
II,IV,ROMEO,"I will follow you."
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"Farewell, ancient lady; farewell,"
II,IV,MERCUTIO,"'lady, lady, lady.'"
II,IV,Nurse,"Marry, farewell! I pray you, sir, what saucy"
II,IV,Nurse,"merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?"
II,IV,ROMEO,"A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk,"
II,IV,ROMEO,"and will speak more in a minute than he will stand"
II,IV,ROMEO,"to in a month."
II,IV,Nurse,"An a' speak any thing against me, I'll take him"
II,IV,Nurse,"down, an a' were lustier than he is, and twenty such"
II,IV,Nurse,"Jacks; and if I cannot, I'll find those that shall."
II,IV,Nurse,"Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills; I am"
II,IV,Nurse,"none of his skains-mates. And thou must stand by"
II,IV,Nurse,"too, and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure?"
II,IV,PETER,"I saw no man use you a pleasure; if I had, my weapon"
II,IV,PETER,"should quickly have been out, I warrant you: I dare"
II,IV,PETER,"draw as soon as another man, if I see occasion in a"
II,IV,PETER,"good quarrel, and the law on my side."
II,IV,Nurse,"Now, afore God, I am so vexed, that every part about"
II,IV,Nurse,"me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word:"
II,IV,Nurse,"and as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire you"
II,IV,Nurse,"out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself:"
II,IV,Nurse,"but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into"
II,IV,Nurse,"a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross"
II,IV,Nurse,"kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman"
II,IV,Nurse,"is young; and, therefore, if you should deal double"
II,IV,Nurse,"with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered"
II,IV,Nurse,"to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing."
II,IV,ROMEO,"Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I"
II,IV,ROMEO,"protest unto thee--"
II,IV,Nurse,"Good heart, and, i' faith, I will tell her as much:"
II,IV,Nurse,"Lord, Lord, she will be a joyful woman."
II,IV,ROMEO,"What wilt thou tell her, nurse? thou dost not mark me."
II,IV,Nurse,"I will tell her, sir, that you do protest; which, as"
II,IV,Nurse,"I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer."
II,IV,ROMEO,"Bid her devise"
II,IV,ROMEO,"Some means to come to shrift this afternoon;"
II,IV,ROMEO,"And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell"
II,IV,ROMEO,"Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains."
II,IV,Nurse,"No truly sir; not a penny."
II,IV,ROMEO,"Go to; I say you shall."
II,IV,Nurse,"This afternoon, sir? well, she shall be there."
II,IV,ROMEO,"And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall:"
II,IV,ROMEO,"Within this hour my man shall be with thee"
II,IV,ROMEO,"And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair;"
II,IV,ROMEO,"Which to the high top-gallant of my joy"
II,IV,ROMEO,"Must be my convoy in the secret night."
II,IV,ROMEO,"Farewell; be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains:"
II,IV,ROMEO,"Farewell; commend me to thy mistress."
II,IV,Nurse,"Now God in heaven bless thee! Hark you, sir."
II,IV,ROMEO,"What say'st thou, my dear nurse?"
II,IV,Nurse,"Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say,"
II,IV,Nurse,"Two may keep counsel, putting one away?"
II,IV,ROMEO,"I warrant thee, my man's as true as steel."
II,IV,NURSE,"Well, sir; my mistress is the sweetest lady--Lord,"
II,IV,NURSE,"Lord! when 'twas a little prating thing:--O, there"
II,IV,NURSE,"is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain"
II,IV,NURSE,"lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as lief"
II,IV,NURSE,"see a toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her"
II,IV,NURSE,"sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer"
II,IV,NURSE,"man; but, I'll warrant you, when I say so, she looks"
II,IV,NURSE,"as pale as any clout in the versal world. Doth not"
II,IV,NURSE,"rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter?"
II,IV,ROMEO,"Ay, nurse; what of that? both with an R."
II,IV,Nurse,"Ah. mocker! that's the dog's name; R is for"
II,IV,Nurse,"the--No; I know it begins with some other"
II,IV,Nurse,"letter:--and she hath the prettiest sententious of"
II,IV,Nurse,"it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good"
II,IV,Nurse,"to hear it."
II,IV,ROMEO,"Commend me to thy lady."
II,IV,Nurse,"Ay, a thousand times."
II,IV,Nurse,"Peter!"
II,IV,PETER,"Anon!"
II,IV,Nurse,"Peter, take my fan, and go before and apace."
II,V,JULIET,"The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;"
II,V,JULIET,"In half an hour she promised to return."
II,V,JULIET,"Perchance she cannot meet him: that's not so."
II,V,JULIET,"O, she is lame! love's heralds should be thoughts,"
II,V,JULIET,"Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams,"
II,V,JULIET,"Driving back shadows over louring hills:"
II,V,JULIET,"Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love,"
II,V,JULIET,"And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings."
II,V,JULIET,"Now is the sun upon the highmost hill"
II,V,JULIET,"Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve"
II,V,JULIET,"Is three long hours, yet she is not come."
II,V,JULIET,"Had she affections and warm youthful blood,"
II,V,JULIET,"She would be as swift in motion as a ball;"
II,V,JULIET,"My words would bandy her to my sweet love,"
II,V,JULIET,"And his to me:"
II,V,JULIET,"But old folks, many feign as they were dead;"
II,V,JULIET,"Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead."
II,V,JULIET,"O God, she comes!"
II,V,JULIET,"O honey nurse, what news?"
II,V,JULIET,"Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away."
II,V,Nurse,"Peter, stay at the gate."
II,V,JULIET,"Now, good sweet nurse,--O Lord, why look'st thou sad?"
II,V,JULIET,"Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;"
II,V,JULIET,"If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news"
II,V,JULIET,"By playing it to me with so sour a face."
II,V,Nurse,"I am a-weary, give me leave awhile:"
II,V,Nurse,"Fie, how my bones ache! what a jaunt have I had!"
II,V,JULIET,"I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news:"
II,V,JULIET,"Nay, come, I pray thee, speak; good, good nurse, speak."
II,V,Nurse,"Jesu, what haste? can you not stay awhile?"
II,V,Nurse,"Do you not see that I am out of breath?"
II,V,JULIET,"How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath"
II,V,JULIET,"To say to me that thou art out of breath?"
II,V,JULIET,"The excuse that thou dost make in this delay"
II,V,JULIET,"Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse."
II,V,JULIET,"Is thy news good, or bad? answer to that;"
II,V,JULIET,"Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance:"
II,V,JULIET,"Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad?"
II,V,Nurse,"Well, you have made a simple choice; you know not"
II,V,Nurse,"how to choose a man: Romeo! no, not he; though his"
II,V,Nurse,"face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels"
II,V,Nurse,"all men's; and for a hand, and a foot, and a body,"
II,V,Nurse,"though they be not to be talked on, yet they are"
II,V,Nurse,"past compare: he is not the flower of courtesy,"
II,V,Nurse,"but, I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. Go thy"
II,V,Nurse,"ways, wench; serve God. What, have you dined at home?"
II,V,JULIET,"No, no: but all this did I know before."
II,V,JULIET,"What says he of our marriage? what of that?"
II,V,Nurse,"Lord, how my head aches! what a head have I!"
II,V,Nurse,"It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces."
II,V,Nurse,"My back o' t' other side,--O, my back, my back!"
II,V,Nurse,"Beshrew your heart for sending me about,"
II,V,Nurse,"To catch my death with jaunting up and down!"
II,V,JULIET,"I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well."
II,V,JULIET,"Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?"
II,V,Nurse,"Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a"
II,V,Nurse,"courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I"
II,V,Nurse,"warrant, a virtuous,--Where is your mother?"
II,V,JULIET,"Where is my mother! why, she is within;"
II,V,JULIET,"Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest!"
II,V,JULIET,"'Your love says, like an honest gentleman,"
II,V,JULIET,"Where is your mother?'"
II,V,Nurse,"O God's lady dear!"
II,V,Nurse,"Are you so hot? marry, come up, I trow;"
II,V,Nurse,"Is this the poultice for my aching bones?"
II,V,Nurse,"Henceforward do your messages yourself."
II,V,JULIET,"Here's such a coil! come, what says Romeo?"
II,V,Nurse,"Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?"
II,V,JULIET,"I have."
II,V,Nurse,"Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell;"
II,V,Nurse,"There stays a husband to make you a wife:"
II,V,Nurse,"Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks,"
II,V,Nurse,"They'll be in scarlet straight at any news."
II,V,Nurse,"Hie you to church; I must another way,"
II,V,Nurse,"To fetch a ladder, by the which your love"
II,V,Nurse,"Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark:"
II,V,Nurse,"I am the drudge and toil in your delight,"
II,V,Nurse,"But you shall bear the burden soon at night."
II,V,Nurse,"Go; I'll to dinner: hie you to the cell."
II,V,JULIET,"Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell."
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"So smile the heavens upon this holy act,"
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"That after hours with sorrow chide us not!"
II,VI,ROMEO,"Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,"
II,VI,ROMEO,"It cannot countervail the exchange of joy"
II,VI,ROMEO,"That one short minute gives me in her sight:"
II,VI,ROMEO,"Do thou but close our hands with holy words,"
II,VI,ROMEO,"Then love-devouring death do what he dare;"
II,VI,ROMEO,"It is enough I may but call her mine."
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"These violent delights have violent ends"
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,"
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey"
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Is loathsome in his own deliciousness"
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And in the taste confounds the appetite:"
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;"
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Here comes the lady: O, so light a foot"
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint:"
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"A lover may bestride the gossamer"
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"That idles in the wanton summer air,"
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And yet not fall; so light is vanity."
II,VI,JULIET,"Good even to my ghostly confessor."
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both."
II,VI,JULIET,"As much to him, else is his thanks too much."
II,VI,ROMEO,"Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy"
II,VI,ROMEO,"Be heap'd like mine and that thy skill be more"
II,VI,ROMEO,"To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath"
II,VI,ROMEO,"This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue"
II,VI,ROMEO,"Unfold the imagined happiness that both"
II,VI,ROMEO,"Receive in either by this dear encounter."
II,VI,JULIET,"Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,"
II,VI,JULIET,"Brags of his substance, not of ornament:"
II,VI,JULIET,"They are but beggars that can count their worth;"
II,VI,JULIET,"But my true love is grown to such excess"
II,VI,JULIET,"I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth."
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Come, come with me, and we will make short work;"
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone"
II,VI,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Till holy church incorporate two in one."
III,I,BENVOLIO,"I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire:"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl;"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Thou art like one of those fellows that when he"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"upon the table and says 'God send me no need of"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"thee!' and by the operation of the second cup draws"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need."
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Am I like such a fellow?"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and as"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"soon moody to be moved."
III,I,BENVOLIO,"And what to?"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Nay, an there were two such, we should have none"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou! why,"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more,"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast: thou"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes: what"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel?"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Thy head is as fun of quarrels as an egg is full of"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"an egg for quarrelling: thou hast quarrelled with a"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"man for coughing in the street, because he hath"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun:"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"his new doublet before Easter? with another, for"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"tying his new shoes with old riband? and yet thou"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"wilt tutor me from quarrelling!"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"The fee-simple! O simple!"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"By my head, here come the Capulets."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"By my heel, I care not."
III,I,TYBALT,"Follow me close, for I will speak to them."
III,I,TYBALT,"Gentlemen, good den: a word with one of you."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"And but one word with one of us? couple it with"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"something; make it a word and a blow."
III,I,TYBALT,"You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you"
III,I,TYBALT,"will give me occasion."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Could you not take some occasion without giving?"
III,I,TYBALT,"Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo,--"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Consort! what, dost thou make us minstrels? an"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"discords: here's my fiddlestick; here's that shall"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"make you dance. 'Zounds, consort!"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"We talk here in the public haunt of men:"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Either withdraw unto some private place,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"And reason coldly of your grievances,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze;"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I."
III,I,TYBALT,"Well, peace be with you, sir: here comes my man."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"But I'll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery:"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower;"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Your worship in that sense may call him 'man.'"
III,I,TYBALT,"Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford"
III,I,TYBALT,"No better term than this,--thou art a villain."
III,I,ROMEO,"Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee"
III,I,ROMEO,"Doth much excuse the appertaining rage"
III,I,ROMEO,"To such a greeting: villain am I none;"
III,I,ROMEO,"Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not."
III,I,TYBALT,"Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries"
III,I,TYBALT,"That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw."
III,I,ROMEO,"I do protest, I never injured thee,"
III,I,ROMEO,"But love thee better than thou canst devise,"
III,I,ROMEO,"Till thou shalt know the reason of my love:"
III,I,ROMEO,"And so, good Capulet,--which name I tender"
III,I,ROMEO,"As dearly as my own,--be satisfied."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Alla stoccata carries it away."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?"
III,I,TYBALT,"What wouldst thou have with me?"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as you"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"by the ears? make haste, lest mine be about your"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"ears ere it be out."
III,I,TYBALT,"I am for you."
III,I,ROMEO,"Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Come, sir, your passado."
III,I,ROMEO,"Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons."
III,I,ROMEO,"Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage!"
III,I,ROMEO,"Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath"
III,I,ROMEO,"Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:"
III,I,ROMEO,"Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"I am hurt."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"A plague o' both your houses! I am sped."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Is he gone, and hath nothing?"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"What, art thou hurt?"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon."
III,I,ROMEO,"Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o'"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"was hurt under your arm."
III,I,ROMEO,"I thought all for the best."
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Help me into some house, Benvolio,"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"They have made worms' meat of me: I have it,"
III,I,MERCUTIO,"And soundly too: your houses!"
III,I,ROMEO,"This gentleman, the prince's near ally,"
III,I,ROMEO,"My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt"
III,I,ROMEO,"In my behalf; my reputation stain'd"
III,I,ROMEO,"With Tybalt's slander,--Tybalt, that an hour"
III,I,ROMEO,"Hath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet,"
III,I,ROMEO,"Thy beauty hath made me effeminate"
III,I,ROMEO,"And in my temper soften'd valour's steel!"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead!"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Which too untimely here did scorn the earth."
III,I,ROMEO,"This day's black fate on more days doth depend;"
III,I,ROMEO,"This but begins the woe, others must end."
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Here comes the furious Tybalt back again."
III,I,ROMEO,"Alive, in triumph! and Mercutio slain!"
III,I,ROMEO,"Away to heaven, respective lenity,"
III,I,ROMEO,"And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!"
III,I,ROMEO,"Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again,"
III,I,ROMEO,"That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul"
III,I,ROMEO,"Is but a little way above our heads,"
III,I,ROMEO,"Staying for thine to keep him company:"
III,I,ROMEO,"Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him."
III,I,TYBALT,"Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,"
III,I,TYBALT,"Shalt with him hence."
III,I,ROMEO,"This shall determine that."
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Romeo, away, be gone!"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain."
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee death,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away!"
III,I,ROMEO,"O, I am fortune's fool!"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Why dost thou stay?"
III,I,First Citizen,"Which way ran he that kill'd Mercutio?"
III,I,First Citizen,"Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he?"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"There lies that Tybalt."
III,I,First Citizen,"Up, sir, go with me;"
III,I,First Citizen,"I charge thee in the princes name, obey."
III,I,PRINCE,"Where are the vile beginners of this fray?"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"O noble prince, I can discover all"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl:"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"There lies the man, slain by young Romeo,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio."
III,I,LADY CAPULET,"Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother's child!"
III,I,LADY CAPULET,"O prince! O cousin! husband! O, the blood is spilt"
III,I,LADY CAPULET,"O my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true,"
III,I,LADY CAPULET,"For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague."
III,I,LADY CAPULET,"O cousin, cousin!"
III,I,PRINCE,"Benvolio, who began this bloody fray?"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay;"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Romeo that spoke him fair, bade him bethink"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Your high displeasure: all this uttered"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow'd,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Could not take truce with the unruly spleen"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Of Tybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Who all as hot, turns deadly point to point,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Cold death aside, and with the other sends"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Retorts it: Romeo he cries aloud,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"'Hold, friends! friends, part!' and, swifter than"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"his tongue,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"His agile arm beats down their fatal points,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"And 'twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled;"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"But by and by comes back to Romeo,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Who had but newly entertain'd revenge,"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"And to 't they go like lightning, for, ere I"
III,I,BENVOLIO,"Could draw to part them, was stout Tybalt slain."
III,I,BENVOLIO,"And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly."
III,I,BENVOLIO,"This is the truth, or let Benvolio die."
III,I,LADY CAPULET,"He is a kinsman to the Montague;"
III,I,LADY CAPULET,"Affection makes him false; he speaks not true:"
III,I,LADY CAPULET,"Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,"
III,I,LADY CAPULET,"And all those twenty could but kill one life."
III,I,LADY CAPULET,"I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give;"
III,I,LADY CAPULET,"Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live."
III,I,PRINCE,"Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio;"
III,I,PRINCE,"Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?"
III,I,MONTAGUE,"Not Romeo, prince, he was Mercutio's friend;"
III,I,MONTAGUE,"His fault concludes but what the law should end,"
III,I,MONTAGUE,"The life of Tybalt."
III,I,PRINCE,"And for that offence"
III,I,PRINCE,"Immediately we do exile him hence:"
III,I,PRINCE,"I have an interest in your hate's proceeding,"
III,I,PRINCE,"My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding;"
III,I,PRINCE,"But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine"
III,I,PRINCE,"That you shall all repent the loss of mine:"
III,I,PRINCE,"I will be deaf to pleading and excuses;"
III,I,PRINCE,"Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses:"
III,I,PRINCE,"Therefore use none: let Romeo hence in haste,"
III,I,PRINCE,"Else, when he's found, that hour is his last."
III,I,PRINCE,"Bear hence this body and attend our will:"
III,I,PRINCE,"Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill."
III,II,JULIET,"Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,"
III,II,JULIET,"Towards Phoebus' lodging: such a wagoner"
III,II,JULIET,"As Phaethon would whip you to the west,"
III,II,JULIET,"And bring in cloudy night immediately."
III,II,JULIET,"Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,"
III,II,JULIET,"That runaway's eyes may wink and Romeo"
III,II,JULIET,"Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen."
III,II,JULIET,"Lovers can see to do their amorous rites"
III,II,JULIET,"By their own beauties; or, if love be blind,"
III,II,JULIET,"It best agrees with night. Come, civil night,"
III,II,JULIET,"Thou sober-suited matron, all in black,"
III,II,JULIET,"And learn me how to lose a winning match,"
III,II,JULIET,"Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:"
III,II,JULIET,"Hood my unmann'd blood, bating in my cheeks,"
III,II,JULIET,"With thy black mantle; till strange love, grown bold,"
III,II,JULIET,"Think true love acted simple modesty."
III,II,JULIET,"Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;"
III,II,JULIET,"For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night"
III,II,JULIET,"Whiter than new snow on a raven's back."
III,II,JULIET,"Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,"
III,II,JULIET,"Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,"
III,II,JULIET,"Take him and cut him out in little stars,"
III,II,JULIET,"And he will make the face of heaven so fine"
III,II,JULIET,"That all the world will be in love with night"
III,II,JULIET,"And pay no worship to the garish sun."
III,II,JULIET,"O, I have bought the mansion of a love,"
III,II,JULIET,"But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold,"
III,II,JULIET,"Not yet enjoy'd: so tedious is this day"
III,II,JULIET,"As is the night before some festival"
III,II,JULIET,"To an impatient child that hath new robes"
III,II,JULIET,"And may not wear them. O, here comes my nurse,"
III,II,JULIET,"And she brings news; and every tongue that speaks"
III,II,JULIET,"But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence."
III,II,JULIET,"Now, nurse, what news? What hast thou there? the cords"
III,II,JULIET,"That Romeo bid thee fetch?"
III,II,Nurse,"Ay, ay, the cords."
III,II,JULIET,"Ay me! what news? why dost thou wring thy hands?"
III,II,Nurse,"Ah, well-a-day! he's dead, he's dead, he's dead!"
III,II,Nurse,"We are undone, lady, we are undone!"
III,II,Nurse,"Alack the day! he's gone, he's kill'd, he's dead!"
III,II,JULIET,"Can heaven be so envious?"
III,II,Nurse,"Romeo can,"
III,II,Nurse,"Though heaven cannot: O Romeo, Romeo!"
III,II,Nurse,"Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!"
III,II,JULIET,"What devil art thou, that dost torment me thus?"
III,II,JULIET,"This torture should be roar'd in dismal hell."
III,II,JULIET,"Hath Romeo slain himself? say thou but 'I,'"
III,II,JULIET,"And that bare vowel 'I' shall poison more"
III,II,JULIET,"Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice:"
III,II,JULIET,"I am not I, if there be such an I;"
III,II,JULIET,"Or those eyes shut, that make thee answer 'I.'"
III,II,JULIET,"If he be slain, say 'I'; or if not, no:"
III,II,JULIET,"Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe."
III,II,Nurse,"I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes,--"
III,II,Nurse,"God save the mark!--here on his manly breast:"
III,II,Nurse,"A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse;"
III,II,Nurse,"Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood,"
III,II,Nurse,"All in gore-blood; I swounded at the sight."
III,II,JULIET,"O, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once!"
III,II,JULIET,"To prison, eyes, ne'er look on liberty!"
III,II,JULIET,"Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here;"
III,II,JULIET,"And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!"
III,II,Nurse,"O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had!"
III,II,Nurse,"O courteous Tybalt! honest gentleman!"
III,II,Nurse,"That ever I should live to see thee dead!"
III,II,JULIET,"What storm is this that blows so contrary?"
III,II,JULIET,"Is Romeo slaughter'd, and is Tybalt dead?"
III,II,JULIET,"My dear-loved cousin, and my dearer lord?"
III,II,JULIET,"Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom!"
III,II,JULIET,"For who is living, if those two are gone?"
III,II,Nurse,"Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished;"
III,II,Nurse,"Romeo that kill'd him, he is banished."
III,II,JULIET,"O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?"
III,II,Nurse,"It did, it did; alas the day, it did!"
III,II,JULIET,"O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!"
III,II,JULIET,"Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?"
III,II,JULIET,"Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!"
III,II,JULIET,"Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!"
III,II,JULIET,"Despised substance of divinest show!"
III,II,JULIET,"Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,"
III,II,JULIET,"A damned saint, an honourable villain!"
III,II,JULIET,"O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,"
III,II,JULIET,"When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend"
III,II,JULIET,"In moral paradise of such sweet flesh?"
III,II,JULIET,"Was ever book containing such vile matter"
III,II,JULIET,"So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell"
III,II,JULIET,"In such a gorgeous palace!"
III,II,Nurse,"There's no trust,"
III,II,Nurse,"No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,"
III,II,Nurse,"All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers."
III,II,Nurse,"Ah, where's my man? give me some aqua vitae:"
III,II,Nurse,"These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old."
III,II,Nurse,"Shame come to Romeo!"
III,II,JULIET,"Blister'd be thy tongue"
III,II,JULIET,"For such a wish! he was not born to shame:"
III,II,JULIET,"Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;"
III,II,JULIET,"For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd"
III,II,JULIET,"Sole monarch of the universal earth."
III,II,JULIET,"O, what a beast was I to chide at him!"
III,II,Nurse,"Will you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin?"
III,II,JULIET,"Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?"
III,II,JULIET,"Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,"
III,II,JULIET,"When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?"
III,II,JULIET,"But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?"
III,II,JULIET,"That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband:"
III,II,JULIET,"Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring;"
III,II,JULIET,"Your tributary drops belong to woe,"
III,II,JULIET,"Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy."
III,II,JULIET,"My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;"
III,II,JULIET,"And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband:"
III,II,JULIET,"All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?"
III,II,JULIET,"Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death,"
III,II,JULIET,"That murder'd me: I would forget it fain;"
III,II,JULIET,"But, O, it presses to my memory,"
III,II,JULIET,"Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds:"
III,II,JULIET,"'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo--banished;'"
III,II,JULIET,"That 'banished,' that one word 'banished,'"
III,II,JULIET,"Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death"
III,II,JULIET,"Was woe enough, if it had ended there:"
III,II,JULIET,"Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship"
III,II,JULIET,"And needly will be rank'd with other griefs,"
III,II,JULIET,"Why follow'd not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,'"
III,II,JULIET,"Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both,"
III,II,JULIET,"Which modern lamentations might have moved?"
III,II,JULIET,"But with a rear-ward following Tybalt's death,"
III,II,JULIET,"'Romeo is banished,' to speak that word,"
III,II,JULIET,"Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,"
III,II,JULIET,"All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished!'"
III,II,JULIET,"There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,"
III,II,JULIET,"In that word's death; no words can that woe sound."
III,II,JULIET,"Where is my father, and my mother, nurse?"
III,II,Nurse,"Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse:"
III,II,Nurse,"Will you go to them? I will bring you thither."
III,II,JULIET,"Wash they his wounds with tears: mine shall be spent,"
III,II,JULIET,"When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment."
III,II,JULIET,"Take up those cords: poor ropes, you are beguiled,"
III,II,JULIET,"Both you and I; for Romeo is exiled:"
III,II,JULIET,"He made you for a highway to my bed;"
III,II,JULIET,"But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed."
III,II,JULIET,"Come, cords, come, nurse; I'll to my wedding-bed;"
III,II,JULIET,"And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!"
III,II,Nurse,"Hie to your chamber: I'll find Romeo"
III,II,Nurse,"To comfort you: I wot well where he is."
III,II,Nurse,"Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night:"
III,II,Nurse,"I'll to him; he is hid at Laurence' cell."
III,II,JULIET,"O, find him! give this ring to my true knight,"
III,II,JULIET,"And bid him come to take his last farewell."
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And thou art wedded to calamity."
III,III,ROMEO,"Father, what news? what is the prince's doom?"
III,III,ROMEO,"What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,"
III,III,ROMEO,"That I yet know not?"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Too familiar"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Is my dear son with such sour company:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom."
III,III,ROMEO,"What less than dooms-day is the prince's doom?"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Not body's death, but body's banishment."
III,III,ROMEO,"Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;'"
III,III,ROMEO,"For exile hath more terror in his look,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Much more than death: do not say 'banishment.'"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Hence from Verona art thou banished:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Be patient, for the world is broad and wide."
III,III,ROMEO,"There is no world without Verona walls,"
III,III,ROMEO,"But purgatory, torture, hell itself."
III,III,ROMEO,"Hence-banished is banish'd from the world,"
III,III,ROMEO,"And world's exile is death: then banished,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Is death mis-term'd: calling death banishment,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe,"
III,III,ROMEO,"And smilest upon the stroke that murders me."
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind prince,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And turn'd that black word death to banishment:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not."
III,III,ROMEO,"'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog"
III,III,ROMEO,"And little mouse, every unworthy thing,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Live here in heaven and may look on her;"
III,III,ROMEO,"But Romeo may not: more validity,"
III,III,ROMEO,"More honourable state, more courtship lives"
III,III,ROMEO,"In carrion-flies than Romeo: they my seize"
III,III,ROMEO,"On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand"
III,III,ROMEO,"And steal immortal blessing from her lips,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Who even in pure and vestal modesty,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin;"
III,III,ROMEO,"But Romeo may not; he is banished:"
III,III,ROMEO,"Flies may do this, but I from this must fly:"
III,III,ROMEO,"They are free men, but I am banished."
III,III,ROMEO,"And say'st thou yet that exile is not death?"
III,III,ROMEO,"Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife,"
III,III,ROMEO,"No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,"
III,III,ROMEO,"But 'banished' to kill me?--'banished'?"
III,III,ROMEO,"O friar, the damned use that word in hell;"
III,III,ROMEO,"Howlings attend it: how hast thou the heart,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,"
III,III,ROMEO,"A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd,"
III,III,ROMEO,"To mangle me with that word 'banished'?"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thou fond mad man, hear me but speak a word."
III,III,ROMEO,"O, thou wilt speak again of banishment."
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"I'll give thee armour to keep off that word:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To comfort thee, though thou art banished."
III,III,ROMEO,"Yet 'banished'? Hang up philosophy!"
III,III,ROMEO,"Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom,"
III,III,ROMEO,"It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more."
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"O, then I see that madmen have no ears."
III,III,ROMEO,"How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Let me dispute with thee of thy estate."
III,III,ROMEO,"Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel:"
III,III,ROMEO,"Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,"
III,III,ROMEO,"An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Doting like me and like me banished,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,"
III,III,ROMEO,"And fall upon the ground, as I do now,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Taking the measure of an unmade grave."
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Arise; one knocks; good Romeo, hide thyself."
III,III,ROMEO,"Not I; unless the breath of heartsick groans,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Mist-like, infold me from the search of eyes."
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Hark, how they knock! Who's there? Romeo, arise;"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thou wilt be taken. Stay awhile! Stand up;"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Run to my study. By and by! God's will,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"What simpleness is this! I come, I come!"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Who knocks so hard? whence come you? what's your will?"
III,III,Nurse,"my errand;"
III,III,Nurse,"I come from Lady Juliet."
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Welcome, then."
III,III,Nurse,"O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar,"
III,III,Nurse,"Where is my lady's lord, where's Romeo?"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk."
III,III,Nurse,"O, he is even in my mistress' case,"
III,III,Nurse,"Just in her case! O woful sympathy!"
III,III,Nurse,"Piteous predicament! Even so lies she,"
III,III,Nurse,"Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering."
III,III,Nurse,"Stand up, stand up; stand, and you be a man:"
III,III,Nurse,"For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand;"
III,III,Nurse,"Why should you fall into so deep an O?"
III,III,ROMEO,"Nurse!"
III,III,Nurse,"Ah sir! ah sir! Well, death's the end of all."
III,III,ROMEO,"Spakest thou of Juliet? how is it with her?"
III,III,ROMEO,"Doth she not think me an old murderer,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy"
III,III,ROMEO,"With blood removed but little from her own?"
III,III,ROMEO,"Where is she? and how doth she? and what says"
III,III,ROMEO,"My conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love?"
III,III,Nurse,"O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps;"
III,III,Nurse,"And now falls on her bed; and then starts up,"
III,III,Nurse,"And Tybalt calls; and then on Romeo cries,"
III,III,Nurse,"And then down falls again."
III,III,ROMEO,"As if that name,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Shot from the deadly level of a gun,"
III,III,ROMEO,"Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand"
III,III,ROMEO,"Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me,"
III,III,ROMEO,"In what vile part of this anatomy"
III,III,ROMEO,"Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack"
III,III,ROMEO,"The hateful mansion."
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Hold thy desperate hand:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The unreasonable fury of a beast:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Unseemly woman in a seeming man!"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"I thought thy disposition better temper'd."
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself?"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And stay thy lady too that lives in thee,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"By doing damned hate upon thyself?"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth?"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"In thee at once; which thou at once wouldst lose."
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit;"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And usest none in that true use indeed"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Digressing from the valour of a man;"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish;"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Misshapen in the conduct of them both,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Like powder in a skitless soldier's flask,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Is set afire by thine own ignorance,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And thou dismember'd with thine own defence."
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead;"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"But thou slew'st Tybalt; there are thou happy too:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The law that threaten'd death becomes thy friend"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And turns it to exile; there art thou happy:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"A pack of blessings lights up upon thy back;"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Happiness courts thee in her best array;"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable."
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"But look thou stay not till the watch be set,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"For then thou canst not pass to Mantua;"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"With twenty hundred thousand times more joy"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Than thou went'st forth in lamentation."
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Go before, nurse: commend me to thy lady;"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And bid her hasten all the house to bed,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Romeo is coming."
III,III,Nurse,"O Lord, I could have stay'd here all the night"
III,III,Nurse,"To hear good counsel: O, what learning is!"
III,III,Nurse,"My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come."
III,III,ROMEO,"Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide."
III,III,Nurse,"Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir:"
III,III,Nurse,"Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late."
III,III,ROMEO,"How well my comfort is revived by this!"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Go hence; good night; and here stands all your state:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Either be gone before the watch be set,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Or by the break of day disguised from hence:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Sojourn in Mantua; I'll find out your man,"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And he shall signify from time to time"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Every good hap to you that chances here:"
III,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Give me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good night."
III,III,ROMEO,"But that a joy past joy calls out on me,"
III,III,ROMEO,"It were a grief, so brief to part with thee: Farewell."
III,IV,CAPULET,"Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily,"
III,IV,CAPULET,"That we have had no time to move our daughter:"
III,IV,CAPULET,"Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,"
III,IV,CAPULET,"And so did I:--Well, we were born to die."
III,IV,CAPULET,"'Tis very late, she'll not come down to-night:"
III,IV,CAPULET,"I promise you, but for your company,"
III,IV,CAPULET,"I would have been a-bed an hour ago."
III,IV,PARIS,"These times of woe afford no time to woo."
III,IV,PARIS,"Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter."
III,IV,LADY CAPULET,"I will, and know her mind early to-morrow;"
III,IV,LADY CAPULET,"To-night she is mew'd up to her heaviness."
III,IV,CAPULET,"Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender"
III,IV,CAPULET,"Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled"
III,IV,CAPULET,"In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not."
III,IV,CAPULET,"Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;"
III,IV,CAPULET,"Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love;"
III,IV,CAPULET,"And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next--"
III,IV,CAPULET,"But, soft! what day is this?"
III,IV,PARIS,"Monday, my lord,"
III,IV,CAPULET,"Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon,"
III,IV,CAPULET,"O' Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her,"
III,IV,CAPULET,"She shall be married to this noble earl."
III,IV,CAPULET,"Will you be ready? do you like this haste?"
III,IV,CAPULET,"We'll keep no great ado,--a friend or two;"
III,IV,CAPULET,"For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,"
III,IV,CAPULET,"It may be thought we held him carelessly,"
III,IV,CAPULET,"Being our kinsman, if we revel much:"
III,IV,CAPULET,"Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends,"
III,IV,CAPULET,"And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?"
III,IV,PARIS,"My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow."
III,IV,CAPULET,"Well get you gone: o' Thursday be it, then."
III,IV,CAPULET,"Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,"
III,IV,CAPULET,"Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day."
III,IV,CAPULET,"Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho!"
III,IV,CAPULET,"Afore me! it is so very very late,"
III,IV,CAPULET,"That we may call it early by and by."
III,IV,CAPULET,"Good night."
III,V,JULIET,"Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:"
III,V,JULIET,"It was the nightingale, and not the lark,"
III,V,JULIET,"That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;"
III,V,JULIET,"Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree:"
III,V,JULIET,"Believe me, love, it was the nightingale."
III,V,ROMEO,"It was the lark, the herald of the morn,"
III,V,ROMEO,"No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks"
III,V,ROMEO,"Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:"
III,V,ROMEO,"Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day"
III,V,ROMEO,"Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops."
III,V,ROMEO,"I must be gone and live, or stay and die."
III,V,JULIET,"Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I:"
III,V,JULIET,"It is some meteor that the sun exhales,"
III,V,JULIET,"To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,"
III,V,JULIET,"And light thee on thy way to Mantua:"
III,V,JULIET,"Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone."
III,V,ROMEO,"Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death;"
III,V,ROMEO,"I am content, so thou wilt have it so."
III,V,ROMEO,"I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,"
III,V,ROMEO,"'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;"
III,V,ROMEO,"Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat"
III,V,ROMEO,"The vaulty heaven so high above our heads:"
III,V,ROMEO,"I have more care to stay than will to go:"
III,V,ROMEO,"Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so."
III,V,ROMEO,"How is't, my soul? let's talk; it is not day."
III,V,JULIET,"It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!"
III,V,JULIET,"It is the lark that sings so out of tune,"
III,V,JULIET,"Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps."
III,V,JULIET,"Some say the lark makes sweet division;"
III,V,JULIET,"This doth not so, for she divideth us:"
III,V,JULIET,"Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,"
III,V,JULIET,"O, now I would they had changed voices too!"
III,V,JULIET,"Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,"
III,V,JULIET,"Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day,"
III,V,JULIET,"O, now be gone; more light and light it grows."
III,V,ROMEO,"More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!"
III,V,Nurse,"Madam!"
III,V,JULIET,"Nurse?"
III,V,Nurse,"Your lady mother is coming to your chamber:"
III,V,Nurse,"The day is broke; be wary, look about."
III,V,JULIET,"Then, window, let day in, and let life out."
III,V,ROMEO,"Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend."
III,V,JULIET,"Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay, husband, friend!"
III,V,JULIET,"I must hear from thee every day in the hour,"
III,V,JULIET,"For in a minute there are many days:"
III,V,JULIET,"O, by this count I shall be much in years"
III,V,JULIET,"Ere I again behold my Romeo!"
III,V,ROMEO,"Farewell!"
III,V,ROMEO,"I will omit no opportunity"
III,V,ROMEO,"That may convey my greetings, love, to thee."
III,V,JULIET,"O think'st thou we shall ever meet again?"
III,V,ROMEO,"I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve"
III,V,ROMEO,"For sweet discourses in our time to come."
III,V,JULIET,"O God, I have an ill-divining soul!"
III,V,JULIET,"Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,"
III,V,JULIET,"As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:"
III,V,JULIET,"Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale."
III,V,ROMEO,"And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:"
III,V,ROMEO,"Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!"
III,V,JULIET,"O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle:"
III,V,JULIET,"If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him."
III,V,JULIET,"That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune;"
III,V,JULIET,"For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,"
III,V,JULIET,"But send him back."
III,V,JULIET,"Who is't that calls? is it my lady mother?"
III,V,JULIET,"Is she not down so late, or up so early?"
III,V,JULIET,"What unaccustom'd cause procures her hither?"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Why, how now, Juliet!"
III,V,JULIET,"Madam, I am not well."
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Evermore weeping for your cousin's death?"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live;"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Therefore, have done: some grief shows much of love;"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"But much of grief shows still some want of wit."
III,V,JULIET,"Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss."
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Which you weep for."
III,V,JULIET,"Feeling so the loss,"
III,V,JULIET,"Cannot choose but ever weep the friend."
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death,"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him."
III,V,JULIET,"What villain madam?"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"That same villain, Romeo."
III,V,JULIET,"God Pardon him! I do, with all my heart;"
III,V,JULIET,"And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart."
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"That is, because the traitor murderer lives."
III,V,JULIET,"Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands:"
III,V,JULIET,"Would none but I might venge my cousin's death!"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not:"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Where that same banish'd runagate doth live,"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram,"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"That he shall soon keep Tybalt company:"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied."
III,V,JULIET,"Indeed, I never shall be satisfied"
III,V,JULIET,"With Romeo, till I behold him--dead--"
III,V,JULIET,"Is my poor heart for a kinsman vex'd."
III,V,JULIET,"Madam, if you could find out but a man"
III,V,JULIET,"To bear a poison, I would temper it;"
III,V,JULIET,"That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,"
III,V,JULIET,"Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors"
III,V,JULIET,"To hear him named, and cannot come to him."
III,V,JULIET,"To wreak the love I bore my cousin"
III,V,JULIET,"Upon his body that slaughter'd him!"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Find thou the means, and I'll find such a man."
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings, girl."
III,V,JULIET,"And joy comes well in such a needy time:"
III,V,JULIET,"What are they, I beseech your ladyship?"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child;"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"One who, to put thee from thy heaviness,"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy,"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"That thou expect'st not nor I look'd not for."
III,V,JULIET,"Madam, in happy time, what day is that?"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn,"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"The gallant, young and noble gentleman,"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church,"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride."
III,V,JULIET,"Now, by Saint Peter's Church and Peter too,"
III,V,JULIET,"He shall not make me there a joyful bride."
III,V,JULIET,"I wonder at this haste; that I must wed"
III,V,JULIET,"Ere he, that should be husband, comes to woo."
III,V,JULIET,"I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam,"
III,V,JULIET,"I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear,"
III,V,JULIET,"It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,"
III,V,JULIET,"Rather than Paris. These are news indeed!"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Here comes your father; tell him so yourself,"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"And see how he will take it at your hands."
III,V,CAPULET,"When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;"
III,V,CAPULET,"But for the sunset of my brother's son"
III,V,CAPULET,"It rains downright."
III,V,CAPULET,"How now! a conduit, girl? what, still in tears?"
III,V,CAPULET,"Evermore showering? In one little body"
III,V,CAPULET,"Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind;"
III,V,CAPULET,"For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,"
III,V,CAPULET,"Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,"
III,V,CAPULET,"Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs;"
III,V,CAPULET,"Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them,"
III,V,CAPULET,"Without a sudden calm, will overset"
III,V,CAPULET,"Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife!"
III,V,CAPULET,"Have you deliver'd to her our decree?"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks."
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"I would the fool were married to her grave!"
III,V,CAPULET,"Soft! take me with you, take me with you, wife."
III,V,CAPULET,"How! will she none? doth she not give us thanks?"
III,V,CAPULET,"Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest,"
III,V,CAPULET,"Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought"
III,V,CAPULET,"So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?"
III,V,JULIET,"Not proud, you have; but thankful, that you have:"
III,V,JULIET,"Proud can I never be of what I hate;"
III,V,JULIET,"But thankful even for hate, that is meant love."
III,V,CAPULET,"How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this?"
III,V,CAPULET,"'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;'"
III,V,CAPULET,"And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you,"
III,V,CAPULET,"Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds,"
III,V,CAPULET,"But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next,"
III,V,CAPULET,"To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church,"
III,V,CAPULET,"Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither."
III,V,CAPULET,"Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage!"
III,V,CAPULET,"You tallow-face!"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Fie, fie! what, are you mad?"
III,V,JULIET,"Good father, I beseech you on my knees,"
III,V,JULIET,"Hear me with patience but to speak a word."
III,V,CAPULET,"Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!"
III,V,CAPULET,"I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,"
III,V,CAPULET,"Or never after look me in the face:"
III,V,CAPULET,"Speak not, reply not, do not answer me;"
III,V,CAPULET,"My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest"
III,V,CAPULET,"That God had lent us but this only child;"
III,V,CAPULET,"But now I see this one is one too much,"
III,V,CAPULET,"And that we have a curse in having her:"
III,V,CAPULET,"Out on her, hilding!"
III,V,Nurse,"God in heaven bless her!"
III,V,Nurse,"You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so."
III,V,CAPULET,"And why, my lady wisdom? hold your tongue,"
III,V,CAPULET,"Good prudence; smatter with your gossips, go."
III,V,Nurse,"I speak no treason."
III,V,CAPULET,"O, God ye god-den."
III,V,Nurse,"May not one speak?"
III,V,CAPULET,"Peace, you mumbling fool!"
III,V,CAPULET,"Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl;"
III,V,CAPULET,"For here we need it not."
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"You are too hot."
III,V,CAPULET,"God's bread! it makes me mad:"
III,V,CAPULET,"Day, night, hour, tide, time, work, play,"
III,V,CAPULET,"Alone, in company, still my care hath been"
III,V,CAPULET,"To have her match'd: and having now provided"
III,V,CAPULET,"A gentleman of noble parentage,"
III,V,CAPULET,"Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,"
III,V,CAPULET,"Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,"
III,V,CAPULET,"Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man;"
III,V,CAPULET,"And then to have a wretched puling fool,"
III,V,CAPULET,"A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,"
III,V,CAPULET,"To answer 'I'll not wed; I cannot love,"
III,V,CAPULET,"I am too young; I pray you, pardon me.'"
III,V,CAPULET,"But, as you will not wed, I'll pardon you:"
III,V,CAPULET,"Graze where you will you shall not house with me:"
III,V,CAPULET,"Look to't, think on't, I do not use to jest."
III,V,CAPULET,"Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise:"
III,V,CAPULET,"An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend;"
III,V,CAPULET,"And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in"
III,V,CAPULET,"the streets,"
III,V,CAPULET,"For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee,"
III,V,CAPULET,"Nor what is mine shall never do thee good:"
III,V,CAPULET,"Trust to't, bethink you; I'll not be forsworn."
III,V,JULIET,"Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,"
III,V,JULIET,"That sees into the bottom of my grief?"
III,V,JULIET,"O, sweet my mother, cast me not away!"
III,V,JULIET,"Delay this marriage for a month, a week;"
III,V,JULIET,"Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed"
III,V,JULIET,"In that dim monument where Tybalt lies."
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word:"
III,V,LADY CAPULET,"Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee."
III,V,JULIET,"O God!--O nurse, how shall this be prevented?"
III,V,JULIET,"My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven;"
III,V,JULIET,"How shall that faith return again to earth,"
III,V,JULIET,"Unless that husband send it me from heaven"
III,V,JULIET,"By leaving earth? comfort me, counsel me."
III,V,JULIET,"Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems"
III,V,JULIET,"Upon so soft a subject as myself!"
III,V,JULIET,"What say'st thou? hast thou not a word of joy?"
III,V,JULIET,"Some comfort, nurse."
III,V,Nurse,"Faith, here it is."
III,V,Nurse,"Romeo is banish'd; and all the world to nothing,"
III,V,Nurse,"That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you;"
III,V,Nurse,"Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth."
III,V,Nurse,"Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,"
III,V,Nurse,"I think it best you married with the county."
III,V,Nurse,"O, he's a lovely gentleman!"
III,V,Nurse,"Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam,"
III,V,Nurse,"Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye"
III,V,Nurse,"As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,"
III,V,Nurse,"I think you are happy in this second match,"
III,V,Nurse,"For it excels your first: or if it did not,"
III,V,Nurse,"Your first is dead; or 'twere as good he were,"
III,V,Nurse,"As living here and you no use of him."
III,V,JULIET,"Speakest thou from thy heart?"
III,V,Nurse,"And from my soul too;"
III,V,Nurse,"Or else beshrew them both."
III,V,JULIET,"Amen!"
III,V,Nurse,"What?"
III,V,JULIET,"Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much."
III,V,JULIET,"Go in: and tell my lady I am gone,"
III,V,JULIET,"Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell,"
III,V,JULIET,"To make confession and to be absolved."
III,V,Nurse,"Marry, I will; and this is wisely done."
III,V,JULIET,"Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!"
III,V,JULIET,"Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,"
III,V,JULIET,"Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue"
III,V,JULIET,"Which she hath praised him with above compare"
III,V,JULIET,"So many thousand times? Go, counsellor;"
III,V,JULIET,"Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain."
III,V,JULIET,"I'll to the friar, to know his remedy:"
III,V,JULIET,"If all else fail, myself have power to die."
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"On Thursday, sir? the time is very short."
IV,I,PARIS,"My father Capulet will have it so;"
IV,I,PARIS,"And I am nothing slow to slack his haste."
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"You say you do not know the lady's mind:"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Uneven is the course, I like it not."
IV,I,PARIS,"Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,"
IV,I,PARIS,"And therefore have I little talk'd of love;"
IV,I,PARIS,"For Venus smiles not in a house of tears."
IV,I,PARIS,"Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous"
IV,I,PARIS,"That she doth give her sorrow so much sway,"
IV,I,PARIS,"And in his wisdom hastes our marriage,"
IV,I,PARIS,"To stop the inundation of her tears;"
IV,I,PARIS,"Which, too much minded by herself alone,"
IV,I,PARIS,"May be put from her by society:"
IV,I,PARIS,"Now do you know the reason of this haste."
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Look, sir, here comes the lady towards my cell."
IV,I,PARIS,"Happily met, my lady and my wife!"
IV,I,JULIET,"That may be, sir, when I may be a wife."
IV,I,PARIS,"That may be must be, love, on Thursday next."
IV,I,JULIET,"What must be shall be."
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"That's a certain text."
IV,I,PARIS,"Come you to make confession to this father?"
IV,I,JULIET,"To answer that, I should confess to you."
IV,I,PARIS,"Do not deny to him that you love me."
IV,I,JULIET,"I will confess to you that I love him."
IV,I,PARIS,"So will ye, I am sure, that you love me."
IV,I,JULIET,"If I do so, it will be of more price,"
IV,I,JULIET,"Being spoke behind your back, than to your face."
IV,I,PARIS,"Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears."
IV,I,JULIET,"The tears have got small victory by that;"
IV,I,JULIET,"For it was bad enough before their spite."
IV,I,PARIS,"Thou wrong'st it, more than tears, with that report."
IV,I,JULIET,"That is no slander, sir, which is a truth;"
IV,I,JULIET,"And what I spake, I spake it to my face."
IV,I,PARIS,"Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it."
IV,I,JULIET,"It may be so, for it is not mine own."
IV,I,JULIET,"Are you at leisure, holy father, now;"
IV,I,JULIET,"Or shall I come to you at evening mass?"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now."
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"My lord, we must entreat the time alone."
IV,I,PARIS,"God shield I should disturb devotion!"
IV,I,PARIS,"Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye:"
IV,I,PARIS,"Till then, adieu; and keep this holy kiss."
IV,I,JULIET,"O shut the door! and when thou hast done so,"
IV,I,JULIET,"Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help!"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Ah, Juliet, I already know thy grief;"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"It strains me past the compass of my wits:"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"On Thursday next be married to this county."
IV,I,JULIET,"Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this,"
IV,I,JULIET,"Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it:"
IV,I,JULIET,"If, in thy wisdom, thou canst give no help,"
IV,I,JULIET,"Do thou but call my resolution wise,"
IV,I,JULIET,"And with this knife I'll help it presently."
IV,I,JULIET,"God join'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands;"
IV,I,JULIET,"And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd,"
IV,I,JULIET,"Shall be the label to another deed,"
IV,I,JULIET,"Or my true heart with treacherous revolt"
IV,I,JULIET,"Turn to another, this shall slay them both:"
IV,I,JULIET,"Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time,"
IV,I,JULIET,"Give me some present counsel, or, behold,"
IV,I,JULIET,"'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife"
IV,I,JULIET,"Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that"
IV,I,JULIET,"Which the commission of thy years and art"
IV,I,JULIET,"Could to no issue of true honour bring."
IV,I,JULIET,"Be not so long to speak; I long to die,"
IV,I,JULIET,"If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy."
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope,"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Which craves as desperate an execution."
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"As that is desperate which we would prevent."
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"If, rather than to marry County Paris,"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Then is it likely thou wilt undertake"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"A thing like death to chide away this shame,"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"That copest with death himself to scape from it:"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy."
IV,I,JULIET,"O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,"
IV,I,JULIET,"From off the battlements of yonder tower;"
IV,I,JULIET,"Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk"
IV,I,JULIET,"Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;"
IV,I,JULIET,"Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,"
IV,I,JULIET,"O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,"
IV,I,JULIET,"With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;"
IV,I,JULIET,"Or bid me go into a new-made grave"
IV,I,JULIET,"And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;"
IV,I,JULIET,"Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;"
IV,I,JULIET,"And I will do it without fear or doubt,"
IV,I,JULIET,"To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love."
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow:"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To-morrow night look that thou lie alone;"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Take thou this vial, being then in bed,"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And this distilled liquor drink thou off;"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"When presently through all thy veins shall run"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"A cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall,"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Each part, deprived of supple government,"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And then awake as from a pleasant sleep."
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead:"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Then, as the manner of our country is,"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"In thy best robes uncover'd on the bier"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie."
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"In the mean time, against thou shalt awake,"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And hither shall he come: and he and I"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Will watch thy waking, and that very night"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua."
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And this shall free thee from this present shame;"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear,"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Abate thy valour in the acting it."
IV,I,JULIET,"Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"In this resolve: I'll send a friar with speed"
IV,I,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord."
IV,I,JULIET,"Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford."
IV,I,JULIET,"Farewell, dear father!"
IV,II,CAPULET,"So many guests invite as here are writ."
IV,II,CAPULET,"Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks."
IV,II,Second Servant,"You shall have none ill, sir; for I'll try if they"
IV,II,Second Servant,"can lick their fingers."
IV,II,CAPULET,"How canst thou try them so?"
IV,II,Second Servant,"Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his"
IV,II,Second Servant,"own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his"
IV,II,Second Servant,"fingers goes not with me."
IV,II,CAPULET,"Go, be gone."
IV,II,CAPULET,"We shall be much unfurnished for this time."
IV,II,CAPULET,"What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence?"
IV,II,Nurse,"Ay, forsooth."
IV,II,CAPULET,"Well, he may chance to do some good on her:"
IV,II,CAPULET,"A peevish self-will'd harlotry it is."
IV,II,Nurse,"See where she comes from shrift with merry look."
IV,II,CAPULET,"How now, my headstrong! where have you been gadding?"
IV,II,JULIET,"Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin"
IV,II,JULIET,"Of disobedient opposition"
IV,II,JULIET,"To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd"
IV,II,JULIET,"By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here,"
IV,II,JULIET,"And beg your pardon: pardon, I beseech you!"
IV,II,JULIET,"Henceforward I am ever ruled by you."
IV,II,CAPULET,"Send for the county; go tell him of this:"
IV,II,CAPULET,"I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning."
IV,II,JULIET,"I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell;"
IV,II,JULIET,"And gave him what becomed love I might,"
IV,II,JULIET,"Not step o'er the bounds of modesty."
IV,II,CAPULET,"Why, I am glad on't; this is well: stand up:"
IV,II,CAPULET,"This is as't should be. Let me see the county;"
IV,II,CAPULET,"Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither."
IV,II,CAPULET,"Now, afore God! this reverend holy friar,"
IV,II,CAPULET,"Our whole city is much bound to him."
IV,II,JULIET,"Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,"
IV,II,JULIET,"To help me sort such needful ornaments"
IV,II,JULIET,"As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow?"
IV,II,LADY CAPULET,"No, not till Thursday; there is time enough."
IV,II,CAPULET,"Go, nurse, go with her: we'll to church to-morrow."
IV,II,LADY CAPULET,"We shall be short in our provision:"
IV,II,LADY CAPULET,"'Tis now near night."
IV,II,CAPULET,"Tush, I will stir about,"
IV,II,CAPULET,"And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife:"
IV,II,CAPULET,"Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her;"
IV,II,CAPULET,"I'll not to bed to-night; let me alone;"
IV,II,CAPULET,"I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho!"
IV,II,CAPULET,"They are all forth. Well, I will walk myself"
IV,II,CAPULET,"To County Paris, to prepare him up"
IV,II,CAPULET,"Against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light,"
IV,II,CAPULET,"Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd."
IV,III,JULIET,"Ay, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse,"
IV,III,JULIET,"I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night,"
IV,III,JULIET,"For I have need of many orisons"
IV,III,JULIET,"To move the heavens to smile upon my state,"
IV,III,JULIET,"Which, well thou know'st, is cross, and full of sin."
IV,III,LADY CAPULET,"What, are you busy, ho? need you my help?"
IV,III,JULIET,"No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries"
IV,III,JULIET,"As are behoveful for our state to-morrow:"
IV,III,JULIET,"So please you, let me now be left alone,"
IV,III,JULIET,"And let the nurse this night sit up with you;"
IV,III,JULIET,"For, I am sure, you have your hands full all,"
IV,III,JULIET,"In this so sudden business."
IV,III,LADY CAPULET,"Good night:"
IV,III,LADY CAPULET,"Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need."
IV,III,JULIET,"Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again."
IV,III,JULIET,"I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,"
IV,III,JULIET,"That almost freezes up the heat of life:"
IV,III,JULIET,"I'll call them back again to comfort me:"
IV,III,JULIET,"Nurse! What should she do here?"
IV,III,JULIET,"My dismal scene I needs must act alone."
IV,III,JULIET,"Come, vial."
IV,III,JULIET,"What if this mixture do not work at all?"
IV,III,JULIET,"Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?"
IV,III,JULIET,"No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there."
IV,III,JULIET,"What if it be a poison, which the friar"
IV,III,JULIET,"Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead,"
IV,III,JULIET,"Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd,"
IV,III,JULIET,"Because he married me before to Romeo?"
IV,III,JULIET,"I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,"
IV,III,JULIET,"For he hath still been tried a holy man."
IV,III,JULIET,"How if, when I am laid into the tomb,"
IV,III,JULIET,"I wake before the time that Romeo"
IV,III,JULIET,"Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point!"
IV,III,JULIET,"Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,"
IV,III,JULIET,"To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,"
IV,III,JULIET,"And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?"
IV,III,JULIET,"Or, if I live, is it not very like,"
IV,III,JULIET,"The horrible conceit of death and night,"
IV,III,JULIET,"Together with the terror of the place,--"
IV,III,JULIET,"As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,"
IV,III,JULIET,"Where, for these many hundred years, the bones"
IV,III,JULIET,"Of all my buried ancestors are packed:"
IV,III,JULIET,"Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,"
IV,III,JULIET,"Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,"
IV,III,JULIET,"At some hours in the night spirits resort;--"
IV,III,JULIET,"Alack, alack, is it not like that I,"
IV,III,JULIET,"So early waking, what with loathsome smells,"
IV,III,JULIET,"And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth,"
IV,III,JULIET,"That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:--"
IV,III,JULIET,"O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,"
IV,III,JULIET,"Environed with all these hideous fears?"
IV,III,JULIET,"And madly play with my forefather's joints?"
IV,III,JULIET,"And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?"
IV,III,JULIET,"And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone,"
IV,III,JULIET,"As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?"
IV,III,JULIET,"O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost"
IV,III,JULIET,"Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body"
IV,III,JULIET,"Upon a rapier's point: stay, Tybalt, stay!"
IV,III,JULIET,"Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee."
IV,IV,LADY CAPULET,"Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse."
IV,IV,Nurse,"They call for dates and quinces in the pastry."
IV,IV,CAPULET,"Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd,"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"Look to the baked meats, good Angelica:"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"Spare not for the cost."
IV,IV,Nurse,"Go, you cot-quean, go,"
IV,IV,Nurse,"Get you to bed; faith, You'll be sick to-morrow"
IV,IV,Nurse,"For this night's watching."
IV,IV,CAPULET,"No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick."
IV,IV,LADY CAPULET,"Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;"
IV,IV,LADY CAPULET,"But I will watch you from such watching now."
IV,IV,CAPULET,"A jealous hood, a jealous hood!"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"Now, fellow,"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"What's there?"
IV,IV,First Servant,"Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what."
IV,IV,CAPULET,"Make haste, make haste."
IV,IV,CAPULET,"Sirrah, fetch drier logs:"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"Call Peter, he will show thee where they are."
IV,IV,Second Servant,"I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,"
IV,IV,Second Servant,"And never trouble Peter for the matter."
IV,IV,CAPULET,"Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha!"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"Thou shalt be logger-head. Good faith, 'tis day:"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"The county will be here with music straight,"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"For so he said he would: I hear him near."
IV,IV,CAPULET,"Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say!"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste,"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already:"
IV,IV,CAPULET,"Make haste, I say."
IV,V,Nurse,"Mistress! what, mistress! Juliet! fast, I warrant her, she:"
IV,V,Nurse,"Why, lamb! why, lady! fie, you slug-a-bed!"
IV,V,Nurse,"Why, love, I say! madam! sweet-heart! why, bride!"
IV,V,Nurse,"What, not a word? you take your pennyworths now;"
IV,V,Nurse,"Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant,"
IV,V,Nurse,"The County Paris hath set up his rest,"
IV,V,Nurse,"That you shall rest but little. God forgive me,"
IV,V,Nurse,"Marry, and amen, how sound is she asleep!"
IV,V,Nurse,"I must needs wake her. Madam, madam, madam!"
IV,V,Nurse,"Ay, let the county take you in your bed;"
IV,V,Nurse,"He'll fright you up, i' faith. Will it not be?"
IV,V,Nurse,"What, dress'd! and in your clothes! and down again!"
IV,V,Nurse,"I must needs wake you; Lady! lady! lady!"
IV,V,Nurse,"Alas, alas! Help, help! my lady's dead!"
IV,V,Nurse,"O, well-a-day, that ever I was born!"
IV,V,Nurse,"Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! my lady!"
IV,V,LADY CAPULET,"What noise is here?"
IV,V,Nurse,"O lamentable day!"
IV,V,LADY CAPULET,"What is the matter?"
IV,V,Nurse,"Look, look! O heavy day!"
IV,V,LADY CAPULET,"O me, O me! My child, my only life,"
IV,V,LADY CAPULET,"Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!"
IV,V,LADY CAPULET,"Help, help! Call help."
IV,V,CAPULET,"For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come."
IV,V,Nurse,"She's dead, deceased, she's dead; alack the day!"
IV,V,LADY CAPULET,"Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Ha! let me see her: out, alas! she's cold:"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Life and these lips have long been separated:"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Death lies on her like an untimely frost"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."
IV,V,Nurse,"O lamentable day!"
IV,V,LADY CAPULET,"O woful time!"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail,"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak."
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Come, is the bride ready to go to church?"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Ready to go, but never to return."
IV,V,CAPULET,"O son! the night before thy wedding-day"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Flower as she was, deflowered by him."
IV,V,CAPULET,"Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;"
IV,V,CAPULET,"My daughter he hath wedded: I will die,"
IV,V,CAPULET,"And leave him all; life, living, all is Death's."
IV,V,PARIS,"Have I thought long to see this morning's face,"
IV,V,PARIS,"And doth it give me such a sight as this?"
IV,V,LADY CAPULET,"Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!"
IV,V,LADY CAPULET,"Most miserable hour that e'er time saw"
IV,V,LADY CAPULET,"In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!"
IV,V,LADY CAPULET,"But one, poor one, one poor and loving child,"
IV,V,LADY CAPULET,"But one thing to rejoice and solace in,"
IV,V,LADY CAPULET,"And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight!"
IV,V,Nurse,"O woe! O woful, woful, woful day!"
IV,V,Nurse,"Most lamentable day, most woful day,"
IV,V,Nurse,"That ever, ever, I did yet behold!"
IV,V,Nurse,"O day! O day! O day! O hateful day!"
IV,V,Nurse,"Never was seen so black a day as this:"
IV,V,Nurse,"O woful day, O woful day!"
IV,V,PARIS,"Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!"
IV,V,PARIS,"Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd,"
IV,V,PARIS,"By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown!"
IV,V,PARIS,"O love! O life! not life, but love in death!"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Despised, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd!"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Uncomfortable time, why camest thou now"
IV,V,CAPULET,"To murder, murder our solemnity?"
IV,V,CAPULET,"O child! O child! my soul, and not my child!"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Dead art thou! Alack! my child is dead;"
IV,V,CAPULET,"And with my child my joys are buried."
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Peace, ho, for shame! confusion's cure lives not"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"In these confusions. Heaven and yourself"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Had part in this fair maid; now heaven hath all,"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And all the better is it for the maid:"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Your part in her you could not keep from death,"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"But heaven keeps his part in eternal life."
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The most you sought was her promotion;"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced:"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"O, in this love, you love your child so ill,"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"That you run mad, seeing that she is well:"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"She's not well married that lives married long;"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"But she's best married that dies married young."
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"On this fair corse; and, as the custom is,"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"In all her best array bear her to church:"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"For though fond nature bids us an lament,"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment."
IV,V,CAPULET,"All things that we ordained festival,"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Turn from their office to black funeral;"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Our instruments to melancholy bells,"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,"
IV,V,CAPULET,"Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,"
IV,V,CAPULET,"And all things change them to the contrary."
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Sir, go you in; and, madam, go with him;"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And go, Sir Paris; every one prepare"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To follow this fair corse unto her grave:"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The heavens do lour upon you for some ill;"
IV,V,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Move them no more by crossing their high will."
IV,V,First Musician,"Faith, we may put up our pipes, and be gone."
IV,V,Nurse,"Honest goodfellows, ah, put up, put up;"
IV,V,Nurse,"For, well you know, this is a pitiful case."
IV,V,First Musician,"Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended."
IV,V,PETER,"Musicians, O, musicians, 'Heart's ease, Heart's"
IV,V,PETER,"ease:' O, an you will have me live, play 'Heart's ease.'"
IV,V,First Musician,"Why 'Heart's ease?'"
IV,V,PETER,"O, musicians, because my heart itself plays 'My"
IV,V,PETER,"heart is full of woe:' O, play me some merry dump,"
IV,V,PETER,"to comfort me."
IV,V,First Musician,"Not a dump we; 'tis no time to play now."
IV,V,PETER,"You will not, then?"
IV,V,First Musician,"No."
IV,V,PETER,"I will then give it you soundly."
IV,V,First Musician,"What will you give us?"
IV,V,PETER,"No money, on my faith, but the gleek;"
IV,V,PETER,"I will give you the minstrel."
IV,V,First Musician,"Then I will give you the serving-creature."
IV,V,PETER,"Then will I lay the serving-creature's dagger on"
IV,V,PETER,"your pate. I will carry no crotchets: I'll re you,"
IV,V,PETER,"I'll fa you; do you note me?"
IV,V,First Musician,"An you re us and fa us, you note us."
IV,V,Second Musician,"Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out your wit."
IV,V,PETER,"Then have at you with my wit! I will dry-beat you"
IV,V,PETER,"with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. Answer"
IV,V,PETER,"me like men:"
IV,V,PETER,"'When griping grief the heart doth wound,"
IV,V,PETER,"And doleful dumps the mind oppress,"
IV,V,PETER,"Then music with her silver sound'--"
IV,V,PETER,"why 'silver sound'? why 'music with her silver"
IV,V,PETER,"sound'? What say you, Simon Catling?"
IV,V,Musician,"Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound."
IV,V,PETER,"Pretty! What say you, Hugh Rebeck?"
IV,V,Second Musician,"I say 'silver sound,' because musicians sound for silver."
IV,V,PETER,"Pretty too! What say you, James Soundpost?"
IV,V,Third Musician,"Faith, I know not what to say."
IV,V,PETER,"O, I cry you mercy; you are the singer: I will say"
IV,V,PETER,"for you. It is 'music with her silver sound,'"
IV,V,PETER,"because musicians have no gold for sounding:"
IV,V,PETER,"'Then music with her silver sound"
IV,V,PETER,"With speedy help doth lend redress.'"
IV,V,First Musician,"What a pestilent knave is this same!"
IV,V,Second Musician,"Hang him, Jack! Come, we'll in here; tarry for the"
IV,V,Second Musician,"mourners, and stay dinner."
V,I,ROMEO,"If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,"
V,I,ROMEO,"My dreams presage some joyful news at hand:"
V,I,ROMEO,"My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne;"
V,I,ROMEO,"And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit"
V,I,ROMEO,"Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts."
V,I,ROMEO,"I dreamt my lady came and found me dead--"
V,I,ROMEO,"Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave"
V,I,ROMEO,"to think!--"
V,I,ROMEO,"And breathed such life with kisses in my lips,"
V,I,ROMEO,"That I revived, and was an emperor."
V,I,ROMEO,"Ah me! how sweet is love itself possess'd,"
V,I,ROMEO,"When but love's shadows are so rich in joy!"
V,I,ROMEO,"News from Verona!--How now, Balthasar!"
V,I,ROMEO,"Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?"
V,I,ROMEO,"How doth my lady? Is my father well?"
V,I,ROMEO,"How fares my Juliet? that I ask again;"
V,I,ROMEO,"For nothing can be ill, if she be well."
V,I,BALTHASAR,"Then she is well, and nothing can be ill:"
V,I,BALTHASAR,"Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,"
V,I,BALTHASAR,"And her immortal part with angels lives."
V,I,BALTHASAR,"I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,"
V,I,BALTHASAR,"And presently took post to tell it you:"
V,I,BALTHASAR,"O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,"
V,I,BALTHASAR,"Since you did leave it for my office, sir."
V,I,ROMEO,"Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!"
V,I,ROMEO,"Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper,"
V,I,ROMEO,"And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night."
V,I,BALTHASAR,"I do beseech you, sir, have patience:"
V,I,BALTHASAR,"Your looks are pale and wild, and do import"
V,I,BALTHASAR,"Some misadventure."
V,I,ROMEO,"Tush, thou art deceived:"
V,I,ROMEO,"Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do."
V,I,ROMEO,"Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?"
V,I,BALTHASAR,"No, my good lord."
V,I,ROMEO,"No matter: get thee gone,"
V,I,ROMEO,"And hire those horses; I'll be with thee straight."
V,I,ROMEO,"Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night."
V,I,ROMEO,"Let's see for means: O mischief, thou art swift"
V,I,ROMEO,"To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!"
V,I,ROMEO,"I do remember an apothecary,--"
V,I,ROMEO,"And hereabouts he dwells,--which late I noted"
V,I,ROMEO,"In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,"
V,I,ROMEO,"Culling of simples; meagre were his looks,"
V,I,ROMEO,"Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:"
V,I,ROMEO,"And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,"
V,I,ROMEO,"An alligator stuff'd, and other skins"
V,I,ROMEO,"Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves"
V,I,ROMEO,"A beggarly account of empty boxes,"
V,I,ROMEO,"Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds,"
V,I,ROMEO,"Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses,"
V,I,ROMEO,"Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show."
V,I,ROMEO,"Noting this penury, to myself I said"
V,I,ROMEO,"'An if a man did need a poison now,"
V,I,ROMEO,"Whose sale is present death in Mantua,"
V,I,ROMEO,"Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.'"
V,I,ROMEO,"O, this same thought did but forerun my need;"
V,I,ROMEO,"And this same needy man must sell it me."
V,I,ROMEO,"As I remember, this should be the house."
V,I,ROMEO,"Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut."
V,I,ROMEO,"What, ho! apothecary!"
V,I,Apothecary,"Who calls so loud?"
V,I,ROMEO,"Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor:"
V,I,ROMEO,"Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have"
V,I,ROMEO,"A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear"
V,I,ROMEO,"As will disperse itself through all the veins"
V,I,ROMEO,"That the life-weary taker may fall dead"
V,I,ROMEO,"And that the trunk may be discharged of breath"
V,I,ROMEO,"As violently as hasty powder fired"
V,I,ROMEO,"Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb."
V,I,Apothecary,"Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law"
V,I,Apothecary,"Is death to any he that utters them."
V,I,ROMEO,"Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,"
V,I,ROMEO,"And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks,"
V,I,ROMEO,"Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,"
V,I,ROMEO,"Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back;"
V,I,ROMEO,"The world is not thy friend nor the world's law;"
V,I,ROMEO,"The world affords no law to make thee rich;"
V,I,ROMEO,"Then be not poor, but break it, and take this."
V,I,Apothecary,"My poverty, but not my will, consents."
V,I,ROMEO,"I pay thy poverty, and not thy will."
V,I,Apothecary,"Put this in any liquid thing you will,"
V,I,Apothecary,"And drink it off; and, if you had the strength"
V,I,Apothecary,"Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight."
V,I,ROMEO,"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,"
V,I,ROMEO,"Doing more murders in this loathsome world,"
V,I,ROMEO,"Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell."
V,I,ROMEO,"I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none."
V,I,ROMEO,"Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh."
V,I,ROMEO,"Come, cordial and not poison, go with me"
V,I,ROMEO,"To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee."
V,II,FRIAR JOHN,"Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho!"
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"This same should be the voice of Friar John."
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo?"
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter."
V,II,FRIAR JOHN,"Going to find a bare-foot brother out"
V,II,FRIAR JOHN,"One of our order, to associate me,"
V,II,FRIAR JOHN,"Here in this city visiting the sick,"
V,II,FRIAR JOHN,"And finding him, the searchers of the town,"
V,II,FRIAR JOHN,"Suspecting that we both were in a house"
V,II,FRIAR JOHN,"Where the infectious pestilence did reign,"
V,II,FRIAR JOHN,"Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth;"
V,II,FRIAR JOHN,"So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd."
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo?"
V,II,FRIAR JOHN,"I could not send it,--here it is again,--"
V,II,FRIAR JOHN,"Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,"
V,II,FRIAR JOHN,"So fearful were they of infection."
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood,"
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The letter was not nice but full of charge"
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Of dear import, and the neglecting it"
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"May do much danger. Friar John, go hence;"
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight"
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Unto my cell."
V,II,FRIAR JOHN,"Brother, I'll go and bring it thee."
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Now must I to the monument alone;"
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Within three hours will fair Juliet wake:"
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"She will beshrew me much that Romeo"
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Hath had no notice of these accidents;"
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"But I will write again to Mantua,"
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And keep her at my cell till Romeo come;"
V,II,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb!"
V,III,PARIS,"Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof:"
V,III,PARIS,"Yet put it out, for I would not be seen."
V,III,PARIS,"Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along,"
V,III,PARIS,"Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground;"
V,III,PARIS,"So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread,"
V,III,PARIS,"Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves,"
V,III,PARIS,"But thou shalt hear it: whistle then to me,"
V,III,PARIS,"As signal that thou hear'st something approach."
V,III,PARIS,"Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go."
V,III,PAGE,"Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure."
V,III,PARIS,"Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,--"
V,III,PARIS,"O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones;--"
V,III,PARIS,"Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,"
V,III,PARIS,"Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans:"
V,III,PARIS,"The obsequies that I for thee will keep"
V,III,PARIS,"Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep."
V,III,PARIS,"The boy gives warning something doth approach."
V,III,PARIS,"What cursed foot wanders this way to-night,"
V,III,PARIS,"To cross my obsequies and true love's rite?"
V,III,PARIS,"What with a torch! muffle me, night, awhile."
V,III,ROMEO,"Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron."
V,III,ROMEO,"Hold, take this letter; early in the morning"
V,III,ROMEO,"See thou deliver it to my lord and father."
V,III,ROMEO,"Give me the light: upon thy life, I charge thee,"
V,III,ROMEO,"Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,"
V,III,ROMEO,"And do not interrupt me in my course."
V,III,ROMEO,"Why I descend into this bed of death,"
V,III,ROMEO,"Is partly to behold my lady's face;"
V,III,ROMEO,"But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger"
V,III,ROMEO,"A precious ring, a ring that I must use"
V,III,ROMEO,"In dear employment: therefore hence, be gone:"
V,III,ROMEO,"But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry"
V,III,ROMEO,"In what I further shall intend to do,"
V,III,ROMEO,"By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint"
V,III,ROMEO,"And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:"
V,III,ROMEO,"The time and my intents are savage-wild,"
V,III,ROMEO,"More fierce and more inexorable far"
V,III,ROMEO,"Than empty tigers or the roaring sea."
V,III,BALTHASAR,"I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you."
V,III,ROMEO,"So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that:"
V,III,ROMEO,"Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow."
V,III,BALTHASAR,"His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt."
V,III,ROMEO,"Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,"
V,III,ROMEO,"Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,"
V,III,ROMEO,"Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,"
V,III,ROMEO,"And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food!"
V,III,PARIS,"This is that banish'd haughty Montague,"
V,III,PARIS,"That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief,"
V,III,PARIS,"It is supposed, the fair creature died;"
V,III,PARIS,"And here is come to do some villanous shame"
V,III,PARIS,"To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him."
V,III,PARIS,"Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!"
V,III,PARIS,"Can vengeance be pursued further than death?"
V,III,PARIS,"Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee:"
V,III,PARIS,"Obey, and go with me; for thou must die."
V,III,ROMEO,"I must indeed; and therefore came I hither."
V,III,ROMEO,"Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man;"
V,III,ROMEO,"Fly hence, and leave me: think upon these gone;"
V,III,ROMEO,"Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,"
V,III,ROMEO,"Put not another sin upon my head,"
V,III,ROMEO,"By urging me to fury: O, be gone!"
V,III,ROMEO,"By heaven, I love thee better than myself;"
V,III,ROMEO,"For I come hither arm'd against myself:"
V,III,ROMEO,"Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say,"
V,III,ROMEO,"A madman's mercy bade thee run away."
V,III,PARIS,"I do defy thy conjurations,"
V,III,PARIS,"And apprehend thee for a felon here."
V,III,ROMEO,"Wilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy!"
V,III,PAGE,"O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch."
V,III,PARIS,"O, I am slain!"
V,III,PARIS,"If thou be merciful,"
V,III,PARIS,"Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet."
V,III,ROMEO,"In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face."
V,III,ROMEO,"Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris!"
V,III,ROMEO,"What said my man, when my betossed soul"
V,III,ROMEO,"Did not attend him as we rode? I think"
V,III,ROMEO,"He told me Paris should have married Juliet:"
V,III,ROMEO,"Said he not so? or did I dream it so?"
V,III,ROMEO,"Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,"
V,III,ROMEO,"To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,"
V,III,ROMEO,"One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!"
V,III,ROMEO,"I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave;"
V,III,ROMEO,"A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughter'd youth,"
V,III,ROMEO,"For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes"
V,III,ROMEO,"This vault a feasting presence full of light."
V,III,ROMEO,"Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd."
V,III,ROMEO,"How oft when men are at the point of death"
V,III,ROMEO,"Have they been merry! which their keepers call"
V,III,ROMEO,"A lightning before death: O, how may I"
V,III,ROMEO,"Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!"
V,III,ROMEO,"Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,"
V,III,ROMEO,"Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:"
V,III,ROMEO,"Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet"
V,III,ROMEO,"Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,"
V,III,ROMEO,"And death's pale flag is not advanced there."
V,III,ROMEO,"Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?"
V,III,ROMEO,"O, what more favour can I do to thee,"
V,III,ROMEO,"Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain"
V,III,ROMEO,"To sunder his that was thine enemy?"
V,III,ROMEO,"Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,"
V,III,ROMEO,"Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe"
V,III,ROMEO,"That unsubstantial death is amorous,"
V,III,ROMEO,"And that the lean abhorred monster keeps"
V,III,ROMEO,"Thee here in dark to be his paramour?"
V,III,ROMEO,"For fear of that, I still will stay with thee;"
V,III,ROMEO,"And never from this palace of dim night"
V,III,ROMEO,"Depart again: here, here will I remain"
V,III,ROMEO,"With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here"
V,III,ROMEO,"Will I set up my everlasting rest,"
V,III,ROMEO,"And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars"
V,III,ROMEO,"From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!"
V,III,ROMEO,"Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you"
V,III,ROMEO,"The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss"
V,III,ROMEO,"A dateless bargain to engrossing death!"
V,III,ROMEO,"Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!"
V,III,ROMEO,"Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on"
V,III,ROMEO,"The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!"
V,III,ROMEO,"Here's to my love!"
V,III,ROMEO,"O true apothecary!"
V,III,ROMEO,"Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there?"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"What torch is yond, that vainly lends his light"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To grubs and eyeless skulls? as I discern,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"It burneth in the Capel's monument."
V,III,BALTHASAR,"It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master,"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"One that you love."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Who is it?"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"Romeo."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"How long hath he been there?"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"Full half an hour."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Go with me to the vault."
V,III,BALTHASAR,"I dare not, sir"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"My master knows not but I am gone hence;"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"And fearfully did menace me with death,"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"If I did stay to look on his intents."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Stay, then; I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me:"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing."
V,III,BALTHASAR,"As I did sleep under this yew-tree here,"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"I dreamt my master and another fought,"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"And that my master slew him."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Romeo!"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The stony entrance of this sepulchre?"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"What mean these masterless and gory swords"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Romeo! O, pale! Who else? what, Paris too?"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Is guilty of this lamentable chance!"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The lady stirs."
V,III,JULIET,"O comfortable friar! where is my lord?"
V,III,JULIET,"I do remember well where I should be,"
V,III,JULIET,"And there I am. Where is my Romeo?"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep:"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"A greater power than we can contradict"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead;"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Among a sisterhood of holy nuns:"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Stay not to question, for the watch is coming;"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Come, go, good Juliet,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"I dare no longer stay."
V,III,JULIET,"Go, get thee hence, for I will not away."
V,III,JULIET,"What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?"
V,III,JULIET,"Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:"
V,III,JULIET,"O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop"
V,III,JULIET,"To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;"
V,III,JULIET,"Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,"
V,III,JULIET,"To make die with a restorative."
V,III,JULIET,"Thy lips are warm."
V,III,JULIET,"Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!"
V,III,JULIET,"This is thy sheath;"
V,III,JULIET,"there rust, and let me die."
V,III,PAGE,"This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn."
V,III,First Watchman,"The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard:"
V,III,First Watchman,"Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach."
V,III,First Watchman,"Pitiful sight! here lies the county slain,"
V,III,First Watchman,"And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,"
V,III,First Watchman,"Who here hath lain these two days buried."
V,III,First Watchman,"Go, tell the prince: run to the Capulets:"
V,III,First Watchman,"Raise up the Montagues: some others search:"
V,III,First Watchman,"We see the ground whereon these woes do lie;"
V,III,First Watchman,"But the true ground of all these piteous woes"
V,III,First Watchman,"We cannot without circumstance descry."
V,III,Second Watchman,"Here's Romeo's man; we found him in the churchyard."
V,III,First Watchman,"Hold him in safety, till the prince come hither."
V,III,Third Watchman,"Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs and weeps:"
V,III,Third Watchman,"We took this mattock and this spade from him,"
V,III,Third Watchman,"As he was coming from this churchyard side."
V,III,First Watchman,"A great suspicion: stay the friar too."
V,III,PRINCE,"What misadventure is so early up,"
V,III,PRINCE,"That calls our person from our morning's rest?"
V,III,CAPULET,"What should it be, that they so shriek abroad?"
V,III,LADY CAPULET,"The people in the street cry Romeo,"
V,III,LADY CAPULET,"Some Juliet, and some Paris; and all run,"
V,III,LADY CAPULET,"With open outcry toward our monument."
V,III,PRINCE,"What fear is this which startles in our ears?"
V,III,First Watchman,"Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain;"
V,III,First Watchman,"And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before,"
V,III,First Watchman,"Warm and new kill'd."
V,III,PRINCE,"Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes."
V,III,First Watchman,"Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man;"
V,III,First Watchman,"With instruments upon them, fit to open"
V,III,First Watchman,"These dead men's tombs."
V,III,CAPULET,"O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!"
V,III,CAPULET,"This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house"
V,III,CAPULET,"Is empty on the back of Montague,--"
V,III,CAPULET,"And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom!"
V,III,LADY CAPULET,"O me! this sight of death is as a bell,"
V,III,LADY CAPULET,"That warns my old age to a sepulchre."
V,III,PRINCE,"Come, Montague; for thou art early up,"
V,III,PRINCE,"To see thy son and heir more early down."
V,III,MONTAGUE,"Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night;"
V,III,MONTAGUE,"Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:"
V,III,MONTAGUE,"What further woe conspires against mine age?"
V,III,PRINCE,"Look, and thou shalt see."
V,III,MONTAGUE,"O thou untaught! what manners is in this?"
V,III,MONTAGUE,"To press before thy father to a grave?"
V,III,PRINCE,"Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,"
V,III,PRINCE,"Till we can clear these ambiguities,"
V,III,PRINCE,"And know their spring, their head, their"
V,III,PRINCE,"true descent;"
V,III,PRINCE,"And then will I be general of your woes,"
V,III,PRINCE,"And lead you even to death: meantime forbear,"
V,III,PRINCE,"And let mischance be slave to patience."
V,III,PRINCE,"Bring forth the parties of suspicion."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"I am the greatest, able to do least,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Yet most suspected, as the time and place"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Doth make against me of this direful murder;"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And here I stand, both to impeach and purge"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Myself condemned and myself excused."
V,III,PRINCE,"Then say at once what thou dost know in this."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"I will be brief, for my short date of breath"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Is not so long as is a tedious tale."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet;"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife:"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"I married them; and their stol'n marriage-day"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the city,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"You, to remove that siege of grief from her,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Betroth'd and would have married her perforce"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To County Paris: then comes she to me,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And, with wild looks, bid me devise some mean"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To rid her from this second marriage,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Or in my cell there would she kill herself."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Then gave I her, so tutor'd by my art,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"A sleeping potion; which so took effect"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"As I intended, for it wrought on her"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"That he should hither come as this dire night,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Being the time the potion's force should cease."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"But he which bore my letter, Friar John,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Was stay'd by accident, and yesternight"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Return'd my letter back. Then all alone"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"At the prefixed hour of her waking,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Came I to take her from her kindred's vault;"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Meaning to keep her closely at my cell,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Till I conveniently could send to Romeo:"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"But when I came, some minute ere the time"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Of her awaking, here untimely lay"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"The noble Paris and true Romeo dead."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"She wakes; and I entreated her come forth,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And bear this work of heaven with patience:"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"But then a noise did scare me from the tomb;"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"And she, too desperate, would not go with me,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"But, as it seems, did violence on herself."
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"All this I know; and to the marriage"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Her nurse is privy: and, if aught in this"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Miscarried by my fault, let my old life"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,"
V,III,FRIAR LAURENCE,"Unto the rigour of severest law."
V,III,PRINCE,"We still have known thee for a holy man."
V,III,PRINCE,"Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this?"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"I brought my master news of Juliet's death;"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"And then in post he came from Mantua"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"To this same place, to this same monument."
V,III,BALTHASAR,"This letter he early bid me give his father,"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"And threatened me with death, going in the vault,"
V,III,BALTHASAR,"I departed not and left him there."
V,III,PRINCE,"Give me the letter; I will look on it."
V,III,PRINCE,"Where is the county's page, that raised the watch?"
V,III,PRINCE,"Sirrah, what made your master in this place?"
V,III,PAGE,"He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave;"
V,III,PAGE,"And bid me stand aloof, and so I did:"
V,III,PAGE,"Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb;"
V,III,PAGE,"And by and by my master drew on him;"
V,III,PAGE,"And then I ran away to call the watch."
V,III,PRINCE,"This letter doth make good the friar's words,"
V,III,PRINCE,"Their course of love, the tidings of her death:"
V,III,PRINCE,"And here he writes that he did buy a poison"
V,III,PRINCE,"Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal"
V,III,PRINCE,"Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet."
V,III,PRINCE,"Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!"
V,III,PRINCE,"See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,"
V,III,PRINCE,"That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love."
V,III,PRINCE,"And I for winking at your discords too"
V,III,PRINCE,"Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd."
V,III,CAPULET,"O brother Montague, give me thy hand:"
V,III,CAPULET,"This is my daughter's jointure, for no more"
V,III,CAPULET,"Can I demand."
V,III,MONTAGUE,"But I can give thee more:"
V,III,MONTAGUE,"For I will raise her statue in pure gold;"
V,III,MONTAGUE,"That while Verona by that name is known,"
V,III,MONTAGUE,"There shall no figure at such rate be set"
V,III,MONTAGUE,"As that of true and faithful Juliet."
V,III,CAPULET,"As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie;"
V,III,CAPULET,"Poor sacrifices of our enmity!"
V,III,PRINCE,"A glooming peace this morning with it brings;"
V,III,PRINCE,"The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:"
V,III,PRINCE,"Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;"
V,III,PRINCE,"Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:"
V,III,PRINCE,"For never was a story of more woe"
V,III,PRINCE,"Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Tranio, since for the great desire I had"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"The pleasant garden of great Italy;"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"And by my father's love and leave am arm'd"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"With his good will and thy good company,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"My trusty servant, well approved in all,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Here let us breathe and haply institute"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"A course of learning and ingenious studies."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Pisa renown'd for grave citizens"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Gave me my being and my father first,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"A merchant of great traffic through the world,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Vincetino come of Bentivolii."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Vincetino's son brought up in Florence"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"It shall become to serve all hopes conceived,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds:"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"And therefore, Tranio, for the time I study,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Virtue and that part of philosophy"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Will I apply that treats of happiness"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"By virtue specially to be achieved."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Tell me thy mind; for I have Pisa left"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"And am to Padua come, as he that leaves"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst."
I,I,TRANIO,"Mi perdonato, gentle master mine,"
I,I,TRANIO,"I am in all affected as yourself;"
I,I,TRANIO,"Glad that you thus continue your resolve"
I,I,TRANIO,"To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy."
I,I,TRANIO,"Only, good master, while we do admire"
I,I,TRANIO,"This virtue and this moral discipline,"
I,I,TRANIO,"Let's be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray;"
I,I,TRANIO,"Or so devote to Aristotle's cheques"
I,I,TRANIO,"As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured:"
I,I,TRANIO,"Balk logic with acquaintance that you have"
I,I,TRANIO,"And practise rhetoric in your common talk;"
I,I,TRANIO,"Music and poesy use to quicken you;"
I,I,TRANIO,"The mathematics and the metaphysics,"
I,I,TRANIO,"Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you;"
I,I,TRANIO,"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en:"
I,I,TRANIO,"In brief, sir, study what you most affect."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"If, Biondello, thou wert come ashore,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"We could at once put us in readiness,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"And take a lodging fit to entertain"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Such friends as time in Padua shall beget."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"But stay a while: what company is this?"
I,I,TRANIO,"Master, some show to welcome us to town."
I,I,BAPTISTA,"Gentlemen, importune me no farther,"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"For how I firmly am resolved you know;"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"That is, not bestow my youngest daughter"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"Before I have a husband for the elder:"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"If either of you both love Katharina,"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"Because I know you well and love you well,"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure."
I,I,GREMIO,"There, There, Hortensio, will you any wife?"
I,I,KATHARINA,"I pray you, sir, is it your will"
I,I,KATHARINA,"To make a stale of me amongst these mates?"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"Mates, maid! how mean you that? no mates for you,"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"Unless you were of gentler, milder mould."
I,I,KATHARINA,"I'faith, sir, you shall never need to fear:"
I,I,KATHARINA,"I wis it is not half way to her heart;"
I,I,KATHARINA,"But if it were, doubt not her care should be"
I,I,KATHARINA,"To comb your noddle with a three-legg'd stool"
I,I,KATHARINA,"And paint your face and use you like a fool."
I,I,HORTENSIA,"From all such devils, good Lord deliver us!"
I,I,GREMIO,"And me too, good Lord!"
I,I,TRANIO,"Hush, master! here's some good pastime toward:"
I,I,TRANIO,"That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"But in the other's silence do I see"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Maid's mild behavior and sobriety."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Peace, Tranio!"
I,I,TRANIO,"Well said, master; mum! and gaze your fill."
I,I,BAPTISTA,"Gentlemen, that I may soon make good"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"What I have said, Bianca, get you in:"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"And let it not displease thee, good Bianca,"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl."
I,I,KATHARINA,"A pretty peat! it is best"
I,I,KATHARINA,"Put finger in the eye, an she knew why."
I,I,BIANCA,"Sister, content you in my discontent."
I,I,BIANCA,"Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe:"
I,I,BIANCA,"My books and instruments shall be my company,"
I,I,BIANCA,"On them to took and practise by myself."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Hark, Tranio! thou may'st hear Minerva speak."
I,I,HORTENSIO,"Signior Baptista, will you be so strange?"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"Sorry am I that our good will effects"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"Bianca's grief."
I,I,GREMIO,"Why will you mew her up,"
I,I,GREMIO,"Signior Baptista, for this fiend of hell,"
I,I,GREMIO,"And make her bear the penance of her tongue?"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"Gentlemen, content ye; I am resolved:"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"Go in, Bianca:"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"And for I know she taketh most delight"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"In music, instruments and poetry,"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"Schoolmasters will I keep within my house,"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"Fit to instruct her youth. If you, Hortensio,"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"Or Signior Gremio, you, know any such,"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"Prefer them hither; for to cunning men"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"I will be very kind, and liberal"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"To mine own children in good bringing up:"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"And so farewell. Katharina, you may stay;"
I,I,BAPTISTA,"For I have more to commune with Bianca."
I,I,KATHARINA,"Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not? What,"
I,I,KATHARINA,"shall I be appointed hours; as though, belike, I"
I,I,KATHARINA,"knew not what to take and what to leave, ha?"
I,I,GREMIO,"You may go to the devil's dam: your gifts are so"
I,I,GREMIO,"good, here's none will hold you. Their love is not"
I,I,GREMIO,"so great, Hortensio, but we may blow our nails"
I,I,GREMIO,"together, and fast it fairly out: our cakes dough on"
I,I,GREMIO,"both sides. Farewell: yet for the love I bear my"
I,I,GREMIO,"sweet Bianca, if I can by any means light on a fit"
I,I,GREMIO,"man to teach her that wherein she delights, I will"
I,I,GREMIO,"wish him to her father."
I,I,HORTENSIO,"So will I, Signior Gremio: but a word, I pray."
I,I,HORTENSIO,"Though the nature of our quarrel yet never brooked"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"parle, know now, upon advice, it toucheth us both,"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"that we may yet again have access to our fair"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"mistress and be happy rivals in Bianco's love, to"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"labour and effect one thing specially."
I,I,GREMIO,"What's that, I pray?"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister."
I,I,GREMIO,"A husband! a devil."
I,I,HORTENSIO,"I say, a husband."
I,I,GREMIO,"I say, a devil. Thinkest thou, Hortensio, though"
I,I,GREMIO,"her father be very rich, any man is so very a fool"
I,I,GREMIO,"to be married to hell?"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"Tush, Gremio, though it pass your patience and mine"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"to endure her loud alarums, why, man, there be good"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"fellows in the world, an a man could light on them,"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"would take her with all faults, and money enough."
I,I,GREMIO,"I cannot tell; but I had as lief take her dowry with"
I,I,GREMIO,"this condition, to be whipped at the high cross"
I,I,GREMIO,"every morning."
I,I,HORTENSIO,"Faith, as you say, there's small choice in rotten"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"apples. But come; since this bar in law makes us"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"friends, it shall be so far forth friendly"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"maintained all by helping Baptista's eldest daughter"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"to a husband we set his youngest free for a husband,"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"and then have to't a fresh. Sweet Bianca! Happy man"
I,I,HORTENSIO,"be his dole! He that runs fastest gets the ring."
I,I,HORTENSIO,"How say you, Signior Gremio?"
I,I,GREMIO,"I am agreed; and would I had given him the best"
I,I,GREMIO,"horse in Padua to begin his wooing that would"
I,I,GREMIO,"thoroughly woo her, wed her and bed her and rid the"
I,I,GREMIO,"house of her! Come on."
I,I,TRANIO,"I pray, sir, tell me, is it possible"
I,I,TRANIO,"That love should of a sudden take such hold?"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"O Tranio, till I found it to be true,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"I never thought it possible or likely;"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"But see, while idly I stood looking on,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"I found the effect of love in idleness:"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"And now in plainness do confess to thee,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"That art to me as secret and as dear"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"As Anna to the queen of Carthage was,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"If I achieve not this young modest girl."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Counsel me, Tranio, for I know thou canst;"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Assist me, Tranio, for I know thou wilt."
I,I,TRANIO,"Master, it is no time to chide you now;"
I,I,TRANIO,"Affection is not rated from the heart:"
I,I,TRANIO,"If love have touch'd you, nought remains but so,"
I,I,TRANIO,"'Redime te captum quam queas minimo.'"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Gramercies, lad, go forward; this contents:"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"The rest will comfort, for thy counsel's sound."
I,I,TRANIO,"Master, you look'd so longly on the maid,"
I,I,TRANIO,"Perhaps you mark'd not what's the pith of all."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"O yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Such as the daughter of Agenor had,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"That made great Jove to humble him to her hand."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"When with his knees he kiss'd the Cretan strand."
I,I,TRANIO,"Saw you no more? mark'd you not how her sister"
I,I,TRANIO,"Began to scold and raise up such a storm"
I,I,TRANIO,"That mortal ears might hardly endure the din?"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Tranio, I saw her coral lips to move"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"And with her breath she did perfume the air:"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her."
I,I,TRANIO,"Nay, then, 'tis time to stir him from his trance."
I,I,TRANIO,"I pray, awake, sir: if you love the maid,"
I,I,TRANIO,"Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus it stands:"
I,I,TRANIO,"Her eldest sister is so curst and shrewd"
I,I,TRANIO,"That till the father rid his hands of her,"
I,I,TRANIO,"Master, your love must live a maid at home;"
I,I,TRANIO,"And therefore has he closely mew'd her up,"
I,I,TRANIO,"Because she will not be annoy'd with suitors."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Ah, Tranio, what a cruel father's he!"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"But art thou not advised, he took some care"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her?"
I,I,TRANIO,"Ay, marry, am I, sir; and now 'tis plotted."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"I have it, Tranio."
I,I,TRANIO,"Master, for my hand,"
I,I,TRANIO,"Both our inventions meet and jump in one."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Tell me thine first."
I,I,TRANIO,"You will be schoolmaster"
I,I,TRANIO,"And undertake the teaching of the maid:"
I,I,TRANIO,"That's your device."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"It is: may it be done?"
I,I,TRANIO,"Not possible; for who shall bear your part,"
I,I,TRANIO,"And be in Padua here Vincentio's son,"
I,I,TRANIO,"Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends,"
I,I,TRANIO,"Visit his countrymen and banquet them?"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Basta; content thee, for I have it full."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"We have not yet been seen in any house,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Nor can we lie distinguish'd by our faces"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"For man or master; then it follows thus;"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Keep house and port and servants as I should:"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"I will some other be, some Florentine,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Some Neapolitan, or meaner man of Pisa."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"'Tis hatch'd and shall be so: Tranio, at once"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Uncase thee; take my colour'd hat and cloak:"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"When Biondello comes, he waits on thee;"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"But I will charm him first to keep his tongue."
I,I,TRANIO,"So had you need."
I,I,TRANIO,"In brief, sir, sith it your pleasure is,"
I,I,TRANIO,"And I am tied to be obedient;"
I,I,TRANIO,"For so your father charged me at our parting,"
I,I,TRANIO,"'Be serviceable to my son,' quoth he,"
I,I,TRANIO,"Although I think 'twas in another sense;"
I,I,TRANIO,"I am content to be Lucentio,"
I,I,TRANIO,"Because so well I love Lucentio."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Tranio, be so, because Lucentio loves:"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"And let me be a slave, to achieve that maid"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Whose sudden sight hath thrall'd my wounded eye."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Here comes the rogue."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Sirrah, where have you been?"
I,I,BIONDELLO,"Where have I been! Nay, how now! where are you?"
I,I,BIONDELLO,"Master, has my fellow Tranio stolen your clothes? Or"
I,I,BIONDELLO,"you stolen his? or both? pray, what's the news?"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Sirrah, come hither: 'tis no time to jest,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"And therefore frame your manners to the time."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Your fellow Tranio here, to save my life,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Puts my apparel and my countenance on,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"And I for my escape have put on his;"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"For in a quarrel since I came ashore"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"I kill'd a man and fear I was descried:"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Wait you on him, I charge you, as becomes,"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"While I make way from hence to save my life:"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"You understand me?"
I,I,BIONDELLO,"I, sir! ne'er a whit."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"And not a jot of Tranio in your mouth:"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Tranio is changed into Lucentio."
I,I,BIONDELLO,"The better for him: would I were so too!"
I,I,TRANIO,"So could I, faith, boy, to have the next wish after,"
I,I,TRANIO,"That Lucentio indeed had Baptista's youngest daughter."
I,I,TRANIO,"But, sirrah, not for my sake, but your master's, I advise"
I,I,TRANIO,"You use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies:"
I,I,TRANIO,"When I am alone, why, then I am Tranio;"
I,I,TRANIO,"But in all places else your master Lucentio."
I,I,LUCENTIO,"Tranio, let's go: one thing more rests, that"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"thyself execute, to make one among these wooers: if"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"thou ask me why, sufficeth, my reasons are both good"
I,I,LUCENTIO,"and weighty."
I,I,First Servant,"My lord, you nod; you do not mind the play."
I,I,SLY,"Yes, by Saint Anne, do I. A good matter, surely:"
I,I,SLY,"comes there any more of it?"
I,I,Page,"My lord, 'tis but begun."
I,I,SLY,"'Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady:"
I,I,SLY,"would 'twere done!"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Verona, for a while I take my leave,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"To see my friends in Padua, but of all"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"My best beloved and approved friend,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Hortensio; and I trow this is his house."
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Here, sirrah Grumio; knock, I say."
I,II,GRUMIO,"Knock, sir! whom should I knock? is there man has"
I,II,GRUMIO,"rebused your worship?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Villain, I say, knock me here soundly."
I,II,GRUMIO,"Knock you here, sir! why, sir, what am I, sir, that"
I,II,GRUMIO,"I should knock you here, sir?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Villain, I say, knock me at this gate"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"And rap me well, or I'll knock your knave's pate."
I,II,GRUMIO,"My master is grown quarrelsome. I should knock"
I,II,GRUMIO,"you first,"
I,II,GRUMIO,"And then I know after who comes by the worst."
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Will it not be?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Faith, sirrah, an you'll not knock, I'll ring it;"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"I'll try how you can sol, fa, and sing it."
I,II,GRUMIO,"Help, masters, help! my master is mad."
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Now, knock when I bid you, sirrah villain!"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"How now! what's the matter? My old friend Grumio!"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"and my good friend Petruchio! How do you all at Verona?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Signior Hortensio, come you to part the fray?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"'Con tutto il cuore, ben trovato,' may I say."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"'Alla nostra casa ben venuto, molto honorato signor"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"mio Petruchio.' Rise, Grumio, rise: we will compound"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"this quarrel."
I,II,GRUMIO,"Nay, 'tis no matter, sir, what he 'leges in Latin."
I,II,GRUMIO,"if this be not a lawful case for me to leave his"
I,II,GRUMIO,"service, look you, sir, he bid me knock him and rap"
I,II,GRUMIO,"him soundly, sir: well, was it fit for a servant to"
I,II,GRUMIO,"use his master so, being perhaps, for aught I see,"
I,II,GRUMIO,"two and thirty, a pip out? Whom would to God I had"
I,II,GRUMIO,"well knock'd at first, Then had not Grumio come by the worst."
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"A senseless villain! Good Hortensio,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"I bade the rascal knock upon your gate"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"And could not get him for my heart to do it."
I,II,GRUMIO,"Knock at the gate! O heavens! Spake you not these"
I,II,GRUMIO,"words plain, 'Sirrah, knock me here, rap me here,"
I,II,GRUMIO,"knock me well, and knock me soundly'? And come you"
I,II,GRUMIO,"now with, 'knocking at the gate'?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Sirrah, be gone, or talk not, I advise you."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Petruchio, patience; I am Grumio's pledge:"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Why, this's a heavy chance 'twixt him and you,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Your ancient, trusty, pleasant servant Grumio."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"And tell me now, sweet friend, what happy gale"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Blows you to Padua here from old Verona?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Such wind as scatters young men through the world,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"To seek their fortunes farther than at home"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Where small experience grows. But in a few,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Signior Hortensio, thus it stands with me:"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Antonio, my father, is deceased;"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"And I have thrust myself into this maze,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Haply to wive and thrive as best I may:"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Crowns in my purse I have and goods at home,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"And so am come abroad to see the world."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Petruchio, shall I then come roundly to thee"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"And wish thee to a shrewd ill-favour'd wife?"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Thou'ldst thank me but a little for my counsel:"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"And yet I'll promise thee she shall be rich"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"And very rich: but thou'rt too much my friend,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"And I'll not wish thee to her."
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Signior Hortensio, 'twixt such friends as we"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Few words suffice; and therefore, if thou know"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"One rich enough to be Petruchio's wife,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"As wealth is burden of my wooing dance,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Be she as foul as was Florentius' love,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"As old as Sibyl and as curst and shrewd"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"As Socrates' Xanthippe, or a worse,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"She moves me not, or not removes, at least,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Affection's edge in me, were she as rough"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"As are the swelling Adriatic seas:"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"If wealthily, then happily in Padua."
I,II,GRUMIO,"Nay, look you, sir, he tells you flatly what his"
I,II,GRUMIO,"mind is: Why give him gold enough and marry him to"
I,II,GRUMIO,"a puppet or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with ne'er"
I,II,GRUMIO,"a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases"
I,II,GRUMIO,"as two and fifty horses: why, nothing comes amiss,"
I,II,GRUMIO,"so money comes withal."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Petruchio, since we are stepp'd thus far in,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"I will continue that I broach'd in jest."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"With wealth enough and young and beauteous,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman:"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Her only fault, and that is faults enough,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Is that she is intolerable curst"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"And shrewd and froward, so beyond all measure"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"That, were my state far worser than it is,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"I would not wed her for a mine of gold."
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Hortensio, peace! thou know'st not gold's effect:"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Tell me her father's name and 'tis enough;"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"For I will board her, though she chide as loud"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Her father is Baptista Minola,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"An affable and courteous gentleman:"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Her name is Katharina Minola,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Renown'd in Padua for her scolding tongue."
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"I know her father, though I know not her;"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"And he knew my deceased father well."
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"I will not sleep, Hortensio, till I see her;"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"And therefore let me be thus bold with you"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"To give you over at this first encounter,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Unless you will accompany me thither."
I,II,GRUMIO,"I pray you, sir, let him go while the humour lasts."
I,II,GRUMIO,"O' my word, an she knew him as well as I do, she"
I,II,GRUMIO,"would think scolding would do little good upon him:"
I,II,GRUMIO,"she may perhaps call him half a score knaves or so:"
I,II,GRUMIO,"why, that's nothing; an he begin once, he'll rail in"
I,II,GRUMIO,"his rope-tricks. I'll tell you what sir, an she"
I,II,GRUMIO,"stand him but a little, he will throw a figure in"
I,II,GRUMIO,"her face and so disfigure her with it that she"
I,II,GRUMIO,"shall have no more eyes to see withal than a cat."
I,II,GRUMIO,"You know him not, sir."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Tarry, Petruchio, I must go with thee,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"For in Baptista's keep my treasure is:"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"He hath the jewel of my life in hold,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"His youngest daughter, beautiful Binaca,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"And her withholds from me and other more,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Suitors to her and rivals in my love,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Supposing it a thing impossible,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"For those defects I have before rehearsed,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"That ever Katharina will be woo'd;"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Therefore this order hath Baptista ta'en,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"That none shall have access unto Bianca"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Till Katharina the curst have got a husband."
I,II,GRUMIO,"Katharina the curst!"
I,II,GRUMIO,"A title for a maid of all titles the worst."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Now shall my friend Petruchio do me grace,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"And offer me disguised in sober robes"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"To old Baptista as a schoolmaster"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Well seen in music, to instruct Bianca;"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"That so I may, by this device, at least"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Have leave and leisure to make love to her"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"And unsuspected court her by herself."
I,II,GRUMIO,"Here's no knavery! See, to beguile the old folks,"
I,II,GRUMIO,"how the young folks lay their heads together!"
I,II,GRUMIO,"Master, master, look about you: who goes there, ha?"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Peace, Grumio! it is the rival of my love."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Petruchio, stand by a while."
I,II,GRUMIO,"A proper stripling and an amorous!"
I,II,GREMIO,"O, very well; I have perused the note."
I,II,GREMIO,"Hark you, sir: I'll have them very fairly bound:"
I,II,GREMIO,"All books of love, see that at any hand;"
I,II,GREMIO,"And see you read no other lectures to her:"
I,II,GREMIO,"You understand me: over and beside"
I,II,GREMIO,"Signior Baptista's liberality,"
I,II,GREMIO,"I'll mend it with a largess. Take your paper too,"
I,II,GREMIO,"And let me have them very well perfumed"
I,II,GREMIO,"For she is sweeter than perfume itself"
I,II,GREMIO,"To whom they go to. What will you read to her?"
I,II,LUCENTIO,"Whate'er I read to her, I'll plead for you"
I,II,LUCENTIO,"As for my patron, stand you so assured,"
I,II,LUCENTIO,"As firmly as yourself were still in place:"
I,II,LUCENTIO,"Yea, and perhaps with more successful words"
I,II,LUCENTIO,"Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir."
I,II,GREMIO,"O this learning, what a thing it is!"
I,II,GRUMIO,"O this woodcock, what an ass it is!"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Peace, sirrah!"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Grumio, mum! God save you, Signior Gremio."
I,II,GREMIO,"And you are well met, Signior Hortensio."
I,II,GREMIO,"Trow you whither I am going? To Baptista Minola."
I,II,GREMIO,"I promised to inquire carefully"
I,II,GREMIO,"About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca:"
I,II,GREMIO,"And by good fortune I have lighted well"
I,II,GREMIO,"On this young man, for learning and behavior"
I,II,GREMIO,"Fit for her turn, well read in poetry"
I,II,GREMIO,"And other books, good ones, I warrant ye."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"'Tis well; and I have met a gentleman"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Hath promised me to help me to another,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"A fine musician to instruct our mistress;"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"So shall I no whit be behind in duty"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"To fair Bianca, so beloved of me."
I,II,GREMIO,"Beloved of me; and that my deeds shall prove."
I,II,GRUMIO,"And that his bags shall prove."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Gremio, 'tis now no time to vent our love:"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Listen to me, and if you speak me fair,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"I'll tell you news indifferent good for either."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Upon agreement from us to his liking,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Will undertake to woo curst Katharina,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Yea, and to marry her, if her dowry please."
I,II,GREMIO,"So said, so done, is well."
I,II,GREMIO,"Hortensio, have you told him all her faults?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"I know she is an irksome brawling scold:"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"If that be all, masters, I hear no harm."
I,II,GREMIO,"No, say'st me so, friend? What countryman?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Born in Verona, old Antonio's son:"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"My father dead, my fortune lives for me;"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"And I do hope good days and long to see."
I,II,GREMIO,"O sir, such a life, with such a wife, were strange!"
I,II,GREMIO,"But if you have a stomach, to't i' God's name:"
I,II,GREMIO,"You shall have me assisting you in all."
I,II,GREMIO,"But will you woo this wild-cat?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Will I live?"
I,II,GRUMIO,"Will he woo her? ay, or I'll hang her."
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Why came I hither but to that intent?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Have I not in my time heard lions roar?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Have I not heard the sea puff'd up with winds"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Have I not heard great ordnance in the field,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Have I not in a pitched battle heard"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"And do you tell me of a woman's tongue,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"That gives not half so great a blow to hear"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs."
I,II,GRUMIO,"For he fears none."
I,II,GREMIO,"Hortensio, hark:"
I,II,GREMIO,"This gentleman is happily arrived,"
I,II,GREMIO,"My mind presumes, for his own good and ours."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"I promised we would be contributors"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"And bear his charging of wooing, whatsoe'er."
I,II,GREMIO,"And so we will, provided that he win her."
I,II,GRUMIO,"I would I were as sure of a good dinner."
I,II,TRANIO,"Gentlemen, God save you. If I may be bold,"
I,II,TRANIO,"Tell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way"
I,II,TRANIO,"To the house of Signior Baptista Minola?"
I,II,BIONDELLO,"He that has the two fair daughters: is't he you mean?"
I,II,TRANIO,"Even he, Biondello."
I,II,GREMIO,"Hark you, sir; you mean not her to--"
I,II,TRANIO,"Perhaps, him and her, sir: what have you to do?"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Not her that chides, sir, at any hand, I pray."
I,II,TRANIO,"I love no chiders, sir. Biondello, let's away."
I,II,LUCENTIO,"Well begun, Tranio."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Sir, a word ere you go;"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Are you a suitor to the maid you talk of, yea or no?"
I,II,TRANIO,"And if I be, sir, is it any offence?"
I,II,GREMIO,"No; if without more words you will get you hence."
I,II,TRANIO,"Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free"
I,II,TRANIO,"For me as for you?"
I,II,GREMIO,"But so is not she."
I,II,TRANIO,"For what reason, I beseech you?"
I,II,GREMIO,"For this reason, if you'll know,"
I,II,GREMIO,"That she's the choice love of Signior Gremio."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"That she's the chosen of Signior Hortensio."
I,II,TRANIO,"Softly, my masters! if you be gentlemen,"
I,II,TRANIO,"Do me this right; hear me with patience."
I,II,TRANIO,"Baptista is a noble gentleman,"
I,II,TRANIO,"To whom my father is not all unknown;"
I,II,TRANIO,"And were his daughter fairer than she is,"
I,II,TRANIO,"She may more suitors have and me for one."
I,II,TRANIO,"Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers;"
I,II,TRANIO,"Then well one more may fair Bianca have:"
I,II,TRANIO,"And so she shall; Lucentio shall make one,"
I,II,TRANIO,"Though Paris came in hope to speed alone."
I,II,GREMIO,"What! this gentleman will out-talk us all."
I,II,LUCENTIO,"Sir, give him head: I know he'll prove a jade."
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Hortensio, to what end are all these words?"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Sir, let me be so bold as ask you,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Did you yet ever see Baptista's daughter?"
I,II,TRANIO,"No, sir; but hear I do that he hath two,"
I,II,TRANIO,"The one as famous for a scolding tongue"
I,II,TRANIO,"As is the other for beauteous modesty."
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Sir, sir, the first's for me; let her go by."
I,II,GREMIO,"Yea, leave that labour to great Hercules;"
I,II,GREMIO,"And let it be more than Alcides' twelve."
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Sir, understand you this of me in sooth:"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"The youngest daughter whom you hearken for"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Her father keeps from all access of suitors,"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"And will not promise her to any man"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"Until the elder sister first be wed:"
I,II,PETRUCHIO,"The younger then is free and not before."
I,II,TRANIO,"If it be so, sir, that you are the man"
I,II,TRANIO,"Must stead us all and me amongst the rest,"
I,II,TRANIO,"And if you break the ice and do this feat,"
I,II,TRANIO,"Achieve the elder, set the younger free"
I,II,TRANIO,"For our access, whose hap shall be to have her"
I,II,TRANIO,"Will not so graceless be to be ingrate."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Sir, you say well and well you do conceive;"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"And since you do profess to be a suitor,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"To whom we all rest generally beholding."
I,II,TRANIO,"Sir, I shall not be slack: in sign whereof,"
I,II,TRANIO,"Please ye we may contrive this afternoon,"
I,II,TRANIO,"And quaff carouses to our mistress' health,"
I,II,TRANIO,"And do as adversaries do in law,"
I,II,TRANIO,"Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends."
I,II,GRUMIO,"O excellent motion! Fellows, let's be gone."
I,II,HORTENSIO,"The motion's good indeed and be it so,"
I,II,HORTENSIO,"Petruchio, I shall be your ben venuto."
II,I,BIANCA,"Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself,"
II,I,BIANCA,"To make a bondmaid and a slave of me;"
II,I,BIANCA,"That I disdain: but for these other gawds,"
II,I,BIANCA,"Unbind my hands, I'll pull them off myself,"
II,I,BIANCA,"Yea, all my raiment, to my petticoat;"
II,I,BIANCA,"Or what you will command me will I do,"
II,I,BIANCA,"So well I know my duty to my elders."
II,I,KATHARINA,"Of all thy suitors, here I charge thee, tell"
II,I,KATHARINA,"Whom thou lovest best: see thou dissemble not."
II,I,BIANCA,"Believe me, sister, of all the men alive"
II,I,BIANCA,"I never yet beheld that special face"
II,I,BIANCA,"Which I could fancy more than any other."
II,I,KATHARINA,"Minion, thou liest. Is't not Hortensio?"
II,I,BIANCA,"If you affect him, sister, here I swear"
II,I,BIANCA,"I'll plead for you myself, but you shall have"
II,I,BIANCA,"him."
II,I,KATHARINA,"O then, belike, you fancy riches more:"
II,I,KATHARINA,"You will have Gremio to keep you fair."
II,I,BIANCA,"Is it for him you do envy me so?"
II,I,BIANCA,"Nay then you jest, and now I well perceive"
II,I,BIANCA,"You have but jested with me all this while:"
II,I,BIANCA,"I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands."
II,I,KATHARINA,"If that be jest, then all the rest was so."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Why, how now, dame! whence grows this insolence?"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Bianca, stand aside. Poor girl! she weeps."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"For shame, thou helding of a devilish spirit,"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Why dost thou wrong her that did ne'er wrong thee?"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"When did she cross thee with a bitter word?"
II,I,KATHARINA,"Her silence flouts me, and I'll be revenged."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"What, in my sight? Bianca, get thee in."
II,I,KATHARINA,"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see"
II,I,KATHARINA,"She is your treasure, she must have a husband;"
II,I,KATHARINA,"I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day"
II,I,KATHARINA,"And for your love to her lead apes in hell."
II,I,KATHARINA,"Talk not to me: I will go sit and weep"
II,I,KATHARINA,"Till I can find occasion of revenge."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Was ever gentleman thus grieved as I?"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"But who comes here?"
II,I,GREMIO,"Good morrow, neighbour Baptista."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Good morrow, neighbour Gremio."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"God save you, gentlemen!"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And you, good sir! Pray, have you not a daughter"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Call'd Katharina, fair and virtuous?"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"I have a daughter, sir, called Katharina."
II,I,GREMIO,"You are too blunt: go to it orderly."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"You wrong me, Signior Gremio: give me leave."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"I am a gentleman of Verona, sir,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"That, hearing of her beauty and her wit,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Her affability and bashful modesty,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Her wondrous qualities and mild behavior,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Am bold to show myself a forward guest"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Within your house, to make mine eye the witness"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Of that report which I so oft have heard."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And, for an entrance to my entertainment,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"I do present you with a man of mine,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Cunning in music and the mathematics,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"To instruct her fully in those sciences,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Whereof I know she is not ignorant:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Accept of him, or else you do me wrong:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"His name is Licio, born in Mantua."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"You're welcome, sir; and he, for your good sake."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"But for my daughter Katharina, this I know,"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"She is not for your turn, the more my grief."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"I see you do not mean to part with her,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Or else you like not of my company."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Mistake me not; I speak but as I find."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Whence are you, sir? what may I call your name?"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Petruchio is my name; Antonio's son,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"A man well known throughout all Italy."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"I know him well: you are welcome for his sake."
II,I,GREMIO,"Saving your tale, Petruchio, I pray,"
II,I,GREMIO,"Let us, that are poor petitioners, speak too:"
II,I,GREMIO,"Baccare! you are marvellous forward."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"O, pardon me, Signior Gremio; I would fain be doing."
II,I,GREMIO,"I doubt it not, sir; but you will curse your"
II,I,GREMIO,"wooing. Neighbour, this is a gift very grateful, I am"
II,I,GREMIO,"sure of it. To express the like kindness, myself,"
II,I,GREMIO,"that have been more kindly beholding to you than"
II,I,GREMIO,"any, freely give unto you this young scholar,"
II,I,GREMIO,"that hath been long studying at Rheims; as cunning"
II,I,GREMIO,"in Greek, Latin, and other languages, as the other"
II,I,GREMIO,"in music and mathematics: his name is Cambio; pray,"
II,I,GREMIO,"accept his service."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"A thousand thanks, Signior Gremio."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Welcome, good Cambio."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"But, gentle sir, methinks you walk like a stranger:"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"may I be so bold to know the cause of your coming?"
II,I,TRANIO,"Pardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own,"
II,I,TRANIO,"That, being a stranger in this city here,"
II,I,TRANIO,"Do make myself a suitor to your daughter,"
II,I,TRANIO,"Unto Bianca, fair and virtuous."
II,I,TRANIO,"Nor is your firm resolve unknown to me,"
II,I,TRANIO,"In the preferment of the eldest sister."
II,I,TRANIO,"This liberty is all that I request,"
II,I,TRANIO,"That, upon knowledge of my parentage,"
II,I,TRANIO,"I may have welcome 'mongst the rest that woo"
II,I,TRANIO,"And free access and favour as the rest:"
II,I,TRANIO,"And, toward the education of your daughters,"
II,I,TRANIO,"I here bestow a simple instrument,"
II,I,TRANIO,"And this small packet of Greek and Latin books:"
II,I,TRANIO,"If you accept them, then their worth is great."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Lucentio is your name; of whence, I pray?"
II,I,TRANIO,"Of Pisa, sir; son to Vincentio."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"A mighty man of Pisa; by report"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"I know him well: you are very welcome, sir,"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Take you the lute, and you the set of books;"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"You shall go see your pupils presently."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Holla, within!"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Sirrah, lead these gentlemen"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"To my daughters; and tell them both,"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"These are their tutors: bid them use them well."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"We will go walk a little in the orchard,"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"And then to dinner. You are passing welcome,"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"And so I pray you all to think yourselves."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And every day I cannot come to woo."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"You knew my father well, and in him me,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Left solely heir to all his lands and goods,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Which I have better'd rather than decreased:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Then tell me, if I get your daughter's love,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"What dowry shall I have with her to wife?"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"After my death the one half of my lands,"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"And in possession twenty thousand crowns."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And, for that dowry, I'll assure her of"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"In all my lands and leases whatsoever:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Let specialties be therefore drawn between us,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"That covenants may be kept on either hand."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Ay, when the special thing is well obtain'd,"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"That is, her love; for that is all in all."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Why, that is nothing: for I tell you, father,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"I am as peremptory as she proud-minded;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And where two raging fires meet together"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"They do consume the thing that feeds their fury:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Though little fire grows great with little wind,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"So I to her and so she yields to me;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"For I am rough and woo not like a babe."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Well mayst thou woo, and happy be thy speed!"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"But be thou arm'd for some unhappy words."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Ay, to the proof; as mountains are for winds,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"That shake not, though they blow perpetually."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"How now, my friend! why dost thou look so pale?"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"For fear, I promise you, if I look pale."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"What, will my daughter prove a good musician?"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"I think she'll sooner prove a soldier"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"Iron may hold with her, but never lutes."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"Why, no; for she hath broke the lute to me."
II,I,HORTENSIO,"I did but tell her she mistook her frets,"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"And bow'd her hand to teach her fingering;"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"When, with a most impatient devilish spirit,"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"'Frets, call you these?' quoth she; 'I'll fume"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"with them:'"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"And, with that word, she struck me on the head,"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"And through the instrument my pate made way;"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"And there I stood amazed for a while,"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"As on a pillory, looking through the lute;"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"While she did call me rascal fiddler"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"And twangling Jack; with twenty such vile terms,"
II,I,HORTENSIO,"As had she studied to misuse me so."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"I love her ten times more than e'er I did:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"O, how I long to have some chat with her!"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Well, go with me and be not so discomfited:"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Proceed in practise with my younger daughter;"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"She's apt to learn and thankful for good turns."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Signior Petruchio, will you go with us,"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you?"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"I pray you do."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"I will attend her here,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And woo her with some spirit when she comes."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"She sings as sweetly as a nightingale:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"As morning roses newly wash'd with dew:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Say she be mute and will not speak a word;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Then I'll commend her volubility,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And say she uttereth piercing eloquence:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"As though she bid me stay by her a week:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"When I shall ask the banns and when be married."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"But here she comes; and now, Petruchio, speak."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Good morrow, Kate; for that's your name, I hear."
II,I,KATHARINA,"Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing:"
II,I,KATHARINA,"They call me Katharina that do talk of me."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Take this of me, Kate of my consolation;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Hearing thy mildness praised in every town,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife."
II,I,KATHARINA,"Moved! in good time: let him that moved you hither"
II,I,KATHARINA,"Remove you hence: I knew you at the first"
II,I,KATHARINA,"You were a moveable."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Why, what's a moveable?"
II,I,KATHARINA,"A join'd-stool."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Thou hast hit it: come, sit on me."
II,I,KATHARINA,"Asses are made to bear, and so are you."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Women are made to bear, and so are you."
II,I,KATHARINA,"No such jade as you, if me you mean."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Alas! good Kate, I will not burden thee;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"For, knowing thee to be but young and light--"
II,I,KATHARINA,"Too light for such a swain as you to catch;"
II,I,KATHARINA,"And yet as heavy as my weight should be."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Should be! should--buzz!"
II,I,KATHARINA,"Well ta'en, and like a buzzard."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"O slow-wing'd turtle! shall a buzzard take thee?"
II,I,KATHARINA,"Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry."
II,I,KATHARINA,"If I be waspish, best beware my sting."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"My remedy is then, to pluck it out."
II,I,KATHARINA,"Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Who knows not where a wasp does"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"wear his sting? In his tail."
II,I,KATHARINA,"In his tongue."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Whose tongue?"
II,I,KATHARINA,"Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Good Kate; I am a gentleman."
II,I,KATHARINA,"That I'll try."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again."
II,I,KATHARINA,"So may you lose your arms:"
II,I,KATHARINA,"If you strike me, you are no gentleman;"
II,I,KATHARINA,"And if no gentleman, why then no arms."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"A herald, Kate? O, put me in thy books!"
II,I,KATHARINA,"What is your crest? a coxcomb?"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen."
II,I,KATHARINA,"No cock of mine; you crow too like a craven."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Nay, come, Kate, come; you must not look so sour."
II,I,KATHARINA,"It is my fashion, when I see a crab."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Why, here's no crab; and therefore look not sour."
II,I,KATHARINA,"There is, there is."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Then show it me."
II,I,KATHARINA,"Had I a glass, I would."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"What, you mean my face?"
II,I,KATHARINA,"Well aim'd of such a young one."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Now, by Saint George, I am too young for you."
II,I,KATHARINA,"Yet you are wither'd."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"'Tis with cares."
II,I,KATHARINA,"I care not."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Nay, hear you, Kate: in sooth you scape not so."
II,I,KATHARINA,"I chafe you, if I tarry: let me go."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"No, not a whit: I find you passing gentle."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"'Twas told me you were rough and coy and sullen,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And now I find report a very liar;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"For thou are pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"But slow in speech, yet sweet as spring-time flowers:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"With gentle conference, soft and affable."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Why does the world report that Kate doth limp?"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"O slanderous world! Kate like the hazel-twig"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Is straight and slender and as brown in hue"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"As hazel nuts and sweeter than the kernels."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"O, let me see thee walk: thou dost not halt."
II,I,KATHARINA,"Go, fool, and whom thou keep'st command."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Did ever Dian so become a grove"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"As Kate this chamber with her princely gait?"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"O, be thou Dian, and let her be Kate;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And then let Kate be chaste and Dian sportful!"
II,I,KATHARINA,"Where did you study all this goodly speech?"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"It is extempore, from my mother-wit."
II,I,KATHARINA,"A witty mother! witless else her son."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Am I not wise?"
II,I,KATHARINA,"Yes; keep you warm."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Marry, so I mean, sweet Katharina, in thy bed:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And therefore, setting all this chat aside,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"That you shall be my wife; your dowry 'greed on;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And, Will you, nill you, I will marry you."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"For, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Thy beauty, that doth make me like thee well,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Thou must be married to no man but me;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"For I am he am born to tame you Kate,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Conformable as other household Kates."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Here comes your father: never make denial;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"I must and will have Katharina to my wife."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Now, Signior Petruchio, how speed you with my daughter?"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"How but well, sir? how but well?"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"It were impossible I should speed amiss."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Why, how now, daughter Katharina! in your dumps?"
II,I,KATHARINA,"Call you me daughter? now, I promise you"
II,I,KATHARINA,"You have show'd a tender fatherly regard,"
II,I,KATHARINA,"To wish me wed to one half lunatic;"
II,I,KATHARINA,"A mad-cup ruffian and a swearing Jack,"
II,I,KATHARINA,"That thinks with oaths to face the matter out."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Father, 'tis thus: yourself and all the world,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"That talk'd of her, have talk'd amiss of her:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"If she be curst, it is for policy,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"For she's not froward, but modest as the dove;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"She is not hot, but temperate as the morn;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"For patience she will prove a second Grissel,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And Roman Lucrece for her chastity:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And to conclude, we have 'greed so well together,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"That upon Sunday is the wedding-day."
II,I,KATHARINA,"I'll see thee hang'd on Sunday first."
II,I,GREMIO,"Hark, Petruchio; she says she'll see thee"
II,I,GREMIO,"hang'd first."
II,I,TRANIO,"Is this your speeding? nay, then, good night our part!"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Be patient, gentlemen; I choose her for myself:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"If she and I be pleased, what's that to you?"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"'Tis bargain'd 'twixt us twain, being alone,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"That she shall still be curst in company."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"I tell you, 'tis incredible to believe"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"How much she loves me: O, the kindest Kate!"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"That in a twink she won me to her love."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"O, you are novices! 'tis a world to see,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"How tame, when men and women are alone,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Give me thy hand, Kate: I will unto Venice,"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"To buy apparel 'gainst the wedding-day."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Provide the feast, father, and bid the guests;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"I will be sure my Katharina shall be fine."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"I know not what to say: but give me your hands;"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"God send you joy, Petruchio! 'tis a match."
II,I,GREMIO,"Amen, say we: we will be witnesses."
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"Father, and wife, and gentlemen, adieu;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"I will to Venice; Sunday comes apace:"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"We will have rings and things and fine array;"
II,I,PETRUCHIO,"And kiss me, Kate, we will be married o'Sunday."
II,I,GREMIO,"Was ever match clapp'd up so suddenly?"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Faith, gentlemen, now I play a merchant's part,"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"And venture madly on a desperate mart."
II,I,TRANIO,"'Twas a commodity lay fretting by you:"
II,I,TRANIO,"'Twill bring you gain, or perish on the seas."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"The gain I seek is, quiet in the match."
II,I,GREMIO,"No doubt but he hath got a quiet catch."
II,I,GREMIO,"But now, Baptists, to your younger daughter:"
II,I,GREMIO,"Now is the day we long have looked for:"
II,I,GREMIO,"I am your neighbour, and was suitor first."
II,I,TRANIO,"And I am one that love Bianca more"
II,I,TRANIO,"Than words can witness, or your thoughts can guess."
II,I,GREMIO,"Youngling, thou canst not love so dear as I."
II,I,TRANIO,"Graybeard, thy love doth freeze."
II,I,GREMIO,"But thine doth fry."
II,I,GREMIO,"Skipper, stand back: 'tis age that nourisheth."
II,I,TRANIO,"But youth in ladies' eyes that flourisheth."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Content you, gentlemen: I will compound this strife:"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"'Tis deeds must win the prize; and he of both"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"That can assure my daughter greatest dower"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Shall have my Bianca's love."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Say, Signior Gremio, What can you assure her?"
II,I,GREMIO,"First, as you know, my house within the city"
II,I,GREMIO,"Is richly furnished with plate and gold;"
II,I,GREMIO,"Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;"
II,I,GREMIO,"My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry;"
II,I,GREMIO,"In ivory coffers I have stuff'd my crowns;"
II,I,GREMIO,"In cypress chests my arras counterpoints,"
II,I,GREMIO,"Costly apparel, tents, and canopies,"
II,I,GREMIO,"Fine linen, Turkey cushions boss'd with pearl,"
II,I,GREMIO,"Valance of Venice gold in needlework,"
II,I,GREMIO,"Pewter and brass and all things that belong"
II,I,GREMIO,"To house or housekeeping: then, at my farm"
II,I,GREMIO,"I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail,"
II,I,GREMIO,"Sixscore fat oxen standing in my stalls,"
II,I,GREMIO,"And all things answerable to this portion."
II,I,GREMIO,"Myself am struck in years, I must confess;"
II,I,GREMIO,"And if I die to-morrow, this is hers,"
II,I,GREMIO,"If whilst I live she will be only mine."
II,I,TRANIO,"That 'only' came well in. Sir, list to me:"
II,I,TRANIO,"I am my father's heir and only son:"
II,I,TRANIO,"If I may have your daughter to my wife,"
II,I,TRANIO,"I'll leave her houses three or four as good,"
II,I,TRANIO,"Within rich Pisa walls, as any one"
II,I,TRANIO,"Old Signior Gremio has in Padua;"
II,I,TRANIO,"Besides two thousand ducats by the year"
II,I,TRANIO,"Of fruitful land, all which shall be her jointure."
II,I,TRANIO,"What, have I pinch'd you, Signior Gremio?"
II,I,GREMIO,"Two thousand ducats by the year of land!"
II,I,GREMIO,"My land amounts not to so much in all:"
II,I,GREMIO,"That she shall have; besides an argosy"
II,I,GREMIO,"That now is lying in Marseilles' road."
II,I,GREMIO,"What, have I choked you with an argosy?"
II,I,TRANIO,"Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less"
II,I,TRANIO,"Than three great argosies; besides two galliases,"
II,I,TRANIO,"And twelve tight galleys: these I will assure her,"
II,I,TRANIO,"And twice as much, whate'er thou offer'st next."
II,I,GREMIO,"Nay, I have offer'd all, I have no more;"
II,I,GREMIO,"And she can have no more than all I have:"
II,I,GREMIO,"If you like me, she shall have me and mine."
II,I,TRANIO,"Why, then the maid is mine from all the world,"
II,I,TRANIO,"By your firm promise: Gremio is out-vied."
II,I,BAPTISTA,"I must confess your offer is the best;"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"And, let your father make her the assurance,"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"She is your own; else, you must pardon me,"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"if you should die before him, where's her dower?"
II,I,TRANIO,"That's but a cavil: he is old, I young."
II,I,GREMIO,"And may not young men die, as well as old?"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Well, gentlemen,"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"I am thus resolved: on Sunday next you know"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"My daughter Katharina is to be married:"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Now, on the Sunday following, shall Bianca"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"Be bride to you, if you this assurance;"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"If not, Signior Gremio:"
II,I,BAPTISTA,"And so, I take my leave, and thank you both."
II,I,GREMIO,"Adieu, good neighbour."
II,I,GREMIO,"Now I fear thee not:"
II,I,GREMIO,"Sirrah young gamester, your father were a fool"
II,I,GREMIO,"To give thee all, and in his waning age"
II,I,GREMIO,"Set foot under thy table: tut, a toy!"
II,I,GREMIO,"An old Italian fox is not so kind, my boy."
II,I,TRANIO,"A vengeance on your crafty wither'd hide!"
II,I,TRANIO,"Yet I have faced it with a card of ten."
II,I,TRANIO,"'Tis in my head to do my master good:"
II,I,TRANIO,"I see no reason but supposed Lucentio"
II,I,TRANIO,"Must get a father, call'd 'supposed Vincentio;'"
II,I,TRANIO,"And that's a wonder: fathers commonly"
II,I,TRANIO,"Do get their children; but in this case of wooing,"
II,I,TRANIO,"A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning."
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Fiddler, forbear; you grow too forward, sir:"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Have you so soon forgot the entertainment"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Her sister Katharina welcomed you withal?"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"But, wrangling pedant, this is"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"The patroness of heavenly harmony:"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Then give me leave to have prerogative;"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"And when in music we have spent an hour,"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Your lecture shall have leisure for as much."
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Preposterous ass, that never read so far"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"To know the cause why music was ordain'd!"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Was it not to refresh the mind of man"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"After his studies or his usual pain?"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Then give me leave to read philosophy,"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"And while I pause, serve in your harmony."
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Sirrah, I will not bear these braves of thine."
III,I,BIANCA,"Why, gentlemen, you do me double wrong,"
III,I,BIANCA,"To strive for that which resteth in my choice:"
III,I,BIANCA,"I am no breeching scholar in the schools;"
III,I,BIANCA,"I'll not be tied to hours nor 'pointed times,"
III,I,BIANCA,"But learn my lessons as I please myself."
III,I,BIANCA,"And, to cut off all strife, here sit we down:"
III,I,BIANCA,"Take you your instrument, play you the whiles;"
III,I,BIANCA,"His lecture will be done ere you have tuned."
III,I,HORTENSIO,"You'll leave his lecture when I am in tune?"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"That will be never: tune your instrument."
III,I,BIANCA,"Where left we last?"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Here, madam:"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"'Hic ibat Simois; hic est Sigeia tellus;"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Hic steterat Priami regia celsa senis.'"
III,I,BIANCA,"Construe them."
III,I,LUCENTIO,"'Hic ibat,' as I told you before, 'Simois,' I am"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Lucentio, 'hic est,' son unto Vincentio of Pisa,"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"'Sigeia tellus,' disguised thus to get your love;"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"'Hic steterat,' and that Lucentio that comes"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"a-wooing, 'Priami,' is my man Tranio, 'regia,'"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"bearing my port, 'celsa senis,' that we might"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"beguile the old pantaloon."
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Madam, my instrument's in tune."
III,I,BIANCA,"Let's hear. O fie! the treble jars."
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Spit in the hole, man, and tune again."
III,I,BIANCA,"Now let me see if I can construe it: 'Hic ibat"
III,I,BIANCA,"Simois,' I know you not, 'hic est Sigeia tellus,' I"
III,I,BIANCA,"trust you not; 'Hic steterat Priami,' take heed"
III,I,BIANCA,"he hear us not, 'regia,' presume not, 'celsa senis,'"
III,I,BIANCA,"despair not."
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Madam, 'tis now in tune."
III,I,LUCENTIO,"All but the base."
III,I,HORTENSIO,"The base is right; 'tis the base knave that jars."
III,I,HORTENSIO,"How fiery and forward our pedant is!"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Now, for my life, the knave doth court my love:"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Pedascule, I'll watch you better yet."
III,I,BIANCA,"In time I may believe, yet I mistrust."
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Mistrust it not: for, sure, AEacides"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Was Ajax, call'd so from his grandfather."
III,I,BIANCA,"I must believe my master; else, I promise you,"
III,I,BIANCA,"I should be arguing still upon that doubt:"
III,I,BIANCA,"But let it rest. Now, Licio, to you:"
III,I,BIANCA,"Good masters, take it not unkindly, pray,"
III,I,BIANCA,"That I have been thus pleasant with you both."
III,I,HORTENSIO,"You may go walk, and give me leave a while:"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"My lessons make no music in three parts."
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Are you so formal, sir? well, I must wait,"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"And watch withal; for, but I be deceived,"
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Our fine musician groweth amorous."
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Madam, before you touch the instrument,"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"To learn the order of my fingering,"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"I must begin with rudiments of art;"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"To teach you gamut in a briefer sort,"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"More pleasant, pithy and effectual,"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Than hath been taught by any of my trade:"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"And there it is in writing, fairly drawn."
III,I,BIANCA,"Why, I am past my gamut long ago."
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Yet read the gamut of Hortensio."
III,I,BIANCA,"'A re,' to Plead Hortensio's passion;"
III,I,BIANCA,"'B mi,' Bianca, take him for thy lord,"
III,I,BIANCA,"'C fa ut,' that loves with all affection:"
III,I,BIANCA,"'D sol re,' one clef, two notes have I:"
III,I,BIANCA,"'E la mi,' show pity, or I die.'"
III,I,BIANCA,"Call you this gamut? tut, I like it not:"
III,I,BIANCA,"Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice,"
III,I,BIANCA,"To change true rules for old inventions."
III,I,Servant,"Mistress, your father prays you leave your books"
III,I,Servant,"And help to dress your sister's chamber up:"
III,I,Servant,"You know to-morrow is the wedding-day."
III,I,BIANCA,"Farewell, sweet masters both; I must be gone."
III,I,LUCENTIO,"Faith, mistress, then I have no cause to stay."
III,I,HORTENSIO,"But I have cause to pry into this pedant:"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Methinks he looks as though he were in love:"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Yet if thy thoughts, Bianca, be so humble"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"To cast thy wandering eyes on every stale,"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Seize thee that list: if once I find thee ranging,"
III,I,HORTENSIO,"Hortensio will be quit with thee by changing."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"'pointed day."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"That Katharina and Petruchio should be married,"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"And yet we hear not of our son-in-law."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"What will be said? what mockery will it be,"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"To want the bridegroom when the priest attends"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage!"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"What says Lucentio to this shame of ours?"
III,II,KATHARINA,"No shame but mine: I must, forsooth, be forced"
III,II,KATHARINA,"To give my hand opposed against my heart"
III,II,KATHARINA,"Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of spleen;"
III,II,KATHARINA,"Who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure."
III,II,KATHARINA,"I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,"
III,II,KATHARINA,"Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior:"
III,II,KATHARINA,"And, to be noted for a merry man,"
III,II,KATHARINA,"He'll woo a thousand, 'point the day of marriage,"
III,II,KATHARINA,"Make feasts, invite friends, and proclaim the banns;"
III,II,KATHARINA,"Yet never means to wed where he hath woo'd."
III,II,KATHARINA,"Now must the world point at poor Katharina,"
III,II,KATHARINA,"And say, 'Lo, there is mad Petruchio's wife,"
III,II,KATHARINA,"If it would please him come and marry her!'"
III,II,TRANIO,"Patience, good Katharina, and Baptista too."
III,II,TRANIO,"Upon my life, Petruchio means but well,"
III,II,TRANIO,"Whatever fortune stays him from his word:"
III,II,TRANIO,"Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise;"
III,II,TRANIO,"Though he be merry, yet withal he's honest."
III,II,KATHARINA,"Would Katharina had never seen him though!"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Go, girl; I cannot blame thee now to weep;"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"For such an injury would vex a very saint,"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour."
III,II,BIONDELLO,"Master, master! news, old news, and such news as"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"you never heard of!"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Is it new and old too? how may that be?"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"Why, is it not news, to hear of Petruchio's coming?"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Is he come?"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"Why, no, sir."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"What then?"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"He is coming."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"When will he be here?"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"When he stands where I am and sees you there."
III,II,TRANIO,"But say, what to thine old news?"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"Why, Petruchio is coming in a new hat and an old"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"jerkin, a pair of old breeches thrice turned, a pair"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"of boots that have been candle-cases, one buckled,"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"another laced, an old rusty sword ta'en out of the"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"town-armory, with a broken hilt, and chapeless;"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"with two broken points: his horse hipped with an"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindred;"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"besides, possessed with the glanders and like to mose"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"in the chine; troubled with the lampass, infected"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"with the fashions, full of wingdalls, sped with"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"spavins, rayed with yellows, past cure of the fives,"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"bots, swayed in the back and shoulder-shotten;"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"near-legged before and with, a half-chequed bit"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"and a head-stall of sheeps leather which, being"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"often burst and now repaired with knots; one girth"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"six time pieced and a woman's crupper of velure,"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"which hath two letters for her name fairly set down"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"in studs, and here and there pieced with packthread."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Who comes with him?"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"like the horse; with a linen stock on one leg and a"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered with a red"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"and blue list; an old hat and 'the humour of forty"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"fancies' pricked in't for a feather: a monster, a"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"very monster in apparel, and not like a Christian"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"footboy or a gentleman's lackey."
III,II,TRANIO,"'Tis some odd humour pricks him to this fashion;"
III,II,TRANIO,"Yet oftentimes he goes but mean-apparell'd."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"I am glad he's come, howsoe'er he comes."
III,II,BIONDELLO,"Why, sir, he comes not."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Didst thou not say he comes?"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"Who? that Petruchio came?"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Ay, that Petruchio came."
III,II,BIONDELLO,"No, sir, I say his horse comes, with him on his back."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Why, that's all one."
III,II,BIONDELLO,"Nay, by Saint Jamy,"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"I hold you a penny,"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"A horse and a man"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"Is more than one,"
III,II,BIONDELLO,"And yet not many."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Come, where be these gallants? who's at home?"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"You are welcome, sir."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"And yet I come not well."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"And yet you halt not."
III,II,TRANIO,"Not so well apparell'd"
III,II,TRANIO,"As I wish you were."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Were it better, I should rush in thus."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"But where is Kate? where is my lovely bride?"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"How does my father? Gentles, methinks you frown:"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"And wherefore gaze this goodly company,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"As if they saw some wondrous monument,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Some comet or unusual prodigy?"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Why, sir, you know this is your wedding-day:"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"First were we sad, fearing you would not come;"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Now sadder, that you come so unprovided."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate,"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"An eye-sore to our solemn festival!"
III,II,TRANIO,"And tells us, what occasion of import"
III,II,TRANIO,"Hath all so long detain'd you from your wife,"
III,II,TRANIO,"And sent you hither so unlike yourself?"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear:"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Sufficeth I am come to keep my word,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Though in some part enforced to digress;"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Which, at more leisure, I will so excuse"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"As you shall well be satisfied withal."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"But where is Kate? I stay too long from her:"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"The morning wears, 'tis time we were at church."
III,II,TRANIO,"See not your bride in these unreverent robes:"
III,II,TRANIO,"Go to my chamber; Put on clothes of mine."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Not I, believe me: thus I'll visit her."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"But thus, I trust, you will not marry her."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Good sooth, even thus; therefore ha' done with words:"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"To me she's married, not unto my clothes:"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Could I repair what she will wear in me,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"As I can change these poor accoutrements,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"'Twere well for Kate and better for myself."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"But what a fool am I to chat with you,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"When I should bid good morrow to my bride,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"And seal the title with a lovely kiss!"
III,II,TRANIO,"He hath some meaning in his mad attire:"
III,II,TRANIO,"We will persuade him, be it possible,"
III,II,TRANIO,"To put on better ere he go to church."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"I'll after him, and see the event of this."
III,II,TRANIO,"But to her love concerneth us to add"
III,II,TRANIO,"Her father's liking: which to bring to pass,"
III,II,TRANIO,"As I before unparted to your worship,"
III,II,TRANIO,"I am to get a man,--whate'er he be,"
III,II,TRANIO,"It skills not much. we'll fit him to our turn,--"
III,II,TRANIO,"And he shall be Vincentio of Pisa;"
III,II,TRANIO,"And make assurance here in Padua"
III,II,TRANIO,"Of greater sums than I have promised."
III,II,TRANIO,"So shall you quietly enjoy your hope,"
III,II,TRANIO,"And marry sweet Bianca with consent."
III,II,LUCENTIO,"Were it not that my fellow-school-master"
III,II,LUCENTIO,"Doth watch Bianca's steps so narrowly,"
III,II,LUCENTIO,"'Twere good, methinks, to steal our marriage;"
III,II,LUCENTIO,"Which once perform'd, let all the world say no,"
III,II,LUCENTIO,"I'll keep mine own, despite of all the world."
III,II,TRANIO,"That by degrees we mean to look into,"
III,II,TRANIO,"And watch our vantage in this business:"
III,II,TRANIO,"We'll over-reach the greybeard, Gremio,"
III,II,TRANIO,"The narrow-prying father, Minola,"
III,II,TRANIO,"The quaint musician, amorous Licio;"
III,II,TRANIO,"All for my master's sake, Lucentio."
III,II,TRANIO,"Signior Gremio, came you from the church?"
III,II,GREMIO,"As willingly as e'er I came from school."
III,II,TRANIO,"And is the bride and bridegroom coming home?"
III,II,GREMIO,"A bridegroom say you? 'tis a groom indeed,"
III,II,GREMIO,"A grumbling groom, and that the girl shall find."
III,II,TRANIO,"Curster than she? why, 'tis impossible."
III,II,GREMIO,"Why he's a devil, a devil, a very fiend."
III,II,TRANIO,"Why, she's a devil, a devil, the devil's dam."
III,II,GREMIO,"Tut, she's a lamb, a dove, a fool to him!"
III,II,GREMIO,"I'll tell you, Sir Lucentio: when the priest"
III,II,GREMIO,"Should ask, if Katharina should be his wife,"
III,II,GREMIO,"'Ay, by gogs-wouns,' quoth he; and swore so loud,"
III,II,GREMIO,"That, all-amazed, the priest let fall the book;"
III,II,GREMIO,"And, as he stoop'd again to take it up,"
III,II,GREMIO,"The mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff"
III,II,GREMIO,"That down fell priest and book and book and priest:"
III,II,GREMIO,"'Now take them up,' quoth he, 'if any list.'"
III,II,TRANIO,"What said the wench when he rose again?"
III,II,GREMIO,"Trembled and shook; for why, he stamp'd and swore,"
III,II,GREMIO,"As if the vicar meant to cozen him."
III,II,GREMIO,"But after many ceremonies done,"
III,II,GREMIO,"He calls for wine: 'A health!' quoth he, as if"
III,II,GREMIO,"He had been aboard, carousing to his mates"
III,II,GREMIO,"After a storm; quaff'd off the muscadel"
III,II,GREMIO,"And threw the sops all in the sexton's face;"
III,II,GREMIO,"Having no other reason"
III,II,GREMIO,"But that his beard grew thin and hungerly"
III,II,GREMIO,"And seem'd to ask him sops as he was drinking."
III,II,GREMIO,"This done, he took the bride about the neck"
III,II,GREMIO,"And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack"
III,II,GREMIO,"That at the parting all the church did echo:"
III,II,GREMIO,"And I seeing this came thence for very shame;"
III,II,GREMIO,"And after me, I know, the rout is coming."
III,II,GREMIO,"Such a mad marriage never was before:"
III,II,GREMIO,"Hark, hark! I hear the minstrels play."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Gentlemen and friends, I thank you for your pains:"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"I know you think to dine with me to-day,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"And have prepared great store of wedding cheer;"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"But so it is, my haste doth call me hence,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"And therefore here I mean to take my leave."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Is't possible you will away to-night?"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"I must away to-day, before night come:"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Make it no wonder; if you knew my business,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"You would entreat me rather go than stay."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"And, honest company, I thank you all,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"That have beheld me give away myself"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"To this most patient, sweet and virtuous wife:"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Dine with my father, drink a health to me;"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"For I must hence; and farewell to you all."
III,II,TRANIO,"Let us entreat you stay till after dinner."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"It may not be."
III,II,GREMIO,"Let me entreat you."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"It cannot be."
III,II,KATHARINA,"Let me entreat you."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"I am content."
III,II,KATHARINA,"Are you content to stay?"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"I am content you shall entreat me stay;"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"But yet not stay, entreat me how you can."
III,II,KATHARINA,"Now, if you love me, stay."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Grumio, my horse."
III,II,GRUMIO,"Ay, sir, they be ready: the oats have eaten the horses."
III,II,KATHARINA,"Nay, then,"
III,II,KATHARINA,"Do what thou canst, I will not go to-day;"
III,II,KATHARINA,"No, nor to-morrow, not till I please myself."
III,II,KATHARINA,"The door is open, sir; there lies your way;"
III,II,KATHARINA,"You may be jogging whiles your boots are green;"
III,II,KATHARINA,"For me, I'll not be gone till I please myself:"
III,II,KATHARINA,"'Tis like you'll prove a jolly surly groom,"
III,II,KATHARINA,"That take it on you at the first so roundly."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"O Kate, content thee; prithee, be not angry."
III,II,KATHARINA,"I will be angry: what hast thou to do?"
III,II,KATHARINA,"Father, be quiet; he shall stay my leisure."
III,II,GREMIO,"Ay, marry, sir, now it begins to work."
III,II,KATARINA,"Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner:"
III,II,KATARINA,"I see a woman may be made a fool,"
III,II,KATARINA,"If she had not a spirit to resist."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Obey the bride, you that attend on her;"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Go to the feast, revel and domineer,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Carouse full measure to her maidenhead,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Be mad and merry, or go hang yourselves:"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"But for my bonny Kate, she must with me."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret;"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"I will be master of what is mine own:"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"My household stuff, my field, my barn,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing;"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"And here she stands, touch her whoever dare;"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"I'll bring mine action on the proudest he"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"That stops my way in Padua. Grumio,"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Draw forth thy weapon, we are beset with thieves;"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man."
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"thee, Kate:"
III,II,PETRUCHIO,"I'll buckler thee against a million."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Nay, let them go, a couple of quiet ones."
III,II,GREMIO,"Went they not quickly, I should die with laughing."
III,II,TRANIO,"Of all mad matches never was the like."
III,II,LUCENTIO,"Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?"
III,II,BIANCA,"That, being mad herself, she's madly mated."
III,II,GREMIO,"I warrant him, Petruchio is Kated."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Neighbours and friends, though bride and"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"bridegroom wants"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"For to supply the places at the table,"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"You know there wants no junkets at the feast."
III,II,BAPTISTA,"Lucentio, you shall supply the bridegroom's place:"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"And let Bianca take her sister's room."
III,II,TRANIO,"Shall sweet Bianca practise how to bride it?"
III,II,BAPTISTA,"She shall, Lucentio. Come, gentlemen, let's go."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"all foul ways! Was ever man so beaten? was ever"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"man so rayed? was ever man so weary? I am sent"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"before to make a fire, and they are coming after to"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"warm them. Now, were not I a little pot and soon"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"hot, my very lips might freeze to my teeth, my"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"tongue to the roof of my mouth, my heart in my"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"belly, ere I should come by a fire to thaw me: but"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"I, with blowing the fire, shall warm myself; for,"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"considering the weather, a taller man than I will"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"take cold. Holla, ho! Curtis."
IV,I,CURTIS,"Who is that calls so coldly?"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"A piece of ice: if thou doubt it, thou mayst slide"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"from my shoulder to my heel with no greater a run"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"but my head and my neck. A fire good Curtis."
IV,I,CURTIS,"Is my master and his wife coming, Grumio?"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"O, ay, Curtis, ay: and therefore fire, fire; cast"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"on no water."
IV,I,CURTIS,"Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported?"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"She was, good Curtis, before this frost: but, thou"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"knowest, winter tames man, woman and beast; for it"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"hath tamed my old master and my new mistress and"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"myself, fellow Curtis."
IV,I,CURTIS,"Away, you three-inch fool! I am no beast."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Am I but three inches? why, thy horn is a foot; and"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"so long am I at the least. But wilt thou make a"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"fire, or shall I complain on thee to our mistress,"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"whose hand, she being now at hand, thou shalt soon"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"feel, to thy cold comfort, for being slow in thy hot office?"
IV,I,CURTIS,"I prithee, good Grumio, tell me, how goes the world?"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"A cold world, Curtis, in every office but thine; and"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"therefore fire: do thy duty, and have thy duty; for"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"my master and mistress are almost frozen to death."
IV,I,CURTIS,"There's fire ready; and therefore, good Grumio, the news."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Why, 'Jack, boy! ho! boy!' and as much news as"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"will thaw."
IV,I,CURTIS,"Come, you are so full of cony-catching!"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Why, therefore fire; for I have caught extreme cold."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Where's the cook? is supper ready, the house"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept; the"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"serving-men in their new fustian, their white"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"stockings, and every officer his wedding-garment on?"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Be the jacks fair within, the jills fair without,"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"the carpets laid, and every thing in order?"
IV,I,CURTIS,"All ready; and therefore, I pray thee, news."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"First, know, my horse is tired; my master and"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"mistress fallen out."
IV,I,CURTIS,"How?"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Out of their saddles into the dirt; and thereby"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"hangs a tale."
IV,I,CURTIS,"Let's ha't, good Grumio."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Lend thine ear."
IV,I,CURTIS,"Here."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"There."
IV,I,CURTIS,"This is to feel a tale, not to hear a tale."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale: and this"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"listening. Now I begin: Imprimis, we came down a"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"foul hill, my master riding behind my mistress,--"
IV,I,CURTIS,"Both of one horse?"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"What's that to thee?"
IV,I,CURTIS,"Why, a horse."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Tell thou the tale: but hadst thou not crossed me,"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell and she"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"under her horse; thou shouldst have heard in how"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"miry a place, how she was bemoiled, how he left her"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"with the horse upon her, how he beat me because"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"her horse stumbled, how she waded through the dirt"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"to pluck him off me, how he swore, how she prayed,"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"that never prayed before, how I cried, how the"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"horses ran away, how her bridle was burst, how I"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"lost my crupper, with many things of worthy memory,"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"which now shall die in oblivion and thou return"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"unexperienced to thy grave."
IV,I,CURTIS,"By this reckoning he is more shrew than she."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Ay; and that thou and the proudest of you all shall"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"find when he comes home. But what talk I of this?"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Call forth Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, Philip,"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Walter, Sugarsop and the rest: let their heads be"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"sleekly combed their blue coats brushed and their"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"garters of an indifferent knit: let them curtsy"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"with their left legs and not presume to touch a hair"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"of my master's horse-tail till they kiss their"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"hands. Are they all ready?"
IV,I,CURTIS,"They are."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Call them forth."
IV,I,CURTIS,"Do you hear, ho? you must meet my master to"
IV,I,CURTIS,"countenance my mistress."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Why, she hath a face of her own."
IV,I,CURTIS,"Who knows not that?"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Thou, it seems, that calls for company to"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"countenance her."
IV,I,CURTIS,"I call them forth to credit her."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Why, she comes to borrow nothing of them."
IV,I,NATHANIEL,"Welcome home, Grumio!"
IV,I,PHILIP,"How now, Grumio!"
IV,I,JOSEPH,"What, Grumio!"
IV,I,NICHOLAS,"Fellow Grumio!"
IV,I,NATHANIEL,"How now, old lad?"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Welcome, you;--how now, you;-- what, you;--fellow,"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"you;--and thus much for greeting. Now, my spruce"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"companions, is all ready, and all things neat?"
IV,I,NATHANIEL,"All things is ready. How near is our master?"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"E'en at hand, alighted by this; and therefore be"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"not--Cock's passion, silence! I hear my master."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Where be these knaves? What, no man at door"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"To hold my stirrup nor to take my horse!"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Where is Nathaniel, Gregory, Philip?"
IV,I,ALL SERVING-MEN,"Here, here, sir; here, sir."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here, sir!"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"You logger-headed and unpolish'd grooms!"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"What, no attendance? no regard? no duty?"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Where is the foolish knave I sent before?"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Here, sir; as foolish as I was before."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"You peasant swain! you whoreson malt-horse drudge!"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Did I not bid thee meet me in the park,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"And bring along these rascal knaves with thee?"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Nathaniel's coat, sir, was not fully made,"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"And Gabriel's pumps were all unpink'd i' the heel;"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"There was no link to colour Peter's hat,"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"And Walter's dagger was not come from sheathing:"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"There were none fine but Adam, Ralph, and Gregory;"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"The rest were ragged, old, and beggarly;"
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Yet, as they are, here are they come to meet you."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Go, rascals, go, and fetch my supper in."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Where is the life that late I led--"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Where are those--Sit down, Kate, and welcome.--"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Sound, sound, sound, sound!"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Why, when, I say? Nay, good sweet Kate, be merry."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Off with my boots, you rogues! you villains, when?"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"It was the friar of orders grey,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"As he forth walked on his way:--"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Out, you rogue! you pluck my foot awry:"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Take that, and mend the plucking off the other."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Be merry, Kate. Some water, here; what, ho!"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Where's my spaniel Troilus? Sirrah, get you hence,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"And bid my cousin Ferdinand come hither:"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"One, Kate, that you must kiss, and be acquainted with."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Where are my slippers? Shall I have some water?"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Come, Kate, and wash, and welcome heartily."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"You whoreson villain! will you let it fall?"
IV,I,KATHARINA,"Patience, I pray you; 'twas a fault unwilling."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"A whoreson beetle-headed, flap-ear'd knave!"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Come, Kate, sit down; I know you have a stomach."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Will you give thanks, sweet Kate; or else shall I?"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"What's this? mutton?"
IV,I,First Servant,"Ay."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Who brought it?"
IV,I,PETER,"I."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"What dogs are these! Where is the rascal cook?"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"How durst you, villains, bring it from the dresser,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"And serve it thus to me that love it not?"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Theretake it to you, trenchers, cups, and all;"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"You heedless joltheads and unmanner'd slaves!"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"What, do you grumble? I'll be with you straight."
IV,I,KATHARINA,"I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet:"
IV,I,KATHARINA,"The meat was well, if you were so contented."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"I tell thee, Kate, 'twas burnt and dried away;"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"And I expressly am forbid to touch it,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"For it engenders choler, planteth anger;"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"And better 'twere that both of us did fast,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Since, of ourselves, ourselves are choleric,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Than feed it with such over-roasted flesh."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Be patient; to-morrow 't shall be mended,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"And, for this night, we'll fast for company:"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Come, I will bring thee to thy bridal chamber."
IV,I,NATHANIEL,"Peter, didst ever see the like?"
IV,I,PETER,"He kills her in her own humour."
IV,I,GRUMIO,"Where is he?"
IV,I,CURTIS,"In her chamber, making a sermon of continency to her;"
IV,I,CURTIS,"And rails, and swears, and rates, that she, poor soul,"
IV,I,CURTIS,"Knows not which way to stand, to look, to speak,"
IV,I,CURTIS,"And sits as one new-risen from a dream."
IV,I,CURTIS,"Away, away! for he is coming hither."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Thus have I politicly begun my reign,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"And 'tis my hope to end successfully."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"My falcon now is sharp and passing empty;"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"For then she never looks upon her lure."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Another way I have to man my haggard,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"To make her come and know her keeper's call,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"That bate and beat and will not be obedient."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat;"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Last night she slept not, nor to-night she shall not;"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"As with the meat, some undeserved fault"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"I'll find about the making of the bed;"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"This way the coverlet, another way the sheets:"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Ay, and amid this hurly I intend"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"That all is done in reverend care of her;"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"And in conclusion she shall watch all night:"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"And if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"And with the clamour keep her still awake."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"This is a way to kill a wife with kindness;"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour."
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"He that knows better how to tame a shrew,"
IV,I,PETRUCHIO,"Now let him speak: 'tis charity to show."
IV,II,TRANIO,"Is't possible, friend Licio, that Mistress Bianca"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Doth fancy any other but Lucentio?"
IV,II,TRANIO,"I tell you, sir, she bears me fair in hand."
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"Sir, to satisfy you in what I have said,"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"Stand by and mark the manner of his teaching."
IV,II,LUCENTIO,"Now, mistress, profit you in what you read?"
IV,II,BIANCA,"What, master, read you? first resolve me that."
IV,II,LUCENTIO,"I read that I profess, the Art to Love."
IV,II,BIANCA,"And may you prove, sir, master of your art!"
IV,II,LUCENTIO,"While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"Quick proceeders, marry! Now, tell me, I pray,"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"You that durst swear at your mistress Bianca"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"Loved none in the world so well as Lucentio."
IV,II,TRANIO,"O despiteful love! unconstant womankind!"
IV,II,TRANIO,"I tell thee, Licio, this is wonderful."
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"Mistake no more: I am not Licio,"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"Nor a musician, as I seem to be;"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"But one that scorn to live in this disguise,"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"For such a one as leaves a gentleman,"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"And makes a god of such a cullion:"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"Know, sir, that I am call'd Hortensio."
IV,II,TRANIO,"Signior Hortensio, I have often heard"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Of your entire affection to Bianca;"
IV,II,TRANIO,"And since mine eyes are witness of her lightness,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"I will with you, if you be so contented,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Forswear Bianca and her love for ever."
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"See, how they kiss and court! Signior Lucentio,"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"Here is my hand, and here I firmly vow"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"Never to woo her no more, but do forswear her,"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"As one unworthy all the former favours"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"That I have fondly flatter'd her withal."
IV,II,TRANIO,"And here I take the unfeigned oath,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Never to marry with her though she would entreat:"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Fie on her! see, how beastly she doth court him!"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"Would all the world but he had quite forsworn!"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"For me, that I may surely keep mine oath,"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"I will be married to a wealthy widow,"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"Ere three days pass, which hath as long loved me"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"As I have loved this proud disdainful haggard."
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"And so farewell, Signior Lucentio."
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"Shall win my love: and so I take my leave,"
IV,II,HORTENSIO,"In resolution as I swore before."
IV,II,TRANIO,"Mistress Bianca, bless you with such grace"
IV,II,TRANIO,"As 'longeth to a lover's blessed case!"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Nay, I have ta'en you napping, gentle love,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"And have forsworn you with Hortensio."
IV,II,BIANCA,"Tranio, you jest: but have you both forsworn me?"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Mistress, we have."
IV,II,LUCENTIO,"Then we are rid of Licio."
IV,II,TRANIO,"I' faith, he'll have a lusty widow now,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"That shall be wood and wedded in a day."
IV,II,BIANCA,"God give him joy!"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Ay, and he'll tame her."
IV,II,BIANCA,"He says so, Tranio."
IV,II,TRANIO,"Faith, he is gone unto the taming-school."
IV,II,BIANCA,"The taming-school! what, is there such a place?"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Ay, mistress, and Petruchio is the master;"
IV,II,TRANIO,"That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue."
IV,II,BIONDELLO,"O master, master, I have watch'd so long"
IV,II,BIONDELLO,"That I am dog-weary: but at last I spied"
IV,II,BIONDELLO,"An ancient angel coming down the hill,"
IV,II,BIONDELLO,"Will serve the turn."
IV,II,TRANIO,"What is he, Biondello?"
IV,II,BIONDELLO,"Master, a mercatante, or a pedant,"
IV,II,BIONDELLO,"I know not what; but format in apparel,"
IV,II,BIONDELLO,"In gait and countenance surely like a father."
IV,II,LUCENTIO,"And what of him, Tranio?"
IV,II,TRANIO,"If he be credulous and trust my tale,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"I'll make him glad to seem Vincentio,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"And give assurance to Baptista Minola,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"As if he were the right Vincentio"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Take in your love, and then let me alone."
IV,II,Pedant,"God save you, sir!"
IV,II,TRANIO,"And you, sir! you are welcome."
IV,II,TRANIO,"Travel you far on, or are you at the farthest?"
IV,II,Pedant,"Sir, at the farthest for a week or two:"
IV,II,Pedant,"But then up farther, and as for as Rome;"
IV,II,Pedant,"And so to Tripoli, if God lend me life."
IV,II,TRANIO,"What countryman, I pray?"
IV,II,Pedant,"Of Mantua."
IV,II,TRANIO,"Of Mantua, sir? marry, God forbid!"
IV,II,TRANIO,"And come to Padua, careless of your life?"
IV,II,Pedant,"My life, sir! how, I pray? for that goes hard."
IV,II,TRANIO,"'Tis death for any one in Mantua"
IV,II,TRANIO,"To come to Padua. Know you not the cause?"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Your ships are stay'd at Venice, and the duke,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"For private quarrel 'twixt your duke and him,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Hath publish'd and proclaim'd it openly:"
IV,II,TRANIO,"'Tis, marvel, but that you are but newly come,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"You might have heard it else proclaim'd about."
IV,II,Pedant,"Alas! sir, it is worse for me than so;"
IV,II,Pedant,"For I have bills for money by exchange"
IV,II,Pedant,"From Florence and must here deliver them."
IV,II,TRANIO,"Well, sir, to do you courtesy,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"This will I do, and this I will advise you:"
IV,II,TRANIO,"First, tell me, have you ever been at Pisa?"
IV,II,Pedant,"Ay, sir, in Pisa have I often been,"
IV,II,Pedant,"Pisa renowned for grave citizens."
IV,II,TRANIO,"Among them know you one Vincentio?"
IV,II,Pedant,"I know him not, but I have heard of him;"
IV,II,Pedant,"A merchant of incomparable wealth."
IV,II,TRANIO,"He is my father, sir; and, sooth to say,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"In countenance somewhat doth resemble you."
IV,II,BIONDELLO,"and all one."
IV,II,TRANIO,"To save your life in this extremity,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"This favour will I do you for his sake;"
IV,II,TRANIO,"And think it not the worst of an your fortunes"
IV,II,TRANIO,"That you are like to Sir Vincentio."
IV,II,TRANIO,"His name and credit shall you undertake,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"And in my house you shall be friendly lodged:"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Look that you take upon you as you should;"
IV,II,TRANIO,"You understand me, sir: so shall you stay"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Till you have done your business in the city:"
IV,II,TRANIO,"If this be courtesy, sir, accept of it."
IV,II,Pedant,"O sir, I do; and will repute you ever"
IV,II,Pedant,"The patron of my life and liberty."
IV,II,TRANIO,"Then go with me to make the matter good."
IV,II,TRANIO,"This, by the way, I let you understand;"
IV,II,TRANIO,"my father is here look'd for every day,"
IV,II,TRANIO,"To pass assurance of a dower in marriage"
IV,II,TRANIO,"'Twixt me and one Baptista's daughter here:"
IV,II,TRANIO,"In all these circumstances I'll instruct you:"
IV,II,TRANIO,"Go with me to clothe you as becomes you."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"No, no, forsooth; I dare not for my life."
IV,III,KATHARINA,"The more my wrong, the more his spite appears:"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"What, did he marry me to famish me?"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Beggars, that come unto my father's door,"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Upon entreaty have a present aims;"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"If not, elsewhere they meet with charity:"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"But I, who never knew how to entreat,"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Nor never needed that I should entreat,"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep,"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"With oath kept waking and with brawling fed:"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"And that which spites me more than all these wants,"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"He does it under name of perfect love;"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"As who should say, if I should sleep or eat,"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"'Twere deadly sickness or else present death."
IV,III,KATHARINA,"I prithee go and get me some repast;"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"I care not what, so it be wholesome food."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"What say you to a neat's foot?"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"'Tis passing good: I prithee let me have it."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"I fear it is too choleric a meat."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd?"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"I like it well: good Grumio, fetch it me."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"I cannot tell; I fear 'tis choleric."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"A dish that I do love to feed upon."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"Ay, but the mustard is too hot a little."
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Why then, the beef, and let the mustard rest."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"Nay then, I will not: you shall have the mustard,"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"Or else you get no beef of Grumio."
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Then both, or one, or any thing thou wilt."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"Why then, the mustard without the beef."
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Go, get thee gone, thou false deluding slave,"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"That feed'st me with the very name of meat:"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you,"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"That triumph thus upon my misery!"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Go, get thee gone, I say."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?"
IV,III,HORTENSIO,"Mistress, what cheer?"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Faith, as cold as can be."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Pluck up thy spirits; look cheerfully upon me."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Here love; thou see'st how diligent I am"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee:"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"I am sure, sweet Kate, this kindness merits thanks."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"What, not a word? Nay, then thou lovest it not;"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"And all my pains is sorted to no proof."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Here, take away this dish."
IV,III,KATHARINA,"I pray you, let it stand."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"The poorest service is repaid with thanks;"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"And so shall mine, before you touch the meat."
IV,III,KATHARINA,"I thank you, sir."
IV,III,HORTENSIO,"Signior Petruchio, fie! you are to blame."
IV,III,HORTENSIO,"Come, mistress Kate, I'll bear you company."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Much good do it unto thy gentle heart!"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Kate, eat apace: and now, my honey love,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Will we return unto thy father's house"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"And revel it as bravely as the best,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"With silken coats and caps and golden rings,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"With ruffs and cuffs and fardingales and things;"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"With amber bracelets, beads and all this knavery."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"What, hast thou dined? The tailor stays thy leisure,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments;"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Lay forth the gown."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"What news with you, sir?"
IV,III,Haberdasher,"Here is the cap your worship did bespeak."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Why, this was moulded on a porringer;"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"A velvet dish: fie, fie! 'tis lewd and filthy:"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap:"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Away with it! come, let me have a bigger."
IV,III,KATHARINA,"I'll have no bigger: this doth fit the time,"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"And gentlewomen wear such caps as these"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"When you are gentle, you shall have one too,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"And not till then."
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak;"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"And speak I will; I am no child, no babe:"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Your betters have endured me say my mind,"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"And if you cannot, best you stop your ears."
IV,III,KATHARINA,"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Or else my heart concealing it will break,"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"And rather than it shall, I will be free"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Why, thou say'st true; it is a paltry cap,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie:"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"I love thee well, in that thou likest it not."
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Love me or love me not, I like the cap;"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"And it I will have, or I will have none."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Thy gown? why, ay: come, tailor, let us see't."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"O mercy, God! what masquing stuff is here?"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demi-cannon:"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"What, up and down, carved like an apple-tart?"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Like to a censer in a barber's shop:"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Why, what, i' devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?"
IV,III,Tailor,"You bid me make it orderly and well,"
IV,III,Tailor,"According to the fashion and the time."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Marry, and did; but if you be remember'd,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"I did not bid you mar it to the time."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Go, hop me over every kennel home,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"For you shall hop without my custom, sir:"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"I'll none of it: hence! make your best of it."
IV,III,KATHARINA,"I never saw a better-fashion'd gown,"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable:"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"Belike you mean to make a puppet of me."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Why, true; he means to make a puppet of thee."
IV,III,Tailor,"She says your worship means to make"
IV,III,Tailor,"a puppet of her."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"O monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"thou thimble,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail!"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou!"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Braved in mine own house with a skein of thread?"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant;"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou livest!"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"I tell thee, I, that thou hast marr'd her gown."
IV,III,Tailor,"Your worship is deceived; the gown is made"
IV,III,Tailor,"Just as my master had direction:"
IV,III,Tailor,"Grumio gave order how it should be done."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"I gave him no order; I gave him the stuff."
IV,III,Tailor,"But how did you desire it should be made?"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"Marry, sir, with needle and thread."
IV,III,Tailor,"But did you not request to have it cut?"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"Thou hast faced many things."
IV,III,Tailor,"I have."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"Face not me: thou hast braved many men; brave not"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"me; I will neither be faced nor braved. I say unto"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"thee, I bid thy master cut out the gown; but I did"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"not bid him cut it to pieces: ergo, thou liest."
IV,III,Tailor,"Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Read it."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"The note lies in's throat, if he say I said so."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me in"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"of brown thread: I said a gown."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Proceed."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"I confess the cape."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"I confess two sleeves."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Ay, there's the villany."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"Error i' the bill, sir; error i' the bill."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"I commanded the sleeves should be cut out and"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"sewed up again; and that I'll prove upon thee,"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"though thy little finger be armed in a thimble."
IV,III,Tailor,"This is true that I say: an I had thee"
IV,III,Tailor,"in place where, thou shouldst know it."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"I am for thee straight: take thou the"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"bill, give me thy mete-yard, and spare not me."
IV,III,HORTENSIO,"God-a-mercy, Grumio! then he shall have no odds."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"You are i' the right, sir: 'tis for my mistress."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Go, take it up unto thy master's use."
IV,III,GRUMIO,"Villain, not for thy life: take up my mistress'"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"gown for thy master's use!"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Why, sir, what's your conceit in that?"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"O, sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for:"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"Take up my mistress' gown to his master's use!"
IV,III,GRUMIO,"O, fie, fie, fie!"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Go take it hence; be gone, and say no more."
IV,III,HORTENSIO,"Tailor, I'll pay thee for thy gown tomorrow:"
IV,III,HORTENSIO,"Take no unkindness of his hasty words:"
IV,III,HORTENSIO,"Away! I say; commend me to thy master."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Even in these honest mean habiliments:"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor;"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"So honour peereth in the meanest habit."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"What is the jay more precious than the lark,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Because his fathers are more beautiful?"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Or is the adder better than the eel,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Because his painted skin contents the eye?"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"O, no, good Kate; neither art thou the worse"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"For this poor furniture and mean array."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"if thou account'st it shame. lay it on me;"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"And therefore frolic: we will hence forthwith,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"To feast and sport us at thy father's house."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Go, call my men, and let us straight to him;"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"And bring our horses unto Long-lane end;"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"There will we mount, and thither walk on foot"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Let's see; I think 'tis now some seven o'clock,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"And well we may come there by dinner-time."
IV,III,KATHARINA,"I dare assure you, sir, 'tis almost two;"
IV,III,KATHARINA,"And 'twill be supper-time ere you come there."
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"It shall be seven ere I go to horse:"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"Look, what I speak, or do, or think to do,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"You are still crossing it. Sirs, let't alone:"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"I will not go to-day; and ere I do,"
IV,III,PETRUCHIO,"It shall be what o'clock I say it is."
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Sir, this is the house: please it you that I call?"
IV,IV,Pedant,"Ay, what else? and but I be deceived"
IV,IV,Pedant,"Signior Baptista may remember me,"
IV,IV,Pedant,"Near twenty years ago, in Genoa,"
IV,IV,Pedant,"Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus."
IV,IV,TRANIO,"'Tis well; and hold your own, in any case,"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"With such austerity as 'longeth to a father."
IV,IV,Pedant,"I warrant you."
IV,IV,Pedant,"But, sir, here comes your boy;"
IV,IV,Pedant,"'Twere good he were school'd."
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Fear you not him. Sirrah Biondello,"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Now do your duty throughly, I advise you:"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Imagine 'twere the right Vincentio."
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"Tut, fear not me."
IV,IV,TRANIO,"But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista?"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"I told him that your father was at Venice,"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"And that you look'd for him this day in Padua."
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Thou'rt a tall fellow: hold thee that to drink."
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Here comes Baptista: set your countenance, sir."
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Signior Baptista, you are happily met."
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of:"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"I pray you stand good father to me now,"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Give me Bianca for my patrimony."
IV,IV,Pedant,"Soft son!"
IV,IV,Pedant,"Sir, by your leave: having come to Padua"
IV,IV,Pedant,"To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio"
IV,IV,Pedant,"Made me acquainted with a weighty cause"
IV,IV,Pedant,"Of love between your daughter and himself:"
IV,IV,Pedant,"And, for the good report I hear of you"
IV,IV,Pedant,"And for the love he beareth to your daughter"
IV,IV,Pedant,"And she to him, to stay him not too long,"
IV,IV,Pedant,"I am content, in a good father's care,"
IV,IV,Pedant,"To have him match'd; and if you please to like"
IV,IV,Pedant,"No worse than I, upon some agreement"
IV,IV,Pedant,"Me shall you find ready and willing"
IV,IV,Pedant,"With one consent to have her so bestow'd;"
IV,IV,Pedant,"For curious I cannot be with you,"
IV,IV,Pedant,"Signior Baptista, of whom I hear so well."
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"Sir, pardon me in what I have to say:"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"Your plainness and your shortness please me well."
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"Right true it is, your son Lucentio here"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"Doth love my daughter and she loveth him,"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"Or both dissemble deeply their affections:"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"And therefore, if you say no more than this,"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"That like a father you will deal with him"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"And pass my daughter a sufficient dower,"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"The match is made, and all is done:"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"Your son shall have my daughter with consent."
IV,IV,TRANIO,"I thank you, sir. Where then do you know best"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"We be affied and such assurance ta'en"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"As shall with either part's agreement stand?"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"Not in my house, Lucentio; for, you know,"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants:"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"Besides, old Gremio is hearkening still;"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"And happily we might be interrupted."
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Then at my lodging, an it like you:"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"There doth my father lie; and there, this night,"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"We'll pass the business privately and well."
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Send for your daughter by your servant here:"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently."
IV,IV,TRANIO,"The worst is this, that, at so slender warning,"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"You are like to have a thin and slender pittance."
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"It likes me well. Biondello, hie you home,"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"And bid Bianca make her ready straight;"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"And, if you will, tell what hath happened,"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"Lucentio's father is arrived in Padua,"
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"And how she's like to be Lucentio's wife."
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"I pray the gods she may with all my heart!"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone."
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Signior Baptista, shall I lead the way?"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Welcome! one mess is like to be your cheer:"
IV,IV,TRANIO,"Come, sir; we will better it in Pisa."
IV,IV,BAPTISTA,"I follow you."
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"Cambio!"
IV,IV,LUCENTIO,"What sayest thou, Biondello?"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"You saw my master wink and laugh upon you?"
IV,IV,LUCENTIO,"Biondello, what of that?"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"Faith, nothing; but has left me here behind, to"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"expound the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens."
IV,IV,LUCENTIO,"I pray thee, moralize them."
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"Then thus. Baptista is safe, talking with the"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"deceiving father of a deceitful son."
IV,IV,LUCENTIO,"And what of him?"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"His daughter is to be brought by you to the supper."
IV,IV,LUCENTIO,"And then?"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"The old priest of Saint Luke's church is at your"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"command at all hours."
IV,IV,LUCENTIO,"And what of all this?"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"I cannot tell; expect they are busied about a"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"counterfeit assurance: take you assurance of her,"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"'cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum:' to the"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"church; take the priest, clerk, and some sufficient"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"honest witnesses: If this be not that you look for,"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"I have no more to say, But bid Bianca farewell for"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"ever and a day."
IV,IV,LUCENTIO,"Hearest thou, Biondello?"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"I cannot tarry: I knew a wench married in an"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"stuff a rabbit; and so may you, sir: and so, adieu,"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"sir. My master hath appointed me to go to Saint"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"Luke's, to bid the priest be ready to come against"
IV,IV,BIONDELLO,"you come with your appendix."
IV,IV,LUCENTIO,"I may, and will, if she be so contented:"
IV,IV,LUCENTIO,"She will be pleased; then wherefore should I doubt?"
IV,IV,LUCENTIO,"Hap what hap may, I'll roundly go about her:"
IV,IV,LUCENTIO,"It shall go hard if Cambio go without her."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Come on, i' God's name; once more toward our father's."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"The moon! the sun: it is not moonlight now."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"I say it is the moon that shines so bright."
IV,V,KATHARINA,"I know it is the sun that shines so bright."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Now, by my mother's son, and that's myself,"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Or ere I journey to your father's house."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Go on, and fetch our horses back again."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Evermore cross'd and cross'd; nothing but cross'd!"
IV,V,HORTENSIO,"Say as he says, or we shall never go."
IV,V,KATHARINA,"Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"And be it moon, or sun, or what you please:"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"An if you please to call it a rush-candle,"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"I say it is the moon."
IV,V,KATHARINA,"I know it is the moon."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Nay, then you lie: it is the blessed sun."
IV,V,KATHARINA,"Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun:"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"But sun it is not, when you say it is not;"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"And the moon changes even as your mind."
IV,V,KATHARINA,"What you will have it named, even that it is;"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"And so it shall be so for Katharina."
IV,V,HORTENSIO,"Petruchio, go thy ways; the field is won."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Well, forward, forward! thus the bowl should run,"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"And not unluckily against the bias."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"But, soft! company is coming here."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Good morrow, gentle mistress: where away?"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too,"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman?"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Such war of white and red within her cheeks!"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty,"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"As those two eyes become that heavenly face?"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty's sake."
IV,V,HORTENSIO,"A' will make the man mad, to make a woman of him."
IV,V,KATHARINA,"Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"Whither away, or where is thy abode?"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"Happy the parents of so fair a child;"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"Happier the man, whom favourable stars"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow!"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Why, how now, Kate! I hope thou art not mad:"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, wither'd,"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"And not a maiden, as thou say'st he is."
IV,V,KATHARINA,"Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes,"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"That have been so bedazzled with the sun"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"That everything I look on seemeth green:"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"Now I perceive thou art a reverend father;"
IV,V,KATHARINA,"Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Do, good old grandsire; and withal make known"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Which way thou travellest: if along with us,"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"We shall be joyful of thy company."
IV,V,VINCENTIO,"Fair sir, and you my merry mistress,"
IV,V,VINCENTIO,"That with your strange encounter much amazed me,"
IV,V,VINCENTIO,"My name is call'd Vincentio; my dwelling Pisa;"
IV,V,VINCENTIO,"And bound I am to Padua; there to visit"
IV,V,VINCENTIO,"A son of mine, which long I have not seen."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"What is his name?"
IV,V,VINCENTIO,"Lucentio, gentle sir."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Happily we met; the happier for thy son."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"And now by law, as well as reverend age,"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"I may entitle thee my loving father:"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"The sister to my wife, this gentlewoman,"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Thy son by this hath married. Wonder not,"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Nor be grieved: she is of good esteem,"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Her dowery wealthy, and of worthy birth;"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Beside, so qualified as may beseem"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"The spouse of any noble gentleman."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Let me embrace with old Vincentio,"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"And wander we to see thy honest son,"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Who will of thy arrival be full joyous."
IV,V,VINCENTIO,"But is it true? or else is it your pleasure,"
IV,V,VINCENTIO,"Like pleasant travellers, to break a jest"
IV,V,VINCENTIO,"Upon the company you overtake?"
IV,V,HORTENSIO,"I do assure thee, father, so it is."
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"Come, go along, and see the truth hereof;"
IV,V,PETRUCHIO,"For our first merriment hath made thee jealous."
IV,V,HORTENSIO,"Well, Petruchio, this has put me in heart."
IV,V,HORTENSIO,"Have to my widow! and if she be froward,"
IV,V,HORTENSIO,"Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward."
V,I,BIONDELLO,"Softly and swiftly, sir; for the priest is ready."
V,I,LUCENTIO,"I fly, Biondello: but they may chance to need thee"
V,I,LUCENTIO,"at home; therefore leave us."
V,I,BIONDELLO,"Nay, faith, I'll see the church o' your back; and"
V,I,BIONDELLO,"then come back to my master's as soon as I can."
V,I,GREMIO,"I marvel Cambio comes not all this while."
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"Sir, here's the door, this is Lucentio's house:"
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"My father's bears more toward the market-place;"
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"Thither must I, and here I leave you, sir."
V,I,VINCENTIO,"You shall not choose but drink before you go:"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"I think I shall command your welcome here,"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"And, by all likelihood, some cheer is toward."
V,I,GREMIO,"They're busy within; you were best knock louder."
V,I,Pedant,"What's he that knocks as he would beat down the gate?"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"Is Signior Lucentio within, sir?"
V,I,Pedant,"He's within, sir, but not to be spoken withal."
V,I,VINCENTIO,"What if a man bring him a hundred pound or two, to"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"make merry withal?"
V,I,Pedant,"Keep your hundred pounds to yourself: he shall"
V,I,Pedant,"need none, so long as I live."
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"Nay, I told you your son was well beloved in Padua."
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"Do you hear, sir? To leave frivolous circumstances,"
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"I pray you, tell Signior Lucentio that his father is"
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"come from Pisa, and is here at the door to speak with him."
V,I,Pedant,"Thou liest: his father is come from Padua and here"
V,I,Pedant,"looking out at the window."
V,I,VINCENTIO,"Art thou his father?"
V,I,Pedant,"Ay, sir; so his mother says, if I may believe her."
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name."
V,I,Pedant,"Lay hands on the villain: I believe a' means to"
V,I,Pedant,"cozen somebody in this city under my countenance."
V,I,BIONDELLO,"I have seen them in the church together: God send"
V,I,BIONDELLO,"'em good shipping! But who is here? mine old"
V,I,BIONDELLO,"master Vincentio! now we are undone and brought to nothing."
V,I,VINCENTIO,"Come hither, crack-hemp."
V,I,BIONDELLO,"Hope I may choose, sir."
V,I,VINCENTIO,"Come hither, you rogue. What, have you forgot me?"
V,I,BIONDELLO,"Forgot you! no, sir: I could not forget you, for I"
V,I,BIONDELLO,"never saw you before in all my life."
V,I,VINCENTIO,"What, you notorious villain, didst thou never see"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"thy master's father, Vincentio?"
V,I,BIONDELLO,"What, my old worshipful old master? yes, marry, sir:"
V,I,BIONDELLO,"see where he looks out of the window."
V,I,VINCENTIO,"Is't so, indeed."
V,I,BIONDELLO,"Help, help, help! here's a madman will murder me."
V,I,Pedant,"Help, son! help, Signior Baptista!"
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"Prithee, Kate, let's stand aside and see the end of"
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"this controversy."
V,I,TRANIO,"Sir, what are you that offer to beat my servant?"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"What am I, sir! nay, what are you, sir? O immortal"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"gods! O fine villain! A silken doublet! a velvet"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"hose! a scarlet cloak! and a copatain hat! O, I"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"am undone! I am undone! while I play the good"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"husband at home, my son and my servant spend all at"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"the university."
V,I,TRANIO,"How now! what's the matter?"
V,I,BAPTISTA,"What, is the man lunatic?"
V,I,TRANIO,"Sir, you seem a sober ancient gentleman by your"
V,I,TRANIO,"habit, but your words show you a madman. Why, sir,"
V,I,TRANIO,"what 'cerns it you if I wear pearl and gold? I"
V,I,TRANIO,"thank my good father, I am able to maintain it."
V,I,VINCENTIO,"Thy father! O villain! he is a sailmaker in Bergamo."
V,I,BAPTISTA,"You mistake, sir, you mistake, sir. Pray, what do"
V,I,BAPTISTA,"you think is his name?"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"His name! as if I knew not his name: I have brought"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"him up ever since he was three years old, and his"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"name is Tranio."
V,I,Pedant,"Away, away, mad ass! his name is Lucentio and he is"
V,I,Pedant,"mine only son, and heir to the lands of me, Signior Vincentio."
V,I,VINCENTIO,"Lucentio! O, he hath murdered his master! Lay hold"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"on him, I charge you, in the duke's name. O, my"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"son, my son! Tell me, thou villain, where is my son Lucentio?"
V,I,TRANIO,"Call forth an officer."
V,I,TRANIO,"Carry this mad knave to the gaol. Father Baptista,"
V,I,TRANIO,"I charge you see that he be forthcoming."
V,I,VINCENTIO,"Carry me to the gaol!"
V,I,GREMIO,"Stay, officer: he shall not go to prison."
V,I,BAPTISTA,"Talk not, Signior Gremio: I say he shall go to prison."
V,I,GREMIO,"Take heed, Signior Baptista, lest you be"
V,I,GREMIO,"cony-catched in this business: I dare swear this"
V,I,GREMIO,"is the right Vincentio."
V,I,Pedant,"Swear, if thou darest."
V,I,GREMIO,"Nay, I dare not swear it."
V,I,TRANIO,"Then thou wert best say that I am not Lucentio."
V,I,GREMIO,"Yes, I know thee to be Signior Lucentio."
V,I,BAPTISTA,"Away with the dotard! to the gaol with him!"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"Thus strangers may be hailed and abused: O"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"monstrous villain!"
V,I,BIONDELLO,"O! we are spoiled and--yonder he is: deny him,"
V,I,BIONDELLO,"forswear him, or else we are all undone."
V,I,VINCENTIO,"Lives my sweet son?"
V,I,BIANCA,"Pardon, dear father."
V,I,BAPTISTA,"How hast thou offended?"
V,I,BAPTISTA,"Where is Lucentio?"
V,I,LUCENTIO,"Here's Lucentio,"
V,I,LUCENTIO,"Right son to the right Vincentio;"
V,I,LUCENTIO,"That have by marriage made thy daughter mine,"
V,I,LUCENTIO,"While counterfeit supposes bleared thine eyne."
V,I,GREMIO,"Here's packing, with a witness to deceive us all!"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"Where is that damned villain Tranio,"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"That faced and braved me in this matter so?"
V,I,BAPTISTA,"Why, tell me, is not this my Cambio?"
V,I,BIANCA,"Cambio is changed into Lucentio."
V,I,LUCENTIO,"Love wrought these miracles. Bianca's love"
V,I,LUCENTIO,"Made me exchange my state with Tranio,"
V,I,LUCENTIO,"While he did bear my countenance in the town;"
V,I,LUCENTIO,"And happily I have arrived at the last"
V,I,LUCENTIO,"Unto the wished haven of my bliss."
V,I,LUCENTIO,"What Tranio did, myself enforced him to;"
V,I,LUCENTIO,"Then pardon him, sweet father, for my sake."
V,I,VINCENTIO,"I'll slit the villain's nose, that would have sent"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"me to the gaol."
V,I,BAPTISTA,"But do you hear, sir? have you married my daughter"
V,I,BAPTISTA,"without asking my good will?"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"Fear not, Baptista; we will content you, go to: but"
V,I,VINCENTIO,"I will in, to be revenged for this villany."
V,I,BAPTISTA,"And I, to sound the depth of this knavery."
V,I,LUCENTIO,"Look not pale, Bianca; thy father will not frown."
V,I,GREMIO,"My cake is dough; but I'll in among the rest,"
V,I,GREMIO,"Out of hope of all, but my share of the feast."
V,I,KATHARINA,"Husband, let's follow, to see the end of this ado."
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"First kiss me, Kate, and we will."
V,I,KATHARINA,"What, in the midst of the street?"
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"What, art thou ashamed of me?"
V,I,KATHARINA,"No, sir, God forbid; but ashamed to kiss."
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"Why, then let's home again. Come, sirrah, let's away."
V,I,KATHARINA,"Nay, I will give thee a kiss: now pray thee, love, stay."
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"Is not this well? Come, my sweet Kate:"
V,I,PETRUCHIO,"Better once than never, for never too late."
V,II,LUCENTIO,"At last, though long, our jarring notes agree:"
V,II,LUCENTIO,"And time it is, when raging war is done,"
V,II,LUCENTIO,"To smile at scapes and perils overblown."
V,II,LUCENTIO,"My fair Bianca, bid my father welcome,"
V,II,LUCENTIO,"While I with self-same kindness welcome thine."
V,II,LUCENTIO,"Brother Petruchio, sister Katharina,"
V,II,LUCENTIO,"And thou, Hortensio, with thy loving widow,"
V,II,LUCENTIO,"Feast with the best, and welcome to my house:"
V,II,LUCENTIO,"My banquet is to close our stomachs up,"
V,II,LUCENTIO,"After our great good cheer. Pray you, sit down;"
V,II,LUCENTIO,"For now we sit to chat as well as eat."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Nothing but sit and sit, and eat and eat!"
V,II,BAPTISTA,"Padua affords this kindness, son Petruchio."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Padua affords nothing but what is kind."
V,II,HORTENSIO,"For both our sakes, I would that word were true."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Now, for my life, Hortensio fears his widow."
V,II,Widow,"Then never trust me, if I be afeard."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"You are very sensible, and yet you miss my sense:"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"I mean, Hortensio is afeard of you."
V,II,Widow,"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Roundly replied."
V,II,KATHARINA,"Mistress, how mean you that?"
V,II,Widow,"Thus I conceive by him."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Conceives by me! How likes Hortensio that?"
V,II,HORTENSIO,"My widow says, thus she conceives her tale."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Very well mended. Kiss him for that, good widow."
V,II,KATHARINA,"'He that is giddy thinks the world turns round:'"
V,II,KATHARINA,"I pray you, tell me what you meant by that."
V,II,Widow,"Your husband, being troubled with a shrew,"
V,II,Widow,"Measures my husband's sorrow by his woe:"
V,II,Widow,"And now you know my meaning,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"A very mean meaning."
V,II,Widow,"Right, I mean you."
V,II,KATHARINA,"And I am mean indeed, respecting you."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"To her, Kate!"
V,II,HORTENSIO,"To her, widow!"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"A hundred marks, my Kate does put her down."
V,II,HORTENSIO,"That's my office."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Spoke like an officer; ha' to thee, lad!"
V,II,BAPTISTA,"How likes Gremio these quick-witted folks?"
V,II,GREMIO,"Believe me, sir, they butt together well."
V,II,BIANCA,"Head, and butt! an hasty-witted body"
V,II,BIANCA,"Would say your head and butt were head and horn."
V,II,VINCENTIO,"Ay, mistress bride, hath that awaken'd you?"
V,II,BIANCA,"Ay, but not frighted me; therefore I'll sleep again."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Nay, that you shall not: since you have begun,"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Have at you for a bitter jest or two!"
V,II,BIANCA,"Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush;"
V,II,BIANCA,"And then pursue me as you draw your bow."
V,II,BIANCA,"You are welcome all."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"She hath prevented me. Here, Signior Tranio."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"This bird you aim'd at, though you hit her not;"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Therefore a health to all that shot and miss'd."
V,II,TRANIO,"O, sir, Lucentio slipp'd me like his greyhound,"
V,II,TRANIO,"Which runs himself and catches for his master."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"A good swift simile, but something currish."
V,II,TRANIO,"'Tis well, sir, that you hunted for yourself:"
V,II,TRANIO,"'Tis thought your deer does hold you at a bay."
V,II,BAPTISTA,"O ho, Petruchio! Tranio hits you now."
V,II,LUCENTIO,"I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio."
V,II,HORTENSIO,"Confess, confess, hath he not hit you here?"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"A' has a little gall'd me, I confess;"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"And, as the jest did glance away from me,"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"'Tis ten to one it maim'd you two outright."
V,II,BAPTISTA,"Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio,"
V,II,BAPTISTA,"I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Well, I say no: and therefore for assurance"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Let's each one send unto his wife;"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"And he whose wife is most obedient"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"To come at first when he doth send for her,"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Shall win the wager which we will propose."
V,II,HORTENSIO,"Content. What is the wager?"
V,II,LUCENTIO,"Twenty crowns."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Twenty crowns!"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"I'll venture so much of my hawk or hound,"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"But twenty times so much upon my wife."
V,II,LUCENTIO,"A hundred then."
V,II,HORTENSIO,"Content."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"A match! 'tis done."
V,II,HORTENSIO,"Who shall begin?"
V,II,LUCENTIO,"That will I."
V,II,LUCENTIO,"Go, Biondello, bid your mistress come to me."
V,II,BIONDELLO,"I go."
V,II,BAPTISTA,"Son, I'll be your half, Bianca comes."
V,II,LUCENTIO,"I'll have no halves; I'll bear it all myself."
V,II,LUCENTIO,"How now! what news?"
V,II,BIONDELLO,"Sir, my mistress sends you word"
V,II,BIONDELLO,"That she is busy and she cannot come."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"How! she is busy and she cannot come!"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Is that an answer?"
V,II,GREMIO,"Ay, and a kind one too:"
V,II,GREMIO,"Pray God, sir, your wife send you not a worse."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"I hope better."
V,II,HORTENSIO,"Sirrah Biondello, go and entreat my wife"
V,II,HORTENSIO,"To come to me forthwith."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"O, ho! entreat her!"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Nay, then she must needs come."
V,II,HORTENSIO,"I am afraid, sir,"
V,II,HORTENSIO,"Do what you can, yours will not be entreated."
V,II,HORTENSIO,"Now, where's my wife?"
V,II,BIONDELLO,"She says you have some goodly jest in hand:"
V,II,BIONDELLO,"She will not come: she bids you come to her."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Worse and worse; she will not come! O vile,"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Intolerable, not to be endured!"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Sirrah Grumio, go to your mistress;"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Say, I command her to come to me."
V,II,HORTENSIO,"I know her answer."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"What?"
V,II,HORTENSIO,"She will not."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"The fouler fortune mine, and there an end."
V,II,BAPTISTA,"Now, by my holidame, here comes Katharina!"
V,II,KATHARINA,"What is your will, sir, that you send for me?"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Where is your sister, and Hortensio's wife?"
V,II,KATHARINA,"They sit conferring by the parlor fire."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Go fetch them hither: if they deny to come."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands:"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Away, I say, and bring them hither straight."
V,II,LUCENTIO,"Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder."
V,II,HORTENSIO,"And so it is: I wonder what it bodes."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Marry, peace it bodes, and love and quiet life,"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"And awful rule and right supremacy;"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"And, to be short, what not, that's sweet and happy?"
V,II,BAPTISTA,"Now, fair befal thee, good Petruchio!"
V,II,BAPTISTA,"The wager thou hast won; and I will add"
V,II,BAPTISTA,"Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns;"
V,II,BAPTISTA,"Another dowry to another daughter,"
V,II,BAPTISTA,"For she is changed, as she had never been."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Nay, I will win my wager better yet"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"And show more sign of her obedience,"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Her new-built virtue and obedience."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"See where she comes and brings your froward wives"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"As prisoners to her womanly persuasion."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Katharina, that cap of yours becomes you not:"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Off with that bauble, throw it under-foot."
V,II,Widow,"Lord, let me never have a cause to sigh,"
V,II,Widow,"Till I be brought to such a silly pass!"
V,II,BIANCA,"Fie! what a foolish duty call you this?"
V,II,LUCENTIO,"I would your duty were as foolish too:"
V,II,LUCENTIO,"The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca,"
V,II,LUCENTIO,"Hath cost me an hundred crowns since supper-time."
V,II,BIANCA,"The more fool you, for laying on my duty."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Katharina, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"What duty they do owe their lords and husbands."
V,II,Widow,"Come, come, you're mocking: we will have no telling."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Come on, I say; and first begin with her."
V,II,Widow,"She shall not."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"I say she shall: and first begin with her."
V,II,KATHARINA,"Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"And dart not scornful glances from those eyes,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor:"
V,II,KATHARINA,"It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"And in no sense is meet or amiable."
V,II,KATHARINA,"A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty;"
V,II,KATHARINA,"And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty"
V,II,KATHARINA,"Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it."
V,II,KATHARINA,"Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"And for thy maintenance commits his body"
V,II,KATHARINA,"To painful labour both by sea and land,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;"
V,II,KATHARINA,"And craves no other tribute at thy hands"
V,II,KATHARINA,"But love, fair looks and true obedience;"
V,II,KATHARINA,"Too little payment for so great a debt."
V,II,KATHARINA,"Such duty as the subject owes the prince"
V,II,KATHARINA,"Even such a woman oweth to her husband;"
V,II,KATHARINA,"And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"And not obedient to his honest will,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"What is she but a foul contending rebel"
V,II,KATHARINA,"And graceless traitor to her loving lord?"
V,II,KATHARINA,"I am ashamed that women are so simple"
V,II,KATHARINA,"To offer war where they should kneel for peace;"
V,II,KATHARINA,"Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"When they are bound to serve, love and obey."
V,II,KATHARINA,"Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"But that our soft conditions and our hearts"
V,II,KATHARINA,"Should well agree with our external parts?"
V,II,KATHARINA,"Come, come, you froward and unable worms!"
V,II,KATHARINA,"My mind hath been as big as one of yours,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"My heart as great, my reason haply more,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"To bandy word for word and frown for frown;"
V,II,KATHARINA,"But now I see our lances are but straws,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"That seeming to be most which we indeed least are."
V,II,KATHARINA,"Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"And place your hands below your husband's foot:"
V,II,KATHARINA,"In token of which duty, if he please,"
V,II,KATHARINA,"My hand is ready; may it do him ease."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate."
V,II,LUCENTIO,"Well, go thy ways, old lad; for thou shalt ha't."
V,II,VINCENTIO,"'Tis a good hearing when children are toward."
V,II,LUCENTIO,"But a harsh hearing when women are froward."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"Come, Kate, we'll to bed."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"We three are married, but you two are sped."
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white;"
V,II,PETRUCHIO,"And, being a winner, God give you good night!"
V,II,HORTENSIO,"Now, go thy ways; thou hast tamed a curst shrew."
V,II,LUCENTIO,"'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so."
I,I,Master,"Boatswain!"
I,I,Boatswain,"Here, master: what cheer?"
I,I,Master,"Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely,"
I,I,Master,"or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir."
I,I,Boatswain,"Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!"
I,I,Boatswain,"yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to the"
I,I,Boatswain,"master's whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind,"
I,I,Boatswain,"if room enough!"
I,I,ALONSO,"Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master?"
I,I,ALONSO,"Play the men."
I,I,Boatswain,"I pray now, keep below."
I,I,ANTONIO,"Where is the master, boatswain?"
I,I,Boatswain,"Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your"
I,I,Boatswain,"cabins: you do assist the storm."
I,I,GONZALO,"Nay, good, be patient."
I,I,Boatswain,"When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers"
I,I,Boatswain,"for the name of king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not."
I,I,GONZALO,"Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard."
I,I,Boatswain,"None that I more love than myself. You are a"
I,I,Boatswain,"counsellor; if you can command these elements to"
I,I,Boatswain,"silence, and work the peace of the present, we will"
I,I,Boatswain,"not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you"
I,I,Boatswain,"cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make"
I,I,Boatswain,"yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of"
I,I,Boatswain,"the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out"
I,I,Boatswain,"of our way, I say."
I,I,GONZALO,"I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he"
I,I,GONZALO,"hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is"
I,I,GONZALO,"perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his"
I,I,GONZALO,"hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable,"
I,I,GONZALO,"for our own doth little advantage. If he be not"
I,I,GONZALO,"born to be hanged, our case is miserable."
I,I,Boatswain,"Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring"
I,I,Boatswain,"her to try with main-course."
I,I,Boatswain,"A plague upon this howling! they are louder than"
I,I,Boatswain,"the weather or our office."
I,I,Boatswain,"Yet again! what do you here? Shall we give o'er"
I,I,Boatswain,"and drown? Have you a mind to sink?"
I,I,SEBASTIAN,"A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,"
I,I,SEBASTIAN,"incharitable dog!"
I,I,Boatswain,"Work you then."
I,I,ANTONIO,"Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!"
I,I,ANTONIO,"We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art."
I,I,GONZALO,"I'll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were"
I,I,GONZALO,"no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an"
I,I,GONZALO,"unstanched wench."
I,I,Boatswain,"Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses off to"
I,I,Boatswain,"sea again; lay her off."
I,I,Mariners,"All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!"
I,I,Boatswain,"What, must our mouths be cold?"
I,I,GONZALO,"The king and prince at prayers! let's assist them,"
I,I,GONZALO,"For our case is as theirs."
I,I,SEBASTIAN,"I'm out of patience."
I,I,ANTONIO,"We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:"
I,I,ANTONIO,"This wide-chapp'd rascal--would thou mightst lie drowning"
I,I,ANTONIO,"The washing of ten tides!"
I,I,GONZALO,"He'll be hang'd yet,"
I,I,GONZALO,"Though every drop of water swear against it"
I,I,GONZALO,"And gape at widest to glut him."
I,I,ANTONIO,"Let's all sink with the king."
I,I,SEBASTIAN,"Let's take leave of him."
I,I,GONZALO,"Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an"
I,I,GONZALO,"acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any"
I,I,GONZALO,"thing. The wills above be done! but I would fain"
I,I,GONZALO,"die a dry death."
I,II,MIRANDA,"If by your art, my dearest father, you have"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them."
I,II,MIRANDA,"The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,"
I,II,MIRANDA,"But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered"
I,II,MIRANDA,"With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd."
I,II,MIRANDA,"Had I been any god of power, I would"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere"
I,II,MIRANDA,"It should the good ship so have swallow'd and"
I,II,MIRANDA,"The fraughting souls within her."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Be collected:"
I,II,PROSPERO,"No more amazement: tell your piteous heart"
I,II,PROSPERO,"There's no harm done."
I,II,MIRANDA,"O, woe the day!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"No harm."
I,II,PROSPERO,"I have done nothing but in care of thee,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Of whence I am, nor that I am more better"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And thy no greater father."
I,II,MIRANDA,"More to know"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Did never meddle with my thoughts."
I,II,PROSPERO,"'Tis time"
I,II,PROSPERO,"I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And pluck my magic garment from me. So:"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort."
I,II,PROSPERO,"The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The very virtue of compassion in thee,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"I have with such provision in mine art"
I,II,PROSPERO,"So safely ordered that there is no soul--"
I,II,PROSPERO,"No, not so much perdition as an hair"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Betid to any creature in the vessel"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down;"
I,II,PROSPERO,"For thou must now know farther."
I,II,MIRANDA,"You have often"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd"
I,II,MIRANDA,"And left me to a bootless inquisition,"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Concluding 'Stay: not yet.'"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The hour's now come;"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Obey and be attentive. Canst thou remember"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A time before we came unto this cell?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Out three years old."
I,II,MIRANDA,"Certainly, sir, I can."
I,II,PROSPERO,"By what? by any other house or person?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Of any thing the image tell me that"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Hath kept with thy remembrance."
I,II,MIRANDA,"'Tis far off"
I,II,MIRANDA,"And rather like a dream than an assurance"
I,II,MIRANDA,"That my remembrance warrants. Had I not"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Four or five women once that tended me?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it"
I,II,PROSPERO,"That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else"
I,II,PROSPERO,"In the dark backward and abysm of time?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"If thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"How thou camest here thou mayst."
I,II,MIRANDA,"But that I do not."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thy father was the Duke of Milan and"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A prince of power."
I,II,MIRANDA,"Sir, are not you my father?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and"
I,II,PROSPERO,"She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Was Duke of Milan; and thou his only heir"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And princess no worse issued."
I,II,MIRANDA,"O the heavens!"
I,II,MIRANDA,"What foul play had we, that we came from thence?"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Or blessed was't we did?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Both, both, my girl:"
I,II,PROSPERO,"By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"But blessedly holp hither."
I,II,MIRANDA,"O, my heart bleeds"
I,II,MIRANDA,"To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to,"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther."
I,II,PROSPERO,"My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio--"
I,II,PROSPERO,"I pray thee, mark me--that a brother should"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Be so perfidious!--he whom next thyself"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Of all the world I loved and to him put"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The manage of my state; as at that time"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Through all the signories it was the first"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed"
I,II,PROSPERO,"In dignity, and for the liberal arts"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Without a parallel; those being all my study,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The government I cast upon my brother"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And to my state grew stranger, being transported"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle--"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Dost thou attend me?"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Sir, most heedfully."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Being once perfected how to grant suits,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"How to deny them, who to advance and who"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To trash for over-topping, new created"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not."
I,II,MIRANDA,"O, good sir, I do."
I,II,PROSPERO,"I pray thee, mark me."
I,II,PROSPERO,"I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To closeness and the bettering of my mind"
I,II,PROSPERO,"With that which, but by being so retired,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"O'er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Awaked an evil nature; and my trust,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Like a good parent, did beget of him"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A falsehood in its contrary as great"
I,II,PROSPERO,"As my trust was; which had indeed no limit,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Not only with what my revenue yielded,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"But what my power might else exact, like one"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Who having into truth, by telling of it,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Made such a sinner of his memory,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To credit his own lie, he did believe"
I,II,PROSPERO,"He was indeed the duke; out o' the substitution"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And executing the outward face of royalty,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"With all prerogative: hence his ambition growing--"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Dost thou hear?"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Your tale, sir, would cure deafness."
I,II,PROSPERO,"To have no screen between this part he play'd"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And him he play'd it for, he needs will be"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties"
I,II,PROSPERO,"He thinks me now incapable; confederates--"
I,II,PROSPERO,"So dry he was for sway--wi' the King of Naples"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To give him annual tribute, do him homage,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Subject his coronet to his crown and bend"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The dukedom yet unbow'd--alas, poor Milan!--"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To most ignoble stooping."
I,II,MIRANDA,"O the heavens!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Mark his condition and the event; then tell me"
I,II,PROSPERO,"If this might be a brother."
I,II,MIRANDA,"I should sin"
I,II,MIRANDA,"To think but nobly of my grandmother:"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Good wombs have borne bad sons."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Now the condition."
I,II,PROSPERO,"The King of Naples, being an enemy"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit;"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Of homage and I know not how much tribute,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Should presently extirpate me and mine"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Out of the dukedom and confer fair Milan"
I,II,PROSPERO,"With all the honours on my brother: whereon,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A treacherous army levied, one midnight"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Fated to the purpose did Antonio open"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The gates of Milan, and, i' the dead of darkness,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The ministers for the purpose hurried thence"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Me and thy crying self."
I,II,MIRANDA,"Alack, for pity!"
I,II,MIRANDA,"I, not remembering how I cried out then,"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Will cry it o'er again: it is a hint"
I,II,MIRANDA,"That wrings mine eyes to't."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Hear a little further"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And then I'll bring thee to the present business"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Which now's upon's; without the which this story"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Were most impertinent."
I,II,MIRANDA,"Wherefore did they not"
I,II,MIRANDA,"That hour destroy us?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Well demanded, wench:"
I,II,PROSPERO,"My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"So dear the love my people bore me, nor set"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A mark so bloody on the business, but"
I,II,PROSPERO,"With colours fairer painted their foul ends."
I,II,PROSPERO,"In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To the winds whose pity, sighing back again,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Did us but loving wrong."
I,II,MIRANDA,"Alack, what trouble"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Was I then to you!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"O, a cherubim"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Infused with a fortitude from heaven,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Under my burthen groan'd; which raised in me"
I,II,PROSPERO,"An undergoing stomach, to bear up"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Against what should ensue."
I,II,MIRANDA,"How came we ashore?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"By Providence divine."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Some food we had and some fresh water that"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Out of his charity, being then appointed"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Master of this design, did give us, with"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me"
I,II,PROSPERO,"From mine own library with volumes that"
I,II,PROSPERO,"I prize above my dukedom."
I,II,MIRANDA,"Would I might"
I,II,MIRANDA,"But ever see that man!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Now I arise:"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Here in this island we arrived; and here"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Than other princesses can that have more time"
I,II,PROSPERO,"For vainer hours and tutors not so careful."
I,II,MIRANDA,"Heavens thank you for't! And now, I pray you, sir,"
I,II,MIRANDA,"For still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason"
I,II,MIRANDA,"For raising this sea-storm?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Know thus far forth."
I,II,PROSPERO,"By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Brought to this shore; and by my prescience"
I,II,PROSPERO,"I find my zenith doth depend upon"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A most auspicious star, whose influence"
I,II,PROSPERO,"If now I court not but omit, my fortunes"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions:"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou art inclined to sleep; 'tis a good dulness,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And give it way: I know thou canst not choose."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Come away, servant, come. I am ready now."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Approach, my Ariel, come."
I,II,ARIEL,"All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come"
I,II,ARIEL,"To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly,"
I,II,ARIEL,"To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride"
I,II,ARIEL,"On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task"
I,II,ARIEL,"Ariel and all his quality."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Hast thou, spirit,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee?"
I,II,ARIEL,"To every article."
I,II,ARIEL,"I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak,"
I,II,ARIEL,"Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,"
I,II,ARIEL,"I flamed amazement: sometime I'ld divide,"
I,II,ARIEL,"And burn in many places; on the topmast,"
I,II,ARIEL,"The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,"
I,II,ARIEL,"Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors"
I,II,ARIEL,"O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary"
I,II,ARIEL,"And sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks"
I,II,ARIEL,"Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune"
I,II,ARIEL,"Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,"
I,II,ARIEL,"Yea, his dread trident shake."
I,II,PROSPERO,"My brave spirit!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Would not infect his reason?"
I,II,ARIEL,"Not a soul"
I,II,ARIEL,"But felt a fever of the mad and play'd"
I,II,ARIEL,"Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners"
I,II,ARIEL,"Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,"
I,II,ARIEL,"Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand,"
I,II,ARIEL,"With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,--"
I,II,ARIEL,"Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty"
I,II,ARIEL,"And all the devils are here.'"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Why that's my spirit!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"But was not this nigh shore?"
I,II,ARIEL,"Close by, my master."
I,II,PROSPERO,"But are they, Ariel, safe?"
I,II,ARIEL,"Not a hair perish'd;"
I,II,ARIEL,"On their sustaining garments not a blemish,"
I,II,ARIEL,"But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me,"
I,II,ARIEL,"In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle."
I,II,ARIEL,"The king's son have I landed by himself;"
I,II,ARIEL,"Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs"
I,II,ARIEL,"In an odd angle of the isle and sitting,"
I,II,ARIEL,"His arms in this sad knot."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Of the king's ship"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The mariners say how thou hast disposed"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And all the rest o' the fleet."
I,II,ARIEL,"Safely in harbour"
I,II,ARIEL,"Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once"
I,II,ARIEL,"Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew"
I,II,ARIEL,"From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid:"
I,II,ARIEL,"The mariners all under hatches stow'd;"
I,II,ARIEL,"Who, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour,"
I,II,ARIEL,"I have left asleep; and for the rest o' the fleet"
I,II,ARIEL,"Which I dispersed, they all have met again"
I,II,ARIEL,"And are upon the Mediterranean flote,"
I,II,ARIEL,"Bound sadly home for Naples,"
I,II,ARIEL,"Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd"
I,II,ARIEL,"And his great person perish."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Ariel, thy charge"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Exactly is perform'd: but there's more work."
I,II,PROSPERO,"What is the time o' the day?"
I,II,ARIEL,"Past the mid season."
I,II,PROSPERO,"At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Must by us both be spent most preciously."
I,II,ARIEL,"Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,"
I,II,ARIEL,"Let me remember thee what thou hast promised,"
I,II,ARIEL,"Which is not yet perform'd me."
I,II,PROSPERO,"How now? moody?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"What is't thou canst demand?"
I,II,ARIEL,"My liberty."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Before the time be out? no more!"
I,II,ARIEL,"I prithee,"
I,II,ARIEL,"Remember I have done thee worthy service;"
I,II,ARIEL,"Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served"
I,II,ARIEL,"Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise"
I,II,ARIEL,"To bate me a full year."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Dost thou forget"
I,II,PROSPERO,"From what a torment I did free thee?"
I,II,ARIEL,"No."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou dost, and think'st it much to tread the ooze"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Of the salt deep,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To run upon the sharp wind of the north,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To do me business in the veins o' the earth"
I,II,PROSPERO,"When it is baked with frost."
I,II,ARIEL,"I do not, sir."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her?"
I,II,ARIEL,"No, sir."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou hast. Where was she born? speak; tell me."
I,II,ARIEL,"Sir, in Argier."
I,II,PROSPERO,"O, was she so? I must"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Once in a month recount what thou hast been,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch Sycorax,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"For mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To enter human hearing, from Argier,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did"
I,II,PROSPERO,"They would not take her life. Is not this true?"
I,II,ARIEL,"Ay, sir."
I,II,PROSPERO,"This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant;"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"By help of her more potent ministers"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And in her most unmitigable rage,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Into a cloven pine; within which rift"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A dozen years; within which space she died"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans"
I,II,PROSPERO,"As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island--"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Save for the son that she did litter here,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A freckled whelp hag-born--not honour'd with"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A human shape."
I,II,ARIEL,"Yes, Caliban her son."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st"
I,II,PROSPERO,"What torment I did find thee in; thy groans"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Of ever angry bears: it was a torment"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Could not again undo: it was mine art,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The pine and let thee out."
I,II,ARIEL,"I thank thee, master."
I,II,PROSPERO,"If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And peg thee in his knotty entrails till"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters."
I,II,ARIEL,"Pardon, master;"
I,II,ARIEL,"I will be correspondent to command"
I,II,ARIEL,"And do my spiriting gently."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Do so, and after two days"
I,II,PROSPERO,"I will discharge thee."
I,II,ARIEL,"That's my noble master!"
I,II,ARIEL,"What shall I do? say what; what shall I do?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea: be subject"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To no sight but thine and mine, invisible"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To every eyeball else. Go take this shape"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And hither come in't: go, hence with diligence!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake!"
I,II,MIRANDA,"The strangeness of your story put"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Heaviness in me."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Shake it off. Come on;"
I,II,PROSPERO,"We'll visit Caliban my slave, who never"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Yields us kind answer."
I,II,MIRANDA,"'Tis a villain, sir,"
I,II,MIRANDA,"I do not love to look on."
I,II,PROSPERO,"But, as 'tis,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"We cannot miss him: he does make our fire,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Fetch in our wood and serves in offices"
I,II,PROSPERO,"That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou earth, thou! speak."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Come forth, I say! there's other business for thee:"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Come, thou tortoise! when?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Hark in thine ear."
I,II,ARIEL,"My lord it shall be done."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!"
I,II,CALIBAN,"As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd"
I,II,CALIBAN,"With raven's feather from unwholesome fen"
I,II,CALIBAN,"Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye"
I,II,CALIBAN,"And blister you all o'er!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"All exercise on thee; thou shalt be pinch'd"
I,II,PROSPERO,"As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Than bees that made 'em."
I,II,CALIBAN,"I must eat my dinner."
I,II,CALIBAN,"This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,"
I,II,CALIBAN,"Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first,"
I,II,CALIBAN,"Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me"
I,II,CALIBAN,"Water with berries in't, and teach me how"
I,II,CALIBAN,"To name the bigger light, and how the less,"
I,II,CALIBAN,"That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee"
I,II,CALIBAN,"And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle,"
I,II,CALIBAN,"The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile:"
I,II,CALIBAN,"Cursed be I that did so! All the charms"
I,II,CALIBAN,"Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!"
I,II,CALIBAN,"For I am all the subjects that you have,"
I,II,CALIBAN,"Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me"
I,II,CALIBAN,"In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me"
I,II,CALIBAN,"The rest o' the island."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou most lying slave,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used thee,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Filth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee"
I,II,PROSPERO,"In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The honour of my child."
I,II,CALIBAN,"O ho, O ho! would't had been done!"
I,II,CALIBAN,"Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else"
I,II,CALIBAN,"This isle with Calibans."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Abhorred slave,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Which any print of goodness wilt not take,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour"
I,II,PROSPERO,"One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes"
I,II,PROSPERO,"With words that made them known. But thy vile race,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Though thou didst learn, had that in't which"
I,II,PROSPERO,"good natures"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Deservedly confined into this rock,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Who hadst deserved more than a prison."
I,II,CALIBAN,"You taught me language; and my profit on't"
I,II,CALIBAN,"Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you"
I,II,CALIBAN,"For learning me your language!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Hag-seed, hence!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly"
I,II,PROSPERO,"What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar"
I,II,PROSPERO,"That beasts shall tremble at thy din."
I,II,CALIBAN,"No, pray thee."
I,II,CALIBAN,"I must obey: his art is of such power,"
I,II,CALIBAN,"It would control my dam's god, Setebos,"
I,II,CALIBAN,"and make a vassal of him."
I,II,PROSPERO,"So, slave; hence!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Come unto these yellow sands,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And then take hands:"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Courtsied when you have and kiss'd"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The wild waves whist,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Foot it featly here and there;"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Hark, hark!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The watch-dogs bark!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Hark, hark! I hear"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The strain of strutting chanticleer"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow."
I,II,FERDINAND,"Where should this music be? i' the air or the earth?"
I,II,FERDINAND,"It sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Some god o' the island. Sitting on a bank,"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Weeping again the king my father's wreck,"
I,II,FERDINAND,"This music crept by me upon the waters,"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Allaying both their fury and my passion"
I,II,FERDINAND,"With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Or it hath drawn me rather. But 'tis gone."
I,II,FERDINAND,"No, it begins again."
I,II,FERDINAND,"Full fathom five thy father lies;"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Of his bones are coral made;"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Those are pearls that were his eyes:"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Nothing of him that doth fade"
I,II,FERDINAND,"But doth suffer a sea-change"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Into something rich and strange."
I,II,FERDINAND,"Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Hark! now I hear them,--Ding-dong, bell."
I,II,FERDINAND,"The ditty does remember my drown'd father."
I,II,FERDINAND,"This is no mortal business, nor no sound"
I,II,FERDINAND,"That the earth owes. I hear it now above me."
I,II,PROSPERO,"The fringed curtains of thine eye advance"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And say what thou seest yond."
I,II,MIRANDA,"What is't? a spirit?"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,"
I,II,MIRANDA,"It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit."
I,II,PROSPERO,"No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses"
I,II,PROSPERO,"As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Was in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'd"
I,II,PROSPERO,"With grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him"
I,II,PROSPERO,"A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And strays about to find 'em."
I,II,MIRANDA,"I might call him"
I,II,MIRANDA,"A thing divine, for nothing natural"
I,II,MIRANDA,"I ever saw so noble."
I,II,PROSPERO,"As my soul prompts it. Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free thee"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Within two days for this."
I,II,FERDINAND,"Most sure, the goddess"
I,II,FERDINAND,"On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer"
I,II,FERDINAND,"May know if you remain upon this island;"
I,II,FERDINAND,"And that you will some good instruction give"
I,II,FERDINAND,"How I may bear me here: my prime request,"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!"
I,II,FERDINAND,"If you be maid or no?"
I,II,MIRANDA,"No wonder, sir;"
I,II,MIRANDA,"But certainly a maid."
I,II,FERDINAND,"My language! heavens!"
I,II,FERDINAND,"I am the best of them that speak this speech,"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Were I but where 'tis spoken."
I,II,PROSPERO,"How? the best?"
I,II,PROSPERO,"What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?"
I,II,FERDINAND,"A single thing, as I am now, that wonders"
I,II,FERDINAND,"To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me;"
I,II,FERDINAND,"And that he does I weep: myself am Naples,"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld"
I,II,FERDINAND,"The king my father wreck'd."
I,II,MIRANDA,"Alack, for mercy!"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Yes, faith, and all his lords; the Duke of Milan"
I,II,FERDINAND,"And his brave son being twain."
I,II,PROSPERO,"And his more braver daughter could control thee,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"If now 'twere fit to do't. At the first sight"
I,II,PROSPERO,"They have changed eyes. Delicate Ariel,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"I'll set thee free for this."
I,II,PROSPERO,"A word, good sir;"
I,II,PROSPERO,"I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word."
I,II,MIRANDA,"Why speaks my father so ungently? This"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Is the third man that e'er I saw, the first"
I,II,MIRANDA,"That e'er I sigh'd for: pity move my father"
I,II,MIRANDA,"To be inclined my way!"
I,II,FERDINAND,"O, if a virgin,"
I,II,FERDINAND,"And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you"
I,II,FERDINAND,"The queen of Naples."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Soft, sir! one word more."
I,II,PROSPERO,"They are both in either's powers; but this swift business"
I,II,PROSPERO,"I must uneasy make, lest too light winning"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Make the prize light."
I,II,PROSPERO,"One word more; I charge thee"
I,II,PROSPERO,"That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The name thou owest not; and hast put thyself"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Upon this island as a spy, to win it"
I,II,PROSPERO,"From me, the lord on't."
I,II,FERDINAND,"No, as I am a man."
I,II,MIRANDA,"There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:"
I,II,MIRANDA,"If the ill spirit have so fair a house,"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Good things will strive to dwell with't."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Follow me."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Speak not you for him; he's a traitor. Come;"
I,II,PROSPERO,"I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Sea-water shalt thou drink; thy food shall be"
I,II,PROSPERO,"The fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots and husks"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow."
I,II,FERDINAND,"No;"
I,II,FERDINAND,"I will resist such entertainment till"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Mine enemy has more power."
I,II,MIRANDA,"O dear father,"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Make not too rash a trial of him, for"
I,II,MIRANDA,"He's gentle and not fearful."
I,II,PROSPERO,"What? I say,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"My foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor;"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Who makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Is so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"For I can here disarm thee with this stick"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And make thy weapon drop."
I,II,MIRANDA,"Beseech you, father."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Hence! hang not on my garments."
I,II,MIRANDA,"Sir, have pity;"
I,II,MIRANDA,"I'll be his surety."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Silence! one word more"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"An advocate for an imposter! hush!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he,"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Having seen but him and Caliban: foolish wench!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"To the most of men this is a Caliban"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And they to him are angels."
I,II,MIRANDA,"My affections"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Are then most humble; I have no ambition"
I,II,MIRANDA,"To see a goodlier man."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Come on; obey:"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thy nerves are in their infancy again"
I,II,PROSPERO,"And have no vigour in them."
I,II,FERDINAND,"So they are;"
I,II,FERDINAND,"My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up."
I,II,FERDINAND,"My father's loss, the weakness which I feel,"
I,II,FERDINAND,"The wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats,"
I,II,FERDINAND,"To whom I am subdued, are but light to me,"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Might I but through my prison once a day"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Let liberty make use of; space enough"
I,II,FERDINAND,"Have I in such a prison."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Come on."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou hast done well, fine Ariel!"
I,II,PROSPERO,"Follow me."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Hark what thou else shalt do me."
I,II,MIRANDA,"Be of comfort;"
I,II,MIRANDA,"My father's of a better nature, sir,"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted"
I,II,MIRANDA,"Which now came from him."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Thou shalt be free"
I,II,PROSPERO,"As mountain winds: but then exactly do"
I,II,PROSPERO,"All points of my command."
I,II,ARIEL,"To the syllable."
I,II,PROSPERO,"Come, follow. Speak not for him."
II,I,GONZALO,"Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause,"
II,I,GONZALO,"So have we all, of joy; for our escape"
II,I,GONZALO,"Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe"
II,I,GONZALO,"Is common; every day some sailor's wife,"
II,I,GONZALO,"The masters of some merchant and the merchant"
II,I,GONZALO,"Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle,"
II,I,GONZALO,"I mean our preservation, few in millions"
II,I,GONZALO,"Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh"
II,I,GONZALO,"Our sorrow with our comfort."
II,I,ALONSO,"Prithee, peace."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"He receives comfort like cold porridge."
II,I,ANTONIO,"The visitor will not give him o'er so."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Look he's winding up the watch of his wit;"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"by and by it will strike."
II,I,GONZALO,"Sir,--"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"One: tell."
II,I,GONZALO,"When every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd,"
II,I,GONZALO,"Comes to the entertainer--"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"A dollar."
II,I,GONZALO,"Dolour comes to him, indeed: you"
II,I,GONZALO,"have spoken truer than you purposed."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should."
II,I,GONZALO,"Therefore, my lord,--"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!"
II,I,ALONSO,"I prithee, spare."
II,I,GONZALO,"Well, I have done: but yet,--"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"He will be talking."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Which, of he or Adrian, for a good"
II,I,ANTONIO,"wager, first begins to crow?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"The old cock."
II,I,ANTONIO,"The cockerel."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Done. The wager?"
II,I,ANTONIO,"A laughter."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"A match!"
II,I,ADRIAN,"Though this island seem to be desert,--"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Ha, ha, ha! So, you're paid."
II,I,ADRIAN,"Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible,--"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Yet,--"
II,I,ADRIAN,"Yet,--"
II,I,ANTONIO,"He could not miss't."
II,I,ADRIAN,"It must needs be of subtle, tender and delicate"
II,I,ADRIAN,"temperance."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Temperance was a delicate wench."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered."
II,I,ADRIAN,"The air breathes upon us here most sweetly."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"As if it had lungs and rotten ones."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Or as 'twere perfumed by a fen."
II,I,GONZALO,"Here is everything advantageous to life."
II,I,ANTONIO,"True; save means to live."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Of that there's none, or little."
II,I,GONZALO,"How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!"
II,I,ANTONIO,"The ground indeed is tawny."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"With an eye of green in't."
II,I,ANTONIO,"He misses not much."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"No; he doth but mistake the truth totally."
II,I,GONZALO,"But the rarity of it is,--which is indeed almost"
II,I,GONZALO,"beyond credit,--"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"As many vouched rarities are."
II,I,GONZALO,"That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in"
II,I,GONZALO,"the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and"
II,I,GONZALO,"glosses, being rather new-dyed than stained with"
II,I,GONZALO,"salt water."
II,I,ANTONIO,"If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not"
II,I,ANTONIO,"say he lies?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report"
II,I,GONZALO,"Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we"
II,I,GONZALO,"put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of"
II,I,GONZALO,"the king's fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"'Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return."
II,I,ADRIAN,"Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to"
II,I,ADRIAN,"their queen."
II,I,GONZALO,"Not since widow Dido's time."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Widow! a pox o' that! How came that widow in?"
II,I,ANTONIO,"widow Dido!"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"What if he had said 'widower AEneas' too? Good Lord,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"how you take it!"
II,I,ADRIAN,"'Widow Dido' said you? you make me study of that:"
II,I,ADRIAN,"she was of Carthage, not of Tunis."
II,I,GONZALO,"This Tunis, sir, was Carthage."
II,I,ADRIAN,"Carthage?"
II,I,GONZALO,"I assure you, Carthage."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"His word is more than the miraculous harp; he hath"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"raised the wall and houses too."
II,I,ANTONIO,"What impossible matter will he make easy next?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"I think he will carry this island home in his pocket"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"and give it his son for an apple."
II,I,ANTONIO,"And, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring"
II,I,ANTONIO,"forth more islands."
II,I,GONZALO,"Ay."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Why, in good time."
II,I,GONZALO,"Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now"
II,I,GONZALO,"as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage"
II,I,GONZALO,"of your daughter, who is now queen."
II,I,ANTONIO,"And the rarest that e'er came there."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido."
II,I,ANTONIO,"O, widow Dido! ay, widow Dido."
II,I,GONZALO,"Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I"
II,I,GONZALO,"wore it? I mean, in a sort."
II,I,ANTONIO,"That sort was well fished for."
II,I,GONZALO,"When I wore it at your daughter's marriage?"
II,I,ALONSO,"You cram these words into mine ears against"
II,I,ALONSO,"The stomach of my sense. Would I had never"
II,I,ALONSO,"Married my daughter there! for, coming thence,"
II,I,ALONSO,"My son is lost and, in my rate, she too,"
II,I,ALONSO,"Who is so far from Italy removed"
II,I,ALONSO,"I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir"
II,I,ALONSO,"Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish"
II,I,ALONSO,"Hath made his meal on thee?"
II,I,FRANCISCO,"Sir, he may live:"
II,I,FRANCISCO,"I saw him beat the surges under him,"
II,I,FRANCISCO,"And ride upon their backs; he trod the water,"
II,I,FRANCISCO,"Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted"
II,I,FRANCISCO,"The surge most swoln that met him; his bold head"
II,I,FRANCISCO,"'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd"
II,I,FRANCISCO,"Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke"
II,I,FRANCISCO,"To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd,"
II,I,FRANCISCO,"As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt"
II,I,FRANCISCO,"He came alive to land."
II,I,ALONSO,"No, no, he's gone."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"That would not bless our Europe with your daughter,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"But rather lose her to an African;"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Where she at least is banish'd from your eye,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Who hath cause to wet the grief on't."
II,I,ALONSO,"Prithee, peace."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"You were kneel'd to and importuned otherwise"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"By all of us, and the fair soul herself"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Weigh'd between loathness and obedience, at"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Which end o' the beam should bow. We have lost your"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"son,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"More widows in them of this business' making"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Than we bring men to comfort them:"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"The fault's your own."
II,I,ALONSO,"So is the dear'st o' the loss."
II,I,GONZALO,"My lord Sebastian,"
II,I,GONZALO,"The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness"
II,I,GONZALO,"And time to speak it in: you rub the sore,"
II,I,GONZALO,"When you should bring the plaster."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Very well."
II,I,ANTONIO,"And most chirurgeonly."
II,I,GONZALO,"It is foul weather in us all, good sir,"
II,I,GONZALO,"When you are cloudy."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Foul weather?"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Very foul."
II,I,GONZALO,"Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,--"
II,I,ANTONIO,"He'ld sow't with nettle-seed."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Or docks, or mallows."
II,I,GONZALO,"And were the king on't, what would I do?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"'Scape being drunk for want of wine."
II,I,GONZALO,"I' the commonwealth I would by contraries"
II,I,GONZALO,"Execute all things; for no kind of traffic"
II,I,GONZALO,"Would I admit; no name of magistrate;"
II,I,GONZALO,"Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,"
II,I,GONZALO,"And use of service, none; contract, succession,"
II,I,GONZALO,"Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;"
II,I,GONZALO,"No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;"
II,I,GONZALO,"No occupation; all men idle, all;"
II,I,GONZALO,"And women too, but innocent and pure;"
II,I,GONZALO,"No sovereignty;--"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Yet he would be king on't."
II,I,ANTONIO,"The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the"
II,I,ANTONIO,"beginning."
II,I,GONZALO,"All things in common nature should produce"
II,I,GONZALO,"Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony,"
II,I,GONZALO,"Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,"
II,I,GONZALO,"Would I not have; but nature should bring forth,"
II,I,GONZALO,"Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance,"
II,I,GONZALO,"To feed my innocent people."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"No marrying 'mong his subjects?"
II,I,ANTONIO,"None, man; all idle: whores and knaves."
II,I,GONZALO,"I would with such perfection govern, sir,"
II,I,GONZALO,"To excel the golden age."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"God save his majesty!"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Long live Gonzalo!"
II,I,GONZALO,"And,--do you mark me, sir?"
II,I,ALONSO,"Prithee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me."
II,I,GONZALO,"I do well believe your highness; and"
II,I,GONZALO,"did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen,"
II,I,GONZALO,"who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that"
II,I,GONZALO,"they always use to laugh at nothing."
II,I,ANTONIO,"'Twas you we laughed at."
II,I,GONZALO,"Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing"
II,I,GONZALO,"to you: so you may continue and laugh at"
II,I,GONZALO,"nothing still."
II,I,ANTONIO,"What a blow was there given!"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"An it had not fallen flat-long."
II,I,GONZALO,"You are gentlemen of brave metal; you would lift"
II,I,GONZALO,"the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue"
II,I,GONZALO,"in it five weeks without changing."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"We would so, and then go a bat-fowling."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Nay, good my lord, be not angry."
II,I,GONZALO,"No, I warrant you; I will not adventure"
II,I,GONZALO,"my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh"
II,I,GONZALO,"me asleep, for I am very heavy?"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Go sleep, and hear us."
II,I,ALONSO,"What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes"
II,I,ALONSO,"Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find"
II,I,ALONSO,"They are inclined to do so."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Please you, sir,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Do not omit the heavy offer of it:"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"It is a comforter."
II,I,ANTONIO,"We two, my lord,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Will guard your person while you take your rest,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"And watch your safety."
II,I,ALONSO,"Thank you. Wondrous heavy."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"What a strange drowsiness possesses them!"
II,I,ANTONIO,"It is the quality o' the climate."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Why"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I find not"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Myself disposed to sleep."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Nor I; my spirits are nimble."
II,I,ANTONIO,"They fell together all, as by consent;"
II,I,ANTONIO,"They dropp'd, as by a thunder-stroke. What might,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Worthy Sebastian? O, what might?--No more:--"
II,I,ANTONIO,"And yet me thinks I see it in thy face,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"What thou shouldst be: the occasion speaks thee, and"
II,I,ANTONIO,"My strong imagination sees a crown"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Dropping upon thy head."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"What, art thou waking?"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Do you not hear me speak?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"I do; and surely"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"It is a sleepy language and thou speak'st"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Out of thy sleep. What is it thou didst say?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"This is a strange repose, to be asleep"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"And yet so fast asleep."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Noble Sebastian,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Thou let'st thy fortune sleep--die, rather; wink'st"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Whiles thou art waking."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Thou dost snore distinctly;"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"There's meaning in thy snores."
II,I,ANTONIO,"I am more serious than my custom: you"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Must be so too, if heed me; which to do"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Trebles thee o'er."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Well, I am standing water."
II,I,ANTONIO,"I'll teach you how to flow."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Do so: to ebb"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Hereditary sloth instructs me."
II,I,ANTONIO,"O,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"If you but knew how you the purpose cherish"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Whiles thus you mock it! how, in stripping it,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"You more invest it! Ebbing men, indeed,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Most often do so near the bottom run"
II,I,ANTONIO,"By their own fear or sloth."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Prithee, say on:"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"A matter from thee, and a birth indeed"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Which throes thee much to yield."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Thus, sir:"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Although this lord of weak remembrance, this,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Who shall be of as little memory"
II,I,ANTONIO,"When he is earth'd, hath here almost persuade,--"
II,I,ANTONIO,"For he's a spirit of persuasion, only"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Professes to persuade,--the king his son's alive,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"'Tis as impossible that he's undrown'd"
II,I,ANTONIO,"And he that sleeps here swims."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"I have no hope"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"That he's undrown'd."
II,I,ANTONIO,"O, out of that 'no hope'"
II,I,ANTONIO,"What great hope have you! no hope that way is"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Another way so high a hope that even"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"But doubt discovery there. Will you grant with me"
II,I,ANTONIO,"That Ferdinand is drown'd?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"He's gone."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Then, tell me,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Who's the next heir of Naples?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Claribel."
II,I,ANTONIO,"She that is queen of Tunis; she that dwells"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Ten leagues beyond man's life; she that from Naples"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Can have no note, unless the sun were post--"
II,I,ANTONIO,"The man i' the moon's too slow--till new-born chins"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Be rough and razorable; she that--from whom?"
II,I,ANTONIO,"We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"And by that destiny to perform an act"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come"
II,I,ANTONIO,"In yours and my discharge."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"What stuff is this! how say you?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"'Tis true, my brother's daughter's queen of Tunis;"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"So is she heir of Naples; 'twixt which regions"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"There is some space."
II,I,ANTONIO,"A space whose every cubit"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Seems to cry out, 'How shall that Claribel"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Measure us back to Naples? Keep in Tunis,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"And let Sebastian wake.' Say, this were death"
II,I,ANTONIO,"That now hath seized them; why, they were no worse"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Than now they are. There be that can rule Naples"
II,I,ANTONIO,"As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate"
II,I,ANTONIO,"As amply and unnecessarily"
II,I,ANTONIO,"As this Gonzalo; I myself could make"
II,I,ANTONIO,"A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore"
II,I,ANTONIO,"The mind that I do! what a sleep were this"
II,I,ANTONIO,"For your advancement! Do you understand me?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Methinks I do."
II,I,ANTONIO,"And how does your content"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Tender your own good fortune?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"I remember"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"You did supplant your brother Prospero."
II,I,ANTONIO,"True:"
II,I,ANTONIO,"And look how well my garments sit upon me;"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Much feater than before: my brother's servants"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Were then my fellows; now they are my men."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"But, for your conscience?"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Ay, sir; where lies that? if 'twere a kibe,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"'Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not"
II,I,ANTONIO,"This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they"
II,I,ANTONIO,"And melt ere they molest! Here lies your brother,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"No better than the earth he lies upon,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"If he were that which now he's like, that's dead;"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Can lay to bed for ever; whiles you, doing thus,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"To the perpetual wink for aye might put"
II,I,ANTONIO,"This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk;"
II,I,ANTONIO,"They'll tell the clock to any business that"
II,I,ANTONIO,"We say befits the hour."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Thy case, dear friend,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Shall be my precedent; as thou got'st Milan,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"I'll come by Naples. Draw thy sword: one stroke"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest;"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"And I the king shall love thee."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Draw together;"
II,I,ANTONIO,"And when I rear my hand, do you the like,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"To fall it on Gonzalo."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"O, but one word."
II,I,ARIEL,"My master through his art foresees the danger"
II,I,ARIEL,"That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth--"
II,I,ARIEL,"For else his project dies--to keep them living."
II,I,ARIEL,"While you here do snoring lie,"
II,I,ARIEL,"Open-eyed conspiracy"
II,I,ARIEL,"His time doth take."
II,I,ARIEL,"If of life you keep a care,"
II,I,ARIEL,"Shake off slumber, and beware:"
II,I,ARIEL,"Awake, awake!"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Then let us both be sudden."
II,I,GONZALO,"Now, good angels"
II,I,GONZALO,"Preserve the king."
II,I,ALONSO,"Why, how now? ho, awake! Why are you drawn?"
II,I,ALONSO,"Wherefore this ghastly looking?"
II,I,GONZALO,"What's the matter?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Whiles we stood here securing your repose,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Like bulls, or rather lions: did't not wake you?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"It struck mine ear most terribly."
II,I,ALONSO,"I heard nothing."
II,I,ANTONIO,"O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"To make an earthquake! sure, it was the roar"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Of a whole herd of lions."
II,I,ALONSO,"Heard you this, Gonzalo?"
II,I,GONZALO,"Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming,"
II,I,GONZALO,"And that a strange one too, which did awake me:"
II,I,GONZALO,"I shaked you, sir, and cried: as mine eyes open'd,"
II,I,GONZALO,"I saw their weapons drawn: there was a noise,"
II,I,GONZALO,"That's verily. 'Tis best we stand upon our guard,"
II,I,GONZALO,"Or that we quit this place; let's draw our weapons."
II,I,ALONSO,"Lead off this ground; and let's make further search"
II,I,ALONSO,"For my poor son."
II,I,GONZALO,"Heavens keep him from these beasts!"
II,I,GONZALO,"For he is, sure, i' the island."
II,I,ALONSO,"Lead away."
II,I,ARIEL,"Prospero my lord shall know what I have done:"
II,I,ARIEL,"So, king, go safely on to seek thy son."
II,II,CALIBAN,"All the infections that the sun sucks up"
II,II,CALIBAN,"From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him"
II,II,CALIBAN,"By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me"
II,II,CALIBAN,"And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch,"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Fright me with urchin--shows, pitch me i' the mire,"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but"
II,II,CALIBAN,"For every trifle are they set upon me;"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me"
II,II,CALIBAN,"And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I"
II,II,CALIBAN,"All wound with adders who with cloven tongues"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Do hiss me into madness."
II,II,CALIBAN,"Lo, now, lo!"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me"
II,II,CALIBAN,"For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat;"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Perchance he will not mind me."
II,II,TRINCULO,"Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off"
II,II,TRINCULO,"any weather at all, and another storm brewing;"
II,II,TRINCULO,"I hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black"
II,II,TRINCULO,"cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul"
II,II,TRINCULO,"bombard that would shed his liquor. If it"
II,II,TRINCULO,"should thunder as it did before, I know not"
II,II,TRINCULO,"where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot"
II,II,TRINCULO,"choose but fall by pailfuls. What have we"
II,II,TRINCULO,"here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish:"
II,II,TRINCULO,"he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-"
II,II,TRINCULO,"like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-"
II,II,TRINCULO,"John. A strange fish! Were I in England now,"
II,II,TRINCULO,"as once I was, and had but this fish painted,"
II,II,TRINCULO,"not a holiday fool there but would give a piece"
II,II,TRINCULO,"of silver: there would this monster make a"
II,II,TRINCULO,"man; any strange beast there makes a man:"
II,II,TRINCULO,"when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame"
II,II,TRINCULO,"beggar, they will lazy out ten to see a dead"
II,II,TRINCULO,"Indian. Legged like a man and his fins like"
II,II,TRINCULO,"arms! Warm o' my troth! I do now let loose"
II,II,TRINCULO,"my opinion; hold it no longer: this is no fish,"
II,II,TRINCULO,"but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a"
II,II,TRINCULO,"thunderbolt."
II,II,TRINCULO,"Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to"
II,II,TRINCULO,"creep under his gaberdine; there is no other"
II,II,TRINCULO,"shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with"
II,II,TRINCULO,"strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the"
II,II,TRINCULO,"dregs of the storm be past."
II,II,STEPHANO,"I shall no more to sea, to sea,"
II,II,STEPHANO,"Here shall I die ashore--"
II,II,STEPHANO,"This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's"
II,II,STEPHANO,"The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,"
II,II,STEPHANO,"The gunner and his mate"
II,II,STEPHANO,"Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery,"
II,II,STEPHANO,"But none of us cared for Kate;"
II,II,STEPHANO,"For she had a tongue with a tang,"
II,II,STEPHANO,"Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!"
II,II,STEPHANO,"She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,"
II,II,STEPHANO,"Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch:"
II,II,STEPHANO,"Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang!"
II,II,STEPHANO,"This is a scurvy tune too: but here's my comfort."
II,II,CALIBAN,"Do not torment me: Oh!"
II,II,STEPHANO,"What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put"
II,II,STEPHANO,"tricks upon's with savages and men of Ind, ha? I"
II,II,STEPHANO,"have not scaped drowning to be afeard now of your"
II,II,STEPHANO,"four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man as"
II,II,STEPHANO,"ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground;"
II,II,STEPHANO,"and it shall be said so again while Stephano"
II,II,STEPHANO,"breathes at's nostrils."
II,II,CALIBAN,"The spirit torments me; Oh!"
II,II,STEPHANO,"This is some monster of the isle with four legs, who"
II,II,STEPHANO,"hath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devil"
II,II,STEPHANO,"should he learn our language? I will give him some"
II,II,STEPHANO,"relief, if it be but for that. if I can recover him"
II,II,STEPHANO,"and keep him tame and get to Naples with him, he's a"
II,II,STEPHANO,"present for any emperor that ever trod on neat's leather."
II,II,CALIBAN,"Do not torment me, prithee; I'll bring my wood home faster."
II,II,STEPHANO,"He's in his fit now and does not talk after the"
II,II,STEPHANO,"wisest. He shall taste of my bottle: if he have"
II,II,STEPHANO,"never drunk wine afore will go near to remove his"
II,II,STEPHANO,"fit. If I can recover him and keep him tame, I will"
II,II,STEPHANO,"not take too much for him; he shall pay for him that"
II,II,STEPHANO,"hath him, and that soundly."
II,II,CALIBAN,"Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, I"
II,II,CALIBAN,"know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee."
II,II,STEPHANO,"Come on your ways; open your mouth; here is that"
II,II,STEPHANO,"which will give language to you, cat: open your"
II,II,STEPHANO,"mouth; this will shake your shaking, I can tell you,"
II,II,STEPHANO,"and that soundly: you cannot tell who's your friend:"
II,II,STEPHANO,"open your chaps again."
II,II,TRINCULO,"I should know that voice: it should be--but he is"
II,II,TRINCULO,"drowned; and these are devils: O defend me!"
II,II,STEPHANO,"Four legs and two voices: a most delicate monster!"
II,II,STEPHANO,"His forward voice now is to speak well of his"
II,II,STEPHANO,"friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches"
II,II,STEPHANO,"and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will"
II,II,STEPHANO,"recover him, I will help his ague. Come. Amen! I"
II,II,STEPHANO,"will pour some in thy other mouth."
II,II,TRINCULO,"Stephano!"
II,II,STEPHANO,"Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy, mercy! This is"
II,II,STEPHANO,"a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no"
II,II,STEPHANO,"long spoon."
II,II,TRINCULO,"Stephano! If thou beest Stephano, touch me and"
II,II,TRINCULO,"speak to me: for I am Trinculo--be not afeard--thy"
II,II,TRINCULO,"good friend Trinculo."
II,II,STEPHANO,"If thou beest Trinculo, come forth: I'll pull thee"
II,II,STEPHANO,"by the lesser legs: if any be Trinculo's legs,"
II,II,STEPHANO,"these are they. Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How"
II,II,STEPHANO,"camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? can"
II,II,STEPHANO,"he vent Trinculos?"
II,II,TRINCULO,"I took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke. But"
II,II,TRINCULO,"art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope now thou art"
II,II,TRINCULO,"not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me"
II,II,TRINCULO,"under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of"
II,II,TRINCULO,"the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O"
II,II,TRINCULO,"Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scaped!"
II,II,STEPHANO,"Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not constant."
II,II,CALIBAN,"not sprites."
II,II,CALIBAN,"That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor."
II,II,CALIBAN,"I will kneel to him."
II,II,STEPHANO,"How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither?"
II,II,STEPHANO,"swear by this bottle how thou camest hither. I"
II,II,STEPHANO,"escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors"
II,II,STEPHANO,"heaved o'erboard, by this bottle; which I made of"
II,II,STEPHANO,"the bark of a tree with mine own hands since I was"
II,II,STEPHANO,"cast ashore."
II,II,CALIBAN,"I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject;"
II,II,CALIBAN,"for the liquor is not earthly."
II,II,STEPHANO,"Here; swear then how thou escapedst."
II,II,TRINCULO,"Swum ashore. man, like a duck: I can swim like a"
II,II,TRINCULO,"duck, I'll be sworn."
II,II,STEPHANO,"Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a"
II,II,STEPHANO,"duck, thou art made like a goose."
II,II,TRINCULO,"O Stephano. hast any more of this?"
II,II,STEPHANO,"The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by the"
II,II,STEPHANO,"sea-side where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf!"
II,II,STEPHANO,"how does thine ague?"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Hast thou not dropp'd from heaven?"
II,II,STEPHANO,"Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man i'"
II,II,STEPHANO,"the moon when time was."
II,II,CALIBAN,"I have seen thee in her and I do adore thee:"
II,II,CALIBAN,"My mistress show'd me thee and thy dog and thy bush."
II,II,STEPHANO,"Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish"
II,II,STEPHANO,"it anon with new contents swear."
II,II,TRINCULO,"By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!"
II,II,TRINCULO,"I afeard of him! A very weak monster! The man i'"
II,II,TRINCULO,"the moon! A most poor credulous monster! Well"
II,II,TRINCULO,"drawn, monster, in good sooth!"
II,II,CALIBAN,"I'll show thee every fertile inch o' th' island;"
II,II,CALIBAN,"And I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god."
II,II,TRINCULO,"By this light, a most perfidious and drunken"
II,II,TRINCULO,"monster! when 's god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle."
II,II,CALIBAN,"I'll kiss thy foot; I'll swear myself thy subject."
II,II,STEPHANO,"Come on then; down, and swear."
II,II,TRINCULO,"I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed"
II,II,TRINCULO,"monster. A most scurvy monster! I could find in my"
II,II,TRINCULO,"heart to beat him,--"
II,II,STEPHANO,"Come, kiss."
II,II,TRINCULO,"But that the poor monster's in drink: an abominable monster!"
II,II,CALIBAN,"I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries;"
II,II,CALIBAN,"I'll fish for thee and get thee wood enough."
II,II,CALIBAN,"A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!"
II,II,CALIBAN,"I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Thou wondrous man."
II,II,TRINCULO,"A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a"
II,II,TRINCULO,"Poor drunkard!"
II,II,CALIBAN,"I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;"
II,II,CALIBAN,"And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts;"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how"
II,II,CALIBAN,"To snare the nimble marmoset; I'll bring thee"
II,II,CALIBAN,"To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?"
II,II,STEPHANO,"I prithee now, lead the way without any more"
II,II,STEPHANO,"talking. Trinculo, the king and all our company"
II,II,STEPHANO,"else being drowned, we will inherit here: here;"
II,II,STEPHANO,"bear my bottle: fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by"
II,II,STEPHANO,"and by again."
II,II,CALIBAN,"Farewell master; farewell, farewell!"
II,II,TRINCULO,"A howling monster: a drunken monster!"
II,II,CALIBAN,"No more dams I'll make for fish"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Nor fetch in firing"
II,II,CALIBAN,"At requiring;"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish"
II,II,CALIBAN,"'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban"
II,II,CALIBAN,"Has a new master: get a new man."
II,II,CALIBAN,"Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom,"
II,II,CALIBAN,"hey-day, freedom!"
II,II,STEPHANO,"O brave monster! Lead the way."
III,I,FERDINAND,"There be some sports are painful, and their labour"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Are nobly undergone and most poor matters"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Point to rich ends. This my mean task"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Would be as heavy to me as odious, but"
III,I,FERDINAND,"The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead"
III,I,FERDINAND,"And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed,"
III,I,FERDINAND,"And he's composed of harshness. I must remove"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Some thousands of these logs and pile them up,"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Weeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Had never like executor. I forget:"
III,I,FERDINAND,"But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours,"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Most busy lest, when I do it."
III,I,MIRANDA,"Alas, now, pray you,"
III,I,MIRANDA,"Work not so hard: I would the lightning had"
III,I,MIRANDA,"Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile!"
III,I,MIRANDA,"Pray, set it down and rest you: when this burns,"
III,I,MIRANDA,"'Twill weep for having wearied you. My father"
III,I,MIRANDA,"Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself;"
III,I,MIRANDA,"He's safe for these three hours."
III,I,FERDINAND,"O most dear mistress,"
III,I,FERDINAND,"The sun will set before I shall discharge"
III,I,FERDINAND,"What I must strive to do."
III,I,MIRANDA,"If you'll sit down,"
III,I,MIRANDA,"I'll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that;"
III,I,MIRANDA,"I'll carry it to the pile."
III,I,FERDINAND,"No, precious creature;"
III,I,FERDINAND,"I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Than you should such dishonour undergo,"
III,I,FERDINAND,"While I sit lazy by."
III,I,MIRANDA,"It would become me"
III,I,MIRANDA,"As well as it does you: and I should do it"
III,I,MIRANDA,"With much more ease; for my good will is to it,"
III,I,MIRANDA,"And yours it is against."
III,I,PROSPERO,"Poor worm, thou art infected!"
III,I,PROSPERO,"This visitation shows it."
III,I,MIRANDA,"You look wearily."
III,I,FERDINAND,"No, noble mistress;'tis fresh morning with me"
III,I,FERDINAND,"When you are by at night. I do beseech you--"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers--"
III,I,FERDINAND,"What is your name?"
III,I,MIRANDA,"Miranda.--O my father,"
III,I,MIRANDA,"I have broke your hest to say so!"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Admired Miranda!"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Indeed the top of admiration! worth"
III,I,FERDINAND,"What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady"
III,I,FERDINAND,"I have eyed with best regard and many a time"
III,I,FERDINAND,"The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Have I liked several women; never any"
III,I,FERDINAND,"With so fun soul, but some defect in her"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed"
III,I,FERDINAND,"And put it to the foil: but you, O you,"
III,I,FERDINAND,"So perfect and so peerless, are created"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Of every creature's best!"
III,I,MIRANDA,"I do not know"
III,I,MIRANDA,"One of my sex; no woman's face remember,"
III,I,MIRANDA,"Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen"
III,I,MIRANDA,"More that I may call men than you, good friend,"
III,I,MIRANDA,"And my dear father: how features are abroad,"
III,I,MIRANDA,"I am skilless of; but, by my modesty,"
III,I,MIRANDA,"The jewel in my dower, I would not wish"
III,I,MIRANDA,"Any companion in the world but you,"
III,I,MIRANDA,"Nor can imagination form a shape,"
III,I,MIRANDA,"Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle"
III,I,MIRANDA,"Something too wildly and my father's precepts"
III,I,MIRANDA,"I therein do forget."
III,I,FERDINAND,"I am in my condition"
III,I,FERDINAND,"A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;"
III,I,FERDINAND,"I would, not so!--and would no more endure"
III,I,FERDINAND,"This wooden slavery than to suffer"
III,I,FERDINAND,"The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak:"
III,I,FERDINAND,"The very instant that I saw you, did"
III,I,FERDINAND,"My heart fly to your service; there resides,"
III,I,FERDINAND,"To make me slave to it; and for your sake"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Am I this patient log--man."
III,I,MIRANDA,"Do you love me?"
III,I,FERDINAND,"O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound"
III,I,FERDINAND,"And crown what I profess with kind event"
III,I,FERDINAND,"If I speak true! if hollowly, invert"
III,I,FERDINAND,"What best is boded me to mischief! I"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Beyond all limit of what else i' the world"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Do love, prize, honour you."
III,I,MIRANDA,"I am a fool"
III,I,MIRANDA,"To weep at what I am glad of."
III,I,PROSPERO,"Fair encounter"
III,I,PROSPERO,"Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace"
III,I,PROSPERO,"On that which breeds between 'em!"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Wherefore weep you?"
III,I,MIRANDA,"At mine unworthiness that dare not offer"
III,I,MIRANDA,"What I desire to give, and much less take"
III,I,MIRANDA,"What I shall die to want. But this is trifling;"
III,I,MIRANDA,"And all the more it seeks to hide itself,"
III,I,MIRANDA,"The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning!"
III,I,MIRANDA,"And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!"
III,I,MIRANDA,"I am your wife, it you will marry me;"
III,I,MIRANDA,"If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow"
III,I,MIRANDA,"You may deny me; but I'll be your servant,"
III,I,MIRANDA,"Whether you will or no."
III,I,FERDINAND,"My mistress, dearest;"
III,I,FERDINAND,"And I thus humble ever."
III,I,MIRANDA,"My husband, then?"
III,I,FERDINAND,"Ay, with a heart as willing"
III,I,FERDINAND,"As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand."
III,I,MIRANDA,"And mine, with my heart in't; and now farewell"
III,I,MIRANDA,"Till half an hour hence."
III,I,FERDINAND,"A thousand thousand!"
III,I,PROSPERO,"So glad of this as they I cannot be,"
III,I,PROSPERO,"Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing"
III,I,PROSPERO,"At nothing can be more. I'll to my book,"
III,I,PROSPERO,"For yet ere supper-time must I perform"
III,I,PROSPERO,"Much business appertaining."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Tell not me; when the butt is out, we will drink"
III,II,STEPHANO,"water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and"
III,II,STEPHANO,"board 'em. Servant-monster, drink to me."
III,II,TRINCULO,"Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They"
III,II,TRINCULO,"say there's but five upon this isle: we are three"
III,II,TRINCULO,"of them; if th' other two be brained like us, the"
III,II,TRINCULO,"state totters."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes"
III,II,STEPHANO,"are almost set in thy head."
III,II,TRINCULO,"Where should they be set else? he were a brave"
III,II,TRINCULO,"monster indeed, if they were set in his tail."
III,II,STEPHANO,"My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in sack:"
III,II,STEPHANO,"for my part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I"
III,II,STEPHANO,"could recover the shore, five and thirty leagues off"
III,II,STEPHANO,"and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant,"
III,II,STEPHANO,"monster, or my standard."
III,II,TRINCULO,"Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard."
III,II,STEPHANO,"We'll not run, Monsieur Monster."
III,II,TRINCULO,"Nor go neither; but you'll lie like dogs and yet say"
III,II,TRINCULO,"nothing neither."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a"
III,II,STEPHANO,"good moon-calf."
III,II,CALIBAN,"How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe."
III,II,CALIBAN,"I'll not serve him; he's not valiant."
III,II,TRINCULO,"Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to"
III,II,TRINCULO,"justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish thou,"
III,II,TRINCULO,"was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much"
III,II,TRINCULO,"sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie,"
III,II,TRINCULO,"being but half a fish and half a monster?"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord?"
III,II,TRINCULO,"'Lord' quoth he! That a monster should be such a natural!"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you"
III,II,STEPHANO,"prove a mutineer,--the next tree! The poor monster's"
III,II,STEPHANO,"my subject and he shall not suffer indignity."
III,II,CALIBAN,"I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to"
III,II,CALIBAN,"hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?"
III,II,STEPHANO,"Marry, will I kneel and repeat it; I will stand,"
III,II,STEPHANO,"and so shall Trinculo."
III,II,CALIBAN,"As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a"
III,II,CALIBAN,"sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island."
III,II,ARIEL,"Thou liest."
III,II,CALIBAN,"Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou: I would my"
III,II,CALIBAN,"valiant master would destroy thee! I do not lie."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by"
III,II,STEPHANO,"this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth."
III,II,TRINCULO,"Why, I said nothing."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Mum, then, and no more. Proceed."
III,II,CALIBAN,"I say, by sorcery he got this isle;"
III,II,CALIBAN,"From me he got it. if thy greatness will"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Revenge it on him,--for I know thou darest,"
III,II,CALIBAN,"But this thing dare not,--"
III,II,STEPHANO,"That's most certain."
III,II,CALIBAN,"Thou shalt be lord of it and I'll serve thee."
III,II,STEPHANO,"How now shall this be compassed?"
III,II,STEPHANO,"Canst thou bring me to the party?"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Yea, yea, my lord: I'll yield him thee asleep,"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Where thou mayst knock a nail into his bead."
III,II,ARIEL,"Thou liest; thou canst not."
III,II,CALIBAN,"What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch!"
III,II,CALIBAN,"I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows"
III,II,CALIBAN,"And take his bottle from him: when that's gone"
III,II,CALIBAN,"He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not show him"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Where the quick freshes are."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Trinculo, run into no further danger:"
III,II,STEPHANO,"interrupt the monster one word further, and,"
III,II,STEPHANO,"by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out o' doors"
III,II,STEPHANO,"and make a stock-fish of thee."
III,II,TRINCULO,"Why, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go farther"
III,II,TRINCULO,"off."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Didst thou not say he lied?"
III,II,ARIEL,"Thou liest."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Do I so? take thou that."
III,II,STEPHANO,"As you like this, give me the lie another time."
III,II,TRINCULO,"I did not give the lie. Out o' your"
III,II,TRINCULO,"wits and bearing too? A pox o' your bottle!"
III,II,TRINCULO,"this can sack and drinking do. A murrain on"
III,II,TRINCULO,"your monster, and the devil take your fingers!"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Ha, ha, ha!"
III,II,STEPHANO,"Now, forward with your tale. Prithee, stand farther"
III,II,STEPHANO,"off."
III,II,CALIBAN,"Beat him enough: after a little time"
III,II,CALIBAN,"I'll beat him too."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Stand farther. Come, proceed."
III,II,CALIBAN,"Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him,"
III,II,CALIBAN,"I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him,"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Having first seized his books, or with a log"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember"
III,II,CALIBAN,"First to possess his books; for without them"
III,II,CALIBAN,"He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not"
III,II,CALIBAN,"One spirit to command: they all do hate him"
III,II,CALIBAN,"As rootedly as I. Burn but his books."
III,II,CALIBAN,"He has brave utensils,--for so he calls them--"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Which when he has a house, he'll deck withal"
III,II,CALIBAN,"And that most deeply to consider is"
III,II,CALIBAN,"The beauty of his daughter; he himself"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman,"
III,II,CALIBAN,"But only Sycorax my dam and she;"
III,II,CALIBAN,"But she as far surpasseth Sycorax"
III,II,CALIBAN,"As great'st does least."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Is it so brave a lass?"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant."
III,II,CALIBAN,"And bring thee forth brave brood."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I"
III,II,STEPHANO,"will be king and queen--save our graces!--and"
III,II,STEPHANO,"Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys. Dost thou"
III,II,STEPHANO,"like the plot, Trinculo?"
III,II,TRINCULO,"Excellent."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee; but,"
III,II,STEPHANO,"while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head."
III,II,CALIBAN,"Within this half hour will he be asleep:"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Wilt thou destroy him then?"
III,II,STEPHANO,"Ay, on mine honour."
III,II,ARIEL,"This will I tell my master."
III,II,CALIBAN,"Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure:"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch"
III,II,CALIBAN,"You taught me but while-ere?"
III,II,STEPHANO,"At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any"
III,II,STEPHANO,"reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Flout 'em and scout 'em"
III,II,STEPHANO,"And scout 'em and flout 'em"
III,II,STEPHANO,"Thought is free."
III,II,CALIBAN,"That's not the tune."
III,II,STEPHANO,"What is this same?"
III,II,TRINCULO,"This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture"
III,II,TRINCULO,"of Nobody."
III,II,STEPHANO,"If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness:"
III,II,STEPHANO,"if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list."
III,II,TRINCULO,"O, forgive me my sins!"
III,II,STEPHANO,"He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Art thou afeard?"
III,II,STEPHANO,"No, monster, not I."
III,II,CALIBAN,"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not."
III,II,CALIBAN,"Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices"
III,II,CALIBAN,"That, if I then had waked after long sleep,"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,"
III,II,CALIBAN,"The clouds methought would open and show riches"
III,II,CALIBAN,"Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,"
III,II,CALIBAN,"I cried to dream again."
III,II,STEPHANO,"This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall"
III,II,STEPHANO,"have my music for nothing."
III,II,CALIBAN,"When Prospero is destroyed."
III,II,STEPHANO,"That shall be by and by: I remember the story."
III,II,TRINCULO,"The sound is going away; let's follow it, and"
III,II,TRINCULO,"after do our work."
III,II,STEPHANO,"Lead, monster; we'll follow. I would I could see"
III,II,STEPHANO,"this tabourer; he lays it on."
III,II,TRINCULO,"Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano."
III,III,GONZALO,"By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir;"
III,III,GONZALO,"My old bones ache: here's a maze trod indeed"
III,III,GONZALO,"Through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience,"
III,III,GONZALO,"I needs must rest me."
III,III,ALONSO,"Old lord, I cannot blame thee,"
III,III,ALONSO,"Who am myself attach'd with weariness,"
III,III,ALONSO,"To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest."
III,III,ALONSO,"Even here I will put off my hope and keep it"
III,III,ALONSO,"No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd"
III,III,ALONSO,"Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks"
III,III,ALONSO,"Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go."
III,III,ANTONIO,"out of hope."
III,III,ANTONIO,"Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose"
III,III,ANTONIO,"That you resolved to effect."
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"Will we take throughly."
III,III,ANTONIO,"For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance"
III,III,ANTONIO,"As when they are fresh."
III,III,ALONSO,"What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!"
III,III,GONZALO,"Marvellous sweet music!"
III,III,ALONSO,"Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"A living drollery. Now I will believe"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"That there are unicorns, that in Arabia"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"At this hour reigning there."
III,III,ANTONIO,"I'll believe both;"
III,III,ANTONIO,"And what does else want credit, come to me,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"And I'll be sworn 'tis true: travellers ne'er did"
III,III,ANTONIO,"lie,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Though fools at home condemn 'em."
III,III,GONZALO,"If in Naples"
III,III,GONZALO,"I should report this now, would they believe me?"
III,III,GONZALO,"If I should say, I saw such islanders--"
III,III,GONZALO,"For, certes, these are people of the island--"
III,III,GONZALO,"Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,"
III,III,GONZALO,"Their manners are more gentle-kind than of"
III,III,GONZALO,"Our human generation you shall find"
III,III,GONZALO,"Many, nay, almost any."
III,III,PROSPERO,"Thou hast said well; for some of you there present"
III,III,PROSPERO,"Are worse than devils."
III,III,ALONSO,"I cannot too much muse"
III,III,ALONSO,"Such shapes, such gesture and such sound, expressing,"
III,III,ALONSO,"Although they want the use of tongue, a kind"
III,III,ALONSO,"Of excellent dumb discourse."
III,III,FRANCISCO,"They vanish'd strangely."
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"No matter, since"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs."
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"Will't please you taste of what is here?"
III,III,ALONSO,"Not I."
III,III,GONZALO,"Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,"
III,III,GONZALO,"Who would believe that there were mountaineers"
III,III,GONZALO,"Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em"
III,III,GONZALO,"Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men"
III,III,GONZALO,"Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find"
III,III,GONZALO,"Each putter-out of five for one will bring us"
III,III,GONZALO,"Good warrant of."
III,III,ALONSO,"I will stand to and feed,"
III,III,ALONSO,"Although my last: no matter, since I feel"
III,III,ALONSO,"The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,"
III,III,ALONSO,"Stand to and do as we."
III,III,ARIEL,"You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,"
III,III,ARIEL,"That hath to instrument this lower world"
III,III,ARIEL,"And what is in't, the never-surfeited sea"
III,III,ARIEL,"Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island"
III,III,ARIEL,"Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men"
III,III,ARIEL,"Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;"
III,III,ARIEL,"And even with such-like valour men hang and drown"
III,III,ARIEL,"Their proper selves."
III,III,ARIEL,"You fools! I and my fellows"
III,III,ARIEL,"Are ministers of Fate: the elements,"
III,III,ARIEL,"Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well"
III,III,ARIEL,"Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs"
III,III,ARIEL,"Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish"
III,III,ARIEL,"One dowle that's in my plume: my fellow-ministers"
III,III,ARIEL,"Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,"
III,III,ARIEL,"Your swords are now too massy for your strengths"
III,III,ARIEL,"And will not be uplifted. But remember--"
III,III,ARIEL,"For that's my business to you--that you three"
III,III,ARIEL,"From Milan did supplant good Prospero;"
III,III,ARIEL,"Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,"
III,III,ARIEL,"Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed"
III,III,ARIEL,"The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have"
III,III,ARIEL,"Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,"
III,III,ARIEL,"Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso,"
III,III,ARIEL,"They have bereft; and do pronounce by me:"
III,III,ARIEL,"Lingering perdition, worse than any death"
III,III,ARIEL,"Can be at once, shall step by step attend"
III,III,ARIEL,"You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from--"
III,III,ARIEL,"Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls"
III,III,ARIEL,"Upon your heads--is nothing but heart-sorrow"
III,III,ARIEL,"And a clear life ensuing."
III,III,PROSPERO,"Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou"
III,III,PROSPERO,"Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring:"
III,III,PROSPERO,"Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated"
III,III,PROSPERO,"In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life"
III,III,PROSPERO,"And observation strange, my meaner ministers"
III,III,PROSPERO,"Their several kinds have done. My high charms work"
III,III,PROSPERO,"And these mine enemies are all knit up"
III,III,PROSPERO,"In their distractions; they now are in my power;"
III,III,PROSPERO,"And in these fits I leave them, while I visit"
III,III,PROSPERO,"Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drown'd,"
III,III,PROSPERO,"And his and mine loved darling."
III,III,GONZALO,"I' the name of something holy, sir, why stand you"
III,III,GONZALO,"In this strange stare?"
III,III,ALONSO,"O, it is monstrous, monstrous:"
III,III,ALONSO,"Methought the billows spoke and told me of it;"
III,III,ALONSO,"The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,"
III,III,ALONSO,"That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced"
III,III,ALONSO,"The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass."
III,III,ALONSO,"Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded, and"
III,III,ALONSO,"I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded"
III,III,ALONSO,"And with him there lie mudded."
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"But one fiend at a time,"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"I'll fight their legions o'er."
III,III,ANTONIO,"I'll be thy second."
III,III,GONZALO,"All three of them are desperate: their great guilt,"
III,III,GONZALO,"Like poison given to work a great time after,"
III,III,GONZALO,"Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you"
III,III,GONZALO,"That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly"
III,III,GONZALO,"And hinder them from what this ecstasy"
III,III,GONZALO,"May now provoke them to."
III,III,ADRIAN,"Follow, I pray you."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"If I have too austerely punish'd you,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Your compensation makes amends, for I"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Have given you here a third of mine own life,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Or that for which I live; who once again"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Were but my trials of thy love and thou"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Hast strangely stood the test here, afore Heaven,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Do not smile at me that I boast her off,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"And make it halt behind her."
IV,I,FERDINAND,"I do believe it"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"Against an oracle."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Then, as my gift and thine own acquisition"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Worthily purchased take my daughter: but"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"If thou dost break her virgin-knot before"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"All sanctimonious ceremonies may"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"With full and holy rite be minister'd,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"To make this contract grow: but barren hate,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"The union of your bed with weeds so loathly"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"As Hymen's lamps shall light you."
IV,I,FERDINAND,"As I hope"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"For quiet days, fair issue and long life,"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion."
IV,I,FERDINAND,"Our worser genius can, shall never melt"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"Mine honour into lust, to take away"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"The edge of that day's celebration"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"When I shall think: or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd,"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"Or Night kept chain'd below."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Fairly spoke."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Sit then and talk with her; she is thine own."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"What, Ariel! my industrious servant, Ariel!"
IV,I,ARIEL,"What would my potent master? here I am."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Did worthily perform; and I must use you"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"In such another trick. Go bring the rabble,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"O'er whom I give thee power, here to this place:"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Incite them to quick motion; for I must"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Some vanity of mine art: it is my promise,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"And they expect it from me."
IV,I,ARIEL,"Presently?"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Ay, with a twink."
IV,I,ARIEL,"Before you can say 'come' and 'go,'"
IV,I,ARIEL,"And breathe twice and cry 'so, so,'"
IV,I,ARIEL,"Each one, tripping on his toe,"
IV,I,ARIEL,"Will be here with mop and mow."
IV,I,ARIEL,"Do you love me, master? no?"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Dearly my delicate Ariel. Do not approach"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Till thou dost hear me call."
IV,I,ARIEL,"Well, I conceive."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Look thou be true; do not give dalliance"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"To the fire i' the blood: be more abstemious,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Or else, good night your vow!"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"I warrant you sir;"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"The white cold virgin snow upon my heart"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"Abates the ardour of my liver."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Well."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Rather than want a spirit: appear and pertly!"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"No tongue! all eyes! be silent."
IV,I,IRIS,"Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas"
IV,I,IRIS,"Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and pease;"
IV,I,IRIS,"Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,"
IV,I,IRIS,"And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep;"
IV,I,IRIS,"Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,"
IV,I,IRIS,"Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,"
IV,I,IRIS,"To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom -groves,"
IV,I,IRIS,"Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,"
IV,I,IRIS,"Being lass-lorn: thy pole-clipt vineyard;"
IV,I,IRIS,"And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,"
IV,I,IRIS,"Where thou thyself dost air;--the queen o' the sky,"
IV,I,IRIS,"Whose watery arch and messenger am I,"
IV,I,IRIS,"Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,"
IV,I,IRIS,"Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,"
IV,I,IRIS,"To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain:"
IV,I,IRIS,"Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain."
IV,I,CERES,"Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er"
IV,I,CERES,"Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;"
IV,I,CERES,"Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers"
IV,I,CERES,"Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers,"
IV,I,CERES,"And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown"
IV,I,CERES,"My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down,"
IV,I,CERES,"Rich scarf to my proud earth; why hath thy queen"
IV,I,CERES,"Summon'd me hither, to this short-grass'd green?"
IV,I,IRIS,"A contract of true love to celebrate;"
IV,I,IRIS,"And some donation freely to estate"
IV,I,IRIS,"On the blest lovers."
IV,I,CERES,"Tell me, heavenly bow,"
IV,I,CERES,"If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,"
IV,I,CERES,"Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot"
IV,I,CERES,"The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,"
IV,I,CERES,"Her and her blind boy's scandal'd company"
IV,I,CERES,"I have forsworn."
IV,I,IRIS,"Of her society"
IV,I,IRIS,"Be not afraid: I met her deity"
IV,I,IRIS,"Cutting the clouds towards Paphos and her son"
IV,I,IRIS,"Dove-drawn with her. Here thought they to have done"
IV,I,IRIS,"Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,"
IV,I,IRIS,"Whose vows are, that no bed-right shall be paid"
IV,I,IRIS,"Till Hymen's torch be lighted: but vain;"
IV,I,IRIS,"Mars's hot minion is returned again;"
IV,I,IRIS,"Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,"
IV,I,IRIS,"Swears he will shoot no more but play with sparrows"
IV,I,IRIS,"And be a boy right out."
IV,I,CERES,"High'st queen of state,"
IV,I,CERES,"Great Juno, comes; I know her by her gait."
IV,I,JUNO,"How does my bounteous sister? Go with me"
IV,I,JUNO,"To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be"
IV,I,JUNO,"And honour'd in their issue."
IV,I,JUNO,"Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,"
IV,I,JUNO,"Long continuance, and increasing,"
IV,I,JUNO,"Hourly joys be still upon you!"
IV,I,JUNO,"Juno sings her blessings upon you."
IV,I,CERES,"Earth's increase, foison plenty,"
IV,I,CERES,"Barns and garners never empty,"
IV,I,CERES,"Vines and clustering bunches growing,"
IV,I,CERES,"Plants with goodly burthen bowing;"
IV,I,CERES,"Spring come to you at the farthest"
IV,I,CERES,"In the very end of harvest!"
IV,I,CERES,"Scarcity and want shall shun you;"
IV,I,CERES,"Ceres' blessing so is on you."
IV,I,FERDINAND,"This is a most majestic vision, and"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"Harmoniously charmingly. May I be bold"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"To think these spirits?"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Spirits, which by mine art"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"I have from their confines call'd to enact"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"My present fancies."
IV,I,FERDINAND,"Let me live here ever;"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"So rare a wonder'd father and a wife"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"Makes this place Paradise."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Sweet, now, silence!"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Juno and Ceres whisper seriously;"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"There's something else to do: hush, and be mute,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Or else our spell is marr'd."
IV,I,IRIS,"You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the windring brooks,"
IV,I,IRIS,"With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks,"
IV,I,IRIS,"Leave your crisp channels and on this green land"
IV,I,IRIS,"Answer your summons; Juno does command:"
IV,I,IRIS,"Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate"
IV,I,IRIS,"A contract of true love; be not too late."
IV,I,IRIS,"You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary,"
IV,I,IRIS,"Come hither from the furrow and be merry:"
IV,I,IRIS,"Make holiday; your rye-straw hats put on"
IV,I,IRIS,"And these fresh nymphs encounter every one"
IV,I,IRIS,"In country footing."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Of the beast Caliban and his confederates"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Against my life: the minute of their plot"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Is almost come."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Well done! avoid; no more!"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"This is strange: your father's in some passion"
IV,I,FERDINAND,"That works him strongly."
IV,I,MIRANDA,"Never till this day"
IV,I,MIRANDA,"Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"You do look, my son, in a moved sort,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"As I foretold you, were all spirits and"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Are melted into air, into thin air:"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"The solemn temples, the great globe itself,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"As dreams are made on, and our little life"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd;"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled:"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"If you be pleased, retire into my cell"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"To still my beating mind."
IV,I,FERDINAND,"We wish your peace."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Come with a thought I thank thee, Ariel: come."
IV,I,ARIEL,"Thy thoughts I cleave to. What's thy pleasure?"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Spirit,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"We must prepare to meet with Caliban."
IV,I,ARIEL,"Ay, my commander: when I presented Ceres,"
IV,I,ARIEL,"I thought to have told thee of it, but I fear'd"
IV,I,ARIEL,"Lest I might anger thee."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets?"
IV,I,ARIEL,"I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking;"
IV,I,ARIEL,"So fun of valour that they smote the air"
IV,I,ARIEL,"For breathing in their faces; beat the ground"
IV,I,ARIEL,"For kissing of their feet; yet always bending"
IV,I,ARIEL,"Towards their project. Then I beat my tabour;"
IV,I,ARIEL,"At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd"
IV,I,ARIEL,"their ears,"
IV,I,ARIEL,"Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses"
IV,I,ARIEL,"As they smelt music: so I charm'd their ears"
IV,I,ARIEL,"That calf-like they my lowing follow'd through"
IV,I,ARIEL,"Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns,"
IV,I,ARIEL,"Which entered their frail shins: at last I left them"
IV,I,ARIEL,"I' the filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell,"
IV,I,ARIEL,"There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake"
IV,I,ARIEL,"O'erstunk their feet."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"This was well done, my bird."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Thy shape invisible retain thou still:"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"For stale to catch these thieves."
IV,I,ARIEL,"I go, I go."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"A devil, a born devil, on whose nature"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"And as with age his body uglier grows,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"So his mind cankers. I will plague them all,"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Even to roaring."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Come, hang them on this line."
IV,I,CALIBAN,"Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not"
IV,I,CALIBAN,"Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell."
IV,I,STEPHANO,"Monster, your fairy, which you say is"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"a harmless fairy, has done little better than"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"played the Jack with us."
IV,I,TRINCULO,"Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at"
IV,I,TRINCULO,"which my nose is in great indignation."
IV,I,STEPHANO,"So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should take"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"a displeasure against you, look you,--"
IV,I,TRINCULO,"Thou wert but a lost monster."
IV,I,CALIBAN,"Good my lord, give me thy favour still."
IV,I,CALIBAN,"Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to"
IV,I,CALIBAN,"Shall hoodwink this mischance: therefore speak softly."
IV,I,CALIBAN,"All's hush'd as midnight yet."
IV,I,TRINCULO,"Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,--"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that,"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"monster, but an infinite loss."
IV,I,TRINCULO,"That's more to me than my wetting: yet this is your"
IV,I,TRINCULO,"harmless fairy, monster."
IV,I,STEPHANO,"I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"for my labour."
IV,I,CALIBAN,"Prithee, my king, be quiet. Seest thou here,"
IV,I,CALIBAN,"This is the mouth o' the cell: no noise, and enter."
IV,I,CALIBAN,"Do that good mischief which may make this island"
IV,I,CALIBAN,"Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,"
IV,I,CALIBAN,"For aye thy foot-licker."
IV,I,STEPHANO,"Give me thy hand. I do begin to have bloody thoughts."
IV,I,TRINCULO,"O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look"
IV,I,TRINCULO,"what a wardrobe here is for thee!"
IV,I,CALIBAN,"Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash."
IV,I,TRINCULO,"O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery."
IV,I,TRINCULO,"O king Stephano!"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'll have"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"that gown."
IV,I,TRINCULO,"Thy grace shall have it."
IV,I,CALIBAN,"The dropsy drown this fool I what do you mean"
IV,I,CALIBAN,"To dote thus on such luggage? Let's alone"
IV,I,CALIBAN,"And do the murder first: if he awake,"
IV,I,CALIBAN,"From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches,"
IV,I,CALIBAN,"Make us strange stuff."
IV,I,STEPHANO,"Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line,"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"hair and prove a bald jerkin."
IV,I,TRINCULO,"Do, do: we steal by line and level, an't like your grace."
IV,I,STEPHANO,"I thank thee for that jest; here's a garment for't:"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"country. 'Steal by line and level' is an excellent"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"pass of pate; there's another garment for't."
IV,I,TRINCULO,"Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and"
IV,I,TRINCULO,"away with the rest."
IV,I,CALIBAN,"I will have none on't: we shall lose our time,"
IV,I,CALIBAN,"And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes"
IV,I,CALIBAN,"With foreheads villanous low."
IV,I,STEPHANO,"Monster, lay-to your fingers: help to bear this"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"away where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you"
IV,I,STEPHANO,"out of my kingdom: go to, carry this."
IV,I,TRINCULO,"And this."
IV,I,STEPHANO,"Ay, and this."
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Hey, Mountain, hey!"
IV,I,ARIEL,"Silver I there it goes, Silver!"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark! hark!"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Than pard or cat o' mountain."
IV,I,ARIEL,"Hark, they roar!"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Lie at my mercy all mine enemies:"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little"
IV,I,PROSPERO,"Follow, and do me service."
V,I,PROSPERO,"Now does my project gather to a head:"
V,I,PROSPERO,"My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day?"
V,I,ARIEL,"On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord,"
V,I,ARIEL,"You said our work should cease."
V,I,PROSPERO,"I did say so,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"How fares the king and's followers?"
V,I,ARIEL,"Confined together"
V,I,ARIEL,"In the same fashion as you gave in charge,"
V,I,ARIEL,"Just as you left them; all prisoners, sir,"
V,I,ARIEL,"In the line-grove which weather-fends your cell;"
V,I,ARIEL,"They cannot budge till your release. The king,"
V,I,ARIEL,"His brother and yours, abide all three distracted"
V,I,ARIEL,"And the remainder mourning over them,"
V,I,ARIEL,"Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly"
V,I,ARIEL,"Him that you term'd, sir, 'The good old lord Gonzalo;'"
V,I,ARIEL,"His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops"
V,I,ARIEL,"From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works 'em"
V,I,ARIEL,"That if you now beheld them, your affections"
V,I,ARIEL,"Would become tender."
V,I,PROSPERO,"Dost thou think so, spirit?"
V,I,ARIEL,"Mine would, sir, were I human."
V,I,PROSPERO,"And mine shall."
V,I,PROSPERO,"Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Yet with my nobler reason 'gaitist my fury"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Do I take part: the rarer action is"
V,I,PROSPERO,"In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"The sole drift of my purpose doth extend"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel:"
V,I,PROSPERO,"My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And they shall be themselves."
V,I,ARIEL,"I'll fetch them, sir."
V,I,PROSPERO,"Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And ye that on the sands with printless foot"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him"
V,I,PROSPERO,"When he comes back; you demi-puppets that"
V,I,PROSPERO,"By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice"
V,I,PROSPERO,"To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd"
V,I,PROSPERO,"The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak"
V,I,PROSPERO,"With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up"
V,I,PROSPERO,"The pine and cedar: graves at my command"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth"
V,I,PROSPERO,"By my so potent art. But this rough magic"
V,I,PROSPERO,"I here abjure, and, when I have required"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Some heavenly music, which even now I do,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"To work mine end upon their senses that"
V,I,PROSPERO,"This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And deeper than did ever plummet sound"
V,I,PROSPERO,"I'll drown my book."
V,I,PROSPERO,"A solemn air and the best comforter"
V,I,PROSPERO,"To an unsettled fancy cure thy brains,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"For you are spell-stopp'd."
V,I,PROSPERO,"Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves apace,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And as the morning steals upon the night,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Melting the darkness, so their rising senses"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Their clearer reason. O good Gonzalo,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"My true preserver, and a loyal sir"
V,I,PROSPERO,"To him you follow'st! I will pay thy graces"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Home both in word and deed. Most cruelly"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Thy brother was a furtherer in the act."
V,I,PROSPERO,"Thou art pinch'd fort now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Begins to swell, and the approaching tide"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Will shortly fill the reasonable shore"
V,I,PROSPERO,"That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them"
V,I,PROSPERO,"That yet looks on me, or would know me Ariel,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell:"
V,I,PROSPERO,"I will discase me, and myself present"
V,I,PROSPERO,"As I was sometime Milan: quickly, spirit;"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Thou shalt ere long be free."
V,I,PROSPERO,"Where the bee sucks. there suck I:"
V,I,PROSPERO,"In a cowslip's bell I lie;"
V,I,PROSPERO,"There I couch when owls do cry."
V,I,PROSPERO,"On the bat's back I do fly"
V,I,PROSPERO,"After summer merrily."
V,I,PROSPERO,"Merrily, merrily shall I live now"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Under the blossom that hangs on the bough."
V,I,PROSPERO,"Why, that's my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee:"
V,I,PROSPERO,"But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so."
V,I,PROSPERO,"To the king's ship, invisible as thou art:"
V,I,PROSPERO,"There shalt thou find the mariners asleep"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Being awake, enforce them to this place,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And presently, I prithee."
V,I,ARIEL,"I drink the air before me, and return"
V,I,ARIEL,"Or ere your pulse twice beat."
V,I,GONZALO,"All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement"
V,I,GONZALO,"Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us"
V,I,GONZALO,"Out of this fearful country!"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Behold, sir king,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero:"
V,I,PROSPERO,"For more assurance that a living prince"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And to thee and thy company I bid"
V,I,PROSPERO,"A hearty welcome."
V,I,ALONSO,"Whether thou best he or no,"
V,I,ALONSO,"Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me,"
V,I,ALONSO,"As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse"
V,I,ALONSO,"Beats as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee,"
V,I,ALONSO,"The affliction of my mind amends, with which,"
V,I,ALONSO,"I fear, a madness held me: this must crave,"
V,I,ALONSO,"An if this be at all, a most strange story."
V,I,ALONSO,"Thy dukedom I resign and do entreat"
V,I,ALONSO,"Thou pardon me my wrongs. But how should Prospero"
V,I,ALONSO,"Be living and be here?"
V,I,PROSPERO,"First, noble friend,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Be measured or confined."
V,I,GONZALO,"Whether this be"
V,I,GONZALO,"Or be not, I'll not swear."
V,I,PROSPERO,"You do yet taste"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Some subtilties o' the isle, that will not let you"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Believe things certain. Welcome, my friends all!"
V,I,PROSPERO,"But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And justify you traitors: at this time"
V,I,PROSPERO,"I will tell no tales."
V,I,PROSPERO,"No."
V,I,PROSPERO,"For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require"
V,I,PROSPERO,"My dukedom of thee, which perforce, I know,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Thou must restore."
V,I,ALONSO,"If thou be'st Prospero,"
V,I,ALONSO,"Give us particulars of thy preservation;"
V,I,ALONSO,"How thou hast met us here, who three hours since"
V,I,ALONSO,"Were wreck'd upon this shore; where I have lost--"
V,I,ALONSO,"How sharp the point of this remembrance is!--"
V,I,ALONSO,"My dear son Ferdinand."
V,I,PROSPERO,"I am woe for't, sir."
V,I,ALONSO,"Irreparable is the loss, and patience"
V,I,ALONSO,"Says it is past her cure."
V,I,PROSPERO,"I rather think"
V,I,PROSPERO,"You have not sought her help, of whose soft grace"
V,I,PROSPERO,"For the like loss I have her sovereign aid"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And rest myself content."
V,I,ALONSO,"You the like loss!"
V,I,PROSPERO,"As great to me as late; and, supportable"
V,I,PROSPERO,"To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Than you may call to comfort you, for I"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Have lost my daughter."
V,I,ALONSO,"A daughter?"
V,I,ALONSO,"O heavens, that they were living both in Naples,"
V,I,ALONSO,"The king and queen there! that they were, I wish"
V,I,ALONSO,"Myself were mudded in that oozy bed"
V,I,ALONSO,"Where my son lies. When did you lose your daughter?"
V,I,PROSPERO,"In this last tempest. I perceive these lords"
V,I,PROSPERO,"At this encounter do so much admire"
V,I,PROSPERO,"That they devour their reason and scarce think"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Their eyes do offices of truth, their words"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Are natural breath: but, howsoe'er you have"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Been justled from your senses, know for certain"
V,I,PROSPERO,"That I am Prospero and that very duke"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Which was thrust forth of Milan, who most strangely"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was landed,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"To be the lord on't. No more yet of this;"
V,I,PROSPERO,"For 'tis a chronicle of day by day,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Not a relation for a breakfast nor"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir;"
V,I,PROSPERO,"This cell's my court: here have I few attendants"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And subjects none abroad: pray you, look in."
V,I,PROSPERO,"My dukedom since you have given me again,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"I will requite you with as good a thing;"
V,I,PROSPERO,"At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye"
V,I,PROSPERO,"As much as me my dukedom."
V,I,MIRANDA,"Sweet lord, you play me false."
V,I,FERDINAND,"No, my dear'st love,"
V,I,FERDINAND,"I would not for the world."
V,I,MIRANDA,"Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,"
V,I,MIRANDA,"And I would call it, fair play."
V,I,ALONSO,"If this prove"
V,I,ALONSO,"A vision of the Island, one dear son"
V,I,ALONSO,"Shall I twice lose."
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"A most high miracle!"
V,I,FERDINAND,"Though the seas threaten, they are merciful;"
V,I,FERDINAND,"I have cursed them without cause."
V,I,ALONSO,"Now all the blessings"
V,I,ALONSO,"Of a glad father compass thee about!"
V,I,ALONSO,"Arise, and say how thou camest here."
V,I,MIRANDA,"O, wonder!"
V,I,MIRANDA,"How many goodly creatures are there here!"
V,I,MIRANDA,"How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,"
V,I,MIRANDA,"That has such people in't!"
V,I,PROSPERO,"'Tis new to thee."
V,I,ALONSO,"What is this maid with whom thou wast at play?"
V,I,ALONSO,"Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours:"
V,I,ALONSO,"Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us,"
V,I,ALONSO,"And brought us thus together?"
V,I,FERDINAND,"Sir, she is mortal;"
V,I,FERDINAND,"But by immortal Providence she's mine:"
V,I,FERDINAND,"I chose her when I could not ask my father"
V,I,FERDINAND,"For his advice, nor thought I had one. She"
V,I,FERDINAND,"Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,"
V,I,FERDINAND,"Of whom so often I have heard renown,"
V,I,FERDINAND,"But never saw before; of whom I have"
V,I,FERDINAND,"Received a second life; and second father"
V,I,FERDINAND,"This lady makes him to me."
V,I,ALONSO,"I am hers:"
V,I,ALONSO,"But, O, how oddly will it sound that I"
V,I,ALONSO,"Must ask my child forgiveness!"
V,I,PROSPERO,"There, sir, stop:"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Let us not burthen our remembrance with"
V,I,PROSPERO,"A heaviness that's gone."
V,I,GONZALO,"I have inly wept,"
V,I,GONZALO,"Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you god,"
V,I,GONZALO,"And on this couple drop a blessed crown!"
V,I,GONZALO,"For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way"
V,I,GONZALO,"Which brought us hither."
V,I,ALONSO,"I say, Amen, Gonzalo!"
V,I,GONZALO,"Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue"
V,I,GONZALO,"Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice"
V,I,GONZALO,"Beyond a common joy, and set it down"
V,I,GONZALO,"With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage"
V,I,GONZALO,"Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,"
V,I,GONZALO,"And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife"
V,I,GONZALO,"Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom"
V,I,GONZALO,"In a poor isle and all of us ourselves"
V,I,GONZALO,"When no man was his own."
V,I,ALONSO,"Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart"
V,I,ALONSO,"That doth not wish you joy!"
V,I,GONZALO,"Be it so! Amen!"
V,I,GONZALO,"O, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us:"
V,I,GONZALO,"I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,"
V,I,GONZALO,"This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,"
V,I,GONZALO,"That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore?"
V,I,GONZALO,"Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?"
V,I,Boatswain,"The best news is, that we have safely found"
V,I,Boatswain,"Our king and company; the next, our ship--"
V,I,Boatswain,"Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split--"
V,I,Boatswain,"Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when"
V,I,Boatswain,"We first put out to sea."
V,I,ARIEL,"Have I done since I went."
V,I,ALONSO,"These are not natural events; they strengthen"
V,I,ALONSO,"From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither?"
V,I,Boatswain,"If I did think, sir, I were well awake,"
V,I,Boatswain,"I'ld strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep,"
V,I,Boatswain,"And--how we know not--all clapp'd under hatches;"
V,I,Boatswain,"Where but even now with strange and several noises"
V,I,Boatswain,"Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,"
V,I,Boatswain,"And more diversity of sounds, all horrible,"
V,I,Boatswain,"We were awaked; straightway, at liberty;"
V,I,Boatswain,"Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld"
V,I,Boatswain,"Our royal, good and gallant ship, our master"
V,I,Boatswain,"Capering to eye her: on a trice, so please you,"
V,I,Boatswain,"Even in a dream, were we divided from them"
V,I,Boatswain,"And were brought moping hither."
V,I,ALONSO,"This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod"
V,I,ALONSO,"And there is in this business more than nature"
V,I,ALONSO,"Was ever conduct of: some oracle"
V,I,ALONSO,"Must rectify our knowledge."
V,I,PROSPERO,"Sir, my liege,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Do not infest your mind with beating on"
V,I,PROSPERO,"The strangeness of this business; at pick'd leisure"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Which to you shall seem probable, of every"
V,I,PROSPERO,"These happen'd accidents; till when, be cheerful"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And think of each thing well."
V,I,PROSPERO,"Come hither, spirit:"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Set Caliban and his companions free;"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Untie the spell."
V,I,PROSPERO,"How fares my gracious sir?"
V,I,PROSPERO,"There are yet missing of your company"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Some few odd lads that you remember not."
V,I,STEPHANO,"Every man shift for all the rest, and"
V,I,STEPHANO,"let no man take care for himself; for all is"
V,I,STEPHANO,"but fortune. Coragio, bully-monster, coragio!"
V,I,TRINCULO,"If these be true spies which I wear in my head,"
V,I,TRINCULO,"here's a goodly sight."
V,I,CALIBAN,"O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!"
V,I,CALIBAN,"How fine my master is! I am afraid"
V,I,CALIBAN,"He will chastise me."
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Ha, ha!"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"What things are these, my lord Antonio?"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Will money buy 'em?"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Very like; one of them"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable."
V,I,PROSPERO,"Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Then say if they be true. This mis-shapen knave,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"His mother was a witch, and one so strong"
V,I,PROSPERO,"That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And deal in her command without her power."
V,I,PROSPERO,"These three have robb'd me; and this demi-devil--"
V,I,PROSPERO,"For he's a bastard one--had plotted with them"
V,I,PROSPERO,"To take my life. Two of these fellows you"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Must know and own; this thing of darkness!"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Acknowledge mine."
V,I,CALIBAN,"I shall be pinch'd to death."
V,I,ALONSO,"Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"He is drunk now: where had he wine?"
V,I,ALONSO,"And Trinculo is reeling ripe: where should they"
V,I,ALONSO,"Find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em?"
V,I,ALONSO,"How camest thou in this pickle?"
V,I,TRINCULO,"I have been in such a pickle since I"
V,I,TRINCULO,"saw you last that, I fear me, will never out of"
V,I,TRINCULO,"my bones: I shall not fear fly-blowing."
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Why, how now, Stephano!"
V,I,STEPHANO,"O, touch me not; I am not Stephano, but a cramp."
V,I,PROSPERO,"You'ld be king o' the isle, sirrah?"
V,I,STEPHANO,"I should have been a sore one then."
V,I,ALONSO,"This is a strange thing as e'er I look'd on."
V,I,PROSPERO,"He is as disproportion'd in his manners"
V,I,PROSPERO,"As in his shape. Go, sirrah, to my cell;"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Take with you your companions; as you look"
V,I,PROSPERO,"To have my pardon, trim it handsomely."
V,I,CALIBAN,"Ay, that I will; and I'll be wise hereafter"
V,I,CALIBAN,"And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass"
V,I,CALIBAN,"Was I, to take this drunkard for a god"
V,I,CALIBAN,"And worship this dull fool!"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Go to; away!"
V,I,ALONSO,"Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it."
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Or stole it, rather."
V,I,PROSPERO,"Sir, I invite your highness and your train"
V,I,PROSPERO,"To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest"
V,I,PROSPERO,"For this one night; which, part of it, I'll waste"
V,I,PROSPERO,"With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Go quick away; the story of my life"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And the particular accidents gone by"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Since I came to this isle: and in the morn"
V,I,PROSPERO,"I'll bring you to your ship and so to Naples,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Where I have hope to see the nuptial"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Of these our dear-beloved solemnized;"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And thence retire me to my Milan, where"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Every third thought shall be my grave."
V,I,ALONSO,"I long"
V,I,ALONSO,"To hear the story of your life, which must"
V,I,ALONSO,"Take the ear strangely."
V,I,PROSPERO,"I'll deliver all;"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales"
V,I,PROSPERO,"And sail so expeditious that shall catch"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Your royal fleet far off."
V,I,PROSPERO,"My Ariel, chick,"
V,I,PROSPERO,"That is thy charge: then to the elements"
V,I,PROSPERO,"Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near."
I,I,Poet,"Good day, sir."
I,I,Painter,"I am glad you're well."
I,I,Poet,"I have not seen you long: how goes the world?"
I,I,Painter,"It wears, sir, as it grows."
I,I,Poet,"Ay, that's well known:"
I,I,Poet,"But what particular rarity? what strange,"
I,I,Poet,"Which manifold record not matches? See,"
I,I,Poet,"Magic of bounty! all these spirits thy power"
I,I,Poet,"Hath conjured to attend. I know the merchant."
I,I,Painter,"I know them both; th' other's a jeweller."
I,I,Merchant,"O, 'tis a worthy lord."
I,I,Jeweller,"Nay, that's most fix'd."
I,I,Merchant,"A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were,"
I,I,Merchant,"To an untirable and continuate goodness:"
I,I,Merchant,"He passes."
I,I,Jeweller:,"I have a jewel here--"
I,I,Merchant,"O, pray, let's see't: for the Lord Timon, sir?"
I,I,Jeweller:,"If he will touch the estimate: but, for that--"
I,I,Poet,"praised the vile,"
I,I,Poet,"It stains the glory in that happy verse"
I,I,Poet,"Which aptly sings the good.'"
I,I,Merchant,"'Tis a good form."
I,I,Jeweller,"And rich: here is a water, look ye."
I,I,Painter,"You are rapt, sir, in some work, some dedication"
I,I,Painter,"To the great lord."
I,I,Poet,"A thing slipp'd idly from me."
I,I,Poet,"Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes"
I,I,Poet,"From whence 'tis nourish'd: the fire i' the flint"
I,I,Poet,"Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame"
I,I,Poet,"Provokes itself and like the current flies"
I,I,Poet,"Each bound it chafes. What have you there?"
I,I,Painter,"A picture, sir. When comes your book forth?"
I,I,Poet,"Upon the heels of my presentment, sir."
I,I,Poet,"Let's see your piece."
I,I,Painter,"'Tis a good piece."
I,I,Poet,"So 'tis: this comes off well and excellent."
I,I,Painter,"Indifferent."
I,I,Poet,"Admirable: how this grace"
I,I,Poet,"Speaks his own standing! what a mental power"
I,I,Poet,"This eye shoots forth! how big imagination"
I,I,Poet,"Moves in this lip! to the dumbness of the gesture"
I,I,Poet,"One might interpret."
I,I,Painter,"It is a pretty mocking of the life."
I,I,Painter,"Here is a touch; is't good?"
I,I,Poet,"I will say of it,"
I,I,Poet,"It tutors nature: artificial strife"
I,I,Poet,"Lives in these touches, livelier than life."
I,I,Painter,"How this lord is follow'd!"
I,I,Poet,"The senators of Athens: happy man!"
I,I,Painter,"Look, more!"
I,I,Poet,"You see this confluence, this great flood"
I,I,Poet,"of visitors."
I,I,Poet,"I have, in this rough work, shaped out a man,"
I,I,Poet,"Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug"
I,I,Poet,"With amplest entertainment: my free drift"
I,I,Poet,"Halts not particularly, but moves itself"
I,I,Poet,"In a wide sea of wax: no levell'd malice"
I,I,Poet,"Infects one comma in the course I hold;"
I,I,Poet,"But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,"
I,I,Poet,"Leaving no tract behind."
I,I,Painter,"How shall I understand you?"
I,I,Poet,"I will unbolt to you."
I,I,Poet,"You see how all conditions, how all minds,"
I,I,Poet,"As well of glib and slippery creatures as"
I,I,Poet,"Of grave and austere quality, tender down"
I,I,Poet,"Their services to Lord Timon: his large fortune"
I,I,Poet,"Upon his good and gracious nature hanging"
I,I,Poet,"Subdues and properties to his love and tendance"
I,I,Poet,"All sorts of hearts; yea, from the glass-faced flatterer"
I,I,Poet,"To Apemantus, that few things loves better"
I,I,Poet,"Than to abhor himself: even he drops down"
I,I,Poet,"The knee before him, and returns in peace"
I,I,Poet,"Most rich in Timon's nod."
I,I,Painter,"I saw them speak together."
I,I,Poet,"Sir, I have upon a high and pleasant hill"
I,I,Poet,"Feign'd Fortune to be throned: the base o' the mount"
I,I,Poet,"Is rank'd with all deserts, all kind of natures,"
I,I,Poet,"That labour on the bosom of this sphere"
I,I,Poet,"To propagate their states: amongst them all,"
I,I,Poet,"Whose eyes are on this sovereign lady fix'd,"
I,I,Poet,"One do I personate of Lord Timon's frame,"
I,I,Poet,"Whom Fortune with her ivory hand wafts to her;"
I,I,Poet,"Whose present grace to present slaves and servants"
I,I,Poet,"Translates his rivals."
I,I,Painter,"'Tis conceived to scope."
I,I,Painter,"This throne, this Fortune, and this hill, methinks,"
I,I,Painter,"With one man beckon'd from the rest below,"
I,I,Painter,"Bowing his head against the sleepy mount"
I,I,Painter,"To climb his happiness, would be well express'd"
I,I,Painter,"In our condition."
I,I,Poet,"Nay, sir, but hear me on."
I,I,Poet,"All those which were his fellows but of late,"
I,I,Poet,"Some better than his value, on the moment"
I,I,Poet,"Follow his strides, his lobbies fill with tendance,"
I,I,Poet,"Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear,"
I,I,Poet,"Make sacred even his stirrup, and through him"
I,I,Poet,"Drink the free air."
I,I,Painter,"Ay, marry, what of these?"
I,I,Poet,"When Fortune in her shift and change of mood"
I,I,Poet,"Spurns down her late beloved, all his dependants"
I,I,Poet,"Which labour'd after him to the mountain's top"
I,I,Poet,"Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down,"
I,I,Poet,"Not one accompanying his declining foot."
I,I,Painter,"'Tis common:"
I,I,Painter,"A thousand moral paintings I can show"
I,I,Painter,"That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's"
I,I,Painter,"More pregnantly than words. Yet you do well"
I,I,Painter,"To show Lord Timon that mean eyes have seen"
I,I,Painter,"The foot above the head."
I,I,TIMON,"Imprison'd is he, say you?"
I,I,Messenger,"Ay, my good lord: five talents is his debt,"
I,I,Messenger,"His means most short, his creditors most strait:"
I,I,Messenger,"Your honourable letter he desires"
I,I,Messenger,"To those have shut him up; which failing,"
I,I,Messenger,"Periods his comfort."
I,I,TIMON,"Noble Ventidius! Well;"
I,I,TIMON,"I am not of that feather to shake off"
I,I,TIMON,"My friend when he must need me. I do know him"
I,I,TIMON,"A gentleman that well deserves a help:"
I,I,TIMON,"Which he shall have: I'll pay the debt,"
I,I,TIMON,"and free him."
I,I,Messenger,"Your lordship ever binds him."
I,I,TIMON,"Commend me to him: I will send his ransom;"
I,I,TIMON,"And being enfranchised, bid him come to me."
I,I,TIMON,"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,"
I,I,TIMON,"But to support him after. Fare you well."
I,I,Messenger,"All happiness to your honour!"
I,I,Old Athenian,"Lord Timon, hear me speak."
I,I,TIMON,"Freely, good father."
I,I,Old Athenian,"Thou hast a servant named Lucilius."
I,I,TIMON,"I have so: what of him?"
I,I,Old Athenian,"Most noble Timon, call the man before thee."
I,I,TIMON,"Attends he here, or no? Lucilius!"
I,I,LUCILIUS,"Here, at your lordship's service."
I,I,Old Athenian,"This fellow here, Lord Timon, this thy creature,"
I,I,Old Athenian,"By night frequents my house. I am a man"
I,I,Old Athenian,"That from my first have been inclined to thrift;"
I,I,Old Athenian,"And my estate deserves an heir more raised"
I,I,Old Athenian,"Than one which holds a trencher."
I,I,TIMON,"Well; what further?"
I,I,Old Athenian,"One only daughter have I, no kin else,"
I,I,Old Athenian,"On whom I may confer what I have got:"
I,I,Old Athenian,"The maid is fair, o' the youngest for a bride,"
I,I,Old Athenian,"And I have bred her at my dearest cost"
I,I,Old Athenian,"In qualities of the best. This man of thine"
I,I,Old Athenian,"Attempts her love: I prithee, noble lord,"
I,I,Old Athenian,"Join with me to forbid him her resort;"
I,I,Old Athenian,"Myself have spoke in vain."
I,I,TIMON,"The man is honest."
I,I,Old Athenian,"Therefore he will be, Timon:"
I,I,Old Athenian,"His honesty rewards him in itself;"
I,I,Old Athenian,"It must not bear my daughter."
I,I,TIMON,"Does she love him?"
I,I,Old Athenian,"She is young and apt:"
I,I,Old Athenian,"Our own precedent passions do instruct us"
I,I,Old Athenian,"What levity's in youth."
I,I,LUCILIUS,"Ay, my good lord, and she accepts of it."
I,I,Old Athenian,"If in her marriage my consent be missing,"
I,I,Old Athenian,"I call the gods to witness, I will choose"
I,I,Old Athenian,"Mine heir from forth the beggars of the world,"
I,I,Old Athenian,"And dispossess her all."
I,I,TIMON,"How shall she be endow'd,"
I,I,TIMON,"if she be mated with an equal husband?"
I,I,Old Athenian,"Three talents on the present; in future, all."
I,I,TIMON,"This gentleman of mine hath served me long:"
I,I,TIMON,"To build his fortune I will strain a little,"
I,I,TIMON,"For 'tis a bond in men. Give him thy daughter:"
I,I,TIMON,"What you bestow, in him I'll counterpoise,"
I,I,TIMON,"And make him weigh with her."
I,I,Old Athenian,"Most noble lord,"
I,I,Old Athenian,"Pawn me to this your honour, she is his."
I,I,TIMON,"My hand to thee; mine honour on my promise."
I,I,LUCILIUS,"Humbly I thank your lordship: never may"
I,I,LUCILIUS,"The state or fortune fall into my keeping,"
I,I,LUCILIUS,"Which is not owed to you!"
I,I,Poet,"Vouchsafe my labour, and long live your lordship!"
I,I,TIMON,"I thank you; you shall hear from me anon:"
I,I,TIMON,"Go not away. What have you there, my friend?"
I,I,Painter,"A piece of painting, which I do beseech"
I,I,Painter,"Your lordship to accept."
I,I,TIMON,"Painting is welcome."
I,I,TIMON,"The painting is almost the natural man;"
I,I,TIMON,"or since dishonour traffics with man's nature,"
I,I,TIMON,"He is but outside: these pencill'd figures are"
I,I,TIMON,"Even such as they give out. I like your work;"
I,I,TIMON,"And you shall find I like it: wait attendance"
I,I,TIMON,"Till you hear further from me."
I,I,Painter,"The gods preserve ye!"
I,I,TIMON,"Well fare you, gentleman: give me your hand;"
I,I,TIMON,"We must needs dine together. Sir, your jewel"
I,I,TIMON,"Hath suffer'd under praise."
I,I,Jeweller,"What, my lord! dispraise?"
I,I,TIMON,"A more satiety of commendations."
I,I,TIMON,"If I should pay you for't as 'tis extoll'd,"
I,I,TIMON,"It would unclew me quite."
I,I,Jeweller,"My lord, 'tis rated"
I,I,Jeweller,"As those which sell would give: but you well know,"
I,I,Jeweller,"Things of like value differing in the owners"
I,I,Jeweller,"Are prized by their masters: believe't, dear lord,"
I,I,Jeweller,"You mend the jewel by the wearing it."
I,I,TIMON,"Well mock'd."
I,I,Merchant,"No, my good lord; he speaks the common tongue,"
I,I,Merchant,"Which all men speak with him."
I,I,TIMON,"Look, who comes here: will you be chid?"
I,I,Jeweller,"We'll bear, with your lordship."
I,I,Merchant,"He'll spare none."
I,I,TIMON,"Good morrow to thee, gentle Apemantus!"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Till I be gentle, stay thou for thy good morrow;"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"When thou art Timon's dog, and these knaves honest."
I,I,TIMON,"Why dost thou call them knaves? thou know'st them not."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Are they not Athenians?"
I,I,TIMON,"Yes."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Then I repent not."
I,I,Jeweller,"You know me, Apemantus?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Thou know'st I do: I call'd thee by thy name."
I,I,TIMON,"Thou art proud, Apemantus."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Of nothing so much as that I am not like Timon."
I,I,TIMON,"Whither art going?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"To knock out an honest Athenian's brains."
I,I,TIMON,"That's a deed thou'lt die for."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Right, if doing nothing be death by the law."
I,I,TIMON,"How likest thou this picture, Apemantus?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"The best, for the innocence."
I,I,TIMON,"Wrought he not well that painted it?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"He wrought better that made the painter; and yet"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"he's but a filthy piece of work."
I,I,Painter,"You're a dog."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Thy mother's of my generation: what's she, if I be a dog?"
I,I,TIMON,"Wilt dine with me, Apemantus?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"No; I eat not lords."
I,I,TIMON,"An thou shouldst, thou 'ldst anger ladies."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"O, they eat lords; so they come by great bellies."
I,I,TIMON,"That's a lascivious apprehension."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"So thou apprehendest it: take it for thy labour."
I,I,TIMON,"How dost thou like this jewel, Apemantus?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Not so well as plain-dealing, which will not cost a"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"man a doit."
I,I,TIMON,"What dost thou think 'tis worth?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Not worth my thinking. How now, poet!"
I,I,Poet,"How now, philosopher!"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Thou liest."
I,I,Poet,"Art not one?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Yes."
I,I,Poet,"Then I lie not."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Art not a poet?"
I,I,Poet,"Yes."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Then thou liest: look in thy last work, where thou"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"hast feigned him a worthy fellow."
I,I,Poet,"That's not feigned; he is so."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Yes, he is worthy of thee, and to pay thee for thy"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"labour: he that loves to be flattered is worthy o'"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"the flatterer. Heavens, that I were a lord!"
I,I,TIMON,"What wouldst do then, Apemantus?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"E'en as Apemantus does now; hate a lord with my heart."
I,I,TIMON,"What, thyself?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Ay."
I,I,TIMON,"Wherefore?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"That I had no angry wit to be a lord."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Art not thou a merchant?"
I,I,Merchant,"Ay, Apemantus."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Traffic confound thee, if the gods will not!"
I,I,Merchant,"If traffic do it, the gods do it."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Traffic's thy god; and thy god confound thee!"
I,I,TIMON,"What trumpet's that?"
I,I,Messenger,"'Tis Alcibiades, and some twenty horse,"
I,I,Messenger,"All of companionship."
I,I,TIMON,"Pray, entertain them; give them guide to us."
I,I,TIMON,"You must needs dine with me: go not you hence"
I,I,TIMON,"Till I have thank'd you: when dinner's done,"
I,I,TIMON,"Show me this piece. I am joyful of your sights."
I,I,TIMON,"Most welcome, sir!"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"So, so, there!"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Aches contract and starve your supple joints!"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"That there should be small love 'mongst these"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"sweet knaves,"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"And all this courtesy! The strain of man's bred out"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Into baboon and monkey."
I,I,ALCIBIADES,"Sir, you have saved my longing, and I feed"
I,I,ALCIBIADES,"Most hungerly on your sight."
I,I,TIMON,"Right welcome, sir!"
I,I,TIMON,"Ere we depart, we'll share a bounteous time"
I,I,TIMON,"In different pleasures. Pray you, let us in."
I,I,First Lord,"What time o' day is't, Apemantus?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Time to be honest."
I,I,First Lord,"That time serves still."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"The more accursed thou, that still omitt'st it."
I,I,Second Lord,"Thou art going to Lord Timon's feast?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Ay, to see meat fill knaves and wine heat fools."
I,I,Second Lord,"Fare thee well, fare thee well."
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Thou art a fool to bid me farewell twice."
I,I,Second Lord,"Why, Apemantus?"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"Shouldst have kept one to thyself, for I mean to"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"give thee none."
I,I,First Lord,"Hang thyself!"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"No, I will do nothing at thy bidding: make thy"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"requests to thy friend."
I,I,Second Lord,"Away, unpeaceable dog, or I'll spurn thee hence!"
I,I,APEMANTUS,"I will fly, like a dog, the heels o' the ass."
I,I,First Lord,"He's opposite to humanity. Come, shall we in,"
I,I,First Lord,"And taste Lord Timon's bounty? he outgoes"
I,I,First Lord,"The very heart of kindness."
I,I,Second Lord,"He pours it out; Plutus, the god of gold,"
I,I,Second Lord,"Is but his steward: no meed, but he repays"
I,I,Second Lord,"Sevenfold above itself; no gift to him,"
I,I,Second Lord,"But breeds the giver a return exceeding"
I,I,Second Lord,"All use of quittance."
I,I,First Lord,"The noblest mind he carries"
I,I,First Lord,"That ever govern'd man."
I,I,Second Lord,"Long may he live in fortunes! Shall we in?"
I,I,First Lord,"I'll keep you company."
I,II,VENTIDIUS,"Most honour'd Timon,"
I,II,VENTIDIUS,"It hath pleased the gods to remember my father's age,"
I,II,VENTIDIUS,"And call him to long peace."
I,II,VENTIDIUS,"He is gone happy, and has left me rich:"
I,II,VENTIDIUS,"Then, as in grateful virtue I am bound"
I,II,VENTIDIUS,"To your free heart, I do return those talents,"
I,II,VENTIDIUS,"Doubled with thanks and service, from whose help"
I,II,VENTIDIUS,"I derived liberty."
I,II,TIMON,"O, by no means,"
I,II,TIMON,"Honest Ventidius; you mistake my love:"
I,II,TIMON,"I gave it freely ever; and there's none"
I,II,TIMON,"Can truly say he gives, if he receives:"
I,II,TIMON,"If our betters play at that game, we must not dare"
I,II,TIMON,"To imitate them; faults that are rich are fair."
I,II,VENTIDIUS,"A noble spirit!"
I,II,TIMON,"Nay, my lords,"
I,II,TIMON,"Ceremony was but devised at first"
I,II,TIMON,"To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,"
I,II,TIMON,"Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;"
I,II,TIMON,"But where there is true friendship, there needs none."
I,II,TIMON,"Pray, sit; more welcome are ye to my fortunes"
I,II,TIMON,"Than my fortunes to me."
I,II,First Lord,"My lord, we always have confess'd it."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Ho, ho, confess'd it! hang'd it, have you not?"
I,II,TIMON,"O, Apemantus, you are welcome."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"No;"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"You shall not make me welcome:"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"I come to have thee thrust me out of doors."
I,II,TIMON,"Fie, thou'rt a churl; ye've got a humour there"
I,II,TIMON,"Does not become a man: 'tis much to blame."
I,II,TIMON,"They say, my lords, 'ira furor brevis est;' but yond"
I,II,TIMON,"man is ever angry. Go, let him have a table by"
I,II,TIMON,"himself, for he does neither affect company, nor is"
I,II,TIMON,"he fit for't, indeed."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Let me stay at thine apperil, Timon: I come to"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"observe; I give thee warning on't."
I,II,TIMON,"I take no heed of thee; thou'rt an Athenian,"
I,II,TIMON,"therefore welcome: I myself would have no power;"
I,II,TIMON,"prithee, let my meat make thee silent."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"I scorn thy meat; 'twould choke me, for I should"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"ne'er flatter thee. O you gods, what a number of"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"men eat Timon, and he sees 'em not! It grieves me"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"to see so many dip their meat in one man's blood;"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"and all the madness is, he cheers them up too."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"I wonder men dare trust themselves with men:"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Methinks they should invite them without knives;"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Good for their meat, and safer for their lives."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"There's much example for't; the fellow that sits"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"next him now, parts bread with him, pledges the"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"breath of him in a divided draught, is the readiest"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"man to kill him: 't has been proved. If I were a"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"huge man, I should fear to drink at meals;"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Lest they should spy my windpipe's dangerous notes:"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Great men should drink with harness on their throats."
I,II,TIMON,"My lord, in heart; and let the health go round."
I,II,Second Lord,"Let it flow this way, my good lord."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Flow this way! A brave fellow! he keeps his tides"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"well. Those healths will make thee and thy state"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"look ill, Timon. Here's that which is too weak to"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire:"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"This and my food are equals; there's no odds:"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Feasts are too proud to give thanks to the gods."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Apemantus' grace."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Immortal gods, I crave no pelf;"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"I pray for no man but myself:"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Grant I may never prove so fond,"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"To trust man on his oath or bond;"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Or a harlot, for her weeping;"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Or a dog, that seems a-sleeping:"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Or a keeper with my freedom;"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Or my friends, if I should need 'em."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Amen. So fall to't:"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Rich men sin, and I eat root."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Much good dich thy good heart, Apemantus!"
I,II,TIMON,"Captain Alcibiades, your heart's in the field now."
I,II,ALCIBIADES,"My heart is ever at your service, my lord."
I,II,TIMON,"You had rather be at a breakfast of enemies than a"
I,II,TIMON,"dinner of friends."
I,II,ALCIBIADES,"So the were bleeding-new, my lord, there's no meat"
I,II,ALCIBIADES,"like 'em: I could wish my best friend at such a feast."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Would all those fatterers were thine enemies then,"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"that then thou mightst kill 'em and bid me to 'em!"
I,II,First Lord,"Might we but have that happiness, my lord, that you"
I,II,First Lord,"would once use our hearts, whereby we might express"
I,II,First Lord,"some part of our zeals, we should think ourselves"
I,II,First Lord,"for ever perfect."
I,II,TIMON,"O, no doubt, my good friends, but the gods"
I,II,TIMON,"themselves have provided that I shall have much help"
I,II,TIMON,"from you: how had you been my friends else? why"
I,II,TIMON,"have you that charitable title from thousands, did"
I,II,TIMON,"not you chiefly belong to my heart? I have told"
I,II,TIMON,"more of you to myself than you can with modesty"
I,II,TIMON,"speak in your own behalf; and thus far I confirm"
I,II,TIMON,"you. O you gods, think I, what need we have any"
I,II,TIMON,"friends, if we should ne'er have need of 'em? they"
I,II,TIMON,"were the most needless creatures living, should we"
I,II,TIMON,"ne'er have use for 'em, and would most resemble"
I,II,TIMON,"sweet instruments hung up in cases that keep their"
I,II,TIMON,"sounds to themselves. Why, I have often wished"
I,II,TIMON,"myself poorer, that I might come nearer to you. We"
I,II,TIMON,"are born to do benefits: and what better or"
I,II,TIMON,"properer can we can our own than the riches of our"
I,II,TIMON,"friends? O, what a precious comfort 'tis, to have"
I,II,TIMON,"so many, like brothers, commanding one another's"
I,II,TIMON,"fortunes! O joy, e'en made away ere 't can be born!"
I,II,TIMON,"Mine eyes cannot hold out water, methinks: to"
I,II,TIMON,"forget their faults, I drink to you."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Thou weepest to make them drink, Timon."
I,II,Second Lord,"Joy had the like conception in our eyes"
I,II,Second Lord,"And at that instant like a babe sprung up."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Ho, ho! I laugh to think that babe a bastard."
I,II,Third Lord,"I promise you, my lord, you moved me much."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Much!"
I,II,TIMON,"What means that trump?"
I,II,TIMON,"How now?"
I,II,Servant,"Please you, my lord, there are certain"
I,II,Servant,"ladies most desirous of admittance."
I,II,TIMON,"Ladies! what are their wills?"
I,II,Servant,"There comes with them a forerunner, my lord, which"
I,II,Servant,"bears that office, to signify their pleasures."
I,II,TIMON,"I pray, let them be admitted."
I,II,Cupid,"Hail to thee, worthy Timon, and to all"
I,II,Cupid,"That of his bounties taste! The five best senses"
I,II,Cupid,"Acknowledge thee their patron; and come freely"
I,II,Cupid,"To gratulate thy plenteous bosom: th' ear,"
I,II,Cupid,"Taste, touch and smell, pleased from thy tale rise;"
I,II,Cupid,"They only now come but to feast thine eyes."
I,II,TIMON,"They're welcome all; let 'em have kind admittance:"
I,II,TIMON,"Music, make their welcome!"
I,II,First Lord,"You see, my lord, how ample you're beloved."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"They dance! they are mad women."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Like madness is the glory of this life."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"As this pomp shows to a little oil and root."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"We make ourselves fools, to disport ourselves;"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"And spend our flatteries, to drink those men"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Upon whose age we void it up again,"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"With poisonous spite and envy."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Who lives that's not depraved or depraves?"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Who dies, that bears not one spurn to their graves"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Of their friends' gift?"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"I should fear those that dance before me now"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Would one day stamp upon me: 't has been done;"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Men shut their doors against a setting sun."
I,II,TIMON,"You have done our pleasures much grace, fair ladies,"
I,II,TIMON,"Set a fair fashion on our entertainment,"
I,II,TIMON,"Which was not half so beautiful and kind;"
I,II,TIMON,"You have added worth unto 't and lustre,"
I,II,TIMON,"And entertain'd me with mine own device;"
I,II,TIMON,"I am to thank you for 't."
I,II,First Lady,"My lord, you take us even at the best."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"'Faith, for the worst is filthy; and would not hold"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"taking, I doubt me."
I,II,TIMON,"Ladies, there is an idle banquet attends you:"
I,II,TIMON,"Please you to dispose yourselves."
I,II,All Ladies,"Most thankfully, my lord."
I,II,TIMON,"Flavius."
I,II,FLAVIUS,"My lord?"
I,II,TIMON,"The little casket bring me hither."
I,II,FLAVIUS,"Yes, my lord. More jewels yet!"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"There is no crossing him in 's humour;"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"Else I should tell him,--well, i' faith I should,"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"When all's spent, he 'ld be cross'd then, an he could."
I,II,FLAVIUS,"'Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind,"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind."
I,II,First Lord,"Where be our men?"
I,II,Servant,"Here, my lord, in readiness."
I,II,Second Lord,"Our horses!"
I,II,TIMON,"O my friends,"
I,II,TIMON,"I have one word to say to you: look you, my good lord,"
I,II,TIMON,"I must entreat you, honour me so much"
I,II,TIMON,"As to advance this jewel; accept it and wear it,"
I,II,TIMON,"Kind my lord."
I,II,First Lord,"I am so far already in your gifts,--"
I,II,All,"So are we all."
I,II,Servant,"My lord, there are certain nobles of the senate"
I,II,Servant,"Newly alighted, and come to visit you."
I,II,TIMON,"They are fairly welcome."
I,II,FLAVIUS,"I beseech your honour,"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"Vouchsafe me a word; it does concern you near."
I,II,TIMON,"Near! why then, another time I'll hear thee:"
I,II,TIMON,"I prithee, let's be provided to show them"
I,II,TIMON,"entertainment."
I,II,Second Servant,"May it please your honour, Lord Lucius,"
I,II,Second Servant,"Out of his free love, hath presented to you"
I,II,Second Servant,"Four milk-white horses, trapp'd in silver."
I,II,TIMON,"I shall accept them fairly; let the presents"
I,II,TIMON,"Be worthily entertain'd."
I,II,TIMON,"How now! what news?"
I,II,Third Servant,"Please you, my lord, that honourable"
I,II,Third Servant,"gentleman, Lord Lucullus, entreats your company"
I,II,Third Servant,"to-morrow to hunt with him, and has sent your honour"
I,II,Third Servant,"two brace of greyhounds."
I,II,TIMON,"I'll hunt with him; and let them be received,"
I,II,TIMON,"Not without fair reward."
I,II,FLAVIUS,"He commands us to provide, and give great gifts,"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"And all out of an empty coffer:"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"Nor will he know his purse, or yield me this,"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"To show him what a beggar his heart is,"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"Being of no power to make his wishes good:"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"His promises fly so beyond his state"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"For every word: he is so kind that he now"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"Pays interest for 't; his land's put to their books."
I,II,FLAVIUS,"Well, would I were gently put out of office"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"Before I were forced out!"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"Happier is he that has no friend to feed"
I,II,FLAVIUS,"Than such that do e'en enemies exceed."
I,II,FLAVIUS,"I bleed inwardly for my lord."
I,II,TIMON,"You do yourselves"
I,II,TIMON,"Much wrong, you bate too much of your own merits:"
I,II,TIMON,"Here, my lord, a trifle of our love."
I,II,Second Lord,"With more than common thanks I will receive it."
I,II,Third Lord,"O, he's the very soul of bounty!"
I,II,TIMON,"And now I remember, my lord, you gave"
I,II,TIMON,"Good words the other day of a bay courser"
I,II,TIMON,"I rode on: it is yours, because you liked it."
I,II,Second Lord,"O, I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, in that."
I,II,TIMON,"You may take my word, my lord; I know, no man"
I,II,TIMON,"Can justly praise but what he does affect:"
I,II,TIMON,"I weigh my friend's affection with mine own;"
I,II,TIMON,"I'll tell you true. I'll call to you."
I,II,All Lords,"O, none so welcome."
I,II,TIMON,"I take all and your several visitations"
I,II,TIMON,"So kind to heart, 'tis not enough to give;"
I,II,TIMON,"Methinks, I could deal kingdoms to my friends,"
I,II,TIMON,"And ne'er be weary. Alcibiades,"
I,II,TIMON,"Thou art a soldier, therefore seldom rich;"
I,II,TIMON,"It comes in charity to thee: for all thy living"
I,II,TIMON,"Is 'mongst the dead, and all the lands thou hast"
I,II,TIMON,"Lie in a pitch'd field."
I,II,ALCIBIADES,"Ay, defiled land, my lord."
I,II,First Lord,"We are so virtuously bound--"
I,II,TIMON,"And so"
I,II,TIMON,"Am I to you."
I,II,Second Lord,"So infinitely endear'd--"
I,II,TIMON,"All to you. Lights, more lights!"
I,II,First Lord,"The best of happiness,"
I,II,First Lord,"Honour and fortunes, keep with you, Lord Timon!"
I,II,TIMON,"Ready for his friends."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"What a coil's here!"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Serving of becks and jutting-out of bums!"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"I doubt whether their legs be worth the sums"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"That are given for 'em. Friendship's full of dregs:"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Methinks, false hearts should never have sound legs,"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Thus honest fools lay out their wealth on court'sies."
I,II,TIMON,"Now, Apemantus, if thou wert not sullen, I would be"
I,II,TIMON,"good to thee."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"No, I'll nothing: for if I should be bribed too,"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"there would be none left to rail upon thee, and then"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"thou wouldst sin the faster. Thou givest so long,"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Timon, I fear me thou wilt give away thyself in"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"paper shortly: what need these feasts, pomps and"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"vain-glories?"
I,II,TIMON,"Nay, an you begin to rail on society once, I am"
I,II,TIMON,"sworn not to give regard to you. Farewell; and come"
I,II,TIMON,"with better music."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"So:"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"Thou wilt not hear me now; thou shalt not then:"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"I'll lock thy heaven from thee."
I,II,APEMANTUS,"O, that men's ears should be"
I,II,APEMANTUS,"To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!"
II,I,Senator,"And late, five thousand: to Varro and to Isidore"
II,I,Senator,"He owes nine thousand; besides my former sum,"
II,I,Senator,"Which makes it five and twenty. Still in motion"
II,I,Senator,"Of raging waste? It cannot hold; it will not."
II,I,Senator,"If I want gold, steal but a beggar's dog,"
II,I,Senator,"And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold."
II,I,Senator,"If I would sell my horse, and buy twenty more"
II,I,Senator,"Better than he, why, give my horse to Timon,"
II,I,Senator,"Ask nothing, give it him, it foals me, straight,"
II,I,Senator,"And able horses. No porter at his gate,"
II,I,Senator,"But rather one that smiles and still invites"
II,I,Senator,"All that pass by. It cannot hold: no reason"
II,I,Senator,"Can found his state in safety. Caphis, ho!"
II,I,Senator,"Caphis, I say!"
II,I,CAPHIS,"Here, sir; what is your pleasure?"
II,I,Senator,"Get on your cloak, and haste you to Lord Timon;"
II,I,Senator,"Importune him for my moneys; be not ceased"
II,I,Senator,"With slight denial, nor then silenced when--"
II,I,Senator,"'Commend me to your master'--and the cap"
II,I,Senator,"Plays in the right hand, thus: but tell him,"
II,I,Senator,"My uses cry to me, I must serve my turn"
II,I,Senator,"Out of mine own; his days and times are past"
II,I,Senator,"And my reliances on his fracted dates"
II,I,Senator,"Have smit my credit: I love and honour him,"
II,I,Senator,"But must not break my back to heal his finger;"
II,I,Senator,"Immediate are my needs, and my relief"
II,I,Senator,"Must not be toss'd and turn'd to me in words,"
II,I,Senator,"But find supply immediate. Get you gone:"
II,I,Senator,"Put on a most importunate aspect,"
II,I,Senator,"A visage of demand; for, I do fear,"
II,I,Senator,"When every feather sticks in his own wing,"
II,I,Senator,"Lord Timon will be left a naked gull,"
II,I,Senator,"Which flashes now a phoenix. Get you gone."
II,I,CAPHIS,"I go, sir."
II,I,Senator,"'I go, sir!'--Take the bonds along with you,"
II,I,Senator,"And have the dates in contempt."
II,I,CAPHIS,"I will, sir."
II,I,Senator,"Go."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"No care, no stop! so senseless of expense,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"That he will neither know how to maintain it,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Nor cease his flow of riot: takes no account"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"How things go from him, nor resumes no care"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Of what is to continue: never mind"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Was to be so unwise, to be so kind."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"What shall be done? he will not hear, till feel:"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"I must be round with him, now he comes from hunting."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Fie, fie, fie, fie!"
II,II,CAPHIS,"Good even, Varro: what,"
II,II,CAPHIS,"You come for money?"
II,II,Varro's Servant,"Is't not your business too?"
II,II,CAPHIS,"It is: and yours too, Isidore?"
II,II,Isidore's Servant,"It is so."
II,II,CAPHIS,"Would we were all discharged!"
II,II,Varro's Servant,"I fear it."
II,II,CAPHIS,"Here comes the lord."
II,II,TIMON,"So soon as dinner's done, we'll forth again,"
II,II,TIMON,"My Alcibiades. With me? what is your will?"
II,II,CAPHIS,"My lord, here is a note of certain dues."
II,II,TIMON,"Dues! Whence are you?"
II,II,CAPHIS,"Of Athens here, my lord."
II,II,TIMON,"Go to my steward."
II,II,CAPHIS,"Please it your lordship, he hath put me off"
II,II,CAPHIS,"To the succession of new days this month:"
II,II,CAPHIS,"My master is awaked by great occasion"
II,II,CAPHIS,"To call upon his own, and humbly prays you"
II,II,CAPHIS,"That with your other noble parts you'll suit"
II,II,CAPHIS,"In giving him his right."
II,II,TIMON,"Mine honest friend,"
II,II,TIMON,"I prithee, but repair to me next morning."
II,II,CAPHIS,"Nay, good my lord,--"
II,II,TIMON,"Contain thyself, good friend."
II,II,Varro's Servant,"One Varro's servant, my good lord,--"
II,II,Isidore's Servant,"From Isidore;"
II,II,Isidore's Servant,"He humbly prays your speedy payment."
II,II,CAPHIS,"If you did know, my lord, my master's wants--"
II,II,Varro's Servant,"'Twas due on forfeiture, my lord, six weeks And past."
II,II,Isidore's Servant,"Your steward puts me off, my lord;"
II,II,Isidore's Servant,"And I am sent expressly to your lordship."
II,II,TIMON,"Give me breath."
II,II,TIMON,"I do beseech you, good my lords, keep on;"
II,II,TIMON,"I'll wait upon you instantly."
II,II,TIMON,"Come hither: pray you,"
II,II,TIMON,"How goes the world, that I am thus encounter'd"
II,II,TIMON,"With clamourous demands of date-broke bonds,"
II,II,TIMON,"And the detention of long-since-due debts,"
II,II,TIMON,"Against my honour?"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Please you, gentlemen,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"The time is unagreeable to this business:"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Your importunacy cease till after dinner,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"That I may make his lordship understand"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Wherefore you are not paid."
II,II,TIMON,"Do so, my friends. See them well entertain'd."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Pray, draw near."
II,II,CAPHIS,"Stay, stay, here comes the fool with Apemantus:"
II,II,CAPHIS,"let's ha' some sport with 'em."
II,II,Varro's Servant,"Hang him, he'll abuse us."
II,II,Isidore's Servant,"A plague upon him, dog!"
II,II,Varro's Servant,"How dost, fool?"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"Dost dialogue with thy shadow?"
II,II,Varro's Servant,"I speak not to thee."
II,II,APEMANTUS,"No,'tis to thyself."
II,II,APEMANTUS,"Come away."
II,II,Isidore's Servant,"There's the fool hangs on your back already."
II,II,APEMANTUS,"No, thou stand'st single, thou'rt not on him yet."
II,II,CAPHIS,"Where's the fool now?"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"He last asked the question. Poor rogues, and"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"usurers' men! bawds between gold and want!"
II,II,All Servants,"What are we, Apemantus?"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"Asses."
II,II,All Servants,"Why?"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"That you ask me what you are, and do not know"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"yourselves. Speak to 'em, fool."
II,II,Fool,"How do you, gentlemen?"
II,II,All Servants,"Gramercies, good fool: how does your mistress?"
II,II,Fool,"She's e'en setting on water to scald such chickens"
II,II,Fool,"as you are. Would we could see you at Corinth!"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"Good! gramercy."
II,II,Fool,"Look you, here comes my mistress' page."
II,II,Page,"in this wise company? How dost thou, Apemantus?"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"Would I had a rod in my mouth, that I might answer"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"thee profitably."
II,II,Page,"Prithee, Apemantus, read me the superscription of"
II,II,Page,"these letters: I know not which is which."
II,II,APEMANTUS,"Canst not read?"
II,II,Page,"No."
II,II,APEMANTUS,"There will little learning die then, that day thou"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"art hanged. This is to Lord Timon; this to"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"Alcibiades. Go; thou wast born a bastard, and thou't"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"die a bawd."
II,II,Page,"Thou wast whelped a dog, and thou shalt famish a"
II,II,Page,"dog's death. Answer not; I am gone."
II,II,APEMANTUS,"E'en so thou outrunnest grace. Fool, I will go with"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"you to Lord Timon's."
II,II,Fool,"Will you leave me there?"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"If Timon stay at home. You three serve three usurers?"
II,II,All Servants,"Ay; would they served us!"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"So would I,--as good a trick as ever hangman served thief."
II,II,Fool,"Are you three usurers' men?"
II,II,All Servants,"Ay, fool."
II,II,Fool,"I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant: my"
II,II,Fool,"mistress is one, and I am her fool. When men come"
II,II,Fool,"to borrow of your masters, they approach sadly, and"
II,II,Fool,"go away merry; but they enter my mistress' house"
II,II,Fool,"merrily, and go away sadly: the reason of this?"
II,II,Varro's Servant,"I could render one."
II,II,APEMANTUS,"Do it then, that we may account thee a whoremaster"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"and a knave; which not-withstanding, thou shalt be"
II,II,APEMANTUS,"no less esteemed."
II,II,Varro's Servant,"What is a whoremaster, fool?"
II,II,Fool,"A fool in good clothes, and something like thee."
II,II,Fool,"'Tis a spirit: sometime't appears like a lord;"
II,II,Fool,"sometime like a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher,"
II,II,Fool,"with two stones moe than's artificial one: he is"
II,II,Fool,"very often like a knight; and, generally, in all"
II,II,Fool,"shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore"
II,II,Fool,"to thirteen, this spirit walks in."
II,II,Varro's Servant,"Thou art not altogether a fool."
II,II,Fool,"Nor thou altogether a wise man: as much foolery as"
II,II,Fool,"I have, so much wit thou lackest."
II,II,APEMANTUS,"That answer might have become Apemantus."
II,II,All Servants,"Aside, aside; here comes Lord Timon."
II,II,APEMANTUS,"Come with me, fool, come."
II,II,Fool,"I do not always follow lover, elder brother and"
II,II,Fool,"woman; sometime the philosopher."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Pray you, walk near: I'll speak with you anon."
II,II,TIMON,"You make me marvel: wherefore ere this time"
II,II,TIMON,"Had you not fully laid my state before me,"
II,II,TIMON,"That I might so have rated my expense,"
II,II,TIMON,"As I had leave of means?"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"You would not hear me,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"At many leisures I proposed."
II,II,TIMON,"Go to:"
II,II,TIMON,"Perchance some single vantages you took."
II,II,TIMON,"When my indisposition put you back:"
II,II,TIMON,"And that unaptness made your minister,"
II,II,TIMON,"Thus to excuse yourself."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"O my good lord,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"At many times I brought in my accounts,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Laid them before you; you would throw them off,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"And say, you found them in mine honesty."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"When, for some trifling present, you have bid me"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Return so much, I have shook my head and wept;"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Yea, 'gainst the authority of manners, pray'd you"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"To hold your hand more close: I did endure"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Not seldom, nor no slight cheques, when I have"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Prompted you in the ebb of your estate"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"And your great flow of debts. My loved lord,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Though you hear now, too late--yet now's a time--"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"The greatest of your having lacks a half"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"To pay your present debts."
II,II,TIMON,"Let all my land be sold."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"'Tis all engaged, some forfeited and gone;"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"And what remains will hardly stop the mouth"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Of present dues: the future comes apace:"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"What shall defend the interim? and at length"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"How goes our reckoning?"
II,II,TIMON,"To Lacedaemon did my land extend."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"O my good lord, the world is but a word:"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Were it all yours to give it in a breath,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"How quickly were it gone!"
II,II,TIMON,"You tell me true."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"If you suspect my husbandry or falsehood,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Call me before the exactest auditors"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"And set me on the proof. So the gods bless me,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"When all our offices have been oppress'd"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"With drunken spilth of wine, when every room"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Hath blazed with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"I have retired me to a wasteful cock,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"And set mine eyes at flow."
II,II,TIMON,"Prithee, no more."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Heavens, have I said, the bounty of this lord!"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"How many prodigal bits have slaves and peasants"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"This night englutted! Who is not Timon's?"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"What heart, head, sword, force, means, but is"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Lord Timon's?"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon!"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"The breath is gone whereof this praise is made:"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Feast-won, fast-lost; one cloud of winter showers,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"These flies are couch'd."
II,II,TIMON,"Come, sermon me no further:"
II,II,TIMON,"No villanous bounty yet hath pass'd my heart;"
II,II,TIMON,"Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given."
II,II,TIMON,"Why dost thou weep? Canst thou the conscience lack,"
II,II,TIMON,"To think I shall lack friends? Secure thy heart;"
II,II,TIMON,"If I would broach the vessels of my love,"
II,II,TIMON,"And try the argument of hearts by borrowing,"
II,II,TIMON,"Men and men's fortunes could I frankly use"
II,II,TIMON,"As I can bid thee speak."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Assurance bless your thoughts!"
II,II,TIMON,"And, in some sort, these wants of mine are crown'd,"
II,II,TIMON,"That I account them blessings; for by these"
II,II,TIMON,"Shall I try friends: you shall perceive how you"
II,II,TIMON,"Mistake my fortunes; I am wealthy in my friends."
II,II,TIMON,"Within there! Flaminius! Servilius!"
II,II,Servants,"My lord? my lord?"
II,II,TIMON,"I will dispatch you severally; you to Lord Lucius;"
II,II,TIMON,"to Lord Lucullus you: I hunted with his honour"
II,II,TIMON,"to-day: you, to Sempronius: commend me to their"
II,II,TIMON,"loves, and, I am proud, say, that my occasions have"
II,II,TIMON,"found time to use 'em toward a supply of money: let"
II,II,TIMON,"the request be fifty talents."
II,II,FLAMINIUS,"As you have said, my lord."
II,II,TIMON,"Go you, sir, to the senators--"
II,II,TIMON,"Of whom, even to the state's best health, I have"
II,II,TIMON,"Deserved this hearing--bid 'em send o' the instant"
II,II,TIMON,"A thousand talents to me."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"I have been bold--"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"For that I knew it the most general way--"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"To them to use your signet and your name;"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"But they do shake their heads, and I am here"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"No richer in return."
II,II,TIMON,"Is't true? can't be?"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"They answer, in a joint and corporate voice,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"That now they are at fall, want treasure, cannot"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Do what they would; are sorry--you are honourable,--"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"But yet they could have wish'd--they know not--"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Something hath been amiss--a noble nature"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"May catch a wrench--would all were well--'tis pity;--"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"And so, intending other serious matters,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"After distasteful looks and these hard fractions,"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"They froze me into silence."
II,II,TIMON,"You gods, reward them!"
II,II,TIMON,"Prithee, man, look cheerly. These old fellows"
II,II,TIMON,"Have their ingratitude in them hereditary:"
II,II,TIMON,"Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows;"
II,II,TIMON,"'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind;"
II,II,TIMON,"And nature, as it grows again toward earth,"
II,II,TIMON,"Is fashion'd for the journey, dull and heavy."
II,II,TIMON,"Go to Ventidius."
II,II,TIMON,"Prithee, be not sad,"
II,II,TIMON,"Thou art true and honest; ingeniously I speak."
II,II,TIMON,"No blame belongs to thee."
II,II,TIMON,"Ventidius lately"
II,II,TIMON,"Buried his father; by whose death he's stepp'd"
II,II,TIMON,"Into a great estate: when he was poor,"
II,II,TIMON,"Imprison'd and in scarcity of friends,"
II,II,TIMON,"I clear'd him with five talents: greet him from me;"
II,II,TIMON,"Bid him suppose some good necessity"
II,II,TIMON,"Touches his friend, which craves to be remember'd"
II,II,TIMON,"With those five talents."
II,II,TIMON,"That had, give't these fellows"
II,II,TIMON,"To whom 'tis instant due. Ne'er speak, or think,"
II,II,TIMON,"That Timon's fortunes 'mong his friends can sink."
II,II,FLAVIUS,"I would I could not think it: that thought is"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"bounty's foe;"
II,II,FLAVIUS,"Being free itself, it thinks all others so."
III,I,Servant,"I have told my lord of you; he is coming down to you."
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"I thank you, sir."
III,I,Servant,"Here's my lord."
III,I,LUCULLUS,"warrant. Why, this hits right; I dreamt of a silver"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"basin and ewer to-night. Flaminius, honest"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"Flaminius; you are very respectively welcome, sir."
III,I,LUCULLUS,"Fill me some wine."
III,I,LUCULLUS,"And how does that honourable, complete, free-hearted"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"gentleman of Athens, thy very bountiful good lord"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"and master?"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"His health is well sir."
III,I,LUCULLUS,"I am right glad that his health is well, sir: and"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"what hast thou there under thy cloak, pretty Flaminius?"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"'Faith, nothing but an empty box, sir; which, in my"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"lord's behalf, I come to entreat your honour to"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"supply; who, having great and instant occasion to"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"use fifty talents, hath sent to your lordship to"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"furnish him, nothing doubting your present"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"assistance therein."
III,I,LUCULLUS,"La, la, la, la! 'nothing doubting,' says he? Alas,"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"good lord! a noble gentleman 'tis, if he would not"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"keep so good a house. Many a time and often I ha'"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"dined with him, and told him on't, and come again to"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"supper to him, of purpose to have him spend less,"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"and yet he would embrace no counsel, take no warning"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"by my coming. Every man has his fault, and honesty"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"is his: I ha' told him on't, but I could ne'er get"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"him from't."
III,I,Servant,"Please your lordship, here is the wine."
III,I,LUCULLUS,"Flaminius, I have noted thee always wise. Here's to thee."
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"Your lordship speaks your pleasure."
III,I,LUCULLUS,"I have observed thee always for a towardly prompt"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"spirit--give thee thy due--and one that knows what"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"belongs to reason; and canst use the time well, if"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"the time use thee well: good parts in thee."
III,I,LUCULLUS,"Get you gone, sirrah."
III,I,LUCULLUS,"Draw nearer, honest Flaminius. Thy lord's a"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"bountiful gentleman: but thou art wise; and thou"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"knowest well enough, although thou comest to me,"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"that this is no time to lend money, especially upon"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"bare friendship, without security. Here's three"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"solidares for thee: good boy, wink at me, and say"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"thou sawest me not. Fare thee well."
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"Is't possible the world should so much differ,"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"And we alive that lived? Fly, damned baseness,"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"To him that worships thee!"
III,I,LUCULLUS,"Ha! now I see thou art a fool, and fit for thy master."
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"May these add to the number that may scald thee!"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"Let moulten coin be thy damnation,"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"Thou disease of a friend, and not himself!"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"Has friendship such a faint and milky heart,"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"It turns in less than two nights? O you gods,"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"I feel master's passion! this slave,"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"Unto his honour, has my lord's meat in him:"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"Why should it thrive and turn to nutriment,"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"When he is turn'd to poison?"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"O, may diseases only work upon't!"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"And, when he's sick to death, let not that part of nature"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"Which my lord paid for, be of any power"
III,I,FLAMINIUS,"To expel sickness, but prolong his hour!"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"Who, the Lord Timon? he is my very good friend, and"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"an honourable gentleman."
III,II,First Stranger,"We know him for no less, though we are but strangers"
III,II,First Stranger,"to him. But I can tell you one thing, my lord, and"
III,II,First Stranger,"which I hear from common rumours: now Lord Timon's"
III,II,First Stranger,"happy hours are done and past, and his estate"
III,II,First Stranger,"shrinks from him."
III,II,LUCILIUS,"Fie, no, do not believe it; he cannot want for money."
III,II,Second Stranger,"But believe you this, my lord, that, not long ago,"
III,II,Second Stranger,"one of his men was with the Lord Lucullus to borrow"
III,II,Second Stranger,"so many talents, nay, urged extremely for't and"
III,II,Second Stranger,"showed what necessity belonged to't, and yet was denied."
III,II,LUCILIUS,"How!"
III,II,Second Stranger,"I tell you, denied, my lord."
III,II,LUCILIUS,"What a strange case was that! now, before the gods,"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"I am ashamed on't. Denied that honourable man!"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"there was very little honour showed in't. For my own"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"part, I must needs confess, I have received some"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"small kindnesses from him, as money, plate, jewels"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"and such-like trifles, nothing comparing to his;"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"yet, had he mistook him and sent to me, I should"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"ne'er have denied his occasion so many talents."
III,II,SERVILIUS,"See, by good hap, yonder's my lord;"
III,II,SERVILIUS,"I have sweat to see his honour. My honoured lord,--"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"Servilius! you are kindly met, sir. Fare thee well:"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"commend me to thy honourable virtuous lord, my very"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"exquisite friend."
III,II,SERVILIUS,"May it please your honour, my lord hath sent--"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"Ha! what has he sent? I am so much endeared to"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"that lord; he's ever sending: how shall I thank"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"him, thinkest thou? And what has he sent now?"
III,II,SERVILIUS,"Has only sent his present occasion now, my lord;"
III,II,SERVILIUS,"requesting your lordship to supply his instant use"
III,II,SERVILIUS,"with so many talents."
III,II,LUCILIUS,"I know his lordship is but merry with me;"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"He cannot want fifty five hundred talents."
III,II,SERVILIUS,"But in the mean time he wants less, my lord."
III,II,SERVILIUS,"If his occasion were not virtuous,"
III,II,SERVILIUS,"I should not urge it half so faithfully."
III,II,LUCILIUS,"Dost thou speak seriously, Servilius?"
III,II,SERVILIUS,"Upon my soul,'tis true, sir."
III,II,LUCILIUS,"What a wicked beast was I to disfurnish myself"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"against such a good time, when I might ha' shown"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"myself honourable! how unluckily it happened, that I"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"should purchase the day before for a little part,"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"and undo a great deal of honoured! Servilius, now,"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"before the gods, I am not able to do,--the more"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"beast, I say:--I was sending to use Lord Timon"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"myself, these gentlemen can witness! but I would"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"not, for the wealth of Athens, I had done't now."
III,II,LUCILIUS,"Commend me bountifully to his good lordship; and I"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"hope his honour will conceive the fairest of me,"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"because I have no power to be kind: and tell him"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"this from me, I count it one of my greatest"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"afflictions, say, that I cannot pleasure such an"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"honourable gentleman. Good Servilius, will you"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"befriend me so far, as to use mine own words to him?"
III,II,SERVILIUS,"Yes, sir, I shall."
III,II,LUCILIUS,"I'll look you out a good turn, Servilius."
III,II,LUCILIUS,"True as you said, Timon is shrunk indeed;"
III,II,LUCILIUS,"And he that's once denied will hardly speed."
III,II,First Stranger,"Do you observe this, Hostilius?"
III,II,Second Stranger,"Ay, too well."
III,II,First Stranger,"Why, this is the world's soul; and just of the"
III,II,First Stranger,"same piece"
III,II,First Stranger,"Is every flatterer's spirit. Who can call him"
III,II,First Stranger,"His friend that dips in the same dish? for, in"
III,II,First Stranger,"My knowing, Timon has been this lord's father,"
III,II,First Stranger,"And kept his credit with his purse,"
III,II,First Stranger,"Supported his estate; nay, Timon's money"
III,II,First Stranger,"Has paid his men their wages: he ne'er drinks,"
III,II,First Stranger,"But Timon's silver treads upon his lip;"
III,II,First Stranger,"And yet--O, see the monstrousness of man"
III,II,First Stranger,"When he looks out in an ungrateful shape!--"
III,II,First Stranger,"He does deny him, in respect of his,"
III,II,First Stranger,"What charitable men afford to beggars."
III,II,Third Stranger,"Religion groans at it."
III,II,First Stranger,"For mine own part,"
III,II,First Stranger,"I never tasted Timon in my life,"
III,II,First Stranger,"Nor came any of his bounties over me,"
III,II,First Stranger,"To mark me for his friend; yet, I protest,"
III,II,First Stranger,"For his right noble mind, illustrious virtue"
III,II,First Stranger,"And honourable carriage,"
III,II,First Stranger,"Had his necessity made use of me,"
III,II,First Stranger,"I would have put my wealth into donation,"
III,II,First Stranger,"And the best half should have return'd to him,"
III,II,First Stranger,"So much I love his heart: but, I perceive,"
III,II,First Stranger,"Men must learn now with pity to dispense;"
III,II,First Stranger,"For policy sits above conscience."
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"Must he needs trouble me in 't,--hum!--'bove"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"all others?"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"He might have tried Lord Lucius or Lucullus;"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"And now Ventidius is wealthy too,"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"Whom he redeem'd from prison: all these"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"Owe their estates unto him."
III,III,Servant,"My lord,"
III,III,Servant,"They have all been touch'd and found base metal, for"
III,III,Servant,"They have au denied him."
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"How! have they denied him?"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"Has Ventidius and Lucullus denied him?"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"And does he send to me? Three? hum!"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"It shows but little love or judgment in him:"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"Must I be his last refuge! His friends, like"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"physicians,"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"Thrive, give him over: must I take the cure upon me?"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"Has much disgraced me in't; I'm angry at him,"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"That might have known my place: I see no sense for't,"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"But his occasion might have woo'd me first;"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"For, in my conscience, I was the first man"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"That e'er received gift from him:"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"And does he think so backwardly of me now,"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"That I'll requite its last? No:"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"So it may prove an argument of laughter"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"To the rest, and 'mongst lords I be thought a fool."
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"I'ld rather than the worth of thrice the sum,"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"Had sent to me first, but for my mind's sake;"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"I'd such a courage to do him good. But now return,"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"And with their faint reply this answer join;"
III,III,SEMPRONIUS,"Who bates mine honour shall not know my coin."
III,III,Servant,"Excellent! Your lordship's a goodly villain. The"
III,III,Servant,"devil knew not what he did when he made man"
III,III,Servant,"politic; he crossed himself by 't: and I cannot"
III,III,Servant,"think but, in the end, the villainies of man will"
III,III,Servant,"set him clear. How fairly this lord strives to"
III,III,Servant,"appear foul! takes virtuous copies to be wicked,"
III,III,Servant,"like those that under hot ardent zeal would set"
III,III,Servant,"whole realms on fire: Of such a nature is his"
III,III,Servant,"politic love."
III,III,Servant,"This was my lord's best hope; now all are fled,"
III,III,Servant,"Save only the gods: now his friends are dead,"
III,III,Servant,"Doors, that were ne'er acquainted with their wards"
III,III,Servant,"Many a bounteous year must be employ'd"
III,III,Servant,"Now to guard sure their master."
III,III,Servant,"And this is all a liberal course allows;"
III,III,Servant,"Who cannot keep his wealth must keep his house."
III,IV,Varro's First Servant,"Well met; good morrow, Titus and Hortensius."
III,IV,TITUS,"The like to you kind Varro."
III,IV,HORTENSIUS,"Lucius!"
III,IV,HORTENSIUS,"What, do we meet together?"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Ay, and I think"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"One business does command us all; for mine Is money."
III,IV,TITUS,"So is theirs and ours."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"And Sir Philotus too!"
III,IV,PHILOTUS,"Good day at once."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Welcome, good brother."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"What do you think the hour?"
III,IV,PHILOTUS,"Labouring for nine."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"So much?"
III,IV,PHILOTUS,"Is not my lord seen yet?"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Not yet."
III,IV,PHILOTUS,"I wonder on't; he was wont to shine at seven."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Ay, but the days are wax'd shorter with him:"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"You must consider that a prodigal course"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Is like the sun's; but not, like his, recoverable."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"I fear 'tis deepest winter in Lord Timon's purse;"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"That is one may reach deep enough, and yet"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Find little."
III,IV,PHILOTUS,"I am of your fear for that."
III,IV,TITUS,"I'll show you how to observe a strange event."
III,IV,TITUS,"Your lord sends now for money."
III,IV,HORTENSIUS,"Most true, he does."
III,IV,TITUS,"And he wears jewels now of Timon's gift,"
III,IV,TITUS,"For which I wait for money."
III,IV,HORTENSIUS,"It is against my heart."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Mark, how strange it shows,"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Timon in this should pay more than he owes:"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"And e'en as if your lord should wear rich jewels,"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"And send for money for 'em."
III,IV,HORTENSIUS,"I'm weary of this charge, the gods can witness:"
III,IV,HORTENSIUS,"I know my lord hath spent of Timon's wealth,"
III,IV,HORTENSIUS,"And now ingratitude makes it worse than stealth."
III,IV,Varro's First Servant,"Yes, mine's three thousand crowns: what's yours?"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Five thousand mine."
III,IV,Varro's First Servant,"'Tis much deep: and it should seem by the sun,"
III,IV,Varro's First Servant,"Your master's confidence was above mine;"
III,IV,Varro's First Servant,"Else, surely, his had equall'd."
III,IV,Varro's First Servant,"Enter FLAMINIUS."
III,IV,TITUS,"One of Lord Timon's men."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Flaminius! Sir, a word: pray, is my lord ready to"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"come forth?"
III,IV,FLAMINIUS,"No, indeed, he is not."
III,IV,TITUS,"We attend his lordship; pray, signify so much."
III,IV,FLAMINIUS,"I need not tell him that; he knows you are too diligent."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Ha! is not that his steward muffled so?"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"He goes away in a cloud: call him, call him."
III,IV,TITUS,"Do you hear, sir?"
III,IV,Varro's Second Servant,"By your leave, sir,--"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"What do ye ask of me, my friend?"
III,IV,TITUS,"We wait for certain money here, sir."
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"Ay,"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"If money were as certain as your waiting,"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"'Twere sure enough."
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"Why then preferr'd you not your sums and bills,"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"When your false masters eat of my lord's meat?"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"And take down the interest into their"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"gluttonous maws."
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"You do yourselves but wrong to stir me up;"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"Let me pass quietly:"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"Believe 't, my lord and I have made an end;"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"I have no more to reckon, he to spend."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Ay, but this answer will not serve."
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"If 'twill not serve,'tis not so base as you;"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"For you serve knaves."
III,IV,Varro's First Servant,"How! what does his cashiered worship mutter?"
III,IV,Varro's Second Servant,"No matter what; he's poor, and that's revenge"
III,IV,Varro's Second Servant,"enough. Who can speak broader than he that has no"
III,IV,Varro's Second Servant,"house to put his head in? such may rail against"
III,IV,Varro's Second Servant,"great buildings."
III,IV,TITUS,"O, here's Servilius; now we shall know some answer."
III,IV,SERVILIUS,"If I might beseech you, gentlemen, to repair some"
III,IV,SERVILIUS,"other hour, I should derive much from't; for,"
III,IV,SERVILIUS,"take't of my soul, my lord leans wondrously to"
III,IV,SERVILIUS,"discontent: his comfortable temper has forsook him;"
III,IV,SERVILIUS,"he's much out of health, and keeps his chamber."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Many do keep their chambers are not sick:"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"And, if it be so far beyond his health,"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Methinks he should the sooner pay his debts,"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"And make a clear way to the gods."
III,IV,SERVILIUS,"Good gods!"
III,IV,TITUS,"We cannot take this for answer, sir."
III,IV,TIMON,"What, are my doors opposed against my passage?"
III,IV,TIMON,"Have I been ever free, and must my house"
III,IV,TIMON,"Be my retentive enemy, my gaol?"
III,IV,TIMON,"The place which I have feasted, does it now,"
III,IV,TIMON,"Like all mankind, show me an iron heart?"
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Put in now, Titus."
III,IV,TITUS,"My lord, here is my bill."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Here's mine."
III,IV,HORTENSIUS,"And mine, my lord."
III,IV,Both Varro's Servants,"And ours, my lord."
III,IV,PHILOTUS,"All our bills."
III,IV,TIMON,"Knock me down with 'em: cleave me to the girdle."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Alas, my lord,-"
III,IV,TIMON,"Cut my heart in sums."
III,IV,TITUS,"Mine, fifty talents."
III,IV,TIMON,"Tell out my blood."
III,IV,Lucilius' Servant,"Five thousand crowns, my lord."
III,IV,TIMON,"Five thousand drops pays that."
III,IV,TIMON,"What yours?--and yours?"
III,IV,Varro's First Servant,"My lord,--"
III,IV,Varro's Second Servant,"My lord,--"
III,IV,TIMON,"Tear me, take me, and the gods fall upon you!"
III,IV,HORTENSIUS,"'Faith, I perceive our masters may throw their caps"
III,IV,HORTENSIUS,"at their money: these debts may well be called"
III,IV,HORTENSIUS,"desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em."
III,IV,TIMON,"They have e'en put my breath from me, the slaves."
III,IV,TIMON,"Creditors? devils!"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"My dear lord,--"
III,IV,TIMON,"What if it should be so?"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"My lord,--"
III,IV,TIMON,"I'll have it so. My steward!"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"Here, my lord."
III,IV,TIMON,"So fitly? Go, bid all my friends again,"
III,IV,TIMON,"Lucius, Lucullus, and Sempronius:"
III,IV,TIMON,"All, sirrah, all:"
III,IV,TIMON,"I'll once more feast the rascals."
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"O my lord,"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"You only speak from your distracted soul;"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"There is not so much left, to furnish out"
III,IV,FLAVIUS,"A moderate table."
III,IV,TIMON,"Be't not in thy care; go,"
III,IV,TIMON,"I charge thee, invite them all: let in the tide"
III,IV,TIMON,"Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide."
III,V,First Senator,"My lord, you have my voice to it; the fault's"
III,V,First Senator,"Bloody; 'tis necessary he should die:"
III,V,First Senator,"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy."
III,V,Second Senator,"Most true; the law shall bruise him."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Honour, health, and compassion to the senate!"
III,V,First Senator,"Now, captain?"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"I am an humble suitor to your virtues;"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"For pity is the virtue of the law,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"And none but tyrants use it cruelly."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"It pleases time and fortune to lie heavy"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Upon a friend of mine, who, in hot blood,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Hath stepp'd into the law, which is past depth"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"To those that, without heed, do plunge into 't."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"He is a man, setting his fate aside,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Of comely virtues:"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice--"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"An honour in him which buys out his fault--"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"But with a noble fury and fair spirit,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Seeing his reputation touch'd to death,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"He did oppose his foe:"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"And with such sober and unnoted passion"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"He did behave his anger, ere 'twas spent,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"As if he had but proved an argument."
III,V,First Senator,"You undergo too strict a paradox,"
III,V,First Senator,"Striving to make an ugly deed look fair:"
III,V,First Senator,"Your words have took such pains as if they labour'd"
III,V,First Senator,"To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling"
III,V,First Senator,"Upon the head of valour; which indeed"
III,V,First Senator,"Is valour misbegot and came into the world"
III,V,First Senator,"When sects and factions were newly born:"
III,V,First Senator,"He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer"
III,V,First Senator,"The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs"
III,V,First Senator,"His outsides, to wear them like his raiment,"
III,V,First Senator,"carelessly,"
III,V,First Senator,"And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart,"
III,V,First Senator,"To bring it into danger."
III,V,First Senator,"If wrongs be evils and enforce us kill,"
III,V,First Senator,"What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill!"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"My lord,--"
III,V,First Senator,"You cannot make gross sins look clear:"
III,V,First Senator,"To revenge is no valour, but to bear."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"My lords, then, under favour, pardon me,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"If I speak like a captain."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Why do fond men expose themselves to battle,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"And not endure all threats? sleep upon't,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"And let the foes quietly cut their throats,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Without repugnancy? If there be"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Such valour in the bearing, what make we"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Abroad? why then, women are more valiant"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"That stay at home, if bearing carry it,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"And the ass more captain than the lion, the felon"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Loaden with irons wiser than the judge,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"If wisdom be in suffering. O my lords,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"As you are great, be pitifully good:"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood?"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust;"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"To be in anger is impiety;"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"But who is man that is not angry?"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Weigh but the crime with this."
III,V,Second Senator,"You breathe in vain."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"In vain! his service done"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"At Lacedaemon and Byzantium"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Were a sufficient briber for his life."
III,V,First Senator,"What's that?"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"I say, my lords, he has done fair service,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"And slain in fight many of your enemies:"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"How full of valour did he bear himself"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"In the last conflict, and made plenteous wounds!"
III,V,Second Senator,"He has made too much plenty with 'em;"
III,V,Second Senator,"He's a sworn rioter: he has a sin that often"
III,V,Second Senator,"Drowns him, and takes his valour prisoner:"
III,V,Second Senator,"If there were no foes, that were enough"
III,V,Second Senator,"To overcome him: in that beastly fury"
III,V,Second Senator,"He has been known to commit outrages,"
III,V,Second Senator,"And cherish factions: 'tis inferr'd to us,"
III,V,Second Senator,"His days are foul and his drink dangerous."
III,V,First Senator,"He dies."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Hard fate! he might have died in war."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"My lords, if not for any parts in him--"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Though his right arm might purchase his own time"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"And be in debt to none--yet, more to move you,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Take my deserts to his, and join 'em both:"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"And, for I know your reverend ages love"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Security, I'll pawn my victories, all"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"My honours to you, upon his good returns."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"If by this crime he owes the law his life,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Why, let the war receive 't in valiant gore"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"For law is strict, and war is nothing more."
III,V,First Senator,"We are for law: he dies; urge it no more,"
III,V,First Senator,"On height of our displeasure: friend or brother,"
III,V,First Senator,"He forfeits his own blood that spills another."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Must it be so? it must not be. My lords,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"I do beseech you, know me."
III,V,Second Senator,"How!"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Call me to your remembrances."
III,V,Third Senator,"What!"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"I cannot think but your age has forgot me;"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"It could not else be, I should prove so base,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"To sue, and be denied such common grace:"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"My wounds ache at you."
III,V,First Senator,"Do you dare our anger?"
III,V,First Senator,"'Tis in few words, but spacious in effect;"
III,V,First Senator,"We banish thee for ever."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Banish me!"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Banish your dotage; banish usury,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"That makes the senate ugly."
III,V,First Senator,"If, after two days' shine, Athens contain thee,"
III,V,First Senator,"Attend our weightier judgment. And, not to swell"
III,V,First Senator,"our spirit,"
III,V,First Senator,"He shall be executed presently."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Now the gods keep you old enough; that you may live"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Only in bone, that none may look on you!"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"I'm worse than mad: I have kept back their foes,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"While they have told their money and let out"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Their coin upon large interest, I myself"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Rich only in large hurts. All those for this?"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Is this the balsam that the usuring senate"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Pours into captains' wounds? Banishment!"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"It comes not ill; I hate not to be banish'd;"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"It is a cause worthy my spleen and fury,"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"That I may strike at Athens. I'll cheer up"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"My discontented troops, and lay for hearts."
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"'Tis honour with most lands to be at odds;"
III,V,ALCIBIADES,"Soldiers should brook as little wrongs as gods."
III,VI,First Lord,"The good time of day to you, sir."
III,VI,Second Lord,"I also wish it to you. I think this honourable lord"
III,VI,Second Lord,"did but try us this other day."
III,VI,First Lord,"Upon that were my thoughts tiring, when we"
III,VI,First Lord,"encountered: I hope it is not so low with him as"
III,VI,First Lord,"he made it seem in the trial of his several friends."
III,VI,Second Lord,"It should not be, by the persuasion of his new feasting."
III,VI,First Lord,"I should think so: he hath sent me an earnest"
III,VI,First Lord,"inviting, which many my near occasions did urge me"
III,VI,First Lord,"to put off; but he hath conjured me beyond them, and"
III,VI,First Lord,"I must needs appear."
III,VI,Second Lord,"In like manner was I in debt to my importunate"
III,VI,Second Lord,"business, but he would not hear my excuse. I am"
III,VI,Second Lord,"sorry, when he sent to borrow of me, that my"
III,VI,Second Lord,"provision was out."
III,VI,First Lord,"I am sick of that grief too, as I understand how all"
III,VI,First Lord,"things go."
III,VI,Second Lord,"Every man here's so. What would he have borrowed of"
III,VI,Second Lord,"you?"
III,VI,First Lord,"A thousand pieces."
III,VI,Second Lord,"A thousand pieces!"
III,VI,First Lord,"What of you?"
III,VI,Second Lord,"He sent to me, sir,--Here he comes."
III,VI,TIMON,"With all my heart, gentlemen both; and how fare you?"
III,VI,First Lord,"Ever at the best, hearing well of your lordship."
III,VI,Second Lord,"The swallow follows not summer more willing than we"
III,VI,Second Lord,"your lordship."
III,VI,TIMON,"summer-birds are men. Gentlemen, our dinner will not"
III,VI,TIMON,"recompense this long stay: feast your ears with the"
III,VI,TIMON,"music awhile, if they will fare so harshly o' the"
III,VI,TIMON,"trumpet's sound; we shall to 't presently."
III,VI,First Lord,"I hope it remains not unkindly with your lordship"
III,VI,First Lord,"that I returned you an empty messenger."
III,VI,TIMON,"O, sir, let it not trouble you."
III,VI,Second Lord,"My noble lord,--"
III,VI,TIMON,"Ah, my good friend, what cheer?"
III,VI,Second Lord,"My most honourable lord, I am e'en sick of shame,"
III,VI,Second Lord,"that, when your lordship this other day sent to me,"
III,VI,Second Lord,"I was so unfortunate a beggar."
III,VI,TIMON,"Think not on 't, sir."
III,VI,Second Lord,"If you had sent but two hours before,--"
III,VI,TIMON,"Let it not cumber your better remembrance."
III,VI,TIMON,"Come, bring in all together."
III,VI,Second Lord,"All covered dishes!"
III,VI,First Lord,"Royal cheer, I warrant you."
III,VI,Third Lord,"Doubt not that, if money and the season can yield"
III,VI,Third Lord,"it."
III,VI,First Lord,"How do you? What's the news?"
III,VI,Third Lord,"Alcibiades is banished: hear you of it?"
III,VI,First Lord,"Alcibiades banished!"
III,VI,Third Lord,"'Tis so, be sure of it."
III,VI,First Lord,"How! how!"
III,VI,Second Lord,"I pray you, upon what?"
III,VI,TIMON,"My worthy friends, will you draw near?"
III,VI,Third Lord,"I'll tell you more anon. Here's a noble feast toward."
III,VI,Second Lord,"This is the old man still."
III,VI,Third Lord,"Will 't hold? will 't hold?"
III,VI,Second Lord,"It does: but time will--and so--"
III,VI,Third Lord,"I do conceive."
III,VI,TIMON,"Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to"
III,VI,TIMON,"the lip of his mistress: your diet shall be in all"
III,VI,TIMON,"places alike. Make not a city feast of it, to let"
III,VI,TIMON,"the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place:"
III,VI,TIMON,"sit, sit. The gods require our thanks."
III,VI,TIMON,"You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with"
III,VI,TIMON,"thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves"
III,VI,TIMON,"praised: but reserve still to give, lest your"
III,VI,TIMON,"deities be despised. Lend to each man enough, that"
III,VI,TIMON,"one need not lend to another; for, were your"
III,VI,TIMON,"godheads to borrow of men, men would forsake the"
III,VI,TIMON,"gods. Make the meat be beloved more than the man"
III,VI,TIMON,"that gives it. Let no assembly of twenty be without"
III,VI,TIMON,"a score of villains: if there sit twelve women at"
III,VI,TIMON,"the table, let a dozen of them be--as they are. The"
III,VI,TIMON,"rest of your fees, O gods--the senators of Athens,"
III,VI,TIMON,"together with the common lag of people--what is"
III,VI,TIMON,"amiss in them, you gods, make suitable for"
III,VI,TIMON,"destruction. For these my present friends, as they"
III,VI,TIMON,"are to me nothing, so in nothing bless them, and to"
III,VI,TIMON,"nothing are they welcome."
III,VI,TIMON,"Uncover, dogs, and lap."
III,VI,Some Speak,"What does his lordship mean?"
III,VI,Some Others,"I know not."
III,VI,TIMON,"May you a better feast never behold,"
III,VI,TIMON,"You knot of mouth-friends I smoke and lukewarm water"
III,VI,TIMON,"Is your perfection. This is Timon's last;"
III,VI,TIMON,"Who, stuck and spangled with your flatteries,"
III,VI,TIMON,"Washes it off, and sprinkles in your faces"
III,VI,TIMON,"Your reeking villany."
III,VI,TIMON,"Live loathed and long,"
III,VI,TIMON,"Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,"
III,VI,TIMON,"Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,"
III,VI,TIMON,"You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies,"
III,VI,TIMON,"Cap and knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks!"
III,VI,TIMON,"Of man and beast the infinite malady"
III,VI,TIMON,"Crust you quite o'er! What, dost thou go?"
III,VI,TIMON,"Soft! take thy physic first--thou too--and thou;--"
III,VI,TIMON,"Stay, I will lend thee money, borrow none."
III,VI,TIMON,"What, all in motion? Henceforth be no feast,"
III,VI,TIMON,"Whereat a villain's not a welcome guest."
III,VI,TIMON,"Burn, house! sink, Athens! henceforth hated be"
III,VI,TIMON,"Of Timon man and all humanity!"
III,VI,First Lord,"How now, my lords!"
III,VI,Second Lord,"Know you the quality of Lord Timon's fury?"
III,VI,Third Lord,"Push! did you see my cap?"
III,VI,Fourth Lord,"I have lost my gown."
III,VI,First Lord,"He's but a mad lord, and nought but humour sways him."
III,VI,First Lord,"He gave me a jewel th' other day, and now he has"
III,VI,First Lord,"beat it out of my hat: did you see my jewel?"
III,VI,Third Lord,"Did you see my cap?"
III,VI,Second Lord,"Here 'tis."
III,VI,Fourth Lord,"Here lies my gown."
III,VI,First Lord,"Let's make no stay."
III,VI,Second Lord,"Lord Timon's mad."
III,VI,Third Lord,"I feel 't upon my bones."
III,VI,Fourth Lord,"One day he gives us diamonds, next day stones."
IV,I,TIMON,"Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall,"
IV,I,TIMON,"That girdlest in those wolves, dive in the earth,"
IV,I,TIMON,"And fence not Athens! Matrons, turn incontinent!"
IV,I,TIMON,"Obedience fail in children! slaves and fools,"
IV,I,TIMON,"Pluck the grave wrinkled senate from the bench,"
IV,I,TIMON,"And minister in their steads! to general filths"
IV,I,TIMON,"Convert o' the instant, green virginity,"
IV,I,TIMON,"Do 't in your parents' eyes! bankrupts, hold fast;"
IV,I,TIMON,"Rather than render back, out with your knives,"
IV,I,TIMON,"And cut your trusters' throats! bound servants, steal!"
IV,I,TIMON,"Large-handed robbers your grave masters are,"
IV,I,TIMON,"And pill by law. Maid, to thy master's bed;"
IV,I,TIMON,"Thy mistress is o' the brothel! Son of sixteen,"
IV,I,TIMON,"pluck the lined crutch from thy old limping sire,"
IV,I,TIMON,"With it beat out his brains! Piety, and fear,"
IV,I,TIMON,"Religion to the gods, peace, justice, truth,"
IV,I,TIMON,"Domestic awe, night-rest, and neighbourhood,"
IV,I,TIMON,"Instruction, manners, mysteries, and trades,"
IV,I,TIMON,"Degrees, observances, customs, and laws,"
IV,I,TIMON,"Decline to your confounding contraries,"
IV,I,TIMON,"And let confusion live! Plagues, incident to men,"
IV,I,TIMON,"Your potent and infectious fevers heap"
IV,I,TIMON,"On Athens, ripe for stroke! Thou cold sciatica,"
IV,I,TIMON,"Cripple our senators, that their limbs may halt"
IV,I,TIMON,"As lamely as their manners. Lust and liberty"
IV,I,TIMON,"Creep in the minds and marrows of our youth,"
IV,I,TIMON,"That 'gainst the stream of virtue they may strive,"
IV,I,TIMON,"And drown themselves in riot! Itches, blains,"
IV,I,TIMON,"Sow all the Athenian bosoms; and their crop"
IV,I,TIMON,"Be general leprosy! Breath infect breath,"
IV,I,TIMON,"at their society, as their friendship, may"
IV,I,TIMON,"merely poison! Nothing I'll bear from thee,"
IV,I,TIMON,"But nakedness, thou detestable town!"
IV,I,TIMON,"Take thou that too, with multiplying bans!"
IV,I,TIMON,"Timon will to the woods; where he shall find"
IV,I,TIMON,"The unkindest beast more kinder than mankind."
IV,I,TIMON,"The gods confound--hear me, you good gods all--"
IV,I,TIMON,"The Athenians both within and out that wall!"
IV,I,TIMON,"And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow"
IV,I,TIMON,"To the whole race of mankind, high and low! Amen."
IV,II,First Servant,"Hear you, master steward, where's our master?"
IV,II,First Servant,"Are we undone? cast off? nothing remaining?"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Alack, my fellows, what should I say to you?"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Let me be recorded by the righteous gods,"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"I am as poor as you."
IV,II,First Servant,"Such a house broke!"
IV,II,First Servant,"So noble a master fall'n! All gone! and not"
IV,II,First Servant,"One friend to take his fortune by the arm,"
IV,II,First Servant,"And go along with him!"
IV,II,Second Servant,"As we do turn our backs"
IV,II,Second Servant,"From our companion thrown into his grave,"
IV,II,Second Servant,"So his familiars to his buried fortunes"
IV,II,Second Servant,"Slink all away, leave their false vows with him,"
IV,II,Second Servant,"Like empty purses pick'd; and his poor self,"
IV,II,Second Servant,"A dedicated beggar to the air,"
IV,II,Second Servant,"With his disease of all-shunn'd poverty,"
IV,II,Second Servant,"Walks, like contempt, alone. More of our fellows."
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"All broken implements of a ruin'd house."
IV,II,Third Servant,"Yet do our hearts wear Timon's livery;"
IV,II,Third Servant,"That see I by our faces; we are fellows still,"
IV,II,Third Servant,"Serving alike in sorrow: leak'd is our bark,"
IV,II,Third Servant,"And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck,"
IV,II,Third Servant,"Hearing the surges threat: we must all part"
IV,II,Third Servant,"Into this sea of air."
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Good fellows all,"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"The latest of my wealth I'll share amongst you."
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Wherever we shall meet, for Timon's sake,"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Let's yet be fellows; let's shake our heads, and say,"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"As 'twere a knell unto our master's fortunes,"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"'We have seen better days.' Let each take some;"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Nay, put out all your hands. Not one word more:"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor."
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Since riches point to misery and contempt?"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Who would be so mock'd with glory? or to live"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"But in a dream of friendship?"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"To have his pomp and all what state compounds"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"But only painted, like his varnish'd friends?"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Poor honest lord, brought low by his own heart,"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Undone by goodness! Strange, unusual blood,"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"When man's worst sin is, he does too much good!"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Who, then, dares to be half so kind again?"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men."
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"My dearest lord, bless'd, to be most accursed,"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Rich, only to be wretched, thy great fortunes"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Are made thy chief afflictions. Alas, kind lord!"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"He's flung in rage from this ingrateful seat"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Of monstrous friends, nor has he with him to"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Supply his life, or that which can command it."
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"I'll follow and inquire him out:"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"I'll ever serve his mind with my best will;"
IV,II,FLAVIUS,"Whilst I have gold, I'll be his steward still."
IV,III,TIMON,"O blessed breeding sun, draw from the earth"
IV,III,TIMON,"Rotten humidity; below thy sister's orb"
IV,III,TIMON,"Infect the air! Twinn'd brothers of one womb,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Whose procreation, residence, and birth,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Scarce is dividant, touch them with several fortunes;"
IV,III,TIMON,"The greater scorns the lesser: not nature,"
IV,III,TIMON,"To whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune,"
IV,III,TIMON,"But by contempt of nature."
IV,III,TIMON,"Raise me this beggar, and deny 't that lord;"
IV,III,TIMON,"The senator shall bear contempt hereditary,"
IV,III,TIMON,"The beggar native honour."
IV,III,TIMON,"It is the pasture lards the rother's sides,"
IV,III,TIMON,"The want that makes him lean. Who dares, who dares,"
IV,III,TIMON,"In purity of manhood stand upright,"
IV,III,TIMON,"And say 'This man's a flatterer?' if one be,"
IV,III,TIMON,"So are they all; for every grise of fortune"
IV,III,TIMON,"Is smooth'd by that below: the learned pate"
IV,III,TIMON,"Ducks to the golden fool: all is oblique;"
IV,III,TIMON,"There's nothing level in our cursed natures,"
IV,III,TIMON,"But direct villany. Therefore, be abhorr'd"
IV,III,TIMON,"All feasts, societies, and throngs of men!"
IV,III,TIMON,"His semblable, yea, himself, Timon disdains:"
IV,III,TIMON,"Destruction fang mankind! Earth, yield me roots!"
IV,III,TIMON,"Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate"
IV,III,TIMON,"With thy most operant poison! What is here?"
IV,III,TIMON,"Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold? No, gods,"
IV,III,TIMON,"I am no idle votarist: roots, you clear heavens!"
IV,III,TIMON,"Thus much of this will make black white, foul fair,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant."
IV,III,TIMON,"Ha, you gods! why this? what this, you gods? Why, this"
IV,III,TIMON,"Will lug your priests and servants from your sides,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads:"
IV,III,TIMON,"This yellow slave"
IV,III,TIMON,"Will knit and break religions, bless the accursed,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves"
IV,III,TIMON,"And give them title, knee and approbation"
IV,III,TIMON,"With senators on the bench: this is it"
IV,III,TIMON,"That makes the wappen'd widow wed again;"
IV,III,TIMON,"She, whom the spital-house and ulcerous sores"
IV,III,TIMON,"Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices"
IV,III,TIMON,"To the April day again. Come, damned earth,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Thou common whore of mankind, that put'st odds"
IV,III,TIMON,"Among the route of nations, I will make thee"
IV,III,TIMON,"Do thy right nature."
IV,III,TIMON,"Ha! a drum? Thou'rt quick,"
IV,III,TIMON,"But yet I'll bury thee: thou'lt go, strong thief,"
IV,III,TIMON,"When gouty keepers of thee cannot stand."
IV,III,TIMON,"Nay, stay thou out for earnest."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"What art thou there? speak."
IV,III,TIMON,"A beast, as thou art. The canker gnaw thy heart,"
IV,III,TIMON,"For showing me again the eyes of man!"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"What is thy name? Is man so hateful to thee,"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"That art thyself a man?"
IV,III,TIMON,"I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind."
IV,III,TIMON,"For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog,"
IV,III,TIMON,"That I might love thee something."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"I know thee well;"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"But in thy fortunes am unlearn'd and strange."
IV,III,TIMON,"I know thee too; and more than that I know thee,"
IV,III,TIMON,"I not desire to know. Follow thy drum;"
IV,III,TIMON,"With man's blood paint the ground, gules, gules:"
IV,III,TIMON,"Religious canons, civil laws are cruel;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Then what should war be? This fell whore of thine"
IV,III,TIMON,"Hath in her more destruction than thy sword,"
IV,III,TIMON,"For all her cherubim look."
IV,III,PHRYNIA,"Thy lips rot off!"
IV,III,TIMON,"I will not kiss thee; then the rot returns"
IV,III,TIMON,"To thine own lips again."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"How came the noble Timon to this change?"
IV,III,TIMON,"As the moon does, by wanting light to give:"
IV,III,TIMON,"But then renew I could not, like the moon;"
IV,III,TIMON,"There were no suns to borrow of."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"Noble Timon,"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"What friendship may I do thee?"
IV,III,TIMON,"None, but to"
IV,III,TIMON,"Maintain my opinion."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"What is it, Timon?"
IV,III,TIMON,"Promise me friendship, but perform none: if thou"
IV,III,TIMON,"wilt not promise, the gods plague thee, for thou art"
IV,III,TIMON,"a man! if thou dost perform, confound thee, for"
IV,III,TIMON,"thou art a man!"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"I have heard in some sort of thy miseries."
IV,III,TIMON,"Thou saw'st them, when I had prosperity."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"I see them now; then was a blessed time."
IV,III,TIMON,"As thine is now, held with a brace of harlots."
IV,III,TIMANDRA,"Is this the Athenian minion, whom the world"
IV,III,TIMANDRA,"Voiced so regardfully?"
IV,III,TIMON,"Art thou Timandra?"
IV,III,TIMANDRA,"Yes."
IV,III,TIMON,"Be a whore still: they love thee not that use thee;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Give them diseases, leaving with thee their lust."
IV,III,TIMON,"Make use of thy salt hours: season the slaves"
IV,III,TIMON,"For tubs and baths; bring down rose-cheeked youth"
IV,III,TIMON,"To the tub-fast and the diet."
IV,III,TIMANDRA,"Hang thee, monster!"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"Pardon him, sweet Timandra; for his wits"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"Are drown'd and lost in his calamities."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"I have but little gold of late, brave Timon,"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"The want whereof doth daily make revolt"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"In my penurious band: I have heard, and grieved,"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"How cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth,"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"Forgetting thy great deeds, when neighbour states,"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"But for thy sword and fortune, trod upon them,--"
IV,III,TIMON,"I prithee, beat thy drum, and get thee gone."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"I am thy friend, and pity thee, dear Timon."
IV,III,TIMON,"How dost thou pity him whom thou dost trouble?"
IV,III,TIMON,"I had rather be alone."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"Why, fare thee well:"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"Here is some gold for thee."
IV,III,TIMON,"Keep it, I cannot eat it."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"When I have laid proud Athens on a heap,--"
IV,III,TIMON,"Warr'st thou 'gainst Athens?"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"Ay, Timon, and have cause."
IV,III,TIMON,"The gods confound them all in thy conquest;"
IV,III,TIMON,"And thee after, when thou hast conquer'd!"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"Why me, Timon?"
IV,III,TIMON,"That, by killing of villains,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Thou wast born to conquer my country."
IV,III,TIMON,"Put up thy gold: go on,--here's gold,--go on;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Be as a planetary plague, when Jove"
IV,III,TIMON,"Will o'er some high-viced city hang his poison"
IV,III,TIMON,"In the sick air: let not thy sword skip one:"
IV,III,TIMON,"Pity not honour'd age for his white beard;"
IV,III,TIMON,"He is an usurer: strike me the counterfeit matron;"
IV,III,TIMON,"It is her habit only that is honest,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Herself's a bawd: let not the virgin's cheek"
IV,III,TIMON,"Make soft thy trenchant sword; for those milk-paps,"
IV,III,TIMON,"That through the window-bars bore at men's eyes,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Are not within the leaf of pity writ,"
IV,III,TIMON,"But set them down horrible traitors: spare not the babe,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Whose dimpled smiles from fools exhaust their mercy;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Think it a bastard, whom the oracle"
IV,III,TIMON,"Hath doubtfully pronounced thy throat shall cut,"
IV,III,TIMON,"And mince it sans remorse: swear against objects;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Put armour on thine ears and on thine eyes;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Whose proof, nor yells of mothers, maids, nor babes,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Nor sight of priests in holy vestments bleeding,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Shall pierce a jot. There's gold to pay soldiers:"
IV,III,TIMON,"Make large confusion; and, thy fury spent,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Confounded be thyself! Speak not, be gone."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"Hast thou gold yet? I'll take the gold thou"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"givest me,"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"Not all thy counsel."
IV,III,TIMON,"Dost thou, or dost thou not, heaven's curse"
IV,III,TIMON,"upon thee!"
IV,III,PHRYNIA,"Give us some gold, good Timon: hast thou more?"
IV,III,TIMON,"Enough to make a whore forswear her trade,"
IV,III,TIMON,"And to make whores, a bawd. Hold up, you sluts,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Your aprons mountant: you are not oathable,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Although, I know, you 'll swear, terribly swear"
IV,III,TIMON,"Into strong shudders and to heavenly agues"
IV,III,TIMON,"The immortal gods that hear you,--spare your oaths,"
IV,III,TIMON,"I'll trust to your conditions: be whores still;"
IV,III,TIMON,"And he whose pious breath seeks to convert you,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Be strong in whore, allure him, burn him up;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Let your close fire predominate his smoke,"
IV,III,TIMON,"And be no turncoats: yet may your pains, six months,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Be quite contrary: and thatch your poor thin roofs"
IV,III,TIMON,"With burthens of the dead;--some that were hang'd,"
IV,III,TIMON,"No matter:--wear them, betray with them: whore still;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Paint till a horse may mire upon your face,"
IV,III,TIMON,"A pox of wrinkles!"
IV,III,PHRYNIA,"Well, more gold: what then?"
IV,III,PHRYNIA,"Believe't, that we'll do any thing for gold."
IV,III,TIMON,"Consumptions sow"
IV,III,TIMON,"In hollow bones of man; strike their sharp shins,"
IV,III,TIMON,"And mar men's spurring. Crack the lawyer's voice,"
IV,III,TIMON,"That he may never more false title plead,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Nor sound his quillets shrilly: hoar the flamen,"
IV,III,TIMON,"That scolds against the quality of flesh,"
IV,III,TIMON,"And not believes himself: down with the nose,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Down with it flat; take the bridge quite away"
IV,III,TIMON,"Of him that, his particular to foresee,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Smells from the general weal: make curl'd-pate"
IV,III,TIMON,"ruffians bald;"
IV,III,TIMON,"And let the unscarr'd braggarts of the war"
IV,III,TIMON,"Derive some pain from you: plague all;"
IV,III,TIMON,"That your activity may defeat and quell"
IV,III,TIMON,"The source of all erection. There's more gold:"
IV,III,TIMON,"Do you damn others, and let this damn you,"
IV,III,TIMON,"And ditches grave you all!"
IV,III,PHRYNIA,"More counsel with more money, bounteous Timon."
IV,III,TIMON,"More whore, more mischief first; I have given you earnest."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"Strike up the drum towards Athens! Farewell, Timon:"
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"If I thrive well, I'll visit thee again."
IV,III,TIMON,"If I hope well, I'll never see thee more."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"I never did thee harm."
IV,III,TIMON,"Yes, thou spokest well of me."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"Call'st thou that harm?"
IV,III,TIMON,"Men daily find it. Get thee away, and take"
IV,III,TIMON,"Thy beagles with thee."
IV,III,ALCIBIADES,"We but offend him. Strike!"
IV,III,TIMON,"That nature, being sick of man's unkindness,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Should yet be hungry! Common mother, thou,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Whose womb unmeasurable, and infinite breast,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Teems, and feeds all; whose self-same mettle,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Whereof thy proud child, arrogant man, is puff'd,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Engenders the black toad and adder blue,"
IV,III,TIMON,"The gilded newt and eyeless venom'd worm,"
IV,III,TIMON,"With all the abhorred births below crisp heaven"
IV,III,TIMON,"Whereon Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Yield him, who all thy human sons doth hate,"
IV,III,TIMON,"From forth thy plenteous bosom, one poor root!"
IV,III,TIMON,"Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Let it no more bring out ingrateful man!"
IV,III,TIMON,"Go great with tigers, dragons, wolves, and bears;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Teem with new monsters, whom thy upward face"
IV,III,TIMON,"Hath to the marbled mansion all above"
IV,III,TIMON,"Never presented!--O, a root,--dear thanks!--"
IV,III,TIMON,"Dry up thy marrows, vines, and plough-torn leas;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Whereof ungrateful man, with liquorish draughts"
IV,III,TIMON,"And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind,"
IV,III,TIMON,"That from it all consideration slips!"
IV,III,TIMON,"More man? plague, plague!"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"I was directed hither: men report"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Thou dost affect my manners, and dost use them."
IV,III,TIMON,"'Tis, then, because thou dost not keep a dog,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Whom I would imitate: consumption catch thee!"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"This is in thee a nature but infected;"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"A poor unmanly melancholy sprung"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"From change of fortune. Why this spade? this place?"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"This slave-like habit? and these looks of care?"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Thy flatterers yet wear silk, drink wine, lie soft;"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Hug their diseased perfumes, and have forgot"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"That ever Timon was. Shame not these woods,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"By putting on the cunning of a carper."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Be thou a flatterer now, and seek to thrive"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"By that which has undone thee: hinge thy knee,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"And let his very breath, whom thou'lt observe,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Blow off thy cap; praise his most vicious strain,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"And call it excellent: thou wast told thus;"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Thou gavest thine ears like tapsters that bid welcome"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"To knaves and all approachers: 'tis most just"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"That thou turn rascal; hadst thou wealth again,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Rascals should have 't. Do not assume my likeness."
IV,III,TIMON,"Were I like thee, I'ld throw away myself."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Thou hast cast away thyself, being like thyself;"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"A madman so long, now a fool. What, think'st"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Will put thy shirt on warm? will these moss'd trees,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"That have outlived the eagle, page thy heels,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"And skip where thou point'st out? will the"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"cold brook,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"To cure thy o'er-night's surfeit? Call the creatures"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Whose naked natures live in an the spite"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Of wreakful heaven, whose bare unhoused trunks,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"To the conflicting elements exposed,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Answer mere nature; bid them flatter thee;"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"O, thou shalt find--"
IV,III,TIMON,"A fool of thee: depart."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"I love thee better now than e'er I did."
IV,III,TIMON,"I hate thee worse."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Why?"
IV,III,TIMON,"Thou flatter'st misery."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"I flatter not; but say thou art a caitiff."
IV,III,TIMON,"Why dost thou seek me out?"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"To vex thee."
IV,III,TIMON,"Always a villain's office or a fool's."
IV,III,TIMON,"Dost please thyself in't?"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Ay."
IV,III,TIMON,"What! a knave too?"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"If thou didst put this sour-cold habit on"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"To castigate thy pride, 'twere well: but thou"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Dost it enforcedly; thou'ldst courtier be again,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Wert thou not beggar. Willing misery"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Outlives encertain pomp, is crown'd before:"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"The one is filling still, never complete;"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"The other, at high wish: best state, contentless,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Hath a distracted and most wretched being,"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Worse than the worst, content."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Thou shouldst desire to die, being miserable."
IV,III,TIMON,"Not by his breath that is more miserable."
IV,III,TIMON,"Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm"
IV,III,TIMON,"With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog."
IV,III,TIMON,"Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded"
IV,III,TIMON,"The sweet degrees that this brief world affords"
IV,III,TIMON,"To such as may the passive drugs of it"
IV,III,TIMON,"Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself"
IV,III,TIMON,"In general riot; melted down thy youth"
IV,III,TIMON,"In different beds of lust; and never learn'd"
IV,III,TIMON,"The icy precepts of respect, but follow'd"
IV,III,TIMON,"The sugar'd game before thee. But myself,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Who had the world as my confectionary,"
IV,III,TIMON,"The mouths, the tongues, the eyes and hearts of men"
IV,III,TIMON,"At duty, more than I could frame employment,"
IV,III,TIMON,"That numberless upon me stuck as leaves"
IV,III,TIMON,"Do on the oak, hive with one winter's brush"
IV,III,TIMON,"Fell from their boughs and left me open, bare"
IV,III,TIMON,"For every storm that blows: I, to bear this,"
IV,III,TIMON,"That never knew but better, is some burden:"
IV,III,TIMON,"Thy nature did commence in sufferance, time"
IV,III,TIMON,"Hath made thee hard in't. Why shouldst thou hate men?"
IV,III,TIMON,"They never flatter'd thee: what hast thou given?"
IV,III,TIMON,"If thou wilt curse, thy father, that poor rag,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Must be thy subject, who in spite put stuff"
IV,III,TIMON,"To some she beggar and compounded thee"
IV,III,TIMON,"Poor rogue hereditary. Hence, be gone!"
IV,III,TIMON,"If thou hadst not been born the worst of men,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Art thou proud yet?"
IV,III,TIMON,"Ay, that I am not thee."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"I, that I was"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"No prodigal."
IV,III,TIMON,"I, that I am one now:"
IV,III,TIMON,"Were all the wealth I have shut up in thee,"
IV,III,TIMON,"I'ld give thee leave to hang it. Get thee gone."
IV,III,TIMON,"That the whole life of Athens were in this!"
IV,III,TIMON,"Thus would I eat it."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Here; I will mend thy feast."
IV,III,TIMON,"First mend my company, take away thyself."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"So I shall mend mine own, by the lack of thine."
IV,III,TIMON,"'Tis not well mended so, it is but botch'd;"
IV,III,TIMON,"if not, I would it were."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"What wouldst thou have to Athens?"
IV,III,TIMON,"Thee thither in a whirlwind. If thou wilt,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Tell them there I have gold; look, so I have."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Here is no use for gold."
IV,III,TIMON,"The best and truest;"
IV,III,TIMON,"For here it sleeps, and does no hired harm."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Where liest o' nights, Timon?"
IV,III,TIMON,"Under that's above me."
IV,III,TIMON,"Where feed'st thou o' days, Apemantus?"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Where my stomach finds meat; or, rather, where I eat"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"it."
IV,III,TIMON,"Would poison were obedient and knew my mind!"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Where wouldst thou send it?"
IV,III,TIMON,"To sauce thy dishes."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"The middle of humanity thou never knewest, but the"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"extremity of both ends: when thou wast in thy gilt"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"curiosity; in thy rags thou knowest none, but art"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"despised for the contrary. There's a medlar for"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"thee, eat it."
IV,III,TIMON,"On what I hate I feed not."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Dost hate a medlar?"
IV,III,TIMON,"Ay, though it look like thee."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"An thou hadst hated meddlers sooner, thou shouldst"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"have loved thyself better now. What man didst thou"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"ever know unthrift that was beloved after his means?"
IV,III,TIMON,"Who, without those means thou talkest of, didst thou"
IV,III,TIMON,"ever know beloved?"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Myself."
IV,III,TIMON,"I understand thee; thou hadst some means to keep a"
IV,III,TIMON,"dog."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"What things in the world canst thou nearest compare"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"to thy flatterers?"
IV,III,TIMON,"Women nearest; but men, men are the things"
IV,III,TIMON,"themselves. What wouldst thou do with the world,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Apemantus, if it lay in thy power?"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Give it the beasts, to be rid of the men."
IV,III,TIMON,"Wouldst thou have thyself fall in the confusion of"
IV,III,TIMON,"men, and remain a beast with the beasts?"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Ay, Timon."
IV,III,TIMON,"A beastly ambition, which the gods grant thee t'"
IV,III,TIMON,"attain to! If thou wert the lion, the fox would"
IV,III,TIMON,"beguile thee; if thou wert the lamb, the fox would"
IV,III,TIMON,"eat three: if thou wert the fox, the lion would"
IV,III,TIMON,"suspect thee, when peradventure thou wert accused by"
IV,III,TIMON,"the ass: if thou wert the ass, thy dulness would"
IV,III,TIMON,"torment thee, and still thou livedst but as a"
IV,III,TIMON,"breakfast to the wolf: if thou wert the wolf, thy"
IV,III,TIMON,"greediness would afflict thee, and oft thou shouldst"
IV,III,TIMON,"hazard thy life for thy dinner: wert thou the"
IV,III,TIMON,"unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee and"
IV,III,TIMON,"make thine own self the conquest of thy fury: wert"
IV,III,TIMON,"thou a bear, thou wouldst be killed by the horse:"
IV,III,TIMON,"wert thou a horse, thou wouldst be seized by the"
IV,III,TIMON,"leopard: wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to"
IV,III,TIMON,"the lion and the spots of thy kindred were jurors on"
IV,III,TIMON,"thy life: all thy safety were remotion and thy"
IV,III,TIMON,"defence absence. What beast couldst thou be, that"
IV,III,TIMON,"were not subject to a beast? and what a beast art"
IV,III,TIMON,"thou already, that seest not thy loss in"
IV,III,TIMON,"transformation!"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"If thou couldst please me with speaking to me, thou"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"mightst have hit upon it here: the commonwealth of"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Athens is become a forest of beasts."
IV,III,TIMON,"How has the ass broke the wall, that thou art out of the city?"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Yonder comes a poet and a painter: the plague of"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"company light upon thee! I will fear to catch it"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"and give way: when I know not what else to do, I'll"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"see thee again."
IV,III,TIMON,"When there is nothing living but thee, thou shalt be"
IV,III,TIMON,"welcome. I had rather be a beggar's dog than Apemantus."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Thou art the cap of all the fools alive."
IV,III,TIMON,"Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"A plague on thee! thou art too bad to curse."
IV,III,TIMON,"All villains that do stand by thee are pure."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"There is no leprosy but what thou speak'st."
IV,III,TIMON,"If I name thee."
IV,III,TIMON,"I'll beat thee, but I should infect my hands."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"I would my tongue could rot them off!"
IV,III,TIMON,"Away, thou issue of a mangy dog!"
IV,III,TIMON,"Choler does kill me that thou art alive;"
IV,III,TIMON,"I swound to see thee."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Would thou wouldst burst!"
IV,III,TIMON,"Away,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Thou tedious rogue! I am sorry I shall lose"
IV,III,TIMON,"A stone by thee."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Beast!"
IV,III,TIMON,"Slave!"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Toad!"
IV,III,TIMON,"Rogue, rogue, rogue!"
IV,III,TIMON,"I am sick of this false world, and will love nought"
IV,III,TIMON,"But even the mere necessities upon 't."
IV,III,TIMON,"Then, Timon, presently prepare thy grave;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Lie where the light foam the sea may beat"
IV,III,TIMON,"Thy grave-stone daily: make thine epitaph,"
IV,III,TIMON,"That death in me at others' lives may laugh."
IV,III,TIMON,"O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce"
IV,III,TIMON,"'Twixt natural son and sire! thou bright defiler"
IV,III,TIMON,"Of Hymen's purest bed! thou valiant Mars!"
IV,III,TIMON,"Thou ever young, fresh, loved and delicate wooer,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow"
IV,III,TIMON,"That lies on Dian's lap! thou visible god,"
IV,III,TIMON,"That solder'st close impossibilities,"
IV,III,TIMON,"And makest them kiss! that speak'st with"
IV,III,TIMON,"every tongue,"
IV,III,TIMON,"To every purpose! O thou touch of hearts!"
IV,III,TIMON,"Think, thy slave man rebels, and by thy virtue"
IV,III,TIMON,"Set them into confounding odds, that beasts"
IV,III,TIMON,"May have the world in empire!"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Would 'twere so!"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"But not till I am dead. I'll say thou'st gold:"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Thou wilt be throng'd to shortly."
IV,III,TIMON,"Throng'd to!"
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Ay."
IV,III,TIMON,"Thy back, I prithee."
IV,III,APEMANTUS,"Live, and love thy misery."
IV,III,TIMON,"Long live so, and so die."
IV,III,TIMON,"I am quit."
IV,III,TIMON,"Moe things like men! Eat, Timon, and abhor them."
IV,III,First Bandit,"Where should he have this gold? It is some poor"
IV,III,First Bandit,"fragment, some slender sort of his remainder: the"
IV,III,First Bandit,"mere want of gold, and the falling-from of his"
IV,III,First Bandit,"friends, drove him into this melancholy."
IV,III,Second Bandit,"It is noised he hath a mass of treasure."
IV,III,Third Bandit,"Let us make the assay upon him: if he care not"
IV,III,Third Bandit,"for't, he will supply us easily; if he covetously"
IV,III,Third Bandit,"reserve it, how shall's get it?"
IV,III,Second Bandit,"True; for he bears it not about him, 'tis hid."
IV,III,First Bandit,"Is not this he?"
IV,III,Banditti,"Where?"
IV,III,Second Bandit,"'Tis his description."
IV,III,Third Bandit,"He; I know him."
IV,III,Banditti,"Save thee, Timon."
IV,III,TIMON,"Now, thieves?"
IV,III,Banditti,"Soldiers, not thieves."
IV,III,TIMON,"Both too; and women's sons."
IV,III,Banditti,"We are not thieves, but men that much do want."
IV,III,TIMON,"Your greatest want is, you want much of meat."
IV,III,TIMON,"Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Within this mile break forth a hundred springs;"
IV,III,TIMON,"The oaks bear mast, the briers scarlet hips;"
IV,III,TIMON,"The bounteous housewife, nature, on each bush"
IV,III,TIMON,"Lays her full mess before you. Want! why want?"
IV,III,First Bandit,"We cannot live on grass, on berries, water,"
IV,III,First Bandit,"As beasts and birds and fishes."
IV,III,TIMON,"Nor on the beasts themselves, the birds, and fishes;"
IV,III,TIMON,"You must eat men. Yet thanks I must you con"
IV,III,TIMON,"That you are thieves profess'd, that you work not"
IV,III,TIMON,"In holier shapes: for there is boundless theft"
IV,III,TIMON,"In limited professions. Rascal thieves,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Here's gold. Go, suck the subtle blood o' the grape,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Till the high fever seethe your blood to froth,"
IV,III,TIMON,"And so 'scape hanging: trust not the physician;"
IV,III,TIMON,"His antidotes are poison, and he slays"
IV,III,TIMON,"Moe than you rob: take wealth and lives together;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Do villany, do, since you protest to do't,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery."
IV,III,TIMON,"The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction"
IV,III,TIMON,"Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief,"
IV,III,TIMON,"And her pale fire she snatches from the sun:"
IV,III,TIMON,"The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves"
IV,III,TIMON,"The moon into salt tears: the earth's a thief,"
IV,III,TIMON,"That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen"
IV,III,TIMON,"From general excrement: each thing's a thief:"
IV,III,TIMON,"The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power"
IV,III,TIMON,"Have uncheque'd theft. Love not yourselves: away,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Rob one another. There's more gold. Cut throats:"
IV,III,TIMON,"All that you meet are thieves: to Athens go,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Break open shops; nothing can you steal,"
IV,III,TIMON,"But thieves do lose it: steal no less for this"
IV,III,TIMON,"I give you; and gold confound you howsoe'er! Amen."
IV,III,Third Bandit,"Has almost charmed me from my profession, by"
IV,III,Third Bandit,"persuading me to it."
IV,III,First Bandit,"'Tis in the malice of mankind that he thus advises"
IV,III,First Bandit,"us; not to have us thrive in our mystery."
IV,III,Second Bandit,"I'll believe him as an enemy, and give over my trade."
IV,III,First Bandit,"Let us first see peace in Athens: there is no time"
IV,III,First Bandit,"so miserable but a man may be true."
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"O you gods!"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Is yond despised and ruinous man my lord?"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Full of decay and failing? O monument"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"And wonder of good deeds evilly bestow'd!"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"What an alteration of honour"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Has desperate want made!"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"What viler thing upon the earth than friends"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends!"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"How rarely does it meet with this time's guise,"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"When man was wish'd to love his enemies!"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Grant I may ever love, and rather woo"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Those that would mischief me than those that do!"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Has caught me in his eye: I will present"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"My honest grief unto him; and, as my lord,"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Still serve him with my life. My dearest master!"
IV,III,TIMON,"Away! what art thou?"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Have you forgot me, sir?"
IV,III,TIMON,"Why dost ask that? I have forgot all men;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Then, if thou grant'st thou'rt a man, I have forgot thee."
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"An honest poor servant of yours."
IV,III,TIMON,"Then I know thee not:"
IV,III,TIMON,"I never had honest man about me, I; all"
IV,III,TIMON,"I kept were knaves, to serve in meat to villains."
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"The gods are witness,"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Ne'er did poor steward wear a truer grief"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"For his undone lord than mine eyes for you."
IV,III,TIMON,"What, dost thou weep? Come nearer. Then I"
IV,III,TIMON,"love thee,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Because thou art a woman, and disclaim'st"
IV,III,TIMON,"Flinty mankind; whose eyes do never give"
IV,III,TIMON,"But thorough lust and laughter. Pity's sleeping:"
IV,III,TIMON,"Strange times, that weep with laughing, not with weeping!"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"I beg of you to know me, good my lord,"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"To accept my grief and whilst this poor wealth lasts"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"To entertain me as your steward still."
IV,III,TIMON,"Had I a steward"
IV,III,TIMON,"So true, so just, and now so comfortable?"
IV,III,TIMON,"It almost turns my dangerous nature mild."
IV,III,TIMON,"Let me behold thy face. Surely, this man"
IV,III,TIMON,"Was born of woman."
IV,III,TIMON,"Forgive my general and exceptless rashness,"
IV,III,TIMON,"You perpetual-sober gods! I do proclaim"
IV,III,TIMON,"One honest man--mistake me not--but one;"
IV,III,TIMON,"No more, I pray,--and he's a steward."
IV,III,TIMON,"How fain would I have hated all mankind!"
IV,III,TIMON,"And thou redeem'st thyself: but all, save thee,"
IV,III,TIMON,"I fell with curses."
IV,III,TIMON,"Methinks thou art more honest now than wise;"
IV,III,TIMON,"For, by oppressing and betraying me,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Thou mightst have sooner got another service:"
IV,III,TIMON,"For many so arrive at second masters,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Upon their first lord's neck. But tell me true--"
IV,III,TIMON,"For I must ever doubt, though ne'er so sure--"
IV,III,TIMON,"Is not thy kindness subtle, covetous,"
IV,III,TIMON,"If not a usuring kindness, and, as rich men deal gifts,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Expecting in return twenty for one?"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"No, my most worthy master; in whose breast"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Doubt and suspect, alas, are placed too late:"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"You should have fear'd false times when you did feast:"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Suspect still comes where an estate is least."
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"That which I show, heaven knows, is merely love,"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Duty and zeal to your unmatched mind,"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Care of your food and living; and, believe it,"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"My most honour'd lord,"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"For any benefit that points to me,"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"Either in hope or present, I'ld exchange"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"For this one wish, that you had power and wealth"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"To requite me, by making rich yourself."
IV,III,TIMON,"Look thee, 'tis so! Thou singly honest man,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Here, take: the gods out of my misery"
IV,III,TIMON,"Have sent thee treasure. Go, live rich and happy;"
IV,III,TIMON,"But thus condition'd: thou shalt build from men;"
IV,III,TIMON,"Hate all, curse all, show charity to none,"
IV,III,TIMON,"But let the famish'd flesh slide from the bone,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Ere thou relieve the beggar; give to dogs"
IV,III,TIMON,"What thou deny'st to men; let prisons swallow 'em,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Debts wither 'em to nothing; be men like"
IV,III,TIMON,"blasted woods,"
IV,III,TIMON,"And may diseases lick up their false bloods!"
IV,III,TIMON,"And so farewell and thrive."
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"O, let me stay,"
IV,III,FLAVIUS,"And comfort you, my master."
IV,III,TIMON,"If thou hatest curses,"
IV,III,TIMON,"Stay not; fly, whilst thou art blest and free:"
IV,III,TIMON,"Ne'er see thou man, and let me ne'er see thee."
V,I,Painter,"As I took note of the place, it cannot be far where"
V,I,Painter,"he abides."
V,I,Poet,"What's to be thought of him? does the rumour hold"
V,I,Poet,"for true, that he's so full of gold?"
V,I,Painter,"Certain: Alcibiades reports it; Phrynia and"
V,I,Painter,"Timandra had gold of him: he likewise enriched poor"
V,I,Painter,"straggling soldiers with great quantity: 'tis said"
V,I,Painter,"he gave unto his steward a mighty sum."
V,I,Poet,"Then this breaking of his has been but a try for his friends."
V,I,Painter,"Nothing else: you shall see him a palm in Athens"
V,I,Painter,"again, and flourish with the highest. Therefore"
V,I,Painter,"'tis not amiss we tender our loves to him, in this"
V,I,Painter,"supposed distress of his: it will show honestly in"
V,I,Painter,"us; and is very likely to load our purposes with"
V,I,Painter,"what they travail for, if it be a just true report"
V,I,Painter,"that goes of his having."
V,I,Poet,"What have you now to present unto him?"
V,I,Painter,"Nothing at this time but my visitation: only I will"
V,I,Painter,"promise him an excellent piece."
V,I,Poet,"I must serve him so too, tell him of an intent"
V,I,Poet,"that's coming toward him."
V,I,Painter,"Good as the best. Promising is the very air o' the"
V,I,Painter,"time: it opens the eyes of expectation:"
V,I,Painter,"performance is ever the duller for his act; and,"
V,I,Painter,"but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the"
V,I,Painter,"deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is"
V,I,Painter,"most courtly and fashionable: performance is a kind"
V,I,Painter,"of will or testament which argues a great sickness"
V,I,Painter,"in his judgment that makes it."
V,I,TIMON,"man so bad as is thyself."
V,I,Poet,"I am thinking what I shall say I have provided for"
V,I,Poet,"him: it must be a personating of himself; a satire"
V,I,Poet,"against the softness of prosperity, with a discovery"
V,I,Poet,"of the infinite flatteries that follow youth and opulency."
V,I,TIMON,"thine own work? wilt thou whip thine own faults in"
V,I,TIMON,"other men? Do so, I have gold for thee."
V,I,Poet,"Nay, let's seek him:"
V,I,Poet,"Then do we sin against our own estate,"
V,I,Poet,"When we may profit meet, and come too late."
V,I,Painter,"True;"
V,I,Painter,"When the day serves, before black-corner'd night,"
V,I,Painter,"Find what thou want'st by free and offer'd light. Come."
V,I,TIMON,"god's gold,"
V,I,TIMON,"That he is worshipp'd in a baser temple"
V,I,TIMON,"Than where swine feed!"
V,I,TIMON,"'Tis thou that rigg'st the bark and plough'st the foam,"
V,I,TIMON,"Settlest admired reverence in a slave:"
V,I,TIMON,"To thee be worship! and thy saints for aye"
V,I,TIMON,"Be crown'd with plagues that thee alone obey!"
V,I,TIMON,"Fit I meet them."
V,I,Poet,"Hail, worthy Timon!"
V,I,Painter,"Our late noble master!"
V,I,TIMON,"Have I once lived to see two honest men?"
V,I,Poet,"Sir,"
V,I,Poet,"Having often of your open bounty tasted,"
V,I,Poet,"Hearing you were retired, your friends fall'n off,"
V,I,Poet,"Whose thankless natures--O abhorred spirits!--"
V,I,Poet,"Not all the whips of heaven are large enough:"
V,I,Poet,"What! to you,"
V,I,Poet,"Whose star-like nobleness gave life and influence"
V,I,Poet,"To their whole being! I am rapt and cannot cover"
V,I,Poet,"The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude"
V,I,Poet,"With any size of words."
V,I,TIMON,"Let it go naked, men may see't the better:"
V,I,TIMON,"You that are honest, by being what you are,"
V,I,TIMON,"Make them best seen and known."
V,I,Painter,"He and myself"
V,I,Painter,"Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts,"
V,I,Painter,"And sweetly felt it."
V,I,TIMON,"Ay, you are honest men."
V,I,Painter,"We are hither come to offer you our service."
V,I,TIMON,"Most honest men! Why, how shall I requite you?"
V,I,TIMON,"Can you eat roots, and drink cold water? no."
V,I,Both,"What we can do, we'll do, to do you service."
V,I,TIMON,"Ye're honest men: ye've heard that I have gold;"
V,I,TIMON,"I am sure you have: speak truth; ye're honest men."
V,I,Painter,"So it is said, my noble lord; but therefore"
V,I,Painter,"Came not my friend nor I."
V,I,TIMON,"Good honest men! Thou draw'st a counterfeit"
V,I,TIMON,"Best in all Athens: thou'rt, indeed, the best;"
V,I,TIMON,"Thou counterfeit'st most lively."
V,I,Painter,"So, so, my lord."
V,I,TIMON,"E'en so, sir, as I say. And, for thy fiction,"
V,I,TIMON,"Why, thy verse swells with stuff so fine and smooth"
V,I,TIMON,"That thou art even natural in thine art."
V,I,TIMON,"But, for all this, my honest-natured friends,"
V,I,TIMON,"I must needs say you have a little fault:"
V,I,TIMON,"Marry, 'tis not monstrous in you, neither wish I"
V,I,TIMON,"You take much pains to mend."
V,I,Both,"Beseech your honour"
V,I,Both,"To make it known to us."
V,I,TIMON,"You'll take it ill."
V,I,Both,"Most thankfully, my lord."
V,I,TIMON,"Will you, indeed?"
V,I,Both,"Doubt it not, worthy lord."
V,I,TIMON,"There's never a one of you but trusts a knave,"
V,I,TIMON,"That mightily deceives you."
V,I,Both,"Do we, my lord?"
V,I,TIMON,"Ay, and you hear him cog, see him dissemble,"
V,I,TIMON,"Know his gross patchery, love him, feed him,"
V,I,TIMON,"Keep in your bosom: yet remain assured"
V,I,TIMON,"That he's a made-up villain."
V,I,Painter,"I know none such, my lord."
V,I,Poet,"Nor I."
V,I,TIMON,"Look you, I love you well; I'll give you gold,"
V,I,TIMON,"Rid me these villains from your companies:"
V,I,TIMON,"Hang them or stab them, drown them in a draught,"
V,I,TIMON,"Confound them by some course, and come to me,"
V,I,TIMON,"I'll give you gold enough."
V,I,Both,"Name them, my lord, let's know them."
V,I,TIMON,"You that way and you this, but two in company;"
V,I,TIMON,"Each man apart, all single and alone,"
V,I,TIMON,"Yet an arch-villain keeps him company."
V,I,TIMON,"If where thou art two villains shall not be,"
V,I,TIMON,"Come not near him. If thou wouldst not reside"
V,I,TIMON,"But where one villain is, then him abandon."
V,I,TIMON,"Hence, pack! there's gold; you came for gold, ye slaves:"
V,I,TIMON,"You have work'd for me; there's payment for you: hence!"
V,I,TIMON,"You are an alchemist; make gold of that."
V,I,TIMON,"Out, rascal dogs!"
V,I,FLAVIUS,"It is in vain that you would speak with Timon;"
V,I,FLAVIUS,"For he is set so only to himself"
V,I,FLAVIUS,"That nothing but himself which looks like man"
V,I,FLAVIUS,"Is friendly with him."
V,I,First Senator,"Bring us to his cave:"
V,I,First Senator,"It is our part and promise to the Athenians"
V,I,First Senator,"To speak with Timon."
V,I,Second Senator,"At all times alike"
V,I,Second Senator,"Men are not still the same: 'twas time and griefs"
V,I,Second Senator,"That framed him thus: time, with his fairer hand,"
V,I,Second Senator,"Offering the fortunes of his former days,"
V,I,Second Senator,"The former man may make him. Bring us to him,"
V,I,Second Senator,"And chance it as it may."
V,I,FLAVIUS,"Here is his cave."
V,I,FLAVIUS,"Peace and content be here! Lord Timon! Timon!"
V,I,FLAVIUS,"Look out, and speak to friends: the Athenians,"
V,I,FLAVIUS,"By two of their most reverend senate, greet thee:"
V,I,FLAVIUS,"Speak to them, noble Timon."
V,I,TIMON,"Thou sun, that comfort'st, burn! Speak, and"
V,I,TIMON,"be hang'd:"
V,I,TIMON,"For each true word, a blister! and each false"
V,I,TIMON,"Be as cauterizing to the root o' the tongue,"
V,I,TIMON,"Consuming it with speaking!"
V,I,First Senator,"Worthy Timon,--"
V,I,TIMON,"Of none but such as you, and you of Timon."
V,I,First Senator,"The senators of Athens greet thee, Timon."
V,I,TIMON,"I thank them; and would send them back the plague,"
V,I,TIMON,"Could I but catch it for them."
V,I,First Senator,"O, forget"
V,I,First Senator,"What we are sorry for ourselves in thee."
V,I,First Senator,"The senators with one consent of love"
V,I,First Senator,"Entreat thee back to Athens; who have thought"
V,I,First Senator,"On special dignities, which vacant lie"
V,I,First Senator,"For thy best use and wearing."
V,I,Second Senator,"They confess"
V,I,Second Senator,"Toward thee forgetfulness too general, gross:"
V,I,Second Senator,"Which now the public body, which doth seldom"
V,I,Second Senator,"Play the recanter, feeling in itself"
V,I,Second Senator,"A lack of Timon's aid, hath sense withal"
V,I,Second Senator,"Of its own fail, restraining aid to Timon;"
V,I,Second Senator,"And send forth us, to make their sorrow'd render,"
V,I,Second Senator,"Together with a recompense more fruitful"
V,I,Second Senator,"Than their offence can weigh down by the dram;"
V,I,Second Senator,"Ay, even such heaps and sums of love and wealth"
V,I,Second Senator,"As shall to thee blot out what wrongs were theirs"
V,I,Second Senator,"And write in thee the figures of their love,"
V,I,Second Senator,"Ever to read them thine."
V,I,TIMON,"You witch me in it;"
V,I,TIMON,"Surprise me to the very brink of tears:"
V,I,TIMON,"Lend me a fool's heart and a woman's eyes,"
V,I,TIMON,"And I'll beweep these comforts, worthy senators."
V,I,First Senator,"Therefore, so please thee to return with us"
V,I,First Senator,"And of our Athens, thine and ours, to take"
V,I,First Senator,"The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks,"
V,I,First Senator,"Allow'd with absolute power and thy good name"
V,I,First Senator,"Live with authority: so soon we shall drive back"
V,I,First Senator,"Of Alcibiades the approaches wild,"
V,I,First Senator,"Who, like a boar too savage, doth root up"
V,I,First Senator,"His country's peace."
V,I,Second Senator,"And shakes his threatening sword"
V,I,Second Senator,"Against the walls of Athens."
V,I,First Senator,"Therefore, Timon,--"
V,I,TIMON,"Well, sir, I will; therefore, I will, sir; thus:"
V,I,TIMON,"If Alcibiades kill my countrymen,"
V,I,TIMON,"Let Alcibiades know this of Timon,"
V,I,TIMON,"That Timon cares not. But if be sack fair Athens,"
V,I,TIMON,"And take our goodly aged men by the beards,"
V,I,TIMON,"Giving our holy virgins to the stain"
V,I,TIMON,"Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd war,"
V,I,TIMON,"Then let him know, and tell him Timon speaks it,"
V,I,TIMON,"In pity of our aged and our youth,"
V,I,TIMON,"I cannot choose but tell him, that I care not,"
V,I,TIMON,"And let him take't at worst; for their knives care not,"
V,I,TIMON,"While you have throats to answer: for myself,"
V,I,TIMON,"There's not a whittle in the unruly camp"
V,I,TIMON,"But I do prize it at my love before"
V,I,TIMON,"The reverend'st throat in Athens. So I leave you"
V,I,TIMON,"To the protection of the prosperous gods,"
V,I,TIMON,"As thieves to keepers."
V,I,FLAVIUS,"Stay not, all's in vain."
V,I,TIMON,"Why, I was writing of my epitaph;"
V,I,TIMON,"it will be seen to-morrow: my long sickness"
V,I,TIMON,"Of health and living now begins to mend,"
V,I,TIMON,"And nothing brings me all things. Go, live still;"
V,I,TIMON,"Be Alcibiades your plague, you his,"
V,I,TIMON,"And last so long enough!"
V,I,First Senator,"We speak in vain."
V,I,TIMON,"But yet I love my country, and am not"
V,I,TIMON,"One that rejoices in the common wreck,"
V,I,TIMON,"As common bruit doth put it."
V,I,First Senator,"That's well spoke."
V,I,TIMON,"Commend me to my loving countrymen,--"
V,I,First Senator,"These words become your lips as they pass"
V,I,First Senator,"thorough them."
V,I,Second Senator,"And enter in our ears like great triumphers"
V,I,Second Senator,"In their applauding gates."
V,I,TIMON,"Commend me to them,"
V,I,TIMON,"And tell them that, to ease them of their griefs,"
V,I,TIMON,"Their fears of hostile strokes, their aches, losses,"
V,I,TIMON,"Their pangs of love, with other incident throes"
V,I,TIMON,"That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain"
V,I,TIMON,"In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them:"
V,I,TIMON,"I'll teach them to prevent wild Alcibiades' wrath."
V,I,First Senator,"I like this well; he will return again."
V,I,TIMON,"I have a tree, which grows here in my close,"
V,I,TIMON,"That mine own use invites me to cut down,"
V,I,TIMON,"And shortly must I fell it: tell my friends,"
V,I,TIMON,"Tell Athens, in the sequence of degree"
V,I,TIMON,"From high to low throughout, that whoso please"
V,I,TIMON,"To stop affliction, let him take his haste,"
V,I,TIMON,"Come hither, ere my tree hath felt the axe,"
V,I,TIMON,"And hang himself. I pray you, do my greeting."
V,I,FLAVIUS,"Trouble him no further; thus you still shall find him."
V,I,TIMON,"Come not to me again: but say to Athens,"
V,I,TIMON,"Timon hath made his everlasting mansion"
V,I,TIMON,"Upon the beached verge of the salt flood;"
V,I,TIMON,"Who once a day with his embossed froth"
V,I,TIMON,"The turbulent surge shall cover: thither come,"
V,I,TIMON,"And let my grave-stone be your oracle."
V,I,TIMON,"Lips, let sour words go by and language end:"
V,I,TIMON,"What is amiss plague and infection mend!"
V,I,TIMON,"Graves only be men's works and death their gain!"
V,I,TIMON,"Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign."
V,I,First Senator,"His discontents are unremoveably"
V,I,First Senator,"Coupled to nature."
V,I,Second Senator,"Our hope in him is dead: let us return,"
V,I,Second Senator,"And strain what other means is left unto us"
V,I,Second Senator,"In our dear peril."
V,I,First Senator,"It requires swift foot."
V,II,First Senator,"Thou hast painfully discover'd: are his files"
V,II,First Senator,"As full as thy report?"
V,II,Messenger,"have spoke the least:"
V,II,Messenger,"Besides, his expedition promises"
V,II,Messenger,"Present approach."
V,II,Second Senator,"We stand much hazard, if they bring not Timon."
V,II,Messenger,"I met a courier, one mine ancient friend;"
V,II,Messenger,"Whom, though in general part we were opposed,"
V,II,Messenger,"Yet our old love made a particular force,"
V,II,Messenger,"And made us speak like friends: this man was riding"
V,II,Messenger,"From Alcibiades to Timon's cave,"
V,II,Messenger,"With letters of entreaty, which imported"
V,II,Messenger,"His fellowship i' the cause against your city,"
V,II,Messenger,"In part for his sake moved."
V,II,First Senator,"Here come our brothers."
V,II,Third Senator,"No talk of Timon, nothing of him expect."
V,II,Third Senator,"The enemies' drum is heard, and fearful scouring"
V,II,Third Senator,"Doth choke the air with dust: in, and prepare:"
V,II,Third Senator,"Ours is the fall, I fear; our foes the snare."
V,III,Soldier,"By all description this should be the place."
V,III,Soldier,"Who's here? speak, ho! No answer! What is this?"
V,III,Soldier,"Timon is dead, who hath outstretch'd his span:"
V,III,Soldier,"Some beast rear'd this; there does not live a man."
V,III,Soldier,"Dead, sure; and this his grave. What's on this tomb"
V,III,Soldier,"I cannot read; the character I'll take with wax:"
V,III,Soldier,"Our captain hath in every figure skill,"
V,III,Soldier,"An aged interpreter, though young in days:"
V,III,Soldier,"Before proud Athens he's set down by this,"
V,III,Soldier,"Whose fall the mark of his ambition is."
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Sound to this coward and lascivious town"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Our terrible approach."
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Till now you have gone on and fill'd the time"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"With all licentious measure, making your wills"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"The scope of justice; till now myself and such"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"As slept within the shadow of your power"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Have wander'd with our traversed arms and breathed"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Our sufferance vainly: now the time is flush,"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"When crouching marrow in the bearer strong"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Cries of itself 'No more:' now breathless wrong"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease,"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"And pursy insolence shall break his wind"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"With fear and horrid flight."
V,IV,First Senator,"Noble and young,"
V,IV,First Senator,"When thy first griefs were but a mere conceit,"
V,IV,First Senator,"Ere thou hadst power or we had cause of fear,"
V,IV,First Senator,"We sent to thee, to give thy rages balm,"
V,IV,First Senator,"To wipe out our ingratitude with loves"
V,IV,First Senator,"Above their quantity."
V,IV,Second Senator,"So did we woo"
V,IV,Second Senator,"Transformed Timon to our city's love"
V,IV,Second Senator,"By humble message and by promised means:"
V,IV,Second Senator,"We were not all unkind, nor all deserve"
V,IV,Second Senator,"The common stroke of war."
V,IV,First Senator,"These walls of ours"
V,IV,First Senator,"Were not erected by their hands from whom"
V,IV,First Senator,"You have received your griefs; nor are they such"
V,IV,First Senator,"That these great towers, trophies and schools"
V,IV,First Senator,"should fall"
V,IV,First Senator,"For private faults in them."
V,IV,Second Senator,"Nor are they living"
V,IV,Second Senator,"Who were the motives that you first went out;"
V,IV,Second Senator,"Shame that they wanted cunning, in excess"
V,IV,Second Senator,"Hath broke their hearts. March, noble lord,"
V,IV,Second Senator,"Into our city with thy banners spread:"
V,IV,Second Senator,"By decimation, and a tithed death--"
V,IV,Second Senator,"If thy revenges hunger for that food"
V,IV,Second Senator,"Which nature loathes--take thou the destined tenth,"
V,IV,Second Senator,"And by the hazard of the spotted die"
V,IV,Second Senator,"Let die the spotted."
V,IV,First Senator,"All have not offended;"
V,IV,First Senator,"For those that were, it is not square to take"
V,IV,First Senator,"On those that are, revenges: crimes, like lands,"
V,IV,First Senator,"Are not inherited. Then, dear countryman,"
V,IV,First Senator,"Bring in thy ranks, but leave without thy rage:"
V,IV,First Senator,"Spare thy Athenian cradle and those kin"
V,IV,First Senator,"Which in the bluster of thy wrath must fall"
V,IV,First Senator,"With those that have offended: like a shepherd,"
V,IV,First Senator,"Approach the fold and cull the infected forth,"
V,IV,First Senator,"But kill not all together."
V,IV,Second Senator,"What thou wilt,"
V,IV,Second Senator,"Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile"
V,IV,Second Senator,"Than hew to't with thy sword."
V,IV,First Senator ,"Set but thy foot"
V,IV,First Senator ,"Against our rampired gates, and they shall ope;"
V,IV,First Senator ,"So thou wilt send thy gentle heart before,"
V,IV,First Senator ,"To say thou'lt enter friendly."
V,IV,Second Senator,"Throw thy glove,"
V,IV,Second Senator,"Or any token of thine honour else,"
V,IV,Second Senator,"That thou wilt use the wars as thy redress"
V,IV,Second Senator,"And not as our confusion, all thy powers"
V,IV,Second Senator,"Shall make their harbour in our town, till we"
V,IV,Second Senator,"Have seal'd thy full desire."
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Then there's my glove;"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Descend, and open your uncharged ports:"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Those enemies of Timon's and mine own"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Whom you yourselves shall set out for reproof"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Fall and no more: and, to atone your fears"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"With my more noble meaning, not a man"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Shall pass his quarter, or offend the stream"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Of regular justice in your city's bounds,"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"But shall be render'd to your public laws"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"At heaviest answer."
V,IV,Both,"'Tis most nobly spoken."
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Descend, and keep your words."
V,IV,Soldier,"My noble general, Timon is dead;"
V,IV,Soldier,"Entomb'd upon the very hem o' the sea;"
V,IV,Soldier,"And on his grave-stone this insculpture, which"
V,IV,Soldier,"With wax I brought away, whose soft impression"
V,IV,Soldier,"Interprets for my poor ignorance."
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft:"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"caitiffs left!"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate:"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Pass by and curse thy fill, but pass and stay"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"not here thy gait.'"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"These well express in thee thy latter spirits:"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Though thou abhorr'dst in us our human griefs,"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Scorn'dst our brain's flow and those our"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"droplets which"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Is noble Timon: of whose memory"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Hereafter more. Bring me into your city,"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"And I will use the olive with my sword,"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Make war breed peace, make peace stint war, make each"
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Prescribe to other as each other's leech."
V,IV,ALCIBIADES,"Let our drums strike."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Noble patricians, patrons of my right,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Defend the justice of my cause with arms,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"And, countrymen, my loving followers,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Plead my successive title with your swords:"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"I am his first-born son, that was the last"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"That wore the imperial diadem of Rome;"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Then let my father's honours live in me,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Nor wrong mine age with this indignity."
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Romans, friends, followers, favorers of my right,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"If ever Bassianus, Caesar's son,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Keep then this passage to the Capitol"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"And suffer not dishonour to approach"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"The imperial seat, to virtue consecrate,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"To justice, continence and nobility;"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"But let desert in pure election shine,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"And, Romans, fight for freedom in your choice."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Princes, that strive by factions and by friends"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Ambitiously for rule and empery,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Know that the people of Rome, for whom we stand"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"A special party, have, by common voice,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"In election for the Roman empery,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Chosen Andronicus, surnamed Pius"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"For many good and great deserts to Rome:"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"A nobler man, a braver warrior,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Lives not this day within the city walls:"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"He by the senate is accit'd home"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"From weary wars against the barbarous Goths;"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That, with his sons, a terror to our foes,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Hath yoked a nation strong, train'd up in arms."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Ten years are spent since first he undertook"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"This cause of Rome and chastised with arms"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Our enemies' pride: five times he hath return'd"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Bleeding to Rome, bearing his valiant sons"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"In coffins from the field;"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And now at last, laden with horror's spoils,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Returns the good Andronicus to Rome,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Renowned Titus, flourishing in arms."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Let us entreat, by honour of his name,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Whom worthily you would have now succeed."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And in the Capitol and senate's right,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Whom you pretend to honour and adore,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That you withdraw you and abate your strength;"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Dismiss your followers and, as suitors should,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Plead your deserts in peace and humbleness."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"How fair the tribune speaks to calm my thoughts!"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Marcus Andronicus, so I do ally"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"In thy uprightness and integrity,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"And so I love and honour thee and thine,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Thy noble brother Titus and his sons,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"And her to whom my thoughts are humbled all,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Gracious Lavinia, Rome's rich ornament,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"That I will here dismiss my loving friends,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"And to my fortunes and the people's favor"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Commit my cause in balance to be weigh'd."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Friends, that have been thus forward in my right,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"I thank you all and here dismiss you all,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"And to the love and favor of my country"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Commit myself, my person and the cause."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Rome, be as just and gracious unto me"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"As I am confident and kind to thee."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Open the gates, and let me in."
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Tribunes, and me, a poor competitor."
I,I,Captain,"Romans, make way: the good Andronicus."
I,I,Captain,"Patron of virtue, Rome's best champion,"
I,I,Captain,"Successful in the battles that he fights,"
I,I,Captain,"With honour and with fortune is return'd"
I,I,Captain,"From where he circumscribed with his sword,"
I,I,Captain,"And brought to yoke, the enemies of Rome."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Hail, Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds!"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Lo, as the bark, that hath discharged her fraught,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Returns with precious jading to the bay"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"From whence at first she weigh'd her anchorage,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Cometh Andronicus, bound with laurel boughs,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To re-salute his country with his tears,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Tears of true joy for his return to Rome."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Thou great defender of this Capitol,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Stand gracious to the rites that we intend!"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Romans, of five and twenty valiant sons,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Half of the number that King Priam had,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Behold the poor remains, alive and dead!"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"These that survive let Rome reward with love;"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"These that I bring unto their latest home,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"With burial amongst their ancestors:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Here Goths have given me leave to sheathe my sword."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Titus, unkind and careless of thine own,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Why suffer'st thou thy sons, unburied yet,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To hover on the dreadful shore of Styx?"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Make way to lay them by their brethren."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"There greet in silence, as the dead are wont,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And sleep in peace, slain in your country's wars!"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O sacred receptacle of my joys,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Sweet cell of virtue and nobility,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"How many sons of mine hast thou in store,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That thou wilt never render to me more!"
I,I,LUCIUS,"Give us the proudest prisoner of the Goths,"
I,I,LUCIUS,"That we may hew his limbs, and on a pile"
I,I,LUCIUS,"Ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh,"
I,I,LUCIUS,"Before this earthy prison of their bones;"
I,I,LUCIUS,"That so the shadows be not unappeased,"
I,I,LUCIUS,"Nor we disturb'd with prodigies on earth."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I give him you, the noblest that survives,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"The eldest son of this distressed queen."
I,I,TAMORA,"Stay, Roman brethren! Gracious conqueror,"
I,I,TAMORA,"Victorious Titus, rue the tears I shed,"
I,I,TAMORA,"A mother's tears in passion for her son:"
I,I,TAMORA,"And if thy sons were ever dear to thee,"
I,I,TAMORA,"O, think my son to be as dear to me!"
I,I,TAMORA,"Sufficeth not that we are brought to Rome,"
I,I,TAMORA,"To beautify thy triumphs and return,"
I,I,TAMORA,"Captive to thee and to thy Roman yoke,"
I,I,TAMORA,"But must my sons be slaughter'd in the streets,"
I,I,TAMORA,"For valiant doings in their country's cause?"
I,I,TAMORA,"O, if to fight for king and commonweal"
I,I,TAMORA,"Were piety in thine, it is in these."
I,I,TAMORA,"Andronicus, stain not thy tomb with blood:"
I,I,TAMORA,"Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods?"
I,I,TAMORA,"Draw near them then in being merciful:"
I,I,TAMORA,"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge:"
I,I,TAMORA,"Thrice noble Titus, spare my first-born son."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Patient yourself, madam, and pardon me."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"These are their brethren, whom you Goths beheld"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Alive and dead, and for their brethren slain"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Religiously they ask a sacrifice:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To this your son is mark'd, and die he must,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To appease their groaning shadows that are gone."
I,I,LUCIUS,"Away with him! and make a fire straight;"
I,I,LUCIUS,"And with our swords, upon a pile of wood,"
I,I,LUCIUS,"Let's hew his limbs till they be clean consumed."
I,I,TAMORA,"O cruel, irreligious piety!"
I,I,CHIRON,"Was ever Scythia half so barbarous?"
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"Oppose not Scythia to ambitious Rome."
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"Alarbus goes to rest; and we survive"
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"To tremble under Titus' threatening looks."
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"Then, madam, stand resolved, but hope withal"
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"The self-same gods that arm'd the Queen of Troy"
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"With opportunity of sharp revenge"
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"Upon the Thracian tyrant in his tent,"
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"May favor Tamora, the Queen of Goths--"
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"When Goths were Goths and Tamora was queen--"
I,I,DEMETRIUS,"To quit the bloody wrongs upon her foes."
I,I,LUCIUS,"See, lord and father, how we have perform'd"
I,I,LUCIUS,"Our Roman rites: Alarbus' limbs are lopp'd,"
I,I,LUCIUS,"And entrails feed the sacrificing fire,"
I,I,LUCIUS,"Whose smoke, like incense, doth perfume the sky."
I,I,LUCIUS,"Remaineth nought, but to inter our brethren,"
I,I,LUCIUS,"And with loud 'larums welcome them to Rome."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Let it be so; and let Andronicus"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Make this his latest farewell to their souls."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"In peace and honour rest you here, my sons;"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Rome's readiest champions, repose you here in rest,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Here grow no damned grudges; here are no storms,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"No noise, but silence and eternal sleep:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"In peace and honour rest you here, my sons!"
I,I,LAVINIA,"In peace and honour live Lord Titus long;"
I,I,LAVINIA,"My noble lord and father, live in fame!"
I,I,LAVINIA,"Lo, at this tomb my tributary tears"
I,I,LAVINIA,"I render, for my brethren's obsequies;"
I,I,LAVINIA,"And at thy feet I kneel, with tears of joy,"
I,I,LAVINIA,"Shed on the earth, for thy return to Rome:"
I,I,LAVINIA,"O, bless me here with thy victorious hand,"
I,I,LAVINIA,"Whose fortunes Rome's best citizens applaud!"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Kind Rome, that hast thus lovingly reserved"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"The cordial of mine age to glad my heart!"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Lavinia, live; outlive thy father's days,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And fame's eternal date, for virtue's praise!"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Long live Lord Titus, my beloved brother,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Gracious triumpher in the eyes of Rome!"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Thanks, gentle tribune, noble brother Marcus."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And welcome, nephews, from successful wars,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"You that survive, and you that sleep in fame!"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Fair lords, your fortunes are alike in all,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That in your country's service drew your swords:"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"But safer triumph is this funeral pomp,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That hath aspired to Solon's happiness"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And triumphs over chance in honour's bed."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Titus Andronicus, the people of Rome,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Whose friend in justice thou hast ever been,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Send thee by me, their tribune and their trust,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"This palliament of white and spotless hue;"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And name thee in election for the empire,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"With these our late-deceased emperor's sons:"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Be candidatus then, and put it on,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And help to set a head on headless Rome."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"A better head her glorious body fits"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Than his that shakes for age and feebleness:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"What should I don this robe, and trouble you?"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Be chosen with proclamations to-day,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To-morrow yield up rule, resign my life,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And set abroad new business for you all?"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Rome, I have been thy soldier forty years,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And led my country's strength successfully,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And buried one and twenty valiant sons,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Knighted in field, slain manfully in arms,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"In right and service of their noble country"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Give me a staff of honour for mine age,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But not a sceptre to control the world:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Upright he held it, lords, that held it last."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Titus, thou shalt obtain and ask the empery."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Proud and ambitious tribune, canst thou tell?"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Patience, Prince Saturninus."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Romans, do me right:"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Patricians, draw your swords: and sheathe them not"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Till Saturninus be Rome's emperor."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Andronicus, would thou wert shipp'd to hell,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Rather than rob me of the people's hearts!"
I,I,LUCIUS,"Proud Saturnine, interrupter of the good"
I,I,LUCIUS,"That noble-minded Titus means to thee!"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Content thee, prince; I will restore to thee"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"The people's hearts, and wean them from themselves."
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Andronicus, I do not flatter thee,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"But honour thee, and will do till I die:"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"My faction if thou strengthen with thy friends,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"I will most thankful be; and thanks to men"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Of noble minds is honourable meed."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"People of Rome, and people's tribunes here,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I ask your voices and your suffrages:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Will you bestow them friendly on Andronicus?"
I,I,Tribunes,"To gratify the good Andronicus,"
I,I,Tribunes,"And gratulate his safe return to Rome,"
I,I,Tribunes,"The people will accept whom he admits."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Tribunes, I thank you: and this suit I make,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That you create your emperor's eldest son,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Lord Saturnine; whose virtues will, I hope,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Reflect on Rome as Titan's rays on earth,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And ripen justice in this commonweal:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Then, if you will elect by my advice,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Crown him and say 'Long live our emperor!'"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"With voices and applause of every sort,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Patricians and plebeians, we create"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Lord Saturninus Rome's great emperor,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And say 'Long live our Emperor Saturnine!'"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Titus Andronicus, for thy favors done"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"To us in our election this day,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"I give thee thanks in part of thy deserts,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"And will with deeds requite thy gentleness:"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"And, for an onset, Titus, to advance"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Thy name and honourable family,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Lavinia will I make my empress,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Rome's royal mistress, mistress of my heart,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse:"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Tell me, Andronicus, doth this motion please thee?"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"It doth, my worthy lord; and in this match"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I hold me highly honour'd of your grace:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And here in sight of Rome to Saturnine,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"King and commander of our commonweal,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"The wide world's emperor, do I consecrate"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"My sword, my chariot and my prisoners;"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Presents well worthy Rome's imperial lord:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Receive them then, the tribute that I owe,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Mine honour's ensigns humbled at thy feet."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Thanks, noble Titus, father of my life!"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"How proud I am of thee and of thy gifts"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Rome shall record, and when I do forget"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"The least of these unspeakable deserts,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Romans, forget your fealty to me."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"an emperor;"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To him that, for your honour and your state,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Will use you nobly and your followers."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"A goodly lady, trust me; of the hue"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"That I would choose, were I to choose anew."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Clear up, fair queen, that cloudy countenance:"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Though chance of war hath wrought this change of cheer,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Thou comest not to be made a scorn in Rome:"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Princely shall be thy usage every way."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Rest on my word, and let not discontent"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Daunt all your hopes: madam, he comforts you"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Can make you greater than the Queen of Goths."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Lavinia, you are not displeased with this?"
I,I,LAVINIA,"Not I, my lord; sith true nobility"
I,I,LAVINIA,"Warrants these words in princely courtesy."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Thanks, sweet Lavinia. Romans, let us go;"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Ransomless here we set our prisoners free:"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Proclaim our honours, lords, with trump and drum."
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Lord Titus, by your leave, this maid is mine."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"How, sir! are you in earnest then, my lord?"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Ay, noble Titus; and resolved withal"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"To do myself this reason and this right."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"'Suum cuique' is our Roman justice:"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"This prince in justice seizeth but his own."
I,I,LUCIUS,"And that he will, and shall, if Lucius live."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Traitors, avaunt! Where is the emperor's guard?"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Treason, my lord! Lavinia is surprised!"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Surprised! by whom?"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"By him that justly may"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Bear his betroth'd from all the world away."
I,I,MUTIUS,"Brothers, help to convey her hence away,"
I,I,MUTIUS,"And with my sword I'll keep this door safe."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Follow, my lord, and I'll soon bring her back."
I,I,MUTIUS,"My lord, you pass not here."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"What, villain boy!"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Barr'st me my way in Rome?"
I,I,MUTIUS,"Help, Lucius, help!"
I,I,LUCIUS,"My lord, you are unjust, and, more than so,"
I,I,LUCIUS,"In wrongful quarrel you have slain your son."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Nor thou, nor he, are any sons of mine;"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"My sons would never so dishonour me:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Traitor, restore Lavinia to the emperor."
I,I,LUCIUS,"Dead, if you will; but not to be his wife,"
I,I,LUCIUS,"That is another's lawful promised love."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"No, Titus, no; the emperor needs her not,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Nor her, nor thee, nor any of thy stock:"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"I'll trust, by leisure, him that mocks me once;"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Thee never, nor thy traitorous haughty sons,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Confederates all thus to dishonour me."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Was there none else in Rome to make a stale,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"But Saturnine? Full well, Andronicus,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Agree these deeds with that proud brag of thine,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"That said'st I begg'd the empire at thy hands."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O monstrous! what reproachful words are these?"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"But go thy ways; go, give that changing piece"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"To him that flourish'd for her with his sword"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"A valiant son-in-law thou shalt enjoy;"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"One fit to bandy with thy lawless sons,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"To ruffle in the commonwealth of Rome."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"These words are razors to my wounded heart."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"And therefore, lovely Tamora, queen of Goths,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"That like the stately Phoebe 'mongst her nymphs"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Dost overshine the gallant'st dames of Rome,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"If thou be pleased with this my sudden choice,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Behold, I choose thee, Tamora, for my bride,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"And will create thee empress of Rome,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Speak, Queen of Goths, dost thou applaud my choice?"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"And here I swear by all the Roman gods,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Sith priest and holy water are so near"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"And tapers burn so bright and every thing"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"In readiness for Hymenaeus stand,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"I will not re-salute the streets of Rome,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Or climb my palace, till from forth this place"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"I lead espoused my bride along with me."
I,I,TAMORA,"And here, in sight of heaven, to Rome I swear,"
I,I,TAMORA,"If Saturnine advance the Queen of Goths,"
I,I,TAMORA,"She will a handmaid be to his desires,"
I,I,TAMORA,"A loving nurse, a mother to his youth."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Ascend, fair queen, Pantheon. Lords, accompany"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Your noble emperor and his lovely bride,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Sent by the heavens for Prince Saturnine,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Whose wisdom hath her fortune conquered:"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"There shall we consummate our spousal rites."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I am not bid to wait upon this bride."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Titus, when wert thou wont to walk alone,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Dishonour'd thus, and challenged of wrongs?"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"O Titus, see, O, see what thou hast done!"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"In a bad quarrel slain a virtuous son."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"No, foolish tribune, no; no son of mine,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Nor thou, nor these, confederates in the deed"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That hath dishonour'd all our family;"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Unworthy brother, and unworthy sons!"
I,I,LUCIUS,"But let us give him burial, as becomes;"
I,I,LUCIUS,"Give Mutius burial with our brethren."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Traitors, away! he rests not in this tomb:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"This monument five hundred years hath stood,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Which I have sumptuously re-edified:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Here none but soldiers and Rome's servitors"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Repose in fame; none basely slain in brawls:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Bury him where you can; he comes not here."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"My lord, this is impiety in you:"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"My nephew Mutius' deeds do plead for him"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"He must be buried with his brethren."
I,I,QUINTUS,"And shall, or him we will accompany."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"'And shall!' what villain was it that spake"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"that word?"
I,I,QUINTUS,"He that would vouch it in any place but here."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"What, would you bury him in my despite?"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"No, noble Titus, but entreat of thee"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"To pardon Mutius and to bury him."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Marcus, even thou hast struck upon my crest,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And, with these boys, mine honour thou hast wounded:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"My foes I do repute you every one;"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"So, trouble me no more, but get you gone."
I,I,MARTIUS,"He is not with himself; let us withdraw."
I,I,QUINTUS,"Not I, till Mutius' bones be buried."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Brother, for in that name doth nature plead,--"
I,I,QUINTUS,"Father, and in that name doth nature speak,--"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Speak thou no more, if all the rest will speed."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Renowned Titus, more than half my soul,--"
I,I,LUCIUS,"Dear father, soul and substance of us all,--"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Suffer thy brother Marcus to inter"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"His noble nephew here in virtue's nest,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That died in honour and Lavinia's cause."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Thou art a Roman; be not barbarous:"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"The Greeks upon advice did bury Ajax"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That slew himself; and wise Laertes' son"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Did graciously plead for his funerals:"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Let not young Mutius, then, that was thy joy"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Be barr'd his entrance here."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Rise, Marcus, rise."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"The dismall'st day is this that e'er I saw,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To be dishonour'd by my sons in Rome!"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Well, bury him, and bury me the next."
I,I,LUCIUS,"There lie thy bones, sweet Mutius, with thy friends,"
I,I,LUCIUS,"Till we with trophies do adorn thy tomb."
I,I,All,"He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"My lord, to step out of these dreary dumps,"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"How comes it that the subtle Queen of Goths"
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Is of a sudden thus advanced in Rome?"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I know not, Marcus; but I know it is,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Whether by device or no, the heavens can tell:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Is she not then beholding to the man"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That brought her for this high good turn so far?"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Yes, and will nobly him remunerate."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"So, Bassianus, you have play'd your prize:"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"God give you joy, sir, of your gallant bride!"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"And you of yours, my lord! I say no more,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Nor wish no less; and so, I take my leave."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Traitor, if Rome have law or we have power,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Thou and thy faction shall repent this rape."
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Rape, call you it, my lord, to seize my own,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"My truth-betrothed love and now my wife?"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"But let the laws of Rome determine all;"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Meanwhile I am possess'd of that is mine."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"'Tis good, sir: you are very short with us;"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"But, if we live, we'll be as sharp with you."
I,I,BASSIANUS,"My lord, what I have done, as best I may,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Answer I must and shall do with my life."
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Only thus much I give your grace to know:"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"By all the duties that I owe to Rome,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"This noble gentleman, Lord Titus here,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Is in opinion and in honour wrong'd;"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"That in the rescue of Lavinia"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"With his own hand did slay his youngest son,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"In zeal to you and highly moved to wrath"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"To be controll'd in that he frankly gave:"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"Receive him, then, to favor, Saturnine,"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"That hath express'd himself in all his deeds"
I,I,BASSIANUS,"A father and a friend to thee and Rome."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Prince Bassianus, leave to plead my deeds:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"'Tis thou and those that have dishonour'd me."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Rome and the righteous heavens be my judge,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"How I have loved and honour'd Saturnine!"
I,I,TAMORA,"My worthy lord, if ever Tamora"
I,I,TAMORA,"Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine,"
I,I,TAMORA,"Then hear me speak in indifferently for all;"
I,I,TAMORA,"And at my suit, sweet, pardon what is past."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"What, madam! be dishonour'd openly,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"And basely put it up without revenge?"
I,I,TAMORA,"Not so, my lord; the gods of Rome forfend"
I,I,TAMORA,"I should be author to dishonour you!"
I,I,TAMORA,"But on mine honour dare I undertake"
I,I,TAMORA,"For good Lord Titus' innocence in all;"
I,I,TAMORA,"Whose fury not dissembled speaks his griefs:"
I,I,TAMORA,"Then, at my suit, look graciously on him;"
I,I,TAMORA,"Lose not so noble a friend on vain suppose,"
I,I,TAMORA,"Nor with sour looks afflict his gentle heart."
I,I,TAMORA,"be won at last;"
I,I,TAMORA,"Dissemble all your griefs and discontents:"
I,I,TAMORA,"You are but newly planted in your throne;"
I,I,TAMORA,"Lest, then, the people, and patricians too,"
I,I,TAMORA,"Upon a just survey, take Titus' part,"
I,I,TAMORA,"And so supplant you for ingratitude,"
I,I,TAMORA,"Which Rome reputes to be a heinous sin,"
I,I,TAMORA,"Yield at entreats; and then let me alone:"
I,I,TAMORA,"I'll find a day to massacre them all"
I,I,TAMORA,"And raze their faction and their family,"
I,I,TAMORA,"The cruel father and his traitorous sons,"
I,I,TAMORA,"To whom I sued for my dear son's life,"
I,I,TAMORA,"And make them know what 'tis to let a queen"
I,I,TAMORA,"Kneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain."
I,I,TAMORA,"Come, come, sweet emperor; come, Andronicus;"
I,I,TAMORA,"Take up this good old man, and cheer the heart"
I,I,TAMORA,"That dies in tempest of thy angry frown."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Rise, Titus, rise; my empress hath prevail'd."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I thank your majesty, and her, my lord:"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"These words, these looks, infuse new life in me."
I,I,TAMORA,"Titus, I am incorporate in Rome,"
I,I,TAMORA,"A Roman now adopted happily,"
I,I,TAMORA,"And must advise the emperor for his good."
I,I,TAMORA,"This day all quarrels die, Andronicus;"
I,I,TAMORA,"And let it be mine honour, good my lord,"
I,I,TAMORA,"That I have reconciled your friends and you."
I,I,TAMORA,"For you, Prince Bassianus, I have pass'd"
I,I,TAMORA,"My word and promise to the emperor,"
I,I,TAMORA,"That you will be more mild and tractable."
I,I,TAMORA,"And fear not lords, and you, Lavinia;"
I,I,TAMORA,"By my advice, all humbled on your knees,"
I,I,TAMORA,"You shall ask pardon of his majesty."
I,I,LUCIUS,"We do, and vow to heaven and to his highness,"
I,I,LUCIUS,"That what we did was mildly as we might,"
I,I,LUCIUS,"Tendering our sister's honour and our own."
I,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That, on mine honour, here I do protest."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Away, and talk not; trouble us no more."
I,I,TAMORA,"Nay, nay, sweet emperor, we must all be friends:"
I,I,TAMORA,"The tribune and his nephews kneel for grace;"
I,I,TAMORA,"I will not be denied: sweet heart, look back."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Marcus, for thy sake and thy brother's here,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"And at my lovely Tamora's entreats,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"I do remit these young men's heinous faults: Stand up."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Lavinia, though you left me like a churl,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"I found a friend, and sure as death I swore"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"I would not part a bachelor from the priest."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Come, if the emperor's court can feast two brides,"
I,I,SATURNINUS,"You are my guest, Lavinia, and your friends."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"This day shall be a love-day, Tamora."
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To-morrow, an it please your majesty"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To hunt the panther and the hart with me,"
I,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"With horn and hound we'll give your grace bonjour."
I,I,SATURNINUS,"Be it so, Titus, and gramercy too."
II,I,AARON,"Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top,"
II,I,AARON,"Safe out of fortune's shot; and sits aloft,"
II,I,AARON,"Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash;"
II,I,AARON,"Advanced above pale envy's threatening reach."
II,I,AARON,"As when the golden sun salutes the morn,"
II,I,AARON,"And, having gilt the ocean with his beams,"
II,I,AARON,"Gallops the zodiac in his glistering coach,"
II,I,AARON,"And overlooks the highest-peering hills;"
II,I,AARON,"So Tamora:"
II,I,AARON,"Upon her wit doth earthly honour wait,"
II,I,AARON,"And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown."
II,I,AARON,"Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts,"
II,I,AARON,"To mount aloft with thy imperial mistress,"
II,I,AARON,"And mount her pitch, whom thou in triumph long"
II,I,AARON,"Hast prisoner held, fetter'd in amorous chains"
II,I,AARON,"And faster bound to Aaron's charming eyes"
II,I,AARON,"Than is Prometheus tied to Caucasus."
II,I,AARON,"Away with slavish weeds and servile thoughts!"
II,I,AARON,"I will be bright, and shine in pearl and gold,"
II,I,AARON,"To wait upon this new-made empress."
II,I,AARON,"To wait, said I? to wanton with this queen,"
II,I,AARON,"This goddess, this Semiramis, this nymph,"
II,I,AARON,"This siren, that will charm Rome's Saturnine,"
II,I,AARON,"And see his shipwreck and his commonweal's."
II,I,AARON,"Holloa! what storm is this?"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Chiron, thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge,"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"And manners, to intrude where I am graced;"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"And may, for aught thou know'st, affected be."
II,I,CHIRON,"Demetrius, thou dost over-ween in all;"
II,I,CHIRON,"And so in this, to bear me down with braves."
II,I,CHIRON,"'Tis not the difference of a year or two"
II,I,CHIRON,"Makes me less gracious or thee more fortunate:"
II,I,CHIRON,"I am as able and as fit as thou"
II,I,CHIRON,"To serve, and to deserve my mistress' grace;"
II,I,CHIRON,"And that my sword upon thee shall approve,"
II,I,CHIRON,"And plead my passions for Lavinia's love."
II,I,AARON,"the peace."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Why, boy, although our mother, unadvised,"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Gave you a dancing-rapier by your side,"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Are you so desperate grown, to threat your friends?"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Go to; have your lath glued within your sheath"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Till you know better how to handle it."
II,I,CHIRON,"Meanwhile, sir, with the little skill I have,"
II,I,CHIRON,"Full well shalt thou perceive how much I dare."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Ay, boy, grow ye so brave?"
II,I,AARON,"So near the emperor's palace dare you draw,"
II,I,AARON,"And maintain such a quarrel openly?"
II,I,AARON,"Full well I wot the ground of all this grudge:"
II,I,AARON,"I would not for a million of gold"
II,I,AARON,"The cause were known to them it most concerns;"
II,I,AARON,"Nor would your noble mother for much more"
II,I,AARON,"Be so dishonour'd in the court of Rome."
II,I,AARON,"For shame, put up."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Not I, till I have sheathed"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"My rapier in his bosom and withal"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Thrust these reproachful speeches down his throat"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"That he hath breathed in my dishonour here."
II,I,CHIRON,"For that I am prepared and full resolved."
II,I,CHIRON,"Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue,"
II,I,CHIRON,"And with thy weapon nothing darest perform!"
II,I,AARON,"Away, I say!"
II,I,AARON,"Now, by the gods that warlike Goths adore,"
II,I,AARON,"This petty brabble will undo us all."
II,I,AARON,"Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous"
II,I,AARON,"It is to jet upon a prince's right?"
II,I,AARON,"What, is Lavinia then become so loose,"
II,I,AARON,"Or Bassianus so degenerate,"
II,I,AARON,"That for her love such quarrels may be broach'd"
II,I,AARON,"Without controlment, justice, or revenge?"
II,I,AARON,"Young lords, beware! and should the empress know"
II,I,AARON,"This discord's ground, the music would not please."
II,I,CHIRON,"I care not, I, knew she and all the world:"
II,I,CHIRON,"I love Lavinia more than all the world."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Youngling, learn thou to make some meaner choice:"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Lavinia is thine elder brother's hope."
II,I,AARON,"Why, are ye mad? or know ye not, in Rome"
II,I,AARON,"How furious and impatient they be,"
II,I,AARON,"And cannot brook competitors in love?"
II,I,AARON,"I tell you, lords, you do but plot your deaths"
II,I,AARON,"By this device."
II,I,CHIRON,"Aaron, a thousand deaths"
II,I,CHIRON,"Would I propose to achieve her whom I love."
II,I,AARON,"To achieve her! how?"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Why makest thou it so strange?"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd;"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"She is a woman, therefore may be won;"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"What, man! more water glideth by the mill"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Than wots the miller of; and easy it is"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know:"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Better than he have worn Vulcan's badge."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Then why should he despair that knows to court it"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"With words, fair looks and liberality?"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"What, hast not thou full often struck a doe,"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"And borne her cleanly by the keeper's nose?"
II,I,AARON,"Why, then, it seems, some certain snatch or so"
II,I,AARON,"Would serve your turns."
II,I,CHIRON,"Ay, so the turn were served."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Aaron, thou hast hit it."
II,I,AARON,"Would you had hit it too!"
II,I,AARON,"Then should not we be tired with this ado."
II,I,AARON,"Why, hark ye, hark ye! and are you such fools"
II,I,AARON,"To square for this? would it offend you, then"
II,I,AARON,"That both should speed?"
II,I,CHIRON,"Faith, not me."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Nor me, so I were one."
II,I,AARON,"For shame, be friends, and join for that you jar:"
II,I,AARON,"'Tis policy and stratagem must do"
II,I,AARON,"That you affect; and so must you resolve,"
II,I,AARON,"That what you cannot as you would achieve,"
II,I,AARON,"You must perforce accomplish as you may."
II,I,AARON,"Take this of me: Lucrece was not more chaste"
II,I,AARON,"Than this Lavinia, Bassianus' love."
II,I,AARON,"A speedier course than lingering languishment"
II,I,AARON,"Must we pursue, and I have found the path."
II,I,AARON,"My lords, a solemn hunting is in hand;"
II,I,AARON,"There will the lovely Roman ladies troop:"
II,I,AARON,"The forest walks are wide and spacious;"
II,I,AARON,"And many unfrequented plots there are"
II,I,AARON,"Fitted by kind for rape and villany:"
II,I,AARON,"Single you thither then this dainty doe,"
II,I,AARON,"And strike her home by force, if not by words:"
II,I,AARON,"This way, or not at all, stand you in hope."
II,I,AARON,"Come, come, our empress, with her sacred wit"
II,I,AARON,"To villany and vengeance consecrate,"
II,I,AARON,"Will we acquaint with all that we intend;"
II,I,AARON,"And she shall file our engines with advice,"
II,I,AARON,"That will not suffer you to square yourselves,"
II,I,AARON,"But to your wishes' height advance you both."
II,I,AARON,"The emperor's court is like the house of Fame,"
II,I,AARON,"The palace full of tongues, of eyes, and ears:"
II,I,AARON,"The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and dull;"
II,I,AARON,"There speak, and strike, brave boys, and take"
II,I,AARON,"your turns;"
II,I,AARON,"There serve your lusts, shadow'd from heaven's eye,"
II,I,AARON,"And revel in Lavinia's treasury."
II,I,CHIRON,"Thy counsel, lad, smells of no cowardice,"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Sit fas aut nefas, till I find the stream"
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"To cool this heat, a charm to calm these fits."
II,I,DEMETRIUS,"Per Styga, per manes vehor."
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey,"
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"The fields are fragrant and the woods are green:"
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Uncouple here and let us make a bay"
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And wake the emperor and his lovely bride"
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And rouse the prince and ring a hunter's peal,"
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That all the court may echo with the noise."
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Sons, let it be your charge, as it is ours,"
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To attend the emperor's person carefully:"
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I have been troubled in my sleep this night,"
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But dawning day new comfort hath inspired."
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Many good morrows to your majesty;"
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Madam, to you as many and as good:"
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I promised your grace a hunter's peal."
II,II,SATURNINUS,"And you have rung it lustily, my lord;"
II,II,SATURNINUS,"Somewhat too early for new-married ladies."
II,II,BASSIANUS,"Lavinia, how say you?"
II,II,LAVINIA,"I say, no;"
II,II,LAVINIA,"I have been broad awake two hours and more."
II,II,SATURNINUS,"Come on, then; horse and chariots let us have,"
II,II,SATURNINUS,"And to our sport."
II,II,SATURNINUS,"Madam, now shall ye see"
II,II,SATURNINUS,"Our Roman hunting."
II,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"I have dogs, my lord,"
II,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Will rouse the proudest panther in the chase,"
II,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And climb the highest promontory top."
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And I have horse will follow where the game"
II,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Makes way, and run like swallows o'er the plain."
II,II,DEMETRIUS,"Chiron, we hunt not, we, with horse nor hound,"
II,II,DEMETRIUS,"But hope to pluck a dainty doe to ground."
II,III,AARON,"He that had wit would think that I had none,"
II,III,AARON,"To bury so much gold under a tree,"
II,III,AARON,"And never after to inherit it."
II,III,AARON,"Let him that thinks of me so abjectly"
II,III,AARON,"Know that this gold must coin a stratagem,"
II,III,AARON,"Which, cunningly effected, will beget"
II,III,AARON,"A very excellent piece of villany:"
II,III,AARON,"And so repose, sweet gold, for their unrest"
II,III,AARON,"That have their alms out of the empress' chest."
II,III,TAMORA,"My lovely Aaron, wherefore look'st thou sad,"
II,III,TAMORA,"When every thing doth make a gleeful boast?"
II,III,TAMORA,"The birds chant melody on every bush,"
II,III,TAMORA,"The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,"
II,III,TAMORA,"The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind"
II,III,TAMORA,"And make a chequer'd shadow on the ground:"
II,III,TAMORA,"Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,"
II,III,TAMORA,"And, whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,"
II,III,TAMORA,"Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,"
II,III,TAMORA,"As if a double hunt were heard at once,"
II,III,TAMORA,"Let us sit down and mark their yelping noise;"
II,III,TAMORA,"And, after conflict such as was supposed"
II,III,TAMORA,"The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd,"
II,III,TAMORA,"When with a happy storm they were surprised"
II,III,TAMORA,"And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave,"
II,III,TAMORA,"We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,"
II,III,TAMORA,"Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;"
II,III,TAMORA,"Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds"
II,III,TAMORA,"Be unto us as is a nurse's song"
II,III,TAMORA,"Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep."
II,III,AARON,"Madam, though Venus govern your desires,"
II,III,AARON,"Saturn is dominator over mine:"
II,III,AARON,"What signifies my deadly-standing eye,"
II,III,AARON,"My silence and my cloudy melancholy,"
II,III,AARON,"My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls"
II,III,AARON,"Even as an adder when she doth unroll"
II,III,AARON,"To do some fatal execution?"
II,III,AARON,"No, madam, these are no venereal signs:"
II,III,AARON,"Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,"
II,III,AARON,"Blood and revenge are hammering in my head."
II,III,AARON,"Hark Tamora, the empress of my soul,"
II,III,AARON,"Which never hopes more heaven than rests in thee,"
II,III,AARON,"This is the day of doom for Bassianus:"
II,III,AARON,"His Philomel must lose her tongue to-day,"
II,III,AARON,"Thy sons make pillage of her chastity"
II,III,AARON,"And wash their hands in Bassianus' blood."
II,III,AARON,"Seest thou this letter? take it up, I pray thee,"
II,III,AARON,"And give the king this fatal plotted scroll."
II,III,AARON,"Now question me no more; we are espied;"
II,III,AARON,"Here comes a parcel of our hopeful booty,"
II,III,AARON,"Which dreads not yet their lives' destruction."
II,III,TAMORA,"Ah, my sweet Moor, sweeter to me than life!"
II,III,AARON,"No more, great empress; Bassianus comes:"
II,III,AARON,"Be cross with him; and I'll go fetch thy sons"
II,III,AARON,"To back thy quarrels, whatsoe'er they be."
II,III,BASSIANUS,"Who have we here? Rome's royal empress,"
II,III,BASSIANUS,"Unfurnish'd of her well-beseeming troop?"
II,III,BASSIANUS,"Or is it Dian, habited like her,"
II,III,BASSIANUS,"Who hath abandoned her holy groves"
II,III,BASSIANUS,"To see the general hunting in this forest?"
II,III,TAMORA,"Saucy controller of our private steps!"
II,III,TAMORA,"Had I the power that some say Dian had,"
II,III,TAMORA,"Thy temples should be planted presently"
II,III,TAMORA,"With horns, as was Actaeon's; and the hounds"
II,III,TAMORA,"Should drive upon thy new-transformed limbs,"
II,III,TAMORA,"Unmannerly intruder as thou art!"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Under your patience, gentle empress,"
II,III,LAVINIA,"'Tis thought you have a goodly gift in horning;"
II,III,LAVINIA,"And to be doubted that your Moor and you"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Are singled forth to try experiments:"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Jove shield your husband from his hounds to-day!"
II,III,LAVINIA,"'Tis pity they should take him for a stag."
II,III,BASSIANUS,"Believe me, queen, your swarth Cimmerian"
II,III,BASSIANUS,"Doth make your honour of his body's hue,"
II,III,BASSIANUS,"Spotted, detested, and abominable."
II,III,BASSIANUS,"Why are you sequester'd from all your train,"
II,III,BASSIANUS,"Dismounted from your snow-white goodly steed."
II,III,BASSIANUS,"And wander'd hither to an obscure plot,"
II,III,BASSIANUS,"Accompanied but with a barbarous Moor,"
II,III,BASSIANUS,"If foul desire had not conducted you?"
II,III,LAVINIA,"And, being intercepted in your sport,"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Great reason that my noble lord be rated"
II,III,LAVINIA,"For sauciness. I pray you, let us hence,"
II,III,LAVINIA,"And let her joy her raven-colour'd love;"
II,III,LAVINIA,"This valley fits the purpose passing well."
II,III,BASSIANUS,"The king my brother shall have note of this."
II,III,LAVINIA,"Ay, for these slips have made him noted long:"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Good king, to be so mightily abused!"
II,III,TAMORA,"Why have I patience to endure all this?"
II,III,DEMETRIUS,"How now, dear sovereign, and our gracious mother!"
II,III,DEMETRIUS,"Why doth your highness look so pale and wan?"
II,III,TAMORA,"Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?"
II,III,TAMORA,"These two have 'ticed me hither to this place:"
II,III,TAMORA,"A barren detested vale, you see it is;"
II,III,TAMORA,"The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean,"
II,III,TAMORA,"O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe:"
II,III,TAMORA,"Here never shines the sun; here nothing breeds,"
II,III,TAMORA,"Unless the nightly owl or fatal raven:"
II,III,TAMORA,"And when they show'd me this abhorred pit,"
II,III,TAMORA,"They told me, here, at dead time of the night,"
II,III,TAMORA,"A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes,"
II,III,TAMORA,"Ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins,"
II,III,TAMORA,"Would make such fearful and confused cries"
II,III,TAMORA,"As any mortal body hearing it"
II,III,TAMORA,"Should straight fall mad, or else die suddenly."
II,III,TAMORA,"No sooner had they told this hellish tale,"
II,III,TAMORA,"But straight they told me they would bind me here"
II,III,TAMORA,"Unto the body of a dismal yew,"
II,III,TAMORA,"And leave me to this miserable death:"
II,III,TAMORA,"And then they call'd me foul adulteress,"
II,III,TAMORA,"Lascivious Goth, and all the bitterest terms"
II,III,TAMORA,"That ever ear did hear to such effect:"
II,III,TAMORA,"And, had you not by wondrous fortune come,"
II,III,TAMORA,"This vengeance on me had they executed."
II,III,TAMORA,"Revenge it, as you love your mother's life,"
II,III,TAMORA,"Or be ye not henceforth call'd my children."
II,III,DEMETRIUS,"This is a witness that I am thy son."
II,III,CHIRON,"And this for me, struck home to show my strength."
II,III,LAVINIA,"Ay, come, Semiramis, nay, barbarous Tamora,"
II,III,LAVINIA,"For no name fits thy nature but thy own!"
II,III,TAMORA,"Give me thy poniard; you shall know, my boys"
II,III,TAMORA,"Your mother's hand shall right your mother's wrong."
II,III,DEMETRIUS,"Stay, madam; here is more belongs to her;"
II,III,DEMETRIUS,"First thrash the corn, then after burn the straw:"
II,III,DEMETRIUS,"This minion stood upon her chastity,"
II,III,DEMETRIUS,"Upon her nuptial vow, her loyalty,"
II,III,DEMETRIUS,"And with that painted hope braves your mightiness:"
II,III,DEMETRIUS,"And shall she carry this unto her grave?"
II,III,CHIRON,"An if she do, I would I were an eunuch."
II,III,CHIRON,"Drag hence her husband to some secret hole,"
II,III,CHIRON,"And make his dead trunk pillow to our lust."
II,III,TAMORA,"But when ye have the honey ye desire,"
II,III,TAMORA,"Let not this wasp outlive, us both to sting."
II,III,CHIRON,"I warrant you, madam, we will make that sure."
II,III,CHIRON,"Come, mistress, now perforce we will enjoy"
II,III,CHIRON,"That nice-preserved honesty of yours."
II,III,LAVINIA,"O Tamora! thou bear'st a woman's face,--"
II,III,TAMORA,"I will not hear her speak; away with her!"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Sweet lords, entreat her hear me but a word."
II,III,DEMETRIUS,"Listen, fair madam: let it be your glory"
II,III,DEMETRIUS,"To see her tears; but be your heart to them"
II,III,DEMETRIUS,"As unrelenting flint to drops of rain."
II,III,LAVINIA,"When did the tiger's young ones teach the dam?"
II,III,LAVINIA,"O, do not learn her wrath; she taught it thee;"
II,III,LAVINIA,"The milk thou suck'dst from her did turn to marble;"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Even at thy teat thou hadst thy tyranny."
II,III,LAVINIA,"Yet every mother breeds not sons alike:"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Do thou entreat her show a woman pity."
II,III,CHIRON,"What, wouldst thou have me prove myself a bastard?"
II,III,LAVINIA,"'Tis true; the raven doth not hatch a lark:"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Yet have I heard,--O, could I find it now!--"
II,III,LAVINIA,"The lion moved with pity did endure"
II,III,LAVINIA,"To have his princely paws pared all away:"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Some say that ravens foster forlorn children,"
II,III,LAVINIA,"The whilst their own birds famish in their nests:"
II,III,LAVINIA,"O, be to me, though thy hard heart say no,"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Nothing so kind, but something pitiful!"
II,III,TAMORA,"I know not what it means; away with her!"
II,III,LAVINIA,"O, let me teach thee! for my father's sake,"
II,III,LAVINIA,"That gave thee life, when well he might have"
II,III,LAVINIA,"slain thee,"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Be not obdurate, open thy deaf ears."
II,III,TAMORA,"Hadst thou in person ne'er offended me,"
II,III,TAMORA,"Even for his sake am I pitiless."
II,III,TAMORA,"Remember, boys, I pour'd forth tears in vain,"
II,III,TAMORA,"To save your brother from the sacrifice;"
II,III,TAMORA,"But fierce Andronicus would not relent;"
II,III,TAMORA,"Therefore, away with her, and use her as you will,"
II,III,TAMORA,"The worse to her, the better loved of me."
II,III,LAVINIA,"O Tamora, be call'd a gentle queen,"
II,III,LAVINIA,"And with thine own hands kill me in this place!"
II,III,LAVINIA,"For 'tis not life that I have begg'd so long;"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Poor I was slain when Bassianus died."
II,III,TAMORA,"What begg'st thou, then? fond woman, let me go."
II,III,LAVINIA,"'Tis present death I beg; and one thing more"
II,III,LAVINIA,"That womanhood denies my tongue to tell:"
II,III,LAVINIA,"O, keep me from their worse than killing lust,"
II,III,LAVINIA,"And tumble me into some loathsome pit,"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Where never man's eye may behold my body:"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Do this, and be a charitable murderer."
II,III,TAMORA,"So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee:"
II,III,TAMORA,"No, let them satisfy their lust on thee."
II,III,DEMETRIUS,"Away! for thou hast stay'd us here too long."
II,III,LAVINIA,"No grace? no womanhood? Ah, beastly creature!"
II,III,LAVINIA,"The blot and enemy to our general name!"
II,III,LAVINIA,"Confusion fall--"
II,III,CHIRON,"Nay, then I'll stop your mouth. Bring thou her husband:"
II,III,CHIRON,"This is the hole where Aaron bid us hide him."
II,III,TAMORA,"Farewell, my sons: see that you make her sure."
II,III,TAMORA,"Ne'er let my heart know merry cheer indeed,"
II,III,TAMORA,"Till all the Andronici be made away."
II,III,TAMORA,"Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor,"
II,III,TAMORA,"And let my spleenful sons this trull deflow'r."
II,III,AARON,"Come on, my lords, the better foot before:"
II,III,AARON,"Straight will I bring you to the loathsome pit"
II,III,AARON,"Where I espied the panther fast asleep."
II,III,QUINTUS,"My sight is very dull, whate'er it bodes."
II,III,MARTIUS,"And mine, I promise you; were't not for shame,"
II,III,MARTIUS,"Well could I leave our sport to sleep awhile."
II,III,QUINTUS,"What art thou fall'n? What subtle hole is this,"
II,III,QUINTUS,"Whose mouth is cover'd with rude-growing briers,"
II,III,QUINTUS,"Upon whose leaves are drops of new-shed blood"
II,III,QUINTUS,"As fresh as morning dew distill'd on flowers?"
II,III,QUINTUS,"A very fatal place it seems to me."
II,III,QUINTUS,"Speak, brother, hast thou hurt thee with the fall?"
II,III,MARTIUS,"O brother, with the dismall'st object hurt"
II,III,MARTIUS,"That ever eye with sight made heart lament!"
II,III,AARON,"That he thereby may give a likely guess"
II,III,AARON,"How these were they that made away his brother."
II,III,MARTIUS,"Why dost not comfort me, and help me out"
II,III,MARTIUS,"From this unhallowed and blood-stained hole?"
II,III,QUINTUS,"I am surprised with an uncouth fear;"
II,III,QUINTUS,"A chilling sweat o'er-runs my trembling joints:"
II,III,QUINTUS,"My heart suspects more than mine eye can see."
II,III,MARTIUS,"To prove thou hast a true-divining heart,"
II,III,MARTIUS,"Aaron and thou look down into this den,"
II,III,MARTIUS,"And see a fearful sight of blood and death."
II,III,QUINTUS,"Aaron is gone; and my compassionate heart"
II,III,QUINTUS,"Will not permit mine eyes once to behold"
II,III,QUINTUS,"The thing whereat it trembles by surmise;"
II,III,QUINTUS,"O, tell me how it is; for ne'er till now"
II,III,QUINTUS,"Was I a child to fear I know not what."
II,III,MARTIUS,"Lord Bassianus lies embrewed here,"
II,III,MARTIUS,"All on a heap, like to a slaughter'd lamb,"
II,III,MARTIUS,"In this detested, dark, blood-drinking pit."
II,III,QUINTUS,"If it be dark, how dost thou know 'tis he?"
II,III,MARTIUS,"Upon his bloody finger he doth wear"
II,III,MARTIUS,"A precious ring, that lightens all the hole,"
II,III,MARTIUS,"Which, like a taper in some monument,"
II,III,MARTIUS,"Doth shine upon the dead man's earthy cheeks,"
II,III,MARTIUS,"And shows the ragged entrails of the pit:"
II,III,MARTIUS,"So pale did shine the moon on Pyramus"
II,III,MARTIUS,"When he by night lay bathed in maiden blood."
II,III,MARTIUS,"O brother, help me with thy fainting hand--"
II,III,MARTIUS,"If fear hath made thee faint, as me it hath--"
II,III,MARTIUS,"Out of this fell devouring receptacle,"
II,III,MARTIUS,"As hateful as Cocytus' misty mouth."
II,III,QUINTUS,"Reach me thy hand, that I may help thee out;"
II,III,QUINTUS,"Or, wanting strength to do thee so much good,"
II,III,QUINTUS,"I may be pluck'd into the swallowing womb"
II,III,QUINTUS,"Of this deep pit, poor Bassianus' grave."
II,III,QUINTUS,"I have no strength to pluck thee to the brink."
II,III,MARTIUS,"Nor I no strength to climb without thy help."
II,III,QUINTUS,"Thy hand once more; I will not loose again,"
II,III,QUINTUS,"Till thou art here aloft, or I below:"
II,III,QUINTUS,"Thou canst not come to me: I come to thee."
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Along with me: I'll see what hole is here,"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"And what he is that now is leap'd into it."
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Say who art thou that lately didst descend"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Into this gaping hollow of the earth?"
II,III,MARTIUS,"The unhappy son of old Andronicus:"
II,III,MARTIUS,"Brought hither in a most unlucky hour,"
II,III,MARTIUS,"To find thy brother Bassianus dead."
II,III,SATURNINUS,"My brother dead! I know thou dost but jest:"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"He and his lady both are at the lodge"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Upon the north side of this pleasant chase;"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"'Tis not an hour since I left him there."
II,III,MARTIUS,"We know not where you left him all alive;"
II,III,MARTIUS,"But, out, alas! here have we found him dead."
II,III,TAMORA,"Where is my lord the king?"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Here, Tamora, though grieved with killing grief."
II,III,TAMORA,"Where is thy brother Bassianus?"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Now to the bottom dost thou search my wound:"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Poor Bassianus here lies murdered."
II,III,TAMORA,"Then all too late I bring this fatal writ,"
II,III,TAMORA,"The complot of this timeless tragedy;"
II,III,TAMORA,"And wonder greatly that man's face can fold"
II,III,TAMORA,"In pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny."
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Sweet huntsman, Bassianus 'tis we mean--"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Do thou so much as dig the grave for him:"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Thou know'st our meaning. Look for thy reward"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Among the nettles at the elder-tree"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Which overshades the mouth of that same pit"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Where we decreed to bury Bassianus."
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Do this, and purchase us thy lasting friends.'"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"O Tamora! was ever heard the like?"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"This is the pit, and this the elder-tree."
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Look, sirs, if you can find the huntsman out"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"That should have murdered Bassianus here."
II,III,AARON,"My gracious lord, here is the bag of gold."
II,III,SATURNINUS,"bloody kind,"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Have here bereft my brother of his life."
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Sirs, drag them from the pit unto the prison:"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"There let them bide until we have devised"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Some never-heard-of torturing pain for them."
II,III,TAMORA,"What, are they in this pit? O wondrous thing!"
II,III,TAMORA,"How easily murder is discovered!"
II,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"High emperor, upon my feeble knee"
II,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I beg this boon, with tears not lightly shed,"
II,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That this fell fault of my accursed sons,"
II,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Accursed if the fault be proved in them,--"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"If it be proved! you see it is apparent."
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Who found this letter? Tamora, was it you?"
II,III,TAMORA,"Andronicus himself did take it up."
II,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I did, my lord: yet let me be their bail;"
II,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For, by my father's reverend tomb, I vow"
II,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"They shall be ready at your highness' will"
II,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To answer their suspicion with their lives."
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Thou shalt not bail them: see thou follow me."
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Some bring the murder'd body, some the murderers:"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"Let them not speak a word; the guilt is plain;"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"For, by my soul, were there worse end than death,"
II,III,SATURNINUS,"That end upon them should be executed."
II,III,TAMORA,"Andronicus, I will entreat the king;"
II,III,TAMORA,"Fear not thy sons; they shall do well enough."
II,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come, Lucius, come; stay not to talk with them."
II,IV,DEMETRIUS,"So, now go tell, an if thy tongue can speak,"
II,IV,DEMETRIUS,"Who 'twas that cut thy tongue and ravish'd thee."
II,IV,CHIRON,"Write down thy mind, bewray thy meaning so,"
II,IV,CHIRON,"An if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe."
II,IV,DEMETRIUS,"See, how with signs and tokens she can scrowl."
II,IV,CHIRON,"Go home, call for sweet water, wash thy hands."
II,IV,DEMETRIUS,"She hath no tongue to call, nor hands to wash;"
II,IV,DEMETRIUS,"And so let's leave her to her silent walks."
II,IV,CHIRON,"An 'twere my case, I should go hang myself."
II,IV,DEMETRIUS,"If thou hadst hands to help thee knit the cord."
II,IV,MARCUS,"Who is this? my niece, that flies away so fast!"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Cousin, a word; where is your husband?"
II,IV,MARCUS,"If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me!"
II,IV,MARCUS,"If I do wake, some planet strike me down,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"That I may slumber in eternal sleep!"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Speak, gentle niece, what stern ungentle hands"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Have lopp'd and hew'd and made thy body bare"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Of her two branches, those sweet ornaments,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"And might not gain so great a happiness"
II,IV,MARCUS,"As have thy love? Why dost not speak to me?"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Alas, a crimson river of warm blood,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Like to a bubbling fountain stirr'd with wind,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Coming and going with thy honey breath."
II,IV,MARCUS,"But, sure, some Tereus hath deflowered thee,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"And, lest thou shouldst detect him, cut thy tongue."
II,IV,MARCUS,"Ah, now thou turn'st away thy face for shame!"
II,IV,MARCUS,"And, notwithstanding all this loss of blood,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"As from a conduit with three issuing spouts,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Yet do thy cheeks look red as Titan's face"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Blushing to be encountered with a cloud."
II,IV,MARCUS,"Shall I speak for thee? shall I say 'tis so?"
II,IV,MARCUS,"O, that I knew thy heart; and knew the beast,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"That I might rail at him, to ease my mind!"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is."
II,IV,MARCUS,"Fair Philomela, she but lost her tongue,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"And in a tedious sampler sew'd her mind:"
II,IV,MARCUS,"But, lovely niece, that mean is cut from thee;"
II,IV,MARCUS,"A craftier Tereus, cousin, hast thou met,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"And he hath cut those pretty fingers off,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"That could have better sew'd than Philomel."
II,IV,MARCUS,"O, had the monster seen those lily hands"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Tremble, like aspen-leaves, upon a lute,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"And make the silken strings delight to kiss them,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"He would not then have touch'd them for his life!"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Or, had he heard the heavenly harmony"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Which that sweet tongue hath made,"
II,IV,MARCUS,"He would have dropp'd his knife, and fell asleep"
II,IV,MARCUS,"As Cerberus at the Thracian poet's feet."
II,IV,MARCUS,"Come, let us go, and make thy father blind;"
II,IV,MARCUS,"For such a sight will blind a father's eye:"
II,IV,MARCUS,"One hour's storm will drown the fragrant meads;"
II,IV,MARCUS,"What will whole months of tears thy father's eyes?"
II,IV,MARCUS,"Do not draw back, for we will mourn with thee"
II,IV,MARCUS,"O, could our mourning ease thy misery!"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Hear me, grave fathers! noble tribunes, stay!"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For pity of mine age, whose youth was spent"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"In dangerous wars, whilst you securely slept;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For all my blood in Rome's great quarrel shed;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For all the frosty nights that I have watch'd;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And for these bitter tears, which now you see"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Filling the aged wrinkles in my cheeks;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Be pitiful to my condemned sons,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Whose souls are not corrupted as 'tis thought."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For two and twenty sons I never wept,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Because they died in honour's lofty bed."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For these, these, tribunes, in the dust I write"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"My heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"My sons' sweet blood will make it shame and blush."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O earth, I will befriend thee more with rain,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That shall distil from these two ancient urns,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Than youthful April shall with all his showers:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"In summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"In winter with warm tears I'll melt the snow"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And keep eternal spring-time on thy face,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"So thou refuse to drink my dear sons' blood."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O reverend tribunes! O gentle, aged men!"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Unbind my sons, reverse the doom of death;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And let me say, that never wept before,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"My tears are now prevailing orators."
III,I,LUCIUS,"O noble father, you lament in vain:"
III,I,LUCIUS,"The tribunes hear you not; no man is by;"
III,I,LUCIUS,"And you recount your sorrows to a stone."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Ah, Lucius, for thy brothers let me plead."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Grave tribunes, once more I entreat of you,--"
III,I,LUCIUS,"My gracious lord, no tribune hears you speak."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Why, tis no matter, man; if they did hear,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"They would not mark me, or if they did mark,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"They would not pity me, yet plead I must;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And bootless unto them."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Who, though they cannot answer my distress,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For that they will not intercept my tale:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"When I do weep, they humbly at my feet"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Receive my tears and seem to weep with me;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And, were they but attired in grave weeds,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Rome could afford no tribune like to these."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"A stone is soft as wax,--tribunes more hard than stones;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"A stone is silent, and offendeth not,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But wherefore stand'st thou with thy weapon drawn?"
III,I,LUCIUS,"To rescue my two brothers from their death:"
III,I,LUCIUS,"For which attempt the judges have pronounced"
III,I,LUCIUS,"My everlasting doom of banishment."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O happy man! they have befriended thee."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Tigers must prey, and Rome affords no prey"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But me and mine: how happy art thou, then,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"From these devourers to be banished!"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But who comes with our brother Marcus here?"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Titus, prepare thy aged eyes to weep;"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Or, if not so, thy noble heart to break:"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"I bring consuming sorrow to thine age."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Will it consume me? let me see it, then."
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"This was thy daughter."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Why, Marcus, so she is."
III,I,LUCIUS,"Ay me, this object kills me!"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Faint-hearted boy, arise, and look upon her."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Speak, Lavinia, what accursed hand"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Hath made thee handless in thy father's sight?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"What fool hath added water to the sea,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"My grief was at the height before thou camest,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And now like Nilus, it disdaineth bounds."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Give me a sword, I'll chop off my hands too;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For they have fought for Rome, and all in vain;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And they have nursed this woe, in feeding life;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"In bootless prayer have they been held up,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And they have served me to effectless use:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Now all the service I require of them"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Is that the one will help to cut the other."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"'Tis well, Lavinia, that thou hast no hands;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For hands, to do Rome service, are but vain."
III,I,LUCIUS,"Speak, gentle sister, who hath martyr'd thee?"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"O, that delightful engine of her thoughts"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That blabb'd them with such pleasing eloquence,"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage,"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear!"
III,I,LUCIUS,"O, say thou for her, who hath done this deed?"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"O, thus I found her, straying in the park,"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Seeking to hide herself, as doth the deer"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That hath received some unrecuring wound."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"It was my deer; and he that wounded her"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Hath hurt me more than had he killed me dead:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For now I stand as one upon a rock"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Environed with a wilderness of sea,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Expecting ever when some envious surge"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Will in his brinish bowels swallow him."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"This way to death my wretched sons are gone;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Here stands my other son, a banished man,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And here my brother, weeping at my woes."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But that which gives my soul the greatest spurn,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Is dear Lavinia, dearer than my soul."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Had I but seen thy picture in this plight,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"It would have madded me: what shall I do"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Now I behold thy lively body so?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Thou hast no hands, to wipe away thy tears:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Nor tongue, to tell me who hath martyr'd thee:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Thy husband he is dead: and for his death"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Thy brothers are condemn'd, and dead by this."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Look, Marcus! ah, son Lucius, look on her!"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"When I did name her brothers, then fresh tears"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd."
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Perchance she weeps because they kill'd her husband;"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Perchance because she knows them innocent."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"If they did kill thy husband, then be joyful"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Because the law hath ta'en revenge on them."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"No, no, they would not do so foul a deed;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Witness the sorrow that their sister makes."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Gentle Lavinia, let me kiss thy lips."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Or make some sign how I may do thee ease:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Shall thy good uncle, and thy brother Lucius,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And thou, and I, sit round about some fountain,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Looking all downwards to behold our cheeks"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"How they are stain'd, as meadows, yet not dry,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"With miry slime left on them by a flood?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And in the fountain shall we gaze so long"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And made a brine-pit with our bitter tears?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Or shall we cut away our hands, like thine?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Or shall we bite our tongues, and in dumb shows"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Pass the remainder of our hateful days?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"What shall we do? let us, that have our tongues,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Plot some deuce of further misery,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To make us wonder'd at in time to come."
III,I,LUCIUS,"Sweet father, cease your tears; for, at your grief,"
III,I,LUCIUS,"See how my wretched sister sobs and weeps."
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Patience, dear niece. Good Titus, dry thine eyes."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Ah, Marcus, Marcus! brother, well I wot"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Thy napkin cannot drink a tear of mine,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For thou, poor man, hast drown'd it with thine own."
III,I,LUCIUS,"Ah, my Lavinia, I will wipe thy cheeks."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Mark, Marcus, mark! I understand her signs:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Had she a tongue to speak, now would she say"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That to her brother which I said to thee:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"His napkin, with his true tears all bewet,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Can do no service on her sorrowful cheeks."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O, what a sympathy of woe is this,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"As far from help as Limbo is from bliss!"
III,I,AARON,"Titus Andronicus, my lord the emperor"
III,I,AARON,"Sends thee this word,--that, if thou love thy sons,"
III,I,AARON,"Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus,"
III,I,AARON,"Or any one of you, chop off your hand,"
III,I,AARON,"And send it to the king: he for the same"
III,I,AARON,"Will send thee hither both thy sons alive;"
III,I,AARON,"And that shall be the ransom for their fault."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O gracious emperor! O gentle Aaron!"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Did ever raven sing so like a lark,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"With all my heart, I'll send the emperor My hand:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Good Aaron, wilt thou help to chop it off?"
III,I,LUCIUS,"Stay, father! for that noble hand of thine,"
III,I,LUCIUS,"That hath thrown down so many enemies,"
III,I,LUCIUS,"Shall not be sent: my hand will serve the turn:"
III,I,LUCIUS,"My youth can better spare my blood than you;"
III,I,LUCIUS,"And therefore mine shall save my brothers' lives."
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Which of your hands hath not defended Rome,"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And rear'd aloft the bloody battle-axe,"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Writing destruction on the enemy's castle?"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"O, none of both but are of high desert:"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"My hand hath been but idle; let it serve"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"To ransom my two nephews from their death;"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Then have I kept it to a worthy end."
III,I,AARON,"Nay, come, agree whose hand shall go along,"
III,I,AARON,"For fear they die before their pardon come."
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"My hand shall go."
III,I,LUCIUS,"By heaven, it shall not go!"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Sirs, strive no more: such wither'd herbs as these"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Are meet for plucking up, and therefore mine."
III,I,LUCIUS,"Sweet father, if I shall be thought thy son,"
III,I,LUCIUS,"Let me redeem my brothers both from death."
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And, for our father's sake and mother's care,"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Now let me show a brother's love to thee."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Agree between you; I will spare my hand."
III,I,LUCIUS,"Then I'll go fetch an axe."
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"But I will use the axe."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come hither, Aaron; I'll deceive them both:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Lend me thy hand, and I will give thee mine."
III,I,AARON,"And never, whilst I live, deceive men so:"
III,I,AARON,"But I'll deceive you in another sort,"
III,I,AARON,"And that you'll say, ere half an hour pass."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Now stay your strife: what shall be is dispatch'd."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Good Aaron, give his majesty my hand:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Tell him it was a hand that warded him"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"From thousand dangers; bid him bury it"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"More hath it merited; that let it have."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"As for my sons, say I account of them"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"As jewels purchased at an easy price;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And yet dear too, because I bought mine own."
III,I,AARON,"I go, Andronicus: and for thy hand"
III,I,AARON,"Look by and by to have thy sons with thee."
III,I,AARON,"Their heads, I mean. O, how this villany"
III,I,AARON,"Doth fat me with the very thoughts of it!"
III,I,AARON,"Let fools do good, and fair men call for grace."
III,I,AARON,"Aaron will have his soul black like his face."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O, here I lift this one hand up to heaven,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And bow this feeble ruin to the earth:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"If any power pities wretched tears,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To that I call!"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"What, wilt thou kneel with me?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Do, then, dear heart; for heaven shall hear our prayers;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Or with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin dim,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And stain the sun with fog, as sometime clouds"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"When they do hug him in their melting bosoms."
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"O brother, speak with possibilities,"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And do not break into these deep extremes."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Is not my sorrow deep, having no bottom?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Then be my passions bottomless with them."
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"But yet let reason govern thy lament."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"If there were reason for these miseries,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Then into limits could I bind my woes:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And wilt thou have a reason for this coil?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow!"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"She is the weeping welkin, I the earth:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Then must my sea be moved with her sighs;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Then must my earth with her continual tears"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For why my bowels cannot hide her woes,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But like a drunkard must I vomit them."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Then give me leave, for losers will have leave"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues."
III,I,Messenger,"Worthy Andronicus, ill art thou repaid"
III,I,Messenger,"For that good hand thou sent'st the emperor."
III,I,Messenger,"Here are the heads of thy two noble sons;"
III,I,Messenger,"And here's thy hand, in scorn to thee sent back;"
III,I,Messenger,"Thy griefs their sports, thy resolution mock'd;"
III,I,Messenger,"That woe is me to think upon thy woes"
III,I,Messenger,"More than remembrance of my father's death."
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Now let hot AEtna cool in Sicily,"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And be my heart an ever-burning hell!"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"These miseries are more than may be borne."
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal;"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"But sorrow flouted at is double death."
III,I,LUCIUS,"Ah, that this sight should make so deep a wound,"
III,I,LUCIUS,"And yet detested life not shrink thereat!"
III,I,LUCIUS,"That ever death should let life bear his name,"
III,I,LUCIUS,"Where life hath no more interest but to breathe!"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Alas, poor heart, that kiss is comfortless"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"As frozen water to a starved snake."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"When will this fearful slumber have an end?"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Now, farewell, flattery: die, Andronicus;"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Thou dost not slumber: see, thy two sons' heads,"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here:"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Thy other banish'd son, with this dear sight"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Struck pale and bloodless; and thy brother, I,"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Even like a stony image, cold and numb."
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Ah, now no more will I control thy griefs:"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Rend off thy silver hair, thy other hand"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Gnawing with thy teeth; and be this dismal sight"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"The closing up of our most wretched eyes;"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Now is a time to storm; why art thou still?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Ha, ha, ha!"
III,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Why, I have not another tear to shed:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Besides, this sorrow is an enemy,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And would usurp upon my watery eyes"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And make them blind with tributary tears:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Then which way shall I find Revenge's cave?"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For these two heads do seem to speak to me,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And threat me I shall never come to bliss"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Till all these mischiefs be return'd again"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Even in their throats that have committed them."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come, let me see what task I have to do."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"You heavy people, circle me about,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That I may turn me to each one of you,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And swear unto my soul to right your wrongs."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"The vow is made. Come, brother, take a head;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And in this hand the other I will bear."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Lavinia, thou shalt be employ'd: these arms!"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Bear thou my hand, sweet wench, between thy teeth."
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"As for thee, boy, go get thee from my sight;"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Hie to the Goths, and raise an army there:"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And, if you love me, as I think you do,"
III,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Let's kiss and part, for we have much to do."
III,I,LUCIUS,"Farewell Andronicus, my noble father,"
III,I,LUCIUS,"The wofull'st man that ever lived in Rome:"
III,I,LUCIUS,"Farewell, proud Rome; till Lucius come again,"
III,I,LUCIUS,"He leaves his pledges dearer than his life:"
III,I,LUCIUS,"Farewell, Lavinia, my noble sister;"
III,I,LUCIUS,"O, would thou wert as thou tofore hast been!"
III,I,LUCIUS,"But now nor Lucius nor Lavinia lives"
III,I,LUCIUS,"But in oblivion and hateful griefs."
III,I,LUCIUS,"If Lucius live, he will requite your wrongs;"
III,I,LUCIUS,"And make proud Saturnine and his empress"
III,I,LUCIUS,"Beg at the gates, like Tarquin and his queen."
III,I,LUCIUS,"Now will I to the Goths, and raise a power,"
III,I,LUCIUS,"To be revenged on Rome and Saturnine."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"So, so; now sit: and look you eat no more"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Than will preserve just so much strength in us"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"As will revenge these bitter woes of ours."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Marcus, unknit that sorrow-wreathen knot:"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And cannot passionate our tenfold grief"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"With folded arms. This poor right hand of mine"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Is left to tyrannize upon my breast;"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Who, when my heart, all mad with misery,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Beats in this hollow prison of my flesh,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Then thus I thump it down."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Thou map of woe, that thus dost talk in signs!"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"When thy poor heart beats with outrageous beating,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Thou canst not strike it thus to make it still."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Wound it with sighing, girl, kill it with groans;"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Or get some little knife between thy teeth,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And just against thy heart make thou a hole;"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That all the tears that thy poor eyes let fall"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"May run into that sink, and soaking in"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Drown the lamenting fool in sea-salt tears."
III,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Fie, brother, fie! teach her not thus to lay"
III,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Such violent hands upon her tender life."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"How now! has sorrow made thee dote already?"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Why, Marcus, no man should be mad but I."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"What violent hands can she lay on her life?"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Ah, wherefore dost thou urge the name of hands;"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To bid AEneas tell the tale twice o'er,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"How Troy was burnt and he made miserable?"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O, handle not the theme, to talk of hands,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Lest we remember still that we have none."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Fie, fie, how franticly I square my talk,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"As if we should forget we had no hands,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"If Marcus did not name the word of hands!"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come, let's fall to; and, gentle girl, eat this:"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Here is no drink! Hark, Marcus, what she says;"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I can interpret all her martyr'd signs;"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"She says she drinks no other drink but tears,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Brew'd with her sorrow, mesh'd upon her cheeks:"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought;"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"In thy dumb action will I be as perfect"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"As begging hermits in their holy prayers:"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Thou shalt not sigh, nor hold thy stumps to heaven,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Nor wink, nor nod, nor kneel, nor make a sign,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But I of these will wrest an alphabet"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And by still practise learn to know thy meaning."
III,II,Young LUCIUS,"Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments:"
III,II,Young LUCIUS,"Make my aunt merry with some pleasing tale."
III,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Alas, the tender boy, in passion moved,"
III,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Peace, tender sapling; thou art made of tears,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And tears will quickly melt thy life away."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"What dost thou strike at, Marcus, with thy knife?"
III,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"At that that I have kill'd, my lord; a fly."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Out on thee, murderer! thou kill'st my heart;"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Mine eyes are cloy'd with view of tyranny:"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"A deed of death done on the innocent"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Becomes not Titus' brother: get thee gone:"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I see thou art not for my company."
III,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Alas, my lord, I have but kill'd a fly."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But how, if that fly had a father and mother?"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"How would he hang his slender gilded wings,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And buzz lamenting doings in the air!"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Poor harmless fly,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That, with his pretty buzzing melody,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Came here to make us merry! and thou hast"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"kill'd him."
III,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Pardon me, sir; it was a black ill-favor'd fly,"
III,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Like to the empress' Moor; therefore I kill'd him."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O, O, O,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Then pardon me for reprehending thee,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For thou hast done a charitable deed."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Give me thy knife, I will insult on him;"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Flattering myself, as if it were the Moor"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come hither purposely to poison me.--"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"There's for thyself, and that's for Tamora."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Ah, sirrah!"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Yet, I think, we are not brought so low,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But that between us we can kill a fly"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That comes in likeness of a coal-black Moor."
III,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Alas, poor man! grief has so wrought on him,"
III,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"He takes false shadows for true substances."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come, take away. Lavinia, go with me:"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I'll to thy closet; and go read with thee"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Sad stories chanced in the times of old."
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come, boy, and go with me: thy sight is young,"
III,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle."
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Help, grandsire, help! my aunt Lavinia"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Follows me every where, I know not why:"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Good uncle Marcus, see how swift she comes."
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Alas, sweet aunt, I know not what you mean."
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Stand by me, Lucius; do not fear thine aunt."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"She loves thee, boy, too well to do thee harm."
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Ay, when my father was in Rome she did."
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"What means my niece Lavinia by these signs?"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Fear her not, Lucius: somewhat doth she mean:"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"See, Lucius, see how much she makes of thee:"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Somewhither would she have thee go with her."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Ah, boy, Cornelia never with more care"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Read to her sons than she hath read to thee"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator."
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Canst thou not guess wherefore she plies thee thus?"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"My lord, I know not, I, nor can I guess,"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Unless some fit or frenzy do possess her:"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"For I have heard my grandsire say full oft,"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Extremity of griefs would make men mad;"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"And I have read that Hecuba of Troy"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Ran mad through sorrow: that made me to fear;"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Although, my lord, I know my noble aunt"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Loves me as dear as e'er my mother did,"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"And would not, but in fury, fright my youth:"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Which made me down to throw my books, and fly--"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Causeless, perhaps. But pardon me, sweet aunt:"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"And, madam, if my uncle Marcus go,"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"I will most willingly attend your ladyship."
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Lucius, I will."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"How now, Lavinia! Marcus, what means this?"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Some book there is that she desires to see."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But thou art deeper read, and better skill'd"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come, and take choice of all my library,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Reveal the damn'd contriver of this deed."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Why lifts she up her arms in sequence thus?"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"I think she means that there was more than one"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Confederate in the fact: ay, more there was;"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Or else to heaven she heaves them for revenge."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Lucius, what book is that she tosseth so?"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Grandsire, 'tis Ovid's Metamorphoses;"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"My mother gave it me."
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"For love of her that's gone,"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Perhaps she cull'd it from among the rest."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Soft! see how busily she turns the leaves!"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"What would she find? Lavinia, shall I read?"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"This is the tragic tale of Philomel,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And treats of Tereus' treason and his rape:"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And rape, I fear, was root of thine annoy."
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"See, brother, see; note how she quotes the leaves."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Lavinia, wert thou thus surprised, sweet girl,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Ravish'd and wrong'd, as Philomela was,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Forced in the ruthless, vast, and gloomy woods? See, see!"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Ay, such a place there is, where we did hunt--"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O, had we never, never hunted there!--"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Pattern'd by that the poet here describes,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"By nature made for murders and for rapes."
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"O, why should nature build so foul a den,"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Unless the gods delight in tragedies?"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Give signs, sweet girl, for here are none"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"but friends,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"What Roman lord it was durst do the deed:"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Or slunk not Saturnine, as Tarquin erst,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That left the camp to sin in Lucrece' bed?"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Sit down, sweet niece: brother, sit down by me."
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Apollo, Pallas, Jove, or Mercury,"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Inspire me, that I may this treason find!"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"My lord, look here: look here, Lavinia:"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"This sandy plot is plain; guide, if thou canst"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"This after me, when I have writ my name"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Without the help of any hand at all."
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Cursed be that heart that forced us to this shift!"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Write thou good niece; and here display, at last,"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"What God will have discover'd for revenge;"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain,"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That we may know the traitors and the truth!"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O, do ye read, my lord, what she hath writ?"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"'Stuprum. Chiron. Demetrius.'"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"What, what! the lustful sons of Tamora"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Performers of this heinous, bloody deed?"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Magni Dominator poli,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Tam lentus audis scelera? tam lentus vides?"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"O, calm thee, gentle lord; although I know"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"There is enough written upon this earth"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"To stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And arm the minds of infants to exclaims."
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"My lord, kneel down with me; Lavinia, kneel;"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And kneel, sweet boy, the Roman Hector's hope;"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And swear with me, as, with the woful fere"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And father of that chaste dishonour'd dame,"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Lord Junius Brutus sware for Lucrece' rape,"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That we will prosecute by good advice"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths,"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And see their blood, or die with this reproach."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"'Tis sure enough, an you knew how."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But if you hunt these bear-whelps, then beware:"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"The dam will wake; and, if she wind you once,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"She's with the lion deeply still in league,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And lulls him whilst she playeth on her back,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And when he sleeps will she do what she list."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"You are a young huntsman, Marcus; let it alone;"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And, come, I will go get a leaf of brass,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And with a gad of steel will write these words,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And lay it by: the angry northern wind"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Will blow these sands, like Sibyl's leaves, abroad,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And where's your lesson, then? Boy, what say you?"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"I say, my lord, that if I were a man,"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Their mother's bed-chamber should not be safe"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"For these bad bondmen to the yoke of Rome."
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Ay, that's my boy! thy father hath full oft"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"For his ungrateful country done the like."
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"And, uncle, so will I, an if I live."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come, go with me into mine armoury;"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Lucius, I'll fit thee; and withal, my boy,"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Shalt carry from me to the empress' sons"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Presents that I intend to send them both:"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come, come; thou'lt do thy message, wilt thou not?"
IV,I,Young LUCIUS,"Ay, with my dagger in their bosoms, grandsire."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"No, boy, not so; I'll teach thee another course."
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Lavinia, come. Marcus, look to my house:"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Lucius and I'll go brave it at the court:"
IV,I,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Ay, marry, will we, sir; and we'll be waited on."
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"O heavens, can you hear a good man groan,"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And not relent, or not compassion him?"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Marcus, attend him in his ecstasy,"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That hath more scars of sorrow in his heart"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Than foemen's marks upon his batter'd shield;"
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"But yet so just that he will not revenge."
IV,I,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Revenge, ye heavens, for old Andronicus!"
IV,II,CHIRON,"Demetrius, here's the son of Lucius;"
IV,II,CHIRON,"He hath some message to deliver us."
IV,II,AARON,"Ay, some mad message from his mad grandfather."
IV,II,Young LUCIUS,"My lords, with all the humbleness I may,"
IV,II,Young LUCIUS,"I greet your honours from Andronicus."
IV,II,Young LUCIUS,"And pray the Roman gods confound you both!"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Gramercy, lovely Lucius: what's the news?"
IV,II,Young LUCIUS,"For villains mark'd with rape.--May it please you,"
IV,II,Young LUCIUS,"My grandsire, well advised, hath sent by me"
IV,II,Young LUCIUS,"The goodliest weapons of his armoury"
IV,II,Young LUCIUS,"To gratify your honourable youth,"
IV,II,Young LUCIUS,"The hope of Rome; for so he bade me say;"
IV,II,Young LUCIUS,"And so I do, and with his gifts present"
IV,II,Young LUCIUS,"Your lordships, that, whenever you have need,"
IV,II,Young LUCIUS,"You may be armed and appointed well:"
IV,II,Young LUCIUS,"And so I leave you both:"
IV,II,Young LUCIUS,"like bloody villains."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"What's here? A scroll; and written round about?"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Let's see;"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"'Integer vitae, scelerisque purus,"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Non eget Mauri jaculis, nec arcu.'"
IV,II,CHIRON,"O, 'tis a verse in Horace; I know it well:"
IV,II,CHIRON,"I read it in the grammar long ago."
IV,II,AARON,"Ay, just; a verse in Horace; right, you have it."
IV,II,AARON,"Now, what a thing it is to be an ass!"
IV,II,AARON,"Here's no sound jest! the old man hath found their guilt;"
IV,II,AARON,"And sends them weapons wrapped about with lines,"
IV,II,AARON,"That wound, beyond their feeling, to the quick."
IV,II,AARON,"But were our witty empress well afoot,"
IV,II,AARON,"She would applaud Andronicus' conceit:"
IV,II,AARON,"But let her rest in her unrest awhile."
IV,II,AARON,"And now, young lords, was't not a happy star"
IV,II,AARON,"Led us to Rome, strangers, and more than so,"
IV,II,AARON,"Captives, to be advanced to this height?"
IV,II,AARON,"It did me good, before the palace gate"
IV,II,AARON,"To brave the tribune in his brother's hearing."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"But me more good, to see so great a lord"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Basely insinuate and send us gifts."
IV,II,AARON,"Had he not reason, Lord Demetrius?"
IV,II,AARON,"Did you not use his daughter very friendly?"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"I would we had a thousand Roman dames"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"At such a bay, by turn to serve our lust."
IV,II,CHIRON,"A charitable wish and full of love."
IV,II,AARON,"Here lacks but your mother for to say amen."
IV,II,CHIRON,"And that would she for twenty thousand more."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Come, let us go; and pray to all the gods"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"For our beloved mother in her pains."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?"
IV,II,CHIRON,"Belike, for joy the emperor hath a son."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Soft! who comes here?"
IV,II,Nurse,"Good morrow, lords:"
IV,II,Nurse,"O, tell me, did you see Aaron the Moor?"
IV,II,AARON,"Well, more or less, or ne'er a whit at all,"
IV,II,AARON,"Here Aaron is; and what with Aaron now?"
IV,II,Nurse,"O gentle Aaron, we are all undone!"
IV,II,Nurse,"Now help, or woe betide thee evermore!"
IV,II,AARON,"Why, what a caterwauling dost thou keep!"
IV,II,AARON,"What dost thou wrap and fumble in thine arms?"
IV,II,Nurse,"O, that which I would hide from heaven's eye,"
IV,II,Nurse,"Our empress' shame, and stately Rome's disgrace!"
IV,II,Nurse,"She is deliver'd, lords; she is deliver'd."
IV,II,AARON,"To whom?"
IV,II,Nurse,"I mean, she is brought a-bed."
IV,II,AARON,"Well, God give her good rest! What hath he sent her?"
IV,II,Nurse,"A devil."
IV,II,AARON,"Why, then she is the devil's dam; a joyful issue."
IV,II,Nurse,"A joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue:"
IV,II,Nurse,"Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toad"
IV,II,Nurse,"Amongst the fairest breeders of our clime:"
IV,II,Nurse,"The empress sends it thee, thy stamp, thy seal,"
IV,II,Nurse,"And bids thee christen it with thy dagger's point."
IV,II,AARON,"'Zounds, ye whore! is black so base a hue?"
IV,II,AARON,"Sweet blowse, you are a beauteous blossom, sure."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Villain, what hast thou done?"
IV,II,AARON,"That which thou canst not undo."
IV,II,CHIRON,"Thou hast undone our mother."
IV,II,AARON,"Villain, I have done thy mother."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"And therein, hellish dog, thou hast undone."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Woe to her chance, and damn'd her loathed choice!"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Accursed the offspring of so foul a fiend!"
IV,II,CHIRON,"It shall not live."
IV,II,AARON,"It shall not die."
IV,II,Nurse,"Aaron, it must; the mother wills it so."
IV,II,AARON,"What, must it, nurse? then let no man but I"
IV,II,AARON,"Do execution on my flesh and blood."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point:"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Nurse, give it me; my sword shall soon dispatch it."
IV,II,AARON,"Sooner this sword shall plough thy bowels up."
IV,II,AARON,"Stay, murderous villains! will you kill your brother?"
IV,II,AARON,"Now, by the burning tapers of the sky,"
IV,II,AARON,"That shone so brightly when this boy was got,"
IV,II,AARON,"He dies upon my scimitar's sharp point"
IV,II,AARON,"That touches this my first-born son and heir!"
IV,II,AARON,"I tell you, younglings, not Enceladus,"
IV,II,AARON,"With all his threatening band of Typhon's brood,"
IV,II,AARON,"Nor great Alcides, nor the god of war,"
IV,II,AARON,"Shall seize this prey out of his father's hands."
IV,II,AARON,"What, what, ye sanguine, shallow-hearted boys!"
IV,II,AARON,"Ye white-limed walls! ye alehouse painted signs!"
IV,II,AARON,"Coal-black is better than another hue,"
IV,II,AARON,"In that it scorns to bear another hue;"
IV,II,AARON,"For all the water in the ocean"
IV,II,AARON,"Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,"
IV,II,AARON,"Although she lave them hourly in the flood."
IV,II,AARON,"Tell the empress from me, I am of age"
IV,II,AARON,"To keep mine own, excuse it how she can."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Wilt thou betray thy noble mistress thus?"
IV,II,AARON,"My mistress is my mistress; this myself,"
IV,II,AARON,"The vigour and the picture of my youth:"
IV,II,AARON,"This before all the world do I prefer;"
IV,II,AARON,"This maugre all the world will I keep safe,"
IV,II,AARON,"Or some of you shall smoke for it in Rome."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"By this our mother is forever shamed."
IV,II,CHIRON,"Rome will despise her for this foul escape."
IV,II,Nurse,"The emperor, in his rage, will doom her death."
IV,II,CHIRON,"I blush to think upon this ignomy."
IV,II,AARON,"Why, there's the privilege your beauty bears:"
IV,II,AARON,"Fie, treacherous hue, that will betray with blushing"
IV,II,AARON,"The close enacts and counsels of the heart!"
IV,II,AARON,"Here's a young lad framed of another leer:"
IV,II,AARON,"Look, how the black slave smiles upon the father,"
IV,II,AARON,"As who should say 'Old lad, I am thine own.'"
IV,II,AARON,"He is your brother, lords, sensibly fed"
IV,II,AARON,"Of that self-blood that first gave life to you,"
IV,II,AARON,"And from that womb where you imprison'd were"
IV,II,AARON,"He is enfranchised and come to light:"
IV,II,AARON,"Nay, he is your brother by the surer side,"
IV,II,AARON,"Although my seal be stamped in his face."
IV,II,Nurse,"Aaron, what shall I say unto the empress?"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Advise thee, Aaron, what is to be done,"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"And we will all subscribe to thy advice:"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Save thou the child, so we may all be safe."
IV,II,AARON,"Then sit we down, and let us all consult."
IV,II,AARON,"My son and I will have the wind of you:"
IV,II,AARON,"Keep there: now talk at pleasure of your safety."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"How many women saw this child of his?"
IV,II,AARON,"Why, so, brave lords! when we join in league,"
IV,II,AARON,"I am a lamb: but if you brave the Moor,"
IV,II,AARON,"The chafed boar, the mountain lioness,"
IV,II,AARON,"The ocean swells not so as Aaron storms."
IV,II,AARON,"But say, again; how many saw the child?"
IV,II,Nurse,"Cornelia the midwife and myself;"
IV,II,Nurse,"And no one else but the deliver'd empress."
IV,II,AARON,"The empress, the midwife, and yourself:"
IV,II,AARON,"Two may keep counsel when the third's away:"
IV,II,AARON,"Go to the empress, tell her this I said."
IV,II,AARON,"Weke, weke! so cries a pig prepared to the spit."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"What mean'st thou, Aaron? wherefore didst thou this?"
IV,II,AARON,"O Lord, sir, 'tis a deed of policy:"
IV,II,AARON,"Shall she live to betray this guilt of ours,"
IV,II,AARON,"A long-tongued babbling gossip? no, lords, no:"
IV,II,AARON,"And now be it known to you my full intent."
IV,II,AARON,"Not far, one Muli lives, my countryman;"
IV,II,AARON,"His wife but yesternight was brought to bed;"
IV,II,AARON,"His child is like to her, fair as you are:"
IV,II,AARON,"Go pack with him, and give the mother gold,"
IV,II,AARON,"And tell them both the circumstance of all;"
IV,II,AARON,"And how by this their child shall be advanced,"
IV,II,AARON,"And be received for the emperor's heir,"
IV,II,AARON,"And substituted in the place of mine,"
IV,II,AARON,"To calm this tempest whirling in the court;"
IV,II,AARON,"And let the emperor dandle him for his own."
IV,II,AARON,"Hark ye, lords; ye see I have given her physic,"
IV,II,AARON,"And you must needs bestow her funeral;"
IV,II,AARON,"The fields are near, and you are gallant grooms:"
IV,II,AARON,"This done, see that you take no longer days,"
IV,II,AARON,"But send the midwife presently to me."
IV,II,AARON,"The midwife and the nurse well made away,"
IV,II,AARON,"Then let the ladies tattle what they please."
IV,II,CHIRON,"Aaron, I see thou wilt not trust the air"
IV,II,CHIRON,"With secrets."
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"For this care of Tamora,"
IV,II,DEMETRIUS,"Herself and hers are highly bound to thee."
IV,II,AARON,"Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies;"
IV,II,AARON,"There to dispose this treasure in mine arms,"
IV,II,AARON,"And secretly to greet the empress' friends."
IV,II,AARON,"Come on, you thick lipp'd slave, I'll bear you hence;"
IV,II,AARON,"For it is you that puts us to our shifts:"
IV,II,AARON,"I'll make you feed on berries and on roots,"
IV,II,AARON,"And feed on curds and whey, and suck the goat,"
IV,II,AARON,"And cabin in a cave, and bring you up"
IV,II,AARON,"To be a warrior, and command a camp."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come, Marcus; come, kinsmen; this is the way."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Sir boy, now let me see your archery;"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Look ye draw home enough, and 'tis there straight."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Terras Astraea reliquit:"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Be you remember'd, Marcus, she's gone, she's fled."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Sirs, take you to your tools. You, cousins, shall"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Go sound the ocean, and cast your nets;"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Happily you may catch her in the sea;"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Yet there's as little justice as at land:"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"No; Publius and Sempronius, you must do it;"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"'Tis you must dig with mattock and with spade,"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And pierce the inmost centre of the earth:"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Then, when you come to Pluto's region,"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I pray you, deliver him this petition;"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Tell him, it is for justice and for aid,"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And that it comes from old Andronicus,"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Shaken with sorrows in ungrateful Rome."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Ah, Rome! Well, well; I made thee miserable"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"What time I threw the people's suffrages"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"On him that thus doth tyrannize o'er me."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Go, get you gone; and pray be careful all,"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And leave you not a man-of-war unsearch'd:"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"This wicked emperor may have shipp'd her hence;"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And, kinsmen, then we may go pipe for justice."
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"O Publius, is not this a heavy case,"
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"To see thy noble uncle thus distract?"
IV,III,PUBLIUS,"Therefore, my lord, it highly us concerns"
IV,III,PUBLIUS,"By day and night to attend him carefully,"
IV,III,PUBLIUS,"And feed his humour kindly as we may,"
IV,III,PUBLIUS,"Till time beget some careful remedy."
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Kinsmen, his sorrows are past remedy."
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Join with the Goths; and with revengeful war"
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Take wreak on Rome for this ingratitude,"
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And vengeance on the traitor Saturnine."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Publius, how now! how now, my masters!"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"What, have you met with her?"
IV,III,PUBLIUS,"No, my good lord; but Pluto sends you word,"
IV,III,PUBLIUS,"If you will have Revenge from hell, you shall:"
IV,III,PUBLIUS,"Marry, for Justice, she is so employ'd,"
IV,III,PUBLIUS,"He thinks, with Jove in heaven, or somewhere else,"
IV,III,PUBLIUS,"So that perforce you must needs stay a time."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"He doth me wrong to feed me with delays."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I'll dive into the burning lake below,"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And pull her out of Acheron by the heels."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Marcus, we are but shrubs, no cedars we"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size;"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But metal, Marcus, steel to the very back,"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Yet wrung with wrongs more than our backs can bear:"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And, sith there's no justice in earth nor hell,"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"We will solicit heaven and move the gods"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To send down Justice for to wreak our wrongs."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come, to this gear. You are a good archer, Marcus;"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"'Ad Jovem,' that's for you: here, 'Ad Apollinem:'"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"'Ad Martem,' that's for myself:"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Here, boy, to Pallas: here, to Mercury:"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To Saturn, Caius, not to Saturnine;"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"You were as good to shoot against the wind."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To it, boy! Marcus, loose when I bid."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Of my word, I have written to effect;"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"There's not a god left unsolicited."
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Kinsmen, shoot all your shafts into the court:"
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"We will afflict the emperor in his pride."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Now, masters, draw."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O, well said, Lucius!"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Good boy, in Virgo's lap; give it Pallas."
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"My lord, I aim a mile beyond the moon;"
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Your letter is with Jupiter by this."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Ha, ha!"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Publius, Publius, what hast thou done?"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"See, see, thou hast shot off one of Taurus' horns."
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"This was the sport, my lord: when Publius shot,"
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"The Bull, being gall'd, gave Aries such a knock"
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That down fell both the Ram's horns in the court;"
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And who should find them but the empress' villain?"
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"She laugh'd, and told the Moor he should not choose"
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"But give them to his master for a present."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Why, there it goes: God give his lordship joy!"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"News, news from heaven! Marcus, the post is come."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Sirrah, what tidings? have you any letters?"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Shall I have justice? what says Jupiter?"
IV,III,Clown,"O, the gibbet-maker! he says that he hath taken"
IV,III,Clown,"them down again, for the man must not be hanged till"
IV,III,Clown,"the next week."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But what says Jupiter, I ask thee?"
IV,III,Clown,"Alas, sir, I know not Jupiter; I never drank with him"
IV,III,Clown,"in all my life."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Why, villain, art not thou the carrier?"
IV,III,Clown,"Ay, of my pigeons, sir; nothing else."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Why, didst thou not come from heaven?"
IV,III,Clown,"From heaven! alas, sir, I never came there     God"
IV,III,Clown,"forbid I should be so bold to press to heaven in my"
IV,III,Clown,"young days. Why, I am going with my pigeons to the"
IV,III,Clown,"tribunal plebs, to take up a matter of brawl"
IV,III,Clown,"betwixt my uncle and one of the emperial's men."
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Why, sir, that is as fit as can be to serve for"
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"your oration; and let him deliver the pigeons to"
IV,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"the emperor from you."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Tell me, can you deliver an oration to the emperor"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"with a grace?"
IV,III,Clown,"Nay, truly, sir, I could never say grace in all my life."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Sirrah, come hither: make no more ado,"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But give your pigeons to the emperor:"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"By me thou shalt have justice at his hands."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Hold, hold; meanwhile here's money for thy charges."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Give me pen and ink. Sirrah, can you with a grace"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"deliver a supplication?"
IV,III,Clown,"Ay, sir."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Then here is a supplication for you. And when you"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"come to him, at the first approach you must kneel,"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"then kiss his foot, then deliver up your pigeons, and"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"then look for your reward. I'll be at hand, sir; see"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"you do it bravely."
IV,III,Clown,"I warrant you, sir, let me alone."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Sirrah, hast thou a knife? come, let me see it."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Here, Marcus, fold it in the oration;"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For thou hast made it like an humble suppliant."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And when thou hast given it the emperor,"
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Knock at my door, and tell me what he says."
IV,III,Clown,"God be with you, sir; I will."
IV,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come, Marcus, let us go. Publius, follow me."
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Why, lords, what wrongs are these! was ever seen"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"An emperor in Rome thus overborne,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Troubled, confronted thus; and, for the extent"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Of egal justice, used in such contempt?"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"My lords, you know, as know the mightful gods,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"However these disturbers of our peace"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Buz in the people's ears, there nought hath pass'd,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"But even with law, against the willful sons"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Of old Andronicus. And what an if"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"His sorrows have so overwhelm'd his wits,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"His fits, his frenzy, and his bitterness?"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"And now he writes to heaven for his redress:"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"See, here's to Jove, and this to Mercury;"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"This to Apollo; this to the god of war;"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Sweet scrolls to fly about the streets of Rome!"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"What's this but libelling against the senate,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"And blazoning our injustice every where?"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"A goodly humour, is it not, my lords?"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"As who would say, in Rome no justice were."
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"But if I live, his feigned ecstasies"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Shall be no shelter to these outrages:"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"But he and his shall know that justice lives"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"In Saturninus' health, whom, if she sleep,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"He'll so awake as she in fury shall"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Cut off the proud'st conspirator that lives."
IV,IV,TAMORA,"My gracious lord, my lovely Saturnine,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Lord of my life, commander of my thoughts,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Calm thee, and bear the faults of Titus' age,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"The effects of sorrow for his valiant sons,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Whose loss hath pierced him deep and scarr'd his heart;"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"And rather comfort his distressed plight"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Than prosecute the meanest or the best"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"For these contempts."
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Why, thus it shall become"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"High-witted Tamora to gloze with all:"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"But, Titus, I have touched thee to the quick,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Thy life-blood out: if Aaron now be wise,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Then is all safe, the anchor's in the port."
IV,IV,TAMORA,"How now, good fellow! wouldst thou speak with us?"
IV,IV,Clown,"Yea, forsooth, an your mistership be emperial."
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Empress I am, but yonder sits the emperor."
IV,IV,Clown,"'Tis he. God and Saint Stephen give you good den:"
IV,IV,Clown,"I have brought you a letter and a couple of pigeons here."
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Go, take him away, and hang him presently."
IV,IV,Clown,"How much money must I have?"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Come, sirrah, you must be hanged."
IV,IV,Clown,"Hanged! by'r lady, then I have brought up a neck to"
IV,IV,Clown,"a fair end."
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Despiteful and intolerable wrongs!"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Shall I endure this monstrous villany?"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"I know from whence this same device proceeds:"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"May this be borne?--as if his traitorous sons,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"That died by law for murder of our brother,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Have by my means been butcher'd wrongfully!"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Go, drag the villain hither by the hair;"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Nor age nor honour shall shape privilege:"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"For this proud mock I'll be thy slaughterman;"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Sly frantic wretch, that holp'st to make me great,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"In hope thyself should govern Rome and me."
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"What news with thee, AEmilius?"
IV,IV,AEMILIUS,"Arm, arm, my lord;--Rome never had more cause."
IV,IV,AEMILIUS,"The Goths have gather'd head; and with a power"
IV,IV,AEMILIUS,"high-resolved men, bent to the spoil,"
IV,IV,AEMILIUS,"They hither march amain, under conduct"
IV,IV,AEMILIUS,"Of Lucius, son to old Andronicus;"
IV,IV,AEMILIUS,"Who threats, in course of this revenge, to do"
IV,IV,AEMILIUS,"As much as ever Coriolanus did."
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Is warlike Lucius general of the Goths?"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"These tidings nip me, and I hang the head"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"As flowers with frost or grass beat down with storms:"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Ay, now begin our sorrows to approach:"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"'Tis he the common people love so much;"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Myself hath often over-heard them say,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"When I have walked like a private man,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"That Lucius' banishment was wrongfully,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"And they have wish'd that Lucius were their emperor."
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Why should you fear? is not your city strong?"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Ay, but the citizens favor Lucius,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"And will revolt from me to succor him."
IV,IV,TAMORA,"King, be thy thoughts imperious, like thy name."
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Is the sun dimm'd, that gnats do fly in it?"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"The eagle suffers little birds to sing,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"And is not careful what they mean thereby,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Knowing that with the shadow of his wings"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"He can at pleasure stint their melody:"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Even so mayst thou the giddy men of Rome."
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Then cheer thy spirit : for know, thou emperor,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"I will enchant the old Andronicus"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"With words more sweet, and yet more dangerous,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Than baits to fish, or honey-stalks to sheep,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"When as the one is wounded with the bait,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"The other rotted with delicious feed."
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"But he will not entreat his son for us."
IV,IV,TAMORA,"If Tamora entreat him, then he will:"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"For I can smooth and fill his aged ear"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"With golden promises; that, were his heart"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Almost impregnable, his old ears deaf,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Yet should both ear and heart obey my tongue."
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Go thou before, be our ambassador:"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Say that the emperor requests a parley"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Of warlike Lucius, and appoint the meeting"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Even at his father's house, the old Andronicus."
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"AEmilius, do this message honourably:"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"And if he stand on hostage for his safety,"
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Bid him demand what pledge will please him best."
IV,IV,AEMILIUS,"Your bidding shall I do effectually."
IV,IV,TAMORA,"Now will I to that old Andronicus;"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"And temper him with all the art I have,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"To pluck proud Lucius from the warlike Goths."
IV,IV,TAMORA,"And now, sweet emperor, be blithe again,"
IV,IV,TAMORA,"And bury all thy fear in my devices."
IV,IV,SATURNINUS,"Then go successantly, and plead to him."
V,I,LUCIUS,"Approved warriors, and my faithful friends,"
V,I,LUCIUS,"I have received letters from great Rome,"
V,I,LUCIUS,"Which signify what hate they bear their emperor"
V,I,LUCIUS,"And how desirous of our sight they are."
V,I,LUCIUS,"Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness,"
V,I,LUCIUS,"Imperious and impatient of your wrongs,"
V,I,LUCIUS,"And wherein Rome hath done you any scath,"
V,I,LUCIUS,"Let him make treble satisfaction."
V,I,First Goth,"Brave slip, sprung from the great Andronicus,"
V,I,First Goth,"Whose name was once our terror, now our comfort;"
V,I,First Goth,"Whose high exploits and honourable deeds"
V,I,First Goth,"Ingrateful Rome requites with foul contempt,"
V,I,First Goth,"Be bold in us: we'll follow where thou lead'st,"
V,I,First Goth,"Like stinging bees in hottest summer's day"
V,I,First Goth,"Led by their master to the flowered fields,"
V,I,First Goth,"And be avenged on cursed Tamora."
V,I,All the Goths,"And as he saith, so say we all with him."
V,I,LUCIUS,"I humbly thank him, and I thank you all."
V,I,LUCIUS,"But who comes here, led by a lusty Goth?"
V,I,Second Goth,"Renowned Lucius, from our troops I stray'd"
V,I,Second Goth,"To gaze upon a ruinous monastery;"
V,I,Second Goth,"And, as I earnestly did fix mine eye"
V,I,Second Goth,"Upon the wasted building, suddenly"
V,I,Second Goth,"I heard a child cry underneath a wall."
V,I,Second Goth,"I made unto the noise; when soon I heard"
V,I,Second Goth,"The crying babe controll'd with this discourse:"
V,I,Second Goth,"'Peace, tawny slave, half me and half thy dam!"
V,I,Second Goth,"Did not thy hue bewray whose brat thou art,"
V,I,Second Goth,"Had nature lent thee but thy mother's look,"
V,I,Second Goth,"Villain, thou mightst have been an emperor:"
V,I,Second Goth,"But where the bull and cow are both milk-white,"
V,I,Second Goth,"They never do beget a coal-black calf."
V,I,Second Goth,"Peace, villain, peace!'--even thus he rates"
V,I,Second Goth,"the babe,--"
V,I,Second Goth,"'For I must bear thee to a trusty Goth;"
V,I,Second Goth,"Who, when he knows thou art the empress' babe,"
V,I,Second Goth,"Will hold thee dearly for thy mother's sake.'"
V,I,Second Goth,"With this, my weapon drawn, I rush'd upon him,"
V,I,Second Goth,"Surprised him suddenly, and brought him hither,"
V,I,Second Goth,"To use as you think needful of the man."
V,I,LUCIUS,"O worthy Goth, this is the incarnate devil"
V,I,LUCIUS,"That robb'd Andronicus of his good hand;"
V,I,LUCIUS,"This is the pearl that pleased your empress' eye,"
V,I,LUCIUS,"And here's the base fruit of his burning lust."
V,I,LUCIUS,"Say, wall-eyed slave, whither wouldst thou convey"
V,I,LUCIUS,"This growing image of thy fiend-like face?"
V,I,LUCIUS,"Why dost not speak? what, deaf? not a word?"
V,I,LUCIUS,"A halter, soldiers! hang him on this tree."
V,I,LUCIUS,"And by his side his fruit of bastardy."
V,I,AARON,"Touch not the boy; he is of royal blood."
V,I,LUCIUS,"Too like the sire for ever being good."
V,I,LUCIUS,"First hang the child, that he may see it sprawl;"
V,I,LUCIUS,"A sight to vex the father's soul withal."
V,I,LUCIUS,"Get me a ladder."
V,I,AARON,"Lucius, save the child,"
V,I,AARON,"And bear it from me to the empress."
V,I,AARON,"If thou do this, I'll show thee wondrous things,"
V,I,AARON,"That highly may advantage thee to hear:"
V,I,AARON,"If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,"
V,I,AARON,"I'll speak no more but 'Vengeance rot you all!'"
V,I,LUCIUS,"Say on: an if it please me which thou speak'st"
V,I,LUCIUS,"Thy child shall live, and I will see it nourish'd."
V,I,AARON,"An if it please thee! why, assure thee, Lucius,"
V,I,AARON,"'Twill vex thy soul to hear what I shall speak;"
V,I,AARON,"For I must talk of murders, rapes and massacres,"
V,I,AARON,"Acts of black night, abominable deeds,"
V,I,AARON,"Complots of mischief, treason, villanies"
V,I,AARON,"Ruthful to hear, yet piteously perform'd:"
V,I,AARON,"And this shall all be buried by my death,"
V,I,AARON,"Unless thou swear to me my child shall live."
V,I,LUCIUS,"Tell on thy mind; I say thy child shall live."
V,I,AARON,"Swear that he shall, and then I will begin."
V,I,LUCIUS,"Who should I swear by? thou believest no god:"
V,I,LUCIUS,"That granted, how canst thou believe an oath?"
V,I,AARON,"What if I do not? as, indeed, I do not;"
V,I,AARON,"Yet, for I know thou art religious"
V,I,AARON,"And hast a thing within thee called conscience,"
V,I,AARON,"With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies,"
V,I,AARON,"Which I have seen thee careful to observe,"
V,I,AARON,"Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know"
V,I,AARON,"An idiot holds his bauble for a god"
V,I,AARON,"And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,"
V,I,AARON,"To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow"
V,I,AARON,"By that same god, what god soe'er it be,"
V,I,AARON,"That thou adorest and hast in reverence,"
V,I,AARON,"To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up;"
V,I,AARON,"Or else I will discover nought to thee."
V,I,LUCIUS,"Even by my god I swear to thee I will."
V,I,AARON,"First know thou, I begot him on the empress."
V,I,LUCIUS,"O most insatiate and luxurious woman!"
V,I,AARON,"Tut, Lucius, this was but a deed of charity"
V,I,AARON,"To that which thou shalt hear of me anon."
V,I,AARON,"'Twas her two sons that murder'd Bassianus;"
V,I,AARON,"They cut thy sister's tongue and ravish'd her"
V,I,AARON,"And cut her hands and trimm'd her as thou saw'st."
V,I,LUCIUS,"O detestable villain! call'st thou that trimming?"
V,I,AARON,"Why, she was wash'd and cut and trimm'd, and 'twas"
V,I,AARON,"Trim sport for them that had the doing of it."
V,I,LUCIUS,"O barbarous, beastly villains, like thyself!"
V,I,AARON,"Indeed, I was their tutor to instruct them:"
V,I,AARON,"That codding spirit had they from their mother,"
V,I,AARON,"As sure a card as ever won the set;"
V,I,AARON,"That bloody mind, I think, they learn'd of me,"
V,I,AARON,"As true a dog as ever fought at head."
V,I,AARON,"Well, let my deeds be witness of my worth."
V,I,AARON,"I train'd thy brethren to that guileful hole"
V,I,AARON,"Where the dead corpse of Bassianus lay:"
V,I,AARON,"I wrote the letter that thy father found"
V,I,AARON,"And hid the gold within the letter mention'd,"
V,I,AARON,"Confederate with the queen and her two sons:"
V,I,AARON,"And what not done, that thou hast cause to rue,"
V,I,AARON,"Wherein I had no stroke of mischief in it?"
V,I,AARON,"I play'd the cheater for thy father's hand,"
V,I,AARON,"And, when I had it, drew myself apart"
V,I,AARON,"And almost broke my heart with extreme laughter:"
V,I,AARON,"I pry'd me through the crevice of a wall"
V,I,AARON,"When, for his hand, he had his two sons' heads;"
V,I,AARON,"Beheld his tears, and laugh'd so heartily,"
V,I,AARON,"That both mine eyes were rainy like to his :"
V,I,AARON,"And when I told the empress of this sport,"
V,I,AARON,"She swooned almost at my pleasing tale,"
V,I,AARON,"And for my tidings gave me twenty kisses."
V,I,First Goth,"What, canst thou say all this, and never blush?"
V,I,AARON,"Ay, like a black dog, as the saying is."
V,I,LUCIUS,"Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?"
V,I,AARON,"Ay, that I had not done a thousand more."
V,I,AARON,"Even now I curse the day--and yet, I think,"
V,I,AARON,"Few come within the compass of my curse,--"
V,I,AARON,"Wherein I did not some notorious ill,"
V,I,AARON,"As kill a man, or else devise his death,"
V,I,AARON,"Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,"
V,I,AARON,"Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,"
V,I,AARON,"Set deadly enmity between two friends,"
V,I,AARON,"Make poor men's cattle break their necks;"
V,I,AARON,"Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,"
V,I,AARON,"And bid the owners quench them with their tears."
V,I,AARON,"Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,"
V,I,AARON,"And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,"
V,I,AARON,"Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;"
V,I,AARON,"And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,"
V,I,AARON,"Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,"
V,I,AARON,"'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'"
V,I,AARON,"Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things"
V,I,AARON,"As willingly as one would kill a fly,"
V,I,AARON,"And nothing grieves me heartily indeed"
V,I,AARON,"But that I cannot do ten thousand more."
V,I,LUCIUS,"Bring down the devil; for he must not die"
V,I,LUCIUS,"So sweet a death as hanging presently."
V,I,AARON,"If there be devils, would I were a devil,"
V,I,AARON,"To live and burn in everlasting fire,"
V,I,AARON,"So I might have your company in hell,"
V,I,AARON,"But to torment you with my bitter tongue!"
V,I,LUCIUS,"Sirs, stop his mouth, and let him speak no more."
V,I,Third Goth,"My lord, there is a messenger from Rome"
V,I,Third Goth,"Desires to be admitted to your presence."
V,I,LUCIUS,"Let him come near."
V,I,LUCIUS,"Welcome, AEmilius what's the news from Rome?"
V,I,AEMILIUS,"Lord Lucius, and you princes of the Goths,"
V,I,AEMILIUS,"The Roman emperor greets you all by me;"
V,I,AEMILIUS,"And, for he understands you are in arms,"
V,I,AEMILIUS,"He craves a parley at your father's house,"
V,I,AEMILIUS,"Willing you to demand your hostages,"
V,I,AEMILIUS,"And they shall be immediately deliver'd."
V,I,First Goth,"What says our general?"
V,I,LUCIUS,"AEmilius, let the emperor give his pledges"
V,I,LUCIUS,"Unto my father and my uncle Marcus,"
V,I,LUCIUS,"And we will come. March away."
V,II,TAMORA,"Thus, in this strange and sad habiliment,"
V,II,TAMORA,"I will encounter with Andronicus,"
V,II,TAMORA,"And say I am Revenge, sent from below"
V,II,TAMORA,"To join with him and right his heinous wrongs."
V,II,TAMORA,"Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps,"
V,II,TAMORA,"To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge;"
V,II,TAMORA,"Tell him Revenge is come to join with him,"
V,II,TAMORA,"And work confusion on his enemies."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Who doth molest my contemplation?"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Is it your trick to make me ope the door,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"That so my sad decrees may fly away,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And all my study be to no effect?"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"You are deceived: for what I mean to do"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"See here in bloody lines I have set down;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And what is written shall be executed."
V,II,TAMORA,"Titus, I am come to talk with thee."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"No, not a word; how can I grace my talk,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Wanting a hand to give it action?"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Thou hast the odds of me; therefore no more."
V,II,TAMORA,"If thou didst know me, thou wouldest talk with me."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I am not mad; I know thee well enough:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Witness this wretched stump, witness these crimson lines;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Witness these trenches made by grief and care,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Witness the tiring day and heavy night;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Witness all sorrow, that I know thee well"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For our proud empress, mighty Tamora:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Is not thy coming for my other hand?"
V,II,TAMORA,"Know, thou sad man, I am not Tamora;"
V,II,TAMORA,"She is thy enemy, and I thy friend:"
V,II,TAMORA,"I am Revenge: sent from the infernal kingdom,"
V,II,TAMORA,"To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind,"
V,II,TAMORA,"By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes."
V,II,TAMORA,"Come down, and welcome me to this world's light;"
V,II,TAMORA,"Confer with me of murder and of death:"
V,II,TAMORA,"There's not a hollow cave or lurking-place,"
V,II,TAMORA,"No vast obscurity or misty vale,"
V,II,TAMORA,"Where bloody murder or detested rape"
V,II,TAMORA,"Can couch for fear, but I will find them out;"
V,II,TAMORA,"And in their ears tell them my dreadful name,"
V,II,TAMORA,"Revenge, which makes the foul offender quake."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Art thou Revenge? and art thou sent to me,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To be a torment to mine enemies?"
V,II,TAMORA,"I am; therefore come down, and welcome me."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Do me some service, ere I come to thee."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Lo, by thy side where Rape and Murder stands;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Now give me some surance that thou art Revenge,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot-wheels;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And then I'll come and be thy waggoner,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And whirl along with thee about the globe."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Provide thee two proper palfreys, black as jet,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And find out murderers in their guilty caves:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And when thy car is loaden with their heads,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I will dismount, and by the waggon-wheel"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Trot, like a servile footman, all day long,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Even from Hyperion's rising in the east"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Until his very downfall in the sea:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And day by day I'll do this heavy task,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there."
V,II,TAMORA,"These are my ministers, and come with me."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Are these thy ministers? what are they call'd?"
V,II,TAMORA,"Rapine and Murder; therefore called so,"
V,II,TAMORA,"Cause they take vengeance of such kind of men."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Good Lord, how like the empress' sons they are!"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And you, the empress! but we worldly men"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Have miserable, mad, mistaking eyes."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O sweet Revenge, now do I come to thee;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And, if one arm's embracement will content thee,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I will embrace thee in it by and by."
V,II,TAMORA,"This closing with him fits his lunacy"
V,II,TAMORA,"Whate'er I forge to feed his brain-sick fits,"
V,II,TAMORA,"Do you uphold and maintain in your speeches,"
V,II,TAMORA,"For now he firmly takes me for Revenge;"
V,II,TAMORA,"And, being credulous in this mad thought,"
V,II,TAMORA,"I'll make him send for Lucius his son;"
V,II,TAMORA,"And, whilst I at a banquet hold him sure,"
V,II,TAMORA,"I'll find some cunning practise out of hand,"
V,II,TAMORA,"To scatter and disperse the giddy Goths,"
V,II,TAMORA,"Or, at the least, make them his enemies."
V,II,TAMORA,"See, here he comes, and I must ply my theme."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Long have I been forlorn, and all for thee:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Welcome, dread Fury, to my woful house:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Rapine and Murder, you are welcome too."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"How like the empress and her sons you are!"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Well are you fitted, had you but a Moor:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Could not all hell afford you such a devil?"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For well I wot the empress never wags"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But in her company there is a Moor;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And, would you represent our queen aright,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"It were convenient you had such a devil:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But welcome, as you are. What shall we do?"
V,II,TAMORA,"What wouldst thou have us do, Andronicus?"
V,II,DEMETRIUS,"Show me a murderer, I'll deal with him."
V,II,CHIRON,"Show me a villain that hath done a rape,"
V,II,CHIRON,"And I am sent to be revenged on him."
V,II,TAMORA,"Show me a thousand that have done thee wrong,"
V,II,TAMORA,"And I will be revenged on them all."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Look round about the wicked streets of Rome;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And when thou find'st a man that's like thyself."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Good Murder, stab him; he's a murderer."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Go thou with him; and when it is thy hap"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To find another that is like to thee,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Good Rapine, stab him; he's a ravisher."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Go thou with them; and in the emperor's court"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"There is a queen, attended by a Moor;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Well mayst thou know her by thy own proportion,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"for up and down she doth resemble thee:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I pray thee, do on them some violent death;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"They have been violent to me and mine."
V,II,TAMORA,"Well hast thou lesson'd us; this shall we do."
V,II,TAMORA,"But would it please thee, good Andronicus,"
V,II,TAMORA,"To send for Lucius, thy thrice-valiant son,"
V,II,TAMORA,"Who leads towards Rome a band of warlike Goths,"
V,II,TAMORA,"And bid him come and banquet at thy house;"
V,II,TAMORA,"When he is here, even at thy solemn feast,"
V,II,TAMORA,"I will bring in the empress and her sons,"
V,II,TAMORA,"The emperor himself and all thy foes;"
V,II,TAMORA,"And at thy mercy shalt they stoop and kneel,"
V,II,TAMORA,"And on them shalt thou ease thy angry heart."
V,II,TAMORA,"What says Andronicus to this device?"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Marcus, my brother! 'tis sad Titus calls."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Go, gentle Marcus, to thy nephew Lucius;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Thou shalt inquire him out among the Goths:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Bid him repair to me, and bring with him"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Some of the chiefest princes of the Goths;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Bid him encamp his soldiers where they are:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Tell him the emperor and the empress too"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Feast at my house, and he shall feast with them."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"This do thou for my love; and so let him,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"As he regards his aged father's life."
V,II,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"This will I do, and soon return again."
V,II,TAMORA,"Now will I hence about thy business,"
V,II,TAMORA,"And take my ministers along with me."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Nay, nay, let Rape and Murder stay with me;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Or else I'll call my brother back again,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And cleave to no revenge but Lucius."
V,II,TAMORA,"bide with him,"
V,II,TAMORA,"Whiles I go tell my lord the emperor"
V,II,TAMORA,"How I have govern'd our determined jest?"
V,II,TAMORA,"Yield to his humour, smooth and speak him fair,"
V,II,TAMORA,"And tarry with him till I turn again."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And will o'erreach them in their own devices:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"A pair of cursed hell-hounds and their dam!"
V,II,DEMETRIUS,"Madam, depart at pleasure; leave us here."
V,II,TAMORA,"Farewell, Andronicus: Revenge now goes"
V,II,TAMORA,"To lay a complot to betray thy foes."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I know thou dost; and, sweet Revenge, farewell."
V,II,CHIRON,"Tell us, old man, how shall we be employ'd?"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Tut, I have work enough for you to do."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Publius, come hither, Caius, and Valentine!"
V,II,PUBLIUS,"What is your will?"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Know you these two?"
V,II,PUBLIUS,"The empress' sons, I take them, Chiron and Demetrius."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Fie, Publius, fie! thou art too much deceived;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"The one is Murder, Rape is the other's name;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And therefore bind them, gentle Publius."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Caius and Valentine, lay hands on them."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Oft have you heard me wish for such an hour,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And now I find it; therefore bind them sure,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And stop their mouths, if they begin to cry."
V,II,CHIRON,"Villains, forbear! we are the empress' sons."
V,II,PUBLIUS,"And therefore do we what we are commanded."
V,II,PUBLIUS,"Stop close their mouths, let them not speak a word."
V,II,PUBLIUS,"Is he sure bound? look that you bind them fast."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come, come, Lavinia; look, thy foes are bound."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"But let them hear what fearful words I utter."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"O villains, Chiron and Demetrius!"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Here stands the spring whom you have stain'd with mud,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"This goodly summer with your winter mix'd."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"You kill'd her husband, and for that vile fault"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Two of her brothers were condemn'd to death,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"My hand cut off and made a merry jest;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Both her sweet hands, her tongue, and that more dear"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Than hands or tongue, her spotless chastity,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Inhuman traitors, you constrain'd and forced."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"What would you say, if I should let you speak?"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Villains, for shame you could not beg for grace."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Hark, wretches! how I mean to martyr you."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"This one hand yet is left to cut your throats,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Whilst that Lavinia 'tween her stumps doth hold"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"The basin that receives your guilty blood."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"You know your mother means to feast with me,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And calls herself Revenge, and thinks me mad:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And with your blood and it I'll make a paste,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And of the paste a coffin I will rear"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And make two pasties of your shameful heads,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And bid that strumpet, your unhallow'd dam,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Like to the earth swallow her own increase."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"This is the feast that I have bid her to,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And this the banquet she shall surfeit on;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For worse than Philomel you used my daughter,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And worse than Progne I will be revenged:"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And now prepare your throats. Lavinia, come,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Receive the blood: and when that they are dead,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Let me go grind their bones to powder small"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And with this hateful liquor temper it;"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And in that paste let their vile heads be baked."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Come, come, be every one officious"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To make this banquet; which I wish may prove"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast."
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"So, now bring them in, for I'll play the cook,"
V,II,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And see them ready 'gainst their mother comes."
V,III,LUCIUS,"Uncle Marcus, since it is my father's mind"
V,III,LUCIUS,"That I repair to Rome, I am content."
V,III,First Goth,"And ours with thine, befall what fortune will."
V,III,LUCIUS,"Good uncle, take you in this barbarous Moor,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"This ravenous tiger, this accursed devil;"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Let him receive no sustenance, fetter him"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Till he be brought unto the empress' face,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"For testimony of her foul proceedings:"
V,III,LUCIUS,"And see the ambush of our friends be strong;"
V,III,LUCIUS,"I fear the emperor means no good to us."
V,III,AARON,"Some devil whisper curses in mine ear,"
V,III,AARON,"And prompt me, that my tongue may utter forth"
V,III,AARON,"The venomous malice of my swelling heart!"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Away, inhuman dog! unhallow'd slave!"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Sirs, help our uncle to convey him in."
V,III,LUCIUS,"The trumpets show the emperor is at hand."
V,III,SATURNINUS,"What, hath the firmament more suns than one?"
V,III,LUCIUS,"What boots it thee to call thyself a sun?"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Rome's emperor, and nephew, break the parle;"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"These quarrels must be quietly debated."
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"The feast is ready, which the careful Titus"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Hath ordain'd to an honourable end,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"For peace, for love, for league, and good to Rome:"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Please you, therefore, draw nigh, and take your places."
V,III,SATURNINUS,"Marcus, we will."
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Welcome, my gracious lord; welcome, dread queen;"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Welcome, ye warlike Goths; welcome, Lucius;"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And welcome, all: although the cheer be poor,"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"'Twill fill your stomachs; please you eat of it."
V,III,SATURNINUS,"Why art thou thus attired, Andronicus?"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Because I would be sure to have all well,"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To entertain your highness and your empress."
V,III,TAMORA,"We are beholding to you, good Andronicus."
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"An if your highness knew my heart, you were."
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"My lord the emperor, resolve me this:"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Was it well done of rash Virginius"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To slay his daughter with his own right hand,"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Because she was enforced, stain'd, and deflower'd?"
V,III,SATURNINUS,"It was, Andronicus."
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Your reason, mighty lord?"
V,III,SATURNINUS,"Because the girl should not survive her shame,"
V,III,SATURNINUS,"And by her presence still renew his sorrows."
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"A reason mighty, strong, and effectual;"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant,"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"For me, most wretched, to perform the like."
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Die, die, Lavinia, and thy shame with thee;"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And, with thy shame, thy father's sorrow die!"
V,III,SATURNINUS,"What hast thou done, unnatural and unkind?"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Kill'd her, for whom my tears have made me blind."
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"I am as woful as Virginius was,"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And have a thousand times more cause than he"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"To do this outrage: and it now is done."
V,III,SATURNINUS,"What, was she ravish'd? tell who did the deed."
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Will't please you eat? will't please your"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"highness feed?"
V,III,TAMORA,"Why hast thou slain thine only daughter thus?"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Not I; 'twas Chiron and Demetrius:"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"They ravish'd her, and cut away her tongue;"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"And they, 'twas they, that did her all this wrong."
V,III,SATURNINUS,"Go fetch them hither to us presently."
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Why, there they are both, baked in that pie;"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,"
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred."
V,III,TITUS ANDRONICUS,"'Tis true, 'tis true; witness my knife's sharp point."
V,III,SATURNINUS,"Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed!"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Can the son's eye behold his father bleed?"
V,III,LUCIUS,"There's meed for meed, death for a deadly deed!"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"You sad-faced men, people and sons of Rome,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"By uproar sever'd, like a flight of fowl"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Scatter'd by winds and high tempestuous gusts,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"O, let me teach you how to knit again"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"This scatter'd corn into one mutual sheaf,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"These broken limbs again into one body;"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And she whom mighty kingdoms court'sy to,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Like a forlorn and desperate castaway,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Do shameful execution on herself."
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"But if my frosty signs and chaps of age,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Grave witnesses of true experience,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Cannot induce you to attend my words,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Speak, Rome's dear friend, as erst our ancestor,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"When with his solemn tongue he did discourse"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"To love-sick Dido's sad attending ear"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"The story of that baleful burning night"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"When subtle Greeks surprised King Priam's Troy,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Tell us what Sinon hath bewitch'd our ears,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Or who hath brought the fatal engine in"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"That gives our Troy, our Rome, the civil wound."
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"My heart is not compact of flint nor steel;"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Nor can I utter all our bitter grief,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"But floods of tears will drown my oratory,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And break my utterance, even in the time"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"When it should move you to attend me most,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Lending your kind commiseration."
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Here is a captain, let him tell the tale;"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Your hearts will throb and weep to hear him speak."
V,III,LUCIUS,"Then, noble auditory, be it known to you,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"That cursed Chiron and Demetrius"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Were they that murdered our emperor's brother;"
V,III,LUCIUS,"And they it were that ravished our sister:"
V,III,LUCIUS,"For their fell faults our brothers were beheaded;"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Our father's tears despised, and basely cozen'd"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Of that true hand that fought Rome's quarrel out,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"And sent her enemies unto the grave."
V,III,LUCIUS,"Lastly, myself unkindly banished,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"The gates shut on me, and turn'd weeping out,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"To beg relief among Rome's enemies:"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Who drown'd their enmity in my true tears."
V,III,LUCIUS,"And oped their arms to embrace me as a friend."
V,III,LUCIUS,"I am the turned forth, be it known to you,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"That have preserved her welfare in my blood;"
V,III,LUCIUS,"And from her bosom took the enemy's point,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Sheathing the steel in my adventurous body."
V,III,LUCIUS,"Alas, you know I am no vaunter, I;"
V,III,LUCIUS,"My scars can witness, dumb although they are,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"That my report is just and full of truth."
V,III,LUCIUS,"But, soft! methinks I do digress too much,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Citing my worthless praise: O, pardon me;"
V,III,LUCIUS,"For when no friends are by, men praise themselves."
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Now is my turn to speak. Behold this child:"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Of this was Tamora delivered;"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"The issue of an irreligious Moor,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Chief architect and plotter of these woes:"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"The villain is alive in Titus' house,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And as he is, to witness this is true."
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Now judge what cause had Titus to revenge"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"These wrongs, unspeakable, past patience,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Or more than any living man could bear."
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Now you have heard the truth, what say you, Romans?"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Have we done aught amiss,--show us wherein,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And, from the place where you behold us now,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"The poor remainder of Andronici"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Will, hand in hand, all headlong cast us down."
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And on the ragged stones beat forth our brains,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And make a mutual closure of our house."
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Speak, Romans, speak; and if you say we shall,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Lo, hand in hand, Lucius and I will fall."
V,III,AEMILIUS,"Come, come, thou reverend man of Rome,"
V,III,AEMILIUS,"And bring our emperor gently in thy hand,"
V,III,AEMILIUS,"Lucius our emperor; for well I know"
V,III,AEMILIUS,"The common voice do cry it shall be so."
V,III,All,"Lucius, all hail, Rome's royal emperor!"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Go, go into old Titus' sorrowful house,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"And hither hale that misbelieving Moor,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"To be adjudged some direful slaughtering death,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"As punishment for his most wicked life."
V,III,All,"Lucius, all hail, Rome's gracious governor!"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Thanks, gentle Romans: may I govern so,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"To heal Rome's harms, and wipe away her woe!"
V,III,LUCIUS,"But, gentle people, give me aim awhile,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"For nature puts me to a heavy task:"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Stand all aloof: but, uncle, draw you near,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"To shed obsequious tears upon this trunk."
V,III,LUCIUS,"O, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"These sorrowful drops upon thy blood-stain'd face,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"The last true duties of thy noble son!"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Tear for tear, and loving kiss for kiss,"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Thy brother Marcus tenders on thy lips:"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"O were the sum of these that I should pay"
V,III,MARCUS ANDRONICUS,"Countless and infinite, yet would I pay them!"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Come hither, boy; come, come, and learn of us"
V,III,LUCIUS,"To melt in showers: thy grandsire loved thee well:"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Many a time he danced thee on his knee,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow:"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Many a matter hath he told to thee,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Meet and agreeing with thine infancy;"
V,III,LUCIUS,"In that respect, then, like a loving child,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Because kind nature doth require it so:"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Friends should associate friends in grief and woe:"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Bid him farewell; commit him to the grave;"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Do him that kindness, and take leave of him."
V,III,Young LUCIUS,"O grandsire, grandsire! even with all my heart"
V,III,Young LUCIUS,"Would I were dead, so you did live again!"
V,III,Young LUCIUS,"O Lord, I cannot speak to him for weeping;"
V,III,Young LUCIUS,"My tears will choke me, if I ope my mouth."
V,III,AEMILIUS,"You sad Andronici, have done with woes:"
V,III,AEMILIUS,"Give sentence on this execrable wretch,"
V,III,AEMILIUS,"That hath been breeder of these dire events."
V,III,LUCIUS,"Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him;"
V,III,LUCIUS,"There let him stand, and rave, and cry for food;"
V,III,LUCIUS,"If any one relieves or pities him,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"For the offence he dies. This is our doom:"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Some stay to see him fasten'd in the earth."
V,III,AARON,"O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb?"
V,III,AARON,"I am no baby, I, that with base prayers"
V,III,AARON,"I should repent the evils I have done:"
V,III,AARON,"Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did"
V,III,AARON,"Would I perform, if I might have my will;"
V,III,AARON,"If one good deed in all my life I did,"
V,III,AARON,"I do repent it from my very soul."
V,III,LUCIUS,"Some loving friends convey the emperor hence,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"And give him burial in his father's grave:"
V,III,LUCIUS,"My father and Lavinia shall forthwith"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Be closed in our household's monument."
V,III,LUCIUS,"As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"No funeral rite, nor man m mourning weeds,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"No mournful bell shall ring her burial;"
V,III,LUCIUS,"But throw her forth to beasts and birds of prey:"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Her life was beast-like, and devoid of pity;"
V,III,LUCIUS,"And, being so, shall have like want of pity."
V,III,LUCIUS,"See justice done on Aaron, that damn'd Moor,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"By whom our heavy haps had their beginning:"
V,III,LUCIUS,"Then, afterwards, to order well the state,"
V,III,LUCIUS,"That like events may ne'er it ruinate."
I,I,TROILUS,"Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again:"
I,I,TROILUS,"Why should I war without the walls of Troy,"
I,I,TROILUS,"That find such cruel battle here within?"
I,I,TROILUS,"Each Trojan that is master of his heart,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Let him to field; Troilus, alas! hath none."
I,I,PANDARUS,"Will this gear ne'er be mended?"
I,I,TROILUS,"The Greeks are strong and skilful to their strength,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Fierce to their skill and to their fierceness valiant;"
I,I,TROILUS,"But I am weaker than a woman's tear,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Less valiant than the virgin in the night"
I,I,TROILUS,"And skilless as unpractised infancy."
I,I,PANDARUS,"Well, I have told you enough of this: for my part,"
I,I,PANDARUS,"I'll not meddle nor make no further. He that will"
I,I,PANDARUS,"have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding."
I,I,TROILUS,"Have I not tarried?"
I,I,PANDARUS,"Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry"
I,I,PANDARUS,"the bolting."
I,I,TROILUS,"Have I not tarried?"
I,I,PANDARUS,"Ay, the bolting, but you must tarry the leavening."
I,I,TROILUS,"Still have I tarried."
I,I,PANDARUS,"Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word"
I,I,PANDARUS,"'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the"
I,I,PANDARUS,"heating of the oven and the baking; nay, you must"
I,I,PANDARUS,"stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips."
I,I,TROILUS,"Patience herself, what goddess e'er she be,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Doth lesser blench at sufferance than I do."
I,I,TROILUS,"At Priam's royal table do I sit;"
I,I,TROILUS,"And when fair Cressid comes into my thoughts,--"
I,I,TROILUS,"So, traitor! 'When she comes!' When is she thence?"
I,I,PANDARUS,"Well, she looked yesternight fairer than ever I saw"
I,I,PANDARUS,"her look, or any woman else."
I,I,TROILUS,"I was about to tell thee:--when my heart,"
I,I,TROILUS,"As wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Lest Hector or my father should perceive me,"
I,I,TROILUS,"I have, as when the sun doth light a storm,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile:"
I,I,TROILUS,"But sorrow, that is couch'd in seeming gladness,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness."
I,I,PANDARUS,"An her hair were not somewhat darker than Helen's--"
I,I,PANDARUS,"well, go to--there were no more comparison between"
I,I,PANDARUS,"the women: but, for my part, she is my kinswoman; I"
I,I,PANDARUS,"would not, as they term it, praise her: but I would"
I,I,PANDARUS,"somebody had heard her talk yesterday, as I did. I"
I,I,PANDARUS,"will not dispraise your sister Cassandra's wit, but--"
I,I,TROILUS,"O Pandarus! I tell thee, Pandarus,--"
I,I,TROILUS,"When I do tell thee, there my hopes lie drown'd,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Reply not in how many fathoms deep"
I,I,TROILUS,"They lie indrench'd. I tell thee I am mad"
I,I,TROILUS,"In Cressid's love: thou answer'st 'she is fair;'"
I,I,TROILUS,"Pour'st in the open ulcer of my heart"
I,I,TROILUS,"Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Handlest in thy discourse, O, that her hand,"
I,I,TROILUS,"In whose comparison all whites are ink,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure"
I,I,TROILUS,"The cygnet's down is harsh and spirit of sense"
I,I,TROILUS,"Hard as the palm of ploughman: this thou tell'st me,"
I,I,TROILUS,"As true thou tell'st me, when I say I love her;"
I,I,TROILUS,"But, saying thus, instead of oil and balm,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Thou lay'st in every gash that love hath given me"
I,I,TROILUS,"The knife that made it."
I,I,PANDARUS,"I speak no more than truth."
I,I,TROILUS,"Thou dost not speak so much."
I,I,PANDARUS,"Faith, I'll not meddle in't. Let her be as she is:"
I,I,PANDARUS,"if she be fair, 'tis the better for her; an she be"
I,I,PANDARUS,"not, she has the mends in her own hands."
I,I,TROILUS,"Good Pandarus, how now, Pandarus!"
I,I,PANDARUS,"I have had my labour for my travail; ill-thought on of"
I,I,PANDARUS,"her and ill-thought on of you; gone between and"
I,I,PANDARUS,"between, but small thanks for my labour."
I,I,TROILUS,"What, art thou angry, Pandarus? what, with me?"
I,I,PANDARUS,"Because she's kin to me, therefore she's not so fair"
I,I,PANDARUS,"as Helen: an she were not kin to me, she would be as"
I,I,PANDARUS,"fair on Friday as Helen is on Sunday. But what care"
I,I,PANDARUS,"I? I care not an she were a black-a-moor; 'tis all one to me."
I,I,TROILUS,"Say I she is not fair?"
I,I,PANDARUS,"I do not care whether you do or no. She's a fool to"
I,I,PANDARUS,"stay behind her father; let her to the Greeks; and so"
I,I,PANDARUS,"I'll tell her the next time I see her: for my part,"
I,I,PANDARUS,"I'll meddle nor make no more i' the matter."
I,I,TROILUS,"Pandarus,--"
I,I,PANDARUS,"Not I."
I,I,TROILUS,"Sweet Pandarus,--"
I,I,PANDARUS,"Pray you, speak no more to me: I will leave all as I"
I,I,PANDARUS,"found it, and there an end."
I,I,TROILUS,"Peace, you ungracious clamours! peace, rude sounds!"
I,I,TROILUS,"Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,"
I,I,TROILUS,"When with your blood you daily paint her thus."
I,I,TROILUS,"I cannot fight upon this argument;"
I,I,TROILUS,"It is too starved a subject for my sword."
I,I,TROILUS,"But Pandarus,--O gods, how do you plague me!"
I,I,TROILUS,"I cannot come to Cressid but by Pandar;"
I,I,TROILUS,"And he's as tetchy to be woo'd to woo."
I,I,TROILUS,"As she is stubborn-chaste against all suit."
I,I,TROILUS,"Tell me, Apollo, for thy Daphne's love,"
I,I,TROILUS,"What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we?"
I,I,TROILUS,"Her bed is India; there she lies, a pearl:"
I,I,TROILUS,"Between our Ilium and where she resides,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood,"
I,I,TROILUS,"Ourself the merchant, and this sailing Pandar"
I,I,TROILUS,"Our doubtful hope, our convoy and our bark."
I,I,AENEAS,"How now, Prince Troilus! wherefore not afield?"
I,I,TROILUS,"Because not there: this woman's answer sorts,"
I,I,TROILUS,"For womanish it is to be from thence."
I,I,TROILUS,"What news, AEneas, from the field to-day?"
I,I,AENEAS,"That Paris is returned home and hurt."
I,I,TROILUS,"By whom, AEneas?"
I,I,AENEAS,"Troilus, by Menelaus."
I,I,TROILUS,"Let Paris bleed; 'tis but a scar to scorn;"
I,I,TROILUS,"Paris is gored with Menelaus' horn."
I,I,AENEAS,"Hark, what good sport is out of town to-day!"
I,I,TROILUS,"Better at home, if 'would I might' were 'may.'"
I,I,TROILUS,"But to the sport abroad: are you bound thither?"
I,I,AENEAS,"In all swift haste."
I,I,TROILUS,"Come, go we then together."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Who were those went by?"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"Queen Hecuba and Helen."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"And whither go they?"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"Up to the eastern tower,"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"Whose height commands as subject all the vale,"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"To see the battle. Hector, whose patience"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"Is, as a virtue, fix'd, to-day was moved:"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"He chid Andromache and struck his armourer,"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"And, like as there were husbandry in war,"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"Before the sun rose he was harness'd light,"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"And to the field goes he; where every flower"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"Did, as a prophet, weep what it foresaw"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"In Hector's wrath."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"What was his cause of anger?"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"The noise goes, this: there is among the Greeks"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"A lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector;"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"They call him Ajax."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Good; and what of him?"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"They say he is a very man per se,"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"And stands alone."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs."
I,II,ALEXANDER,"This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"particular additions; he is as valiant as the lion,"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant: a man"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"valour is crushed into folly, his folly sauced with"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"discretion: there is no man hath a virtue that he"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"hath not a glimpse of, nor any man an attaint but he"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"carries some stain of it: he is melancholy without"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"cause, and merry against the hair: he hath the"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"joints of every thing, but everything so out of joint"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"that he is a gouty Briareus, many hands and no use,"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"or purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"But how should this man, that makes"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"me smile, make Hector angry?"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle and"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"struck him down, the disdain and shame whereof hath"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"ever since kept Hector fasting and waking."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Who comes here?"
I,II,ALEXANDER,"Madam, your uncle Pandarus."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Hector's a gallant man."
I,II,ALEXANDER,"As may be in the world, lady."
I,II,PANDARUS,"What's that? what's that?"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Good morrow, uncle Pandarus."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Good morrow, cousin Cressid: what do you talk of?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Good morrow, Alexander. How do you, cousin? When"
I,II,PANDARUS,"were you at Ilium?"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"This morning, uncle."
I,II,PANDARUS,"What were you talking of when I came? Was Hector"
I,II,PANDARUS,"armed and gone ere ye came to Ilium? Helen was not"
I,II,PANDARUS,"up, was she?"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Hector was gone, but Helen was not up."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Even so: Hector was stirring early."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"That were we talking of, and of his anger."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Was he angry?"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"So he says here."
I,II,PANDARUS,"True, he was so: I know the cause too: he'll lay"
I,II,PANDARUS,"about him to-day, I can tell them that: and there's"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Troilus will not come far behind him: let them take"
I,II,PANDARUS,"heed of Troilus, I can tell them that too."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"What, is he angry too?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Who, Troilus? Troilus is the better man of the two."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"O Jupiter! there's no comparison."
I,II,PANDARUS,"What, not between Troilus and Hector? Do you know a"
I,II,PANDARUS,"man if you see him?"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Ay, if I ever saw him before and knew him."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Well, I say Troilus is Troilus."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Then you say as I say; for, I am sure, he is not Hector."
I,II,PANDARUS,"No, nor Hector is not Troilus in some degrees."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"'Tis just to each of them; he is himself."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Himself! Alas, poor Troilus! I would he were."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"So he is."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Condition, I had gone barefoot to India."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"He is not Hector."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Himself! no, he's not himself: would a' were"
I,II,PANDARUS,"himself! Well, the gods are above; time must friend"
I,II,PANDARUS,"or end: well, Troilus, well: I would my heart were"
I,II,PANDARUS,"in her body. No, Hector is not a better man than Troilus."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Excuse me."
I,II,PANDARUS,"He is elder."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Pardon me, pardon me."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Th' other's not come to't; you shall tell me another"
I,II,PANDARUS,"tale, when th' other's come to't. Hector shall not"
I,II,PANDARUS,"have his wit this year."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"He shall not need it, if he have his own."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Nor his qualities."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"No matter."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Nor his beauty."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"'Twould not become him; his own's better."
I,II,PANDARUS,"You have no judgment, niece: Helen"
I,II,PANDARUS,"herself swore th' other day, that Troilus, for"
I,II,PANDARUS,"a brown favour--for so 'tis, I must confess,--"
I,II,PANDARUS,"not brown neither,--"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"No, but brown."
I,II,PANDARUS,"'Faith, to say truth, brown and not brown."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"To say the truth, true and not true."
I,II,PANDARUS,"She praised his complexion above Paris."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Why, Paris hath colour enough."
I,II,PANDARUS,"So he has."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Then Troilus should have too much: if she praised"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"him above, his complexion is higher than his; he"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"having colour enough, and the other higher, is too"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"flaming a praise for a good complexion. I had as"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"lief Helen's golden tongue had commended Troilus for"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"a copper nose."
I,II,PANDARUS,"I swear to you. I think Helen loves him better than Paris."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Then she's a merry Greek indeed."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Nay, I am sure she does. She came to him th' other"
I,II,PANDARUS,"day into the compassed window,--and, you know, he"
I,II,PANDARUS,"has not past three or four hairs on his chin,--"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Indeed, a tapster's arithmetic may soon bring his"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"particulars therein to a total."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Why, he is very young: and yet will he, within"
I,II,PANDARUS,"three pound, lift as much as his brother Hector."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Is he so young a man and so old a lifter?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"But to prove to you that Helen loves him: she came"
I,II,PANDARUS,"and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin--"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Juno have mercy! how came it cloven?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Why, you know 'tis dimpled: I think his smiling"
I,II,PANDARUS,"becomes him better than any man in all Phrygia."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"O, he smiles valiantly."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Does he not?"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"O yes, an 'twere a cloud in autumn."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Why, go to, then: but to prove to you that Helen"
I,II,PANDARUS,"loves Troilus,--"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Troilus will stand to the proof, if you'll"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"prove it so."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Troilus! why, he esteems her no more than I esteem"
I,II,PANDARUS,"an addle egg."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"head, you would eat chickens i' the shell."
I,II,PANDARUS,"I cannot choose but laugh, to think how she tickled"
I,II,PANDARUS,"his chin: indeed, she has a marvellous white hand, I"
I,II,PANDARUS,"must needs confess,--"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Without the rack."
I,II,PANDARUS,"And she takes upon her to spy a white hair on his chin."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Alas, poor chin! many a wart is richer."
I,II,PANDARUS,"But there was such laughing! Queen Hecuba laughed"
I,II,PANDARUS,"that her eyes ran o'er."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"With mill-stones."
I,II,PANDARUS,"And Cassandra laughed."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"But there was more temperate fire under the pot of"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"her eyes: did her eyes run o'er too?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"And Hector laughed."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"At what was all this laughing?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on Troilus' chin."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"An't had been a green hair, I should have laughed"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"too."
I,II,PANDARUS,"They laughed not so much at the hair as at his pretty answer."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"What was his answer?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Quoth she, 'Here's but two and fifty hairs on your"
I,II,PANDARUS,"chin, and one of them is white."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"This is her question."
I,II,PANDARUS,"That's true; make no question of that. 'Two and"
I,II,PANDARUS,"fifty hairs' quoth he, 'and one white: that white"
I,II,PANDARUS,"hair is my father, and all the rest are his sons.'"
I,II,PANDARUS,"'Jupiter!' quoth she, 'which of these hairs is Paris,"
I,II,PANDARUS,"my husband? 'The forked one,' quoth he, 'pluck't"
I,II,PANDARUS,"out, and give it him.' But there was such laughing!"
I,II,PANDARUS,"and Helen so blushed, an Paris so chafed, and all the"
I,II,PANDARUS,"rest so laughed, that it passed."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"So let it now; for it has been while going by."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Well, cousin. I told you a thing yesterday; think on't."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"So I do."
I,II,PANDARUS,"I'll be sworn 'tis true; he will weep you, an 'twere"
I,II,PANDARUS,"a man born in April."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"And I'll spring up in his tears, an 'twere a nettle"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"against May."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Hark! they are coming from the field: shall we"
I,II,PANDARUS,"stand up here, and see them as they pass toward"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Ilium? good niece, do, sweet niece Cressida."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"At your pleasure."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Here, here, here's an excellent place; here we may"
I,II,PANDARUS,"see most bravely: I'll tell you them all by their"
I,II,PANDARUS,"names as they pass by; but mark Troilus above the rest."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Speak not so loud."
I,II,PANDARUS,"That's AEneas: is not that a brave man? he's one of"
I,II,PANDARUS,"the flowers of Troy, I can tell you: but mark"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Troilus; you shall see anon."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Who's that?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"That's Antenor: he has a shrewd wit, I can tell you;"
I,II,PANDARUS,"and he's a man good enough, he's one o' the soundest"
I,II,PANDARUS,"judgments in whosoever, and a proper man of person."
I,II,PANDARUS,"When comes Troilus? I'll show you Troilus anon: if"
I,II,PANDARUS,"he see me, you shall see him nod at me."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Will he give you the nod?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"You shall see."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"If he do, the rich shall have more."
I,II,PANDARUS,"That's Hector, that, that, look you, that; there's a"
I,II,PANDARUS,"fellow! Go thy way, Hector! There's a brave man,"
I,II,PANDARUS,"niece. O brave Hector! Look how he looks! there's"
I,II,PANDARUS,"a countenance! is't not a brave man?"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"O, a brave man!"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Is a' not? it does a man's heart good. Look you"
I,II,PANDARUS,"what hacks are on his helmet! look you yonder, do"
I,II,PANDARUS,"you see? look you there: there's no jesting;"
I,II,PANDARUS,"there's laying on, take't off who will, as they say:"
I,II,PANDARUS,"there be hacks!"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Be those with swords?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Swords! any thing, he cares not; an the devil come"
I,II,PANDARUS,"to him, it's all one: by God's lid, it does one's"
I,II,PANDARUS,"heart good. Yonder comes Paris, yonder comes Paris."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Look ye yonder, niece; is't not a gallant man too,"
I,II,PANDARUS,"is't not? Why, this is brave now. Who said he came"
I,II,PANDARUS,"hurt home to-day? he's not hurt: why, this will do"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Helen's heart good now, ha! Would I could see"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Troilus now! You shall see Troilus anon."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Who's that?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"That's Helenus. I marvel where Troilus is. That's"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Helenus. I think he went not forth to-day. That's Helenus."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Can Helenus fight, uncle?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Helenus? no. Yes, he'll fight indifferent well. I"
I,II,PANDARUS,"marvel where Troilus is. Hark! do you not hear the"
I,II,PANDARUS,"people cry 'Troilus'? Helenus is a priest."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"What sneaking fellow comes yonder?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Where? yonder? that's Deiphobus. 'Tis Troilus!"
I,II,PANDARUS,"there's a man, niece! Hem! Brave Troilus! the"
I,II,PANDARUS,"prince of chivalry!"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Peace, for shame, peace!"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Mark him; note him. O brave Troilus! Look well upon"
I,II,PANDARUS,"him, niece: look you how his sword is bloodied, and"
I,II,PANDARUS,"his helm more hacked than Hector's, and how he looks,"
I,II,PANDARUS,"and how he goes! O admirable youth! he ne'er saw"
I,II,PANDARUS,"three and twenty. Go thy way, Troilus, go thy way!"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Had I a sister were a grace, or a daughter a goddess,"
I,II,PANDARUS,"he should take his choice. O admirable man! Paris?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Paris is dirt to him; and, I warrant, Helen, to"
I,II,PANDARUS,"change, would give an eye to boot."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Here come more."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Asses, fools, dolts! chaff and bran, chaff and bran!"
I,II,PANDARUS,"porridge after meat! I could live and die i' the"
I,II,PANDARUS,"eyes of Troilus. Ne'er look, ne'er look: the eagles"
I,II,PANDARUS,"are gone: crows and daws, crows and daws! I had"
I,II,PANDARUS,"rather be such a man as Troilus than Agamemnon and"
I,II,PANDARUS,"all Greece."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"There is among the Greeks Achilles, a better man than Troilus."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Well, well."
I,II,PANDARUS,"'Well, well!' why, have you any discretion? have"
I,II,PANDARUS,"you any eyes? Do you know what a man is? Is not"
I,II,PANDARUS,"birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood,"
I,II,PANDARUS,"learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality,"
I,II,PANDARUS,"and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Ay, a minced man: and then to be baked with no date"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"in the pie, for then the man's date's out."
I,II,PANDARUS,"You are such a woman! one knows not at what ward you"
I,II,PANDARUS,"lie."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Upon my back, to defend my belly; upon my wit, to"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"defend my wiles; upon my secrecy, to defend mine"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"honesty; my mask, to defend my beauty; and you, to"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"defend all these: and at all these wards I lie, at a"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"thousand watches."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Say one of your watches."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Nay, I'll watch you for that; and that's one of the"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"chiefest of them too: if I cannot ward what I would"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"not have hit, I can watch you for telling how I took"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"the blow; unless it swell past hiding, and then it's"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"past watching."
I,II,PANDARUS,"You are such another!"
I,II,Boy,"Sir, my lord would instantly speak with you."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Where?"
I,II,Boy,"At your own house; there he unarms him."
I,II,PANDARUS,"Good boy, tell him I come."
I,II,PANDARUS,"I doubt he be hurt. Fare ye well, good niece."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Adieu, uncle."
I,II,PANDARUS,"I'll be with you, niece, by and by."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"To bring, uncle?"
I,II,PANDARUS,"Ay, a token from Troilus."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"By the same token, you are a bawd."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice,"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"He offers in another's enterprise;"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"But more in Troilus thousand fold I see"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be;"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing:"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"That she beloved knows nought that knows not this:"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is:"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"That she was never yet that ever knew"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Love got so sweet as when desire did sue."
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Therefore this maxim out of love I teach:"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Achievement is command; ungain'd, beseech:"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear,"
I,II,CRESSIDA,"Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear."
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Princes,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks?"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"The ample proposition that hope makes"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"In all designs begun on earth below"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Fails in the promised largeness: cheques and disasters"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Infect the sound pine and divert his grain"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Tortive and errant from his course of growth."
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Nor, princes, is it matter new to us"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"That we come short of our suppose so far"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"That after seven years' siege yet Troy walls stand;"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Sith every action that hath gone before,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Whereof we have record, trial did draw"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Bias and thwart, not answering the aim,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"And that unbodied figure of the thought"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"That gave't surmised shape. Why then, you princes,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Do you with cheeks abash'd behold our works,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"And call them shames? which are indeed nought else"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"But the protractive trials of great Jove"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"To find persistive constancy in men:"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"The fineness of which metal is not found"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"In fortune's love; for then the bold and coward,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"The wise and fool, the artist and unread,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"The hard and soft seem all affined and kin:"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"But, in the wind and tempest of her frown,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Puffing at all, winnows the light away;"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"And what hath mass or matter, by itself"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Lies rich in virtue and unmingled."
I,III,NESTOR,"With due observance of thy godlike seat,"
I,III,NESTOR,"Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply"
I,III,NESTOR,"Thy latest words. In the reproof of chance"
I,III,NESTOR,"Lies the true proof of men: the sea being smooth,"
I,III,NESTOR,"How many shallow bauble boats dare sail"
I,III,NESTOR,"Upon her patient breast, making their way"
I,III,NESTOR,"With those of nobler bulk!"
I,III,NESTOR,"But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage"
I,III,NESTOR,"The gentle Thetis, and anon behold"
I,III,NESTOR,"The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut,"
I,III,NESTOR,"Bounding between the two moist elements,"
I,III,NESTOR,"Like Perseus' horse: where's then the saucy boat"
I,III,NESTOR,"Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now"
I,III,NESTOR,"Co-rivall'd greatness? Either to harbour fled,"
I,III,NESTOR,"Or made a toast for Neptune. Even so"
I,III,NESTOR,"Doth valour's show and valour's worth divide"
I,III,NESTOR,"In storms of fortune; for in her ray and brightness"
I,III,NESTOR,"The herd hath more annoyance by the breeze"
I,III,NESTOR,"Than by the tiger; but when the splitting wind"
I,III,NESTOR,"Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks,"
I,III,NESTOR,"And flies fled under shade, why, then the thing of courage"
I,III,NESTOR,"As roused with rage with rage doth sympathize,"
I,III,NESTOR,"And with an accent tuned in selfsame key"
I,III,NESTOR,"Retorts to chiding fortune."
I,III,ULYSSES,"Agamemnon,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Heart of our numbers, soul and only spirit."
I,III,ULYSSES,"In whom the tempers and the minds of all"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Should be shut up, hear what Ulysses speaks."
I,III,ULYSSES,"Besides the applause and approbation To which,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"most mighty for thy place and sway,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And thou most reverend for thy stretch'd-out life"
I,III,ULYSSES,"I give to both your speeches, which were such"
I,III,ULYSSES,"As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Should hold up high in brass, and such again"
I,III,ULYSSES,"As venerable Nestor, hatch'd in silver,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Should with a bond of air, strong as the axle-tree"
I,III,ULYSSES,"On which heaven rides, knit all the Greekish ears"
I,III,ULYSSES,"To his experienced tongue, yet let it please both,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Thou great, and wise, to hear Ulysses speak."
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Speak, prince of Ithaca; and be't of less expect"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"That matter needless, of importless burden,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Divide thy lips, than we are confident,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"When rank Thersites opes his mastic jaws,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"We shall hear music, wit and oracle."
I,III,ULYSSES,"Troy, yet upon his basis, had been down,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And the great Hector's sword had lack'd a master,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"But for these instances."
I,III,ULYSSES,"The specialty of rule hath been neglected:"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions."
I,III,ULYSSES,"When that the general is not like the hive"
I,III,ULYSSES,"To whom the foragers shall all repair,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"What honey is expected? Degree being vizarded,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask."
I,III,ULYSSES,"The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Observe degree, priority and place,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Office and custom, in all line of order;"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And therefore is the glorious planet Sol"
I,III,ULYSSES,"In noble eminence enthroned and sphered"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Amidst the other; whose medicinable eye"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And posts, like the commandment of a king,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Sans cheque to good and bad: but when the planets"
I,III,ULYSSES,"In evil mixture to disorder wander,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"What plagues and what portents! what mutiny!"
I,III,ULYSSES,"What raging of the sea! shaking of earth!"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Commotion in the winds! frights, changes, horrors,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Divert and crack, rend and deracinate"
I,III,ULYSSES,"The unity and married calm of states"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Quite from their fixure! O, when degree is shaked,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Which is the ladder to all high designs,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Then enterprise is sick! How could communities,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Degrees in schools and brotherhoods in cities,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Peaceful commerce from dividable shores,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"The primogenitive and due of birth,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"But by degree, stand in authentic place?"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Take but degree away, untune that string,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets"
I,III,ULYSSES,"In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And make a sop of all this solid globe:"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Strength should be lord of imbecility,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And the rude son should strike his father dead:"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Between whose endless jar justice resides,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Should lose their names, and so should justice too."
I,III,ULYSSES,"Then every thing includes itself in power,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Power into will, will into appetite;"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And appetite, an universal wolf,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"So doubly seconded with will and power,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Must make perforce an universal prey,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And last eat up himself. Great Agamemnon,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"This chaos, when degree is suffocate,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Follows the choking."
I,III,ULYSSES,"And this neglection of degree it is"
I,III,ULYSSES,"That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose"
I,III,ULYSSES,"It hath to climb. The general's disdain'd"
I,III,ULYSSES,"By him one step below, he by the next,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"That next by him beneath; so every step,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Exampled by the first pace that is sick"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Of his superior, grows to an envious fever"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Of pale and bloodless emulation:"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Not her own sinews. To end a tale of length,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Troy in our weakness stands, not in her strength."
I,III,NESTOR,"Most wisely hath Ulysses here discover'd"
I,III,NESTOR,"The fever whereof all our power is sick."
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"The nature of the sickness found, Ulysses,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"What is the remedy?"
I,III,ULYSSES,"The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns"
I,III,ULYSSES,"The sinew and the forehand of our host,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Having his ear full of his airy fame,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Lies mocking our designs: with him Patroclus"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Upon a lazy bed the livelong day"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Breaks scurril jests;"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And with ridiculous and awkward action,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Which, slanderer, he imitation calls,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"He pageants us. Sometime, great Agamemnon,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Thy topless deputation he puts on,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And, like a strutting player, whose conceit"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich"
I,III,ULYSSES,"To hear the wooden dialogue and sound"
I,III,ULYSSES,"'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage,--"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Such to-be-pitied and o'er-wrested seeming"
I,III,ULYSSES,"He acts thy greatness in: and when he speaks,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"'Tis like a chime a-mending; with terms unsquared,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropp'd"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Would seem hyperboles. At this fusty stuff"
I,III,ULYSSES,"The large Achilles, on his press'd bed lolling,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause;"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Cries 'Excellent! 'tis Agamemnon just."
I,III,ULYSSES,"Now play me Nestor; hem, and stroke thy beard,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"As he being drest to some oration.'"
I,III,ULYSSES,"That's done, as near as the extremest ends"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Of parallels, as like as Vulcan and his wife:"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Yet god Achilles still cries 'Excellent!"
I,III,ULYSSES,"'Tis Nestor right. Now play him me, Patroclus,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Arming to answer in a night alarm.'"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And then, forsooth, the faint defects of age"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Must be the scene of mirth; to cough and spit,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And, with a palsy-fumbling on his gorget,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Shake in and out the rivet: and at this sport"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Sir Valour dies; cries 'O, enough, Patroclus;"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Or give me ribs of steel! I shall split all"
I,III,ULYSSES,"In pleasure of my spleen.' And in this fashion,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Severals and generals of grace exact,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Achievements, plots, orders, preventions,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Excitements to the field, or speech for truce,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Success or loss, what is or is not, serves"
I,III,ULYSSES,"As stuff for these two to make paradoxes."
I,III,NESTOR,"And in the imitation of these twain--"
I,III,NESTOR,"Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns"
I,III,NESTOR,"With an imperial voice--many are infect."
I,III,NESTOR,"Ajax is grown self-will'd, and bears his head"
I,III,NESTOR,"In such a rein, in full as proud a place"
I,III,NESTOR,"As broad Achilles; keeps his tent like him;"
I,III,NESTOR,"Makes factious feasts; rails on our state of war,"
I,III,NESTOR,"Bold as an oracle, and sets Thersites,"
I,III,NESTOR,"A slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint,"
I,III,NESTOR,"To match us in comparisons with dirt,"
I,III,NESTOR,"To weaken and discredit our exposure,"
I,III,NESTOR,"How rank soever rounded in with danger."
I,III,ULYSSES,"They tax our policy, and call it cowardice,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Count wisdom as no member of the war,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Forestall prescience, and esteem no act"
I,III,ULYSSES,"But that of hand: the still and mental parts,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"That do contrive how many hands shall strike,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"When fitness calls them on, and know by measure"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Of their observant toil the enemies' weight,--"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Why, this hath not a finger's dignity:"
I,III,ULYSSES,"They call this bed-work, mappery, closet-war;"
I,III,ULYSSES,"So that the ram that batters down the wall,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"For the great swing and rudeness of his poise,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"They place before his hand that made the engine,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Or those that with the fineness of their souls"
I,III,ULYSSES,"By reason guide his execution."
I,III,NESTOR,"Let this be granted, and Achilles' horse"
I,III,NESTOR,"Makes many Thetis' sons."
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"What trumpet? look, Menelaus."
I,III,MENELAUS,"From Troy."
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"What would you 'fore our tent?"
I,III,AENEAS,"Is this great Agamemnon's tent, I pray you?"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Even this."
I,III,AENEAS,"May one, that is a herald and a prince,"
I,III,AENEAS,"Do a fair message to his kingly ears?"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"With surety stronger than Achilles' arm"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"'Fore all the Greekish heads, which with one voice"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Call Agamemnon head and general."
I,III,AENEAS,"Fair leave and large security. How may"
I,III,AENEAS,"A stranger to those most imperial looks"
I,III,AENEAS,"Know them from eyes of other mortals?"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"How!"
I,III,AENEAS,"Ay;"
I,III,AENEAS,"I ask, that I might waken reverence,"
I,III,AENEAS,"And bid the cheek be ready with a blush"
I,III,AENEAS,"Modest as morning when she coldly eyes"
I,III,AENEAS,"The youthful Phoebus:"
I,III,AENEAS,"Which is that god in office, guiding men?"
I,III,AENEAS,"Which is the high and mighty Agamemnon?"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"This Trojan scorns us; or the men of Troy"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Are ceremonious courtiers."
I,III,AENEAS,"Courtiers as free, as debonair, unarm'd,"
I,III,AENEAS,"As bending angels; that's their fame in peace:"
I,III,AENEAS,"But when they would seem soldiers, they have galls,"
I,III,AENEAS,"Good arms, strong joints, true swords; and,"
I,III,AENEAS,"Jove's accord,"
I,III,AENEAS,"Nothing so full of heart. But peace, AEneas,"
I,III,AENEAS,"Peace, Trojan; lay thy finger on thy lips!"
I,III,AENEAS,"The worthiness of praise distains his worth,"
I,III,AENEAS,"If that the praised himself bring the praise forth:"
I,III,AENEAS,"But what the repining enemy commends,"
I,III,AENEAS,"That breath fame blows; that praise, sole sure,"
I,III,AENEAS,"transcends."
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Sir, you of Troy, call you yourself AEneas?"
I,III,AENEAS,"Ay, Greek, that is my name."
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"What's your affair I pray you?"
I,III,AENEAS,"Sir, pardon; 'tis for Agamemnon's ears."
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"He hears naught privately that comes from Troy."
I,III,AENEAS,"Nor I from Troy come not to whisper him:"
I,III,AENEAS,"I bring a trumpet to awake his ear,"
I,III,AENEAS,"To set his sense on the attentive bent,"
I,III,AENEAS,"And then to speak."
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Speak frankly as the wind;"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"It is not Agamemnon's sleeping hour:"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"That thou shalt know. Trojan, he is awake,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"He tells thee so himself."
I,III,AENEAS,"Trumpet, blow loud,"
I,III,AENEAS,"Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents;"
I,III,AENEAS,"And every Greek of mettle, let him know,"
I,III,AENEAS,"What Troy means fairly shall be spoke aloud."
I,III,AENEAS,"We have, great Agamemnon, here in Troy"
I,III,AENEAS,"A prince call'd Hector,--Priam is his father,--"
I,III,AENEAS,"Who in this dull and long-continued truce"
I,III,AENEAS,"Is rusty grown: he bade me take a trumpet,"
I,III,AENEAS,"And to this purpose speak. Kings, princes, lords!"
I,III,AENEAS,"If there be one among the fair'st of Greece"
I,III,AENEAS,"That holds his honour higher than his ease,"
I,III,AENEAS,"That seeks his praise more than he fears his peril,"
I,III,AENEAS,"That knows his valour, and knows not his fear,"
I,III,AENEAS,"That loves his mistress more than in confession,"
I,III,AENEAS,"With truant vows to her own lips he loves,"
I,III,AENEAS,"And dare avow her beauty and her worth"
I,III,AENEAS,"In other arms than hers,--to him this challenge."
I,III,AENEAS,"Hector, in view of Trojans and of Greeks,"
I,III,AENEAS,"Shall make it good, or do his best to do it,"
I,III,AENEAS,"He hath a lady, wiser, fairer, truer,"
I,III,AENEAS,"Than ever Greek did compass in his arms,"
I,III,AENEAS,"And will to-morrow with his trumpet call"
I,III,AENEAS,"Midway between your tents and walls of Troy,"
I,III,AENEAS,"To rouse a Grecian that is true in love:"
I,III,AENEAS,"If any come, Hector shall honour him;"
I,III,AENEAS,"If none, he'll say in Troy when he retires,"
I,III,AENEAS,"The Grecian dames are sunburnt and not worth"
I,III,AENEAS,"The splinter of a lance. Even so much."
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"This shall be told our lovers, Lord AEneas;"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"If none of them have soul in such a kind,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"We left them all at home: but we are soldiers;"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"And may that soldier a mere recreant prove,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"That means not, hath not, or is not in love!"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"If then one is, or hath, or means to be,"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"That one meets Hector; if none else, I am he."
I,III,NESTOR,"Tell him of Nestor, one that was a man"
I,III,NESTOR,"When Hector's grandsire suck'd: he is old now;"
I,III,NESTOR,"But if there be not in our Grecian host"
I,III,NESTOR,"One noble man that hath one spark of fire,"
I,III,NESTOR,"To answer for his love, tell him from me"
I,III,NESTOR,"I'll hide my silver beard in a gold beaver"
I,III,NESTOR,"And in my vantbrace put this wither'd brawn,"
I,III,NESTOR,"And meeting him will tell him that my lady"
I,III,NESTOR,"Was fairer than his grandam and as chaste"
I,III,NESTOR,"As may be in the world: his youth in flood,"
I,III,NESTOR,"I'll prove this truth with my three drops of blood."
I,III,AENEAS,"Now heavens forbid such scarcity of youth!"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Amen."
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Fair Lord AEneas, let me touch your hand;"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"To our pavilion shall I lead you, sir."
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Achilles shall have word of this intent;"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"So shall each lord of Greece, from tent to tent:"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"Yourself shall feast with us before you go"
I,III,AGAMEMNON,"And find the welcome of a noble foe."
I,III,ULYSSES,"Nestor!"
I,III,NESTOR,"What says Ulysses?"
I,III,ULYSSES,"I have a young conception in my brain;"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Be you my time to bring it to some shape."
I,III,NESTOR,"What is't?"
I,III,ULYSSES,"This 'tis:"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Blunt wedges rive hard knots: the seeded pride"
I,III,ULYSSES,"That hath to this maturity blown up"
I,III,ULYSSES,"In rank Achilles must or now be cropp'd,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"To overbulk us all."
I,III,NESTOR,"Well, and how?"
I,III,ULYSSES,"This challenge that the gallant Hector sends,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"However it is spread in general name,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Relates in purpose only to Achilles."
I,III,NESTOR,"The purpose is perspicuous even as substance,"
I,III,NESTOR,"Whose grossness little characters sum up:"
I,III,NESTOR,"And, in the publication, make no strain,"
I,III,NESTOR,"But that Achilles, were his brain as barren"
I,III,NESTOR,"As banks of Libya,--though, Apollo knows,"
I,III,NESTOR,"'Tis dry enough,--will, with great speed of judgment,"
I,III,NESTOR,"Ay, with celerity, find Hector's purpose"
I,III,NESTOR,"Pointing on him."
I,III,ULYSSES,"And wake him to the answer, think you?"
I,III,NESTOR,"Yes, 'tis most meet: whom may you else oppose,"
I,III,NESTOR,"That can from Hector bring his honour off,"
I,III,NESTOR,"If not Achilles? Though't be a sportful combat,"
I,III,NESTOR,"Yet in the trial much opinion dwells;"
I,III,NESTOR,"For here the Trojans taste our dear'st repute"
I,III,NESTOR,"With their finest palate: and trust to me, Ulysses,"
I,III,NESTOR,"Our imputation shall be oddly poised"
I,III,NESTOR,"In this wild action; for the success,"
I,III,NESTOR,"Although particular, shall give a scantling"
I,III,NESTOR,"Of good or bad unto the general;"
I,III,NESTOR,"And in such indexes, although small pricks"
I,III,NESTOR,"To their subsequent volumes, there is seen"
I,III,NESTOR,"The baby figure of the giant mass"
I,III,NESTOR,"Of things to come at large. It is supposed"
I,III,NESTOR,"He that meets Hector issues from our choice"
I,III,NESTOR,"And choice, being mutual act of all our souls,"
I,III,NESTOR,"Makes merit her election, and doth boil,"
I,III,NESTOR,"As 'twere from us all, a man distill'd"
I,III,NESTOR,"Out of our virtues; who miscarrying,"
I,III,NESTOR,"What heart receives from hence the conquering part,"
I,III,NESTOR,"To steel a strong opinion to themselves?"
I,III,NESTOR,"Which entertain'd, limbs are his instruments,"
I,III,NESTOR,"In no less working than are swords and bows"
I,III,NESTOR,"Directive by the limbs."
I,III,ULYSSES,"Give pardon to my speech:"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Therefore 'tis meet Achilles meet not Hector."
I,III,ULYSSES,"Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And think, perchance, they'll sell; if not,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"The lustre of the better yet to show,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Shall show the better. Do not consent"
I,III,ULYSSES,"That ever Hector and Achilles meet;"
I,III,ULYSSES,"For both our honour and our shame in this"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Are dogg'd with two strange followers."
I,III,NESTOR,"I see them not with my old eyes: what are they?"
I,III,ULYSSES,"What glory our Achilles shares from Hector,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Were he not proud, we all should share with him:"
I,III,ULYSSES,"But he already is too insolent;"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And we were better parch in Afric sun"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Should he 'scape Hector fair: if he were foil'd,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Why then, we did our main opinion crush"
I,III,ULYSSES,"In taint of our best man. No, make a lottery;"
I,III,ULYSSES,"And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw"
I,III,ULYSSES,"The sort to fight with Hector: among ourselves"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Give him allowance for the better man;"
I,III,ULYSSES,"For that will physic the great Myrmidon"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Who broils in loud applause, and make him fall"
I,III,ULYSSES,"His crest that prouder than blue Iris bends."
I,III,ULYSSES,"If the dull brainless Ajax come safe off,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"We'll dress him up in voices: if he fail,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Yet go we under our opinion still"
I,III,ULYSSES,"That we have better men. But, hit or miss,"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Our project's life this shape of sense assumes:"
I,III,ULYSSES,"Ajax employ'd plucks down Achilles' plumes."
I,III,NESTOR,"Ulysses,"
I,III,NESTOR,"Now I begin to relish thy advice;"
I,III,NESTOR,"And I will give a taste of it forthwith"
I,III,NESTOR,"To Agamemnon: go we to him straight."
I,III,NESTOR,"Two curs shall tame each other: pride alone"
I,III,NESTOR,"Must tarre the mastiffs on, as 'twere their bone."
II,I,AJAX,"Thersites!"
II,I,THERSITES,"Agamemnon, how if he had boils? full, all over,"
II,I,THERSITES,"generally?"
II,I,AJAX,"Thersites!"
II,I,THERSITES,"And those boils did run? say so: did not the"
II,I,THERSITES,"general run then? were not that a botchy core?"
II,I,AJAX,"Dog!"
II,I,THERSITES,"Then would come some matter from him; I see none now."
II,I,AJAX,"Thou bitch-wolf's son, canst thou not hear?"
II,I,AJAX,"Feel, then."
II,I,THERSITES,"The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel"
II,I,THERSITES,"beef-witted lord!"
II,I,AJAX,"Speak then, thou vinewedst leaven, speak: I will"
II,I,AJAX,"beat thee into handsomeness."
II,I,THERSITES,"I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness: but,"
II,I,THERSITES,"I think, thy horse will sooner con an oration than"
II,I,THERSITES,"thou learn a prayer without book. Thou canst strike,"
II,I,THERSITES,"canst thou? a red murrain o' thy jade's tricks!"
II,I,AJAX,"Toadstool, learn me the proclamation."
II,I,THERSITES,"Dost thou think I have no sense, thou strikest me thus?"
II,I,AJAX,"The proclamation!"
II,I,THERSITES,"Thou art proclaimed a fool, I think."
II,I,AJAX,"Do not, porpentine, do not: my fingers itch."
II,I,THERSITES,"I would thou didst itch from head to foot and I had"
II,I,THERSITES,"the scratching of thee; I would make thee the"
II,I,THERSITES,"loathsomest scab in Greece. When thou art forth in"
II,I,THERSITES,"the incursions, thou strikest as slow as another."
II,I,AJAX,"I say, the proclamation!"
II,I,THERSITES,"Thou grumblest and railest every hour on Achilles,"
II,I,THERSITES,"and thou art as full of envy at his greatness as"
II,I,THERSITES,"Cerberus is at Proserpine's beauty, ay, that thou"
II,I,THERSITES,"barkest at him."
II,I,AJAX,"Mistress Thersites!"
II,I,THERSITES,"Thou shouldest strike him."
II,I,AJAX,"Cobloaf!"
II,I,THERSITES,"He would pun thee into shivers with his fist, as a"
II,I,THERSITES,"sailor breaks a biscuit."
II,I,THERSITES,"Do, do."
II,I,AJAX,"Thou stool for a witch!"
II,I,THERSITES,"Ay, do, do; thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no"
II,I,THERSITES,"more brain than I have in mine elbows; an assinego"
II,I,THERSITES,"may tutor thee: thou scurvy-valiant ass! thou art"
II,I,THERSITES,"here but to thrash Trojans; and thou art bought and"
II,I,THERSITES,"sold among those of any wit, like a barbarian slave."
II,I,THERSITES,"If thou use to beat me, I will begin at thy heel, and"
II,I,THERSITES,"tell what thou art by inches, thou thing of no"
II,I,THERSITES,"bowels, thou!"
II,I,AJAX,"You dog!"
II,I,THERSITES,"You scurvy lord!"
II,I,THERSITES,"Mars his idiot! do, rudeness; do, camel; do, do."
II,I,ACHILLES,"Why, how now, Ajax! wherefore do you thus? How now,"
II,I,ACHILLES,"Thersites! what's the matter, man?"
II,I,THERSITES,"You see him there, do you?"
II,I,ACHILLES,"Ay; what's the matter?"
II,I,THERSITES,"Nay, look upon him."
II,I,ACHILLES,"So I do: what's the matter?"
II,I,THERSITES,"Nay, but regard him well."
II,I,ACHILLES,"'Well!' why, I do so."
II,I,THERSITES,"But yet you look not well upon him; for whosoever you"
II,I,THERSITES,"take him to be, he is Ajax."
II,I,ACHILLES,"I know that, fool."
II,I,THERSITES,"Ay, but that fool knows not himself."
II,I,AJAX,"Therefore I beat thee."
II,I,THERSITES,"Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he utters! his"
II,I,THERSITES,"evasions have ears thus long. I have bobbed his"
II,I,THERSITES,"brain more than he has beat my bones: I will buy"
II,I,THERSITES,"nine sparrows for a penny, and his pia mater is not"
II,I,THERSITES,"worth the nineth part of a sparrow. This lord,"
II,I,THERSITES,"Achilles, Ajax, who wears his wit in his belly and"
II,I,THERSITES,"his guts in his head, I'll tell you what I say of"
II,I,THERSITES,"him."
II,I,ACHILLES,"What?"
II,I,THERSITES,"I say, this Ajax--"
II,I,ACHILLES,"Nay, good Ajax."
II,I,THERSITES,"Has not so much wit--"
II,I,ACHILLES,"Nay, I must hold you."
II,I,THERSITES,"As will stop the eye of Helen's needle, for whom he"
II,I,THERSITES,"comes to fight."
II,I,ACHILLES,"Peace, fool!"
II,I,THERSITES,"I would have peace and quietness, but the fool will"
II,I,THERSITES,"not: he there: that he: look you there."
II,I,AJAX,"O thou damned cur! I shall--"
II,I,ACHILLES,"Will you set your wit to a fool's?"
II,I,THERSITES,"No, I warrant you; for a fools will shame it."
II,I,PATROCLUS,"Good words, Thersites."
II,I,ACHILLES,"What's the quarrel?"
II,I,AJAX,"I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the"
II,I,AJAX,"proclamation, and he rails upon me."
II,I,THERSITES,"I serve thee not."
II,I,AJAX,"Well, go to, go to."
II,I,THERSITES,"I serve here voluntarily."
II,I,ACHILLES,"Your last service was sufferance, 'twas not"
II,I,ACHILLES,"voluntary: no man is beaten voluntary: Ajax was"
II,I,ACHILLES,"here the voluntary, and you as under an impress."
II,I,THERSITES,"E'en so; a great deal of your wit, too, lies in your"
II,I,THERSITES,"sinews, or else there be liars. Hector have a great"
II,I,THERSITES,"catch, if he knock out either of your brains: a'"
II,I,THERSITES,"were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel."
II,I,ACHILLES,"What, with me too, Thersites?"
II,I,THERSITES,"There's Ulysses and old Nestor, whose wit was mouldy"
II,I,THERSITES,"ere your grandsires had nails on their toes, yoke you"
II,I,THERSITES,"like draught-oxen and make you plough up the wars."
II,I,ACHILLES,"What, what?"
II,I,THERSITES,"Yes, good sooth: to, Achilles! to, Ajax! to!"
II,I,AJAX,"I shall cut out your tongue."
II,I,THERSITES,"'Tis no matter! I shall speak as much as thou"
II,I,THERSITES,"afterwards."
II,I,PATROCLUS,"No more words, Thersites; peace!"
II,I,THERSITES,"I will hold my peace when Achilles' brach bids me, shall I?"
II,I,ACHILLES,"There's for you, Patroclus."
II,I,THERSITES,"I will see you hanged, like clotpoles, ere I come"
II,I,THERSITES,"any more to your tents: I will keep where there is"
II,I,THERSITES,"wit stirring and leave the faction of fools."
II,I,PATROCLUS,"A good riddance."
II,I,ACHILLES,"Marry, this, sir, is proclaim'd through all our host:"
II,I,ACHILLES,"That Hector, by the fifth hour of the sun,"
II,I,ACHILLES,"Will with a trumpet 'twixt our tents and Troy"
II,I,ACHILLES,"To-morrow morning call some knight to arms"
II,I,ACHILLES,"That hath a stomach; and such a one that dare"
II,I,ACHILLES,"Maintain--I know not what: 'tis trash. Farewell."
II,I,AJAX,"Farewell. Who shall answer him?"
II,I,ACHILLES,"I know not: 'tis put to lottery; otherwise"
II,I,ACHILLES,"He knew his man."
II,I,AJAX,"O, meaning you. I will go learn more of it."
II,II,PRIAM,"After so many hours, lives, speeches spent,"
II,II,PRIAM,"Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks:"
II,II,PRIAM,"'Deliver Helen, and all damage else--"
II,II,PRIAM,"As honour, loss of time, travail, expense,"
II,II,PRIAM,"Wounds, friends, and what else dear that is consumed"
II,II,PRIAM,"In hot digestion of this cormorant war--"
II,II,PRIAM,"Shall be struck off.' Hector, what say you to't?"
II,II,HECTOR,"Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I"
II,II,HECTOR,"As far as toucheth my particular,"
II,II,HECTOR,"Yet, dread Priam,"
II,II,HECTOR,"There is no lady of more softer bowels,"
II,II,HECTOR,"More spongy to suck in the sense of fear,"
II,II,HECTOR,"More ready to cry out 'Who knows what follows?'"
II,II,HECTOR,"Than Hector is: the wound of peace is surety,"
II,II,HECTOR,"Surety secure; but modest doubt is call'd"
II,II,HECTOR,"The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches"
II,II,HECTOR,"To the bottom of the worst. Let Helen go:"
II,II,HECTOR,"Since the first sword was drawn about this question,"
II,II,HECTOR,"Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand dismes,"
II,II,HECTOR,"Hath been as dear as Helen; I mean, of ours:"
II,II,HECTOR,"If we have lost so many tenths of ours,"
II,II,HECTOR,"To guard a thing not ours nor worth to us,"
II,II,HECTOR,"Had it our name, the value of one ten,"
II,II,HECTOR,"What merit's in that reason which denies"
II,II,HECTOR,"The yielding of her up?"
II,II,TROILUS,"Fie, fie, my brother!"
II,II,TROILUS,"Weigh you the worth and honour of a king"
II,II,TROILUS,"So great as our dread father in a scale"
II,II,TROILUS,"Of common ounces? will you with counters sum"
II,II,TROILUS,"The past proportion of his infinite?"
II,II,TROILUS,"And buckle in a waist most fathomless"
II,II,TROILUS,"With spans and inches so diminutive"
II,II,TROILUS,"As fears and reasons? fie, for godly shame!"
II,II,HELENUS,"No marvel, though you bite so sharp at reasons,"
II,II,HELENUS,"You are so empty of them. Should not our father"
II,II,HELENUS,"Bear the great sway of his affairs with reasons,"
II,II,HELENUS,"Because your speech hath none that tells him so?"
II,II,TROILUS,"You are for dreams and slumbers, brother priest;"
II,II,TROILUS,"You fur your gloves with reason. Here are"
II,II,TROILUS,"your reasons:"
II,II,TROILUS,"You know an enemy intends you harm;"
II,II,TROILUS,"You know a sword employ'd is perilous,"
II,II,TROILUS,"And reason flies the object of all harm:"
II,II,TROILUS,"Who marvels then, when Helenus beholds"
II,II,TROILUS,"A Grecian and his sword, if he do set"
II,II,TROILUS,"The very wings of reason to his heels"
II,II,TROILUS,"And fly like chidden Mercury from Jove,"
II,II,TROILUS,"Or like a star disorb'd? Nay, if we talk of reason,"
II,II,TROILUS,"Let's shut our gates and sleep: manhood and honour"
II,II,TROILUS,"Should have hare-hearts, would they but fat"
II,II,TROILUS,"their thoughts"
II,II,TROILUS,"With this cramm'd reason: reason and respect"
II,II,TROILUS,"Make livers pale and lustihood deject."
II,II,HECTOR,"Brother, she is not worth what she doth cost"
II,II,HECTOR,"The holding."
II,II,TROILUS,"What is aught, but as 'tis valued?"
II,II,HECTOR,"But value dwells not in particular will;"
II,II,HECTOR,"It holds his estimate and dignity"
II,II,HECTOR,"As well wherein 'tis precious of itself"
II,II,HECTOR,"As in the prizer: 'tis mad idolatry"
II,II,HECTOR,"To make the service greater than the god"
II,II,HECTOR,"And the will dotes that is attributive"
II,II,HECTOR,"To what infectiously itself affects,"
II,II,HECTOR,"Without some image of the affected merit."
II,II,TROILUS,"I take to-day a wife, and my election"
II,II,TROILUS,"Is led on in the conduct of my will;"
II,II,TROILUS,"My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears,"
II,II,TROILUS,"Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores"
II,II,TROILUS,"Of will and judgment: how may I avoid,"
II,II,TROILUS,"Although my will distaste what it elected,"
II,II,TROILUS,"The wife I chose? there can be no evasion"
II,II,TROILUS,"To blench from this and to stand firm by honour:"
II,II,TROILUS,"We turn not back the silks upon the merchant,"
II,II,TROILUS,"When we have soil'd them, nor the remainder viands"
II,II,TROILUS,"We do not throw in unrespective sieve,"
II,II,TROILUS,"Because we now are full. It was thought meet"
II,II,TROILUS,"Paris should do some vengeance on the Greeks:"
II,II,TROILUS,"Your breath of full consent bellied his sails;"
II,II,TROILUS,"The seas and winds, old wranglers, took a truce"
II,II,TROILUS,"And did him service: he touch'd the ports desired,"
II,II,TROILUS,"And for an old aunt whom the Greeks held captive,"
II,II,TROILUS,"He brought a Grecian queen, whose youth and freshness"
II,II,TROILUS,"Wrinkles Apollo's, and makes stale the morning."
II,II,TROILUS,"Why keep we her? the Grecians keep our aunt:"
II,II,TROILUS,"Is she worth keeping? why, she is a pearl,"
II,II,TROILUS,"Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships,"
II,II,TROILUS,"And turn'd crown'd kings to merchants."
II,II,TROILUS,"If you'll avouch 'twas wisdom Paris went--"
II,II,TROILUS,"As you must needs, for you all cried 'Go, go,'--"
II,II,TROILUS,"If you'll confess he brought home noble prize--"
II,II,TROILUS,"As you must needs, for you all clapp'd your hands"
II,II,TROILUS,"And cried 'Inestimable!'--why do you now"
II,II,TROILUS,"The issue of your proper wisdoms rate,"
II,II,TROILUS,"And do a deed that fortune never did,"
II,II,TROILUS,"Beggar the estimation which you prized"
II,II,TROILUS,"Richer than sea and land? O, theft most base,"
II,II,TROILUS,"That we have stol'n what we do fear to keep!"
II,II,TROILUS,"But, thieves, unworthy of a thing so stol'n,"
II,II,TROILUS,"That in their country did them that disgrace,"
II,II,TROILUS,"We fear to warrant in our native place!"
II,II,PRIAM,"What noise? what shriek is this?"
II,II,TROILUS,"'Tis our mad sister, I do know her voice."
II,II,HECTOR,"It is Cassandra."
II,II,CASSANDRA,"Cry, Trojans, cry! lend me ten thousand eyes,"
II,II,CASSANDRA,"And I will fill them with prophetic tears."
II,II,HECTOR,"Peace, sister, peace!"
II,II,CASSANDRA,"Virgins and boys, mid-age and wrinkled eld,"
II,II,CASSANDRA,"Soft infancy, that nothing canst but cry,"
II,II,CASSANDRA,"Add to my clamours! let us pay betimes"
II,II,CASSANDRA,"A moiety of that mass of moan to come."
II,II,CASSANDRA,"Cry, Trojans, cry! practise your eyes with tears!"
II,II,CASSANDRA,"Troy must not be, nor goodly Ilion stand;"
II,II,CASSANDRA,"Our firebrand brother, Paris, burns us all."
II,II,CASSANDRA,"Cry, Trojans, cry! a Helen and a woe:"
II,II,CASSANDRA,"Cry, cry! Troy burns, or else let Helen go."
II,II,HECTOR,"Now, youthful Troilus, do not these high strains"
II,II,HECTOR,"Of divination in our sister work"
II,II,HECTOR,"Some touches of remorse? or is your blood"
II,II,HECTOR,"So madly hot that no discourse of reason,"
II,II,HECTOR,"Nor fear of bad success in a bad cause,"
II,II,HECTOR,"Can qualify the same?"
II,II,TROILUS,"Why, brother Hector,"
II,II,TROILUS,"We may not think the justness of each act"
II,II,TROILUS,"Such and no other than event doth form it,"
II,II,TROILUS,"Nor once deject the courage of our minds,"
II,II,TROILUS,"Because Cassandra's mad: her brain-sick raptures"
II,II,TROILUS,"Cannot distaste the goodness of a quarrel"
II,II,TROILUS,"Which hath our several honours all engaged"
II,II,TROILUS,"To make it gracious. For my private part,"
II,II,TROILUS,"I am no more touch'd than all Priam's sons:"
II,II,TROILUS,"And Jove forbid there should be done amongst us"
II,II,TROILUS,"Such things as might offend the weakest spleen"
II,II,TROILUS,"To fight for and maintain!"
II,II,PARIS,"Else might the world convince of levity"
II,II,PARIS,"As well my undertakings as your counsels:"
II,II,PARIS,"But I attest the gods, your full consent"
II,II,PARIS,"Gave wings to my propension and cut off"
II,II,PARIS,"All fears attending on so dire a project."
II,II,PARIS,"For what, alas, can these my single arms?"
II,II,PARIS,"What Propugnation is in one man's valour,"
II,II,PARIS,"To stand the push and enmity of those"
II,II,PARIS,"This quarrel would excite? Yet, I protest,"
II,II,PARIS,"Were I alone to pass the difficulties"
II,II,PARIS,"And had as ample power as I have will,"
II,II,PARIS,"Paris should ne'er retract what he hath done,"
II,II,PARIS,"Nor faint in the pursuit."
II,II,PRIAM,"Paris, you speak"
II,II,PRIAM,"Like one besotted on your sweet delights:"
II,II,PRIAM,"You have the honey still, but these the gall;"
II,II,PRIAM,"So to be valiant is no praise at all."
II,II,PARIS,"Sir, I propose not merely to myself"
II,II,PARIS,"The pleasures such a beauty brings with it;"
II,II,PARIS,"But I would have the soil of her fair rape"
II,II,PARIS,"Wiped off, in honourable keeping her."
II,II,PARIS,"What treason were it to the ransack'd queen,"
II,II,PARIS,"Disgrace to your great worths and shame to me,"
II,II,PARIS,"Now to deliver her possession up"
II,II,PARIS,"On terms of base compulsion! Can it be"
II,II,PARIS,"That so degenerate a strain as this"
II,II,PARIS,"Should once set footing in your generous bosoms?"
II,II,PARIS,"There's not the meanest spirit on our party"
II,II,PARIS,"Without a heart to dare or sword to draw"
II,II,PARIS,"When Helen is defended, nor none so noble"
II,II,PARIS,"Whose life were ill bestow'd or death unfamed"
II,II,PARIS,"Where Helen is the subject; then, I say,"
II,II,PARIS,"Well may we fight for her whom, we know well,"
II,II,PARIS,"The world's large spaces cannot parallel."
II,II,HECTOR,"Paris and Troilus, you have both said well,"
II,II,HECTOR,"And on the cause and question now in hand"
II,II,HECTOR,"Have glozed, but superficially: not much"
II,II,HECTOR,"Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought"
II,II,HECTOR,"Unfit to hear moral philosophy:"
II,II,HECTOR,"The reasons you allege do more conduce"
II,II,HECTOR,"To the hot passion of distemper'd blood"
II,II,HECTOR,"Than to make up a free determination"
II,II,HECTOR,"'Twixt right and wrong, for pleasure and revenge"
II,II,HECTOR,"Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice"
II,II,HECTOR,"Of any true decision. Nature craves"
II,II,HECTOR,"All dues be render'd to their owners: now,"
II,II,HECTOR,"What nearer debt in all humanity"
II,II,HECTOR,"Than wife is to the husband? If this law"
II,II,HECTOR,"Of nature be corrupted through affection,"
II,II,HECTOR,"And that great minds, of partial indulgence"
II,II,HECTOR,"To their benumbed wills, resist the same,"
II,II,HECTOR,"There is a law in each well-order'd nation"
II,II,HECTOR,"To curb those raging appetites that are"
II,II,HECTOR,"Most disobedient and refractory."
II,II,HECTOR,"If Helen then be wife to Sparta's king,"
II,II,HECTOR,"As it is known she is, these moral laws"
II,II,HECTOR,"Of nature and of nations speak aloud"
II,II,HECTOR,"To have her back return'd: thus to persist"
II,II,HECTOR,"In doing wrong extenuates not wrong,"
II,II,HECTOR,"But makes it much more heavy. Hector's opinion"
II,II,HECTOR,"Is this in way of truth; yet ne'ertheless,"
II,II,HECTOR,"My spritely brethren, I propend to you"
II,II,HECTOR,"In resolution to keep Helen still,"
II,II,HECTOR,"For 'tis a cause that hath no mean dependance"
II,II,HECTOR,"Upon our joint and several dignities."
II,II,TROILUS,"Why, there you touch'd the life of our design:"
II,II,TROILUS,"Were it not glory that we more affected"
II,II,TROILUS,"Than the performance of our heaving spleens,"
II,II,TROILUS,"I would not wish a drop of Trojan blood"
II,II,TROILUS,"Spent more in her defence. But, worthy Hector,"
II,II,TROILUS,"She is a theme of honour and renown,"
II,II,TROILUS,"A spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds,"
II,II,TROILUS,"Whose present courage may beat down our foes,"
II,II,TROILUS,"And fame in time to come canonize us;"
II,II,TROILUS,"For, I presume, brave Hector would not lose"
II,II,TROILUS,"So rich advantage of a promised glory"
II,II,TROILUS,"As smiles upon the forehead of this action"
II,II,TROILUS,"For the wide world's revenue."
II,II,HECTOR,"I am yours,"
II,II,HECTOR,"You valiant offspring of great Priamus."
II,II,HECTOR,"I have a roisting challenge sent amongst"
II,II,HECTOR,"The dun and factious nobles of the Greeks"
II,II,HECTOR,"Will strike amazement to their drowsy spirits:"
II,II,HECTOR,"I was advertised their great general slept,"
II,II,HECTOR,"Whilst emulation in the army crept:"
II,II,HECTOR,"This, I presume, will wake him."
II,III,THERSITES,"How now, Thersites! what lost in the labyrinth of"
II,III,THERSITES,"thy fury! Shall the elephant Ajax carry it thus? He"
II,III,THERSITES,"beats me, and I rail at him: O, worthy satisfaction!"
II,III,THERSITES,"would it were otherwise; that I could beat him,"
II,III,THERSITES,"whilst he railed at me. 'Sfoot, I'll learn to"
II,III,THERSITES,"conjure and raise devils, but I'll see some issue of"
II,III,THERSITES,"my spiteful execrations. Then there's Achilles, a"
II,III,THERSITES,"rare enginer! If Troy be not taken till these two"
II,III,THERSITES,"undermine it, the walls will stand till they fall of"
II,III,THERSITES,"themselves. O thou great thunder-darter of Olympus,"
II,III,THERSITES,"forget that thou art Jove, the king of gods and,"
II,III,THERSITES,"Mercury, lose all the serpentine craft of thy"
II,III,THERSITES,"caduceus, if ye take not that little, little less"
II,III,THERSITES,"than little wit from them that they have! which"
II,III,THERSITES,"short-armed ignorance itself knows is so abundant"
II,III,THERSITES,"scarce, it will not in circumvention deliver a fly"
II,III,THERSITES,"from a spider, without drawing their massy irons and"
II,III,THERSITES,"cutting the web. After this, the vengeance on the"
II,III,THERSITES,"whole camp! or rather, the bone-ache! for that,"
II,III,THERSITES,"methinks, is the curse dependent on those that war"
II,III,THERSITES,"for a placket. I have said my prayers and devil Envy"
II,III,THERSITES,"say Amen. What ho! my Lord Achilles!"
II,III,PATROCLUS,"Who's there? Thersites! Good Thersites, come in and rail."
II,III,THERSITES,"If I could have remembered a gilt counterfeit, thou"
II,III,THERSITES,"wouldst not have slipped out of my contemplation: but"
II,III,THERSITES,"it is no matter; thyself upon thyself! The common"
II,III,THERSITES,"curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in"
II,III,THERSITES,"great revenue! heaven bless thee from a tutor, and"
II,III,THERSITES,"discipline come not near thee! Let thy blood be thy"
II,III,THERSITES,"direction till thy death! then if she that lays thee"
II,III,THERSITES,"out says thou art a fair corse, I'll be sworn and"
II,III,THERSITES,"sworn upon't she never shrouded any but lazars."
II,III,THERSITES,"Amen. Where's Achilles?"
II,III,PATROCLUS,"What, art thou devout? wast thou in prayer?"
II,III,THERSITES,"Ay: the heavens hear me!"
II,III,ACHILLES,"Who's there?"
II,III,PATROCLUS,"Thersites, my lord."
II,III,ACHILLES,"Where, where? Art thou come? why, my cheese, my"
II,III,ACHILLES,"digestion, why hast thou not served thyself in to"
II,III,ACHILLES,"my table so many meals? Come, what's Agamemnon?"
II,III,THERSITES,"Thy commander, Achilles. Then tell me, Patroclus,"
II,III,THERSITES,"what's Achilles?"
II,III,PATROCLUS,"Thy lord, Thersites: then tell me, I pray thee,"
II,III,PATROCLUS,"what's thyself?"
II,III,THERSITES,"Thy knower, Patroclus: then tell me, Patroclus,"
II,III,THERSITES,"what art thou?"
II,III,PATROCLUS,"Thou mayst tell that knowest."
II,III,ACHILLES,"O, tell, tell."
II,III,THERSITES,"I'll decline the whole question. Agamemnon commands"
II,III,THERSITES,"Achilles; Achilles is my lord; I am Patroclus'"
II,III,THERSITES,"knower, and Patroclus is a fool."
II,III,PATROCLUS,"You rascal!"
II,III,THERSITES,"Peace, fool! I have not done."
II,III,ACHILLES,"He is a privileged man. Proceed, Thersites."
II,III,THERSITES,"Agamemnon is a fool; Achilles is a fool; Thersites"
II,III,THERSITES,"is a fool, and, as aforesaid, Patroclus is a fool."
II,III,ACHILLES,"Derive this; come."
II,III,THERSITES,"Agamemnon is a fool to offer to command Achilles;"
II,III,THERSITES,"Achilles is a fool to be commanded of Agamemnon;"
II,III,THERSITES,"Thersites is a fool to serve such a fool, and"
II,III,THERSITES,"Patroclus is a fool positive."
II,III,PATROCLUS,"Why am I a fool?"
II,III,THERSITES,"Make that demand of the prover. It suffices me thou"
II,III,THERSITES,"art. Look you, who comes here?"
II,III,ACHILLES,"Patroclus, I'll speak with nobody."
II,III,ACHILLES,"Come in with me, Thersites."
II,III,THERSITES,"Here is such patchery, such juggling and such"
II,III,THERSITES,"knavery! all the argument is a cuckold and a"
II,III,THERSITES,"whore; a good quarrel to draw emulous factions"
II,III,THERSITES,"and bleed to death upon. Now, the dry serpigo on"
II,III,THERSITES,"the subject! and war and lechery confound all!"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Where is Achilles?"
II,III,PATROCLUS,"Within his tent; but ill disposed, my lord."
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Let it be known to him that we are here."
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"He shent our messengers; and we lay by"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Our appertainments, visiting of him:"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Let him be told so; lest perchance he think"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"We dare not move the question of our place,"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Or know not what we are."
II,III,PATROCLUS,"I shall say so to him."
II,III,ULYSSES,"We saw him at the opening of his tent:"
II,III,ULYSSES,"He is not sick."
II,III,AJAX,"Yes, lion-sick, sick of proud heart: you may call it"
II,III,AJAX,"melancholy, if you will favour the man; but, by my"
II,III,AJAX,"head, 'tis pride: but why, why? let him show us the"
II,III,AJAX,"cause. A word, my lord."
II,III,NESTOR,"What moves Ajax thus to bay at him?"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Achilles hath inveigled his fool from him."
II,III,NESTOR,"Who, Thersites?"
II,III,ULYSSES,"He."
II,III,NESTOR,"Then will Ajax lack matter, if he have lost his argument."
II,III,ULYSSES,"No, you see, he is his argument that has his"
II,III,ULYSSES,"argument, Achilles."
II,III,NESTOR,"All the better; their fraction is more our wish than"
II,III,NESTOR,"their faction: but it was a strong composure a fool"
II,III,NESTOR,"could disunite."
II,III,ULYSSES,"The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily"
II,III,ULYSSES,"untie. Here comes Patroclus."
II,III,NESTOR,"No Achilles with him."
II,III,ULYSSES,"The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy:"
II,III,ULYSSES,"his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure."
II,III,PATROCLUS,"Achilles bids me say, he is much sorry,"
II,III,PATROCLUS,"If any thing more than your sport and pleasure"
II,III,PATROCLUS,"Did move your greatness and this noble state"
II,III,PATROCLUS,"To call upon him; he hopes it is no other"
II,III,PATROCLUS,"But for your health and your digestion sake,"
II,III,PATROCLUS,"And after-dinner's breath."
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Hear you, Patroclus:"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"We are too well acquainted with these answers:"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"But his evasion, wing'd thus swift with scorn,"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Cannot outfly our apprehensions."
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Much attribute he hath, and much the reason"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Why we ascribe it to him; yet all his virtues,"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Not virtuously on his own part beheld,"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Do in our eyes begin to lose their gloss,"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish,"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Are like to rot untasted. Go and tell him,"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"We come to speak with him; and you shall not sin,"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"If you do say we think him over-proud"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"And under-honest, in self-assumption greater"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Than in the note of judgment; and worthier"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"than himself"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Here tend the savage strangeness he puts on,"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Disguise the holy strength of their command,"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"And underwrite in an observing kind"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"His humorous predominance; yea, watch"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"His pettish lunes, his ebbs, his flows, as if"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"The passage and whole carriage of this action"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Rode on his tide. Go tell him this, and add,"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"That if he overhold his price so much,"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"We'll none of him; but let him, like an engine"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Not portable, lie under this report:"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"'Bring action hither, this cannot go to war:"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"A stirring dwarf we do allowance give"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Before a sleeping giant.' Tell him so."
II,III,PATROCLUS,"I shall; and bring his answer presently."
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"In second voice we'll not be satisfied;"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"We come to speak with him. Ulysses, enter you."
II,III,AJAX,"What is he more than another?"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"No more than what he thinks he is."
II,III,AJAX,"Is he so much? Do you not think he thinks himself a"
II,III,AJAX,"better man than I am?"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"No question."
II,III,AJAX,"Will you subscribe his thought, and say he is?"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"No, noble Ajax; you are as strong, as valiant, as"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"wise, no less noble, much more gentle, and altogether"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"more tractable."
II,III,AJAX,"Why should a man be proud? How doth pride grow? I"
II,III,AJAX,"know not what pride is."
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Your mind is the clearer, Ajax, and your virtues the"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"fairer. He that is proud eats up himself: pride is"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle;"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"the deed in the praise."
II,III,AJAX,"I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads."
II,III,NESTOR,"Yet he loves himself: is't not strange?"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Achilles will not to the field to-morrow."
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"What's his excuse?"
II,III,ULYSSES,"He doth rely on none,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"But carries on the stream of his dispose"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Without observance or respect of any,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"In will peculiar and in self-admission."
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Why will he not upon our fair request"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Untent his person and share the air with us?"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Things small as nothing, for request's sake only,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"He makes important: possess'd he is with greatness,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"And speaks not to himself but with a pride"
II,III,ULYSSES,"That quarrels at self-breath: imagined worth"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Holds in his blood such swoln and hot discourse"
II,III,ULYSSES,"That 'twixt his mental and his active parts"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages"
II,III,ULYSSES,"And batters down himself: what should I say?"
II,III,ULYSSES,"He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Cry 'No recovery.'"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Let Ajax go to him."
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Dear lord, go you and greet him in his tent:"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"'Tis said he holds you well, and will be led"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"At your request a little from himself."
II,III,ULYSSES,"O Agamemnon, let it not be so!"
II,III,ULYSSES,"We'll consecrate the steps that Ajax makes"
II,III,ULYSSES,"When they go from Achilles: shall the proud lord"
II,III,ULYSSES,"That bastes his arrogance with his own seam"
II,III,ULYSSES,"And never suffers matter of the world"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Enter his thoughts, save such as do revolve"
II,III,ULYSSES,"And ruminate himself, shall he be worshipp'd"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Of that we hold an idol more than he?"
II,III,ULYSSES,"No, this thrice worthy and right valiant lord"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Must not so stale his palm, nobly acquired;"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Nor, by my will, assubjugate his merit,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"As amply titled as Achilles is,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"By going to Achilles:"
II,III,ULYSSES,"That were to enlard his fat already pride"
II,III,ULYSSES,"And add more coals to Cancer when he burns"
II,III,ULYSSES,"With entertaining great Hyperion."
II,III,ULYSSES,"This lord go to him! Jupiter forbid,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"And say in thunder 'Achilles go to him.'"
II,III,NESTOR,"vein of him."
II,III,DIOMEDES,"this applause!"
II,III,AJAX,"If I go to him, with my armed fist I'll pash him o'er the face."
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"O, no, you shall not go."
II,III,AJAX,"An a' be proud with me, I'll pheeze his pride:"
II,III,AJAX,"Let me go to him."
II,III,ULYSSES,"Not for the worth that hangs upon our quarrel."
II,III,AJAX,"A paltry, insolent fellow!"
II,III,NESTOR,"How he describes himself!"
II,III,AJAX,"Can he not be sociable?"
II,III,ULYSSES,"The raven chides blackness."
II,III,AJAX,"I'll let his humours blood."
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"He will be the physician that should be the patient."
II,III,AJAX,"An all men were o' my mind,--"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Wit would be out of fashion."
II,III,AJAX,"A' should not bear it so, a' should eat swords first:"
II,III,AJAX,"shall pride carry it?"
II,III,NESTOR,"An 'twould, you'ld carry half."
II,III,ULYSSES,"A' would have ten shares."
II,III,AJAX,"I will knead him; I'll make him supple."
II,III,NESTOR,"He's not yet through warm: force him with praises:"
II,III,NESTOR,"pour in, pour in; his ambition is dry."
II,III,NESTOR,"Our noble general, do not do so."
II,III,DIOMEDES,"You must prepare to fight without Achilles."
II,III,ULYSSES,"Why, 'tis this naming of him does him harm."
II,III,ULYSSES,"Here is a man--but 'tis before his face;"
II,III,ULYSSES,"I will be silent."
II,III,NESTOR,"Wherefore should you so?"
II,III,NESTOR,"He is not emulous, as Achilles is."
II,III,ULYSSES,"Know the whole world, he is as valiant."
II,III,AJAX,"A whoreson dog, that shall pelter thus with us!"
II,III,AJAX,"Would he were a Trojan!"
II,III,NESTOR,"What a vice were it in Ajax now,--"
II,III,ULYSSES,"If he were proud,--"
II,III,DIOMEDES,"Or covetous of praise,--"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Ay, or surly borne,--"
II,III,DIOMEDES,"Or strange, or self-affected!"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Thank the heavens, lord, thou art of sweet composure;"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Praise him that got thee, she that gave thee suck:"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Famed be thy tutor, and thy parts of nature"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Thrice famed, beyond all erudition:"
II,III,ULYSSES,"But he that disciplined thy arms to fight,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Let Mars divide eternity in twain,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"And give him half: and, for thy vigour,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Bull-bearing Milo his addition yield"
II,III,ULYSSES,"To sinewy Ajax. I will not praise thy wisdom,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Which, like a bourn, a pale, a shore, confines"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Thy spacious and dilated parts: here's Nestor;"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Instructed by the antiquary times,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"He must, he is, he cannot but be wise:"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Put pardon, father Nestor, were your days"
II,III,ULYSSES,"As green as Ajax' and your brain so temper'd,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"You should not have the eminence of him,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"But be as Ajax."
II,III,AJAX,"Shall I call you father?"
II,III,NESTOR,"Ay, my good son."
II,III,DIOMEDES,"Be ruled by him, Lord Ajax."
II,III,ULYSSES,"There is no tarrying here; the hart Achilles"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Keeps thicket. Please it our great general"
II,III,ULYSSES,"To call together all his state of war;"
II,III,ULYSSES,"Fresh kings are come to Troy: to-morrow"
II,III,ULYSSES,"We must with all our main of power stand fast:"
II,III,ULYSSES,"And here's a lord,--come knights from east to west,"
II,III,ULYSSES,"And cull their flower, Ajax shall cope the best."
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Go we to council. Let Achilles sleep:"
II,III,AGAMEMNON,"Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Friend, you! pray you, a word: do not you follow"
III,I,PANDARUS,"the young Lord Paris?"
III,I,Servant,"Ay, sir, when he goes before me."
III,I,PANDARUS,"You depend upon him, I mean?"
III,I,Servant,"Sir, I do depend upon the lord."
III,I,PANDARUS,"You depend upon a noble gentleman; I must needs"
III,I,PANDARUS,"praise him."
III,I,Servant,"The lord be praised!"
III,I,PANDARUS,"You know me, do you not?"
III,I,Servant,"Faith, sir, superficially."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Friend, know me better; I am the Lord Pandarus."
III,I,Servant,"I hope I shall know your honour better."
III,I,PANDARUS,"I do desire it."
III,I,Servant,"You are in the state of grace."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Grace! not so, friend: honour and lordship are my titles."
III,I,PANDARUS,"What music is this?"
III,I,Servant,"I do but partly know, sir: it is music in parts."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Know you the musicians?"
III,I,Servant,"Wholly, sir."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Who play they to?"
III,I,Servant,"To the hearers, sir."
III,I,PANDARUS,"At whose pleasure, friend"
III,I,Servant,"At mine, sir, and theirs that love music."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Command, I mean, friend."
III,I,Servant,"Who shall I command, sir?"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Friend, we understand not one another: I am too"
III,I,PANDARUS,"courtly and thou art too cunning. At whose request"
III,I,PANDARUS,"do these men play?"
III,I,Servant,"That's to 't indeed, sir: marry, sir, at the request"
III,I,Servant,"of Paris my lord, who's there in person; with him,"
III,I,Servant,"the mortal Venus, the heart-blood of beauty, love's"
III,I,Servant,"invisible soul,--"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Who, my cousin Cressida?"
III,I,Servant,"No, sir, Helen: could you not find out that by her"
III,I,Servant,"attributes?"
III,I,PANDARUS,"It should seem, fellow, that thou hast not seen the"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Lady Cressida. I come to speak with Paris from the"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Prince Troilus: I will make a complimental assault"
III,I,PANDARUS,"upon him, for my business seethes."
III,I,Servant,"Sodden business! there's a stewed phrase indeed!"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Fair be to you, my lord, and to all this fair"
III,I,PANDARUS,"company! fair desires, in all fair measure,"
III,I,PANDARUS,"fairly guide them! especially to you, fair queen!"
III,I,PANDARUS,"fair thoughts be your fair pillow!"
III,I,HELEN,"Dear lord, you are full of fair words."
III,I,PANDARUS,"You speak your fair pleasure, sweet queen. Fair"
III,I,PANDARUS,"prince, here is good broken music."
III,I,PARIS,"You have broke it, cousin: and, by my life, you"
III,I,PARIS,"shall make it whole again; you shall piece it out"
III,I,PARIS,"with a piece of your performance. Nell, he is full"
III,I,PARIS,"of harmony."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Truly, lady, no."
III,I,HELEN,"O, sir,--"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Rude, in sooth; in good sooth, very rude."
III,I,PARIS,"Well said, my lord! well, you say so in fits."
III,I,PANDARUS,"I have business to my lord, dear queen. My lord,"
III,I,PANDARUS,"will you vouchsafe me a word?"
III,I,HELEN,"Nay, this shall not hedge us out: we'll hear you"
III,I,HELEN,"sing, certainly."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Well, sweet queen. you are pleasant with me. But,"
III,I,PANDARUS,"marry, thus, my lord: my dear lord and most esteemed"
III,I,PANDARUS,"friend, your brother Troilus,--"
III,I,HELEN,"My Lord Pandarus; honey-sweet lord,--"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Go to, sweet queen, to go:--commends himself most"
III,I,PANDARUS,"affectionately to you,--"
III,I,HELEN,"You shall not bob us out of our melody: if you do,"
III,I,HELEN,"our melancholy upon your head!"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Sweet queen, sweet queen! that's a sweet queen, i' faith."
III,I,HELEN,"And to make a sweet lady sad is a sour offence."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Nay, that shall not serve your turn; that shall not,"
III,I,PANDARUS,"in truth, la. Nay, I care not for such words; no,"
III,I,PANDARUS,"no. And, my lord, he desires you, that if the king"
III,I,PANDARUS,"call for him at supper, you will make his excuse."
III,I,HELEN,"My Lord Pandarus,--"
III,I,PANDARUS,"What says my sweet queen, my very very sweet queen?"
III,I,PARIS,"What exploit's in hand? where sups he to-night?"
III,I,HELEN,"Nay, but, my lord,--"
III,I,PANDARUS,"What says my sweet queen? My cousin will fall out"
III,I,PANDARUS,"with you. You must not know where he sups."
III,I,PARIS,"I'll lay my life, with my disposer Cressida."
III,I,PANDARUS,"No, no, no such matter; you are wide: come, your"
III,I,PANDARUS,"disposer is sick."
III,I,PARIS,"Well, I'll make excuse."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Ay, good my lord. Why should you say Cressida? no,"
III,I,PANDARUS,"your poor disposer's sick."
III,I,PARIS,"I spy."
III,I,PANDARUS,"You spy! what do you spy? Come, give me an"
III,I,PANDARUS,"instrument. Now, sweet queen."
III,I,HELEN,"Why, this is kindly done."
III,I,PANDARUS,"My niece is horribly in love with a thing you have,"
III,I,PANDARUS,"sweet queen."
III,I,HELEN,"She shall have it, my lord, if it be not my lord Paris."
III,I,PANDARUS,"He! no, she'll none of him; they two are twain."
III,I,HELEN,"Falling in, after falling out, may make them three."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Come, come, I'll hear no more of this; I'll sing"
III,I,PANDARUS,"you a song now."
III,I,HELEN,"Ay, ay, prithee now. By my troth, sweet lord, thou"
III,I,HELEN,"hast a fine forehead."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Ay, you may, you may."
III,I,HELEN,"Let thy song be love: this love will undo us all."
III,I,HELEN,"O Cupid, Cupid, Cupid!"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Love! ay, that it shall, i' faith."
III,I,PARIS,"Ay, good now, love, love, nothing but love."
III,I,PANDARUS,"In good troth, it begins so."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Love, love, nothing but love, still more!"
III,I,PANDARUS,"For, O, love's bow"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Shoots buck and doe:"
III,I,PANDARUS,"The shaft confounds,"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Not that it wounds,"
III,I,PANDARUS,"But tickles still the sore."
III,I,PANDARUS,"These lovers cry Oh! oh! they die!"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Yet that which seems the wound to kill,"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Doth turn oh! oh! to ha! ha! he!"
III,I,PANDARUS,"So dying love lives still:"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Oh! oh! a while, but ha! ha! ha!"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Oh! oh! groans out for ha! ha! ha!"
III,I,PANDARUS,"Heigh-ho!"
III,I,HELEN,"In love, i' faith, to the very tip of the nose."
III,I,PARIS,"He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot"
III,I,PARIS,"blood, and hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot"
III,I,PARIS,"thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Is this the generation of love? hot blood, hot"
III,I,PANDARUS,"thoughts, and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers:"
III,I,PANDARUS,"is love a generation of vipers? Sweet lord, who's"
III,I,PANDARUS,"a-field to-day?"
III,I,PARIS,"Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and all the"
III,I,PARIS,"gallantry of Troy: I  would fain have armed to-day,"
III,I,PARIS,"but my Nell would not have it so. How chance my"
III,I,PARIS,"brother Troilus went not?"
III,I,HELEN,"He hangs the lip at something: you know all, Lord Pandarus."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Not I, honey-sweet queen. I long to hear how they"
III,I,PANDARUS,"sped to-day. You'll remember your brother's excuse?"
III,I,PARIS,"To a hair."
III,I,PANDARUS,"Farewell, sweet queen."
III,I,HELEN,"Commend me to your niece."
III,I,PANDARUS,"I will, sweet queen."
III,I,PARIS,"They're come from field: let us to Priam's hall,"
III,I,PARIS,"To greet the warriors. Sweet Helen, I must woo you"
III,I,PARIS,"To help unarm our Hector: his stubborn buckles,"
III,I,PARIS,"With these your white enchanting fingers touch'd,"
III,I,PARIS,"Shall more obey than to the edge of steel"
III,I,PARIS,"Or force of Greekish sinews; you shall do more"
III,I,PARIS,"Than all the island kings,--disarm great Hector."
III,I,HELEN,"'Twill make us proud to be his servant, Paris;"
III,I,HELEN,"Yea, what he shall receive of us in duty"
III,I,HELEN,"Gives us more palm in beauty than we have,"
III,I,HELEN,"Yea, overshines ourself."
III,I,PARIS,"Sweet, above thought I love thee."
III,II,PANDARUS,"How now! where's thy master? at my cousin"
III,II,PANDARUS,"Cressida's?"
III,II,Boy,"No, sir; he stays for you to conduct him thither."
III,II,PANDARUS,"O, here he comes."
III,II,PANDARUS,"How now, how now!"
III,II,TROILUS,"Sirrah, walk off."
III,II,PANDARUS,"Have you seen my cousin?"
III,II,TROILUS,"No, Pandarus: I stalk about her door,"
III,II,TROILUS,"Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks"
III,II,TROILUS,"Staying for waftage. O, be thou my Charon,"
III,II,TROILUS,"And give me swift transportance to those fields"
III,II,TROILUS,"Where I may wallow in the lily-beds"
III,II,TROILUS,"Proposed for the deserver! O gentle Pandarus,"
III,II,TROILUS,"From Cupid's shoulder pluck his painted wings"
III,II,TROILUS,"And fly with me to Cressid!"
III,II,PANDARUS,"Walk here i' the orchard, I'll bring her straight."
III,II,TROILUS,"I am giddy; expectation whirls me round."
III,II,TROILUS,"The imaginary relish is so sweet"
III,II,TROILUS,"That it enchants my sense: what will it be,"
III,II,TROILUS,"When that the watery palate tastes indeed"
III,II,TROILUS,"Love's thrice repured nectar? death, I fear me,"
III,II,TROILUS,"Swooning destruction, or some joy too fine,"
III,II,TROILUS,"Too subtle-potent, tuned too sharp in sweetness,"
III,II,TROILUS,"For the capacity of my ruder powers:"
III,II,TROILUS,"I fear it much; and I do fear besides,"
III,II,TROILUS,"That I shall lose distinction in my joys;"
III,II,TROILUS,"As doth a battle, when they charge on heaps"
III,II,TROILUS,"The enemy flying."
III,II,PANDARUS,"She's making her ready, she'll come straight: you"
III,II,PANDARUS,"must be witty now. She does so blush, and fetches"
III,II,PANDARUS,"her wind so short, as if she were frayed with a"
III,II,PANDARUS,"sprite: I'll fetch her. It is the prettiest"
III,II,PANDARUS,"villain: she fetches her breath as short as a"
III,II,PANDARUS,"new-ta'en sparrow."
III,II,TROILUS,"Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom:"
III,II,TROILUS,"My heart beats thicker than a feverous pulse;"
III,II,TROILUS,"And all my powers do their bestowing lose,"
III,II,TROILUS,"Like vassalage at unawares encountering"
III,II,TROILUS,"The eye of majesty."
III,II,PANDARUS,"Come, come, what need you blush? shame's a baby."
III,II,PANDARUS,"Here she is now: swear the oaths now to her that"
III,II,PANDARUS,"you have sworn to me. What, are you gone again?"
III,II,PANDARUS,"you must be watched ere you be made tame, must you?"
III,II,PANDARUS,"Come your ways, come your ways; an you draw backward,"
III,II,PANDARUS,"we'll put you i' the fills. Why do you not speak to"
III,II,PANDARUS,"her? Come, draw this curtain, and let's see your"
III,II,PANDARUS,"picture. Alas the day, how loath you are to offend"
III,II,PANDARUS,"daylight! an 'twere dark, you'ld close sooner."
III,II,PANDARUS,"So, so; rub on, and kiss the mistress. How now!"
III,II,PANDARUS,"a kiss in fee-farm! build there, carpenter; the air"
III,II,PANDARUS,"is sweet. Nay, you shall fight your hearts out ere"
III,II,PANDARUS,"I part you. The falcon as the tercel, for all the"
III,II,PANDARUS,"ducks i' the river: go to, go to."
III,II,TROILUS,"You have bereft me of all words, lady."
III,II,PANDARUS,"Words pay no debts, give her deeds: but she'll"
III,II,PANDARUS,"bereave you o' the deeds too, if she call your"
III,II,PANDARUS,"activity in question. What, billing again? Here's"
III,II,PANDARUS,"'In witness whereof the parties interchangeably'--"
III,II,PANDARUS,"Come in, come in: I'll go get a fire."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Will you walk in, my lord?"
III,II,TROILUS,"O Cressida, how often have I wished me thus!"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Wished, my lord! The gods grant,--O my lord!"
III,II,TROILUS,"What should they grant? what makes this pretty"
III,II,TROILUS,"abruption? What too curious dreg espies my sweet"
III,II,TROILUS,"lady in the fountain of our love?"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"More dregs than water, if my fears have eyes."
III,II,TROILUS,"Fears make devils of cherubims; they never see truly."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"fear the worst oft cures the worse."
III,II,TROILUS,"O, let my lady apprehend no fear: in all Cupid's"
III,II,TROILUS,"pageant there is presented no monster."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Nor nothing monstrous neither?"
III,II,TROILUS,"Nothing, but our undertakings; when we vow to weep"
III,II,TROILUS,"seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers; thinking"
III,II,TROILUS,"it harder for our mistress to devise imposition"
III,II,TROILUS,"enough than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed."
III,II,TROILUS,"This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will"
III,II,TROILUS,"is infinite and the execution confined, that the"
III,II,TROILUS,"desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"They say all lovers swear more performance than they"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"are able and yet reserve an ability that they never"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"perform, vowing more than the perfection of ten and"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"discharging less than the tenth part of one. They"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"that have the voice of lions and the act of hares,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"are they not monsters?"
III,II,TROILUS,"Are there such? such are not we: praise us as we"
III,II,TROILUS,"are tasted, allow us as we prove; our head shall go"
III,II,TROILUS,"bare till merit crown it: no perfection in reversion"
III,II,TROILUS,"shall have a praise in present: we will not name"
III,II,TROILUS,"desert before his birth, and, being born, his addition"
III,II,TROILUS,"shall be humble. Few words to fair faith: Troilus"
III,II,TROILUS,"shall be such to Cressid as what envy can say worst"
III,II,TROILUS,"shall be a mock for his truth, and what truth can"
III,II,TROILUS,"speak truest not truer than Troilus."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Will you walk in, my lord?"
III,II,PANDARUS,"What, blushing still? have you not done talking yet?"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Well, uncle, what folly I commit, I dedicate to you."
III,II,PANDARUS,"I thank you for that: if my lord get a boy of you,"
III,II,PANDARUS,"you'll give him me. Be true to my lord: if he"
III,II,PANDARUS,"flinch, chide me for it."
III,II,TROILUS,"You know now your hostages; your uncle's word and my"
III,II,TROILUS,"firm faith."
III,II,PANDARUS,"Nay, I'll give my word for her too: our kindred,"
III,II,PANDARUS,"though they be long ere they are wooed, they are"
III,II,PANDARUS,"constant being won: they are burs, I can tell you;"
III,II,PANDARUS,"they'll stick where they are thrown."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Prince Troilus, I have loved you night and day"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"For many weary months."
III,II,TROILUS,"Why was my Cressid then so hard to win?"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Hard to seem won: but I was won, my lord,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"With the first glance that ever--pardon me--"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"If I confess much, you will play the tyrant."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"I love you now; but not, till now, so much"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"But I might master it: in faith, I lie;"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Too headstrong for their mother. See, we fools!"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Why have I blabb'd? who shall be true to us,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"When we are so unsecret to ourselves?"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"But, though I loved you well, I woo'd you not;"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"And yet, good faith, I wish'd myself a man,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Or that we women had men's privilege"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Of speaking first. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"For in this rapture I shall surely speak"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"The thing I shall repent. See, see, your silence,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"My very soul of counsel! stop my mouth."
III,II,TROILUS,"And shall, albeit sweet music issues thence."
III,II,PANDARUS,"Pretty, i' faith."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"My lord, I do beseech you, pardon me;"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"'Twas not my purpose, thus to beg a kiss:"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"I am ashamed. O heavens! what have I done?"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"For this time will I take my leave, my lord."
III,II,TROILUS,"Your leave, sweet Cressid!"
III,II,PANDARUS,"Leave! an you take leave till to-morrow morning,--"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Pray you, content you."
III,II,TROILUS,"What offends you, lady?"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Sir, mine own company."
III,II,TROILUS,"You cannot shun Yourself."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Let me go and try:"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"I have a kind of self resides with you;"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"But an unkind self, that itself will leave,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"To be another's fool. I would be gone:"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Where is my wit? I know not what I speak."
III,II,TROILUS,"Well know they what they speak that speak so wisely."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Perchance, my lord, I show more craft than love;"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"And fell so roundly to a large confession,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"To angle for your thoughts: but you are wise,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Or else you love not, for to be wise and love"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above."
III,II,TROILUS,"O that I thought it could be in a woman--"
III,II,TROILUS,"As, if it can, I will presume in you--"
III,II,TROILUS,"To feed for aye her ramp and flames of love;"
III,II,TROILUS,"To keep her constancy in plight and youth,"
III,II,TROILUS,"Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind"
III,II,TROILUS,"That doth renew swifter than blood decays!"
III,II,TROILUS,"Or that persuasion could but thus convince me,"
III,II,TROILUS,"That my integrity and truth to you"
III,II,TROILUS,"Might be affronted with the match and weight"
III,II,TROILUS,"Of such a winnow'd purity in love;"
III,II,TROILUS,"How were I then uplifted! but, alas!"
III,II,TROILUS,"I am as true as truth's simplicity"
III,II,TROILUS,"And simpler than the infancy of truth."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"In that I'll war with you."
III,II,TROILUS,"O virtuous fight,"
III,II,TROILUS,"When right with right wars who shall be most right!"
III,II,TROILUS,"True swains in love shall in the world to come"
III,II,TROILUS,"Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rhymes,"
III,II,TROILUS,"Full of protest, of oath and big compare,"
III,II,TROILUS,"Want similes, truth tired with iteration,"
III,II,TROILUS,"As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,"
III,II,TROILUS,"As sun to day, as turtle to her mate,"
III,II,TROILUS,"As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre,"
III,II,TROILUS,"Yet, after all comparisons of truth,"
III,II,TROILUS,"As truth's authentic author to be cited,"
III,II,TROILUS,"'As true as Troilus' shall crown up the verse,"
III,II,TROILUS,"And sanctify the numbers."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Prophet may you be!"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"When time is old and hath forgot itself,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"And blind oblivion swallow'd cities up,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"And mighty states characterless are grated"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"To dusty nothing, yet let memory,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"From false to false, among false maids in love,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Upbraid my falsehood! when they've said 'as false"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"As air, as water, wind, or sandy earth,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son,'"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"'Yea,' let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood,"
III,II,CRESSIDA,"'As false as Cressid.'"
III,II,PANDARUS,"Go to, a bargain made: seal it, seal it; I'll be the"
III,II,PANDARUS,"witness. Here I hold your hand, here my cousin's."
III,II,PANDARUS,"If ever you prove false one to another, since I have"
III,II,PANDARUS,"taken such pains to bring you together, let all"
III,II,PANDARUS,"pitiful goers-between be called to the world's end"
III,II,PANDARUS,"after my name; call them all Pandars; let all"
III,II,PANDARUS,"constant men be Troiluses, all false women Cressids,"
III,II,PANDARUS,"and all brokers-between Pandars! say, amen."
III,II,TROILUS,"Amen."
III,II,CRESSIDA,"Amen."
III,II,PANDARUS,"Amen. Whereupon I will show you a chamber with a"
III,II,PANDARUS,"bed; which bed, because it shall not speak of your"
III,II,PANDARUS,"pretty encounters, press it to death: away!"
III,II,PANDARUS,"And Cupid grant all tongue-tied maidens here"
III,II,PANDARUS,"Bed, chamber, Pandar to provide this gear!"
III,III,CALCHAS,"Now, princes, for the service I have done you,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"The advantage of the time prompts me aloud"
III,III,CALCHAS,"To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind"
III,III,CALCHAS,"That, through the sight I bear in things to love,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"I have abandon'd Troy, left my possession,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"Incurr'd a traitor's name; exposed myself,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"From certain and possess'd conveniences,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"To doubtful fortunes; sequestering from me all"
III,III,CALCHAS,"That time, acquaintance, custom and condition"
III,III,CALCHAS,"Made tame and most familiar to my nature,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"And here, to do you service, am become"
III,III,CALCHAS,"As new into the world, strange, unacquainted:"
III,III,CALCHAS,"I do beseech you, as in way of taste,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"To give me now a little benefit,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"Out of those many register'd in promise,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"Which, you say, live to come in my behalf."
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"What wouldst thou of us, Trojan? make demand."
III,III,CALCHAS,"You have a Trojan prisoner, call'd Antenor,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"Yesterday took: Troy holds him very dear."
III,III,CALCHAS,"Oft have you--often have you thanks therefore--"
III,III,CALCHAS,"Desired my Cressid in right great exchange,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"Whom Troy hath still denied: but this Antenor,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"I know, is such a wrest in their affairs"
III,III,CALCHAS,"That their negotiations all must slack,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"Wanting his manage; and they will almost"
III,III,CALCHAS,"Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"In change of him: let him be sent, great princes,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"And he shall buy my daughter; and her presence"
III,III,CALCHAS,"Shall quite strike off all service I have done,"
III,III,CALCHAS,"In most accepted pain."
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"Let Diomedes bear him,"
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"And bring us Cressid hither: Calchas shall have"
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"What he requests of us. Good Diomed,"
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"Furnish you fairly for this interchange:"
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"Withal bring word if Hector will to-morrow"
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"Be answer'd in his challenge: Ajax is ready."
III,III,DIOMEDES,"This shall I undertake; and 'tis a burden"
III,III,DIOMEDES,"Which I am proud to bear."
III,III,ULYSSES,"Achilles stands i' the entrance of his tent:"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Please it our general to pass strangely by him,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"As if he were forgot; and, princes all,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Lay negligent and loose regard upon him:"
III,III,ULYSSES,"I will come last. 'Tis like he'll question me"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Why such unplausive eyes are bent on him:"
III,III,ULYSSES,"If so, I have derision medicinable,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"To use between your strangeness and his pride,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Which his own will shall have desire to drink:"
III,III,ULYSSES,"It may be good: pride hath no other glass"
III,III,ULYSSES,"To show itself but pride, for supple knees"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees."
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"We'll execute your purpose, and put on"
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"A form of strangeness as we pass along:"
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"So do each lord, and either greet him not,"
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"Or else disdainfully, which shall shake him more"
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"Than if not look'd on. I will lead the way."
III,III,ACHILLES,"What, comes the general to speak with me?"
III,III,ACHILLES,"You know my mind, I'll fight no more 'gainst Troy."
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"What says Achilles? would he aught with us?"
III,III,NESTOR,"Would you, my lord, aught with the general?"
III,III,ACHILLES,"No."
III,III,NESTOR,"Nothing, my lord."
III,III,AGAMEMNON,"The better."
III,III,ACHILLES,"Good day, good day."
III,III,MENELAUS,"How do you? how do you?"
III,III,ACHILLES,"What, does the cuckold scorn me?"
III,III,AJAX,"How now, Patroclus!"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Good morrow, Ajax."
III,III,AJAX,"Ha?"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Good morrow."
III,III,AJAX,"Ay, and good next day too."
III,III,ACHILLES,"What mean these fellows? Know they not Achilles?"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"They pass by strangely: they were used to bend"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"To send their smiles before them to Achilles;"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"To come as humbly as they used to creep"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"To holy altars."
III,III,ACHILLES,"What, am I poor of late?"
III,III,ACHILLES,"'Tis certain, greatness, once fall'n out with fortune,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Must fall out with men too: what the declined is"
III,III,ACHILLES,"He shall as soon read in the eyes of others"
III,III,ACHILLES,"As feel in his own fall; for men, like butterflies,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Show not their mealy wings but to the summer,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"And not a man, for being simply man,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Hath any honour, but honour for those honours"
III,III,ACHILLES,"That are without him, as place, riches, favour,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Prizes of accident as oft as merit:"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Which when they fall, as being slippery standers,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"The love that lean'd on them as slippery too,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Do one pluck down another and together"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Die in the fall. But 'tis not so with me:"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Fortune and I are friends: I do enjoy"
III,III,ACHILLES,"At ample point all that I did possess,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Save these men's looks; who do, methinks, find out"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Something not worth in me such rich beholding"
III,III,ACHILLES,"As they have often given. Here is Ulysses;"
III,III,ACHILLES,"I'll interrupt his reading."
III,III,ACHILLES,"How now Ulysses!"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Now, great Thetis' son!"
III,III,ACHILLES,"What are you reading?"
III,III,ULYSSES,"A strange fellow here"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Writes me: 'That man, how dearly ever parted,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"How much in having, or without or in,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Cannot make boast to have that which he hath,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Nor feels not what he owes, but by reflection;"
III,III,ULYSSES,"As when his virtues shining upon others"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Heat them and they retort that heat again"
III,III,ULYSSES,"To the first giver.'"
III,III,ACHILLES,"This is not strange, Ulysses."
III,III,ACHILLES,"The beauty that is borne here in the face"
III,III,ACHILLES,"The bearer knows not, but commends itself"
III,III,ACHILLES,"To others' eyes; nor doth the eye itself,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"That most pure spirit of sense, behold itself,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Not going from itself; but eye to eye opposed"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Salutes each other with each other's form;"
III,III,ACHILLES,"For speculation turns not to itself,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Till it hath travell'd and is mirror'd there"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Where it may see itself. This is not strange at all."
III,III,ULYSSES,"I do not strain at the position,--"
III,III,ULYSSES,"It is familiar,--but at the author's drift;"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Who, in his circumstance, expressly proves"
III,III,ULYSSES,"That no man is the lord of any thing,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Though in and of him there be much consisting,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Till he communicate his parts to others:"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Nor doth he of himself know them for aught"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Till he behold them form'd in the applause"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Where they're extended; who, like an arch,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"reverberates"
III,III,ULYSSES,"The voice again, or, like a gate of steel"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Fronting the sun, receives and renders back"
III,III,ULYSSES,"His figure and his heat.  I was much wrapt in this;"
III,III,ULYSSES,"And apprehended here immediately"
III,III,ULYSSES,"The unknown Ajax."
III,III,ULYSSES,"Heavens, what a man is there! a very horse,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"That has he knows not what. Nature, what things there are"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Most abject in regard and dear in use!"
III,III,ULYSSES,"What things again most dear in the esteem"
III,III,ULYSSES,"And poor in worth! Now shall we see to-morrow--"
III,III,ULYSSES,"An act that very chance doth throw upon him--"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Ajax renown'd. O heavens, what some men do,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"While some men leave to do!"
III,III,ULYSSES,"How some men creep in skittish fortune's hall,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes!"
III,III,ULYSSES,"How one man eats into another's pride,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"While pride is fasting in his wantonness!"
III,III,ULYSSES,"To see these Grecian lords!--why, even already"
III,III,ULYSSES,"They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"As if his foot were on brave Hector's breast"
III,III,ULYSSES,"And great Troy shrieking."
III,III,ACHILLES,"I do believe it; for they pass'd by me"
III,III,ACHILLES,"As misers do by beggars, neither gave to me"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Good word nor look: what, are my deeds forgot?"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd"
III,III,ULYSSES,"As fast as they are made, forgot as soon"
III,III,ULYSSES,"As done: perseverance, dear my lord,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail"
III,III,ULYSSES,"In monumental mockery. Take the instant way;"
III,III,ULYSSES,"For honour travels in a strait so narrow,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path;"
III,III,ULYSSES,"For emulation hath a thousand sons"
III,III,ULYSSES,"That one by one pursue: if you give way,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Or hedge aside from the direct forthright,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by"
III,III,ULYSSES,"And leave you hindmost;"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Or like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Lie there for pavement to the abject rear,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours;"
III,III,ULYSSES,"For time is like a fashionable host"
III,III,ULYSSES,"That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not"
III,III,ULYSSES,"virtue seek"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Remuneration for the thing it was;"
III,III,ULYSSES,"For beauty, wit,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all"
III,III,ULYSSES,"To envious and calumniating time."
III,III,ULYSSES,"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"That all with one consent praise new-born gawds,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Though they are made and moulded of things past,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"And give to dust that is a little gilt"
III,III,ULYSSES,"More laud than gilt o'er-dusted."
III,III,ULYSSES,"The present eye praises the present object."
III,III,ULYSSES,"Then marvel not, thou great and complete man,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax;"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Since things in motion sooner catch the eye"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Than what not stirs. The cry went once on thee,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"And still it might, and yet it may again,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"If thou wouldst not entomb thyself alive"
III,III,ULYSSES,"And case thy reputation in thy tent;"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves"
III,III,ULYSSES,"And drave great Mars to faction."
III,III,ACHILLES,"Of this my privacy"
III,III,ACHILLES,"I have strong reasons."
III,III,ULYSSES,"But 'gainst your privacy"
III,III,ULYSSES,"The reasons are more potent and heroical:"
III,III,ULYSSES,"'Tis known, Achilles, that you are in love"
III,III,ULYSSES,"With one of Priam's daughters."
III,III,ACHILLES,"Ha! known!"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Is that a wonder?"
III,III,ULYSSES,"The providence that's in a watchful state"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Keeps place with thought and almost, like the gods,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles."
III,III,ULYSSES,"There is a mystery--with whom relation"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Durst never meddle--in the soul of state;"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Which hath an operation more divine"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Than breath or pen can give expressure to:"
III,III,ULYSSES,"All the commerce that you have had with Troy"
III,III,ULYSSES,"As perfectly is ours as yours, my lord;"
III,III,ULYSSES,"And better would it fit Achilles much"
III,III,ULYSSES,"To throw down Hector than Polyxena:"
III,III,ULYSSES,"But it must grieve young Pyrrhus now at home,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"When fame shall in our islands sound her trump,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"And all the Greekish girls shall tripping sing,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"'Great Hector's sister did Achilles win,"
III,III,ULYSSES,"But our great Ajax bravely beat down him.'"
III,III,ULYSSES,"Farewell, my lord: I as your lover speak;"
III,III,ULYSSES,"The fool slides o'er the ice that you should break."
III,III,PATROCLUS,"To this effect, Achilles, have I moved you:"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"A woman impudent and mannish grown"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Is not more loathed than an effeminate man"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"In time of action. I stand condemn'd for this;"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"They think my little stomach to the war"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"And your great love to me restrains you thus:"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Sweet, rouse yourself; and the weak wanton Cupid"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold,"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane,"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Be shook to air."
III,III,ACHILLES,"Shall Ajax fight with Hector?"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Ay, and perhaps receive much honour by him."
III,III,ACHILLES,"I see my reputation is at stake"
III,III,ACHILLES,"My fame is shrewdly gored."
III,III,PATROCLUS,"O, then, beware;"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves:"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Omission to do what is necessary"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Seals a commission to a blank of danger;"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"And danger, like an ague, subtly taints"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Even then when we sit idly in the sun."
III,III,ACHILLES,"Go call Thersites hither, sweet Patroclus:"
III,III,ACHILLES,"I'll send the fool to Ajax and desire him"
III,III,ACHILLES,"To invite the Trojan lords after the combat"
III,III,ACHILLES,"To see us here unarm'd: I have a woman's longing,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"An appetite that I am sick withal,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"To see great Hector in his weeds of peace,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"To talk with him and to behold his visage,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"Even to my full of view."
III,III,ACHILLES,"A labour saved!"
III,III,THERSITES,"A wonder!"
III,III,ACHILLES,"What?"
III,III,THERSITES,"Ajax goes up and down the field, asking for himself."
III,III,ACHILLES,"How so?"
III,III,THERSITES,"He must fight singly to-morrow with Hector, and is so"
III,III,THERSITES,"prophetically proud of an heroical cudgelling that he"
III,III,THERSITES,"raves in saying nothing."
III,III,ACHILLES,"How can that be?"
III,III,THERSITES,"Why, he stalks up and down like a peacock,--a stride"
III,III,THERSITES,"and a stand: ruminates like an hostess that hath no"
III,III,THERSITES,"arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning:"
III,III,THERSITES,"bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should"
III,III,THERSITES,"say 'There were wit in this head, an 'twould out;'"
III,III,THERSITES,"and so there is, but it lies as coldly in him as fire"
III,III,THERSITES,"in a flint, which will not show without knocking."
III,III,THERSITES,"The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not his"
III,III,THERSITES,"neck i' the combat, he'll break 't himself in"
III,III,THERSITES,"vain-glory. He knows not me: I said 'Good morrow,"
III,III,THERSITES,"Ajax;' and he replies 'Thanks, Agamemnon.' What think"
III,III,THERSITES,"you of this man that takes me for the general? He's"
III,III,THERSITES,"grown a very land-fish, language-less, a monster."
III,III,THERSITES,"A plague of opinion! a man may wear it on both"
III,III,THERSITES,"sides, like a leather jerkin."
III,III,ACHILLES,"Thou must be my ambassador to him, Thersites."
III,III,THERSITES,"Who, I? why, he'll answer nobody; he professes not"
III,III,THERSITES,"answering: speaking is for beggars; he wears his"
III,III,THERSITES,"tongue in's arms. I will put on his presence: let"
III,III,THERSITES,"Patroclus make demands to me, you shall see the"
III,III,THERSITES,"pageant of Ajax."
III,III,ACHILLES,"To him, Patroclus; tell him I humbly desire the"
III,III,ACHILLES,"valiant Ajax to invite the most valorous Hector"
III,III,ACHILLES,"to come unarmed to my tent, and to procure"
III,III,ACHILLES,"safe-conduct for his person of the magnanimous"
III,III,ACHILLES,"and most illustrious six-or-seven-times-honoured"
III,III,ACHILLES,"captain-general of the Grecian army, Agamemnon,"
III,III,ACHILLES,"et cetera. Do this."
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Jove bless great Ajax!"
III,III,THERSITES,"Hum!"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"I come from the worthy Achilles,--"
III,III,THERSITES,"Ha!"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Who most humbly desires you to invite Hector to his tent,--"
III,III,THERSITES,"Hum!"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"And to procure safe-conduct from Agamemnon."
III,III,THERSITES,"Agamemnon!"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Ay, my lord."
III,III,THERSITES,"Ha!"
III,III,PATROCLUS,"What say you to't?"
III,III,THERSITES,"God b' wi' you, with all my heart."
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Your answer, sir."
III,III,THERSITES,"If to-morrow be a fair day, by eleven o'clock it will"
III,III,THERSITES,"go one way or other: howsoever, he shall pay for me"
III,III,THERSITES,"ere he has me."
III,III,PATROCLUS,"Your answer, sir."
III,III,THERSITES,"Fare you well, with all my heart."
III,III,ACHILLES,"Why, but he is not in this tune, is he?"
III,III,THERSITES,"No, but he's out o' tune thus. What music will be in"
III,III,THERSITES,"him when Hector has knocked out his brains, I know"
III,III,THERSITES,"not; but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo"
III,III,THERSITES,"get his sinews to make catlings on."
III,III,ACHILLES,"Come, thou shalt bear a letter to him straight."
III,III,THERSITES,"Let me bear another to his horse; for that's the more"
III,III,THERSITES,"capable creature."
III,III,ACHILLES,"My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd;"
III,III,ACHILLES,"And I myself see not the bottom of it."
III,III,THERSITES,"Would the fountain of your mind were clear again,"
III,III,THERSITES,"that I might water an ass at it! I had rather be a"
III,III,THERSITES,"tick in a sheep than such a valiant ignorance."
IV,I,PARIS,"See, ho! who is that there?"
IV,I,DEIPHOBUS,"It is the Lord AEneas."
IV,I,AENEAS,"Is the prince there in person?"
IV,I,AENEAS,"Had I so good occasion to lie long"
IV,I,AENEAS,"As you, prince Paris, nothing but heavenly business"
IV,I,AENEAS,"Should rob my bed-mate of my company."
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"That's my mind too. Good morrow, Lord AEneas."
IV,I,PARIS,"A valiant Greek, AEneas,--take his hand,--"
IV,I,PARIS,"Witness the process of your speech, wherein"
IV,I,PARIS,"You told how Diomed, a whole week by days,"
IV,I,PARIS,"Did haunt you in the field."
IV,I,AENEAS,"Health to you, valiant sir,"
IV,I,AENEAS,"During all question of the gentle truce;"
IV,I,AENEAS,"But when I meet you arm'd, as black defiance"
IV,I,AENEAS,"As heart can think or courage execute."
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"The one and other Diomed embraces."
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"Our bloods are now in calm; and, so long, health!"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"But when contention and occasion meet,"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"By Jove, I'll play the hunter for thy life"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"With all my force, pursuit and policy."
IV,I,AENEAS,"And thou shalt hunt a lion, that will fly"
IV,I,AENEAS,"With his face backward. In humane gentleness,"
IV,I,AENEAS,"Welcome to Troy! now, by Anchises' life,"
IV,I,AENEAS,"Welcome, indeed! By Venus' hand I swear,"
IV,I,AENEAS,"No man alive can love in such a sort"
IV,I,AENEAS,"The thing he means to kill more excellently."
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"We sympathize: Jove, let AEneas live,"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"If to my sword his fate be not the glory,"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"A thousand complete courses of the sun!"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"But, in mine emulous honour, let him die,"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"With every joint a wound, and that to-morrow!"
IV,I,AENEAS,"We know each other well."
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"We do; and long to know each other worse."
IV,I,PARIS,"This is the most despiteful gentle greeting,"
IV,I,PARIS,"The noblest hateful love, that e'er I heard of."
IV,I,PARIS,"What business, lord, so early?"
IV,I,AENEAS,"I was sent for to the king; but why, I know not."
IV,I,PARIS,"His purpose meets you: 'twas to bring this Greek"
IV,I,PARIS,"To Calchas' house, and there to render him,"
IV,I,PARIS,"For the enfreed Antenor, the fair Cressid:"
IV,I,PARIS,"Let's have your company, or, if you please,"
IV,I,PARIS,"Haste there before us: I constantly do think--"
IV,I,PARIS,"Or rather, call my thought a certain knowledge--"
IV,I,PARIS,"My brother Troilus lodges there to-night:"
IV,I,PARIS,"Rouse him and give him note of our approach."
IV,I,PARIS,"With the whole quality wherefore: I fear"
IV,I,PARIS,"We shall be much unwelcome."
IV,I,AENEAS,"That I assure you:"
IV,I,AENEAS,"Troilus had rather Troy were borne to Greece"
IV,I,AENEAS,"Than Cressid borne from Troy."
IV,I,PARIS,"There is no help;"
IV,I,PARIS,"The bitter disposition of the time"
IV,I,PARIS,"Will have it so. On, lord; we'll follow you."
IV,I,AENEAS,"Good morrow, all."
IV,I,PARIS,"And tell me, noble Diomed, faith, tell me true,"
IV,I,PARIS,"Even in the soul of sound good-fellowship,"
IV,I,PARIS,"Who, in your thoughts, merits fair Helen best,"
IV,I,PARIS,"Myself or Menelaus?"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"Both alike:"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"He merits well to have her, that doth seek her,"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"Not making any scruple of her soilure,"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"With such a hell of pain and world of charge,"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"And you as well to keep her, that defend her,"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"Not palating the taste of her dishonour,"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"With such a costly loss of wealth and friends:"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"He, like a puling cuckold, would drink up"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"The lees and dregs of a flat tamed piece;"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"Are pleased to breed out your inheritors:"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"Both merits poised, each weighs nor less nor more;"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"But he as he, the heavier for a whore."
IV,I,PARIS,"You are too bitter to your countrywoman."
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"She's bitter to her country: hear me, Paris:"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"For every false drop in her bawdy veins"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"A Grecian's life hath sunk; for every scruple"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"Of her contaminated carrion weight,"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"A Trojan hath been slain: since she could speak,"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"She hath not given so many good words breath"
IV,I,DIOMEDES,"As for her Greeks and Trojans suffer'd death."
IV,I,PARIS,"Fair Diomed, you do as chapmen do,"
IV,I,PARIS,"Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy:"
IV,I,PARIS,"But we in silence hold this virtue well,"
IV,I,PARIS,"We'll but commend what we intend to sell."
IV,I,PARIS,"Here lies our way."
IV,II,TROILUS,"Dear, trouble not yourself: the morn is cold."
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Then, sweet my lord, I'll call mine uncle down;"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"He shall unbolt the gates."
IV,II,TROILUS,"Trouble him not;"
IV,II,TROILUS,"To bed, to bed: sleep kill those pretty eyes,"
IV,II,TROILUS,"And give as soft attachment to thy senses"
IV,II,TROILUS,"As infants' empty of all thought!"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Good morrow, then."
IV,II,TROILUS,"I prithee now, to bed."
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Are you a-weary of me?"
IV,II,TROILUS,"O Cressida! but that the busy day,"
IV,II,TROILUS,"Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows,"
IV,II,TROILUS,"And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer,"
IV,II,TROILUS,"I would not from thee."
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Night hath been too brief."
IV,II,TROILUS,"Beshrew the witch! with venomous wights she stays"
IV,II,TROILUS,"As tediously as hell, but flies the grasps of love"
IV,II,TROILUS,"With wings more momentary-swift than thought."
IV,II,TROILUS,"You will catch cold, and curse me."
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Prithee, tarry:"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"You men will never tarry."
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"O foolish Cressid! I might have still held off,"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"And then you would have tarried. Hark!"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"there's one up."
IV,II,TROILUS,"It is your uncle."
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"A pestilence on him! now will he be mocking:"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"I shall have such a life!"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"How now, how now! how go maidenheads? Here, you"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"maid! where's my cousin Cressid?"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"You bring me to do, and then you flout me too."
IV,II,PANDARUS,"To do what? to do what? let her say"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"what: what have I brought you to do?"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Come, come, beshrew your heart! you'll ne'er be good,"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Nor suffer others."
IV,II,PANDARUS,"Ha! ha! Alas, poor wretch! ah, poor capocchia!"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"hast not slept to-night? would he not, a naughty"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"man, let it sleep? a bugbear take him!"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Did not I tell you? Would he were knock'd i' the head!"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Who's that at door? good uncle, go and see."
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"My lord, come you again into my chamber:"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"You smile and mock me, as if I meant naughtily."
IV,II,TROILUS,"Ha, ha!"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Come, you are deceived, I think of no such thing."
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"How earnestly they knock! Pray you, come in:"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"I would not for half Troy have you seen here."
IV,II,PANDARUS,"Who's there? what's the matter? will you beat"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"down the door? How now! what's the matter?"
IV,II,AENEAS,"Good morrow, lord, good morrow."
IV,II,PANDARUS,"Who's there? my Lord AEneas! By my troth,"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"I knew you not: what news with you so early?"
IV,II,AENEAS,"Is not Prince Troilus here?"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"Here! what should he do here?"
IV,II,AENEAS,"Come, he is here, my lord; do not deny him:"
IV,II,AENEAS,"It doth import him much to speak with me."
IV,II,PANDARUS,"Is he here, say you? 'tis more than I know, I'll"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"be sworn: for my own part, I came in late. What"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"should he do here?"
IV,II,AENEAS,"Who!--nay, then: come, come, you'll do him wrong"
IV,II,AENEAS,"ere you're ware: you'll be so true to him, to be"
IV,II,AENEAS,"false to him: do not you know of him, but yet go"
IV,II,AENEAS,"fetch him hither; go."
IV,II,TROILUS,"How now! what's the matter?"
IV,II,AENEAS,"My lord, I scarce have leisure to salute you,"
IV,II,AENEAS,"My matter is so rash: there is at hand"
IV,II,AENEAS,"Paris your brother, and Deiphobus,"
IV,II,AENEAS,"The Grecian Diomed, and our Antenor"
IV,II,AENEAS,"Deliver'd to us; and for him forthwith,"
IV,II,AENEAS,"Ere the first sacrifice, within this hour,"
IV,II,AENEAS,"We must give up to Diomedes' hand"
IV,II,AENEAS,"The Lady Cressida."
IV,II,TROILUS,"Is it so concluded?"
IV,II,AENEAS,"By Priam and the general state of Troy:"
IV,II,AENEAS,"They are at hand and ready to effect it."
IV,II,TROILUS,"How my achievements mock me!"
IV,II,TROILUS,"I will go meet them: and, my Lord AEneas,"
IV,II,TROILUS,"We met by chance; you did not find me here."
IV,II,AENEAS,"Good, good, my lord; the secrets of nature"
IV,II,AENEAS,"Have not more gift in taciturnity."
IV,II,PANDARUS,"Is't possible? no sooner got but lost? The devil"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"take Antenor! the young prince will go mad: a"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"plague upon Antenor! I would they had broke 's neck!"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"How now! what's the matter? who was here?"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"Ah, ah!"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Why sigh you so profoundly? where's my lord? gone!"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Tell me, sweet uncle, what's the matter?"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"Would I were as deep under the earth as I am above!"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"O the gods! what's the matter?"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"Prithee, get thee in: would thou hadst ne'er been"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"born! I knew thou wouldst be his death. O, poor"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"gentleman! A plague upon Antenor!"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Good uncle, I beseech you, on my knees! beseech you,"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"what's the matter?"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"Thou must be gone, wench, thou must be gone; thou"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"art changed for Antenor: thou must to thy father,"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"and be gone from Troilus: 'twill be his death;"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"'twill be his bane; he cannot bear it."
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"O you immortal gods! I will not go."
IV,II,PANDARUS,"Thou must."
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"I will not, uncle: I have forgot my father;"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"I know no touch of consanguinity;"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"No kin no love, no blood, no soul so near me"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"As the sweet Troilus. O you gods divine!"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Make Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood,"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"If ever she leave Troilus! Time, force, and death,"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Do to this body what extremes you can;"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"But the strong base and building of my love"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Is as the very centre of the earth,"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Drawing all things to it. I'll go in and weep,--"
IV,II,PANDARUS,"Do, do."
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Tear my bright hair and scratch my praised cheeks,"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"Crack my clear voice with sobs and break my heart"
IV,II,CRESSIDA,"With sounding Troilus. I will not go from Troy."
IV,III,PARIS,"It is great morning, and the hour prefix'd"
IV,III,PARIS,"Of her delivery to this valiant Greek"
IV,III,PARIS,"Comes fast upon. Good my brother Troilus,"
IV,III,PARIS,"Tell you the lady what she is to do,"
IV,III,PARIS,"And haste her to the purpose."
IV,III,TROILUS,"Walk into her house;"
IV,III,TROILUS,"I'll bring her to the Grecian presently:"
IV,III,TROILUS,"And to his hand when I deliver her,"
IV,III,TROILUS,"Think it an altar, and thy brother Troilus"
IV,III,TROILUS,"A priest there offering to it his own heart."
IV,III,PARIS,"I know what 'tis to love;"
IV,III,PARIS,"And would, as I shall pity, I could help!"
IV,III,PARIS,"Please you walk in, my lords."
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"Be moderate, be moderate."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"Why tell you me of moderation?"
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,"
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"And violenteth in a sense as strong"
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"As that which causeth it: how can I moderate it?"
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"If I could temporize with my affection,"
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"Or brew it to a weak and colder palate,"
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"The like allayment could I give my grief."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"My love admits no qualifying dross;"
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"No more my grief, in such a precious loss."
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"Here, here, here he comes."
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"Ah, sweet ducks!"
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"O Troilus! Troilus!"
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"What a pair of spectacles is here!"
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"Let me embrace too. 'O heart,' as the goodly saying is,"
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"'--O heart, heavy heart,"
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"Why sigh'st thou without breaking?"
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"where he answers again,"
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"'Because thou canst not ease thy smart"
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"By friendship nor by speaking.'"
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"There was never a truer rhyme. Let us cast away"
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"nothing, for we may live to have need of such a"
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"verse: we see it, we see it. How now, lambs?"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Cressid, I love thee in so strain'd a purity,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"That the bless'd gods, as angry with my fancy,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"More bright in zeal than the devotion which"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Cold lips blow to their deities, take thee from me."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"Have the gods envy?"
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"Ay, ay, ay, ay; 'tis too plain a case."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"And is it true that I must go from Troy?"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"A hateful truth."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"What, and from Troilus too?"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"From Troy and Troilus."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"Is it possible?"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"And suddenly; where injury of chance"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Our lock'd embrasures, strangles our dear vows"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Even in the birth of our own labouring breath:"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"We two, that with so many thousand sighs"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Did buy each other, must poorly sell ourselves"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"With the rude brevity and discharge of one."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Injurious time now with a robber's haste"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how:"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"As many farewells as be stars in heaven,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"He fumbles up into a lose adieu,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"And scants us with a single famish'd kiss,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Distasted with the salt of broken tears."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Hark! you are call'd: some say the Genius so"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Cries 'come' to him that instantly must die."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Bid them have patience; she shall come anon."
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"Where are my tears? rain, to lay this wind, or"
IV,IV,PANDARUS,"my heart will be blown up by the root."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"I must then to the Grecians?"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"No remedy."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"A woful Cressid 'mongst the merry Greeks!"
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"When shall we see again?"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Hear me, my love: be thou but true of heart,--"
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"I true! how now! what wicked deem is this?"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Nay, we must use expostulation kindly,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"For it is parting from us:"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"I speak not 'be thou true,' as fearing thee,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"For I will throw my glove to Death himself,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"That there's no maculation in thy heart:"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"But 'be thou true,' say I, to fashion in"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"My sequent protestation; be thou true,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"And I will see thee."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"O, you shall be exposed, my lord, to dangers"
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"As infinite as imminent! but I'll be true."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"And I'll grow friend with danger. Wear this sleeve."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"And you this glove. When shall I see you?"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"I will corrupt the Grecian sentinels,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"To give thee nightly visitation."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"But yet be true."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"O heavens! 'be true' again!"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Hear while I speak it, love:"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"The Grecian youths are full of quality;"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"They're loving, well composed with gifts of nature,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Flowing and swelling o'er with arts and exercise:"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"How novelty may move, and parts with person,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Alas, a kind of godly jealousy--"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Which, I beseech you, call a virtuous sin--"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Makes me afeard."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"O heavens! you love me not."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Die I a villain, then!"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"In this I do not call your faith in question"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"So mainly as my merit: I cannot sing,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Nor heel the high lavolt, nor sweeten talk,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Nor play at subtle games; fair virtues all,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"To which the Grecians are most prompt and pregnant:"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"But I can tell that in each grace of these"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"There lurks a still and dumb-discoursive devil"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"That tempts most cunningly: but be not tempted."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"Do you think I will?"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"No."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"But something may be done that we will not:"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"And sometimes we are devils to ourselves,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Presuming on their changeful potency."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Come, kiss; and let us part."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Good brother, come you hither;"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"And bring AEneas and the Grecian with you."
IV,IV,CRESSIDA,"My lord, will you be true?"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Who, I? alas, it is my vice, my fault:"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"I with great truth catch mere simplicity;"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Is 'plain and true;' there's all the reach of it."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Welcome, Sir Diomed! here is the lady"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Which for Antenor we deliver you:"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"At the port, lord, I'll give her to thy hand,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"And by the way possess thee what she is."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Entreat her fair; and, by my soul, fair Greek,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"If e'er thou stand at mercy of my sword,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Name Cressida and thy life shall be as safe"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"As Priam is in Ilion."
IV,IV,DIOMEDES,"Fair Lady Cressid,"
IV,IV,DIOMEDES,"So please you, save the thanks this prince expects:"
IV,IV,DIOMEDES,"The lustre in your eye, heaven in your cheek,"
IV,IV,DIOMEDES,"Pleads your fair usage; and to Diomed"
IV,IV,DIOMEDES,"You shall be mistress, and command him wholly."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Grecian, thou dost not use me courteously,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"To shame the zeal of my petition to thee"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"In praising her: I tell thee, lord of Greece,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"She is as far high-soaring o'er thy praises"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"As thou unworthy to be call'd her servant."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"I charge thee use her well, even for my charge;"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"For, by the dreadful Pluto, if thou dost not,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Though the great bulk Achilles be thy guard,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"I'll cut thy throat."
IV,IV,DIOMEDES,"O, be not moved, Prince Troilus:"
IV,IV,DIOMEDES,"Let me be privileged by my place and message,"
IV,IV,DIOMEDES,"To be a speaker free; when I am hence"
IV,IV,DIOMEDES,"I'll answer to my lust: and know you, lord,"
IV,IV,DIOMEDES,"I'll nothing do on charge: to her own worth"
IV,IV,DIOMEDES,"She shall be prized; but that you say 'be't so,'"
IV,IV,DIOMEDES,"I'll speak it in my spirit and honour, 'no.'"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Come, to the port. I'll tell thee, Diomed,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"This brave shall oft make thee to hide thy head."
IV,IV,TROILUS,"Lady, give me your hand, and, as we walk,"
IV,IV,TROILUS,"To our own selves bend we our needful talk."
IV,IV,PARIS,"Hark! Hector's trumpet."
IV,IV,AENEAS,"How have we spent this morning!"
IV,IV,AENEAS,"The prince must think me tardy and remiss,"
IV,IV,AENEAS,"That sore to ride before him to the field."
IV,IV,PARIS,"'Tis Troilus' fault: come, come, to field with him."
IV,IV,DEIPHOBUS,"Let us make ready straight."
IV,IV,AENEAS,"Yea, with a bridegroom's fresh alacrity,"
IV,IV,AENEAS,"Let us address to tend on Hector's heels:"
IV,IV,AENEAS,"The glory of our Troy doth this day lie"
IV,IV,AENEAS,"On his fair worth and single chivalry."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair,"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Anticipating time with starting courage."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy,"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Thou dreadful Ajax; that the appalled air"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"May pierce the head of the great combatant"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"And hale him hither."
IV,V,AJAX,"Thou, trumpet, there's my purse."
IV,V,AJAX,"Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe:"
IV,V,AJAX,"Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek"
IV,V,AJAX,"Outswell the colic of puff'd Aquilon:"
IV,V,AJAX,"Come, stretch thy chest and let thy eyes spout blood;"
IV,V,AJAX,"Thou blow'st for Hector."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"No trumpet answers."
IV,V,ACHILLES,"'Tis but early days."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Is not yond Diomed, with Calchas' daughter?"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait;"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"He rises on the toe: that spirit of his"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"In aspiration lifts him from the earth."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Is this the Lady Cressid?"
IV,V,DIOMEDES,"Even she."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Most dearly welcome to the Greeks, sweet lady."
IV,V,NESTOR,"Our general doth salute you with a kiss."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Yet is the kindness but particular;"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"'Twere better she were kiss'd in general."
IV,V,NESTOR,"And very courtly counsel: I'll begin."
IV,V,NESTOR,"So much for Nestor."
IV,V,ACHILLES,"I'll take what winter from your lips, fair lady:"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"Achilles bids you welcome."
IV,V,MENELAUS,"I had good argument for kissing once."
IV,V,PATROCLUS,"But that's no argument for kissing now;"
IV,V,PATROCLUS,"For this popp'd Paris in his hardiment,"
IV,V,PATROCLUS,"And parted thus you and your argument."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"O deadly gall, and theme of all our scorns!"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"For which we lose our heads to gild his horns."
IV,V,PATROCLUS,"The first was Menelaus' kiss; this, mine:"
IV,V,PATROCLUS,"Patroclus kisses you."
IV,V,MENELAUS,"O, this is trim!"
IV,V,PATROCLUS,"Paris and I kiss evermore for him."
IV,V,MENELAUS,"I'll have my kiss, sir. Lady, by your leave."
IV,V,CRESSIDA,"In kissing, do you render or receive?"
IV,V,PATROCLUS,"Both take and give."
IV,V,CRESSIDA,"I'll make my match to live,"
IV,V,CRESSIDA,"The kiss you take is better than you give;"
IV,V,CRESSIDA,"Therefore no kiss."
IV,V,MENELAUS,"I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one."
IV,V,CRESSIDA,"You're an odd man; give even or give none."
IV,V,MENELAUS,"An odd man, lady! every man is odd."
IV,V,CRESSIDA,"No, Paris is not; for you know 'tis true,"
IV,V,CRESSIDA,"That you are odd, and he is even with you."
IV,V,MENELAUS,"You fillip me o' the head."
IV,V,CRESSIDA,"No, I'll be sworn."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"It were no match, your nail against his horn."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"May I, sweet lady, beg a kiss of you?"
IV,V,CRESSIDA,"You may."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"I do desire it."
IV,V,CRESSIDA,"Why, beg, then."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Why then for Venus' sake, give me a kiss,"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"When Helen is a maid again, and his."
IV,V,CRESSIDA,"I am your debtor, claim it when 'tis due."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Never's my day, and then a kiss of you."
IV,V,DIOMEDES,"Lady, a word: I'll bring you to your father."
IV,V,NESTOR,"A woman of quick sense."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Fie, fie upon her!"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"At every joint and motive of her body."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue,"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"That give accosting welcome ere it comes,"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"To every ticklish reader! set them down"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"For sluttish spoils of opportunity"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"And daughters of the game."
IV,V,ALL,"The Trojans' trumpet."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Yonder comes the troop."
IV,V,AENEAS,"Hail, all you state of Greece! what shall be done"
IV,V,AENEAS,"To him that victory commands? or do you purpose"
IV,V,AENEAS,"A victor shall be known? will you the knights"
IV,V,AENEAS,"Shall to the edge of all extremity"
IV,V,AENEAS,"Pursue each other, or shall be divided"
IV,V,AENEAS,"By any voice or order of the field?"
IV,V,AENEAS,"Hector bade ask."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Which way would Hector have it?"
IV,V,AENEAS,"He cares not; he'll obey conditions."
IV,V,ACHILLES,"'Tis done like Hector; but securely done,"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"A little proudly, and great deal misprizing"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"The knight opposed."
IV,V,AENEAS,"If not Achilles, sir,"
IV,V,AENEAS,"What is your name?"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"If not Achilles, nothing."
IV,V,AENEAS,"Therefore Achilles: but, whate'er, know this:"
IV,V,AENEAS,"In the extremity of great and little,"
IV,V,AENEAS,"Valour and pride excel themselves in Hector;"
IV,V,AENEAS,"The one almost as infinite as all,"
IV,V,AENEAS,"The other blank as nothing. Weigh him well,"
IV,V,AENEAS,"And that which looks like pride is courtesy."
IV,V,AENEAS,"This Ajax is half made of Hector's blood:"
IV,V,AENEAS,"In love whereof, half Hector stays at home;"
IV,V,AENEAS,"Half heart, half hand, half Hector comes to seek"
IV,V,AENEAS,"This blended knight, half Trojan and half Greek."
IV,V,ACHILLES,"A maiden battle, then? O, I perceive you."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Here is Sir Diomed. Go, gentle knight,"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Stand by our Ajax: as you and Lord AEneas"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Consent upon the order of their fight,"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"So be it; either to the uttermost,"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Or else a breath: the combatants being kin"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Half stints their strife before their strokes begin."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"They are opposed already."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"What Trojan is that same that looks so heavy?"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"The youngest son of Priam, a true knight,"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Not yet mature, yet matchless, firm of word,"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Speaking in deeds and deedless in his tongue;"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Not soon provoked nor being provoked soon calm'd:"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"His heart and hand both open and both free;"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows;"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty,"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Nor dignifies an impure thought with breath;"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Manly as Hector, but more dangerous;"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"For Hector in his blaze of wrath subscribes"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"To tender objects, but he in heat of action"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Is more vindicative than jealous love:"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"They call him Troilus, and on him erect"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"A second hope, as fairly built as Hector."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Thus says AEneas; one that knows the youth"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Even to his inches, and with private soul"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Did in great Ilion thus translate him to me."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"They are in action."
IV,V,NESTOR,"Now, Ajax, hold thine own!"
IV,V,TROILUS,"Hector, thou sleep'st;"
IV,V,TROILUS,"Awake thee!"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"His blows are well disposed: there, Ajax!"
IV,V,DIOMEDES,"You must no more."
IV,V,AENEAS,"Princes, enough, so please you."
IV,V,AJAX,"I am not warm yet; let us fight again."
IV,V,DIOMEDES,"As Hector pleases."
IV,V,HECTOR,"Why, then will I no more:"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"A cousin-german to great Priam's seed;"
IV,V,HECTOR,"The obligation of our blood forbids"
IV,V,HECTOR,"A gory emulation 'twixt us twain:"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Were thy commixtion Greek and Trojan so"
IV,V,HECTOR,"That thou couldst say 'This hand is Grecian all,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"And this is Trojan; the sinews of this leg"
IV,V,HECTOR,"All Greek, and this all Troy; my mother's blood"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Bounds in my father's;' by Jove multipotent,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Thou shouldst not bear from me a Greekish member"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Wherein my sword had not impressure made"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Of our rank feud: but the just gods gainsay"
IV,V,HECTOR,"That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Be drain'd! Let me embrace thee, Ajax:"
IV,V,HECTOR,"By him that thunders, thou hast lusty arms;"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Hector would have them fall upon him thus:"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Cousin, all honour to thee!"
IV,V,AJAX,"I thank thee, Hector"
IV,V,AJAX,"Thou art too gentle and too free a man:"
IV,V,AJAX,"I came to kill thee, cousin, and bear hence"
IV,V,AJAX,"A great addition earned in thy death."
IV,V,HECTOR,"Not Neoptolemus so mirable,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"On whose bright crest Fame with her loud'st Oyes"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Cries 'This is he,' could promise to himself"
IV,V,HECTOR,"A thought of added honour torn from Hector."
IV,V,AENEAS,"There is expectance here from both the sides,"
IV,V,AENEAS,"What further you will do."
IV,V,HECTOR,"We'll answer it;"
IV,V,HECTOR,"The issue is embracement: Ajax, farewell."
IV,V,AJAX,"If I might in entreaties find success--"
IV,V,AJAX,"As seld I have the chance--I would desire"
IV,V,AJAX,"My famous cousin to our Grecian tents."
IV,V,DIOMEDES,"'Tis Agamemnon's wish, and great Achilles"
IV,V,DIOMEDES,"Doth long to see unarm'd the valiant Hector."
IV,V,HECTOR,"AEneas, call my brother Troilus to me,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"And signify this loving interview"
IV,V,HECTOR,"To the expecters of our Trojan part;"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Desire them home. Give me thy hand, my cousin;"
IV,V,HECTOR,"I will go eat with thee and see your knights."
IV,V,AJAX,"Great Agamemnon comes to meet us here."
IV,V,HECTOR,"The worthiest of them tell me name by name;"
IV,V,HECTOR,"But for Achilles, mine own searching eyes"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Shall find him by his large and portly size."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Worthy of arms! as welcome as to one"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"That would be rid of such an enemy;"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"But that's no welcome: understand more clear,"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"And formless ruin of oblivion;"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"But in this extant moment, faith and troth,"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Strain'd purely from all hollow bias-drawing,"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Bids thee, with most divine integrity,"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"From heart of very heart, great Hector, welcome."
IV,V,HECTOR,"I thank thee, most imperious Agamemnon."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"less to you."
IV,V,MENELAUS,"Let me confirm my princely brother's greeting:"
IV,V,MENELAUS,"You brace of warlike brothers, welcome hither."
IV,V,HECTOR,"Who must we answer?"
IV,V,AENEAS,"The noble Menelaus."
IV,V,HECTOR,"O, you, my lord? by Mars his gauntlet, thanks!"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Mock not, that I affect the untraded oath;"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Your quondam wife swears still by Venus' glove:"
IV,V,HECTOR,"She's well, but bade me not commend her to you."
IV,V,MENELAUS,"Name her not now, sir; she's a deadly theme."
IV,V,HECTOR,"O, pardon; I offend."
IV,V,NESTOR,"I have, thou gallant Trojan, seen thee oft"
IV,V,NESTOR,"Labouring for destiny make cruel way"
IV,V,NESTOR,"Through ranks of Greekish youth, and I have seen thee,"
IV,V,NESTOR,"As hot as Perseus, spur thy Phrygian steed,"
IV,V,NESTOR,"Despising many forfeits and subduements,"
IV,V,NESTOR,"When thou hast hung thy advanced sword i' the air,"
IV,V,NESTOR,"Not letting it decline on the declined,"
IV,V,NESTOR,"That I have said to some my standers by"
IV,V,NESTOR,"'Lo, Jupiter is yonder, dealing life!'"
IV,V,NESTOR,"And I have seen thee pause and take thy breath,"
IV,V,NESTOR,"When that a ring of Greeks have hemm'd thee in,"
IV,V,NESTOR,"Like an Olympian wrestling: this have I seen;"
IV,V,NESTOR,"But this thy countenance, still lock'd in steel,"
IV,V,NESTOR,"I never saw till now. I knew thy grandsire,"
IV,V,NESTOR,"And once fought with him: he was a soldier good;"
IV,V,NESTOR,"But, by great Mars, the captain of us all,"
IV,V,NESTOR,"Never saw like thee. Let an old man embrace thee;"
IV,V,NESTOR,"And, worthy warrior, welcome to our tents."
IV,V,AENEAS,"'Tis the old Nestor."
IV,V,HECTOR,"Let me embrace thee, good old chronicle,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"That hast so long walk'd hand in hand with time:"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Most reverend Nestor, I am glad to clasp thee."
IV,V,NESTOR,"I would my arms could match thee in contention,"
IV,V,NESTOR,"As they contend with thee in courtesy."
IV,V,HECTOR,"I would they could."
IV,V,NESTOR,"Ha!"
IV,V,NESTOR,"By this white beard, I'ld fight with thee to-morrow."
IV,V,NESTOR,"Well, welcome, welcome! I have seen the time."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"I wonder now how yonder city stands"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"When we have here her base and pillar by us."
IV,V,HECTOR,"I know your favour, Lord Ulysses, well."
IV,V,HECTOR,"Ah, sir, there's many a Greek and Trojan dead,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Since first I saw yourself and Diomed"
IV,V,HECTOR,"In Ilion, on your Greekish embassy."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Sir, I foretold you then what would ensue:"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"My prophecy is but half his journey yet;"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Yond towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Must kiss their own feet."
IV,V,HECTOR,"I must not believe you:"
IV,V,HECTOR,"There they stand yet, and modestly I think,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost"
IV,V,HECTOR,"A drop of Grecian blood: the end crowns all,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"And that old common arbitrator, Time,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Will one day end it."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"So to him we leave it."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Most gentle and most valiant Hector, welcome:"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"After the general, I beseech you next"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"To feast with me and see me at my tent."
IV,V,ACHILLES,"I shall forestall thee, Lord Ulysses, thou!"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"Now, Hector, I have fed mine eyes on thee;"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"I have with exact view perused thee, Hector,"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"And quoted joint by joint."
IV,V,HECTOR,"Is this Achilles?"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"I am Achilles."
IV,V,HECTOR,"Stand fair, I pray thee: let me look on thee."
IV,V,ACHILLES,"Behold thy fill."
IV,V,HECTOR,"Nay, I have done already."
IV,V,ACHILLES,"Thou art too brief: I will the second time,"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"As I would buy thee, view thee limb by limb."
IV,V,HECTOR,"O, like a book of sport thou'lt read me o'er;"
IV,V,HECTOR,"But there's more in me than thou understand'st."
IV,V,HECTOR,"Why dost thou so oppress me with thine eye?"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"Tell me, you heavens, in which part of his body"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"Shall I destroy him? whether there, or there, or there?"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"That I may give the local wound a name"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"And make distinct the very breach whereout"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"Hector's great spirit flew: answer me, heavens!"
IV,V,HECTOR,"It would discredit the blest gods, proud man,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"To answer such a question: stand again:"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Think'st thou to catch my life so pleasantly"
IV,V,HECTOR,"As to prenominate in nice conjecture"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Where thou wilt hit me dead?"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"I tell thee, yea."
IV,V,HECTOR,"Wert thou an oracle to tell me so,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"I'd not believe thee. Henceforth guard thee well;"
IV,V,HECTOR,"For I'll not kill thee there, nor there, nor there;"
IV,V,HECTOR,"But, by the forge that stithied Mars his helm,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"I'll kill thee every where, yea, o'er and o'er."
IV,V,HECTOR,"You wisest Grecians, pardon me this brag;"
IV,V,HECTOR,"His insolence draws folly from my lips;"
IV,V,HECTOR,"But I'll endeavour deeds to match these words,"
IV,V,HECTOR,"Or may I never--"
IV,V,AJAX,"Do not chafe thee, cousin:"
IV,V,AJAX,"And you, Achilles, let these threats alone,"
IV,V,AJAX,"Till accident or purpose bring you to't:"
IV,V,AJAX,"You may have every day enough of Hector"
IV,V,AJAX,"If you have stomach; the general state, I fear,"
IV,V,AJAX,"Can scarce entreat you to be odd with him."
IV,V,HECTOR,"I pray you, let us see you in the field:"
IV,V,HECTOR,"We have had pelting wars, since you refused"
IV,V,HECTOR,"The Grecians' cause."
IV,V,ACHILLES,"Dost thou entreat me, Hector?"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"To-morrow do I meet thee, fell as death;"
IV,V,ACHILLES,"To-night all friends."
IV,V,HECTOR,"Thy hand upon that match."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent;"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"There in the full convive we: afterwards,"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"As Hector's leisure and your bounties shall"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Concur together, severally entreat him."
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"Beat loud the tabourines, let the trumpets blow,"
IV,V,AGAMEMNON,"That this great soldier may his welcome know."
IV,V,TROILUS,"My Lord Ulysses, tell me, I beseech you,"
IV,V,TROILUS,"In what place of the field doth Calchas keep?"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"At Menelaus' tent, most princely Troilus:"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"There Diomed doth feast with him to-night;"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"Who neither looks upon the heaven nor earth,"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"But gives all gaze and bent of amorous view"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"On the fair Cressid."
IV,V,TROILUS,"Shall sweet lord, be bound to you so much,"
IV,V,TROILUS,"After we part from Agamemnon's tent,"
IV,V,TROILUS,"To bring me thither?"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"You shall command me, sir."
IV,V,ULYSSES,"As gentle tell me, of what honour was"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"This Cressida in Troy? Had she no lover there"
IV,V,ULYSSES,"That wails her absence?"
IV,V,TROILUS,"O, sir, to such as boasting show their scars"
IV,V,TROILUS,"A mock is due. Will you walk on, my lord?"
IV,V,TROILUS,"She was beloved, she loved; she is, and doth:"
IV,V,TROILUS,"But still sweet love is food for fortune's tooth."
V,I,ACHILLES,"I'll heat his blood with Greekish wine to-night,"
V,I,ACHILLES,"Which with my scimitar I'll cool to-morrow."
V,I,ACHILLES,"Patroclus, let us feast him to the height."
V,I,PATROCLUS,"Here comes Thersites."
V,I,ACHILLES,"How now, thou core of envy!"
V,I,ACHILLES,"Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news?"
V,I,THERSITES,"Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol"
V,I,THERSITES,"of idiot worshippers, here's a letter for thee."
V,I,ACHILLES,"From whence, fragment?"
V,I,THERSITES,"Why, thou full dish of fool, from Troy."
V,I,PATROCLUS,"Who keeps the tent now?"
V,I,THERSITES,"The surgeon's box, or the patient's wound."
V,I,PATROCLUS,"Well said, adversity! and what need these tricks?"
V,I,THERSITES,"Prithee, be silent, boy; I profit not by thy talk:"
V,I,THERSITES,"thou art thought to be Achilles' male varlet."
V,I,PATROCLUS,"Male varlet, you rogue! what's that?"
V,I,THERSITES,"Why, his masculine whore. Now, the rotten diseases"
V,I,THERSITES,"of the south, the guts-griping, ruptures, catarrhs,"
V,I,THERSITES,"loads o' gravel i' the back, lethargies, cold"
V,I,THERSITES,"palsies, raw eyes, dirt-rotten livers, wheezing"
V,I,THERSITES,"lungs, bladders full of imposthume, sciaticas,"
V,I,THERSITES,"limekilns i' the palm, incurable bone-ache, and the"
V,I,THERSITES,"rivelled fee-simple of the tetter, take and take"
V,I,THERSITES,"again such preposterous discoveries!"
V,I,PATROCLUS,"Why thou damnable box of envy, thou, what meanest"
V,I,PATROCLUS,"thou to curse thus?"
V,I,THERSITES,"Do I curse thee?"
V,I,PATROCLUS,"Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson"
V,I,PATROCLUS,"indistinguishable cur, no."
V,I,THERSITES,"No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle"
V,I,THERSITES,"immaterial skein of sleave-silk, thou green sarcenet"
V,I,THERSITES,"flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's"
V,I,THERSITES,"purse, thou? Ah, how the poor world is pestered"
V,I,THERSITES,"with such waterflies, diminutives of nature!"
V,I,PATROCLUS,"Out, gall!"
V,I,THERSITES,"Finch-egg!"
V,I,ACHILLES,"My sweet Patroclus, I am thwarted quite"
V,I,ACHILLES,"From my great purpose in to-morrow's battle."
V,I,ACHILLES,"Here is a letter from Queen Hecuba,"
V,I,ACHILLES,"A token from her daughter, my fair love,"
V,I,ACHILLES,"Both taxing me and gaging me to keep"
V,I,ACHILLES,"An oath that I have sworn. I will not break it:"
V,I,ACHILLES,"Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay;"
V,I,ACHILLES,"My major vow lies here, this I'll obey."
V,I,ACHILLES,"Come, come, Thersites, help to trim my tent:"
V,I,ACHILLES,"This night in banqueting must all be spent."
V,I,ACHILLES,"Away, Patroclus!"
V,I,THERSITES,"With too much blood and too little brain, these two"
V,I,THERSITES,"may run mad; but, if with too much brain and too"
V,I,THERSITES,"little blood they do, I'll be a curer of madmen."
V,I,THERSITES,"Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough and one"
V,I,THERSITES,"that loves quails; but he has not so much brain as"
V,I,THERSITES,"earwax: and the goodly transformation of Jupiter"
V,I,THERSITES,"there, his brother, the bull,--the primitive statue,"
V,I,THERSITES,"and oblique memorial of cuckolds; a thrifty"
V,I,THERSITES,"shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's"
V,I,THERSITES,"leg,--to what form but that he is, should wit larded"
V,I,THERSITES,"with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to?"
V,I,THERSITES,"To an ass, were nothing; he is both ass and ox: to"
V,I,THERSITES,"an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass. To be a"
V,I,THERSITES,"dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an"
V,I,THERSITES,"owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I would"
V,I,THERSITES,"not care; but to be Menelaus, I would conspire"
V,I,THERSITES,"against destiny. Ask me not, what I would be, if I"
V,I,THERSITES,"were not Thersites; for I care not to be the louse"
V,I,THERSITES,"of a lazar, so I were not Menelaus! Hey-day!"
V,I,THERSITES,"spirits and fires!"
V,I,AGAMEMNON,"We go wrong, we go wrong."
V,I,AJAX,"No, yonder 'tis;"
V,I,AJAX,"There, where we see the lights."
V,I,HECTOR,"I trouble you."
V,I,AJAX,"No, not a whit."
V,I,ULYSSES,"Here comes himself to guide you."
V,I,ACHILLES,"Welcome, brave Hector; welcome, princes all."
V,I,AGAMEMNON,"So now, fair prince of Troy, I bid good night."
V,I,AGAMEMNON,"Ajax commands the guard to tend on you."
V,I,HECTOR,"Thanks and good night to the Greeks' general."
V,I,MENELAUS,"Good night, my lord."
V,I,HECTOR,"Good night, sweet lord Menelaus."
V,I,THERSITES,"Sweet draught: 'sweet' quoth 'a! sweet sink,"
V,I,THERSITES,"sweet sewer."
V,I,ACHILLES,"Good night and welcome, both at once, to those"
V,I,ACHILLES,"That go or tarry."
V,I,AGAMEMNON,"Good night."
V,I,ACHILLES,"Old Nestor tarries; and you too, Diomed,"
V,I,ACHILLES,"Keep Hector company an hour or two."
V,I,DIOMEDES,"I cannot, lord; I have important business,"
V,I,DIOMEDES,"The tide whereof is now. Good night, great Hector."
V,I,HECTOR,"Give me your hand."
V,I,ULYSSES,"Calchas' tent:"
V,I,ULYSSES,"I'll keep you company."
V,I,TROILUS,"Sweet sir, you honour me."
V,I,HECTOR,"And so, good night."
V,I,ACHILLES,"Come, come, enter my tent."
V,I,THERSITES,"That same Diomed's a false-hearted rogue, a most"
V,I,THERSITES,"unjust knave; I will no more trust him when he leers"
V,I,THERSITES,"than I will a serpent when he hisses: he will spend"
V,I,THERSITES,"his mouth, and promise, like Brabbler the hound:"
V,I,THERSITES,"but when he performs, astronomers foretell it; it"
V,I,THERSITES,"is prodigious, there will come some change; the sun"
V,I,THERSITES,"borrows of the moon, when Diomed keeps his"
V,I,THERSITES,"word. I will rather leave to see Hector, than"
V,I,THERSITES,"not to dog him: they say he keeps a Trojan"
V,I,THERSITES,"drab, and uses the traitor Calchas' tent: I'll"
V,I,THERSITES,"after. Nothing but lechery! all incontinent varlets!"
V,II,DIOMEDES,"What, are you up here, ho? speak."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Calchas, I think. Where's your daughter?"
V,II,ULYSSES,"Stand where the torch may not discover us."
V,II,TROILUS,"Cressid comes forth to him."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"How now, my charge!"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Now, my sweet guardian! Hark, a word with you."
V,II,TROILUS,"Yea, so familiar!"
V,II,ULYSSES,"She will sing any man at first sight."
V,II,THERSITES,"And any man may sing her, if he can take her cliff;"
V,II,THERSITES,"she's noted."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Will you remember?"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Remember! yes."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Nay, but do, then;"
V,II,DIOMEDES,"And let your mind be coupled with your words."
V,II,TROILUS,"What should she remember?"
V,II,ULYSSES,"List."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Sweet honey Greek, tempt me no more to folly."
V,II,THERSITES,"Roguery!"
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Nay, then,--"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"I'll tell you what,--"
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Foh, foh! come, tell a pin: you are forsworn."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"In faith, I cannot: what would you have me do?"
V,II,THERSITES,"A juggling trick,--to be secretly open."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"What did you swear you would bestow on me?"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"I prithee, do not hold me to mine oath;"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Bid me do any thing but that, sweet Greek."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Good night."
V,II,TROILUS,"Hold, patience!"
V,II,ULYSSES,"How now, Trojan!"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Diomed,--"
V,II,DIOMEDES,"No, no, good night: I'll be your fool no more."
V,II,TROILUS,"Thy better must."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Hark, one word in your ear."
V,II,TROILUS,"O plague and madness!"
V,II,ULYSSES,"You are moved, prince; let us depart, I pray you,"
V,II,ULYSSES,"Lest your displeasure should enlarge itself"
V,II,ULYSSES,"To wrathful terms: this place is dangerous;"
V,II,ULYSSES,"The time right deadly; I beseech you, go."
V,II,TROILUS,"Behold, I pray you!"
V,II,ULYSSES,"Nay, good my lord, go off:"
V,II,ULYSSES,"You flow to great distraction; come, my lord."
V,II,TROILUS,"I pray thee, stay."
V,II,ULYSSES,"You have not patience; come."
V,II,TROILUS,"I pray you, stay; by hell and all hell's torments"
V,II,TROILUS,"I will not speak a word!"
V,II,DIOMEDES,"And so, good night."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Nay, but you part in anger."
V,II,TROILUS,"Doth that grieve thee?"
V,II,TROILUS,"O wither'd truth!"
V,II,ULYSSES,"Why, how now, lord!"
V,II,TROILUS,"By Jove,"
V,II,TROILUS,"I will be patient."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Guardian!--why, Greek!"
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Foh, foh! adieu; you palter."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"In faith, I do not: come hither once again."
V,II,ULYSSES,"You shake, my lord, at something: will you go?"
V,II,ULYSSES,"You will break out."
V,II,TROILUS,"She strokes his cheek!"
V,II,ULYSSES,"Come, come."
V,II,TROILUS,"Nay, stay; by Jove, I will not speak a word:"
V,II,TROILUS,"There is between my will and all offences"
V,II,TROILUS,"A guard of patience: stay a little while."
V,II,THERSITES,"How the devil Luxury, with his fat rump and"
V,II,THERSITES,"potato-finger, tickles these together! Fry, lechery, fry!"
V,II,DIOMEDES,"But will you, then?"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"In faith, I will, la; never trust me else."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Give me some token for the surety of it."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"I'll fetch you one."
V,II,ULYSSES,"You have sworn patience."
V,II,TROILUS,"Fear me not, sweet lord;"
V,II,TROILUS,"I will not be myself, nor have cognition"
V,II,TROILUS,"Of what I feel: I am all patience."
V,II,THERSITES,"Now the pledge; now, now, now!"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Here, Diomed, keep this sleeve."
V,II,TROILUS,"O beauty! where is thy faith?"
V,II,ULYSSES,"My lord,--"
V,II,TROILUS,"I will be patient; outwardly I will."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"You look upon that sleeve; behold it well."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"He loved me--O false wench!--Give't me again."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Whose was't?"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"It is no matter, now I have't again."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"I will not meet with you to-morrow night:"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"I prithee, Diomed, visit me no more."
V,II,THERSITES,"Now she sharpens: well said, whetstone!"
V,II,DIOMEDES,"I shall have it."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"What, this?"
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Ay, that."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"O, all you gods! O pretty, pretty pledge!"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Thy master now lies thinking in his bed"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Of thee and me, and sighs, and takes my glove,"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"And gives memorial dainty kisses to it,"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"As I kiss thee. Nay, do not snatch it from me;"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"He that takes that doth take my heart withal."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"I had your heart before, this follows it."
V,II,TROILUS,"I did swear patience."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"You shall not have it, Diomed; faith, you shall not;"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"I'll give you something else."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"I will have this: whose was it?"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"It is no matter."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Come, tell me whose it was."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"'Twas one's that loved me better than you will."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"But, now you have it, take it."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Whose was it?"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"By all Diana's waiting-women yond,"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"And by herself, I will not tell you whose."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"To-morrow will I wear it on my helm,"
V,II,DIOMEDES,"And grieve his spirit that dares not challenge it."
V,II,TROILUS,"Wert thou the devil, and worest it on thy horn,"
V,II,TROILUS,"It should be challenged."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Well, well, 'tis done, 'tis past: and yet it is not;"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"I will not keep my word."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Why, then, farewell;"
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Thou never shalt mock Diomed again."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"You shall not go: one cannot speak a word,"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"But it straight starts you."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"I do not like this fooling."
V,II,THERSITES,"Nor I, by Pluto: but that that likes not you pleases me best."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"What, shall I come? the hour?"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Ay, come:--O Jove!--do come:--I shall be plagued."
V,II,DIOMEDES,"Farewell till then."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Good night: I prithee, come."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Troilus, farewell! one eye yet looks on thee"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"But with my heart the other eye doth see."
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"The error of our eye directs our mind:"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"What error leads must err; O, then conclude"
V,II,CRESSIDA,"Minds sway'd by eyes are full of turpitude."
V,II,THERSITES,"A proof of strength she could not publish more,"
V,II,THERSITES,"Unless she said ' My mind is now turn'd whore.'"
V,II,ULYSSES,"All's done, my lord."
V,II,TROILUS,"It is."
V,II,ULYSSES,"Why stay we, then?"
V,II,TROILUS,"To make a recordation to my soul"
V,II,TROILUS,"Of every syllable that here was spoke."
V,II,TROILUS,"But if I tell how these two did co-act,"
V,II,TROILUS,"Shall I not lie in publishing a truth?"
V,II,TROILUS,"Sith yet there is a credence in my heart,"
V,II,TROILUS,"An esperance so obstinately strong,"
V,II,TROILUS,"That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears,"
V,II,TROILUS,"As if those organs had deceptious functions,"
V,II,TROILUS,"Created only to calumniate."
V,II,TROILUS,"Was Cressid here?"
V,II,ULYSSES,"I cannot conjure, Trojan."
V,II,TROILUS,"She was not, sure."
V,II,ULYSSES,"Most sure she was."
V,II,TROILUS,"Why, my negation hath no taste of madness."
V,II,ULYSSES,"Nor mine, my lord: Cressid was here but now."
V,II,TROILUS,"Let it not be believed for womanhood!"
V,II,TROILUS,"Think, we had mothers; do not give advantage"
V,II,TROILUS,"To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme,"
V,II,TROILUS,"For depravation, to square the general sex"
V,II,TROILUS,"By Cressid's rule: rather think this not Cressid."
V,II,ULYSSES,"What hath she done, prince, that can soil our mothers?"
V,II,TROILUS,"Nothing at all, unless that this were she."
V,II,THERSITES,"Will he swagger himself out on's own eyes?"
V,II,TROILUS,"This she? no, this is Diomed's Cressida:"
V,II,TROILUS,"If beauty have a soul, this is not she;"
V,II,TROILUS,"If souls guide vows, if vows be sanctimonies,"
V,II,TROILUS,"If sanctimony be the gods' delight,"
V,II,TROILUS,"If there be rule in unity itself,"
V,II,TROILUS,"This is not she. O madness of discourse,"
V,II,TROILUS,"That cause sets up with and against itself!"
V,II,TROILUS,"Bi-fold authority! where reason can revolt"
V,II,TROILUS,"Without perdition, and loss assume all reason"
V,II,TROILUS,"Without revolt: this is, and is not, Cressid."
V,II,TROILUS,"Within my soul there doth conduce a fight"
V,II,TROILUS,"Of this strange nature that a thing inseparate"
V,II,TROILUS,"Divides more wider than the sky and earth,"
V,II,TROILUS,"And yet the spacious breadth of this division"
V,II,TROILUS,"Admits no orifex for a point as subtle"
V,II,TROILUS,"As Ariachne's broken woof to enter."
V,II,TROILUS,"Instance, O instance! strong as Pluto's gates;"
V,II,TROILUS,"Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of heaven:"
V,II,TROILUS,"Instance, O instance! strong as heaven itself;"
V,II,TROILUS,"The bonds of heaven are slipp'd, dissolved, and loosed;"
V,II,TROILUS,"And with another knot, five-finger-tied,"
V,II,TROILUS,"The fractions of her faith, orts of her love,"
V,II,TROILUS,"The fragments, scraps, the bits and greasy relics"
V,II,TROILUS,"Of her o'er-eaten faith, are bound to Diomed."
V,II,ULYSSES,"May worthy Troilus be half attach'd"
V,II,ULYSSES,"With that which here his passion doth express?"
V,II,TROILUS,"Ay, Greek; and that shall be divulged well"
V,II,TROILUS,"In characters as red as Mars his heart"
V,II,TROILUS,"Inflamed with Venus: never did young man fancy"
V,II,TROILUS,"With so eternal and so fix'd a soul."
V,II,TROILUS,"Hark, Greek: as much as I do Cressid love,"
V,II,TROILUS,"So much by weight hate I her Diomed:"
V,II,TROILUS,"That sleeve is mine that he'll bear on his helm;"
V,II,TROILUS,"Were it a casque composed by Vulcan's skill,"
V,II,TROILUS,"My sword should bite it: not the dreadful spout"
V,II,TROILUS,"Which shipmen do the hurricano call,"
V,II,TROILUS,"Constringed in mass by the almighty sun,"
V,II,TROILUS,"Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune's ear"
V,II,TROILUS,"In his descent than shall my prompted sword"
V,II,TROILUS,"Falling on Diomed."
V,II,THERSITES,"He'll tickle it for his concupy."
V,II,TROILUS,"O Cressid! O false Cressid! false, false, false!"
V,II,TROILUS,"Let all untruths stand by thy stained name,"
V,II,TROILUS,"And they'll seem glorious."
V,II,ULYSSES,"O, contain yourself"
V,II,ULYSSES,"Your passion draws ears hither."
V,II,AENEAS,"I have been seeking you this hour, my lord:"
V,II,AENEAS,"Hector, by this, is arming him in Troy;"
V,II,AENEAS,"Ajax, your guard, stays to conduct you home."
V,II,TROILUS,"Have with you, prince. My courteous lord, adieu."
V,II,TROILUS,"Farewell, revolted fair! and, Diomed,"
V,II,TROILUS,"Stand fast, and wear a castle on thy head!"
V,II,ULYSSES,"I'll bring you to the gates."
V,II,TROILUS,"Accept distracted thanks."
V,II,THERSITES,"Would I could meet that rogue Diomed! I would"
V,II,THERSITES,"croak like a raven; I would bode, I would bode."
V,II,THERSITES,"Patroclus will give me any thing for the"
V,II,THERSITES,"intelligence of this whore: the parrot will not"
V,II,THERSITES,"do more for an almond than he for a commodious drab."
V,II,THERSITES,"Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery; nothing"
V,II,THERSITES,"else holds fashion: a burning devil take them!"
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"When was my lord so much ungently temper'd,"
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"To stop his ears against admonishment?"
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"Unarm, unarm, and do not fight to-day."
V,III,HECTOR,"You train me to offend you; get you in:"
V,III,HECTOR,"By all the everlasting gods, I'll go!"
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"My dreams will, sure, prove ominous to the day."
V,III,HECTOR,"No more, I say."
V,III,CASSANDRA,"Where is my brother Hector?"
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"Here, sister; arm'd, and bloody in intent."
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"Consort with me in loud and dear petition,"
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"Pursue we him on knees; for I have dream'd"
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"Of bloody turbulence, and this whole night"
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter."
V,III,CASSANDRA,"O, 'tis true."
V,III,HECTOR,"Ho! bid my trumpet sound!"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"No notes of sally, for the heavens, sweet brother."
V,III,HECTOR,"Be gone, I say: the gods have heard me swear."
V,III,CASSANDRA,"The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows:"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"They are polluted offerings, more abhorr'd"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"Than spotted livers in the sacrifice."
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"O, be persuaded! do not count it holy"
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"To hurt by being just: it is as lawful,"
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"For we would give much, to use violent thefts,"
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"And rob in the behalf of charity."
V,III,CASSANDRA,"It is the purpose that makes strong the vow;"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"But vows to every purpose must not hold:"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"Unarm, sweet Hector."
V,III,HECTOR,"Hold you still, I say;"
V,III,HECTOR,"Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate:"
V,III,HECTOR,"Lie every man holds dear; but the brave man"
V,III,HECTOR,"Holds honour far more precious-dear than life."
V,III,HECTOR,"How now, young man! mean'st thou to fight to-day?"
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"Cassandra, call my father to persuade."
V,III,HECTOR,"No, faith, young Troilus; doff thy harness, youth;"
V,III,HECTOR,"I am to-day i' the vein of chivalry:"
V,III,HECTOR,"Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong,"
V,III,HECTOR,"And tempt not yet the brushes of the war."
V,III,HECTOR,"Unarm thee, go, and doubt thou not, brave boy,"
V,III,HECTOR,"I'll stand to-day for thee and me and Troy."
V,III,TROILUS,"Brother, you have a vice of mercy in you,"
V,III,TROILUS,"Which better fits a lion than a man."
V,III,HECTOR,"What vice is that, good Troilus? chide me for it."
V,III,TROILUS,"When many times the captive Grecian falls,"
V,III,TROILUS,"Even in the fan and wind of your fair sword,"
V,III,TROILUS,"You bid them rise, and live."
V,III,HECTOR,"O,'tis fair play."
V,III,TROILUS,"Fool's play, by heaven, Hector."
V,III,HECTOR,"How now! how now!"
V,III,TROILUS,"For the love of all the gods,"
V,III,TROILUS,"Let's leave the hermit pity with our mothers,"
V,III,TROILUS,"And when we have our armours buckled on,"
V,III,TROILUS,"The venom'd vengeance ride upon our swords,"
V,III,TROILUS,"Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth."
V,III,HECTOR,"Fie, savage, fie!"
V,III,TROILUS,"Hector, then 'tis wars."
V,III,HECTOR,"Troilus, I would not have you fight to-day."
V,III,TROILUS,"Who should withhold me?"
V,III,TROILUS,"Not fate, obedience, nor the hand of Mars"
V,III,TROILUS,"Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire;"
V,III,TROILUS,"Not Priamus and Hecuba on knees,"
V,III,TROILUS,"Their eyes o'ergalled with recourse of tears;"
V,III,TROILUS,"Not you, my brother, with your true sword drawn,"
V,III,TROILUS,"Opposed to hinder me, should stop my way,"
V,III,TROILUS,"But by my ruin."
V,III,CASSANDRA,"Lay hold upon him, Priam, hold him fast:"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"He is thy crutch; now if thou lose thy stay,"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"Thou on him leaning, and all Troy on thee,"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"Fall all together."
V,III,PRIAM,"Come, Hector, come, go back:"
V,III,PRIAM,"Thy wife hath dream'd; thy mother hath had visions;"
V,III,PRIAM,"Cassandra doth foresee; and I myself"
V,III,PRIAM,"Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt"
V,III,PRIAM,"To tell thee that this day is ominous:"
V,III,PRIAM,"Therefore, come back."
V,III,HECTOR,"AEneas is a-field;"
V,III,HECTOR,"And I do stand engaged to many Greeks,"
V,III,HECTOR,"Even in the faith of valour, to appear"
V,III,HECTOR,"This morning to them."
V,III,PRIAM,"Ay, but thou shalt not go."
V,III,HECTOR,"I must not break my faith."
V,III,HECTOR,"You know me dutiful; therefore, dear sir,"
V,III,HECTOR,"Let me not shame respect; but give me leave"
V,III,HECTOR,"To take that course by your consent and voice,"
V,III,HECTOR,"Which you do here forbid me, royal Priam."
V,III,CASSANDRA,"O Priam, yield not to him!"
V,III,ANDROMACHE,"Do not, dear father."
V,III,HECTOR,"Andromache, I am offended with you:"
V,III,HECTOR,"Upon the love you bear me, get you in."
V,III,TROILUS,"This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl"
V,III,TROILUS,"Makes all these bodements."
V,III,CASSANDRA,"O, farewell, dear Hector!"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"Look, how thou diest! look, how thy eye turns pale!"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents!"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"Hark, how Troy roars! how Hecuba cries out!"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"How poor Andromache shrills her dolours forth!"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"Behold, distraction, frenzy and amazement,"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"Like witless antics, one another meet,"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"And all cry, Hector! Hector's dead! O Hector!"
V,III,TROILUS,"Away! away!"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"Farewell: yet, soft! Hector! take my leave:"
V,III,CASSANDRA,"Thou dost thyself and all our Troy deceive."
V,III,HECTOR,"You are amazed, my liege, at her exclaim:"
V,III,HECTOR,"Go in and cheer the town: we'll forth and fight,"
V,III,HECTOR,"Do deeds worth praise and tell you them at night."
V,III,PRIAM,"Farewell: the gods with safety stand about thee!"
V,III,TROILUS,"They are at it, hark! Proud Diomed, believe,"
V,III,TROILUS,"I come to lose my arm, or win my sleeve."
V,III,PANDARUS,"Do you hear, my lord? do you hear?"
V,III,TROILUS,"What now?"
V,III,PANDARUS,"Here's a letter come from yond poor girl."
V,III,TROILUS,"Let me read."
V,III,PANDARUS,"A whoreson tisick, a whoreson rascally tisick so"
V,III,PANDARUS,"troubles me, and the foolish fortune of this girl;"
V,III,PANDARUS,"and what one thing, what another, that I shall"
V,III,PANDARUS,"leave you one o' these days: and I have a rheum"
V,III,PANDARUS,"in mine eyes too, and such an ache in my bones"
V,III,PANDARUS,"that, unless a man were cursed, I cannot tell what"
V,III,PANDARUS,"to think on't. What says she there?"
V,III,TROILUS,"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart:"
V,III,TROILUS,"The effect doth operate another way."
V,III,TROILUS,"Go, wind, to wind, there turn and change together."
V,III,TROILUS,"My love with words and errors still she feeds;"
V,III,TROILUS,"But edifies another with her deeds."
V,IV,THERSITES,"Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I'll go"
V,IV,THERSITES,"look on. That dissembling abominable varlets Diomed,"
V,IV,THERSITES,"has got that same scurvy doting foolish young knave's"
V,IV,THERSITES,"sleeve of Troy there in his helm: I would fain see"
V,IV,THERSITES,"them meet; that that same young Trojan ass, that"
V,IV,THERSITES,"loves the whore there, might send that Greekish"
V,IV,THERSITES,"whore-masterly villain, with the sleeve, back to the"
V,IV,THERSITES,"dissembling luxurious drab, of a sleeveless errand."
V,IV,THERSITES,"O' the t'other side, the policy of those crafty"
V,IV,THERSITES,"swearing rascals, that stale old mouse-eaten dry"
V,IV,THERSITES,"cheese, Nestor, and that same dog-fox, Ulysses, is"
V,IV,THERSITES,"not proved worthy a blackberry: they set me up, in"
V,IV,THERSITES,"policy, that mongrel cur, Ajax, against that dog of"
V,IV,THERSITES,"as bad a kind, Achilles: and now is the cur Ajax"
V,IV,THERSITES,"prouder than the cur Achilles, and will not arm"
V,IV,THERSITES,"to-day; whereupon the Grecians begin to proclaim"
V,IV,THERSITES,"barbarism, and policy grows into an ill opinion."
V,IV,THERSITES,"Soft! here comes sleeve, and t'other."
V,IV,TROILUS,"Fly not; for shouldst thou take the river Styx,"
V,IV,TROILUS,"I would swim after."
V,IV,DIOMEDES,"Thou dost miscall retire:"
V,IV,DIOMEDES,"I do not fly, but advantageous care"
V,IV,DIOMEDES,"Withdrew me from the odds of multitude:"
V,IV,DIOMEDES,"Have at thee!"
V,IV,THERSITES,"Hold thy whore, Grecian!--now for thy whore,"
V,IV,THERSITES,"Trojan!--now the sleeve, now the sleeve!"
V,IV,HECTOR,"What art thou, Greek? art thou for Hector's match?"
V,IV,HECTOR,"Art thou of blood and honour?"
V,IV,THERSITES,"No, no, I am a rascal; a scurvy railing knave:"
V,IV,THERSITES,"a very filthy rogue."
V,IV,HECTOR,"I do believe thee: live."
V,IV,THERSITES,"God-a-mercy, that thou wilt believe me; but a"
V,IV,THERSITES,"plague break thy neck for frightening me! What's"
V,IV,THERSITES,"become of the wenching rogues? I think they have"
V,IV,THERSITES,"swallowed one another: I would laugh at that"
V,IV,THERSITES,"miracle: yet, in a sort, lechery eats itself."
V,IV,THERSITES,"I'll seek them."
V,V,DIOMEDES,"Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' horse;"
V,V,DIOMEDES,"Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid:"
V,V,DIOMEDES,"Fellow, commend my service to her beauty;"
V,V,DIOMEDES,"Tell her I have chastised the amorous Trojan,"
V,V,DIOMEDES,"And am her knight by proof."
V,V,Servant,"I go, my lord."
V,V,AGAMEMNON,"Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas"
V,V,AGAMEMNON,"Hath beat down Menon: bastard Margarelon"
V,V,AGAMEMNON,"Hath Doreus prisoner,"
V,V,AGAMEMNON,"And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam,"
V,V,AGAMEMNON,"Upon the pashed corses of the kings"
V,V,AGAMEMNON,"Epistrophus and Cedius: Polyxenes is slain,"
V,V,AGAMEMNON,"Amphimachus and Thoas deadly hurt,"
V,V,AGAMEMNON,"Patroclus ta'en or slain, and Palamedes"
V,V,AGAMEMNON,"Sore hurt and bruised: the dreadful Sagittary"
V,V,AGAMEMNON,"Appals our numbers: haste we, Diomed,"
V,V,AGAMEMNON,"To reinforcement, or we perish all."
V,V,NESTOR,"Go, bear Patroclus' body to Achilles;"
V,V,NESTOR,"And bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame."
V,V,NESTOR,"There is a thousand Hectors in the field:"
V,V,NESTOR,"Now here he fights on Galathe his horse,"
V,V,NESTOR,"And there lacks work; anon he's there afoot,"
V,V,NESTOR,"And there they fly or die, like scaled sculls"
V,V,NESTOR,"Before the belching whale; then is he yonder,"
V,V,NESTOR,"And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge,"
V,V,NESTOR,"Fall down before him, like the mower's swath:"
V,V,NESTOR,"Here, there, and every where, he leaves and takes,"
V,V,NESTOR,"Dexterity so obeying appetite"
V,V,NESTOR,"That what he will he does, and does so much"
V,V,NESTOR,"That proof is call'd impossibility."
V,V,ULYSSES,"O, courage, courage, princes! great Achilles"
V,V,ULYSSES,"Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance:"
V,V,ULYSSES,"Patroclus' wounds have roused his drowsy blood,"
V,V,ULYSSES,"Together with his mangled Myrmidons,"
V,V,ULYSSES,"That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him,"
V,V,ULYSSES,"Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend"
V,V,ULYSSES,"And foams at mouth, and he is arm'd and at it,"
V,V,ULYSSES,"Roaring for Troilus, who hath done to-day"
V,V,ULYSSES,"Mad and fantastic execution,"
V,V,ULYSSES,"Engaging and redeeming of himself"
V,V,ULYSSES,"With such a careless force and forceless care"
V,V,ULYSSES,"As if that luck, in very spite of cunning,"
V,V,ULYSSES,"Bade him win all."
V,V,AJAX,"Troilus! thou coward Troilus!"
V,V,DIOMEDES,"Ay, there, there."
V,V,NESTOR,"So, so, we draw together."
V,V,ACHILLES,"Where is this Hector?"
V,V,ACHILLES,"Come, come, thou boy-queller, show thy face;"
V,V,ACHILLES,"Know what it is to meet Achilles angry:"
V,V,ACHILLES,"Hector? where's Hector? I will none but Hector."
V,VI,AJAX,"Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head!"
V,VI,DIOMEDES,"Troilus, I say! where's Troilus?"
V,VI,AJAX,"What wouldst thou?"
V,VI,DIOMEDES,"I would correct him."
V,VI,AJAX,"Were I the general, thou shouldst have my office"
V,VI,AJAX,"Ere that correction. Troilus, I say! what, Troilus!"
V,VI,TROILUS,"O traitor Diomed! turn thy false face, thou traitor,"
V,VI,TROILUS,"And pay thy life thou owest me for my horse!"
V,VI,DIOMEDES,"Ha, art thou there?"
V,VI,AJAX,"I'll fight with him alone: stand, Diomed."
V,VI,DIOMEDES,"He is my prize; I will not look upon."
V,VI,TROILUS,"Come, both you cogging Greeks; have at you both!"
V,VI,HECTOR,"Yea, Troilus? O, well fought, my youngest brother!"
V,VI,ACHILLES,"Now do I see thee, ha! have at thee, Hector!"
V,VI,HECTOR,"Pause, if thou wilt."
V,VI,ACHILLES,"I do disdain thy courtesy, proud Trojan:"
V,VI,ACHILLES,"Be happy that my arms are out of use:"
V,VI,ACHILLES,"My rest and negligence befriends thee now,"
V,VI,ACHILLES,"But thou anon shalt hear of me again;"
V,VI,ACHILLES,"Till when, go seek thy fortune."
V,VI,HECTOR,"Fare thee well:"
V,VI,HECTOR,"I would have been much more a fresher man,"
V,VI,HECTOR,"Had I expected thee. How now, my brother!"
V,VI,TROILUS,"Ajax hath ta'en AEneas: shall it be?"
V,VI,TROILUS,"No, by the flame of yonder glorious heaven,"
V,VI,TROILUS,"He shall not carry him: I'll be ta'en too,"
V,VI,TROILUS,"Or bring him off: fate, hear me what I say!"
V,VI,TROILUS,"I reck not though I end my life to-day."
V,VI,HECTOR,"Stand, stand, thou Greek; thou art a goodly mark:"
V,VI,HECTOR,"No? wilt thou not? I like thy armour well;"
V,VI,HECTOR,"I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all,"
V,VI,HECTOR,"But I'll be master of it: wilt thou not,"
V,VI,HECTOR,"beast, abide?"
V,VI,HECTOR,"Why, then fly on, I'll hunt thee for thy hide."
V,VII,ACHILLES,"Come here about me, you my Myrmidons;"
V,VII,ACHILLES,"Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel:"
V,VII,ACHILLES,"Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath:"
V,VII,ACHILLES,"And when I have the bloody Hector found,"
V,VII,ACHILLES,"Empale him with your weapons round about;"
V,VII,ACHILLES,"In fellest manner execute your aims."
V,VII,ACHILLES,"Follow me, sirs, and my proceedings eye:"
V,VII,ACHILLES,"It is decreed Hector the great must die."
V,VII,THERSITES,"The cuckold and the cuckold-maker are at it. Now,"
V,VII,THERSITES,"bull! now, dog! 'Loo, Paris, 'loo! now my double-"
V,VII,THERSITES,"henned sparrow! 'loo, Paris, 'loo! The bull has the"
V,VII,THERSITES,"game: ware horns, ho!"
V,VII,MARGARELON,"Turn, slave, and fight."
V,VII,THERSITES,"What art thou?"
V,VII,MARGARELON,"A bastard son of Priam's."
V,VII,THERSITES,"I am a bastard too; I love bastards: I am a bastard"
V,VII,THERSITES,"begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard"
V,VII,THERSITES,"in valour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear will"
V,VII,THERSITES,"not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard?"
V,VII,THERSITES,"Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if the"
V,VII,THERSITES,"son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgment:"
V,VII,THERSITES,"farewell, bastard."
V,VII,MARGARELON,"The devil take thee, coward!"
V,VIII,HECTOR,"Most putrefied core, so fair without,"
V,VIII,HECTOR,"Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life."
V,VIII,HECTOR,"Now is my day's work done; I'll take good breath:"
V,VIII,HECTOR,"Rest, sword; thou hast thy fill of blood and death."
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"Look, Hector, how the sun begins to set;"
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"How ugly night comes breathing at his heels:"
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"Even with the vail and darking of the sun,"
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"To close the day up, Hector's life is done."
V,VIII,HECTOR,"I am unarm'd; forego this vantage, Greek."
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"Strike, fellows, strike; this is the man I seek."
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"So, Ilion, fall thou next! now, Troy, sink down!"
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone."
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"On, Myrmidons, and cry you all amain,"
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"'Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain.'"
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"Hark! a retire upon our Grecian part."
V,VIII,MYRMIDONS,"The Trojan trumpets sound the like, my lord."
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth,"
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"And, stickler-like, the armies separates."
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"My half-supp'd sword, that frankly would have fed,"
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"Pleased with this dainty bait, thus goes to bed."
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"Come, tie his body to my horse's tail;"
V,VIII,ACHILLES,"Along the field I will the Trojan trail."
V,IX,AGAMEMNON,"Hark! hark! what shout is that?"
V,IX,NESTOR,"Peace, drums!"
V,IX,NESTOR,"Achilles! Achilles! Hector's slain! Achilles."
V,IX,DIOMEDES,"The bruit is, Hector's slain, and by Achilles."
V,IX,AJAX,"If it be so, yet bragless let it be;"
V,IX,AJAX,"Great Hector was a man as good as he."
V,IX,AGAMEMNON,"March patiently along: let one be sent"
V,IX,AGAMEMNON,"To pray Achilles see us at our tent."
V,IX,AGAMEMNON,"If in his death the gods have us befriended,"
V,IX,AGAMEMNON,"Great Troy is ours, and our sharp wars are ended."
V,X,AENEAS,"Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field:"
V,X,AENEAS,"Never go home; here starve we out the night."
V,X,TROILUS,"Hector is slain."
V,X,ALL,"Hector! the gods forbid!"
V,X,TROILUS,"He's dead; and at the murderer's horse's tail,"
V,X,TROILUS,"In beastly sort, dragg'd through the shameful field."
V,X,TROILUS,"Frown on, you heavens, effect your rage with speed!"
V,X,TROILUS,"Sit, gods, upon your thrones, and smile at Troy!"
V,X,TROILUS,"I say, at once let your brief plagues be mercy,"
V,X,TROILUS,"And linger not our sure destructions on!"
V,X,AENEAS,"My lord, you do discomfort all the host!"
V,X,TROILUS,"You understand me not that tell me so:"
V,X,TROILUS,"I do not speak of flight, of fear, of death,"
V,X,TROILUS,"But dare all imminence that gods and men"
V,X,TROILUS,"Address their dangers in. Hector is gone:"
V,X,TROILUS,"Who shall tell Priam so, or Hecuba?"
V,X,TROILUS,"Let him that will a screech-owl aye be call'd,"
V,X,TROILUS,"Go in to Troy, and say there, Hector's dead:"
V,X,TROILUS,"There is a word will Priam turn to stone;"
V,X,TROILUS,"Make wells and Niobes of the maids and wives,"
V,X,TROILUS,"Cold statues of the youth, and, in a word,"
V,X,TROILUS,"Scare Troy out of itself. But, march away:"
V,X,TROILUS,"Hector is dead; there is no more to say."
V,X,TROILUS,"Stay yet. You vile abominable tents,"
V,X,TROILUS,"Thus proudly pight upon our Phrygian plains,"
V,X,TROILUS,"Let Titan rise as early as he dare,"
V,X,TROILUS,"I'll through and through you! and, thou great-sized coward,"
V,X,TROILUS,"No space of earth shall sunder our two hates:"
V,X,TROILUS,"I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still,"
V,X,TROILUS,"That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy's thoughts."
V,X,TROILUS,"Strike a free march to Troy! with comfort go:"
V,X,TROILUS,"Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe."
V,X,PANDARUS,"But hear you, hear you!"
V,X,TROILUS,"Hence, broker-lackey! ignomy and shame"
V,X,TROILUS,"Pursue thy life, and live aye with thy name!"
V,X,PANDARUS,"A goodly medicine for my aching bones! O world!"
V,X,PANDARUS,"world! world! thus is the poor agent despised!"
V,X,PANDARUS,"O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set"
V,X,PANDARUS,"a-work, and how ill requited! why should our"
V,X,PANDARUS,"endeavour be so loved and the performance so loathed?"
V,X,PANDARUS,"what verse for it? what instance for it? Let me see:"
V,X,PANDARUS,"Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing,"
V,X,PANDARUS,"Till he hath lost his honey and his sting;"
V,X,PANDARUS,"And being once subdued in armed tail,"
V,X,PANDARUS,"Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail."
V,X,PANDARUS,"Good traders in the flesh, set this in your"
V,X,PANDARUS,"painted cloths."
V,X,PANDARUS,"As many as be here of pander's hall,"
V,X,PANDARUS,"Your eyes, half out, weep out at Pandar's fall;"
V,X,PANDARUS,"Or if you cannot weep, yet give some groans,"
V,X,PANDARUS,"Though not for me, yet for your aching bones."
V,X,PANDARUS,"Brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade,"
V,X,PANDARUS,"Some two months hence my will shall here be made:"
V,X,PANDARUS,"It should be now, but that my fear is this,"
V,X,PANDARUS,"Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss:"
V,X,PANDARUS,"Till then I'll sweat and seek about for eases,"
V,X,PANDARUS,"And at that time bequeathe you my diseases."
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"If music be the food of love, play on;"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"The appetite may sicken, and so die."
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"That strain again! it had a dying fall:"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"That breathes upon a bank of violets,"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"'Tis not so sweet now as it was before."
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"That, notwithstanding thy capacity"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Of what validity and pitch soe'er,"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"But falls into abatement and low price,"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"That it alone is high fantastical."
I,I,CURIO,"Will you go hunt, my lord?"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"What, Curio?"
I,I,CURIO,"The hart."
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Why, so I do, the noblest that I have:"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Methought she purged the air of pestilence!"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"That instant was I turn'd into a hart;"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"E'er since pursue me."
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"How now! what news from her?"
I,I,VALENTINE,"So please my lord, I might not be admitted;"
I,I,VALENTINE,"But from her handmaid do return this answer:"
I,I,VALENTINE,"The element itself, till seven years' heat,"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Shall not behold her face at ample view;"
I,I,VALENTINE,"But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk"
I,I,VALENTINE,"And water once a day her chamber round"
I,I,VALENTINE,"With eye-offending brine: all this to season"
I,I,VALENTINE,"A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh"
I,I,VALENTINE,"And lasting in her sad remembrance."
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"To pay this debt of love but to a brother,"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"How will she love, when the rich golden shaft"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"That live in her; when liver, brain and heart,"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill'd"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Her sweet perfections with one self king!"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:"
I,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers."
I,II,VIOLA,"What country, friends, is this?"
I,II,Captain,"This is Illyria, lady."
I,II,VIOLA,"And what should I do in Illyria?"
I,II,VIOLA,"My brother he is in Elysium."
I,II,VIOLA,"Perchance he is not drown'd: what think you, sailors?"
I,II,Captain,"It is perchance that you yourself were saved."
I,II,VIOLA,"O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be."
I,II,Captain,"True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance,"
I,II,Captain,"Assure yourself, after our ship did split,"
I,II,Captain,"When you and those poor number saved with you"
I,II,Captain,"Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,"
I,II,Captain,"Most provident in peril, bind himself,"
I,II,Captain,"Courage and hope both teaching him the practise,"
I,II,Captain,"To a strong mast that lived upon the sea;"
I,II,Captain,"Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,"
I,II,Captain,"I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves"
I,II,Captain,"So long as I could see."
I,II,VIOLA,"For saying so, there's gold:"
I,II,VIOLA,"Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,"
I,II,VIOLA,"Whereto thy speech serves for authority,"
I,II,VIOLA,"The like of him. Know'st thou this country?"
I,II,Captain,"Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born"
I,II,Captain,"Not three hours' travel from this very place."
I,II,VIOLA,"Who governs here?"
I,II,Captain,"A noble duke, in nature as in name."
I,II,VIOLA,"What is the name?"
I,II,Captain,"Orsino."
I,II,VIOLA,"Orsino! I have heard my father name him:"
I,II,VIOLA,"He was a bachelor then."
I,II,Captain,"And so is now, or was so very late;"
I,II,Captain,"For but a month ago I went from hence,"
I,II,Captain,"And then 'twas fresh in murmur,--as, you know,"
I,II,Captain,"What great ones do the less will prattle of,--"
I,II,Captain,"That he did seek the love of fair Olivia."
I,II,VIOLA,"What's she?"
I,II,Captain,"A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count"
I,II,Captain,"That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her"
I,II,Captain,"In the protection of his son, her brother,"
I,II,Captain,"Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,"
I,II,Captain,"They say, she hath abjured the company"
I,II,Captain,"And sight of men."
I,II,VIOLA,"O that I served that lady"
I,II,VIOLA,"And might not be delivered to the world,"
I,II,VIOLA,"Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,"
I,II,VIOLA,"What my estate is!"
I,II,Captain,"That were hard to compass;"
I,II,Captain,"Because she will admit no kind of suit,"
I,II,Captain,"No, not the duke's."
I,II,VIOLA,"There is a fair behavior in thee, captain;"
I,II,VIOLA,"And though that nature with a beauteous wall"
I,II,VIOLA,"Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee"
I,II,VIOLA,"I will believe thou hast a mind that suits"
I,II,VIOLA,"With this thy fair and outward character."
I,II,VIOLA,"I prithee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,"
I,II,VIOLA,"Conceal me what I am, and be my aid"
I,II,VIOLA,"For such disguise as haply shall become"
I,II,VIOLA,"The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke:"
I,II,VIOLA,"Thou shall present me as an eunuch to him:"
I,II,VIOLA,"It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing"
I,II,VIOLA,"And speak to him in many sorts of music"
I,II,VIOLA,"That will allow me very worth his service."
I,II,VIOLA,"What else may hap to time I will commit;"
I,II,VIOLA,"Only shape thou thy silence to my wit."
I,II,Captain,"Be you his eunuch, and your mute I'll be:"
I,II,Captain,"When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see."
I,II,VIOLA,"I thank thee: lead me on."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"What a plague means my niece, to take the death of"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"her brother thus? I am sure care's an enemy to life."
I,III,MARIA,"By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o'"
I,III,MARIA,"nights: your cousin, my lady, takes great"
I,III,MARIA,"exceptions to your ill hours."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Why, let her except, before excepted."
I,III,MARIA,"Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest"
I,III,MARIA,"limits of order."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Confine! I'll confine myself no finer than I am:"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"these clothes are good enough to drink in; and so be"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"these boots too: an they be not, let them hang"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"themselves in their own straps."
I,III,MARIA,"That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard"
I,III,MARIA,"my lady talk of it yesterday; and of a foolish"
I,III,MARIA,"knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Who, Sir Andrew Aguecheek?"
I,III,MARIA,"Ay, he."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria."
I,III,MARIA,"What's that to the purpose?"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Why, he has three thousand ducats a year."
I,III,MARIA,"Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats:"
I,III,MARIA,"he's a very fool and a prodigal."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Fie, that you'll say so! he plays o' the"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"word for word without book, and hath all the good"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"gifts of nature."
I,III,MARIA,"He hath indeed, almost natural: for besides that"
I,III,MARIA,"he's a fool, he's a great quarreller: and but that"
I,III,MARIA,"he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he"
I,III,MARIA,"hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent"
I,III,MARIA,"he would quickly have the gift of a grave."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"By this hand, they are scoundrels and subtractors"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"that say so of him. Who are they?"
I,III,MARIA,"They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in your company."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"With drinking healths to my niece: I'll drink to"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"her as long as there is a passage in my throat and"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"drink in Illyria: he's a coward and a coystrill"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"o' the toe like a parish-top. What, wench!"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Castiliano vulgo! for here comes Sir Andrew Agueface."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Sir Toby Belch! how now, Sir Toby Belch!"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Sweet Sir Andrew!"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Bless you, fair shrew."
I,III,MARIA,"And you too, sir."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Accost, Sir Andrew, accost."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"What's that?"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"My niece's chambermaid."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Good Mistress Accost, I desire better acquaintance."
I,III,MARIA,"My name is Mary, sir."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Good Mistress Mary Accost,--"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"You mistake, knight; 'accost' is front her, board"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"her, woo her, assail her."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"By my troth, I would not undertake her in this"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"company. Is that the meaning of 'accost'?"
I,III,MARIA,"Fare you well, gentlemen."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"An thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"never draw sword again."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"An you part so, mistress, I would I might never"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"draw sword again. Fair lady, do you think you have"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"fools in hand?"
I,III,MARIA,"Sir, I have not you by the hand."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Marry, but you shall have; and here's my hand."
I,III,MARIA,"Now, sir, 'thought is free:' I pray you, bring"
I,III,MARIA,"your hand to the buttery-bar and let it drink."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Wherefore, sweet-heart? what's your metaphor?"
I,III,MARIA,"It's dry, sir."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Why, I think so: I am not such an ass but I can"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"keep my hand dry. But what's your jest?"
I,III,MARIA,"A dry jest, sir."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Are you full of them?"
I,III,MARIA,"Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends: marry,"
I,III,MARIA,"now I let go your hand, I am barren."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"O knight thou lackest a cup of canary: when did I"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"see thee so put down?"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Never in your life, I think; unless you see canary"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"put me down. Methinks sometimes I have no more wit"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"than a Christian or an ordinary man has: but I am a"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"great eater of beef and I believe that does harm to my wit."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"No question."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"An I thought that, I'ld forswear it. I'll ride home"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"to-morrow, Sir Toby."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Pourquoi, my dear knight?"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"What is 'Pourquoi'? do or not do? I would I had"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"fencing, dancing and bear-baiting: O, had I but"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"followed the arts!"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Why, would that have mended my hair?"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Past question; for thou seest it will not curl by nature."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"But it becomes me well enough, does't not?"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Excellent; it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"and spin it off."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Faith, I'll home to-morrow, Sir Toby: your niece"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"will not be seen; or if she be, it's four to one"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"she'll none of me: the count himself here hard by woos her."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"She'll none o' the count: she'll not match above"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit; I"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"have heard her swear't. Tut, there's life in't,"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"man."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"and revels sometimes altogether."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Art thou good at these kickshawses, knight?"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, under the"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"degree of my betters; and yet I will not compare"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"with an old man."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Faith, I can cut a caper."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"And I can cut the mutton to't."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"And I think I have the back-trick simply as strong"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"as any man in Illyria."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"these gifts a curtain before 'em? are they like to"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"take dust, like Mistress Mall's picture? why dost"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"thou not go to church in a galliard and come home in"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"a coranto? My very walk should be a jig; I would not"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace. What"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in?"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard."
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Ay, 'tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"flame-coloured stock. Shall we set about some revels?"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"What shall we do else? were we not born under Taurus?"
I,III,SIR ANDREW,"Taurus! That's sides and heart."
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"No, sir; it is legs and thighs. Let me see the"
I,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"caper; ha! higher: ha, ha! excellent!"
I,IV,VALENTINE,"If the duke continue these favours towards you,"
I,IV,VALENTINE,"Cesario, you are like to be much advanced: he hath"
I,IV,VALENTINE,"known you but three days, and already you are no stranger."
I,IV,VIOLA,"You either fear his humour or my negligence, that"
I,IV,VIOLA,"you call in question the continuance of his love:"
I,IV,VIOLA,"is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?"
I,IV,VALENTINE,"No, believe me."
I,IV,VIOLA,"I thank you. Here comes the count."
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Who saw Cesario, ho?"
I,IV,VIOLA,"On your attendance, my lord; here."
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Stand you a while aloof, Cesario,"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"To thee the book even of my secret soul:"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her;"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Be not denied access, stand at her doors,"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Till thou have audience."
I,IV,VIOLA,"Sure, my noble lord,"
I,IV,VIOLA,"If she be so abandon'd to her sorrow"
I,IV,VIOLA,"As it is spoke, she never will admit me."
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Rather than make unprofited return."
I,IV,VIOLA,"Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"O, then unfold the passion of my love,"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"It shall become thee well to act my woes;"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"She will attend it better in thy youth"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Than in a nuncio's of more grave aspect."
I,IV,VIOLA,"I think not so, my lord."
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Dear lad, believe it;"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"For they shall yet belie thy happy years,"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"That say thou art a man: Diana's lip"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound,"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"And all is semblative a woman's part."
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"I know thy constellation is right apt"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"For this affair. Some four or five attend him;"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"All, if you will; for I myself am best"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"When least in company. Prosper well in this,"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,"
I,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"To call his fortunes thine."
I,IV,VIOLA,"I'll do my best"
I,IV,VIOLA,"To woo your lady:"
I,IV,VIOLA,"yet, a barful strife!"
I,IV,VIOLA,"Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife."
I,V,MARIA,"Nay, either tell me where thou hast been, or I will"
I,V,MARIA,"not open my lips so wide as a bristle may enter in"
I,V,MARIA,"way of thy excuse: my lady will hang thee for thy absence."
I,V,Clown,"Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this"
I,V,Clown,"world needs to fear no colours."
I,V,MARIA,"Make that good."
I,V,Clown,"He shall see none to fear."
I,V,MARIA,"A good lenten answer: I can tell thee where that"
I,V,MARIA,"saying was born, of 'I fear no colours.'"
I,V,Clown,"Where, good Mistress Mary?"
I,V,MARIA,"In the wars; and that may you be bold to say in your foolery."
I,V,Clown,"Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those"
I,V,Clown,"that are fools, let them use their talents."
I,V,MARIA,"Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent; or,"
I,V,MARIA,"to be turned away, is not that as good as a hanging to you?"
I,V,Clown,"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; and,"
I,V,Clown,"for turning away, let summer bear it out."
I,V,MARIA,"You are resolute, then?"
I,V,Clown,"Not so, neither; but I am resolved on two points."
I,V,MARIA,"That if one break, the other will hold; or, if both"
I,V,MARIA,"break, your gaskins fall."
I,V,Clown,"Apt, in good faith; very apt. Well, go thy way; if"
I,V,Clown,"Sir Toby would leave drinking, thou wert as witty a"
I,V,Clown,"piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria."
I,V,MARIA,"Peace, you rogue, no more o' that. Here comes my"
I,V,MARIA,"lady: make your excuse wisely, you were best."
I,V,Clown,"Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling!"
I,V,Clown,"Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft"
I,V,Clown,"prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may"
I,V,Clown,"pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus?"
I,V,Clown,"'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'"
I,V,Clown,"God bless thee, lady!"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Take the fool away."
I,V,Clown,"Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Go to, you're a dry fool; I'll no more of you:"
I,V,OLIVIA,"besides, you grow dishonest."
I,V,Clown,"Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel"
I,V,Clown,"will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is"
I,V,Clown,"the fool not dry: bid the dishonest man mend"
I,V,Clown,"himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if"
I,V,Clown,"he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Any thing"
I,V,Clown,"that's mended is but patched: virtue that"
I,V,Clown,"transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that"
I,V,Clown,"amends is but patched with virtue. If that this"
I,V,Clown,"simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not,"
I,V,Clown,"what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but"
I,V,Clown,"calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take"
I,V,Clown,"away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her away."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Sir, I bade them take away you."
I,V,Clown,"Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, cucullus non"
I,V,Clown,"facit monachum; that's as much to say as I wear not"
I,V,Clown,"motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to"
I,V,Clown,"prove you a fool."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Can you do it?"
I,V,Clown,"Dexterously, good madonna."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Make your proof."
I,V,Clown,"I must catechise you for it, madonna: good my mouse"
I,V,Clown,"of virtue, answer me."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Well, sir, for want of other idleness, I'll bide your proof."
I,V,Clown,"Good madonna, why mournest thou?"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Good fool, for my brother's death."
I,V,Clown,"I think his soul is in hell, madonna."
I,V,OLIVIA,"I know his soul is in heaven, fool."
I,V,Clown,"The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's"
I,V,Clown,"soul being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen."
I,V,OLIVIA,"What think you of this fool, Malvolio? doth he not mend?"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him:"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"better fool."
I,V,Clown,"God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the"
I,V,Clown,"better increasing your folly! Sir Toby will be"
I,V,Clown,"sworn that I am no fox; but he will not pass his"
I,V,Clown,"word for two pence that you are no fool."
I,V,OLIVIA,"How say you to that, Malvolio?"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"barren rascal: I saw him put down the other day"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"with an ordinary fool that has no more brain"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"him, he is gagged. I protest, I take these wise men,"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"than the fools' zanies."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Oh, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste"
I,V,OLIVIA,"with a distempered appetite. To be generous,"
I,V,OLIVIA,"guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those"
I,V,OLIVIA,"things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets:"
I,V,OLIVIA,"there is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do"
I,V,OLIVIA,"nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet"
I,V,OLIVIA,"man, though he do nothing but reprove."
I,V,Clown,"Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou"
I,V,Clown,"speakest well of fools!"
I,V,MARIA,"Madam, there is at the gate a young gentleman much"
I,V,MARIA,"desires to speak with you."
I,V,OLIVIA,"From the Count Orsino, is it?"
I,V,MARIA,"I know not, madam: 'tis a fair young man, and well attended."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Who of my people hold him in delay?"
I,V,MARIA,"Sir Toby, madam, your kinsman."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Fetch him off, I pray you; he speaks nothing but"
I,V,OLIVIA,"madman: fie on him!"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Go you, Malvolio: if it be a suit from the count, I"
I,V,OLIVIA,"am sick, or not at home; what you will, to dismiss it."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and"
I,V,OLIVIA,"people dislike it."
I,V,Clown,"Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldest"
I,V,Clown,"son should be a fool; whose skull Jove cram with"
I,V,Clown,"brains! for,--here he comes,--one of thy kin has a"
I,V,Clown,"most weak pia mater."
I,V,OLIVIA,"By mine honour, half drunk. What is he at the gate, cousin?"
I,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"A gentleman."
I,V,OLIVIA,"A gentleman! what gentleman?"
I,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"'Tis a gentle man here--a plague o' these"
I,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"pickle-herring! How now, sot!"
I,V,Clown,"Good Sir Toby!"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Cousin, cousin, how have you come so early by this lethargy?"
I,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Lechery! I defy lechery. There's one at the gate."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Ay, marry, what is he?"
I,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Let him be the devil, an he will, I care not: give"
I,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"me faith, say I. Well, it's all one."
I,V,OLIVIA,"What's a drunken man like, fool?"
I,V,Clown,"Like a drowned man, a fool and a mad man: one"
I,V,Clown,"draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads"
I,V,Clown,"him; and a third drowns him."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Go thou and seek the crowner, and let him sit o' my"
I,V,OLIVIA,"coz; for he's in the third degree of drink, he's"
I,V,OLIVIA,"drowned: go, look after him."
I,V,Clown,"He is but mad yet, madonna; and the fool shall look"
I,V,Clown,"to the madman."
I,V,MALVOLIO,"Madam, yond young fellow swears he will speak with"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"you. I told him you were sick; he takes on him to"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"understand so much, and therefore comes to speak"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"with you. I told him you were asleep; he seems to"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"have a foreknowledge of that too, and therefore"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"comes to speak with you. What is to be said to him,"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"lady? he's fortified against any denial."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Tell him he shall not speak with me."
I,V,MALVOLIO,"Has been told so; and he says, he'll stand at your"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"door like a sheriff's post, and be the supporter to"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"a bench, but he'll speak with you."
I,V,OLIVIA,"What kind o' man is he?"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"Why, of mankind."
I,V,OLIVIA,"What manner of man?"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"Of very ill manner; he'll speak with you, will you or no."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Of what personage and years is he?"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"a boy; as a squash is before 'tis a peascod, or a"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"cooling when 'tis almost an apple: 'tis with him"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"in standing water, between boy and man. He is very"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"well-favoured and he speaks very shrewishly; one"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Let him approach: call in my gentlewoman."
I,V,MALVOLIO,"Gentlewoman, my lady calls."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Give me my veil: come, throw it o'er my face."
I,V,OLIVIA,"We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy."
I,V,VIOLA,"The honourable lady of the house, which is she?"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Speak to me; I shall answer for her."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Your will?"
I,V,VIOLA,"Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty,--I"
I,V,VIOLA,"pray you, tell me if this be the lady of the house,"
I,V,VIOLA,"for I never saw her: I would be loath to cast away"
I,V,VIOLA,"my speech, for besides that it is excellently well"
I,V,VIOLA,"penned, I have taken great pains to con it. Good"
I,V,VIOLA,"beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very"
I,V,VIOLA,"comptible, even to the least sinister usage."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Whence came you, sir?"
I,V,VIOLA,"I can say little more than I have studied, and that"
I,V,VIOLA,"question's out of my part. Good gentle one, give me"
I,V,VIOLA,"modest assurance if you be the lady of the house,"
I,V,VIOLA,"that I may proceed in my speech."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Are you a comedian?"
I,V,VIOLA,"No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs"
I,V,VIOLA,"of malice I swear, I am not that I play. Are you"
I,V,VIOLA,"the lady of the house?"
I,V,OLIVIA,"If I do not usurp myself, I am."
I,V,VIOLA,"Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp"
I,V,VIOLA,"yourself; for what is yours to bestow is not yours"
I,V,VIOLA,"to reserve. But this is from my commission: I will"
I,V,VIOLA,"on with my speech in your praise, and then show you"
I,V,VIOLA,"the heart of my message."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Come to what is important in't: I forgive you the praise."
I,V,VIOLA,"Alas, I took great pains to study it, and 'tis poetical."
I,V,OLIVIA,"It is the more like to be feigned: I pray you,"
I,V,OLIVIA,"keep it in. I heard you were saucy at my gates,"
I,V,OLIVIA,"and allowed your approach rather to wonder at you"
I,V,OLIVIA,"than to hear you. If you be not mad, be gone; if"
I,V,OLIVIA,"you have reason, be brief: 'tis not that time of"
I,V,OLIVIA,"moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue."
I,V,MARIA,"Will you hoist sail, sir? here lies your way."
I,V,VIOLA,"No, good swabber; I am to hull here a little"
I,V,VIOLA,"longer. Some mollification for your giant, sweet"
I,V,VIOLA,"lady. Tell me your mind: I am a messenger."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver, when"
I,V,OLIVIA,"the courtesy of it is so fearful. Speak your office."
I,V,VIOLA,"It alone concerns your ear. I bring no overture of"
I,V,VIOLA,"war, no taxation of homage: I hold the olive in my"
I,V,VIOLA,"hand; my words are as fun of peace as matter."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Yet you began rudely. What are you? what would you?"
I,V,VIOLA,"The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I"
I,V,VIOLA,"learned from my entertainment. What I am, and what I"
I,V,VIOLA,"would, are as secret as maidenhead; to your ears,"
I,V,VIOLA,"divinity, to any other's, profanation."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Give us the place alone: we will hear this divinity."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Now, sir, what is your text?"
I,V,VIOLA,"Most sweet lady,--"
I,V,OLIVIA,"A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Where lies your text?"
I,V,VIOLA,"In Orsino's bosom."
I,V,OLIVIA,"In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?"
I,V,VIOLA,"To answer by the method, in the first of his heart."
I,V,OLIVIA,"O, I have read it: it is heresy. Have you no more to say?"
I,V,VIOLA,"Good madam, let me see your face."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate"
I,V,OLIVIA,"with my face? You are now out of your text: but"
I,V,OLIVIA,"we will draw the curtain and show you the picture."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Look you, sir, such a one I was this present: is't"
I,V,OLIVIA,"not well done?"
I,V,VIOLA,"Excellently done, if God did all."
I,V,OLIVIA,"'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather."
I,V,VIOLA,"'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white"
I,V,VIOLA,"Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on:"
I,V,VIOLA,"Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive,"
I,V,VIOLA,"If you will lead these graces to the grave"
I,V,VIOLA,"And leave the world no copy."
I,V,OLIVIA,"O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give"
I,V,OLIVIA,"out divers schedules of my beauty: it shall be"
I,V,OLIVIA,"inventoried, and every particle and utensil"
I,V,OLIVIA,"labelled to my will: as, item, two lips,"
I,V,OLIVIA,"indifferent red; item, two grey eyes, with lids to"
I,V,OLIVIA,"them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were"
I,V,OLIVIA,"you sent hither to praise me?"
I,V,VIOLA,"I see you what you are, you are too proud;"
I,V,VIOLA,"But, if you were the devil, you are fair."
I,V,VIOLA,"My lord and master loves you: O, such love"
I,V,VIOLA,"Could be but recompensed, though you were crown'd"
I,V,VIOLA,"The nonpareil of beauty!"
I,V,OLIVIA,"How does he love me?"
I,V,VIOLA,"With adorations, fertile tears,"
I,V,VIOLA,"With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Your lord does know my mind; I cannot love him:"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth;"
I,V,OLIVIA,"In voices well divulged, free, learn'd and valiant;"
I,V,OLIVIA,"And in dimension and the shape of nature"
I,V,OLIVIA,"A gracious person: but yet I cannot love him;"
I,V,OLIVIA,"He might have took his answer long ago."
I,V,VIOLA,"If I did love you in my master's flame,"
I,V,VIOLA,"With such a suffering, such a deadly life,"
I,V,VIOLA,"In your denial I would find no sense;"
I,V,VIOLA,"I would not understand it."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Why, what would you?"
I,V,VIOLA,"Make me a willow cabin at your gate,"
I,V,VIOLA,"And call upon my soul within the house;"
I,V,VIOLA,"Write loyal cantons of contemned love"
I,V,VIOLA,"And sing them loud even in the dead of night;"
I,V,VIOLA,"Halloo your name to the reverberate hills"
I,V,VIOLA,"And make the babbling gossip of the air"
I,V,VIOLA,"Cry out 'Olivia!' O, You should not rest"
I,V,VIOLA,"Between the elements of air and earth,"
I,V,VIOLA,"But you should pity me!"
I,V,OLIVIA,"You might do much."
I,V,OLIVIA,"What is your parentage?"
I,V,VIOLA,"Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:"
I,V,VIOLA,"I am a gentleman."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Get you to your lord;"
I,V,OLIVIA,"I cannot love him: let him send no more;"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Unless, perchance, you come to me again,"
I,V,OLIVIA,"To tell me how he takes it. Fare you well:"
I,V,OLIVIA,"I thank you for your pains: spend this for me."
I,V,VIOLA,"I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse:"
I,V,VIOLA,"My master, not myself, lacks recompense."
I,V,VIOLA,"Love make his heart of flint that you shall love;"
I,V,VIOLA,"And let your fervor, like my master's, be"
I,V,VIOLA,"Placed in contempt! Farewell, fair cruelty."
I,V,OLIVIA,"'What is your parentage?'"
I,V,OLIVIA,"'Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:"
I,V,OLIVIA,"I am a gentleman.' I'll be sworn thou art;"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit,"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Do give thee five-fold blazon: not too fast:"
I,V,OLIVIA,"soft, soft!"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Unless the master were the man. How now!"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Even so quickly may one catch the plague?"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Methinks I feel this youth's perfections"
I,V,OLIVIA,"With an invisible and subtle stealth"
I,V,OLIVIA,"To creep in at mine eyes. Well, let it be."
I,V,OLIVIA,"What ho, Malvolio!"
I,V,MALVOLIO,"Here, madam, at your service."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Run after that same peevish messenger,"
I,V,OLIVIA,"The county's man: he left this ring behind him,"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Would I or not: tell him I'll none of it."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Desire him not to flatter with his lord,"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Nor hold him up with hopes; I am not for him:"
I,V,OLIVIA,"If that the youth will come this way to-morrow,"
I,V,OLIVIA,"I'll give him reasons for't: hie thee, Malvolio."
I,V,MALVOLIO,"Madam, I will."
I,V,OLIVIA,"I do I know not what, and fear to find"
I,V,OLIVIA,"Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind."
I,V,OLIVIA,"Fate, show thy force: ourselves we do not owe;"
I,V,OLIVIA,"What is decreed must be, and be this so."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"me: the malignancy of my fate might perhaps"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"leave that I may bear my evils alone: it were a bad"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"recompense for your love, to lay any of them on you."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Let me yet know of you whither you are bound."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"No, sooth, sir: my determinate voyage is mere"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"what I am willing to keep in; therefore it charges"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"me in manners the rather to express myself. You"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"which I called Roderigo. My father was that"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Sebastian of Messaline, whom I know you have heard"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"of. He left behind him myself and a sister, both"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"born in an hour: if the heavens had been pleased,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"would we had so ended! but you, sir, altered that;"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"for some hour before you took me from the breach of"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"the sea was my sister drowned."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Alas the day!"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"me, was yet of many accounted beautiful: but,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"though I could not with such estimable wonder"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"overfar believe that, yet thus far I will boldly"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"publish her; she bore a mind that envy could not but"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"call fair. She is drowned already, sir, with salt"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more."
II,I,ANTONIO,"Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble."
II,I,ANTONIO,"If you will not murder me for my love, let me be"
II,I,ANTONIO,"your servant."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"If you will not undo what you have done, that is,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"kill him whom you have recovered, desire it not."
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"Fare ye well at once: my bosom is full of kindness,"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"and I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"upon the least occasion more mine eyes will tell"
II,I,SEBASTIAN,"tales of me. I am bound to the Count Orsino's court: farewell."
II,I,ANTONIO,"The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!"
II,I,ANTONIO,"I have many enemies in Orsino's court,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"Else would I very shortly see thee there."
II,I,ANTONIO,"But, come what may, I do adore thee so,"
II,I,ANTONIO,"That danger shall seem sport, and I will go."
II,II,MALVOLIO,"Were not you even now with the Countess Olivia?"
II,II,VIOLA,"Even now, sir; on a moderate pace I have since"
II,II,VIOLA,"arrived but hither."
II,II,MALVOLIO,"She returns this ring to you, sir: you might have"
II,II,MALVOLIO,"saved me my pains, to have taken it away yourself."
II,II,MALVOLIO,"She adds, moreover, that you should put your lord"
II,II,MALVOLIO,"into a desperate assurance she will none of him:"
II,II,MALVOLIO,"and one thing more, that you be never so hardy to"
II,II,MALVOLIO,"come again in his affairs, unless it be to report"
II,II,MALVOLIO,"your lord's taking of this. Receive it so."
II,II,VIOLA,"She took the ring of me: I'll none of it."
II,II,MALVOLIO,"Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to her; and her"
II,II,MALVOLIO,"will is, it should be so returned: if it be worth"
II,II,MALVOLIO,"stooping for, there it lies in your eye; if not, be"
II,II,MALVOLIO,"it his that finds it."
II,II,VIOLA,"I left no ring with her: what means this lady?"
II,II,VIOLA,"Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!"
II,II,VIOLA,"She made good view of me; indeed, so much,"
II,II,VIOLA,"That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue,"
II,II,VIOLA,"For she did speak in starts distractedly."
II,II,VIOLA,"She loves me, sure; the cunning of her passion"
II,II,VIOLA,"Invites me in this churlish messenger."
II,II,VIOLA,"None of my lord's ring! why, he sent her none."
II,II,VIOLA,"I am the man: if it be so, as 'tis,"
II,II,VIOLA,"Poor lady, she were better love a dream."
II,II,VIOLA,"Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness,"
II,II,VIOLA,"Wherein the pregnant enemy does much."
II,II,VIOLA,"How easy is it for the proper-false"
II,II,VIOLA,"In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!"
II,II,VIOLA,"Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we!"
II,II,VIOLA,"For such as we are made of, such we be."
II,II,VIOLA,"How will this fadge? my master loves her dearly;"
II,II,VIOLA,"And I, poor monster, fond as much on him;"
II,II,VIOLA,"And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me."
II,II,VIOLA,"What will become of this? As I am man,"
II,II,VIOLA,"My state is desperate for my master's love;"
II,II,VIOLA,"As I am woman,--now alas the day!--"
II,II,VIOLA,"What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!"
II,II,VIOLA,"O time! thou must untangle this, not I;"
II,II,VIOLA,"It is too hard a knot for me to untie!"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Approach, Sir Andrew: not to be abed after"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"midnight is to be up betimes; and 'diluculo"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"surgere,' thou know'st,--"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"Nay, my troth, I know not: but I know, to be up"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"late is to be up late."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"A false conclusion: I hate it as an unfilled can."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"To be up after midnight and to go to bed then, is"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"early: so that to go to bed after midnight is to go"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"to bed betimes. Does not our life consist of the"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"four elements?"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"Faith, so they say; but I think it rather consists"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"of eating and drinking."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Thou'rt a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Marian, I say! a stoup of wine!"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"Here comes the fool, i' faith."
II,III,Clown,"How now, my hearts! did you never see the picture"
II,III,Clown,"of 'we three'?"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Welcome, ass. Now let's have a catch."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. I"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"had rather than forty shillings I had such a leg,"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"and so sweet a breath to sing, as the fool has. In"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"night, when thou spokest of Pigrogromitus, of the"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus: 'twas"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"very good, i' faith. I sent thee sixpence for thy"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"leman: hadst it?"
II,III,Clown,"I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose"
II,III,Clown,"is no whipstock: my lady has a white hand, and the"
II,III,Clown,"Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"Excellent! why, this is the best fooling, when all"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"is done. Now, a song."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"There's a testril of me too: if one knight give a--"
II,III,Clown,"Would you have a love-song, or a song of good life?"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"A love-song, a love-song."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"Ay, ay: I care not for good life."
II,III,Clown,"O mistress mine, where are you roaming?"
II,III,Clown,"O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,"
II,III,Clown,"That can sing both high and low:"
II,III,Clown,"Trip no further, pretty sweeting;"
II,III,Clown,"Journeys end in lovers meeting,"
II,III,Clown,"Every wise man's son doth know."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"Excellent good, i' faith."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Good, good."
II,III,Clown,"What is love? 'tis not hereafter;"
II,III,Clown,"Present mirth hath present laughter;"
II,III,Clown,"What's to come is still unsure:"
II,III,Clown,"In delay there lies no plenty;"
II,III,Clown,"Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,"
II,III,Clown,"Youth's a stuff will not endure."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"A contagious breath."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"Very sweet and contagious, i' faith."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"But shall we make the welkin dance indeed? shall we"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"rouse the night-owl in a catch that will draw three"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"souls out of one weaver? shall we do that?"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"An you love me, let's do't: I am dog at a catch."
II,III,Clown,"By'r lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"Most certain. Let our catch be, 'Thou knave.'"
II,III,Clown,"'Hold thy peace, thou knave,' knight? I shall be"
II,III,Clown,"constrained in't to call thee knave, knight."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"'Tis not the first time I have constrained one to"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"call me knave. Begin, fool: it begins 'Hold thy peace.'"
II,III,Clown,"I shall never begin if I hold my peace."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"Good, i' faith. Come, begin."
II,III,MARIA,"What a caterwauling do you keep here! If my lady"
II,III,MARIA,"have not called up her steward Malvolio and bid him"
II,III,MARIA,"turn you out of doors, never trust me."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"a Peg-a-Ramsey, and 'Three merry men be we.' Am not"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Tillyvally. Lady!"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"'There dwelt a man in Babylon, lady, lady!'"
II,III,Clown,"Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"Ay, he does well enough if he be disposed, and so do"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"I too: he does it with a better grace, but I do it"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"more natural."
II,III,MARIA,"For the love o' God, peace!"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"My masters, are you mad? or what are you? Have ye"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"alehouse of my lady's house, that ye squeak out your"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"of voice? Is there no respect of place, persons, nor"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"time in you?"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up!"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"Sir Toby, I must be round with you. My lady bade me"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"tell you, that, though she harbours you as her"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"kinsman, she's nothing allied to your disorders. If"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"you can separate yourself and your misdemeanors, you"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"are welcome to the house; if not, an it would please"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"you to take leave of her, she is very willing to bid"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"you farewell."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"'Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone.'"
II,III,MARIA,"Nay, good Sir Toby."
II,III,Clown,"'His eyes do show his days are almost done.'"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"Is't even so?"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"'But I will never die.'"
II,III,Clown,"Sir Toby, there you lie."
II,III,MALVOLIO,"This is much credit to you."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"'Shall I bid him go?'"
II,III,Clown,"'What an if you do?'"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"'Shall I bid him go, and spare not?'"
II,III,Clown,"'O no, no, no, no, you dare not.'"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Out o' tune, sir: ye lie. Art any more than a"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"steward? Dost thou think, because thou art"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"
II,III,Clown,"Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the"
II,III,Clown,"mouth too."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Thou'rt i' the right. Go, sir, rub your chain with"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"crumbs. A stoup of wine, Maria!"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"Mistress Mary, if you prized my lady's favour at any"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"thing more than contempt, you would not give means"
II,III,MALVOLIO,"for this uncivil rule: she shall know of it, by this hand."
II,III,MARIA,"Go shake your ears."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"'Twere as good a deed as to drink when a man's"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"a-hungry, to challenge him the field, and then to"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"break promise with him and make a fool of him."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Do't, knight: I'll write thee a challenge: or I'll"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"deliver thy indignation to him by word of mouth."
II,III,MARIA,"Sweet Sir Toby, be patient for tonight: since the"
II,III,MARIA,"youth of the count's was today with thy lady, she is"
II,III,MARIA,"much out of quiet. For Monsieur Malvolio, let me"
II,III,MARIA,"alone with him: if I do not gull him into a"
II,III,MARIA,"nayword, and make him a common recreation, do not"
II,III,MARIA,"think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed:"
II,III,MARIA,"I know I can do it."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Possess us, possess us; tell us something of him."
II,III,MARIA,"Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of puritan."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"O, if I thought that I'ld beat him like a dog!"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"What, for being a puritan? thy exquisite reason,"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"dear knight?"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"I have no exquisite reason for't, but I have reason"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"good enough."
II,III,MARIA,"The devil a puritan that he is, or any thing"
II,III,MARIA,"constantly, but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass,"
II,III,MARIA,"that cons state without book and utters it by great"
II,III,MARIA,"swarths: the best persuaded of himself, so"
II,III,MARIA,"crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is"
II,III,MARIA,"his grounds of faith that all that look on him love"
II,III,MARIA,"him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find"
II,III,MARIA,"notable cause to work."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"What wilt thou do?"
II,III,MARIA,"I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of"
II,III,MARIA,"love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape"
II,III,MARIA,"of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure"
II,III,MARIA,"of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find"
II,III,MARIA,"himself most feelingly personated. I can write very"
II,III,MARIA,"like my lady your niece: on a forgotten matter we"
II,III,MARIA,"can hardly make distinction of our hands."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Excellent! I smell a device."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"I have't in my nose too."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop,"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"that they come from my niece, and that she's in"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"love with him."
II,III,MARIA,"My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"And your horse now would make him an ass."
II,III,MARIA,"Ass, I doubt not."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"O, 'twill be admirable!"
II,III,MARIA,"Sport royal, I warrant you: I know my physic will"
II,III,MARIA,"work with him. I will plant you two, and let the"
II,III,MARIA,"fool make a third, where he shall find the letter:"
II,III,MARIA,"observe his construction of it. For this night, to"
II,III,MARIA,"bed, and dream on the event. Farewell."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Good night, Penthesilea."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"Before me, she's a good wench."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"She's a beagle, true-bred, and one that adores me:"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"what o' that?"
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"I was adored once too."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Let's to bed, knight. Thou hadst need send for"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"more money."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Send for money, knight: if thou hast her not i'"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"the end, call me cut."
II,III,SIR ANDREW,"If I do not, never trust me, take it how you will."
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Come, come, I'll go burn some sack; 'tis too late"
II,III,SIR TOBY BELCH,"to go to bed now: come, knight; come, knight."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Give me some music. Now, good morrow, friends."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"That old and antique song we heard last night:"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Methought it did relieve my passion much,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"More than light airs and recollected terms"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times:"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Come, but one verse."
II,IV,CURIO,"He is not here, so please your lordship that should sing it."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Who was it?"
II,IV,CURIO,"Feste, the jester, my lord; a fool that the lady"
II,IV,CURIO,"Olivia's father took much delight in. He is about the house."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Seek him out, and play the tune the while."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Come hither, boy: if ever thou shalt love,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"In the sweet pangs of it remember me;"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"For such as I am all true lovers are,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Save in the constant image of the creature"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"That is beloved. How dost thou like this tune?"
II,IV,VIOLA,"It gives a very echo to the seat"
II,IV,VIOLA,"Where Love is throned."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Thou dost speak masterly:"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"My life upon't, young though thou art, thine eye"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Hath stay'd upon some favour that it loves:"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Hath it not, boy?"
II,IV,VIOLA,"A little, by your favour."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"What kind of woman is't?"
II,IV,VIOLA,"Of your complexion."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"She is not worth thee, then. What years, i' faith?"
II,IV,VIOLA,"About your years, my lord."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Too old by heaven: let still the woman take"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"An elder than herself: so wears she to him,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"So sways she level in her husband's heart:"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Than women's are."
II,IV,VIOLA,"I think it well, my lord."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Then let thy love be younger than thyself,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Or thy affection cannot hold the bent;"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"For women are as roses, whose fair flower"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour."
II,IV,VIOLA,"And so they are: alas, that they are so;"
II,IV,VIOLA,"To die, even when they to perfection grow!"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"O, fellow, come, the song we had last night."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"The spinsters and the knitters in the sun"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"And the free maids that weave their thread with bones"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"And dallies with the innocence of love,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Like the old age."
II,IV,Clown,"Are you ready, sir?"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Ay; prithee, sing."
II,IV,Clown,"Come away, come away, death,"
II,IV,Clown,"And in sad cypress let me be laid;"
II,IV,Clown,"Fly away, fly away breath;"
II,IV,Clown,"I am slain by a fair cruel maid."
II,IV,Clown,"My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,"
II,IV,Clown,"O, prepare it!"
II,IV,Clown,"My part of death, no one so true"
II,IV,Clown,"Did share it."
II,IV,Clown,"Not a flower, not a flower sweet"
II,IV,Clown,"On my black coffin let there be strown;"
II,IV,Clown,"Not a friend, not a friend greet"
II,IV,Clown,"My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown:"
II,IV,Clown,"A thousand thousand sighs to save,"
II,IV,Clown,"Lay me, O, where"
II,IV,Clown,"Sad true lover never find my grave,"
II,IV,Clown,"To weep there!"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"There's for thy pains."
II,IV,Clown,"No pains, sir: I take pleasure in singing, sir."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"I'll pay thy pleasure then."
II,IV,Clown,"Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid, one time or another."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Give me now leave to leave thee."
II,IV,Clown,"Now, the melancholy god protect thee; and the"
II,IV,Clown,"tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for"
II,IV,Clown,"thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such"
II,IV,Clown,"constancy put to sea, that their business might be"
II,IV,Clown,"every thing and their intent every where; for that's"
II,IV,Clown,"it that always makes a good voyage of nothing. Farewell."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Let all the rest give place."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Once more, Cesario,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty:"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Tell her, my love, more noble than the world,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Prizes not quantity of dirty lands;"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune;"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"But 'tis that miracle and queen of gems"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"That nature pranks her in attracts my soul."
II,IV,VIOLA,"But if she cannot love you, sir?"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"I cannot be so answer'd."
II,IV,VIOLA,"Sooth, but you must."
II,IV,VIOLA,"Say that some lady, as perhaps there is,"
II,IV,VIOLA,"Hath for your love a great a pang of heart"
II,IV,VIOLA,"As you have for Olivia: you cannot love her;"
II,IV,VIOLA,"You tell her so; must she not then be answer'd?"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"There is no woman's sides"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Can bide the beating of so strong a passion"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"So big, to hold so much; they lack retention"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Alas, their love may be call'd appetite,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"No motion of the liver, but the palate,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"That suffer surfeit, cloyment and revolt;"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"But mine is all as hungry as the sea,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"And can digest as much: make no compare"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Between that love a woman can bear me"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"And that I owe Olivia."
II,IV,VIOLA,"Ay, but I know--"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"What dost thou know?"
II,IV,VIOLA,"Too well what love women to men may owe:"
II,IV,VIOLA,"In faith, they are as true of heart as we."
II,IV,VIOLA,"My father had a daughter loved a man,"
II,IV,VIOLA,"As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,"
II,IV,VIOLA,"I should your lordship."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"And what's her history?"
II,IV,VIOLA,"A blank, my lord. She never told her love,"
II,IV,VIOLA,"But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,"
II,IV,VIOLA,"Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,"
II,IV,VIOLA,"And with a green and yellow melancholy"
II,IV,VIOLA,"She sat like patience on a monument,"
II,IV,VIOLA,"Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?"
II,IV,VIOLA,"We men may say more, swear more: but indeed"
II,IV,VIOLA,"Our shows are more than will; for still we prove"
II,IV,VIOLA,"Much in our vows, but little in our love."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"But died thy sister of her love, my boy?"
II,IV,VIOLA,"I am all the daughters of my father's house,"
II,IV,VIOLA,"And all the brothers too: and yet I know not."
II,IV,VIOLA,"Sir, shall I to this lady?"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"Ay, that's the theme."
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"To her in haste; give her this jewel; say,"
II,IV,DUKE ORSINO,"My love can give no place, bide no denay."
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Come thy ways, Signior Fabian."
II,V,FABIAN,"Nay, I'll come: if I lose a scruple of this sport,"
II,V,FABIAN,"let me be boiled to death with melancholy."
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"rascally sheep-biter come by some notable shame?"
II,V,FABIAN,"I would exult, man: you know, he brought me out o'"
II,V,FABIAN,"favour with my lady about a bear-baiting here."
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"To anger him we'll have the bear again; and we will"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"fool him black and blue: shall we not, Sir Andrew?"
II,V,SIR ANDREW,"An we do not, it is pity of our lives."
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Here comes the little villain."
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"How now, my metal of India!"
II,V,MARIA,"Get ye all three into the box-tree: Malvolio's"
II,V,MARIA,"coming down this walk: he has been yonder i' the"
II,V,MARIA,"sun practising behavior to his own shadow this half"
II,V,MARIA,"hour: observe him, for the love of mockery; for I"
II,V,MARIA,"know this letter will make a contemplative idiot of"
II,V,MARIA,"him. Close, in the name of jesting! Lie thou there,"
II,V,MARIA,"for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"'Tis but fortune; all is fortune. Maria once told"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"me she did affect me: and I have heard herself come"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"thus near, that, should she fancy, it should be one"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"exalted respect than any one else that follows her."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"What should I think on't?"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Here's an overweening rogue!"
II,V,FABIAN,"O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock"
II,V,FABIAN,"of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!"
II,V,SIR ANDREW,"'Slight, I could so beat the rogue!"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Peace, I say."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"To be Count Malvolio!"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Ah, rogue!"
II,V,SIR ANDREW,"Pistol him, pistol him."
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Peace, peace!"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"There is example for't; the lady of the Strachy"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"married the yeoman of the wardrobe."
II,V,SIR ANDREW,"Fie on him, Jezebel!"
II,V,FABIAN,"O, peace! now he's deeply in: look how"
II,V,FABIAN,"imagination blows him."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"Having been three months married to her, sitting in"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"my state,--"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"O, for a stone-bow, to hit him in the eye!"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"Calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"gown; having come from a day-bed, where I have left"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"Olivia sleeping,--"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Fire and brimstone!"
II,V,FABIAN,"O, peace, peace!"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"And then to have the humour of state; and after a"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"demure travel of regard, telling them I know my"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"place as I would they should do theirs, to for my"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"kinsman Toby,--"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Bolts and shackles!"
II,V,FABIAN,"O peace, peace, peace! now, now."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"out for him: I frown the while; and perchance wind"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"up watch, or play with my--some rich jewel. Toby"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"approaches; courtesies there to me,--"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Shall this fellow live?"
II,V,FABIAN,"Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet peace."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"smile with an austere regard of control,--"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"And does not Toby take you a blow o' the lips then?"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"Saying, 'Cousin Toby, my fortunes having cast me on"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"your niece give me this prerogative of speech,'--"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"What, what?"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"'You must amend your drunkenness.'"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Out, scab!"
II,V,FABIAN,"Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"'Besides, you waste the treasure of your time with"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"a foolish knight,'--"
II,V,SIR ANDREW,"That's me, I warrant you."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"'One Sir Andrew,'--"
II,V,SIR ANDREW,"I knew 'twas I; for many do call me fool."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"What employment have we here?"
II,V,FABIAN,"Now is the woodcock near the gin."
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"O, peace! and the spirit of humour intimate reading"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"aloud to him!"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"By my life, this is my lady's hand these be her"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"very C's, her U's and her T's and thus makes she her"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"great P's. It is, in contempt of question, her hand."
II,V,SIR ANDREW,"Her C's, her U's and her T's: why that?"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"wishes:'--her very phrases! By your leave, wax."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"uses to seal: 'tis my lady. To whom should this be?"
II,V,FABIAN,"This wins him, liver and all."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"Jove knows I love: But who?"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"Lips, do not move;"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"No man must know."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"'No man must know.' What follows? the numbers"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"altered! 'No man must know:' if this should be"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"thee, Malvolio?"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Marry, hang thee, brock!"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"I may command where I adore;"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"But silence, like a Lucrece knife,"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore:"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"M, O, A, I, doth sway my life."
II,V,FABIAN,"A fustian riddle!"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Excellent wench, say I."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"'M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.' Nay, but first, let"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"me see, let me see, let me see."
II,V,FABIAN,"What dish o' poison has she dressed him!"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"And with what wing the staniel cheques at it!"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"'I may command where I adore.' Why, she may command"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"me: I serve her; she is my lady. Why, this is"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"evident to any formal capacity; there is no"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"obstruction in this: and the end,--what should"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"that alphabetical position portend? If I could make"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"that resemble something in me,--Softly! M, O, A,"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"I,--"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"O, ay, make up that: he is now at a cold scent."
II,V,FABIAN,"Sowter will cry upon't for all this, though it be as"
II,V,FABIAN,"rank as a fox."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"M,--Malvolio; M,--why, that begins my name."
II,V,FABIAN,"Did not I say he would work it out? the cur is"
II,V,FABIAN,"excellent at faults."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"M,--but then there is no consonancy in the sequel;"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"that suffers under probation A should follow but O does."
II,V,FABIAN,"And O shall end, I hope."
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry O!"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"And then I comes behind."
II,V,FABIAN,"Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might see"
II,V,FABIAN,"more detraction at your heels than fortunes before"
II,V,FABIAN,"you."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"M, O, A, I; this simulation is not as the former: and"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"yet, to crush this a little, it would bow to me, for"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"every one of these letters are in my name. Soft!"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"here follows prose."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"'If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"are born great, some achieve greatness, and some"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"have greatness thrust upon 'em. Thy Fates open"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"their hands; let thy blood and spirit embrace them;"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"and, to inure thyself to what thou art like to be,"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"cast thy humble slough and appear fresh. Be"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants; let"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"thy tongue tang arguments of state; put thyself into"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"the trick of singularity: she thus advises thee"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"that sighs for thee. Remember who commended thy"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"cross-gartered: I say, remember. Go to, thou art"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"made, if thou desirest to be so; if not, let me see"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"thee a steward still, the fellow of servants, and"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"not worthy to touch Fortune's fingers. Farewell."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"She that would alter services with thee,"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"THE FORTUNATE-UNHAPPY.'"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"Daylight and champaign discovers not more: this is"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"open. I will be proud, I will read politic authors,"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"acquaintance, I will be point-devise the very man."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered;"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"and in this she manifests herself to my love, and"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"of her liking. I thank my stars I am happy. I will"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"on. Jove and my stars be praised! Here is yet a"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"postscript."
II,V,MALVOLIO,"'Thou canst not choose but know who I am. If thou"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"entertainest my love, let it appear in thy smiling;"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"thy smiles become thee well; therefore in my"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"presence still smile, dear my sweet, I prithee.'"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"Jove, I thank thee: I will smile; I will do"
II,V,MALVOLIO,"everything that thou wilt have me."
II,V,FABIAN,"I will not give my part of this sport for a pension"
II,V,FABIAN,"of thousands to be paid from the Sophy."
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"I could marry this wench for this device."
II,V,SIR ANDREW,"So could I too."
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest."
II,V,SIR ANDREW,"Nor I neither."
II,V,FABIAN,"Here comes my noble gull-catcher."
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck?"
II,V,SIR ANDREW,"Or o' mine either?"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Shall I play my freedom at traytrip, and become thy"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"bond-slave?"
II,V,SIR ANDREW,"I' faith, or I either?"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"the image of it leaves him he must run mad."
II,V,MARIA,"Nay, but say true; does it work upon him?"
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Like aqua-vitae with a midwife."
II,V,MARIA,"If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark"
II,V,MARIA,"his first approach before my lady: he will come to"
II,V,MARIA,"her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she"
II,V,MARIA,"abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests;"
II,V,MARIA,"and he will smile upon her, which will now be so"
II,V,MARIA,"unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a"
II,V,MARIA,"melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him"
II,V,MARIA,"into a notable contempt. If you will see it, follow"
II,V,MARIA,"me."
II,V,SIR TOBY BELCH,"To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit!"
II,V,SIR ANDREW,"I'll make one too."
III,I,VIOLA,"Save thee, friend, and thy music: dost thou live by"
III,I,VIOLA,"thy tabour?"
III,I,Clown,"No, sir, I live by the church."
III,I,VIOLA,"Art thou a churchman?"
III,I,Clown,"No such matter, sir: I do live by the church; for"
III,I,Clown,"I do live at my house, and my house doth stand by"
III,I,Clown,"the church."
III,I,VIOLA,"So thou mayst say, the king lies by a beggar, if a"
III,I,VIOLA,"beggar dwell near him; or, the church stands by thy"
III,I,VIOLA,"tabour, if thy tabour stand by the church."
III,I,Clown,"You have said, sir. To see this age! A sentence is"
III,I,Clown,"but a cheveril glove to a good wit: how quickly the"
III,I,Clown,"wrong side may be turned outward!"
III,I,VIOLA,"Nay, that's certain; they that dally nicely with"
III,I,VIOLA,"words may quickly make them wanton."
III,I,Clown,"I would, therefore, my sister had had no name, sir."
III,I,VIOLA,"Why, man?"
III,I,Clown,"Why, sir, her name's a word; and to dally with that"
III,I,Clown,"word might make my sister wanton. But indeed words"
III,I,Clown,"are very rascals since bonds disgraced them."
III,I,VIOLA,"Thy reason, man?"
III,I,Clown,"Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words; and"
III,I,Clown,"words are grown so false, I am loath to prove"
III,I,Clown,"reason with them."
III,I,VIOLA,"I warrant thou art a merry fellow and carest for nothing."
III,I,Clown,"Not so, sir, I do care for something; but in my"
III,I,Clown,"conscience, sir, I do not care for you: if that be"
III,I,Clown,"to care for nothing, sir, I would it would make you invisible."
III,I,VIOLA,"Art not thou the Lady Olivia's fool?"
III,I,Clown,"No, indeed, sir; the Lady Olivia has no folly: she"
III,I,Clown,"will keep no fool, sir, till she be married; and"
III,I,Clown,"fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to"
III,I,Clown,"herrings; the husband's the bigger: I am indeed not"
III,I,Clown,"her fool, but her corrupter of words."
III,I,VIOLA,"I saw thee late at the Count Orsino's."
III,I,Clown,"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun,"
III,I,Clown,"it shines every where. I would be sorry, sir, but"
III,I,Clown,"the fool should be as oft with your master as with"
III,I,Clown,"my mistress: I think I saw your wisdom there."
III,I,VIOLA,"Nay, an thou pass upon me, I'll no more with thee."
III,I,VIOLA,"Hold, there's expenses for thee."
III,I,Clown,"Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!"
III,I,VIOLA,"By my troth, I'll tell thee, I am almost sick for"
III,I,VIOLA,"one;"
III,I,VIOLA,"though I would not have it grow on my chin. Is thy"
III,I,VIOLA,"lady within?"
III,I,Clown,"Would not a pair of these have bred, sir?"
III,I,VIOLA,"Yes, being kept together and put to use."
III,I,Clown,"I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring"
III,I,Clown,"a Cressida to this Troilus."
III,I,VIOLA,"I understand you, sir; 'tis well begged."
III,I,Clown,"The matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but"
III,I,Clown,"a beggar: Cressida was a beggar. My lady is"
III,I,Clown,"within, sir. I will construe to them whence you"
III,I,Clown,"come; who you are and what you would are out of my"
III,I,Clown,"welkin, I might say 'element,' but the word is over-worn."
III,I,VIOLA,"This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;"
III,I,VIOLA,"And to do that well craves a kind of wit:"
III,I,VIOLA,"He must observe their mood on whom he jests,"
III,I,VIOLA,"The quality of persons, and the time,"
III,I,VIOLA,"And, like the haggard, cheque at every feather"
III,I,VIOLA,"That comes before his eye. This is a practise"
III,I,VIOLA,"As full of labour as a wise man's art"
III,I,VIOLA,"For folly that he wisely shows is fit;"
III,I,VIOLA,"But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit."
III,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Save you, gentleman."
III,I,VIOLA,"And you, sir."
III,I,SIR ANDREW,"Dieu vous garde, monsieur."
III,I,VIOLA,"Et vous aussi; votre serviteur."
III,I,SIR ANDREW,"I hope, sir, you are; and I am yours."
III,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Will you encounter the house? my niece is desirous"
III,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"you should enter, if your trade be to her."
III,I,VIOLA,"I am bound to your niece, sir; I mean, she is the"
III,I,VIOLA,"list of my voyage."
III,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Taste your legs, sir; put them to motion."
III,I,VIOLA,"My legs do better understand me, sir, than I"
III,I,VIOLA,"understand what you mean by bidding me taste my legs."
III,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"I mean, to go, sir, to enter."
III,I,VIOLA,"I will answer you with gait and entrance. But we"
III,I,VIOLA,"are prevented."
III,I,VIOLA,"Most excellent accomplished lady, the heavens rain"
III,I,VIOLA,"odours on you!"
III,I,SIR ANDREW,"That youth's a rare courtier: 'Rain odours;' well."
III,I,VIOLA,"My matter hath no voice, to your own most pregnant"
III,I,VIOLA,"and vouchsafed ear."
III,I,SIR ANDREW,"'Odours,' 'pregnant' and 'vouchsafed:' I'll get 'em"
III,I,SIR ANDREW,"all three all ready."
III,I,OLIVIA,"Let the garden door be shut, and leave me to my hearing."
III,I,OLIVIA,"Give me your hand, sir."
III,I,VIOLA,"My duty, madam, and most humble service."
III,I,OLIVIA,"What is your name?"
III,I,VIOLA,"Cesario is your servant's name, fair princess."
III,I,OLIVIA,"My servant, sir! 'Twas never merry world"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment:"
III,I,OLIVIA,"You're servant to the Count Orsino, youth."
III,I,VIOLA,"And he is yours, and his must needs be yours:"
III,I,VIOLA,"Your servant's servant is your servant, madam."
III,I,OLIVIA,"For him, I think not on him: for his thoughts,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Would they were blanks, rather than fill'd with me!"
III,I,VIOLA,"Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts"
III,I,VIOLA,"On his behalf."
III,I,OLIVIA,"O, by your leave, I pray you,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"I bade you never speak again of him:"
III,I,OLIVIA,"But, would you undertake another suit,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"I had rather hear you to solicit that"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Than music from the spheres."
III,I,VIOLA,"Dear lady,--"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Give me leave, beseech you. I did send,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"After the last enchantment you did here,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"A ring in chase of you: so did I abuse"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Myself, my servant and, I fear me, you:"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Under your hard construction must I sit,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"To force that on you, in a shameful cunning,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Which you knew none of yours: what might you think?"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Have you not set mine honour at the stake"
III,I,OLIVIA,"And baited it with all the unmuzzled thoughts"
III,I,OLIVIA,"That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Enough is shown: a cypress, not a bosom,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Hideth my heart. So, let me hear you speak."
III,I,VIOLA,"I pity you."
III,I,OLIVIA,"That's a degree to love."
III,I,VIOLA,"No, not a grize; for 'tis a vulgar proof,"
III,I,VIOLA,"That very oft we pity enemies."
III,I,OLIVIA,"Why, then, methinks 'tis time to smile again."
III,I,OLIVIA,"O, world, how apt the poor are to be proud!"
III,I,OLIVIA,"If one should be a prey, how much the better"
III,I,OLIVIA,"To fall before the lion than the wolf!"
III,I,OLIVIA,"The clock upbraids me with the waste of time."
III,I,OLIVIA,"Be not afraid, good youth, I will not have you:"
III,I,OLIVIA,"And yet, when wit and youth is come to harvest,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Your were is alike to reap a proper man:"
III,I,OLIVIA,"There lies your way, due west."
III,I,VIOLA,"Then westward-ho! Grace and good disposition"
III,I,VIOLA,"Attend your ladyship!"
III,I,VIOLA,"You'll nothing, madam, to my lord by me?"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Stay:"
III,I,OLIVIA,"I prithee, tell me what thou thinkest of me."
III,I,VIOLA,"That you do think you are not what you are."
III,I,OLIVIA,"If I think so, I think the same of you."
III,I,VIOLA,"Then think you right: I am not what I am."
III,I,OLIVIA,"I would you were as I would have you be!"
III,I,VIOLA,"Would it be better, madam, than I am?"
III,I,VIOLA,"I wish it might, for now I am your fool."
III,I,OLIVIA,"O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful"
III,I,OLIVIA,"In the contempt and anger of his lip!"
III,I,OLIVIA,"A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Than love that would seem hid: love's night is noon."
III,I,OLIVIA,"Cesario, by the roses of the spring,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"By maidhood, honour, truth and every thing,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide."
III,I,OLIVIA,"Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"But rather reason thus with reason fetter,"
III,I,OLIVIA,"Love sought is good, but given unsought better."
III,I,VIOLA,"By innocence I swear, and by my youth"
III,I,VIOLA,"I have one heart, one bosom and one truth,"
III,I,VIOLA,"And that no woman has; nor never none"
III,I,VIOLA,"Shall mistress be of it, save I alone."
III,I,VIOLA,"And so adieu, good madam: never more"
III,I,VIOLA,"Will I my master's tears to you deplore."
III,I,OLIVIA,"Yet come again; for thou perhaps mayst move"
III,I,OLIVIA,"That heart, which now abhors, to like his love."
III,II,SIR ANDREW,"No, faith, I'll not stay a jot longer."
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Thy reason, dear venom, give thy reason."
III,II,FABIAN,"You must needs yield your reason, Sir Andrew."
III,II,SIR ANDREW,"Marry, I saw your niece do more favours to the"
III,II,SIR ANDREW,"count's serving-man than ever she bestowed upon me;"
III,II,SIR ANDREW,"I saw't i' the orchard."
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Did she see thee the while, old boy? tell me that."
III,II,SIR ANDREW,"As plain as I see you now."
III,II,FABIAN,"This was a great argument of love in her toward you."
III,II,SIR ANDREW,"'Slight, will you make an ass o' me?"
III,II,FABIAN,"I will prove it legitimate, sir, upon the oaths of"
III,II,FABIAN,"judgment and reason."
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"And they have been grand-jury-men since before Noah"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"was a sailor."
III,II,FABIAN,"She did show favour to the youth in your sight only"
III,II,FABIAN,"to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, to"
III,II,FABIAN,"put fire in your heart and brimstone in your liver."
III,II,FABIAN,"You should then have accosted her; and with some"
III,II,FABIAN,"excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should"
III,II,FABIAN,"have banged the youth into dumbness. This was"
III,II,FABIAN,"looked for at your hand, and this was balked: the"
III,II,FABIAN,"double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash"
III,II,FABIAN,"off, and you are now sailed into the north of my"
III,II,FABIAN,"lady's opinion; where you will hang like an icicle"
III,II,FABIAN,"on a Dutchman's beard, unless you do redeem it by"
III,II,FABIAN,"some laudable attempt either of valour or policy."
III,II,SIR ANDREW,"An't be any way, it must be with valour; for policy"
III,II,SIR ANDREW,"I hate: I had as lief be a Brownist as a"
III,II,SIR ANDREW,"politician."
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Why, then, build me thy fortunes upon the basis of"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"valour. Challenge me the count's youth to fight"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"with him; hurt him in eleven places: my niece shall"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"take note of it; and assure thyself, there is no"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"commendation with woman than report of valour."
III,II,FABIAN,"There is no way but this, Sir Andrew."
III,II,SIR ANDREW,"Will either of you bear me a challenge to him?"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief;"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink:"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"paper, although the sheet were big enough for the"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"bed of Ware in England, set 'em down: go, about it."
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"write with a goose-pen, no matter: about it."
III,II,SIR ANDREW,"Where shall I find you?"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"We'll call thee at the cubiculo: go."
III,II,FABIAN,"This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby."
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"I have been dear to him, lad, some two thousand"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"strong, or so."
III,II,FABIAN,"We shall have a rare letter from him: but you'll"
III,II,FABIAN,"not deliver't?"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Never trust me, then; and by all means stir on the"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"youth to an answer. I think oxen and wainropes"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"cannot hale them together. For Andrew, if he were"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of"
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"the anatomy."
III,II,FABIAN,"And his opposite, the youth, bears in his visage no"
III,II,FABIAN,"great presage of cruelty."
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Look, where the youngest wren of nine comes."
III,II,MARIA,"If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourself"
III,II,MARIA,"into stitches, follow me. Yond gull Malvolio is"
III,II,MARIA,"turned heathen, a very renegado; for there is no"
III,II,MARIA,"Christian, that means to be saved by believing"
III,II,MARIA,"rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages"
III,II,MARIA,"of grossness. He's in yellow stockings."
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"And cross-gartered?"
III,II,MARIA,"Most villanously; like a pedant that keeps a school"
III,II,MARIA,"i' the church. I have dogged him, like his"
III,II,MARIA,"murderer. He does obey every point of the letter"
III,II,MARIA,"that I dropped to betray him: he does smile his"
III,II,MARIA,"face into more lines than is in the new map with the"
III,II,MARIA,"augmentation of the Indies: you have not seen such"
III,II,MARIA,"a thing as 'tis. I can hardly forbear hurling things"
III,II,MARIA,"at him. I know my lady will strike him: if she do,"
III,II,MARIA,"he'll smile and take't for a great favour."
III,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Come, bring us, bring us where he is."
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"I would not by my will have troubled you;"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"But, since you make your pleasure of your pains,"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"I will no further chide you."
III,III,ANTONIO,"I could not stay behind you: my desire,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth;"
III,III,ANTONIO,"And not all love to see you, though so much"
III,III,ANTONIO,"As might have drawn one to a longer voyage,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"But jealousy what might befall your travel,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Unguided and unfriended, often prove"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Rough and unhospitable: my willing love,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"The rather by these arguments of fear,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Set forth in your pursuit."
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"My kind Antonio,"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"I can no other answer make but thanks,"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"And thanks; and ever oft good turns"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay:"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"But, were my worth as is my conscience firm,"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"You should find better dealing. What's to do?"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"Shall we go see the reliques of this town?"
III,III,ANTONIO,"To-morrow, sir: best first go see your lodging."
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"I am not weary, and 'tis long to night:"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"With the memorials and the things of fame"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"That do renown this city."
III,III,ANTONIO,"Would you'ld pardon me;"
III,III,ANTONIO,"I do not without danger walk these streets:"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Once, in a sea-fight, 'gainst the count his galleys"
III,III,ANTONIO,"I did some service; of such note indeed,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"That were I ta'en here it would scarce be answer'd."
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"Belike you slew great number of his people."
III,III,ANTONIO,"The offence is not of such a bloody nature;"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Might well have given us bloody argument."
III,III,ANTONIO,"It might have since been answer'd in repaying"
III,III,ANTONIO,"What we took from them; which, for traffic's sake,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Most of our city did: only myself stood out;"
III,III,ANTONIO,"For which, if I be lapsed in this place,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"I shall pay dear."
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"Do not then walk too open."
III,III,ANTONIO,"It doth not fit me. Hold, sir, here's my purse."
III,III,ANTONIO,"In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Is best to lodge: I will bespeak our diet,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge"
III,III,ANTONIO,"With viewing of the town: there shall you have me."
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"Why I your purse?"
III,III,ANTONIO,"Haply your eye shall light upon some toy"
III,III,ANTONIO,"You have desire to purchase; and your store,"
III,III,ANTONIO,"I think, is not for idle markets, sir."
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"I'll be your purse-bearer and leave you"
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"For an hour."
III,III,ANTONIO,"To the Elephant."
III,III,SEBASTIAN,"I do remember."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"I have sent after him: he says he'll come;"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"How shall I feast him? what bestow of him?"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"For youth is bought more oft than begg'd or borrow'd."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"I speak too loud."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Where is Malvolio? he is sad and civil,"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"And suits well for a servant with my fortunes:"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Where is Malvolio?"
III,IV,MARIA,"He's coming, madam; but in very strange manner. He"
III,IV,MARIA,"is, sure, possessed, madam."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Why, what's the matter? does he rave?"
III,IV,MARIA,"No. madam, he does nothing but smile: your"
III,IV,MARIA,"ladyship were best to have some guard about you, if"
III,IV,MARIA,"he come; for, sure, the man is tainted in's wits."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Go call him hither."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"I am as mad as he,"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"If sad and merry madness equal be."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"How now, Malvolio!"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"Sweet lady, ho, ho."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Smilest thou?"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"I sent for thee upon a sad occasion."
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"Sad, lady! I could be sad: this does make some"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"obstruction in the blood, this cross-gartering; but"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"what of that? if it please the eye of one, it is"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"with me as the very true sonnet is, 'Please one, and"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"please all.'"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Why, how dost thou, man? what is the matter with thee?"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs. It"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"did come to his hands, and commands shall be"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"executed: I think we do know the sweet Roman hand."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio?"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"To bed! ay, sweet-heart, and I'll come to thee."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"God comfort thee! Why dost thou smile so and kiss"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"thy hand so oft?"
III,IV,MARIA,"How do you, Malvolio?"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"At your request! yes; nightingales answer daws."
III,IV,MARIA,"Why appear you with this ridiculous boldness before my lady?"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"'Be not afraid of greatness:' 'twas well writ."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"What meanest thou by that, Malvolio?"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"'Some are born great,'--"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Ha!"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"'Some achieve greatness,'--"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"What sayest thou?"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"'And some have greatness thrust upon them.'"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Heaven restore thee!"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"'Remember who commended thy yellow stockings,'--"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Thy yellow stockings!"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"'And wished to see thee cross-gartered.'"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Cross-gartered!"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"'Go to thou art made, if thou desirest to be so;'--"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Am I made?"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"'If not, let me see thee a servant still.'"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Why, this is very midsummer madness."
III,IV,Servant,"Madam, the young gentleman of the Count Orsino's is"
III,IV,Servant,"returned: I could hardly entreat him back: he"
III,IV,Servant,"attends your ladyship's pleasure."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"I'll come to him."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Good Maria, let this fellow be looked to. Where's"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"my cousin Toby? Let some of my people have a special"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"care of him: I would not have him miscarry for the"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"half of my dowry."
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"O, ho! do you come near me now? no worse man than"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"Sir Toby to look to me! This concurs directly with"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"the letter: she sends him on purpose, that I may"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"appear stubborn to him; for she incites me to that"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"in the letter. 'Cast thy humble slough,' says she;"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"'be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants;"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"let thy tongue tang with arguments of state; put"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"thyself into the trick of singularity;' and"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"consequently sets down the manner how; as, a sad"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"face, a reverend carriage, a slow tongue, in the"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"habit of some sir of note, and so forth. I have"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"limed her; but it is Jove's doing, and Jove make me"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"thankful! And when she went away now, 'Let this"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"fellow be looked to:' fellow! not Malvolio, nor"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"after my degree, but fellow. Why, every thing"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"adheres together, that no dram of a scruple, no"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"or unsafe circumstance--What can be said? Nothing"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"that can be can come between me and the full"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"prospect of my hopes. Well, Jove, not I, is the"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"doer of this, and he is to be thanked."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Which way is he, in the name of sanctity? If all"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"the devils of hell be drawn in little, and Legion"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"himself possessed him, yet I'll speak to him."
III,IV,FABIAN,"Here he is, here he is. How is't with you, sir?"
III,IV,FABIAN,"how is't with you, man?"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"Go off; I discard you: let me enjoy my private: go"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"off."
III,IV,MARIA,"Lo, how hollow the fiend speaks within him! did not"
III,IV,MARIA,"I tell you? Sir Toby, my lady prays you to have a"
III,IV,MARIA,"care of him."
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"Ah, ha! does she so?"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Go to, go to; peace, peace; we must deal gently"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"with him: let me alone. How do you, Malvolio? how"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"is't with you? What, man! defy the devil:"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"consider, he's an enemy to mankind."
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"Do you know what you say?"
III,IV,MARIA,"La you, an you speak ill of the devil, how he takes"
III,IV,MARIA,"it at heart! Pray God, he be not bewitched!"
III,IV,FABIAN,"Carry his water to the wise woman."
III,IV,MARIA,"Marry, and it shall be done to-morrow morning, if I"
III,IV,MARIA,"live. My lady would not lose him for more than I'll say."
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"How now, mistress!"
III,IV,MARIA,"O Lord!"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Prithee, hold thy peace; this is not the way: do"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"you not see you move him? let me alone with him."
III,IV,FABIAN,"No way but gentleness; gently, gently: the fiend is"
III,IV,FABIAN,"rough, and will not be roughly used."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Why, how now, my bawcock! how dost thou, chuck?"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"Sir!"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Ay, Biddy, come with me. What, man! 'tis not for"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan: hang"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"him, foul collier!"
III,IV,MARIA,"Get him to say his prayers, good Sir Toby, get him to pray."
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"My prayers, minx!"
III,IV,MARIA,"No, I warrant you, he will not hear of godliness."
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"Go, hang yourselves all! you are idle shallow"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"things: I am not of your element: you shall know"
III,IV,MALVOLIO,"more hereafter."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Is't possible?"
III,IV,FABIAN,"If this were played upon a stage now, I could"
III,IV,FABIAN,"condemn it as an improbable fiction."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"His very genius hath taken the infection of the device, man."
III,IV,MARIA,"Nay, pursue him now, lest the device take air and taint."
III,IV,FABIAN,"Why, we shall make him mad indeed."
III,IV,MARIA,"The house will be the quieter."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound. My"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"niece is already in the belief that he's mad: we"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"may carry it thus, for our pleasure and his penance,"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"us to have mercy on him: at which time we will"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"bring the device to the bar and crown thee for a"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"finder of madmen. But see, but see."
III,IV,FABIAN,"More matter for a May morning."
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"Here's the challenge, read it: warrant there's"
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"vinegar and pepper in't."
III,IV,FABIAN,"Is't so saucy?"
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"Ay, is't, I warrant him: do but read."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Give me."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"'Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy fellow.'"
III,IV,FABIAN,"Good, and valiant."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"why I do call thee so, for I will show thee no reason for't.'"
III,IV,FABIAN,"A good note; that keeps you from the blow of the law."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"sight she uses thee kindly: but thou liest in thy"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"throat; that is not the matter I challenge thee for.'"
III,IV,FABIAN,"Very brief, and to exceeding good sense--less."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"be thy chance to kill me,'--"
III,IV,FABIAN,"Good."
III,IV,FABIAN,"Still you keep o' the windy side of the law: good."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"one of our souls! He may have mercy upon mine; but"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"my hope is better, and so look to thyself. Thy"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"friend, as thou usest him, and thy sworn enemy,"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"ANDREW AGUECHEEK."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"If this letter move him not, his legs cannot:"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"I'll give't him."
III,IV,MARIA,"You may have very fit occasion for't: he is now in"
III,IV,MARIA,"some commerce with my lady, and will by and by depart."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Go, Sir Andrew: scout me for him at the corner the"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"orchard like a bum-baily: so soon as ever thou seest"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"him, draw; and, as thou drawest swear horrible; for"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"more approbation than ever proof itself would have"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"earned him. Away!"
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"Nay, let me alone for swearing."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Now will not I deliver his letter: for the behavior"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"capacity and breeding; his employment between his"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"lord and my niece confirms no less: therefore this"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"clodpole. But, sir, I will deliver his challenge by"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"word of mouth; set upon Aguecheek a notable report"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"of valour; and drive the gentleman, as I know his"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"youth will aptly receive it, into a most hideous"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"opinion of his rage, skill, fury and impetuosity."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"This will so fright them both that they will kill"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"one another by the look, like cockatrices."
III,IV,FABIAN,"Here he comes with your niece: give them way till"
III,IV,FABIAN,"he take leave, and presently after him."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"I will meditate the while upon some horrid message"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"for a challenge."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"I have said too much unto a heart of stone"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"And laid mine honour too unchary out:"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"There's something in me that reproves my fault;"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"But such a headstrong potent fault it is,"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"That it but mocks reproof."
III,IV,VIOLA,"With the same 'havior that your passion bears"
III,IV,VIOLA,"Goes on my master's grief."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Here, wear this jewel for me, 'tis my picture;"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Refuse it not; it hath no tongue to vex you;"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"And I beseech you come again to-morrow."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"What shall you ask of me that I'll deny,"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"That honour saved may upon asking give?"
III,IV,VIOLA,"Nothing but this; your true love for my master."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"How with mine honour may I give him that"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Which I have given to you?"
III,IV,VIOLA,"I will acquit you."
III,IV,OLIVIA,"Well, come again to-morrow: fare thee well:"
III,IV,OLIVIA,"A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Gentleman, God save thee."
III,IV,VIOLA,"And you, sir."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"That defence thou hast, betake thee to't: of what"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"nature the wrongs are thou hast done him, I know"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"not; but thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"the hunter, attends thee at the orchard-end:"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"thy assailant is quick, skilful and deadly."
III,IV,VIOLA,"You mistake, sir; I am sure no man hath any quarrel"
III,IV,VIOLA,"to me: my remembrance is very free and clear from"
III,IV,VIOLA,"any image of offence done to any man."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"You'll find it otherwise, I assure you: therefore,"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"if you hold your life at any price, betake you to"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"your guard; for your opposite hath in him what"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"youth, strength, skill and wrath can furnish man withal."
III,IV,VIOLA,"I pray you, sir, what is he?"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"He is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier and on"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"carpet consideration; but he is a devil in private"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"brawl: souls and bodies hath he divorced three; and"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"his incensement at this moment is so implacable,"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"that satisfaction can be none but by pangs of death"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"and sepulchre. Hob, nob, is his word; give't or take't."
III,IV,VIOLA,"I will return again into the house and desire some"
III,IV,VIOLA,"conduct of the lady. I am no fighter. I have heard"
III,IV,VIOLA,"of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on"
III,IV,VIOLA,"others, to taste their valour: belike this is a man"
III,IV,VIOLA,"of that quirk."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Sir, no; his indignation derives itself out of a"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"very competent injury: therefore, get you on and"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"give him his desire. Back you shall not to the"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"house, unless you undertake that with me which with"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"as much safety you might answer him: therefore, on,"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"or strip your sword stark naked; for meddle you"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"must, that's certain, or forswear to wear iron about you."
III,IV,VIOLA,"This is as uncivil as strange. I beseech you, do me"
III,IV,VIOLA,"this courteous office, as to know of the knight what"
III,IV,VIOLA,"my offence to him is: it is something of my"
III,IV,VIOLA,"negligence, nothing of my purpose."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"I will do so. Signior Fabian, stay you by this"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"gentleman till my return."
III,IV,VIOLA,"Pray you, sir, do you know of this matter?"
III,IV,FABIAN,"I know the knight is incensed against you, even to a"
III,IV,FABIAN,"mortal arbitrement; but nothing of the circumstance more."
III,IV,VIOLA,"I beseech you, what manner of man is he?"
III,IV,FABIAN,"Nothing of that wonderful promise, to read him by"
III,IV,FABIAN,"his form, as you are like to find him in the proof"
III,IV,FABIAN,"of his valour. He is, indeed, sir, the most skilful,"
III,IV,FABIAN,"bloody and fatal opposite that you could possibly"
III,IV,FABIAN,"have found in any part of Illyria. Will you walk"
III,IV,FABIAN,"towards him? I will make your peace with him if I"
III,IV,FABIAN,"can."
III,IV,VIOLA,"I shall be much bound to you for't: I am one that"
III,IV,VIOLA,"had rather go with sir priest than sir knight: I"
III,IV,VIOLA,"care not who knows so much of my mettle."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Why, man, he's a very devil; I have not seen such a"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"firago. I had a pass with him, rapier, scabbard and"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"all, and he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"motion, that it is inevitable; and on the answer, he"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"pays you as surely as your feet hit the ground they"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"step on. They say he has been fencer to the Sophy."
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"Pox on't, I'll not meddle with him."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Ay, but he will not now be pacified: Fabian can"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"scarce hold him yonder."
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"Plague on't, an I thought he had been valiant and so"
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"cunning in fence, I'ld have seen him damned ere I'ld"
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"have challenged him. Let him let the matter slip,"
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"and I'll give him my horse, grey Capilet."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"I'll make the motion: stand here, make a good show"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"on't: this shall end without the perdition of souls."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Marry, I'll ride your horse as well as I ride you."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"I have his horse to take up the quarrel:"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"I have persuaded him the youth's a devil."
III,IV,FABIAN,"He is as horribly conceited of him; and pants and"
III,IV,FABIAN,"looks pale, as if a bear were at his heels."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"with you for's oath sake: marry, he hath better"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"bethought him of his quarrel, and he finds that now"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"scarce to be worth talking of: therefore draw, for"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"the supportance of his vow; he protests he will not hurt you."
III,IV,VIOLA,"make me tell them how much I lack of a man."
III,IV,FABIAN,"Give ground, if you see him furious."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Come, Sir Andrew, there's no remedy; the gentleman"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"will, for his honour's sake, have one bout with you;"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"he cannot by the duello avoid it: but he has"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"promised me, as he is a gentleman and a soldier, he"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"will not hurt you. Come on; to't."
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"Pray God, he keep his oath!"
III,IV,VIOLA,"I do assure you, 'tis against my will."
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Put up your sword. If this young gentleman"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Have done offence, I take the fault on me:"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"If you offend him, I for him defy you."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"You, sir! why, what are you?"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"One, sir, that for his love dares yet do more"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Than you have heard him brag to you he will."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Nay, if you be an undertaker, I am for you."
III,IV,FABIAN,"O good Sir Toby, hold! here come the officers."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"I'll be with you anon."
III,IV,VIOLA,"Pray, sir, put your sword up, if you please."
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"Marry, will I, sir; and, for that I promised you,"
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"I'll be as good as my word: he will bear you easily"
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"and reins well."
III,IV,First Officer,"This is the man; do thy office."
III,IV,Second Officer,"Antonio, I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino."
III,IV,ANTONIO,"You do mistake me, sir."
III,IV,First Officer,"No, sir, no jot; I know your favour well,"
III,IV,First Officer,"Though now you have no sea-cap on your head."
III,IV,First Officer,"Take him away: he knows I know him well."
III,IV,ANTONIO,"I must obey."
III,IV,ANTONIO,"This comes with seeking you:"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"But there's no remedy; I shall answer it."
III,IV,ANTONIO,"What will you do, now my necessity"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Makes me to ask you for my purse? It grieves me"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Much more for what I cannot do for you"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Than what befalls myself. You stand amazed;"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"But be of comfort."
III,IV,Second Officer,"Come, sir, away."
III,IV,ANTONIO,"I must entreat of you some of that money."
III,IV,VIOLA,"What money, sir?"
III,IV,VIOLA,"For the fair kindness you have show'd me here,"
III,IV,VIOLA,"And, part, being prompted by your present trouble,"
III,IV,VIOLA,"Out of my lean and low ability"
III,IV,VIOLA,"I'll lend you something: my having is not much;"
III,IV,VIOLA,"I'll make division of my present with you:"
III,IV,VIOLA,"Hold, there's half my coffer."
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Will you deny me now?"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Is't possible that my deserts to you"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery,"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Lest that it make me so unsound a man"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"As to upbraid you with those kindnesses"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"That I have done for you."
III,IV,VIOLA,"I know of none;"
III,IV,VIOLA,"Nor know I you by voice or any feature:"
III,IV,VIOLA,"I hate ingratitude more in a man"
III,IV,VIOLA,"Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,"
III,IV,VIOLA,"Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption"
III,IV,VIOLA,"Inhabits our frail blood."
III,IV,ANTONIO,"O heavens themselves!"
III,IV,Second Officer,"Come, sir, I pray you, go."
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Let me speak a little. This youth that you see here"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death,"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Relieved him with such sanctity of love,"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"And to his image, which methought did promise"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Most venerable worth, did I devotion."
III,IV,First Officer,"What's that to us? The time goes by: away!"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"But O how vile an idol proves this god"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame."
III,IV,ANTONIO,"In nature there's no blemish but the mind;"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind:"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil"
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Are empty trunks o'erflourish'd by the devil."
III,IV,First Officer,"The man grows mad: away with him! Come, come, sir."
III,IV,ANTONIO,"Lead me on."
III,IV,VIOLA,"Methinks his words do from such passion fly,"
III,IV,VIOLA,"That he believes himself: so do not I."
III,IV,VIOLA,"Prove true, imagination, O, prove true,"
III,IV,VIOLA,"That I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you!"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Come hither, knight; come hither, Fabian: we'll"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"whisper o'er a couplet or two of most sage saws."
III,IV,VIOLA,"He named Sebastian: I my brother know"
III,IV,VIOLA,"Yet living in my glass; even such and so"
III,IV,VIOLA,"In favour was my brother, and he went"
III,IV,VIOLA,"Still in this fashion, colour, ornament,"
III,IV,VIOLA,"For him I imitate: O, if it prove,"
III,IV,VIOLA,"Tempests are kind and salt waves fresh in love."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"A very dishonest paltry boy, and more a coward than"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"a hare: his dishonesty appears in leaving his"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"friend here in necessity and denying him; and for"
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"his cowardship, ask Fabian."
III,IV,FABIAN,"A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it."
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"'Slid, I'll after him again and beat him."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Do; cuff him soundly, but never draw thy sword."
III,IV,SIR ANDREW,"An I do not,--"
III,IV,FABIAN,"Come, let's see the event."
III,IV,SIR TOBY BELCH,"I dare lay any money 'twill be nothing yet."
IV,I,Clown,"Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you?"
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow:"
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"Let me be clear of thee."
IV,I,Clown,"Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you; nor"
IV,I,Clown,"I am not sent to you by my lady, to bid you come"
IV,I,Clown,"speak with her; nor your name is not Master Cesario;"
IV,I,Clown,"nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so is so."
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else: Thou"
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"know'st not me."
IV,I,Clown,"Vent my folly! he has heard that word of some"
IV,I,Clown,"great man and now applies it to a fool. Vent my"
IV,I,Clown,"folly! I am afraid this great lubber, the world,"
IV,I,Clown,"will prove a cockney. I prithee now, ungird thy"
IV,I,Clown,"strangeness and tell me what I shall vent to my"
IV,I,Clown,"lady: shall I vent to her that thou art coming?"
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me: There's"
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"money for thee: if you tarry longer, I shall give"
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"worse payment."
IV,I,Clown,"By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise men"
IV,I,Clown,"that give fools money get themselves a good"
IV,I,Clown,"report--after fourteen years' purchase."
IV,I,SIR ANDREW,"Now, sir, have I met you again? there's for you."
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"Why, there's for thee, and there, and there. Are all"
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"the people mad?"
IV,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house."
IV,I,Clown,"This will I tell my lady straight: I would not be"
IV,I,Clown,"in some of your coats for two pence."
IV,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Come on, sir; hold."
IV,I,SIR ANDREW,"Nay, let him alone: I'll go another way to work"
IV,I,SIR ANDREW,"with him; I'll have an action of battery against"
IV,I,SIR ANDREW,"him, if there be any law in Illyria: though I"
IV,I,SIR ANDREW,"struck him first, yet it's no matter for that."
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"Let go thy hand."
IV,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young"
IV,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"soldier, put up your iron: you are well fleshed; come on."
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now? If"
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"thou darest tempt me further, draw thy sword."
IV,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"What, what? Nay, then I must have an ounce or two"
IV,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"of this malapert blood from you."
IV,I,OLIVIA,"Hold, Toby; on thy life I charge thee, hold!"
IV,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Madam!"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch,"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"Where manners ne'er were preach'd! out of my sight!"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"Be not offended, dear Cesario."
IV,I,OLIVIA,"Rudesby, be gone!"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"I prithee, gentle friend,"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"In this uncivil and thou unjust extent"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"Against thy peace. Go with me to my house,"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"Mayst smile at this: thou shalt not choose but go:"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me,"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"He started one poor heart of mine in thee."
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"What relish is in this? how runs the stream?"
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"Or I am mad, or else this is a dream:"
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;"
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!"
IV,I,OLIVIA,"Nay, come, I prithee; would thou'ldst be ruled by me!"
IV,I,SEBASTIAN,"Madam, I will."
IV,I,OLIVIA,"O, say so, and so be!"
IV,II,MARIA,"Nay, I prithee, put on this gown and this beard;"
IV,II,MARIA,"make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate: do"
IV,II,MARIA,"it quickly; I'll call Sir Toby the whilst."
IV,II,Clown,"Well, I'll put it on, and I will dissemble myself"
IV,II,Clown,"in't; and I would I were the first that ever"
IV,II,Clown,"dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to"
IV,II,Clown,"become the function well, nor lean enough to be"
IV,II,Clown,"thought a good student; but to be said an honest man"
IV,II,Clown,"and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a"
IV,II,Clown,"careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter."
IV,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Jove bless thee, master Parson."
IV,II,Clown,"Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for, as the old hermit of"
IV,II,Clown,"Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily"
IV,II,Clown,"said to a niece of King Gorboduc, 'That that is is;'"
IV,II,Clown,"so I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson; for,"
IV,II,Clown,"what is 'that' but 'that,' and 'is' but 'is'?"
IV,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"To him, Sir Topas."
IV,II,Clown,"What, ho, I say! peace in this prison!"
IV,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"The knave counterfeits well; a good knave."
IV,II,Clown,"Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio"
IV,II,Clown,"the lunatic."
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to my lady."
IV,II,Clown,"Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man!"
IV,II,Clown,"talkest thou nothing but of ladies?"
IV,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Well said, Master Parson."
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged: good Sir"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Topas, do not think I am mad: they have laid me"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"here in hideous darkness."
IV,II,Clown,"Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most"
IV,II,Clown,"modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones"
IV,II,Clown,"that will use the devil himself with courtesy:"
IV,II,Clown,"sayest thou that house is dark?"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"As hell, Sir Topas."
IV,II,Clown,"Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes,"
IV,II,Clown,"and the clearstores toward the south north are as"
IV,II,Clown,"lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of"
IV,II,Clown,"obstruction?"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"I am not mad, Sir Topas: I say to you, this house is dark."
IV,II,Clown,"Madman, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness"
IV,II,Clown,"but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than"
IV,II,Clown,"the Egyptians in their fog."
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"I say, this house is as dark as ignorance, though"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"ignorance were as dark as hell; and I say, there"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"was never man thus abused. I am no more mad than you"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"are: make the trial of it in any constant question."
IV,II,Clown,"What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl?"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird."
IV,II,Clown,"What thinkest thou of his opinion?"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion."
IV,II,Clown,"Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness:"
IV,II,Clown,"thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will"
IV,II,Clown,"allow of thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock, lest"
IV,II,Clown,"thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well."
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Sir Topas, Sir Topas!"
IV,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"My most exquisite Sir Topas!"
IV,II,Clown,"Nay, I am for all waters."
IV,II,MARIA,"Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and"
IV,II,MARIA,"gown: he sees thee not."
IV,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"To him in thine own voice, and bring me word how"
IV,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"thou findest him: I would we were well rid of this"
IV,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"knavery. If he may be conveniently delivered, I"
IV,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"would he were, for I am now so far in offence with"
IV,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"my niece that I cannot pursue with any safety this"
IV,II,SIR TOBY BELCH,"sport to the upshot. Come by and by to my chamber."
IV,II,Clown,"'Hey, Robin, jolly Robin,"
IV,II,Clown,"Tell me how thy lady does.'"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Fool!"
IV,II,Clown,"'My lady is unkind, perdy.'"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Fool!"
IV,II,Clown,"'Alas, why is she so?'"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Fool, I say!"
IV,II,Clown,"'She loves another'--Who calls, ha?"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink and paper:"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"as I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"thee for't."
IV,II,Clown,"Master Malvolio?"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Ay, good fool."
IV,II,Clown,"Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused: I"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art."
IV,II,Clown,"But as well? then you are mad indeed, if you be no"
IV,II,Clown,"better in your wits than a fool."
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"They have here propertied me; keep me in darkness,"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"send ministers to me, asses, and do all they can to"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"face me out of my wits."
IV,II,Clown,"Advise you what you say; the minister is here."
IV,II,Clown,"Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore!"
IV,II,Clown,"endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain"
IV,II,Clown,"bibble babble."
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Sir Topas!"
IV,II,Clown,"Maintain no words with him, good fellow. Who, I,"
IV,II,Clown,"sir? not I, sir. God be wi' you, good Sir Topas."
IV,II,Clown,"Merry, amen. I will, sir, I will."
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Fool, fool, fool, I say!"
IV,II,Clown,"Alas, sir, be patient. What say you sir? I am"
IV,II,Clown,"shent for speaking to you."
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Good fool, help me to some light and some paper: I"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"tell thee, I am as well in my wits as any man in Illyria."
IV,II,Clown,"Well-a-day that you were, sir"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"By this hand, I am. Good fool, some ink, paper and"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"light; and convey what I will set down to my lady:"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"it shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"of letter did."
IV,II,Clown,"I will help you to't. But tell me true, are you"
IV,II,Clown,"not mad indeed? or do you but counterfeit?"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Believe me, I am not; I tell thee true."
IV,II,Clown,"Nay, I'll ne'er believe a madman till I see his"
IV,II,Clown,"brains. I will fetch you light and paper and ink."
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"Fool, I'll requite it in the highest degree: I"
IV,II,MALVOLIO,"prithee, be gone."
IV,II,Clown,"I am gone, sir,"
IV,II,Clown,"And anon, sir,"
IV,II,Clown,"I'll be with you again,"
IV,II,Clown,"In a trice,"
IV,II,Clown,"Like to the old Vice,"
IV,II,Clown,"Your need to sustain;"
IV,II,Clown,"Who, with dagger of lath,"
IV,II,Clown,"In his rage and his wrath,"
IV,II,Clown,"Cries, ah, ha! to the devil:"
IV,II,Clown,"Like a mad lad,"
IV,II,Clown,"Pare thy nails, dad;"
IV,II,Clown,"Adieu, good man devil."
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"This is the air; that is the glorious sun;"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"This pearl she gave me, I do feel't and see't;"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"And though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus,"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"Yet 'tis not madness. Where's Antonio, then?"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"I could not find him at the Elephant:"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"Yet there he was; and there I found this credit,"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"That he did range the town to seek me out."
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"His counsel now might do me golden service;"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"For though my soul disputes well with my sense,"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"That this may be some error, but no madness,"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"So far exceed all instance, all discourse,"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"That I am ready to distrust mine eyes"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"And wrangle with my reason that persuades me"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"To any other trust but that I am mad"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"Or else the lady's mad; yet, if 'twere so,"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"She could not sway her house, command her followers,"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"Take and give back affairs and their dispatch"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"With such a smooth, discreet and stable bearing"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"As I perceive she does: there's something in't"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"That is deceiveable. But here the lady comes."
IV,III,OLIVIA,"Blame not this haste of mine. If you mean well,"
IV,III,OLIVIA,"Now go with me and with this holy man"
IV,III,OLIVIA,"Into the chantry by: there, before him,"
IV,III,OLIVIA,"And underneath that consecrated roof,"
IV,III,OLIVIA,"Plight me the full assurance of your faith;"
IV,III,OLIVIA,"That my most jealous and too doubtful soul"
IV,III,OLIVIA,"May live at peace. He shall conceal it"
IV,III,OLIVIA,"Whiles you are willing it shall come to note,"
IV,III,OLIVIA,"What time we will our celebration keep"
IV,III,OLIVIA,"According to my birth. What do you say?"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"I'll follow this good man, and go with you;"
IV,III,SEBASTIAN,"And, having sworn truth, ever will be true."
IV,III,OLIVIA,"Then lead the way, good father; and heavens so shine,"
IV,III,OLIVIA,"That they may fairly note this act of mine!"
V,I,FABIAN,"Now, as thou lovest me, let me see his letter."
V,I,Clown,"Good Master Fabian, grant me another request."
V,I,FABIAN,"Any thing."
V,I,Clown,"Do not desire to see this letter."
V,I,FABIAN,"This is, to give a dog, and in recompense desire my"
V,I,FABIAN,"dog again."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends?"
V,I,Clown,"Ay, sir; we are some of her trappings."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"I know thee well; how dost thou, my good fellow?"
V,I,Clown,"Truly, sir, the better for my foes and the worse"
V,I,Clown,"for my friends."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Just the contrary; the better for thy friends."
V,I,Clown,"No, sir, the worse."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"How can that be?"
V,I,Clown,"Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me;"
V,I,Clown,"now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by"
V,I,Clown,"my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself,"
V,I,Clown,"and by my friends, I am abused: so that,"
V,I,Clown,"conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives"
V,I,Clown,"make your two affirmatives why then, the worse for"
V,I,Clown,"my friends and the better for my foes."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Why, this is excellent."
V,I,Clown,"By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be"
V,I,Clown,"one of my friends."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Thou shalt not be the worse for me: there's gold."
V,I,Clown,"But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would"
V,I,Clown,"you could make it another."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"O, you give me ill counsel."
V,I,Clown,"Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once,"
V,I,Clown,"and let your flesh and blood obey it."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Well, I will be so much a sinner, to be a"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"double-dealer: there's another."
V,I,Clown,"Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play; and the old"
V,I,Clown,"saying is, the third pays for all: the triplex,"
V,I,Clown,"sir, is a good tripping measure; or the bells of"
V,I,Clown,"Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind; one, two, three."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"You can fool no more money out of me at this throw:"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"if you will let your lady know I am here to speak"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"my bounty further."
V,I,Clown,"Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come"
V,I,Clown,"again. I go, sir; but I would not have you to think"
V,I,Clown,"that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness:"
V,I,Clown,"but, as you say, sir, let your bounty take a nap, I"
V,I,Clown,"will awake it anon."
V,I,VIOLA,"Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"That face of his I do remember well;"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Yet, when I saw it last, it was besmear'd"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war:"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"A bawbling vessel was he captain of,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"For shallow draught and bulk unprizable;"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"With which such scathful grapple did he make"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"With the most noble bottom of our fleet,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"That very envy and the tongue of loss"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Cried fame and honour on him. What's the matter?"
V,I,First Officer,"Orsino, this is that Antonio"
V,I,First Officer,"That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy;"
V,I,First Officer,"And this is he that did the Tiger board,"
V,I,First Officer,"When your young nephew Titus lost his leg:"
V,I,First Officer,"Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state,"
V,I,First Officer,"In private brabble did we apprehend him."
V,I,VIOLA,"He did me kindness, sir, drew on my side;"
V,I,VIOLA,"But in conclusion put strange speech upon me:"
V,I,VIOLA,"I know not what 'twas but distraction."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Notable pirate! thou salt-water thief!"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Hast made thine enemies?"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Orsino, noble sir,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me:"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Antonio never yet was thief or pirate,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Though I confess, on base and ground enough,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Orsino's enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither:"
V,I,ANTONIO,"That most ingrateful boy there by your side,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"From the rude sea's enraged and foamy mouth"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was:"
V,I,ANTONIO,"His life I gave him and did thereto add"
V,I,ANTONIO,"My love, without retention or restraint,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"All his in dedication; for his sake"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Did I expose myself, pure for his love,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Into the danger of this adverse town;"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Drew to defend him when he was beset:"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Where being apprehended, his false cunning,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Not meaning to partake with me in danger,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"And grew a twenty years removed thing"
V,I,ANTONIO,"While one would wink; denied me mine own purse,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Which I had recommended to his use"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Not half an hour before."
V,I,VIOLA,"How can this be?"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"When came he to this town?"
V,I,ANTONIO,"To-day, my lord; and for three months before,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"No interim, not a minute's vacancy,"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Both day and night did we keep company."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Here comes the countess: now heaven walks on earth."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"But for thee, fellow; fellow, thy words are madness:"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Three months this youth hath tended upon me;"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"But more of that anon. Take him aside."
V,I,OLIVIA,"What would my lord, but that he may not have,"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable?"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Cesario, you do not keep promise with me."
V,I,VIOLA,"Madam!"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Gracious Olivia,--"
V,I,OLIVIA,"What do you say, Cesario? Good my lord,--"
V,I,VIOLA,"My lord would speak; my duty hushes me."
V,I,OLIVIA,"If it be aught to the old tune, my lord,"
V,I,OLIVIA,"It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear"
V,I,OLIVIA,"As howling after music."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Still so cruel?"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Still so constant, lord."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"What, to perverseness? you uncivil lady,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"That e'er devotion tender'd! What shall I do?"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Even what it please my lord, that shall become him."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Why should I not, had I the heart to do it,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Kill what I love?--a savage jealousy"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"That sometimes savours nobly. But hear me this:"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Since you to non-regardance cast my faith,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"And that I partly know the instrument"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"That screws me from my true place in your favour,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still;"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"But this your minion, whom I know you love,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Him will I tear out of that cruel eye,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Where he sits crowned in his master's spite."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief:"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"To spite a raven's heart within a dove."
V,I,VIOLA,"And I, most jocund, apt and willingly,"
V,I,VIOLA,"To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die."
V,I,OLIVIA,"Where goes Cesario?"
V,I,VIOLA,"After him I love"
V,I,VIOLA,"More than I love these eyes, more than my life,"
V,I,VIOLA,"More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife."
V,I,VIOLA,"If I do feign, you witnesses above"
V,I,VIOLA,"Punish my life for tainting of my love!"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Ay me, detested! how am I beguiled!"
V,I,VIOLA,"Who does beguile you? who does do you wrong?"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Hast thou forgot thyself? is it so long?"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Call forth the holy father."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Come, away!"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Whither, my lord? Cesario, husband, stay."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Husband!"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Ay, husband: can he that deny?"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Her husband, sirrah!"
V,I,VIOLA,"No, my lord, not I."
V,I,OLIVIA,"Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear"
V,I,OLIVIA,"That makes thee strangle thy propriety:"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Fear not, Cesario; take thy fortunes up;"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art"
V,I,OLIVIA,"As great as that thou fear'st."
V,I,OLIVIA,"O, welcome, father!"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence,"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Here to unfold, though lately we intended"
V,I,OLIVIA,"To keep in darkness what occasion now"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Reveals before 'tis ripe, what thou dost know"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Hath newly pass'd between this youth and me."
V,I,Priest,"A contract of eternal bond of love,"
V,I,Priest,"Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands,"
V,I,Priest,"Attested by the holy close of lips,"
V,I,Priest,"Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings;"
V,I,Priest,"And all the ceremony of this compact"
V,I,Priest,"Seal'd in my function, by my testimony:"
V,I,Priest,"Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave"
V,I,Priest,"I have travell'd but two hours."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case?"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Where thou and I henceforth may never meet."
V,I,VIOLA,"My lord, I do protest--"
V,I,OLIVIA,"O, do not swear!"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Hold little faith, though thou hast too much fear."
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"For the love of God, a surgeon! Send one presently"
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"to Sir Toby."
V,I,OLIVIA,"What's the matter?"
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"He has broke my head across and has given Sir Toby"
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"a bloody coxcomb too: for the love of God, your"
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home."
V,I,OLIVIA,"Who has done this, Sir Andrew?"
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"The count's gentleman, one Cesario: we took him for"
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"My gentleman, Cesario?"
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"'Od's lifelings, here he is! You broke my head for"
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"nothing; and that that I did, I was set on to do't"
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"by Sir Toby."
V,I,VIOLA,"Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you:"
V,I,VIOLA,"You drew your sword upon me without cause;"
V,I,VIOLA,"But I bespoke you fair, and hurt you not."
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have hurt me: I"
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"think you set nothing by a bloody coxcomb."
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"Here comes Sir Toby halting; you shall hear more:"
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"but if he had not been in drink, he would have"
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"tickled you othergates than he did."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"How now, gentleman! how is't with you?"
V,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"That's all one: has hurt me, and there's the end"
V,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"on't. Sot, didst see Dick surgeon, sot?"
V,I,Clown,"O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes"
V,I,Clown,"were set at eight i' the morning."
V,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Then he's a rogue, and a passy measures panyn: I"
V,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"hate a drunken rogue."
V,I,OLIVIA,"Away with him! Who hath made this havoc with them?"
V,I,SIR ANDREW,"I'll help you, Sir Toby, because well be dressed together."
V,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"Will you help? an ass-head and a coxcomb and a"
V,I,SIR TOBY BELCH,"knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull!"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look'd to."
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman:"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"But, had it been the brother of my blood,"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"I must have done no less with wit and safety."
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"I do perceive it hath offended you:"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"We made each other but so late ago."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"A natural perspective, that is and is not!"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Antonio, O my dear Antonio!"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"How have the hours rack'd and tortured me,"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Since I have lost thee!"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Sebastian are you?"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Fear'st thou that, Antonio?"
V,I,ANTONIO,"How have you made division of yourself?"
V,I,ANTONIO,"An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin"
V,I,ANTONIO,"Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Most wonderful!"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Do I stand there? I never had a brother;"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Nor can there be that deity in my nature,"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Of here and every where. I had a sister,"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd."
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Of charity, what kin are you to me?"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"What countryman? what name? what parentage?"
V,I,VIOLA,"Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father;"
V,I,VIOLA,"Such a Sebastian was my brother too,"
V,I,VIOLA,"So went he suited to his watery tomb:"
V,I,VIOLA,"If spirits can assume both form and suit"
V,I,VIOLA,"You come to fright us."
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"A spirit I am indeed;"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"But am in that dimension grossly clad"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Which from the womb I did participate."
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"And say 'Thrice-welcome, drowned Viola!'"
V,I,VIOLA,"My father had a mole upon his brow."
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"And so had mine."
V,I,VIOLA,"And died that day when Viola from her birth"
V,I,VIOLA,"Had number'd thirteen years."
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"O, that record is lively in my soul!"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"He finished indeed his mortal act"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"That day that made my sister thirteen years."
V,I,VIOLA,"If nothing lets to make us happy both"
V,I,VIOLA,"But this my masculine usurp'd attire,"
V,I,VIOLA,"Do not embrace me till each circumstance"
V,I,VIOLA,"Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump"
V,I,VIOLA,"That I am Viola: which to confirm,"
V,I,VIOLA,"I'll bring you to a captain in this town,"
V,I,VIOLA,"Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help"
V,I,VIOLA,"I was preserved to serve this noble count."
V,I,VIOLA,"All the occurrence of my fortune since"
V,I,VIOLA,"Hath been between this lady and this lord."
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"But nature to her bias drew in that."
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"You would have been contracted to a maid;"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived,"
V,I,SEBASTIAN,"You are betroth'd both to a maid and man."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Be not amazed; right noble is his blood."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"I shall have share in this most happy wreck."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Thou never shouldst love woman like to me."
V,I,VIOLA,"And all those sayings will I overswear;"
V,I,VIOLA,"And those swearings keep as true in soul"
V,I,VIOLA,"As doth that orbed continent the fire"
V,I,VIOLA,"That severs day from night."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Give me thy hand;"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds."
V,I,VIOLA,"The captain that did bring me first on shore"
V,I,VIOLA,"Hath my maid's garments: he upon some action"
V,I,VIOLA,"Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit,"
V,I,VIOLA,"A gentleman, and follower of my lady's."
V,I,OLIVIA,"He shall enlarge him: fetch Malvolio hither:"
V,I,OLIVIA,"And yet, alas, now I remember me,"
V,I,OLIVIA,"They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract."
V,I,OLIVIA,"A most extracting frenzy of mine own"
V,I,OLIVIA,"From my remembrance clearly banish'd his."
V,I,OLIVIA,"How does he, sirrah?"
V,I,Clown,"Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the staves's end as"
V,I,Clown,"well as a man in his case may do: has here writ a"
V,I,Clown,"letter to you; I should have given't you to-day"
V,I,Clown,"morning, but as a madman's epistles are no gospels,"
V,I,Clown,"so it skills not much when they are delivered."
V,I,OLIVIA,"Open't, and read it."
V,I,Clown,"Look then to be well edified when the fool delivers"
V,I,Clown,"the madman."
V,I,Clown,"'By the Lord, madam,'--"
V,I,OLIVIA,"How now! art thou mad?"
V,I,Clown,"No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship"
V,I,Clown,"will have it as it ought to be, you must allow Vox."
V,I,OLIVIA,"Prithee, read i' thy right wits."
V,I,Clown,"So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits is to"
V,I,Clown,"read thus: therefore perpend, my princess, and give ear."
V,I,OLIVIA,"Read it you, sirrah."
V,I,FABIAN,"world shall know it: though you have put me into"
V,I,FABIAN,"darkness and given your drunken cousin rule over"
V,I,FABIAN,"me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as"
V,I,FABIAN,"your ladyship. I have your own letter that induced"
V,I,FABIAN,"me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt"
V,I,FABIAN,"not but to do myself much right, or you much shame."
V,I,FABIAN,"Think of me as you please. I leave my duty a little"
V,I,FABIAN,"unthought of and speak out of my injury."
V,I,FABIAN,"THE MADLY-USED MALVOLIO.'"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Did he write this?"
V,I,Clown,"Ay, madam."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"This savours not much of distraction."
V,I,OLIVIA,"See him deliver'd, Fabian; bring him hither."
V,I,OLIVIA,"My lord so please you, these things further"
V,I,OLIVIA,"thought on,"
V,I,OLIVIA,"To think me as well a sister as a wife,"
V,I,OLIVIA,"One day shall crown the alliance on't, so please you,"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Here at my house and at my proper cost."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Madam, I am most apt to embrace your offer."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Your master quits you; and for your service done him,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"So much against the mettle of your sex,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"So far beneath your soft and tender breeding,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"And since you call'd me master for so long,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Here is my hand: you shall from this time be"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Your master's mistress."
V,I,OLIVIA,"A sister! you are she."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Is this the madman?"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Ay, my lord, this same."
V,I,OLIVIA,"How now, Malvolio!"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"Madam, you have done me wrong,"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"Notorious wrong."
V,I,OLIVIA,"Have I, Malvolio? no."
V,I,MALVOLIO,"Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter."
V,I,MALVOLIO,"You must not now deny it is your hand:"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"Write from it, if you can, in hand or phrase;"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"Or say 'tis not your seal, nor your invention:"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"You can say none of this: well, grant it then"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"And tell me, in the modesty of honour,"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"Why you have given me such clear lights of favour,"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you,"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"To put on yellow stockings and to frown"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"Upon Sir Toby and the lighter people;"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"And, acting this in an obedient hope,"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"And made the most notorious geck and gull"
V,I,MALVOLIO,"That e'er invention play'd on? tell me why."
V,I,OLIVIA,"Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Though, I confess, much like the character"
V,I,OLIVIA,"But out of question 'tis Maria's hand."
V,I,OLIVIA,"And now I do bethink me, it was she"
V,I,OLIVIA,"First told me thou wast mad; then camest in smiling,"
V,I,OLIVIA,"And in such forms which here were presupposed"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content:"
V,I,OLIVIA,"This practise hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee;"
V,I,OLIVIA,"But when we know the grounds and authors of it,"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge"
V,I,OLIVIA,"Of thine own cause."
V,I,FABIAN,"Good madam, hear me speak,"
V,I,FABIAN,"And let no quarrel nor no brawl to come"
V,I,FABIAN,"Taint the condition of this present hour,"
V,I,FABIAN,"Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not,"
V,I,FABIAN,"Most freely I confess, myself and Toby"
V,I,FABIAN,"Set this device against Malvolio here,"
V,I,FABIAN,"Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts"
V,I,FABIAN,"We had conceived against him: Maria writ"
V,I,FABIAN,"The letter at Sir Toby's great importance;"
V,I,FABIAN,"In recompense whereof he hath married her."
V,I,FABIAN,"How with a sportful malice it was follow'd,"
V,I,FABIAN,"May rather pluck on laughter than revenge;"
V,I,FABIAN,"If that the injuries be justly weigh'd"
V,I,FABIAN,"That have on both sides pass'd."
V,I,OLIVIA,"Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee!"
V,I,Clown,"Why, 'some are born great, some achieve greatness,"
V,I,Clown,"and some have greatness thrown upon them.' I was"
V,I,Clown,"one, sir, in this interlude; one Sir Topas, sir; but"
V,I,Clown,"that's all one. 'By the Lord, fool, I am not mad.'"
V,I,Clown,"But do you remember? 'Madam, why laugh you at such"
V,I,Clown,"a barren rascal? an you smile not, he's gagged:'"
V,I,Clown,"and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges."
V,I,MALVOLIO,"I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you."
V,I,OLIVIA,"He hath been most notoriously abused."
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Pursue him and entreat him to a peace:"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"He hath not told us of the captain yet:"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"When that is known and golden time convents,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"A solemn combination shall be made"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"We will not part from hence. Cesario, come;"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"For so you shall be, while you are a man;"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"But when in other habits you are seen,"
V,I,DUKE ORSINO,"Orsino's mistress and his fancy's queen."
V,I,Clown,"When that I was and a little tiny boy,"
V,I,Clown,"With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,"
V,I,Clown,"A foolish thing was but a toy,"
V,I,Clown,"For the rain it raineth every day."
V,I,Clown,"But when I came to man's estate,"
V,I,Clown,"With hey, ho, &c."
V,I,Clown,"'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,"
V,I,Clown,"For the rain, &c."
V,I,Clown,"But when I came, alas! to wive,"
V,I,Clown,"With hey, ho, &c."
V,I,Clown,"By swaggering could I never thrive,"
V,I,Clown,"For the rain, &c."
V,I,Clown,"But when I came unto my beds,"
V,I,Clown,"With hey, ho, &c."
V,I,Clown,"With toss-pots still had drunken heads,"
V,I,Clown,"For the rain, &c."
V,I,Clown,"A great while ago the world begun,"
V,I,Clown,"With hey, ho, &c."
V,I,Clown,"But that's all one, our play is done,"
V,I,Clown,"And we'll strive to please you every day."
I,I,VALENTINE,"Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus:"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits."
I,I,VALENTINE,"Were't not affection chains thy tender days"
I,I,VALENTINE,"To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love,"
I,I,VALENTINE,"I rather would entreat thy company"
I,I,VALENTINE,"To see the wonders of the world abroad,"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Than, living dully sluggardized at home,"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
I,I,VALENTINE,"But since thou lovest, love still and thrive therein,"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Even as I would when I to love begin."
I,I,PROTEUS,"Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu!"
I,I,PROTEUS,"Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest"
I,I,PROTEUS,"Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel:"
I,I,PROTEUS,"Wish me partaker in thy happiness"
I,I,PROTEUS,"When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger,"
I,I,PROTEUS,"If ever danger do environ thee,"
I,I,PROTEUS,"Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,"
I,I,PROTEUS,"For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine."
I,I,VALENTINE,"And on a love-book pray for my success?"
I,I,PROTEUS,"Upon some book I love I'll pray for thee."
I,I,VALENTINE,"That's on some shallow story of deep love:"
I,I,VALENTINE,"How young Leander cross'd the Hellespont."
I,I,PROTEUS,"That's a deep story of a deeper love:"
I,I,PROTEUS,"For he was more than over shoes in love."
I,I,VALENTINE,"'Tis true; for you are over boots in love,"
I,I,VALENTINE,"And yet you never swum the Hellespont."
I,I,PROTEUS,"Over the boots? nay, give me not the boots."
I,I,VALENTINE,"No, I will not, for it boots thee not."
I,I,PROTEUS,"What?"
I,I,VALENTINE,"To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans;"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth"
I,I,VALENTINE,"With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights:"
I,I,VALENTINE,"If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;"
I,I,VALENTINE,"If lost, why then a grievous labour won;"
I,I,VALENTINE,"However, but a folly bought with wit,"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Or else a wit by folly vanquished."
I,I,PROTEUS,"So, by your circumstance, you call me fool."
I,I,VALENTINE,"So, by your circumstance, I fear you'll prove."
I,I,PROTEUS,"'Tis love you cavil at: I am not Love."
I,I,VALENTINE,"Love is your master, for he masters you:"
I,I,VALENTINE,"And he that is so yoked by a fool,"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise."
I,I,PROTEUS,"Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud"
I,I,PROTEUS,"The eating canker dwells, so eating love"
I,I,PROTEUS,"Inhabits in the finest wits of all."
I,I,VALENTINE,"And writers say, as the most forward bud"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Even so by love the young and tender wit"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Losing his verdure even in the prime"
I,I,VALENTINE,"And all the fair effects of future hopes."
I,I,VALENTINE,"But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee,"
I,I,VALENTINE,"That art a votary to fond desire?"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Once more adieu! my father at the road"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Expects my coming, there to see me shipp'd."
I,I,PROTEUS,"And thither will I bring thee, Valentine."
I,I,VALENTINE,"Sweet Proteus, no; now let us take our leave."
I,I,VALENTINE,"To Milan let me hear from thee by letters"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Of thy success in love, and what news else"
I,I,VALENTINE,"Betideth here in absence of thy friend;"
I,I,VALENTINE,"And likewise will visit thee with mine."
I,I,PROTEUS,"All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!"
I,I,VALENTINE,"As much to you at home! and so, farewell."
I,I,PROTEUS,"He after honour hunts, I after love:"
I,I,PROTEUS,"He leaves his friends to dignify them more,"
I,I,PROTEUS,"I leave myself, my friends and all, for love."
I,I,PROTEUS,"Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me,"
I,I,PROTEUS,"Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,"
I,I,PROTEUS,"War with good counsel, set the world at nought;"
I,I,PROTEUS,"Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought."
I,I,SPEED,"Sir Proteus, save you! Saw you my master?"
I,I,PROTEUS,"But now he parted hence, to embark for Milan."
I,I,SPEED,"Twenty to one then he is shipp'd already,"
I,I,SPEED,"And I have play'd the sheep in losing him."
I,I,PROTEUS,"Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray,"
I,I,PROTEUS,"An if the shepherd be a while away."
I,I,SPEED,"You conclude that my master is a shepherd, then,"
I,I,SPEED,"and I a sheep?"
I,I,PROTEUS,"I do."
I,I,SPEED,"Why then, my horns are his horns, whether I wake or sleep."
I,I,PROTEUS,"A silly answer and fitting well a sheep."
I,I,SPEED,"This proves me still a sheep."
I,I,PROTEUS,"True; and thy master a shepherd."
I,I,SPEED,"Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance."
I,I,PROTEUS,"It shall go hard but I'll prove it by another."
I,I,SPEED,"The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the"
I,I,SPEED,"shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks"
I,I,SPEED,"not me: therefore I am no sheep."
I,I,PROTEUS,"The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd; the"
I,I,PROTEUS,"shepherd for food follows not the sheep: thou for"
I,I,PROTEUS,"wages followest thy master; thy master for wages"
I,I,PROTEUS,"follows not thee: therefore thou art a sheep."
I,I,SPEED,"Such another proof will make me cry 'baa.'"
I,I,PROTEUS,"But, dost thou hear? gavest thou my letter to Julia?"
I,I,SPEED,"Ay sir: I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her,"
I,I,SPEED,"a laced mutton, and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a"
I,I,SPEED,"lost mutton, nothing for my labour."
I,I,PROTEUS,"Here's too small a pasture for such store of muttons."
I,I,SPEED,"If the ground be overcharged, you were best stick her."
I,I,PROTEUS,"Nay: in that you are astray, 'twere best pound you."
I,I,SPEED,"Nay, sir, less than a pound shall serve me for"
I,I,SPEED,"carrying your letter."
I,I,PROTEUS,"You mistake; I mean the pound,--a pinfold."
I,I,SPEED,"From a pound to a pin? fold it over and over,"
I,I,SPEED,"'Tis threefold too little for carrying a letter to"
I,I,SPEED,"your lover."
I,I,PROTEUS,"But what said she?"
I,I,PROTEUS,"Nod--Ay--why, that's noddy."
I,I,SPEED,"You mistook, sir; I say, she did nod: and you ask"
I,I,SPEED,"me if she did nod; and I say, 'Ay.'"
I,I,PROTEUS,"And that set together is noddy."
I,I,SPEED,"Now you have taken the pains to set it together,"
I,I,SPEED,"take it for your pains."
I,I,PROTEUS,"No, no; you shall have it for bearing the letter."
I,I,SPEED,"Well, I perceive I must be fain to bear with you."
I,I,PROTEUS,"Why sir, how do you bear with me?"
I,I,SPEED,"Marry, sir, the letter, very orderly; having nothing"
I,I,SPEED,"but the word 'noddy' for my pains."
I,I,PROTEUS,"Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit."
I,I,SPEED,"And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse."
I,I,PROTEUS,"Come come, open the matter in brief: what said she?"
I,I,SPEED,"Open your purse, that the money and the matter may"
I,I,SPEED,"be both at once delivered."
I,I,PROTEUS,"Well, sir, here is for your pains. What said she?"
I,I,SPEED,"Truly, sir, I think you'll hardly win her."
I,I,PROTEUS,"Why, couldst thou perceive so much from her?"
I,I,SPEED,"Sir, I could perceive nothing at all from her; no,"
I,I,SPEED,"not so much as a ducat for delivering your letter:"
I,I,SPEED,"and being so hard to me that brought your mind, I"
I,I,SPEED,"fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling your"
I,I,SPEED,"mind. Give her no token but stones; for she's as"
I,I,SPEED,"hard as steel."
I,I,PROTEUS,"What said she? nothing?"
I,I,SPEED,"No, not so much as 'Take this for thy pains.' To"
I,I,SPEED,"testify your bounty, I thank you, you have testerned"
I,I,SPEED,"me; in requital whereof, henceforth carry your"
I,I,SPEED,"letters yourself: and so, sir, I'll commend you to my master."
I,I,PROTEUS,"Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck,"
I,I,PROTEUS,"Which cannot perish having thee aboard,"
I,I,PROTEUS,"Being destined to a drier death on shore."
I,I,PROTEUS,"I must go send some better messenger:"
I,I,PROTEUS,"I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,"
I,I,PROTEUS,"Receiving them from such a worthless post."
I,II,JULIA,"But say, Lucetta, now we are alone,"
I,II,JULIA,"Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Ay, madam, so you stumble not unheedfully."
I,II,JULIA,"Of all the fair resort of gentlemen"
I,II,JULIA,"That every day with parle encounter me,"
I,II,JULIA,"In thy opinion which is worthiest love?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Please you repeat their names, I'll show my mind"
I,II,LUCETTA,"According to my shallow simple skill."
I,II,JULIA,"What think'st thou of the fair Sir Eglamour?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"As of a knight well-spoken, neat and fine;"
I,II,LUCETTA,"But, were I you, he never should be mine."
I,II,JULIA,"What think'st thou of the rich Mercatio?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Well of his wealth; but of himself, so so."
I,II,JULIA,"What think'st thou of the gentle Proteus?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Lord, Lord! to see what folly reigns in us!"
I,II,JULIA,"How now! what means this passion at his name?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Pardon, dear madam: 'tis a passing shame"
I,II,LUCETTA,"That I, unworthy body as I am,"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Should censure thus on lovely gentlemen."
I,II,JULIA,"Why not on Proteus, as of all the rest?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Then thus: of many good I think him best."
I,II,JULIA,"Your reason?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"I have no other, but a woman's reason;"
I,II,LUCETTA,"I think him so because I think him so."
I,II,JULIA,"And wouldst thou have me cast my love on him?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Ay, if you thought your love not cast away."
I,II,JULIA,"Why he, of all the rest, hath never moved me."
I,II,LUCETTA,"Yet he, of all the rest, I think, best loves ye."
I,II,JULIA,"His little speaking shows his love but small."
I,II,LUCETTA,"Fire that's closest kept burns most of all."
I,II,JULIA,"They do not love that do not show their love."
I,II,LUCETTA,"O, they love least that let men know their love."
I,II,JULIA,"I would I knew his mind."
I,II,LUCETTA,"Peruse this paper, madam."
I,II,JULIA,"'To Julia.' Say, from whom?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"That the contents will show."
I,II,JULIA,"Say, say, who gave it thee?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Valentine's page; and sent, I think, from Proteus."
I,II,LUCETTA,"He would have given it you; but I, being in the way,"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Did in your name receive it: pardon the"
I,II,LUCETTA,"fault I pray."
I,II,JULIA,"Now, by my modesty, a goodly broker!"
I,II,JULIA,"Dare you presume to harbour wanton lines?"
I,II,JULIA,"To whisper and conspire against my youth?"
I,II,JULIA,"Now, trust me, 'tis an office of great worth"
I,II,JULIA,"And you an officer fit for the place."
I,II,JULIA,"Or else return no more into my sight."
I,II,LUCETTA,"To plead for love deserves more fee than hate."
I,II,JULIA,"Will ye be gone?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"That you may ruminate."
I,II,JULIA,"And yet I would I had o'erlooked the letter:"
I,II,JULIA,"It were a shame to call her back again"
I,II,JULIA,"And pray her to a fault for which I chid her."
I,II,JULIA,"What a fool is she, that knows I am a maid,"
I,II,JULIA,"And would not force the letter to my view!"
I,II,JULIA,"Since maids, in modesty, say 'no' to that"
I,II,JULIA,"Which they would have the profferer construe 'ay.'"
I,II,JULIA,"Fie, fie, how wayward is this foolish love"
I,II,JULIA,"That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse"
I,II,JULIA,"And presently all humbled kiss the rod!"
I,II,JULIA,"How churlishly I chid Lucetta hence,"
I,II,JULIA,"When willingly I would have had her here!"
I,II,JULIA,"How angerly I taught my brow to frown,"
I,II,JULIA,"When inward joy enforced my heart to smile!"
I,II,JULIA,"My penance is to call Lucetta back"
I,II,JULIA,"And ask remission for my folly past."
I,II,JULIA,"What ho! Lucetta!"
I,II,LUCETTA,"What would your ladyship?"
I,II,JULIA,"Is't near dinner-time?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"I would it were,"
I,II,LUCETTA,"That you might kill your stomach on your meat"
I,II,LUCETTA,"And not upon your maid."
I,II,JULIA,"What is't that you took up so gingerly?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Nothing."
I,II,JULIA,"Why didst thou stoop, then?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"To take a paper up that I let fall."
I,II,JULIA,"And is that paper nothing?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Nothing concerning me."
I,II,JULIA,"Then let it lie for those that it concerns."
I,II,LUCETTA,"Madam, it will not lie where it concerns"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Unless it have a false interpeter."
I,II,JULIA,"Some love of yours hath writ to you in rhyme."
I,II,LUCETTA,"That I might sing it, madam, to a tune."
I,II,LUCETTA,"Give me a note: your ladyship can set."
I,II,JULIA,"As little by such toys as may be possible."
I,II,JULIA,"Best sing it to the tune of 'Light o' love.'"
I,II,LUCETTA,"It is too heavy for so light a tune."
I,II,JULIA,"Heavy! belike it hath some burden then?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Ay, and melodious were it, would you sing it."
I,II,JULIA,"And why not you?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"I cannot reach so high."
I,II,JULIA,"Let's see your song. How now, minion!"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Keep tune there still, so you will sing it out:"
I,II,LUCETTA,"And yet methinks I do not like this tune."
I,II,JULIA,"You do not?"
I,II,LUCETTA,"No, madam; it is too sharp."
I,II,JULIA,"You, minion, are too saucy."
I,II,LUCETTA,"Nay, now you are too flat"
I,II,LUCETTA,"And mar the concord with too harsh a descant:"
I,II,LUCETTA,"There wanteth but a mean to fill your song."
I,II,JULIA,"The mean is drown'd with your unruly bass."
I,II,LUCETTA,"Indeed, I bid the base for Proteus."
I,II,JULIA,"This babble shall not henceforth trouble me."
I,II,JULIA,"Here is a coil with protestation!"
I,II,JULIA,"Go get you gone, and let the papers lie:"
I,II,JULIA,"You would be fingering them, to anger me."
I,II,LUCETTA,"She makes it strange; but she would be best pleased"
I,II,LUCETTA,"To be so anger'd with another letter."
I,II,JULIA,"Nay, would I were so anger'd with the same!"
I,II,JULIA,"O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!"
I,II,JULIA,"Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey"
I,II,JULIA,"And kill the bees that yield it with your stings!"
I,II,JULIA,"I'll kiss each several paper for amends."
I,II,JULIA,"Look, here is writ 'kind Julia.' Unkind Julia!"
I,II,JULIA,"As in revenge of thy ingratitude,"
I,II,JULIA,"I throw thy name against the bruising stones,"
I,II,JULIA,"Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain."
I,II,JULIA,"And here is writ 'love-wounded Proteus.'"
I,II,JULIA,"Poor wounded name! my bosom as a bed"
I,II,JULIA,"Shall lodge thee till thy wound be thoroughly heal'd;"
I,II,JULIA,"And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss."
I,II,JULIA,"But twice or thrice was 'Proteus' written down."
I,II,JULIA,"Be calm, good wind, blow not a word away"
I,II,JULIA,"Till I have found each letter in the letter,"
I,II,JULIA,"Except mine own name: that some whirlwind bear"
I,II,JULIA,"Unto a ragged fearful-hanging rock"
I,II,JULIA,"And throw it thence into the raging sea!"
I,II,JULIA,"Lo, here in one line is his name twice writ,"
I,II,JULIA,"'Poor forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,"
I,II,JULIA,"To the sweet Julia:' that I'll tear away."
I,II,JULIA,"And yet I will not, sith so prettily"
I,II,JULIA,"He couples it to his complaining names."
I,II,JULIA,"Thus will I fold them one on another:"
I,II,JULIA,"Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will."
I,II,LUCETTA,"Madam,"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Dinner is ready, and your father stays."
I,II,JULIA,"Well, let us go."
I,II,LUCETTA,"What, shall these papers lie like tell-tales here?"
I,II,JULIA,"If you respect them, best to take them up."
I,II,LUCETTA,"Nay, I was taken up for laying them down:"
I,II,LUCETTA,"Yet here they shall not lie, for catching cold."
I,II,JULIA,"I see you have a month's mind to them."
I,II,LUCETTA,"Ay, madam, you may say what sights you see;"
I,II,LUCETTA,"I see things too, although you judge I wink."
I,II,JULIA,"Come, come; will't please you go?"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Tell me, Panthino, what sad talk was that"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Wherewith my brother held you in the cloister?"
I,III,PANTHINO,"'Twas of his nephew Proteus, your son."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Why, what of him?"
I,III,PANTHINO,"He wonder'd that your lordship"
I,III,PANTHINO,"Would suffer him to spend his youth at home,"
I,III,PANTHINO,"While other men, of slender reputation,"
I,III,PANTHINO,"Put forth their sons to seek preferment out:"
I,III,PANTHINO,"Some to the wars, to try their fortune there;"
I,III,PANTHINO,"Some to discover islands far away;"
I,III,PANTHINO,"Some to the studious universities."
I,III,PANTHINO,"For any or for all these exercises,"
I,III,PANTHINO,"He said that Proteus your son was meet,"
I,III,PANTHINO,"And did request me to importune you"
I,III,PANTHINO,"To let him spend his time no more at home,"
I,III,PANTHINO,"Which would be great impeachment to his age,"
I,III,PANTHINO,"In having known no travel in his youth."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Nor need'st thou much importune me to that"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Whereon this month I have been hammering."
I,III,ANTONIO,"I have consider'd well his loss of time"
I,III,ANTONIO,"And how he cannot be a perfect man,"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Not being tried and tutor'd in the world:"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Experience is by industry achieved"
I,III,ANTONIO,"And perfected by the swift course of time."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Then tell me, whither were I best to send him?"
I,III,PANTHINO,"I think your lordship is not ignorant"
I,III,PANTHINO,"How his companion, youthful Valentine,"
I,III,PANTHINO,"Attends the emperor in his royal court."
I,III,ANTONIO,"I know it well."
I,III,PANTHINO,"'Twere good, I think, your lordship sent him thither:"
I,III,PANTHINO,"There shall he practise tilts and tournaments,"
I,III,PANTHINO,"Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen."
I,III,PANTHINO,"And be in eye of every exercise"
I,III,PANTHINO,"Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth."
I,III,ANTONIO,"I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised:"
I,III,ANTONIO,"And that thou mayst perceive how well I like it,"
I,III,ANTONIO,"The execution of it shall make known."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Even with the speediest expedition"
I,III,ANTONIO,"I will dispatch him to the emperor's court."
I,III,PANTHINO,"To-morrow, may it please you, Don Alphonso,"
I,III,PANTHINO,"With other gentlemen of good esteem,"
I,III,PANTHINO,"Are journeying to salute the emperor"
I,III,PANTHINO,"And to commend their service to his will."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Good company; with them shall Proteus go:"
I,III,ANTONIO,"And, in good time! now will we break with him."
I,III,PROTEUS,"Sweet love! sweet lines! sweet life!"
I,III,PROTEUS,"Here is her hand, the agent of her heart;"
I,III,PROTEUS,"Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn."
I,III,PROTEUS,"O, that our fathers would applaud our loves,"
I,III,PROTEUS,"To seal our happiness with their consents!"
I,III,PROTEUS,"O heavenly Julia!"
I,III,ANTONIO,"How now! what letter are you reading there?"
I,III,PROTEUS,"May't please your lordship, 'tis a word or two"
I,III,PROTEUS,"Of commendations sent from Valentine,"
I,III,PROTEUS,"Deliver'd by a friend that came from him."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Lend me the letter; let me see what news."
I,III,PROTEUS,"There is no news, my lord, but that he writes"
I,III,PROTEUS,"How happily he lives, how well beloved"
I,III,PROTEUS,"And daily graced by the emperor;"
I,III,PROTEUS,"Wishing me with him, partner of his fortune."
I,III,ANTONIO,"And how stand you affected to his wish?"
I,III,PROTEUS,"As one relying on your lordship's will"
I,III,PROTEUS,"And not depending on his friendly wish."
I,III,ANTONIO,"My will is something sorted with his wish."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed;"
I,III,ANTONIO,"For what I will, I will, and there an end."
I,III,ANTONIO,"I am resolved that thou shalt spend some time"
I,III,ANTONIO,"With Valentinus in the emperor's court:"
I,III,ANTONIO,"What maintenance he from his friends receives,"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Like exhibition thou shalt have from me."
I,III,ANTONIO,"To-morrow be in readiness to go:"
I,III,ANTONIO,"Excuse it not, for I am peremptory."
I,III,PROTEUS,"My lord, I cannot be so soon provided:"
I,III,PROTEUS,"Please you, deliberate a day or two."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Look, what thou want'st shall be sent after thee:"
I,III,ANTONIO,"No more of stay! to-morrow thou must go."
I,III,ANTONIO,"Come on, Panthino: you shall be employ'd"
I,III,ANTONIO,"To hasten on his expedition."
I,III,PROTEUS,"Thus have I shunn'd the fire for fear of burning,"
I,III,PROTEUS,"And drench'd me in the sea, where I am drown'd."
I,III,PROTEUS,"I fear'd to show my father Julia's letter,"
I,III,PROTEUS,"Lest he should take exceptions to my love;"
I,III,PROTEUS,"And with the vantage of mine own excuse"
I,III,PROTEUS,"Hath he excepted most against my love."
I,III,PROTEUS,"O, how this spring of love resembleth"
I,III,PROTEUS,"The uncertain glory of an April day,"
I,III,PROTEUS,"Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,"
I,III,PROTEUS,"And by and by a cloud takes all away!"
I,III,PANTHINO,"Sir Proteus, your father calls for you:"
I,III,PANTHINO,"He is in haste; therefore, I pray you to go."
I,III,PROTEUS,"Why, this it is: my heart accords thereto,"
I,III,PROTEUS,"And yet a thousand times it answers 'no.'"
II,I,SPEED,"Sir, your glove."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Not mine; my gloves are on."
II,I,SPEED,"Why, then, this may be yours, for this is but one."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Ha! let me see: ay, give it me, it's mine:"
II,I,VALENTINE,"Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine!"
II,I,VALENTINE,"Ah, Silvia, Silvia!"
II,I,SPEED,"Madam Silvia! Madam Silvia!"
II,I,VALENTINE,"How now, sirrah?"
II,I,SPEED,"She is not within hearing, sir."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Why, sir, who bade you call her?"
II,I,SPEED,"Your worship, sir; or else I mistook."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Well, you'll still be too forward."
II,I,SPEED,"And yet I was last chidden for being too slow."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Go to, sir: tell me, do you know Madam Silvia?"
II,I,SPEED,"She that your worship loves?"
II,I,VALENTINE,"Why, how know you that I am in love?"
II,I,SPEED,"Marry, by these special marks: first, you have"
II,I,SPEED,"learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms,"
II,I,SPEED,"like a malecontent; to relish a love-song, like a"
II,I,SPEED,"robin-redbreast; to walk alone, like one that had"
II,I,SPEED,"the pestilence; to sigh, like a school-boy that had"
II,I,SPEED,"lost his A B C; to weep, like a young wench that had"
II,I,SPEED,"buried her grandam; to fast, like one that takes"
II,I,SPEED,"diet; to watch like one that fears robbing; to"
II,I,SPEED,"speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were"
II,I,SPEED,"wont, when you laughed, to crow like a cock; when you"
II,I,SPEED,"walked, to walk like one of the lions; when you"
II,I,SPEED,"fasted, it was presently after dinner; when you"
II,I,SPEED,"looked sadly, it was for want of money: and now you"
II,I,SPEED,"are metamorphosed with a mistress, that, when I look"
II,I,SPEED,"on you, I can hardly think you my master."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Are all these things perceived in me?"
II,I,SPEED,"They are all perceived without ye."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Without me? they cannot."
II,I,SPEED,"Without you? nay, that's certain, for, without you"
II,I,SPEED,"were so simple, none else would: but you are so"
II,I,SPEED,"without these follies, that these follies are within"
II,I,SPEED,"you and shine through you like the water in an"
II,I,SPEED,"urinal, that not an eye that sees you but is a"
II,I,SPEED,"physician to comment on your malady."
II,I,VALENTINE,"But tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia?"
II,I,SPEED,"She that you gaze on so as she sits at supper?"
II,I,VALENTINE,"Hast thou observed that? even she, I mean."
II,I,SPEED,"Why, sir, I know her not."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Dost thou know her by my gazing on her, and yet"
II,I,VALENTINE,"knowest her not?"
II,I,SPEED,"Is she not hard-favoured, sir?"
II,I,VALENTINE,"Not so fair, boy, as well-favoured."
II,I,SPEED,"Sir, I know that well enough."
II,I,VALENTINE,"What dost thou know?"
II,I,SPEED,"That she is not so fair as, of you, well-favoured."
II,I,VALENTINE,"I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite."
II,I,SPEED,"That's because the one is painted and the other out"
II,I,SPEED,"of all count."
II,I,VALENTINE,"How painted? and how out of count?"
II,I,SPEED,"Marry, sir, so painted, to make her fair, that no"
II,I,SPEED,"man counts of her beauty."
II,I,VALENTINE,"How esteemest thou me? I account of her beauty."
II,I,SPEED,"You never saw her since she was deformed."
II,I,VALENTINE,"How long hath she been deformed?"
II,I,SPEED,"Ever since you loved her."
II,I,VALENTINE,"I have loved her ever since I saw her; and still I"
II,I,VALENTINE,"see her beautiful."
II,I,SPEED,"If you love her, you cannot see her."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Why?"
II,I,SPEED,"Because Love is blind. O, that you had mine eyes;"
II,I,SPEED,"or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to"
II,I,SPEED,"have when you chid at Sir Proteus for going"
II,I,SPEED,"ungartered!"
II,I,VALENTINE,"What should I see then?"
II,I,SPEED,"Your own present folly and her passing deformity:"
II,I,SPEED,"for he, being in love, could not see to garter his"
II,I,SPEED,"hose, and you, being in love, cannot see to put on your hose."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Belike, boy, then, you are in love; for last"
II,I,VALENTINE,"morning you could not see to wipe my shoes."
II,I,SPEED,"True, sir; I was in love with my bed: I thank you,"
II,I,SPEED,"you swinged me for my love, which makes me the"
II,I,SPEED,"bolder to chide you for yours."
II,I,VALENTINE,"In conclusion, I stand affected to her."
II,I,SPEED,"I would you were set, so your affection would cease."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to"
II,I,VALENTINE,"one she loves."
II,I,SPEED,"And have you?"
II,I,VALENTINE,"I have."
II,I,SPEED,"Are they not lamely writ?"
II,I,VALENTINE,"No, boy, but as well as I can do them. Peace!"
II,I,VALENTINE,"here she comes."
II,I,SPEED,"Now will he interpret to her."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Madam and mistress, a thousand good-morrows."
II,I,SILVIA,"Sir Valentine and servant, to you two thousand."
II,I,VALENTINE,"As you enjoin'd me, I have writ your letter"
II,I,VALENTINE,"Unto the secret nameless friend of yours;"
II,I,VALENTINE,"Which I was much unwilling to proceed in"
II,I,VALENTINE,"But for my duty to your ladyship."
II,I,SILVIA,"I thank you gentle servant: 'tis very clerkly done."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off;"
II,I,VALENTINE,"For being ignorant to whom it goes"
II,I,VALENTINE,"I writ at random, very doubtfully."
II,I,SILVIA,"Perchance you think too much of so much pains?"
II,I,VALENTINE,"No, madam; so it stead you, I will write"
II,I,VALENTINE,"Please you command, a thousand times as much; And yet--"
II,I,SILVIA,"A pretty period! Well, I guess the sequel;"
II,I,SILVIA,"And yet I will not name it; and yet I care not;"
II,I,SILVIA,"And yet take this again; and yet I thank you,"
II,I,SILVIA,"Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more."
II,I,VALENTINE,"What means your ladyship? do you not like it?"
II,I,SILVIA,"Yes, yes; the lines are very quaintly writ;"
II,I,SILVIA,"But since unwillingly, take them again."
II,I,SILVIA,"Nay, take them."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Madam, they are for you."
II,I,SILVIA,"Ay, ay: you writ them, sir, at my request;"
II,I,SILVIA,"But I will none of them; they are for you;"
II,I,SILVIA,"I would have had them writ more movingly."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Please you, I'll write your ladyship another."
II,I,SILVIA,"And when it's writ, for my sake read it over,"
II,I,SILVIA,"And if it please you, so; if not, why, so."
II,I,VALENTINE,"If it please me, madam, what then?"
II,I,SILVIA,"Why, if it please you, take it for your labour:"
II,I,SILVIA,"And so, good morrow, servant."
II,I,SPEED,"O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,"
II,I,SPEED,"As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple!"
II,I,SPEED,"My master sues to her, and she hath"
II,I,SPEED,"taught her suitor,"
II,I,SPEED,"He being her pupil, to become her tutor."
II,I,SPEED,"O excellent device! was there ever heard a better,"
II,I,SPEED,"That my master, being scribe, to himself should write"
II,I,SPEED,"the letter?"
II,I,VALENTINE,"How now, sir? what are you reasoning with yourself?"
II,I,SPEED,"Nay, I was rhyming: 'tis you that have the reason."
II,I,VALENTINE,"To do what?"
II,I,SPEED,"To be a spokesman for Madam Silvia."
II,I,VALENTINE,"To whom?"
II,I,SPEED,"To yourself: why, she wooes you by a figure."
II,I,VALENTINE,"What figure?"
II,I,SPEED,"By a letter, I should say."
II,I,VALENTINE,"Why, she hath not writ to me?"
II,I,SPEED,"What need she, when she hath made you write to"
II,I,SPEED,"yourself? Why, do you not perceive the jest?"
II,I,VALENTINE,"No, believe me."
II,I,SPEED,"No believing you, indeed, sir. But did you perceive"
II,I,SPEED,"her earnest?"
II,I,VALENTINE,"She gave me none, except an angry word."
II,I,SPEED,"Why, she hath given you a letter."
II,I,VALENTINE,"That's the letter I writ to her friend."
II,I,SPEED,"And that letter hath she delivered, and there an end."
II,I,VALENTINE,"I would it were no worse."
II,I,SPEED,"I'll warrant you, 'tis as well:"
II,I,SPEED,"For often have you writ to her, and she, in modesty,"
II,I,SPEED,"Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply;"
II,I,SPEED,"Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover,"
II,I,SPEED,"Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover."
II,I,SPEED,"All this I speak in print, for in print I found it."
II,I,SPEED,"Why muse you, sir? 'tis dinner-time."
II,I,VALENTINE,"I have dined."
II,I,SPEED,"Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can"
II,I,SPEED,"feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my"
II,I,SPEED,"victuals, and would fain have meat. O, be not like"
II,I,SPEED,"your mistress; be moved, be moved."
II,II,PROTEUS,"Have patience, gentle Julia."
II,II,JULIA,"I must, where is no remedy."
II,II,PROTEUS,"When possibly I can, I will return."
II,II,JULIA,"If you turn not, you will return the sooner."
II,II,JULIA,"Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake."
II,II,PROTEUS,"Why then, we'll make exchange; here, take you this."
II,II,JULIA,"And seal the bargain with a holy kiss."
II,II,PROTEUS,"Here is my hand for my true constancy;"
II,II,PROTEUS,"And when that hour o'erslips me in the day"
II,II,PROTEUS,"Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake,"
II,II,PROTEUS,"The next ensuing hour some foul mischance"
II,II,PROTEUS,"Torment me for my love's forgetfulness!"
II,II,PROTEUS,"My father stays my coming; answer not;"
II,II,PROTEUS,"The tide is now: nay, not thy tide of tears;"
II,II,PROTEUS,"That tide will stay me longer than I should."
II,II,PROTEUS,"Julia, farewell!"
II,II,PROTEUS,"What, gone without a word?"
II,II,PROTEUS,"Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;"
II,II,PROTEUS,"For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it."
II,II,PANTHINO,"Sir Proteus, you are stay'd for."
II,II,PROTEUS,"Go; I come, I come."
II,II,PROTEUS,"Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb."
II,III,LAUNCE,"Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping;"
II,III,LAUNCE,"all the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I"
II,III,LAUNCE,"have received my proportion, like the prodigious"
II,III,LAUNCE,"son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's"
II,III,LAUNCE,"court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured"
II,III,LAUNCE,"dog that lives: my mother weeping, my father"
II,III,LAUNCE,"wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat"
II,III,LAUNCE,"wringing her hands, and all our house in a great"
II,III,LAUNCE,"perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed"
II,III,LAUNCE,"one tear: he is a stone, a very pebble stone, and"
II,III,LAUNCE,"has no more pity in him than a dog: a Jew would have"
II,III,LAUNCE,"wept to have seen our parting; why, my grandam,"
II,III,LAUNCE,"having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind at my"
II,III,LAUNCE,"parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of it. This"
II,III,LAUNCE,"shoe is my father: no, this left shoe is my father:"
II,III,LAUNCE,"no, no, this left shoe is my mother: nay, that"
II,III,LAUNCE,"cannot be so neither: yes, it is so, it is so, it"
II,III,LAUNCE,"hath the worser sole. This shoe, with the hole in"
II,III,LAUNCE,"it, is my mother, and this my father; a vengeance"
II,III,LAUNCE,"on't! there 'tis: now, sit, this staff is my"
II,III,LAUNCE,"sister, for, look you, she is as white as a lily and"
II,III,LAUNCE,"as small as a wand: this hat is Nan, our maid: I"
II,III,LAUNCE,"am the dog: no, the dog is himself, and I am the"
II,III,LAUNCE,"dog--Oh! the dog is me, and I am myself; ay, so,"
II,III,LAUNCE,"so. Now come I to my father; Father, your blessing:"
II,III,LAUNCE,"now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping:"
II,III,LAUNCE,"now should I kiss my father; well, he weeps on. Now"
II,III,LAUNCE,"come I to my mother: O, that she could speak now"
II,III,LAUNCE,"like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her; why, there"
II,III,LAUNCE,"'tis; here's my mother's breath up and down. Now"
II,III,LAUNCE,"come I to my sister; mark the moan she makes. Now"
II,III,LAUNCE,"the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a"
II,III,LAUNCE,"word; but see how I lay the dust with my tears."
II,III,PANTHINO,"Launce, away, away, aboard! thy master is shipped"
II,III,PANTHINO,"and thou art to post after with oars. What's the"
II,III,PANTHINO,"matter? why weepest thou, man? Away, ass! You'll"
II,III,PANTHINO,"lose the tide, if you tarry any longer."
II,III,LAUNCE,"It is no matter if the tied were lost; for it is the"
II,III,LAUNCE,"unkindest tied that ever any man tied."
II,III,PANTHINO,"What's the unkindest tide?"
II,III,LAUNCE,"Why, he that's tied here, Crab, my dog."
II,III,PANTHINO,"Tut, man, I mean thou'lt lose the flood, and, in"
II,III,PANTHINO,"losing the flood, lose thy voyage, and, in losing"
II,III,PANTHINO,"thy voyage, lose thy master, and, in losing thy"
II,III,PANTHINO,"master, lose thy service, and, in losing thy"
II,III,PANTHINO,"service,--Why dost thou stop my mouth?"
II,III,LAUNCE,"For fear thou shouldst lose thy tongue."
II,III,PANTHINO,"Where should I lose my tongue?"
II,III,LAUNCE,"In thy tale."
II,III,PANTHINO,"In thy tail!"
II,III,LAUNCE,"Lose the tide, and the voyage, and the master, and"
II,III,LAUNCE,"the service, and the tied! Why, man, if the river"
II,III,LAUNCE,"were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears; if the"
II,III,LAUNCE,"wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs."
II,III,PANTHINO,"Come, come away, man; I was sent to call thee."
II,III,LAUNCE,"Sir, call me what thou darest."
II,III,PANTHINO,"Wilt thou go?"
II,III,LAUNCE,"Well, I will go."
II,IV,SILVIA,"Servant!"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Mistress?"
II,IV,SPEED,"Master, Sir Thurio frowns on you."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Ay, boy, it's for love."
II,IV,SPEED,"Not of you."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Of my mistress, then."
II,IV,SPEED,"'Twere good you knocked him."
II,IV,SILVIA,"Servant, you are sad."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Indeed, madam, I seem so."
II,IV,THURIO,"Seem you that you are not?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Haply I do."
II,IV,THURIO,"So do counterfeits."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"So do you."
II,IV,THURIO,"What seem I that I am not?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Wise."
II,IV,THURIO,"What instance of the contrary?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Your folly."
II,IV,THURIO,"And how quote you my folly?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"I quote it in your jerkin."
II,IV,THURIO,"My jerkin is a doublet."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Well, then, I'll double your folly."
II,IV,THURIO,"How?"
II,IV,SILVIA,"What, angry, Sir Thurio! do you change colour?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Give him leave, madam; he is a kind of chameleon."
II,IV,THURIO,"That hath more mind to feed on your blood than live"
II,IV,THURIO,"in your air."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"You have said, sir."
II,IV,THURIO,"Ay, sir, and done too, for this time."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"I know it well, sir; you always end ere you begin."
II,IV,SILVIA,"A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"'Tis indeed, madam; we thank the giver."
II,IV,SILVIA,"Who is that, servant?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Yourself, sweet lady; for you gave the fire. Sir"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"and spends what he borrows kindly in your company."
II,IV,THURIO,"Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall"
II,IV,THURIO,"make your wit bankrupt."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"I know it well, sir; you have an exchequer of words,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"and, I think, no other treasure to give your"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"followers, for it appears by their bare liveries,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"that they live by your bare words."
II,IV,SILVIA,"No more, gentlemen, no more:--here comes my father."
II,IV,DUKE,"Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset."
II,IV,DUKE,"Sir Valentine, your father's in good health:"
II,IV,DUKE,"What say you to a letter from your friends"
II,IV,DUKE,"Of much good news?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"My lord, I will be thankful."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"To any happy messenger from thence."
II,IV,DUKE,"Know ye Don Antonio, your countryman?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Ay, my good lord, I know the gentleman"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"To be of worth and worthy estimation"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"And not without desert so well reputed."
II,IV,DUKE,"Hath he not a son?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Ay, my good lord; a son that well deserves"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"The honour and regard of such a father."
II,IV,DUKE,"You know him well?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"I know him as myself; for from our infancy"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"We have conversed and spent our hours together:"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"And though myself have been an idle truant,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Omitting the sweet benefit of time"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Yet hath Sir Proteus, for that's his name,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Made use and fair advantage of his days;"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"His years but young, but his experience old;"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe;"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"And, in a word, for far behind his worth"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Comes all the praises that I now bestow,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"He is complete in feature and in mind"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"With all good grace to grace a gentleman."
II,IV,DUKE,"Beshrew me, sir, but if he make this good,"
II,IV,DUKE,"He is as worthy for an empress' love"
II,IV,DUKE,"As meet to be an emperor's counsellor."
II,IV,DUKE,"Well, sir, this gentleman is come to me,"
II,IV,DUKE,"With commendation from great potentates;"
II,IV,DUKE,"And here he means to spend his time awhile:"
II,IV,DUKE,"I think 'tis no unwelcome news to you."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Should I have wish'd a thing, it had been he."
II,IV,DUKE,"Welcome him then according to his worth."
II,IV,DUKE,"Silvia, I speak to you, and you, Sir Thurio;"
II,IV,DUKE,"For Valentine, I need not cite him to it:"
II,IV,DUKE,"I will send him hither to you presently."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"This is the gentleman I told your ladyship"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Had come along with me, but that his mistress"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Did hold his eyes lock'd in her crystal looks."
II,IV,SILVIA,"Belike that now she hath enfranchised them"
II,IV,SILVIA,"Upon some other pawn for fealty."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Nay, sure, I think she holds them prisoners still."
II,IV,SILVIA,"Nay, then he should be blind; and, being blind"
II,IV,SILVIA,"How could he see his way to seek out you?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Why, lady, Love hath twenty pair of eyes."
II,IV,THURIO,"They say that Love hath not an eye at all."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"To see such lovers, Thurio, as yourself:"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Upon a homely object Love can wink."
II,IV,SILVIA,"Have done, have done; here comes the gentleman."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Welcome, dear Proteus! Mistress, I beseech you,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Confirm his welcome with some special favour."
II,IV,SILVIA,"His worth is warrant for his welcome hither,"
II,IV,SILVIA,"If this be he you oft have wish'd to hear from."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Mistress, it is: sweet lady, entertain him"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship."
II,IV,SILVIA,"Too low a mistress for so high a servant."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Not so, sweet lady: but too mean a servant"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"To have a look of such a worthy mistress."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Leave off discourse of disability:"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Sweet lady, entertain him for your servant."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"My duty will I boast of; nothing else."
II,IV,SILVIA,"And duty never yet did want his meed:"
II,IV,SILVIA,"Servant, you are welcome to a worthless mistress."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"I'll die on him that says so but yourself."
II,IV,SILVIA,"That you are welcome?"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"That you are worthless."
II,IV,THURIO,"Madam, my lord your father would speak with you."
II,IV,SILVIA,"I wait upon his pleasure. Come, Sir Thurio,"
II,IV,SILVIA,"Go with me. Once more, new servant, welcome:"
II,IV,SILVIA,"I'll leave you to confer of home affairs;"
II,IV,SILVIA,"When you have done, we look to hear from you."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"We'll both attend upon your ladyship."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Now, tell me, how do all from whence you came?"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Your friends are well and have them much commended."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"And how do yours?"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"I left them all in health."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"How does your lady? and how thrives your love?"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"My tales of love were wont to weary you;"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"I know you joy not in a love discourse."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Ay, Proteus, but that life is alter'd now:"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"I have done penance for contemning Love,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Whose high imperious thoughts have punish'd me"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"With bitter fasts, with penitential groans,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"With nightly tears and daily heart-sore sighs;"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"For in revenge of my contempt of love,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"And made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"O gentle Proteus, Love's a mighty lord,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"And hath so humbled me, as, I confess,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"There is no woe to his correction,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Nor to his service no such joy on earth."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Now no discourse, except it be of love;"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Now can I break my fast, dine, sup and sleep,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Upon the very naked name of love."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Enough; I read your fortune in your eye."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Was this the idol that you worship so?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Even she; and is she not a heavenly saint?"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"No; but she is an earthly paragon."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Call her divine."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"I will not flatter her."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"O, flatter me; for love delights in praises."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"And I must minister the like to you."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Then speak the truth by her; if not divine,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Yet let her be a principality,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Except my mistress."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Sweet, except not any;"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Except thou wilt except against my love."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Have I not reason to prefer mine own?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"And I will help thee to prefer her too:"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"She shall be dignified with this high honour--"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"To bear my lady's train, lest the base earth"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"And, of so great a favour growing proud,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"And make rough winter everlastingly."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Why, Valentine, what braggardism is this?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Pardon me, Proteus: all I can is nothing"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"To her whose worth makes other worthies nothing;"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"She is alone."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Then let her alone."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"And I as rich in having such a jewel"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"The water nectar and the rocks pure gold."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Forgive me that I do not dream on thee,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Because thou see'st me dote upon my love."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"My foolish rival, that her father likes"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Only for his possessions are so huge,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Is gone with her along, and I must after,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"But she loves you?"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Ay, and we are betroth'd: nay, more, our,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"marriage-hour,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"With all the cunning manner of our flight,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Determined of; how I must climb her window,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"The ladder made of cords, and all the means"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Plotted and 'greed on for my happiness."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Good Proteus, go with me to my chamber,"
II,IV,VALENTINE,"In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Go on before; I shall inquire you forth:"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"I must unto the road, to disembark"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Some necessaries that I needs must use,"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"And then I'll presently attend you."
II,IV,VALENTINE,"Will you make haste?"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"I will."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Even as one heat another heat expels,"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Or as one nail by strength drives out another,"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"So the remembrance of my former love"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Is by a newer object quite forgotten."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Is it mine, or Valentine's praise,"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Her true perfection, or my false transgression,"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"That makes me reasonless to reason thus?"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"She is fair; and so is Julia that I love--"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"That I did love, for now my love is thaw'd;"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Which, like a waxen image, 'gainst a fire,"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Bears no impression of the thing it was."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold,"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"And that I love him not as I was wont."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"O, but I love his lady too too much,"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"And that's the reason I love him so little."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"How shall I dote on her with more advice,"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"That thus without advice begin to love her!"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"'Tis but her picture I have yet beheld,"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"And that hath dazzled my reason's light;"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"But when I look on her perfections,"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"There is no reason but I shall be blind."
II,IV,PROTEUS,"If I can cheque my erring love, I will;"
II,IV,PROTEUS,"If not, to compass her I'll use my skill."
II,V,SPEED,"Launce! by mine honesty, welcome to Milan!"
II,V,LAUNCE,"Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not"
II,V,LAUNCE,"welcome. I reckon this always, that a man is never"
II,V,LAUNCE,"undone till he be hanged, nor never welcome to a"
II,V,LAUNCE,"place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess"
II,V,LAUNCE,"say 'Welcome!'"
II,V,SPEED,"Come on, you madcap, I'll to the alehouse with you"
II,V,SPEED,"presently; where, for one shot of five pence, thou"
II,V,SPEED,"shalt have five thousand welcomes. But, sirrah, how"
II,V,SPEED,"did thy master part with Madam Julia?"
II,V,LAUNCE,"Marry, after they closed in earnest, they parted very"
II,V,LAUNCE,"fairly in jest."
II,V,SPEED,"But shall she marry him?"
II,V,LAUNCE,"No."
II,V,SPEED,"How then? shall he marry her?"
II,V,LAUNCE,"No, neither."
II,V,SPEED,"What, are they broken?"
II,V,LAUNCE,"No, they are both as whole as a fish."
II,V,SPEED,"Why, then, how stands the matter with them?"
II,V,LAUNCE,"Marry, thus: when it stands well with him, it"
II,V,LAUNCE,"stands well with her."
II,V,SPEED,"What an ass art thou! I understand thee not."
II,V,LAUNCE,"What a block art thou, that thou canst not! My"
II,V,LAUNCE,"staff understands me."
II,V,SPEED,"What thou sayest?"
II,V,LAUNCE,"Ay, and what I do too: look thee, I'll but lean,"
II,V,LAUNCE,"and my staff understands me."
II,V,SPEED,"It stands under thee, indeed."
II,V,LAUNCE,"Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one."
II,V,SPEED,"But tell me true, will't be a match?"
II,V,LAUNCE,"Ask my dog: if he say ay, it will! if he say no,"
II,V,LAUNCE,"it will; if he shake his tail and say nothing, it will."
II,V,SPEED,"The conclusion is then that it will."
II,V,LAUNCE,"Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable."
II,V,SPEED,"'Tis well that I get it so. But, Launce, how sayest"
II,V,SPEED,"thou, that my master is become a notable lover?"
II,V,LAUNCE,"I never knew him otherwise."
II,V,SPEED,"Than how?"
II,V,LAUNCE,"A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be."
II,V,SPEED,"Why, thou whoreson ass, thou mistakest me."
II,V,LAUNCE,"Why, fool, I meant not thee; I meant thy master."
II,V,SPEED,"I tell thee, my master is become a hot lover."
II,V,LAUNCE,"Why, I tell thee, I care not though he burn himself"
II,V,LAUNCE,"in love. If thou wilt, go with me to the alehouse;"
II,V,LAUNCE,"if not, thou art an Hebrew, a Jew, and not worth the"
II,V,LAUNCE,"name of a Christian."
II,V,SPEED,"Why?"
II,V,LAUNCE,"Because thou hast not so much charity in thee as to"
II,V,LAUNCE,"go to the ale with a Christian. Wilt thou go?"
II,V,SPEED,"At thy service."
II,VI,PROTEUS,"To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn;"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"To love fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn;"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn;"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"And even that power which gave me first my oath"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Provokes me to this threefold perjury;"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Love bade me swear and Love bids me forswear."
II,VI,PROTEUS,"O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned,"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it!"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"At first I did adore a twinkling star,"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"But now I worship a celestial sun."
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken,"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"And he wants wit that wants resolved will"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better."
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Fie, fie, unreverend tongue! to call her bad,"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferr'd"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths."
II,VI,PROTEUS,"I cannot leave to love, and yet I do;"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"But there I leave to love where I should love."
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Julia I lose and Valentine I lose:"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"If I keep them, I needs must lose myself;"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"If I lose them, thus find I by their loss"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"For Valentine myself, for Julia Silvia."
II,VI,PROTEUS,"I to myself am dearer than a friend,"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"For love is still most precious in itself;"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"And Silvia--witness Heaven, that made her fair!--"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiope."
II,VI,PROTEUS,"I will forget that Julia is alive,"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Remembering that my love to her is dead;"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"And Valentine I'll hold an enemy,"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Aiming at Silvia as a sweeter friend."
II,VI,PROTEUS,"I cannot now prove constant to myself,"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Without some treachery used to Valentine."
II,VI,PROTEUS,"This night he meaneth with a corded ladder"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"To climb celestial Silvia's chamber-window,"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Myself in counsel, his competitor."
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Now presently I'll give her father notice"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Of their disguising and pretended flight;"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine;"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"For Thurio, he intends, shall wed his daughter;"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"But, Valentine being gone, I'll quickly cross"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"By some sly trick blunt Thurio's dull proceeding."
II,VI,PROTEUS,"Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,"
II,VI,PROTEUS,"As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift!"
II,VII,JULIA,"Counsel, Lucetta; gentle girl, assist me;"
II,VII,JULIA,"And even in kind love I do conjure thee,"
II,VII,JULIA,"Who art the table wherein all my thoughts"
II,VII,JULIA,"Are visibly character'd and engraved,"
II,VII,JULIA,"To lesson me and tell me some good mean"
II,VII,JULIA,"How, with my honour, I may undertake"
II,VII,JULIA,"A journey to my loving Proteus."
II,VII,LUCETTA,"Alas, the way is wearisome and long!"
II,VII,JULIA,"A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary"
II,VII,JULIA,"To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps;"
II,VII,JULIA,"Much less shall she that hath Love's wings to fly,"
II,VII,JULIA,"And when the flight is made to one so dear,"
II,VII,JULIA,"Of such divine perfection, as Sir Proteus."
II,VII,LUCETTA,"Better forbear till Proteus make return."
II,VII,JULIA,"O, know'st thou not his looks are my soul's food?"
II,VII,JULIA,"Pity the dearth that I have pined in,"
II,VII,JULIA,"By longing for that food so long a time."
II,VII,JULIA,"Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,"
II,VII,JULIA,"Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow"
II,VII,JULIA,"As seek to quench the fire of love with words."
II,VII,LUCETTA,"I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,"
II,VII,LUCETTA,"But qualify the fire's extreme rage,"
II,VII,LUCETTA,"Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason."
II,VII,JULIA,"The more thou damm'st it up, the more it burns."
II,VII,JULIA,"The current that with gentle murmur glides,"
II,VII,JULIA,"Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage;"
II,VII,JULIA,"But when his fair course is not hindered,"
II,VII,JULIA,"He makes sweet music with the enamell'ed stones,"
II,VII,JULIA,"Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge"
II,VII,JULIA,"He overtaketh in his pilgrimage,"
II,VII,JULIA,"And so by many winding nooks he strays"
II,VII,JULIA,"With willing sport to the wild ocean."
II,VII,JULIA,"Then let me go and hinder not my course"
II,VII,JULIA,"I'll be as patient as a gentle stream"
II,VII,JULIA,"And make a pastime of each weary step,"
II,VII,JULIA,"Till the last step have brought me to my love;"
II,VII,JULIA,"And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil"
II,VII,JULIA,"A blessed soul doth in Elysium."
II,VII,LUCETTA,"But in what habit will you go along?"
II,VII,JULIA,"Not like a woman; for I would prevent"
II,VII,JULIA,"The loose encounters of lascivious men:"
II,VII,JULIA,"Gentle Lucetta, fit me with such weeds"
II,VII,JULIA,"As may beseem some well-reputed page."
II,VII,LUCETTA,"Why, then, your ladyship must cut your hair."
II,VII,JULIA,"No, girl, I'll knit it up in silken strings"
II,VII,JULIA,"With twenty odd-conceited true-love knots."
II,VII,JULIA,"To be fantastic may become a youth"
II,VII,JULIA,"Of greater time than I shall show to be."
II,VII,LUCETTA,"What fashion, madam shall I make your breeches?"
II,VII,JULIA,"That fits as well as 'Tell me, good my lord,"
II,VII,JULIA,"What compass will you wear your farthingale?'"
II,VII,JULIA,"Why even what fashion thou best likest, Lucetta."
II,VII,LUCETTA,"You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam."
II,VII,JULIA,"Out, out, Lucetta! that would be ill-favour'd."
II,VII,LUCETTA,"A round hose, madam, now's not worth a pin,"
II,VII,LUCETTA,"Unless you have a codpiece to stick pins on."
II,VII,JULIA,"Lucetta, as thou lovest me, let me have"
II,VII,JULIA,"What thou thinkest meet and is most mannerly."
II,VII,JULIA,"But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me"
II,VII,JULIA,"For undertaking so unstaid a journey?"
II,VII,JULIA,"I fear me, it will make me scandalized."
II,VII,LUCETTA,"If you think so, then stay at home and go not."
II,VII,JULIA,"Nay, that I will not."
II,VII,LUCETTA,"Then never dream on infamy, but go."
II,VII,LUCETTA,"If Proteus like your journey when you come,"
II,VII,LUCETTA,"No matter who's displeased when you are gone:"
II,VII,LUCETTA,"I fear me, he will scarce be pleased withal."
II,VII,JULIA,"That is the least, Lucetta, of my fear:"
II,VII,JULIA,"A thousand oaths, an ocean of his tears"
II,VII,JULIA,"And instances of infinite of love"
II,VII,JULIA,"Warrant me welcome to my Proteus."
II,VII,LUCETTA,"All these are servants to deceitful men."
II,VII,JULIA,"Base men, that use them to so base effect!"
II,VII,JULIA,"But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth"
II,VII,JULIA,"His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,"
II,VII,JULIA,"His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,"
II,VII,JULIA,"His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,"
II,VII,JULIA,"His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth."
II,VII,LUCETTA,"Pray heaven he prove so, when you come to him!"
II,VII,JULIA,"Now, as thou lovest me, do him not that wrong"
II,VII,JULIA,"To bear a hard opinion of his truth:"
II,VII,JULIA,"Only deserve my love by loving him;"
II,VII,JULIA,"And presently go with me to my chamber,"
II,VII,JULIA,"To take a note of what I stand in need of,"
II,VII,JULIA,"To furnish me upon my longing journey."
II,VII,JULIA,"All that is mine I leave at thy dispose,"
II,VII,JULIA,"My goods, my lands, my reputation;"
II,VII,JULIA,"Only, in lieu thereof, dispatch me hence."
II,VII,JULIA,"Come, answer not, but to it presently!"
II,VII,JULIA,"I am impatient of my tarriance."
III,I,DUKE,"Sir Thurio, give us leave, I pray, awhile;"
III,I,DUKE,"We have some secrets to confer about."
III,I,DUKE,"Now, tell me, Proteus, what's your will with me?"
III,I,PROTEUS,"My gracious lord, that which I would discover"
III,I,PROTEUS,"The law of friendship bids me to conceal;"
III,I,PROTEUS,"But when I call to mind your gracious favours"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Done to me, undeserving as I am,"
III,I,PROTEUS,"My duty pricks me on to utter that"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Which else no worldly good should draw from me."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Know, worthy prince, Sir Valentine, my friend,"
III,I,PROTEUS,"This night intends to steal away your daughter:"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Myself am one made privy to the plot."
III,I,PROTEUS,"I know you have determined to bestow her"
III,I,PROTEUS,"On Thurio, whom your gentle daughter hates;"
III,I,PROTEUS,"And should she thus be stol'n away from you,"
III,I,PROTEUS,"It would be much vexation to your age."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Thus, for my duty's sake, I rather chose"
III,I,PROTEUS,"To cross my friend in his intended drift"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Than, by concealing it, heap on your head"
III,I,PROTEUS,"A pack of sorrows which would press you down,"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Being unprevented, to your timeless grave."
III,I,DUKE,"Proteus, I thank thee for thine honest care;"
III,I,DUKE,"Which to requite, command me while I live."
III,I,DUKE,"This love of theirs myself have often seen,"
III,I,DUKE,"Haply when they have judged me fast asleep,"
III,I,DUKE,"And oftentimes have purposed to forbid"
III,I,DUKE,"Sir Valentine her company and my court:"
III,I,DUKE,"But fearing lest my jealous aim might err"
III,I,DUKE,"And so unworthily disgrace the man,"
III,I,DUKE,"A rashness that I ever yet have shunn'd,"
III,I,DUKE,"I gave him gentle looks, thereby to find"
III,I,DUKE,"That which thyself hast now disclosed to me."
III,I,DUKE,"And, that thou mayst perceive my fear of this,"
III,I,DUKE,"Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested,"
III,I,DUKE,"I nightly lodge her in an upper tower,"
III,I,DUKE,"The key whereof myself have ever kept;"
III,I,DUKE,"And thence she cannot be convey'd away."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Know, noble lord, they have devised a mean"
III,I,PROTEUS,"How he her chamber-window will ascend"
III,I,PROTEUS,"And with a corded ladder fetch her down;"
III,I,PROTEUS,"For which the youthful lover now is gone"
III,I,PROTEUS,"And this way comes he with it presently;"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Where, if it please you, you may intercept him."
III,I,PROTEUS,"But, good my Lord, do it so cunningly"
III,I,PROTEUS,"That my discovery be not aimed at;"
III,I,PROTEUS,"For love of you, not hate unto my friend,"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Hath made me publisher of this pretence."
III,I,DUKE,"Upon mine honour, he shall never know"
III,I,DUKE,"That I had any light from thee of this."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Adieu, my Lord; Sir Valentine is coming."
III,I,DUKE,"Sir Valentine, whither away so fast?"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Please it your grace, there is a messenger"
III,I,VALENTINE,"That stays to bear my letters to my friends,"
III,I,VALENTINE,"And I am going to deliver them."
III,I,DUKE,"Be they of much import?"
III,I,VALENTINE,"The tenor of them doth but signify"
III,I,VALENTINE,"My health and happy being at your court."
III,I,DUKE,"Nay then, no matter; stay with me awhile;"
III,I,DUKE,"I am to break with thee of some affairs"
III,I,DUKE,"That touch me near, wherein thou must be secret."
III,I,DUKE,"'Tis not unknown to thee that I have sought"
III,I,DUKE,"To match my friend Sir Thurio to my daughter."
III,I,VALENTINE,"I know it well, my Lord; and, sure, the match"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Were rich and honourable; besides, the gentleman"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Is full of virtue, bounty, worth and qualities"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Beseeming such a wife as your fair daughter:"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Cannot your Grace win her to fancy him?"
III,I,DUKE,"No, trust me; she is peevish, sullen, froward,"
III,I,DUKE,"Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty,"
III,I,DUKE,"Neither regarding that she is my child"
III,I,DUKE,"Nor fearing me as if I were her father;"
III,I,DUKE,"And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers,"
III,I,DUKE,"Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her;"
III,I,DUKE,"And, where I thought the remnant of mine age"
III,I,DUKE,"Should have been cherish'd by her child-like duty,"
III,I,DUKE,"I now am full resolved to take a wife"
III,I,DUKE,"And turn her out to who will take her in:"
III,I,DUKE,"Then let her beauty be her wedding-dower;"
III,I,DUKE,"For me and my possessions she esteems not."
III,I,VALENTINE,"What would your Grace have me to do in this?"
III,I,DUKE,"There is a lady in Verona here"
III,I,DUKE,"Whom I affect; but she is nice and coy"
III,I,DUKE,"And nought esteems my aged eloquence:"
III,I,DUKE,"Now therefore would I have thee to my tutor--"
III,I,DUKE,"For long agone I have forgot to court;"
III,I,DUKE,"Besides, the fashion of the time is changed--"
III,I,DUKE,"How and which way I may bestow myself"
III,I,DUKE,"To be regarded in her sun-bright eye."
III,I,VALENTINE,"Win her with gifts, if she respect not words:"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Dumb jewels often in their silent kind"
III,I,VALENTINE,"More than quick words do move a woman's mind."
III,I,DUKE,"But she did scorn a present that I sent her."
III,I,VALENTINE,"A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her."
III,I,VALENTINE,"Send her another; never give her o'er;"
III,I,VALENTINE,"For scorn at first makes after-love the more."
III,I,VALENTINE,"If she do frown, 'tis not in hate of you,"
III,I,VALENTINE,"But rather to beget more love in you:"
III,I,VALENTINE,"If she do chide, 'tis not to have you gone;"
III,I,VALENTINE,"For why, the fools are mad, if left alone."
III,I,VALENTINE,"Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;"
III,I,VALENTINE,"For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away!'"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces."
III,I,VALENTINE,"That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,"
III,I,VALENTINE,"If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."
III,I,DUKE,"But she I mean is promised by her friends"
III,I,DUKE,"Unto a youthful gentleman of worth,"
III,I,DUKE,"And kept severely from resort of men,"
III,I,DUKE,"That no man hath access by day to her."
III,I,VALENTINE,"Why, then, I would resort to her by night."
III,I,DUKE,"Ay, but the doors be lock'd and keys kept safe,"
III,I,DUKE,"That no man hath recourse to her by night."
III,I,VALENTINE,"What lets but one may enter at her window?"
III,I,DUKE,"Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground,"
III,I,DUKE,"And built so shelving that one cannot climb it"
III,I,DUKE,"Without apparent hazard of his life."
III,I,VALENTINE,"Why then, a ladder quaintly made of cords,"
III,I,VALENTINE,"To cast up, with a pair of anchoring hooks,"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Would serve to scale another Hero's tower,"
III,I,VALENTINE,"So bold Leander would adventure it."
III,I,DUKE,"Now, as thou art a gentleman of blood,"
III,I,DUKE,"Advise me where I may have such a ladder."
III,I,VALENTINE,"When would you use it? pray, sir, tell me that."
III,I,DUKE,"This very night; for Love is like a child,"
III,I,DUKE,"That longs for every thing that he can come by."
III,I,VALENTINE,"By seven o'clock I'll get you such a ladder."
III,I,DUKE,"But, hark thee; I will go to her alone:"
III,I,DUKE,"How shall I best convey the ladder thither?"
III,I,VALENTINE,"It will be light, my lord, that you may bear it"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Under a cloak that is of any length."
III,I,DUKE,"A cloak as long as thine will serve the turn?"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Ay, my good lord."
III,I,DUKE,"Then let me see thy cloak:"
III,I,DUKE,"I'll get me one of such another length."
III,I,VALENTINE,"Why, any cloak will serve the turn, my lord."
III,I,DUKE,"How shall I fashion me to wear a cloak?"
III,I,DUKE,"I pray thee, let me feel thy cloak upon me."
III,I,DUKE,"What letter is this same? What's here? 'To Silvia'!"
III,I,DUKE,"And here an engine fit for my proceeding."
III,I,DUKE,"I'll be so bold to break the seal for once."
III,I,DUKE,"'My thoughts do harbour with my Silvia nightly,"
III,I,DUKE,"And slaves they are to me that send them flying:"
III,I,DUKE,"O, could their master come and go as lightly,"
III,I,DUKE,"Himself would lodge where senseless they are lying!"
III,I,DUKE,"My herald thoughts in thy pure bosom rest them:"
III,I,DUKE,"While I, their king, that hither them importune,"
III,I,DUKE,"Do curse the grace that with such grace hath bless'd them,"
III,I,DUKE,"Because myself do want my servants' fortune:"
III,I,DUKE,"I curse myself, for they are sent by me,"
III,I,DUKE,"That they should harbour where their lord would be.'"
III,I,DUKE,"What's here?"
III,I,DUKE,"'Silvia, this night I will enfranchise thee.'"
III,I,DUKE,"'Tis so; and here's the ladder for the purpose."
III,I,DUKE,"Why, Phaeton,--for thou art Merops' son,--"
III,I,DUKE,"Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car"
III,I,DUKE,"And with thy daring folly burn the world?"
III,I,DUKE,"Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee?"
III,I,DUKE,"Go, base intruder! overweening slave!"
III,I,DUKE,"Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates,"
III,I,DUKE,"And think my patience, more than thy desert,"
III,I,DUKE,"Is privilege for thy departure hence:"
III,I,DUKE,"Thank me for this more than for all the favours"
III,I,DUKE,"Which all too much I have bestow'd on thee."
III,I,DUKE,"But if thou linger in my territories"
III,I,DUKE,"Longer than swiftest expedition"
III,I,DUKE,"Will give thee time to leave our royal court,"
III,I,DUKE,"By heaven! my wrath shall far exceed the love"
III,I,DUKE,"I ever bore my daughter or thyself."
III,I,DUKE,"Be gone! I will not hear thy vain excuse;"
III,I,DUKE,"But, as thou lovest thy life, make speed from hence."
III,I,VALENTINE,"And why not death rather than living torment?"
III,I,VALENTINE,"To die is to be banish'd from myself;"
III,I,VALENTINE,"And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Is self from self: a deadly banishment!"
III,I,VALENTINE,"What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?"
III,I,VALENTINE,"What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Unless it be to think that she is by"
III,I,VALENTINE,"And feed upon the shadow of perfection"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Except I be by Silvia in the night,"
III,I,VALENTINE,"There is no music in the nightingale;"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Unless I look on Silvia in the day,"
III,I,VALENTINE,"There is no day for me to look upon;"
III,I,VALENTINE,"She is my essence, and I leave to be,"
III,I,VALENTINE,"If I be not by her fair influence"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Foster'd, illumined, cherish'd, kept alive."
III,I,VALENTINE,"I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom:"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Tarry I here, I but attend on death:"
III,I,VALENTINE,"But, fly I hence, I fly away from life."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out."
III,I,LAUNCE,"Soho, soho!"
III,I,PROTEUS,"What seest thou?"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Him we go to find: there's not a hair on's head"
III,I,LAUNCE,"but 'tis a Valentine."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Valentine?"
III,I,VALENTINE,"No."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Who then? his spirit?"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Neither."
III,I,PROTEUS,"What then?"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Nothing."
III,I,LAUNCE,"Can nothing speak? Master, shall I strike?"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Who wouldst thou strike?"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Nothing."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Villain, forbear."
III,I,LAUNCE,"Why, sir, I'll strike nothing: I pray you,--"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Sirrah, I say, forbear. Friend Valentine, a word."
III,I,VALENTINE,"My ears are stopt and cannot hear good news,"
III,I,VALENTINE,"So much of bad already hath possess'd them."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Then in dumb silence will I bury mine,"
III,I,PROTEUS,"For they are harsh, untuneable and bad."
III,I,VALENTINE,"Is Silvia dead?"
III,I,PROTEUS,"No, Valentine."
III,I,VALENTINE,"No Valentine, indeed, for sacred Silvia."
III,I,VALENTINE,"Hath she forsworn me?"
III,I,PROTEUS,"No, Valentine."
III,I,VALENTINE,"No Valentine, if Silvia have forsworn me."
III,I,VALENTINE,"What is your news?"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Sir, there is a proclamation that you are vanished."
III,I,PROTEUS,"That thou art banished--O, that's the news!--"
III,I,PROTEUS,"From hence, from Silvia and from me thy friend."
III,I,VALENTINE,"O, I have fed upon this woe already,"
III,I,VALENTINE,"And now excess of it will make me surfeit."
III,I,VALENTINE,"Doth Silvia know that I am banished?"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Ay, ay; and she hath offer'd to the doom--"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Which, unreversed, stands in effectual force--"
III,I,PROTEUS,"A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears:"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Those at her father's churlish feet she tender'd;"
III,I,PROTEUS,"With them, upon her knees, her humble self;"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them"
III,I,PROTEUS,"As if but now they waxed pale for woe:"
III,I,PROTEUS,"But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire;"
III,I,PROTEUS,"But Valentine, if he be ta'en, must die."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Besides, her intercession chafed him so,"
III,I,PROTEUS,"When she for thy repeal was suppliant,"
III,I,PROTEUS,"That to close prison he commanded her,"
III,I,PROTEUS,"With many bitter threats of biding there."
III,I,VALENTINE,"No more; unless the next word that thou speak'st"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Have some malignant power upon my life:"
III,I,VALENTINE,"If so, I pray thee, breathe it in mine ear,"
III,I,VALENTINE,"As ending anthem of my endless dolour."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,"
III,I,PROTEUS,"And study help for that which thou lament'st."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Time is the nurse and breeder of all good."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Here if thou stay, thou canst not see thy love;"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that"
III,I,PROTEUS,"And manage it against despairing thoughts."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Thy letters may be here, though thou art hence;"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Which, being writ to me, shall be deliver'd"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Even in the milk-white bosom of thy love."
III,I,PROTEUS,"The time now serves not to expostulate:"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Come, I'll convey thee through the city-gate;"
III,I,PROTEUS,"And, ere I part with thee, confer at large"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Of all that may concern thy love-affairs."
III,I,PROTEUS,"As thou lovest Silvia, though not for thyself,"
III,I,PROTEUS,"Regard thy danger, and along with me!"
III,I,VALENTINE,"I pray thee, Launce, an if thou seest my boy,"
III,I,VALENTINE,"Bid him make haste and meet me at the North-gate."
III,I,PROTEUS,"Go, sirrah, find him out. Come, Valentine."
III,I,VALENTINE,"O my dear Silvia! Hapless Valentine!"
III,I,LAUNCE,"I am but a fool, look you; and yet I have the wit to"
III,I,LAUNCE,"think my master is a kind of a knave: but that's"
III,I,LAUNCE,"all one, if he be but one knave. He lives not now"
III,I,LAUNCE,"that knows me to be in love; yet I am in love; but a"
III,I,LAUNCE,"team of horse shall not pluck that from me; nor who"
III,I,LAUNCE,"'tis I love; and yet 'tis a woman; but what woman, I"
III,I,LAUNCE,"will not tell myself; and yet 'tis a milkmaid; yet"
III,I,LAUNCE,"'tis not a maid, for she hath had gossips; yet 'tis"
III,I,LAUNCE,"a maid, for she is her master's maid, and serves for"
III,I,LAUNCE,"wages. She hath more qualities than a water-spaniel;"
III,I,LAUNCE,"which is much in a bare Christian."
III,I,LAUNCE,"Here is the cate-log of her condition."
III,I,LAUNCE,"'Imprimis: She can fetch and carry.' Why, a horse"
III,I,LAUNCE,"can do no more: nay, a horse cannot fetch, but only"
III,I,LAUNCE,"carry; therefore is she better than a jade. 'Item:"
III,I,LAUNCE,"She can milk;' look you, a sweet virtue in a maid"
III,I,LAUNCE,"with clean hands."
III,I,SPEED,"How now, Signior Launce! what news with your"
III,I,SPEED,"mastership?"
III,I,LAUNCE,"With my master's ship? why, it is at sea."
III,I,SPEED,"Well, your old vice still; mistake the word. What"
III,I,SPEED,"news, then, in your paper?"
III,I,LAUNCE,"The blackest news that ever thou heardest."
III,I,SPEED,"Why, man, how black?"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Why, as black as ink."
III,I,SPEED,"Let me read them."
III,I,LAUNCE,"Fie on thee, jolt-head! thou canst not read."
III,I,SPEED,"Thou liest; I can."
III,I,LAUNCE,"I will try thee. Tell me this: who begot thee?"
III,I,SPEED,"Marry, the son of my grandfather."
III,I,LAUNCE,"O illiterate loiterer! it was the son of thy"
III,I,LAUNCE,"grandmother: this proves that thou canst not read."
III,I,SPEED,"Come, fool, come; try me in thy paper."
III,I,LAUNCE,"There; and St. Nicholas be thy speed!"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Ay, that she can."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She brews good ale.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"And thereof comes the proverb: 'Blessing of your"
III,I,LAUNCE,"heart, you brew good ale.'"
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She can sew.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"That's as much as to say, Can she so?"
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She can knit.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"What need a man care for a stock with a wench, when"
III,I,LAUNCE,"she can knit him a stock?"
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She can wash and scour.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"A special virtue: for then she need not be washed"
III,I,LAUNCE,"and scoured."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She can spin.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can"
III,I,LAUNCE,"spin for her living."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She hath many nameless virtues.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"That's as much as to say, bastard virtues; that,"
III,I,LAUNCE,"indeed, know not their fathers and therefore have no names."
III,I,SPEED,"'Here follow her vices.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Close at the heels of her virtues."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She is not to be kissed fasting in respect"
III,I,SPEED,"of her breath.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Well, that fault may be mended with a breakfast. Read on."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She hath a sweet mouth.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"That makes amends for her sour breath."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She doth talk in her sleep.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"It's no matter for that, so she sleep not in her talk."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She is slow in words.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"O villain, that set this down among her vices! To"
III,I,LAUNCE,"be slow in words is a woman's only virtue: I pray"
III,I,LAUNCE,"thee, out with't, and place it for her chief virtue."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She is proud.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Out with that too; it was Eve's legacy, and cannot"
III,I,LAUNCE,"be ta'en from her."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She hath no teeth.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"I care not for that neither, because I love crusts."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She is curst.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Well, the best is, she hath no teeth to bite."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She will often praise her liquor.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"If her liquor be good, she shall: if she will not, I"
III,I,LAUNCE,"will; for good things should be praised."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She is too liberal.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Of her tongue she cannot, for that's writ down she"
III,I,LAUNCE,"is slow of; of her purse she shall not, for that"
III,I,LAUNCE,"I'll keep shut: now, of another thing she may, and"
III,I,LAUNCE,"that cannot I help. Well, proceed."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She hath more hair than wit, and more faults"
III,I,SPEED,"than hairs, and more wealth than faults.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Stop there; I'll have her: she was mine, and not"
III,I,LAUNCE,"mine, twice or thrice in that last article."
III,I,LAUNCE,"Rehearse that once more."
III,I,SPEED,"'Item: She hath more hair than wit,'--"
III,I,LAUNCE,"More hair than wit? It may be; I'll prove it. The"
III,I,LAUNCE,"cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it"
III,I,LAUNCE,"is more than the salt; the hair that covers the wit"
III,I,LAUNCE,"is more than the wit, for the greater hides the"
III,I,LAUNCE,"less. What's next?"
III,I,SPEED,"'And more faults than hairs,'--"
III,I,LAUNCE,"That's monstrous: O, that that were out!"
III,I,SPEED,"'And more wealth than faults.'"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Why, that word makes the faults gracious. Well,"
III,I,LAUNCE,"I'll have her; and if it be a match, as nothing is"
III,I,LAUNCE,"impossible,--"
III,I,SPEED,"What then?"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Why, then will I tell thee--that thy master stays"
III,I,LAUNCE,"for thee at the North-gate."
III,I,SPEED,"For me?"
III,I,LAUNCE,"For thee! ay, who art thou? he hath stayed for a"
III,I,LAUNCE,"better man than thee."
III,I,SPEED,"And must I go to him?"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Thou must run to him, for thou hast stayed so long"
III,I,LAUNCE,"that going will scarce serve the turn."
III,I,SPEED,"Why didst not tell me sooner? pox of your love letters!"
III,I,LAUNCE,"Now will he be swinged for reading my letter; an"
III,I,LAUNCE,"unmannerly slave, that will thrust himself into"
III,I,LAUNCE,"secrets! I'll after, to rejoice in the boy's correction."
III,II,DUKE,"Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you,"
III,II,DUKE,"Now Valentine is banish'd from her sight."
III,II,THURIO,"Since his exile she hath despised me most,"
III,II,THURIO,"Forsworn my company and rail'd at me,"
III,II,THURIO,"That I am desperate of obtaining her."
III,II,DUKE,"This weak impress of love is as a figure"
III,II,DUKE,"Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat"
III,II,DUKE,"Dissolves to water and doth lose his form."
III,II,DUKE,"A little time will melt her frozen thoughts"
III,II,DUKE,"And worthless Valentine shall be forgot."
III,II,DUKE,"How now, Sir Proteus! Is your countryman"
III,II,DUKE,"According to our proclamation gone?"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Gone, my good lord."
III,II,DUKE,"My daughter takes his going grievously."
III,II,PROTEUS,"A little time, my lord, will kill that grief."
III,II,DUKE,"So I believe; but Thurio thinks not so."
III,II,DUKE,"Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee--"
III,II,DUKE,"For thou hast shown some sign of good desert--"
III,II,DUKE,"Makes me the better to confer with thee."
III,II,PROTEUS,"Longer than I prove loyal to your grace"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Let me not live to look upon your grace."
III,II,DUKE,"Thou know'st how willingly I would effect"
III,II,DUKE,"The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter."
III,II,PROTEUS,"I do, my lord."
III,II,DUKE,"And also, I think, thou art not ignorant"
III,II,DUKE,"How she opposes her against my will"
III,II,PROTEUS,"She did, my lord, when Valentine was here."
III,II,DUKE,"Ay, and perversely she persevers so."
III,II,DUKE,"What might we do to make the girl forget"
III,II,DUKE,"The love of Valentine and love Sir Thurio?"
III,II,PROTEUS,"The best way is to slander Valentine"
III,II,PROTEUS,"With falsehood, cowardice and poor descent,"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Three things that women highly hold in hate."
III,II,DUKE,"Ay, but she'll think that it is spoke in hate."
III,II,PROTEUS,"Ay, if his enemy deliver it:"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken"
III,II,PROTEUS,"By one whom she esteemeth as his friend."
III,II,DUKE,"Then you must undertake to slander him."
III,II,PROTEUS,"And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do:"
III,II,PROTEUS,"'Tis an ill office for a gentleman,"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Especially against his very friend."
III,II,DUKE,"Where your good word cannot advantage him,"
III,II,DUKE,"Your slander never can endamage him;"
III,II,DUKE,"Therefore the office is indifferent,"
III,II,DUKE,"Being entreated to it by your friend."
III,II,PROTEUS,"You have prevail'd, my lord; if I can do it"
III,II,PROTEUS,"By ought that I can speak in his dispraise,"
III,II,PROTEUS,"She shall not long continue love to him."
III,II,PROTEUS,"But say this weed her love from Valentine,"
III,II,PROTEUS,"It follows not that she will love Sir Thurio."
III,II,THURIO,"Therefore, as you unwind her love from him,"
III,II,THURIO,"Lest it should ravel and be good to none,"
III,II,THURIO,"You must provide to bottom it on me;"
III,II,THURIO,"Which must be done by praising me as much"
III,II,THURIO,"As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine."
III,II,DUKE,"And, Proteus, we dare trust you in this kind,"
III,II,DUKE,"Because we know, on Valentine's report,"
III,II,DUKE,"You are already Love's firm votary"
III,II,DUKE,"And cannot soon revolt and change your mind."
III,II,DUKE,"Upon this warrant shall you have access"
III,II,DUKE,"Where you with Silvia may confer at large;"
III,II,DUKE,"For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy,"
III,II,DUKE,"And, for your friend's sake, will be glad of you;"
III,II,DUKE,"Where you may temper her by your persuasion"
III,II,DUKE,"To hate young Valentine and love my friend."
III,II,PROTEUS,"As much as I can do, I will effect:"
III,II,PROTEUS,"But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough;"
III,II,PROTEUS,"You must lay lime to tangle her desires"
III,II,PROTEUS,"By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows."
III,II,DUKE,"Ay,"
III,II,DUKE,"Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy."
III,II,PROTEUS,"Say that upon the altar of her beauty"
III,II,PROTEUS,"You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart:"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Moist it again, and frame some feeling line"
III,II,PROTEUS,"That may discover such integrity:"
III,II,PROTEUS,"For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews,"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Make tigers tame and huge leviathans"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands."
III,II,PROTEUS,"After your dire-lamenting elegies,"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Visit by night your lady's chamber-window"
III,II,PROTEUS,"With some sweet concert; to their instruments"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Tune a deploring dump: the night's dead silence"
III,II,PROTEUS,"Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance."
III,II,PROTEUS,"This, or else nothing, will inherit her."
III,II,DUKE,"This discipline shows thou hast been in love."
III,II,THURIO,"And thy advice this night I'll put in practise."
III,II,THURIO,"Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver,"
III,II,THURIO,"Let us into the city presently"
III,II,THURIO,"To sort some gentlemen well skill'd in music."
III,II,THURIO,"I have a sonnet that will serve the turn"
III,II,THURIO,"To give the onset to thy good advice."
III,II,DUKE,"About it, gentlemen!"
III,II,PROTEUS,"We'll wait upon your grace till after supper,"
III,II,PROTEUS,"And afterward determine our proceedings."
III,II,DUKE,"Even now about it! I will pardon you."
IV,I,First Outlaw,"Fellows, stand fast; I see a passenger."
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em."
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye:"
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"If not: we'll make you sit and rifle you."
IV,I,SPEED,"Sir, we are undone; these are the villains"
IV,I,SPEED,"That all the travellers do fear so much."
IV,I,VALENTINE,"My friends,--"
IV,I,First Outlaw,"That's not so, sir: we are your enemies."
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"Peace! we'll hear him."
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"Ay, by my beard, will we, for he's a proper man."
IV,I,VALENTINE,"Then know that I have little wealth to lose:"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"A man I am cross'd with adversity;"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"My riches are these poor habiliments,"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"Of which if you should here disfurnish me,"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"You take the sum and substance that I have."
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"Whither travel you?"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"To Verona."
IV,I,First Outlaw,"Whence came you?"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"From Milan."
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"Have you long sojourned there?"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"Some sixteen months, and longer might have stay'd,"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"If crooked fortune had not thwarted me."
IV,I,First Outlaw,"What, were you banish'd thence?"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"I was."
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"For what offence?"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"For that which now torments me to rehearse:"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"I kill'd a man, whose death I much repent;"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"But yet I slew him manfully in fight,"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"Without false vantage or base treachery."
IV,I,First Outlaw,"Why, ne'er repent it, if it were done so."
IV,I,First Outlaw,"But were you banish'd for so small a fault?"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"I was, and held me glad of such a doom."
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"Have you the tongues?"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"My youthful travel therein made me happy,"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"Or else I often had been miserable."
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar,"
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"This fellow were a king for our wild faction!"
IV,I,First Outlaw,"We'll have him. Sirs, a word."
IV,I,SPEED,"Master, be one of them; it's an honourable kind of thievery."
IV,I,VALENTINE,"Peace, villain!"
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"Tell us this: have you any thing to take to?"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"Nothing but my fortune."
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen,"
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth"
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"Thrust from the company of awful men:"
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"Myself was from Verona banished"
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"For practising to steal away a lady,"
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"An heir, and near allied unto the duke."
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"And I from Mantua, for a gentleman,"
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"Who, in my mood, I stabb'd unto the heart."
IV,I,First Outlaw,"And I for such like petty crimes as these,"
IV,I,First Outlaw,"But to the purpose--for we cite our faults,"
IV,I,First Outlaw,"That they may hold excus'd our lawless lives;"
IV,I,First Outlaw,"And partly, seeing you are beautified"
IV,I,First Outlaw,"With goodly shape and by your own report"
IV,I,First Outlaw,"A linguist and a man of such perfection"
IV,I,First Outlaw,"As we do in our quality much want--"
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"Indeed, because you are a banish'd man,"
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you:"
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"Are you content to be our general?"
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"To make a virtue of necessity"
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"And live, as we do, in this wilderness?"
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"What say'st thou? wilt thou be of our consort?"
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"Say ay, and be the captain of us all:"
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"We'll do thee homage and be ruled by thee,"
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"Love thee as our commander and our king."
IV,I,First Outlaw,"But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest."
IV,I,Second Outlaw,"Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offer'd."
IV,I,VALENTINE,"I take your offer and will live with you,"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"Provided that you do no outrages"
IV,I,VALENTINE,"On silly women or poor passengers."
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"No, we detest such vile base practises."
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"Come, go with us, we'll bring thee to our crews,"
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"And show thee all the treasure we have got,"
IV,I,Third Outlaw,"Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose."
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Already have I been false to Valentine"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"And now I must be as unjust to Thurio."
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Under the colour of commending him,"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"I have access my own love to prefer:"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy,"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"To be corrupted with my worthless gifts."
IV,II,PROTEUS,"When I protest true loyalty to her,"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"She twits me with my falsehood to my friend;"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"When to her beauty I commend my vows,"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"She bids me think how I have been forsworn"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"In breaking faith with Julia whom I loved:"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"And notwithstanding all her sudden quips,"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"The least whereof would quell a lover's hope,"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"The more it grows and fawneth on her still."
IV,II,PROTEUS,"But here comes Thurio: now must we to her window,"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"And give some evening music to her ear."
IV,II,THURIO,"How now, Sir Proteus, are you crept before us?"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Ay, gentle Thurio: for you know that love"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Will creep in service where it cannot go."
IV,II,THURIO,"Ay, but I hope, sir, that you love not here."
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Sir, but I do; or else I would be hence."
IV,II,THURIO,"Who? Silvia?"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Ay, Silvia; for your sake."
IV,II,THURIO,"I thank you for your own. Now, gentlemen,"
IV,II,THURIO,"Let's tune, and to it lustily awhile."
IV,II,Host,"Now, my young guest, methinks you're allycholly: I"
IV,II,Host,"pray you, why is it?"
IV,II,JULIA,"Marry, mine host, because I cannot be merry."
IV,II,Host,"Come, we'll have you merry: I'll bring you where"
IV,II,Host,"you shall hear music and see the gentleman that you asked for."
IV,II,JULIA,"But shall I hear him speak?"
IV,II,Host,"Ay, that you shall."
IV,II,JULIA,"That will be music."
IV,II,Host,"Hark, hark!"
IV,II,JULIA,"Is he among these?"
IV,II,Host,"Ay: but, peace! let's hear 'em."
IV,II,Host,"Who is Silvia? what is she,"
IV,II,Host,"That all our swains commend her?"
IV,II,Host,"Holy, fair and wise is she;"
IV,II,Host,"The heaven such grace did lend her,"
IV,II,Host,"That she might admired be."
IV,II,Host,"Is she kind as she is fair?"
IV,II,Host,"For beauty lives with kindness."
IV,II,Host,"Love doth to her eyes repair,"
IV,II,Host,"To help him of his blindness,"
IV,II,Host,"And, being help'd, inhabits there."
IV,II,Host,"Then to Silvia let us sing,"
IV,II,Host,"That Silvia is excelling;"
IV,II,Host,"She excels each mortal thing"
IV,II,Host,"Upon the dull earth dwelling:"
IV,II,Host,"To her let us garlands bring."
IV,II,Host,"How now! are you sadder than you were before? How"
IV,II,Host,"do you, man? the music likes you not."
IV,II,JULIA,"You mistake; the musician likes me not."
IV,II,Host,"Why, my pretty youth?"
IV,II,JULIA,"He plays false, father."
IV,II,Host,"How? out of tune on the strings?"
IV,II,JULIA,"Not so; but yet so false that he grieves my very"
IV,II,JULIA,"heart-strings."
IV,II,Host,"You have a quick ear."
IV,II,JULIA,"Ay, I would I were deaf; it makes me have a slow heart."
IV,II,Host,"I perceive you delight not in music."
IV,II,JULIA,"Not a whit, when it jars so."
IV,II,Host,"Hark, what fine change is in the music!"
IV,II,JULIA,"Ay, that change is the spite."
IV,II,Host,"You would have them always play but one thing?"
IV,II,JULIA,"I would always have one play but one thing."
IV,II,JULIA,"But, host, doth this Sir Proteus that we talk on"
IV,II,JULIA,"Often resort unto this gentlewoman?"
IV,II,Host,"I tell you what Launce, his man, told me: he loved"
IV,II,Host,"her out of all nick."
IV,II,JULIA,"Where is Launce?"
IV,II,Host,"Gone to seek his dog; which tomorrow, by his"
IV,II,Host,"master's command, he must carry for a present to his lady."
IV,II,JULIA,"Peace! stand aside: the company parts."
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Sir Thurio, fear not you: I will so plead"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"That you shall say my cunning drift excels."
IV,II,THURIO,"Where meet we?"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"At Saint Gregory's well."
IV,II,THURIO,"Farewell."
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Madam, good even to your ladyship."
IV,II,SILVIA,"I thank you for your music, gentlemen."
IV,II,SILVIA,"Who is that that spake?"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"One, lady, if you knew his pure heart's truth,"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"You would quickly learn to know him by his voice."
IV,II,SILVIA,"Sir Proteus, as I take it."
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Sir Proteus, gentle lady, and your servant."
IV,II,SILVIA,"What's your will?"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"That I may compass yours."
IV,II,SILVIA,"You have your wish; my will is even this:"
IV,II,SILVIA,"That presently you hie you home to bed."
IV,II,SILVIA,"Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man!"
IV,II,SILVIA,"Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless,"
IV,II,SILVIA,"To be seduced by thy flattery,"
IV,II,SILVIA,"That hast deceived so many with thy vows?"
IV,II,SILVIA,"Return, return, and make thy love amends."
IV,II,SILVIA,"For me, by this pale queen of night I swear,"
IV,II,SILVIA,"I am so far from granting thy request"
IV,II,SILVIA,"That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit,"
IV,II,SILVIA,"And by and by intend to chide myself"
IV,II,SILVIA,"Even for this time I spend in talking to thee."
IV,II,PROTEUS,"I grant, sweet love, that I did love a lady;"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"But she is dead."
IV,II,JULIA,"For I am sure she is not buried."
IV,II,SILVIA,"Say that she be; yet Valentine thy friend"
IV,II,SILVIA,"Survives; to whom, thyself art witness,"
IV,II,SILVIA,"I am betroth'd: and art thou not ashamed"
IV,II,SILVIA,"To wrong him with thy importunacy?"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"I likewise hear that Valentine is dead."
IV,II,SILVIA,"And so suppose am I; for in his grave"
IV,II,SILVIA,"Assure thyself my love is buried."
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Sweet lady, let me rake it from the earth."
IV,II,SILVIA,"Go to thy lady's grave and call hers thence,"
IV,II,SILVIA,"Or, at the least, in hers sepulchre thine."
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Madam, if your heart be so obdurate,"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love,"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"The picture that is hanging in your chamber;"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"To that I'll speak, to that I'll sigh and weep:"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"For since the substance of your perfect self"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"Is else devoted, I am but a shadow;"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"And to your shadow will I make true love."
IV,II,JULIA,"deceive it,"
IV,II,JULIA,"And make it but a shadow, as I am."
IV,II,SILVIA,"I am very loath to be your idol, sir;"
IV,II,SILVIA,"But since your falsehood shall become you well"
IV,II,SILVIA,"To worship shadows and adore false shapes,"
IV,II,SILVIA,"Send to me in the morning and I'll send it:"
IV,II,SILVIA,"And so, good rest."
IV,II,PROTEUS,"As wretches have o'ernight"
IV,II,PROTEUS,"That wait for execution in the morn."
IV,II,JULIA,"Host, will you go?"
IV,II,Host,"By my halidom, I was fast asleep."
IV,II,JULIA,"Pray you, where lies Sir Proteus?"
IV,II,Host,"Marry, at my house. Trust me, I think 'tis almost"
IV,II,Host,"day."
IV,II,JULIA,"Not so; but it hath been the longest night"
IV,II,JULIA,"That e'er I watch'd and the most heaviest."
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"This is the hour that Madam Silvia"
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"Entreated me to call and know her mind:"
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"There's some great matter she'ld employ me in."
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"Madam, madam!"
IV,III,SILVIA,"Who calls?"
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"Your servant and your friend;"
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"One that attends your ladyship's command."
IV,III,SILVIA,"Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good morrow."
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"As many, worthy lady, to yourself:"
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"According to your ladyship's impose,"
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"I am thus early come to know what service"
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"It is your pleasure to command me in."
IV,III,SILVIA,"O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman--"
IV,III,SILVIA,"Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not--"
IV,III,SILVIA,"Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd:"
IV,III,SILVIA,"Thou art not ignorant what dear good will"
IV,III,SILVIA,"I bear unto the banish'd Valentine,"
IV,III,SILVIA,"Nor how my father would enforce me marry"
IV,III,SILVIA,"Vain Thurio, whom my very soul abhors."
IV,III,SILVIA,"Thyself hast loved; and I have heard thee say"
IV,III,SILVIA,"No grief did ever come so near thy heart"
IV,III,SILVIA,"As when thy lady and thy true love died,"
IV,III,SILVIA,"Upon whose grave thou vow'dst pure chastity."
IV,III,SILVIA,"Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine,"
IV,III,SILVIA,"To Mantua, where I hear he makes abode;"
IV,III,SILVIA,"And, for the ways are dangerous to pass,"
IV,III,SILVIA,"I do desire thy worthy company,"
IV,III,SILVIA,"Upon whose faith and honour I repose."
IV,III,SILVIA,"Urge not my father's anger, Eglamour,"
IV,III,SILVIA,"But think upon my grief, a lady's grief,"
IV,III,SILVIA,"And on the justice of my flying hence,"
IV,III,SILVIA,"To keep me from a most unholy match,"
IV,III,SILVIA,"Which heaven and fortune still rewards with plagues."
IV,III,SILVIA,"I do desire thee, even from a heart"
IV,III,SILVIA,"As full of sorrows as the sea of sands,"
IV,III,SILVIA,"To bear me company and go with me:"
IV,III,SILVIA,"If not, to hide what I have said to thee,"
IV,III,SILVIA,"That I may venture to depart alone."
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"Madam, I pity much your grievances;"
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"Which since I know they virtuously are placed,"
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"I give consent to go along with you,"
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"Recking as little what betideth me"
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"As much I wish all good befortune you."
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"When will you go?"
IV,III,SILVIA,"This evening coming."
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"Where shall I meet you?"
IV,III,SILVIA,"At Friar Patrick's cell,"
IV,III,SILVIA,"Where I intend holy confession."
IV,III,EGLAMOUR,"I will not fail your ladyship. Good morrow, gentle lady."
IV,III,SILVIA,"Good morrow, kind Sir Eglamour."
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"When a man's servant shall play the cur with him,"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up of a"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"puppy; one that I saved from drowning, when three or"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it."
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"I have taught him, even as one would say precisely,"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"'thus I would teach a dog.' I was sent to deliver"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"him as a present to Mistress Silvia from my master;"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"and I came no sooner into the dining-chamber but he"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"steps me to her trencher and steals her capon's leg:"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"O, 'tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"in all companies! I would have, as one should say,"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be,"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"as it were, a dog at all things. If I had not had"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did,"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"I think verily he had been hanged for't; sure as I"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"live, he had suffered for't; you shall judge. He"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"thrusts me himself into the company of three or four"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"gentlemanlike dogs under the duke's table: he had"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"not been there--bless the mark!--a pissing while, but"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"all the chamber smelt him. 'Out with the dog!' says"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"one: 'What cur is that?' says another: 'Whip him"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"out' says the third: 'Hang him up' says the duke."
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"I, having been acquainted with the smell before,"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"whips the dogs: 'Friend,' quoth I, 'you mean to whip"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"the dog?' 'Ay, marry, do I,' quoth he. 'You do him"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"the more wrong,' quoth I; ''twas I did the thing you"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"wot of.' He makes me no more ado, but whips me out"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"of the chamber. How many masters would do this for"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"his servant? Nay, I'll be sworn, I have sat in the"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"stocks for puddings he hath stolen, otherwise he had"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"been executed; I have stood on the pillory for geese"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"he hath killed, otherwise he had suffered for't."
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"Thou thinkest not of this now. Nay, I remember the"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"trick you served me when I took my leave of Madam"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"Silvia: did not I bid thee still mark me and do as I"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"do? when didst thou see me heave up my leg and make"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? didst"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"thou ever see me do such a trick?"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Sebastian is thy name? I like thee well"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"And will employ thee in some service presently."
IV,IV,JULIA,"In what you please: I'll do what I can."
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"I hope thou wilt."
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"How now, you whoreson peasant!"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Where have you been these two days loitering?"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"Marry, sir, I carried Mistress Silvia the dog you bade me."
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"And what says she to my little jewel?"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"Marry, she says your dog was a cur, and tells you"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"currish thanks is good enough for such a present."
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"But she received my dog?"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"No, indeed, did she not: here have I brought him"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"back again."
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"What, didst thou offer her this from me?"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"Ay, sir: the other squirrel was stolen from me by"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"the hangman boys in the market-place: and then I"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"offered her mine own, who is a dog as big as ten of"
IV,IV,LAUNCE,"yours, and therefore the gift the greater."
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Go get thee hence, and find my dog again,"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Or ne'er return again into my sight."
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Away, I say! stay'st thou to vex me here?"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"A slave, that still an end turns me to shame!"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Sebastian, I have entertained thee,"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Partly that I have need of such a youth"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"That can with some discretion do my business,"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"For 'tis no trusting to yond foolish lout,"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"But chiefly for thy face and thy behavior,"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Which, if my augury deceive me not,"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Witness good bringing up, fortune and truth:"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Therefore know thou, for this I entertain thee."
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Go presently and take this ring with thee,"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Deliver it to Madam Silvia:"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"She loved me well deliver'd it to me."
IV,IV,JULIA,"It seems you loved not her, to leave her token."
IV,IV,JULIA,"She is dead, belike?"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Not so; I think she lives."
IV,IV,JULIA,"Alas!"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Why dost thou cry 'alas'?"
IV,IV,JULIA,"I cannot choose"
IV,IV,JULIA,"But pity her."
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Wherefore shouldst thou pity her?"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Because methinks that she loved you as well"
IV,IV,JULIA,"As you do love your lady Silvia:"
IV,IV,JULIA,"She dreams of him that has forgot her love;"
IV,IV,JULIA,"You dote on her that cares not for your love."
IV,IV,JULIA,"'Tis pity love should be so contrary;"
IV,IV,JULIA,"And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!'"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Well, give her that ring and therewithal"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"This letter. That's her chamber. Tell my lady"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"I claim the promise for her heavenly picture."
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Your message done, hie home unto my chamber,"
IV,IV,PROTEUS,"Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary."
IV,IV,JULIA,"How many women would do such a message?"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Alas, poor Proteus! thou hast entertain'd"
IV,IV,JULIA,"A fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs."
IV,IV,JULIA,"Alas, poor fool! why do I pity him"
IV,IV,JULIA,"That with his very heart despiseth me?"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Because he loves her, he despiseth me;"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Because I love him I must pity him."
IV,IV,JULIA,"This ring I gave him when he parted from me,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"To bind him to remember my good will;"
IV,IV,JULIA,"And now am I, unhappy messenger,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"To plead for that which I would not obtain,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"To carry that which I would have refused,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"To praise his faith which I would have dispraised."
IV,IV,JULIA,"I am my master's true-confirmed love;"
IV,IV,JULIA,"But cannot be true servant to my master,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Unless I prove false traitor to myself."
IV,IV,JULIA,"Yet will I woo for him, but yet so coldly"
IV,IV,JULIA,"As, heaven it knows, I would not have him speed."
IV,IV,JULIA,"Gentlewoman, good day! I pray you, be my mean"
IV,IV,JULIA,"To bring me where to speak with Madam Silvia."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"What would you with her, if that I be she?"
IV,IV,JULIA,"If you be she, I do entreat your patience"
IV,IV,JULIA,"To hear me speak the message I am sent on."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"From whom?"
IV,IV,JULIA,"From my master, Sir Proteus, madam."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"O, he sends you for a picture."
IV,IV,JULIA,"Ay, madam."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"Ursula, bring my picture here."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"Go give your master this: tell him from me,"
IV,IV,SILVIA,"One Julia, that his changing thoughts forget,"
IV,IV,SILVIA,"Would better fit his chamber than this shadow."
IV,IV,JULIA,"Madam, please you peruse this letter.--"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Pardon me, madam; I have unadvised"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Deliver'd you a paper that I should not:"
IV,IV,JULIA,"This is the letter to your ladyship."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"I pray thee, let me look on that again."
IV,IV,JULIA,"It may not be; good madam, pardon me."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"There, hold!"
IV,IV,SILVIA,"I will not look upon your master's lines:"
IV,IV,SILVIA,"I know they are stuff'd with protestations"
IV,IV,SILVIA,"And full of new-found oaths; which he will break"
IV,IV,SILVIA,"As easily as I do tear his paper."
IV,IV,JULIA,"Madam, he sends your ladyship this ring."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"The more shame for him that he sends it me;"
IV,IV,SILVIA,"For I have heard him say a thousand times"
IV,IV,SILVIA,"His Julia gave it him at his departure."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"Though his false finger have profaned the ring,"
IV,IV,SILVIA,"Mine shall not do his Julia so much wrong."
IV,IV,JULIA,"She thanks you."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"What say'st thou?"
IV,IV,JULIA,"I thank you, madam, that you tender her."
IV,IV,JULIA,"Poor gentlewoman! my master wrongs her much."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"Dost thou know her?"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Almost as well as I do know myself:"
IV,IV,JULIA,"To think upon her woes I do protest"
IV,IV,JULIA,"That I have wept a hundred several times."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"Belike she thinks that Proteus hath forsook her."
IV,IV,JULIA,"I think she doth; and that's her cause of sorrow."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"Is she not passing fair?"
IV,IV,JULIA,"She hath been fairer, madam, than she is:"
IV,IV,JULIA,"When she did think my master loved her well,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"She, in my judgment, was as fair as you:"
IV,IV,JULIA,"But since she did neglect her looking-glass"
IV,IV,JULIA,"And threw her sun-expelling mask away,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"The air hath starved the roses in her cheeks"
IV,IV,JULIA,"And pinch'd the lily-tincture of her face,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"That now she is become as black as I."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"How tall was she?"
IV,IV,JULIA,"About my stature; for at Pentecost,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"When all our pageants of delight were play'd,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Our youth got me to play the woman's part,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"And I was trimm'd in Madam Julia's gown,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Which served me as fit, by all men's judgments,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"As if the garment had been made for me:"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Therefore I know she is about my height."
IV,IV,JULIA,"And at that time I made her weep agood,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"For I did play a lamentable part:"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Madam, 'twas Ariadne passioning"
IV,IV,JULIA,"For Theseus' perjury and unjust flight;"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Which I so lively acted with my tears"
IV,IV,JULIA,"That my poor mistress, moved therewithal,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Wept bitterly; and would I might be dead"
IV,IV,JULIA,"If I in thought felt not her very sorrow!"
IV,IV,SILVIA,"She is beholding to thee, gentle youth."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"Alas, poor lady, desolate and left!"
IV,IV,SILVIA,"I weep myself to think upon thy words."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"Here, youth, there is my purse; I give thee this"
IV,IV,SILVIA,"For thy sweet mistress' sake, because thou lovest her."
IV,IV,SILVIA,"Farewell."
IV,IV,JULIA,"And she shall thank you for't, if e'er you know her."
IV,IV,JULIA,"A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful"
IV,IV,JULIA,"I hope my master's suit will be but cold,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Since she respects my mistress' love so much."
IV,IV,JULIA,"Alas, how love can trifle with itself!"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Here is her picture: let me see; I think,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"If I had such a tire, this face of mine"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Were full as lovely as is this of hers:"
IV,IV,JULIA,"And yet the painter flatter'd her a little,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Unless I flatter with myself too much."
IV,IV,JULIA,"Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow:"
IV,IV,JULIA,"If that be all the difference in his love,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"I'll get me such a colour'd periwig."
IV,IV,JULIA,"Her eyes are grey as glass, and so are mine:"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Ay, but her forehead's low, and mine's as high."
IV,IV,JULIA,"What should it be that he respects in her"
IV,IV,JULIA,"But I can make respective in myself,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"If this fond Love were not a blinded god?"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Come, shadow, come and take this shadow up,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"For 'tis thy rival. O thou senseless form,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"Thou shalt be worshipp'd, kiss'd, loved and adored!"
IV,IV,JULIA,"And, were there sense in his idolatry,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"My substance should be statue in thy stead."
IV,IV,JULIA,"I'll use thee kindly for thy mistress' sake,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"That used me so; or else, by Jove I vow,"
IV,IV,JULIA,"I should have scratch'd out your unseeing eyes"
IV,IV,JULIA,"To make my master out of love with thee!"
V,I,EGLAMOUR,"The sun begins to gild the western sky;"
V,I,EGLAMOUR,"And now it is about the very hour"
V,I,EGLAMOUR,"That Silvia, at Friar Patrick's cell, should meet me."
V,I,EGLAMOUR,"She will not fail, for lovers break not hours,"
V,I,EGLAMOUR,"Unless it be to come before their time;"
V,I,EGLAMOUR,"So much they spur their expedition."
V,I,EGLAMOUR,"See where she comes."
V,I,EGLAMOUR,"Lady, a happy evening!"
V,I,SILVIA,"Amen, amen! Go on, good Eglamour,"
V,I,SILVIA,"Out at the postern by the abbey-wall:"
V,I,SILVIA,"I fear I am attended by some spies."
V,I,EGLAMOUR,"Fear not: the forest is not three leagues off;"
V,I,EGLAMOUR,"If we recover that, we are sure enough."
V,II,THURIO,"Sir Proteus, what says Silvia to my suit?"
V,II,PROTEUS,"O, sir, I find her milder than she was;"
V,II,PROTEUS,"And yet she takes exceptions at your person."
V,II,THURIO,"What, that my leg is too long?"
V,II,PROTEUS,"No; that it is too little."
V,II,THURIO,"I'll wear a boot, to make it somewhat rounder."
V,II,JULIA,"it loathes."
V,II,THURIO,"What says she to my face?"
V,II,PROTEUS,"She says it is a fair one."
V,II,THURIO,"Nay then, the wanton lies; my face is black."
V,II,PROTEUS,"But pearls are fair; and the old saying is,"
V,II,PROTEUS,"Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes."
V,II,JULIA,"ladies' eyes;"
V,II,JULIA,"For I had rather wink than look on them."
V,II,THURIO,"How likes she my discourse?"
V,II,PROTEUS,"Ill, when you talk of war."
V,II,THURIO,"But well, when I discourse of love and peace?"
V,II,THURIO,"What says she to my valour?"
V,II,PROTEUS,"O, sir, she makes no doubt of that."
V,II,THURIO,"What says she to my birth?"
V,II,PROTEUS,"That you are well derived."
V,II,THURIO,"Considers she my possessions?"
V,II,PROTEUS,"O, ay; and pities them."
V,II,THURIO,"Wherefore?"
V,II,PROTEUS,"That they are out by lease."
V,II,JULIA,"Here comes the duke."
V,II,DUKE,"How now, Sir Proteus! how now, Thurio!"
V,II,DUKE,"Which of you saw Sir Eglamour of late?"
V,II,THURIO,"Not I."
V,II,PROTEUS,"Nor I."
V,II,DUKE,"Saw you my daughter?"
V,II,PROTEUS,"Neither."
V,II,DUKE,"Why then,"
V,II,DUKE,"She's fled unto that peasant Valentine;"
V,II,DUKE,"And Eglamour is in her company."
V,II,DUKE,"'Tis true; for Friar Laurence met them both,"
V,II,DUKE,"As he in penance wander'd through the forest;"
V,II,DUKE,"Him he knew well, and guess'd that it was she,"
V,II,DUKE,"But, being mask'd, he was not sure of it;"
V,II,DUKE,"Besides, she did intend confession"
V,II,DUKE,"At Patrick's cell this even; and there she was not;"
V,II,DUKE,"These likelihoods confirm her flight from hence."
V,II,DUKE,"Therefore, I pray you, stand not to discourse,"
V,II,DUKE,"But mount you presently and meet with me"
V,II,DUKE,"Upon the rising of the mountain-foot"
V,II,DUKE,"That leads towards Mantua, whither they are fled:"
V,II,DUKE,"Dispatch, sweet gentlemen, and follow me."
V,II,THURIO,"Why, this it is to be a peevish girl,"
V,II,THURIO,"That flies her fortune when it follows her."
V,II,THURIO,"I'll after, more to be revenged on Eglamour"
V,II,THURIO,"Than for the love of reckless Silvia."
V,II,PROTEUS,"And I will follow, more for Silvia's love"
V,II,PROTEUS,"Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her."
V,II,JULIA,"And I will follow, more to cross that love"
V,II,JULIA,"Than hate for Silvia that is gone for love."
V,III,First Outlaw,"Come, come,"
V,III,First Outlaw,"Be patient; we must bring you to our captain."
V,III,SILVIA,"A thousand more mischances than this one"
V,III,SILVIA,"Have learn'd me how to brook this patiently."
V,III,Second Outlaw,"Come, bring her away."
V,III,First Outlaw,"Where is the gentleman that was with her?"
V,III,Third Outlaw,"Being nimble-footed, he hath outrun us,"
V,III,Third Outlaw,"But Moyses and Valerius follow him."
V,III,Third Outlaw,"Go thou with her to the west end of the wood;"
V,III,Third Outlaw,"There is our captain: we'll follow him that's fled;"
V,III,Third Outlaw,"The thicket is beset; he cannot 'scape."
V,III,First Outlaw,"Come, I must bring you to our captain's cave:"
V,III,First Outlaw,"Fear not; he bears an honourable mind,"
V,III,First Outlaw,"And will not use a woman lawlessly."
V,III,SILVIA,"O Valentine, this I endure for thee!"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"I better brook than flourishing peopled towns:"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"And to the nightingale's complaining notes"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Tune my distresses and record my woes."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"O thou that dost inhabit in my breast,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Leave not the mansion so long tenantless,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"And leave no memory of what it was!"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Repair me with thy presence, Silvia;"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain!"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"What halloing and what stir is this to-day?"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"These are my mates, that make their wills their law,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Have some unhappy passenger in chase."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"They love me well; yet I have much to do"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"To keep them from uncivil outrages."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Withdraw thee, Valentine: who's this comes here?"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Madam, this service I have done for you,"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Though you respect not aught your servant doth,"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"To hazard life and rescue you from him"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"That would have forced your honour and your love;"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Vouchsafe me, for my meed, but one fair look;"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"A smaller boon than this I cannot beg"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"And less than this, I am sure, you cannot give."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Love, lend me patience to forbear awhile."
V,IV,SILVIA,"O miserable, unhappy that I am!"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Unhappy were you, madam, ere I came;"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"But by my coming I have made you happy."
V,IV,SILVIA,"By thy approach thou makest me most unhappy."
V,IV,SILVIA,"Had I been seized by a hungry lion,"
V,IV,SILVIA,"I would have been a breakfast to the beast,"
V,IV,SILVIA,"Rather than have false Proteus rescue me."
V,IV,SILVIA,"O, Heaven be judge how I love Valentine,"
V,IV,SILVIA,"Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!"
V,IV,SILVIA,"And full as much, for more there cannot be,"
V,IV,SILVIA,"I do detest false perjured Proteus."
V,IV,SILVIA,"Therefore be gone; solicit me no more."
V,IV,PROTEUS,"What dangerous action, stood it next to death,"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Would I not undergo for one calm look!"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approved,"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"When women cannot love where they're beloved!"
V,IV,SILVIA,"When Proteus cannot love where he's beloved."
V,IV,SILVIA,"Read over Julia's heart, thy first best love,"
V,IV,SILVIA,"For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy faith"
V,IV,SILVIA,"Into a thousand oaths; and all those oaths"
V,IV,SILVIA,"Descended into perjury, to love me."
V,IV,SILVIA,"Thou hast no faith left now, unless thou'dst two;"
V,IV,SILVIA,"And that's far worse than none; better have none"
V,IV,SILVIA,"Than plural faith which is too much by one:"
V,IV,SILVIA,"Thou counterfeit to thy true friend!"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"In love"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Who respects friend?"
V,IV,SILVIA,"All men but Proteus."
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Can no way change you to a milder form,"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"I'll woo you like a soldier, at arms' end,"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"And love you 'gainst the nature of love,--force ye."
V,IV,SILVIA,"O heaven!"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"I'll force thee yield to my desire."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil touch,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Thou friend of an ill fashion!"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Valentine!"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Thou common friend, that's without faith or love,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"For such is a friend now; treacherous man!"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Thou hast beguiled my hopes; nought but mine eye"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Could have persuaded me: now I dare not say"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"I have one friend alive; thou wouldst disprove me."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Who should be trusted, when one's own right hand"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Is perjured to the bosom? Proteus,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"I am sorry I must never trust thee more,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"But count the world a stranger for thy sake."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"The private wound is deepest: O time most accurst,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"My shame and guilt confounds me."
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Forgive me, Valentine: if hearty sorrow"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Be a sufficient ransom for offence,"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"I tender 't here; I do as truly suffer"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"As e'er I did commit."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Then I am paid;"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"And once again I do receive thee honest."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Who by repentance is not satisfied"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Is nor of heaven nor earth, for these are pleased."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeased:"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"And, that my love may appear plain and free,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"All that was mine in Silvia I give thee."
V,IV,JULIA,"O me unhappy!"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Look to the boy."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Why, boy! why, wag! how now! what's the matter?"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Look up; speak."
V,IV,JULIA,"O good sir, my master charged me to deliver a ring"
V,IV,JULIA,"to Madam Silvia, which, out of my neglect, was never done."
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Where is that ring, boy?"
V,IV,JULIA,"Here 'tis; this is it."
V,IV,PROTEUS,"How! let me see:"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Why, this is the ring I gave to Julia."
V,IV,JULIA,"O, cry you mercy, sir, I have mistook:"
V,IV,JULIA,"This is the ring you sent to Silvia."
V,IV,PROTEUS,"But how camest thou by this ring? At my depart"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"I gave this unto Julia."
V,IV,JULIA,"And Julia herself did give it me;"
V,IV,JULIA,"And Julia herself hath brought it hither."
V,IV,PROTEUS,"How! Julia!"
V,IV,JULIA,"Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths,"
V,IV,JULIA,"And entertain'd 'em deeply in her heart."
V,IV,JULIA,"How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root!"
V,IV,JULIA,"O Proteus, let this habit make thee blush!"
V,IV,JULIA,"Be thou ashamed that I have took upon me"
V,IV,JULIA,"Such an immodest raiment, if shame live"
V,IV,JULIA,"In a disguise of love:"
V,IV,JULIA,"It is the lesser blot, modesty finds,"
V,IV,JULIA,"Women to change their shapes than men their minds."
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Than men their minds! 'tis true."
V,IV,PROTEUS,"O heaven! were man"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"But constant, he were perfect. That one error"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins:"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Inconstancy falls off ere it begins."
V,IV,PROTEUS,"What is in Silvia's face, but I may spy"
V,IV,PROTEUS,"More fresh in Julia's with a constant eye?"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Come, come, a hand from either:"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Let me be blest to make this happy close;"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"'Twere pity two such friends should be long foes."
V,IV,PROTEUS,"Bear witness, Heaven, I have my wish for ever."
V,IV,JULIA,"And I mine."
V,IV,Outlaws,"A prize, a prize, a prize!"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Forbear, forbear, I say! it is my lord the duke."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Your grace is welcome to a man disgraced,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Banished Valentine."
V,IV,DUKE,"Sir Valentine!"
V,IV,THURIO,"Yonder is Silvia; and Silvia's mine."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Thurio, give back, or else embrace thy death;"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Come not within the measure of my wrath;"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Do not name Silvia thine; if once again,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Verona shall not hold thee. Here she stands;"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Take but possession of her with a touch:"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"I dare thee but to breathe upon my love."
V,IV,THURIO,"Sir Valentine, I care not for her, I;"
V,IV,THURIO,"I hold him but a fool that will endanger"
V,IV,THURIO,"His body for a girl that loves him not:"
V,IV,THURIO,"I claim her not, and therefore she is thine."
V,IV,DUKE,"The more degenerate and base art thou,"
V,IV,DUKE,"To make such means for her as thou hast done"
V,IV,DUKE,"And leave her on such slight conditions."
V,IV,DUKE,"Now, by the honour of my ancestry,"
V,IV,DUKE,"I do applaud thy spirit, Valentine,"
V,IV,DUKE,"And think thee worthy of an empress' love:"
V,IV,DUKE,"Know then, I here forget all former griefs,"
V,IV,DUKE,"Cancel all grudge, repeal thee home again,"
V,IV,DUKE,"Plead a new state in thy unrivall'd merit,"
V,IV,DUKE,"To which I thus subscribe: Sir Valentine,"
V,IV,DUKE,"Thou art a gentleman and well derived;"
V,IV,DUKE,"Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserved her."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"I thank your grace; the gift hath made me happy."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"I now beseech you, for your daughter's sake,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"To grant one boom that I shall ask of you."
V,IV,DUKE,"I grant it, for thine own, whate'er it be."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"These banish'd men that I have kept withal"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Are men endued with worthy qualities:"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Forgive them what they have committed here"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"And let them be recall'd from their exile:"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"They are reformed, civil, full of good"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"And fit for great employment, worthy lord."
V,IV,DUKE,"Thou hast prevail'd; I pardon them and thee:"
V,IV,DUKE,"Dispose of them as thou know'st their deserts."
V,IV,DUKE,"Come, let us go: we will include all jars"
V,IV,DUKE,"With triumphs, mirth and rare solemnity."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"And, as we walk along, I dare be bold"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"With our discourse to make your grace to smile."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"What think you of this page, my lord?"
V,IV,DUKE,"I think the boy hath grace in him; he blushes."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"I warrant you, my lord, more grace than boy."
V,IV,DUKE,"What mean you by that saying?"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Please you, I'll tell you as we pass along,"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"That you will wonder what hath fortuned."
V,IV,VALENTINE,"Come, Proteus; 'tis your penance but to hear"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"The story of your loves discovered:"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"That done, our day of marriage shall be yours;"
V,IV,VALENTINE,"One feast, one house, one mutual happiness."
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"the like occasion whereon my services are now on"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"foot, you shall see, as I have said, great"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia."
I,I,CAMILLO,"I think, this coming summer, the King of Sicilia"
I,I,CAMILLO,"means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him."
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"justified in our loves; for indeed--"
I,I,CAMILLO,"Beseech you,--"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge:"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"we cannot with such magnificence--in so rare--I know"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"not what to say. We will give you sleepy drinks,"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience,"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"us."
I,I,CAMILLO,"You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely."
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"and as mine honesty puts it to utterance."
I,I,CAMILLO,"Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia."
I,I,CAMILLO,"They were trained together in their childhoods; and"
I,I,CAMILLO,"there rooted betwixt them then such an affection,"
I,I,CAMILLO,"which cannot choose but branch now. Since their"
I,I,CAMILLO,"more mature dignities and royal necessities made"
I,I,CAMILLO,"separation of their society, their encounters,"
I,I,CAMILLO,"though not personal, have been royally attorneyed"
I,I,CAMILLO,"with interchange of gifts, letters, loving"
I,I,CAMILLO,"embassies; that they have seemed to be together,"
I,I,CAMILLO,"though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and"
I,I,CAMILLO,"embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed"
I,I,CAMILLO,"winds. The heavens continue their loves!"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"I think there is not in the world either malice or"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"comfort of your young prince Mamillius: it is a"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"into my note."
I,I,CAMILLO,"I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it"
I,I,CAMILLO,"is a gallant child; one that indeed physics the"
I,I,CAMILLO,"subject, makes old hearts fresh: they that went on"
I,I,CAMILLO,"crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to"
I,I,CAMILLO,"see him a man."
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"Would they else be content to die?"
I,I,CAMILLO,"Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should"
I,I,CAMILLO,"desire to live."
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"If the king had no son, they would desire to live"
I,I,ARCHIDAMUS,"on crutches till he had one."
I,II,POLIXENES,"Nine changes of the watery star hath been"
I,II,POLIXENES,"The shepherd's note since we have left our throne"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Without a burthen: time as long again"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Would be find up, my brother, with our thanks;"
I,II,POLIXENES,"And yet we should, for perpetuity,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Yet standing in rich place, I multiply"
I,II,POLIXENES,"With one 'We thank you' many thousands moe"
I,II,POLIXENES,"That go before it."
I,II,LEONTES,"Stay your thanks a while;"
I,II,LEONTES,"And pay them when you part."
I,II,POLIXENES,"Sir, that's to-morrow."
I,II,POLIXENES,"I am question'd by my fears, of what may chance"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Or breed upon our absence; that may blow"
I,II,POLIXENES,"No sneaping winds at home, to make us say"
I,II,POLIXENES,"'This is put forth too truly:' besides, I have stay'd"
I,II,POLIXENES,"To tire your royalty."
I,II,LEONTES,"We are tougher, brother,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Than you can put us to't."
I,II,POLIXENES,"No longer stay."
I,II,LEONTES,"One seven-night longer."
I,II,POLIXENES,"Very sooth, to-morrow."
I,II,LEONTES,"We'll part the time between's then; and in that"
I,II,LEONTES,"I'll no gainsaying."
I,II,POLIXENES,"Press me not, beseech you, so."
I,II,POLIXENES,"There is no tongue that moves, none, none i' the world,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"So soon as yours could win me: so it should now,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Were there necessity in your request, although"
I,II,POLIXENES,"'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Do even drag me homeward: which to hinder"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Were in your love a whip to me; my stay"
I,II,POLIXENES,"To you a charge and trouble: to save both,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Farewell, our brother."
I,II,LEONTES,"Tongue-tied, our queen?"
I,II,LEONTES,"speak you."
I,II,HERMIONE,"I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until"
I,II,HERMIONE,"You have drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir,"
I,II,HERMIONE,"Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are sure"
I,II,HERMIONE,"All in Bohemia's well; this satisfaction"
I,II,HERMIONE,"The by-gone day proclaim'd: say this to him,"
I,II,HERMIONE,"He's beat from his best ward."
I,II,LEONTES,"Well said, Hermione."
I,II,HERMIONE,"To tell, he longs to see his son, were strong:"
I,II,HERMIONE,"But let him say so then, and let him go;"
I,II,HERMIONE,"But let him swear so, and he shall not stay,"
I,II,HERMIONE,"We'll thwack him hence with distaffs."
I,II,HERMIONE,"Yet of your royal presence I'll adventure"
I,II,HERMIONE,"The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia"
I,II,HERMIONE,"You take my lord, I'll give him my commission"
I,II,HERMIONE,"To let him there a month behind the gest"
I,II,HERMIONE,"Prefix'd for's parting: yet, good deed, Leontes,"
I,II,HERMIONE,"I love thee not a jar o' the clock behind"
I,II,HERMIONE,"What lady-she her lord. You'll stay?"
I,II,POLIXENES,"No, madam."
I,II,HERMIONE,"Nay, but you will?"
I,II,POLIXENES,"I may not, verily."
I,II,HERMIONE,"Verily!"
I,II,HERMIONE,"You put me off with limber vows; but I,"
I,II,HERMIONE,"Though you would seek to unsphere the"
I,II,HERMIONE,"stars with oaths,"
I,II,HERMIONE,"Should yet say 'Sir, no going.' Verily,"
I,II,HERMIONE,"You shall not go: a lady's 'Verily' 's"
I,II,HERMIONE,"As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet?"
I,II,HERMIONE,"Force me to keep you as a prisoner,"
I,II,HERMIONE,"Not like a guest; so you shall pay your fees"
I,II,HERMIONE,"When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you?"
I,II,HERMIONE,"My prisoner? or my guest? by your dread 'Verily,'"
I,II,HERMIONE,"One of them you shall be."
I,II,POLIXENES,"Your guest, then, madam:"
I,II,POLIXENES,"To be your prisoner should import offending;"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Which is for me less easy to commit"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Than you to punish."
I,II,HERMIONE,"Not your gaoler, then,"
I,II,HERMIONE,"But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question you"
I,II,HERMIONE,"Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys:"
I,II,HERMIONE,"You were pretty lordings then?"
I,II,POLIXENES,"We were, fair queen,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Two lads that thought there was no more behind"
I,II,POLIXENES,"But such a day to-morrow as to-day,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"And to be boy eternal."
I,II,HERMIONE,"Was not my lord"
I,II,HERMIONE,"The verier wag o' the two?"
I,II,POLIXENES,"We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"And bleat the one at the other: what we changed"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Was innocence for innocence; we knew not"
I,II,POLIXENES,"The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd"
I,II,POLIXENES,"That any did. Had we pursued that life,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"And our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd"
I,II,POLIXENES,"With stronger blood, we should have answer'd heaven"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Boldly 'not guilty;' the imposition clear'd"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Hereditary ours."
I,II,HERMIONE,"By this we gather"
I,II,HERMIONE,"You have tripp'd since."
I,II,POLIXENES,"O my most sacred lady!"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Temptations have since then been born to's; for"
I,II,POLIXENES,"In those unfledged days was my wife a girl;"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Your precious self had then not cross'd the eyes"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Of my young play-fellow."
I,II,HERMIONE,"Grace to boot!"
I,II,HERMIONE,"Of this make no conclusion, lest you say"
I,II,HERMIONE,"Your queen and I are devils: yet go on;"
I,II,HERMIONE,"The offences we have made you do we'll answer,"
I,II,HERMIONE,"If you first sinn'd with us and that with us"
I,II,HERMIONE,"You did continue fault and that you slipp'd not"
I,II,HERMIONE,"With any but with us."
I,II,LEONTES,"Is he won yet?"
I,II,HERMIONE,"He'll stay my lord."
I,II,LEONTES,"At my request he would not."
I,II,LEONTES,"Hermione, my dearest, thou never spokest"
I,II,LEONTES,"To better purpose."
I,II,HERMIONE,"Never?"
I,II,LEONTES,"Never, but once."
I,II,HERMIONE,"What! have I twice said well? when was't before?"
I,II,HERMIONE,"I prithee tell me; cram's with praise, and make's"
I,II,HERMIONE,"As fat as tame things: one good deed dying tongueless"
I,II,HERMIONE,"Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that."
I,II,HERMIONE,"Our praises are our wages: you may ride's"
I,II,HERMIONE,"With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere"
I,II,HERMIONE,"With spur we beat an acre. But to the goal:"
I,II,HERMIONE,"My last good deed was to entreat his stay:"
I,II,HERMIONE,"What was my first? it has an elder sister,"
I,II,HERMIONE,"Or I mistake you: O, would her name were Grace!"
I,II,HERMIONE,"But once before I spoke to the purpose: when?"
I,II,HERMIONE,"Nay, let me have't; I long."
I,II,LEONTES,"Why, that was when"
I,II,LEONTES,"Three crabbed months had sour'd themselves to death,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Ere I could make thee open thy white hand"
I,II,LEONTES,"And clap thyself my love: then didst thou utter"
I,II,LEONTES,"'I am yours for ever.'"
I,II,HERMIONE,"'Tis grace indeed."
I,II,HERMIONE,"Why, lo you now, I have spoke to the purpose twice:"
I,II,HERMIONE,"The one for ever earn'd a royal husband;"
I,II,HERMIONE,"The other for some while a friend."
I,II,LEONTES,"To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods."
I,II,LEONTES,"I have tremor cordis on me: my heart dances;"
I,II,LEONTES,"But not for joy; not joy. This entertainment"
I,II,LEONTES,"May a free face put on, derive a liberty"
I,II,LEONTES,"From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom,"
I,II,LEONTES,"And well become the agent; 't may, I grant;"
I,II,LEONTES,"But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers,"
I,II,LEONTES,"As now they are, and making practised smiles,"
I,II,LEONTES,"As in a looking-glass, and then to sigh, as 'twere"
I,II,LEONTES,"The mort o' the deer; O, that is entertainment"
I,II,LEONTES,"My bosom likes not, nor my brows! Mamillius,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Art thou my boy?"
I,II,MAMILLIUS,"Ay, my good lord."
I,II,LEONTES,"I' fecks!"
I,II,LEONTES,"Why, that's my bawcock. What, hast"
I,II,LEONTES,"smutch'd thy nose?"
I,II,LEONTES,"They say it is a copy out of mine. Come, captain,"
I,II,LEONTES,"We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly, captain:"
I,II,LEONTES,"And yet the steer, the heifer and the calf"
I,II,LEONTES,"Are all call'd neat.--Still virginalling"
I,II,LEONTES,"Upon his palm!--How now, you wanton calf!"
I,II,LEONTES,"Art thou my calf?"
I,II,MAMILLIUS,"Yes, if you will, my lord."
I,II,LEONTES,"Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have,"
I,II,LEONTES,"To be full like me: yet they say we are"
I,II,LEONTES,"Almost as like as eggs; women say so,"
I,II,LEONTES,"That will say anything but were they false"
I,II,LEONTES,"As o'er-dyed blacks, as wind, as waters, false"
I,II,LEONTES,"As dice are to be wish'd by one that fixes"
I,II,LEONTES,"No bourn 'twixt his and mine, yet were it true"
I,II,LEONTES,"To say this boy were like me. Come, sir page,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Look on me with your welkin eye: sweet villain!"
I,II,LEONTES,"Most dear'st! my collop! Can thy dam?--may't be?--"
I,II,LEONTES,"Affection! thy intention stabs the centre:"
I,II,LEONTES,"Thou dost make possible things not so held,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Communicatest with dreams;--how can this be?--"
I,II,LEONTES,"With what's unreal thou coactive art,"
I,II,LEONTES,"And fellow'st nothing: then 'tis very credent"
I,II,LEONTES,"Thou mayst co-join with something; and thou dost,"
I,II,LEONTES,"And that beyond commission, and I find it,"
I,II,LEONTES,"And that to the infection of my brains"
I,II,LEONTES,"And hardening of my brows."
I,II,POLIXENES,"What means Sicilia?"
I,II,HERMIONE,"He something seems unsettled."
I,II,POLIXENES,"How, my lord!"
I,II,POLIXENES,"What cheer? how is't with you, best brother?"
I,II,HERMIONE,"You look as if you held a brow of much distraction"
I,II,HERMIONE,"Are you moved, my lord?"
I,II,LEONTES,"No, in good earnest."
I,II,LEONTES,"How sometimes nature will betray its folly,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime"
I,II,LEONTES,"To harder bosoms! Looking on the lines"
I,II,LEONTES,"Of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil"
I,II,LEONTES,"Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreech'd,"
I,II,LEONTES,"In my green velvet coat, my dagger muzzled,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Lest it should bite its master, and so prove,"
I,II,LEONTES,"As ornaments oft do, too dangerous:"
I,II,LEONTES,"How like, methought, I then was to this kernel,"
I,II,LEONTES,"This squash, this gentleman. Mine honest friend,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Will you take eggs for money?"
I,II,MAMILLIUS,"No, my lord, I'll fight."
I,II,LEONTES,"You will! why, happy man be's dole! My brother,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Are you so fond of your young prince as we"
I,II,LEONTES,"Do seem to be of ours?"
I,II,POLIXENES,"If at home, sir,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Now my sworn friend and then mine enemy,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all:"
I,II,POLIXENES,"He makes a July's day short as December,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"And with his varying childness cures in me"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Thoughts that would thick my blood."
I,II,LEONTES,"So stands this squire"
I,II,LEONTES,"Officed with me: we two will walk, my lord,"
I,II,LEONTES,"And leave you to your graver steps. Hermione,"
I,II,LEONTES,"How thou lovest us, show in our brother's welcome;"
I,II,LEONTES,"Let what is dear in Sicily be cheap:"
I,II,LEONTES,"Next to thyself and my young rover, he's"
I,II,LEONTES,"Apparent to my heart."
I,II,HERMIONE,"If you would seek us,"
I,II,HERMIONE,"We are yours i' the garden: shall's attend you there?"
I,II,LEONTES,"To your own bents dispose you: you'll be found,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Be you beneath the sky."
I,II,LEONTES,"I am angling now,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Though you perceive me not how I give line."
I,II,LEONTES,"Go to, go to!"
I,II,LEONTES,"How she holds up the neb, the bill to him!"
I,II,LEONTES,"And arms her with the boldness of a wife"
I,II,LEONTES,"To her allowing husband!"
I,II,LEONTES,"Gone already!"
I,II,LEONTES,"Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and"
I,II,LEONTES,"ears a fork'd one!"
I,II,LEONTES,"Go, play, boy, play: thy mother plays, and I"
I,II,LEONTES,"Play too, but so disgraced a part, whose issue"
I,II,LEONTES,"Will hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamour"
I,II,LEONTES,"Will be my knell. Go, play, boy, play."
I,II,LEONTES,"There have been,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Or I am much deceived, cuckolds ere now;"
I,II,LEONTES,"And many a man there is, even at this present,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Now while I speak this, holds his wife by the arm,"
I,II,LEONTES,"That little thinks she has been sluiced in's absence"
I,II,LEONTES,"And his pond fish'd by his next neighbour, by"
I,II,LEONTES,"Sir Smile, his neighbour: nay, there's comfort in't"
I,II,LEONTES,"Whiles other men have gates and those gates open'd,"
I,II,LEONTES,"As mine, against their will. Should all despair"
I,II,LEONTES,"That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind"
I,II,LEONTES,"Would hang themselves. Physic for't there is none;"
I,II,LEONTES,"It is a bawdy planet, that will strike"
I,II,LEONTES,"Where 'tis predominant; and 'tis powerful, think it,"
I,II,LEONTES,"From east, west, north and south: be it concluded,"
I,II,LEONTES,"No barricado for a belly; know't;"
I,II,LEONTES,"It will let in and out the enemy"
I,II,LEONTES,"With bag and baggage: many thousand on's"
I,II,LEONTES,"Have the disease, and feel't not. How now, boy!"
I,II,MAMILLIUS,"I am like you, they say."
I,II,LEONTES,"Why that's some comfort. What, Camillo there?"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Ay, my good lord."
I,II,LEONTES,"Go play, Mamillius; thou'rt an honest man."
I,II,LEONTES,"Camillo, this great sir will yet stay longer."
I,II,CAMILLO,"You had much ado to make his anchor hold:"
I,II,CAMILLO,"When you cast out, it still came home."
I,II,LEONTES,"Didst note it?"
I,II,CAMILLO,"He would not stay at your petitions: made"
I,II,CAMILLO,"His business more material."
I,II,LEONTES,"Didst perceive it?"
I,II,LEONTES,"They're here with me already, whispering, rounding"
I,II,LEONTES,"'Sicilia is a so-forth:' 'tis far gone,"
I,II,LEONTES,"When I shall gust it last. How came't, Camillo,"
I,II,LEONTES,"That he did stay?"
I,II,CAMILLO,"At the good queen's entreaty."
I,II,LEONTES,"At the queen's be't: 'good' should be pertinent"
I,II,LEONTES,"But, so it is, it is not. Was this taken"
I,II,LEONTES,"By any understanding pate but thine?"
I,II,LEONTES,"For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in"
I,II,LEONTES,"More than the common blocks: not noted, is't,"
I,II,LEONTES,"But of the finer natures? by some severals"
I,II,LEONTES,"Of head-piece extraordinary? lower messes"
I,II,LEONTES,"Perchance are to this business purblind? say."
I,II,CAMILLO,"Business, my lord! I think most understand"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Bohemia stays here longer."
I,II,LEONTES,"Ha!"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Stays here longer."
I,II,LEONTES,"Ay, but why?"
I,II,CAMILLO,"To satisfy your highness and the entreaties"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Of our most gracious mistress."
I,II,LEONTES,"Satisfy!"
I,II,LEONTES,"The entreaties of your mistress! satisfy!"
I,II,LEONTES,"Let that suffice. I have trusted thee, Camillo,"
I,II,LEONTES,"With all the nearest things to my heart, as well"
I,II,LEONTES,"My chamber-councils, wherein, priest-like, thou"
I,II,LEONTES,"Hast cleansed my bosom, I from thee departed"
I,II,LEONTES,"Thy penitent reform'd: but we have been"
I,II,LEONTES,"Deceived in thy integrity, deceived"
I,II,LEONTES,"In that which seems so."
I,II,CAMILLO,"Be it forbid, my lord!"
I,II,LEONTES,"To bide upon't, thou art not honest, or,"
I,II,LEONTES,"If thou inclinest that way, thou art a coward,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining"
I,II,LEONTES,"From course required; or else thou must be counted"
I,II,LEONTES,"A servant grafted in my serious trust"
I,II,LEONTES,"And therein negligent; or else a fool"
I,II,LEONTES,"That seest a game play'd home, the rich stake drawn,"
I,II,LEONTES,"And takest it all for jest."
I,II,CAMILLO,"My gracious lord,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"I may be negligent, foolish and fearful;"
I,II,CAMILLO,"In every one of these no man is free,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"But that his negligence, his folly, fear,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Among the infinite doings of the world,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Sometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"If ever I were wilful-negligent,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"It was my folly; if industriously"
I,II,CAMILLO,"I play'd the fool, it was my negligence,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful"
I,II,CAMILLO,"To do a thing, where I the issue doubted,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Where of the execution did cry out"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Which oft infects the wisest: these, my lord,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Are such allow'd infirmities that honesty"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Is never free of. But, beseech your grace,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Be plainer with me; let me know my trespass"
I,II,CAMILLO,"By its own visage: if I then deny it,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"'Tis none of mine."
I,II,LEONTES,"Ha' not you seen, Camillo,--"
I,II,LEONTES,"But that's past doubt, you have, or your eye-glass"
I,II,LEONTES,"Is thicker than a cuckold's horn,--or heard,--"
I,II,LEONTES,"For to a vision so apparent rumour"
I,II,LEONTES,"Cannot be mute,--or thought,--for cogitation"
I,II,LEONTES,"Resides not in that man that does not think,--"
I,II,LEONTES,"My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Or else be impudently negative,"
I,II,LEONTES,"To have nor eyes nor ears nor thought, then say"
I,II,LEONTES,"My wife's a hobby-horse, deserves a name"
I,II,LEONTES,"As rank as any flax-wench that puts to"
I,II,LEONTES,"Before her troth-plight: say't and justify't."
I,II,CAMILLO,"I would not be a stander-by to hear"
I,II,CAMILLO,"My sovereign mistress clouded so, without"
I,II,CAMILLO,"My present vengeance taken: 'shrew my heart,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"You never spoke what did become you less"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Than this; which to reiterate were sin"
I,II,CAMILLO,"As deep as that, though true."
I,II,LEONTES,"Is whispering nothing?"
I,II,LEONTES,"Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses?"
I,II,LEONTES,"Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career"
I,II,LEONTES,"Of laughing with a sigh?--a note infallible"
I,II,LEONTES,"Of breaking honesty--horsing foot on foot?"
I,II,LEONTES,"Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift?"
I,II,LEONTES,"Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all eyes"
I,II,LEONTES,"Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only,"
I,II,LEONTES,"That would unseen be wicked? is this nothing?"
I,II,LEONTES,"Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing;"
I,II,LEONTES,"The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing;"
I,II,LEONTES,"My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings,"
I,II,LEONTES,"If this be nothing."
I,II,CAMILLO,"Good my lord, be cured"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Of this diseased opinion, and betimes;"
I,II,CAMILLO,"For 'tis most dangerous."
I,II,LEONTES,"Say it be, 'tis true."
I,II,CAMILLO,"No, no, my lord."
I,II,LEONTES,"It is; you lie, you lie:"
I,II,LEONTES,"I say thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Or else a hovering temporizer, that"
I,II,LEONTES,"Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Inclining to them both: were my wife's liver"
I,II,LEONTES,"Infected as her life, she would not live"
I,II,LEONTES,"The running of one glass."
I,II,CAMILLO,"Who does infect her?"
I,II,LEONTES,"Why, he that wears her like a medal, hanging"
I,II,LEONTES,"About his neck, Bohemia: who, if I"
I,II,LEONTES,"Had servants true about me, that bare eyes"
I,II,LEONTES,"To see alike mine honour as their profits,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Their own particular thrifts, they would do that"
I,II,LEONTES,"Which should undo more doing: ay, and thou,"
I,II,LEONTES,"His cupbearer,--whom I from meaner form"
I,II,LEONTES,"Have benched and reared to worship, who mayst see"
I,II,LEONTES,"Plainly as heaven sees earth and earth sees heaven,"
I,II,LEONTES,"How I am galled,--mightst bespice a cup,"
I,II,LEONTES,"To give mine enemy a lasting wink;"
I,II,LEONTES,"Which draught to me were cordial."
I,II,CAMILLO,"Sir, my lord,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"I could do this, and that with no rash potion,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"But with a lingering dram that should not work"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Maliciously like poison: but I cannot"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"So sovereignly being honourable."
I,II,CAMILLO,"I have loved thee,--"
I,II,LEONTES,"Make that thy question, and go rot!"
I,II,LEONTES,"Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled,"
I,II,LEONTES,"To appoint myself in this vexation, sully"
I,II,LEONTES,"The purity and whiteness of my sheets,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Which to preserve is sleep, which being spotted"
I,II,LEONTES,"Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Give scandal to the blood o' the prince my son,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Who I do think is mine and love as mine,"
I,II,LEONTES,"Without ripe moving to't? Would I do this?"
I,II,LEONTES,"Could man so blench?"
I,II,CAMILLO,"I must believe you, sir:"
I,II,CAMILLO,"I do; and will fetch off Bohemia for't;"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Provided that, when he's removed, your highness"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Will take again your queen as yours at first,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Even for your son's sake; and thereby for sealing"
I,II,CAMILLO,"The injury of tongues in courts and kingdoms"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Known and allied to yours."
I,II,LEONTES,"Thou dost advise me"
I,II,LEONTES,"Even so as I mine own course have set down:"
I,II,LEONTES,"I'll give no blemish to her honour, none."
I,II,CAMILLO,"My lord,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Go then; and with a countenance as clear"
I,II,CAMILLO,"As friendship wears at feasts, keep with Bohemia"
I,II,CAMILLO,"And with your queen. I am his cupbearer:"
I,II,CAMILLO,"If from me he have wholesome beverage,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Account me not your servant."
I,II,LEONTES,"This is all:"
I,II,LEONTES,"Do't and thou hast the one half of my heart;"
I,II,LEONTES,"Do't not, thou split'st thine own."
I,II,CAMILLO,"I'll do't, my lord."
I,II,LEONTES,"I will seem friendly, as thou hast advised me."
I,II,CAMILLO,"O miserable lady! But, for me,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"What case stand I in? I must be the poisoner"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Of good Polixenes; and my ground to do't"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Is the obedience to a master, one"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Who in rebellion with himself will have"
I,II,CAMILLO,"All that are his so too. To do this deed,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Promotion follows. If I could find example"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Of thousands that had struck anointed kings"
I,II,CAMILLO,"And flourish'd after, I'ld not do't; but since"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Nor brass nor stone nor parchment bears not one,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Let villany itself forswear't. I must"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Forsake the court: to do't, or no, is certain"
I,II,CAMILLO,"To me a break-neck. Happy star, reign now!"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Here comes Bohemia."
I,II,POLIXENES,"This is strange: methinks"
I,II,POLIXENES,"My favour here begins to warp. Not speak?"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Good day, Camillo."
I,II,CAMILLO,"Hail, most royal sir!"
I,II,POLIXENES,"What is the news i' the court?"
I,II,CAMILLO,"None rare, my lord."
I,II,POLIXENES,"The king hath on him such a countenance"
I,II,POLIXENES,"As he had lost some province and a region"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Loved as he loves himself: even now I met him"
I,II,POLIXENES,"With customary compliment; when he,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling"
I,II,POLIXENES,"A lip of much contempt, speeds from me and"
I,II,POLIXENES,"So leaves me to consider what is breeding"
I,II,POLIXENES,"That changeth thus his manners."
I,II,CAMILLO,"I dare not know, my lord."
I,II,POLIXENES,"How! dare not! do not. Do you know, and dare not?"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Be intelligent to me: 'tis thereabouts;"
I,II,POLIXENES,"For, to yourself, what you do know, you must."
I,II,POLIXENES,"And cannot say, you dare not. Good Camillo,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Your changed complexions are to me a mirror"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Which shows me mine changed too; for I must be"
I,II,POLIXENES,"A party in this alteration, finding"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Myself thus alter'd with 't."
I,II,CAMILLO,"There is a sickness"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Which puts some of us in distemper, but"
I,II,CAMILLO,"I cannot name the disease; and it is caught"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Of you that yet are well."
I,II,POLIXENES,"How! caught of me!"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Make me not sighted like the basilisk:"
I,II,POLIXENES,"I have look'd on thousands, who have sped the better"
I,II,POLIXENES,"By my regard, but kill'd none so. Camillo,--"
I,II,POLIXENES,"As you are certainly a gentleman, thereto"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Clerk-like experienced, which no less adorns"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Our gentry than our parents' noble names,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"In whose success we are gentle,--I beseech you,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"If you know aught which does behove my knowledge"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Thereof to be inform'd, imprison't not"
I,II,POLIXENES,"In ignorant concealment."
I,II,CAMILLO,"I may not answer."
I,II,POLIXENES,"A sickness caught of me, and yet I well!"
I,II,POLIXENES,"I must be answer'd. Dost thou hear, Camillo,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"I conjure thee, by all the parts of man"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Which honour does acknowledge, whereof the least"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Is not this suit of mine, that thou declare"
I,II,POLIXENES,"What incidency thou dost guess of harm"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Is creeping toward me; how far off, how near;"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Which way to be prevented, if to be;"
I,II,POLIXENES,"If not, how best to bear it."
I,II,CAMILLO,"Sir, I will tell you;"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Since I am charged in honour and by him"
I,II,CAMILLO,"That I think honourable: therefore mark my counsel,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Which must be even as swiftly follow'd as"
I,II,CAMILLO,"I mean to utter it, or both yourself and me"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Cry lost, and so good night!"
I,II,POLIXENES,"On, good Camillo."
I,II,CAMILLO,"I am appointed him to murder you."
I,II,POLIXENES,"By whom, Camillo?"
I,II,CAMILLO,"By the king."
I,II,POLIXENES,"For what?"
I,II,CAMILLO,"He thinks, nay, with all confidence he swears,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"As he had seen't or been an instrument"
I,II,CAMILLO,"To vice you to't, that you have touch'd his queen"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Forbiddenly."
I,II,POLIXENES,"O, then my best blood turn"
I,II,POLIXENES,"To an infected jelly and my name"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Be yoked with his that did betray the Best!"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Turn then my freshest reputation to"
I,II,POLIXENES,"A savour that may strike the dullest nostril"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Where I arrive, and my approach be shunn'd,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Nay, hated too, worse than the great'st infection"
I,II,POLIXENES,"That e'er was heard or read!"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Swear his thought over"
I,II,CAMILLO,"By each particular star in heaven and"
I,II,CAMILLO,"By all their influences, you may as well"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Forbid the sea for to obey the moon"
I,II,CAMILLO,"As or by oath remove or counsel shake"
I,II,CAMILLO,"The fabric of his folly, whose foundation"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Is piled upon his faith and will continue"
I,II,CAMILLO,"The standing of his body."
I,II,POLIXENES,"How should this grow?"
I,II,CAMILLO,"I know not: but I am sure 'tis safer to"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Avoid what's grown than question how 'tis born."
I,II,CAMILLO,"If therefore you dare trust my honesty,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"That lies enclosed in this trunk which you"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Shall bear along impawn'd, away to-night!"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Your followers I will whisper to the business,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"And will by twos and threes at several posterns"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Clear them o' the city. For myself, I'll put"
I,II,CAMILLO,"My fortunes to your service, which are here"
I,II,CAMILLO,"By this discovery lost. Be not uncertain;"
I,II,CAMILLO,"For, by the honour of my parents, I"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Have utter'd truth: which if you seek to prove,"
I,II,CAMILLO,"I dare not stand by; nor shall you be safer"
I,II,CAMILLO,"Than one condemn'd by the king's own mouth, thereon"
I,II,CAMILLO,"His execution sworn."
I,II,POLIXENES,"I do believe thee:"
I,II,POLIXENES,"I saw his heart in 's face. Give me thy hand:"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Be pilot to me and thy places shall"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Still neighbour mine. My ships are ready and"
I,II,POLIXENES,"My people did expect my hence departure"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Two days ago. This jealousy"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Is for a precious creature: as she's rare,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Must it be great, and as his person's mighty,"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Must it be violent, and as he does conceive"
I,II,POLIXENES,"He is dishonour'd by a man which ever"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Profess'd to him, why, his revenges must"
I,II,POLIXENES,"In that be made more bitter. Fear o'ershades me:"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Good expedition be my friend, and comfort"
I,II,POLIXENES,"The gracious queen, part of his theme, but nothing"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Of his ill-ta'en suspicion! Come, Camillo;"
I,II,POLIXENES,"I will respect thee as a father if"
I,II,POLIXENES,"Thou bear'st my life off hence: let us avoid."
I,II,CAMILLO,"It is in mine authority to command"
I,II,CAMILLO,"The keys of all the posterns: please your highness"
I,II,CAMILLO,"To take the urgent hour. Come, sir, away."
II,I,HERMIONE,"Take the boy to you: he so troubles me,"
II,I,HERMIONE,"'Tis past enduring."
II,I,First Lady,"Come, my gracious lord,"
II,I,First Lady,"Shall I be your playfellow?"
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"No, I'll none of you."
II,I,First Lady,"Why, my sweet lord?"
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"You'll kiss me hard and speak to me as if"
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"I were a baby still. I love you better."
II,I,Second Lady,"And why so, my lord?"
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"Not for because"
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say,"
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"Become some women best, so that there be not"
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"Too much hair there, but in a semicircle"
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"Or a half-moon made with a pen."
II,I,Second Lady,"Who taught you this?"
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"I learnt it out of women's faces. Pray now"
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"What colour are your eyebrows?"
II,I,First Lady,"Blue, my lord."
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"Nay, that's a mock: I have seen a lady's nose"
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"That has been blue, but not her eyebrows."
II,I,First Lady,"Hark ye;"
II,I,First Lady,"The queen your mother rounds apace: we shall"
II,I,First Lady,"Present our services to a fine new prince"
II,I,First Lady,"One of these days; and then you'ld wanton with us,"
II,I,First Lady,"If we would have you."
II,I,Second Lady,"She is spread of late"
II,I,Second Lady,"Into a goodly bulk: good time encounter her!"
II,I,HERMIONE,"What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, sir, now"
II,I,HERMIONE,"I am for you again: pray you, sit by us,"
II,I,HERMIONE,"And tell 's a tale."
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"Merry or sad shall't be?"
II,I,HERMIONE,"As merry as you will."
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"A sad tale's best for winter: I have one"
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"Of sprites and goblins."
II,I,HERMIONE,"Let's have that, good sir."
II,I,HERMIONE,"Come on, sit down: come on, and do your best"
II,I,HERMIONE,"To fright me with your sprites; you're powerful at it."
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"There was a man--"
II,I,HERMIONE,"Nay, come, sit down; then on."
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"Dwelt by a churchyard: I will tell it softly;"
II,I,MAMILLIUS,"Yond crickets shall not hear it."
II,I,HERMIONE,"Come on, then,"
II,I,HERMIONE,"And give't me in mine ear."
II,I,LEONTES,"Was he met there? his train? Camillo with him?"
II,I,First Lord,"Behind the tuft of pines I met them; never"
II,I,First Lord,"Saw I men scour so on their way: I eyed them"
II,I,First Lord,"Even to their ships."
II,I,LEONTES,"How blest am I"
II,I,LEONTES,"In my just censure, in my true opinion!"
II,I,LEONTES,"Alack, for lesser knowledge! how accursed"
II,I,LEONTES,"In being so blest! There may be in the cup"
II,I,LEONTES,"A spider steep'd, and one may drink, depart,"
II,I,LEONTES,"And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge"
II,I,LEONTES,"Is not infected: but if one present"
II,I,LEONTES,"The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known"
II,I,LEONTES,"How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,"
II,I,LEONTES,"With violent hefts. I have drunk,"
II,I,LEONTES,"and seen the spider."
II,I,LEONTES,"Camillo was his help in this, his pander:"
II,I,LEONTES,"There is a plot against my life, my crown;"
II,I,LEONTES,"All's true that is mistrusted: that false villain"
II,I,LEONTES,"Whom I employ'd was pre-employ'd by him:"
II,I,LEONTES,"He has discover'd my design, and I"
II,I,LEONTES,"Remain a pinch'd thing; yea, a very trick"
II,I,LEONTES,"For them to play at will. How came the posterns"
II,I,LEONTES,"So easily open?"
II,I,First Lord,"By his great authority;"
II,I,First Lord,"Which often hath no less prevail'd than so"
II,I,First Lord,"On your command."
II,I,LEONTES,"I know't too well."
II,I,LEONTES,"Give me the boy: I am glad you did not nurse him:"
II,I,LEONTES,"Though he does bear some signs of me, yet you"
II,I,LEONTES,"Have too much blood in him."
II,I,HERMIONE,"What is this? sport?"
II,I,LEONTES,"Bear the boy hence; he shall not come about her;"
II,I,LEONTES,"Away with him! and let her sport herself"
II,I,LEONTES,"With that she's big with; for 'tis Polixenes"
II,I,LEONTES,"Has made thee swell thus."
II,I,HERMIONE,"But I'ld say he had not,"
II,I,HERMIONE,"And I'll be sworn you would believe my saying,"
II,I,HERMIONE,"Howe'er you lean to the nayward."
II,I,LEONTES,"You, my lords,"
II,I,LEONTES,"Look on her, mark her well; be but about"
II,I,LEONTES,"To say 'she is a goodly lady,' and"
II,I,LEONTES,"The justice of your bearts will thereto add"
II,I,LEONTES,"'Tis pity she's not honest, honourable:'"
II,I,LEONTES,"Praise her but for this her without-door form,"
II,I,LEONTES,"Which on my faith deserves high speech, and straight"
II,I,LEONTES,"The shrug, the hum or ha, these petty brands"
II,I,LEONTES,"That calumny doth use--O, I am out--"
II,I,LEONTES,"That mercy does, for calumny will sear"
II,I,LEONTES,"Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums and ha's,"
II,I,LEONTES,"When you have said 'she's goodly,' come between"
II,I,LEONTES,"Ere you can say 'she's honest:' but be 't known,"
II,I,LEONTES,"From him that has most cause to grieve it should be,"
II,I,LEONTES,"She's an adulteress."
II,I,HERMIONE,"Should a villain say so,"
II,I,HERMIONE,"The most replenish'd villain in the world,"
II,I,HERMIONE,"He were as much more villain: you, my lord,"
II,I,HERMIONE,"Do but mistake."
II,I,LEONTES,"You have mistook, my lady,"
II,I,LEONTES,"Polixenes for Leontes: O thou thing!"
II,I,LEONTES,"Which I'll not call a creature of thy place,"
II,I,LEONTES,"Lest barbarism, making me the precedent,"
II,I,LEONTES,"Should a like language use to all degrees"
II,I,LEONTES,"And mannerly distinguishment leave out"
II,I,LEONTES,"Betwixt the prince and beggar: I have said"
II,I,LEONTES,"She's an adulteress; I have said with whom:"
II,I,LEONTES,"More, she's a traitor and Camillo is"
II,I,LEONTES,"A federary with her, and one that knows"
II,I,LEONTES,"What she should shame to know herself"
II,I,LEONTES,"But with her most vile principal, that she's"
II,I,LEONTES,"A bed-swerver, even as bad as those"
II,I,LEONTES,"That vulgars give bold'st titles, ay, and privy"
II,I,LEONTES,"To this their late escape."
II,I,HERMIONE,"No, by my life."
II,I,HERMIONE,"Privy to none of this. How will this grieve you,"
II,I,HERMIONE,"When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that"
II,I,HERMIONE,"You thus have publish'd me! Gentle my lord,"
II,I,HERMIONE,"You scarce can right me throughly then to say"
II,I,HERMIONE,"You did mistake."
II,I,LEONTES,"No; if I mistake"
II,I,LEONTES,"In those foundations which I build upon,"
II,I,LEONTES,"The centre is not big enough to bear"
II,I,LEONTES,"A school-boy's top. Away with her! to prison!"
II,I,LEONTES,"He who shall speak for her is afar off guilty"
II,I,LEONTES,"But that he speaks."
II,I,HERMIONE,"There's some ill planet reigns:"
II,I,HERMIONE,"I must be patient till the heavens look"
II,I,HERMIONE,"With an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,"
II,I,HERMIONE,"I am not prone to weeping, as our sex"
II,I,HERMIONE,"Commonly are; the want of which vain dew"
II,I,HERMIONE,"Perchance shall dry your pities: but I have"
II,I,HERMIONE,"That honourable grief lodged here which burns"
II,I,HERMIONE,"Worse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,"
II,I,HERMIONE,"With thoughts so qualified as your charities"
II,I,HERMIONE,"Shall best instruct you, measure me; and so"
II,I,HERMIONE,"The king's will be perform'd!"
II,I,LEONTES,"Shall I be heard?"
II,I,HERMIONE,"Who is't that goes with me? Beseech your highness,"
II,I,HERMIONE,"My women may be with me; for you see"
II,I,HERMIONE,"My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools;"
II,I,HERMIONE,"There is no cause: when you shall know your mistress"
II,I,HERMIONE,"Has deserved prison, then abound in tears"
II,I,HERMIONE,"As I come out: this action I now go on"
II,I,HERMIONE,"Is for my better grace. Adieu, my lord:"
II,I,HERMIONE,"I never wish'd to see you sorry; now"
II,I,HERMIONE,"I trust I shall. My women, come; you have leave."
II,I,LEONTES,"Go, do our bidding; hence!"
II,I,First Lord,"Beseech your highness, call the queen again."
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"Be certain what you do, sir, lest your justice"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"Prove violence; in the which three great ones suffer,"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"Yourself, your queen, your son."
II,I,First Lord,"For her, my lord,"
II,I,First Lord,"I dare my life lay down and will do't, sir,"
II,I,First Lord,"Please you to accept it, that the queen is spotless"
II,I,First Lord,"I' the eyes of heaven and to you; I mean,"
II,I,First Lord,"In this which you accuse her."
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"If it prove"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her;"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"Than when I feel and see her no farther trust her;"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"For every inch of woman in the world,"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"Ay, every dram of woman's flesh is false, If she be."
II,I,LEONTES,"Hold your peaces."
II,I,First Lord,"Good my lord,--"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"It is for you we speak, not for ourselves:"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"You are abused and by some putter-on"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"That will be damn'd for't; would I knew the villain,"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"I would land-damn him. Be she honour-flaw'd,"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"I have three daughters; the eldest is eleven"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"The second and the third, nine, and some five;"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"If this prove true, they'll pay for't:"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"by mine honour,"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"I'll geld 'em all; fourteen they shall not see,"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"To bring false generations: they are co-heirs;"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"And I had rather glib myself than they"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"Should not produce fair issue."
II,I,LEONTES,"Cease; no more."
II,I,LEONTES,"You smell this business with a sense as cold"
II,I,LEONTES,"As is a dead man's nose: but I do see't and feel't"
II,I,LEONTES,"As you feel doing thus; and see withal"
II,I,LEONTES,"The instruments that feel."
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"If it be so,"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"We need no grave to bury honesty:"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"There's not a grain of it the face to sweeten"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"Of the whole dungy earth."
II,I,LEONTES,"What! lack I credit?"
II,I,First Lord,"I had rather you did lack than I, my lord,"
II,I,First Lord,"Upon this ground; and more it would content me"
II,I,First Lord,"To have her honour true than your suspicion,"
II,I,First Lord,"Be blamed for't how you might."
II,I,LEONTES,"Why, what need we"
II,I,LEONTES,"Commune with you of this, but rather follow"
II,I,LEONTES,"Our forceful instigation? Our prerogative"
II,I,LEONTES,"Calls not your counsels, but our natural goodness"
II,I,LEONTES,"Imparts this; which if you, or stupefied"
II,I,LEONTES,"Or seeming so in skill, cannot or will not"
II,I,LEONTES,"Relish a truth like us, inform yourselves"
II,I,LEONTES,"We need no more of your advice: the matter,"
II,I,LEONTES,"The loss, the gain, the ordering on't, is all"
II,I,LEONTES,"Properly ours."
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"And I wish, my liege,"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"You had only in your silent judgment tried it,"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"Without more overture."
II,I,LEONTES,"How could that be?"
II,I,LEONTES,"Either thou art most ignorant by age,"
II,I,LEONTES,"Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight,"
II,I,LEONTES,"Added to their familiarity,"
II,I,LEONTES,"Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture,"
II,I,LEONTES,"That lack'd sight only, nought for approbation"
II,I,LEONTES,"But only seeing, all other circumstances"
II,I,LEONTES,"Made up to the deed, doth push on this proceeding:"
II,I,LEONTES,"Yet, for a greater confirmation,"
II,I,LEONTES,"For in an act of this importance 'twere"
II,I,LEONTES,"Most piteous to be wild, I have dispatch'd in post"
II,I,LEONTES,"To sacred Delphos, to Apollo's temple,"
II,I,LEONTES,"Cleomenes and Dion, whom you know"
II,I,LEONTES,"Of stuff'd sufficiency: now from the oracle"
II,I,LEONTES,"They will bring all; whose spiritual counsel had,"
II,I,LEONTES,"Shall stop or spur me. Have I done well?"
II,I,First Lord,"Well done, my lord."
II,I,LEONTES,"Though I am satisfied and need no more"
II,I,LEONTES,"Than what I know, yet shall the oracle"
II,I,LEONTES,"Give rest to the minds of others, such as he"
II,I,LEONTES,"Whose ignorant credulity will not"
II,I,LEONTES,"Come up to the truth. So have we thought it good"
II,I,LEONTES,"From our free person she should be confined,"
II,I,LEONTES,"Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence"
II,I,LEONTES,"Be left her to perform. Come, follow us;"
II,I,LEONTES,"We are to speak in public; for this business"
II,I,LEONTES,"Will raise us all."
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"To laughter, as I take it,"
II,I,ANTIGONUS,"If the good truth were known."
II,II,PAULINA,"The keeper of the prison, call to him;"
II,II,PAULINA,"let him have knowledge who I am."
II,II,PAULINA,"Good lady,"
II,II,PAULINA,"No court in Europe is too good for thee;"
II,II,PAULINA,"What dost thou then in prison?"
II,II,PAULINA,"Now, good sir,"
II,II,PAULINA,"You know me, do you not?"
II,II,Gaoler,"For a worthy lady"
II,II,Gaoler,"And one whom much I honour."
II,II,PAULINA,"Pray you then,"
II,II,PAULINA,"Conduct me to the queen."
II,II,Gaoler,"I may not, madam:"
II,II,Gaoler,"To the contrary I have express commandment."
II,II,PAULINA,"Here's ado,"
II,II,PAULINA,"To lock up honesty and honour from"
II,II,PAULINA,"The access of gentle visitors!"
II,II,PAULINA,"Is't lawful, pray you,"
II,II,PAULINA,"To see her women? any of them? Emilia?"
II,II,Gaoler,"So please you, madam,"
II,II,Gaoler,"To put apart these your attendants, I"
II,II,Gaoler,"Shall bring Emilia forth."
II,II,PAULINA,"I pray now, call her."
II,II,PAULINA,"Withdraw yourselves."
II,II,Gaoler,"And, madam,"
II,II,Gaoler,"I must be present at your conference."
II,II,PAULINA,"Well, be't so, prithee."
II,II,PAULINA,"Here's such ado to make no stain a stain"
II,II,PAULINA,"As passes colouring."
II,II,PAULINA,"Dear gentlewoman,"
II,II,PAULINA,"How fares our gracious lady?"
II,II,EMILIA,"As well as one so great and so forlorn"
II,II,EMILIA,"May hold together: on her frights and griefs,"
II,II,EMILIA,"Which never tender lady hath born greater,"
II,II,EMILIA,"She is something before her time deliver'd."
II,II,PAULINA,"A boy?"
II,II,EMILIA,"A daughter, and a goodly babe,"
II,II,EMILIA,"Lusty and like to live: the queen receives"
II,II,EMILIA,"Much comfort in't; says 'My poor prisoner,"
II,II,EMILIA,"I am innocent as you.'"
II,II,PAULINA,"I dare be sworn"
II,II,PAULINA,"These dangerous unsafe lunes i' the king,"
II,II,PAULINA,"beshrew them!"
II,II,PAULINA,"He must be told on't, and he shall: the office"
II,II,PAULINA,"Becomes a woman best; I'll take't upon me:"
II,II,PAULINA,"If I prove honey-mouth'd let my tongue blister"
II,II,PAULINA,"And never to my red-look'd anger be"
II,II,PAULINA,"The trumpet any more. Pray you, Emilia,"
II,II,PAULINA,"Commend my best obedience to the queen:"
II,II,PAULINA,"If she dares trust me with her little babe,"
II,II,PAULINA,"I'll show't the king and undertake to be"
II,II,PAULINA,"Her advocate to the loud'st. We do not know"
II,II,PAULINA,"How he may soften at the sight o' the child:"
II,II,PAULINA,"The silence often of pure innocence"
II,II,PAULINA,"Persuades when speaking fails."
II,II,EMILIA,"Most worthy madam,"
II,II,EMILIA,"Your honour and your goodness is so evident"
II,II,EMILIA,"That your free undertaking cannot miss"
II,II,EMILIA,"A thriving issue: there is no lady living"
II,II,EMILIA,"So meet for this great errand. Please your ladyship"
II,II,EMILIA,"To visit the next room, I'll presently"
II,II,EMILIA,"Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer;"
II,II,EMILIA,"Who but to-day hammer'd of this design,"
II,II,EMILIA,"But durst not tempt a minister of honour,"
II,II,EMILIA,"Lest she should be denied."
II,II,PAULINA,"Tell her, Emilia."
II,II,PAULINA,"I'll use that tongue I have: if wit flow from't"
II,II,PAULINA,"As boldness from my bosom, let 't not be doubted"
II,II,PAULINA,"I shall do good."
II,II,EMILIA,"Now be you blest for it!"
II,II,EMILIA,"I'll to the queen: please you,"
II,II,EMILIA,"come something nearer."
II,II,Gaoler,"Madam, if't please the queen to send the babe,"
II,II,Gaoler,"I know not what I shall incur to pass it,"
II,II,Gaoler,"Having no warrant."
II,II,PAULINA,"You need not fear it, sir:"
II,II,PAULINA,"This child was prisoner to the womb and is"
II,II,PAULINA,"By law and process of great nature thence"
II,II,PAULINA,"Freed and enfranchised, not a party to"
II,II,PAULINA,"The anger of the king nor guilty of,"
II,II,PAULINA,"If any be, the trespass of the queen."
II,II,Gaoler,"I do believe it."
II,II,PAULINA,"Do not you fear: upon mine honour,"
II,II,PAULINA,"I will stand betwixt you and danger."
II,III,LEONTES,"Nor night nor day no rest: it is but weakness"
II,III,LEONTES,"To bear the matter thus; mere weakness. If"
II,III,LEONTES,"The cause were not in being,--part o' the cause,"
II,III,LEONTES,"She the adulteress; for the harlot king"
II,III,LEONTES,"Is quite beyond mine arm, out of the blank"
II,III,LEONTES,"And level of my brain, plot-proof; but she"
II,III,LEONTES,"I can hook to me: say that she were gone,"
II,III,LEONTES,"Given to the fire, a moiety of my rest"
II,III,LEONTES,"Might come to me again. Who's there?"
II,III,First Servant,"My lord?"
II,III,LEONTES,"How does the boy?"
II,III,First Servant,"He took good rest to-night;"
II,III,First Servant,"'Tis hoped his sickness is discharged."
II,III,LEONTES,"To see his nobleness!"
II,III,LEONTES,"Conceiving the dishonour of his mother,"
II,III,LEONTES,"He straight declined, droop'd, took it deeply,"
II,III,LEONTES,"Fasten'd and fix'd the shame on't in himself,"
II,III,LEONTES,"Threw off his spirit, his appetite, his sleep,"
II,III,LEONTES,"And downright languish'd. Leave me solely: go,"
II,III,LEONTES,"See how he fares."
II,III,LEONTES,"Fie, fie! no thought of him:"
II,III,LEONTES,"The thought of my revenges that way"
II,III,LEONTES,"Recoil upon me: in himself too mighty,"
II,III,LEONTES,"And in his parties, his alliance; let him be"
II,III,LEONTES,"Until a time may serve: for present vengeance,"
II,III,LEONTES,"Take it on her. Camillo and Polixenes"
II,III,LEONTES,"Laugh at me, make their pastime at my sorrow:"
II,III,LEONTES,"They should not laugh if I could reach them, nor"
II,III,LEONTES,"Shall she within my power."
II,III,First Lord,"You must not enter."
II,III,PAULINA,"Nay, rather, good my lords, be second to me:"
II,III,PAULINA,"Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Than the queen's life? a gracious innocent soul,"
II,III,PAULINA,"More free than he is jealous."
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"That's enough."
II,III,Second Servant,"Madam, he hath not slept tonight; commanded"
II,III,Second Servant,"None should come at him."
II,III,PAULINA,"Not so hot, good sir:"
II,III,PAULINA,"I come to bring him sleep. 'Tis such as you,"
II,III,PAULINA,"That creep like shadows by him and do sigh"
II,III,PAULINA,"At each his needless heavings, such as you"
II,III,PAULINA,"Nourish the cause of his awaking: I"
II,III,PAULINA,"Do come with words as medicinal as true,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Honest as either, to purge him of that humour"
II,III,PAULINA,"That presses him from sleep."
II,III,LEONTES,"What noise there, ho?"
II,III,PAULINA,"No noise, my lord; but needful conference"
II,III,PAULINA,"About some gossips for your highness."
II,III,LEONTES,"How!"
II,III,LEONTES,"Away with that audacious lady! Antigonus,"
II,III,LEONTES,"I charged thee that she should not come about me:"
II,III,LEONTES,"I knew she would."
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"I told her so, my lord,"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"On your displeasure's peril and on mine,"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"She should not visit you."
II,III,LEONTES,"What, canst not rule her?"
II,III,PAULINA,"From all dishonesty he can: in this,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Unless he take the course that you have done,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Commit me for committing honour, trust it,"
II,III,PAULINA,"He shall not rule me."
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"La you now, you hear:"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"When she will take the rein I let her run;"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"But she'll not stumble."
II,III,PAULINA,"Good my liege, I come;"
II,III,PAULINA,"And, I beseech you, hear me, who profess"
II,III,PAULINA,"Myself your loyal servant, your physician,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Your most obedient counsellor, yet that dare"
II,III,PAULINA,"Less appear so in comforting your evils,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Than such as most seem yours: I say, I come"
II,III,PAULINA,"From your good queen."
II,III,LEONTES,"Good queen!"
II,III,PAULINA,"Good queen, my lord,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Good queen; I say good queen;"
II,III,PAULINA,"And would by combat make her good, so were I"
II,III,PAULINA,"A man, the worst about you."
II,III,LEONTES,"Force her hence."
II,III,PAULINA,"Let him that makes but trifles of his eyes"
II,III,PAULINA,"First hand me: on mine own accord I'll off;"
II,III,PAULINA,"But first I'll do my errand. The good queen,"
II,III,PAULINA,"For she is good, hath brought you forth a daughter;"
II,III,PAULINA,"Here 'tis; commends it to your blessing."
II,III,LEONTES,"Out!"
II,III,LEONTES,"A mankind witch! Hence with her, out o' door:"
II,III,LEONTES,"A most intelligencing bawd!"
II,III,PAULINA,"Not so:"
II,III,PAULINA,"I am as ignorant in that as you"
II,III,PAULINA,"In so entitling me, and no less honest"
II,III,PAULINA,"Than you are mad; which is enough, I'll warrant,"
II,III,PAULINA,"As this world goes, to pass for honest."
II,III,LEONTES,"Traitors!"
II,III,LEONTES,"Will you not push her out? Give her the bastard."
II,III,LEONTES,"Thou dotard! thou art woman-tired, unroosted"
II,III,LEONTES,"By thy dame Partlet here. Take up the bastard;"
II,III,LEONTES,"Take't up, I say; give't to thy crone."
II,III,PAULINA,"For ever"
II,III,PAULINA,"Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou"
II,III,PAULINA,"Takest up the princess by that forced baseness"
II,III,PAULINA,"Which he has put upon't!"
II,III,LEONTES,"He dreads his wife."
II,III,PAULINA,"So I would you did; then 'twere past all doubt"
II,III,PAULINA,"You'ld call your children yours."
II,III,LEONTES,"A nest of traitors!"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"I am none, by this good light."
II,III,PAULINA,"Nor I, nor any"
II,III,PAULINA,"But one that's here, and that's himself, for he"
II,III,PAULINA,"The sacred honour of himself, his queen's,"
II,III,PAULINA,"His hopeful son's, his babe's, betrays to slander,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Whose sting is sharper than the sword's;"
II,III,PAULINA,"and will not--"
II,III,PAULINA,"For, as the case now stands, it is a curse"
II,III,PAULINA,"He cannot be compell'd to't--once remove"
II,III,PAULINA,"The root of his opinion, which is rotten"
II,III,PAULINA,"As ever oak or stone was sound."
II,III,LEONTES,"A callat"
II,III,LEONTES,"Of boundless tongue, who late hath beat her husband"
II,III,LEONTES,"And now baits me! This brat is none of mine;"
II,III,LEONTES,"It is the issue of Polixenes:"
II,III,LEONTES,"Hence with it, and together with the dam"
II,III,LEONTES,"Commit them to the fire!"
II,III,PAULINA,"It is yours;"
II,III,PAULINA,"And, might we lay the old proverb to your charge,"
II,III,PAULINA,"So like you, 'tis the worse. Behold, my lords,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Although the print be little, the whole matter"
II,III,PAULINA,"And copy of the father, eye, nose, lip,"
II,III,PAULINA,"The trick of's frown, his forehead, nay, the valley,"
II,III,PAULINA,"The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek,"
II,III,PAULINA,"His smiles,"
II,III,PAULINA,"The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger:"
II,III,PAULINA,"And thou, good goddess Nature, which hast made it"
II,III,PAULINA,"So like to him that got it, if thou hast"
II,III,PAULINA,"The ordering of the mind too, 'mongst all colours"
II,III,PAULINA,"No yellow in't, lest she suspect, as he does,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Her children not her husband's!"
II,III,LEONTES,"A gross hag"
II,III,LEONTES,"And, lozel, thou art worthy to be hang'd,"
II,III,LEONTES,"That wilt not stay her tongue."
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"Hang all the husbands"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"Hardly one subject."
II,III,LEONTES,"Once more, take her hence."
II,III,PAULINA,"A most unworthy and unnatural lord"
II,III,PAULINA,"Can do no more."
II,III,LEONTES,"I'll ha' thee burnt."
II,III,PAULINA,"I care not:"
II,III,PAULINA,"It is an heretic that makes the fire,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Not she which burns in't. I'll not call you tyrant;"
II,III,PAULINA,"But this most cruel usage of your queen,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Not able to produce more accusation"
II,III,PAULINA,"Than your own weak-hinged fancy, something savours"
II,III,PAULINA,"Of tyranny and will ignoble make you,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Yea, scandalous to the world."
II,III,LEONTES,"On your allegiance,"
II,III,LEONTES,"Out of the chamber with her! Were I a tyrant,"
II,III,LEONTES,"Where were her life? she durst not call me so,"
II,III,LEONTES,"If she did know me one. Away with her!"
II,III,PAULINA,"I pray you, do not push me; I'll be gone."
II,III,PAULINA,"Look to your babe, my lord; 'tis yours:"
II,III,PAULINA,"Jove send her"
II,III,PAULINA,"A better guiding spirit! What needs these hands?"
II,III,PAULINA,"You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies,"
II,III,PAULINA,"Will never do him good, not one of you."
II,III,PAULINA,"So, so: farewell; we are gone."
II,III,LEONTES,"Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this."
II,III,LEONTES,"My child? away with't! Even thou, that hast"
II,III,LEONTES,"A heart so tender o'er it, take it hence"
II,III,LEONTES,"And see it instantly consumed with fire;"
II,III,LEONTES,"Even thou and none but thou. Take it up straight:"
II,III,LEONTES,"Within this hour bring me word 'tis done,"
II,III,LEONTES,"And by good testimony, or I'll seize thy life,"
II,III,LEONTES,"With what thou else call'st thine. If thou refuse"
II,III,LEONTES,"And wilt encounter with my wrath, say so;"
II,III,LEONTES,"The bastard brains with these my proper hands"
II,III,LEONTES,"Shall I dash out. Go, take it to the fire;"
II,III,LEONTES,"For thou set'st on thy wife."
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"I did not, sir:"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"These lords, my noble fellows, if they please,"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"Can clear me in't."
II,III,Lords,"We can: my royal liege,"
II,III,Lords,"He is not guilty of her coming hither."
II,III,LEONTES,"You're liars all."
II,III,First Lord,"Beseech your highness, give us better credit:"
II,III,First Lord,"We have always truly served you, and beseech you"
II,III,First Lord,"So to esteem of us, and on our knees we beg,"
II,III,First Lord,"As recompense of our dear services"
II,III,First Lord,"Past and to come, that you do change this purpose,"
II,III,First Lord,"Which being so horrible, so bloody, must"
II,III,First Lord,"Lead on to some foul issue: we all kneel."
II,III,LEONTES,"I am a feather for each wind that blows:"
II,III,LEONTES,"Shall I live on to see this bastard kneel"
II,III,LEONTES,"And call me father? better burn it now"
II,III,LEONTES,"Than curse it then. But be it; let it live."
II,III,LEONTES,"It shall not neither. You, sir, come you hither;"
II,III,LEONTES,"You that have been so tenderly officious"
II,III,LEONTES,"With Lady Margery, your midwife there,"
II,III,LEONTES,"To save this bastard's life,--for 'tis a bastard,"
II,III,LEONTES,"So sure as this beard's grey,"
II,III,LEONTES,"--what will you adventure"
II,III,LEONTES,"To save this brat's life?"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"Any thing, my lord,"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"That my ability may undergo"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"And nobleness impose: at least thus much:"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"I'll pawn the little blood which I have left"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"To save the innocent: any thing possible."
II,III,LEONTES,"It shall be possible. Swear by this sword"
II,III,LEONTES,"Thou wilt perform my bidding."
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"I will, my lord."
II,III,LEONTES,"Mark and perform it, see'st thou! for the fail"
II,III,LEONTES,"Of any point in't shall not only be"
II,III,LEONTES,"Death to thyself but to thy lewd-tongued wife,"
II,III,LEONTES,"Whom for this time we pardon. We enjoin thee,"
II,III,LEONTES,"As thou art liege-man to us, that thou carry"
II,III,LEONTES,"This female bastard hence and that thou bear it"
II,III,LEONTES,"To some remote and desert place quite out"
II,III,LEONTES,"Of our dominions, and that there thou leave it,"
II,III,LEONTES,"Without more mercy, to its own protection"
II,III,LEONTES,"And favour of the climate. As by strange fortune"
II,III,LEONTES,"It came to us, I do in justice charge thee,"
II,III,LEONTES,"On thy soul's peril and thy body's torture,"
II,III,LEONTES,"That thou commend it strangely to some place"
II,III,LEONTES,"Where chance may nurse or end it. Take it up."
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"I swear to do this, though a present death"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"Had been more merciful. Come on, poor babe:"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"To be thy nurses! Wolves and bears, they say"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"Casting their savageness aside have done"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"Like offices of pity. Sir, be prosperous"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"In more than this deed does require! And blessing"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"Against this cruelty fight on thy side,"
II,III,ANTIGONUS,"Poor thing, condemn'd to loss!"
II,III,LEONTES,"No, I'll not rear"
II,III,LEONTES,"Another's issue."
II,III,Servant,"Please your highness, posts"
II,III,Servant,"From those you sent to the oracle are come"
II,III,Servant,"An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion,"
II,III,Servant,"Being well arrived from Delphos, are both landed,"
II,III,Servant,"Hasting to the court."
II,III,First Lord,"So please you, sir, their speed"
II,III,First Lord,"Hath been beyond account."
II,III,LEONTES,"Twenty-three days"
II,III,LEONTES,"They have been absent: 'tis good speed; foretells"
II,III,LEONTES,"The great Apollo suddenly will have"
II,III,LEONTES,"The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords;"
II,III,LEONTES,"Summon a session, that we may arraign"
II,III,LEONTES,"Our most disloyal lady, for, as she hath"
II,III,LEONTES,"Been publicly accused, so shall she have"
II,III,LEONTES,"A just and open trial. While she lives"
II,III,LEONTES,"My heart will be a burthen to me. Leave me,"
II,III,LEONTES,"And think upon my bidding."
III,I,CLEOMENES,"The climate's delicate, the air most sweet,"
III,I,CLEOMENES,"Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing"
III,I,CLEOMENES,"The common praise it bears."
III,I,DION,"I shall report,"
III,I,DION,"For most it caught me, the celestial habits,"
III,I,DION,"Methinks I so should term them, and the reverence"
III,I,DION,"Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice!"
III,I,DION,"How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly"
III,I,DION,"It was i' the offering!"
III,I,CLEOMENES,"But of all, the burst"
III,I,CLEOMENES,"And the ear-deafening voice o' the oracle,"
III,I,CLEOMENES,"Kin to Jove's thunder, so surprised my sense."
III,I,CLEOMENES,"That I was nothing."
III,I,DION,"If the event o' the journey"
III,I,DION,"Prove as successful to the queen,--O be't so!--"
III,I,DION,"As it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy,"
III,I,DION,"The time is worth the use on't."
III,I,CLEOMENES,"Great Apollo"
III,I,CLEOMENES,"Turn all to the best! These proclamations,"
III,I,CLEOMENES,"So forcing faults upon Hermione,"
III,I,CLEOMENES,"I little like."
III,I,DION,"The violent carriage of it"
III,I,DION,"Will clear or end the business: when the oracle,"
III,I,DION,"Thus by Apollo's great divine seal'd up,"
III,I,DION,"Shall the contents discover, something rare"
III,I,DION,"Even then will rush to knowledge. Go: fresh horses!"
III,I,DION,"And gracious be the issue!"
III,II,LEONTES,"This sessions, to our great grief we pronounce,"
III,II,LEONTES,"Even pushes 'gainst our heart: the party tried"
III,II,LEONTES,"The daughter of a king, our wife, and one"
III,II,LEONTES,"Of us too much beloved. Let us be clear'd"
III,II,LEONTES,"Of being tyrannous, since we so openly"
III,II,LEONTES,"Proceed in justice, which shall have due course,"
III,II,LEONTES,"Even to the guilt or the purgation."
III,II,LEONTES,"Produce the prisoner."
III,II,Officer,"It is his highness' pleasure that the queen"
III,II,Officer,"Appear in person here in court. Silence!"
III,II,LEONTES,"Read the indictment."
III,II,Officer,"Leontes, king of Sicilia, thou art here accused and"
III,II,Officer,"arraigned of high treason, in committing adultery"
III,II,Officer,"with Polixenes, king of Bohemia, and conspiring"
III,II,Officer,"with Camillo to take away the life of our sovereign"
III,II,Officer,"lord the king, thy royal husband: the pretence"
III,II,Officer,"whereof being by circumstances partly laid open,"
III,II,Officer,"thou, Hermione, contrary to the faith and allegiance"
III,II,Officer,"of a true subject, didst counsel and aid them, for"
III,II,Officer,"their better safety, to fly away by night."
III,II,HERMIONE,"Since what I am to say must be but that"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Which contradicts my accusation and"
III,II,HERMIONE,"The testimony on my part no other"
III,II,HERMIONE,"But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me"
III,II,HERMIONE,"To say 'not guilty:' mine integrity"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Be so received. But thus: if powers divine"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Behold our human actions, as they do,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"I doubt not then but innocence shall make"
III,II,HERMIONE,"False accusation blush and tyranny"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Tremble at patience. You, my lord, best know,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Who least will seem to do so, my past life"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"As I am now unhappy; which is more"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Than history can pattern, though devised"
III,II,HERMIONE,"And play'd to take spectators. For behold me"
III,II,HERMIONE,"A fellow of the royal bed, which owe"
III,II,HERMIONE,"A moiety of the throne a great king's daughter,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing"
III,II,HERMIONE,"To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Who please to come and hear. For life, I prize it"
III,II,HERMIONE,"As I weigh grief, which I would spare: for honour,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"'Tis a derivative from me to mine,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"And only that I stand for. I appeal"
III,II,HERMIONE,"To your own conscience, sir, before Polixenes"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Came to your court, how I was in your grace,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"How merited to be so; since he came,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"With what encounter so uncurrent I"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Have strain'd to appear thus: if one jot beyond"
III,II,HERMIONE,"The bound of honour, or in act or will"
III,II,HERMIONE,"That way inclining, harden'd be the hearts"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Of all that hear me, and my near'st of kin"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Cry fie upon my grave!"
III,II,LEONTES,"I ne'er heard yet"
III,II,LEONTES,"That any of these bolder vices wanted"
III,II,LEONTES,"Less impudence to gainsay what they did"
III,II,LEONTES,"Than to perform it first."
III,II,HERMIONE,"That's true enough;"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Through 'tis a saying, sir, not due to me."
III,II,LEONTES,"You will not own it."
III,II,HERMIONE,"More than mistress of"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Which comes to me in name of fault, I must not"
III,II,HERMIONE,"At all acknowledge. For Polixenes,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"With whom I am accused, I do confess"
III,II,HERMIONE,"I loved him as in honour he required,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"With such a kind of love as might become"
III,II,HERMIONE,"A lady like me, with a love even such,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"So and no other, as yourself commanded:"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Which not to have done I think had been in me"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Both disobedience and ingratitude"
III,II,HERMIONE,"To you and toward your friend, whose love had spoke,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Even since it could speak, from an infant, freely"
III,II,HERMIONE,"That it was yours. Now, for conspiracy,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"I know not how it tastes; though it be dish'd"
III,II,HERMIONE,"For me to try how: all I know of it"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Is that Camillo was an honest man;"
III,II,HERMIONE,"And why he left your court, the gods themselves,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Wotting no more than I, are ignorant."
III,II,LEONTES,"You knew of his departure, as you know"
III,II,LEONTES,"What you have underta'en to do in's absence."
III,II,HERMIONE,"Sir,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"You speak a language that I understand not:"
III,II,HERMIONE,"My life stands in the level of your dreams,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Which I'll lay down."
III,II,LEONTES,"Your actions are my dreams;"
III,II,LEONTES,"You had a bastard by Polixenes,"
III,II,LEONTES,"And I but dream'd it. As you were past all shame,--"
III,II,LEONTES,"Those of your fact are so--so past all truth:"
III,II,LEONTES,"Which to deny concerns more than avails; for as"
III,II,LEONTES,"Thy brat hath been cast out, like to itself,"
III,II,LEONTES,"No father owning it,--which is, indeed,"
III,II,LEONTES,"More criminal in thee than it,--so thou"
III,II,LEONTES,"Shalt feel our justice, in whose easiest passage"
III,II,LEONTES,"Look for no less than death."
III,II,HERMIONE,"Sir, spare your threats:"
III,II,HERMIONE,"The bug which you would fright me with I seek."
III,II,HERMIONE,"To me can life be no commodity:"
III,II,HERMIONE,"The crown and comfort of my life, your favour,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"I do give lost; for I do feel it gone,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"But know not how it went. My second joy"
III,II,HERMIONE,"And first-fruits of my body, from his presence"
III,II,HERMIONE,"I am barr'd, like one infectious. My third comfort"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Starr'd most unluckily, is from my breast,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Haled out to murder: myself on every post"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Proclaimed a strumpet: with immodest hatred"
III,II,HERMIONE,"The child-bed privilege denied, which 'longs"
III,II,HERMIONE,"To women of all fashion; lastly, hurried"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Here to this place, i' the open air, before"
III,II,HERMIONE,"I have got strength of limit. Now, my liege,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Tell me what blessings I have here alive,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"That I should fear to die? Therefore proceed."
III,II,HERMIONE,"But yet hear this: mistake me not; no life,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Which I would free, if I shall be condemn'd"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else"
III,II,HERMIONE,"But what your jealousies awake, I tell you"
III,II,HERMIONE,"'Tis rigor and not law. Your honours all,"
III,II,HERMIONE,"I do refer me to the oracle:"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Apollo be my judge!"
III,II,First Lord,"This your request"
III,II,First Lord,"Is altogether just: therefore bring forth,"
III,II,First Lord,"And in Apollos name, his oracle."
III,II,HERMIONE,"The Emperor of Russia was my father:"
III,II,HERMIONE,"O that he were alive, and here beholding"
III,II,HERMIONE,"His daughter's trial! that he did but see"
III,II,HERMIONE,"The flatness of my misery, yet with eyes"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Of pity, not revenge!"
III,II,Officer,"You here shall swear upon this sword of justice,"
III,II,Officer,"That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have"
III,II,Officer,"Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought"
III,II,Officer,"The seal'd-up oracle, by the hand deliver'd"
III,II,Officer,"Of great Apollo's priest; and that, since then,"
III,II,Officer,"You have not dared to break the holy seal"
III,II,Officer,"Nor read the secrets in't."
III,II,CLEOMENES,"All this we swear."
III,II,LEONTES,"Break up the seals and read."
III,II,Officer,"Polixenes blameless; Camillo a true subject; Leontes"
III,II,Officer,"a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe truly begotten;"
III,II,Officer,"and the king shall live without an heir, if that"
III,II,Officer,"which is lost be not found."
III,II,Lords,"Now blessed be the great Apollo!"
III,II,HERMIONE,"Praised!"
III,II,LEONTES,"Hast thou read truth?"
III,II,Officer,"Ay, my lord; even so"
III,II,Officer,"As it is here set down."
III,II,LEONTES,"There is no truth at all i' the oracle:"
III,II,LEONTES,"The sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood."
III,II,Servant,"My lord the king, the king!"
III,II,LEONTES,"What is the business?"
III,II,Servant,"O sir, I shall be hated to report it!"
III,II,Servant,"The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear"
III,II,Servant,"Of the queen's speed, is gone."
III,II,LEONTES,"How! gone!"
III,II,Servant,"Is dead."
III,II,LEONTES,"Apollo's angry; and the heavens themselves"
III,II,LEONTES,"Do strike at my injustice."
III,II,LEONTES,"How now there!"
III,II,PAULINA,"This news is mortal to the queen: look down"
III,II,PAULINA,"And see what death is doing."
III,II,LEONTES,"Take her hence:"
III,II,LEONTES,"Her heart is but o'ercharged; she will recover:"
III,II,LEONTES,"I have too much believed mine own suspicion:"
III,II,LEONTES,"Beseech you, tenderly apply to her"
III,II,LEONTES,"Some remedies for life."
III,II,LEONTES,"Apollo, pardon"
III,II,LEONTES,"My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle!"
III,II,LEONTES,"I'll reconcile me to Polixenes,"
III,II,LEONTES,"New woo my queen, recall the good Camillo,"
III,II,LEONTES,"Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy;"
III,II,LEONTES,"For, being transported by my jealousies"
III,II,LEONTES,"To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose"
III,II,LEONTES,"Camillo for the minister to poison"
III,II,LEONTES,"My friend Polixenes: which had been done,"
III,II,LEONTES,"But that the good mind of Camillo tardied"
III,II,LEONTES,"My swift command, though I with death and with"
III,II,LEONTES,"Reward did threaten and encourage him,"
III,II,LEONTES,"Not doing 't and being done: he, most humane"
III,II,LEONTES,"And fill'd with honour, to my kingly guest"
III,II,LEONTES,"Unclasp'd my practise, quit his fortunes here,"
III,II,LEONTES,"Which you knew great, and to the hazard"
III,II,LEONTES,"Of all encertainties himself commended,"
III,II,LEONTES,"No richer than his honour: how he glisters"
III,II,LEONTES,"Thorough my rust! and how his pity"
III,II,LEONTES,"Does my deeds make the blacker!"
III,II,PAULINA,"Woe the while!"
III,II,PAULINA,"O, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it,"
III,II,PAULINA,"Break too."
III,II,First Lord,"What fit is this, good lady?"
III,II,PAULINA,"What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?"
III,II,PAULINA,"What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling?"
III,II,PAULINA,"In leads or oils? what old or newer torture"
III,II,PAULINA,"Must I receive, whose every word deserves"
III,II,PAULINA,"To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny"
III,II,PAULINA,"Together working with thy jealousies,"
III,II,PAULINA,"Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle"
III,II,PAULINA,"For girls of nine, O, think what they have done"
III,II,PAULINA,"And then run mad indeed, stark mad! for all"
III,II,PAULINA,"Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it."
III,II,PAULINA,"That thou betray'dst Polixenes,'twas nothing;"
III,II,PAULINA,"That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant"
III,II,PAULINA,"And damnable ingrateful: nor was't much,"
III,II,PAULINA,"Thou wouldst have poison'd good Camillo's honour,"
III,II,PAULINA,"To have him kill a king: poor trespasses,"
III,II,PAULINA,"More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckon"
III,II,PAULINA,"The casting forth to crows thy baby-daughter"
III,II,PAULINA,"To be or none or little; though a devil"
III,II,PAULINA,"Would have shed water out of fire ere done't:"
III,II,PAULINA,"Nor is't directly laid to thee, the death"
III,II,PAULINA,"Of the young prince, whose honourable thoughts,"
III,II,PAULINA,"Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart"
III,II,PAULINA,"That could conceive a gross and foolish sire"
III,II,PAULINA,"Blemish'd his gracious dam: this is not, no,"
III,II,PAULINA,"Laid to thy answer: but the last,--O lords,"
III,II,PAULINA,"When I have said, cry 'woe!' the queen, the queen,"
III,II,PAULINA,"The sweet'st, dear'st creature's dead,"
III,II,PAULINA,"and vengeance for't"
III,II,PAULINA,"Not dropp'd down yet."
III,II,First Lord,"The higher powers forbid!"
III,II,PAULINA,"I say she's dead; I'll swear't. If word nor oath"
III,II,PAULINA,"Prevail not, go and see: if you can bring"
III,II,PAULINA,"Tincture or lustre in her lip, her eye,"
III,II,PAULINA,"Heat outwardly or breath within, I'll serve you"
III,II,PAULINA,"As I would do the gods. But, O thou tyrant!"
III,II,PAULINA,"Do not repent these things, for they are heavier"
III,II,PAULINA,"Than all thy woes can stir; therefore betake thee"
III,II,PAULINA,"To nothing but despair. A thousand knees"
III,II,PAULINA,"Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting,"
III,II,PAULINA,"Upon a barren mountain and still winter"
III,II,PAULINA,"In storm perpetual, could not move the gods"
III,II,PAULINA,"To look that way thou wert."
III,II,LEONTES,"Go on, go on"
III,II,LEONTES,"Thou canst not speak too much; I have deserved"
III,II,LEONTES,"All tongues to talk their bitterest."
III,II,First Lord,"Say no more:"
III,II,First Lord,"Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault"
III,II,First Lord,"I' the boldness of your speech."
III,II,PAULINA,"I am sorry for't:"
III,II,PAULINA,"All faults I make, when I shall come to know them,"
III,II,PAULINA,"I do repent. Alas! I have show'd too much"
III,II,PAULINA,"The rashness of a woman: he is touch'd"
III,II,PAULINA,"To the noble heart. What's gone and what's past help"
III,II,PAULINA,"Should be past grief: do not receive affliction"
III,II,PAULINA,"At my petition; I beseech you, rather"
III,II,PAULINA,"Let me be punish'd, that have minded you"
III,II,PAULINA,"Of what you should forget. Now, good my liege"
III,II,PAULINA,"Sir, royal sir, forgive a foolish woman:"
III,II,PAULINA,"The love I bore your queen--lo, fool again!--"
III,II,PAULINA,"I'll speak of her no more, nor of your children;"
III,II,PAULINA,"I'll not remember you of my own lord,"
III,II,PAULINA,"Who is lost too: take your patience to you,"
III,II,PAULINA,"And I'll say nothing."
III,II,LEONTES,"Thou didst speak but well"
III,II,LEONTES,"When most the truth; which I receive much better"
III,II,LEONTES,"Than to be pitied of thee. Prithee, bring me"
III,II,LEONTES,"To the dead bodies of my queen and son:"
III,II,LEONTES,"One grave shall be for both: upon them shall"
III,II,LEONTES,"The causes of their death appear, unto"
III,II,LEONTES,"Our shame perpetual. Once a day I'll visit"
III,II,LEONTES,"The chapel where they lie, and tears shed there"
III,II,LEONTES,"Shall be my recreation: so long as nature"
III,II,LEONTES,"Will bear up with this exercise, so long"
III,II,LEONTES,"I daily vow to use it. Come and lead me"
III,II,LEONTES,"Unto these sorrows."
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Thou art perfect then, our ship hath touch'd upon"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"The deserts of Bohemia?"
III,III,Mariner,"Ay, my lord: and fear"
III,III,Mariner,"We have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly"
III,III,Mariner,"And threaten present blusters. In my conscience,"
III,III,Mariner,"The heavens with that we have in hand are angry"
III,III,Mariner,"And frown upon 's."
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Their sacred wills be done! Go, get aboard;"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Look to thy bark: I'll not be long before"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"I call upon thee."
III,III,Mariner,"Make your best haste, and go not"
III,III,Mariner,"Too far i' the land: 'tis like to be loud weather;"
III,III,Mariner,"Besides, this place is famous for the creatures"
III,III,Mariner,"Of prey that keep upon't."
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Go thou away:"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"I'll follow instantly."
III,III,Mariner,"I am glad at heart"
III,III,Mariner,"To be so rid o' the business."
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Come, poor babe:"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"I have heard, but not believed,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"the spirits o' the dead"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Appear'd to me last night, for ne'er was dream"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"So like a waking. To me comes a creature,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Sometimes her head on one side, some another;"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"I never saw a vessel of like sorrow,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"So fill'd and so becoming: in pure white robes,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Like very sanctity, she did approach"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"My cabin where I lay; thrice bow'd before me,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"And gasping to begin some speech, her eyes"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Became two spouts: the fury spent, anon"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Did this break-from her: 'Good Antigonus,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Since fate, against thy better disposition,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Hath made thy person for the thrower-out"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Of my poor babe, according to thine oath,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Places remote enough are in Bohemia,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"There weep and leave it crying; and, for the babe"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Is counted lost for ever, Perdita,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"I prithee, call't. For this ungentle business"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Put on thee by my lord, thou ne'er shalt see"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Thy wife Paulina more.' And so, with shrieks"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"She melted into air. Affrighted much,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"I did in time collect myself and thought"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"This was so and no slumber. Dreams are toys:"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Yet for this once, yea, superstitiously,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"I will be squared by this. I do believe"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Hermione hath suffer'd death, and that"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Apollo would, this being indeed the issue"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Of King Polixenes, it should here be laid,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Either for life or death, upon the earth"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Of its right father. Blossom, speed thee well!"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"There lie, and there thy character: there these;"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Which may, if fortune please, both breed thee, pretty,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"And still rest thine. The storm begins; poor wretch,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"That for thy mother's fault art thus exposed"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"To loss and what may follow! Weep I cannot,"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"But my heart bleeds; and most accursed am I"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"To be by oath enjoin'd to this. Farewell!"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"The day frowns more and more: thou'rt like to have"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"A lullaby too rough: I never saw"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"The heavens so dim by day. A savage clamour!"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"Well may I get aboard! This is the chase:"
III,III,ANTIGONUS,"I am gone for ever."
III,III,Shepherd,"I would there were no age between sixteen and"
III,III,Shepherd,"three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the"
III,III,Shepherd,"rest; for there is nothing in the between but"
III,III,Shepherd,"getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry,"
III,III,Shepherd,"stealing, fighting--Hark you now! Would any but"
III,III,Shepherd,"these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty"
III,III,Shepherd,"hunt this weather? They have scared away two of my"
III,III,Shepherd,"best sheep, which I fear the wolf will sooner find"
III,III,Shepherd,"than the master: if any where I have them, 'tis by"
III,III,Shepherd,"the seaside, browsing of ivy. Good luck, an't be thy"
III,III,Shepherd,"will what have we here! Mercy on 's, a barne a very"
III,III,Shepherd,"pretty barne! A boy or a child, I wonder? A"
III,III,Shepherd,"pretty one; a very pretty one: sure, some 'scape:"
III,III,Shepherd,"though I am not bookish, yet I can read"
III,III,Shepherd,"waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape. This has been"
III,III,Shepherd,"some stair-work, some trunk-work, some"
III,III,Shepherd,"behind-door-work: they were warmer that got this"
III,III,Shepherd,"than the poor thing is here. I'll take it up for"
III,III,Shepherd,"pity: yet I'll tarry till my son come; he hallooed"
III,III,Shepherd,"but even now. Whoa, ho, hoa!"
III,III,Clown,"Hilloa, loa!"
III,III,Shepherd,"What, art so near? If thou'lt see a thing to talk"
III,III,Shepherd,"on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. What"
III,III,Shepherd,"ailest thou, man?"
III,III,Clown,"I have seen two such sights, by sea and by land!"
III,III,Clown,"but I am not to say it is a sea, for it is now the"
III,III,Clown,"sky: betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust"
III,III,Clown,"a bodkin's point."
III,III,Shepherd,"Why, boy, how is it?"
III,III,Clown,"I would you did but see how it chafes, how it rages,"
III,III,Clown,"how it takes up the shore! but that's not the"
III,III,Clown,"point. O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls!"
III,III,Clown,"sometimes to see 'em, and not to see 'em; now the"
III,III,Clown,"ship boring the moon with her main-mast, and anon"
III,III,Clown,"swallowed with yest and froth, as you'ld thrust a"
III,III,Clown,"cork into a hogshead. And then for the"
III,III,Clown,"land-service, to see how the bear tore out his"
III,III,Clown,"shoulder-bone; how he cried to me for help and said"
III,III,Clown,"his name was Antigonus, a nobleman. But to make an"
III,III,Clown,"end of the ship, to see how the sea flap-dragoned"
III,III,Clown,"it: but, first, how the poor souls roared, and the"
III,III,Clown,"sea mocked them; and how the poor gentleman roared"
III,III,Clown,"and the bear mocked him, both roaring louder than"
III,III,Clown,"the sea or weather."
III,III,Shepherd,"Name of mercy, when was this, boy?"
III,III,Clown,"Now, now: I have not winked since I saw these"
III,III,Clown,"sights: the men are not yet cold under water, nor"
III,III,Clown,"the bear half dined on the gentleman: he's at it"
III,III,Clown,"now."
III,III,Shepherd,"Would I had been by, to have helped the old man!"
III,III,Clown,"I would you had been by the ship side, to have"
III,III,Clown,"helped her: there your charity would have lacked footing."
III,III,Shepherd,"Heavy matters! heavy matters! but look thee here,"
III,III,Shepherd,"boy. Now bless thyself: thou mettest with things"
III,III,Shepherd,"dying, I with things newborn. Here's a sight for"
III,III,Shepherd,"thee; look thee, a bearing-cloth for a squire's"
III,III,Shepherd,"child! look thee here; take up, take up, boy;"
III,III,Shepherd,"open't. So, let's see: it was told me I should be"
III,III,Shepherd,"rich by the fairies. This is some changeling:"
III,III,Shepherd,"open't. What's within, boy?"
III,III,Clown,"You're a made old man: if the sins of your youth"
III,III,Clown,"are forgiven you, you're well to live. Gold! all gold!"
III,III,Shepherd,"This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so: up"
III,III,Shepherd,"with't, keep it close: home, home, the next way."
III,III,Shepherd,"We are lucky, boy; and to be so still requires"
III,III,Shepherd,"nothing but secrecy. Let my sheep go: come, good"
III,III,Shepherd,"boy, the next way home."
III,III,Clown,"Go you the next way with your findings. I'll go see"
III,III,Clown,"if the bear be gone from the gentleman and how much"
III,III,Clown,"he hath eaten: they are never curst but when they"
III,III,Clown,"are hungry: if there be any of him left, I'll bury"
III,III,Clown,"it."
III,III,Shepherd,"That's a good deed. If thou mayest discern by that"
III,III,Shepherd,"which is left of him what he is, fetch me to the"
III,III,Shepherd,"sight of him."
III,III,Clown,"Marry, will I; and you shall help to put him i' the ground."
III,III,Shepherd,"'Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds on't."
IV,SCENE I,Time,"I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"Now take upon me, in the name of Time,"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"To use my wings. Impute it not a crime"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"To me or my swift passage, that I slide"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"O'er sixteen years and leave the growth untried"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"Of that wide gap, since it is in my power"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"To o'erthrow law and in one self-born hour"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"To plant and o'erwhelm custom. Let me pass"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"The same I am, ere ancient'st order was"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"Or what is now received: I witness to"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"The times that brought them in; so shall I do"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"To the freshest things now reigning and make stale"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"The glistering of this present, as my tale"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"Now seems to it. Your patience this allowing,"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"I turn my glass and give my scene such growing"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"As you had slept between: Leontes leaving,"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"The effects of his fond jealousies so grieving"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"That he shuts up himself, imagine me,"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"Gentle spectators, that I now may be"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"In fair Bohemia, and remember well,"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"I mentioned a son o' the king's, which Florizel"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"I now name to you; and with speed so pace"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"To speak of Perdita, now grown in grace"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"Equal with wondering: what of her ensues"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"I list not prophecy; but let Time's news"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"Be known when 'tis brought forth."
IV,SCENE I,Time,"A shepherd's daughter,"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"And what to her adheres, which follows after,"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"Is the argument of Time. Of this allow,"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"If ever you have spent time worse ere now;"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"If never, yet that Time himself doth say"
IV,SCENE I,Time,"He wishes earnestly you never may."
IV,II,POLIXENES,"I pray thee, good Camillo, be no more importunate:"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"'tis a sickness denying thee any thing; a death to"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"grant this."
IV,II,CAMILLO,"It is fifteen years since I saw my country: though"
IV,II,CAMILLO,"I have for the most part been aired abroad, I"
IV,II,CAMILLO,"desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the penitent"
IV,II,CAMILLO,"king, my master, hath sent for me; to whose feeling"
IV,II,CAMILLO,"sorrows I might be some allay, or I o'erween to"
IV,II,CAMILLO,"think so, which is another spur to my departure."
IV,II,POLIXENES,"As thou lovest me, Camillo, wipe not out the rest of"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"thy services by leaving me now: the need I have of"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"thee thine own goodness hath made; better not to"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"have had thee than thus to want thee: thou, having"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"made me businesses which none without thee can"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"sufficiently manage, must either stay to execute"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"them thyself or take away with thee the very"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"services thou hast done; which if I have not enough"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"considered, as too much I cannot, to be more"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"thankful to thee shall be my study, and my profit"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"therein the heaping friendships. Of that fatal"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"country, Sicilia, prithee speak no more; whose very"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"naming punishes me with the remembrance of that"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"penitent, as thou callest him, and reconciled king,"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"my brother; whose loss of his most precious queen"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"and children are even now to be afresh lamented."
IV,II,POLIXENES,"Say to me, when sawest thou the Prince Florizel, my"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"son? Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"being gracious, than they are in losing them when"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"they have approved their virtues."
IV,II,CAMILLO,"Sir, it is three days since I saw the prince. What"
IV,II,CAMILLO,"his happier affairs may be, are to me unknown: but I"
IV,II,CAMILLO,"have missingly noted, he is of late much retired"
IV,II,CAMILLO,"from court and is less frequent to his princely"
IV,II,CAMILLO,"exercises than formerly he hath appeared."
IV,II,POLIXENES,"I have considered so much, Camillo, and with some"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"care; so far that I have eyes under my service which"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"look upon his removedness; from whom I have this"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"intelligence, that he is seldom from the house of a"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"most homely shepherd; a man, they say, that from"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"very nothing, and beyond the imagination of his"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"neighbours, is grown into an unspeakable estate."
IV,II,CAMILLO,"I have heard, sir, of such a man, who hath a"
IV,II,CAMILLO,"daughter of most rare note: the report of her is"
IV,II,CAMILLO,"extended more than can be thought to begin from such a cottage."
IV,II,POLIXENES,"That's likewise part of my intelligence; but, I"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"fear, the angle that plucks our son thither. Thou"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"shalt accompany us to the place; where we will, not"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"appearing what we are, have some question with the"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"shepherd; from whose simplicity I think it not"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"uneasy to get the cause of my son's resort thither."
IV,II,POLIXENES,"Prithee, be my present partner in this business, and"
IV,II,POLIXENES,"lay aside the thoughts of Sicilia."
IV,II,CAMILLO,"I willingly obey your command."
IV,II,POLIXENES,"My best Camillo! We must disguise ourselves."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"When daffodils begin to peer,"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"With heigh! the doxy over the dale,"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year;"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"For a quart of ale is a dish for a king."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"The lark, that tirra-lyra chants,"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay,"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"Are summer songs for me and my aunts,"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"While we lie tumbling in the hay."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"I have served Prince Florizel and in my time"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"wore three-pile; but now I am out of service:"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"But shall I go mourn for that, my dear?"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"The pale moon shines by night:"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"And when I wander here and there,"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"I then do most go right."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"If tinkers may have leave to live,"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"And bear the sow-skin budget,"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"Then my account I well may, give,"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"And in the stocks avouch it."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"My traffic is sheets; when the kite builds, look to"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"lesser linen. My father named me Autolycus; who"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. With die and"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"drab I purchased this caparison, and my revenue is"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"the silly cheat. Gallows and knock are too powerful"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"on the highway: beating and hanging are terrors to"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"me: for the life to come, I sleep out the thought"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"of it. A prize! a prize!"
IV,III,Clown,"Let me see: every 'leven wether tods; every tod"
IV,III,Clown,"yields pound and odd shilling; fifteen hundred"
IV,III,Clown,"shorn. what comes the wool to?"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"If the springe hold, the cock's mine."
IV,III,Clown,"I cannot do't without counters. Let me see; what am"
IV,III,Clown,"I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three pound"
IV,III,Clown,"of sugar, five pound of currants, rice,--what will"
IV,III,Clown,"this sister of mine do with rice? But my father"
IV,III,Clown,"hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it"
IV,III,Clown,"on. She hath made me four and twenty nose-gays for"
IV,III,Clown,"the shearers, three-man-song-men all, and very good"
IV,III,Clown,"ones; but they are most of them means and bases; but"
IV,III,Clown,"one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to"
IV,III,Clown,"horn-pipes. I must have saffron to colour the warden"
IV,III,Clown,"pies; mace; dates?--none, that's out of my note;"
IV,III,Clown,"nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I"
IV,III,Clown,"may beg; four pound of prunes, and as many of"
IV,III,Clown,"raisins o' the sun."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"O that ever I was born!"
IV,III,Clown,"I' the name of me--"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"O, help me, help me! pluck but off these rags; and"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"then, death, death!"
IV,III,Clown,"Alack, poor soul! thou hast need of more rags to lay"
IV,III,Clown,"on thee, rather than have these off."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"O sir, the loathsomeness of them offends me more"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"than the stripes I have received, which are mighty"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"ones and millions."
IV,III,Clown,"Alas, poor man! a million of beating may come to a"
IV,III,Clown,"great matter."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"I am robbed, sir, and beaten; my money and apparel"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"ta'en from me, and these detestable things put upon"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"me."
IV,III,Clown,"What, by a horseman, or a footman?"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"A footman, sweet sir, a footman."
IV,III,Clown,"Indeed, he should be a footman by the garments he"
IV,III,Clown,"has left with thee: if this be a horseman's coat,"
IV,III,Clown,"it hath seen very hot service. Lend me thy hand,"
IV,III,Clown,"I'll help thee: come, lend me thy hand."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"O, good sir, tenderly, O!"
IV,III,Clown,"Alas, poor soul!"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"O, good sir, softly, good sir! I fear, sir, my"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"shoulder-blade is out."
IV,III,Clown,"How now! canst stand?"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"Softly, dear sir; good sir, softly. You ha' done me"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"a charitable office."
IV,III,Clown,"Dost lack any money? I have a little money for thee."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"No, good sweet sir; no, I beseech you, sir: I have"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"a kinsman not past three quarters of a mile hence,"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"unto whom I was going; I shall there have money, or"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"any thing I want: offer me no money, I pray you;"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"that kills my heart."
IV,III,Clown,"What manner of fellow was he that robbed you?"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"troll-my-dames; I knew him once a servant of the"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"prince: I cannot tell, good sir, for which of his"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court."
IV,III,Clown,"His vices, you would say; there's no virtue whipped"
IV,III,Clown,"out of the court: they cherish it to make it stay"
IV,III,Clown,"there; and yet it will no more but abide."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"Vices, I would say, sir. I know this man well: he"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"hath been since an ape-bearer; then a"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"process-server, a bailiff; then he compassed a"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"motion of the Prodigal Son, and married a tinker's"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"wife within a mile where my land and living lies;"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"and, having flown over many knavish professions, he"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"settled only in rogue: some call him Autolycus."
IV,III,Clown,"Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts"
IV,III,Clown,"wakes, fairs and bear-baitings."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"Very true, sir; he, sir, he; that's the rogue that"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"put me into this apparel."
IV,III,Clown,"Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia: if you had"
IV,III,Clown,"but looked big and spit at him, he'ld have run."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"I must confess to you, sir, I am no fighter: I am"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"false of heart that way; and that he knew, I warrant"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"him."
IV,III,Clown,"How do you now?"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"Sweet sir, much better than I was; I can stand and"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"walk: I will even take my leave of you, and pace"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"softly towards my kinsman's."
IV,III,Clown,"Shall I bring thee on the way?"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"No, good-faced sir; no, sweet sir."
IV,III,Clown,"Then fare thee well: I must go buy spices for our"
IV,III,Clown,"sheep-shearing."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"Prosper you, sweet sir!"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"Your purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice."
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"I'll be with you at your sheep-shearing too: if I"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"make not this cheat bring out another and the"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"shearers prove sheep, let me be unrolled and my name"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"put in the book of virtue!"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"And merrily hent the stile-a:"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"A merry heart goes all the day,"
IV,III,AUTOLYCUS,"Your sad tires in a mile-a."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"These your unusual weeds to each part of you"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Do give a life: no shepherdess, but Flora"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Peering in April's front. This your sheep-shearing"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Is as a meeting of the petty gods,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"And you the queen on't."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Sir, my gracious lord,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"To chide at your extremes it not becomes me:"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"O, pardon, that I name them! Your high self,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"The gracious mark o' the land, you have obscured"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"With a swain's wearing, and me, poor lowly maid,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Most goddess-like prank'd up: but that our feasts"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"In every mess have folly and the feeders"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Digest it with a custom, I should blush"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"To see you so attired, sworn, I think,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"To show myself a glass."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I bless the time"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"When my good falcon made her flight across"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Thy father's ground."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Now Jove afford you cause!"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"To me the difference forges dread; your greatness"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Hath not been used to fear. Even now I tremble"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"To think your father, by some accident,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Should pass this way as you did: O, the Fates!"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"How would he look, to see his work so noble"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Vilely bound up? What would he say? Or how"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Should I, in these my borrow'd flaunts, behold"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"The sternness of his presence?"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Apprehend"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Nothing but jollity. The gods themselves,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Humbling their deities to love, have taken"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"The shapes of beasts upon them: Jupiter"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Became a bull, and bellow'd; the green Neptune"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"A ram, and bleated; and the fire-robed god,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"As I seem now. Their transformations"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Were never for a piece of beauty rarer,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Nor in a way so chaste, since my desires"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Run not before mine honour, nor my lusts"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Burn hotter than my faith."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"O, but, sir,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Your resolution cannot hold, when 'tis"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Opposed, as it must be, by the power of the king:"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"One of these two must be necessities,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Which then will speak, that you must"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"change this purpose,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Or I my life."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Thou dearest Perdita,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"The mirth o' the feast. Or I'll be thine, my fair,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Or not my father's. For I cannot be"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Mine own, nor any thing to any, if"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I be not thine. To this I am most constant,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Though destiny say no. Be merry, gentle;"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Strangle such thoughts as these with any thing"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"That you behold the while. Your guests are coming:"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Lift up your countenance, as it were the day"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Of celebration of that nuptial which"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"We two have sworn shall come."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"O lady Fortune,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Stand you auspicious!"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"See, your guests approach:"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"And let's be red with mirth."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Fie, daughter! when my old wife lived, upon"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Both dame and servant; welcomed all, served all;"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Would sing her song and dance her turn; now here,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"At upper end o' the table, now i' the middle;"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"On his shoulder, and his; her face o' fire"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"With labour and the thing she took to quench it,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"She would to each one sip. You are retired,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"As if you were a feasted one and not"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"The hostess of the meeting: pray you, bid"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"These unknown friends to's welcome; for it is"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"A way to make us better friends, more known."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Come, quench your blushes and present yourself"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"That which you are, mistress o' the feast: come on,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"And bid us welcome to your sheep-shearing,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"As your good flock shall prosper."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"It is my father's will I should take on me"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"The hostess-ship o' the day."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"You're welcome, sir."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. Reverend sirs,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Seeming and savour all the winter long:"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Grace and remembrance be to you both,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"And welcome to our shearing!"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Shepherdess,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"A fair one are you--well you fit our ages"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"With flowers of winter."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Sir, the year growing ancient,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Of trembling winter, the fairest"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"flowers o' the season"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Which some call nature's bastards: of that kind"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Our rustic garden's barren; and I care not"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"To get slips of them."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Wherefore, gentle maiden,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Do you neglect them?"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"For I have heard it said"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"There is an art which in their piedness shares"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"With great creating nature."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Say there be;"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Yet nature is made better by no mean"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"But nature makes that mean: so, over that art"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Which you say adds to nature, is an art"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"A gentler scion to the wildest stock,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"And make conceive a bark of baser kind"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"By bud of nobler race: this is an art"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Which does mend nature, change it rather, but"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"The art itself is nature."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"So it is."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Then make your garden rich in gillyvors,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"And do not call them bastards."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"I'll not put"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"The dibble in earth to set one slip of them;"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"No more than were I painted I would wish"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"This youth should say 'twere well and only therefore"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Desire to breed by me. Here's flowers for you;"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram;"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"And with him rises weeping: these are flowers"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Of middle summer, and I think they are given"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"To men of middle age. You're very welcome."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"I should leave grazing, were I of your flock,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"And only live by gazing."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Out, alas!"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"You'd be so lean, that blasts of January"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Would blow you through and through."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Now, my fair'st friend,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Become your time of day; and yours, and yours,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"That wear upon your virgin branches yet"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Your maidenheads growing: O Proserpina,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"From Dis's waggon! daffodils,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"That come before the swallow dares, and take"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"That die unmarried, ere they can behold"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Bight Phoebus in his strength--a malady"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"The flower-de-luce being one! O, these I lack,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"To strew him o'er and o'er!"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"What, like a corse?"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"No, like a bank for love to lie and play on;"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Not like a corse; or if, not to be buried,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"But quick and in mine arms. Come, take your flowers:"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Methinks I play as I have seen them do"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"In Whitsun pastorals: sure this robe of mine"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Does change my disposition."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"What you do"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Nothing but that; move still, still so,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"And own no other function: each your doing,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"So singular in each particular,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"That all your acts are queens."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"O Doricles,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Your praises are too large: but that your youth,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"And the true blood which peepeth fairly through't,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Do plainly give you out an unstain'd shepherd,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"With wisdom I might fear, my Doricles,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"You woo'd me the false way."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I think you have"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"As little skill to fear as I have purpose"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"To put you to't. But come; our dance, I pray:"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Your hand, my Perdita: so turtles pair,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"That never mean to part."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"I'll swear for 'em."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Ran on the green-sward: nothing she does or seems"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"But smacks of something greater than herself,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Too noble for this place."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"He tells her something"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"That makes her blood look out: good sooth, she is"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"The queen of curds and cream."
IV,IV,Clown,"Come on, strike up!"
IV,IV,DORCAS,"Mopsa must be your mistress: marry, garlic,"
IV,IV,DORCAS,"To mend her kissing with!"
IV,IV,MOPSA,"Now, in good time!"
IV,IV,Clown,"Not a word, a word; we stand upon our manners."
IV,IV,Clown,"Come, strike up!"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Pray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Which dances with your daughter?"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"They call him Doricles; and boasts himself"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"To have a worthy feeding: but I have it"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Upon his own report and I believe it;"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"He looks like sooth. He says he loves my daughter:"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"I think so too; for never gazed the moon"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Upon the water as he'll stand and read"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"As 'twere my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"I think there is not half a kiss to choose"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Who loves another best."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"She dances featly."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"So she does any thing; though I report it,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"That should be silent: if young Doricles"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Do light upon her, she shall bring him that"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Which he not dreams of."
IV,IV,Servant,"O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the"
IV,IV,Servant,"door, you would never dance again after a tabour and"
IV,IV,Servant,"pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you: he sings"
IV,IV,Servant,"several tunes faster than you'll tell money; he"
IV,IV,Servant,"utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's"
IV,IV,Servant,"ears grew to his tunes."
IV,IV,Clown,"He could never come better; he shall come in. I"
IV,IV,Clown,"love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful"
IV,IV,Clown,"matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing"
IV,IV,Clown,"indeed and sung lamentably."
IV,IV,Servant,"He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes; no"
IV,IV,Servant,"milliner can so fit his customers with gloves: he"
IV,IV,Servant,"has the prettiest love-songs for maids; so without"
IV,IV,Servant,"bawdry, which is strange; with such delicate"
IV,IV,Servant,"burthens of dildos and fadings, 'jump her and thump"
IV,IV,Servant,"her;' and where some stretch-mouthed rascal would,"
IV,IV,Servant,"as it were, mean mischief and break a foul gap into"
IV,IV,Servant,"the matter, he makes the maid to answer 'Whoop, do me"
IV,IV,Servant,"no harm, good man;' puts him off, slights him, with"
IV,IV,Servant,"'Whoop, do me no harm, good man.'"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"This is a brave fellow."
IV,IV,Clown,"Believe me, thou talkest of an admirable conceited"
IV,IV,Clown,"fellow. Has he any unbraided wares?"
IV,IV,Servant,"He hath ribbons of an the colours i' the rainbow;"
IV,IV,Servant,"points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can"
IV,IV,Servant,"learnedly handle, though they come to him by the"
IV,IV,Servant,"gross: inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns: why, he"
IV,IV,Servant,"sings 'em over as they were gods or goddesses; you"
IV,IV,Servant,"would think a smock were a she-angel, he so chants"
IV,IV,Servant,"to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square on't."
IV,IV,Clown,"Prithee bring him in; and let him approach singing."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Forewarn him that he use no scurrilous words in 's tunes."
IV,IV,Clown,"You have of these pedlars, that have more in them"
IV,IV,Clown,"than you'ld think, sister."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Ay, good brother, or go about to think."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Lawn as white as driven snow;"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Cyprus black as e'er was crow;"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Gloves as sweet as damask roses;"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Masks for faces and for noses;"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Perfume for a lady's chamber;"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Golden quoifs and stomachers,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"For my lads to give their dears:"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Pins and poking-sticks of steel,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"What maids lack from head to heel:"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy;"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Buy lads, or else your lasses cry: Come buy."
IV,IV,Clown,"If I were not in love with Mopsa, thou shouldst take"
IV,IV,Clown,"no money of me; but being enthralled as I am, it"
IV,IV,Clown,"will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves."
IV,IV,MOPSA,"I was promised them against the feast; but they come"
IV,IV,MOPSA,"not too late now."
IV,IV,DORCAS,"He hath promised you more than that, or there be liars."
IV,IV,MOPSA,"He hath paid you all he promised you; may be, he has"
IV,IV,MOPSA,"paid you more, which will shame you to give him again."
IV,IV,Clown,"Is there no manners left among maids? will they"
IV,IV,Clown,"wear their plackets where they should bear their"
IV,IV,Clown,"faces? Is there not milking-time, when you are"
IV,IV,Clown,"going to bed, or kiln-hole, to whistle off these"
IV,IV,Clown,"secrets, but you must be tittle-tattling before all"
IV,IV,Clown,"our guests? 'tis well they are whispering: clamour"
IV,IV,Clown,"your tongues, and not a word more."
IV,IV,MOPSA,"I have done. Come, you promised me a tawdry-lace"
IV,IV,MOPSA,"and a pair of sweet gloves."
IV,IV,Clown,"Have I not told thee how I was cozened by the way"
IV,IV,Clown,"and lost all my money?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"And indeed, sir, there are cozeners abroad;"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"therefore it behoves men to be wary."
IV,IV,Clown,"Fear not thou, man, thou shalt lose nothing here."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"I hope so, sir; for I have about me many parcels of charge."
IV,IV,Clown,"What hast here? ballads?"
IV,IV,MOPSA,"Pray now, buy some: I love a ballad in print o'"
IV,IV,MOPSA,"life, for then we are sure they are true."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"burthen and how she longed to eat adders' heads and"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"toads carbonadoed."
IV,IV,MOPSA,"Is it true, think you?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Very true, and but a month old."
IV,IV,DORCAS,"Bless me from marrying a usurer!"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Here's the midwife's name to't, one Mistress"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Tale-porter, and five or six honest wives that were"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"present. Why should I carry lies abroad?"
IV,IV,MOPSA,"Pray you now, buy it."
IV,IV,Clown,"Come on, lay it by: and let's first see moe"
IV,IV,Clown,"ballads; we'll buy the other things anon."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Here's another ballad of a fish, that appeared upon"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"the coast on Wednesday the four-score of April,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"ballad against the hard hearts of maids: it was"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"thought she was a woman and was turned into a cold"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"fish for she would not exchange flesh with one that"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"loved her: the ballad is very pitiful and as true."
IV,IV,DORCAS,"Is it true too, think you?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Five justices' hands at it, and witnesses more than"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"my pack will hold."
IV,IV,Clown,"Lay it by too: another."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one."
IV,IV,MOPSA,"Let's have some merry ones."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Why, this is a passing merry one and goes to"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"the tune of 'Two maids wooing a man:' there's"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"scarce a maid westward but she sings it; 'tis in"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"request, I can tell you."
IV,IV,MOPSA,"We can both sing it: if thou'lt bear a part, thou"
IV,IV,MOPSA,"shalt hear; 'tis in three parts."
IV,IV,DORCAS,"We had the tune on't a month ago."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"I can bear my part; you must know 'tis my"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"occupation; have at it with you."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Get you hence, for I must go"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Where it fits not you to know."
IV,IV,DORCAS,"Whither?"
IV,IV,MOPSA,"O, whither?"
IV,IV,DORCAS,"Whither?"
IV,IV,MOPSA,"It becomes thy oath full well,"
IV,IV,MOPSA,"Thou to me thy secrets tell."
IV,IV,DORCAS,"Me too, let me go thither."
IV,IV,MOPSA,"Or thou goest to the orange or mill."
IV,IV,DORCAS,"If to either, thou dost ill."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Neither."
IV,IV,DORCAS,"What, neither?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Neither."
IV,IV,DORCAS,"Thou hast sworn my love to be."
IV,IV,MOPSA,"Thou hast sworn it more to me:"
IV,IV,MOPSA,"Then whither goest? say, whither?"
IV,IV,Clown,"We'll have this song out anon by ourselves: my"
IV,IV,Clown,"father and the gentlemen are in sad talk, and we'll"
IV,IV,Clown,"not trouble them. Come, bring away thy pack after"
IV,IV,Clown,"me. Wenches, I'll buy for you both. Pedlar, let's"
IV,IV,Clown,"have the first choice. Follow me, girls."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"And you shall pay well for 'em."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Will you buy any tape,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Or lace for your cape,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"My dainty duck, my dear-a?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Any silk, any thread,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Any toys for your head,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Of the new'st and finest, finest wear-a?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Come to the pedlar;"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Money's a medler."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"That doth utter all men's ware-a."
IV,IV,Servant,"Master, there is three carters, three shepherds,"
IV,IV,Servant,"three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that have made"
IV,IV,Servant,"themselves all men of hair, they call themselves"
IV,IV,Servant,"Saltiers, and they have a dance which the wenches"
IV,IV,Servant,"say is a gallimaufry of gambols, because they are"
IV,IV,Servant,"not in't; but they themselves are o' the mind, if it"
IV,IV,Servant,"be not too rough for some that know little but"
IV,IV,Servant,"bowling, it will please plentifully."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Away! we'll none on 't: here has been too much"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"homely foolery already. I know, sir, we weary you."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"You weary those that refresh us: pray, let's see"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"these four threes of herdsmen."
IV,IV,Servant,"One three of them, by their own report, sir, hath"
IV,IV,Servant,"danced before the king; and not the worst of the"
IV,IV,Servant,"three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Leave your prating: since these good men are"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"pleased, let them come in; but quickly now."
IV,IV,Servant,"Why, they stay at door, sir."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"O, father, you'll know more of that hereafter."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Is it not too far gone? 'Tis time to part them."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"He's simple and tells much."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"How now, fair shepherd!"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Your heart is full of something that does take"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"And handed love as you do, I was wont"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"To load my she with knacks: I would have ransack'd"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"The pedlar's silken treasury and have pour'd it"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"To her acceptance; you have let him go"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"And nothing marted with him. If your lass"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Interpretation should abuse and call this"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"For a reply, at least if you make a care"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Of happy holding her."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Old sir, I know"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"She prizes not such trifles as these are:"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"The gifts she looks from me are pack'd and lock'd"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Up in my heart; which I have given already,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"But not deliver'd. O, hear me breathe my life"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Before this ancient sir, who, it should seem,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Hath sometime loved! I take thy hand, this hand,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"As soft as dove's down and as white as it,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fann'd"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"snow that's bolted"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"By the northern blasts twice o'er."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"What follows this?"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"How prettily the young swain seems to wash"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"The hand was fair before! I have put you out:"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"But to your protestation; let me hear"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"What you profess."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Do, and be witness to 't."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"And this my neighbour too?"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"And he, and more"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Than he, and men, the earth, the heavens, and all:"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"That, were I crown'd the most imperial monarch,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Thereof most worthy, were I the fairest youth"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"That ever made eye swerve, had force and knowledge"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"More than was ever man's, I would not prize them"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Without her love; for her employ them all;"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Commend them and condemn them to her service"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Or to their own perdition."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Fairly offer'd."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"This shows a sound affection."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"But, my daughter,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Say you the like to him?"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"I cannot speak"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"So well, nothing so well; no, nor mean better:"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"By the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"The purity of his."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Take hands, a bargain!"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"And, friends unknown, you shall bear witness to 't:"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"I give my daughter to him, and will make"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Her portion equal his."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"O, that must be"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I' the virtue of your daughter: one being dead,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I shall have more than you can dream of yet;"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Enough then for your wonder. But, come on,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Contract us 'fore these witnesses."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Come, your hand;"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"And, daughter, yours."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Soft, swain, awhile, beseech you;"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Have you a father?"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I have: but what of him?"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Knows he of this?"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"He neither does nor shall."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Methinks a father"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Is at the nuptial of his son a guest"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"That best becomes the table. Pray you once more,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Is not your father grown incapable"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"With age and altering rheums? can he speak? hear?"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Know man from man? dispute his own estate?"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Lies he not bed-rid? and again does nothing"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"But what he did being childish?"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"No, good sir;"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"He has his health and ampler strength indeed"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Than most have of his age."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"By my white beard,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"You offer him, if this be so, a wrong"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Something unfilial: reason my son"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Should choose himself a wife, but as good reason"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"The father, all whose joy is nothing else"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"But fair posterity, should hold some counsel"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"In such a business."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I yield all this;"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"But for some other reasons, my grave sir,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Which 'tis not fit you know, I not acquaint"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"My father of this business."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Let him know't."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"He shall not."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Prithee, let him."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"No, he must not."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Let him, my son: he shall not need to grieve"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"At knowing of thy choice."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Come, come, he must not."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Mark our contract."
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Mark your divorce, young sir,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Whom son I dare not call; thou art too base"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"To be acknowledged: thou a sceptre's heir,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"That thus affect'st a sheep-hook! Thou old traitor,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"I am sorry that by hanging thee I can"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"But shorten thy life one week. And thou, fresh piece"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Of excellent witchcraft, who of force must know"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"The royal fool thou copest with,--"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"O, my heart!"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"I'll have thy beauty scratch'd with briers, and made"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"More homely than thy state. For thee, fond boy,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"If I may ever know thou dost but sigh"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"That thou no more shalt see this knack, as never"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"I mean thou shalt, we'll bar thee from succession;"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Not hold thee of our blood, no, not our kin,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Far than Deucalion off: mark thou my words:"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Follow us to the court. Thou churl, for this time,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Though full of our displeasure, yet we free thee"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"From the dead blow of it. And you, enchantment.--"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Worthy enough a herdsman: yea, him too,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"That makes himself, but for our honour therein,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Unworthy thee,--if ever henceforth thou"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"These rural latches to his entrance open,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"Or hoop his body more with thy embraces,"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"I will devise a death as cruel for thee"
IV,IV,POLIXENES,"As thou art tender to't."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Even here undone!"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"I was not much afeard; for once or twice"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"I was about to speak and tell him plainly,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"The selfsame sun that shines upon his court"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Hides not his visage from our cottage but"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Looks on alike. Will't please you, sir, be gone?"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"I told you what would come of this: beseech you,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Of your own state take care: this dream of mine,--"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"But milk my ewes and weep."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Why, how now, father!"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Speak ere thou diest."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"I cannot speak, nor think"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Nor dare to know that which I know. O sir!"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"You have undone a man of fourscore three,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"That thought to fill his grave in quiet, yea,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"To die upon the bed my father died,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"To lie close by his honest bones: but now"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Where no priest shovels in dust. O cursed wretch,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"That knew'st this was the prince,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"and wouldst adventure"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"To mingle faith with him! Undone! undone!"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"If I might die within this hour, I have lived"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"To die when I desire."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Why look you so upon me?"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I am but sorry, not afeard; delay'd,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"But nothing alter'd: what I was, I am;"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"More straining on for plucking back, not following"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"My leash unwillingly."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Gracious my lord,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"You know your father's temper: at this time"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"He will allow no speech, which I do guess"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"You do not purpose to him; and as hardly"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Will he endure your sight as yet, I fear:"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Then, till the fury of his highness settle,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Come not before him."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I not purpose it."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I think, Camillo?"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Even he, my lord."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"How often have I told you 'twould be thus!"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"How often said, my dignity would last"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"But till 'twere known!"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"It cannot fail but by"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"The violation of my faith; and then"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Let nature crush the sides o' the earth together"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"And mar the seeds within! Lift up thy looks:"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"From my succession wipe me, father; I"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Am heir to my affection."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Be advised."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I am, and by my fancy: if my reason"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Will thereto be obedient, I have reason;"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"If not, my senses, better pleased with madness,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Do bid it welcome."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"This is desperate, sir."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"So call it: but it does fulfil my vow;"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I needs must think it honesty. Camillo,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Not for Bohemia, nor the pomp that may"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Be thereat glean'd, for all the sun sees or"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"The close earth wombs or the profound sea hides"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"To this my fair beloved: therefore, I pray you,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"As you have ever been my father's honour'd friend,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"When he shall miss me,--as, in faith, I mean not"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"To see him any more,--cast your good counsels"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Upon his passion; let myself and fortune"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Tug for the time to come. This you may know"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"And so deliver, I am put to sea"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"With her whom here I cannot hold on shore;"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"And most opportune to our need I have"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"A vessel rides fast by, but not prepared"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"For this design. What course I mean to hold"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Shall nothing benefit your knowledge, nor"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Concern me the reporting."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"O my lord!"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"I would your spirit were easier for advice,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Or stronger for your need."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Hark, Perdita"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I'll hear you by and by."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"He's irremoveable,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Resolved for flight. Now were I happy, if"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"His going I could frame to serve my turn,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Save him from danger, do him love and honour,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Purchase the sight again of dear Sicilia"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"And that unhappy king, my master, whom"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"I so much thirst to see."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Now, good Camillo;"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I am so fraught with curious business that"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I leave out ceremony."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Sir, I think"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"You have heard of my poor services, i' the love"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"That I have borne your father?"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Very nobly"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Have you deserved: it is my father's music"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"To speak your deeds, not little of his care"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"To have them recompensed as thought on."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Well, my lord,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"If you may please to think I love the king"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"And through him what is nearest to him, which is"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Your gracious self, embrace but my direction:"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"If your more ponderous and settled project"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"May suffer alteration, on mine honour,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"I'll point you where you shall have such receiving"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"As shall become your highness; where you may"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Enjoy your mistress, from the whom, I see,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"There's no disjunction to be made, but by--"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"As heavens forefend!--your ruin; marry her,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"And, with my best endeavours in your absence,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Your discontenting father strive to qualify"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"And bring him up to liking."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"How, Camillo,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"May this, almost a miracle, be done?"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"That I may call thee something more than man"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"And after that trust to thee."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Have you thought on"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"A place whereto you'll go?"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Not any yet:"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"But as the unthought-on accident is guilty"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"To what we wildly do, so we profess"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Ourselves to be the slaves of chance and flies"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Of every wind that blows."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Then list to me:"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"This follows, if you will not change your purpose"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"But undergo this flight, make for Sicilia,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"And there present yourself and your fair princess,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"For so I see she must be, 'fore Leontes:"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"She shall be habited as it becomes"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"The partner of your bed. Methinks I see"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Leontes opening his free arms and weeping"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"His welcomes forth; asks thee the son forgiveness,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"As 'twere i' the father's person; kisses the hands"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Of your fresh princess; o'er and o'er divides him"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"'Twixt his unkindness and his kindness; the one"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"He chides to hell and bids the other grow"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Faster than thought or time."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Worthy Camillo,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"What colour for my visitation shall I"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Hold up before him?"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Sent by the king your father"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"To greet him and to give him comforts. Sir,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"The manner of your bearing towards him, with"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"What you as from your father shall deliver,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Things known betwixt us three, I'll write you down:"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"The which shall point you forth at every sitting"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"What you must say; that he shall not perceive"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"But that you have your father's bosom there"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"And speak his very heart."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"I am bound to you:"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"There is some sap in this."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"A cause more promising"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Than a wild dedication of yourselves"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores, most certain"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"To miseries enough; no hope to help you,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"But as you shake off one to take another;"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Nothing so certain as your anchors, who"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Do their best office, if they can but stay you"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Where you'll be loath to be: besides you know"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Prosperity's the very bond of love,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Affliction alters."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"One of these is true:"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"I think affliction may subdue the cheek,"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"But not take in the mind."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Yea, say you so?"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"There shall not at your father's house these"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"seven years"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Be born another such."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"My good Camillo,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"She is as forward of her breeding as"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"She is i' the rear our birth."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"I cannot say 'tis pity"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"She lacks instructions, for she seems a mistress"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"To most that teach."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Your pardon, sir; for this"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"I'll blush you thanks."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"My prettiest Perdita!"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"But O, the thorns we stand upon! Camillo,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Preserver of my father, now of me,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"The medicine of our house, how shall we do?"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"We are not furnish'd like Bohemia's son,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Nor shall appear in Sicilia."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"My lord,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Fear none of this: I think you know my fortunes"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Do all lie there: it shall be so my care"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"To have you royally appointed as if"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"The scene you play were mine. For instance, sir,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"That you may know you shall not want, one word."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have sold"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"all my trumpery; not a counterfeit stone, not a"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"to keep my pack from fasting: they throng who"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"should buy first, as if my trinkets had been"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer:"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"by which means I saw whose purse was best in"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"picture; and what I saw, to my good use I"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"remembered. My clown, who wants but something to"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"be a reasonable man, grew so in love with the"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"wenches' song, that he would not stir his pettitoes"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"till he had both tune and words; which so drew the"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"rest of the herd to me that all their other senses"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"stuck in ears: you might have pinched a placket, it"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"was senseless; 'twas nothing to geld a codpiece of a"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"purse; I could have filed keys off that hung in"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"chains: no hearing, no feeling, but my sir's song,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"and admiring the nothing of it. So that in this"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"time of lethargy I picked and cut most of their"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"festival purses; and had not the old man come in"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"with a whoo-bub against his daughter and the king's"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"son and scared my choughs from the chaff, I had not"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"left a purse alive in the whole army."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Nay, but my letters, by this means being there"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"And those that you'll procure from King Leontes--"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Shall satisfy your father."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"Happy be you!"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"All that you speak shows fair."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Who have we here?"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"We'll make an instrument of this, omit"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Nothing may give us aid."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"If they have overheard me now, why, hanging."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"How now, good fellow! why shakest thou so? Fear"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"not, man; here's no harm intended to thee."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"I am a poor fellow, sir."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal that from"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"thee: yet for the outside of thy poverty we must"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"make an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"--thou must think there's a necessity in't,--and"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"change garments with this gentleman: though the"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"there's some boot."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"I am a poor fellow, sir."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"I know ye well enough."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Nay, prithee, dispatch: the gentleman is half"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"flayed already."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Are you in earnest, sir?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"I smell the trick on't."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Dispatch, I prithee."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Indeed, I have had earnest: but I cannot with"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"conscience take it."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Unbuckle, unbuckle."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Fortunate mistress,--let my prophecy"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Come home to ye!--you must retire yourself"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Into some covert: take your sweetheart's hat"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"And pluck it o'er your brows, muffle your face,"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Dismantle you, and, as you can, disliken"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"The truth of your own seeming; that you may--"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"For I do fear eyes over--to shipboard"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Get undescried."
IV,IV,PERDITA,"I see the play so lies"
IV,IV,PERDITA,"That I must bear a part."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"No remedy."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Have you done there?"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Should I now meet my father,"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"He would not call me son."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Nay, you shall have no hat."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Come, lady, come. Farewell, my friend."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Adieu, sir."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"O Perdita, what have we twain forgot!"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Pray you, a word."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Of this escape and whither they are bound;"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"Wherein my hope is I shall so prevail"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"To force him after: in whose company"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"I shall review Sicilia, for whose sight"
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"I have a woman's longing."
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Fortune speed us!"
IV,IV,FLORIZEL,"Thus we set on, Camillo, to the sea-side."
IV,IV,CAMILLO,"The swifter speed the better."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"I understand the business, I hear it: to have an"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"necessary for a cut-purse; a good nose is requisite"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"also, to smell out work for the other senses. I see"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"What an exchange had this been without boot! What"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"a boot is here with this exchange! Sure the gods do"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"this year connive at us, and we may do any thing"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"extempore. The prince himself is about a piece of"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"iniquity, stealing away from his father with his"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"clog at his heels: if I thought it were a piece of"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"honesty to acquaint the king withal, I would not"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"do't: I hold it the more knavery to conceal it;"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"and therein am I constant to my profession."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Aside, aside; here is more matter for a hot brain:"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"every lane's end, every shop, church, session,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"hanging, yields a careful man work."
IV,IV,Clown,"See, see; what a man you are now!"
IV,IV,Clown,"There is no other way but to tell the king"
IV,IV,Clown,"she's a changeling and none of your flesh and blood."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Nay, but hear me."
IV,IV,Clown,"Nay, but hear me."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Go to, then."
IV,IV,Clown,"She being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh"
IV,IV,Clown,"and blood has not offended the king; and so your"
IV,IV,Clown,"flesh and blood is not to be punished by him. Show"
IV,IV,Clown,"those things you found about her, those secret"
IV,IV,Clown,"things, all but what she has with her: this being"
IV,IV,Clown,"done, let the law go whistle: I warrant you."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and his"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"son's pranks too; who, I may say, is no honest man,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"neither to his father nor to me, to go about to make"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"me the king's brother-in-law."
IV,IV,Clown,"Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off you"
IV,IV,Clown,"could have been to him and then your blood had been"
IV,IV,Clown,"the dearer by I know how much an ounce."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Well, let us to the king: there is that in this"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"fardel will make him scratch his beard."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"may be to the flight of my master."
IV,IV,Clown,"Pray heartily he be at palace."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"sometimes by chance: let me pocket up my pedlar's excrement."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"How now, rustics! whither are you bound?"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"To the palace, an it like your worship."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, your"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"names, your ages, of what having, breeding, and any"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"thing that is fitting to be known, discover."
IV,IV,Clown,"We are but plain fellows, sir."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"A lie; you are rough and hairy. Let me have no"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"lying: it becomes none but tradesmen, and they"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"often give us soldiers the lie: but we pay them for"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"they do not give us the lie."
IV,IV,Clown,"Your worship had like to have given us one, if you"
IV,IV,Clown,"had not taken yourself with the manner."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Are you a courtier, an't like you, sir?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"hath not my gait in it the measure of the court?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"receives not thy nose court-odor from me? reflect I"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"not on thy baseness court-contempt? Thinkest thou,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"for that I insinuate, or toaze from thee thy"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"business, I am therefore no courtier? I am courtier"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"cap-a-pe; and one that will either push on or pluck"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"back thy business there: whereupon I command thee to"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"open thy affair."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"My business, sir, is to the king."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"What advocate hast thou to him?"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"I know not, an't like you."
IV,IV,Clown,"Advocate's the court-word for a pheasant: say you"
IV,IV,Clown,"have none."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock nor hen."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"How blessed are we that are not simple men!"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Yet nature might have made me as these are,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Therefore I will not disdain."
IV,IV,Clown,"This cannot be but a great courtier."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"His garments are rich, but he wears"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"them not handsomely."
IV,IV,Clown,"He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical:"
IV,IV,Clown,"a great man, I'll warrant; I know by the picking"
IV,IV,Clown,"on's teeth."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"The fardel there? what's i' the fardel?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Wherefore that box?"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box,"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"which none must know but the king; and which he"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"shall know within this hour, if I may come to the"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"speech of him."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Age, thou hast lost thy labour."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Why, sir?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"The king is not at the palace; he is gone aboard a"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"new ship to purge melancholy and air himself: for,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"if thou beest capable of things serious, thou must"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"know the king is full of grief."
IV,IV,Shepard,"So 'tis said, sir; about his son, that should have"
IV,IV,Shepard,"married a shepherd's daughter."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him fly:"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"the curses he shall have, the tortures he shall"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"feel, will break the back of man, the heart of monster."
IV,IV,Clown,"Think you so, sir?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"and vengeance bitter; but those that are germane to"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"him, though removed fifty times, shall all come"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"under the hangman: which though it be great pity,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"yet it is necessary. An old sheep-whistling rogue a"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"ram-tender, to offer to have his daughter come into"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"grace! Some say he shall be stoned; but that death"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"is too soft for him, say I draw our throne into a"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"sheep-cote! all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy."
IV,IV,Clown,"Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear. an't"
IV,IV,Clown,"like you, sir?"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"wasp's nest; then stand till he be three quarters"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"and a dram dead; then recovered again with"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"he is, and in the hottest day prognostication"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"proclaims, shall be be set against a brick-wall, the"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"is to behold him with flies blown to death. But what"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"are to be smiled at, their offences being so"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"capital? Tell me, for you seem to be honest plain"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"men, what you have to the king: being something"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"gently considered, I'll bring you where he is"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"aboard, tender your persons to his presence,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"whisper him in your behalfs; and if it be in man"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"besides the king to effect your suits, here is man"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"shall do it."
IV,IV,Clown,"He seems to be of great authority: close with him,"
IV,IV,Clown,"give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn"
IV,IV,Clown,"bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold: show"
IV,IV,Clown,"the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand,"
IV,IV,Clown,"and no more ado. Remember 'stoned,' and 'flayed alive.'"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"An't please you, sir, to undertake the business for"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"us, here is that gold I have: I'll make it as much"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"more and leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"After I have done what I promised?"
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Ay, sir."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"Well, give me the moiety. Are you a party in this business?"
IV,IV,Clown,"In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful"
IV,IV,Clown,"one, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"O, that's the case of the shepherd's son: hang him,"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"he'll be made an example."
IV,IV,Clown,"Comfort, good comfort! We must to the king and show"
IV,IV,Clown,"our strange sights: he must know 'tis none of your"
IV,IV,Clown,"daughter nor my sister; we are gone else. Sir, I"
IV,IV,Clown,"will give you as much as this old man does when the"
IV,IV,Clown,"business is performed, and remain, as he says, your"
IV,IV,Clown,"pawn till it be brought you."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side;"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"go on the right hand: I will but look upon the"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"hedge and follow you."
IV,IV,Clown,"We are blest in this man, as I may say, even blest."
IV,IV,Shepherd,"Let's before as he bids us: he was provided to do us good."
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I am"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"courted now with a double occasion, gold and a means"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"to do the prince my master good; which who knows how"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"that may turn back to my advancement? I will bring"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"think it fit to shore them again and that the"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"complaint they have to the king concerns him"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"nothing, let him call me rogue for being so far"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"officious; for I am proof against that title and"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"what shame else belongs to't. To him will I present"
IV,IV,AUTOLYCUS,"them: there may be matter in it."
V,I,CLEOMENES,"Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd"
V,I,CLEOMENES,"A saint-like sorrow: no fault could you make,"
V,I,CLEOMENES,"Which you have not redeem'd; indeed, paid down"
V,I,CLEOMENES,"More penitence than done trespass: at the last,"
V,I,CLEOMENES,"Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;"
V,I,CLEOMENES,"With them forgive yourself."
V,I,LEONTES,"Whilst I remember"
V,I,LEONTES,"Her and her virtues, I cannot forget"
V,I,LEONTES,"My blemishes in them, and so still think of"
V,I,LEONTES,"The wrong I did myself; which was so much,"
V,I,LEONTES,"That heirless it hath made my kingdom and"
V,I,LEONTES,"Destroy'd the sweet'st companion that e'er man"
V,I,LEONTES,"Bred his hopes out of."
V,I,PAULINA,"True, too true, my lord:"
V,I,PAULINA,"If, one by one, you wedded all the world,"
V,I,PAULINA,"Or from the all that are took something good,"
V,I,PAULINA,"To make a perfect woman, she you kill'd"
V,I,PAULINA,"Would be unparallel'd."
V,I,LEONTES,"I think so. Kill'd!"
V,I,LEONTES,"She I kill'd! I did so: but thou strikest me"
V,I,LEONTES,"Sorely, to say I did; it is as bitter"
V,I,LEONTES,"Upon thy tongue as in my thought: now, good now,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Say so but seldom."
V,I,CLEOMENES,"Not at all, good lady:"
V,I,CLEOMENES,"You might have spoken a thousand things that would"
V,I,CLEOMENES,"Have done the time more benefit and graced"
V,I,CLEOMENES,"Your kindness better."
V,I,PAULINA,"You are one of those"
V,I,PAULINA,"Would have him wed again."
V,I,DION,"If you would not so,"
V,I,DION,"You pity not the state, nor the remembrance"
V,I,DION,"Of his most sovereign name; consider little"
V,I,DION,"What dangers, by his highness' fail of issue,"
V,I,DION,"May drop upon his kingdom and devour"
V,I,DION,"Incertain lookers on. What were more holy"
V,I,DION,"Than to rejoice the former queen is well?"
V,I,DION,"What holier than, for royalty's repair,"
V,I,DION,"For present comfort and for future good,"
V,I,DION,"To bless the bed of majesty again"
V,I,DION,"With a sweet fellow to't?"
V,I,PAULINA,"There is none worthy,"
V,I,PAULINA,"Respecting her that's gone. Besides, the gods"
V,I,PAULINA,"Will have fulfill'd their secret purposes;"
V,I,PAULINA,"For has not the divine Apollo said,"
V,I,PAULINA,"Is't not the tenor of his oracle,"
V,I,PAULINA,"That King Leontes shall not have an heir"
V,I,PAULINA,"Till his lost child be found? which that it shall,"
V,I,PAULINA,"Is all as monstrous to our human reason"
V,I,PAULINA,"As my Antigonus to break his grave"
V,I,PAULINA,"And come again to me; who, on my life,"
V,I,PAULINA,"Did perish with the infant. 'Tis your counsel"
V,I,PAULINA,"My lord should to the heavens be contrary,"
V,I,PAULINA,"Oppose against their wills."
V,I,PAULINA,"Care not for issue;"
V,I,PAULINA,"The crown will find an heir: great Alexander"
V,I,PAULINA,"Left his to the worthiest; so his successor"
V,I,PAULINA,"Was like to be the best."
V,I,LEONTES,"Good Paulina,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Who hast the memory of Hermione,"
V,I,LEONTES,"I know, in honour, O, that ever I"
V,I,LEONTES,"Had squared me to thy counsel! then, even now,"
V,I,LEONTES,"I might have look'd upon my queen's full eyes,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Have taken treasure from her lips--"
V,I,PAULINA,"And left them"
V,I,PAULINA,"More rich for what they yielded."
V,I,LEONTES,"Thou speak'st truth."
V,I,LEONTES,"No more such wives; therefore, no wife: one worse,"
V,I,LEONTES,"And better used, would make her sainted spirit"
V,I,LEONTES,"Again possess her corpse, and on this stage,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Where we're offenders now, appear soul-vex'd,"
V,I,LEONTES,"And begin, 'Why to me?'"
V,I,PAULINA,"Had she such power,"
V,I,PAULINA,"She had just cause."
V,I,LEONTES,"She had; and would incense me"
V,I,LEONTES,"To murder her I married."
V,I,PAULINA,"I should so."
V,I,PAULINA,"Were I the ghost that walk'd, I'ld bid you mark"
V,I,PAULINA,"Her eye, and tell me for what dull part in't"
V,I,PAULINA,"You chose her; then I'ld shriek, that even your ears"
V,I,PAULINA,"Should rift to hear me; and the words that follow'd"
V,I,PAULINA,"Should be 'Remember mine.'"
V,I,LEONTES,"Stars, stars,"
V,I,LEONTES,"And all eyes else dead coals! Fear thou no wife;"
V,I,LEONTES,"I'll have no wife, Paulina."
V,I,PAULINA,"Will you swear"
V,I,PAULINA,"Never to marry but by my free leave?"
V,I,LEONTES,"Never, Paulina; so be blest my spirit!"
V,I,PAULINA,"Then, good my lords, bear witness to his oath."
V,I,CLEOMENES,"You tempt him over-much."
V,I,PAULINA,"Unless another,"
V,I,PAULINA,"As like Hermione as is her picture,"
V,I,PAULINA,"Affront his eye."
V,I,CLEOMENES,"Good madam,--"
V,I,PAULINA,"I have done."
V,I,PAULINA,"Yet, if my lord will marry,--if you will, sir,"
V,I,PAULINA,"No remedy, but you will,--give me the office"
V,I,PAULINA,"To choose you a queen: she shall not be so young"
V,I,PAULINA,"As was your former; but she shall be such"
V,I,PAULINA,"As, walk'd your first queen's ghost,"
V,I,PAULINA,"it should take joy"
V,I,PAULINA,"To see her in your arms."
V,I,LEONTES,"My true Paulina,"
V,I,LEONTES,"We shall not marry till thou bid'st us."
V,I,PAULINA,"That"
V,I,PAULINA,"Shall be when your first queen's again in breath;"
V,I,PAULINA,"Never till then."
V,I,Gentleman,"One that gives out himself Prince Florizel,"
V,I,Gentleman,"Son of Polixenes, with his princess, she"
V,I,Gentleman,"The fairest I have yet beheld, desires access"
V,I,Gentleman,"To your high presence."
V,I,LEONTES,"What with him? he comes not"
V,I,LEONTES,"Like to his father's greatness: his approach,"
V,I,LEONTES,"So out of circumstance and sudden, tells us"
V,I,LEONTES,"'Tis not a visitation framed, but forced"
V,I,LEONTES,"By need and accident. What train?"
V,I,Gentleman,"But few,"
V,I,Gentleman,"And those but mean."
V,I,LEONTES,"His princess, say you, with him?"
V,I,Gentleman,"Ay, the most peerless piece of earth, I think,"
V,I,Gentleman,"That e'er the sun shone bright on."
V,I,PAULINA,"O Hermione,"
V,I,PAULINA,"As every present time doth boast itself"
V,I,PAULINA,"Above a better gone, so must thy grave"
V,I,PAULINA,"Give way to what's seen now! Sir, you yourself"
V,I,PAULINA,"Have said and writ so, but your writing now"
V,I,PAULINA,"Is colder than that theme, 'She had not been,"
V,I,PAULINA,"Nor was not to be equall'd;'--thus your verse"
V,I,PAULINA,"Flow'd with her beauty once: 'tis shrewdly ebb'd,"
V,I,PAULINA,"To say you have seen a better."
V,I,Gentleman,"Pardon, madam:"
V,I,Gentleman,"The one I have almost forgot,--your pardon,--"
V,I,Gentleman,"The other, when she has obtain'd your eye,"
V,I,Gentleman,"Will have your tongue too. This is a creature,"
V,I,Gentleman,"Would she begin a sect, might quench the zeal"
V,I,Gentleman,"Of all professors else, make proselytes"
V,I,Gentleman,"Of who she but bid follow."
V,I,PAULINA,"How! not women?"
V,I,Gentleman,"Women will love her, that she is a woman"
V,I,Gentleman,"More worth than any man; men, that she is"
V,I,Gentleman,"The rarest of all women."
V,I,LEONTES,"Go, Cleomenes;"
V,I,LEONTES,"Yourself, assisted with your honour'd friends,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Bring them to our embracement. Still, 'tis strange"
V,I,LEONTES,"He thus should steal upon us."
V,I,PAULINA,"Had our prince,"
V,I,PAULINA,"Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had pair'd"
V,I,PAULINA,"Well with this lord: there was not full a month"
V,I,PAULINA,"Between their births."
V,I,LEONTES,"Prithee, no more; cease; thou know'st"
V,I,LEONTES,"He dies to me again when talk'd of: sure,"
V,I,LEONTES,"When I shall see this gentleman, thy speeches"
V,I,LEONTES,"Will bring me to consider that which may"
V,I,LEONTES,"Unfurnish me of reason. They are come."
V,I,LEONTES,"Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince;"
V,I,LEONTES,"For she did print your royal father off,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Conceiving you: were I but twenty-one,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Your father's image is so hit in you,"
V,I,LEONTES,"His very air, that I should call you brother,"
V,I,LEONTES,"As I did him, and speak of something wildly"
V,I,LEONTES,"By us perform'd before. Most dearly welcome!"
V,I,LEONTES,"And your fair princess,--goddess!--O, alas!"
V,I,LEONTES,"I lost a couple, that 'twixt heaven and earth"
V,I,LEONTES,"Might thus have stood begetting wonder as"
V,I,LEONTES,"You, gracious couple, do: and then I lost--"
V,I,LEONTES,"All mine own folly--the society,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Amity too, of your brave father, whom,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Though bearing misery, I desire my life"
V,I,LEONTES,"Once more to look on him."
V,I,FLORIZEL,"By his command"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Have I here touch'd Sicilia and from him"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Give you all greetings that a king, at friend,"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Can send his brother: and, but infirmity"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Which waits upon worn times hath something seized"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"His wish'd ability, he had himself"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"The lands and waters 'twixt your throne and his"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Measured to look upon you; whom he loves--"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"He bade me say so--more than all the sceptres"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"And those that bear them living."
V,I,LEONTES,"O my brother,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Good gentleman! the wrongs I have done thee stir"
V,I,LEONTES,"Afresh within me, and these thy offices,"
V,I,LEONTES,"So rarely kind, are as interpreters"
V,I,LEONTES,"Of my behind-hand slackness. Welcome hither,"
V,I,LEONTES,"As is the spring to the earth. And hath he too"
V,I,LEONTES,"Exposed this paragon to the fearful usage,"
V,I,LEONTES,"At least ungentle, of the dreadful Neptune,"
V,I,LEONTES,"To greet a man not worth her pains, much less"
V,I,LEONTES,"The adventure of her person?"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Good my lord,"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"She came from Libya."
V,I,LEONTES,"Where the warlike Smalus,"
V,I,LEONTES,"That noble honour'd lord, is fear'd and loved?"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Most royal sir, from thence; from him, whose daughter"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence,"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"A prosperous south-wind friendly, we have cross'd,"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"To execute the charge my father gave me"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"For visiting your highness: my best train"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss'd;"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Who for Bohemia bend, to signify"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Not only my success in Libya, sir,"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"But my arrival and my wife's in safety"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Here where we are."
V,I,LEONTES,"The blessed gods"
V,I,LEONTES,"Purge all infection from our air whilst you"
V,I,LEONTES,"Do climate here! You have a holy father,"
V,I,LEONTES,"A graceful gentleman; against whose person,"
V,I,LEONTES,"So sacred as it is, I have done sin:"
V,I,LEONTES,"For which the heavens, taking angry note,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Have left me issueless; and your father's blest,"
V,I,LEONTES,"As he from heaven merits it, with you"
V,I,LEONTES,"Worthy his goodness. What might I have been,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Might I a son and daughter now have look'd on,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Such goodly things as you!"
V,I,Lord,"Most noble sir,"
V,I,Lord,"That which I shall report will bear no credit,"
V,I,Lord,"Were not the proof so nigh. Please you, great sir,"
V,I,Lord,"Bohemia greets you from himself by me;"
V,I,Lord,"Desires you to attach his son, who has--"
V,I,Lord,"His dignity and duty both cast off--"
V,I,Lord,"Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with"
V,I,Lord,"A shepherd's daughter."
V,I,LEONTES,"Where's Bohemia? speak."
V,I,Lord,"Here in your city; I now came from him:"
V,I,Lord,"I speak amazedly; and it becomes"
V,I,Lord,"My marvel and my message. To your court"
V,I,Lord,"Whiles he was hastening, in the chase, it seems,"
V,I,Lord,"Of this fair couple, meets he on the way"
V,I,Lord,"The father of this seeming lady and"
V,I,Lord,"Her brother, having both their country quitted"
V,I,Lord,"With this young prince."
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Camillo has betray'd me;"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Whose honour and whose honesty till now"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Endured all weathers."
V,I,Lord,"Lay't so to his charge:"
V,I,Lord,"He's with the king your father."
V,I,LEONTES,"Who? Camillo?"
V,I,Lord,"Camillo, sir; I spake with him; who now"
V,I,Lord,"Has these poor men in question. Never saw I"
V,I,Lord,"Wretches so quake: they kneel, they kiss the earth;"
V,I,Lord,"Forswear themselves as often as they speak:"
V,I,Lord,"Bohemia stops his ears, and threatens them"
V,I,Lord,"With divers deaths in death."
V,I,PERDITA,"O my poor father!"
V,I,PERDITA,"The heaven sets spies upon us, will not have"
V,I,PERDITA,"Our contract celebrated."
V,I,LEONTES,"You are married?"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"We are not, sir, nor are we like to be;"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first:"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"The odds for high and low's alike."
V,I,LEONTES,"My lord,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Is this the daughter of a king?"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"She is,"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"When once she is my wife."
V,I,LEONTES,"That 'once' I see by your good father's speed"
V,I,LEONTES,"Will come on very slowly. I am sorry,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Most sorry, you have broken from his liking"
V,I,LEONTES,"Where you were tied in duty, and as sorry"
V,I,LEONTES,"Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty,"
V,I,LEONTES,"That you might well enjoy her."
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Dear, look up:"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Though Fortune, visible an enemy,"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Should chase us with my father, power no jot"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Hath she to change our loves. Beseech you, sir,"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Remember since you owed no more to time"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Than I do now: with thought of such affections,"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"Step forth mine advocate; at your request"
V,I,FLORIZEL,"My father will grant precious things as trifles."
V,I,LEONTES,"Would he do so, I'ld beg your precious mistress,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Which he counts but a trifle."
V,I,PAULINA,"Sir, my liege,"
V,I,PAULINA,"Your eye hath too much youth in't: not a month"
V,I,PAULINA,"'Fore your queen died, she was more worth such gazes"
V,I,PAULINA,"Than what you look on now."
V,I,LEONTES,"I thought of her,"
V,I,LEONTES,"Even in these looks I made."
V,I,LEONTES,"But your petition"
V,I,LEONTES,"Is yet unanswer'd. I will to your father:"
V,I,LEONTES,"Your honour not o'erthrown by your desires,"
V,I,LEONTES,"I am friend to them and you: upon which errand"
V,I,LEONTES,"I now go toward him; therefore follow me"
V,I,LEONTES,"And mark what way I make: come, good my lord."
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"Beseech you, sir, were you present at this relation?"
V,II,First Gentleman,"I was by at the opening of the fardel, heard the old"
V,II,First Gentleman,"shepherd deliver the manner how he found it:"
V,II,First Gentleman,"whereupon, after a little amazedness, we were all"
V,II,First Gentleman,"commanded out of the chamber; only this methought I"
V,II,First Gentleman,"heard the shepherd say, he found the child."
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"I would most gladly know the issue of it."
V,II,First Gentleman,"I make a broken delivery of the business; but the"
V,II,First Gentleman,"changes I perceived in the king and Camillo were"
V,II,First Gentleman,"very notes of admiration: they seemed almost, with"
V,II,First Gentleman,"staring on one another, to tear the cases of their"
V,II,First Gentleman,"eyes; there was speech in their dumbness, language"
V,II,First Gentleman,"in their very gesture; they looked as they had heard"
V,II,First Gentleman,"of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: a notable"
V,II,First Gentleman,"passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest"
V,II,First Gentleman,"beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not"
V,II,First Gentleman,"say if the importance were joy or sorrow; but in the"
V,II,First Gentleman,"extremity of the one, it must needs be."
V,II,First Gentleman,"Here comes a gentleman that haply knows more."
V,II,First Gentleman,"The news, Rogero?"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"Nothing but bonfires: the oracle is fulfilled; the"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"king's daughter is found: such a deal of wonder is"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"broken out within this hour that ballad-makers"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"cannot be able to express it."
V,II,Second Gentleman,"Here comes the Lady Paulina's steward: he can"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"deliver you more. How goes it now, sir? this news"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"which is called true is so like an old tale, that"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"the verity of it is in strong suspicion: has the king"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"found his heir?"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"Most true, if ever truth were pregnant by"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"circumstance: that which you hear you'll swear you"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"see, there is such unity in the proofs. The mantle"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"of Queen Hermione's, her jewel about the neck of it,"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"the letters of Antigonus found with it which they"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"know to be his character, the majesty of the"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"creature in resemblance of the mother, the affection"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"of nobleness which nature shows above her breeding,"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"and many other evidences proclaim her with all"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"certainty to be the king's daughter. Did you see"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"the meeting of the two kings?"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"No."
V,II,Third Gentleman,"Then have you lost a sight, which was to be seen,"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"cannot be spoken of. There might you have beheld one"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"joy crown another, so and in such manner that it"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them, for their"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"joy waded in tears. There was casting up of eyes,"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"holding up of hands, with countenances of such"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"distraction that they were to be known by garment,"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"not by favour. Our king, being ready to leap out of"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"himself for joy of his found daughter, as if that"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"joy were now become a loss, cries 'O, thy mother,"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"thy mother!' then asks Bohemia forgiveness; then"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"embraces his son-in-law; then again worries he his"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"daughter with clipping her; now he thanks the old"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"shepherd, which stands by like a weather-bitten"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"conduit of many kings' reigns. I never heard of such"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"another encounter, which lames report to follow it"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"and undoes description to do it."
V,II,Second Gentleman,"What, pray you, became of Antigonus, that carried"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"hence the child?"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"Like an old tale still, which will have matter to"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"rehearse, though credit be asleep and not an ear"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"open. He was torn to pieces with a bear: this"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"avouches the shepherd's son; who has not only his"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"innocence, which seems much, to justify him, but a"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"handkerchief and rings of his that Paulina knows."
V,II,First Gentleman,"What became of his bark and his followers?"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"Wrecked the same instant of their master's death and"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"in the view of the shepherd: so that all the"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"instruments which aided to expose the child were"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"even then lost when it was found. But O, the noble"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"Paulina! She had one eye declined for the loss of"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"her husband, another elevated that the oracle was"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"fulfilled: she lifted the princess from the earth,"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"and so locks her in embracing, as if she would pin"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"her to her heart that she might no more be in danger"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"of losing."
V,II,First Gentleman,"The dignity of this act was worth the audience of"
V,II,First Gentleman,"kings and princes; for by such was it acted."
V,II,Third Gentleman,"One of the prettiest touches of all and that which"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"angled for mine eyes, caught the water though not"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"the fish, was when, at the relation of the queen's"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"death, with the manner how she came to't bravely"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"confessed and lamented by the king, how"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"attentiveness wounded his daughter; till, from one"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"sign of dolour to another, she did, with an 'Alas,'"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"I would fain say, bleed tears, for I am sure my"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"heart wept blood. Who was most marble there changed"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"colour; some swooned, all sorrowed: if all the world"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"could have seen 't, the woe had been universal."
V,II,First Gentleman,"Are they returned to the court?"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"No: the princess hearing of her mother's statue,"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"which is in the keeping of Paulina,--a piece many"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"years in doing and now newly performed by that rare"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"Italian master, Julio Romano, who, had he himself"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"eternity and could put breath into his work, would"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"beguile Nature of her custom, so perfectly he is her"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"ape: he so near to Hermione hath done Hermione that"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"they say one would speak to her and stand in hope of"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"answer: thither with all greediness of affection"
V,II,Third Gentleman,"are they gone, and there they intend to sup."
V,II,Second Gentleman,"I thought she had some great matter there in hand;"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"for she hath privately twice or thrice a day, ever"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"since the death of Hermione, visited that removed"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"house. Shall we thither and with our company piece"
V,II,Second Gentleman,"the rejoicing?"
V,II,First Gentleman,"Who would be thence that has the benefit of access?"
V,II,First Gentleman,"every wink of an eye some new grace will be born:"
V,II,First Gentleman,"our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge."
V,II,First Gentleman,"Let's along."
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"Now, had I not the dash of my former life in me,"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"would preferment drop on my head. I brought the old"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"man and his son aboard the prince: told him I heard"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"them talk of a fardel and I know not what: but he"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"at that time, overfond of the shepherd's daughter,"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"so he then took her to be, who began to be much"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"sea-sick, and himself little better, extremity of"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"weather continuing, this mystery remained"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"undiscovered. But 'tis all one to me; for had I"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"been the finder out of this secret, it would not"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"have relished among my other discredits."
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"Here come those I have done good to against my will,"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune."
V,II,Shepherd,"Come, boy; I am past moe children, but thy sons and"
V,II,Shepherd,"daughters will be all gentlemen born."
V,II,Clown,"You are well met, sir. You denied to fight with me"
V,II,Clown,"this other day, because I was no gentleman born."
V,II,Clown,"See you these clothes? say you see them not and"
V,II,Clown,"think me still no gentleman born: you were best say"
V,II,Clown,"these robes are not gentlemen born: give me the"
V,II,Clown,"lie, do, and try whether I am not now a gentleman born."
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born."
V,II,Clown,"Ay, and have been so any time these four hours."
V,II,Shepherd,"And so have I, boy."
V,II,Clown,"So you have: but I was a gentleman born before my"
V,II,Clown,"father; for the king's son took me by the hand, and"
V,II,Clown,"called me brother; and then the two kings called my"
V,II,Clown,"father brother; and then the prince my brother and"
V,II,Clown,"the princess my sister called my father father; and"
V,II,Clown,"so we wept, and there was the first gentleman-like"
V,II,Clown,"tears that ever we shed."
V,II,Shepherd,"We may live, son, to shed many more."
V,II,Clown,"Ay; or else 'twere hard luck, being in so"
V,II,Clown,"preposterous estate as we are."
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"faults I have committed to your worship and to give"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"me your good report to the prince my master."
V,II,Shepherd,"Prithee, son, do; for we must be gentle, now we are"
V,II,Shepherd,"gentlemen."
V,II,Clown,"Thou wilt amend thy life?"
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"Ay, an it like your good worship."
V,II,Clown,"Give me thy hand: I will swear to the prince thou"
V,II,Clown,"art as honest a true fellow as any is in Bohemia."
V,II,Shepherd,"You may say it, but not swear it."
V,II,Clown,"Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and"
V,II,Clown,"franklins say it, I'll swear it."
V,II,Shepherd,"How if it be false, son?"
V,II,Clown,"If it be ne'er so false, a true gentleman may swear"
V,II,Clown,"it in the behalf of his friend: and I'll swear to"
V,II,Clown,"the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands and"
V,II,Clown,"that thou wilt not be drunk; but I know thou art no"
V,II,Clown,"tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt be"
V,II,Clown,"drunk: but I'll swear it, and I would thou wouldst"
V,II,Clown,"be a tall fellow of thy hands."
V,II,AUTOLYCUS,"I will prove so, sir, to my power."
V,II,Clown,"Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow: if I do not"
V,II,Clown,"wonder how thou darest venture to be drunk, not"
V,II,Clown,"being a tall fellow, trust me not. Hark! the kings"
V,II,Clown,"and the princes, our kindred, are going to see the"
V,II,Clown,"queen's picture. Come, follow us: we'll be thy"
V,II,Clown,"good masters."
V,III,LEONTES,"O grave and good Paulina, the great comfort"
V,III,LEONTES,"That I have had of thee!"
V,III,PAULINA,"What, sovereign sir,"
V,III,PAULINA,"I did not well I meant well. All my services"
V,III,PAULINA,"You have paid home: but that you have vouchsafed,"
V,III,PAULINA,"With your crown'd brother and these your contracted"
V,III,PAULINA,"Heirs of your kingdoms, my poor house to visit,"
V,III,PAULINA,"It is a surplus of your grace, which never"
V,III,PAULINA,"My life may last to answer."
V,III,LEONTES,"O Paulina,"
V,III,LEONTES,"We honour you with trouble: but we came"
V,III,LEONTES,"To see the statue of our queen: your gallery"
V,III,LEONTES,"Have we pass'd through, not without much content"
V,III,LEONTES,"In many singularities; but we saw not"
V,III,LEONTES,"That which my daughter came to look upon,"
V,III,LEONTES,"The statue of her mother."
V,III,PAULINA,"As she lived peerless,"
V,III,PAULINA,"So her dead likeness, I do well believe,"
V,III,PAULINA,"Excels whatever yet you look'd upon"
V,III,PAULINA,"Or hand of man hath done; therefore I keep it"
V,III,PAULINA,"Lonely, apart. But here it is: prepare"
V,III,PAULINA,"To see the life as lively mock'd as ever"
V,III,PAULINA,"Still sleep mock'd death: behold, and say 'tis well."
V,III,PAULINA,"I like your silence, it the more shows off"
V,III,PAULINA,"Your wonder: but yet speak; first, you, my liege,"
V,III,PAULINA,"Comes it not something near?"
V,III,LEONTES,"Her natural posture!"
V,III,LEONTES,"Chide me, dear stone, that I may say indeed"
V,III,LEONTES,"Thou art Hermione; or rather, thou art she"
V,III,LEONTES,"In thy not chiding, for she was as tender"
V,III,LEONTES,"As infancy and grace. But yet, Paulina,"
V,III,LEONTES,"Hermione was not so much wrinkled, nothing"
V,III,LEONTES,"So aged as this seems."
V,III,POLIXENES,"O, not by much."
V,III,PAULINA,"So much the more our carver's excellence;"
V,III,PAULINA,"Which lets go by some sixteen years and makes her"
V,III,PAULINA,"As she lived now."
V,III,LEONTES,"As now she might have done,"
V,III,LEONTES,"So much to my good comfort, as it is"
V,III,LEONTES,"Now piercing to my soul. O, thus she stood,"
V,III,LEONTES,"Even with such life of majesty, warm life,"
V,III,LEONTES,"As now it coldly stands, when first I woo'd her!"
V,III,LEONTES,"I am ashamed: does not the stone rebuke me"
V,III,LEONTES,"For being more stone than it? O royal piece,"
V,III,LEONTES,"There's magic in thy majesty, which has"
V,III,LEONTES,"My evils conjured to remembrance and"
V,III,LEONTES,"From thy admiring daughter took the spirits,"
V,III,LEONTES,"Standing like stone with thee."
V,III,PERDITA,"And give me leave,"
V,III,PERDITA,"And do not say 'tis superstition, that"
V,III,PERDITA,"I kneel and then implore her blessing. Lady,"
V,III,PERDITA,"Dear queen, that ended when I but began,"
V,III,PERDITA,"Give me that hand of yours to kiss."
V,III,PAULINA,"O, patience!"
V,III,PAULINA,"The statue is but newly fix'd, the colour's Not dry."
V,III,CAMILLO,"My lord, your sorrow was too sore laid on,"
V,III,CAMILLO,"Which sixteen winters cannot blow away,"
V,III,CAMILLO,"So many summers dry; scarce any joy"
V,III,CAMILLO,"Did ever so long live; no sorrow"
V,III,CAMILLO,"But kill'd itself much sooner."
V,III,POLIXENES,"Dear my brother,"
V,III,POLIXENES,"Let him that was the cause of this have power"
V,III,POLIXENES,"To take off so much grief from you as he"
V,III,POLIXENES,"Will piece up in himself."
V,III,PAULINA,"Indeed, my lord,"
V,III,PAULINA,"If I had thought the sight of my poor image"
V,III,PAULINA,"Would thus have wrought you,--for the stone is mine--"
V,III,PAULINA,"I'ld not have show'd it."
V,III,LEONTES,"Do not draw the curtain."
V,III,PAULINA,"No longer shall you gaze on't, lest your fancy"
V,III,PAULINA,"May think anon it moves."
V,III,LEONTES,"Let be, let be."
V,III,LEONTES,"Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already--"
V,III,LEONTES,"What was he that did make it? See, my lord,"
V,III,LEONTES,"Would you not deem it breathed? and that those veins"
V,III,LEONTES,"Did verily bear blood?"
V,III,POLIXENES,"Masterly done:"
V,III,POLIXENES,"The very life seems warm upon her lip."
V,III,LEONTES,"The fixture of her eye has motion in't,"
V,III,LEONTES,"As we are mock'd with art."
V,III,PAULINA,"I'll draw the curtain:"
V,III,PAULINA,"My lord's almost so far transported that"
V,III,PAULINA,"He'll think anon it lives."
V,III,LEONTES,"O sweet Paulina,"
V,III,LEONTES,"Make me to think so twenty years together!"
V,III,LEONTES,"No settled senses of the world can match"
V,III,LEONTES,"The pleasure of that madness. Let 't alone."
V,III,PAULINA,"I am sorry, sir, I have thus far stirr'd you: but"
V,III,PAULINA,"I could afflict you farther."
V,III,LEONTES,"Do, Paulina;"
V,III,LEONTES,"For this affliction has a taste as sweet"
V,III,LEONTES,"As any cordial comfort. Still, methinks,"
V,III,LEONTES,"There is an air comes from her: what fine chisel"
V,III,LEONTES,"Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me,"
V,III,LEONTES,"For I will kiss her."
V,III,PAULINA,"Good my lord, forbear:"
V,III,PAULINA,"The ruddiness upon her lip is wet;"
V,III,PAULINA,"You'll mar it if you kiss it, stain your own"
V,III,PAULINA,"With oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain?"
V,III,LEONTES,"No, not these twenty years."
V,III,PERDITA,"So long could I"
V,III,PERDITA,"Stand by, a looker on."
V,III,PAULINA,"Either forbear,"
V,III,PAULINA,"Quit presently the chapel, or resolve you"
V,III,PAULINA,"For more amazement. If you can behold it,"
V,III,PAULINA,"I'll make the statue move indeed, descend"
V,III,PAULINA,"And take you by the hand; but then you'll think--"
V,III,PAULINA,"Which I protest against--I am assisted"
V,III,PAULINA,"By wicked powers."
V,III,LEONTES,"What you can make her do,"
V,III,LEONTES,"I am content to look on: what to speak,"
V,III,LEONTES,"I am content to hear; for 'tis as easy"
V,III,LEONTES,"To make her speak as move."
V,III,PAULINA,"It is required"
V,III,PAULINA,"You do awake your faith. Then all stand still;"
V,III,PAULINA,"On: those that think it is unlawful business"
V,III,PAULINA,"I am about, let them depart."
V,III,LEONTES,"Proceed:"
V,III,LEONTES,"No foot shall stir."
V,III,PAULINA,"Music, awake her; strike!"
V,III,PAULINA,"'Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach;"
V,III,PAULINA,"Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come,"
V,III,PAULINA,"I'll fill your grave up: stir, nay, come away,"
V,III,PAULINA,"Bequeath to death your numbness, for from him"
V,III,PAULINA,"Dear life redeems you. You perceive she stirs:"
V,III,PAULINA,"Start not; her actions shall be holy as"
V,III,PAULINA,"You hear my spell is lawful: do not shun her"
V,III,PAULINA,"Until you see her die again; for then"
V,III,PAULINA,"You kill her double. Nay, present your hand:"
V,III,PAULINA,"When she was young you woo'd her; now in age"
V,III,PAULINA,"Is she become the suitor?"
V,III,LEONTES,"O, she's warm!"
V,III,LEONTES,"If this be magic, let it be an art"
V,III,LEONTES,"Lawful as eating."
V,III,POLIXENES,"She embraces him."
V,III,CAMILLO,"She hangs about his neck:"
V,III,CAMILLO,"If she pertain to life let her speak too."
V,III,POLIXENES,"Ay, and make't manifest where she has lived,"
V,III,POLIXENES,"Or how stolen from the dead."
V,III,PAULINA,"That she is living,"
V,III,PAULINA,"Were it but told you, should be hooted at"
V,III,PAULINA,"Like an old tale: but it appears she lives,"
V,III,PAULINA,"Though yet she speak not. Mark a little while."
V,III,PAULINA,"Please you to interpose, fair madam: kneel"
V,III,PAULINA,"And pray your mother's blessing. Turn, good lady;"
V,III,PAULINA,"Our Perdita is found."
V,III,HERMIONE,"You gods, look down"
V,III,HERMIONE,"And from your sacred vials pour your graces"
V,III,HERMIONE,"Upon my daughter's head! Tell me, mine own."
V,III,HERMIONE,"Where hast thou been preserved? where lived? how found"
V,III,HERMIONE,"Thy father's court? for thou shalt hear that I,"
V,III,HERMIONE,"Knowing by Paulina that the oracle"
V,III,HERMIONE,"Gave hope thou wast in being, have preserved"
V,III,HERMIONE,"Myself to see the issue."
V,III,PAULINA,"There's time enough for that;"
V,III,PAULINA,"Lest they desire upon this push to trouble"
V,III,PAULINA,"Your joys with like relation. Go together,"
V,III,PAULINA,"You precious winners all; your exultation"
V,III,PAULINA,"Partake to every one. I, an old turtle,"
V,III,PAULINA,"Will wing me to some wither'd bough and there"
V,III,PAULINA,"My mate, that's never to be found again,"
V,III,PAULINA,"Lament till I am lost."
V,III,LEONTES,"O, peace, Paulina!"
V,III,LEONTES,"Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent,"
V,III,LEONTES,"As I by thine a wife: this is a match,"
V,III,LEONTES,"And made between's by vows. Thou hast found mine;"
V,III,LEONTES,"But how, is to be question'd; for I saw her,"
V,III,LEONTES,"As I thought, dead, and have in vain said many"
V,III,LEONTES,"A prayer upon her grave. I'll not seek far--"
V,III,LEONTES,"For him, I partly know his mind--to find thee"
V,III,LEONTES,"An honourable husband. Come, Camillo,"
V,III,LEONTES,"And take her by the hand, whose worth and honesty"
V,III,LEONTES,"Is richly noted and here justified"
V,III,LEONTES,"By us, a pair of kings. Let's from this place."
V,III,LEONTES,"What! look upon my brother: both your pardons,"
V,III,LEONTES,"That e'er I put between your holy looks"
V,III,LEONTES,"My ill suspicion. This is your son-in-law,"
V,III,LEONTES,"And son unto the king, who, heavens directing,"
V,III,LEONTES,"Is troth-plight to your daughter. Good Paulina,"
V,III,LEONTES,"Lead us from hence, where we may leisurely"
V,III,LEONTES,"Each one demand an answer to his part"
V,III,LEONTES,"Perform'd in this wide gap of time since first"
V,III,LEONTES,"We were dissever'd: hastily lead away."